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The Illinois Fighting Illini take on the Missouri Tigers in St. Louis. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Illinois Missouri prediction and pick. The Braggin’ Rights game is annually one of the most contentious, lively, fiercely-played games in college basketball. Illinois and Missouri gather in St. Louis for a game which regularly […]

Illinois men’s basketball head coach Brad Underwood was not happy after his team looked flat in their loss to unranked Penn State. It was the second conference loss the No. 17 Illini suffered this season (though the team did beat No. 2 Texas the game before). Underwood lit into his team’s “lack of leadership” during […]

The Texas Longhorns are undefeated no more. That is after Texas basketball suffered an 85-78 overtime loss at the hands of the Illinois Fighting Illini Tuesday night. Surely, there are a dozen of things running through the mind of Texas head coach Chris Beard, but he was not going to forget giving a classy shoutout […]

The Illinois Fighting Illini take on the Texas Longhorns in New York. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Illinois Texas prediction and pick. The Texas Longhorns have started the season brilliantly under coach Chris Beard. They blitzed Gonzaga, but that was just one game. If the Longhorns could back that up with […]

Luka Doncic was not the only one who put up a notable triple-double Tuesday night. There was also Coleman Hawkins of the Illinois Fighting Illini, who stitched together a fantastic stat line to help Illinois basketball wallop the Syracuse Orange right in Champaigne, 73-44. Hawkins did it all for Illinois basketball, as he scored 15 […]

The Syracuse Orange take on the Illinois Fighting Illini. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Syracuse Illinois prediction and pick. The Syracuse Orange are in big trouble. They have just lost consecutive games to St. John’s and Bryant. Yes, Bryant beat Jim Boeheim’s team over the Thanksgiving weekend. Syracuse trailed by a […]

The Illinois Fighting Illini take on the Virginia Cavaliers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Illinois Virginia prediction and pick. The Virginia Cavaliers won the 2019 national championship because they married Tony Bennett’s signature “pack line” defense with an offense which could produce. Virginia knows how to defend; the question is always […]

It has been a good weekend for the Illinois Fighting Illini. After the football team destroyed Wyoming Saturday to start their 2022 season, the Illinois basketball program got some major news Sunday in the form of a commitment from four-star prospect Amani Hansberry. The 6-foot-8 forward out of Baltimore ranks No. 52 in the college […]

Illinois Fighting Illini star center Kofi Cockburn announced Wednesday that he will be entering the 2022 NBA Draft and will hire an agent, ending a legendary college career in Champaign. Cockburn took to social media with his announcement, featuring a lengthy message: NEXT CHAPTER 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/Wz6xzAUl51 — King Kofi (@kxng_alpha) April 20, 2022 With the […]

The referees stole the show in the Illinois Fighting Illini’s loss in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. In their 68-53 loss to the Houston Cougars, they were on the wrong side of one of the most ridiculous calls. After a fast-break dunk, Illinois guard RJ Melendez hung on the rim for a second […]

The Houston Cougars stamped their ticket to the Sweet 16 in convincing fashion on Sunday, as they took care of business with a 68-53 round of 32 win against the No. 4 ranked Illinois Fighting Illini in the NCAA Tournament South region. As was the case in its first-round win over UAB, Houston needed to […]

Southern champion 13-seed Chattanooga are set to face off against Big Ten power and four-seed Illinois in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Take a look at our March Madness odds series which includes our Chattanooga Illinois prediction and pick. The madness has officially arrived! Entering the tournament, Chattanooga completed their historic […]

The Indiana Hoosiers are most likely back in the NCAA Tournament after beating Illinois in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament. Former New York Knicks head coach and current Hoosiers coach Mike Woodson was as excited about the victory as anyone, as he uttered a word that the television networks may not be so […]

The Arizona Wildcats have had an outstanding season so far, as they are currently ranked as the number-two team in the nation, though that ranking will change following their loss to unranked Colorado over the weekend. The bottom line is, the Wildcats are enjoying success on the court right now, something that they have put […]

The NCAA continues Friday night with an elite Big Ten matchup! It’s time to continue our college basketball odds series with an Illinois-Maryland prediction and pick. Illinois comes into this game as the No. 17 team in the country. They have a 13-4 record and are 6-1 in conference play, putting them in second place […]

This could be an exciting Big Ten matchup to watch Friday night! It’s time to continue our college basketball odds series with a Michigan-Illinois prediction and pick. Michigan started off the season as the No. 4 ranked team in the nation. That turned out to be a terrible decision by the committee because even if […]

The Chicago Bears finally won a game on Thanksgiving as they beat the Detroit Lions. But, that hasn’t stopped the fans from wanting Matt Nagy fired. At a recent Notre Dame-Illinois college basketball game, the Fighting Illini supporters began their own “fire Nagy” chants: Yikes. A whole different sport and the Bears head coach is […]

Illinois junior center Kofi Cockburn will miss the first three games of the 2021-22 regular season for the Fighting Illini. Cockburn was suspended by the NCAA due to selling institutionally issued apparel and memorabilia in June of this year. Unfortunately for Cockburn if he did this a month later he wouldn’t have gotten into any […]

It’s official: college basketball’s top point guard is headed to the 2021 NBA Draft. Illinois junior Ayo Dosunmu — winner of the 2021 Bob Cousy Award after averaging 20.1 points, 6.3 rebounds, and 5.3 assists for the Fighting Illini — announced his decision on ESPN’s “The Jump” on Tuesday, opting to forgo his remaining eligibility […]

After each winning their first-round game of March Madness, the Loyola Chicago Ramblers will take on the Illinois Fighting Illini on Sunday, March 21st. It’s time to continue the NCAA odds series and make a Loyola-Illinois prediction and pick. Loyola finished the season with a 25-4 record that earned them the eighth seed in the […]

This Friday matchup features a tale of two stories as the Drexel Dragons (10-6) go up against the Fighting Illini of Illinois (23-6). You can hear Illini fans across the country praying that their team doesn’t blow this one! It would be the second time in tournament history that a one-seed was knocked off by […]

Illinois Fighting Illini main man Ayo Dosunmu paid a tribute to the late Kobe Bryant after his team emerged victorious in the Big Ten Tournament. The 21-year-old guard celebrated by mimicking the legend’s iconic pose back when the Los Angeles Lakers won their second straight title in 2001, via Bleacher Report. Illinois star @AyoDos_11 channeled […]

Brad Underwood and the Illinois Fighting Illini will visit with 2020 4-star guard Andre Curbelo on Tuesday, according to Andrew Slater of The Athletic. The 6-0 point guard, who attends Long Island Lutheran in New York, is set to take his official visit to Illinois on Oct. 18. Curbelo named his final five schools in […]