Let’s get it started…
Quotes, Sports & Leisure March 6th, 2005
I’ll let the sports websites recap the Illini’s amazing regular season, which ended today. We were responsible for more records broken and streaks shattered than I could have dreamed possible back in November. I knew we were good, but we’re damn good, and it’s been a lot of fun being an Illini fan this year.
Twenty-nine and one is respectful. The loss today, our first in a long, long time is a little sad considering we could have gone perfect. But the loss won’t hurt us. We should still be #1 ranked tomorrow (although I doubt with all the votes,) and we still won the Big Ten outright and will have the #1 seed in the BigTen tourney this coming weekend. We will still be a #1 seed on Selection Sunday (just seven days away!) and we’ll roll all the way through Indy, Chicago, and St. Louis. I leave you with Coach Weber:
“Being undefeated was never one of our goals, it just kind of snuck in there,” said Weber. “We’ll learn from this and move on. The next stretch is the most important of the year. That’s what people are going to remember.
“The way I look at it, you’re going to lose sometime. Better to lose now than three weeks from now.”
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