What is going on with the Illini?

"'I don't know that I can explain it," he said. "If I had the answer for that, we wouldn't be shut out. Two things, defenses are playing pretty well, and we're missing on some things. It's not one thing, it's a play here, a play there, a consistency thing we have to get back together."

After pausing, Zook anticipated critics who blame him.

"You just don't get bad," he said. "You just don't become a bad coach. It just doesn't happen. You work through those things. You make the tweaks you need to make and keep going."

Herb Gould