[UPDATED with photos] Behind senior Ruthie Welch's season-high 23 points, the Illineks defeated Normal Calvary Baptist 70-54 in Uni's final game of the regular season. Uni is now 12-12 overall and 9-3 in the East Central Illinois Conference. The team will face Georgetown-Ridge Farm in the first round of the Class 2A playoffs 6 p.m. Monday at St. Thomas More High School in Champaign.

Do you ever get tired of looking at art that doesn’t mean anything? The type of art that has no interpretation, because it is so straightforward — art that is meant only to be pretty, meant to grace the walls of restaurant bathrooms? Occasionally Rachel Harmon feels surrounded by works like this and needs art that has meaning to remind her of the wonderful power of art. That’s how she found Renée Cox’s “Yo Mama’s Last Supper.”

Maybe it was the music played extra loud in the south stairwell during lunch and passing periods, or maybe it was being amused by the few people who dressed up. Whatever it was, Lauren Piester found Spirit Week to be a nice change from the solemn and depressed attitudes that are usually to be found shuffling around Uni. Which gave her a few ideas …

[UPDATED with photos] The Illineks won their eighth consecutive game Friday night with a 68-53 victory over Normal Calvary Baptist at Kenney Gym. Senior Mike Renner led Uni with 19 points and 12 rebounds. Uni is now 17-5 overall, and 7-1 in the ECIC. Uni has not lost in nearly four weeks.