Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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KnoxIllini2

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IlliniBrave75 said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1532400549819187202
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Good for you Grandison, you’re a SG now!

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We are going to miss him a lot next season. Such a key cog in our success the last 2 years.
 
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RML said:
16-0, just beat no. 1, and didn't make even the NIT. My freshman year. Left me hungry.
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Don't mean to be rude, but Lanter didn't blow out his knee that year. He missed the entire previous season and was a non factor in 78. He then decided he could not play in the Big10 and left. His freshmen class in 76 with Judson, Bresnahan, and Cobb followed by EJ and Mark Smith with the Holcomb transfer was a good team. But there was no point guard. That and the rigors of Big10 was the reason for the collapse.
 
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Bbuck21 said:
Don't mean to be rude, but Lanter didn't blow out his knee that year. He missed the entire previous season and was a non factor in 78. He then decided he could not play in the Big10 and left. His freshmen class in 76 with Judson, Bresnahan, and Cobb followed by EJ and Mark Smith with the Holcomb transfer was a good team. But there was no point guard. That and the rigors of Big10 was the reason for the collapse.
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Wow, this was news to me. He played in 27 games according to the stats, although there's plenty of reason for people to say he had a season ending injury. It's oft cited, including in an article I found in the Tribune. Reading one of Eddie Johnson's comments he talks of him getting injured. So perhaps the legend of "season ending" came from an injury that affected his game.
 
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BashCtIllini said:
Duke is now taking #4 scorers from Northwestern and Illinois?

What a strange world.
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They have the # 1, 2, 4, and 21 ranked players in the ‘22 class in addition to other five star players in the clases above them. They have more talent based on recruiting ranking than any other team in the country. However they have open scholarships and they want to use them to add more depth.

In other words, what any rational coach would do. Try to add more talent - just in case.
 
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