Illini Basketball Schedule for the 2024-2025 Season

Official Illini Basketball Schedule for the 2024-2025 Season

The Illini basketball schedule for the 2024 season will be jam-packed with marquee matchups. Without a doubt, the Illini have an extremely difficult non-conference schedule. They face a number of the top SEC schools early in the season and also face the Duke Blue Devils at some point in February. Given the significantly difficult schedule, there should be no shortage of “resume-boosting” opportunities for the Illini. For instance, Alabama and Tennessee are tabbed as favorites in the SEC.

Here are the non-conference games that are currently on the Illini basketball schedule.

Non- Conference Schedule

Certainly, there are more games that will be added to this slate. However, most of the remaining slots will likely include low-major programs.

• 11/20/2024: vs Alabama (in Birmingham)
• 11/28/2024: Vs Arkansas (In Kansas City)
• 12/22/2024 (Sunday): Vs Missouri (in St. Louis)
• 02/2024: Vs Duke Blue Devils (at Madison Square Garden)
• TBA: vs Tennessee (at home in Champaign)
• TBA: vs Oakland (at home in Champaign)

Big-Ten Conference Schedule

At this instant, Illini Basketball will play home and away games vs Michigan State, Northwestern, and Wisconsin. Additionally, they will also travel to Oregon and Washington while hosting USC and UCLA for home games. 

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Home-and-away games:

• TBA – Michigan State
• TBA – at Michigan State
• TBA – Northwestern
• TBA – at Northwestern
• TBA – Wisconsin
• TBA – at Wisconsin

Teams they will play once:

• TBA – at Indiana
• TBA – Iowa
• TBA – Maryland
• TBA – at Michigan
• TBA – at Minnesota
• TBA – at Nebraska
• TBA – Ohio State
• TBA – at Oregon
• TBA – Penn State
• TBA – Purdue
• TBA – at Rutgers
• TBA – UCLA
• TBA – USC
• TBA – at Washington

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