Ep. 1061 - Mihailo Petrovic eligible, Illini vs. Florida scrimmage thoughts, Lucas Morillo commits
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Kyle Tausk react to a busy week of Illinois basketball news. The guys discuss the NCAA approving Mihailo Petrovic's eligibility and deeming him a sophomore, what they've heard from the Illinois vs. Florida scrimmage and Illinois landing four-star Class of 2026 guard Lucas Morillo. The guys wrap up discussing the start of the 2025-26 season on Monday against Jackson State.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the On Inquirer podcast, let's shift our focus to Illinois basketball because it's been a pretty busy weekend for Illinois basketball. |
| 0:20.9 | One, Mahalo Petrovich approved by the NCAA to play. |
| 0:24.7 | Not only that, but three years of eligibility. |
| 0:27.4 | What's that mean for Illinois? |
| 0:28.5 | What's that mean for Mahalo? |
| 0:30.0 | We'll chat about that with Kyle Toss coming up here shortly. |
| 0:33.0 | We'll also chat about something everyone's been chatting about. |
| 0:36.2 | We've been working on getting as much |
| 0:38.0 | intel as possible for you guys that are VIP members at Atlanta inquire about the |
| 0:42.8 | Florida Illinois exhibition so our VIP members been clued in on that for a while we |
| 0:47.4 | appreciate you guys we'll chat about it here now on the podcast because everybody else |
| 0:51.2 | is so let's chat about it ourselves as we talk about what we've |
| 0:55.1 | learned from that and what we can actually take away from Illinois's 9686 loss, how the |
| 1:01.2 | freshman played, how the veterans played, how the bench played, and just got a little bit more about |
| 1:05.9 | how that game actually played out based on what we've heard from our sources. So we'll chat about that as well. |
| 1:12.0 | Then Illinois adds to the class of 2026. |
| 1:14.8 | Lucas Murillo, a top 60 overall prospect, 6-7, a lot of size, a lot of skill. |
| 1:22.3 | We'll chat about what he brings and why Illinois really focused on him. |
| 1:26.6 | And we'll look ahead to Monday's season opener for Illinois basketball against Jackson State at State Farm Center. |
| 1:32.9 | That's all coming up with Kyle Tosk here on the Line Inquirer podcast. |
| 1:36.4 | But first, I wanted to talk a little bit more about our new sponsor. |
| 1:39.2 | We introduced you to Game Day Spirit as a new sponsor. |
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