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Illinois basketball officially announced that they are heading to Nashville this season. There, the Illini are set to take on ...
Illinois coach Brad Underwood reacts on the bench during a game against Minnesota on Feb. 28, 2024, in Champaign. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) ...
Illinois head men’s basketball coach Brad Underwood spoke with reporters in Savoy on Monday. Underwood was in attendance for the charity golf outing, put on by a former Illinois basketball player.
Kofi Cockburn, thus far, has been an anomaly when it comes to the big men who have played at Illinois in the Brad Underwood era. The two-time All-American was a dominant, physical force. A traditional ...
When No. 17 Illinois men’s basketball coach Brad Underwood considered how “bullish” he is on his team Sunday at State Farm Center, he didn’t play down his expectations.
Former Illini coach Bill Self, now at Kansas, received rare commendation in a recent analysis of college basketball coaches ...
Brad Underwood put in his time — 26 years at mostly small programs — before landing his 1st college head coaching job. Now he has Illinois poised for a long NCAA Tournament run.
Illinois coach Brad Underwood is well-aware of what can happen when fans race toward the basketball court after a big win, but he hopes to see some safety measures put in place.
(CBS) Brad Underwood spent more than a decade coaching as an assistant at Western Illinois, and it was there that he gained a feeling for what basketball in this state holds. Underwood relied on ...
Brad Underwood did this recently. Unflinching, he told Cockburn he’s a coward because when the game is on the line, ... We’ve known for a while that this is Illinois at its best under Underwood.
As a 14-year-old in a small Kansas town of 13,000, Brad Underwood created his first job mowing neighbors’ yards. The most lucrative gig was a $15 payment from the town’s newspaper editor. But ...