Here are our takeaways from the first game in the season series between Northwestern and Illinois.
If there was a better game in college basketball than Northwestern hosting Illinois on Friday, we'd love to know where it was. The Wildcats took the No. 19 ranked Illini to the wire, as the two needed free basketball to decide this game.In overtime, Nick Martinelli went ballistic.He scored seven points and put the pressure on Illinois' shooters to keep up.
Martinelli had five quick points to give NU a slim lead to start the second half.Friday night was further proof, though. Once Martinelli is in his groove, NU can depend on him in its biggest games of the season.There are few teams in the nation that can turn it on like Illinois can.In the early goings of the second half, Northwestern took a slim 34-33 lead thanks to Martinelli's quick start coming out of the gate.
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