MINNEAPOLIS — This wasn’t the Iowa game. Illinois was pretty much never in that one, and coach Brad Underwood said as much Wednesday night from just outside the visitor’s locker room at historic Williams Arena.
Illinois mostly hung with Minnesota. Even led a halftime after a buzzer-beating three-pointer by Trent Frazier. But the end result was the same — the Illini couldn’t stack another win on top of a big one.
That momentum after upsetting then No. 13 Maryland on Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York City? If not gone after an 86-75 loss to the Gophers, then it’s seriously depleted.