College Basketball · Head-to-head
Illinois Fighting Illini vs Northwestern Wildcats basketball
The Illinois Fighting Illini and Northwestern Wildcats have met 13 times in our college basketball records, and Illinois leads 10-3. See every recorded result and final-score digit pair.
13 recorded meetings from 2014 through 2026.
Results are listed newest first with the winner, score, date, and final digit pair when available; Illinois digit first.
Seven earlier meetings, 2014 to 2023, counted in the series record above. Illinois won six of those seven.
1-6 and 3-6 each occurred 2 times in 13 tracked meetings.
Each tracked meeting lands on one digit pair: the last digit of each team's final score. Across the 13 meetings our digit records cover, the finals landed on eleven digit pairs, two of them two times each.
Illinois final digit down the side, Wildcats across the top.
These meetings have landed on eleven digit pairs; the other 89 are still empty.
Each team's final digits, both from 2026.
The last digit of every final score, 0 through 9, from each side's 2026 season, the latest our digit records cover.
1 is their most common final digit: 7 of 37 finals, with no clear separation.
6 and 8 are tied for most common: 2 of 7 finals each. Never landed: 0, 1, 2, 3 and 7.