Chicago native helped Illinois basketball to a Big Ten Conference title and national prominence in the mid-1980s.

Winters and his classmates joined an Illinois team featuring future pro Derek Harper and Anthony Welch, who collectively launched a run of eight consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and nine 20-win ...

Former Illinois and King High basketball player Efrem Winters died Monday at 61 after a lengthy illness. Courtesy of CBS Share In 1982, the McDonald’s All-American Game, then in its sixth year ...

Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman was at Thursday night’s Illini men’s basketball game against Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb ...

Efrem Winters started 120 games during his four seasons with the Illinois men’s basketball team from 1982-86 and the Chicago native left as the program’s all-time leading rebounder.

It was a chance for fans to shower love on Efrem Winters, Bruce Douglas, Doug Altenberger, George Montgomery, Quinn Richardson, Tony Wysinger, Scott Meents and other members of that team.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) -- To scores of Fighting Illini fans in the 1980s, the lob pass from Bruce Douglas to Efrem Winters was both a thing of beauty and fury, as Winters would complete the play ...

Brad Underwood is trying to guide the Illinois basketball program through more turmoil than I thought there would be during ...

Former Illinois men's basketball standout Efrem Winters died Monday morning after a long battle with an undisclosed illness, according to the university. He was 61. The Champaign News-Gazette was ...