The final Saturday of February is here and the stakes are high for college basketball teams as they battle for their NCAA Tournament positions, jockey for conference title hopes and try and climb their way up the projected seeding prjections for March Madness.

Welcome to another Saturday college basketball slate as we inch closer and closer to March. The resumes are shaping into place with the bracket reveal for the top 16 seeds as we only have a few more weekends before conference tournament play begins.

At full strength, the Illini are one of the few teams in the country that can match up with Duke's incredible length. However, backup big man Morez Johnson is sidelined by a broken wrist, and center Tomislav Ivisic is still feeling the effects of mono that caused him to lose seven pounds by Tuesday's 21-point loss to Wisconsin.