Kentucky coach Mark Pope was among the first to embrace Illinois star Will Riley after the second-round game. He quickly praised the former Kentucky recruiting ...

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 ...

The Illinois Fighting Illini and Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball teams meet in the 2025 NCAA Tournament second round at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on Sunday, March 23. SCORE: Kentucky leads Illinois ...

Our Magic 8 Ball tells us to expect next-level offense from the Illini's Kasparas Jakucionis and Wildcats' Otega Oweh ...

The No. 18 Kentucky Wildcats and Illinois Fighting Illini play in the NCAA Tournament second round. The teams match up Sunday ...

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

Let’s keep on dancing! For the first time since 2000, the Illini picked up a victory in the NCAA Tournament, defeating the ...

Illinois basketball didn’t have a lot of positive vibes entering the first round of the NCAA tournament. The last time we saw ...

Notre Dame's status as the No. 1 team in the country was only a few hours old, but it already had to prove that ranking against Duke. With a packed Purcell Pavilion crowd behind it, the Irish had ...