Ep. 757 - Joe Henricksen on Illini basketball in-state recruiting
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
City/Suburban Hoops Report's Joe Henricksen joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to discuss Illinois basketball's in-state recruiting efforts. Henricksen discusses Illini signee Morez Johnson's improvement as a senior and what immediate impact he can make on the Illini during the 2024-25 season. Henricksen also discusses Illini Class of 2025 commit Jeremiah Fears' fit with the Illini before diving into some new Illini in-state offers, including 2025 Peoria Manual guard Dietrich Richardson, 2025 Rolling Meadows forward Ian Miletic and 2026 Kankakee guard Lincoln Williams. Henricksen also gives thoughts on 2025 guard Phoenix Gill and 2026 guard Gabe Sularski as well as the DePaul job opening.
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| 1:05.0 | We're having a little fun catching up with one of my favorites over the last decade |
| 1:09.0 | plus of doing radio, podcasting, all that. |
| 1:12.1 | It's Joe Hendrickson, City Suburban Hoops Report, the best, the best covering Illinois |
| 1:17.9 | high school basketball recruiting. |
| 1:20.9 | He is a wealth of information to all of us, and I hope you read them at Chicago sometimes. |
| 1:26.9 | You can follow them on Twitter at Joe Hoops Report with a little bit of what we call a buy week, I guess, for basketball, Illinois not playing at Michigan State. I thought it was a great time to catch up with Joe because of that, but also because there's a lot going on within state basketball recruiting for Illinois. Joe updates us on what he thinks of Merez Johnson and the impact he can make at Illinois next |
| 1:46.8 | season. |
| 1:47.3 | Joe's always been a big fan of Mores. |
| 1:49.6 | Jeremiah fears what Joe thinks of that fit and what he thinks Jeremiah can bring to the |
| 1:55.0 | Aligni now that he is committed in the class of 2025. |
| 1:58.6 | Then we talk about some new offers that Illinois has made in the state. Ian Mollettich in the class of 2025. Then we talk about some new offers that Illinois has made in the state. |
| 2:02.2 | Ian Militich in the class of 2025, Lincoln Williams, out of Kankakee in 2026, |
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