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Recruiting rankings: A basketball breakdown

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Richey chatted earlier Wednesday. Check out the transcript here

The release of updated Class of 2017 rankings by ESPN and Scout makes one thing clear — there is little to no consensus in basketball recruiting. Illinois is recruiting several players among both new Top 100s and counts commitments from a pair currently unranked, with Da’Monte Williams falling from Scout’s No. 45 spot. Beat writer SCOTT RICHEY on three players from each new ranking:

ESPN

54. Jordan Goodwin, Belleville Althoff, 6-4, PG, ****

The mothership has Goodwin listed as a point guard, and as often as the ball is in his hands that’s not entirely far off.