Since the home team is undergoing renovations to their Assembly Hall-no that's the State Farm Arena, or maybe the Rice-aroni arena, we went to Boston to watch our Illini.They really didn't deserve to win the first 35 minutes.Players kept passing to Egwu's knees, and he put his fingers out like they were concrete instead of Velcro. Ekey made his predictable first 3 point attempt as soon as he was out there and nobody but the crowd has noticed we need to rebound at that point. The freshman who are wonderful were so busy following directions for the planned plays they didn't look to the side to catch all the times upperclassmen were open and could have scored. No evidence they knew about plays like pick and roll, and they took the commandment of "thou shall not steal" to heart. Abrams, who we all believe in and know how incredibly gifted and talented he is, needed to believe in himself as much as we do. Fortunately Rice wanted the win as much as we did and we emerged victorious. Worth driving home to Albany through an ice storm. Thanks coach and team. Now as for tomorrow morning, we have tickets for the finals and don't want to sell them! Play like you don't want it to be your last game!!