It is fair to criticize Brad Underwood and Co. for the amount of talent and production that has been lost to the transfer portal over the last few years.

It is a new era, and of course the transfer portal has been going wild, but there are few universities that can match the production leaving as Illinois basketball in recent years.

While this is true, Underwood and his staff have excelled at something that rarely garners any praise from fans: keeping things under wraps.

The Cases

The Illini have sure had a lot of transfers that left fans going, “man, that really doesn’t make any sense”, and they never really receive that closure of reasoning.