The high school basketball postseason continues tonight on WJEZ as Pontiac takes on Prairie Central in the opening round of the Herscher Regional. Marc Strauss has the call just before 7:30.
The Fighting Illini end the regular season with their first Big Ten road win of the season, 75-62, at Rutgers. Michael Finke led the lllini with 19 points of the bench. The Illini will play Iowa in the Big Ten Tournament at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.
Second-ranked Michigan State won at Wisconsin to clinch the Spartans’ first outright Big Ten title since 2009.
The Illinois State women dug a big hole against MVC-leader Drake and fell to the Bulldogs, 80-64.
Illinois State baseball doubled up Tennessee Tech 16-8, one day after the two teams combined for 47 runs. ISU softball edged Maryland in extra innings, 8-7, at the Aquafina Invitational in Gainesville, Fla.
The Central Illinois Flying Aces gave up three first-period goals in a 3-0 loss to the Chicago Steel.
Kevin Harvick won the rain-delayed NASCAR Monster Cup Energy race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, 17 years after his first win there.
The Winter Olympics have ended with the United States taking home its fewest medals in 20 years. Eleven of the 23 U.S. medals came from snowboarding and freestyle skiing events that were added in 1992.
