College Basketball · Week 9 · Jan 19, 2021
Illinois Fighting Illini vs Penn State Nittany Lions basketball
One of the eight meetings in our records.
Illinois 79, Nittany Lions 65.
Every half's points, and the digit each one ended on.
| Team | H1 | H2 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSU | 28 | 37 | 65 |
| ILL | 42 | 37 | 79 |
| Winning digits | 8–2 | 5–9 |
Meeting three of eight.
Illinois still leads the series 6-2.
Four earlier meetings, 2020 to 2022, counted in the series record above. Illinois won all four.
8 tracked meetings, 8 different digit pairs.
Each tracked meeting lands on one digit pair: the last digit of each team's final score. Across the 8 meetings our digit records cover, the finals landed on eight different digit pairs, none of them twice.
Illinois final digit down the side, Nittany Lions across the top.
These meetings have landed on eight digit pairs; the other 92 are still empty.
Each team's final digits, both from 2026.
The last digit of every final score, 0 through 9, from each side's 2026 season, the latest our digit records cover.
1 is their most common final digit: 7 of 37 finals, with no clear separation.
2 and 5 are tied for most common: 2 of 6 finals each. Never landed: 0, 1, 3, 6, 7 and 8.