Basketball

B1G Champs! 20th Ranked Illini Hold Off Iowa To Cap Wild Final Day

B1G Champs! 20th Ranked Illini Hold Off Iowa To Cap Wild Final Day

IlliniGuys Staff March 6, 2022 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Kofi […]

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Ked's Recruiting Roundup - Illini Bring in Big Time Recruits for Hawkeye Game

Ked's Recruiting Roundup - Illini Bring in Big Time Recruits for Hawkeye Game

Kedric Prince, IlliniGuys Director of Recruiting  March 6, 2022 […]

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Illini Basketball Preview - Illini vs Iowa

Illini Basketball Preview - Illini vs Iowa

Connor Cagley, IlliniGuys Basketball Writer March 6, 2022 Essentials […]

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Coach Underwood Compliments Seniors, Looks Forward to Last Home Game

Coach Underwood Compliments Seniors, Looks Forward to Last Home Game

Zain Bando, IlliniGuys Student Correspondent March 5, 2022 CHAMPAIGN, […]

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Frazier & Williams Rode the Illini Roller Coaster Through Serious Lows

Frazier & Williams Rode the Illini Roller Coaster Through Serious Lows

Illinois senior guards Trent Frazier and Da’Monte Williams certainly were around the low early moments of their career but will enjoy a Senior Night celebration before they try to get their 93rd career win. 

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

March 5, 2022

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- It may be hard to remember how the college careers of Trent Frazier and Da’Monte Williams began in a disappointingly small, dark and losing Lantz Arena locker room at Eastern Illinois University. 

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Kofi Cockburn on Wooden Award National Ballot

Kofi Cockburn on Wooden Award National Ballot

Courtesy Illinois Athletics March 5, 2022 Champaign, ILL.– Fighting […]

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Illinois' Brad Underwood has Broadened His Recruiting Lines

Illinois' Brad Underwood has Broadened His Recruiting Lines

Kedric Prince, IlliniGuys Director of Recruiting

February 27, 2022

Remember the 1989 Final Four team and the 2005 NCAA National Runner-up squad?

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Cockburn Named Abdul-Jabbar Award Finalist

Cockburn Named Abdul-Jabbar Award Finalist

From Illinois Sports Information Office: March 4, 2022 (Photo […]

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Illini Women’s Hoops Needs New Head Coach After Nancy Fahey Announces Retirement

Illini Women’s Hoops Needs New Head Coach After Nancy Fahey Announces Retirement

Nancy Fahey’s five-year tenure as the Illini women’s basketball […]

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Heat Checks and Hail Marys - Energy Vampire U Almost Drains the Illini

Heat Checks and Hail Marys - Energy Vampire U Almost Drains the Illini

Mike Cagley, IlliniGuy March 4, 2022 Former Illini coach […]

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Penn State Dorks Da’Monte Williams & Illini Senior Responds in Victory

Penn State Dorks Da’Monte Williams & Illini Senior Responds in Victory

Penn State head coach Micah Shrewsberry chose to leave Da’Monte Williams wide open to prevent Kofi Cockburn from getting easy looks and the fifth-year senior made the Nittany Lions pay.

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

March 3, 2022

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The idea that Illinois is a 4-on-5 team offensively when Da’Monte Williams is on the playing floor was proven statistically false. 

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Da'Monte To The Rescue To Lift #20 Illini To Record-Setting Win

Da'Monte To The Rescue To Lift #20 Illini To Record-Setting Win

IlliniGuys Staff March 3, 2022 (Cover photo Joe Clark/IlliniGuys) […]

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Illini Basketball Preview - Illini vs Penn State

Illini Basketball Preview - Illini vs Penn State

Connor Cagley, IlliniGuys Basketball Writer March 3, 2022 Essentials […]

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Just Because it’s March Doesn’t Mean the Upcoming Tournament Defines Everything

Just Because it’s March Doesn’t Mean the Upcoming Tournament Defines Everything

Due to a disappointing result in last year’s NCAA Tournament, Illini fans are putting a lot of hope into a single-elimination tournament this season filled with potential potholes. 

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

March 3, 2022

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- We’ve all flipped the calendar to March and that means several 18- to 24-year-old basketball players are about to put a lot of effort, words, time and energy into a single-elimination tournament. 

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Ked's Recruiting Roundup: Illinois Going to Hawkeye State for Top Prep

Ked's Recruiting Roundup: Illinois Going to Hawkeye State for Top Prep

Kedric Prince, IlliniGuys Director of Recruiting

March 2, 2022

I know, you have heard or seen this many times - an Iowa student-athlete interested in Illinois. Bettendorf High School All-Stater DJ Carton flirted with the Illini before he picked Ohio State, a school he had loved since his junior high days.

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