Mike Mullins founded the Illinois Wolves traveling basketball program in 1998-1999 with one grade school team. As that team advanced age groups and had great success the Wolves became an elite high school age team and added more teams at the high school level. The Wolves staff is composed of former or current high school and college coaches who are receiving no compensation, which holds to the present day.

 Since our inception, the Wolves program has had over 400 players and over $100 million in scholarships in just 26 graduating classes. This is a total from just our HS graduating classes which has seen players attend schools such as Duke, USC, Notre Dame Purdue , Michigan, Michigan State, Gonzaga, North Carolina, Stanford, Northwestern, Ohio State , , Wisconsin , Marquette, Boston College, DePaul, SIU ,Northern Iowa, Iowa, West Virginia, Butler, UW-Milwaukee, Cleveland State, Illinois State, Santa Clara, Colorado St, San Jose St, Tulsa, Buffalo, Princeton , Pennsylvania, Harvard , Brown , Cornell ,Air Force , Navy , Army , Rutgers, Belmont, Stetson, Wright St, Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Illinois, Miami of Ohio, St Thomas, Siena, American, Lafayette, Loyola, Eastern Michigan, South Dakota, Lipscomb, Northern Illinois, Albany, Buffalo, Valpo, U of Illinois-Chicago, Wofford, Kansas State, Nebraska, Loyola Maryland, William and Mary,, UC-Davis, Central Michigan, Southern Indiana, Northern Kentucky, Hampton , Bethune Cookman , Jackson State , Loyola of Maryland , and SEMO at the D1 level among others. Others have received full scholarships at the D2 level from schools such as Mercyhurst, Lewis University, St. Michaels, Lemoyne, Quincy, Gannon, Hillsdale, UW Parkside, Grand Valley St, Northern Michigan, Drury , UMSL , and Spring Hill among others. Some received financial aid dollars from schools such as U of Chicago, Washington U, Augustana, Loras, Illinois Wesleyan Haverford, and Carthage at the D3 level. NAIA schools such as Oklahoma Baptist, Olivet Nazarene, Bethel , William Penn, Cardinal Stritch, and St. Xavier have also provided scholarship dollars. We hold a 97% college graduation rate for our former players.

Our players come from all backgrounds and all parts of the state of Illinois. We are proud to have Evan Turner be the 2nd pick of the 2010 NBA Draft and Frank Kaminsky 9th pick in the 2015 NBA Draft along with our other NBA vets John Shurna, Chasson Randle, Keita Bates Diop, Drew Peterson , Max Christie Jr.and Cameron Christie drafted as well as over 53 of our players sign professional contracts overseas. 

Wolves alumni have also won an NBA Championship  NCAA Championship, an NIT title, and an NAIA title. Wolves alums have won Gold Medals for USA Basketball at U16-U17 & U19 as well as a Silver medal at U21.