2005–06 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

American college basketball season March 2026 August 2023 Basketball 2005–06 Illinois Fighting Illini 2005–06 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team.jpg 300px Big Ten Conference Big Ten 17 13 26–7 11–5 Bruce Weber Wayne McClain Jay Price Tracy Webster 3rd 5th 3rd 2nd Dee Brown James Augustine Brian Randle Dee Brown Assembly Hall NCAA tournament Round of 32 The 2005–06 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the 2005–06 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was head coach Bruce Weber's third season at Illinois. The team finished with 11–5 conference and 26–7 overall records. The Illini lost in its first game of the Big Ten tournament and were eliminated in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Season Overview With the departure of junior Deron Williams and senior Luther Head to the NBA draft, returning seniors Dee Brown and James Augustine led Illinois back to the NCAA tournament. Brown took over the helm of the offense at point guard, a role he had played in high school. As in the previous year, Illinois relied heavily upon three-point shooting, but with more of an emphasis upon the post play of James Augustine. Roster 2005 Illinois Fighting Illini y yes Trent Meacham 1 G 6 2 195 SO yes Champaign, IL Centennial High School/University of Dayton y Chris Hicks 2 G 6 2 195 SO Chicago, IL Whitney Young High School n W Chester Frazier 3 G 6 2 195 FR Baltimore, MD Lake Clifton Eastern High School y Dee Brown 11 G 6 0 185 SR Maywood, IL Proviso East High School y Dee Brown (basketball, born 1984) C Calvin Brock 25 G 6 5 200 FR y Chicago, IL Simeon High School n Jamar Smith 31 G 6 3 185 FR Peoria, IL Richwoods High School y Rich McBride 33 G 6 3 205 JR Springfield, IL Lanphier High School n C.J. Jackson 34 F 6 8 265 FR yes Buena Vista, GA Tri-County High School n James Augustine 40 F 6 10 235 SR Mokena, IL Lincoln-Way Central High School y C Warren Carter 41 F 6 8 220 JR Dallas, TX Lake Highlands High School y Warren Carter (basketball) Brian Randle 42 F 6 8 220 SO y East Peoria, IL Notre Dame High School y C Marcus Arnold 44 F 6 8 245 JR y Chicago, IL Morgan Park High School n Shaun Pruitt 55 C 6 10 245 SO Aurora, IL West Aurora High School y Bruce Weber (Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Wayne McClain (Illinois State) Jay Price (Kansas) Tracy Webster (Wisconsin) https://fightingillini.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/2005-06 Depth chart Illinois Fighting Illini James Augustine Brian Randle Shaun Pruitt Rich McBride Dee Brown Schedule Source: https://fightingillini.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule/2005-06 2005–06 Schedule yes |- !colspan=12 style="background:#DF4E38; color:white;"| Exhibition Thu, Nov 3, 2005 7:00 pm yes 17 2005 Illinois Wesleyan Assembly Hall Champaign, IL 82–60 16,618 Wed, Nov 9, 2005 7:00 pm yes 17 2005 Quincy Hawks Quincy Assembly Hall Champaign, IL 78–52 16,618 |- !colspan=12 style="background:#DF4E38; color:white;"| Non-Conference regular season Fri, Nov 18, 2005 7:00 pm yes 17 2005 South Dakota State Jackrabbits South Dakota State Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN Plus 90–65 1–0 16,618 Sun, Nov 20, 2005 4:00 pm yes 17 2005 Texas-Pan American Broncs Texas-Pan American Assembly Hall Champaign, IL 71–59 2–0 16,618 Tue, Nov 22, 2005 7:00 pm yes 15 2005 Texas Southern Tigers Texas Southern Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN Plus 93–59 3–0 16,618 Fri, Nov 25, 2005 7:30 pm yes yes 15 Wichita State South Padre Island Convention Centre South Padre Island, TX South Padre Island Invitational CSTV 55–54 4–0 1,500 Sat, Nov 26, 2005 7:30 pm yes yes 15 2005 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Rutgers South Padre Island Convention Centre South Padre Island, TX South Padre Island Invitational CSTV 77–57 5–0 1,700 Tue, Nov 29, 2005 8:00 pm yes yes 12 2005 University of North Carolina Tarheels North Carolina Dean Smith Center Chapel Hill, NC ESPN 68–64 6–0 21,273 Sat, Dec 3, 2005 1:00 pm yes yes 12 Xavier United Center Chicago, IL ESPN Plus 65–62 7–0 19,833 Mon, Dec 5, 2005 7:00 pm yes 11 2005 Little Rock Trojans Little Rock Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN Plus 75–49 8–0 16,618 Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:00 pm yes 11 Georgetown Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN 58–48 9–0 16,618 Sat, Dec 10, 2005 7:00 pm yes yes 11 2005 Oregon Ducks Oregon Rose Garden Portland, OR FSN 89–59 10–0 15,109 Sun, Dec 18, 2005 4:00 pm yes 9 2005 Coppin State Eagles Coppin State Assembly Hall Champaign, IL 61–42 11–0 16,618 Wed, Dec 21, 2005 6:00 pm yes yes 6 2005 Missouri Tigers Missouri Savvis Center St. Louis, MO Braggin' Rights ESPN2 82–50 12–0 22,153 Wed, Dec 28, 2005 7:00 pm yes 6 2005 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks Southeast Missouri State Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN Plus 89–64 13–0 16,618 Fri, Dec 30, 2005 7:00 pm yes 6 2005 UT-Martin Skyhawks UT-Martin Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN Plus 84–46 14–0 16,618 |- !colspan=12 style="background:#DF4E38; color:white;"| Big Ten regular season Thu, Jan 5, 2006 8:00 pm 6 Michigan State 7 Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN2 60–50 15–0 1–0 16,618 Sat, Jan 7, 2006 1:00 pm yes 6 Iowa Carver-Hawkeye Arena Iowa City, IA Illinois–Iowa men's basketball rivalry ESPN 48–63 15–1 1–1 15,500 Sat, Jan 14, 2006 3:30 pm 7 Michigan Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN Plus 79–74 16–1 2–1 16,618 Tue, Jan 17, 2006 6:00 pm yes 7 Indiana 13 Assembly Hall Bloomington, IN Illinois–Indiana men's basketball rivalry ESPN 60–62 16–2 2–2 17,328 Sat, Jan 21, 2006 3:30 pm yes 7 Northwestern Illinois–Northwestern men's basketball rivalry Welsh-Ryan Arena Evanston, IL ESPN Plus 58–47 17–2 3–2 8,117 Wed, Jan 25, 2006 8:00 pm 8 Minnesota Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN Plus 77–53 18–2 4–2 16,618 Sat, Jan 28, 2006 3:30 pm 8 Purdue Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN Plus 76–58 19–2 5–2 16,618 Tue, Jan 31, 2006 6:00 pm yes 6 Wisconsin Kohl Center Madison, WI ESPN 66–51 20–2 6–2 17,142 Sat, Feb 4, 2006 8:00 pm 6 Penn State Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN Plus 65–66 20–3 6–3 16,618 Sun, Feb 12, 2006 12:00 pm yes 10 Ohio State 19 Value City Arena Columbus, OH CBS 53–69 20–4 6–4 18,500 Wed, Feb 15, 2006 7:00 pm 14 Northwestern Rivalry Assembly Hall Champaign, IL ESPN Plus 63–47 21–4 7–4 16,618 Sun, Feb 19, 2006 2:30 pm 14 Indiana Assembly Hall Champaign, IL Rivalry CBS 70–58 22–4 8–4 16,618 Tue, Feb 21, 2006 6:00 pm yes 8 Michigan Crisler Arena Ann Arbor, MI ESPN 64–72 22–5 8–5 13,164 Sat, Feb 25, 2006 5:00 pm 8 Iowa 20 Assembly Hall Champaign, IL Rivalry ESPN 71–59 23–5 9–5 16,618 Tue, Feb 28, 2006 8:00 pm yes 10 Minnesota Williams Arena Minneapolis, MN ESPN 71–65 24–5 10–5 13,022 Sat, Mar 4, 2006 11:00 am yes 10 Michigan State 25 Breslin Student Events Center East Lansing, MI CBS 75–68 25–5 11–5 14,759 |- !colspan=9 style="text-align: center; background:#DF4E38"|Big Ten tournament Fri, Mar 10, 2006 8:10 pm 9 3 6 yes Michigan State Conseco Fieldhouse Indianapolis, IN Quarterfinals ESPN Plus 56–61 25–6 18,730 |- !colspan=9 style="text-align: center; background:#DF4E38"|NCAA tournament Thu, Mar 16, 2006 7:35 pm yes 13 4 W Air Force 13 W Cox Arena at Aztec Bowl San Diego, CA First round CBS 78–69 26–6 9,891 Sat, Mar 18, 2006 4:30 pm yes 13 4 W Washington 5 W 17 Cox Arena at Aztec Bowl San Diego, CA Second round CBS 64–67 26–7 10,687 Central Time Season statistics Legend   GP  Games played   GS  Games started  Avg  Average per game   FG  Field-goals made  FGA  Field-goal attempts  Off  Offensive rebounds  Def  Defensive rebounds   A  Assists   TO Turnovers  Blk  Blocks  Stl  Steals  High  Team high + Individual Player Statistics2005-06 Illinois Season Statistics https://web.archive.org/web/20130625110006/http://www.fightingillini.com/sports/m-baskbl/archive/051606aaa.html 2013-06-25 , FightingIllini.com Minutes Scoring Total FGs 3-point FGs Free-Throws Rebounds Player GP GS Tot Avg Pts Avg FG FGA Pct 3FG 3FA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg A TO Blk Stl Brown, Dee 33 33 1183 35.8 470 14.2 157 437 .359 78 243 .321 78 103 .757 15 87 102 3.1 191 94 1 53 Augustine, James 33 33 1079 32.7 448 13.6 174 279 .624 1 2 .500 99 152 .651 100 200 300 9.1 59 67 24 47 McBride, Rich 33 33 989 30.0 329 10.0 112 277 .404 83 206 .403 22 25 .880 5 55 60 1.8 70 47 0 24 Randle, Brian 32 32 855 26.7 272 8.5 109 210 .519 6 34 .176 48 81 .593 77 96 173 5.4 47 43 17 26 Smith, Jamar 32 0 613 19.2 255 8.0 85 181 .470 66 137 .482 19 27 .704 17 36 53 1.7 43 34 1 16 Pruitt, Shaun 33 33 641 19.4 203 6.2 86 164 .524 0 0 .000 31 64 .484 70 99 169 5.1 15 39 15 13 Carter, Warren 32 1 395 12.3 154 4.8 58 126 .460 1 6 .167 37 55 .673 35 53 88 2.8 15 16 9 6 Arnold, Marcus 32 0 354 11.1 113 3.5 47 102 .461 0 0 .000 19 34 .559 32 44 76 2.4 2 21 9 7 Brock, Calvin 17 0 109 6.4 23 1.4 8 24 .333 1 6 .167 6 15 .400 5 22 27 1.6 7 8 1 4 Frazier, Chester 27 0 363 13.4 34 1.3 10 48 .208 5 32 .156 9 18 .500 8 37 45 1.7 50 21 2 7 Hicks, Chris 11 0 19 1.7 10 0.9 2 5 .400 0 2 .000 6 8 .750 0 1 1 0.1 1 0 0 0 Team 159 388 547 0 Total 33 6600 2311 70.0 848 1853 .458 241 668 .361 374 582 .643 403 776 1179 35.7 500 406 79 203 Opponents 33 6600 1937 58.7 670 1656 .405 170 536 .317 427 615 .694 306 678 984 29.8 338 464 78 179 Team players drafted into the NBA YearPlayerNBA clubRoundPick 2006 James Augustine Orlando Magic 2 41 2006 Dee Brown Utah Jazz 2 46http://www.databasebasketball.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=2006&lg=N 2006 NBA Draft on Basketballreference.com 2009-05-16 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20100317230611/http://www.databasebasketball.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=2006&lg=N 2010-03-17 Awards and honors Dee Brown was named to the Consensus All-American 2nd Team, the Associated Press 2nd team, the United States Basketball Writers Association 2nd team and the National Association of Basketball Coaches 2nd team for the 2005–06 season. 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