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The Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team is a men’s college baske...
The Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team is a men’s college basketball team representing the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The Fi...
The Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team is a men’s college basketball team representing the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The Fighting Illini compete at the NCAA Division I level as a member of the Big Ten Conference, and play 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 2025–26 season, Illinois ranks tenth all-time in Associated Press poll appearances, eighth all-time in AP Top 25 finishes, and top-fifteen all-time in wins and win percentage among high-major 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.
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