🔸 Illini Nostalgia 🔸

2022: Bret Bielema returns to Madison, Wisconsin and pummels the badgers to the point they fire head coach Paul Chryst and the team hasn’t been right since.

The opening of the recap article from Wisconsin that day via uwbadgers.com/news/2022/10...

Nathan Scheelhaase to AJ Jenkins x2

PICKED OFF BY STEVE HULL!

Ron Zook held frat Q&As at Illinois?

That spoon hit vs Indiana

Exactly how they drew it up

Marcus Domask -> Ty Rodgers

From Illinois’ win over Iowa St that sent them to the Elite Eight for the first time in nineteen years.

During that game we see a flashback of the 1993 Illinois come from behind win at Michigan aided by a Simeon Rice forced fumble.

1999: Illinois as a 24½-point underdog at No. 9 Michigan playing against Tom Brady erase a 20-point deficit and take the lead on this 45-yard Kurt Kittner to Rocky Harvey touchdown pass.

Mitch Trubisky threw for 265 yards and North Carolina ran for 197 in a 48–23 win over first-year Illinois coach Lovie Smith on Sept. 10, 2016.

The intro to the 1984 matchup between Illinois and Michigan at Assembly Hall

15,952 people in attendance got to see a 75-66 Illinois win that went to four overtimes

Bruce Douglas played the full 60 minutes. Efrem Winters had 23 points, 8 rebounds, and 4 assists in 55 minutes.

The Flyin Illini!

Nick Anderson

The Shot

Bigfoot Neil Rackers

The ESPN broadcast crew discusses Kurt Kittner before Illinois takes on Tom Brady and Michigan

J Leman had no offers going into his senior year of high school. Here he shares the story of how he became a Fighting Illini.

Art Sitkowski after win over Nebraska:

“I've never been around a group of guys that just brought people in. I live with three transfers, and we were so amazed at how everybody on this football team just brought us in like their own. They welcomed us with open arms, and I really appreciate that."

Art Sitkowski -> Duece Spann for 45 yards

Sitkowski was 12/15 for 124 yards and 2 touchdowns as Illinois takes down Nebraska 30-22 in the first game of the Bret Bielema era.

Art Sitkowski is in his third season on the Fighting Illini staff and first as co-quarterbacks coach in 2025

Both of Ayo Dosunmu’s late game threes

February 5, 2019

Dan Dakich: “This won’t end well for Illinois”

Ayo Dosunmu (24 points) hits the clutch three as Illinois goes on to upset No. 9 Michigan State, 79-74

Peoria -> Champaign

The Day the Illini Got Revenge - University of Illinois Athletics 1990 Illini Beat National Champ Colorado

More information on that game

September 15, 1990
Memorial Stadium
Champaign, IL

Brent Musburger and Dick Vermeil on the call as Illinois takes down the eventual National Champions that season Colorado.

“We put our money where our mouth was and laid it all out on the line," - Darrick Brownlow.

A backup QB from Ball State comes into the game on the final drive and quickly becomes a legend for the Illini. The John Paddock game winning touchdown pass to Isaiah Williams as Illinois takes down Minnesota during the 2023 season.

Illinois stuns No. 6 Wisconsin 24-23 on a last-second 39-yard field goal by James McCourt in the 2019 season.

IT’S PICKED OFF BY KERBY JOSEPH

Ty Rodgers attacking the basket