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Welcome to “Good Morning, Illini Nation,” your daily dose of college basketball news from Illini beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Scott Richey. He’ll offer up insights every morning on Brad Underwood’s team:
What do Bret Bielema and Bart Miller want out of offensive linemen at Illinois? 'We want the meanest, toughest, nastiest guys on the field.'
A win on Saturday by Illinois at Wisconsin should vault Bret Bielema's program into national relevancy again
Welcome to “Good Morning, Illini Nation,” your daily dose of college basketball news from Illini beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Scott Richey. He’ll offer up insights every morning on Brad Underwood’s team:
Illini already passed one rematch test with Virginia win
Welcome to “Good Morning, Illini Nation,” your daily dose of college basketball news from Illini beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Scott Richey. He’ll offer up insights every morning on Brad Underwood’s team:
Cheers to Vivian Forst, who was born in 1911 and is now 111 years old. Also: a Champaign tavern reopens, the scoop on Seniorland, potholes on Prospect Avenue and overgrown brush on an I-57 overpass.
Time on the court is crucial for new-look Illini with official practices now underway
Bielema understands hype surrounding his return to Madison, but second-year Illini coach is honing in on the game
Welcome to “Good Morning, Illini Nation,” your daily dose of college basketball news from Illini beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Scott Richey. He’ll offer up insights every morning on Brad Underwood’s team:
Monday morning marked Illinois' first practice for the 2022-23 season. Here's some of what Illini coach Brad Underwood had to say.
Taken back by Bielema's sudden departure, Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez moved on, even recommending him for the Illinois job to Josh Whitman. 'He asked me about someone else and I told him, ‘If that person doesn’t work out, the person you need to go visit is Bret.’ '
Each week during the 2022 Illinois football season beat writer Scott Richey will deliver items of note from Bret Bielema’s weekly press conference:
Welcome to “Good Morning, Illini Nation,” your daily dose of college basketball news from Illini beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Scott Richey. He’ll offer up insights every morning on Brad Underwood’s team:
Illini football beat writer and AP Top 25 voter BOB ASMUSSEN shares this week's ballot:
CHAMPAIGN — Petros Kyprianou doesn’t like to waste time.
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Newly-inducted Illini Hall of Famer now hoping his grandson follows similar parth
Of the nine pre-expansion Big Ten member football programs that Illinois has traditionally played through the years, one of the venues at which the Illini have enjoyed significant success has been Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium. Despite those 16 all-time victories, the stark reality, howev…
The defense has impressed, but we'll know more once the brunt of the Big Ten schedule is here
Welcome to “Good Morning, Illini Nation,” your daily dose of college basketball news from Illini beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Scott Richey. He’ll offer up insights every morning on Brad Underwood’s team:
The first three weeks of college football season have provided us with a garden variety of games. We have seen just three head-to-head Big Ten battles while the rest are, in large part, a mix of weaker Group of Five teams and Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) teams with just a few legi…
Former Illini AD 'honored and privileged' to join recent Illini Hall of Fame class
Area high school football fans can expect something a bit different when Champaign Central hosts Wheaton St. Francis this afternoon at McKinley Field.
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