-2000Hnedia Guide 796. 2^3^ ^. ^'v'i^it ."Wvf!^' ':.'>' V" X^6 K-^K. -S'i.: 9f m 'p^% m jillNOI A \ a r H -'• } y ^ ^ V^ J*-wvs 2«. ^^1 ;BrT3B- h;. j> Ill i.TSUi'- -•S,-£*S-- ,5gp .y«g*" r> "nlp'r'^r^ "Tr::^ li^fKTfiSar^' 1 L/ l|/^ '^^ li^l A^tt'^;^i Mi''4 '^9^1' ^^^^^^Af3 -^rrte - 811 -4999-2000 Fightin , illini Basketball Media Guide 68 Newcomers 183 Michigan State This is Illinois Basketball 71 Game-by-Game Statistics 184 Minnesota 4 Ubben Basketball Complex 185 Missouri ON THE COVERS: 5 Assembly Hall 186 Northwestern Front: Pictured clockwise from 6 Academics 1998-99 In Review 187 Ohio State bottom are Victor 8 Australia Trip 76 Season in Review 188 Penn State Chukwudebe, Damir Krupalija 1 In the Community 77 1998-99 Statistics 189 Purdue and Bradford. 12 Illinois Basketball 80 Highs and Lows Cory 190 Texas-Pan American 14 Illini News & Notes 81 Big Ten Statistics Back: Pictured clockwise from 191 Western Illinois 17 Exposure 84 Game-by-Game Recaps bottom: Sergio McClain, Nate 192 Wisconsin 1 Campus Life Mast, Cleotis Brown, Robert 193 Big Ten Conference The Record Book Archibald and Lucas Johnson. 1 94 Big Ten Tournament The University of Illinois 96 Year-by-Year Records 195 NCAA Tournament 96 Coaching Records 20 The University 196 All-Time Series Scores CREDITS 22 Board of Trustees 97 All-Tirae Results 23 Administration 116 Records vs. Opponents Media Information The 1999-2000 Illinois 24 The DIA 118 Annual Individual Leaders 204 DL\ Directory Basketball Media Guide is a 26 Director of Athletics 120 Annual Team Statistics 205 Media Information 27 DIA Administration 129 Top 50 Career Scorers publication of the Illinois 206 Road Headquarters 28 Athletic Success 134 Individual Records Athletic Public Relations 208 Visitor's Guide 30 Notable Alumni 140 Team Records Office, written to assist the 208 Directions to Assembly 32 Illinois Tradition 142 Assembly Hall Records media in their coverage of Hall Postseason 146 Illinois in the Illinois athletics. 209 Illini Sports Network The Coaching Stafif 210 Big Ten Composite Basketball Tradition 34 Lon Kruger Schedule Executive Editor: 40 Robert McCullum 148 History 212 Media Outlets Barbara Butler 4 Rob Judson 154 All-Americans 42 Steve Henson 1 56 All-Big Ten Selections Interior Design: 43 Illinois Basketball Family 158 Illini Honors Jim Christman 44 Support Staff 160 Illini in the Pros 45 Strength & Conditioning 163 All-time Letterwinners 46 Sports Medicine 168 By the Numbers Cover Design: Jim Christman The Players The Opponents 48 1999-2000 Outlook 172 BB&T Classic Editorial Assistance: 50 Roster 174 Bethune Cookman Dave Brauer 51 TV/Radio Roster 175 Bradley Derrick Burson 52 Robert Archibald 176 Duke Kara Stachowiak 54 Cory Bradford 177 Indiana Mandy Stein 56 Cleotis Brown 178 Iowa Jennifer Greene 58 Victor Chukwudebe 179 Kansas 60 Lucas Johnson 180 Kansas State Photography: 62 Damir Krupalija 181 Loyola Chicago Jones, 64 Nate Mast 182 Michigan Mark 66 Sergio McClain Barbara Butler Cover Photos: Mark Jones Printed by: Illinois Graphics BloominMon, 111. JLMNm Illinois Basketball :ivV¥;. UNlVERSm r ILLINOIS Ubben Basketball Complex October 1998, Illinois room. The locker room has lock- Inmoved into the state-of-the-art ers for each individual player and Richard T. Ubben Basketball is adjacent to the players' lounge Complex on the campus of the and video room. University of Illinois. This $5.5 million dollar facility is a direct When it's time to get taped before result of the university's commit- practice, the players just walk ment to excellence in athletics. It across the hall to the fully- houses not only a full-sized prac- equipped training room which is tice court, but its features include located next to the practice court. locker rooms for the coaches and In the area of strength and condi- ^ players, a players lounge, video tioning, the players have use of the review room, training room and weight room which has free weight room. The 40,000-square- weights, nautilus equipment, foot facility is home to everything treadmills and Stairmaster. The utilizes weight the players need to make it team both the through the day. After classes, room at the football stadium and players can spend time studying or at the Ubben complex. using the computers in the video Assembly Hall Illinois has sold out 1 1 games at When it's time to take 9 tiie game on the court, the Assembly Hall, which seats Illinois has an out- 16,450. Illinois set an all-time standing home in Assembly Hall. attendance record on March 9, The Hall has served as home to 1996 when 16,863 fans jammed the Fighting Illini since its con- into the Hall to witness Lou struction in 1963 and last season Henson's final regular season it became even better after a game as head coach. In Lon multi-million dollar construction Kruger's three seasons at Illinois project that brought the team a the team has produced a 30-11 new locker room, state-of-the-art record at home. training room, a dining area and a new tunnel area to accommodate In addition to hosting the network television trucks and Fighting Illini, the Assembly Hall team buses. also holds performances for Broadway musicals, concerts and Illinois opened play at the other shows. This season Elton Assembly Hall on March 4, 1963 John, John Couger Mellancamp, with a 79-73 victory over The Beach Boys and Bill Cosby Northwestern. Since that first are some of the scheduled per- game, the Illini have racked up a formers that will take the stage at 373-116 mark, including a 114- Assembly Hall. 34 slate in the 1990s. Since 1963, Academics As part of the academic services department, the fall of 1997, the Irwin Academic in How the Big Ten schools rank | academic support staff members also Center was opened on the campus ot the the In U.S News & World Report's list coordinate programs that enhance the col- University of Illinois. Conveniently Universities 1 lege experience and prepare each student- of the Top 50 Public located in the center of campus, it offers the athlete for life after college. Some of the pro- in academic services to Illinois stu- very best 3. Michigan grams that are included are a workshop on dent-athletes. In addition to the academic alcoholism on college campuses, time man- 8. Illinois offices, it houses study areas, an expansive agement workshops and seminars on note Wisconsin computer room, and meeting rooms that taking skills and preparing for exams. over 600 student-athletes use throughout 10. Penn State the year. 18. Purdue Minnesota The mini basketball coaching staff places Illinois: A Leader in Academics 21. Iowa academics at the top of the list when it • Illinois is considered one ot the finest aca- 28. Ohio State comes to priorities and the results are over- demic institutions in the country. The 1998 whelming. In Lon Kruger's three-year tenure U.S. News & World Report College Guide 31. Indiana national at Illinois, eight basketball players have ranks Illinois as one of the top 50 Michigan State earned their degree. Kruger's first graduating universities and among the top 10 public universities. magazine consistently class included 1997 seniors Chris Candy Money • Illinois has the world's second largest alum- ranks of I as one of the best buys in high- and Herb Caldwell, and both Brian Johnson U ni base with a list of nearly 325,000 living and Jerry Hester earned their undergraduate er education. alumni. degrees before the beginning of their senior • Illinois freshmen complete their degree year in 1998. • U of I has awarded the most undergradu- at a significantly higher rate requirements ate engineering degrees of any school in the average. than the national nation. TZr: nil f III •in <•;: !!!! ii ir SS PI I-r » HS HR nf '.! Ill !!nil I 11 I % ^^ .M * '-^ik}^' ^}^' *&^ r^ - -s :e^te' .^ s ::.\..\ rv^.'^- • LS :n.c':.^5 6 ILLINOIS^ 1 Academics • The 1999 Fiske Guide to Colleges gives Illinois a five-star rating. • 1999 Money magazine lists Illinois as one of the nation's best college buys. t ,v ^^ • The 1998 U.S. News & World Report College Guide rates several of the University of Illinois curriculums in the top five nation- ally: College of Engineering 2nd best in the country, College of Business 5th best in the country, Accounting program 1st in the nation. • Illinois' accounting program has ranked No. 1 in the nation for the past 17 years. • The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund lists the U of I among an elite group of seven univer- sities called the "journalism ivys." • Illinois' study-abroad program offers exchanges with more than 1 00 foreign coun- tries. It's the fifth largest program in the country among major universities. • U of I's Krannert Art Museum houses the second largest art collection in the state after the Art Institute of Chicago. *• • • 1 Mosaic^"^, the mother of all internet web browsers, was developed at Illinois' National Hester. for Supercomputing Applications Lon Kruger's first UI graduates: Brian Johnson, Chris Candy, Herb Caldwell andJerry Center (NCSA) in 1993. • The graduation rate for students who • The Grainger Engineering Library entered the University of Ilhnois at Urbana- Information Center is the nation's largest Champaign in 1992 on a full-time basis was engineering library. 77.8 percent, which is considerably higher than the national average of 50 percent for • Seventy-five percent four-year schools. of Illinois students ranked between the ^) • Ninety-five percent of Illinois seniors seek- 82nd and 99th per- ing employment obtain positions within centiles of their high nine months of graduation; more than 40 school graduating class- percent do so before graduation.