Nearly a year after their Big Ten Tournament championship game showdown, No. 22 Ohio State and No. 15 Illinois run it back in Champaign at 9 p.m. tonight.
Led by third-year star center Kofi Cockburn, the reigning Big Ten Tournament champions are 3-0 against Wisconsin and Michigan State this season, but have also suffered losses to Purdue, Maryland and Rutgers in conference play. The Illini beat Tom Izzo’s Spartans for the second time just this past Saturday, but suffered a double-digit upset defeat to Rutgers one game before that and have dropped two of their last four contests.
“There’s a lot of really good teams in our league,” Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann said at a press conference Wednesday. “A lot of really good teams. And they’re right there for sure.”overtime win over Indiana but has lost three of its last seven games and has a 4-5 record on the road this year. A win over Illinois would be the Buckeyes’ best since topping Wisconsin by an 18-point margin back on Dec. 11, and would give Ohio State a fifth Quadrant 1 win this year.Ohio State sits just one place below Illinois at fourth place in the Big Ten, and an upset loss for the Illini on Thursday would even both teams’ conference loss totals to five on the year.
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