{"id":108772,"date":"2026-01-12T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/fighting-illini-ranked-no-25-in-ap-top-25-poll-university-of-illinois-athletics\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:58:00","slug":"fighting-illini-ranked-no-25-in-ap-top-25-poll-university-of-illinois-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/fighting-illini-ranked-no-25-in-ap-top-25-poll-university-of-illinois-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Illini Ranked No. 25 in AP Top 25 Poll &#8211; University of Illinois Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"sidearm-story-template-links hide-on-large\" aria-label=\"Story Links\">&#13;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"hide\">Story Links<\/h3>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                <\/aside>\n<p><strong>CHAMPAIGN, Ill. \u2013 <\/strong>For the fourth-straight season under head coach <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/fightingillini.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/shauna-green\/2268\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"2268\" target=\"_blank\">Shauna Green<\/a><\/dfn>, Fighting Illini women&#8217;s basketball is ranked in the Associated Press Top-25 Poll, coming in at No. 25 in the Week 10 listing. Illinois has opened the 2025-26 campaign with a 14-3 record, which matches the best 17-game start in program history.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois has been ranked in 11 combined AP polls under Green. In 2022-23, the Illini appeared in four Top-25 polls, followed by the preseason rankings in 2023-24, five weeks across 2024-25 and most recently on Jan. 12 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Illini have now appeared in 74 AP polls all-time across 12 different seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Green joins Naismith Hall of Famer Theresa Grentz as the only two coaches in program history to lead their teams to AP Top-25 ranking appearances in four-straight seasons. The last time Illinois was ranked in four straight seasons was a five season-span from 1996-97 through 2000-01.<\/p>\n<p>Already during the 2025-26 campaign, the Fighting Illini have strung together a program record tying 11-game win streak, picked up a top-10 ranked win over No. 7\/6 Maryland, and got off two a 3-0 start in Big Ten play for the first time since 1999-2000.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Big Ten teams are ranked in the AP Top-25 poll this week with four more receiving votes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fightingillini.com\/news\/2026\/1\/12\/womens-basketball-fighting-illini-ranked-no-25-in-ap-top-25-poll.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Story Links &#13; &#13; &#13; CHAMPAIGN, Ill. \u2013 For the fourth-straight season under head coach Shauna Green, Fighting Illini women&#8217;s basketball is ranked in the Associated Press Top-25 Poll, coming in at No. 25 in the Week 10 listing. Illinois has opened the 2025-26 campaign with a 14-3 record, which matches the best 17-game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}