Illinois head coach Brad Underwood calls out players for defensive mental errors, blown assignments and fundamental lack of detail in a 90-89 loss at Penn State. 

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

February 22, 2024

The head men’s basketball coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is clearly at the blunt honesty stage with his veteran players following a monumental collapse at Penn State. 

In the post-game media conference after a devastating and confusing 90-89 loss inside Recreation Hall on the Pennsylvania State University campus where No. 12 Illinois gave up the game’s last . . .