Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball
| Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball | |||||||||||
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| University | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | ||||||||||
| First season | 1905–06; 120 years ago | ||||||||||
| All-time record | 1927–1074 (.642) | ||||||||||
| Athletic director | Josh Whitman | ||||||||||
| Head coach | Brad Underwood (9th season) | ||||||||||
| Conference | Big Ten | ||||||||||
| Location | Champaign, Illinois | ||||||||||
| Arena | State Farm Center (capacity: 15,544) | ||||||||||
| Nickname | Fighting Illini | ||||||||||
| Student section | Orange Krush | ||||||||||
| Colors | Orange and blue | ||||||||||
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| NCAA tournament runner-up | |||||||||||
| 2005 | |||||||||||
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| Pre-tournament Premo-Porretta champions | |||||||||||
| 1915 | |||||||||||
| Pre-tournament Helms champions | |||||||||||
| 1915, 1943 | |||||||||||
| Conference tournament champions | |||||||||||
| 2003, 2005, 2021, 2024 | |||||||||||
| Conference regular-season champions | |||||||||||
| 1915, 1917, 1924, 1935, 1937, 1942, 1943, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1963, 1984, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2022 | |||||||||||
The Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference, that represent the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Home games are played at the State Farm Center, located on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's campus in Champaign. Illinois has one pre-tournament national championship and one non-NCAA tournament national championship in 1915 and 1943, awarded by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Illinois has appeared in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament 35 times, and has competed in 5 Final Fours, 10 Elite Eights, and has won 18 Big Ten regular season championships, and 4 Big Ten Tournament Championships.
The team is currently coached by Brad Underwood, who was hired on March 18, 2017. Through the end of the 2023–24 season, Illinois ranks 13th all-time in winning percentage and 13th all-time in wins among all NCAA Division I men's college basketball programs.