It shocking to say, but it turns out Rutgers Basketball might be....not bad? The Knights gave Illinois all it could handle in a tough back-and-forth high scoring affair.
But it wasn’t enough to stop the Giorgi Bezhanishvili show in a 99-94 Illinois victory in overtime, where the Illini were able to complete the sweep over their three-game homestand. Giorgi had the best game for an Illini big man in recent memory, scoring a career-high 35 points and setting the new freshman single-game scoring record for Illinois.
It was a dominating performance in the second half and overtime for the Georgian that nobody expect anything from coming into this season.