Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected], and you can follow him on ...

Basketball in the Big Ten Conference has always been a challenge. The league is well known to be a gauntlet, and every night, ...

Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected], and you can follow him on Twitter ( @srrichey ).

Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected], and you can follow him on Twitter ( @srrichey ).

Illinois was the week's biggest riser, jumping nine spots from No. 22 to No. 13 after sweeping a West Coast swing.

After a Dec. 22 win over Missouri, the Illini dropped all the way to 23rd in KenPom – their lowest ranking since the preseason – in large part due to the poor shooting percentages they put up against ...

Illinois basketball is just coming off a two-game West Coast road trip that saw back-to-back good wins. The Illini managed to ...

The Penn State and Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball teams are scheduled to meet in a Big Ten Conference contest at State Farm Center in Champaign, Illinois, on Wednesday, Jan. 8. The game is ...

Brad Underwood was pleased with his team after a three-win week that boosted the Illini up nine spots in the AP poll. Illinois checked in at No. 13 in the latest rankings, but it wasn’t just the final ...

Yet it should have been encouraging in equal measure that Illinois was able to withstand a bullish run from Washington (10-5, ...

Brad Underwood says that the phrase is reserved for guys who play hard, something that he has demanded and seen to this point ...

But as No. 13 Illinois (11-3, 3-1 Big Ten) enters Wednesday's Big Ten game against Penn State (12-3, 2-2) in Champaign, Ill., ...