Two weeks ago the Illini cracked a 1,869 day drought from the AP top-25 poll.
Then the Illini made the poll again in back-to-back years for the first time in seven years.
People weren’t sold.
Now? Probably sold.
Illinois was listed at No. 19 in the AP poll on Monday afternoon after extending the longest winning streak in the Big Ten to six with an Ayo Dosunmu dagger at Michigan on Saturday afternoon. That win capped a week that included two road wins after the Illini blew out Purdue in West Lafayette on Tuesday night.