CHAMPAIGN — The pink jerseys the Illinois women's basketball team will wear in its 7 p.m. tipoff against Ohio State at State Farm Center will be passed on to auction winners.
Illini Courtsiders, the women's basketball booster group, raised $1,500 in the jersey auction. All of the money will go to the Mills Breast Cancer Institute at Carle Foundation Hospital.
"We were not quite sure how it would go, but were quite pleased," Courtsiders president Jen Shelby said.
This is the first year of the auction for the Courtsiders. They hope to make it an annual event.