| Illinois Probable Starters (from last game) |
| Pos. |
No. |
Name |
Ht. |
Wt. |
Yr. |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
Note |
| G |
11 |
Ayo Dosunmu |
6-5 |
185 |
So. |
16.4 |
4.3 |
3.2 |
5th in B1G in scoring |
| G |
1 |
Trent Frazier |
6-2 |
175 |
Jr. |
9.4 |
2.3 |
2.0 |
190 career threes made |
| G |
10 |
Andres Feliz |
6-2 |
195 |
Sr. |
10.8 |
4.9 |
3.0 |
4.0 a/to ratio in last 4 |
| G |
20 |
Da'Monte Williams |
6-3 |
210 |
Jr. |
2.3 |
3.8 |
1.3 |
Started last 20 games |
| C |
21 |
Kofi Cockburn |
7-0 |
290 |
Fr. |
13.6 |
9.1 |
0.6 |
12 double-doubles |
| Off the Bench |
| Pos. |
No. |
Name |
Ht. |
Wt. |
Yr. |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
Note |
| G |
0 |
Alan Griffin |
6-5 |
195 |
So. |
9.4 |
4.8 |
0.5 |
.427 3FG% (44-103) |
| F |
2 |
Kipper Nichols |
6-6 |
220 |
r-Sr. |
3.3 |
2.0 |
0.6 |
16 pts vs. IU 2/14/18 |
| F |
4 |
Zach Griffith |
6-6 |
210 |
Jr. |
0.8 |
0.5 |
0.1 |
Academic All-B1G |
| G |
5 |
Tevian Jones |
6-7 |
205 |
So. |
1.0 |
0.8 |
0.1 |
6 pts at RUT 2/15/20 |
| F |
13 |
Benjamin Bosmans-Verdonk |
6-8 |
235 |
Fr. |
1.2 |
1.1 |
0.7 |
6.4 min. per game |
| F |
15 |
Giorgi Bezhanishvili |
6-9 |
235 |
So. |
7.0 |
4.9 |
1.7 |
1.9 off rebs. per game |
| G |
32 |
Tyler Underwood |
6-2 |
180 |
Gr. |
0.7 |
0.2 |
0.2 |
2-6 from three |
| C |
34 |
Jermaine Hamlin |
6-10 |
235 |
Fr. |
1.0 |
0.9 |
0.1 |
6-8 FG |
| F |
35 |
Samson Oladimeji |
6-4 |
210 |
Sr. |
0.3 |
0.4 |
0.0 |
2-time Academic All-B1G |
| Sitting Out 2019-20 Season (NCAA Transfers) |
| G/F |
3 |
Jacob Grandison |
6-6 |
200 |
Jr. |
13.9* |
5.0* |
2.9* |
'18-19 stats from Holy Cross |
| G |
22 |
Austin Hutcherson |
6-6 |
175 |
Jr. |
20.0* |
5.6* |
3.2* |
'18-19 stats from Wesleyan |
Career Record: 154-75 (.672), 7th year
At Illinois: 45-48 (.484), 3rd year
Big Ten: 22-33 (.400)
Series Notes vs. Indiana
Record: Indiana leads 93-87
Streak: Indiana W-3
Record at Champaign: Illinois leads 52-34
Streak at Champaign: Indiana W-1
Last Year's Meetings: IND 73, ILL 65 (1/3/19 @IND) & IND 92, ILL 74 (3/7/19 @ILL)
Underwood vs. Indiana: 1-3
Opening Tips
• Illinois concludes a stretch of three games in less than six full days, hosting Indiana on Sunday afternoon in the first-ever Stripe State Farm Center event (1 p.m. CT, BTN).
• Illini Athletics is asking all fans to participate by helping stripe the arena. Fans with tickets in odd-numbered sections should wear orange, while fans with tickets in even-numbered sections should wear blue. All UI students, meanwhile, are requested to wear orange. Odd=Orange Even=Blue Students=Orange SFC Color Map
• Illinois leads the Big Ten in scoring defense during league play, allowing 63.0 ppg.
• Illinois (+9.5) owns the largest turnaround this season among schools from the six major conferences, and is tied for eighth across all of Div. I for most improved teams.
• Illinois currently has 11 Big Ten wins, its most since going 11-7 in 2009. Illinois last won more than 11 league games in 2005, when it claimed the conference title outright with a 15-1 record.
• Illinois has secured its first winning record in Big Ten play since finishing 10-8 in 2010.
• Illinois has won five league road games, tied with Maryland for most in the Big Ten this season, and the most by an Illini team since also winning five in 2010.
• Illinois is one of 12 teams with at least four Quad 1 road wins, and the lone team in the country with four road wins over teams in the top 35 of the NET.
Player Trends
• Sophomore Ayo Dosunmu is averaging 21.0 points (63) and shooting 58.1 percent from the field (25-43) over the last three games after returning to the lineup.
• Dosunmu is averaging 18.0 points (216), 4.5 rebounds (54) and 3.8 assists (45) over his last 12 games.
• During his last 12 appearances, Dosunmu has scored at least 15 points 10 times and has been the Illini's leading scorer seven times.
• Over the last five games, freshman Kofi Cockburn is averaging 12.4 points (62) and 9.8 rebounds (49) and shooting 55.6% (25-45).
• Cockburn has had double-doubles in three of the last five games while scoring in double figures all five times.
• Sophomore Alan Griffin is averaging 13.0 points (78) and 6.7 rebounds (40) over the last six games while shooting 57.1% from 3-point range (16-28) and making an average of 2.7 treys.
• Griffin has scored at least nine points in each of the last six games, reaching double figures three times.
• Senior Andres Feliz carries a 4.0 assist/turnover ratio over the last four games, dishing out 16 assists while committing just four turnovers in 125 minutes of play.
• Illinois earned its sixth road victory of the season, most for the program since also winning six in 2013-14.
• Illinois improved to 12-1 on the season when reaching the 70-point marker, and 17-1 on the year when shooting better than its opponent.
• Illinois outrebounded Northwestern by 13 (42-29), its 12th game of the season with a double-digit margin.
• Illinois' 19 assists were its most since dishing out 22 vs. North Carolina A&T on Dec. 29, and its most against a Big Ten opponent since tallying 23 vs. Iowa on Feb. 28, 2018.
• The trio of Alan Griffin, Ayo Dosunmu and Kofi Cockburn dominated, combining for 57 points and 27 boards to account for 77% of Illinois' scoring and 64% of its rebounding on the night.
• Griffin scored a career-high 24 points on 9-of-11 FG, and 6-of-8 from three, with seven boards.
• Griffin's six made threes were not only a career best, but the most by an Illini players since Trent Frazier made six treys last season vs. Missouri (Dec. 22, 2018).
• Griffin became the fifth different Illini to have a 20-point game this season, joining Dosunmu, Cockburn, Feliz, and Frazier.
• Dosunmu finished with 21 points, six rebounds and four assists, notching his seventh 20-point game of the year.
• Griffin (24) and Dosunmu (21) gave Illinois a pair of 20-point scorers for the first time since the Hampton game on Nov. 23, when Dosunmu and Cockburn had 20 apiece.
• Cockburn had 12 points and game-high 14 rebounds to tally his third double-double in the last five games, and 12th of the season.
• Andres Feliz had a game-high seven assists without committing a turnover in 31 minutes. That is the most assists without a turnover by an Illini since Dosunmu had 9 ast/0 to last year vs. Mississippi Valley State (Nov. 25, 2018).
Illini Items
• Over the last three games the Illini defense has allowed 60.3 points on 39.8% from the field and 25.9% from 3-point range.
• Illinois has been a team of streaks in 2020. After dropping the first game of the New Year, Illinois went on a seven-game win streak, its longest in league play in 15 years. The Illini then lost four in a row but have responded with a current three-game winning streak.
• Illinois is five games above .500 in Big Ten play for the third time this season (7-2, 8-3, 11-6). Illinois reached as high as six-over .500 after defeating Minnesota on Jan. 30 to improve to 8-2.
• The Illini have five Quad 1 win on the season, four of which have come on the road: at Michigan (25), at Penn State (26), at Wisconsin (28) and at Purdue (35). Illinois defeated Michigan (25) at home as well.
• Illinois' total of five Quad 1 wins is tied for 18th nationally.
• The Illini also have three Quad 2 wins – all at home – over Rutgers (34), Purdue (35) and Minnesota (46).
• Illinois played five-straight Quad 1 games from Feb. 2-18, finishing off a stretch with 12 out of 13 Quad 1 (9) or Quad 2 (4) games since the start of 2020.
• Illinois' three remaining games are all Quad 1 (at Ohio State, Iowa) or Quad 2 (Indiana).
• Illinois was ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 for five straight weeks from Jan. 13-Feb. 10. It marked Illinois' longest streak since appearing in eight straight AP polls from Nov. 26, 2012-Jan. 14, 2013.
• Illinois is averaging just 10.2 turnovers over the last 16 games, tallying single digits eight times.
• Illinois leads the Big Ten and ranks fifth in the NCAA in rebound margin (+8.9).
• Illinois ranks fourth in defensive field goal percentage (.406) and second in defensive 3-point percentage (.305) during Big Ten play.
• Illinois has outrebounded its opponent in 21 of 28 games, and 12 times by double digits.
• Illinois ranks fifth nationally in offensive rebound rate (36.4%) and is averaging 12.2 second-chance ppg.
• Illinois is 12-1 this season when scoring at least 70 points, with the lone loss to Miami, 81-79, on Dec. 2.
• The Illini are 17-1 this season, and 37-3 in the Underwood era, when shooting better than the opponent.
• Illinois' bench has outscored the opposing bench in 12 of 17 Big Ten games.
• Illinois has made 34 more free throws than its opponents have attempted on the season, and are currently outscoring foes by an average of 5.2 points per game at the foul line.
• Illinois is No. 13 in the nation in defensive free throw rate at 23.0% (FTA/FGA), a complete contrast from last season when the Illini defense ranked 338th out of 353 teams in that same category (42.4%).
• Illinois is seeing nearly a 10-point swing in points off free throws this year (+5.2) compared to last year (-4.7).
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