No. 24 Indiana Falls at No. 10 Illinois

Friday, January 30

Urbana-Champaign, Ill.

10:00 PM

Indiana University

#10 Illinois

1/31/2026 12:33:00 AM | Wrestling

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. ––– No. 24 Indiana lost in a tough border battle at No. 10 Illinois, 27-7, on Friday night (Jan. 30) at Huff Hall.

The Hoosiers took two of the 10 bouts in the dual.

With the loss, Indiana is now 7-4 overall and 2-3 in the Big Ten.

KEY MOMENTS
• No. 11 Jacob Moran (125) led in the third period, but No. 20 Spencer Moore's riding time point sent the match to sudden victory. Moore scored on a takedown to win the match and put Illinois up 3-0 in the team score.
• No. 24 Henry Porter (141) dominated from start to finish against Kole Brewer working to a 13-3 major decision.
• Indiana dropped three-straight bouts in decision fashion from 165 to 184 lbs. that gave Illinois a 23-4 advantage.
• No. 15 Gabe Sollars (197) scored a second period takedown on Dylan Connell and never looked back en route to a 6-0 win.

NOTABLES
• Porter's win marked back-to-back duals with bonus-point victories after he won by tech fall in the Michigan State dual (Jan. 26).
• Six of the 10 bouts were decided by three points or less.
• Sollars had his second-straight match where he did not allow a point. In his win over No. 27 Kael Wisler last week, he won by decision, 4-0.

MATCH RESULTS

125: No. 20 Spencer Moore (ILL) def. No. 11 Jacob Moran (IU)     |SV-1, 6-3 |       Score: ILL up 3-0
133: No. 1 Lucas Byrd (ILL) def. Jackson Blum (IU)                       |Dec. 8-1 |         Score: ILL up 6-0
141: No. 24 Henry Porter (IU) def. Kole Brower (ILL)                    |MD, 13-3 |       Score: ILL up 6-4
149: No. 27 Michael Gioffre (ILL) def. Joey Buttler (IU)                 |Dec. 4-3 |       Score: ILL up 9-4
157: No. 9 Kannon Webster (ILL) def. Bryce Lowery (IU)           |TF, 21-5 (6:15) |    Score: ILL up 14-4
165: No. 8 Braeden Scoles (ILL) def. No. 19 Tyler Lillard (IU)         |Dec. 11-9 |      Score: ILL up 17-4
174: No. 25 Colin Kelly (ILL) def. No. 29 Derek Gilcher (IU)           |SV-1, 4-1 |         Score: ILL up 20-4
184: No. 20 Chris Moore (ILL) def. No. 13 Sam Goin (IU)              |Dec. 5-3 |       Score: ILL up 23-4
197: No. 15 Gabe Sollars (IU) def. Dylan Connell (ILL)                  |Dec. 6-0 |            Score: ILL up 23-7
285: No. 13 Luke Luffman (ILL) def. Caleb Marzolino (IU)             |MD, 16-4 |           Score: ILL up 27-7
FINAL TEAM SCORE: No. 10 ILLINOIS 27, INDIANA 7

UP NEXT
• Indiana will stay on the road with a match at Wisconsin up next on Saturday, Feb. 7.