I grew up and live in Chattanooga and attended the game yesterday with my Dad who is Urbana native. We try to make a trip to Champaign/Urbana once a year for a game and this was much easier (2 hours vs. 8 hrs). Illinois traveled well, and I think overall played very well for this point in the season. Having grown up in the South, I knew we were going to get screwed by some hometown officiating. Also, Vol fans are football fans first and really do not understand basketball and arcane rules like fouling.
To echo some of the other comments, the PG situation is a bit concerning and fixing that gap is going to affect our overall ceiling. Some of the passing has been very sloppy and is probably going to lead to some free buckets against high quality competition (and maybe cost us some close games). With that said, we got absolutely screwed on foul calls to start the second half and that lead to a lot of frustration and silly fouls by the Illini. I am not against Illinois taking a lot of in rhythm 3s but of those 36, several were way too early in the shot clock and were available at any point. Going forward Illinois needs realize that when the outside shots aren't falling, they are well equipped to score 10 feet and in at pretty much will (not to mention get to foul line). While this game revealed several correctable problems, I think this team has a very high ceiling and will be a lot of fun to watch. I am really hoping to catch a home game in Illinois this year.