{"id":329047,"date":"2025-10-24T11:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/329047\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:52:13","slug":"good-morning-illini-nation-part-of-the-national-conversation-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/329047\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning, Illini Nation: Part of the national conversation | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.tecnavia.com\/cp2_payments\/champaignnewsgazette\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">To subscribe, click here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-gazette.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our daily basketball newsletter here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to \u201cGood Morning, Illini Nation,\u201d your daily dose of college basketball news from Illini beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Scott Richey. He\u2019ll offer up insights every morning on Brad Underwood\u2019s team and college basketball at large:<\/p>\n<p>The main difference about Illinois basketball now compared to when I first started covering the team a decade ago? Relevance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Illini in 2015 had zero presence on the college basketball stage. Now they&#8217;re a perennial top 25 team sparking conversation nationally. Like with the guys from Field of 68, who in the last couple days discussed Illinois in regard to Keaton Wagler and the program&#8217;s international recruiting:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To subscribe, click here Sign up for our daily basketball newsletter here Welcome to \u201cGood Morning, Illini Nation,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":329048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,15347,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-329047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-illini-sports","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115429005539714390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}