NORMAL — There were cheers coming at the end of Saturday night's game at Redbird Arena. However, they weren't directed at Illinois State's basketball team.
Instead, Southern Illinois students perched in the upper bowl who rented a bus from Carbondale were hooting and hollering while celebrating the Salukis' 75-69 victory that sent the Redbirds spiraling to their fifth straight loss.
Those ISU fans in the season-high crowd of 4,276 were left wondering one thing — when is this losing streak going to end?
"This made us kind of stop in our tracks and figure out what's going on and learn from it," said ISU senior Josiah Strong, who scored a team-high 16 points.