CHAMPAIGN — Ashlyn Fleming figures it was about midday Sunday when the buzz of Saturday's top-10 win against Penn State turned into focus for today's rematch with Northwestern in Evanston. The rest and recovery Sunday was for a purpose.
Of course, Saturday's win lingered a little longer than usual. For good reason. The Illini took down the Nittany Lions for the first time since 2014 and did so in front of a sellout Huff Hall crowd.
"It was still kind of going into Sunday when everyone was posting all the hype videos from it," Fleming said. "I was watching them over and over again.