The 2002–03 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the 2002-03 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was head coach Bill Self's third (and final) season at Illinois.
Season The 2003 squad started three freshmen, a sophomore and one senior, and still finished with a 25–7 record and second-place finish in the Big Ten. Brian Cook earned Big Ten Player of the Year honors and the Illini won the Big Ten tournament championship for the first time.
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!colspan=12 style="background:#DF4E38; color:white;"| Exhibition
!colspan=12 style="background:#DF4E38; color:white;"| Non-Conference regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#DF4E38; color:#FFFFFF;"|Big Ten regular season
!colspan=9 style="text-align: center; background:#DF4E38"|Big Ten tournament
!colspan=9 style="text-align: center; background:#DF4E38"|NCAA tournament
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
+ Final Individual Statistics University of Illinois Fighting Illini Statistics Summary for 2002-03 , 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 Cook, Brian 30 30 940 31.3 599 20.0 202 422 .479 27 89 .303 168 205 .820 44 183 227 7.6 60 83 13 20 Brown, Dee 32 31 1090 34.1 384 12.0 142 327 .434 51 155 .329 49 72 .681 35 84 119 3.7 159 62 0 57 Powell, Roger 30 19 558 18.6 261 8.7 104 176 .591 20 49 .408 33 57 .579 40 61 101 3.4 12 24 12 9 Harrington, Sean 32 6 718 22.4 235 7.3 76 171 .444 64 144 .444 19 30 .633 2 71 73 2.3 65 25 0 29 Augustine, James 32 29 697 21.8 225 7.0 94 162 .580 5 14 .357 32 45 .711 64 122 186 5.8 25 45 27 20 Williams, Deron 32 30 868 27.1 202 6.3 75 176 .426 28 79 .354 24 45 .533 15 80 95 3.0 145 59 5 46 Head, Luther 25 8 509 20.4 198 7.9 68 131 .519 28 66 .424 34 46 .739 23 48 71 2.8 42 40 3 27 Smith, Nick 31 5 539 17.4 163 5.3 60 121 .496 5 11 .455 38 44 .864 23 69 92 3.0 26 42 38 11 Wilson, Kyle 18 0 118 6.6 46 2.6 14 37 .378 4 16 .250 14 18 .778 13 16 29 1.6 8 5 1 4 Ferguson, Blandon 24 1 218 9.1 40 1.7 11 33 .333 0 3 .000 18 26 .692 11 21 32 1.3 20 20 0 3 Spears, Aaron 6 0 55 9.2 19 3.2 8 12 .667 0 0 .000 3 7 .429 4 5 9 1.5 6 5 1 1 Howard, Jerrance 14 1 52 3.7 9 0.6 4 16 .250 1 6 .167 0 0 .000 0 3 3 0.2 7 2 0 0 Huge, Nick 8 0 17 2.1 4 0.5 0 3 .000 0 3 .000 4 4 1.000 0 1 1 0.1 0 1 0 0 Thomas, Clayton 9 0 21 2.3 3 0.3 1 6 .167 0 1 .000 1 4 .250 1 3 4 0.4 0 2 0 0 Team 42 49 91 3 Total 32 6400 2388 74.6 859 1793 .479 233 636 .366 437 603 .725 317 816 1133 35.4 575 418 100 227 Opponents 32 6400 1970 61.6 657 1741 .377 192 655 .293 464 655 .708 356 686 1042 32.6 353 469 84 182
NCAA basketball tournament West regional Illinois 65, Western Kentucky 60 Notre Dame 68, Illinois 60 2003 NCAA Tournament
Awards and honors Brian Cook Big Ten tournament Most Outstanding Player Big Ten Player of the Year Chicago Tribune Silver Basketball award Team Most Valuable Player Fighting Illini All-Century team (2005) Sporting News 2nd team All-American Associated Press 3rd team All-American National Association of Basketball Coaches 3rd team All-American Basketball Times 3rd team All-American
Team players drafted into the NBA PlayerNBA ClubRoundPickBrian CookLos Angeles Lakers124
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