Report: Ty Rodgers enters transfer portal

(WAND) -- Illinois' Ty Rodgers has entered the transfer portal according to reports. 

The redshirt Junior missed the 2025-26 season after sustaining a partially torn patellar tendon during the off season and needing knee surgery. 

Rodgers also opted to redshirt the 2024-25 season. He last played as a starter on the 2023-24 Elite Eight team. 

In his freshman year with the Illini he played in 33 games coming off the bench and averaged 3.3 points per game. Rodgers shot just over 51% from the field. 

In his sophomore year he played and started in all 38 games for Illinois. He averaged 6.2 points per game, shot just over 52% from the field, pulled down 201 rebounds, and had 76 assists. 

Rodgers now joins Mihailo Petrovic and Toni Bilic who entered the portal on April 11. 

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