After a Dec. 22 win over Missouri, the Illini dropped all the way to 23rd in KenPom – their lowest ranking since the preseason – in large part due to the poor shooting percentages they put up against ...

Illinois basketball is just coming off a two-game West Coast road trip that saw back-to-back good wins. The Illini managed to ...

Two Illinois lawmakers honored four members of the Ogle County Sheriff's Office on Dec. 30. State Reps. Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, who is the House Republican Leader, and Brad Fritts, R-Dixon, honored ...

Oregon dropped in the polls after a 1-1 weekend in Big Ten play, but remain in the top 20. The Ducks (13-2, 2-2 Big Ten) are No. 15 with 624 points in this week’s AP men’s college basketball poll and ...

Brad Underwood was pleased with his team after a three-win week that boosted the Illini up nine spots in the AP poll. Illinois checked in at No. 13 in the latest rankings, but it wasn’t just the final ...

This comes as Oregon is losing leading receiver Tez Johnson, who announced Monday he would declare for the NFL draft.

Northern Illinois has accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West for football only in 2026. The Huskies will go from the Midwest-based MAC to a conference in which the easternmost school is in ...

The conference will expand to the Central Time Zone as it welcomed Northern Illinois as a football-only member on Tuesday.

But as No. 13 Illinois (11-3, 3-1 Big Ten) enters Wednesday's Big Ten game against Penn State (12-3, 2-2) in Champaign, Ill., ...

Once the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, Michael Madigan took the stand Tuesday at his own corruption trial, a shocking move for a man once considered the most ...

The Oregon men's basketball team closed out a tight win against Maryland on Sunday after rallying from a double-digit ...

With yet another quick turnaround, Illinois will host Penn State (12-3, 2-2 Big Ten) in Champaign on Wednesday (8 p.m. CT, on Big Ten Network) in its next opportunity to climb up Katz’s rankings – and ...