Ep. 1005 - Shauna Green on new-look Illini WBB; Illini FB misses on downstate tight ends

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss Illinois football missing on four-star downstate tight ends Mack Sutter (Alabama) and JC Anderson (Ole Miss) and what it means for the 2026 recruiting class. The guys then chat with Illini women's basketball coach Shauna Green about her new-look team, summer workouts, team health, new roles for returners, initial impressions of newcomers and the growth of women's basketball.

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0:44.9	Music Welcome in to the Alina Inquirer podcast.
0:47.2	It is Jeremy Warner and Joy Wagner.
0:54.4	Happy revenue sharing to all the student athletes out there now getting paid directly by these universities.
0:58.9	But we have a good one today because Shauna Green, a line of women's basketball coach.
1:00.6	We just chatted with her.
1:04.0	And as always, Joey, it's fun catching up with Shauna Green.
1:05.8	I mean, you cover her day to day during the season.
1:06.9	Do a great job with that. But I just appreciate her giving us her time and really talking about her program because
1:12.7	it's an exciting program and exciting time with all the newness that is involved with them.
1:17.8	Yeah, Shauna gets it.
1:18.9	She knows that talking about her program is a good thing and especially when you have so
1:23.1	many new faces and it's like last summer the seniors were so important to the program, but I don't know that on July 1st, we had a lot of new questions about Kendall Bossa, Cadalia McKenzie, McIra Cook, Genesis Bryant-Brinchup Hill. But there's a lot of new faces. Really talented freshman class, Jeremy, headlined by in-state Destiny Jackson, and then you go and you get two really they're two
1:44.2	top targets in the transfer portal and now you got to mix that all together and it's uncertainty
1:49.6	mixed with the excitement and you know you just don't know how that all the speed of which it comes
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