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Dain Dainja and Terrence Shannon Jr. have more in widespread than the simple fact they equally chose to transfer to Illinois for the 2022-23 time. You can find a tie that binds the two Illini newcomers. A tie that created their recruitment soon after they hit the transfer portal a minimal less complicated. The two Dainja and Shannon experienced an Illinois provide out of significant faculty. It wasn’t so a lot a recruitment as a re-recruitment that landed them in Champaign.
“There is familiarity,” Illinois mentor Brad Underwood claimed previous 7 days when talking about Shannon immediately after the Texas Tech transfer formally signed. “Terrence was on campus. He’s been on campus multiple times. There’s a whole lot of things different now with the Ubben expansion likely on and our good results, so it is a minor distinctive appear and little distinctive really feel for him, but of course there’s an edge to have knowledge of each individual other each approaches.”
You will find a sentiment in university basketball that it truly is practically greater to be the No. 2 in a recruitment for a large college prospect than the winner. The quantity of gamers that transfer — even just after a solitary time — type of again that up.
Illinois offered 236 recruits in Underwood’s very first four whole lessons from 2018-2021. A lot more than 40 % of those players have now transferred. Some far more than when. In overall, 101 of the 236 previous Illini targets have changed teams. That incorporates nine that chose Illinois and ultimately resolved to head elsewhere right after at the very least 1 period in orange and blue (Alan Griffin, Anthony Higgs, Tevian Jones, Samba Kane, Jermaine Hamlin, Benjamin Bosmans-Verdonk, Andre Curbelo, Adam Miller and Brandin Podziemski).
Here’s a checklist of all 236 players Illinois supplied that ultimately strike the transfer portal (a problem mark indicates a player at present in the portal that has not landed somewhere else just yet):
Class of 2018 (32 of 57 transferred)
- Kaden Archie (TCU-UTEP-Ga Southern)
- Parker Braun (Missouri-Santa Clara)
- Maurice Calloo (Oklahoma Point out-Indian Hills C.C.-Oregon Condition)
- Colin Castleton (Michigan-Florida)
- Taeshon Cherry (Arizona Point out-Grand Canyon)
- Jermaine Couisnard (South Carolina-Oregon)
- Tim Finke (Grand Canyon-Wright Point out)
- Bryce Golden (Butler-Loyola Chicago)
- Carte’Are Gordon (Saint Louis-DePaul-Northwest Florida State-Grambling)
- Alan Griffin (Illinois-Syracuse)
- Zion Griffin (Iowa State-UIC-Tennessee Condition)
- Anthony Higgs (Illinois-Chipola College or university)
- Blake Hinson (Ole Skip-Iowa State-Pittsburgh)
- Jerome Hunter (Indiana-Xavier)
- Demarius Jacobs (Saint Louis-Ball Condition)
- Brandon Johns Jr. (Michigan-VCU)
- Tevian Jones (Illinois-Southern Utah)
- Samba Kane (Illinois-Indian Hills C.C.-San Francisco-Milwaukee)
- Lukas Kisunas (Stanford-Denver)
- Jordan Lathon (UTEP-Milwaukee)
- Amanze Ngumezi (Georgia-Jacksonville Condition)
- Landers Nolley II (Virginia Tech-Memphis-Cincinnati)
- Francis Okoro (Oregon-Saint Louis)
- Tamell Pearson (UAB-Western Illinois-?)
- Bryan Penn-Johnson (Washington-LSU-East Los Angeles University) Frankie Policelli (Dayton-Stony Brook)
- Courtney Ramey (Texas-?)
- Luis Rodriguez (Ole Overlook-UNLV)
- Morris Udeze (Wichita Point out-New Mexico)
- Torrence Watson (Missouri-Elon)
- Elijah Weaver (USC-Dayton)
- Dima Zdor (Weber Condition-Grand Canyon)
Course of 2019 (30 of 69 transferred)
- Dontaie Allen (Kentucky-Western Kentucky)
- Damion Baugh (Memphis-TCU)
- Josaphat Bilau (Wichita State-New Mexico J.C.)
- Benjamin Bosmans-Verdonk (Illinois-?)
- Keion Brooks Jr. (Kentucky-?) Christian Brown (Georgia-Tennessee Condition)
- D.J. Carton (Ohio State-Marquette)
- Antavion Collum (Ole Miss out on-Cal Condition Bakersfield)
- Kevin Cross (Nebraska-Tulane)
- Dylan Disu (Vanderbilt-Texas)
- Tristan Enaruna (Kansas-Iowa State-Cleveland Point out)
- Jalen Graham (Arizona State-Arkansas)
- Quincy Guerrier (Syracuse-Oregon)
- Jermaine Hamlin (Illinois-Jap Illinois)
- Aidan Igiehon (Louisville-Grand Canyon)
- Victor Iwuakor (Oklahoma-UNLV)
- Tray Jackson (Missouri-Seton Corridor)
- Julius Marble II (Michigan Point out-Texas A&M)
- Ismael Massoud (Wake Forest-Kansas State)
- Mario McKinney Jr. (Missouri-John A. Logan College-New Mexico Condition)
- Emanuel Miller (Texas A&M-TCU)
- Tre Mitchell (UMass-Texas-?)
- Addison Patterson (Oregon-Nevada-Salt Lake C.C.)
- Chris Payton (Indian Hills C.C.-Pittsburgh-?)
- Shon Robinson (Ole Skip-San Jose State)
- Grant Sherfield (Wichita Point out-Nevada-?)
- Terrence Shannon Jr. (Texas Tech-Illinois)
- Rocket Watts (Michigan Condition-Mississippi State-?)
- Donovan Williams (Texas-UNLV)
- Samuell Williamson (Louisville-SMU)
Class of 2020 (30 of 62 transferred)
- Jabri Abdur-Rahim (Virginia-Georgia)
- Keon Ambrose-Hylton (Alabama-?) Davion Bradford (Kansas Point out-?)
- Jalen Bridges (West Virginia-Baylor)
- Nimari Burnett (Texas Tech-Alabama)
- Moussa Cisse (Memphis-Oklahoma State)
- Isaiah Cottrell (West Virginia-UNLV)
- Matt Cross (Miami-Louisville-UMass)
- Andre Curbelo (Illinois-St. John’s)
- Dain Dainja (Baylor-Illinois)
- Hassan Diarra (Texas A&M-?)
- Cam’Ron Fletcher (Kentucky-Florida Condition)
- Xavier Foster (Iowa Point out-?)
- Saba Gigiberia (Georgia Tech-San Francisco)
- DJ Gordon (Penn Condition-Fordham)
- Zeb Jackson (Michigan-VCU)
- Luke Kasubke (Kansas State-Illinois Condition)
- Walker Kessler (North Carolina-Auburn)
- Khristian Lander (Indiana-Western Kentucky)
- Jamal Mashburn Jr. (Minnesota-New Mexico)
- Bayron Matos (New Mexico-South Florida)
- Adam Miller (Illinois-LSU-?)
- Shakeel Moore (N.C. Point out-Mississippi Point out-?)
- Jordan Nesbitt (Memphis-Saint Louis-Hampton)
- KK Robinson (Arkansas-?)
- Jamari Sibley (Georgetown-UTEP)
- Jayden Stone (Grand Canyon-Detroit Mercy)
- Alex Tchikou (Alabama-?)
- Corey Walker Jr. (Tennessee-South Florida)
- Marcus Watson Jr. (Western Illinois-Iowa Western C.C.)
Course of 2021 (9 of 48 transferred)
- Sam Ayomide Onu (Memphis-Florida Gulf Coastline)
- Patrick Baldwin Jr. (Milwaukee-?) Wesley Cardet Jr. (Samford-?)
- Bryce Hopkins (Kentucky-Providence)
- David Jones (DePaul-St. John’s)
- Franck Kepnang (Oregon-Washington)
- Brandin Podziemski (Illinois-Santa Clara)
- Alexis Reyes (East Carolina-?)
- Jamarion Sharp (John A. Logan School-Western Kentucky-?)
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