Brad Underwood’s Illinois is facing a steep injury crisis early in the season. They had to adjust to the absence of five players in the last win over Colgate. Mihailo Petrovic and Brandon Lee, Ty Rodgers, and Tomislav Ivisic were all out of action. It seems Ivisic and Petrovic are trending towards a return. The only known facts regarding Ivisic’s injury before this update were that it was a knee injury and that it occurred in practice. Now, Underwood has himself explained the nature of his injury and indicated potential return against Alabama.

“Everything with him is because it’s a knee is the reaction, and he’s got a bone bruise. So, it becomes a reaction to what he does that day in practice,” Underwood revealed in an interview with Rothstein on ‘Inside Basketball’. The recovery f

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