Men's Basketball Student Season Tickets Sold Out in Record Nine Minutes
September 22, 2026 | Men's Basketball
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – University of Illinois students acted in record time once again to Fighting Illini men's basketball ticket sales. The entire allotment of 3,000 student season tickets for State Farm Center was claimed within the first minute, with the processing of all sales covering a span of nine minutes.
This breaks last year's record of 18 minutes and marks the sixth year in a row that Orange Krush tickets have sold out, covering every season since fans returned following the pandemic:
2021-22 – Less than three hours
2022-23 – 36 minutes
2023-24 – Less than 24 hours
2024-25 – 26 minutes
2025-26 – 18 minutes
2026-27 – nine minutes
Fighting Illini Basketball has high expectations once again in 2026-27, appearing in the Top 5 of numerous preseason rankings. Head coach Brad Underwood welcomes back five rotation players from the NCAA Final Four run in David Mirkovic, Andrej Stojakovic, Tomislav Ivisic, Zvonimir Ivisic, and Jake Davis while adding a top-15 recruiting class and impact transfer to this year's roster.
Illinois is coming off its first Final Four appearance in 21 years, a 28-9 record to mark the fourth-most wins in school history, and a Big Ten runner-up finish. Illinois remains the winningest team in Big Ten play this decade and is one of four programs nationally with seven straight 20-win regular seasons.
