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Brad Underwood has his best team at Illinois right now

Happy Sunday, Illinois Land!

The toothpaste is out of the tube. There’s no going back now.

Before I unpack why this is Brad Underwood’s best team since arriving in Champaign seven years ago, let’s take a look at the absolute beatdown of Rutgers in Piscataway to open Big Ten play with a road victory for the second time since 2011.

Noah Cowell has the particulars on that comprehensive ass kicking in Piscataway.

It’s worth mentioning that this would have been embarrassingly non-competitive if the Big Ten officials assigned to Saturday’s contest didn’t take matters into their own hands the last eight minutes of the first half.