The Champaign Room · Apr 2, 2018
2018-19 Illinois Basketball Prediction
This won't be all sunshine and rainbows.
Rebuilding rosters in your own image takes patience and time. It took the Chicago Cubs four years of miserable baseball before they became World Series winners. The same goes for the Houston Astros and the Philadelphia 76ers.
The same thing needs to happen for the Fighting Illini men's basketball program.
It won't make people happy to hear that. It also won't take four or five years for Illinois to make the NCAA tournament. It will be a shorter gap to bridge. This next season, however, could get ugly before it gets better.