Ripe as it is with basketball prospects, the state of Indiana remains off limits for the Illini.
Maybe if he applied a little pressure, Bruce Rauner might coax the Hoosiers to pay for that wall. No wonder the hot names on Brad Underwood's list hail from Chicago (Ayo Dosunmu) and St. Louis (Jericole Hellems).
The departure of Jalen Coleman-Lands, an Indianapolis native who prepped at LaPorte La Lumiere, extends a record showing with no Hoosier having played more than two seasons at the UI since Indianapolis Arsenal's Mike Price and Ossian's Bob Windmiller finished in 1969.
That's 47 seasons in which the only two basketball players accepting scholarships from the neighboring state were Noblesville's Scott Haffner and Coleman-Lands.