The Illini offer an intriguing wing out of South Carolina. The post Illinois Basketball Offers High-Flying 2025 Wing appeared first on Armchair Illinois ..read more

Head Coach Bret Bielema gives an answer on how Illinois Football plans to improve defensively for the 2024 season The post How Illini Football Will Improve Defensively in 2024 appeared first on Armchair Illinois ..read more

5-star guard Jasper Johnson announced his top 5 schools heading into the latter portion of the 2024 summer. Unfortunately, Johnson’s top five did not include Illinois basketball. Johnson named North Carolina, Louisville, Arkansas, Alabama, and Kentucky as the five schools he will consider. Jasper Johnson visited the Illini in June and seemed to have a strong relationship with assistant coach, Orlando Antigua. However, it seems that Illinois Basketball will continue its search for a guard in the class of 2025. After Jeremiah Fears reopened his recruitment and reclassified into the Class of 2024 ..read more

Illinois Football: A Positive Injury Update For Johnny Newton A positive injury update has surfaced, which bodes well for former Illinois Football Defensive Tackle Jer’zhan Newton. According to ESPN Senior NFL Insider Adam Schefter, “Commandeers DT Jer’Zhan Newton passed his physical and has been activated from the active/non-football injury list,”. Of course, this is major news for Washington Head Coach Dan Quinn. Dan’s staff will now be able to get to work with their highly talented 2nd round pick. Furthermore, it will be necessary to find out where Newton fits into the equation for the Comm ..read more

Illinois Basketball: Kasparas Jakucionis Had a Big Day For Lithuania U18 Soon-to-be Illinois Basketball Freshman Kasparas Jakucionis had himself a heck of a game for the Lithuanian U18 team. According to Arman Jovic of PDT Scouting, the future Illini was able to drop 22 points versus the Spain U18 international squad. Certainly, Kasparas displayed his high-level scoring abilities, knocking down several 3-point shots from the wing. In addition, Jakucionis fought for some tough finishes at the rim as well, to add to the already impressive performance. However, what may be even more impressive ab ..read more

Illinois basketball’s roster has now fully arrived on campus. Per his Instagram page, big man Tomislav Ivisic has officially arrived at the Illinois campus. After an extended wait with the entire process that is required for an overseas citizen to arrive at a college campus, Ivisic completes the Illini’s roster. He will now immediately join team activities and hopefully be up to speed by the time the fall rolls around. The Croatian big man initially committed to the Illini on May 6th, shortly after assistant coach Orlando Antigua returned to Champaign. Though it will be Ivisic’s first year in ..read more

Former Illinois Basketball commit Jeremiah Fears announced on his social media that he is committing to the University of Oklahoma. Fears reopened his recruitment earlier in the month of July after buzz grew that he wanted to reclassify into the class of 2024. That will now be the case as Fears will enter the class of 2024 and suit up for the Oklahoma Sooners during the 2024-2025 season. In the class of 2025 per 247sports, Fears is the No. 32 prospect and sixth ranked combo guard. Jeremiah has shown that he is a talented scoring guard. In the past week, Fears put up a 35 points and 8-rebound p ..read more

Former Illini Quincy Guerrier was finally able to see the floor in the 2024 NBA Summer League. Guerrier is on the Toronto Raptors, however, did not see the floor during the first two games. In the past week, however, he did see the floor for some spot minutes. During his first game, Guerrier logged six minutes of action. He did not score, however, grabbed two rebounds, one assist, and one steal. In Friday night’s bout, the former Illinois basketball forward logged 17 minutes. Quincy was able to show his rebounding prowess as the Canadian forward grabbed seven rebounds, four of which were offen ..read more

Most recently, Illiniinquirer.com’s Derek Piper, reported that Illinois basketball has started recruiting 5-star point guard, Cayden Boozer. The 19th-ranked prospect in the class of 2025 would be a strong fit for Illinois Basketball. Boozer is the son of former NBA all-star Carlos Boozer and is one of the top point guards in the class of 2025. Though it is late in the recruiting cycle, Boozer has made rather favorable comments regarding Illinois basketball. He complimented the recent NBA talent that the Illini has helped harness. In fact, he even referenced former Illinois basketball legend, D ..read more

Illini Football is headed into a very important season. In year four for Bret Bielema, fans are expecting the Illini to consistently contend for bowl games and show competence. Despite performing better than his predecessors early on, fans are growing increasingly anxious for some sort of relevance. Bielema will have to rely on a rather fresh roster. For the most part, most of their key returners are still young. However, Bielema and the Illini football staff did an excellent job of finding some key plug-and-play transfers that will be expected to produce immediately. Terrance Brooks Terrance ..read more