Brown, the 2005 Sporting News National Player of the Year and part of the basketball team that went 37-2 and reached the national championship game in 2005, will join Illinois Athletic Director Mike Thomas' staff for the summer.

Former University of Illinois basketball coach Lou Henson is back in a Houston cancer center for tests. The 83-year-old who will be inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame this fall became dehydrated last week and spent a few days at Urbana's Carle Hospital.

In what may have been Illinois' worst game of the season, they managed to shoot only 37.3 percent.  Malcolm Hill led the team with 13 points.  The Illini now await word of a possible NIT bid on Sunday.

Illinois led by as many as 13 in the first half, but faltered in the second.  The Illini later learned they'd be playing No. 9 seed Michigan Thursday in the Big Ten Tournament.

The Illini close out the season Saturday at Purdue, and will compete in a week in the Big Ten Tournament with hopes of locking up a spot in the NCAA Tournament.