The 1926–27 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois.

Regular season Craig Ruby entered his fifth season as head coach of the Fighting Illini. This team returned only five letterman from a team that placed in a tie for fifth place in the Big Ten a year earlier. Slightly improved, the team finished with an overall record of 10 wins and 7 losses. In the conference they finished with 7 wins and 5 losses. The starting lineup included captain Russell Daugherity at forward, Ernest Dorn and Robert Greene rotating at the other forward slot, Robert McKay and K.L. Reynolds at guard, and F.H. Lindsay at center.Fighting Illini Basketball: A Hardwood History By News-Gazette, Sports Publishing LLC

Roster

Schedule

!colspan=12 style="background:#DF4E38; color:white;"| Non-Conference regular season |- align="center" bgcolor=""

!colspan=9 style="background:#DF4E38; color:#FFFFFF;"|Big Ten regular season

SourceUniversity of Illinois Fighting Illini Statistics Summary for 1926-27 , FightingIllini.com

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