Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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1st time being 1st, today gonna be a good day!
Well played, sir (or mam), well played.
1st time being 1st, today gonna be a good day!
Meanwhile, we need morez!!!!
the national
- the Front Range
Fresh and clean
I saw someone say Keita went to a "small school." As someone who went to NCWHS the same time Keita was at UHigh, and almost my entire friend group was people who went to UHigh and played basketball with Keita, it is not a typical "small school." He was recruited there by the coaching staff out of Junior High along with a couple other people that played there at the same time. That is very different from a small town school that gets who is in their district.
On a side note, every year a I did a "visit" to UHigh following my friends around amd spending the day at the school going to classes and what not. My junior year, Keita's senior year, I played a pickup game after school with Keita and some other UHigh kids and broke UHigh's starting PG's ankles so bad that Keita gave me a bear hug and carried me around the gym. I was sad when he went to OSU.
On a side note, every year a I did a "visit" to UHigh following my friends around amd spending the day at the school going to classes and what not. My junior year, Keita's senior year, I played a pickup game after school with Keita and some other UHigh kids and broke UHigh's starting PG's ankles so bad that Keita gave me a bear hug and carried me around the gym. I was sad when he went to OSU.
I don't think the size of UHigh matters. The question is, does Bloomington Normal count as small? They've certainly produced some good football players. I can't think of any basketball players, outside of KBD off the top of my head. Jonah Batumzee, his name is hard to spell.
If you were around my year at any of the BN high schools and played sports we probably knew or at least knew of each other lol
Game on! Time to figure out if I know you.
GallopingGhost
- Denver, CO
All this waiting is killing me. I just want to know the final roster to know how excited to be for next season 
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
All this waiting is killing me. I just want to know the final roster to know how excited to be for next season
Take a deep breath and let the insiders do their thing......BTW , they are SUPER CEREAL too.........................
Francis Okoro, Oregon Ducks, Center (BK)
Francis Okoro is a 6-9, 225-pound Power Forward from Normal, IL.
247sports.com
That just shows how crazy recruiting and projecting to the next level are. Okoro was an okay college center. Nothing great. But a lot of us (myself included) freaked out when he chose Oregon over our Beloved.
Francis Okoro. He underperformed but still was a pretty good player. If you were to keep the filter of P6 schools, I don't think he would be a positive to the small school kids. He played much better in St. Louis.
There’s a huge difference between Central Catholic and the other BloNo schools. Central Catholic plays primarily farm town kids that are frontcourt players if they’re over 6 ft.
I don’t know. I went to one of the true small schools in Bloomington-Normal during that time, but played club ball with a lot of the area kids during that time. However, club ball was for soccer and not basketball.
Played ball against Mike Wells (?) when he was qb at Uhigh. Good player kicked our butts so so at UofI from what I remember. But I'm old (obviously) so who knows.
Bigtex
- DFW
Pretty confident Mike Wells was Normal Community
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