Big upside for Illini basketball

There's no bigger hole to fill in the Illinois basketball rotation than center, unless it's the emptiness from a season gone wrong last year.

Either way, Illini sophmore Nnanna Egwu found some inspiration.

"He's the one guy who's gone consistently above and beyond the norm," said first-year Illini coach John Groce Wednesday. "We're looking for guys who will do whatever it takes to get us where we want to go."

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