{"id":88016,"date":"2025-08-16T20:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88016\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T20:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:38:07","slug":"illinois-lands-commitment-from-2026-power-forward-landon-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88016\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois lands commitment from 2026 power forward Landon Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Illinois men\u2019s basketball has landed a commitment from Landon Davis, a power forward out of Waukee Northwest High School in Waukee, Iowa, in the class of 2024:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Davis is unrated in On3\/Rivals\u2019 database. He\u2019s a 3-star per 247Sports, which has him as the 226th highest rated overall prospect, 32nd highest-rated power forward and fourth highest rated prospect out of Iowa in its composite rating,<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s an interesting commitment for a few reasons. For one, Illinois is Davis\u2019 most impressive offer by far. He holds offers from Drake, Northern Iowa and Illinois-Chicago but lacks an offer from in-state Big Ten rival Iowa. The Illini extended their offer in early July, with Davis committing just over a month later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His commitment could herald something of a Midwestern theme in Illinois\u2019 2024 class. Its lone other member, 3-star guard Ethan Brown, hails from Missouri, another border state. The Illini are rather famously loading up on international talent, but it looks like they\u2019re getting some long-term pieces through the local high school footprint as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illinois men\u2019s basketball has landed a commitment from Landon Davis, a power forward out of Waukee Northwest High&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,5629,398,400,401,2844,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-88016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-illinois","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-recruiting","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88016","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=88016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}