Good morning (and soon to be afternoon) from newly-renovated Welsh-Ryan Arena in Evanston. One of these days, the LIVE! Report will happen at State Farm Center for a Big Ten game. That game is actually this coming Thursday — against Michigan — but there's still the matter of today's game against Northwestern. It's the fourth straight conference game away from home for Illinois, with the first three all losses for the Illini.
Maybe that changes today against the Wildcats. Northwestern is similarly winless in the Big Ten, although Chris Collins' team lost two-point games to both Michigan and Indiana in early December.