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In Chicago for the NBA Draft Combine and speaking publicly for the first time since his December arrest on charges of rape in Kansas, former Illinois basketball star Terrence Shannon Jr. said he’s had a “very interesting five months.”
A soft-spoken, guarded Shannon, 23, took long pauses as he answered questions from media at the Marriott Marquis adjacent to Wintrust Arena. He has been ordered to stand trial June 10 in Douglas County, Kansas, on first-degree felony rape and felony sexual aggravated battery charges stemming from an alleged incident on Sept. 9 in which a woman accused him of sexually penetrating her with his fingers at a bar in Lawrence, home to the University of Kansas.