Features – Page 11

Will’s power: Trailblazing Redbird coach lifted the game of basketball

Will presents Doug with award on the court

Will Robinson coached the Redbirds for five winning seasons from 1970 to 1975, producing an astonishing array of talent that included the school’s only Consensus All-American, Doug Collins ’73.

Behind the beak: Memoirs of the first Reggie Redbird

The year 1981 was a big one for Illinois State University’s Redbird mascot. The student who launched Reggie was Bob Goldstein ’83, at the time a junior accounting major with a minor in economics.