Govern-25 employ Will Riley has dedicated to Illinois and reclassified to the 2024 elegance, making plans to sign up and go well with up for the Preventing Illini nearest season.
He formally signed his letter of intent with the college Sunday.
“It’s exciting to add a supremely talented player in Will Riley to our program,” mentor Brad Underwood stated. “He is the consummate position-less basketball player who has all the tools offensively. Obviously, [Illinois assistant coach] Orlando [Antigua] was instrumental with his relationships and did an excellent job leading this recruitment. Will has the ability to score it at all three levels, and he gives us another action player who can make plays for others and himself based on matchups. He is skilled, has a great midrange and float game, and extremely high basketball IQ.”
A 6-foot-9 little ahead from Canada who attended the Phelps Faculty (Pennsylvania), Riley is ranked Deny. 24 within the ESPN 100 for the 2025 elegance. He has been some of the absolute best scorers at the Nike EYBL circuit all the way through the spring, averaging 21.9 issues with UPlay.
Riley took visits to Arizona, Illinois, Kentucky and Alabama, however his courting with Antigua — who had recruited Riley when he used to be on John Calipari’s workforce at Kentucky — helped the Illini win out.
Underwood has dramatically reloaded Illinois following the departures of starters Terrence Shannon Jr., Marcus Domask, Coleman Hawkins and Quincy Guerrier from a group that went 29-9 and complicated to the Elite 8. Riley is the untouched offseason addition to a bunch that comes with world recruits Tomislav Ivisic and Kasparas Jakucionis, in addition to transfers Kylan Boswell (Arizona), Tre White (Louisville), Ben Humrichous (Evansville), Carey Booth (Notre Dame) and Jake Davis (Mercer).
