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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 1044 - Isaac Trotter on Illini hoops' fall practice storylines

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C

Football, Sports

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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247Sports college basketball writer Isaac Trotter chats with Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner about the top storylines for the start of Illinois basketball's fall practice. The guys discuss the impact of Andrej Stojakovic's knee injury, Mihailo Petrovic's acclimation, the battle for playing time in the frontcourt, potential defensive changes, expectations for freshman Keaton Wagler and more.

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Welcome here to the Y1 Enquirer podcast.

1:20.8

Of course, it's the middle of football season, but it's also the start of basketball practice.

1:26.3

And Isaac Trotter, CBS Sports 24-7 Sports College Basketball Writer, is joining us now.

2:01.5

You can tell, like we're at basketball practice the other yesterday for Illinois, got to talk with Brad Underwood. Yes, it's middle football season. And it was a good time because Illinois fans need to think about something other than football for at least a week. There's a bad taste in the mouth after Indiana loss. But it's here, Isaac Trowdard. And you came out with your top 25. How's it feel right now? It's right around the corner. Yeah, it's super fun. Yeah, I just came out with that top 25. It feels good to kind of put the pen to paper on how you actually feel about teams. And now preview season kind of starts. Like, at some point, like I am ready for games to start again, and we're only basically three or four weeks away from some pretty big time exhibitions starting because at some point you just kind of

2:06.2

get in the weeds of what this team could be it's going to be really fun to actually talk about what

2:09.6

teams actually are and you know three weeks from now we're seeing some high level exhibitions

2:14.2

where teams are going to try to you know play their best rotations I rotations. I think that's really, really exciting. Yeah, you released your top 25 preseason rankings, which I love because what is a great reminder of who's on what team, who has, what players, we need that every year. So you've done a great job all offseason about that. But you came out with your rankings. If people want to check it out, it's on the front page of Alainanquire. It's on the front page of 247 Sports.com. But how did you

2:39.3

settle on where you put Illinois? Yeah, for me, I keep thinking about tiers. And Illinois, for me,

2:46.1

is kind of in that top of that tier two of teams that like, hey, with the right breaks, they could theoretically work their way to being a national championship contender. I have Illinois number 13 overall, number four in the Big Ten. I kind of went into the exercise thinking Illinois would be third in the Big Ten for me behind Purdue and Michigan. And I thought maybe that they were ahead of UCLA, but the more I look at that UCLA roster,

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