# 2013–14 Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball team

The 2013–14 Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Fighting Illini, led by 2nd year head coach Matt Bollant, played their home games at the State Farm Center and were members of the Big Ten Conference. They finished with a record of 9–21 overall, 2–14 in Big Ten play for a last place finish. They lost in the first round of the 2014 Big Ten Conference women's basketball tournament to Iowa.

## Schedule

| Date time, TV | Opponent$^#$ | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state |
| Exhibition ||||||
| 11/03/2013* 1:00 pm | Cardinal Stritch | W 78–49 | – | State Farm Center (1,440) Champaign, IL |
| Regular Season ||||||
| 11/08/2013* 11:00 am | at Bradley | L 92–98 | 0–1 | Renaissance Coliseum (2,402) Peoria, IL |
| 11/12/2013* 7:00 pm | Valparaiso | W 87–59 | 1–1 | State Farm Center (1,265) Champaign, IL |
| 11/14/2013* 7:00 pm | Mississippi Valley State | W 93–70 | 2–1 | State Farm Center (1,272) Champaign, IL |
| 11/17/2013* 1:00 pm | Alcorn State | W 112–28 | 3–1 | State Farm Center (2,909) Champaign, IL |
| 11/21/2013* 7:00 pm | Southern Illinois | W 78–43 | 4–1 | State Farm Center (1,459) Champaign, IL |
| 11/28/2013* 12:00 pm | vs. Arizona State Cancún Challenge | L 60–84 | 4–2 | Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort (934) Cancún, MX |
| 11/29/2013* 12:00 pm | vs. Arkansas State Cancún Challenge | W 70–54 | 5–2 | Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort (730) Cancún, MX |
| 11/30/2013* 2:30 pm | vs. No. 11 North Carolina Cancún Challenge | L 51–87 | 5–3 | Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort (934) Cancún, MX |
| 12/04/2013* 6:00 pm | at Georgia Tech ACC – Big Ten Women's Challenge | L 69–93 | 5–4 | McCamish Pavilion (670) Atlanta, GA |
| 12/07/2013* 6:00 pm | at No. 11 Colorado | L 56–79 | 5–5 | Coors Events Center (2,090) Boulder, CO |
| 12/09/2013* 7:00 pm | Seton Hall | W 71–70 | 6–5 | State Farm Center (1,358) Champaign, IL |
| 12/21/2013* 2:00 pm | Tennessee–Martin | W 77–62 | 7–5 | State Farm Center (1,514) Champaign, IL |
| 12/28/2013* 3:00 pm, CSS | at No. 19 Georgia | L 60–82 | 7–6 | Stegeman Coliseum (3,886) Athens, GA |
| 01/03/2014 7:00 pm, BTN | Wisconsin | L 64–76 | 7–7 (0–1) | State Farm Center (1,872) Champaign, IL |
| 01/09/2014 8:00 pm, BTN | No. 14 Penn State | L 76–82 | 7–8 (0–2) | State Farm Center (1,317) Champaign, IL |
| 01/12/2014 1:00 pm, BTN | No. 16 Nebraska | L 56–75 | 7–9 (0–3) | State Farm Center (3,306) Champaign, IL |
| 01/15/2014 8:30 pm | at Northwestern | W 76–74 | 8–9 (1–3) | Welsh-Ryan Arena (4,125) Evanston, IL |
| 01/18/2014 11:00 am, BTN | at Michigan | L 60–69 | 8–10 (1–4) | Crisler Center (2,013) Ann Arbor, MI |
| 01/23/2014 6:00 pm | at Michigan State | W 61–51 | 9–10 (2–4) | Breslin Center (5,360) East Lansing, MI |
| 01/27/2014 6:00 pm, BTN | No. 19 Purdue | L 68–80 | 9–11 (2–5) | State Farm Center (1,554) Champaign, IL |
| 01/30/2014 6:00 pm | at Ohio State | L 64–90 | 9–12 (2–6) | Value City Arena (4,256) Columbus, OH |
| 02/02/2014 1:00 pm | Indiana | L 58–77 | 9–13 (2–7) | State Farm Center (1,914) Champaign, IL |
| 02/05/2014 7:00 pm | No. 24 Michigan State | L 53–69 | 9–14 (2–8) | State Farm Center (1,317) Champaign, IL |
| 02/09/2014 2:00 pm | at Minnesota | L 61–66 | 9–15 (2–9) | Williams Arena (4,306) Minneapolis, MN |
| 02/13/2014 8:00 pm, BTN | at Iowa | L 55–69 | 9–16 (2–10) | Carver-Hawkeye Arena (3,636) Iowa City, IA |
| 02/16/2014 1:00 pm | Michigan | L 63–70 | 9–17 (2–11) | State Farm Center (3,018) Champaign, IL |
| 02/22/2014 2:30 pm, BTN | at Indiana | L 61–79 | 9–18 (2–12) | Assembly Hall (3,481) Bloomington, IN |
| 02/27/2014 7:00 pm | at No. 16 Nebraska | L 65–72 | 9–19 (2–13) | Pinnacle Bank Arena (7,480) Lincoln, NE |
| 03/02/2014 3:00 pm, BTN | No. 25 Iowa | L 56–81 | 9–20 (2–14) | State Farm Center (2,201) Champaign, IL |
| 2014 Big Ten Conference women's tournament ||||||
| 03/06/2014 1:30 pm, BTN | vs. No. 23 Iowa First Round | L 62–81 | 9–21 | Bankers Life Fieldhouse (5,070) Indianapolis, IN |
| *Non-conference game. $^#$Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Central Time. ||||||
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