We are just over three weeks away from the Illinois basketball team taking the court for an exhibition game on October 19.
That game is against an in-state program in Illinois State. The last time the two teams played in the regular season, the Illini narrowly clipped the Redbirds, 63-59, back in 2011. Illinois leads historically 8-0 in the series.
We aren’t going to see these two teams play in the regular season this year, though. Illinois will take on Illinois State in an exhibition game held at the State Farm Center in Champaign.