Basketball

Ryan Pedon led the Redbirds to their winningest season in eight years, and the team won the College Basketball Invitational title last season.

The WNIT has announced the Redbirds will play Abeline Christian in the Super 16 round on Thursday. The game will be played at Shirk Center in Bloomington.

Illinois State sophomore Chase Walker, a first-team Missouri Valley Conference selection, has announced on social media he plans to return to ISU next season.

The Redbirds, who have a 19-14 record and previously announced they would accept a bid to the College Basketball Invitational [CBI], learned on Sunday they will play Presbyterian College.

U-High alum Tanner Morris is fueled by a basketball upbringing. His father, Bob Morris, was a men’s assistant coach at Northern Illinois, Illinois State and Lincoln College. Now, Tanner is thriving as the head coach himself at College of Lake County.

The Illinois State University men’s basketball team announced Monday it will accept a spot in the 16-team College Basketball Invitational in Daytona Beach.

John Snyder, a former longtime basketball coach at Central Catholic High School, has died at age 93. The man known as “The Dean” during his 39-year tenure on the Saints' bench and more than 50 years at the school leaves a legacy of perseverance, master storytelling, commitment to all things Central Catholic and a huge, caring heart.

The game of basketball flowed through Rob Judson's life at every step and still does in his 45th and final season of coaching basketball. An Illinois State assistant coach, Judson announced in November he will retire at season’s end.

Illinois Wesleyan's basketball coach calls Jason Alsene “part of the fabric of Titan basketball,” saying he provides “perspective, joy, excitement.”

A former official with the State Farm Holiday Classic is under suspicion of stealing from the non-profit organization that runs the annual high school basketball tournament in McLean County.