Final Four-caliber? IlliniGuys Insider Brad Sturdy Points Out The Key To This Team's Success
By IlliniGuys Staff
July 28, 2022
(Cover photo courtesy Joe Clark/IlliniGuys)
It's the last weekend in July. That means the start of the fall semester is just around the corner AND we're now less than 90 days away from the Illini basketball team starting preseason drills in its quest to climb higher among the nation's elite.
After a whirlwind spring that saw two-time All-American Kofi Cockburn change his mind and enter the NBA draft, a pair of athletic, veteran Big 12 transfers join the roster, and arguably the most talented Illini freshman class in years step onto campus, the time is drawing near to see what this group has - and what it needs to do.
IlliniGuys Insider/Analyst Brad Sturdy takes a sneak peek inside the still-being-renovated Ubben practice facility and updates us on the refurbished project that is Illinois basketball. A program that's coming off a Big Ten tournament title and conference regular season championship in consecutive years isn't satisfied.
Here's Sturdy's scouting report after two months of the guys working together: