Why don Champaign and the Assembly Hall bid for a boys basketball super-sectional?
First, it doesn’t make financial sense for the Assembly Hall, which would get a couple thousand fans for an IHSA game versus several thousand for a concert or show. Second, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics is committed to its women’s basketball program and its use of the Hall, whether that is for WNIT or NCAA tournament games. (The NCAA has returned to 16 homecourt sites.) This isn’t like the UI hosting a prep baseball super-sectional, which it does each year at Illinois Field. In early June, Illinois Field is empty. In March, there are plenty of events that could be in place at the Assembly Hall. Q: In light of Illinois baseball’s series win against No. 1 LSU, what is considered the program’s biggest victory all time? A: In regular season terms, those wins against LSU are hard to top. But if you consider the postseason, I’d go with a 13-4 win against Wake Forest in the 1998 South Regional. That avenged a 14-12 loss to the Demon Deacons earlier in the tournament and sent the
