The Saluki Royalty Podcast

We hope you had a great 4th of July weekend, Saluki Nation! We start off our new week of Saluki Basketball Summer Access coverage with a newcomer in Pietro Ranieri. He will be a true freshman this coming season and played the 2025-26 season at Golden State Prep in Oakland, Calif. He Played for Fulgor Fidenza in the Serie B Nazionale and had a season-high 12 points against Agrigento on April 19, 2026. Ranieri is from Fidenza, Italy

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Our Summer Access 2026 coverage wraps up another week of interviews with freshman Luke Susko. Susko attended Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas where he averaged 24 points and 14 rebounds in his career. He ended his career breaking Marcus Smart's career rebound record. He tells us what he has worked on this summer and how his first college summer is going.

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We continue our Summer Access coverage here in 2026 as we get you ready for Saluki Basketball this upcoming season! Next up is true freshman Ty Laur, who joins the program from Pinckneyville High School. He was named a two-time SIRR All-Conference,First-team IBCA All-State and Selected First-Team AP Poll All-State.

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We are back with another week of Summer Access coverage for Saluki Basketball! Next up is returning player Daniel Pauliukonis. Pauliukonis is coming off his redshirt season and he can already feel way more confident this summer than he did all of last season. We discuss that and much more with Pauliukonis in our latest podcast series.

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Our second full week of Summer Access interviews with Saluki Basketball wraps up with Brock McClure, who transfers into SIU from Snow College. McClure talks about his two year mission trip after his freshman season at Lamar in 2021-22, how that trip helped him become a better basketball player and what type of player he is going to be for the Salukis this upcoming season.

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We welcome on one of the true freshman to the roster this season with Jeremiah Jackson! Jeremiah comes to SIU from Louisville, Kentucky, and he talks about how is winning experiences in high school can help turn this Saluki program in the right direction. Plus, we discuss who has been a big influence on him during his first month of summer workouts.

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We begin our second full week of interviews for Saluki Basketball here in our Summer Access 2026 series! Next up is returning big man Jaheem Webber, who will be in Carbondale for his third season! Webber tells us what he has worked on this offseason, what he likes about this current team in the summer and much more.

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We continue our Summer Access 2026 coverage of Saluki Basketball with introducing you to one the incoming transfers to the program, Donovan Hill! We discuss his college journey from starting at the D1 level and then working his way back to division one now at Southern Illinois. Hill also describes the type of player that Saluki fans will be getting this upcoming season.

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One of the returning Salukis is Caden Hawkins, as the Carterville native is excited to have a bigger role for the Salukis in the upcoming season! He shares what he took away from his first season as a Saluki, what he communicates daily to the team during the summer, and how much growth he sees in players who have decided to come back to the program.

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We welcome on our first newcomer to the Saluki Basketball program this year and it is Christian Gilliland. Gilliland joins the Salukis after his freshman season at a JUCO. What stood out about Southern Illinois to him? What is he bringing to the Saluki Basketball program? Gilliland answers those questions and more in our latest podcast.

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