Skeptics will be quick to remind me that 6-foot-10 Jeremiah Tilmon hasn’t signed a national letter yet.
As noted, Chicago big man Cliff Alexander committed verbally to Illini coach John Groce early on, the same day he feinted and picked up the Kansas cap in November 2013.
So if you’re a non-believer, you can grumble that Tilmon might change his mind, or that his talent is overrated, or that he’s been afflicted by the same injury bug (shoulder) that has dogged the Illini basketball program, whether incoming (Te’Jon Lucas) or outgoing (24-year-olds Mike Thorne and Tracy Abrams).