CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS - NOVEMBER 05: Giorgi Bezhanishvili #15 of the Illinois Fighting Illini talks with Head coach Brad Underwood during the game against the Nicholls State Colonels at State Farm Center on November 05, 2019 in Champaign, Illinois. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)
What if I told you, the last two full-time Illinois basketball coaches had similar average recruit ratings throughout roughly four recruiting classes?
That is what we are sitting with today. Brad Underwood is currently on his fifth class – class of 2021 – and has landed his first recruit in Luke Goode.