Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

[Joel Goodson]

Joe Hoops knows ball:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2052121584240935297

and Werner is a pro

 

[Tevo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2052038453907304928

It's a style thing, but I think all the Ic's looked better with the tight fade.

 

[Tevo]

My father-in-law said that The Whiz Kids were highly ranked in high school.

Username checks out.

 

[nichi]

No. Gill was kind of a late bloomer.

Derek Harper was our first McDonald's AA in 1980. Followed by Bruce Douglas and Efrem Winters in 1982. Then Lowell Hamilton in 1985, Nick Anderson in 1986, Marcus Liberty in 1987, and Deon Thomas in 1989. Richard Keene was Lou's last one, I would have to look up the year.

Other McDAAs: Marcus Griffin, Frank Williams, and Brian Williams were Lon Kruger recruits in the late 1990s. Dee Brown was recruited by Self in 2002.

Some other highly ranked, top 50 recruits Eddie Johnson in 1977, Larry Smith 1986, kiwane Harris. Also, transfers Ken Norman and Kenny Battle in their high school classes. Of course, Deron Williams was top 50.

Going way back to the misty past before the McDonald's All American team; some candidates for a best ever recruits list would include Skip Thoren, Rich Jones, Nick Weatherspoon, Billy Morris, and a number of others.

The 247 best ever list appears to start with with the 2003 class?

Argh, Brian Cook, not Williams. Garris, not Harris.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2052042875177750609

 

[lstewart53x3]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2052042875177750609

The interesting thing is, Duke’s as good as they’ve ever been. Kentucky had one of the most expensive rosters in the sport last year. It was just completely mismanaged + of course had a lot of injuries which certainly didn’t help. And now it looks like all the money in the world can’t attract them a good squad this year. Agents know too, go on a visit to Kentucky, that’ll increase your value, then choose a program that wins.