Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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One thing that really stood out to me was Brown walking away from an interview to say hi to Underwood as he walked by, then returning to finish the interview.

He clearly is a big fan of the program. Someone could always show him the green to win him away, but I have to imagine we're in good shape.

With North Carolina having just made the championship game, preseason #1 and loaded, might be a tall order to overcome the 'dream school' thing.
 
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With North Carolina having just made the championship game, preseason #1 and loaded, might be a tall order to overcome the 'dream school' thing.
I know the semi recent memory of Liddell hurts, but kids throw around dream school all the time. We’ve had kids call Illinois their dream school just to burn us.

Not downplaying UNC, but I do think he dream school comments don’t add much firepower. Maybe a little, but not as much as being a blue blood who just won a natty and has a great chance at repeating does.
 
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I know the semi recent memory of Liddell hurts, but kids throw around dream school all the time. We’ve had kids call Illinois their dream school just to burn us.

Not downplaying UNC, but I do think he dream school comments don’t add much firepower. Maybe a little, but not as much as being a blue blood who just won a natty and has a great chance at repeating does.
Have any recent examples?

I feel like we're the school that gets credit for what it's doing right now (which is a great place to be btw), rather than the school that gets votes for sentiment/name recognition/"it factor" or whatever you want to call it. I think with sustained success we can be that school but I can't remember anyone talking us up as their "dream" school. Instead in all these interviews recruits seem to credit us with less sentimental (and hopefully more important) things like player development.
 
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With North Carolina having just made the championship game, preseason #1 and loaded, might be a tall order to overcome the 'dream school' thing.
I give it 50/50.
 
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Illini92and96

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"I have to, respectfully, disagree. Any list of this type must start and end with Kappa Alpha Theta"

Agree on Thetas, at least from an early nineties perspective. You are missing Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Chi-os should not be on the list (college girlfriend was a chi-o, but she was cute though :)
 
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