COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Illinois broke the huddle from a timeout with 57 seconds left and a three-point lead against Ohio State on Thursday, Giorgi Bezhanishvili went to Ayo Dosunmu with a plan to get him to the rim unimpeded. Bezhanishvili told Dosunmu that he would seal the defender, freeing him up to dash to the rim and give Illinois a two-possession lead. Dosunmu, though, had other plans. “He was like, ‘Giorgi, I’m hitting this trey ball,'” Bezhanishvili said from the bowels of Value City Arena. “He told me that, actually, and then he just went up there. He was confident. I knew it would go in and it just happened.” Dosunmu canned a 3-pointer late in the shot clock and with 29 seconds left on the game clock to bury Ohio State on the way to Illinois’ 63-56 win over the Buckeyes to notch its fourth consecutive win. It…
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