Ep. 1065 - Illini dominate Jackson State 113-55 in season opener
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Kyle Tausk react to Illinois basketball's dominant 113-55 season-opening win over Jackson State. The guys break down a dominant performance by the Illini frontcourt, another strong game from the freshmen, the latest on injuries and what's next for the Illini.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the online inquire podcast. |
| 0:15.2 | It is Jeremy Warner, Kyle Tosk here with our first post-game podcast of the season with Illinois basketball is the line |
| 0:22.2 | to take care of business quickly. |
| 0:24.0 | 11355 defeat Jackson State. |
| 0:27.6 | This was a quick one. |
| 0:28.6 | Illinois up 30 to 6 within the first seven minutes. |
| 0:32.3 | Didn't matter, Kyle, that they were down a couple men and you enjoy. |
| 0:35.9 | We're down a guy today. |
| 0:36.9 | I had surgery on the hand today. |
| 0:38.8 | Don't get old, Kyle. |
| 0:39.8 | You start to get things like trigger fingers and bursusack things that I'm getting with the body as I get to near 40 here. |
| 0:46.8 | But easy, easy peasy for Illinois tonight. |
| 0:50.2 | As the front court absolutely dominated, we'll get into that. |
| 0:52.7 | Tommy Evasich, 21 points, |
| 0:55.0 | Benham Rickhouse, 21 points off the bench. David Mirkovich in the starting line up, |
| 0:59.5 | 19 points, 14 rebounds for assists. He continues to be a star, but Keaton Wogler 18 points. Jake Davis, |
| 1:06.7 | his line on high 13, Kyle and Boswell, 10, 5, and 5. And this one, this one was over before you blinked. I mean, two timeouts into this game, it was already over. So we'll get into our hits and misses, Kyle. What was it like being in the building tonight? It's great, great to have a regular season crowd and watch a regular season college basketball game. And, man, yeah, Illinois got off to a quick start. |
| 1:29.4 | Not the finest three keys in a pick debut for me, only predicting a 35-point win. |
| 1:34.5 | Should have almost doubled that. |
| 1:35.9 | And I would have been closer. |
| 1:37.4 | But no, just a great performance for an Illinois team that was undermanned. |
| 1:41.9 | And we got the news before the game that Brandon Lee was |
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