Chicago native helped Illinois basketball to a Big Ten Conference title and national prominence in the mid-1980s.

Illinois knocked off Northwestern in a college basketball game Sunday. Full recap, game highlights from Champaign, Illinois.

Michigan State is 16-2 overall, 7-0 in the Big Ten and, at this point, projected to win what would be Tom Izzo's 11th regular ...

The bloom is off the rose for these Illini (14-6, 6-4 Big Ten), who went from being underrated by the college basketball ...

Despite (or maybe because of) their unpredictability, the Illini went back to some old standbys to best the Wildcats on ...

Efrem Winters didn’t spend all that much time in Champaign after his playing days ended. The former McDonald’s All-American, ...

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"Very humble, very generous and very loving," Illinois teammate and close friend Bruce Douglas said of Winters. "You could always count on Big E.” ...

To scores of Fighting Illini fans in the 1980s, the lob pass from Bruce Douglas to Efrem Winters was both a thing of beauty ...

When No. 17 Illinois men’s basketball coach Brad Underwood considered how “bullish” he is on his team Sunday at State Farm ...

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