Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball
Year Player Inducted as a
1960 Henry Porter Contributor
1961 Andy Phillip Player
1971 Abe Saperstein Contributor
2004 Jerry Colangelo Contributor
2017 Mannie Jackson Contributor
2017 Bill Self Coach
Individual honors -- Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
The following 6 Fighting Illini have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame :
The Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. Home games are played at the State Farm Center, located on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's campus in Champaign. Illinois has one pre-tournament national championship in 1915, one retroactive national championship awarded in 1943 by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Illinois has appeared in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament 30 times, and has competed in 5 Final Fours, 9 Elite Eights, and has won 17 Big Ten regular season championships. The team is currently coached by Brad Underwood, who was hired on March 18, 2017. Through the end of the 2017-18 season, Illinois ranks 12th all-time in winning percentage and 15th all-time in wins among all NCAA Division I men's college basketball programs.