Fighting Illini
No, Illinois has never won the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
The first national basketball tournament was the National Invitational Tournament, the NIT. It preceded the start of the NCAA tourney. The first year of the NCAA Basketball Tournament was 1939.
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Jonelle Polk was a NCAA women's basketball legend at the University of Illinois.
Loyola in 1963.
The finals of the 1939 NCAA Division I basketball championship, the first ever, was played at Patten Gymnasium in Evanston, Illinois which was home to the Northwestern University basketball team.
Chicago BullsThe Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference.