Ten things from Illini hoops media shindig

With so many slender, long-armed athletes on the squad -- and the last-minute zone-press successes against Northwestern and Western Kentucky uppermost in mind -- the Illini staff has been evaluating Louisville's zone concepts and debating how to borrow them for their purposes.

"If we're going to play it, I want it to be aggressive," Weber said. "Louisville, we played them a few years ago (in the Final Four) and coach Pitino years ago was an all man team. Now he's almost all zone. We've watched their stuff because they play it aggressively. It's got 'man' principles.

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