We're down to two home games and two LIVE! Reports from State Farm Center for the 2017-18 basketball season. Wild. It truly seems like not that long ago practices were getting underway in early October. Apparently 4 1/2 months and 27 games can fly by.
The results of those games have been mostly unkind for Illinois. The Illini enter today's rematch with Nebraska with a 12-15 overall record and a 2-12 mark in the Big Ten. Last place in the conference is theirs alone. Meanwhile, Nebraska has won six games in a row, eight of its last nine and sits at 20-8 on the season and fourth in the Big Ten at 11-4.