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The Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball program is an NCAA Division I...
The Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball program is an NCAA Division I men's college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference, represe...
The Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball program is an NCAA Division I men's college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference, representing the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Illinois plays their home games at State Farm Center, located in Champaign, Illinois. The team is currently coached by Brad Underwood, who was hired on March 18, 2017.
Through the end of the 2024–25 season, Illinois ranks tenth all-time in AP poll appearances, fourteenth all-time in winning percentage, and fifteenth all-time in wins among NCAA Division I men's college basketball programs. Illinois has appeared in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament thirty-six times, and has competed in six Final Fours and eleven Elite Eights. In conference play, Illinois has won eighteen Big Ten regular season championships and four Big Ten Tournament championships. Illinois has one retroactive national championship designation for the 1915 season by the Helms Athletic Foundation. Additionally, the 1943 team was retroactively listed as the top team of the season by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Illinois has finished ranked No. 1 in the final AP Poll once, in 2005.
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