Ep. 1083 - Hits & misses from Illini's 74-61 loss to No. 5 UConn
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Kyle Tausk react to Illinois basketball's 74-61 loss to No. 5 UConn at Madison Square Garden. The guys discuss the Illini's shooting woes, early defensive mistakes and no-shows from some key players but also Kylan Boswell's great game, Tomislav Ivisic's encouraging second half and the important month ahead.
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| 0:27.3 | Thank you. Welcome into the Ilan Inquirer podcast. It is Jeremy Warner, Kyle Toss. I do want to apologize that we didn't get this right after the game. But I had a plane to catch because I had a snowstorm to beat. And I'm glad I did. I'm here in Champaign, getting ready to cover Illinois, Northwestern. |
| 0:56.6 | But we didn't want to react to Illinois, Yukon, Illinois, fall 7461 at Madison Square Garden. |
| 1:03.3 | I was out there, and you guys are to see it, and not a great showing, Kyle, for Illinois. |
| 1:09.6 | I feel like Brad Underwood needs to stop going there because the last two have been pretty, |
| 1:13.9 | pretty miserable getting crushed by Duke. |
| 1:16.4 | And for all intents and purposes, you kind of control this game from the tip off, |
| 1:20.1 | leading by double digits for most of it, leading by up to 21, Illinois late rally to cut |
| 1:25.1 | it to about seven with three minutes left. |
| 1:28.1 | But Kyle felt like, you know, we'll go over our hits and misses. |
| 1:31.6 | Besides Kyle and Boswell, did anyone really show up to this one and be the aggressor here? |
| 1:38.7 | Kyle was, I thought, the best player in the court, but the rest of the team didn't show up for him. |
| 1:43.2 | No, not at all. |
| 1:44.3 | And by the way, last two trips to Madison Square Garden, Illinois shooting eight for 55 from three across |
| 1:51.7 | those two games. |
| 1:52.9 | So, yeah, it hasn't been, hasn't been a friendly place here in these last couple trips over |
| 1:58.3 | there for Illinois. |
| 1:59.3 | But, yeah, it was ugly for a lot of Friday. |
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