Bill & Luke's Excellent Adventures

Illinois won their first NCAA tourney game in what feels like a zillion years, and feeling nostalgic I pulled up a clip of their finest March Madness comeback. The best part of that clip, and for those of us improv Chicago dudes, is CBS showing orange-clad Bill Murray with his son Luke going bonkers in the stands during those frantic final minutes at the old Rosemont Horizon in '05.

Arizona, like the Illini, are also having their deepest run since then. The two schools have a burgeoning rivalry that began in 2001, when after splitting two regular season meetings, met with a birth to the Final Four at stake. That game was controversial for the officiating but also as a nuisance to Illinois fans because Bill Walton was calling the game for CBS while his son Luke was starring for the Wildcats.

Luke Walton was in Anaheim last night for Arizona's lost to Connecticut, and CBS couldn't stop zooming their cameras in on him. No word on whether Bill was there, but I'm pretty sure Luke Murray was supporting Arizona in the stands even without his pops' prescence.