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 Penn State, against Illinois, sorted by descending Date

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15 Wins, 28 Losses, .349 W%

Query Results

Query Results Table
Year Date   Schl Rk.   Opp Rk.     PTS OPP MOV   OT
2016-172017-02-11Penn State@IllinoisW837013
2016-172017-01-28Penn StateIllinoisW71674
2015-162016-03-06Penn StateIllinoisW867972
2014-152015-01-31Penn State@IllinoisL5860-2
2013-142014-02-09Penn StateIllinoisL5560-5
2013-142014-01-04Penn State@IllinoisL5575-20
2012-132013-02-21Penn State@IllinoisL5964-5
2011-122012-01-19Penn StateIllinois22W54522
2010-112011-02-01Penn State@IllinoisL5168-17
2010-112011-01-11Penn StateIllinois16W57552
2009-102010-01-27Penn StateIllinoisL6777-10
2009-102010-01-12Penn State@IllinoisL5354-1
2008-092009-03-05Penn StateIllinois23W64631
2008-092009-02-18Penn State@Illinois18W38335
2007-082008-03-13Penn StateIllinoisL6364-1
2007-082008-02-16Penn StateIllinoisW52511
2007-082008-01-06Penn State@IllinoisW68644
2006-072007-03-08Penn StateIllinoisL6066-6
2006-072007-02-24Penn StateIllinoisL5068-18
2005-062006-02-04Penn State@Illinois6W66651
Year Date   Schl Rk.   Opp Rk.     PTS OPP MOV   OT
2004-052005-02-16Penn StateIllinois1L6383-20
2004-052005-01-12Penn State@Illinois1L6490-26
2003-042004-02-21Penn StateIllinoisL5866-8
2003-042004-01-21Penn State@IllinoisL3780-43
2002-032003-01-25Penn StateIllinois18L6375-12
2001-022002-02-20Penn State@Illinois16L5683-27
2000-012001-01-31Penn StateIllinois6W989531
2000-012001-01-20Penn State@Illinois11L6092-32
1999-002000-03-11Penn StateIllinois25L8494-10
1999-002000-02-06Penn StateIllinoisL5051-1
1999-002000-01-22Penn State@IllinoisL7687-11
1998-991999-01-23Penn State@IllinoisW65614
1997-981998-01-31Penn StateIllinoisL7177-6
1996-971997-02-25Penn StateIllinois21L6587-22
1996-971997-01-11Penn State@Illinois25L7085-15
1995-961996-02-08Penn State10IllinoisW61583
1994-951995-02-08Penn State@IllinoisL5867-9
1993-941994-03-05Penn State@IllinoisL5984-25
1993-941994-02-02Penn StateIllinoisL6583-18
1992-931993-02-20Penn StateIllinoisL6674-8
Year Date   Schl Rk.   Opp Rk.     PTS OPP MOV   OT
1992-931993-01-21Penn State@IllinoisL6682-16
1991-921991-11-25Penn State@IllinoisW65605
1990-911990-12-05Penn StateIllinoisW786810
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