Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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DICKnaggie

Champaign
Dain and Sencire I would expect to move on-Dain is much more certain as of now from what I have heard. Could see Nico moving on as well. Feel confident in Luke, Amani, Ty, and DGL all to be back
Thanks for your info. Lots of thoughts about Dain here. What are your's?
 
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You’ve got to be kidding me. Sincere was going to be such a dawg next year and a top 5 defender in the Big10 and Dain was our best player at times this year. That’s an absolute kick in the balls
 
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Dain and Sencire I would expect to move on-Dain is much more certain as of now from what I have heard. Could see Nico moving on as well. Feel confident in Luke, Amani, Ty, and DGL all to be back
Is it partly that the coaching staff don't want Dain bad enough to push all in? Is it that how little Dain played this season just can't be overcome moving forward?
 
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sacraig

The desert
he looks like Tony Montana
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Good grief, some of you will interpret anything as "he gawn." I mean, maybe he will, but changing his profile pic to Tony Montana means nothing.

It was an Illinois picture before and changed it immediately after our season ended after sitting out the whole year which already fueled transfer rumors. I get the sentiment but it is very interesting timing
 
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Dain and Sencire I would expect to move on-Dain is much more certain as of now from what I have heard. Could see Nico moving on as well. Feel confident in Luke, Amani, Ty, and DGL all to be back
DGL is a wildcard. He has moved around a lot in his career. Will he be willing to come off the bench for another season? Stranger things have happened considering Adam Miller started every game as a freshman for a number 1 seed.
 
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chrisRunner7

Spokane, WA
So, I realize that many months ago, one of the insiders said/implied that Ryan Kalkbrenner might be a potential portal entry, and so some folks keep bringing him up, but is there actually any credible belief that he's going to enter the portal?

Just don't see why he'd want to leave an already-successful program like Creighton, which would likely also have decent NIL money for him, and whose coach (McDermott) just signed a new four-year deal this month.
 
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I'd really love a freak athlete 5 that can defend, rebound, get put backs, out work the other team. Hopefully Morez can turn into that.
Have you seen any of his highlights before? He’s a freak. We’ll see if that’s translates to the college game but he’s going to be tough to handle. I can’t wait to see what Fletch will do with him.
 
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redwingillini11

White and Sixth
North Aurora
I’m assuming it must’ve been touched on previously at some point but someone’ll have to explain to me the rationale of Sencire to agree to stay to redshirt as a sophomore only to then turn around and jet as a junior.
I really don’t understand exactly this. Maybe in practice it’s clear he won’t have a role. But man what a waste this year would have been then.
 
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I really like Dain, but I feel like he’s too ball dominant offensively to make big promises to. If he does move on I’d wish him the best and thank him for all the sacrifices he made this year.
 
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He just tweeted that he's back
He also committed to Purdue at one point. We will see what happens. His history creates doubt:
  • Finished high school at Word of God Christian Academy in North Carolina and playing in Overtime Elite
  • Previously attended Montverde Academy and Real Salt Lake Academy after beginning prep career at McCutcheon High School
 
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