On Saturday evening (5:00 CT), #10 Illinois (12-0) and #12 Missouri (9-1) lock up for their annual Yuletide extravaganza, in St. Louis. At the beginning of the season, no one thought this game would feature two top-15 opponents, mainly because no one expected Illinois to be as good as they have been. For the first [...]
A cautiously optimistic sentiment is beginning to spread among disciples of the University of Illinois men’s basketball program. Head coach John Groce’s apparent recruiting acumen gave fans something to get behind before the actual season started, but there was a tacit understanding among most followers that tempering expectations for the 2012-2013 campaign was in their [...]
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When John Groce was hired as head basketball coach at the University of Illinois, he was not the most popular choice to replace Bruce Weber. The pro-Weber contingent (albeit dwindling) saw no need for change, and there were rumblings that new Athletic Director, Mike Thomas, aimed to bag the elephant with a big-splash hire like [...]
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