San Diego State coach Steve Fisher contacted Bruce Weber about a month ago to inquire about Brian Carlwell, the former Illini center without a home.

Months had passed since Carlwell announced his intention to leave Illinois, but he had yet…

For those of you who missed my brief in today’s Post-Dispatch, it appears that Illinois athletics director Ron Guenther will receive a two-year contract extension. The details became available yesterday with the release of the agenda for Wednesday’s board of…

An Illinois team that had somehow managed to stick together and remain competitive through one disappointing loss after another reached a new challenge, a new point of disarray, on Wednesday night.

Brian Randle might have been lost for the rest…

As far as basketball games go, Thursday night’s Illinois-Indiana meeting was top-rate entertainment and probably the most exciting game Illini fans are going to see this year.

In the stands, it was the good, the bad and the ugly.

One of the…

Bruce Weber still didn’t want to call it a suspension. And Shaun Pruitt refused to comment about whether he felt his “did not play’’ against Ohio State had been a deserved punishment.

But both seemed willing to put the incident…

The first sign that Bruce Weber had altered his recruiting tactics came when Jereme Richmond committed to play basketball at Illinois before playing his first high school game.

Richmond was a 14-year-old freshman when he gave Weber his word –…

Illinois figures to see some things Saturday at Purdue it has yet to encounter, and that could make for some intriguing moments and coaching maneuvers at Mackey Arena.

This is a different Boilermakers team than the one that dismantled the…