Wanna know how crazy – I mean solo-skydiving, glue-sniffing, imaginary-friend-having, Jack-Nicholson-in-The-Shining CRAZY – this campus is about the undefeated Illini basketball team? Check out thefacebook.com.

For those of you who have been living under the place that shares a name with a certain professional wrestler-turned actor, Thefacebook is, according to its Web site, “an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges and universities.”

One of its unique features is that it gives college kids the ability to create and join common interest groups – anything from Future Procrastinators of Tomorrow to Video Games are Destroying My Academic Life to I Was Born On a Holiday, So I’m Better Than You.

And the Illini Nation has taken to Thefacebook like the Illini players have taken to playing nationally televised prime-time games. I found at least one group – 25 in all – named for each Illini player except Marcus Arnold and Brian Randle. Plus two for Coach Bruce Weber – Weberville and Bruce Weber for President.

These groups, fan clubs, places of worship – whatever you prefer to call them – range from the normal (Dee Brown Fan Club) to the religious (Jack Ingram: the Second Coming of Christ) to the witty-yet-dirty (The ‘I love Head’ (Luther Head, that is) Fan Club) to the iconic (Roger Powell Is My Hero! and King James) to the downright bizarre (Rich McBride Used To Be My Friend and The Roger Powell Is No Doubt the Son of Bill Brasky Club).

Ingram leads the way with six different fan clubs, the best of which has to be Jack Ingram Can Father My Children, with its group description that reads, “A hustler and a beast!! Jack Ingram is everyone’s daddy…not to mention a stud transfer from TULSA!”

Nick Smith has the second most clubs (four) that sport his moniker. Two of the clubs show Smith plenty of love – The Nick ‘The Chainsaw’ Smith Fan Club and Nick Smith is God. But the other two – Nick Smith is Not God and Nick Smith Sucks – demonstrate a bit of dissension with the big man’s sometimes-weak performances.

Even the freshmen – Shaun Pruitt and Calvin Brock – have their own fan clubs. And they share another one called I’m a Fan of Calvin and Shaun!

But the Illini Nation doesn’t always support the team by singling out the players. There are several groups dedicated to the whole team, which makes a lot of sense in a year when the Illini have so many contributors and play such an unselfish brand of basketball.

Take your pick among The Illinois has the best basketball team in the universe club, Illini #1 In the Nation and, my personal favorite, My Basketball Team is Better Than Yours.

The Illini hardwood faithful are hyper-protective of their squad. That is made perfectly clear on Thefacebook with the Anti-Dick Vitale groups, whose members uniformly think Vitale has an anti-Illinois agenda.

There’s Damn Right We’re #1…eat it Dickie for “fans who absolutely love the Illini Basketball team, and absolutely loathe Dick Vitale!” And then there’s I Hate Dick Vitale. And maybe since someone thought that group was too exclusive, the Illini Nation threw in a similar group employing the first person plural called We Hate Dick Vitale.

There is one Thefacebook group, however that you won’t see Orange Krushers going within 10 clicks of – I Go To U of I, & I Haven’t Watched any Basketball Games. Which, by the way, only has five members.