Ep. 1130 - Mike LaTulip reviews UCLA loss, previews Michigan matchup

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Illini Inquirer basketball analyst Mike LaTulip joins Jeremy Werner to review the Illini's 95-94 overtime loss at UCLA. He breaks down what went wrong defensively, including on Donovan Dent's coast-to-coast game-winner, and what the Illini must learn from the disappointing letdown. Then LaTulip previews Friday's top-10 matchup against No. 3 Michigan on Friday at the State Farm Center and discusses Morez Johnson Jr.'s season with the Wolverines.

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0:00.0	All right. Welcome in to the Alana Inquirer podcast. It is Jeremy Warner, joined by Michael Tup, our Al-A-Nquire basketball analyst, Ketcham on CBS Sports Network, field is 68 all over the place. Mike, how are you being? Battling. We got a, I'll call this my flu game. Yeah. Why not? I said we could put it off for a day, but you wanted to battle through and you wanted to lace them up and break down a loss. It gets my mind off of it. It gets my mind off of how I'm feeling. But, you know, it's not the best place to go for my mind, but let's do it. Well, we got to talk about a loss. Third and five games for Illinois and just the third like heartbreaker. This team, when they lose, man, they make it really, really interesting, and they do make
0:55.7	it a heartbreaker.
0:56.9	Three straight losses in overtime.
0:59.3	They now have lost two on buzzer beaters.
1:03.3	Before we dive into the nitty-gritty, like, what does a team take from that, that they're
1:06.9	0 and 3 in overtime and lose on two buzzer beaters?
1:11.2	That you're close to this being a really historic season.
1:17.6	But it is weird.
1:19.5	Even you just saying that, this team losing three out of five, that doesn't sound right.
1:25.4	Because I think we all understand the caliber of team that this team is.
1:30.2	I just think there's just, they're, they're really close.
1:34.5	They really are.
1:35.2	And we'll get into why I think that.
1:37.3	But in some of the late game stuff, but this game against UCLA, I'm actually glad it played out the way it played out.
1:44.9	Because this really is, teams lose like this in the tournament.
1:48.6	Oh, yeah.
1:49.6	Go up early, start looking ahead, you know.
1:54.4	And so now you can go into these subsequent games and go into March.
1:58.2	Like, remember UCLA? Remember you, like, that's not happening
2:01.1	again. And maybe if you go on to win that one by 26, you're, I feel like they were always going to be up
2:08.5	for the Michigan game. And then you don't want to have Maryland come back on you or how, you know,
2:14.0	God forbid, had this happen in the NCAA tournament. So silver lining I'll start with, and then we'll get into the stuff that needs to be faced.
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