2015 C Alex Illikainen (offered)

[gtmoBlue]

Chi St draws 15.5k? Only at S'cuse, Kentucky, and Creighton - on an exceedingly cold day to boot.
We are indeed blessed. Go Jays!

[fritzpointer]

Hope Alex has had a great time in Omaha. The game should be great and a commit from Alex would bring in the new year with a bang! Would love to see Alex in CU Blue in 2015. Go Jays!

[jays911]

Couldn't have had a better atmosphere than tonight. What a rush!

[mredle]

I wonder if Fisher's decision to go to Marquette will take them out of the running wih Alex?

[Chicagojayfan]

I wonder if Fisher's decision to go to Marquette will take them out of the running wih Alex?

Hopefully he could see where he would fit into our offensive scheme. He could be a major force with us.

[Jet915]

I wonder if Fisher's decision to go to Marquette will take them out of the running wih Alex?

Doubt it, Alex can play PF as well. He's at the Purdue-Minnesota game today. Says since he already has visited Iowa State, Creighton and Minnesota, likely to take officials to Oregon, California and Vanderbilt.

[AttyAlum]

We are doing an in home visit this week.

Set an official visit to Cal in Feb.

[Jaysker12]

Just for clarity's sake, Alex is a power forward, right? ESPN's writeup talks about his skill on the offensive end

[Chicagojayfan]

Just for clarity's sake, Alex is a power forward, right? ESPN's writeup talks about his skill on the offensive end

For us he projects to either 5 or 4. He's probably a more natural 4 in most systems, but for us we can use the two more or less interchangeably.

[gtmoBlue]

The 5 scouting services (rivals, ESPN, future 150, and 247 list him as PF - 6-9, with 3 of the 4 listing him at 210, future 150 lists him at 215)...scout is the outlier listing Alex as PF - 6-8, 215 lbs.

DA was fond of using Fwds as Ctrs, perhaps due to not landing many true Ctrs. We don't seem to have that problem these days.