With a 13-6 overall record, including a 2-4 clip in the Big Ten, Illinois has gone from NCAA Tournament lock to bubble team on the outside looking in less than a two week span. After starting out 2-0 in league play, with wins over Indiana and Penn State, the Illini dropped a pair of road battles at Wisconsin and Northwestern, before most recently losing home contests to Purdue and Michigan State.
Last year's Illini squad entered the NCAA Tournament as a seventh seed, despite only compiling an 8-10 conference record. Last year's Fighting Illini...
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