Illini make changes, crank up the 'D'

"That was the first time in eight games we won the first five-minute war," Weber said.

"I was very pleased by the effort and how hard we played. We didn't particularly play smooth and out shooting wasn't great. But we guarded, we kept guarding and we played hard and that's what I was asking for. Sometimes you have to win like that. We made some progress."

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