Lou Henson treats health issues like overtime games: The 85-year-old keeps battling.
The retired Illinois basketball coach’s planned return to Champaign-Urbana on April 25 has been placed on hold due to an unscheduled visit to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Henson, who spends roughly half of each year in Las Cruces, N.M., has been struggling with a respiratory ailment that caused weeks of coughing.
He checked in at MD Anderson last week and concluded nine days of tests and intravenous medication on Wednesday.
Henson returned from the hospital each evening to stay at the Houston home of his daughter, Lisa.