One could say the 2021 season ended on a high note for the Illinois women’s basketball team, but only after considering the context.
After suffering through separate ten- and six-game losing streaks,...
The Big Ten unveiled its conference schedule for both men's and women's basketball on Wednesday afternoon. The Illini men's team will open its conference slate at State Farm Center against Rutgers on Dec....
Illinois women's basketball released its non-conference schedule on Friday afternoon, with the Illini starting their season on Nov. 9 at State Farm Center.
After a tough 2020-21 season that saw Illinois...
Illinois will host Florida State in the 2021 Big Ten/Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Basketball Challenge, with the game scheduled to take place on Dec. 2 at State Farm Center in Champaign.
The Seminoles...
Former Illini sophomore Jeanae Terry has transferred to Purdue, according to a social media post Wednesday. She is one of four women's hoops players to leave Illinois after last season, with the group...
Sports often are a mirror of society. The wage gap persists, and, according to the Center for American Progress, for every dollar a white man makes, Asian women make 90 cents, white women make 79 cents,...
The Illinois women's basketball team is undergoing major personnel changes, with four former players currently in the transfer portal and two seniors departing after they graduate in May.
Sophomore...
The Illinois women’s basketball team finished the regular season 4-17 before going 1-1 in the Big Ten tournament. Defeating Wisconsin in the Big Ten Tournament was head coach Nancy Fahey’s first Big...
By Nithin Reddy, Assistant Video Editor
• March 10, 2021
The Illinois women’s basketball season has come to an end with a record of 5-18 after losing to Northwestern, 67-42.
A rough shooting performance in the first half gave Illinois a deficit too large...
The Illinois women’s basketball team blew out Wisconsin, 67-42, Tuesday in the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis. Freshman guard Aaliyah Nye scored a career-high 17 points, and sophomore forward Kennedi...
By Nithin Reddy, Assistant Video Editor
• March 9, 2021
The Illinois women’s basketball team sits at the number 12 seed heading into the Big Ten tournament and will face Wisconsin in its first-round matchup.
This year will look a little different, as only...
Two freshmen on the Illinois women’s basketball team share the first name Aaliyah. Further, Aaliyah McQueen and Aaliyah Nye also have a lot more in common. They’re both from Michigan.
Nye and McQueen...
