A month into summer workouts, Illinois basketball coach John Groce doesn’t have a great grasp on exactly what he has yet with this year’s team because so many players have been hampered by bumps and bruises.
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Tracy Abrams was recently cleared for contact after rehabbing a torn ACL that cost him the entire 2014-15 season. Darius Paul continues to recover from surgery he had to repair a torn labrum in the spring, and freshman Aaron Jordan is just getting into the swing of things after bruising his knee playing in the IBCA All-Star game.