Illinois Basketball and its silent culture builder

It is fair to criticize Brad Underwood and Co. for the amount of talent and production that has been lost to the transfer portal over the last few years.

It is a new era, and of course the transfer portal has been going wild, but there are few universities that can match the production leaving as Illinois basketball in recent years.

While this is true, Underwood and his staff have excelled at something that rarely garners any praise from fans: keeping things under wraps.

The Illini have sure had a lot of transfers that left fans going, “man, that really doesn’t make any sense”, and they never really receive that closure of reasoning.

I’ll be going through some of the top big name transfer portal entrees, and deciphering why they ended up there. Spoiler alert, because of how Brad Underwood and his staff have handled these situations with the media, the ending will always be, “but there’s no way of knowing for sure.”

Skyy Clark