After a strong eight-season run with the Illini, Underwood has earned his spot among the conference's top coaches ...

Newest basketball assistant had no prior relationship with Illini coach Brad Underwood before being hired in May ...

Illinois men’s basketball doubled its 2026 recruiting class on Wednesday. Landon Davis, from Waukee, Iowa, announced a ...

CHAMPAIGN — Almost every season, Brad Underwood seems to take something from opponents who give him fits. After a second-round NCAA Tournament loss to Houston in 2022, the Illinois head coach ...

Anyone with eyes and ears could have seen it coming from the second Underwood sat down in his postgame press conference following last Saturday’s all-too-close home loss against then-No. 11 Arizona.

— Brad Underwood (@CoachUnderwood) March 24, 2024 After losing at Tennessee on Dec. 9, Underwood met that night with former Villanova coach Jay Wright, who had called the game for CBS.

Brad Underwood’s first head coaching job was leading the cross-country program at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. Instruction amounted to “run as fast as you can from here to ...

Underwood joins a very exclusive club with a fifth-straight 20-win season. Only five other Big Ten coaches have accomplished the feat during the 21st century, including four of the nine winningest ...

NEW YORK — Brad Underwood had a plan. Well, at least an idea for a plan. “Life after Kofi,” he called it, and it was essentially the blueprint for how Illinois basketball would play after ...

Brad Underwood did this recently. Unflinching, he told Cockburn he’s a coward because when the game is on the line, his nerves turn to pudding on the free-throw stripe.

Underwood, sulking and stewing over the defeat, didn’t answer. (“Very poor loser,” he admits.) His agent then contacted Underwood’s wife, Susan, to get his client’s attention.