Brad Underwood and the Illini coaching staff decided to extend a scholarship offer to Tamell Pearson. He is a 6-foot-10, 200-pound big man from Morgan Park High School in Chicago, Illinois. He isn’t currently rated by Scout, but they also don’t have his measurables updated either. They still have him at 6-foot-8 and the current listed height on the AAU circuit is 6-foot-10.
Pearson holds a decent amount of scholarship offers as of right now as well. Most of the programs are lower level Division I teams, but Oklahoma State still has an offer extended to him as well as the Illini.