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NORMAL — On Monday night, Dusan Mahorcic gathered his Illinois State teammates at his apartment for some food and hoops.

Mahorcic, a native of Serbia, along with Alex Kotov (Russia) and Abdou Ndiaye (Senegal), cooked an "international" dinner for the group. Later, they watched the Kansas-Baylor game together on ESPN.

"When we saw how hard Baylor plays their defense it was, 'Oh, man, we don't play as hard as that,' " said Mahorcic. "We have to pick it up, you know what I'm saying?"

Bradley found out Wednesday night. The Redbirds stifled the Braves as ISU took a 71-56 upset victory that rocked the Missouri Valley Conference.