Illinois 86 Wisconsin 80

Illinois

Illinois led by 4 at the half and never trailed again.

The Illini hit the offensive glass hard and had a stellar defensive game plan

Wisconsin found ways to make several runs to stay in the game throughout the second half.

Key Stats

The stats were extremely close in almost every category

Illinois did out rebound Wisconsin 40-29 for the game

Illinois made 22 Ft’s to Wisconsin’s 14

Key Individual Performances

Illinois point guard Kasparus Jakucionis was fantastic tonight in scoring 24 pts, grabbing 6 rebounds and dishing out 5 assists

Illinois wing Tre White scored 23 points and grabbed 8 rebounds but also played outstanding defense along with teammate Kylan Boswell on Wisconsin leading scorer John Tonje

Wisconsin Big man Nolan Winter led a second half comeback for the Badgers and ended the evening with 15 points and 7 rebounds

What it means

Illinois improves to 7-2 and 1-1 in the BIG 10, also picks up a quad 2 home win.

Wisconsin falls to 8-3 and 0-2 in conference. They are now 1-3 in quad 1

Both of these teams are tourney worthy teams from the BIG 10. Wisconsin is currently a 8/9 seed while Illinois is a 6/7 seed for the moment

Quotes

Illinois head coach Brad Underwood, “.There is a difference between playing hard and competing”

More from Coach Underwood, “I am really pissed off he has taken 11 2’s— taken 56 threes” On Ben Humrichous shooting 11 two pointers and 56 three pointers

Wisconsin coach Greg Gard, “We only took two bad two’s, we don’t want to take non rim two’s”