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Weber's second year at Illinois, the 2004–05 season, will be remembered as one of the greatest in Fighting Illini history, finishing 37–2 as the National Runner-Up in the NCAA tournament. In a remarkable year where Illinois celebrated its centennial season of basketball, the Illini reeled off 29 straight wins to start the year, tying the ...
^A. The team was retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. ^B. Jamall Walker coached the last three games of the 2016–17 season in the NIT, going 2–1 as the interim coach.
Illinois Minnesota 10–2 1938 Purdue 10–2 1939 Ohio State 10–2 First National Championship Tournament conducted by the National Association of Basketball Coaches: 1940 Purdue 10–2 NCAA First NCAA Tournament: 1941 Wisconsin: 11–1 Helms Foundation NCAA (Wisconsin) 1942 Illinois: 13–2 1943 Illinois: 12–0 1944 Ohio State 10–2 1945 Iowa
The 2004–05 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team marked the 100th season of men's basketball at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.After starting the regular season with a record of 29–0 and winning the Big Ten Conference regular season title outright at 15–1, the Illini were Big Ten tournament champions.
From the first tournament in 1939 to 1951, the National Semifinals were also considered the Regional Championships, with the National Championship was held separately a week later. During this period, the tournament was divided into the East and West Regions.
The Illini started out the 1984-85 season ranked No. 1 nationally by Basketball Times in its preseason poll. Illinois made a return trip to the NCAA tournament where the Illini advanced to the Sweet 16.
In 2008, the tournament was divided into four separate divisions (1A, 2A, 3A, and 4A being the larger schools). The Illinois High School Basketball Championship was the first tournament to be called 'March Madness'. The term was first used about the Illinois tournament in 1939, decades before it was used about NCAA basketball tournament.
The Illini defense was the Big Ten's best as Illinois finished the year first in scoring defense, fieldgoal defense and three-point defense in conference games. Additionally, this would be the inaugural season for the Big Ten tournament , thus reducing the number of regular season conference games by 2, from 18 to 16.