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Illinois Athletics June 6, 2025 Four Illini Earn GCAA […]

Kedric Prince, IlliniGuys Director of Recruiting

June 5, 2024

This past weekend, the Illinois men's basketball team hosted one of the nation's most coveted recruits in the class of 2025, Will Riley, a 6-foot-8, 178-pound small forward from Malvern, Penn. Illinois is competing for his commitment along with Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Kentucky, Missouri, and Oregon.

Kedric Prince, IlliniGuys Director of Recruiting

June 5, 2024

Illinois women's basketball is in the running for standout Ohio prep Bryn Martin, a 6-foot-1 scoring machine from Springboro.

Illinois Athletics June 4, 2024 NORMAN, Okla. – Fighting Illini […]

Kedric Prince, IlliniGuys Director of Recruiting

June 4, 2024

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Will Riley, a 6-foot-8, 178-pound small forward from Malvern, PA., a five-star recruit, is currently on an official to Illinois campus.

Mike Farrell, IlliniGuys & Big Sports Radio National Football Recruiting Expert

June 4, 2024

(Mike Farrell also has his own website: https://mikefarrellsports.com/)

In this edition of the Farrell Files Illinois, I’ll look at the two official visitors from this past weekend and where things stand with Ole Miss transfer WR Zakhari Franklin.

Kedric Prince, IlliniGuys Director of Recruiting

June 3, 2024

Casey Thomann, a 6-foot-7, 300-pound offensive tackle from Olney (Ill.) Richland County received the news he had been hoping for recently. Illinois offensive line coach Bart Miller extended a Division I scholarship offer to the talented sophomore.

Brad Sturdy, Illini Uber-Insider & Co-Host IlliniGuys Sports Spectacular & Big Sports Radio

June 3, 2024

Plenty to talk about this week. Highlighted by a bump on the head!

The Illini baseball team fell to Indiana State in the Lexington Regional in a game that showed how a lack of pitching depth can be a huge detriment in the post season. They had beaten the Sycamores on Friday but on Sunday night fell 13-2. 
It was a good season for Dan Hartleb’s crew though, winning the Big Ten and advancing to the NCAA’s and winning a game. Now, they need to keep finding arms, because although a strong lineup is awesome, you have to have the pitching. 

Steve Sturm, IlliniGuys Football Analyst

June 3, 2024

Illinois continued its late-offseason re-tooling when Division II tight end Carson Goda of St. Anselm College opted to join the orange and blue for his final season on eligibility. Goda is a 6'3, 225 pound receiving specialist who figures to aid in Illinois' schematic transition to an offense that spreads the field more and distributes to any of five receivers on a given play.

Illinois entered the 2024 Lexington Regional without consistent weekend starting pitcher Cooper Omans due to what was classified as arm soreness

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

June 2, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky.  — If Illinois was going to win the program’s first NCAA regional away from home, it was going to have to be without a key piece of its weekend starting pitching rotation.

Cooper Omans, a fifth-year senior left-hander, was scratched from this weekend due to what Illinois head coach Dan Hartleb called arm soreness. 

Indiana State pounds Illini pitching for five extra-base hits […]

For only the second time in the 2024 season, Illinois was held without a single extra-base hit. 

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

June 1, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky.  — If Illinois plans to win the 2024 NCAA Lexington Regional, they’ll have to win three straight games to accomplish this feat. Facing the No. 2 overall seed in its own ballpark and seeing seven innings worth of its best starting pitcher was simply too much for Illinois to overcome Saturday in a 6-1 loss.

Kedric Prince, IlliniGuys Director of Recruiting

June 1, 2024

Illinois incoming freshman center Morez Johnson and 2025 recruit freshman guard Jeremiah Fears both made the USA Men's National Team this week. This is unique on many levels because Illinois is the only school to have two players make the team.

Illinois needed only two pitchers Friday night to dispatch of Indiana State and Illini closer Joe Glassey is available again versus No. 2 overall seed Kentucky. 

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

June 1, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky.  — One game down and we’re all still waiting for the first pitching decision by Illinois head coach Dan Hartleb and/or interim pitching coach Cameron Hill in this NCAA Lexington Regional. 

Following the 4-1 victory over Indiana State in the opening game of regional play, Hartleb arrived at his post-game media conference with a calmness and satisfaction of a man who hasn’t nearly played any of the cards in his deck needing to take the program to its first regional championship away from home. 

Jack Crowder arrived as a highly touted recruit, suffered severe setbacks and had to rededicate himself to his craft before having a career-defining outing in his NCAA regional debut. 

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

June 1, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky.  — Neither party in the player-head coach dynamic of Jack Crowder and Dan Hartleb would likely describe the past four-year University of Illinois experience as consistently pleasant. 

While Friday night’s eight-inning gem of a performance easily represents the high point of Crowder’s collegiate career, that peak national stage moment didn’t come without more than one noticeable valley.