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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 1103 - Illini hold on against Hawkeyes 75-69

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C

Sports, Football

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Kyle Tausk react to Illinois basketball's 75-69 road win at No. 19 Iowa, including continued defensive improvement, freshmen continuing to shine and more.

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0:45.5

It is Jeremy Warner, Kyle Tosk, here with you for the first time and a long time for a live postgame podcast.

0:51.8

It's been a while with my personal stuff going on,

0:54.6

but also just some of these games

0:56.4

didn't feel like they deserved a post-game podcast.

0:59.1

This one does, Kyle, as Illinois goes on the road,

1:02.0

really controls the game from the opening tip,

1:04.3

takes a 21 to 5 lead within the first two segments of this game,

1:09.9

controlled the game for the most part. But then Bennett Sturts hits the bench, and Iowa makes a run with a lot of its bench players, cut it down to four, had a chance to cut it to two. Bennett Sturts misses a point-blank layup, Illinois, able to close this one out as Keaton Wigler, 16 of his 19 in the second half, Andres Stryakovich, 13 of his

1:29.5

17 in the first half where he dominated. And Kyle and Boswell was our MVP at the game for his

1:34.2

two-way impact, not only 17 points, four rebounds, three assists, but helped force Bennett

1:40.2

starts into one of his worst offensive performances, the first round draft pick likely.

1:44.7

I had 12 points on five of 17 shooting, a quad one victory, a great road ranked victory

1:52.1

for Illinois, their third win over a ranked opponent.

1:54.6

So far this season, Kyle, and this will hold up.

1:57.6

There's a quad one, right?

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