Welcome into the online inquire podcast. It is Jeremy Warner and Derek Piper. It must be

rankings week here on the online inquire podcast. Joy Wagner and I yesterday did our football positional rankings. And I don't know if I was just in the rankings move, but I thought, let's do something like this with basketball. It's a fun way to break down the roster. We will break down the impact rankings. Basically, who we think will make the biggest impact on this team, one through 14 of Illinois basketball.

We're going to start at 14 and go down through one. So we'll get into that. I do want to mention Wednesday's going to be a very big day for Illinois football potentially.

Nasir ranking four star Chicago Morgan Park athlete, wide receiver DB. He's announcing at 4.30 p.m. Central Time live on 24-7 sports YouTube channels.

So go check that out.

But an hour before that, three-star defensive linemen on Chicago Brother Rice, King Liggins,

is announcing his college decision at 330 live on 24-7 sports.

We're not going to break all that down if you want

to read more about it you can at alina inquire.com i have decision primers up for both of those but

derrick just kind of like basketball it's kind of nice that Illinois is getting back into battles

like this and starting to win more of these battles in state for the chicago best talent right

we'll see if they can do that tomorrow but it's it's nice to talk about Illinois football in that way of these battles in state for the Chicago best talent, right?

We'll see if they can do that tomorrow.

But it's nice to talk about going to football in that way.

That's a huge deal.

To be able to, like you said, compete with other Power 5 conference programs.

And you've, unfortunately, in prior times of low points in the program, lost a lot of those and had a hard time consistently getting top 10 players in the state, which obviously this year is one of those.

So that's a different step for this program to be able to elevate.

And from a basketball standpoint, I know that you got all the ends and outs of what it would

mean if you get this year and to land both of those commitments.

But I was trying to think, when's the last time we covered a basketball high school announcement?

I mean, is it Adam Miller?

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