
Boswell & White Declare Intention to Return to Illini For 2025-26 Season
Two Illini starters declare after the NCAA Tournament second-round loss that they would like to return for another year of college basketball in Champaign-Urbana.
By Matt Stevens - IlliniGuys Staff Writer
March 23, 2025
MILWAUKEE — And now the attention for Illinois coaches, players and especially fans gets immediately focused on roster building for the 2025-26 season.
In the losing locker room of the Fiserv Forum following the 84-75 to Kentucky in the second round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament, Kylan Boswell and Tre White verbally declared they would prefer to ignore the lure of the transfer portal with an intent to return to the 2025-26 Illinois roster.
Boswell, who transferred back to his hometown of Champaign after two seasons at Arizona, detailed how he planned to handle this offseason amongst his current Illini teammates.