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Illinois State has an interesting team. They only return 3 players from last year's roster and were picked 7th of 10 in the MVC (Drake was picked 5th), but they beat a very good Belmont team in their first game of the season and had two neck-and-neck games with Little Rock (won by 5) and UCF (lost by 2).
Their team features two transfers from San Jose State, one from Eastern Kentucky, and a somewhat familiar face in former Wichita State reserve guard, Ricky Torres.
Through 3 games they've shot over 41% from 3, but with Friday's match-up being their first away from home this season, we'll ideally hold them to a much lower percentage as we did with Drake.
They seem to have a pretty balanced roster otherwise and I think will provide a solid challenge. I think we win by ~10 points.
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