5 roller coaster observations from the Illinois basketball win over Colgate

It was a victory for the Illinois basketball team, but let's not get things confused, we did not look good against Colgate.

Colgate v Illinois | Geoff Stellfox/GettyImagesIllinois basketball has quite a few big non-conference games this season, but Colgate shouldn’t have been one of them.

The Illini played with our food early on in this game. Colgate was keeping up through much of the first half. The big turning point in the game was a flagrant and technical foul that was called on the Raiders. This gave Illinois four free throws, all of which were made, and the ball. At the time, with three minutes left in the first half, Colgate was down just three points, 31-28. Illinois had, essentially,…