It’s now July 6, and as there’s only one more open scholarship for Illinois Fighting Illini men’s basketball for this coming year, the roster is mostly set. Sure, there will be workouts and practices in the coming months, but until the middle of November, no games will be played that actually count.
What that means is that, barring injury news or roster changes, there is absolutely nothing more to say about the program until they’ve tipped off and there’s meaningful game action to report.
Look, we can sit here and project player lineups and rotations until we’re blue (and orange) in the face, and we can break down what the team might try to do differently until the cows come home (to the south farms), but our hypotheses cannot possibly be tested until some tangible data exist.