CHAMPAIGN, Ill — Illinois will beat a Goliath soon.
The biggest women’s basketball game in Champaign in more than two decades saw Illinois come up short Wednesday night against a red hot No. 6 Indiana.
The effort was there. Just a rough late second quarter that bled into the third allowed Indiana to slip away with their seventeenth win of the season.
This would have been Illinois’ first win against a top ten ranked opponent since Nov. 27, 2014, where the Fighting Illini took down No. 9 Kentucky, 77-71.
Illinois was 1-2 against ranked opponents entering Wednesday, with hard-fought losses to Indiana and Ohio State with a combined point differential of 10.