{"id":164650,"date":"2025-09-18T04:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164650\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:11:07","slug":"illinois-mens-basketball-student-tickets-purchased-in-record-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164650\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois men\u2019s basketball student tickets purchased in record time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Orange Krush has long been heralded as one of the top student sections in the Big Ten, and the Fighting Illini\u2019s recent success under Brad Underwood has reinvigorated Illinois students\u2019 fervor for the game. Need proof?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Illinois announced Wednesday that the allotment of 3,000 student tickets for State Farm Center sold out <a href=\"https:\/\/fightingillini.com\/news\/2025\/9\/17\/mens-basketball-student-season-tickets-sold-out-for-fifth-straight-season.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a record-breaking 18 minutes<\/a>. EIGHTEEN. MINUTES.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The previous record of 26 minutes was set just this past season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Illini have reached the NCAA Tournament each of the last five seasons. It\u2019s probably not a coincidence that Orange Krush tickets have also sold out for the fifth year in a row dating back to the 2021-22 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When the Illini are good and State Farm Center is packed it\u2019s one of the most electric atmospheres in college hoops. Illinois is the winningest team in Big Ten play over the past six years, and the Orange &amp; Blue will once again be vying for a Big Ten title this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Illinois tips of the 2025-26 regular season against Jackson State on November 3rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orange Krush has long been heralded as one of the top student sections in the Big Ten,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,50743,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-164650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-illinois-fighting-illini-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}