Illinois walked into a sold-out arena in Lubbock on Tuesday as the No. 3 team in the country and left with a loss. The Illini trailed Texas Tech 49-29 at halftime, rallied to within one point late in the second half, and still fell 84-78. Afterward, head coach Brad Underwood spoke without a filter about what went wrong, and his message was blunt.
“We didn’t come out with the intensity we needed to start the game. That’s not good,”Underwood said in his postgame press conference…