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The Washington bench celebrate after beating Illinois. The Huskies advanced to Sweet 16 with a 67-64 win on Saturday.

Illinois found out the hard way.

“I guess we didn’t understand the high level of intensity and how physical they were going to play,” Illini coach Bruce Weber said.

Roy scored five points during an 18-7 run that brought the Huskies back from a 53-42 deficit with 12½ minutes to play. Roy made a layup to tie the game at 60 with 3:27 left, setting up a thrilling finish.

Washington freshman Justin Dentmon — who’s from Carbondale, Ill. — scored nine of his 13 points in the late surge. He had a four-point play with 4:12 left to pull UW to 60-58, then had three free throws in the final 2:20.

Jones made three free throws in the final 15.5 seconds to give the Huskies a 67-64 lead. He hit one of two with 12.8 seconds left, and Illinois rebounded his miss to set up a final shot. After a timeout, Brown got the ball and missed a 3 at the buzzer.

Dentmon finished with 13 points and Jamaal Williams had 10.

James Augustine led Illinois with 19, Brown had 15 and Rich McBride 13.

Illinois was called for 28 fouls and the Huskies 17.

“They were physical. They were banging me,” Roy said. “I came off screens and they were grabbing me.”

Said Brown: “We were hacking more. We were undisciplined on defense.”

Illinois had an unfathomable start, when it missed 21 of its first 25 shots and fell behind 28-14.

Then in the span of 3 minutes, 39 seconds, the Illini went from almost desperate to ecstatic. Augustine got hot and the Illini outscored Washington 19-7 to close the first half. Brown swished a 3-pointer at the buzzer to pull the Illini to 35-33, then celebrated by chest-bumping with Brian Randle in front of the bench.

The Illini extended the run to 31-9, scoring 12 of the first 14 points of the second half to go up 45-37.

But Illinois stumbled into another shooting slump and also hurt itself with fouls and turnovers.

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