College Sports

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.

The Illinois State women’s basketball team will participate in a third consecutive Postseason WNIT, but the Redbirds have to wait a little longer to find out their first opponent.

Illinois State University has formally introduced Jeri Beggs as its new athletics director. University president Aondover Tarhule says Beggs showed visionary leadership in her nearly two years in the interim role.

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.

The Missouri Valley Football Conference has had one commissioner in its history. That will change after this season. Patty Viverito will retire after her 40th season at the helm of the premier mid-major football conference.

The induction ceremony will take place at the Hall of Fame breakfast at 8 a.m. Sept. 28 at the Bone Student Center Brown Ballroom on the ISU campus.

It's been 26 years since the Illinois State men’s basketball team has won a Missouri Valley Conference championship and appeared in the NCAA tournament. In response, Empower the Nest, a collective that connects ISU student-athletes with endorsement deals through Name Image and Likeness, has created a subgroup specifically for men’s basketball called the 1998 Club.

Now that the flap over spending on donor entertainment is over, and trustees have named a permanent ISU president, several interim positions need to be filled. One of those is in the Athletics Department.

Illinois State University has released summaries of an internal audit of Athletics Department spending and of an external audit commissioned in the wake of questionable expenditures that led to the resignation of Athletic Director Kyle Brennan last year.

The Missouri Valley Conference has chosen two Illinois State University sports figures for 2024's Hall of Fame induction: former football great Boomer Grigsby, and former sports information director Tom Lamonica.