The Illinois basketball team built a 25-point lead and led for all but 29 seconds of the game on the way to an 83-74 victory Sunday over in-state rival Northwestern in a Big Ten Conference game at ...

Former Illinois men's basketball standout Efrem Winters died Monday morning after a long battle with an undisclosed illness, according to the university. He was 61. The Champaign News-Gazette was ...

Illinois basketball had another up-and-down week, but still finds itself firmly in line for an NCAA Tournament berth. Coach Brad Underwood has Illinois basketball at 14-6 overall and 6-4 in the ...

The hope around Champaign after Illinois' 91-70 home loss to Maryland – in which center Tomislav Ivisic sat out due to illness and several other Illini were slowed by a bug – was that the ...

Efrem Winters started 120 games during his four seasons with the Illinois men’s basketball team from 1982-86 and the Chicago native left as the program’s all-time leading rebounder.

Led by none other than Jakucionis (seven assists), Illinois played a mature, selfless brand of basketball, as has been the case for the majority of the season. Despite the team's continued ...

Illinois men's basketball coach Brad Underwood was again at a loss for words following a 91-70 loss to Maryland Thursday night. With the absence of center Tomislav Ivišić due to what Underwood ...

Illinois freshman forward Morez Johnson Jr ... The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, and total points based on ...

(WAND) -- The Illini women's basketball team has won three of their ... with how her team has stepped up despite those losses. Illinois returns to the State Farm Center Monday night to host ...

January 26 - Kylan Boswell scored 17 points to lead five players in double figures as No. 17 Illinois rolled to an 83-74 Big Ten victory over visiting Northwestern Sunday afternoon in Champaign ...

CHICAGO (AP) Ali Abdou Dibba led Southern Illinois with 26 points and Kennard Davis secured the victory with a free throw with 39 seconds left as the Salukis took down UIC 89-85 on Saturday. Dibba ...