2010–11 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team


The 2010–11 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was head coach Bruce Weber's eighth season at Illinois. They played their home games at Assembly Hall and are members of the Big Ten Conference. They finished the season 20–14, 9–9 in Big Ten play and lost in the quarterfinals of the 2011 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament to Michigan. They received an at-large bid in the 2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament where they beat UNLV in the second round before falling to Kansas in the third round.

Pre-season

Illinois welcomes back all five starters and its top seven players from last season. The Illini return 89.4 percent of its points, 79 percent of its rebounds, and 85 percent of its minutes played from the 2009–10 campaign. In addition to the returning players, Illinois adds a top-15 ranked recruiting class to its roster. Three true freshmen join the squad this season in guard/forward Jereme Richmond, center Meyers Leonard, and guard Crandall Head. The 2010 recruiting class is ranked No. 11 by Scout.com and No. 13 by both Rivals.com and ESPNU. Richmond earned Illinois Mr. Basketball honors and was selected to play in the 2010 McDonald’s All-American Game, becoming Illinois’ 13th McDonald’s All-American and first since Dee Brown. A top-25 recruit, Richmond averaged 21 points, 11.5 rebounds, three assists and three blocks as a senior. Leonard was a consensus first-team all-state selection who led Robinson High School to the 2010 Illinois state title in Class 2A. A top-50 recruit, Leonard averaged 19 points, 11 rebounds and 4.5 blocks as a senior. Head is the younger brother of former Illini All-American Luther Head. Crandall missed his senior season after having surgery to repair a torn ACL. He is a top-75 recruit who earned all-state honors as a junior, averaging 21 points, seven rebounds and four steals.

Departures

2010 additions

Roster

Schedule

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!colspan=12 style="background:#DF4E38; color:white;"| Exhibition
!colspan=12 style="background:#DF4E38; color:white;"| Non-Conference regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#DF4E38; color:#FFFFFF;"|Big Ten regular season
!colspan=9 style="text-align: center; background:#DF4E38"|Big Ten Tournament
!colspan=9 style="text-align: center; background:#DF4E38"|NCAA Tournament

National rankings

Various publications and news sources released their preseason rankings prior to the start of the 2010–11 season. Illinois has been ranked by the publications below. The Fighting Illini were ranked 13th in the AP Poll and 16th in the Coaches Poll in their respective pre-season polls.
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Season statistics


 MINUTES |--TOTAL--| |--3-PTS--| |-F-THROWS-| |---REBOUNDS---| |-SCORING-|
  1. # Player GP GS Tot Avg FG FGA Pct 3FG FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO A TO Blk Stl Pts Avg
32 McCamey, Demetri 31 29 1026 33.1 153 335.457 68 147.463 91 124.734 16 90 106 3.4 62 0 189 89 6 31 465 15.0
24 Davis, Mike 31 31 1009 32.5 158 295.536 0 1.000 61 90.678 50 170 220 7.1 73 1 51 41 26 28 377 12.2
54 Tisdale, Mike 31 29 792 25.5 119 230.517 18 42.429 56 70.800 70 129 199 6.4 111 5 36 52 50 15 312 10.1
03 Paul, Brandon 31 8 673 21.7 90 225.400 38 108.352 66 84.786 18 71 89 2.9 53 0 61 55 10 29 284 9.2
01 Richardson, D.J. 31 29 853 27.5 91 224.406 50 130.385 25 33.758 11 46 57 1.8 63 1 60 36 5 20 257 8.3
22 Richmond, Jereme 30 6 669 22.3 101 193.523 2 11.182 26 43.605 53 101 154 5.1 50 1 57 51 13 13 230 7.7
30 Cole, Bill 31 21 627 20.2 53 117.453 29 80.363 17 21.810 29 51 80 2.6 53 0 40 12 16 19 152 4.9
12 Leonard, Meyers 30 1 260 8.7 27 57.474 0 1.000 10 15.667 10 31 41 1.4 46 0 5 24 12 5 64 2.1
42 Griffey, Tyler 24 0 166 6.9 14 42.333 4 11.364 10 15.667 11 18 29 1.2 20 0 1 12 3 5 42 1.8
02 Bertrand, Joseph 13 0 49 3.8 7 13.538 0 1.000 3 4.750 1 5 6 0.5 6 0 3 3 2 1 17 1.3
04 Head, Crandall 15 1 83 5.5 7 18.389 1 7.143 4 6.667 1 2 3 0.2 8 0 10 11 0 3 19 1.3
21 Berardini, Kevin 8 0 14 1.8 1 1 1.000 0 0.000 4 6.667 1 2 4 0.4 2 0 1 2 0 1 6 0.8
15 Selus, Jean 5 0 5 1.0 0 1.000 0 1.000 1 2.500 0 0 0 0.0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0.2
 Team   47 49 96 1 7
 Total.......... 31 6226 821 1751.469 210 540.389 374 513.729 318 765 1083 34.9 549 8 515 395 143 171 2226 71.8
 Opponents...... 31 6227 712 1777.401 183 612.299 420 582.722 361 670 1031 33.3 509 5 375 382 91 171 2027 65.4

Regular season

Post-season