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LIVE! Champaign Regional (Wright State)

Welcome back to what is perhaps the highest profile LIVE! Report yet — at least from me. Illinois and Wright State are about an hour away from squaring off in the NCAA Champaign Regional championship. The Illini are hoping for just one game today — a win that would keep them at home another week in the Super Regional round. The Raiders need to beat Illinois twice to claim the regional title. It's worth nothing, at this point, that the last time the Illini lost consecutive games was Feb. 28 and March 1 to Ball State and Kent State in the Chanticleer Classic in Myrtle Beach, S.