Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Welcome to the Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread :illinois:

2026 Recruiting
1) Ethan Brown (2026 G) committed on July 30th, 2025, signed on November 15th, 2025.
2) Landon Davis (2026 F) committed on August 6th, 2025, signed on November 12th, 2025.
3) Lucas Morillo (2026 G) committed on October 24th, 2025, signed on November 19th, 2025.
4) Quentin Coleman (2026 G) committed on April 3rd, 2026.

2027 Recruiting
1) Quinton Kitt (2027 F) committed on November 27th, 2025.
2) Mason Martin (2027 G) committed on January 16th, 2026.
 
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RabidDawgClassic
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NarrowJ
Some recent entries (no clue if we're interested, but a lot of good players are starting to portal):

www.espn.com

Frankie Collins - Vanderbilt Commodores Guard - ESPN

View the profile of Vanderbilt Commodores Guard Frankie Collins on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
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Jaland Lowe - Kentucky Wildcats Guard - ESPN

View the profile of Kentucky Wildcats Guard Jaland Lowe on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

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Devin Royal - Ohio State Buckeyes Forward - ESPN

View the profile of Ohio State Buckeyes Forward Devin Royal on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

EDIT: Updated roster spreadsheet... B1G teams losing players... Oregon hit hard with their 2 best returners leaving... going to use Claude to update this with statistics after the season is officially over

docs.google.com

B1G Roster Tracker

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RabidDawgClassic
NarrowJ said:
Some recent entries (no clue if we're interested, but a lot of good players are starting to portal):

www.espn.com

Frankie Collins - Vanderbilt Commodores Guard - ESPN

View the profile of Vanderbilt Commodores Guard Frankie Collins on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

www.espn.com

Jaland Lowe - Kentucky Wildcats Guard - ESPN

View the profile of Kentucky Wildcats Guard Jaland Lowe on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

www.espn.com

Devin Royal - Ohio State Buckeyes Forward - ESPN

View the profile of Ohio State Buckeyes Forward Devin Royal on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

EDIT: Updated roster spreadsheet... B1G teams losing players... Oregon hit hard with their 2 best returners leaving... going to use Claude to update this with statistics after the season is officially over

docs.google.com

B1G Roster Tracker

docs.google.com docs.google.com
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Is Morez not on the spreadsheet because it assumed he’s going pro?
 
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BWA
NarrowJ said:
Some recent entries (no clue if we're interested, but a lot of good players are starting to portal):

www.espn.com

Frankie Collins - Vanderbilt Commodores Guard - ESPN

View the profile of Vanderbilt Commodores Guard Frankie Collins on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

www.espn.com

Jaland Lowe - Kentucky Wildcats Guard - ESPN

View the profile of Kentucky Wildcats Guard Jaland Lowe on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

www.espn.com

Devin Royal - Ohio State Buckeyes Forward - ESPN

View the profile of Ohio State Buckeyes Forward Devin Royal on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

EDIT: Updated roster spreadsheet... B1G teams losing players... Oregon hit hard with their 2 best returners leaving... going to use Claude to update this with statistics after the season is officially over

docs.google.com

B1G Roster Tracker

docs.google.com docs.google.com
Click to expand...
Looking at the roster checker, aren’t you missing Fagbeni, Bilic and Jakstys?

Quite a full roster already
 
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HailtotheChief
Indy, i see a lot of debate about whether or not Lucas Morrillo is a PG. I see him listed both ways on different sites. Clearly he is a combo guard but i am curious as to if you have heard if the staff views him as a PG or not? I would tend to lean that they do and are hoping that Coleman can play a lot at the 2. I dont see 2 top 30 guys coming here to play the same position. I think if Andre stays that he and Jake will have the 3 spot on lock down and Andre will play the 2 some also when he plays with Jake a lil bit.

I really love the idea of having 2 very good freshman guards coming in should we land Coleman and i expect them both to play a lot if they do.
 
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NarrowJ
BWA said:
Looking at the roster checker, aren’t you missing Fagbeni, Bilic and Jakstys?

Quite a full roster already
Click to expand...

I'm mainly focused on rotation players... tracking every garbage time player or walk on takes more work and doesn't add much value to the exercise (jmo)

Maybe we see Bilic as a potential rotation player? I dunno
 
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Indy Illini Fan
HailtotheChief said:
Indy, i see a lot of debate about whether or not Lucas Morrillo is a PG. I see him listed both ways on different sites. Clearly he is a combo guard but i am curious as to if you have heard if the staff views him as a PG or not? I would tend to lean that they do and are hoping that Coleman can play a lot at the 2. I dont see 2 top 30 guys coming here to play the same position. I think if Andre stays that he and Jake will have the 3 spot on lock down and Andre will play the 2 some also when he plays with Jake a lil bit.

I really love the idea of having 2 very good freshman guards coming in should we land Coleman and i expect them both to play a lot if they do.
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Neither Coleman (if he commits) or Morillo will be our primary handler next year …

I think they’d both be in the 8 man rotation but we will go get a couple veteran guards …
 
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IlliniRunIn07
LvilleILL1 said:
It's nice not having to fully dive into the offseason yet when we are about to be in April!

That being said, will have a lot next week-this will also be starting this week as guys from bigger schools are going to start to enter along with us having a huge visitor this week.
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LOL I was just thinking last night how I really don't have a clue what's going on in the portal or the carousel, and I think I'm going to wait another week before I really absorb it.
 
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Oldskoolkoach
LvilleILL1 said:
It's nice not having to fully dive into the offseason yet when we are about to be in April!

That being said, will have a lot next week-this will also be starting this week as guys from bigger schools are going to start to enter along with us having a huge visitor this week.
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Huge as in 7'2" skilled, muscular, rebounding, ball handling, dead eye 3 point shooter with unstoppable post moves type? That would be a matchup nightmare gladly welcomed!
 
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Heisenbobble
Indy Illini Fan said:
Neither Coleman (if he commits) or Morillo will be our primary handler next year …

I think they’d both be in the 8 man rotation but we will go get a couple veteran guards …
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IF Coleman commits (big if with Duke being his dream school) and our main rotation guys come back, without adding anyone in the portal (which won't happen), this is the depth chart. And I'm assuming Petrovic is gone.

Coleman
Morillo
Davis
Lee (not sure if he'll be back)
Rodgers (not sure if he'll be back)
Stojakovic
Mirk
Tomi
Z

The starters (?):
- Coleman
- Morillo
- Stojakovic
- Mirk
- Tomi

Bench:
- Davis
- Lee
- Z
- Rodgers
- Brown
- Davis (Landon)

Yeah, Illinois will need one veteran sharpshooter and one veteran ballhandler still unless the staff thinks Lee can make a big step up and Morillo is ready for the big stage. I don't think Brown or L. Davis will be ready just yet.
 
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Red77sng
Neither Coleman (if he commits) or Morillo will be our primary handler next year …

I think they’d both be in the 8 man rotation but we will go get a couple veteran guards …
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Jalen Cox?
 
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BrownTown
Indy Illini Fan said:
Neither Coleman (if he commits) or Morillo will be our primary handler next year …

I think they’d both be in the 8 man rotation but we will go get a couple veteran guards …
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Two top 40ish recruits making high 6/low 7 figures coming off the bench?
👀

Would Jalen Cox be viewed as a potential starter in this scenario because that's a TON of backcourt depth if you bring in a Terrence Hill/PJ/Blackwell.

The phrasing leads me to believe that the staff is fairly confident that they are landing some top veteran guards when the portal officially opens.
 
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Timj83
Indy Illini Fan said:
Neither Coleman (if he commits) or Morillo will be our primary handler next year …

I think they’d both be in the 8 man rotation but we will go get a couple veteran guards …
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How do Coleman/Morillo stack up from an athleticism standpoint? Definitely an area we could use some improvement.
 
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BWA
Indy Illini Fan said:
Neither Coleman (if he commits) or Morillo will be our primary handler next year …

I think they’d both be in the 8 man rotation but we will go get a couple veteran guards …
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Fair enough. Thanks for the work.

I was really only looking at our roster. In theory, with 3 leaving (BAM, Ben and Wagler) and three freshman already signed, we are full at 15.

Besides Petrovic, will be interesting to see who else leaves/gets pushed out to make room for the guys we need to bring in

Edit: meant to reply to Narrow J
 
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CleverHandle1
LvilleILL1 said:
It's nice not having to fully dive into the offseason yet when we are about to be in April!

That being said, will have a lot next week-this will also be starting this week as guys from bigger schools are going to start to enter along with us having a huge visitor this week.
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Do you anticipate any of the Illini leaving?
 
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Indy Illini Fan
Heisenbobble said:
IF Coleman commits (big if with Duke being his dream school) and our main rotation guys come back, without adding anyone in the portal (which won't happen), this is the depth chart. And I'm assuming Petrovic is gone.

Coleman
Morillo
Davis
Lee (not sure if he'll be back)
Rodgers (not sure if he'll be back)
Stojakovic
Mirk
Tomi
Z

The starters (?):
- Coleman
- Morillo
- Stojakovic
- Mirk
- Tomi

Bench:
- Davis
- Lee
- Z
- Rodgers
- Brown
- Davis (Landon)

Yeah, Illinois will need one veteran sharpshooter and one veteran ballhandler still unless the staff thinks Lee can make a big step up and Morillo is ready for the big stage. I don't think Brown or L. Davis will be ready just yet.
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If you asked me how it would shake out today …

Do I know there’s going to be transition ? Yes … But I’m not going to release that information yet …

Starters:
Portal guard
Portal guard/Morillo/Coleman
AS
David
Tomi

Bench:
Z
Jake Davis
Portal guard/Morillo/Coleman
Portal guard/Morillo/Coleman
Portal forward
Ty
Brown
Lee
Petro
Bilic
Jakstys
Landon Davis (redshirting)
 
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