Despite the NCAA’s best efforts*, Illinois is moving on. While expectations for the overall #16 seed would be for some struggles in their first two rounds, Illinois cruised in the two matches they hosted at Atkins Tennis Center.
* - To make a long story short, some conference-only schedules caused chaos in the computer rankings, which hurt the Big Ten. The NCAA said they would fix this, and they did to bump teams into the tournament, but they didn’t fix the seedings in the tournament which screwed over Illinois. The Illini should’ve been about the 8 seed, but instead they’re the 16 seed which means their third-round matchup is extremely tough instead of only just slightly tough.