{"id":752185,"date":"2026-06-22T04:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752185\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T04:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:58:09","slug":"illinois-womens-basketball-team-returning-bulk-of-roster-for-summer-workouts-illini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752185\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois women&#8217;s basketball team returning bulk of roster for summer workouts | Illini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) &#8211; The Illinois women&#8217;s basketball team aims to continue their upward trajectory into the 2026-27 season, as players return for summer workouts.<\/p>\n<p>The Illini return their complete starting rotation from the following season, as well as a bulk of their bench support, with hopes of continuing to build on their recent success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s gonna help us a lot I think just from the experience we had last year playing in the Big Ten,&#8221; said Berry Wallace, a first-team All-Big Ten selection. &#8220;Just a lot of close games and playing a lot of high-level teams will just help us next year. I think we&#8217;ll just use that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the 4th season under Shauna Green, Illinois reached its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wandtv.com\/sports\/illini\/illini-womens-hoops-reach-ncaa-tournament-for-3rd-time-in-4-seasons\/article_3bbcc545-d2e4-4ff0-b30e-6219396f6650.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4th consecutive postseason<\/a> with a 22-win campaign, advancing to the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament. During\u00a0their past year, the program set 3 team single-season records including free throw percentage (81.5%), fewest turnovers per game (12.38), and the longest win streak (11 games).<\/p>\n<p>Last winter, Illinois held their own in the Big Ten despite having one of the youngest teams in the nation. As the team reunites a roster who&#8217;s gaining experience, their hope is to continue developing a strong resume.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the leadership that we have around us, just constantly having people harp on certain things, I think it just allows us to be together, be connected, and then we can help each other off of that as well,&#8221; said Peoria native Aaliyah Guyton.<\/p>\n<p>With Shauna Green at the helm, Illinois has registered a\u00a051-15 record at home over the last 4 seasons, including five upsets of AP Top-20 ranked teams.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026. WAND TV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                Top Sports Stories on WAND<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) &#8211; The Illinois women&#8217;s basketball team aims to continue their upward trajectory into the 2026-27&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,97074,360883,9286,3884,85,635,360885,360884,144119,360882,144120],"class_list":["post-752185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-illini","tag-illini-athletics","tag-illinois","tag-local-sports","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-u-of-i","tag-universtity-of-illinois","tag-wand","tag-wand-sports","tag-wandtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}