Illini team up, finally, snap skid

"I felt better after the team meeting," Cole said. "Even though there wasn't a lot of people here, we created our own energy. When we got down, if we wouldn't have come together as a team, we would have fallen apart. We got down in one crucial stretch, but we came right back.

"It's just a different energy. We played as a team today. That's something we didn't do the last couple of games."

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