Illinois men’s basketball 2nd-staff All-Major Ten ahead Coleman Hawkins will enter the transfer portal forward of Wednesday’s deadline, in accordance to a report from Matt Norlander of CBS Sports activities.
Hawkins previously introduced his plans to enter the NBA draft when keeping his college or university eligibility, and is at this time likely by means of the pre-draft course of action forward of the June draft. Hawkins is nevertheless pondering a probable return to the Illini, but there is a opportunity that he returns to college basketball and performs in other places upcoming period.
Hawkins verified his entry into the portal with a social media put up on Tuesday afternoon, mentioning directly that he has just about every intention of remaining in the draft.
The 6’10” Hawkins was instrumental in Illinois’ run to the Elite Eight very last thirty day period, and would be a major decline to the Illini in the frontcourt if he returned to faculty basketball and performed anywhere other than in Champaign. He averaged a vocation-large 12.1 details to go along with 6.1 rebounds on 44.2% capturing this previous season.
Hawkins is the only player in method background to compile at the very least 900 factors, 500 rebounds, 200 helps, 100 blocks and 100 steals in a profession.
He will have 1 year of eligibility remaining if he returns to university basketball.
