{"id":225857,"date":"2026-03-29T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225857\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:23:08","slug":"party-planned-as-illini-return-from-houston-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225857\/","title":{"rendered":"Party planned as Illini return from Houston | Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-gazette.com\/news\/celebrate-with-our-final-four-commemorative-front-pages\/article_e25c7909-e38c-4435-85ac-051b5cf63eb3.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Celebrate with our Final Four commemorative front pages\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Celebrate with our Final Four commemorative front pages\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"2033\" height=\"1019\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">Brad Underwood&#8217;s team beat Iowa 71-59 on Saturday night in Houston, riding a gritty second-half performance to advance to Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>SAVOY &#8211; A welcome-home party for the Final Four-bound Illini will take place after 11 a.m. today.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s basketball program said &#8220;join us in welcoming back the team after 11 a.m. at the Flightstar entrance of Willard Airport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Illini celebrated Saturday&#8217;s 71-59 win against Iowa in Houston. Next stop: Indianapolis for the Final Four against the winner of today&#8217;s Duke\/UConn game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Brad Underwood&#8217;s team beat Iowa 71-59 on Saturday night in Houston, riding a gritty second-half performance to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5565,87544,56,58,57,87545,80874,66,21306],"class_list":["post-225857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-community-events","tag-daily_headlines","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-illini_basketball","tag-illini-sports","tag-local","tag-mens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}