Patient, relentless Underwood has top-seeded Illini rolling

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Brad Underwood arrived at Illinois in the spring of 2017 tasked with trying to restore some of the swagger to a program that had become an afterthought in the Big Ten. ''Oh, I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a lot of `uh-oh' moments,'' Underwood said Wednesday. Just not enough to dent the relentless optimism the 57-year-old has carried with him during a career that's included head coaching stops in Dodge City and Daytona, a spot at the end of Bob Huggins' bench at Kansas State and three spectacular seasons turning Stephen F. Austin into NCAA tournament darlings.

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