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Ayo Dosunmu Has High NBA Draft Stock, but it’s Just Not Reflected in Mock Drafts
Illini basketball in the Brad Underwood era has finally shown signs of a pulse in the past month as the team picked up two very high quality wins over teams ranked in the top 15 at the time. Illinois...
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College basketball is AWFUL in all of Illinois, yet again
What a shame. What a crying shame that Chicago, which every year has some of the best preps talent in the country, has zero going for it on the college level. Unless the Illinois Fighting Illini can...
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Fighting Illini lose to Iowa Hawkeyes; let’s forget we ever watched this
Let’s forget we ever watched this one. The Illinois Fighting Illini and Iowa Hawkeyes set the game back a few decades. We’ll wash our eyeballs of a 63-55 contest won by Iowa that was Restoril or...
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Illini grab Seton Hall transfer Aaron Cosby: Champaign gets The Cosby Show
Aaron Cosby was the Seton Hall Pirates second leading scorer during his sophomore season, averaging 12.6 points per game. After living the Big East program, he appeared to have many potential landing...
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Illinois basketball shafted in Tourney; NCAA changes rule yesterday
Partially due to a blown call, Illinois basketball has beaten a higher seeded NCAA Tournament team just twice in school history. Trailing 57-55 with 40 seconds remaining, replays clearly showed the...
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Big Ten football power rankings: lipstick on a pig edition
During Big Ten football Saturdays like this, how do you spin what happened? How do you put lipstick on these pigs? And even though Northwestern out-gained an AWFUL Western Michigan team by just 126...
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Eleven worst Illini basketball losses of the past 10 years
As proud a program as Illini basketball is, they’ve certainly had some “hiccups” (wow, what a euphemism there) in recent years. A 52-49 loss to the Indiana Hoosiers on January 30th, 2011 was just one...
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Illini all-time leading scorer Deon Thomas joins UIC Coaching Staff
Deon Thomas has landed a coaching gig at the University of Illinois. Just not in Urbana-Champaign. At the Chicago campus instead. When Assistant Coach Isaac Chew departed Illinois for Marquette, just...
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This Illini Basketball Team Should Be More Likable than Last Year
The 2023-24 Illinois Fighting Illini basketball season begins tonight, with a home tilt against Eastern Illinois. Which means we can finally put the 2022-23 Illini basketball season behind us. Good...
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Terrence Shannon Jr. Responds to Rape Charges, Claims Innocence
The entire Illinois Fighting Illini world was rocked this afternoon by news of Terrence Shannon Jr. by far the team’s best player, being formally charged with rape, and thus, suspended indefinitely....
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Terrence Shannon Jr. Rape Case Update: Incident Report Provides More Information
In just a few hours from now, the #9 Illinois Fighting Illini will visit the #1 Purdue Boilermakers in what should be an epic Big Ten basketball battle. But with all things Illini basketball, the...
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Booty Ball: Illini Coach Brad Underwood Innovates Again
In the words of legendary American poet Bubba Sparxx: Booty, booty, booty, booty, rockin’ everywhere. Booty, booty, booty, booty, rockin’ everywhere.’ Booty ball is a phrase coined by Illini...
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Illini Basketball at Northwestern Wildcats Game Preview, Prediction
Terrence Shannon Jr. is one of the biggest national stories in not just college basketball, but sports as a whole right now. Charged with rape in the state of Kansas, this Illini basketball team’s...
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Illini Basketball: ’23 Big Ten Tournament Preview
Your Illinois Fighting Illini basketball team will be the #7 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, which begins on Wednesday night. They’ll take on the #10 seed Penn State Nittany Lions on Thursday night at...
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Illini Basketball Big Ten Tournament History
The Illini basketball program will always hold a special distinction when it comes to the Big Ten Tournament. From the event’s inception, in 1998, all the way until 2012, they either advanced to or...
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