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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 1068 - Hits & misses from Illini's 113-70 win over FGCU

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Kyle Tausk react to Illinois basketball's 113-70 win over Florida Gulf Coast, breaking down the positives and negatives. The guys discuss Tomislav Ivisic's knee injury and the impact as well as big games from Kylan Boswell, freshmen Keaton Wagler and David Mirkovic and Zvonimir Ivisic, plus Andrej Stojakovic's return to the court.

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0:00.0

Welcome in to the online inquire podcast.

0:14.8

It's Jeremy Warner, Kyle Tosk here at State Farm Center, where Illinois is wrapped up its second game of the season.

0:21.9

A 113-70 win over Florida Gulf Coast.

0:25.2

But Kyle was just telling some other guys in the press room that for a second game, a buy game

0:30.7

against a lower-level opponent, we sure got a lot to talk about tonight.

0:34.2

There was a lot happening.

0:35.6

The biggest news, Tomislav Ivisich did not play in this game. Out's a lot happening. The biggest news, Thomasov-Evisich did not play in this

0:39.2

game out with a knee injury. We'll talk about that. What Brad Underwood talked, said about it.

0:45.1

After the game, what it means for this team moving forward into a huge stretch of their non-conference

0:50.4

schedule. The freshman played well again. We'll talk about how good Keaton Wogler and David David Mirkovich have been.

0:58.0

Kyle and Boswell with a career night.

1:00.2

Zvonimir Evisich steps up.

1:01.8

It has one of his best games of his career.

1:04.7

And clearly, the biggest impact he's made is in the line ice so far in his second game.

1:09.2

And And Andre Steyakovich returned to the court, Kyle.

1:11.9

So there's plenty to talk about from State Farm Center in that for what usually would be a

1:16.2

ho-hum game as you gear up for the biggest game, Texas Tech coming up next. But we got a lot to

1:22.0

chat about in this one. Yeah, for sure. There's a lot to talk about. A lot of that is things you don't want to be talking about with the schedule you have upcoming and another injury and a really important injury to add to what's been kind of a nightmarish start to the season on that front for this team.

1:40.4

But on a positive note, is averaging 113 points a game good? Is that good for your first

1:46.3

two games? This offense is not missing a beat with the guys that have been out so far. And just again

1:53.1

in this game, Illinois jumps all over an inferior opponent from the start. I forget what the lead

1:59.8

was. I know it was 30 to six against Jackson State.

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