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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 1049 - Takeaways from Illini basketball media day

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

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Kyle Tausk discuss what they learned from their interviews with players and coaches from Illinois basketball's local media day. The guys discuss the latest on Andrej Stojakovic and Ty Rodgers; expectations for newcomers Mihailo Petrovic, Keaton Wagler, Brandon Lee and David Mirkovic; and potential changes to the offense and defense.

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0:00.0

Welcome in to the online acquire podcast. It's Jeremy Warner, Kyle Tosk, joining us to Talk some Milan at basketball because we had Media Day.

0:20.9

It's our first time in a while that we've been able to catch up with all of the players.

0:24.6

It's one of our favorite events to do that.

0:27.3

But I think everyone can see, Kyle, if you're watching on YouTube, is wearing his red and blue.

0:33.6

The Cubbies move on in the playoffs.

0:35.7

Congratulations, Kyle.

0:36.8

What was that like to watch in the ninth inning? I appreciate it. I kind of paying homage to my guy, Derek Piper, who was always rocking his Cardinals hat on these podcasts. I thought I'd pop on the Cubs hat, celebrate the postseason series win. First one since 2017 for the Cubs. I'll tell you, I miss postseason baseball a lot. It's awesome.

0:56.3

That was an awesome win to celebrate and keep basking in, but I did not miss the ninth

1:02.3

inning about to lose my mind. My heart almost stopped beating. Nice little assist from the home

1:08.1

plate umpire, too, to make it a little bit easier.

1:11.2

But I could do without that ninth inning drama, but great win for the Cubs.

1:15.6

I can't wait for this next series against Milwaukee.

1:18.2

All right.

1:18.6

This is going to shock our listeners.

1:19.8

How old were you the last time they won a series?

1:22.9

I was 13.

1:25.8

You had a pretty good upbringing as a Cubs fan. I mean, you got it all when I was 12

1:30.3

vivid memories of watching that whole run with my dad. So yeah, for sure. I'm not, I'm not

1:35.4

complaining. I know there's plenty of fan bases out there who have suffered much longer, but it's

1:39.8

about time for the Cubs. You can start doing some damage again yeah uh and i know you were talking

1:44.3

about i mean playoff for baseball is both the best and the worst like it's just the most stressful

1:49.9

i think a sporting event can be because there's so much time there's so much time in between

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