Dee Brown

I'm going to say we are the best because there's some crazy fans out there.

But we are up there.

We love Illinois basketball.

We travel well.

And for it to be just two and a half hours away from Chicago –

And the Champaign and Central Illinois area is just going to be flooded with orange.

And it's going to be beautiful to watch and to see.

And people ask me, what do I miss about the game?

I don't miss, you know, all the things you got to put your body through.

But I miss the noise, the sound, the smell of popcorn.

And people just, you know, the chants and the deep of threes.

I miss the loud excitement people have when they watch us play basketball.

So, Indy is going to be filled with orange and blue.

It's going to be amazing.

I can't wait to feel the energy and be a part of it.

Dee, I know you're manning another program at Roosevelt, and you know what it takes to build one.

Did you think it would be so long, given where the Illini were in 2005, to get back to a Final Four, that it took 21 years?

We saw ebbs and flows in the program.

We see it grow, really starting with Ayo Desumu committing there and then playing there.

What do you think of how the program has gone the past couple of years and just in that time?