The magic number is down to one for Illini men’s hockey coach Chad Cassel.

After sweeping Division-II Indiana 10-0 and 3-1 this weekend at home, the No.1 Illini remained undefeated and earned Cassel his 210th victory as Illinois’ head coach, tying him for the all-time victory mark in Illini history.

With one more win Cassel would surpass Mark Rozskowski, who coached in the 1970’s, ’80s and early ’90s, for sole possession of the record.

“Playing for a coach like Chad is a lot of fun,” sophomore forward Nick Fabbrini said. “It would be great to get him a record like that after we won the first National Championship last year, getting this record for him would be pretty sweet.”

The Illini picked up their 13th and 14th wins this past weekend but in two completely different ways.

Friday, the Illini were able to withstand the early-game surge by an aggressive Indiana team with good forechecking.

“We were out working them in the corners, and a number of our goals came where we would outwork them and make a pass out in front and score,” Cassel said.

At the 6:11 mark of the first period, Fabbrini found freshman forward Jordan Pringle open in the slot for the Illini’s first goal of the game and what would be the start of a long night for Indiana’s defense.

By the end of the first period Illinois led 5-0, prompting Indiana head coach Rich Holdeman to pull his starting goaltender. However, the change in net-minders did not slow the Illini offense.

By the end of the night, the Illini tallied a season-high 10 goals on 48 shots, while not allowing a goal against.

“Things were going our way,” senior forward Mike Roesch said. “We had a lot of nice passes, and we were winning the battles on the boards and getting good looks in front. Everyone was burying the puck in the net when they had to.”

Roesch, last year’s American Collegiate Hockey Association Player of the Year, led the Illini offense with six points, scoring three goals and assisting on three others.

“(Roesch) is unreal,” Fabbrini said. “He’ll score a goal and guys on the bench will start laughing instead of celebrating. It’s so unreal some of the moves he makes and goals he scores, and there’s nothing you can do but laugh at things like that.”

While Friday night was an offensive explosion for the Illini, Saturday night was a defensive battle.

Indiana came out re-energized and began the game the same way it did Friday night, aggressive. But this time the Hoosiers did not let up and were able to stay with the Illini, scoring first on Illini junior goaltender Mike DeGeorge.

“Friday night’s performance by Indiana wasn’t indicative of how good their team really is,” Cassel said. “They are a much better team than they showed last night. We can’t let up; teams are going to shoot for us every single night.”

The Illini were able to step up their defense to counter the Indiana attack, and late in the first period Roesch broke through for his fourth goal of the weekend to tie the game.

Fabbrini stuffed home a rebound for his 13th goal of the year early in the second period to give the Illini a 2-1 lead.

The Illini defense was able to hold off the Hoosiers the rest of the game, killing off key penalties and getting big saves from DeGeorge to maintain the one goal lead until sophomore forward Kevin Wicklin capped off the weekend with an empty net goal with four seconds left in the game.

“It’s tough when you’re getting the calls against you,” Roesch said “But when you kill a penalty off, it gets a lot of momentum and pushes you to go out there and win the next shift and keep playing hard.”

The Illini look to take the momentum on the road next weekend at 20th-ranked Kent State University.