Keaton Wagler drills a 3 for Illinois (0:19) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- There was a hint of exasperation in Brad Underwood's voice as he ran through the well-worn tropes about Keaton Wagler. The Illinois coach is sensitive to minimizing Wagler's journey, or separating him from the group of freshmen who have taken over the men's college basketball season and will be the talk of the 2026 NBA draft. "I'm tired of hearing about his high school [recruiting] ranking, I'm tired of hearing about he's 170 pounds when he got here, and he's physically skinny and weak," Underwood told ESPN. "He's none of those things anymore. If the story is that everybody missed on him, we didn't. I'm tired of hearing that, too. We found him. He fit us. "This is what college sports is all about, this type of situation." Wagler's path to stardom didn't start like that of Kansas' Darryn Peterson, BYU's AJ Dybantsa, Duke's Cameron Boozer or North Carolina's Caleb Wilson. They were top-five recruits. Wagler didn't crack the SC Next 100.…