The Illini didn't exactly cure all their ills from the Alabama game, but an 87-40 snap-back win put them on the right path

The annual C.M. Newton Classic is played in honor of Alabama basketball legend, C.M. Newton, who rose to notoriety while coaching UA in the early 1970s by signing the program's first Black players. Illinois guard Kasparas Jakucionis found the board first ...

And on Wednesday in Birmingham, Alabama, after No. 25 Illinois feasted on mid-major competition in three home wins to open the season, that adversity arrived in a tidal wave in th

Alabama jumped out early on, scoring a dominant 30 points over the first nine minutes of the game and mostly keeping that pressure on the Fighting Illini throughout. Though the Tide did have a couple of mini-droughts in the second half,