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By Kedric Prince - IlliniGuys.com Director of Recruiting October […]

Owen Freeman is a 6-foot-9, 220-pound power forward from Bradley, Illinois, who picked up an Illinois offer early this spring. The rising star big man has already visited the Illinois campus in early June. Freeman is a very important recruit for a lot of schools, not just Illinois. But the Illini are looking to add some more size to the program and Freeman would help fulfill that need.

By now, most know the tale told in the classic movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'.  Banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and endures 20 years of torture behind the walls of a Maine prison for a crime he vows he didn't commit.  All the while, he's patiently tunneling through the wall, literally scooping out handfuls of rock at night and gradually dumping them bit by bit in the prison yard by day, right under the watchful eye of the prison's guards.

The final leg of Dufresne's genius escape is told wonderfully by fellow prisoner Ellis "Red" Boyd and it's a line as popular as the movie itself: "Andy crawled through 500 yards of (deleted) smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want to!" Illini basketball coach Brad Underwood certainly wasn't in prison, but he had to have spent many a moment in the spring and summer months thinking that things around him didn't smell right.  It was a 90-day period that was the foulest in program history and, as its leader, Underwood was stuck in the middle of it and there was no escape plan. Angry parents, a shocking transfer, a fleeing staff, an indecisive superstar, a restless and critical fan base...

The class of 2022 is not complete and the Fighting Illini have started to work the class of 2023 very hard to stay ahead of the game. Now it is time to work on several of the 2024s. Tre Johnson is a 6-foot-5, 180-pound shooting guard from Dallas.

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Connor Cagley, IlliniGuys Basketball Writer September 21, 2021 It's […]

Sept. 22 is the first day of fall and football is in the air, but it also means college basketball is just a few short weeks away from its first practice.

This time around, unlike last year, fans will be in attendance, cheering on their favorite team and making one of the best sporting events whole again after the COVID-19 restrictions the past two years.

Illinois fans, you heard it here first: let some of the national media outlets be skeptical of this team. The 2021-2022 team, if it can stay healthy, could be on the national stage all year long.

Kedric Prince, IlliniGuys Director of Recruiting

September 20, 2021

I found out that Brandon Boswell, the father of Kylan Boswell

Kedric Prince, IlliniGuys Director of Recruiting

September 19, 2021

Note: Keep this in mind when Mr. Fears is giving his assessment here.

Illinois men’s basketball head coach Brad Underwood signed a […]

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By Kedric Prince – IlliniGuys.com Director of Recruiting

Sept. 10, 2021

Thursday was the day all college basketball coaches could hit the ground to visit high school recruits at home or schools, where most of them held open gyms where they could scrimmage.

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