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Get To Know A Marquette Basketball Opponent: #23 Illinois

Name: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Location: Urbana, Illinois, and also Champaign, Illinois

Wait, what? They’re separate cites, but they border each other and the campus is somewhat split between them. Undergraduate admissions is in Urbana, but graduate student admissions is in Champaign, for example. For what it’s worth to you, the game is going to be played in Champaign.

Founded: 1867, thanks to the Morrill Land-Grant Act, but they didn’t start classes until March of 1868. School calendars were different then.

I’m guessing a school that old didn’t start as University of Illinois.