With Monday's tip-off of Illinois men's basketball’s 2024-2025 season, the Illini have now officially entered their third season without 7-foot center Kofi Cockburn. During his storied career in ...

About a half-hour before Kofi Cockburn sat down before the largest crowd of reporters for any prospect at this week’s NBA Draft Combine, one league executive delivered a chilling assessment of the ...

The top-ranked player in the CBS Sports college basketball transfer rankings isn't transferring after all, as Illinois star Kofi Cockburn announced Friday that he's returning to the Illini for a third ...

Today marks another entry in our ongoing Illinois on SI "Best of the Century" series featuring the top 10 Illini players over the past 25 years. In our selection process, we considered individual ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — When the No. 13-ranked Illinois Fighting Illini take on No. 3 Purdue at Mackey Arena on Tuesday night, the winners of the last two Big Ten Player of the Week awards will take ...

Illinois basketball star Kofi Cockburn, the best player to enter the transfer portal since its introduction, announced Friday he was returning to Champaign to play another season for the Fighting ...

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Illinois junior Kofi Cockburn will enter the 2022 NBA draft and forgo his remaining college eligibility. "I'm closing one of the most amazing chapters of my life," Cockburn told ESPN on Wednesday.

A referee exited a Big Ten game Wednesday night and was taken to the hospital as a precaution after being struck in the head by a celebrating player. Illinois Fighting Illini center Kofi Cockburn made ...