Illinois (11-3, 3-1 Big Ten) managed to hold off Washington (10-5, 1-3) by a score of 81-77 on Sunday in Seattle, but it only just survived a fierce comeback as the surging Huskies simply ran out of clock to work with.

Kasparas Jakucionis made a tiebreaking layup with 32 seconds left, and No. 22 Illinois survived a furious comeback bid by Washington to squeak out an 81-77 victory Sunday at Alaska Airlines arena.

It was the same story on a different day for coach Danny Sprinkle and the Washington Huskies, who fell 81-77 to the No. 22 Illinois Fighting Illini inside Alaska Airlines Arena on Sunday afternoon. For the first 10 minutes of the contest,

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