Illinois 73, Northwestern 66 Postgame

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Ayo continues to solidify his legacy, but this team is so immature with a lead. Total letdown again after completely dominating the game early. Must be fixed in the next week or we will not enjoy March.
 
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Celebration Win GIF by Fighting Illini Athletics
 
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Ransom Stoddard

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This is tape our future opponents will look at very closely. Even when we're playing well we have weaknesses, and those weaknesses were on full display tonight.
 
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Someone mentioned Northwestern’s Ken Pom luck rating being poor in the pregame, well, it went up A LOT from their second half buckets. They hit some tough shots.
 
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Audige had a couple rim out too. He single handidly could have won them this one.

Why was Ayo not on him late?
 
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I know a win is a win, and teams rarely drop in the rankings when they win, but we shouldn't be a Top 5 team. There is no excuse for letting both Nebraska and Northwestern take the game down to the wire. The Big 10 is a great conference, but the gimme games shouldn't be this difficult.