Illinois coach Brad Underwood had implied after his team's loss to Northwestern last week that he had been too "soft" on his players in practice. This was coming at a time when the Illini were also shooting blanks at both the 3-point and free-throw line.

Kasparas Jakucionis scored a career-high 24 points, Tre White had 23 points and eight rebounds and Kylan Boswell added 19 points and six assists to lead Illinois to an 86-80 win over No. 20 Wisconsin It was the fourth straight game that Jakucionis scored 20 or more points for the Illini,