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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 1111 - Mike LaTulip on Keaton Wagler's historic performance, Illini's B1G win at Purdue

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Mike LaTulip joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to break down Keaton Wagler's epic performance to lead Illinois to a marquee win at No. 4 Purdue. LaTulip breaks down what made the performance special and his NBA comps for Wagler. He then discusses how the Illini supporting cast impacted the win, the Illini's game against Washington and a big week in the Big Ten title race.

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0:00.0

Welcome in to the O'Anquire podcast.

0:15.2

It's an early edition of the Michael Tooth version of the O'Anon Inquirer podcast this week is how could we not get him on immediately as quickly as possible?

0:23.9

After just one of the most epic performances we'll ever see from an Illinois player, Keaton-Wigler 46 points.

0:30.6

Most importantly, one of the biggest wins of the Brad Underwood era, certainly one of the top two wins on the road.

0:36.0

And I would say number one since there was an actual crowd there, unlike in 2021,

0:40.7

against Michigan number two in the country at that point without Iowa Dissumu.

0:44.6

But Mike, just wow.

0:46.2

Wow, what a performance by Keaton-Wonger, not only smashing Georgie Boshanishvili's

0:51.2

freshman record, but the second most points by an Illinois player

0:55.3

in regulation of a game, second most tied with Andy Kaufman who had 46 in overtime, nine three

1:02.0

pointers made, and Purdue just couldn't do anything with him. So is you're watching that? What's going

1:07.7

through your head? Oh, when I'm watching'm watching it i my wife was on the couch

1:14.2

next to me we we have kind of like a sectional yeah so she was on one end i was on the other end and

1:20.1

yeah i was going nuts like i i just especially at the end of the game too but for keaton iaton, I just, I, and I've mentioned this before,

1:29.8

but I just don't think we're going to see anything like that again.

1:33.9

And I'm talking about in college basketball.

1:36.3

And I think when you, it's weird because when you are so close to it, we cover the team,

1:42.9

we talk about the team,

1:44.6

you almost refrain more from the hyperbole.

1:47.7

Like, I want to be careful saying it's the best this ever.

1:50.9

And as that game went on, just the checkpoints he was hitting.

1:55.3

Best freshman performance ever for an align eye, no question.

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