Illinois basketball is coming off its toughest stretch of the season, so where do they sit for March Madness? Here's the Feb.

6-foot-7 wing Payton Sandfort is pouring in 16.7 points per game and hitting 2.6 triples per contest. It's seemingly a nightmarish matchup for an Illini team that has struggled to slow opposing wings ...

Illinois was humming along as one of the country's better college basketball teams. Then the 3-point shots stopped falling.

The Illini could not find a way to match the energy of the red-hot Blue Devils in New York City on Saturday night, falling ...

An otherworldly output from the Blue Devils and the Illini's on offensive ineptitude told the story of Saturday's blowout ...

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Cooper Flagg had 16 points in his Madison Square Garden debut and seven players scored in double figures for No. 3 Duke in a ...

Tre White had 16 points for Illinois in a nonconference matchup between programs that lost in the Elite Eight of the NCAA ...

The pair combined for six 3-pointers in the second half as the Hokies defeated the Hurricanes, who reportedly are negotiating ...

Illinois dropped its third in a row, all by double figures. This was a new low, though, the Illini popping a tire on the ...

The Illini lost Johnson to a broken wrist, and his absence compromises the team in ways that may be impossible to make up for ...