Former Notre Dame football safety Houston Griffith gets a promotion with Illinois as he is now an assistant defensive backs coach.

The Illini have played three straight games without 7-foot-1, 255-pound sophomore center Tomislav Ivisic, who's out indefinitely with mononucleosis. He's the team's second-leading scorer at 13 points per game and the top rebounder at 8.5 per game. The 6-9, 255-pound Morez Johnson Jr. has been starting in Ivisic's place.

Houston health insurance agent professionals are set to navigate significant changes in healthcare regulations, particularly regarding short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans.

We've seen our fair share of heated city meetings, but nothing quite like this. Things went totally left at a meeting in the Thornton Township in Illinois.

In Bleacher Report's latest NBA mock draft from Jonathan Wasserman, the Rockets are slated as the 18th pick in the first round. With that pick, they are projected to select Derik Queen from Maryland.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Brice Williams scored eight points in overtime and finished with 27 as Nebraska ended a six-game losing streak with an 80-74 win over No. 18 Illinois on Thursday night. The Huskers (13-8, 3-7 Big Ten) never trailed while knocking off a third ranked opponent in the same season for the first time since 2013-14.

Illinois is ranked 18th in the new AP Top 25 poll, released Monday. The Illini (14-6, 6-4 Big Ten) also are 20th in the coaches' poll.

Humrichous 0-8 1-2 1, Johnson 2-2 1-2 5, Boswell 3-8 0-0 6, Jakucionis 6-15 3-4 18, White 2-8 4-6 8, Riley 7-17 0-1 18, Gibbs-Lawhorn 5-10 3-3 15, Davis 1-4 0-0 3, Booth 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 26-73 12-18 74.

The start of February means sports fans are all out of excuses — it's time to dive into college basketball. Here are 10 items to get everybody all caught up.

A federal appeals court struck down a longstanding federal ban that prevented the sale of handguns to Americans between the ages of 18 and 20 - a landmark gun control regulation in place since 1968.

Drexel at Northeastern, 3 p.m. Cornell at Dartmouth, 6 p.m. Princeton at Yale, 6 p.m. Delaware at Towson, 6:30 p.m. Columbia at Harvard, 7 p.m.

Are we ready to put Houston in the elite tier of college basketball this season? Auburn and Duke have been staples at the top of our Power Rankings for several weeks, with Iowa State in the mix. And while Tennessee has faded,