This offseason, Illini basketball kind of became Illini basketBalkan. When all was said and done in the college hoops silly season, Illinois had added three new players from the Balkan states (to go with the one they already had on the roster), plus an American whose name sounds like he should be from that region. Naturally Balkan Illini GIFs, memes, A.I. stuff, often focusing … [Read more...] about Brad Underwood On Why Illini Basketball Recruits the Balkans
Mihailo Petrovic
Illini Basketball Transfer Talk: Mihailo Petrovic, Andrej Stojakovic
As we joked in both edition one and edition two of Illinois Fighting Illini Basketball Transfer Talk, covering NCAA basketball in the offseason has a very European feel these days. By that we mean transfer portal developments occur in a story arc that is similar to the British tabloids covering European soccer players. But now more of the players themselves are Euro, as the … [Read more...] about Illini Basketball Transfer Talk: Mihailo Petrovic, Andrej Stojakovic