{"id":278574,"date":"2026-06-26T02:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278574\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:09:27","slug":"ben-humrichous-inks-exhibit-10-deal-with-brooklyn-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278574\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Humrichous inks Exhibit-10 deal with Brooklyn Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) \u2014 A key piece of the Illini\u2019s Final Four team is getting his chance at the next level.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tIllini basketball to play North Carolina in Nashville\t<\/a><\/p>\n

On Thursday, Illinois men\u2019s basketball announced<\/a> that Ben Humrichous has signed an Exhibit-10 contract with the Brooklyn Nets. The forward spent two seasons in Champaign and averaged 5.8 points and 3.9 rebounds in 22.5 minutes per game this past season as a graduate student.<\/p>\n

Humrichous played in all 36 games and notched two starts in the 2025-26 campaign and was a key piece to the program\u2019s most successful year since the 2004-05 season.<\/p>\n

He is now the second player from last year\u2019s squad to make the jump to the pros, as this comes just two days after Keaton Wagler<\/a> was selected fifth overall in the NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Clippers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) \u2014 A key piece of the Illini\u2019s Final Four team is getting his chance at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[107095,107096,107097,98,100,99,107098,107099,106885,5350,107100,610,9,24,12,63,107101],"class_list":["post-278574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-ben-humrichous-illinois","tag-ben-humrichous-nba","tag-ben-humrichous-nets","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-champaign","tag-champaign-county","tag-illini","tag-illinois","tag-illinois-basketball","tag-local","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-wcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}