https://www.stltoday.com/sports/col...cle_b3bc9b86-ab6d-5a20-9a01-593ddfc57e0d.html
Underwood knew his team would get progressively better as the season went on and the young group of players built chemistry and learned the Big Ten ropes. The Illini have rocketed up the KenPom ranking to No. 86, up considerably since their loss to Florida Atlantic.
“I see huge growth,” Bezhanishvili said. “Everybody is working. As a team we’re growing.
“We’re playing a lot more as a team. We’re sharing the ball a lot more, we talk to each other a lot more and we play for each other a lot more. That has to play like that and that has to keep going.”
The betting line stated above seems out of line with direction of both teams and it being a home game for us...
Illini 78
huskers 71
ps..I expect Watson to play a lil dirty as always and to try to show how we were wrong in not recruiting him years ago....he will throw an elbow or something to stir it up...