Dan Muller's Redbirds will host UC-Santa Barbara in the 2012-13 season opener at Redbird Arena on Monday. (Photo by B Corbin/WJBC)

By Eric Stock

The Dan Muller era officially begins at Illinois State tonight when the former Redbird player makes his head coaching debut.

The Redbids host the Cal-Santa Barbara Gauchos in the season-opener at Redbird Arena.

You can see a preview of the matchup here.

The Redbirds will also be donning new silver uniforms which they will wear on special ocassions this season.

Redbird Preview will begin one hour before tip-off this season. You can listen live at 6 p.m. on WJBC 1230 AM, the Country Financial Illinois State Radio Network and here on WJBC.com.

Illini at home

The Illinois Fighting Illini play their season game of the season tonight at St. Francis College of Brooklyn comes to Assembly Hall. The game will be on WJBC 93.7 FM at 6:30 p.m. 

Eric Stock can be reached at eric.stock@cumulus.com.