BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Makira Cook dinner was the perfect participant on the ground on Sunday at No. 5 Indiana.
And the star guard almost led the Illinois ladies’s basketball group to its largest win in 22 years.
However the Hoosiers (9-0) had totally different concepts making sufficient key performs down the stretch to fend off the Illini, who got here up quick in a 65-61 loss to Indiana at Simon Skjodt Meeting Corridor.
Cook dinner, who completed with a career-high 33 factors for Illinois (7-2), had been coping with fatigue within the closing minutes.
It maybe confirmed within the ultimate 10 seconds, as Cook dinner’s layup try and bounce shot each ended up quick on back-to-back Illini offensive possessions with the Dayton switch having the possibility to offer Illinois both the lead or tie the sport late.
“We had loads of alternatives down the stretch and typically these pictures go in and typically they do not,” Illinois coach Shauna Inexperienced mentioned afterward. “We acquired the pictures. I am going to have to observe movie. I do not suppose I’d do something totally different. Makira was actually cooking and we acquired the ball in her arms and he or she acquired attractiveness that she had been making all recreation. We’ll be taught from it.”
The Illini have been looking for their first top-five win over an Related Press High 25 group since Jan. 2, 2000, when Illinois beat Georgia 82-65 in Champaign.