{"id":472,"date":"2005-02-17T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/chicagosports-com-illini-this-years-st-joes-only-better\/"},"modified":"2005-02-17T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T09:40:00","slug":"chicagosports-com-illini-this-years-st-joes-only-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/chicagosports-com-illini-this-years-st-joes-only-better\/","title":{"rendered":"ChicagoSports.com: Illini this year’s St. Joe’s, only better"},"content":{"rendered":"

ChicagoSports.com – Illini this year’s St. Joe’s, only better<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“THE VIEW FROM PENN STATE
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BY GORDIE JONES.<\/p>\n

Gordie Jones is a sports columnist for the Allentown Morning Call, a Tribune newspaper<\/i><\/p>\n

“STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — If top-ranked Illinois was going to be ambushed, it wasn’t going to happen in a place where the program has been in full retreat for years.<\/p>\n

“If college basketball’s version of a 5-by-94-foot relay was going to get knocked off stride, it wasn’t going to be by a Penn State squad that is, as usual, stumbling along.<\/p>\n

“Your final Wednesday night in the Bryce Jordan Center was 83-63. And it was as clinical as it was predictable.<\/p>\n

“‘Everybody can shoot,’ Nittany Lions coach Ed DeChellis said of the 26-0 Fighting Illini. ‘Everybody can score. Everybody can do everything.’<\/p>\n

“Including share the ball.<\/p>\n

“And run. Especially that.<\/p>\n

“Speed-wise, Penn State point guard Mike Walker said, ‘They’re at a different level than any other team in the Big Ten. . . . They have you on your heels the whole game.’ …”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ChicagoSports.com – Illini this year’s St. Joe’s, only better: “THE VIEW FROM PENN STATE BY GORDIE JONES. Gordie Jones is a sports columnist for the Allentown Morning Call, a Tribune newspaper “STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — If top-ranked Illinois was going to be ambushed, it wasn’t going to happen in a place where the program has … <\/p>\n

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