Former Illini head coach Bruce Weber was more than happy to call No. 23 Illinois’ 86-48 win over Kansas City as Brad Underwood’s squad raised a championship banner.
By Matt Stevens - IlliniGuys Staff Writer
November 11, 2022
(Cover photo courtesy Brandon Leeb/USA Today Sports)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Not many people would classify Bruce Weber as anything other than an emotional person so please forgive the man if he was fighting his feelings on Friday night.
Weber says he was more than honored for his new employer to assign him to Illinois’ 86-48 over Kansas City on a night where the Illini raised a Big Ten Conference championship banner and handed out title rings.
“Every time I go through O'Hare or Midway, somebody grabs me for a picture or autographs and even in St. Louis, somebody this summer got out in the middle of the street and stopped traffic and said ‘I got to shake your hand, coach’ and I was telling him ‘man, there’s people beeping at you’,” Weber said. “A lot of special memories."