Demetri McCamey

Check back here at 7 p.m. Monday for live updates from Assembly Hall as the Illini men's basketball team takes on Kent State in second round NIT action.

3/18/2010 - 12:03 PM    Post your comment

The point of the NCAA Tournament, as I understand it, is to determine the best team in college basketball. I’m far from a NCAA committee member, but I am logical in this thought: To be the best, you have to beat the best. In no way am I saying they’re the best, but our Illini have beaten many of the best.

3/15/2010 - 12:39 AM    5 comments

INDIANAPOLIS -- For a while there, it seemed Illinois was the kid standing against the loser wall at the high school prom, dreading each oncoming girl. Maybe Illinois didn’t know how, maybe it was self-conscious, maybe it would crumble under the pressure.

3/12/2010 - 9:00 PM    Post your comment

I remember the night I realized Demetri McCamey was going to be a star.

It was Feb. 7, 2008. A top-15 Big Ten team was visiting Champaign to play a bad Illinois squad. It was the most electric Assembly Hall atmosphere I’d been a part of (until the Michigan State victory this year).

3/9/2010 - 12:58 AM    2 comments

My uncle Paul, Purdue class of 1993, is a true Boiler. After big losses, he, like many of us, has been known to get a bit passionate. Ask the TV in his basement, which has been hit countless times by remotes and various objects.

1/18/2010 - 11:48 PM    Post your comment

Every entity, at one time or another, deals with adversity. Dinosaurs buckled to extinction. Polar ice caps melted. People get stabbed in the back by ones they love. The Na’vi watched The Hometree get blown to bits.

1/14/2010 - 10:50 PM    Post your comment
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