No. 14 Indiana women’s basketball suffered its fourth loss of the season, falling to Illinois 86-66 this afternoon in Champaign.
The loss drops Indiana to 21-4 on the year and 12-3 in Big Ten play.
Here’s three things:
This was a long time coming
Illinois is better than its 13-12 record suggests and usually gives Indiana a fight. The Ball Knowers among us knew they’d beat the Hoosiers at some point and it is not surprising that senior guard Makira Cook led the charge.
Cook, whose scoring season-highs in each of the last two years came against IU, finished with 22 points and headlined an Illini offense that went to work off the bounce against the Hoosiers.