So in my day job as a newspaper reporter I volunteered for potential-riot duty at the University of Illinois last night and early this morning. It was quite the orange-hued Mardi Gras scene for fans whose team just lost the national championship game. But I have to say they were generally well behaved, for drunken college kids. Better than I was sometimes.
And they should have celebrated. Illinois had a great season and won more games and went farther than any team in 100 years of pretty good basketball history. Credit classy Coach Bruce Weber, who spent 18 years as an assistant at Purdue under Gene Keady, and his staff, two thirds of whom also coached at Purdue, with finally getting one of those frequently talented Illini teams to play the passing game and play defense like Boilermakers.
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