2025 and beyond recruits

[Da Coach]

Illinois Hoops Report's ranking of the Top 50 Illinois high school players in the class of 2025-
Top 25- https://twitter.com/Ihoopsreport/sta...06996081009136
#26-#50- https://twitter.com/Ihoopsreport/sta...07051735257489

[Da Coach]

This ranking from a more established source has Sommerville #2

https://twitter.com/chilandprephoop/status/1691958517081752011

[Da Coach]

I believe they offered Chris Riddle,#9?

Yes, Bradley did-

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/505646-2023-and-beyond-recruits/page22#post511799

[LongTimeFan]

I believe they offered Chris Riddle,#9?

[Da Coach]

Here is a relatively new blogger's (Illinois Hoop Report) ranking of the Illinois class of 2024-
Top 25 - https://twitter.com/Ihoopsreport/sta...79080441938314
26-50 - https://twitter.com/Ihoopsreport/sta...79374429090122

I am not sure I agree on all of them, but his research is good, as he has all the transfer kids at the right school. I have only seen video on fewer than half of them, and I wonder how much bloggers like this actually see of all these players.
Dekwon Brown, formerly of Limestone HS and now at Simeon, should be interesting to watch. He is ranked #8 in the state. He could justify that ranking with a good season at Simeon, which as always, is loaded with talent. And Lathan Sommerville, now at Richwoods HS, could easily end up the #1 recruit in the '23-'24 class. There won't be many teams that can stop him.
Bradley is still recruiting #6 Jack Stanton, #10 Eoin Dillon, #17 Jaheem Webber, #19 Braylon Roman, and probably a few others.

[Da Coach]

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2024 Colin White- 6'6" junior combo guard at Ottawa-Glandorf High School in Ottawa, Ohio. He also plays with Indiana Elite program and has had several impressive performances this spring.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/colin-white

https://247sports.com/Player/Colin-White-46136401/

https://www.hudl.com/profile/14819931/Colin-White

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/1481993...62430d9c7830f3

One time Bradley recruit Colin White commits to Ohio State.https://twitter.com/TiptonEdits/stat...17102691590146

[yoda]

A source tells me that the Bradley offer was a year ago, it was for 2023 & it has “come and gone”. Doubt Bradley is still targeting him, but that could change.

[Da Coach]

here is an interesting mention of a Canadian kid who holds a Bradley offer
and is presumably available for 2023 or possibly 2024....

He played last year at Carleton University, the Ottawa school that won 17 of 20 Canadian national championships from 2001-2020. I think they are transitioning to NCAA Division II now. He played very little his freshman year at Carleton, probably because they had a pretty good player at center. He is now looking for a US school (juco or 4-year) to transfer to.

[yoda]

here is an interesting mention of a Canadian kid who reportedly held a Bradley offer out of prep school,
and is presumably available for 2023 or possibly 2024.
This is Evan Meyer and he is big
https://twitter.com/LongShotsScouts/...38480443703296

http://canadatopflight.com/news.php?news_id=1968059

He played last summer against University of Kentucky and had 6 pts, 6 reb and held national Player of the Year Oscar Tsheibwe to 8 pts

He played prep ball for Canada's Top Flight Academy West in Calgary, about 250 mi west of Saskatoon, where Ja'Shon is from.

[KillerB]

quite a list of offers for Allan

[Da Coach]

New names-
2024 juco Landon Glasper- 6'2" guard from Forest City, Arkansas who is now a sophomore at Coffeyville Community College-. As a freshman, he averaged 13.9 ppg and shot 38.8% from three.

https://verbalcommits.com/players/landon-glasper

https://redravenathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2022-23/bios/glasper_landon_h6ri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeDehLyDza0

2025 Amari Allen- 6'7" forward at IMG Academy in Florida

https://verbalcommits.com/players/amari-allen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNeio6JjPx0

2023 Stephen Reed- 5'11" point guard from Milwaukee King HS

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/19053088/643ed7759a912110387330ef

[Da Coach]

2024 Micah Smith[/B]- 6'7" forward at Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone, Georgia. He is playing with the Anthony Edwards summer program.

https://verbalcommits.com/players/micah-smith

https://247sports.com/player/micah-smith-46118054/

https://twitter.com/TMarkwith14/stat...76617674223616

Bradley also offered 2024 Micah Smith today-
https://twitter.com/BasketHoopz/stat...72796449185793

Micah Smith lists Bradley among his "Top 8"-

https://twitter.com/TMarkwith14/status/1689332423757074432

[bradleyfan124]

Koch is ranked #2 in Illinois Class of 2024, Sommerville is ranked #3, Limestone's Dekwon Brown is #4 in this ranking (but has now transferred to Chicago Simeon) and Normal Community's Jaheem Webber is #6.
The 2025 Joliet IL son of former Bradley player Jeremy Fears (Jeremiah) would also both be ranked #1 in his class except for playing at an out-of-state prep school.

Also- Aliyah Guyton is #1, Mya Wardle is #8 on one ranking, #10 on another.
In 2023, 6 of the 8 State Championships in boys & girls basketball went to down state schools like Metamora, Moline, Breese, Okawville. Only one was won by a Chicago school, one by a suburban school and none by any Chicago or suburban area public school. So despite lots of transfers like Dekwon Brown, is the epicenter of Illinois high school talent shifting downstate?

I would say it is better coaching. I remember an article Taylor Bell wrote in the Sun-Times many years ago. He acknowledged that Chicago might have better talent but downstate schools had better coaches. He wrote this at a time when Manual and Central were ruling the State Tournaments.

[yoda]

Koch is ranked #2 in Illinois Class of 2024, Sommerville is ranked #3, Limestone's Dekwon Brown is #4 in this ranking (but has now transferred to Chicago Simeon) and Normal Community's Jaheem Webber is #6.
The 2025 Joliet IL son of former Bradley player Jeremy Fears (Jeremiah) would also both be ranked #1 in his class except for playing at an out-of-state prep school.

Also- Aliyah Guyton is #1, Mya Wardle is #8 on one ranking, #10 on another.
In 2023, 6 of the 8 State Championships in boys & girls basketball went to down state schools like Metamora, Moline, Breese, Okawville. Only one was won by a Chicago school, one by a suburban school and none by any Chicago or suburban area public school. So despite lots of transfers like Dekwon Brown, is the epicenter of Illinois high school talent shifting downstate?

[Da Coach]

A couple 2024 recruits that Bradley offered are changing high schools.
The PJ Star's Adam Duvall reports that uncommitted junior Lathan Sommerville, who played this past season at an Atlanta prep school, will transfer and play next season at Richwoods High School-

And I am hearing rumors that Iowa commit Cooper Koch, who played his first 3 seasons at Peoria Notre Dame, is planning to transfer to Metamora for his senior season.

Looks like the rumors were true.
Lathan Sommerville is now at Richwoods-

https://twitter.com/AdamDuvall/status/1645841509579620369

And...
Cooper Koch has enrolled at Metamora

https://twitter.com/hoijim/status/1687101287211692037