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[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The United States is 3 human lifetimes old.

That’s it. In those short years we invented the light bulb, the telephone, the airplane, the transistor and the internet. We turned a few wooded colonies into the most powerful nation in the history of the world.

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Chill out Dusty, you don’t have to recruit anymore

[Purdue Men's Basketball @BoilerBall]

📞 One call is all it takes.

[Isaiah Walker @walkeri141]

if I had a nickel for every time a Michigan coach accused of widespread cheating bailed for the professionals after winning a national title, I'd have 2 nickels.

which isn't a lot but given the school it's not strange at all that it's happened twice

[Matt Couch @RealMattCouch]

He absolutely destroyed this liberal couples argument on social programs in 60 seconds..

[ᗩᑎT ᗯᖇIGᕼT @itsAntWright]

The left rim at the Final Four was a menace

[PU Boiling Points @PUBoilingPoints]

Random Note: The National Basketball Association, in which the OKC Thunder compete, has strict anti-tampering rules.

[Herb Lawrence @Ecnerwal23]

Yep

[Champaign Showers @217Showers]

every millennial whose love of basketball is due in part to Deron Williams and Dee Brown is smiling ear to ear right now. Long time coming.

[Illinois Men's Basketball @IlliniMBB]

ARE YOU WITH US?

For the first time since 2005, we're heading to the FINAL FOUR.

[Chuck Naso @ChuckNaso]

Gameday.

Beat Iowa.

[𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖔𝖗 𝕻𝖎𝖑𝖘 @TheConnorPils]

Last tweet of the night (or morning I guess):

Gonna laugh-cry myself to sleep replaying that halftime show in my head. “Oh well this bodes well for Houston, they just didn’t play well it’s not like Illinois was that good”

The funniest part is: the media was so high on Houston for absolutely no reason. They didn’t beat better teams than Illinois did. They don’t have better players either. The talking heads acted like this was a 1 vs a 16-seed and had to shove their socks in their mouths.

Are we surprised? No, not really. But still kind of shocking how little respect they allotted to Illinois.

Keep sleepin. ILL.

[Dave Wischnowsky @wischlist]

Considering Illini basketball history, it truly is insane that Illinois is facing Kelvin Sampson in a game where Bruce Pearl is providing studio commentary.

[𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖔𝖗 𝕻𝖎𝖑𝖘 @TheConnorPils]

Please watch this at least 3 times. Once for the dunk, once for Mirk’s face while he’s on his way up, and once for Ty Rodgers in the background 😂

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Good morning to all who celebrate

[#ILL-GANG @Reecedavoice]

Like I said , we have freshmen putting up those numbers but somehow one is POY while the other one was a HM 🤣🤣🤣🤦🏾‍♂️🔶🔷 #/PopularityContest

[College Sports Only @CSOonX]

"Look how they massacred my boy..." 😢

[The BoardRoom-ic @ILLBoardRoom]

RT to accept this pledge

[cameron skattebo @camskattebo5]

American Airlines…. A JOKE

[Robert Rosenthal @ALionEye]

As a reminder, our feelings on March 4th every year in the 2010's:

2010: "If we lose to Wisconsin on Sunday then we'll have pulled it off - from a likely 7-seed three weeks ago to the NIT." (We lost to Wisconsin, our fifth loss in six games, and went to the NIT.)

2011: "We HAVE TO beat Indiana in the finale or we'll be 8-10 in the Big Ten and back on the bubble." (We beat Indiana and got a 9-seed.)

2012: "How on God's green earth has a team that was ranked 22nd in mid-January now lost 11 of 13 to fall to 6-12 in the Big Ten?"

2013: "I know the bracketologists say we're in. But we're only 8-8 in the Big Ten. If we lose these final two, are we sure we're in?" (We lost the final two but were safely in even though we finished 8-10 in the Big Ten.)

2014: "I cannot believe we started the Big Ten 3-10. This late season run is nice and all, but 3-10 killed our Tournament chances. (It did indeed. We were a 2-seed in the NIT.)

2015: "We're on the wrong side of the bubble now but honestly, we still have a chance at the Tournament. Just beat Purdue this weekend and then win a game or two in the BTT." (We lost to Purdue. We lost in the opening game of the BTT. We went to the NIT.)

2016: "How is it even possible that Illinois basketball is 13-17 right now?"

2017: (This feeling was fanbase-wide on March 4th, 2017) "I don't know what this new Athletic Director will do, but if this four game winning streak late in the season to put us on the bubble means he's going to keep John Groce..." (It did not. He fired Groce and Jamall Walker coached the team in the NIT.)

2018: "With the BTT moved up a week, it's crazy that the season ended in February. This team was lucky to win 14 games but I like this Trent Frazier kid."

2019: "I really hope we win at Penn State on Sunday because if not, that's 20 losses and 20 losses is something that should never happen in Champaign." (We lost at Penn State.)

After 21 NCAA Tournaments in 25 years from 1983 to 2007, we had fallen to *that*. And now that the good old days are here again, I've vowed to always remember how early March used to feel so helpless.