The Illini rank No. 15 in NET, and could climb even higher with an impressive weekend in the Big Ten Tournament ...

Illinois basketball closed the regular season with three consecutive wins, so where do they sit now for March Madness ahead ...

DePaul Prep (31-4), which won Class 3A last season and Class 2A in 2023, arrives in Champaign as a heavy favorite. Rashaun Porter, a 6-7 junior, is one of the state’s most effective post players.

A multi-talented, 6-foot-6 lead guard, Kasparas Jakucionis arrived in Champaign at age 18 and has put together one of the ...

Freshman Will Riley (12.2 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 2.3 apg) was named the Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year. The 6-foot-8 forward, expected ...

The surging Illini have won three in a row, including ranked foes Michigan and Purdue, with the Big Ten tournament up next ...

Illinois defeated Purdue in Friday's final regular season game. What happened away from the court was more upsetting for Trey ...

On Tuesday, Riley, despite starting Illinois' last five games, was awarded the Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year Award. Joining Andre Curbelo, who was the Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year in 2021, Riley ...

Against the Big Ten's best rebounding team, Purdue showed a promising effort on the glass Friday despite the loss to Illinois ...

March 8 - Kasparas Jakucionis drilled a tie-breaking 3-pointer with 39 seconds left to highlight a late nine-point run that lifted Illinois to an 88-80 Big Ten victory over No. 18 Purdue on Friday ...

Illinois closed the game on a 16-3 run, helped by some late free throws to put an end to Purdue's mini two-game winning ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) Isaia Howard helped lead top-seeded Drake over eighth-seeded Southern Illinois on Friday with a career-high 21 points off of the bench in a 70-53 victory in the Missouri Valley ...