A jersey retirement is supposed to be a special team for the player being honored and the fanbase. However, the Illinois basketball program accidentally turned a retirement ceremony into pure comedy.

Shannon played at Illinois from 2022-24 after playing at Texas Tech from 2019-22. At Illinois, he averaged 20.2 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and 1.1 steals in 33 minutes per game. He started ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – On Saturday night at the State Farm Center, the worst of the story for Illinois should have been No. 11 Michigan State (20-5, 11-3 Big Ten) climbing out of a 16-point first ...

It has been 1,047 days since big man Kofi Cockburn last suited up in Illinois orange-and-blue ... history by hanging his jersey in the rafters as part of the Illinois Basketball Honored Jerseys ...

A two-time All-American at Illinois, Cockburn traveled from South Korea to see his jersey lifted to the State ... Ayo Dosunmu — to pull Illinois basketball out of the doldrums and back into ...

Illinois held a ceremony to honor the jersey of the men's basketball star who led the program to its first Elite Eight appearance last year since 2005. There was one major issue. The banner that ...

Illinois men's basketball celebrated Terrence Shannon Jr. on Saturday at State Farm Center against Michigan State by retiring his jersey. However, the Fighting Illini fumbled the jersey retirement ...