Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Announce 2026-27 Tournament Schedule
September 10, 2026 | Women’s Wheelchair Basketball
Champaign, ILL. – The Illinois Women’s Wheelchair Basketball team announced their 2026-27 Tournament schedule. Your Illini Women will play in front of a home crowd twice this season.
Fighting Illini Basketball has high expectations once again in 2026-27 after finishing 3rd last season. Head coach Stephanie Wheeler welcomed in 4 new freshmen in the 2026 class to go with the 8 returners including Second Team All-American Abigail Counts, All-Rookie team Ava Finger, Josie Portell, Amelia Stotts, Maya Campbell, Kylee Koenig, Kendall Speaks, and Ritvika Kondakrindi.
Illinois is coming off a 3rd place finish at Nationals, after they defeated the Arizona Wildcats 60-41 in Tucson.
Illinois 2026-27 Schedule Notes
- For the 3rd straight season, the Illini will kick off their season with the Illini Showcase on October 31st.
- Their other home games will be at the CID Tournament February 12-13.
- The women will play two adult tournaments, at the Second City Showdown November 14-15 and the Big Cheese Classic on January 30-31.
- The first semester college tournaments for the Illini will be at UWW and Alabama.
- The women open their second semester college schedule at home in the CID Tournament.
- Their other tournaments will be UTA in February and Alabama in March.
- They will finish their season at the NIWBT in Wichita, KS from March 15-21.
- You can watch all of their games on their YouTube @IllinoisWheelchairBasketball.