That statement reflects the desperate place in which the Illini currently dwell.
Illinois enters this weekend sitting at 6-5 with losses to North Florida, Providence, Chattanooga, Iowa State, and Notre Dame. Believe it or not, none of those are necessarily bad losses. All but North Florida are top 50 RPI teams.
In a previous post I mistakenly labeled the defeat to Chattanooga as a “bad loss.” I think that was the wrong way to characterize a loss to a team that sits, at the time of this post, fifth on the Men’s Mid-Major Top 25.