Not sure what their roles in recruiting are, but London is from Schaumberg and Jake is from Bloomington, so there are Illinois connections on the staff, just not one with an Assistant Coach title. The top 50-75 level recruits from Illinois are still far more likely pick a Gonzaga/Duke/Kentucky than even U of I, let alone Loyola. While I think getting some higher end local talents ever couple of years will be important to keep the "home-grown" element of the program, getting to the next level in the A10 is going to require the next level of recruit. There are only so many 3/4 star athletes in IL to be had, so it will be crucial to expand the recruiting footprint (as we have seen them been doing) and possibly taking a page out of the early Gonzaga playbook hitting a homer run in the international talent pool from time to time.

Another small big man. I would love to add another big on the transfer market as it's the only way we can realistically fill that hole next year. That said, we need someone bigger. We just aren't going to be able to compete at a high level playing so small. Especially with all the 3 point shooting we're going to lose. Nweke is pretty much identical to Chris Knight.

If we look at our competition next year:

Davidson has 3 guys 6 foot 9 or bigger
VCU has 2 guys 6 foot 9 or bigger
Dayton has 4 guys 6 foot 9 or bigger
The Bonnies have 3
St. Louis has 2
Richmond has 3
George Mason has 2

I could keep going, but we get the point. As things stand we're going to be at a massive size disadvantage next year unless Hutson shows up as the guy we saw towards the end of 2020, and against Arizona State. If not, I struggle to see how we're going to compete at a high level against in the A-10.

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Interesting recent Patrick Wallace Twitter follow: Neal Quinn, a 7 ft. Junior center playing for Lafayette. Putting up good numbers. Supposed to be a slick passer ala Krut.
Quinn follows Wallace on Twitter. I wonder if Quinn put out feelers to Loyola about transferring based on Krut's success in our system. No official word about Quinn transferring.

Interesting. Tons of assists.

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Great call noticing that. His numbers really pop out and given our lack of size/depth down low, seems like he'd be a natural fit. If he put up his same numbers at Loyola this year (obviously wouldn't given our system and depth), he'd be our leading scorer, leading rebounder and second in assists (only .2 behind Braden)...that's impressive.

On a separate note Treyvon Lewis was just named a Mr. Basketball finalist in the state of Michigan

Nice find! He looks like he would be a great addition and someone we could really use in the A10 next year. The passing big man was something we sorely lacked this year, and him being a 7 footer as well would be great defensively.