What we heard on a shakeup Saturday for UI athletics:
Happy as he was for John Groce, a former Illini offered his services Saturday for the next time his alma mater goes looking for a men's basketball coach. And it wasn't Sergio McClain. "I would love to some day come back and coach and help the program that I gave my heart to at a younger point in my life!!!" nine-year pro and No. 4 all-time scorer BRIAN COOK emailed to say. "Maybe someday I'll get that call!!!"
Bill Cubit's successor will be the eighth head coaching hire in Josh Whitman's five-plus years of athletic administration.