Ep. 1098 - Mike LaTulip breaks down Illini's Braggin' Rights rout, previews B1G play
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Illini Inquirer basketball analyst Mike LaTulip joins Jeremy Werner to react to Illinois basketball's 91-48 rout of Missouri. LaTulip breaks down the Illini's bounce-back on defense, how Keaton Wagler has lifted the Illini offense, Andrej Stojakovic settling in to a winning role, Tomislav Ivisic's progress and Mihailo Petrovic's role. LaTulip then looks ahead to the resumption of Big Ten play next week.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the O'an Ony Inquirer podcast. Merry Christmas, everybody. |
| 0:16.0 | Hopefully you had a great holiday. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's start it off. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm in Nashville, but we're going to start off this week's |
| 0:21.4 | podcast. I don't even know what day it is. I guess it's the weekend. It's Saturday. Michael |
| 0:25.2 | too, I'm joining us, talk some O'I-Ni basketball. After huge bragging rights, victory 91 to 48, |
| 0:31.9 | we'll break it down. Some great defense, as good of offense, if not better. Off offense uh just put the complete performance together |
| 0:39.4 | and we'll look ahead to the resumption of big 10 play next week with penn state illinois traveling out |
| 0:45.4 | to philadelphia to play them but merry christmas mike hope you and your wife had a good one |
| 0:50.1 | hopefully you had a great one with the family how are you man i'm good i'm good uh health is good |
| 0:55.5 | which is always a scary when you go through the holidays um yeah when we talked about doing this pod |
| 1:02.4 | you're like hey 27th work and i was like yeah let's do it and i was like i think it's a saturday |
| 1:06.8 | but i'm like that's you know my wife's going on a walk right now because the weather is holding up somehow in December here in the Midwest. And I said, yeah, I'll be doing a pie with Jeremy this on this fine Saturday morning. So I'm good, man. Yeah, I hope you're well. So let's dive into this because what a performance. Like, I mean, I think it's two out of the last three years. Illinois has just gone down there and beat the crap out of Missouri. |
| 1:30.3 | Casper Shack Shonis was great last year to pull out a close victory. |
| 1:33.8 | But 43-point victory is the biggest in the history of this long rivalry series. |
| 1:39.5 | What impressed you most from that 43-point win? |
| 1:43.1 | Just their execution overall. I think the response |
| 1:46.4 | particularly defensively after that Nebraska loss. And look, this is something that we've seen |
| 1:52.0 | with Brad Underwood's teams at Illinois, the ability to kind of get themselves off the mat |
| 1:57.3 | after letdowns. And you saw the Tennessee game this year. There was the Penn State |
| 2:03.6 | loss a few years ago in that volleyball arena when you were up nine or whatever it was, |
| 2:10.4 | a 45 seconds left. And you come back, you get a much needed win. Back at home against Iowa, |
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