College Basketball · Week 11 · Jan 14, 2026
Illinois Fighting Illini vs Northwestern Wildcats basketball
One of the thirteen meetings in our records.
Illinois 79, Wildcats 68.
Every half's points, and the digit each one ended on.
| Team | H1 | H2 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|
| ILL | 38 | 41 | 79 |
| NU | 33 | 35 | 68 |
| Winning digits | 8–3 | 9–8 |
Meeting twelve of thirteen.
Illinois still leads the series 10-3.
Nine earlier meetings, 2014 to 2024, counted in the series record above. Illinois won seven of those nine.
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.