College Basketball
Illinois Fighting Illini basketball
Across 207 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 six of the twelve 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.
2026 28-9 37 of their games 83.2 Pts/game
2025 15-13 28 of their games 83.0 Pts/game
2024 28-9 37 of their games 83.4 Pts/game
2023 8-6 14 of their games 74.9 Pts/game
2022 15-7 22 of their games 72.9 Pts/game
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Game records begin in 2014; final-score digit tracking begins with the 2026 season. Nothing from 2016.
Final-score digit patterns
1 is Illinois' most common final digit: 7 of 37 finals, with no clear separation.
Each tracked final contributes one digit: the last digit of the team's score. Across the 37 finals our digit records cover, 1 leads with 7, and nothing else gets close enough to call it a habit.
1
5 0
7 of 37 finals
12 2
3 3
3 4
5 5
2 6
2 7
6 8
2 9
Drawn from 2026, the one season our digit records cover, 37 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.
The opener
The season opens Sun, Nov 1.
Week 1 Illinois vs Fairleigh Dickinson Knights
Sun, Nov 1 · 9:00 PM PST
Illinois vs Fairleigh Dickinson Knights Sun, Nov 1 · 9:00 PM PST