Basketball

At the NY2LA Lone Star Invitational tourney in Dallas, had a chance to catch up with Owen Freeman. Owen is a 6'10" F from the 16U MidPro Academy team.

Owen is an athletic big man who has worked to develop the ball handling and passing skills that aren't often seen by many 4s and 5s in today's game.

At the same NY2LA Lone Star Invitational tourney in Dallas, also had a chance to catch up with Owen's teammate, Ty Pence. Ty is a 6'6" G for the MidPro Academy 16U team. 

Ty is an athletic big guard with hops who has a long range three point shot to go with solid ballhandling skills.

"The University of Illinois is my dream job.  It's my pinnacle job.  It's what I watched growing up.  It's what I know.  I think it's the best of the best."  Alexander says he got the coaching bug after attending the 1991 NCAA championship game in Indianapolis with his dad, when Duke defeated Kansas for the school's first title.  He played for his dad at Lincoln and, after two years at a junior college in Iowa, he went to play at Western Illinois, where he would meet an assistant coach who would change his life - a guy named Brad Underwood.

At the NY2LA Lone Star Invitational tourney in Dallas, I had a chance to catch up with AJ Casey.

Casey is a 6'8" F for the Meanstreets 17U team. Currently, he is ranked #21 by Rivals and #20 by 247 for the 2022 class. 

Recently, rumors had it that Casey was willing to look at the Illini after a period of time where he didn't show a lot of interest. After his Meanstreets team played well this weekend, he was kind enough to spare a few minutes to talk basketball with an IlliniGuy.

By Kedric Prince – IlliniGuys.com Director of Recruiting May […]

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Is Mitchell a lost cause for Illinois?  Not so fast, says IlliniGuys.com Director of Recruiting Kedric Prince in our latest I On The Illini podcast that dropped Thursday night. Kedric reminds listeners that Illinois remains the place where Mitchell wants to be and lists the reasons why and says, with the start of summer school classes still three weeks away, the possibility of getting him in Champaign remains.

So much has been made lately of 2022 shooting guard Jaden Schutt from Yorkville, Illinois and his recruitment. We at IlliniGuys.com caught up with Schutt to get the latest on his recruitment.

By Kedric Prince/IlliniGuys Director of Recruiting May 19, 2021 […]

First, let us clear the air when talking to Luke Goode, Ramses "RJ" Melendez and Brandin Podziemski. All three are fully committed to Illinois and plan to be ready to go come June when classes start.

Mike Cagley, IlliniGuys Co-Founder The loss of Orlando Antigua […]

By Kedric Prince – IlliniGuys.com Director of Recruiting May […]

By Larry Smith/IlliniGuys.com May 11, 2021 Anyone wondering if […]