GREENVILLE, S.C. — The Illinois men’s basketball team is playing a unfamiliar opponent coached by a familiar foe to open the NCAA Tournament.

The No. 3 Illini will be playing the No. 11 Quakers for just the seventh time in history tonight at 8:25 p.m., but Penn’s first year coach — Fran McCaffery — has faced the Illini many times in his 15 years at Iowa.

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