The News-Gazette: Is Tilmon next?
The Class of 2017 is of utmost importance to the Illinois men’s basketball program.
It has produced one of the state’s deepest classes in recent memory, with John Groce already landing Belleville East guard Javon Pickett and Peoria Manual guard Da’Monte Williams, son of former Illini standout Frank Williams.
Might more help be in store for a program desperate to end a three-year NCAA tournament drought in 2017? Possibly.
STLtoday: Smith introduces his coaching staff at Illinois
Head coach Lovie Smith looked to his left and his right Tuesday and surveyed the nine men he hand-picked to comprise his first Illini coaching staff.