UT Chattanooga at Illinois

UT Chattanooga hasn't played a Top 25 all season until now. You have to go back three years when they face No. 17 Tennessee and lost 58-46 getting outrebounded by 13 boards. Chattanooga is 19-37 ATS away from home in tournament play and college basketball dogs of 3.5 to 9.5 points that have won four or more straight games are 26-56 ATS when seeded No. 13 through No. 16 in the Big Dance. Illinois won the Big 10 regular-season title behind 7-foot junior center Kofi Cockburn (21.1 points, 10.6 rebounds per game). They were third in the conference in scoring, second in field goal shooting defense, fifth in points surrendered, third at defending beyond the arc, tops in rebounding. And Illinois is 18-7 ATS away from home against teams that commit 12 or fewer turnovers per contest. Play Illinois.