No. 3 Illinois hosts Ivy champion Penn in NCAA tournament rematch
The gist
No. 3 Illinois (1-0) hosts Penn (0-0) on Thursday, a rematch of March's 105-70 tournament win.
Illinois is 7-0 all-time in the series, which has only one single-digit game.
How it unfolded
- Jan 20, 1947Illinois beat Penn 70-44 in Philadelphia in the teams' first meeting.
- 1948Illinois won 80-61 in Champaign.
- 1950Illinois won 75-65 in Champaign.
Key terms
- Big Ten
- A major U.S. collegiate athletic conference, the oldest in NCAA Division I, originally named for its ten member universities.
- Ivy League
- An American collegiate athletic conference of eight elite private universities in the Northeastern United States.
- NCAA tournament
- Describes a college basketball team suited to the single-elimination NCAA tournament played mostly in March.
Source: Wikipedia