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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 825 - Will Riley commits to Illini

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner discuss Illinois landing five-star wing Will Riley, what he brings to Illini for the 2024-25 season, how he impacts the rotation projection and what it means for Illinois recruiting moving forward. The guys also draft-rank the newcomers in order of who they're most excited to see during the 2024-25 season.

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Good Sunday afternoon. Welcome into the Alana Inquirer podcast. It is Derek Piper and Jeremy Warner live on our YouTube channel as it has happened. Illinois has landed a five-star prospect

0:44.1

in basketball as Will Riley. Class of 2025, number nine prospect. We'll see where he will be in the

0:50.9

class of 2024, but he is joining Illinois. His mother said live on the Instagram after the announcement.

0:57.3

So another huge, big time, marquee addition to the Illinois basketball roster,

1:02.8

Derek Piper, Brad Underwood, and his staff, they're cooking.

1:05.6

They're cooking.

1:06.2

They're cooking and recruiting, man.

1:07.9

They're cooking, they're on fire.

1:09.3

They're raising the bar.

1:10.4

That's something that you look at

1:12.0

as far as the incoming freshman this year and it's a conversation I want to have, but Merez right now,

1:18.1

or prior to today, was the highest composite get for Illinois during the composite era. So back to 2003,

1:25.2

I believe. So pair him with Will Riley, who's a five star as of right now.

1:30.1

We'll see how an if things shift him going in 2024, what that means for his ranking.

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