Ep. 513 - Who's next for Illini basketball recruiting?
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner break down some of Illinois basketball's top recruiting targets in the Classes of 2024 and 2025, including several prospects who visited last weekend: 2024 PG Carlos Harris, 2025 G Melvin Bell and 2025 G Trey McKenney. The guys discuss ZZ Clark's decommitment, the program's relationship with the Chicago-based MeanStreets AAU program, 2024 commit Morez Johnson's impact as a recruiter and where the Illini stand with top-30 Class of 2024 center James Brown. Piper also breaks downs some wing targets in the Class of 2024 and two more in-state targets in the Class of 2025. The guys wrap up discussing the Saturday secret scrimmage against Kansas and former Illini players at new programs.
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| 0:44.6 | We have been so football heavy and basketball season is sneaking up on us, but it's also basketball recruiting season. |
| 0:52.3 | And nowadays, as Brad Hunt would have told me at Big Ten Media Days, |
| 0:55.6 | he can bring guys to the football stadium with a great crowd and enthusiastic crowd. So we thought |
| 1:00.7 | this is a great time to reset for Illinois basketball recruiting and talk about who's next |
| 1:05.5 | because 2023 feels like it's pretty sewed up with two big commitments in that class of Monty Hansberry |
| 1:12.4 | and Drey Gibbs Lawhorn. |
| 1:14.3 | So let's bring in Derek Piper and talk about what's next, Derek, because Illinois basketball |
| 1:19.9 | is feeling it on the recruiting trail, a third straight year being ranked in the preseason AP |
| 1:24.7 | top 25, picked a finish second in the Big Ten, and Tim |
| 1:28.6 | Anderson, Chester Frazier, Jeff Alexander, doing what they're doing, which has been pretty |
| 1:32.8 | good here. It has been pretty good. Quick side note, what's next for me is trying to catch |
| 1:38.2 | Isaac Trotter and the Illinois football predictions game by game because I picked Minnesota, |
| 1:42.2 | unfortunately, this weekend, not knowing Tommy DeVito status. and you guys got that one right I got one wrong and I'm playing |
| 1:49.0 | catch up on Trotter if I would have picked Wisconsin like I was feeling it if I would have |
| 1:53.3 | stuck with my gut instead of my head at the time Derek I would have been there with Trotter |
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