The good: Illinois’ 70 points were the second least the Illini have scored in a Big Ten game.
The bad: Indiana did not hit a single 3-pointer across 40 minutes of college basketball.
A lot was going on today. Anthony Walker got the start. Mackenzie Mgbako saw substantial time at power forward. The Hoosiers put not two, not three but FOUR guards on the floor all at once.
The defensive gameplan, aided by Indiana’s length, prioritized switching over Mike Woodson’s usual nail-slot-rim philosophy. To his credit, that worked wonders and was what kept them in it for all forty minutes.