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Illini set to start basketball Big Ten schedule on Tuesday
Conference is deep this season, and Illinois has veteran leadership.
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“If you’re good enough to win a Big Ten championship in this league, you’ve got a chance to win the national championship,” Underwood said. “It’s 20 long, grueling nights. There are going to be ups and downs. There are going to be hiccups. That doesn’t have anything to do with COVID. That has to do with an elite league with elite teams with elite players and elite coaches.”
“Every night is going to be tough,” Cockburn said. “I think coach Underwood did a really good job with getting us the right games to prepare us for that; physical games, games where we’re going to be challenged on the glass and challenged physically. These first games really prepared us for what it’s going to be in the Big Ten, which is hard nights, two-possession games, a lot of competition.”