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Good Morning, Illini Nation: 2024 Big Ten recruiting classes

scott richey, the news-gazette, champaign-urbana, ill.
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Sep. 23—Welcome to "Good Morning, Illini Nation," your daily dose of college basketball news from Illini beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Scott Richey. He'll offer up insights every morning on Brad Underwood's team:

Illinois is hosting its second Class of 2024 guard on an official visit in as many weekends with Jase Butler already on campus. The three-star guard has become a recruiting priority just like last week's visitor four-star guard Mikey Lewis.

Will the Illini land one of the California natives? Time will tell. For now, the Illini's 2024 recruiting class ranks seventh in the Big Ten. Here's who's bound for Big Ten (among the 14 teams with at least one commit) for the 2024-25 season (with all rankings per 247Sports):

1. Rutgers

* No. 3 Ace Bailey, 6-8, 195, SF, McEachern (Ga.)

* No. 102 Lathan Sommerville, 6-9, 225, PF, Peoria Richwoods

* No. 145 Bryce Dortch, 6-8, 190, SF, Brimmer and May School (Mass.)

* No. 192 Dylan Grant, 6-7, 205, PF, Michigan Collegiate (Mich.)

2. Purdue

* No. 22 Kanon Catchings, 6-8, 185, SF, Overtime Elite

* No. 137 Raleigh Burress, 6-10, 205, C, Sycamore (Ohio)

* UR Jack Benter, 6-4, 180, SG, Brownstown Central (Ind.)

3. Michigan State

* No. 44 Kur Teng, 6-4, 185, SG, Bradford Christian Academy (Mass.)

* No. 130 Jesse McCulloch, 6-9, 190, PF, Lutheran East (Ohio)

4. Ohio State

* No. 43 John Mobley Jr., 6-0, 165, PG, Wasatch Academy (Utah)

* No. 118 Colin White, 6-6, 180, SF, Ottawa-Glandorf (Ohio)

5. Wisconsin

* No. 101 Jack Robison, 6-6, 185, SG, Lakeville North (Minn.)

* No. 124 Daniel Freitag, 6-2, 175, PG, Breck School (Minn.)

6. Michigan

* No. 112 Christian Anderson, 5-11, 155, PG, Oak Hill Academy (Va.)

* No. 156 Durral Brooks, 6-2, 180, PG, Catholic Central (Mich.)

7. Illinois

* No. 35 Morez Johnson Jr., 6-9, 220, PF, Thornton

* No. 111 Jason Jakstys, 6-10, 205, PF, Yorkville

8. Iowa

* No. 71 Cooper Koch, 6-7, 205, SF, Metamora

* UR Chris Tadjo, 6-8, 220, PF, NBA Academy Latin America

9. Nebraska

* No. 115 Nick Janowski, 6-3, 200, CG, Pewaukee (Wis.)

10. USC

* No. 128 Liam Campbell, 6-4, 180, SG, Owyhee (Idaho)

11. Northwestern

* No. 120 KJ Windham, 6-3, 175, CG, Ben Davis (Ind.)

* No. 146 Angelo Ciaravino, 6-5, 175, SF, Chicago Mount Carmel

12. Minnesota

* No. 122 Isaac Asuma, 6-3, 170, PG, Cherry Secondary (Minn.)

* UR Grayson Grove, 6-8, 190, PF, Alexandria Area (Minn.)

13. UCLA

* No. 76 Eric Freeny, 6-3, 180, SG, Centennial (Calif.)

14. Penn State

* No. 246 Dominick Stewart, 6-5, 180, CG, Southern California Academy (Calif.)

* UR Jahvin Carter, 6-2, 175, SG, Alcoa (Tenn.)