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Michigan is 1-3 in conference play

If there are such thing as moral victories when your season is on the rocks, tonight is one. With just nine bodies, two of which were the seldom used Jaron Faulds and Jace Howard, Michigan Basketball managed to hang with #25 Illinois for all of 35 minutes tonight, before the heavily favored Illini pulled away at the end en route to a 68-53 victory. Many fans expected a blowout from the jump, after it was announced that Hunter Dickinson could not go in what was set to be a premiere clash with Kofi Cockburn, but the Wolverines hung tough and in the process, put together maybe their best emotiona...

THE ESSENTIALS WHAT #26 Michigan (7-6, 1-2 Big Ten) vs #12 Illinois (12-3, 5-0 Big Ten) WHERE Phil Klein Insurance Group Arena Champaign, IL WHEN 9 PM Eastern THE LINE Kenpom: ILL -7 Torvik: ILL -8 TELEVISION FS1 THE OVERVIEW Michigan is back on the court tonight after missing two games with COVID issues. Some players may not be fully recovered, Michigan hasn't been able to practice 5-on-5 since the shutdown, and they get a red-hot Illinois team. This is probably going to be ugly. I'm slightly surprised that the game is on the board in Vegas, and more surprised still that th...

It no coincidence that No. 25 Illinois is off to its best Big Ten start since 2005, with three upperclassmen logging the most minutes.