MACON -- It was like one big family reunion inside the halls of Meridian High School Friday night - the state champs were back home. More >>

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) -- The one and only Friday Frenzy has launched into 2019! Gordon Voit and Noah Newman bring you high school basketball games all across the viewing area! More >>

Join WAND's Gordon Voit on a trip to the archives to see how Dee Brown, James Augustine and Brian Randle keyed a 77-53 win for No. 8 Illinois (18-2, 4-2) on January 25, 2006! More >>

Mt. Zion eighth grader Ethan Osborne's size means being a member of the Braves' roster wasn't an option -- but coach Jeff Shumate wanted to find a way for Ethan to be a part of the program, so he offered for him to join the team as a manager. More >>

DECATUR -- It wasn't that long ago that just eking out a win was cause for celebration for MacArthur's girls basketball program. In fact, in 2015-16 they won exactly that many: one.

Now in Year Two of the reboot presided over by head coach Michael "Dubb" Williams, the team doesn't celebrate individual wins -- in fact they run after rattling off 10 of them in a row. More >>

NORMAL, Ill. (WAND) -- Marcus Bartley was all smiles after his pregame shoot around Tuesday at Redbird Arena.

The Southern Illinois senior is thrilled to be back in Central Illinois.

"It's really great to be back at home, I'm about 45 minutes from the crib so it's great," Bartley told WAND-TV before the game. More >>

Illini freshman guard Ayo Dosunmu has been on fire in the new year - averaging just over 20 points per game in the last four contests.  More >>

DECATUR -- The stands were packed inside the MacArthur high school gymnasium. The buzz was palpable. Legends were in the house. More >>

Illinois State went 6-6 in a non-conference schedule that is ranked 133rd in the country in the KenPom rankings and 174th in the BPI put out by ESPN. The bottom line: the team fell short of preseason expectations.

But despite that, the Redbirds (8-8 against Division-I opponents) showed flashes of brilliance on Saturday in a 67-64 loss at Loyola. More >>

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) -- The one and only Friday Frenzy has launched into 2019! Gordon Voit and Noah Newman kick off the new year with high school basketball games all across the viewing area! More >>

Champaign, Ill. (WAND) -- Ayo Dosunmu scored a game-high 23 points, but the Illini fell short against No. 2 Michigan Thursday night.

The Wolverines used a well balanced attack to defeat the Illini 79-69, and  improve to a program-record tying 16-0. More >>

Eisenhower's Steve Thompson has one goal as he tacks "head football coach" on to his athletic director duties on the city's South Side. More >>

The Decatur school board approved current athletic director Steve Thompson as the program's new head football coach during its meeting Tuesday night. More >>

Tuesday night's high school basketball games weren't just entertaining (see: Teutopolis dunk smorgasbord against Madison). They were historic. More >>

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) -- Lovie Smith's eventful winter on the recruiting trail continues.  More >>

The Illinois men's basketball team suffered another gut wrenching loss 68-66 at Northwestern Sunday. More >>

St. Teresa graduate Christian Williams had a career day for Indiana State Saturday - scoring 18 points and grabbing 11 rebounds in a 65-60 win over Bradley in the team's conference home opener.  More >>

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) -- The one and only Friday Frenzy has launched into 2019! Gordon Voit and Noah Newman kick off the new year with high school basketball games all across the viewing area! More >>

CHICAGO (WAND) -- Adam Miller is the state of Illinois' No. 1 ranked recruit, regardless of class according to some talent evaluators. More >>

"It's just very, very fulfilling for me to call Taylorville my home," Northwestern assistant coach Brian James told WAND Sports this week following the Wildcats' win over Columbia.

James' career has taken him all over the world, from his roots in Christian County to coaching Chris Collins at Glenbrook North High School to the Pistons, Raptors, Wizards, Bucks, 76ers and now the Big Ten with his former player Collins. More >>

Former Okaw Valley star Paige Robinson is off to a scalding-hot start at her college home, Drury University.

The Panthers are ranked No. 4 in Division-II thanks in part to their hot-shooting freshman guard from Bethany, Ill., who was second on the team with 14.6 points per game as 2018 came to a close. That's despite the fact she came off the bench in all 11 games in the first half of the season (all wins). More >>

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) -- "No Excuses."

It's not just a t-shirt slogan to Decatur Christian guard Irina Yeakley -- it's a bona fide lifestyle.

The sophomore suits up for the Warriors despite having deformed and missing fingers, plus a prosthetic leg that she custom-designed with Harry Potter slogans and insignia. More >>

Gordon Voit and Mark Tupper discuss Illinois' surprising loss to Florida Atlantic, Mark shares his No. 1 storyline heading into 2019 plus he opens a mystery package! More >>

CHAMPAIGN -- The final non conference tune-up game ended up being a stone cold stunner. More >>

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) -- Amir Brummett went from having the ball in his hands every play in high school, to having to watch from the sidelines in college.  More >>

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) -- Former MacArthur General Shaq Bond had a season to remember at Utah State. More >>

CHARLESTON, Ill. (WAND) -- New Eastern Illinois head football coach Adam Cushing's staff is going to have a lot of Northwestern flavor. More >>

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (WAND) - Missouri captured bragging rights over Illinois for the first time in six years, 79-63. More >>

Illinois (4-8) held a 56-55 lead with 7:43 left in the game but sputtered down the stretch for a 79-63 loss. The Tigers' victory snapped a five-game streak in which the Braggin' Rights trophy had been with Illinois dating back to 2013. More >>

Welcome to the one and only Friday Frenzy! Gordon Voit and Noah Newman bring you local high school basketball games from all across the viewing area! More >>

Six Sacred Heart-Griffin athletes sign to play in college, including Division-I football stars Nick Broeker, Grant Edwards and Matt Brenneisen. More >>

SIGNING DAY: What position will Illinois' two coveted recruits play? Which FBS transfers did ISU get? Which local star is headed to EIU? Visiting Signing Day for the Illini, Illinois State and Eastern Illinois! More >>

CHARLESTON, Ill. (WAND) -- Eastern Illinois quarterback Scotty Gilkey, Jr. might one day sign a big NFL deal. More >>

High school football teams in Illinois will now compete under predetermined "districts" as opposed to self-created conferences after the IHSA voted 324-307 (with 69 abstaining) to pass the proposition. More >>

Illini expert Mark Tupper stops by the studio for another Monday edition of Tupper's Take. More >>

St. Teresa senior Noelle DeJaynes made it official Monday - signing with DePaul track and field. More >>

Make it five state championships in three years for the West Lincoln-Broadwell girls basketball program. More >>

CHINA -- All he does is win. Springfield native Ryan Held added two enormous accolades to his swimming career before he graduates from North Carolina State this month: national record holder and world record holder. His blistering 45.82-second leg in the 4x100 freestyle during the preliminaries of the world championships beat the old American record of 46.25 seconds, and when he helped Team USA to a first-place finish in the finals (3:03.03) he set a new world record. Talk abou... More >>

WAND has every score and a handful of highlights from a jam-packed slate of high school basketball games! Click the online scoreboard for the latest results, plus visit Facebook for highlights! More >>

CHARLESTON -- Adam Cushing was introduced as the new Eastern Illinois head football coach Monday - the 25th in program history. "The wins will come on the football field," Cushing said. "We're going to win games. We're going to hold up the OVC trophy, and we're going to hold up the national championship trophy."  More >>

CHARLESTON -- Northwestern assistant Adam Cushing has been hired as the new head football coach at Eastern Illinois. Cushing spent the past 15 years on the Northwestern staff, including 13 under head coach Pat Fitzgerald. He's currently the offensive line coach More >>

CHAMPAIGN -- "You guys ever play golf?" Illinois head coach Brad Underwood greeted reporters at the postgame press conference with an analogy from the links. He left the court at the State Farm Center with a 77-74 win over UNLV on Saturday afternoon, and with it a feeling like he had just hit his tee shot into the woods, taken a penalty stroke then holed out with two strokes. The message was clear: sloppy or not, a par is a par. The Illini (3-7) made some key mistakes incl... More >>

Welcome to the one and only Friday Frenzy! Gordon Voit and Noah Newman kick off the basketball season with games all across the viewing area! [VIDEO FOUND ON FACEBOOK] More >>

WAND brings you a trio of key games from Thursday night's slate of basketball games! [VIDEO] + Macon County Boys Basketball Semifinals + MacArthur vs. U High (girls) More >>