Illinois heads into Thursday's game against Maryland off a weekend loss to Michigan State in a top 25 matchup in East Lansing, Mich., that currently has the Illini fifth in the Big Ten. But that ...

Illinois' Underwood and Bielema are comfortable in finding themselves working through one tossup encounter after another.

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