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At long last, NIU vs. Illinois

Posted by Lindsey on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 13:07

Hi gang,

At 7 p.m. today, Northern Illinois and Illinois finally meet on the court. Considering both schools have been in the men's basketball arena since 1906 -- and the schools are just 170 miles apart -- their first meeting seems a little overdue.

Just for fun, I compiled a list of every in-state college, army unit, YMCA team, youth group and coffee klatch that Illinois played before it got around to battling the Huskies.

Augustana
Bradley
Cairo Athletic Club
Camp Grant (Rockford)
Champaign High School
Chanute Field (Rantoul)
Chicago
Chicago State
Chicago YMCA
Decatur YMCA
DePaul
Eastern Illinois
Evanston Reds
Great Lakes
Great Lakes Hospital
UIC
Illinois State
Illinois Wesleyan
Knox
Lombard
Loyola-Chicago
Millikin
Mount Vernon
Northeastern Illinois
Northwestern
Peoria Tigers
Peoria YMCA
Riverside (1914 in LaGrange?)
Shelbyville Business College
Southern Illinois
Western Illinois
Wheaton

What, no North Central College?

For NIU's view from a historical perspective, check out this story from Prospect High School's favorite son, Mike Korcek: http://www.huskiewire.com/articles/2009/11/16/25097002/index.xml

LW

ill-niu

I hope Kenny Battle tossed up the opening tip.

Posted by mikemcgraw on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 22:33
If a game is on the internet, is it really being played?

Few will see the game, as it is on espn360.com

I bet Coach Crybaby will blame Eric Gordon.

Posted by Joe Blough on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 17:09