CHAMPAIGN — Illinois’ list of recruiting targets isn’t growing at as rapid a pace as last spring, but the Illini coaching staff is still adding new players to their board. Four-star wing Ismael Massoud and four-star guard Moses Moody both received Illinois offers late Wednesday — the second and third new targets for the Illini this week after an offer to 2019 four-star wing Jaime Jaquez Jr. on Monday.
Massoud is a 6-foot-8, 195-pound forward out of The MacDuffie School in Granby, Mass. Ranked as high as No. 90 nationally in the 2019 class, the Bronx, N.Y., native holds more than a dozen Division I offers, with Creighton, DePaul, Florida State, Minnesota, Rutgers, Seton Hall, Wake Forest and Xavier the other high major programs currently in the mix.