The ILLINI Schedule Is Out, and I'm Going to Boone, North Carolina!

The ILLINI are headed to my neck of the woods on November 13, 2021. They'll be in Boone, North Carolina for a dual against Appalachian State University. I will drive up there from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. If you are going to be at the dual, stop and say hello to the 6-4 guy with the bright orange ILLINI hat. I can't wait!

This is the full schedule:

11/6/21   @Michigan State Open

Participants: Michigan State University, Ohio, ILLINI and Davenport (DII)

11/13/21  @Appalachian State University (dual tournament)*

11/21/21  @Lindenwood Open

Participants: Lindenwood, SIU-E, ILLINI, McKendree (DII), Kentucky Wesleyan (DII)

12/11/21  @SIU-E and UT-Chattanooga (duals)

12/29/21  @The Midlands Tournament

Participants: Rutgers, Wisconsin, ILLINI, Purdue, Navy, Army, Stupid Northwestern, Campbell, Binghamton, Ohio, SIU-E, Indiana, Cleveland State, Harvard, Penn, Bucknell, Bloomsburg, Franklin & Marshall

01/14/22  @Rutgers

01/16/22   Iowa

01/21/22  @Purdue

01/29/22   Stupid Northwestern

02/04/22   Minnesota

02/06/22   Indiana

02/11/22   Wisconsin

02/13/22   Nebraska

03/05/22   Big Ten Championships (Lincoln, Nebraska)

03/17/22   NCAA Championships (Detroit, Michigan)




* NOTE: The Appalachian State dual is set for November 13 and listed as a "dual tournament" in the image above. On their official wrestling website, App State has its Mountaineer Invitational scheduled for all day on the next day, November 14. (Their website doesn't list the dual on November 13). The participants for the dual invitational are listed as App State, Indiana and Gardner-Webb. So, I'm hoping that the ILLINI wrestle the Mountaineers on the 13th, then wrestle the winner of the Indiana/Gardner-Webb dual on the 14th, but I don't know if that's the case. 

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