Does Illinois-Iowa still matter?

"I could go ask (Illinois players) Brandon Paul or D.J. Richardson what do you think about next Tuesday's game going to Iowa, that's a big rivalry,' former Illinois guard T.J. Wheeler said. "They'd probably look at me like, 'That's a rivalry?' You don't understand."

"I think the rivalry means more to some older people, and it's kind of cooled off with the players," said former Hawkeye J.R. Koch, who grew up near Peoria, Ill. "It still is heated and a hated relationship there. A least with me."

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