Everything you need to know in order to watch the Illinois Illini take on the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday, Feb. 22.

SportsLine's model just revealed its college basketball picks for the Illinois Fighting Illini vs. Cooper Flagg and the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden

There's no perfect solution, but the Illini at least have a rough blueprint they can follow to give Flagg pause

Madness prep. Madison Square Garden. There's a lot Illinois and Duke liked about this college basketball matchup.

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In all three of Duke’s losses, there were struggles on the glass. Against Kentucky, Kansas and Clemson, the Blue Devils had an average rebounding margin of minus-6.0 – a shocking figure considering their average margin of plus-8.2 (No. 10 in the country).

Catch Illinois vs. Duke men’s college basketball action: live streaming and game details on Saturday, February 22, 2025.

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The Illini seek to shock the college basketball world and knock off the Blue Devils at MSG . They'll need to rely on their two biggest stars to do just that.

Welcome to another Saturday college basketball slate as we inch closer and closer to March. The resumes are shaping into place with the bracket reveal for the top 16 seeds as we only have a few more weekends before conference tournament play begins.