Ep. 1026 - Eric Bossi on Illini commits, international recruiting & Underwood's program
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
247Sports national basketball director Eric Bossi joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to discuss Illinois basketball recruiting. Bossi discusses the Illini's two 2026 commits, Ethan Brown and Landon Davis, as well as several other 2026 targets, including Quentin Coleman, Alex Constanza, Cameron Holmes and Jasiah Jervis. Bossi then hits on 247Sports' process of building international rankings and transfer portal rankings and what he thinks of Brad Underwood's program.
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| 0:56.6 | Alive in every drop. Today on the online quark podcast, let's get some Illinois basketball talk, focus a little bit on recruiting. |
| 1:17.6 | And this was a fun one. |
| 1:18.9 | Eric Bossy, National Basketball Director for 24-7 Sports. |
| 1:22.8 | He joined me, chat to me about 30 minutes. |
| 1:25.5 | And I think it's going to be really enlightening for a lot of people |
| 1:27.7 | that have questions about how rankings are made, whether it's transfer portal prep or now the |
| 1:33.4 | international side of things. But talk to Eric Bossie about Illinois's latest two commitments for |
| 1:38.7 | basketball, Ethan Brown and Landon Davis in the class of 2026. He's seen a lot of Ethan Brown, seen a little bit |
| 1:45.1 | of Landon Davis. And we talked about something that Derek Piper and I talked about about a month |
| 1:49.8 | ago, which is what is high school recruiting now? Where does it fit in to how teams are building |
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