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IHSA moving state basketball tournament to State Farm Center

The IHSA state boys’ basketball tournament is moving back to Champaign.

The IHSA Board of Directors voted on the move to State Farm Center on Monday, moving it back to the CU after a quarter century around the state, most recently at Bradley University’s Peoria Civic Center.

If you have want to learn more about what the tournaments used to be like in Champaign and at Assembly Hall, The News-Gazette did a great deep dive into that this week. Big thing to take away from it is that the last state tournament game played in Champaign came on March 18, 1995 — well before any current high schooler (some who were born in 2006) was even alive.