After all was said and done, Illinois freshman forward Morez Johnson Jr. sat out only five games and less than four weeks ...

Nearly a month after Johnson Jr.'s "indefinite" injury, Illinois received good news that Johnson Jr. would return to the ...

Illinois freshman forward Morez Johnson Jr., after suffering a broken wrist on Feb. 15 at Michigan State, has been cleared ...

After a month-long absence with a broken wrist, freshman forward Morez Johnson Jr. is expected to return on Thursday in ...

Morez Johnson Jr. didn’t consider his broken left wrist a potential season-ending injury when it happened last month. The Illinois freshman had broken his wrist before in middle ...

Tomislav Ivisic didn't play last time the teams met, and Will Riley didn't score. Both will change in the rematch. But will Kasparas Jakucionis show up, too?

Following Illinois' eight-point win Friday night against Purdue to close the regular-season with three-straight wins, coach ...

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Getting the second seed for the Big Ten Conference tournament in Indianapolis might be the classic good-news, bad-news ...

Kylan Boswell scored a career high 24 points and four other Illinois players finished in double digits as the 24th-ranked ...

Fourteen teams will slip in their attempts to win the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament, which begins Wednesday and ...

No. 7 seed Illinois (20-11, 12-8) begins its Big Ten tournament journey on Thursday evening. It only skipped the opening ...