{"id":70104,"date":"2025-08-09T13:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70104\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:38:07","slug":"illinois-adds-3-star-forward-to-2026-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70104\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois adds 3-star forward to 2026 class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sorry, you probably noticed we didn\u2019t post a ton this week (maybe you didn\u2019t notice!). We were transitioning to our new website, so we missed some things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That includes the Illini landing a 3-star forward in the class of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brad Underwood picked up the commitment from Iowa native Landon Davis this week. He becomes the second commit in the class of 2026, following Ethan Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to 247 Sports, Davis is the 227th-best recruit in next year\u2019s class and had offers from Northern Iowa, UIC and Drake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Knowing how BU likes to build rosters in the modern age of college basketball, I wouldn\u2019t expect Davis to play a huge role early on in his Illini career, but it\u2019s always nice to have good ballplayers on the bench. And you still have to fill a roster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sorry, you probably noticed we didn\u2019t post a ton this week (maybe you didn\u2019t notice!). We were transitioning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,50743,50744,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-70104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-illinois-fighting-illini-basketball","tag-illinois-fighting-illini-basketball-recruiting","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}