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 ...

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 ...

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' men's basketball team is one-for-one without 7-foot-1 center Tomislav Ivisic. One horrendous performance against Maryland, in which the Illini were dump-trucked inside by bigs Derik ...

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, a key driver in the revival of Illinois basketball in the mid-1980s and a widely beloved figure among Illini fans, died Monday at age 61 after battling an illness for several years.

Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball starting center Tomislav Ivisic will miss his second consecutive game Sunday. Illinois head coach Brad Underwood announced Saturday that Ivisic will not ...

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 ...

The Illinois basketball team suffered an embarrassing loss at home on Thursday night against Maryland. Despite Illinois being ranked No. 17, the Illini lost, 91-70, in a blowout game that got out ...