Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Dan

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Welcome to the Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread :illinois:

2024 Illini Recruiting
Morez Johnson (2024 PF) committed on November 4th, 2021, signed on November 8th, 2023.
Jason Jakstys (2024 F) committed on July 23rd, 2023, signed on November 8th, 2023.
Jase Butler (2024 G) committed on October 4th, 2023, signed on November 8th, 2023.

2025 Illini Recruiting
Jeremiah Fears (2025 PG) committed on January 22nd, 2024.
 
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Big Jack

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Why not Justin Pippen? He isn't committed and his father and brother were underrated coming out of high school and college. Stands to reason that maybe this kid is too?
 
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IndyIllini2

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wyckles said:
Why not Justin Pippen? He isn't committed and his father and brother were underrated coming out of high school and college. Stands to reason that maybe this kid is too?
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I don't have any information on the kid whatsoever, but I would anticipate it being a NIL demand situation. I remember something a few years back about his brother' recruitment not being an easy situation.
 
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IndyIllini2

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Any news on any 25s outside of the Danish kid? Seems awfully quiet. Sorry, bored at work and looking for a reason to scan recruiting pages.
 
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Joel Goodson

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IndyIllini2 said:
Any news on any 25s outside of the Danish kid? Seems awfully quiet. Sorry, bored at work and looking for a reason to scan recruiting pages.
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we have a good shot at Fears

Love, Magwood and Alston. Magwood may have recalibrated with the Fears commit. Khamenia is a top target, but he's gonna be a hard pull. Alston is redundant if we get the Dane.
 
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FreshlySqueezed

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IllinoisIntegrity said:
For anyone still preoccupied with rankings:

Marcus Damask
Coleman Hawkins
Boo Bouie
Braden Smith
Jahmir Young
Keisei Tominaga

All ranked 3 stars as high school recruits

Meanwhile, struggling MSU, Indiana, OSU had highest ranked recruiting classes for 2023
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So you're saying the most developed upperclassmen are better than freshman?

I never would have guessed. ;)

I'm giving you a hard time but we can find hundreds of 3 star recruits who never became any of the guys listed above.

I don't think anyone here thinks recruiting rankings are an exact science but history would show that landing higher rated recruits is more likely, in general, to correlate to program success.
 
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Joel Goodson said:
we have a good shot at Fears

Love, Magwood and Alston. Magwood may have recalibrated with the Fears commit. Khamenia is a top target, but he's gonna be a hard pull. Alston is redundant if we get the Dane.
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Wasn't there also a Finnish kid? Remember seeing two different European bigs pop up a few weeks ago.
 
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