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Tate: I'm seeing hoops progress

I am surrounded — nearly suffocated — by friends and colleagues with more worldly knowledge, and I try to take advantage of them.

You know, pay attention and some of it might rub off.

That being the case, pause must be given to my first instincts about John Groce’s basketball reclamation project. There is confusion between the positives I see here and what’s pouring in from smarter folks on the outside.

Face it, there’s little love beyond the Ubben Basketball Complex.

— USA Today pegged Illinois 12th in the Big Ten, ahead of only Nebraska and Rutgers.