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Frankie Williams, Sergio McClain, and Marcus Grffin were special
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Oct 23, 2021
Illinois stuns No. 7 Penn State in NCAA's first 9-overtime game
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Dee Brown steal and layup vs
#4
Cincinnati in the 2004 NCAA Tournament.
Illinois would go on to win 92-68 to advance to the sweet 16.
A sophomore at the time, Dee finished this game with
14 points
8 assists
2 steals
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Retweet if the 2004-05 Illinois Men’s Basketball Team is your favorite Illini season.
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March 1 2020
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Ayo Dosunmu is becoming legendary at Illinois for his hustle, talent and an intangible yet reliable ability to take over a game and win it in the final seconds.
He had 17 points, including this 3, to lead Illinois over Indiana 67-66.
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ESPN previews the 1984-85 Illini Men’s Basketball Team
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March 8, 2020
Basically, they want to kill us, and we want to kill them," the Illini's Ayo Dosunmu said
Dosunmu scored 17 points for the Illini, including two clutch jumpers late as Illinois beats Iowa 78-76
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December 26th, 2020
Ayo Dosunmu scored 30 points on 11-of-17 shooting to take down Indiana
With nine minutes left, Dosunmu took over converting all four of his three-point attempts and willing the Illini to a strong finish
His third 30pt performance in his last 5 games played
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February 12th, 2021
Ayo Dosunmu scores 31 points including 15 consecutive points for Illinois over a 4:21 stretch at the end of the second half and beginning of overtime to lead Illinois to a comeback win over Nebraska.
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Rocky Harvey 47 yards to the house as Illinois Dominates Virginia In the 1999 Bowl, 63-21
Rocky Harvey game stats:
10 rushes
122 yards
2 TD’s
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The greatest linebacking core ever assembled on the field at one time
-John Holecek
-Simeon Rice
-Kevin Hardy
-Dana Howard
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RB Dre Brown scores his first career touchdown on a 72-yard run against Minnesota as part of the 55-31 Illini win
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The time a ref robbed Nick Anderson of an epic dunk
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Stephen Bardo with some razzle dazzle pushing the ball in transition
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Reilly O’Toole to Malik Turner to open up the scoring as Illinois would eventually beat Northwestern 47-33 and go bowling.
This was Malik Turner’s first career receiving touchdown in college.
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Juice Williams -> Arrelious Benn for a 29 yard touchdown
Illinois defeats Penn State 27-20 on September 29th, 2007
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Starting a feature on Ayo Dosunmu’s clutch play and will focus on posting many of his late game heroics.
First we have:
Dan Dakich: “This won’t end well for Illinois”
*Ayo Dosunmu instantly drains a three*
It ended well.
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January 25th, 2020
Ayo Dosunmu sinks a contested jumper from the free throw line with 0.5 seconds remaining to give Illinois a 64-62 victory over Michigan
Ayo’s stat line:
27 points
7 rebounds
2 assists
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Trailing by two with 1.5 seconds left, Andy Kaufmann hits a three at the buzzer as Illinois defeats Iowa 78-77
February 4th, 1993
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Caleb Griffin’s walk off 43-yard field goal helps Illinois defeat Maryland 27-24
Lane Hansen with the snap
Hugh Robertson with the hold
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January 8, 2020
Ayo Dosunmu scores a team-high 18 points -- including this 3-pointer with 46 seconds left -- to rally Illinois to a 71-70 Big Ten Conference victory over Wisconsin.
Ayo also had six assists and five rebounds.
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Valentine’s Day 2019
Another Dosunmu Dagger
Illinois beats Ohio State on the road helped by Ayo Dosunmu’s 15 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, and this late game clutch three-pointer to give Illinois the win.
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WR Brandon Lloyd THROWS a 40-yard touchdown to WR Walter Young in the 2002 Sugar Bowl vs LSU.
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Team doctors were always concerned about how much ice Ayo Dosunmu always had in his veins.
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The electrifying freshman
@ArreliousBenn
also took a kickoff return to the house in this game.
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With the 26th overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft, The Houston Texans select Whitney Mercilus.
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Other touchdowns from this game:
Jason Verduzco throws an eight-yard touchdown pass to Elbert Turner
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January 18th, 2020
"𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝑨𝒚𝒐? 𝑮𝒐 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅,"
-Brad Underwood
Another Dosunmu Dagger. This time Ayo hits the clutch bucket to put Illinois up five points with eighteen seconds left.
Final score
Northwestern 71
Illinois 75
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Lou Henson amassed a 423-224 record in bis 21-years as head coach for the Fighting Illini.
Illinois basketball was one of the nation's most dominant programs during Henson's tenure, earning a top-5 seed in the NCAA Tournament seven straight years from 1984 through 1990.
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His junior season, Whitney Mercilus led the nation and the Big Ten in sacks (16.0), sacks per game (1.23) and forced fumbles (9)
2011 Ted Hendricks Award Winner (top DE in nation)
2011 CFPA National Defensive Performer of the Year
2011 Consensus First-Team All-American
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2013 Big Ten Tournament.
Brandon Paul at the buzzer!
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Andrés Feliz fights for and wins the rebound against two Iowa Hawkeyes then converts the putback.
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March 26, 2005
Illinois advances to the final four despite being down 15 with four minutes left vs Arizona. The epic shot of Bill Murray after the Deron Williams game tying three is memorable.
Illinois’ win probability was less than 1% at the 4 minute mark
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