The daily pitch from Sports Editor Matt Daniels: Jan. 10, 2025

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Jan. 10—➜ . Former Champaign Central standouts (who played at Indiana) and hopefully his younger brother, (who played at Illinois), are scheduled to be our guests from 5-6 p.m. in downtown Champaign.

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➜ . The duo is our latest high school Athletes of the Week. Read more about them in Monday’s paper.

87.9

points the Illinois men’s basketball team is averaging this season. That was good for sixth in the country entering Thursday night’s games, with only Auburn (87.9), Samford (88.7), Kentucky (88.8), Iowa (89.9) and Alabama (90.9) ahead of them. During the Illini’s five-game win streak, they’re averaging 95.6 points.

➜ . Beat the Trojans on Saturday in a Big Ten game that tips at 11 a.m. at State Farm Center in Champaign and the 13th-ranked Illini will have won their first four games in January for only the second time in Brad Underwood’s eight seasons at Illinois. The 2021-22 Illini team is the only other Underwood team to achieve that.

➜ . A chance for the No. 11 Illini (6-0, 1-0 Big Ten) to secure a win against the fifth-ranked Buckeyes (8-0) at 7 p.m. Friday at Huff Hall in Champaign.

➜ . The Illinois indoor track and field season gets underway at 11 a.m. Saturday at the UI Armory in Champaign.

➜ the Chicago Cubs and Chicago Bears.

➜ Dan Gable, Cael Sanderson and John Smith.

➜ people not trying and wasting talent.

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Author : The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.

Publish date : 2025-01-10 15:47:00

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