Sunday, September 07, 2003
Props to Bruce Weber (the new coach at Illinois)
According to ESPN's Andy Katz, Bruce Weber, the heir to Bill Self at Illinois, hasn't forgotten his mid-major roots. In other words, he's honoring Self's commitment to play Gonzaga this fall. Despite a brutal travel schedule (at North Carolina, Arkansas (Chicago), Memphis, and Missouri in St. Louis), Weber promises that Dee Brown's crew will also find a date and time to take on the Zags in New York.[Were this post not placed in context, it might seem largely inconsequential. But after hearing of another early-season Kansas State blowout on the football field, I thought it timely to comment on a college basketball scheduling success.]
