David Mirkovic, left, and Keaton Wagler have played a major role in Illinois contending for a Big Ten regular-season title with the ninth-ranked Illini currently on a 10-game winning streak before ...

Head coach Fred Hoiberg of the Nebraska Cornhuskers looks on during the second half against the Northwestern Wildcats at ...

Brad Underwood, Keaton Wagler have a chance to give Illinois its first March Madness title despite recent disappointing ...

Illinois, currently winners of its last nine, is rolling. Can the Illini finish out their slate without another loss?

As more and more G League pros join NCAA teams, Illini GM Neel Ganta spoke with The Daily Illini to give his thoughts on the ...

The Illinois basketball team is catching the eye of the world, as we are rising in the projected NCAA tournament brackets.

Love is in the air for two of Champaign’s top athletes in recent years. Former Illini men’s basketball wing Luke Goode popped the question to Illinois volleyball middle blocker Kayla Burbage, the ...

Michigan State football has offered a three-star offensive lineman from Illinois who has received interest from numerous ...

Brody Folkes of the Illini Central basketball team was voted Journal Star high school boys athlete of the week for Dec. 29-Jan. 3. The senior made a memorable appearance last week at a historic gym.

Illinois basketball jumped three spots to No. 13 in the newest USA TODAY Network coaches poll, released Monday, Jan. 12. Illinois (13-3, 4-1) won its two Big Ten Conference games this week, at home ...

Former Illini Giorgi Bezhanishvili and Coleman Hawkins overlapped for only one season at Illinois (in 2020-21, when Hawkins was a freshman and Bezhanishvili was in his final year in Champaign), but ...

This week’s Chicago basketball report looks at a Bulls All-Star push, a hot start for the Illinois women’s team and remembers a former Illini men’s basketball great. Every Tuesday, Tribune writers ...