An Illinois men’s basketball team that was inconsistent for stretches this season stumbled out of the gate against Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament second round and never quite found its ...

Inside the play and the player — remember Lamont Butler? — that has Kentucky packing its bags for the Sweet 16.

Kentucky just does it better.  Mark Pope and the Wildcats are Sweet 16-bound after Sunday's gutsy 84-75 win over sixth-seeded ...

It's fair to look at both ends of spectrum. The players aren't shying away from it, like Tomislav Ivisic when he told me this ...

In his first season on the job, Mark Pope leads the Kentucky Wildcats back to the Sweet 16 for the first time in six years.

The key talking points after Mark Pope and the Wildcats’ victory against Brad Underwood and the Fighting Illini in the men’s ...

Here is everything that Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball head coach Brad Underwood said before facing the Kentucky ...

Also in 1963: Loyola won the NCAA championship over Cincinnati, which was seeking an unprecedented third consecutive title in ...

The result has Illinois one win away from advancing beyond the NCAA Tournament’s opening weekend for a second straight year.

An invisible string was near tangible at Fiserv Forum. It could even help Illinois as it aims for consecutive Sweet Sixteen ...

With 7:28 left in Wednesday night’s high-decibel, high-drama First Four game between Xavier and Texas, the Longhorns cheerleaders came onto the UD Arena court with their shimmering orange tops bearing ...