#Illinois basketball

Despite a loss to Indiana in Friday’s Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal, Illinois basketball’s NCAA Tournament seeding seems pretty stable. A day before Selection Sunday, No. 16-ranked Illinois (22-9) is a consensus No. 4 seed, according to BracketMatrix.com, a composite of more than 100 bracket projections. Though, where and who Illinois plays depends on who is filling out the bracket.

Bet you didn’t see this coming. After ending the regular season losing seven of nine, IU is making an improbable run in Indianapolis. Indiana is making its fifth Big Ten Tournament semifinal appearance, the first since 2013, and hope to advance to advance to the championship game for the first time since 2001. IU has also won two tournament games in a single year for the first time since 2003.

INDIANAPOLIS – At first, it was just the two of them. Indiana head coach Mike Woodson and IU athletic director Scott Dolson. Woodson had just finished up a press conference after Indiana’s gut-wrenching 69-67 loss at Purdue to end the regular season. Woodson and Dolson walked together. Then...

Illinois basketball had a heartbreaking loss to Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament on Friday afternoon. It was a brutal end to what was an intense game. I don’t think the Illini could have played any worse than they did on Friday, but we still had a shot to win the game.

Watch as Trey Galloway and Race Thompson met with the media after a 65-63 win over Illinois on Friday afternoon in Indianapolis. Indiana (20-12) plays Iowa at 1 p.m. Eastern on Saturday. Woodson, Jackson-Davis and Johnson post-game | Three keys highlights, final stats. Video credit – Indiana Athletics. The...

How to Watch No. 16 Illinois (22-8) vs. Indiana (19-12) Radio: All Illinois basketball games air live on radio in the Champaign (WDWS 1400) and Chicago markets (WLS 890). The game is also broadcasted on other stations throughout the state; check the Fighting Illini Radio Network for more information. Odds:...

With the Illinois basketball loss to Indiana on Friday, this might change some bracketology opinions. The Illini have now dropped from No. 14 to No. 15 in the updated NET Rankings put out by the NCAA. If you go purely off the NET Rankings, Illinois would land in the NCAA tournament as a No. 4 seed.

Illinois basketball went into Sunday needing a miracle to win the Big Ten, and we got that miracle. On Sunday afternoon, Nebraska took down Wisconsin to give the Illini a shot at the Big Ten regular season crown. All Illinois had to do was beat Iowa to take a share of the regular season title.

The Illinois basketball team has seen great success over the past three years, and the reason we have had success is due to the talented players on the court. Each one of the Illini players has played a role in getting to where we are today. But there are some players who get great notoriety for their play. This season, Illinois has a handful of names who made an All-Big Ten Team.

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner, Joey Wagner and Derek Piper discuss Illinois basketball's 65-63 loss to Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal. The guys discuss a good game from the frontcourt but poor shooting performances from the guards and then discuss lingering concerns about the team entering the NCAA Tournament,

Lead basketball reporter Derek Piper previews Illinois' matchup against Indiana in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals.

The Illinois basketball season is far from over, but that doesn’t stop the program from thinking about the future. The Illini haven’t had a ton of elite true point guards over the years. There are tinges of that with Andre Curbelo, but I would say the last guards who really brought everything you would want at the No. 1 guard spot were Ayo Dosunmu, Dee Brown, and Deron Williams. All three were elite-level point guards for the Orange and Blue.

NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Special Olympics Illinois athletes are competing in the 2022 State Basketball tournament Friday and Saturday at Illinois State University’s Horton Field House, and Illinois Wesleyan University’s Shirk Center. Leaders with Special Olympics Illinois said 2022 marks 47 years of state basketball at Illinois...

The final buzzer in Illinois men's basketball's 74-72 win over Iowa on Sunday night was the culmination of highly contested, highly emotional game. Two rival schools met with postseason implications on the line in a sold-out arena, where Illinois claimed its first regular-season Big Ten title in nearly two decades.

Illinois basketball is nearing the third straight season of making the NCAA tournament. Let that sink in for a moment. Three straight years of successful basketball. For those of you questioning the three straight year thing, I am counting the COVID year as making the postseason. The Illini finished ranked No. 21 in the AP Top 25, so we would have gone dancing.

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — Here are the Illinois Associated Press Class 1A-4A All-State boys’ basketball teams as voted on by a statewide panel of sports writers, broadcasters and internet-site reporters. All media members covering high school basketball in the state were eligible to nominate and vote for players. Compiled by Steve Tappa of MC22 and QCSportsNet (formerly of the Moline Dispatch and the Rock Island Argus).

Kofi Cockburn plops down on the leather folded chairs inside of the visitor’s locker room at Mackey Arena and stares blankly at the adjoining wall as Illinois head coach Brad Underwood addresses Cockburn and his teammates following an 84–68 drubbing at No. 3 Purdue on Feb. 8. Naturally,...