How To Watch Illinois-Purdue, Lineups, Injury Report, Betting Lines
Game time: 6 pm., CT
Where: State Farm Center, Champaign
TV: Peacock
Betting line: Illinois -2
VITALS: Illinois has won six straight home games and is 15-2 at State Farm Center this season. A victory Tuesday would mark the most single-season home wins since the Flyin' Illini set the program record with a 17-0 mark in 1988-89. Illinois is looking for its first win over a top-5 team since beating No. 2 Texas last season in the Jimmy V Classic. Illinois has scored at least 80 points in nine straight games, the longest streak since the Flyin' Illini (12) in 1989. Illinois is averaging 97.0 points per game during its current three-game win streak. Illinois ranks fifth in the NCAA in scoring at 22.0 points per game, the highest scoring average by an Illini in 51 years, since Nick Weatherspoon's 25.0 ppg in 1973.
PROJECTED STARTERS
FIGHTING ILLINI
G Ty Rodgers
G Terrence Shannon Jr
C Coleman Hawkins
F Marcus Domask
F Quincy Guerrier
BOILERMAKERS
F Trey Kaufman-Renn
F Fletcher Loyer
C Zach Edey
G Braden Smith
G Lance Jones
INJUY REPORT
FIGHTING ILLINI
Max Williams: Questionable - Undisclosed
BOILERMAKERS
None
QUOTABLE
Illinois coach Brad Underwood on Marcus Domask's big game against Wisconsin: “To come home, most guys get a little amped, get a little nervous, and that becomes the moment, is worrying about all that other stuff. He just focuses on the game, and that's a unique quality, it really is.”
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