The 6-foot-1 point guard from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, saw slight statistical improvement in his sophomore season compared to his freshman campaign. Lucas averaged 5.7 points, 3.2 assists, 2.2 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 21.4 minutes per game. All of those numbers are modest improvements from what his stat line looked like in 2016-17, but likely not the big leap head coach Brad Underwood and a majority of Illini fans would have liked to have seen from the team’s first choice at point guard (after Tracy Abrams) last year.
Lucas took a step backward when it came to his three-point shooting.