When he was hired as head football coach at Illinois in December 2020, Bret Bielema once again started from scratch. Three years removed from being fired at Arkansas and following short NFL assistant stints with the New England Patriots and New York Giants,

The mix, formerly sold as Aunt Jemima pancake mix, was sent to stores in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Utah and Wisconsin.

No. 4 Southern Cal (25-2) beat No. 22 Michigan St. 83-75; beat No. 25 Illinois 76-66. No. 5 UConn (26-3) beat Seton Hall 91-49; beat Butler 86-47. No. 6 South Carolina (25-3) beat Arkansas 95-55; beat Vanderbilt 82-54.

Illinois' men's basketball team can look so very good. We've seen it – against Arkansas, at Oregon, against UCLA – enough times to really tickle the imagination. As coach Brad Underwood often has put it,

No. 25 Illinois (21-5), 9:30 p.m. No. 6 South Carolina (23-3) vs. Arkansas (9-18), 7 p.m. No. 7 LSU (25-2) vs. Georgia (10-16), 9 p.m. No. 8 Ohio St. (22-3) at Indiana (16-9), 7 p.m. No. 9 North Carolina (23-4) at Syracuse (10-15),

No. 25 Illinois. Next: at Iowa, Sunday. No. 4 Southern Cal (24-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 25 Illinois, Sunday. No. 5 UConn (25-3) did not play. Next: at Butler, Saturday. No. 6 South Carolina (24-3) beat Arkansas 95-55.

All Times EST No. 1 Notre Dame (23-2) at Miami (13-12), 7 p.m. No. 3 UCLA (24-1) vs. No. 25 Illinois (21-5), 9:30 p.m. No. 6 South Carolina (23-3) vs. Arkansas (9-18), 7 p.m. No. 7 LSU (25-2) vs.

No. 1 Auburn (23-2) vs. Arkansas. Next: vs. Georgia, Saturday. No. 2 Florida (23-3) did not play. Next: at LSU, Saturday. No. 3 Duke (23-3) did not play. Next: vs. Illinois, Saturday. No.

The Red Wolves claimed an early lead before the Panthers responded with seven unanswered runs to seal a 7-1 defeat on Sunday afternoon at Tomlinson Stadium-Slayton Family Field.

Arkansas State baseball’s three-game series against Eastern Illinois has been altered due to winter weather, with the Friday and Saturday matchups now being packaged as a doubleheader on Monday, February 24.

When Bielema took over at Arkansas, he accepted the job knowing there was a mess to clean up in the wake of Bobby Petrino’s for-cause firing in 2012. And when he was hired at Illinois, he was tasked with revitalizing a program with no recent winning culture.

Coming off a one-point home loss to Lindenwood on Thursday night, Arkansas-Little Rock came out of the gates sluggish in its matchup with Western Illinois on Saturday afternoon in Little Rock.