Illinois wound up just one game shy of sharing last season's Big Ten title despite finishing as the league's worst 3-point shooting team.

Clearly, in order to compete for this year's Big Ten crown, the No. 8 Fighting Illini needed to add at least one legitimate outside threat to complement preseason All-America guard Ayo Dosunmu and all-Big Ten 7-footer Kofi Cockburn. Just as clearly, freshman guard Adam Miller appears to be the man for the job.

Miller, the only newcomer in Illinois' starting lineup Wednesday, buried the team's first two baskets of the season -- both of them nothing-but-net 3-pointers from the corner. He made 6 of 8 3-point attempts to highlight his 28-point outburst in Illinois' 122-60 victory over North Carolina A&T.