After Brandon Paul wrapped up a television interview and trotted toward the locker room, many of the few hundred Illinois fans still in the Assembly Hall stood and gave him an ovation. He earned it. On a night when nothing worked quite right for the Illini, the guard scored a dozen points in the final four minutes and single-handedly drove a comeback that delivered a 48-43 comeback win over St. Bonaventure to keep Illinois (No. 22 ESPN/USA Today, No. 24 AP) unbeaten.
