JML

[Josh Whitman @IlliniAD]

Illini #famILLy…you’re incredible, truly. Thousands here for the public practice. After all these years, I’m never surprised, but always grateful. Let’s get this done!! #ILL 🔶🔷🏀

[John Hough @JohnHough__]

Illinois beating Iowa to go to the Final Four as Bruce Pearl has to talk about it on national TV is 37 years of poetic justice.

[Illinois Men's Basketball @IlliniMBB]

You’ve heard of elf on a shelf

[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.

[Robert Rosenthal @ALionEye]

Here's my question and Underwood's answer at the postgame press conference. I don't say this much but... this one is a must-watch:

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

“What did he whisper to you?”

“I can’t tell you”

“Come on, I won’t tell anyone”

“No I can’t. Secret, secret”

David Mirkovic is box office

[Illinois Wesleyan Athletics @iwusports]

Elite status achieved inside Shirk 😤

Fort Wayne here we come 🚌

#TGOE | @IWUBasketball | #d3hoops

[Illinois Wesleyan Athletics @iwusports]

a SWEET Shirk Saturday 🌊

#TGOE | @IWUBasketball | #d3hoops

[Sean Johnson @Johnson_Sean]

A truly elite venue for basketball watching. @IWUBasketball

[Bob Quillman @BQuillmanQcast]

From last year’s Sweet 16 team, @IWUBasketball lost:

Nick Roper (starter)
Hakim Williams (starter)
Harrison Wilmsen (starter)
Marko Anderson
Trey Bazzell
Shane Miller

This season the Titans lost preseason All-American Josh Fridman in November.

And have played the last 4 without CCIW POY Noah Cleveland.

IWU is 23-4…has won 17 of last 18…won the CCIW regular season title…won the CCIW conf tourney…finished NPI #10…and is hosting a first weekend.

Ron Rose and staff have done an incredible job in 2025-26.

#d3hoops

[Illinois Wesleyan Athletics @iwusports]

Back-to-back, but this time at home 🏆

@IWUBasketball mounts a second-half comeback to win its second straight CCIW Tournament Championship

#TGOE #d3hoops

[Dariush Takhtehchian, M.D @takhtehchianmd]

Bring this back

Orange Krush

And put those iPhones away!!!!!

[🆃ⓐ🅹🅷 ♕ @Recru1t1ng_Guru]

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Illinois students at a bar:

[Robert Rosenthal @ALionEye]

Say it with me.

[Bob Quillman @BQuillmanQcast]

Titans win!! Mason Funk!!

#d3hoops

[Big Ten Network @BigTenNetwork]

"Sometimes, it's hard to wait for your turn."

Hank Beatty bided his time, and now the former Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year is one of the @bigten's top receivers.

The Journey spotlights @IlliniFootball's breakout WR 👇

📍 @AutoOwnersIns

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

“This is JB Pritzker, reporting from war-torn Chicago. It’s quite disturbing. The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago Cubs. We’ve seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them.”

THIS is how you do it.

[Brenna Greene @BrennaGreene_]

Absolutely worth three minutes of your time.

Dan Lanning with a lot of really poignant thoughts on the Charlie Kirk assassination.

"The US could learn a lot from our locker room... You walk in that locker room you've got guys of different races, backgrounds, religions, and you've got a team that loves each other."

H/T @MattPrehm for the question

[Liam Thompson @LThompsonHoops]

Super grateful to be back in the Shirk Center and the IWU community 💚. Can’t wait to get started! #TGOE

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.