The 2008–09 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the 2008–09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was head coach Bruce Weber's sixth season at Illinois.

2008 recruiting class

Roster

Schedule Source:

!colspan=12 style=|Exhibition

!colspan=12 style=|Non-conference regular season

!colspan=12 style=|Conference Regular Season

!colspan=12 style=|Big Ten tournament

!colspan=12 style=|NCAA Tournament

Rankings

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 statistics2008-09 Illinois Season Statistics , 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 McCamey, Demetri 34 32 1040 30.6 391 11.5 140 341 .411 56 179 .313 55 72 .764 11 79 90 2.6 156 83 7 32 Davis, Mike 34 34 1045 30.7 383 11.3 171 321 .533 0 0 .000 41 60 .683 60 215 275 8.1 67 51 22 23 Tisdale, Mike 34 34 841 24.7 346 10.2 147 277 .531 1 5 .200 51 64 .797 44 91 135 4.0 19 47 48 11 Meacham, Trent 34 34 1046 30.8 346 10.2 114 270 .422 69 164 .421 49 58 .845 8 76 84 2.5 92 36 4 31 Keller, Dominique 34 0 428 12.6 202 5.9 86 165 .521 9 22 .409 21 32 .656 29 50 79 2.3 7 30 18 10 Frazier, Chester 31 31 1029 33.2 178 5.7 60 134 .448 26 68 .382 32 48 .667 41 107 148 4.8 164 68 9 43 Brock, Calvin 34 5 593 17.4 180 5.3 73 164 .445 7 23 .304 27 43 .628 43 66 109 3.2 31 37 6 24 Legion, Alex 22 0 244 11.1 77 3.5 28 97 .289 12 50 .240 9 12 .750 9 23 32 1.5 11 18 1 8 Cole, Bill 17 0 76 4.5 27 1.6 9 25 .360 6 16 .375 3 9 .333 5 8 13 0.8 4 2 3 1 Semrau, Richard 21 0 190 9.0 29 1.4 13 28 .464 0 0 .000 3 7 .429 10 22 32 1.5 6 15 2 5 Jordan, Jeff 33 0 278 8.4 32 1.0 14 32 .438 1 3 .333 3 8 .375 3 9 12 0.4 33 13 1 6 Jackson, C.J. 13 0 22 1.7 9 0.7 3 3 1.000 0 0 .000 3 4 .750 4 2 6 0.5 1 5 1 2 Chisholm, Bubba 14 0 18 1.3 4 0.3 1 8 .125 1 7 .143 1 2 .500 0 1 1 0.1 4 1 0 3 Team 53 58 111 14 Total 34 6850 2204 64.8 859 1865 .461 188 537 .350 298 419 .711 320 807 1127 33.1 595 420 122 199 Opponents 34 6851 1944 57.2 730 1847 .395 173 584 .296 311 493 .631 392 739 1131 33.3 396 467 80 196

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