The Illini tip off their 2025-26 campaign on Monday. Who will be ready to play against Jackson State and who won't?

Illinois basketball has its finger prints on multiple levels of professional basketball including the NBA G-League.

Illinois basketball got a commitment from four-star guard Lucas Morillo for 2026-27. He joins four-star Ethan Brown and three-star Landon Davis in the recruiting class. CHAMPAIGN — Illinois basketball added its third recruit to the 2026 recruiting class.

After serving mostly in a spot-up-shooting role as a Stanford freshman, Stojakovic showed the most growth as a Cal sophomore in initiating offense and expanding his off-the-bounce game. In roughly 50 percent more minutes,

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Before Brad Underwood arrived at Illinois in 2017, the men’s basketball program was struggling to find direction. Athletic director Josh Whitman, who had experienced the excitement of Assembly Hall during his playing days on the ...

Few college basketball coaches consistently schedule tougher non-conference slates than Illinois’ Brad Underwood. Every time an opportunity arises for the Illini head man to test his guys against a tough foe, he seems to take it – and if no opportunity ...

Thor may not have quite the flowing locks to match those of Davis, and the Illini wing may fall just short of the strength of a superhero, but they each yield an all-powerful, supernatural weapon: Thor has his hammer and Davis his three-point dagger.

Zvonimir Ivisic has not quite lived up to his billing during the first two years of his college basketball career. The Croatian sensation wasn't able to

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Basketball has grown into a truly global game, with players from every corner of the world now filling NBA rosters. But the league's American roots still run deep — and many of its top scorers got their start in hometown gyms and high school courts across the United States.

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