Illinois 60, Michigan State 50

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Thursday, January 05, 2006

This was certainly a nice win for the Illini.

Dee Brown had an amazing game. Everything was working for him.
The technical on Weber was BS. Nice of Izzo to tactfully acknowledge that.
This was an extremely impressive performance on defense. MSU was the top scoring team in the Big Ten prior to this game. Holding them to 50 is just excellent.
But offensively, the Illini simply weren't very good. Getting 34 of our 60 points from Dee Brown is not a repeatable way to win games in the Big Ten.
And let us hope that we never again have a game where Augie gives us 7 turnovers.
Big Ten play is upon us. Every game will give us more information about how good our team really is. They're better than I expected them to be. In fact, they're good -- the question is how good.