Indiana returns to action on Thursday when it takes on Illinois at the State Farm Center. The Fighting Illini have won four straight and are 13-5 overall and 4-3 in the Big Ten.
Thursday’s game will tip at 8:30 p.m. ET on BTN:
Indiana snapped a 3-game losing streak last weekend with a comfortable 63-45 win against Wisconsin in Bloomington on Saturday. We’ll quickly learn if the defense exhibited in its win over the Badgers was a one-game thing or the beginning of a turnaround.
Illinois, one of the preseason favorites to win the Big Ten, went 3-4 in a stretch of games from Dec.