Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. for the 36th edition of the Missouri-Illinois Braggin' Rights Game at Scottrade Center. Illinois leads the series 23-12 since it moved to St. Louis in 1980.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Missouri had sold 2,580 tickets of its allotment of 8,000.
Missouri is sticking with its usual starting lineup: guards Terrence Phillips, Cullen VanLeer and Frankie Hughes and forwards Kevin Puryear and Russell Woods.
Illinois will start Tracy Abrams, Malcolm Hill, Jalen Coleman-Lands, Leron Black and Mike Thorne Jr.
