Former Illinois men’s basketball player Coleman Hawkins is back in Champaign-Urbana– No, not to rejoin Underwood’s team.

Illinois’ flagship university says rules requiring student-athletes to disclose NIL deals aren’t relevant In the wild west of today’s college sports.

Records show that a fraction of the school’s athletes are complying with a state law requiring them to disclose endorsements.

Dee Brown signs an autograph during Hall of Famer David Williams annual golf outing at the Illinois Orange Course in Savoy on ...

Players are making the most of their court-ordered free agency. Even middling producers at lesser programs have an agent these days, looking to get paid before their “student-athlete” days end.

He was a player and is now a coach. Plus he's an Illini fan himself given his four seasons in Champaign. (Coleman Hawkins really might be the last to pull that off). Brown weighed in on social ...

And yet, the Wildcats fell way short of their NCAA Tournament expectations, highlighted by forward Coleman Hawkins' $2 million NIL deal. NIL deals have been a point of contention among college ...

So rather than give in to the dark side, why not embrace former Illini as, if not brothers, then at least fondly remembered ...

The Kansas State men's basketball team was one of the most expensive in the nation this season. And yet, the Wildcats fell way short of their NCAA Tournament ex ...