Illinois Wins ?Typical Big Ten Game? Against Wisconsin

“I thought it was a typical Big Ten Game against Wisconsin,” Illinois head coach Bruce Weber said after the game. “You have to have the right mindset and understand your opponent and understand they are going to keep playing and they don’t get rattled. We’d go on a run and they would calmly walk to the huddle. They come out, they make plays…You’re not going to put a Bo Ryan team away.”

That was how Weber succinctly wrapped up the Illini‘s 69-61 win against the Badgers on Sunday night in front of a sometimes-lackluster sell out crowd at Assembly Hall in Champaign.

Though the Illini at times dominated the game, it was their inability to put their opponents away that again dominated the thoughts of many after the game — even if Weber would like to say that it was the talent and poise of the Badgers that allowed that to happen.

By Paul Schmidt

It is always an adventure for the Illini against Wisconsin and their “Swing” offense, but they were really in full effect on Sunday night, launching up an uncharacteristic 35-three pointers and only sinking 10 of them, but still showing good patience with the basketball as well as taking care of it (the Badgers only turned it over an absurd 3 times).

However, there were a couple of things to take away [More …]

Source: http://www.thesportsbank.net/illinois-illini/illini-win-against-wisconsin/

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