Dan Wiederer

And so we're smack dab in the middle of it.

Listen, like there was a year probably about a decade ago when Northwestern basketball got hot and every Northwestern alum came out of the woodworks and had to tell you all about that.

Talking about you, Kevin Fishbane.

There's times when Syracuse gets hot and everybody comes out of the woodwork to tell you how good they are.

This is my chance.

This is my chance to shine here, Grody.

And so this morning, as I was starting to get ready for this trip down to Indianapolis, I went down in the dungeon in our house and found a box that's amongst the attic, the crawl space, I guess you'd call it, that was called Vintage T's.

And inside vintage tees, Grody, was this 1997-98 Orange Crush shirt.

At that point in my life, I would have been approaching my 21st birthday, or maybe I'd already experienced it.

Yeah, approaching my 21st birthday, that team, my God.

That's a long time ago now.

I was living in a house on Second Street down in Champaign that when we moved out of that house, we were sure it was going to be bulldozed within like three months.

It's still standing today, Grody.

So that gives you a little indication here.

But this shirt that I'm wearing has signatures all over it from that team.

And you went to your archives to look up some of the names that were on this 1997-98 Big Ten Championship team and stumbled upon some connections to yourself.

Yeah.

I mean, the first name that pops off the page for me is Sergio McClain, who was a very prominent Illini.

His father, Wayne McClain, ended up being an assistant and Wayne McClain and Sergio McClain.

were almost as famous for going to Illinois as they were famous for being at Peoria Manual.