Through the first five games this season most Illinois fans have been in basketball meltdown. The Illini started 2-3 with losses to teams like Chattanooga and North Florida. This type of a start has never been seen in the history of the Illinois basketball program.
We have now played three more games since that start and we can now clearly see the bad start had a lot to do with health of the team.
Illinois has now won two out of their last three games, with the only loss coming to No. 4 Iowa State. The Illini were in that game the whole time but failed to close late.