The NCAA Tournament National Championship will feature the Michigan Wolverines and Villanova Wildcats on Monday night.
The Greatest Illini Men’s Basketball Player Ever Tournament Championship will ALSO take be taking place Monday!
TCR Site Manager Stephen Cohn and three of our writers, Tristen Kissack, Michael Berns and Matt O’Neall ranked their top-48 all-time Illini in early March, and we cut down their lists, based on a calculation (No. 1 = 32 points, No. 32 = 1 point) and created a bracket.
The Final Four didn’t feature any Cinderella Loyolas, but it had No. 1 overall seed Deon Thomas facing Deron Williams and Nick Anderson squaring off with Dee Brown.