Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
its the weakest of the five major conferences. last year in particular, the league was very bad.
I agree his comparison is off.
So is yours. And others are implying the same.
But it's irrelevant. We take 18yr old Pettigrew at #40 as quickly as we take 19yr old Pettigrew at #20.
Up to 80th in the 247 composite after being ~160th beginning of the year...
He’s going to be very very good.
Five years ago we'd all be worried he's rising too fast and the blue bloods were gonna steal him if he got "too good". How things have changed!
RichardKeenesCousin
Richard Keene's Cousin
The Illini bump!
It's been really top heavy the last several years and pretty down the last few tbh.
UConn is the best program in the country at the moment and then you have the group of St Johns, Creighton, and Marquette that have been good recently(Creighton and Marquette not so much last year).
After that the rest of the conference is pretty bleak. The Big10, Big12, and SEC are way ahead. Then the ACC looks like it might jump them and be the 4th best conference since they have been similarly too heavy with Duke but I think they have more programs with positive momentum while the the Big East seems to be declining outside of UConn and St Johns.
In general smaller guards tend to not produce super early when reclassing. Boswell in particular I think would have had a better college career had he not reclassed.
Fears is the exception and he went to a great situation where he got to be the guy right off the bat under Moser. Though maybe we will see more of it with the 5 in 5 passing.
I had to look up Pettigrew because he does not play like he's 6'3..
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
The difference between Brady and Boswell is Brady will be 18 his freshman year if he reclasses, a year older than Kylan was his freshman year.