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The News-Gazette · Mar 26, 2018

UPDATE: Finke, Lucas transferring from Illinois

Centennial basketball senior Michael Finke signs to basketball for UI at Aldridge Auditorium Wednesday November 13, 2013.CHAMPAIGN — Michael Finke grew up an Illinois fan.

“Everyone in the YMCA leagues around here wanted to wear high socks and the headband just to be like Dee Brown,” Finke told The News-Gazete in 2014. “When I was little, I didn’t think there would be any other place I could go besides Illinois. Once I started getting recruited, it expanded my thoughts, but I have all these memories about Illinois.”

Those memories included spending the last three seasons playing for his hometown Illini.

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