Overview
- Tipoff is 3 p.m. ET on FOX from Mackey Arena, with streaming available via Fubo (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial) and SlingTV (intro offers).
- Purdue is 17-2 overall with a 7-1 Big Ten record, while Illinois enters at 16-3 and 7-1 in conference play.
- Illinois rides an eight-game winning streak, most recently beating Maryland 89-70 behind Andrej Stojaković’s 30 points and nine rebounds.
- Purdue returns home after a West Coast split, edging USC 69-64 before a 69-67 loss to UCLA that snapped a nine-game run.
- Pregame listings have Purdue as a narrow 2.5-point favorite, with Illinois’s top-10 rebound margin and Purdue’s elite shooting and assist-to-turnover ratio pointing to a tight matchup.