2017–18 Illinois Fighting Illini Women's Basketball Team
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The 2017–18 Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball team represented the
University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...
during the
2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season The 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began on November 10, 2017 and ended with the Final Four title game at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio on April 1, 2018. Practices officially began in September 29, 2017. Season headli ...
. The Fighting Illini, led by first-year head coach
Nancy Fahey Nancy Fahey (born November 3, 1958) is an American retired head women's basketball coach. She coached at the University of Illinois, and she also served as head coach at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a graduate of the University ...
, played their home games at State Farm Center as members of the
Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...
. They finished the season 9–21, 0–16 in Big Ten play to finish in last place. They lost in the first round of the Big Ten women's tournament to Penn State.


Previous season

The Illini finished the 2016–17 season 9–22, 3–13 in Big Ten play to finish in a four-way tie for 11th place. They advanced to the second round of the Big Ten women's tournament where they lost to Purdue. On March 14, 2017, head coach
Matt Bollant Matthew Mark Bollant (born March 13, 1971) is the head coach for the Eastern Illinois Panthers women's basketball team. Previously, he served as the head women's basketball coach at the University of Illinois, and before that, he served as head ...
was fired. He finished at Illinois with a five-year record of 61–94. On March 22, the school hired five-time Division III national champion and two-time Division III coach of the year recipient Nancy Fahey as head coach.


Roster


Schedule and results

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Rankings


See also

* 2017–18 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team


References

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Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...
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