Illinois State won its seventh men's basketball game in a row Tuesday night, the program's longest such streak in seven years. Five thousand eighty-two people witnessed the Redbirds take sole possession of first place in the Missouri Valley, with a 4-0 record, one-half game ahead of Drake and Indiana State. Five thousand one hundred eighteen empty seats saw them do it, too "One step at a time," ISU athletics director Sheahon Zenger said of half-empty Redbird Arena, once a jam-packed pain in the ears anytime ISU took the court.
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