Three games into the season, Illinois coach Brad Underwood is already making some bold comments about his starting backcourt of Kylan Boswell and freshman Keaton Wagler.”It reminds me a little bit of having Ayo (Dosunmu) and Trent (Frazier),” he said, invoking the program’s star guards of the early 2020s. “They’re just different. They’re different types of guards but they’re very compatible together.”Boswell and Wagler will look to keep the 14th-ranked Fighting Illini (3-0) unbeaten Friday night when they welcome Colgate (1-2) to Champaign.In Illinois’ first big game of the year, an 81-77 defeat of No. 11 Texas Tech on Tuesday at home, Boswell scored 22 points on just 10 shot attempts and Wagler added 11 to go along with seven rebounds. Wagler also made the clinching foul shot with 6.8 seconds left.Boswell is tied for the team lead with 21.0 points per game and Wagler (17.0) ranks third. Boswell leads the team in assists (3.7), while the 6-foot-7 Wagler is pulling down 6.7 rebounds per game as well as canning 53.8% of his shots.”Kylan’s one of the best conditioned guys in the country,” Underwood said. “Strong … been in college four years, so he’s been in that weight room. He knows what conditioning is. He’s smart. And Keaton’s been almost unflappable in terms of not turning it over and good decisions.”So that’s a position I feel either one of those guys can be very, very comfortable in.”Add the Illini’s abundance of talented post players — Zvonimir Ivisic, David Mirkovic and Tomislav Ivisic — and you have a team averaging 102.3 points on 53.3% shooting. Their depth was highlighted Tuesday night by a 23-point performance off the bench from Andrej Stojakovic, who also blocked a potential game-tying 3-pointer in the final seconds.While Illinois eyes another rise in the top 25 next week, Colgate comes into this one off its first win of the season.