CHAMPAIGN — Season tickets are now on sale for the 2016-17 Illinois men’s basketball season, a fact announced Monday afternoon on Twitter. Perhaps more importantly, that information means the nonconference schedule for the Illini is now complete.
Illinois will start the season with a pair of exhibition games at State Farm Center against Division III Washington University of St. Louis — where first-year Illini athletic director Josh Whitman was previously AD — on Oct. 30 and Division II Lewis on Nov. 4.
Three games in five days the next week follow, with home dates against Southeast Missouri State (Nov.