We got a short respite from the sports hellscape we were in earlier this summer when House of ‘Paign competed in The Basketball Tournament. They even upset Ohio State’s alumni team!
But besides that, we haven’t seen any Illini team take the field or court since the second week of March, which at this point was more than seven months ago. College athletics are almost a year-round thing, with soccer starting in early August and track and field championships potentially going all the way into June and July. I’d love to know the last time there was a seven-month absence of Illinois Athletics — I’d guess it was the 1920s or ‘30s.