Illini prep for Hoosiers

- Wednesday's practice was one of the more difficult sessions - from a conditioning standpoint - that I can recall over the past month. Weber said it was an attempt to keep their game conditioning up to speed during a week that includes only the Indiana game.

"They (the players) were calling me the track coach and teasing me," Weber said.

- Bruce Weber complimented the work of Indiana's coach. And that's not a sentence this beat writer has written over the past three years.

"I think he's (Tom Crean) doing as good a job as anybody in the league," Weber said.

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