Illinois State Redbirds

The Illinois State men's basketball season opens a new season Monday with high expectations. The Redbirds visit Saint Mary's in California.

The Illinois State women's basketball team has its sights set on another postseason run in 2027. Head coach Kristen Gillespie and the Redbirds prepare for another season amidst a changing landscape in college basketball.

Redbird athletics has announced a marketing agreement with the Illinois Farm Bureau, Country Financial, Prairie Farms, Growmark and IAA Credit Union. It's one of the largest sponsorship deals in ISU Athletics history.

The "War on 74" series will conclude each year with a traveling Rivalry Series trophy being presented to the school that scores the most points throughout the year in competitions against their rival.

Luke, who coached ISU's pole vaulters, was inducted into the Illinois Track and Cross-Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2026 after coaching for more than 30 years.

Illinois State Redbird athletics is coming off what it calls a banner year for fundraising.

In an era of NIL and the transfer portal, Caiden Abbs is a throwback … a student-athlete as invested in academics as athletics.

Illinois State football has started fall camp as the Redbirds look to make another run at a national championship.

The ISU men's and women's basketball teams both made long postseason runs last spring.

The Redbirds are set to play the Wildcats Oct. 18 in the second contest of a home-and-home series started last year.