Well, I'm gonna make this short and sweet. To say this has been a tough week is an understatement; we blow a 7-point lead late and lose to Penn State in a crowd of about 37 at Happy Valley and then come out flat and lose to a cruddy Illinois team at home, in front of a packed Carver crowd with basketball recruits watching, on Senior Night!! AHHH!! This season has made me bald from all the hair-tearing I have done. Lickliter looks like he's at a loss for words; in the loss to Illinois tonight the players weren't even responding to him half of the time. This has definitely taken its toll on him. I knew we'd be bad with the lack of talent we have, but I still wish they would buy into Lickliter's system and at least play smart!! Against Penn State we shot the ball extremly well from long range distance, but our usually stupid play, poor work on the boards, and poor defense combined with one of our typical shooting droughts dwon the stretch led to a Penn State comeback and eventual one-point win. I thought we would have the intensity to beat Illinois for our seniors, and a few players did, but the whole team definitely did not show up to play and we struggled with scoring, turnovers, and defensive lapses all night long. Freeman delivered a magnificient 13-15 performance from the free throw line, but the rest of the team was only 16-27. That hurt. Just a tough week all around, and I was hoping we'd get some momentum to make one of those miracle runs in the Big Ten tourney, but now lets just see if we can show up against Northwestern and upset some people in the Big Ten tourney. At this point a win would be nice, but I'm definitely not expecting it...