New SIU Basketball Coach Bryan Mullins and his assistants have been busy the last few months sending out scholarship offers and arranging for official campus visits for 2020 prospects.

Score at least one of both for a recent Chicago visitor, 6-foot-3 guard Jeremiah Williams. Williams visited the Carbondale campus at the end of August with family in tow just in time to see the new renovations of the SIU Arena.

The multitalented Williams may be on that floor in 2020-21, playing for the home team. Sports writers are fond of saying an athlete "fills up the stat sheet." But Williams truly was a phenom on that account for St. Laurence in 2018-19 as he blossomed into one of the top guards in Chicagoland.

He averaged 18.3 points, 9.8 rebounds, 3.5 assists, three steals and 2.5 blocks per game and ended up listed as one of the top ten Chicagoland prospects by Hoops Report Magazine.

Chicago players are pretty free to transfer around, so when Williams moved in with his father in Chicago, he transferred from St. Laurence to city power Simeon.

"Just knowing all the great players that have played at Simeon and seeing all that coach Robert Smith has done, it's pretty exciting," Williams explained in an Aug. 21 Chicago Sun-Times piece.