Josh Whitman didn’t want to divulge too many details about the men’s basketball coaching search Tuesday. What he did offer was his confidence Illinois could find “fantastic coaches” in what turned into a dual coaching search Tuesday when he fired women’s basketball coach Matt Bollant three days after men’s coach John Groce.
Whitman did share one detail, however.
“It’s interesting there have been a number of reports that we’ve offered the job to different people before we even had a job to offer,” Whitman said. “I can tell you definitively that that is incorrect. We’ve got a great plan on the men’s side, and we’re executing that plan.