The Fighting Illini have now had three games impacted by the weather this season. Both of their games against the Missouri Tigers slated for March 20th were cancelled due to the weather in St. Louis, Missouri. They also had the semifinal, consolation, and championship games of the Fighting Illini Invitational cancelled as well.

Illinois was looking to bounce back on Wednesday from being swept in their last series. The Fighting Illini were swept by the Wisconsin Badgers in their first Big Ten series of the season. The Illinois State team in which they were scheduled to play on Wednesday hadn’t played since March 10th, 2013. Now, they will need to wait until March 29th to try to bounced back.

The next time the Fighting Illini will take the field will be on March 29th against the #24 Nebraska Cornhuskers. The Cornhuskers will come into their series against Illinois riding 9-1 record in their last ten games.

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The only other teams to have offered at him include: the Eastern Michigan Eagles and the Purdue Boilermakers.

Oquendo is a 6’2″, 290 pound center from Chicago, Illinois. He is currently a junior at Mount Carmel High School.

The Mount Carmel Caravan won the Class 8A Illinois State Championship. They defeated Glenbard North High School, 28-14.

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Oquendo visited the Illinois Fighting Illini on January 26th for their Junior Day.

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The Fighting Illini trailed the Redbirds by two points with 37 seconds left after ISU’s Jamie Russel hit two free throws. Karisma Penn had a chance to tie the game from the charity stripe, but missed both of her free throws. Alexis Smith put up a 3-pointer at the buzzer, but it rimmed out to give Illinois State the 69-68 win.

According to fightingillini.com, head coach Matt Bollant said “We’ve been talking about defense a lot, trying to get better in practice and i think just a couple of stops in the second half would’ve made the difference for us, but we just weren’t able to get it done” after the loss to Illinois State.

Illinois had four players to score double-digits in Saturday night’s game and were led by Karisma Penn.

Penn finished the game with a double-double with 22 points and 15 rebounds. She also blocked six shots in the game.

As a team, the Fighting Illini went 10-of-29 from beyond the arc. This was their third-most in a game in school history.

Illinois State had big performances out of Janae Smith and Candace Sykes. Smith finished with 13 points and seven rebounds while Sykes finished with a team-high 22 points.

The Fighting Illini are now 6-5 on the season.

Their next game will be at Assembly Hall against the #6 Georgia Bulldogs on December 28th. Georgia is a perfect 12-0 this season. They defeated TCU 72-59 in their last game.

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