It will be interesting to see who guards Deshaun Thomas, probably Lawson. I'm expecting Craft on Terone Johnson so Byrd and Hammons are going to have to score. The line is OSU -7.5 but you could sell me on Purdue winning a tight one or Purdue getting blown out. Tough to say with a young team. It's the first game with students back on campus as well. Yeah, it went pretty much exactly as the linesmakers/computers expected. I thought it would be a tad closer down the stretch. Another big one in Champaign tonight. Minnesota (-1.5) comes to town and Illinois is going to have to keep there physical mentality going from last game if they want to rebound with these guys. I want to say Illinois wins this game at home, but coming off a huge win and against a terrible matchup I will say they drop this one and Minnesota goes to 3-0 in conference. Hammons is making some poor decisions on defense and fouling too much. He's fouled 4 times each in his first three B1G games limiting his minutes. He's scored 33 in his last two games though. I couldn't believe how many bunny layups we missed last night, Purdue should've covered. To credit OSU every time we would get something going they would hit a big shot, one after another. Minny/Illinois should be a good one. It's Pomeroy's highest rated 'FanMatch' game of the day.