Illinois’ season ended with a 10-point loss to the Arkansas Razorbacks in Des Moines, Iowa. So the tumultuous offseason begins.
Well, from a player personnel perspective, the offseason began months ago. Five-star point guard Skyy Clark left the program. Big man Zacharie Perrin signed his NLI, didn’t qualify academically, spent a semester at Sunrise Christian Academy in Kansas, enrolled at Illinois, and left the program all within a few months. Additionally, Italian point guard Niccolo Morretti joined the roster at the beginning of the spring semester.
The postmortem to this season has been ugly. There has been plenty of finger-pointing within and outside of the fanbase.