The 2022–23 Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball team represented the University of Illinois during the

2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season The 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began on November 7, 2022. The regular season ended on March 12, 2023, with the 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament beginning on March 14 and ending with the championship game ...

. The Fighting Illini were led by first-year head coach

Shauna Green Shauna Green (born October 31, 1979) is an American basketball coach. Career She coaches the Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball team at the University of Illinois. She was hired in March 2022. In her first season at Dayton, Green won ...

, and they played their home games at

State Farm Center The State Farm Center is a large dome-shaped 15,544-seat indoor arena located in Champaign, Illinois, owned and operated by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The arena hosts games for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball, ...

. This season marked the program's 41st season as a member of the Big Ten Conference.

Previous season

The Illini finished the 2021–22 season 7–20 overall, with a 1–13 record in Big Ten play to finish in last place. As the fourteenth seed in the Big Ten women's tournament, they defeated eleventh seed Wisconsin in the first round before losing to sixth seed Nebraska in the second round. They were not invited to participate in any post-season tournaments.

Offseason

After five seasons as Illinois head coach, Nancy Fahey announced her retirement on March 4, 2022. On March 21, 2022, Green was named as the program's tenth head coach, having had six successful seasons as the head coach at

Dayton Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater Da ...

. All three of Green's assistant coaching hires at Illinois (Calamity McEntire,

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and Ryan Gensler) had previously worked for her at Dayton. The roster included five players from Fahey's final Illinois team, four freshmen, and four transfers, including two from Dayton (Makira Cook and Brynn Shoup-Hill). Genesis Bryant transferred from North Carolina State, but she had been recruited by Green for Dayton before committing to the Wolfpack.

Roster

Schedule and results

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Rankings

References

External links

Official website

2022–23 media guide
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