Well...anyone else ready for basketball season? The football program has given us little to be excited about, but hoops recruiting is heating up once again, and decision time is looming for a lot of student-athletes.
Head coach Brad Underwood has made it abundantly clear that he wants to restore the glory of Illinois basketball. How do you do that? By going after the top prospects in the country.
6-foot-10 forward Coleman Hawkins has verbally committed to the Illini, per his Instagram.
Hawkins, a top-200 player in the 2020 class, plays for a loaded Prolific Prep squad in Napa, California, along with previous Illini target Nimari Burnett.