| Illinois Starters Last Game | ||||||||
| Pos. | No. | Name | Ht. | Yr. | PPG | RPG | APG | Season Note |
| G | 3 | Makira Cook | 5-6 | Jr. | 18.4 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 13 20+ pt. games; 41.2 FG% |
| G | 12 | Jayla Oden | 5-9 | So. | 4.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 13 starts this season |
| G | 24 | Adalia McKenzie | 5-10 | So. | 14.2 | 6.2 | 2.2 | 42 steals, 61 ORebs, 20 10+ pts games |
| F | 23 | Brynn Shoup-Hill | 6-3 | So. | 6.3 | 5.6 | 1.1 | 54 OReb, 19 blocks, 15 steals |
| F | 44 | Kendall Bostic | 6-2 | Jr. | 10.7 | 10.3 | 1.1 | 63.5% FG, 41 blocks, 86 OReb, 11 double-doubles |
Head Coach Shauna Green
Career Record: 176-82 (.682), ninth year
Division I Record: 147-57 (.721), seventh year
At Illinois: 20-7, first year
Big Ten: 10-6
Series Notes vs. Nebraska
All-Time Record: Illinois trails, 6-18
Record in Champaign: 2-8
Last win in Champaign: W, 79-59 on Jan. 15, 2017
Streak: W1
Last Meeting: W, 72-64 in Lincoln, Neb., on Feb. 9, 2023.
Green vs. Opponent: 1-0
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).
- The 2022-23 squad doubled the previous season’s win total in just 16 games (14).
- Illinois won its scheduled Big Ten home opener for the first time since 2016-17 with an 80-62 victory over Rutgers on Dec. 7, 2022.
- With Illinois’ home win over Rutgers, the Orange and Blue secured an 8-2 start through 10 games for just the 10th time in program history.
- The Illini won 10 regular-season non-conference games for just the third time in program history, tying the program record.
- Illinois won its Braggin’ Rights game at [RV] Missouri on Dec. 18 and now owns wins over teams from the ACC, Big Ten and SEC in the same season for the first time since 2014-15.
- Illinois won 11 games…
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