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 2016-17, for Illinois, against Notre Dame, sorted by descending Date

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Try our NCAA Tournament Matchup Finder for even more Tournament-related search options

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15 Wins, 8 Losses, .652 W%

Query Results

Query Results Table
Year Date   Schl Rk.   Opp Rk.     PTS OPP MOV   OT
2015-162015-12-02IllinoisNotre DameL7984-5
2002-032003-03-22Illinois11Notre Dame22L6068-8
1972-731973-01-25IllinoisNotre DameW87843
1971-721972-01-28IllinoisNotre DameW815922
1970-711971-01-30Illinois18Notre Dame7W69663
1969-701970-01-31Illinois10Notre DameL8386-3
1968-691969-01-25Illinois8Notre Dame15W915734
1967-681968-01-27IllinoisNotre DameW68671
1966-671967-01-28IllinoisNotre DameL7590-15
1965-661966-01-28IllinoisNotre DameW1209228
1964-651965-01-30IllinoisNotre DameW1018714
1963-641963-12-31IllinoisNotre DameW87789
1963-641963-12-14IllinoisNotre DameW796811
1962-631962-12-31Illinois3Notre DameL8890-2
1961-621962-01-28IllinoisNotre DameW85778
1960-611961-01-28IllinoisNotre DameW776215
1960-611960-12-28Illinois@Notre DameL6669-3
1959-601960-01-30IllinoisNotre DameW71674
1958-591959-01-24IllinoisNotre DameL7585-10
1957-581958-01-25IllinoisNotre DameL6781-14
Year Date   Schl Rk.   Opp Rk.     PTS OPP MOV   OT
1956-571957-01-26Illinois9Notre DameW998118
1955-561955-12-13Illinois@Notre DameW1039310
1954-551954-12-18Illinois3Notre Dame20W66579
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