2023-10-25: Play Index Update.

We continue to work on moving all of the CBB Play Index content to Stathead.com/Basketball. This process has taken longer than expected, so we are allowing continued use of the these tools on CBB until the new tools are available.

We don't have a firm timeline for the launch of CBB on Stathead, but we fully intend to have it available well before the end of the 2023-24 season for both men's and women's basketball.

Because we will soon be taking down this page, we have not added coverage for women's stats to these tools. We apologize for this omission.

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Matchup Finder

Search historical schedules and rankings back to the 1949-50 season.
Schedules prior to the 1994-95 season may be missing games vs. non-Division I opponents.

Note that the AP has ranked a variable number of teams since it began in 1948-49.

 1948-49 through 1960-61: top 20
 1961-62 through 1963-64: top 10
 1964-65: top 10, except for preseason which was top 20
 1965-66 through 1967-68: top 10
 1968-69 through 1988-89: top 20
 1989-90 through present: top 25

Current search:
From 1949-50 to 2015-16, for Illinois, against Butler, sorted by descending Date

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24 Wins, 1 Losses, .960 W%

Query Results

Query Results Table
Year Date   Schl Rk.   Opp Rk.     PTS OPP MOV   OT
2012-132012-11-21IllinoisButlerW786117
1971-721971-12-01IllinoisButlerW73712
1970-711970-12-01IllinoisButlerW11310211
1969-701969-12-02IllinoisButlerW836716
1968-691968-12-02IllinoisButlerW1056639
1967-681967-12-02Illinois@ButlerW755718
1966-671966-12-03IllinoisButlerW825131
1965-661965-12-01IllinoisButlerW887414
1963-641963-12-19IllinoisButlerW745321
1963-641963-11-30Illinois@ButlerW59527
1962-631962-11-30Illinois8ButlerW664917
1961-621961-12-01IllinoisButlerW827210
1960-611960-12-27Illinois@ButlerL6870-2
1960-611960-12-05IllinoisButlerW845232
1959-601959-12-02IllinoisButlerW83758
1958-591958-12-02IllinoisButlerW1037924
1957-581957-12-11IllinoisButlerW917516
1956-571956-12-05IllinoisButlerW988117
1955-561955-12-06Illinois8ButlerW1077532
1954-551954-12-02IllinoisButlerW883454
Year Date   Schl Rk.   Opp Rk.     PTS OPP MOV   OT
1953-541953-12-09Illinois9ButlerW804832
1952-531952-12-20Illinois3ButlerW755817
1951-521951-12-08Illinois@ButlerW685711
1950-511950-12-29Illinois20ButlerW885236
1949-501949-12-03Illinois@ButlerW60564
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