Time to empty the notebook while hoping the freezing rain doesn’t strand me in Detroit:

The Illini lost a game today that by no means hurts their resume in the grand scheme of things. Michigan has defeated Duke and UCLA and…

The Illinois basketball team returned to Champaign after the Braggin’ Rights game, making the slow crawl up Interstate 57, and the players were free to head home for Christmas the following day. Getting back to Champaign hasn’t been so easy.

Coach…

Somewhere in the middle portion of the Illini’s win over Hawaii on Monday night, the home team put together a pretty decent stretch, creating turnovers and running the floor to push the lead to 21 points.

But coach Bruce Weber wasn’t…

Time to empty the notebook after Illinois beat Vanderbilt 69-63.

First of all, I have to say I wasn’t overly impressed with the atmosphere at Memorial Gymnasium tonight. The crowd was announced at 12,630 and it was hard to tell how…

Freshman center Stan Simpson figures to see a few more minutes in the Illini’s final exhibition game Sunday against Lewis University as a decision on whether he redshirts draws closer.

Some additional playing time might have been created Wednesday when Mike…

Last year at this time, coach Bruce Weber knew what he had at center and, for better or worse, was prepared to ride Shaun Pruitt for 30 minutes a game, taking the good with the bad. He starts practice this…