Sunday Morning: Illinois Fighting Illini Basketball News for August 15-21

Illini sophomore Brandon Paul poses for a picture with the rapper Drake, Head Coach Bruce Weber celebrates the 2004 Big Ten regular season title, and Illinois center Mike Tisdale battles Michigan State's Garrick Sherman in 2010.

Was in Southern Illinois for the past 4 days and got a chance to stop back on the UI campus for about an hour this afternoon before heading back to Chicago.

While checking out the continually changing and more suburban Green Street, I saw that the Mike Davis and Demetri McCamey basketball jerseys were 30% off outside Gameday Sports.

Besides that breaking information, the news around the basketball team was a bit quiet this week, with the exception of Brandon Paul, Tyler Griffey and Jay Price meeting a famous person and going 5-0 in Europe; Illinois getting scheduled for 3 Super Tuesday games on ESPN (including a January 18th home game against Michigan State); and head coach Bruce Weber talking about the possibility of a Big Ten title while attending the Peoria Chiefs’ version of Illini night with Wayne McClain, D.J. Richardson and Bill Cole.

BASKETBALL NEWS ON WRITING ILLINI THIS PAST WEEK

● Illinois Summer Basketball School: Bill Cole, Part II

● Illinois Summer Basketball School: Bill Cole, Part I

ILLINI BASKETBALL PLAYER NEWS

#3 Brandon Paul and #42 Tyler Griffey

→ PAUL AND GRIFFEY IN EUROPE

→ TYLER GRIFFEY SCORED 25 IN BRUSSELS

→ TYLER GRIFFEY EUROPE UPDATE

#54 Mike Tisdale

→ COMPETITIVE, EXCLUSIVE SUMMER TRAINING KEEPS TISDALE ON FEET

ILLINI BASKETBALLL TEAM NEWS

→ ILLINI NIGHT AT THE PEORIA CHIEFS GAME

→ ILLINI BASKETBALL CHAT

→ ESPN SUPER TUESDAY PAIRINGS

→ ILLINI HOOPS HAS THREE SUPER TUESDAY DATES

→ TATE: SQUIRE KEEPS ILLINI IN CHECK

→ USI TO PLAY ILLINOIS IN EXHIBITION AT ASSEMBLY HALL

ILLINI BASKETBALL COACHING NEWS

Head Coach Bruce Weber

→ BRUCE WEBER ATTENDING ILLINI NIGHT

→ WEBER: ILLINI HAVE TALKED ABOUT TITLE

→ MU’S BOWER TO THROW OUT FIRST PITCH WITH BRUCE WEBER

Assistant Coach Jerrance Howard

→ JERRANCE HOWARD: HOOPS RECRUITERS EXTRAORDINAIRE

ILLINI BASKETBALL RECRUITING NEWS

Bobo Drummond

→ PEORIA CENTRAL’S BOBO DRUMMOND HOPES FOR ILLINI OFFER

Tracy Abrams, Chasson Randle and Nnanna Egwu

→ ABRAMS HIGH ON RANDLE, EGWU

→ MULLINS REFLECTS ON FANTASTIC U-17 WOLVES SQUAD

FORMER LLINI BASKETBALL PLAYER NEWS

Trent Meacham

→ MEACHAM ENJOYING EUROPE, LIKES ILLINI

Shaunn Pruitt

→ PRUITT PLANS FREE SKILLS CLINIC

BIG TEN/COLLEGE BASKETBALL NEWS

→ HOWARD MOORE NAMED NEW UIC BASKETBALL COACH

→ UIC HIRES WISCONSIN ASSISTANT HOWARD MOORE

→ SUMMER SESSION: BIG TEN

→ SIX FINALISTS TO SUCCEED COLLINS AS UIC HOOPS COACH