| Illinois Starters Last Game (92-71 win at Pitt) | ||||||||
| Pos. | No. | Name | Ht. | Yr. | PPG | RPG | APG | Season Note |
| G | 3 | Makira Cook | 5-6 | Jr. | 15.3 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 13-of-26 3FG, Last 2 games: 19 PPG, 9.5 APG, 5.5 RPG |
| G | 12 | Jayla Oden | 5-9 | So. | 6.8 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 5 steals, 14-for-19 FT |
| G | 24 | Adalia McKenzie | 5-10 | So. | 16.4 | 4.8 | 1.4 | Back-to-back 20-point games, 5-for-11 3FG |
| F | 23 | Brynn Shoup-Hill | 6-3 | So. | 4.0 | 5.5 | 0.9 | 18 OReb, 9 blocks, 4 steals |
| F | 44 | Kendall Bostic | 6-2 | Jr. | 8.3 | 9.3 | 1.3 | 65.2% FG, 8 blocks, 22 OReb, 5 10+ reb games |
Head Coach Shauna Green
Career Record: 163-76 (.682), ninth year
Division I Record: 134-51 (.724), seventh year
At Illinois: 7-1, first year
Big Ten: 0-0
Series Notes vs. Indiana
All-Time Record: Illinois trails 30-46
Record on the road: Illinois trails 10-25
Streak: Lost 13
Last Meeting: L, 61-93 in Champaign, Ill., on Feb. 9, 2022
Green vs. Opponent: First Meeting
Opening Tips
- Illinois opened its 49th season of women’s basketball with a 6-0 record for just the fourth time in program history before suffering its first loss.
- Shauna Green is the first coach in program history to open her Illinois career with a 3-0 start and pushed the new mark a 6-0 start.
- The Fighting Illini secured a win in the ACC/B1G Challenge over Pitt (11/30/22) for the first time since the 2014-15 season.
- It took the 2022-23 squad just eight games to match the previous season’s win total (7).
- Illinois has five returners on the 2022-23 squad, including: Jada Peebles, Jayla Oden, Geovana Lopes, Adalia McKenzie and Kendall Bostic
- Shauna Green brought in eight newcomers since being hired on March 21, 2022 – four freshmen and four transfers.
- Illinois’ transfers include: Genesis Bryant (NC State), Makira Cook (Dayton), Aicha Ndour (NW Florida State College) and Brynn Shoup-Hill. Those three programs went a combined 85-13 last season.
- Shauna Green‘s trio of assistant coaches are no strangers to her or each other. Green, Calamity McEntire, DeAntoine Beasley and Ryan Gensler were on the Dayton Women’s Basketball staff together for four seasons from 2017-21….
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