Ep. 1056 - Hits & misses from Illini's 92-65 exhibition win over ISU
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Kyle Tausk react to Illinois basketball's 92-65 exhibition win over Illinois State, breaking down the positives and negatives from the game. The guys discuss impressive games from the newcomers, including David Mirkovic, Zvonimir Ivisic and Brandon Lee, and discuss what could translate to the season. The guys then look ahead to Saturday's closed-door exhibition against defending national champion Florida.
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| 1:14.6 | And for the first time of this basketball season, kind of unofficially, we're here in State Farm Center for a post-game podcast. |
| 1:20.6 | And for the first time, Kyle Tosk is joining me, Jeremy Warner, |
| 1:24.6 | line-inquire publisher to react to Illinois basketball. Defeating |
| 1:27.7 | Illinois State 9265, our only public exhibition for Illinois basketball this year. Welcome in. |
| 1:34.6 | We're going to break down the hits and misses. Not a lot of misses in this one, but a really good |
| 1:38.9 | look, Kyle, at a lot of newcomers since Thomas Lavivisich was out after his tonsillectomy just about 10 days ago. But he was here in the building. Mahail Petrovich didn't play today due to a hamstring issue. He's had some injuries since he got here on campus, including an ankle, now a hamstring. And then Andre Stoyakovich did not play due to that knee sprain, though he went through a pretty good workout beforehand that I was watching. |
| 2:00.9 | He looked pretty healthy to me. So I think we're on the up and up with him moving forward. |
| 2:05.6 | But Kyle, we got a good look at David Merkovich, 19 points, 14 rebounds, six assists, filled up the stat sheet. |
| 2:12.6 | Zvonimir I was 15 points tonight. Three of 10 from three, he was kind of ruining, ruining some of his shot making ability. |
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