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  • recruit Adam Miller in an Illini uniform

    2020 Illinois 'Mr. Basketball' signs with Fighting Illini

    Apr 23, 2020 2:00 pm

    Consensus top-40 recruit Adam Miller has signed a national letter of intent. A two-time Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year, Miller is a 6-foot-3-inch, 180-pound combo guard from Peoria.

  • football player Kendrick Green stands beside graphic of football schedule

    2020 Illinois Football schedule announced

    Sep 18, 2020 2:15 pm

    The Fighting Illini are slated to start the abbreviated season at Wisconsin on October 24. Home game opponents for the Illini are Purdue, Minnesota, Ohio State and Iowa. The team will travel to Wisconsin, Rutgers, Nebraska and Northwestern. 

  • 2020 Illini Football schedule announced

    Aug 5, 2020 10:45 am

     The revised 2020 Illinois football schedule was released by the Big Ten Conference today, with the Fighting Illini opening the season September 3 with a Thursday Night Special against Ohio State at Memorial Stadium.

  • 2020 Fighting Illini football season opener vs. ISU

    Nov 25, 2019 2:30 pm

    The Big Ten Conference announced Monday that it has moved Illinois' 2020 football season opener against Illinois State to Friday night, Sept. 4. 

  • 2107 volleyball players celebrate a point

    2018 schedule set for Illini Volleyball

    Jul 17, 2018 12:30 pm

    This coming season the Illini will face off against 13 NCAA Tournament qualifiers, including six Sweet 16 teams, two Final Four foes and two matches against 2017 National Champion Nebraska

  • crowd awaits baseball at Illini Field

    2018 Illini Baseball schedule announced

    Sep 12, 2017 8:00 am

    Feb. 16 season opener at Lamar, March 14 home opener vs. Milwaukee, March 23 Big Ten opener at Northwestern, and March 30 Big Ten home opener vs. Iowa

  • Memorial Stadium on a game night

    2017 Illinois Football season tickets are available now

    Feb 21, 2017 8:00 am

    Mark your calendar for these ticket sale dates. Right now 2017 season tickets are available to renew or purchase

  • group photo of athletes and coaches who returned to C-U for the reunion

    2008 Rose Bowl team 10-year reunion

    Jul 23, 2018 9:15 am

    The 2007 Fighting Illini football team celebrated the 10-year anniversary of their Rose Bowl season over the weekend, July 20-21, in Champaign-Urbana

  • members of the 2001 Illini Football team hoist the Big Ten championship trophy

    2001 Big Ten title team reunion set for Aug. 28

    Jul 15, 2021 9:45 am

    Illinois went 10-2 in 2001 and finished the regular season with a seven-game winning streak to clinch the Big Ten title. The Illini had their best regular-season record since the 1983 Rose Bowl team.

  • 2001 Fighting Illini Men's Basketball team photo

    2001 and 2002 Big Ten Champions to be honored Saturday

    Dec 14, 2021 10:15 am

    Illini Men's Basketball will hold an alumni reunion this weekend, in conjunction with Saturday's home game against St. Francis PA (12 p.m., BTN)., including special recognition to mark the 20-year anniversary of back-to-back Big Ten championships.

  • graphic advertising quarter-final game Friday morning against Indiana features image of Andre Curbelo

    #1 seed Illinois faces Indiana at the Big Ten Tournament

    Mar 10, 2022 4:15 pm

    The defending Big Ten Tournament champion Illini have a double-bye to the quarterfinal round for the third year in a row, the only Big Ten team to earn a double-bye in each of the last three seasons. They face Indiana Friday at 10:30 a.m.

  • Archive photo of Illini basketball players

    1,750 wins and counting for Illini basketball

    Dec 6, 2016 9:00 am

    Saturday's Fighting Illini win over VCU at the Hoophall Miami Invitational was the 1,750th in program history. 

  • group of more than 40 reunion attendees

    15 year reunion for 2001 Big Ten Football champions

    Jun 27, 2016 10:45 am

    The 2001 Fighting Illini football team celebrated the 15-year anniversary of their magical season over the weekend in Champaign-Urbana.

  • 15 questions with Giorgi Bezhanishvili

    May 7, 2020 10:15 am

    The cancellation of the tournaments, the suspension of classes, announcements of friends exploring opportunities in the pros. Giorgi Bezhanishvili stays positive, as always.

  • 15 Former Illini Make Initial NFL 53-Man Rosters

    Sep 2, 2022 1:45 pm

    Fifteen former Fighting Illini football players have made initial 53-man rosters, including 14 on active rosters. 

  • graphic promoting basketball game at Rutgers features image of Kofi Cockburn

    #12 Illini at Rutgers tonight

    Feb 16, 2022 8:45 am

    The Illini are back on the road for two games this week to wrap up a stretch with four out of five away from home, beginning at Rutgers (6 p.m. CT, BTN). Rutgers is on a three-game winning streak.

  • Coleman Hawkins featured on graphic promoting Saturday's game at Michigan State

    #12 Illini at #19 Michigan State Saturday

    Feb 18, 2022 4:30 pm

    The Illini finish a stretch of four out of five games on the road on Saturday afternoon at No. 19 Michigan State. Illinois has won nine of its last 13 games against top 25 teams, but is looking for its first win at Michigan State since 2015.

  • The Alma Mater statue at Illinois

    120 Illini student-athletes named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars

    Jul 2, 2021 9:45 am

    Distinguished Scholar Award recipients have each earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition and earned a minimum GPA of 3.70 or better during the previous academic year.

  • #11 Illini sweep Purdue for 10-game winning streak

    Apr 14, 2015 11:45 am

    No. 11 Illinois swept Purdue with a tight 2-1 win on Monday night, tying the longest active winning streak in the nation with 10 straight victories.

  • senior lineman Owen Carney Jr. in gameday action against Charlotte on Oct. 1

    111th Homecoming game next for Illini Football

    Oct 8, 2021 9:45 am

    The Illinois football team returns to Big Ten play when Wisconsin comes to Memorial Stadium on Saturday for a 2:30 p.m. CT kickoff on the Big Ten Network. 

  • guard Justin Harmon featured on graphic promoting Illinois vs. Michigan State on Thursday, January 11, 2024.

    10th-ranked Illini face Michigan State Thursday at State Farm Center

    Jan 10, 2024 5:15 pm

    Illinois returns to State Farm Center to host Michigan State on Thursday (8 p.m. CT, FS1) in the first of two Big Ten home games this week.