As Illinois prepares to face Northern Illinois on Tuesday night in Champaign, coach Bruce Weber was faced with a new round of questions about his willingness to play Southern Illinois-Carbondale, his former employer and a program of national impact throughout…

The bus ride home from games is usually a quiet afair, by coach Bruce Weber’s account, with Illinois players sleeping or maybe watching a movie to kill the time.

But the ride back from Evanston on Thursday night was a rollicking…

The night before Illinois plays Western Michigan in spacious Ford Field, I have no idea what to expect in terms of crowd and game atmosphere but everything points to a disappointment.

A story in last Monday’s Kalamazoo Gazette quoted a source at…

Kyle Hudson landed in the lap of Illinois baseball coach Dan Hartleb free of charge. Having been recruited to the school to play football in  2005, he didn’t cost the Illini any baseball scholarship money. He was a gift from former football…

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…

Demetri McCamey started his campaign for the Big Ten all-freshman team a little late in the season and couldn’t make up enough ground, failing to make the list of the conference’s five best newcomers.But the Illinois guard had has two…

Bruce Weber chose an interesting path as Illinois began its long shot pursuit of four wins in four days at the Big Ten Tournament.The bench was used less than usual Thursday afternoon at Conseco Fieldhouse as the Illini starters played more…

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 of…