Blowout adds to Illinois&#39; non-conference resume
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But this rotation of No. 1 teams, which had a host of them a year ago, might not be as fluid this season if Illinois keeps playing the way it did Wednesday night.
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Michael Hart rushes for 234 yards and No. 14 Michigan rallies from a halftime deficit to defeat Illinois 30-19 on Saturday.
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If No. 1 Illinois keeps this up, the Fighting Illini might be returning to St. Louis to finish the season. Luther Head scored 20 points, and Deron Williams had nine of his 19 points in the
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Roger Powell Jr. scored 19 points, Dee Brown and Luther Head added 16 each, and No. 5 Illinois made No. 1 Wake Forest look more like a nonconference patsy in a 91-73 rout last night at Champaign, Ill.
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Davis&#39; career-high is 301 yards against Minnesota in 2002...Wisconsin was scored upon in the fourth quarter for the first time this season...The Badgers have won the last two meetings with the Illini, but Illinois still holds a 35-31-7 advantage all-time.
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A bunch of people think it&#39;s going to be a walkover, a blowout of mammoth proportions, a game during which the home team will be plucking students out of the stands to play by the third quarter.
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At the start of the season, they were in the also-ran bin. Not on anyone&#39;s radar screen nationally, or even in the Big 12, for that matter.
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Eric Gordon and No. 10 Indiana stuck it to Illinois again. The high scoring freshman, who reneged on an oral commitment with the Illini and signed instead with the Hoosiers, had 17 points and Indiana rallied from a seven-point deficit in the second half to beat Illinois 62-58 Sunday.
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Drew Neitzel scores nine of his 15 points during a key stretch in the second half, helping No. 8 Michigan State beat Illinois, 51-41, and set a school record on Wednesday.
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CHAMPAIGN, Illinois (Ticker) -- No. 13 Michigan tries to avoid its first road loss to Illinois in 21 years when the Big Ten Conference foes meet Saturday.
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Top-ranked Illinois faced adversity for the first time this season. That means a coaching opportunity for Bruce Weber the next time he puts in a game tape.
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If this matchup was left up to Illinois and Wake Forest, it might not have happened. Certainly not on the first day of December. Sure, big-time Top 25 games can be booked as home-and-home series.
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Heading down the stretch in the first half, it seemed as though the University of Illinois-Chicago Flames were poised to take a second ACC team to the wire.
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Illinois coach Ron Turner said repeatedly he hopes to stay. His players all want him to come back. Now it&#39;s Illinois athletic director Ron Guenther&#39;s turn to have his say.
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LAS VEGAS -- No. 1 Illinois got the tuneup it wanted Thursday, grinding out a 69-51 victory over Northwestern State. &quot;I was happy with the way they made strides today,&#39;&#39; said Illini coach Bruce Weber, who
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By Steven Pivovar, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 20--Creighton gets another chance tonight to test its resiliency.   Stung by Saturday's BracketBuster loss to Drexel, the Bluejays return to Missouri Valley Conference play in a 7:05 p.m. game at Illinois State.
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After three successive blowouts, No. 5 Illinois was looking forward to its first real test Saturday against No. 24 Gonzaga. Now it looks like the Illini will have to wait until top-ranked