College Basketball
Illinois Fighting Illini basketball
Across 209 Illinois basketball games in our records, see how results change by season, which opponents appear most often, and which final-score digits are most common.
Season-by-season results
Illinois finished above .500 in seven of the thirteen seasons in our records, with 2016 missing.
Each row shows the season's record, its result sequence (green is a win, red is a loss), and points per game, newest first.
2022 15-7 22 of their games 72.9 Pts/game
2021 20-6 26 of their games 80.1 Pts/game
2020 7-8 15 of their games 66.1 Pts/game
2019 2-6 8 of their games 67.9 Pts/game
2018 0-4 4 of their games 72.0 Pts/game
Game records begin in 2014; final-score digit tracking begins with the 2026 season. Nothing from 2016.
Final-score digit patterns
39 Illinois finals tracked; no final digit stands out.
Each tracked final contributes one digit: the last digit of the team's score. Across the 39 finals our digit records cover, 1 tops it at 7. No final-score digit appears often enough to stand out in this sample.
6 0
7 1
3 2
3 3
3 4
5 5
2 6
2 7
6 8
2 9
Drawn from 2026–27, the two seasons our digit records cover, 39 games.
Opponent records 
Spartans 5-10 
Badgers 7-7 
Wildcats 10-3 
Terrapins 5-8 
Hawkeyes 9-3 
Buckeyes 5-7 
Boilermakers 4-8 
Wolverines 8-3
The Michigan State Spartans are Illinois' most-played opponent: 15 meetings in our records.
The table covers 58 opponents since 2014, ordered by meetings. Each bar shows Illinois' win rate in that series; each row opens the full head-to-head.
Spartans 5-10 Badgers 7-7 Wildcats 10-3 Terrapins 5-8 Hawkeyes 9-3 Buckeyes 5-7 Boilermakers 4-8 Wolverines 8-3 Fifty more opponents in our records. Every series has a head-to-head page, however short it runs.
This week
They play Tuesday.
Week 2 Illinois at Texas Tech Red Raiders
Tue, Nov 10 · 5:00 PM PST
Illinois at Texas Tech Red Raiders Tue, Nov 10 · 5:00 PM PST