And So It Begins
The National Championship game has arrived and the top two teams in the nation have made it. It will a battle royale tonight in St. Louis as our beloved underdog Fighting Illini take on the Goliath UNC Tar Heels tonight at 8:15 PM. The Illini are 2 point underdogs in this game despite being the the number one team in the nation since December 6th. The prevailing thought throughout the season has been that UNC has the most talented team in the nation boasting 6 potential first round NBA picks and that the Illini have the best "team" in the nation that plays skilled and team oriented style of basketball. It maybe for the best that Illini are being treated as the underdogs in this game and having all the "experts" picking the Tarheels to win this game. The Illini have always played their best basketball when everyone was counting them out.With this being said tonight will be an extremely tough game for the Illini. The Tarheels feature a behemoth post player in Sean May who seemingly scores at will against teams in the paint. The Reverend Roger Powell has been picked to guard May. This is an interesting match-up because Powell is about 4 inches shorter than May and about 30-40 lbs lighter. The key for Illinois to pull out a win is going to be if the Illini guards can disrupt the passing lanes and keep the Tarheel guards from getting the ball down to May. If UNC is able to feed May then figure on at least two post players from Illinois fouling out by the end of the game. If the Illini guards can help deny the passing lanes and continue to shoot over 50% then Illinois has a chance to win their first national championship in their 100 year basketball history. I will be looking in an "X" factor from Illinois where maybe a usually quite player steps up big in this game. Maybe a big night shooting from Rich McBride or a career night from Jack Ingram. Either way Illinois will need all their weapons for a very talented and very deep UNC team. Let's just hope that the UNC players are more interested in showing off for the NBA scouts than they are in winning a national championship. Now, its time to take that deep breath and cheer on our Illini, because it may be a long time before we get to see this again! Go ILLINI!!!!!
posted by Heath @ 3:01 PM
4 Comments:
Well I'll conment! I think ILLINI did pretty dang good! Was proud of them....just to bad that just two of those long shots dindn't go in the hoop! I know they did what they could for all of us rooting! Keep your Blog going Heath! LOL Just Me
Illini sucks!!! just kidding... I wouldn't know if they were good or not anyways lol. You should totally rename your blog to Heath's thoughts on the Illini... So what is your new topic going to be now? Anyways thanks for taking care of my fish. I am glad that they all didn't die so far :p ttyl bro
Hey! Finish the story!! I think you did a great job so far. Think maybe you should have been a sports writer:) Love, Mom
Heath....was that you on IM? I didn't know for sure until I refused the message, If it was I'm sorry G/ma
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