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Fight Scenes

By Elena Bergeron, Bruce Feldman

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

What's it take to be No. 1? How does a team with a bull's-eye on its back keep a perfect season alive? Can a school that's never won the NCAA go all the way? To find out, we went to Champaign, Ill., with an all-access pass for a two-game, homeroad stretch in early February. We were embedded with the Illini at home and at practice, in team meetings and strategy sessions, on the ground and in the air. What we found were three guards who share their lives like they share the ball, a forward/ministe ...

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