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Illinois Basketball: Fans feel NCAA berth doesn’t erase past

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Illinois fans have put up a with a lot over the last five seasons. They were teased in year one when first-year head coach John Groce led the team to the Final 32 of the postseason. This was supposed to be the beginning of great things to come.

The following year the team flamed out and got to the second round of the NIT. The year after that Illinois once again only made the NIT and was annihilated by Alabama in the first round.

Last season, any progress for the program came to a halt. They started slow and finished slow.