Illini freshmen workout updates

Adapting to summertime in a quiet college town has been a smooth transition, Egwu said. He rooms with Myke Henry and Ibrahima Djimde. Fellow freshmen Tracy Abrams, Devin Langford and Mike Shaw are in the apartment next door in Illini Tower.

"This group, because we already know each other so well, it's a very close group," Shaw said. "I think that's something that's going to help us, that we've been friends and live together."

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