No. 8 Illinois ramps with first game of 'tripleheader' week

[ASFN Admin]

Eighth-ranked Illinois opens the season Wednesday in the first of a self-made smorgasbord designed to prime one of the Big Ten favorites for a primetime matchup with No. 2 Baylor at the Jimmy V Classic on Dec. 2. Illinois opens the State Farm Center to North Carolina A&T on Wednesday, Wright State on Thanksgiving and Friday against Ohio. "There's been nothing like it," Illinois coach Brad Underwood said of the process of rebuilding the non-conference schedule for the Fighting Illini.

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