Hall schedule posted
Sports & Leisure August 21st, 2005
I’m not sure why Wally or Josh haven’t posted this first, but DIA released the 2005-06 Men’s Illini basketball schedule (FightingIllini.com link.) I’ll echo a few others criticisms that the pre-season games at the Assembly Hall are lacking. There isn’t a Duke or Wake Forest to get us pumped up early like we’ve had in the last few years. Oregon will be fun, but Georgetown just doesn’t scare me. Arkansas-Little Rock will be tough.
Not that I would trade in my season tickets or anything. Only one stab at Wisconsin this year, and it’s on the road on a weekday (boo. One of these years I’ll make it up there for a weekend Illini basketball game.) We get Iowa away and at home, for our home closer/senior night.
Now, I know we’re two weeks away from football, and I’m looking forward to a fresh start there. But part of me knows basketball is only a few months away, and that makes me pumped!
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Yeah, nothing great at home, but you’ve got to be pumped for the rematch with North Carolina.
Granted the teams are VERY different, but you always relish the chance to get back at a team like that.
Josh
No kidding. Dee alone, with a bum limb, could still out perform their 4 points-per-game returning this season. At least I’ll get to watch that one in a bar, yelling obscenities at Roy Williams.