No. 1 Illinois Defeats Chicago St. 78-59
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Even though Illinois moved to the top of the college basketball poll for the first time in almost 16 years, the Illini were too busy preparing for Chicago State to celebrate.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (Sports Network) - Luther Head scored  22 points as No. 1 Illinois remained unbeaten with a convincing  81-68 win over 12th-ranked Michigan State at the Breslin  Center.
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Illinois had nothing but easy wins so far this season; the top-ranked Illini even cruised over the likes of Wake Forest and Gonzaga.
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Luke Schenscher made a pair of free throws with 25.9 seconds left, B.J. Elder made three 3-pointers in the final nine minutes and No. 3 Georgia Tech survived a scare from Illinois-Chicago with a 60-59 victory Monday night.
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Top-ranked teams might want to think twice about visiting Assembly Hall. 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 Wednesday night. The Illini led by double-digits for the last 28-plus minutes of the game, and were up by as much as 32 in the second half.
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Josh Young scored all but one of his 18 points in the second half, and No. 15 Drake rallied for its 20th straight victory, beating Illinois State 73-70 on Tuesday night.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (Sports Network) - Deron Williams scored a  season-high 23 points to go along with seven assists and Luther  Head added 20 points to lead No. 1 Illinois to a 105-79 victory  over Longwood in the first-ever meeting between the schools.
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Illinois knocked one of college basketball's oldest records out of the books. The top-ranked Illini remained Division I's only unbeaten team with an 83-63 victory over Penn State on Wednesday night. Their 26th straight win is a school record, bettering the 25 in a row won from February 1914 to February 1916.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (Sports Network) - Roger Powell, Jr.  scored a game-high 21 points and Dee Brown added 19 points and  11 assists as top-ranked Illinois cruised to an 83-63 victory  over Penn State at the Bryce Jordan Center.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (Sports Network) - Luther Head had a  game-high 17 points and Dee Brown added 15 along with nine  assists as top-ranked Illinois cruised to a 78-59 victory over  in-state foe Chicago State at Assembly Hall.
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Trevon Hughes scored 22 points and Brian Butch added 16 as No. 21 Wisconsin beat Illinois, 70-60, last night in Madison, Wis., to give the Illini their first four-game losing streak under Coach Bruce Weber.
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Randal Falker scored 20 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead No. 16 Southern Illinois to a 51-47 win over Missouri State on Tuesday night.
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Eric Gordon and Indiana stick it to Illinois again, as the freshman, who reneged on an Illini commitment to sign with the Hoosiers, leads an Indiana rally to a 62-58 win.
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Rene Haynes had 18 points and eight rebounds in her first start this season to lead No. 12 Michigan State to an 85-45 victory over Eastern Illinois on Thursday night.
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LAS VEGAS -- The last time top-ranked Illinois got off to this fast a start, it reached the Final Four. Luther Head scored 18 points and shot 5 for 9 from 3-point range to lead the Illini past Northwestern
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Southern Illinois nearly lost much of what it had built during the season with a lackluster start against unheralded Indiana State.
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A.J. Graves sank a 35-foot shot at the buzzer to lift No. 16 Butler to a 57-55 win over Southern Illinois on Friday night.