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Asmussen | Big test on tap for young Illini

Are you ready for some basketball?

Brad Underwood's second Illinois team better be.

Georgetown, a team rated in the lower half of the Big East, just came to Champaign-Urbana and took out the Illini.

The Hoyas are a nice team with loads of potential.

Patrick Ewing is trying to rebuild his alma mater into what it once was: a dominant Eastern power.

It seems like just yesterday Ewing swatted away shots in the NCAA title game. But that was almost 37 years ago. (Gosh, I am old).

But those were not your parents' Hoyas.