CHAMPAIGN — An open scholarship for the 2019 class. No game until late Saturday morning against Penn State and at home no less. Perfect time for the Illinois men’s basketball coaching staff to do some recruiting.
Assistant coach Jamall Walker was in Texas on Tuesday night. He left having extended an offer to Dallas Jesuit’s Julius Marble, who’s recruitment is spinning up into high gear — and into high major territory — in the new year. The Illinois offer was his fifth in the last two months, along with Oklahoma State, TCU, Michigan State and Boston College, which also offered Tuesday night.