Back on February 7th Iowa was laying 9 points at Illinois, a game they won and covered, even with a game at Indiana on deck. The Hawkeyes were AP# 4 after that win but reality set in that they were over-ranked and they were exposed big time going 1-5 SU and 0-6 ATS until wining their season finale. Meanwhile since that meeting Illinois is actually 3-5 and while that seems impressive the wins came versus Rutgers twice and yesterday to an ultra-depleted Minnesota squad. Iowa is senior laden team and are still very talented, desperate to prove they are a top tier team and are now only laying 1.5 points more as they did at Illinois. The Illini will be tipping-off for the second time in just over 19 hours while Iowa was glued to their TV's scouting a foe that celebrated a 33 point win.