Recruiting Trivia

[tornado]

How many of the past 25 Illinois Mr. Basketball players have Bradley been able to recruit?

Of course the answer is zero....I don't think that question will fool too many people, but here is the followup question..........
What schools did the past 25 Illinois Mr. Basketball go to?
(note that none of them have been stolen by Kelvin Sampson and only one each have gone to John Calipari and Bill Self)

here is the answer..........
University of Illinois got eight - none since 2002 and only one since 1999
(Dee Brown, Brian Cook, Frank Williams, Sergio McClain, Jerry Gee, Deon Thomas, Marcus Liberty, and Nick Anderson)
LSU got one (Jamie Brandon)
DePaul got one (Howard Nathan)
Wisconsin got one (Rashard Griffith)
Michigan State got one (Shannon Brown)
Kansas got one (Julian Wright)
Duke got two (John Scheyer, Chris Collins) - although they also got the committment from Shaun Livingston before he went to the NBA
Memphis got one (Derrick Rose)
Indiana got three (Eric Anderson, Brian Sloan, Marty Simmons - although Simmons didn't stay at IU)
Iowa got one (Ed Horton)
Five didn't go to college (Shaun Livingston, Eddie Curry, Darius Miles, Ronnie Fields, Kevin Garnett)

Lastly, there are 12 Division I college basketball teams in Illinois, and none except U of I & DePaul have ever landed an Illinois Mr. Basketball.
(U of I, Northwestern, DePaul, Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois, Eastern Illinois, Western Illinois, Bradley,
Illinois State, Loyola, Illinois-Chicago, Chicago State - and soon SIU-Edwardsville will be D-I)


Does anyone know if Bradley has ever landed a "Mr. Basketball from another state?

 

[Da Coach]

Here are all the Mr. Basketball winners in Illinois since the award was started in 1981--

YEAR ....PLAYER......HIGH SCHOOL....COLLEGE......NBA
2007..Derrick Rose..Simeon..Memphis..
2006..Jon Scheyer..Glenbrook North..Duke
2005..Julian Wright..Homewood-Flossmoor..Kansas...Drafted by New Orleans #13
2004..Shaun Livingston..Peoria Central..No College.....3rd year in NBA with LA Clippers
2003..Shannon Brown..Proviso East....Michigan State....2nd year in NBA with Cleveland
2002..Dee Brown.........Proviso East.......Illinois..............2nd year in NBA with Utah
2001..Eddy Curry........Thornwood.......No college.........5th year in NBA
2000..Darius Miles......East St. Louis..No college.........7th year in NBA
1999..Brian Cook........Lincoln.............Illinois...............4th year in NBA
1998..Frank Williams..Peoria Manual...Illinois...............3 years in NBA
1997..Sergio McClain..Peoria Manual...Illinois...............Did not play in NBA
1996..Ronnie Fields.....Farragut.........No college...........Did not play in NBA
1995..Kevin Garnett.....Farragut.........No college...........12th year in NBA
1994..Jerry Gee...St. Martin de Porres..Illinois................Did not play in NBA
1993..Rashard Griffith...King.............Wisconsin.............Drafted by Milwaukee, never played
1992..Chris Collins...Glenbrook North...Duke..................Did not play in NBA
1991..Howard Nathan..Peoria Manual..DePaul................Part of one season with Atlanta
1990..Jamie Brandon....King...............LSU....................Did not play in NBA
1989..Deon Thomas....Simeon...........Illinois..................Drafted by Dallas, never played in NBA
1988..Eric Anderson.St. Francis de Sales..Indiana.........2 seasons with New York
1987..Marcus Liberty....King..............Illinois..................5 seasons with Denver
1986..Nick Anderson..Simeon............Illinois.................13 seasons with Orlando, Sacramento, Memphis
1985..Ed Horton...Springfield Lanphier..Iowa...................1 season with Washington
1984..Brian Sloan..McLeansboro......Indiana...................Did not play in NBA
1983..Marty Simmons..Lawrenceville..Evansville..............Did not play in NBA
1982..Bruce Douglas..Quincy............Illinois...................1 season with Sacramento
1981..Walter Downing..Providence....Marquette...............Did not play in NBA

 

[Braveman]

Actually Bradley has been able to recruit all of them.. they haven't been able to sign any....

 

[SFP]

??? Paul Wilson Mr. Ohio

 

[Da Coach]

??? Paul Wilson Mr. Ohio

No, sorry, Paul Wilson was never Mr. Basketball in Ohio.
Here are the winners since they began the award in Ohio in 1989--

http://www.ohiobkcoaches.com/Awards/Mr_Basketball.html

The closest I can recall that Bradley may have signed a "Mr. Basketball" was last year in Alaska. Will Egolf was the most accomplished and best player in the state, and was named preseason player of the year in Alaska by Sports Illustrated. I think he may have been the only Alaska player to receive a Division I offer. But when Juneau Douglas didn't win the state championship, he didn't get support from enough of the voting members and did not win the award. Alaska is such a large state with widespread areas that many of the coaches around the state never saw him play.

J.J. Tauai was the Missouri Class 1A (smallest class) Player of the Year.