Illinois basketball hires Brad Underwood

Submitted by redwings8831 on March 18th, 2017 at 4:10 PM

Illinois has hired Oklahoma State’s Brad Underwood, sources told ESPN.
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanESPN) March 18, 2017

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A2MIKE

March 18th, 2017 at 5:30 PM ^

Illinois clearly want a Beilein-like coach. Too bad his teams are worse defensively than all of power 5 basketball.

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Naked Bootlegger

March 18th, 2017 at 5:46 PM ^

Did this really happen in one day? I assume overtures were made before today.

O St. must be pissed off today - a 1 and done coach!

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BlueinOK

March 18th, 2017 at 6:09 PM ^

What?! How do you pull that guy?! Oklahoma state must be a mess.

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UMgradMSUdad

March 18th, 2017 at 6:24 PM ^

It is a bit of a mess. Here's a link to an article that talks about the previous coach and his contract (that I mentioned in a post above): http://newsok.com/article/3948498

Also, that basketball contract pissed off Mike Gundy, because he had had more success and a longer tenure than Travis Ford, but the AD wasn't offering him a ten year contract or anything close to it.

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KC Wolve

March 18th, 2017 at 6:31 PM ^

At least we have Bill Snyder until he died in a few years. KSU athletic department caught sitting on their hands two years in a row.

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Human Torpedo

March 18th, 2017 at 6:56 PM ^

In many ways, Illinois' turmoil and loss has been our gain lately. You probably could find some cause-and-effect correlation between our rise to the Big Ten elite and Illinois' demise to the near bottom of it. Our 2012 sweep of them really opened the floodgates to the changing of the power structure in this conference to our benefit as it in part cost Bruce Weber his job

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