By Paul Schmidt
It isn’t like anyone expected the Illini to lose.
Still, with their 88-53 win over Western Michigan a lot of positives can be taken.
It took forever for the Illini to get going (the teams combined to shoot 1-for-17 over the first 5:30 of the game), but once they got going, Illinois cruised to the easy win over their over-matched MAC opponent.
One of the components of the Illini game Sunday afternoon was the Illini offense. They after the slow start, the Illini nearly shot 50% from the field which allowed them to easily put the Broncos and David Kool — the nation’s ninth leading scorer who averaged 23 points a game coming into the contest.
“Offensively we bring a lot to the table,” Illinois head coach Bruce Weber said. “We have a lot of people who can contribute offensively and today we saw a lot of those people doing that for us today.”
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