It’s Christmas Eve for Illini basketball fans. Three shiny new recruits for the Class of 2009. A new season already underway (Illinois held its first practice at 7 p.m. today). Thousands of people in pink T-shirts filling up Assembly Hall for “Illini Madness,” mainly of whom are plainly giddy over the recent oral commitments by [...]
Entries from October 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Quick look at Northern Illinois hoops
Ricardo Patton’s first Huskies squad starts official practice at 8 a.m. Saturday morning. It figures to be a wild 27 days of preparation leading up to NIU’s season opener Nov. 9 at Northern Iowa.
After all, he needs to sort out the 17 healthy and eligible guys on the roster — most of whom have never [...]
