{"id":321619,"date":"2026-11-05T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T10:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321619\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T10:48:11","slug":"pennsylvania-visits-no-3-illinois-after-vaaks-20-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321619\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania visits No. 3 Illinois after Vaaks&#8217; 20-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Pennsylvania Quakers at Illinois Fighting Illini<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Champaign, Illinois; Thursday, 8:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">LINE: Fighting Illini -30.5; over\/under is 168.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">BOTTOM LINE: No. 3 Illinois faces Pennsylvania after Stefan Vaaks scored 20 points in Illinois&#8217; 120-45 victory over the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Illinois went 14-3 at home a season ago while going 28-9 overall. The Fighting Illini averaged 14.2 assists per game on 28.4 made field goals last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pennsylvania went 18-12 overall a season ago while going 4-8 on the road. The Quakers averaged 75.9 points per game last season, 14.7 from the free-throw line and 24.3 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Quakers at Illinois Fighting Illini Champaign, Illinois; Thursday, 8:30 p.m. EST LINE: Fighting Illini -30.5; over\/under is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10150,2300,16220,28,30,29,726],"class_list":["post-321619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}