{"id":327993,"date":"2025-10-08T03:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/327993\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T03:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:38:11","slug":"illinois-basketball-tip-times-and-tv-schedule-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/327993\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois basketball tip times and TV schedule revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2025-26 Illinois men\u2019s basketball schedule was finalized a few weeks ago, but the tip times and TV designations are now available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Illini will play games televised on ESPN, CBS, FOX, FS1, Peacock, B1G Network, and B1G+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That breakdown is as follows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There is one additional game (LIU) that will be on either B1G Network or B1G+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Some notable non-conference tip times include an 11:30 a.m. tip-off against UConn on Black Friday and a 7 p.m. tip against Tennessee on Saturday, Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In conference play, Illinois has just two Saturday home games: a 3 p.m. tip against Nebraska on Dec. 13 and an 11 a.m. start against Minnesota on Jan. 17. Not exactly ideal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Illini are in action with an exhibition against Illinois State at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19. Their 2025-26 campaign officially begins on Monday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. when Jackson State comes to the State Farm Center on the first day of the college basketball season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-26 Illinois men\u2019s basketball schedule was finalized a few weeks ago, but the tip times and TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,38467,38996,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-327993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-illinois-fighting-illini-basketball","11":"tag-illinois-news-and-links","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115336465881815388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}