Before the focus fully shifts to the 2025-26 men's college basketball season, we're evaluating how this past season went.

The Big Ten is expected to be right in the thick of things once again this year, with a handful of teams — Penn State, Ohio State, Oregon, and Illinois — widely regarded as top-10 teams entering the ...

Illinois finished 2024 with a bang to get to 10 wins, and with a team loaded with experience, it could earn its first Playoff ...

The Ohio State football team is expected to be one of the classes of the Big Ten again in 2025. Despite not winning the Big ...

Oh, to be a college quarterback in 2025! Don't hold me to these "guesstimate" numbers but the first five big-school quarterback on the Illinois football schedule will likely be banking at least $11 ...

The first piece of what promises to be another rigorous non-conference schedule for Coach Brad Underwood's Fighting Illini is ...

Head coach Bret Bielema and Illinois impressed even their most prominent critics last year. They finished the regular season ...

Unfortunately for the Illini, though, they will have more to prove as CBS Sports' post-spring rankings have the Illini ranked ...

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Navy-and-orange billboards line I-74 through central Illinois from near the Mississippi River on the west to the Indiana ...

The Big Ten Softball Tournament begins on May 7. Here's what you need to know, including TV schedule, brackets and results for the 2025 championship: ...

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