#663 ASA PLAY ON 8* Illinois +6 over Purdue, Tuesday at 9 PM ET - Tough to lay this many points right now vs a full strength Illinois team that is playing lights out. We faded the Illini on Saturday as a road favorite @ Indiana in a perfect spot for a letdown vs a rested Hoosier team coming in with a week off. Illinois had just beaten Wisconsin by 13 points to move into 1st place in the conference and they had this huge game on deck. Didn’t matter they handled IU by a final score of 74-57 giving the Hoosiers just their 2nd home loss of the season. We were dead wrong on that one. Now we’re getting a full 6 points with Illinois and they are in revenge mode after losing in double OT at home to the Boilers. We’ll put an asterisk by that loss as Illini All American center Kofi Cockburn suffered a concussion in that game (sat out the next 2 games) and had his worst outing of the season with 10 points and 5 rebounds in just 22 minutes before fouling out. Purdue had a huge advantage from the FT line making 26 of 32 with Illinois making 12 of 15 yet this game still went to 2 overtimes. Purdue has won 5 straight since their loss @ Indiana but their last 2 home games have gone to the wire beating OSU by 3 on a last second 3 pointer and then topping Michigan by 6 over the weekend. The Boilers like to bully teams inside on the boards with their size but Illinois matches up very well in that regard with Cockburn. The Illini are the #1 defense in the Big 10 efficiency wise along with eFG% allowed. They also are a very good perimeter defensive team which will be problems for Purdue as they rely quite heavily on the 3 point shot. The Illini have won 10 of their last 12 games with their only losses coming when Cockburn was limited due to a concussion (vs Purdue) or didn’t play in the game. We anticipate this game being close throughout and getting this many points with the Illini is a take for us.