Illini Basketball

Melissa and I were thrilled to go to our first University of Illinois men's basketball game this week. The game was Wednesday night against Penn State. We had awesome seats on the first row behind the pep band. (The above photo is a random image from the Internet - not our actual view of the basketball court.) We were expecting a really good game since both teams were nationally ranked. The Illini had been playing very well at home and were ranked second in the Big Ten Conference.

As luck would have it, the game turned out to be one of the Illini's worst ever! The final score was 38-33 (or close to it). Penn State won, and both teams had abysmal shooting percentages. During the last couple of minutes of the game, the refs made a few "bad" calls, and the crowd erupted into boos and curses. The word that comes to mind is pandemonium. But we still had fun!