A nightmarish time for the Illini

"Before the season, I was worried about leadership, toughness, playing hard, defense," Weber said, "and I'm saying it right now. It hasn't changed. Somewhere, it has to change. I wrote on the board improvement, changing, striving for something, making some strides. We just can't do it.

"We always have somebody missing to have the consistency that we need."

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