Ep. 1063 - Derek Piper's Illini basketball season preview
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Familiar friend Derek Piper joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to preview the 2025-26 Illinois basketball season. Piper discusses offseason storylines he's buying and selling, what excites him and concerns him about the roster, and his thoughts on the defense, biggest game of the season and his expectations.
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| 0:49.7 | Music Today on the online choir podcast, we're excited to bring in a familiar face, a familiar voice, a familiar name. |
| 0:52.5 | Derek Piper joins us here on the online inquire podcast. |
| 1:11.8 | He's now civilian, now no longer journalist, reporter, insider, Derek Piper joins us here in the Aline Enquirer podcast. He's now civilian, now no longer journalist, reporter, insider, Derek Piper. Now his job in the real world. Spent a lot more time with his family, which I'm happy about for him. But he's got some basketball takes. He's now sitting in the State Farm Center stands, watching TV from home just like you guys. |
| 1:17.2 | But, of course, Derek knows a lot about this team, about this program, and he wanted to join us. |
| 1:17.8 | Get the basketball itch scratched a little bit. |
| 1:20.6 | So we are going to bring on Derek to get his thoughts leading into the Illinois basketball |
| 1:24.8 | season, basically serve is our final season preview, |
| 1:28.1 | leading into Monday's season tip-off against Jackson State. |
| 1:32.7 | High, high hopes for Illinois basketball going into this season. |
| 1:36.1 | Still some unknowns, though, with Mahalo Petrovich, |
| 1:38.8 | still not full participant that we've seen on the floor so far. |
| 1:41.7 | Andres Steyakovich, haven't seen him on the court so |
| 1:44.2 | far, but we have seen some excitement around Keaton Wogler, David Murkovich, David Murkovich, I got to get |
| 1:49.3 | that right. So the freshman playing pretty well and of course a very, very strong front court, |
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