Off Season Random Poll - Your feelings on U of I Basketball

[BU RICK]

I voted for #2.

My first favorite team was the Loyola Ramblers...run & gun and National Champs! We should play them every year, one of those years we'll both be top 25 at the same time.

I also liked Ohio State (Jerry Lucas) & Purdue growing up, Iowa...also Marquette.

So -

Bradley
Illinois
Loyola Ramblers
always highly liked Wichita State too
SIU (Walt "Clyde" Frazier)
ISU (Doug Collins)
ISU (Larry Bird)

[Future Walk-On]

I believe BU has a higher ranked undergrad engineering program anyway, doesn't it? I think you made a wise choice (though it's too bad U of I couldn't save you some money).

engineering is Illinois' signature program.

its goes like MIT, Stanford, Berkely, Cal Tech, GIT, and then Illinois

[Future Walk-On]

I voted for #2.

My first favorite team was the Loyola Ramblers...run & gun and National Champs! We should play them every year, one of those years we'll both be top 25 at the same time.

I also liked Ohio State (Jerry Lucas) & Purdue growing up, Iowa...also Marquette.

So -

Bradley
Illinois
Loyola Ramblers
always highly liked Wichita State too
SIU (Walt "Clyde" Frazier)
ISU (Doug Collins)
ISU (Larry Bird)

WHAT IS THIS?

[BUFanatic]

WHAT IS THIS?

I'm just as confused! ISU anything on a top list??? Ohio State, Purdue, and Iowa Big 10 foes, Marquette and Loyola? where did that come from? I didn't think you could switch around that much! Here's how I work:
1. Bradley
2. Any Mid-Major that happens to be taking on a Major on any given day.

Football:
1. Notre Dame (Grew Up on Them)
2. U of Oklahoma (why else but for a girl! haha)
3. U of Hawaii (Because I can watch football at odd hours of the night because of them)
Notre Dame's on top of them all!

[Braves4Life]

engineering is Illinois' signature program.

its goes like MIT, Stanford, Berkely, Cal Tech, GIT, and then Illinois

Thanks for correcting me guys. Illinois is a great academic university..... I just didn't realize it was THAT good in engineering. I stand corrected.

[BU RICK]

WHAT IS THIS?

WHAT DON'T YOU LIKE?

[Future Walk-On]

WHAT DON'T YOU LIKE?

read fanatic's post lol

I can only have 1 team per sport (unless extenuating circumstances allow otherwise: i.e. from champaign, grew up in peoria --- high major, mid major = Illinois and Bradley)

[Chico]

I root for many, many teams. Whoever plays the Cubs, Bears and ISU Red.

[BU RICK]

I got carried away...ok, my vote is still #2

If Bradley doesn't make the final two, I hope it's Illinois followed by the Ramblers. That would be my top 2 with a third thrown in.

BUF can like whoever he wants, I won't complain.

[BUFanatic]

I root for many, many teams. Whoever plays the Cubs, Bears and ISU Red.

Ohhh, ya lost me at "Bears"

[BUFanatic]

read fanatic's post lol

I can only have 1 team per sport (unless extenuating circumstances allow otherwise: i.e. from champaign, grew up in peoria --- high major, mid major = Illinois and Bradley)

you forgot to throw in "girl" to your circumstances. hahaha I know a guy at the bank who's a die hard Packer fan, but he has a picture of him and his wife in Steelers jerseys at a game. XD

[Buesch N Chips]

(most Illinois fans see Mich as a rival but it's just not true...)

As an Illini fan, I disagree. Illinois' rivals are Indiana and Iowa. Maybe in football, though.

[RedSeaElite1]

I see most Big 10 teams as a "rival" but I hate Michigan more than the rest, partly because my moms family is from Michgan and my cousin went to Michigan State, so i root against every one in the Big 10 besides Illinois and MSU

[ancona flash]

Great poll, I like it.

Love em both. Glad to see BU beat them in Vegas because I thought BU had way more to gain from a win than the Illini had to lose from a loss. But BU is 25 minutes from my house, U of I 90, so naturally I attend way more BU games. If BU would ever pull a Butler and make the final 4, it would be more meaningful to me than if U of I won the national title.

By the way, I'm an ISU grad. Can't stand ISU hoops. Always have, always will.

[SFP]

I'm from the east coast originally an ACC fan and my favorite Big Ten school in football is PSU because a neighbor's dad use to go to every home game and I became a MSU fan because my next door neighbor's dad played basketball for them in the 60s. I do mot hate the Illini, if anything I usually pull for them because I like Weber unless they are going for one of my favorite teams. I will feel no different about them though even with SM. I wish SM could have finished his college career at BU.