Illini ready to learn at Maui Invitational

"We're going to learn a lot in the next three days," Groce said. "We're looking forward to that. This really gives us an opportunity to earmark our team and see where we are early in this season.

"The Hawaii game shows our guys that you have to play 40 minutes, and I thought we showed great resolve. You have to deal with both adversity and success. The fact that we got down a couple of times and came back, we really hung in there."

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