{"id":235525,"date":"2025-09-18T04:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235525\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:33:09","slug":"illinois-mens-basketball-student-tickets-purchased-in-record-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235525\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois men\u2019s basketball student tickets purchased in record time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange Krush has long been heralded as one of the top student sections in the Big Ten, and the Fighting Illini\u2019s recent success under Brad Underwood has reinvigorated Illinois students\u2019 fervor for the game. Need proof?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Illinois announced Wednesday that the allotment of 3,000 student tickets\u00a0for\u00a0State Farm Center sold out <a href=\"https:\/\/fightingillini.com\/news\/2025\/9\/17\/mens-basketball-student-season-tickets-sold-out-for-fifth-straight-season.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in a record-breaking 18 minutes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">in a record-breaking 18 minutes<\/a>. EIGHTEEN. MINUTES.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The previous record of 26 minutes was set just this past season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Illini have reached the NCAA Tournament each of the last five seasons. It\u2019s probably not a coincidence that Orange Krush tickets have also sold out for the fifth year in a row dating back to the 2021-22 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">When the Illini are good and State Farm Center is packed it\u2019s one of the most electric atmospheres in college hoops. Illinois is\u00a0the winningest team in Big Ten play over the past six years, and the Orange &amp; Blue will once again be vying for a Big Ten title this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Illinois tips of the 2025-26 regular season against Jackson State on November 3rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orange Krush has long been heralded as one of the top student sections in the Big Ten,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,105881,1818,1317,1337,1338,126469,62,126468,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-235525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brad-underwood","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-orange-krush","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-state-farm-center","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115223436060298168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}