What Time is it? Game Time!

Okay. 40 minutes until St. Louis. Our Stylin' Illini need to put together one more solid performance to make April at the Arch a reality. It should happen. Arizona played as well as it could on Thursday against Oklahoma St. 66% from the field. Clutch shot after clutch shot. But, they won't get the same looks in the halfcourt tonight. I'll be a little surprised if we don't win by a dozen or more. Arizona is a team that was up big on Wake Forest and then folded in the 2nd half. This is a team that had fits against Washington. I like our chances because we're actually bigger and tougher inside.

I think that we'll see that Arizona will try to run, but we'll be too good on offense for them to just run. And I don't think that they can score in the halfcourt on us with consistency. You'll see Stoudamire hit a few J's, but they don't move the ball well enough to really scare you, and Frye isn't a great offensive player.

We'll see. It's time to drive north. Go Illini!

-Chairman