Good Morning, Illini Nation: Another Hoop Summit tie
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Apr. 11—The Nike Hoop Summit has become a must-see event for Illinois basketball fans in the last half decade. This year's game — set for a 9 p.m. Saturday tip — is no different.
Future Illinois guard Lucas Morillo will suit up for the World Team against Team USA tonight at the Mona Center in Portland, Ore., like several Illinois players before him. The game will be streamed on Peacock.
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The World Team has featured David Mirkovic, Kasparas Jakucionis, Will Riley, Kofi Cockburn, Andre Curbelo and Andres Feliz — before anyone in Champaign knew who he was. Morillo is simply the latest Illini representative, building off his standout senior season at The Newman School (Mass.). The Cardinals went 38-3 and won the National Prep Championship, with Morillo closing out his senior year averaging 17.4 points on 56/40/71 shooting to go with 8.9 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.8 steals per game.
Morillo will play on the World Team with a quartet of one-time Illinois recruiting targets in Maximo Adams, Arafan Diane, Sinan Huan and Miikka Muurinen. The full rosters for both the World Team and Team USA are as follows:
World Team
* Maximo Adams, Sierra Canyon (Calif.), Argentina, North Carolina
* Ikenna Alozie, Dream City Christian (Ariz.), Nigeria, Houston
* Tajh Ariza, Link Academy (Mo.), Japan, Oregon
* Adam Atamma, ASVEL (France), France
* Arafan Diane, Iowa United (Iowa), Guinea, Houston
* Sinan Huan, Georgetown Prep (Md.), China, Purdue
* Sayon Keita, FC Barcelona (Spain), Mali
* Lucas Morillo, Newman School (Mass.), Dominican Republic, Illinois
* Miikka Muurinen, KK Partizan (Serbia), Finland
* Baba Oladotun, James Hubert Blake (Md.), Nigeria, Maryland
* Miles Sadler, CIA Bella Vista (Ariz.), Canada, West Virginia
* Abdou Toure, Notre Dame (Calif.), Guinea, Arkansas
Team USA
* Bruce Branch III, Prolific Prep (Fla.), BYU
* Christian Collins, St. John Bosco (Calif.), USC
* Jason Crowe Jr., Inglewood (Calif.), Missouri
* Caleb Gaskins, Columbus (Fla.), Miami
* Caleb Holt, Prolific Prep (Fla.), Arizona
* Brandon McCoy, Sierra Canyon (Calif.), Michigan
* Deron Rippey Jr., Blair Academy (N.J.), Duke
* Jordan Smith Jr., Paul VI Catholic (Va.), Arkansas
* Tyran Stokes, Rainier Beach (Wash.), Uncommitted
* Ethan Taylor, Link Academy (Mo.), Michigan State
* Cameron Williams, St. Mary's (Ariz.), Duke
* Elijah Williams, TMI Episcopal (Texas), Baylor