The Western Illinois Leathernecks Basketball team represents Western Illinois University of Macomb, Illinois, in NCAA Division I men's college basketball competition. The "Leathernecks" nickname is specific to men's athletes and teams at WIU; women's athletes and teams are known as Westerwinds. The school's team currently competes in The Summit League. The team has never played in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. The Leathernecks are coached by Jim Molinari who takes over for Derek Thomas who resigned on March 11, 2008.
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| - The Western Illinois Leathernecks Basketball team represents Western Illinois University of Macomb, Illinois, in NCAA Division I men's college basketball competition. The "Leathernecks" nickname is specific to men's athletes and teams at WIU; women's athletes and teams are known as Westerwinds. The school's team currently competes in The Summit League. The team has never played in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. The Leathernecks are coached by Jim Molinari who takes over for Derek Thomas who resigned on March 11, 2008.
- The Western Illinois Leathernecks are the teams and athletes that represent Western Illinois University, located in Macomb, Illinois, in NCAA Division I sports. The school's primary conference affiliation is with The Summit League; its football team is a member of the Division I FCS (formerly Division I-AA) Missouri Valley Football Conference. Since the fall semester of 2009, the men's and women's teams have been unified under the Leathernecks name; previously, the women's teams and athletes at the school had been known as the Westerwinds.
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| - The Western Illinois Leathernecks Basketball team represents Western Illinois University of Macomb, Illinois, in NCAA Division I men's college basketball competition. The "Leathernecks" nickname is specific to men's athletes and teams at WIU; women's athletes and teams are known as Westerwinds. The school's team currently competes in The Summit League. The team has never played in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. The Leathernecks are coached by Jim Molinari who takes over for Derek Thomas who resigned on March 11, 2008.
- The Western Illinois Leathernecks are the teams and athletes that represent Western Illinois University, located in Macomb, Illinois, in NCAA Division I sports. The school's primary conference affiliation is with The Summit League; its football team is a member of the Division I FCS (formerly Division I-AA) Missouri Valley Football Conference. Since the fall semester of 2009, the men's and women's teams have been unified under the Leathernecks name; previously, the women's teams and athletes at the school had been known as the Westerwinds. WIU's nickname, the Leathernecks, and its mascot, the English bulldog, are taken from the traditions of the United States Marine Corps. The university has had permission to use the official nickname and mascot of the Corps since 1927, when Ray Hanson, then-athletic director and coach of the baseball, basketball and football teams, gained permission to use the symbols as a homage to his service in that military branch during World War I. Western Illinois University is the only non-military university to use a military nickname. WIU is also one of the three major state universities in Illinois to employ a dog as its mascot (the others being the SIU Salukis and the NIU Huskies).
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