1-22-08 6-0 senior guard Lazerick Jones (Simeon) is receiving interest from EKU, Ferris State, IPFW, and Cleveland State.

1-22-08 6-4 senior G Kyle Cassity (Pinckneyville) has received his 6th scholarship offer from Albany. SLU also is picking up interest they attended Cassity's practice today. Expect University of Michigan to be attendance at one of Cassity's upcoming games.  

1-15-08- 5-11 senior G Isiah Williams (Farragut) has an offer from New Orleans, and is expected to verbal very soon 

1-15-08- 6-4 senior wing Ryan Hare (Marshall) is now being recruited by Hawaii and Mcneese State, among others 

1-15-08- 6-2 junior PG Chris Colvin (Whitney Young) has a lot of new schools trying to get in the mix. He already had 8 offers, from Bradley, Central Florida, Gonzaga, Illinois, Iowa, Miami (FL), Miami (OH), and Northern Illinois, and now a number of schools are being added to the list. California has offered, and USC, Clemson, Virginia, Kansas, Georgia Tech, and others are getting involved.

1-15-08- 6-6 senior PF Paris Carter (TF South) has offers from Kankakee Ct. CC, Oakton CC,Vincennes, and other top Jucos.

1-15-08 6-1 sophomore guard Kenny Stevenson (Seton) is receiving interest from Wisconsin, Marquette, Murray State, and Eastern Kentucky

1-15-08  6-5 junior forward Tony Nixon (Seton) is receiving interest from Drake, Howard, American, Wisconsin, and Illinois State.

1-7-08- 6-4 junior wing Drew Crawford (Naperville Central) is recieving interest from Wisconsin GB 

1-7-08- D2 Ferris State university has picked up their interest in Simeon PG Lazerick Jones 

1-7-08- 6-6 junior forward Mike Haynes (Chicago Washington) is being recruited by a number of schools including Marquette, Kentucky, and UNLV

1-7-08- 6-1 sophomore guard Mike McCall (Foreman) has offers from NIU and Western Michigan, as well as interest from Baylor, Purdue, DePAul, and others 

1-7-08- 6-4 junior SF Brandon Orange (Simeon) has an offer from Western Michigan

1-7-08- 6-1 junior guard Darius Smith (Marshall) is receiving interest from Marquette, Clemson, Iowa, Wisconsin, Dayton, Bradley, and others 

1-7-08- 6-2 junior point guard Chris Colvin (Whitney Young) has offers from Bradley, Central Florida, Gonzaga, Illinois, Iowa, Miami (FL), Miami (OH), and Northern Illinois

1-5-08- 6-4 senior guard Verdell Jones III (Champaign Central) wins MVP of Highland Shootout a game in which Bruce Pearl was in attendance

12-11-07- 6-2 senior guard Reubon Cotto (Alton) is definetly a player to watch this season

12-11-07- 6-8 junior PF Jack Cooley (Glenbrook South) picks up an offer from Miami (OH)

12-11-07- 6-2 junior PG Chris Colvin (Whitney Young) picks up an offer from Gonzaga

12-11-07- According to Illinois Prep Bullseye, Vanderbilt is showing interest in 09 guards Diamond Taylor (St. Joseph), Terrance Johnson (St.Rita), and Brain Conway (Bloom)

12-11-07- Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey and two assistants were on hand to see 6-3 sophomore G Anthony Johnson (Whitney Young) this weekend at Chicago st.

12-11-07- Augustana, Lake Forest, the University of Chicago and St. Xavier are among the schools recruiting senior PG Eliud Gonzalez (Richards)

12-11-07- Ohio State and Wyoming are the latest schools to get involved with senior G Dion Dixon (Crane). Cinncinati, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Illinois, Virginia Commonwealth, and Marquette are also involved

12-11-07- Illinois head coach Bruce Weber was on hand this weekend to watch the Chicago Public Schools Shootout at Chicago state

11-10-07- 6-0 sophomore G Kenny Stevenson (Seton) visits Marquette

11-8-07- 6-5 sophomore F Dennis Hodges has transfered to Curie from Hales Franciscan

11-7-07- 6-10 C Trey McCorkle of Bismark-Henning commits to Indiana- Pudue Fort Wayne

11-1-07- 5-10 PG Nakeem Floyd, formerly of Crane, is now at Lewis and Clark Juco, and is getting interest from NIU and Illinois state.

11-1-07-   6-4 senior wing Gozie Umeadi of Fenton picks up an offer from D2 St.Josephs (Indiana)

11-1-07- 6-5 freshman F Devon Hodges (Wolves) transfers to Romeoville from Nequa Valley. Hodges recently visited Southern Illinois for midnight madness.

10-31-07- 6-0 junior G John Kinsler (Northside Prep) reports an offer from the university of Illinois- Chicago

10-31-07- Sources close to the situation have indacated that Crandall Head may be close to finalizing a decision on where he plans to attend college, and that he could make an early commitment very soon.  All indications are that Crandall is heavily leaning toward playing for head coach Bruce Weber and Illinois, which means that Coach Weber would have landed 5 of the top prospects in the state of Illinois in just the past few weeks. This is just a rumor as of now, but Illinoishsbasketball will have all the latest updates on the situation as they progress.

10-31-07- Despite earlier reports that 6-4 sophomore wing Crandall Head (Rich South/ Bobcats) would soon commit to Illinois, his high school teammate Kendrick Morse says otherwise. "A commitment will be no time soon for either of us. Maybe sometime in the season," said Morse.

10-31-07- 6-3 junior wing Brian Conway (Bloom/Wolves) picks up an offer from UNLV

10-31-07- 5-10 junior PG Kendrick Morse (Rich South/Meanstreets) reports offers from Drake and Ball State

10-31-07- 6-2 senior G Bryan Hall (Whitney Young) commits to Northern Illinois

10-31-07- 5-11 senior PG Jamal Daniel (Bloom) commits to Cloud County CC

10-31-07- 6-5 senior wing Tyler Thompson (West Aurora) commits to Quincy

10-31-07 6-8 junior forward Jordan Prosser (Eureka/Indy Elite) visits Kentucky and Louisville

10-27-07- 6-1 G Darius Smith (Marshall), 6-2 G Chris Colvin (Whitney Young), 6-6 F Cortney Bell (Lincoln Park) and 6-4 SF Brandon Orange (Simeon) will all play next AAU season for Top Flight

10-27-07- 6-3 junior wing Diamond Taylor (St.Joes/ Ill Wolves) took a visit to Notre Dame last weekend and picked up an offer

10-27-07- 6-2 sophomore G Anthony Johnson (Whitney Young) also recieved an official offer on the visit. Sources close to the prospects said that 6-3 sophomore G/F Brandon Spearman (Hales Francsiscan) and 5-6 sophomroe G Ahmad Starks (Whitney Young) also recieved offers. All three sophomores will play for Larry Butler's Illinois Warriors next AAU season.

10-27-07- 6-4 senior G Verdell Jones (Champaign Central) recieves an offer from Oklahoma

10-27-07- Georgia Tech has picked up thier interest in 6-2 junior G Chris Colvin (Whitney Young)

10-27-07- 6-3 junior SF Eric Dortch (Evanston) is recieving interest from Bucknell

10-27-07- 6-3 senior SG Rodney Klinscales (Zion-Benton) is recieving interest from Wagner

10-27-07- Chris McClellan (Wheeling) and 6-8 Matt Toth (Sandburg) commit to Lewis

10-15-07- 6-9 senior PF Stan Simpson of Simeon commits to Illinois

10-13-07- Per Ilprepbullseye.com, here is a list of who visited what schools for Midnight Madness:

Iman Shumpert Marquette, Kyle Rowley Georgetown, Nik Garcia Illinois, Jereme Richmond Illinois, D.J. Richardson Illinois, Brandon Paul Illinois, Anthony Johnson Illinois, Diamond Taylor Wisconsin, Jordan Prosser Indiana, Verdell Jones Kentucky ... Deandre McCamey also recently visited Southern Illinois per rivals.com

10-13-07- It looks as if 6-8 senior PF Josh Crittle of Hales Franciscan/ Meanstreets has narrowed his school list down to Minnisota and Oregon

10-13-07- 6-9 senior PF Stan Simpson of Simeon visits Illinois. His final 3 schools are Arkansas, Illinois, and Bradley

10-12307- The class of 2011 is looking goood. Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio State, Wisconsin and Purdue have been in to see 6-7 SF Mike Shaw of DeLaSalle/Fire, and Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa State, Ohio State, Kentucky, Washington State, and Kansas are showing interest in 6-5 G Sam Thompson of Whitney Young/ Fire

10-13-07- 6-4 senior G Iman Shumpert of OPRF/ Full Package visits Marquette Madness

10-12-07- 6-0 junior G John Taylor of North Lawndale/ SYF picks up an offer from Purdue

10-12-07- 6-3 junior G Dmitri Riggs of Bloomington picks up an offer from Illinois State

10-11-07- Illinois picks up commitments from 3 juniors: 6-5 G Joseph Bertrand, 6-3 G DJ Richardson, and 6-2 G Brandon Paul

10-8-07-  6-5 wing Mario Little of Chipola Juco, formerly of Washington high school, commits to Bill Self and Kansas university.

10-7-07- 6-3 junior SG Matt Vogrich of Lake Forest/ Full Package picks up an offer from St. Louis. Vogrich visited Dayton on saturday.

10-7-07- 7-0 C Kyle Rowley of Lake Forest Academy/ Full Package is seeing his recruiting stock soar as he is recieving interest from Kansas, Washington State, Georgetown, Kentucky, Illinois, and Wisconsin, among others. Northwestern, Baylor, Southern Illinois, and Davidson have offered.

10-7-07- 6-4 senior G Iman Shumpert of Oak Park River Forest/ Full Package will be visiting Marquette this weekend for Midnight Madness. "Our visits went very well to Georgia Tech and North Carolina," said his father. "We are really looking forward to Midnight Madness at Marquette. We know coach Crean has something big planned for us."

10-4-07- Chicago St university was recently in at Evanston to see an open gym. They are highly interested in freshman Garret Jones, sophomore Ryan Frazier-Chambers, junior Eric Dortch, and senior Steven Rudnicki.

10-4-07- 7-0 junior C Kyle Rowley of Lake Forest Academy/ Full Package will visit Northwestern and Wisconsin this weekend

10-4-07- 6-3 senior guard Steven Rudnicki of Evanston is recieving heavy interest from Chicago state university, among other D1 schools. Steven recently visited Augustana and is being heavily recruited by St. Norberts, University of Chicago and others.

10-3-07- 6-2 senior wing Kaleb Wright of Eisenhower/ Meanstreets has offers from Wyoming, Northern Illinois, Illinois State, Niagra, Ball State, Chicago State, Lewis, and Loyola

10-3-07- 6-4 senior wing Derek Tartt of Fenwick/ Wolves is being recruited by Colorado, Nevada, Libscomb, Eastern Illinois, and Marquette. Wyoming has offered.

10-3-07- 6-0 PG Branden Fisher, formerly of Rockford Jefferson, is now at LA community college and is getting interest from Fresno State, UC Santa Barbara, California, Loyola Marymount, UCLA., Cal State, and USC.

10-2-07- 6-5 junior wing Tony Nixon of Seton Academy/ Mac Irvin Fire is seeing his recruiting stock soar. Tony Nixon is getting interest from Wisconsin, Ball State, NIU, Drake and Northeastern .  He has been to visits at Northern Illinois and Wiconsin.

10-2-07- According to various sources around the city; Lamont Bryant is no longer the head coach at Marshall High School. Keep it will Illinoishsbasketball for updates on the story...

10-2-07- 5-6 PG Ahmad Starks of Whitney Young/Ferrari has an offer from Valpo. According to Whitney Young head coach Tyrone Slaughter, Vanderbilt has also offered a scholarship.

10-2-07- 5-11 PG Jim Hayes of Mt. Carmel is recieving a high level of interest from Carthage, North Park, South Suburban CC, and many others.

10-2-07- Look for former Minnisota coach and current Ball St Assistant Jim Molanari to make a splash recruiting the Chicagoland area

10-2-07- Jordan Prosser recently enjoyed a visit to Illinois

10-2-07- Look for 6-6 7th grade Forward Alex Foster to become the next great player to come out of Illinois.

10-2-07- You heard it here first: 6-5 freshman G Sam Thompson of Whitney Young will end up being one of the next great players to come out of the CPL. Look for this athletic scorer to start picking up a lot of high major interest!

10-2-07- 6-3 senior SG Steven Rudnicki of Evanston is recieving a high level of interest from University of Chicago, St. Norberts, and others

10-2-07- Cloud County CC is recruiting 6-6 PF Paris Carter of TF South and 6-5 wing Jeremy McCray of Evanston

10-2-07- 6-5 senior PF Derryan Hunt of Evanston is seeing his recruiting stock soar! Look for him to pick up some D2 offers soon.

10-2-07- Look for Illinois to start showing interest in 6-0 sophomore G Ryan Frazier-Chambers of Evanston

10-2-07- 5-11 sophomore G Kenny Stevenson is getting strong interest from Murray State, Eastern Kentucky and Eastern Illinois. He has been to visits at Northern Illinois and Wisconsin.

10-1-07- 7-0 junior C Kyle Rowley of Lake Forest Academy is seeing his stock soar as his game improves. Kentucky and Georgetown are two of the early leaders, and Rowley may make an appearance at Georgetowns Midnight madness.

9-27-07- 6-4 junior wing Brian Conway of Bloom is receiving a high level of interest from Northwestern, who recently came to see him at an open gym.

9-27-07- 6-2 sophomore G Mike McCall of Foreman/Illinois Heat has an offer from Northern Illinois and interest from Wisconsin and Ball State, among others.

9-27-07- Georgetown, Georgia Tech (head coach Paul Hewitt), Northwestern (assistant and head coach Bill Carmody), Illinois, Wisconsin, Purdue (two separate visits- an assistant once and head coach Matt Painter the other), Depaul (twice, once head coach Jerry Wainwright and both times an assistant), Marquette, Southern Illinois, Davidson, St. Louis, Illinois State (assistant and head coach Tim Jankovich), Dayton, Ball State, Wyoming, Loyola (IL), Brown (head coach Craig Robinson), American, and Wisconsin Green Bay have all been to open gyms at Lake Forest Academy to see 7-1 Aziz N'daiye, 7-0 junior C Kyle Rowley, 6-9 junior F Todd Ziforovski, 6-2 junior G David Smith, 6-4 senior SG Nate Bateman, and 6-5 sophomore F Michal Banczer.

9-27-07- I have gotten a chance to get to know new Illinois assitant Jerrance Howard very well over the last few days, and I have to say I am excited to see what's in store for the future. He is already one the the hardest working coaches in the nation, and he is commited to making the City of Chicago a recruiting priority!

9-27-07- Tracy Webster has wasted no time in recruiting Illinois Prospects, as he has already began hitting up the chicagoland area.
6-10 sophomore center Paul Bunch of North Lawndale has become a recruiting priority for Kentucky.  Depaul and Illinois are among the other schools showing interest.
7-1 Senegal import Aziz N'daiyne is also on the wildcats radar.
6-6 Forward Michael Haynes is also being heavily recruited by Kentucky. He attends Washington High School, the former school of Kentucky 08 recruit Deandre Liggens.

9-27-07-  Head coach Bo Ryan and assistant Howard Moore were recently in Chicago and got a chance to check out 6-0 Foreman Sophomore Point Guard Lavonte Dority and they came away very impressed. Moore watched him a number of times last school season. Wisconsin staff was also in recently to watch 6-1 sophomore Guard Ben Brust of Mundeline. Brust was very impressive at the Wisconsin Elite camp.

9-27-07- In case you missed it, 5-11 G Terrance Johnson of the Mac Irvin Fire transfered from Seton to St.Rita, 6-2 Jeremy Leonard of the Supreme Kings transfered from De La Salle to TF North, and 6-2 Derwin Gage of Top Flight transfered from Whitney Young to Proviso East

9-27-07- IPFW, Ball State, Lewis, St. Joseph, Rollins, Mercyhurst, Winona State, Stonehill and Quincy are all interested in 6-6 F Cory Hrynyk of Bartlett/Rising Stars. St.Joseph and Lewis have offered.

9-27-07- Drake, Miami (OH), UMass Lowell, Quincy, and Lewis are interested in 6-5 SF Tyler Thompson of West Aurora/ Wolves. UMass, Quincy, and Lewis have offered.

9-27-07- Northern Iowa, Rhode Island, Colgate and Fairfield are all in contact with 6-3 post grad shooting guard Trey Blue formerly of Thornwood, now at Brewster academy (NH)

9-27-07- Commited players in the class of 2010:

Jereme Richmond- 6-6 Wing Waukegan- Illinois

9-27-07- Commited players in the class of 09:

Cully Payne- 5-10 Point Guard Schaumburg- DePaul
Stev Walker- 6-5 Power Forward Simeon- Northern Illinois

9-27-07- Commited players in the class of 08:

Jake Lindfors- 6-10 Power Forward Driscoll- Albany

Kevin Stineman- 6-0 Point Guard Stevenson- Southern Illinois Edwardsville

Daniel Barnes- 6-2 Guard Oak Park River Forest- Eastern Michigan

Rob Belcore- 6-5 Shooting Guard Loyola Academy- Penn

Ryan Hare- 6-4 Wing Marshall- Oregon State

Kevin Dillard- 6-0 Point Guard Homewood-Flossmoor- Southern Illinois

Peter Boehm- 6-6 Small Forward New Trier- Harvard

John Bagge 6-7 Forward Wheaton North- Hillsdale

Mike Dunigan- 6-10  Center Chicago Farragut- Oregon

Mike Dinunno- 6-0 Guard Chicago Von Steuben- Northern Illinois

Nick Fruendt- 6-5 Guard/Forward Batavia- Northwestern

Luke Fabrizius- 6-8 Forward Hersey- Dayton

Aaron Garriott- 6-3 Shooting Guard Bloomington Central Catholic- Southern Illinois-Edwardsville

Matthew Humphrey- 6-5 Shooting Guard Chicago Hales Franciscan- Oregon

Lewis Jackson- 5-9 Point Guard Decatur Eisenhower- Purdue

Kamil Janton- 6-9 Center Bartlett- Eastern Michigan

DeAndre Liggins- 6-6 Guard Prep School- Kentucky

John Moran- 6-0 Guard Jacobs- Northern Iowa

Chris Wroblewski- 6-0 Guard Highland Park - Cornell

Brett Thompson- 6-11 Power Forward Vienna - St. Louis

Kenyon Smith- 5-11 Point Guard Chicago Simeon - Illinois State

John Shurna- 6-8 Forward Glenbard West- Northwestern

Matt Roth- 6-2 Shooting Guard Washington- Indiana

Jeremy Robinson- 6 -8 Power Forward Decatur Eisenhower- Illinois State

Carl Richard- 6-5 Small Forward Richards- Indiana State

Chris Parrish- 6-3 Small Forward Riverside-Brookfield- Southern Illinois

Zavion Neely- 6-1 Guard Chicago Hope- Illinois-Chicago

Jelani Poston- 6-5 Forward Prep School- Illinois Chicago

Jeremiah Kelly- 6-1 Point Guard Prep School- DePaul

8-28-07       6-4 junior C Steve Walker  of Simoen/Chicago Express commits to Nothern Illinois

8-27-07       6-2 junior Chris Colvin picks up an offer from Illinois

8-27-07       6-8 junior PF Jack Cooley of GBS and 6-5 SG junior Nik Garcia, both of Rising Stars have offers from Southern Illinois

8-27-07       6-6 senior SF Peter Boehm of New Trier/Rising Stars commits to Harvard. His brother Jack is a Bucknell baseball commit.

8-10-07       5-9 senior G Lewis Jackson of Decatur Eisenhower/ Indiana Elite commits to Purdue

8-10-07       6-5 senior F Carl Richard of Richards/Ferrari commits to Indiana St

8-10-07       6-2 junior G Chris Colvin of Whitney Young/ Rising Stars has offers from Miami Fl, Miami Oh, Iowa, and NIU. Illinois will offer soon.

8-10-07       5-9 senior PG AJ Rompza of Whitney Young/Ferrari has Central Michigan, Cal St Santa Barbra, and Wisconsin GB at the top of his list

8-3-07         5-9 senior G Lewis Jackson unofficially trims his list down to Purdue, Bradley, Indiana, Dayton, and Tennessee

8-3-07         6-0 G Keyon Smothers of Washington will play for the College of Eastern Utah (JC)

8-2-07         6-2 Junior G Chris Colvin of Whitney Young/Rising Stars picks up an offer from Iowa

8-2-07         6-1 G Dareon Ingram of Curie has committed to play for Bismark St. JC

8-2-07         6-6 F Kevin Johnson of Simeon will reportedly attend Mineral Area Junior College. Johnson origionally signed to play for Wisconsin-Milwaukee

8-1-07         6-3 Senior SG Matt Roth of Washington/Indiana Elite has offers from Purdue, Indiana, Notre Dame, Bradley, St. Louis, and Wichita St.

7-31-07       6-3 Junior SG David Bryant of Batavia/Ill Wolves picks up an offer from William & Mary

7-31-07       5-9 Senior PG Lewis Jackson of Eisenhower/Indiana Elite picks up an offer from USC and they are his new unofficial leader

7-30-07       Rumor has it that 6-3 Senior SG Matt Roth of Washington/ Indiana Elite has recieved an offer from Purdue. Indiana, St. Louis, Bradley and others have offered

7-30-07       6-3 Junior Wing Diamond Taylor of St.Joes/Wolves picks up an offer from Marquette. Wisconsin, Southern and Northern Illinois, and Bradley have also offered.

7-29-07       Southern Illinois is in very good position to land 6-3 Junior G Joseph Bertrand of Sterling/ Ill Wolves

7-29-07       6-4 Senior Wing Ryan Hare of Marshall/ Mac Irvin Fire has offers from UNLV, Ball State, Bradley, Colorado State, Illinois-Chicago, Indiana State, Northern Illinois, and Wichita State.

7-29-07       6-3 G Verdell Jones of Champaign Central/ Ft. Sooy has offers from Kentucky, Virginia, South Florida, and Marquette

7-26-07       6-2 G Kevin Woods of Leo commits to Utah Valley St

7-26-07       6-7 F Byron Pickens of Senn will attend Mineral Area CC, he originally signed with UIC

7-26-07       6-4 G Joseph Bertrand of Sterling has offers from Marquette, Iowa, Bradley, Wisconsin, Southern Illinois, and Notre Dame

7-26-07       6-3 Wing Diamond Taylor of St Joseph/ Illinois Wolves has offers from Wisconsin, Southern Ill, Bradley, and Northern Illinois

7-26-07       Illinois, Iowa, Purdue, Michigan State, Northwestern, North Carolina, Tennessee, Michigan, Xavier, Wisconsin, and Bradley all went to see Rising Stars gold play in Vegas mainly because of 6-2 G Chris Colvin and 6-2 G/F Marcus Jordan.

7-26-07       6-3 SF Kaleb Wright of Eisenhower is being recruited by Bradley, Illinois St, Loyola-Chicago, Northern Illinois, Wyoming and Drake

7-26-07       6-9 F Luke Fabrizius has Dayton, Northwestern and Notre Dame high on his list

7-26-07       6-1 G Brandon Dover of Conant picks up an offer from Chicago St

7-26-07       6-4 SF Derrick Pulliem of Sheppard high school picks up an offer from Northern Illinois

7-25-07       6-10 PF Jake Lindfors of Driscoll/ Rising Stars picks up a second offer, after getting an offer from Western Illinois 2 days ago. Find out who offered in The Poneman Report

7-25-07       7-0 C Kyle Rowley of Lake Forest Academy/ Full Package has an offer from Baylor

7-25-07       6-3 SG Aaron Garriot of Bloomington Central Catholic picks up an offer from Air Force

7-24-07       6-3 SG Matt Roth of Indiana Elite/ Washington picks up an offer from Indiana. He is also considering St. Louis and Bradley.

7-23-07       Illinois head coach Bruce Weber was in the house to see Brandon Paul and team NLP in Las Vegas. Paul didnt dissapoint, as he scored 14 points including a big time dunk. Paul has offers from Wisconsin Green Bay and Loyola, with a high amount of interest from Xavier, Washington St, USC, Illinois and others.

7-23-07       5-9 PG Lewis Jackson of Indiana Elite/ Decatur Eisenhower picks up an offer from Purdue

7-23-07       Washington State is starting to recruit 6-9 Jawan Nelson of Bloom/ Illinois Bobcats

7-23-07       6-10 Jake Lindfors of Driscoll/ Rising Stars picks up an offer from Western Illinois

7-22-07       6-0 G Kevin Stineman of Stevenson/ Rising Stars picks up an offer from Quincy

7-20-07       6-0 G Kevin Stineman of Stevenson/ Rising Stars is seeing his recruiting stock soar. He has a lot of interest from Quincy, Lewis, St.Josephs and others

7-20-07       6-6 PF Anthony Alhers of Putnahm County/ Illinois Wolves has an offer from Niagra. He is getting interest from Florida and Wisconsin GB

7-19-07      Colorado is really picking up thier efforts in recruiting Lewis Jackson. Look for an offer from the Buff's soon.

7-19-07      Central Michigan university is hot on the recruiting trail of Lewis Jackson, Donovan Foster, Kenyon Smith, and AJ Rompza. They need a player that can step in and start immediately, and they are hoping that one of these Illinois prospects will fill that role. They are also recruiting Jawan Nelson and Jelani Poston to run in thier frontcourt.

7-19-07      6-5 SG Nik Garcia of Rising Stars/ Niles West is now being heavily recruited by Maryland and Michigan. He and 6-2 G Marcus Jordan are planning a visit to Michigan soon.

7-19-07      6-3 SG/SF Xavier Humphrey of Illinois Stars/ Fenwick was recently injured in a summer league game and could be out the rest of the summer.

7-19-07      6-3 SG/SF DJ Richardson of Illinois Stars/ Peoria Central has offers from Notre Dame, Marquette, Baylor, Illinois, New Mexico, Miami, Indiana, and Bradley. Depaul and Purdue are also showing a lot of interest.

7-18-07      5-8 PG AJ Rompza of Ferrari/ Whitney Young has offers from NIU, Howard, UIC, Eastern Illinois, Idaho, and Wisconsin GB

7-17-07      6-5 SG Nik Garcia of Niles West picks up an offer from Akron

7-16-07      6-8 PF Jordan Prosser of Eureka/Indiana Elite picks up an offer from Notre Dame

7-16-07      6-3 G Aaron Garriot of Bloomington Central Catholic picks up an offer from North Dakota

7-16-07      6-3 G Diamond Taylor of Illinois Wolves/ St. Joseph has offers from Wisconsin, NIU, and Bradley

7-16-07      6-5 Matt Humphrey and 6-10 Mike Dunnigan commit to Oregon

7-14-07      6-5 Forward Cortney Bell of Lincoln Park/ Rising Stars has northwestern high on his list. They are showing a lot of interest. 6-9 PF/C Jack Cooley of GBS/ Rising Stars is also recving interest and has them on top of his list

7-14-07      Oregon looks to be in VERY good position to land Mathew Humphrey and Mike Dunnigan

7-14-07      Marcus Jordan, Chris Colvin, and Nik Garcia are reciving a high amount of interest from USC

7-14-07      After a 28 point performance vs. Boo Williams, including a last second 3 pointer to send the game to overtime, look for 6-5 G Nik Garcia's recruiting stock to soar. Coaches from Northwestern, Hampton, Purdue, Iowa, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Michigan, Kansas St, Chicago St, and many many more were in attendance, including Tim Floyd of USC.

7-14-07      Class of 07 star Lee Fisher is still on the board and has offers from Chicago St and Northern Illinois

7-13-07      It is looking like Matt Humphrey may be leaning toward Oregon. Illinois, Uconn, and others are still being considered. All have offered.

7-13-07      6-8 PF/C Jack Cooley of GBS/Rising Stars is recieving a lot of interest from Princeton

7-13-07      6-2 G Chris Colvin of Whitney Young/ Rising Stars has offers from NIU and Miami Ohio, and has heavy interest from a number of schools including Iowa, Illinois, Tennessee, and Colorado

7-13-07      6-2 G Malcolm Griffin is reciving interest from Illinois

7-13-07      6-8 PF Jawan Nelson of Bloom has an offer from Virginia Tech

7-13-07      6-5 SG Nik Garcia of Niles West/ Rising Stars is reciving a lot of attention from Akron University, as is 6-5 F Cortney Bell

7-13-07      Mercer university likes Kevin Stineman, Bryan Hall, AJ Rompza and some other illinois prospects

7-13-07      Northwestern Head coach Bill Carmody was in attendance today at the peach jam and watched the Illinois Warriors and Luke Fabrizius play

7-12-07      Illinois coach Bruce Weber, Purdue coach Matt Painter, Kansas coach Bill Self, Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie, Purdue coach Mike Brey, Georgetown coach John Thompson and many others were in the gym today to see Meanstreets take on Team Texas

7-12-07      6-3 G Jovan Coney of Latin will walk on at Colorado

7-12-07      Colorado has a high amount of interest in 6-2 G Dion Dixon of Crane/Chicago Express, 5-9 PG Lewis Jackson of Decatur Eisenhower/Indiana Elite, 6-8 PF Jeremy Robinson of Decatur Eisenhower/Indy Spiece, and 6-5 Matt Humphrey of Hales Franciscan/Meanstreets who they have offered.

7-12-07      Derek Tarte of Fenwick picks up offers from NIU and Wyoming. Colorado is also showing interest.

7-12-07      Northern Illinois coach Ricardo Patton, and assistant Dennis Gates are doing a great job recruiting in the state of Illinois, as they have offered 09 prospects 6-5 SG Nik Garcia, 6-2 G Chris Colvin, 6-9 PF/C Jack Cooley, 6-2 G Marcus Jordan, 6-5 F Cortney Bell, and 6-3 G Diamond Taylor. Look for them to make a splash recruting in-state over the next few years.

7-12-07      6-5 SG Matt Humphrey of Hales Franciscan/ Meanstreets and 6-10 Mike Dunnigan of Farragut/Meanstreets have Oregon high on thier list

7-12-07      6-2 G Malcolm Griffin of Hyde Park and 6-7 F Stan Simpson of Whitney Young are playing with Rising Stars at the Peach Jam

7-12-07      6-0 G Isiah Williams of Farragut is playing with Meanstreets at the Peach Jam

7-12-07      6-9 PF Stan Simpson, 5-9 PG AJ Rompza, and 6-3 G Bryan Hall are all playing with the Illinois Warriors at the Peach Jam

7-12-07      6-10 C Steve Goins transfers from Leo to Curie

7-9-07        6-7 PF Darrell Williams of Dunbar/ Chicago Express is recieving a high amount of interest from Washington State

7-9-07      6-3 G Iman Shumpert of OPRF/Full Package picks up an offer from North Carolina after a big time performance at the Lebron James camp. Connecticut is beginning to show interest aswell

.7-9-07      5-9 PG Lewis Jackson of Decatur Eisenhower/Indiana Elite recieves an offer from Central Michigan

7-5-07       6-0 G David Campbell of St. Pats/ NBN is reciving high interest from Colgate and Harvard

7-5-07       6-1 G Jerome Harris of Collins is receiving a high amount of interest from a number of D1 schools. Among the schools going at him the hardest is Florida St and Colorado st.

7-5-07       6-9 PF/C Jawan Nelson of Bloom/ Ill Bobcats has high interest from a number of D1 schools including Virginia Tech of the ACC

7-3-07       Rivals.com reports that 6-9 senior PF Stan Simpson of Simeon will be playing with the Illinois Warriors

6-28-07     6-4 junior Dezman Hickman of Collinsville/ st. Louis Falcons has interest from SIU-Edwardsville and  Indiana St.9 PG

6-28-07     6-3 senior SG Aaron Garriot of Bloomington Central Catholic picks up an offer from SIU Edwardsville

6-28-07     6-8 junior PF Jordan Prosser of Eureka/Indiana elite picks up and offer from Indiana

6-28-07     6-0 junior G Seth Evans of Seneca/ Ill Stars picks up an offer from South Dakota St

6-28-07     6-6 senior G Deandre Liggens will play at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire next year

6-28-07     6-1 junior G James Kinney of Champaign Centennial/ Ill Stars/ Ill Elite picks up an offer from North Dakota St.

6-27-07    6-6 G Deandre Liggens commits to Kentucky and coach Billy Gillispie

6-27-07     6-6 G Deandre Liggens has narrowed his list of schools down to Memphis, Illinois,  and Kentucky, and he recently took an unofficial visit to Kentucky. He liked the visit so much that he has stated that Kentucky is his leader and that he may commit very soon.

6-27-07     6-3 SF Donald Stewart of Champaign Central lists offers from Tennessee St., and Indiana St.

6-27-07     6-8 PF Josh Crittle of Hales Franciscan/Meanstreets visited Marquette, and they look to be the leader to land his services at this point. His short list also includes Kansas St., Baylor, Indiana, and Iowa

6-27-07     6-3 G Verdell Jones of Champaign Central picks up an offer from Minnisota. Jones already listed offers from Kentucky, Tennessee, and DePaul

6-27-07     6-2 SG Matt Roth of Washington/ Indiana Elite has narrowed his list to Bradley, St. Louis, and Wichita St.

6-26-07     6-1 G Kannon Burrage of United Township is having a very good summer and is one of the hottest prospects in the class of 09

6-25-07     6-7 F Tyler Storm of Geneseo has Illinois St. high on his list

6-24-07     It's official! 6-4 SF Eric Dortch will be transfering to Evanston from North Shore Country Day and 6-6 SF Jereme Richmond will be transferring to Waukegan from NSCD. Richmond is committed to Illinois, and Dortch is reciving interest from a number of schools including Iowa.

6-22-07     6-2 G Chris Colvin of Whitney Young/ Rising Stars/ Top Flight picks up an offer from Northern Illinois. Iowa, Illinois, Purdue, and Northwestern are also recruiting him hard.

6-20-07     6-2 G Dmitri Riggs of Bloomington/ Spiece gym rats has an offer from Illinois St.

6-20-07     6-9 C Kamil Janton of the Illinois Wolves/ Bartlett commits to Eastern Michigan university. Eastern Michigan beat out a number of schools for Janton's services including Lewis and Nevada.

6-19-07     5-8 G Bruce Durham of Lockport commits to North Park University

6-19-07     6-1 PG Lavonte Dority of Illinois Heat/ Foreman picks up an offer from Iowa st. to go with an offer from New Mexico

6-19-07     5-10 PG Ryan Boatright of Illinois Mixers/ Aurora commits to USC after a strong showing at thier elite camp

6-19-07     6-10 C Trey McCorkle of Bismark-Henning/ CAPS all-stars picks up offers from Eastern Kentucky and Illinois St.

6-19-07     6-3 SG/SF DJ Richardson of Peoria Central/ Illinois Stars picks up an offer from Miami Fl

6-19-07     6-1 G Deandre McCamey has offers from DePaul and Illinois

6-19-07     6-2 G Diamond Taylor of Illinois Wolves/ St. Joseph has offers from Bradley and NIU, with a possible offer from Wisconsin coming soon...

6-19-07     6-9 PF Stan Simpson has transfered from Leo to Simeon. Stan will also be playing in the Peach Jam with Meantreets.

6-19-07     6-5 SG Matt Humphrey of Hales Franciscan/ Meanstreets has narrowed his list of schools to 10, but he is still considering a handful of others including Florida.

6-11-07     6-6 G/F Deandre Liggens of Washington/ Indiana Elite has narrowed his list to Memphis, Kansas, Illinois, and Kentucky

6-11-07     5-7 PG Lawrence Thomas of Springfield SE/ Illinois Warriors is being heavily recruited by bradley and stanford

6-11-07     6-3 G/F Brandon Paul of Warren/ NLP is set to get an offer from Xavier after a very strong showing at thier elite camp

6-11-07     6-4 SF Kaleb Wright of Eisenhower/ Meanstreets picks up an offer from Northern Illinoi

6-10-07     6-1  PG Lavonte Dority of Foreman/ Ill Heat picked up an offer this weekend from New Mexico

6-9-07      6-4 SF Kaleb Wright of Eisenhower/Meanstreets has offers from Wyoming and Loyola Chicago. Northern Illinois and Drake are also showing interest.

6-9-07      6-7 PF Jordan Prosser of Eureka/ Indiana Elite picks up offers from Wisconsin and Xavier

6-4-07       6-8 Josh Crittle of Meanstreets/ Hales Franciscan has listed Marquette, Indiana, Kansas St, Virginia, and Depaul as his leaders. All have offered.

6-4-07       Iman Shumpert is recieving interest from Kansas and North Carolina

6-1-07       Ralph Woodson, formerly of Hyde Park commits to Unviversity of Illinois- Springfield

6-1-07       6-0 G Jon Moran of Jacobs/ Illinois Wolves commits to Northern Iowa

5-29-07     6-7 F Tyler Storm of Geneseo/ Martin Brothers picks up an offer from Albany. Storm was invited to many schools elite camps but will be sidelined for a few weeks with mononucleiosis.

5-29-07     6-8 PF/C Josh Crittle of Hales Franciscan/ Meanstreets gets an offer from Iowa

5-27-07     Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Iowa and Southern Illinois have offered Joe Bertrand while Illinois, Michigan State, Bradley and Purdue are interested

5-27-07     6-3 G Dion Dixon of Crane has offers from Toledo and Akron. Expect high majors to get involved this summer.

5-24-07     Rumors about Deandre Liggens narrowing his school list to two are false. Liggens is considering Illinois, Memphis, Kansas, Kentucky, and Texas

5-22-07     6-1 G Kevin Woods of Leo is being recruited by a number of D1 schools including Southern and Long Beach St.

5-22-07     American University and Cornell are recruiting 6-1 G Chris Wroblewski of Highland Park/Rising Stars

5-22-07     6-5 Jemal Farmer of Bloom will play for Cloud County CC

5-22-07     Lake Land CC Lands Evanston Township High School stars 6-5 SF Eric Hilbring and 6-3 SG Devrece Bown

5-20-07     Xavier has begun to make the state of Illinois a recruiting priority. Currently they are showing strong interest in many 09 prospects including Chris Colvin, James Kinney, Brandon Paul, Mike Haynes, and Jordan Prosser

5-18-07     6-3 SG Diamond Taylor of St. Joseph/ Illinois Wolves picks up offers from NIU and Bradley

5-17-07     7-0 C Zach House of Rock Falls commits to Evansville

5-16-07     6-8 PF Demond Watt of TF North, the #1 unsigned prospect in Illinois, has decieded to join Tim Green and Antonio Topps in commiting to Texas A&M Chorpus Christi and new associate head coach Billy Garret.

5-16-07     Tim Green, formerly of Simeon, commits to Texas A&M Corpus Christi and new associate head coach Billy Garret

5-16-07     Laron Frazier, formerly of Waukegan, commits to Ball st.

5-16-07     6-1 G Andrew Ready, formerly of Westinghouse, commits to D2 Western Washington

5-16-07     Expect 6-5 SF Parrish West of Morgan Park to end up at Highland CC

5-16-07     6-9 F Djibril Coulibaly of Boys to Men commits to Manhattan

5-16-07     6-2 G Billy Baptist of Illinois Central College commits to UIC

5-16-07     6-0 G Robert Moores, formerly of York, commits to Albany

5-16-07     7-0 C Zach House visits Evansville

5-16-07     North Park university has picked up commitments from 6-5 Nick Hoekstra of Illiana Christian, 6-7 Christian Alsing of Brother Rice, and 6-7 Phil Schniedermeier of Loyola

5-16-07     Chicago Carver's two senior stars have signed to play juco ball; Antonio Lofton at Parkland and Jaquez Wilson at Mott CC

5-16-07     6-6 John Kochnitzky of Oak Forest is recieving alot of D-1 interest

5-15-07     6-11 C Brett Thompson of Vienna commits to St. Louis and head coach Rick Majerus

5-15-07     6-3 G Marco Macias of Morton commits to Elmhurst College

5-14-07     6-1 G Antonio Topps of Leo commits to Texas A&M Corpus Christi and thier new associate head coach Billy Garret- per sources close to Antonio

5-14-07     6-7 Carl Montgomery of Shepard and 6-9 Haji Martin of Moregan Park commit to Chicago St.

5-14-07     6-9 F Johan Mpondo of Decatur Christian commits to Rhode Island. He chose Rhode Island over Wisconsin-Milwaukee

5-14-07     6-1 G Reggie Hamilton of Thornwood commits to University of Missouri-Kansas City

5-14-07     7-0 C Beas Hamga of Decatur Christian commits to UNLV as an 07 prospect

5-12-07     6-3 G/F DJ Richardson of Peoria Central/ Illinois Stars picks up an offer from Notre Dame

5-12-07     6-1 G Keyon Smith of Simeon/ Chicago Express has offers from Texas A&M and Florida State, among other schools

5-12-07     6-6 G/F Nick Fruendt of Batavia/ Illinois Wolves commits to Northwestern

5-12-07     6-4 G/F Ryan Hare of Marshall/ Illinois Fire picks up an offer from UNLV

5-12-07     6-6 G/F Nick Fruendt of Batavia/ Illinois Wolves narrows his list to Northwestern, Depaul, Xavier, Dayton, and Bradley

5-11-07     6-7 PF John Shurna of Glenbard West/ Illinois Wolves Commits to Northwestern

5-10-07     6-6 G/F Nick Fruendt of Batavia/ Illinois Wolves picks up a scholarship offer from Northwestern

5-9-07       6-3 SG Xavier Humphrey of Fenwick/ Illinois Stars is close to picking up and offer from Northwestern

5-9-07       5-11 G Seth Evans of Seneca/ Illinois Stars is being recruited hard by SIU, Xavier, Wisconsin Green Bay, and Butler

5-9-07       6-3 G/F DJ Richardson of Peoria Central/ Illinois Stars is close to picking up an offer from Notre Dame

5-9-07       Reggie Shipp of West Aurora commits to D-1 NAIA St. Ambrose university

5-9-07       Depaul picks up two recruits! 6-1 PG Jeremiah Kelly of Boys to Men and 6-7 G/F Marlo Stula of Decatur Christian sign with the Blue Demons

5-8-07       6-8 PF Isiah Martin of Morgan Park commits to Indiana St.

5-8-07       6-5 G/F Mark Yelovich of Mt. Zion/ Illinois Warriors picks up an offer from New Hampshire

5-8-07       6-6 G/SF Deandre Liggens of Washington/ Indiana Elite narrows his list to Kentucky, Memphis, Illinois, Texas, and Kansas

5-8-07       6-11 C Brett Thompson of Vienna/ Illinois Warriors is high on Iowa St, St. Louis, Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, with St. Louis as his leader. All have offered.

5-7-07        6-5 G/F Tyler Thompson of West Aurora/ Illinois Wolves is recieving Ivy league interest.

5-7-07        6-0 G Jon Moran of  Jacobs/ Illinois Wolves picks up an offer from Loyola- Chicago.  He is recieving interest from many Missouri Valley schools and high majors including Iowa St.

5-7-07        6-5 SG Matt Humphrey of Hales Franciscan/ Meanstreets picks up an offer from Colorado, and finally gets an offer from Illinois.

5-7-07        Illinois Wesleyan looks to have completed thier 07 recruiting class with 9 players commited. The players coming in next year are: Matt Schick and Josh Sutton of Lincoln, Duncan Lawson of Glenbard West, Ed O'callahagn of St. Pats, Travis Rosenkrans of Meridean, Sean Johnson of Washington, 6-5 Dan Schouten of Downers Grove South, 6-7 Doug Sexauer of Lockport, and 6-1 Chris Stamas of Glenbrook North

5-4-07        Illinois Wesleyan university adds to an already outstanding 07 recruiting class, by landing 6-5 Dan Schouten of Downers Grove South, 6-7 Doug Sexauer of Lockport, and 6-1 Chris Stamas of Glenbrook North

5-4-07        6-1 PG Kevin Dillard of Homewood-Flossmoor/ Meanstreets commits to Southern Illinois

5-4-07        6-5 G/F Nick Fruendt of Batavia/ Illinois Wolves adds to a long list of scholarship offers, and picks up offers from George Washington and Xavier of the A-10

5-4-07        7-0 C Zach House of Rock Falls has decommited from Northern Illinois and re-opened his recruitment. He is looking at Nevada, Penn, Brown, Evansville, and Rice, and is keeping his options open

5-3-07        6-6 G/SF Deandre Liggens of Chciago Washington/ Indiana Elite is one of, if not the hottest prospect in the nation. Liggens, who has been the Illinois HS Basketball.com #1 ranked player in Illinois for awhile now, is now a 5 star prospect on rivals.com and is ranked top 20 in the nation

5-3-07        6-3 G Verdell Jones III of Champaign Central picks up an offer from Kentcky

5-2-07        5-11 PG David Campbell of St. Patrick/ Nothing but Net is being recruited hard by Eastern Illinois, among other schools

5-2-07        6-8 PF Delvon Johnson of Bloom has commited to Western Illinois

5-1-07        7-0 C Beas Hamga of Decatur Christian has reclassified from the class of 08 to the class of 07. He is considering Kentucky, UNLV, New Mexico, and Indiana. Kentucky is the early favorite.

5-1-07        6-8 PF Jon Shurna of Glenbard West/ Illinois Wolves 17u is one of the hottest prospects in the state. He is being closely watched by many programs around the country including Utah, and Washington State, who has offered him a scholarship.

5-1-07        6-0 G Chris Wroblewski of Highland Pakr/ Rising Stars 17u is being closely watched by many ivy league programs including Cornell.

5-1-07        Terrance Johns, formerly of Orr commits to Cal State Bakersfield

5-1-07        5-11 SG Seth Evans of Seneca/ Illinois Stars 16u picks up a scholarship offer from Wisconsin Green Bay

5-1-07        6-3 G Marco Macias of Morton has a scholarship offer from D2 Winona State

5-1-07        6-7 F Kellen Thornton of Hillcrest visited D2 Metro state and is expected to visit Northern Illinois

5-1-07        Parkland College (juco) has a stellar recruiting class coming in featuring 11 top players! The Illinois players they signed are; Chris Bohnhoff from St. Anthony, Tydus Townsend from Proviso East, Isiah Evans, Rashaad Wilson, and Corderall Smith from North Lawndale, Lester Hart from Decatur Eisenhower, Matt Mierzycki from Glenbrook South, and Rob Winnicki of Herscher,

5-1-07        6-0 G Jon Moran of Jacobs/ Illinois Wolves 17u has picked up offers from Northern Iowa, Dayton, Wisconsin-Green Bay and Kent State

4-30-07      6-1 G Gozie Umeadi of Fenton/ Rising Stars 17u is being heavily recruited by Columbia of the Ivy League

4-30-07      6-6 G/F Peter Boehm of New Trier/ Rising Stars 17u has offers from Lehigh, Rice, and Loyola

4-30-07      6-6 G/SF Deandre Liggens of Chicago Washington/ Indiana Elite 17u is considering Kansas, Kentucky, Memphis, Texas, and Illinois. All have offered.

4-30-07      Jon Balderman of Riverside-Brookfield commits to D3 Loras College

4-30-07      Joe Parys of Prarie Ridge commits to D3 Coe College

4-30-07      Justin Hightower of Proviso West commits to University of Illinois-Springfield

4-30-07      Indiana St. and Loyola have been tracking Carl Richard of Richards/ Meanstreets 17u

4-30-07      Jeremy Montgomery of Lincoln Park/ Mac Irvin Fire 17u picks up offers from Toledo and Kent State

4-30-07      Mike Haynes of Washington/ Illinois Bobcats 17u picks up an offer from Marquette

4-29-07      Deon Thompson of Evanston commits to Defiance College (OH) D3

4-29-07      Sean Scott of Farragut commits to Mineral Area College

4-29-07      Brandon Farmer of Lincoln commits to Lincoln community college

4-29-07      Tydus Townsend of Proviso East commits to Parkland (juco)

4-29-07      Illinois Wesleyan has one of the top D-3 recruiting classes in the nation! Duncan Lawson of Glenbard West recently commited, joining Ed O'callahagn of St. Pats, Travis Rosenkrans of Meridean, Sean Johnson of Washington, and Matt Schick and Josh Sutton of Lincoln

4-29-07      Byron Pickens of Senn commits to UIC

4-29-07      Deandre Liggens picks up an offer from Texas

4-29-07      Iman Shumpert picks up an offer from Tennessee

4-28-07      Stan Simpson claims offers from Indiana and Virginia

4-26-07      Jeff Jordan will go to Illinois as a walk on

4-26-07      Jeff Jordan may be close to commiting to Illinois... Davidson, Valpo,  and George Washington are also in the mix

4-26-07      Iman Shumpert of OPRF picks up offers from Miami (FL) and Iowa, to go along with offers from G Tech, Clemson, Marquette, Northwestern, Westerk Kentucky, Southern Illinois and Bradley.  Also interested are now Duke, Illinois, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, California,

4-26-07      Deandre Liggens of Washington has offers from Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Memphis, Miami-FL, Purdue and Virginia. His leaders are Memphis, Kansas, Kentucky, Illinois, and Purdue.  Bill Self of Kansas will be at Washington to see him play today.

4-26-07      Dan Barnes of Oak Park River Forest has picked up an offer from LaSalle

4-26-07      D.J. Posley, formerly of Homewood- Flossmoore, has commited to University of California Santa Barbra

4-25-07      Kodhamus Llongbey of Richards will attend Stoneridge (CA) prep school

4-24-07      D.J. Dantzler commits to UW-Parkside (D2)

4-24-07      Logan Derrick and Shannon Adams of Warren commit to Carthage

4-24-07      Jon Moran of Jacobs gets an offer from William & Mary

4-24-07      Mike Baletto of Lake Park commits to Grand Valley State (D2)

4-24-07      Justin Hightower of Proviso West is very close to making a commitment to (D2) Lewis University

4-24-07      Brandon Hall of Simeon commits to Mineral Area College

4-23-07      Depaul is interested in 2011 prospects Mike Shaw and Ryan Boaright

4-23-07      Jeremiah Kelley of Boys to Men has offers from Depaul, Florida State, and Valpo... his stock is going WAY up after a great showing this weekend at the Kingwood.... Washington St and North Carolina are also keeping tabs on him

4-23-07      Christian Alsing of Brother Rice commits to North Park university

4-23-07      Rob Belcore of Loyola picks up and offer from LaSalle

4-19-07      Andre Quarels of Bremen commits to Wabash Valley community college

4-19-07      Johnnie Harris, formerly of Chicago Vocational, signs with New Mexico and new coach Steve Alford

4-19-07      Byron Pickens of Senn has offers from Metro State, Northwest Missouri State, and Lewis

4-19-07      John Shurna of Glenbard West has an offer from Washington State

4-18-07      Demario Williams of Thornridge commits to Dodge City JC

4-13-07      Edmond O'Callahan of St. Patrick commits to Illinois Wesleyan

4-13-07      Isiah Martin of Morgan Park visited Central Florida and Niagra.  Central Florida is the leader.

4-12-07      Kevin Woods picks up an offer from Niagra

4-12-07     Charles Harris of Seton Academy has taken an unofficial visit to Lewis & Clark College, and plans on taking an unofficial visit this week to Trevecca Nazarene university (NAIA) in Nashville, Tennessee

4-12-07     Mike Harrington of Kankakee Community College has commited to Detriot

4-12-07     Trey Blue of Thornwood will attend prep school at Brewster Academy (N.H.)

4-12-07     Josh Edmonds of Peoria Notre Dame commits to Quincy

4-12-07     Kavon Lacey of Alton signs with Evansville

4-11-07     Travis Rosencrantz of Meridean commits to Illinois Wesleyan

4-11-07     Geoff McCammon of Conant commits to Loyola University (Chicago)

4-10-07     Former Julian star Desmond Hendrix has commited to Wyoming

4-10-07     Niagra has jumped in the mix for Isiah Martin of Morgan Park, and Kevin Woods of Leo

4-10-07     Sean Johnson of Washington commits to Illinois Wesleyan

4-9-07       Deandre Liggens of Chicago Washington is considering offers from Memphis, Arkansas, Miami, Purdue, and Illinois

4-9-07       Demetrius Williamson of Bakersfield college in California has commited to play for Niagra

4-8-07       Reggie Hamilton of Thornwood is being recruited by Northern Illinois, Wright St., and Loyola

4-8-07       Mike Balleto of Lake Park has offers from Eastern Illinois and Lafayette.

4-8-07       Kellen Thorton of Hillcrest is being recruited by Evansville, Niagra, Metro St., Wisconsin Green Bay, and Chicago St.

4-8-07       Isiah Martin of Morgan Park has offers from Evansville, Bradley, and Central Florida, and is waiting on an offer from Northwestern

4-8-07       Demond Watt of T.F. North is being recruited by Fordham, Massachusets, Northwestern, and Wyoming, among others.

4-8-07       Trey Blue of Thornwood has offers from Rice, Kent St., Lehigh, Illinois St., Howard, Wisconsin Green Bay, and Navy, and is recieving alot of interest from Northwestern and LSU

4-5-07       Brandon Hall of Simeon picks up an offer from Lewis University

4-5-07       Lougwin Spann of Seton academy commits to East Central University (Oklahoma)

4-4-07       Duke and California are now on Iman Shumpert's list

4-4-07       Jon Shurna of Glenbard West picks up an offer from Kent st. to go along with offers from Loyola and Wisconsin Green Bay

4-1-07       Thomas Kopko of St. Laurence commits to Notre Dame

4-1-07       Geoff McCammon of Canant picks up an offer from  Eastern Kentucky

3-30-07     Geoff McCammon of Conant picks up an offer from  Loyola Chicago

3-28-07     Beas Hamga of Decatur Christian re-opens his recruitiment

3-28-07     Nate Minnoy, formerly of Hales Franciscan commits to Central Michigan

3-28-07     Jonathan Montgomery of Lincoln Park commits to Northern Iowa

3-26-07     Iman Shumpert of OPRF picks up offers from Georgia Tech and Clemson

3-17-07     Matt Roth of Washington is being recruited hard by Northwestern, and has offers from Bradley, Illinois St, and SIU

3-17-07     Ken Leverette of O'Fallon is being recruited by Marquette, Indiana State and others

3-17-07    James Kinney of Champaign Centennial is being recruited hard by Ohio St.

3-8-07      John Shurna of Glenbard West has recieved a scholarship offer from Wisconsin GB

3-8-07     Chicago St. has offered Michael Horton of Von Steuben, Geoff McCammon of Conant, Denardo Eiland of West Aurora, and a few others.

3-7-07      Contrary to earlier reports, Brett Thompson has not committed to LSU. Thomson has offers from Michigan, Missouri St., Illinois St., Northwestern, Purdue, Iowa State, and Southern Illinois among many others. He will make his decision next season after taking all 5 official visits.

3-5-07      Justin Safford, formerly of Bloomington Central Catholic commits to Missouri

3-3-07      Anthony Mitchell of East St. Louis high school has commited to St. Louis university

3-3-07      Brett Thompson of Vienna has a scholarship offer from LSU

2-27-07    Lewis Jackson of Decatur Eisenhower has narrowed his list to five schools; Illinois, Indiana, DePaul, Clemson, and Tennessee. All have offered.

2-25-07    Darrington Hobson of Decatur Christian commits to Peperdine

2-25-07    Justin Bocot of Bloomington Commits to Chris Lowry's Southern Illinois Salukis

2-23-07    Justin Bocot unofficial to Southern Illinois, will commit there unless he picks up and offer on his official to Iowa

2-23-07    Iman Shumpert and Matt Roth unofficial visit to Bradley

2-19-07    Jeffrey Jordan has offers from Lehigh, UIC, Loyola, Valpo, and Bowling Green, and is also considering Marquette, Kentucky, and Miami

2-19-07    Deandre Liggens of Washington is being recruited by many top schools. He holds offers from Virginia, Memphis, Illinois, Iowa and others.

2-19-07    Isiah Martin of Morgan Park unofficial to Evansville- Northwestern is also recruiting him

2-19-07    Jereme Richmond, D.J. Richardson, Xavier Humphrey, James Kinney, Carl Richard, Jim Hayes, Max Burgess, Nate Scheck, Alex Rossi, C.J. Fiedorowicz unnoficial to Illinois

2-14-07     Look for Sophomore Brian Conway from Bloom to be one of the most heavily recruited players in the state in the next few years

2-12-07     Sophomore James Kinney of Champaign Centennial is recieving alot of recruitment attention lately. Miami (Fl) and Loyola are the latest schools to jump in the mix

2-10-07     Deandre Liggens unnoficcial to Arkansas

2-6-07       Luke Fabrizius of Hersey adds scholarship offers from California and Creighton to his list that includes Dayton, DePaul, Indiana, Iowa State, Marquette, Northwestern and Albany

2-6-07       Jelani Floyd commits to Brown

2-4-07       Mike Stovall of Marshall commits to Oregon State University

2-3-07       Geoff McCammon of Conant high school's recruitment is heating up

2-1-07       Lonnie Lawrence of Bloomington high school commits to Scott Trost and Lewis university

1-30-07     Steve Alford, Billy Garrett and the rest of the coaching staff at the university of  Iowa have been doing a great job of recruiting in the state of Illinois and in Indiana. Iowa has already gotten a commitment from 08 Decatur Christian star Beas Hamga, and 07 prospects Jake Kelley and Diarese Gary from Indiana, and is high on the list for Illinois 07 prospects Darrington Hobson, Mike Stovall, and Justin Bocot, many 08 prospects including Mike Dunnigan, Deandre Liggens, Matt Humphrey, Dion Dixon, Ryan Hare, Lewis Jackson, and Rob Belcore, and is high on the list for almost all of the top 09 and 2010 prospects in Illinois. Iowa features Chicago area products Tony Freeman and Cyrus Tate on their current roster.

1-30-07    Joseph Bertrand of Sterling picks up and offer from the Iowa Hawkeyes

1-28-07    Jordan Prosser of Eureka unofficial to Kentucky

1-28-07    Luke Fabrizius of Hersey unofficial to Northwestern

1-28-07    Chance Carter, Mike Stovall and Ryan Hare unoficial to Iowa

1-25-07    Western Kentucky University has 5 available scholarships for the class of 08, and I guaruntee some of those will be going to Chicago players

1-25-07    John Calapari of Memphis is recruiting Deandre Liggens of Washington very hard

1-25-07    University of Wisconsin Green-Bay is hot on the recruiting trail of many Chicago products including juniors A.J. Rompza of Whitney Young and Marcus Delony of T.F. North

1-25-07    Mike Horton of Von Steuben has recieved offers from New Hampshire, Texas St., Chicago St., and many D-2 schools including powerhouse Lewis University

1-25-07    Chicago St. University, a D-1 school, is hot on the recruiting trail of many Illinois prospects including Eric Hilbring of Evanston, Nate Fuqua of Proviso East, Shelton Jackson of Lane Tech, and Michael Horton of Von Steuben

1-25-07    Iman Shumpert unofficial to Notre Dame

1-19-07    Eastern Illinois is hot on the recruiting trail of Justin Hightower of Proviso West and Mike Balleto of Lake Park

1-19-07    Iman Shumpert of Oak Park River Forest has had many high major schools in to see him play this year including Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Illinois, Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Michigan

1-11-07    Jeremy Robinson of Decateur Eisenhower recieves offers from Dayton, Illinois St., and Indiana st.

1-11-07    Joseph Bertrand recieves an offer from Wisconsin

1-4-07      Phillip Perry commits to Dayton

1-4-07      Mike Dinnuno commits to Northern Illinois University

12-21-06  Mike Dunnigan and Mathew Humphrey unofficial to University of Wisconsin

12-19-06  Mike Baletto of Lake Park has a scholarship offer from Eastern Illinois

12-14-06  Lewis Jackson of Eisenhower recieves an ACC offer from Clemson

12-11-06  Iowa and Northwestern are hot on the recruiting trail of Chris Colvin

12-11-06  Jonathan Montgomery has offers from Bowling Green, George Mason, and Penn St.

12-11-06  A.J. Rompza has offers from university of Wisconsin Green Bay and Idaho St.

12-11-06  Trey Blue has offers from university of Wisconsin Green Bay, Rice, Lehigh, and Navy

12-11-06  Blake Saunders takes an official to the Citadel and an unofficial to Northwestern

11-26-06  Iman Shumpert has offers from Northern Iowa, Southern Illinois, Toledo, Bradley, Nevada, Northwestern and Minnesota

11-24-06  Jereme Richmond, a 6-6 Freshman G/F from North Shore Country Day has commited to play for the University of Illinois

11-17-06 Tori Boyd of Rockford Boylan commits to the university of Illinois-Chicago

11-14-06 Mustapha Farrakhan of Thornton commits to Virginia

11-14-06 Former Rich Central star Howard Little commits to Valparaiso

11-8-06   Last weekend, Eric Dortch, Jereme Richmond, Dennis Hodges, Ben Brust, Chance Carter, and Rob Wennington unofficial to Wisconsin

11-5-06   Derrick Rose of Simeon commits to Memphis

11-5-06   Tim Flowers of Simeon commits to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

11-5-06   Kevin Johnson of Simeon commits to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

11-2-06   Byron Woods offer from Western Illinois

11-2-06   Byron Woods of Proviso West unofficial to Western Illinois

11-2-06   A.J. Rompza of Whitney Young receives an offer from the university of Idaho

10-30-06 Mike Stovall has offers from Iowa, Iowa State, and Indiana

10-30-06 Xavier Humphrey unofficial to Wisconsin

10-30-06 Clarence Holloway of Boys to Men commits to Louisville University

10-30-06 Sean Kane of Caramel commits to Brown University

10-27-06 Dan Monckton of Glenbrook South commits to Pennsylvania University

10-25-06 Andre Walker commits to Vanderbilt

10-24-06 Garrett Leffelman of St. Josephs commits to Brown University.

10-23-06 Chris Colvin, the number two class of 09 prospect in the state, is seeing his recruiting stock rise and has been getting interest from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, California, Clemson, Oakland, Fresno St., and Bradley

Class of 06 star Leon Freeman from Belleville, Michigan high school enrolls at Chicago Boys to Men.

Manual Cass, formerly a student at Carbondale high school, commits to UTEP

Lucca Staiger of Decatur Christian commits to Iowa State

Rick Almon of York commits to D-2 Lewis university

Zach House of Rock Falls commits to NIU

Chris Parrish of Riverside-Brookfield Commits to SIU

Lewis Jackson recieves his third Big Ten offer from Illinois to add to offers from Indiana and Iowa

Nick Fruendt has offers from Illinois St., Southern Ill., Dayton, Bradley, and DePaul           

Kevin Dillard has offers from Bradley, Illinois St., Albany, and Southern Illinois

Isiah Martin has offers from Albany, Souther Ill., Northern Ill., Western Ill., Eastern Ill., Wyoming, Illinois St., and UTEP

Jordan Prosser recieves an offer from Bradley

Mike Stovall has offers from Indiana, Iowa, Iowa St., Indiana St., UNLV, and Ole Miss

Josh Crittle  has offers from Illinois, Purdue, Illinois st., Clemson, DePaul, Baylor, Iowa St., Valpo, and Miami

Tyler Storm receives an offer from DePaul

D.J. Richardson receives an offer from Illinois

Justin Bocot unofficial to Iowa     

Nick Fruendt unofficial to Bradley, Iowa, Indiana, Notre Dame, and Wisconsin

Tyler Storm unofficial to DePaul

Iman Shumpert unofficial to Northwestern, Illinois, and Wisconsin

D.J. Richardson, Jereme Richmond, Josh Crittle, Mike Dunigan, Deandre Liggens, Lewis Jackson, Justin Bocot, Matt Humphrey,D'mitri Riggs, Deandre Mccamey unofficial to Illinois

Derrick Rose unofficial to Memphis