Central girls and boys vs. Richwoods in prep basketball games at Central High School in Champaign on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025.

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Rick Barnes, left, and his Tennessee team will play a third straight year against Brad Underwood’s Illini with the two ...

It’s going to be dynamite, if you look at Northwestern or you look at Bloomington, Indiana. They’re just, they’re fabulous ...

Illinois head coach Shauna Green in a NCAA basketball game at State Farm Center in Champaign on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. Sports ...

The former Bob Evans in Champaign will be torn down to make way for two new buildings, including one that will house Dutch ...

The bar for greatness in the Big Ten — where he had to deal with Michigan and Ohio State every year — is greater than what he ...

Lab researchers around the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology are turning into mice thanks to some mysterious ...

Congrats to a pair of Oakwood basketball players. ... Illini three-point shooting near bottom of Big Ten a month into the ...

Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected], and you can follow him on ...

We felt like this was the most efficient and equitable way to showcase both our boys’ and girls’ basketball teams on the same ...

Each week, courts-beat reporter Luke Taylor will assemble a bulletin of local criminal activity reported by C-U police.