Ep. 1133 - Mike LaTulip on Michigan loss, Illini's final two regular-season games
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Illini Inquirer basketball analyst Mike LaTulip joins Jeremy Werner to react to Illinois basketball's 84-70 loss to Michigan. LaTulip breaks down what went wrong for the Illini, what they learned and what must be cleaned up in the final two regular-season games against Oregon and at Maryland. LaTulip also discusses the careers of seniors Kylan Boswell and Ben Humrichous.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the online inquire podcast. It's Monday. That means it's time with Mike Latuip, our line |
| 0:18.3 | inquire basketball analyst. We've got to recap, and Illinois lost to Michigan, |
| 0:23.6 | who sure looks like a national title contender after what they did at Illinois, |
| 0:27.6 | potentially a 19-1 Big Ten season. |
| 0:30.1 | They hadn't ended in the postseason here. |
| 0:32.4 | But Illinois was their fourth game in six games, |
| 0:35.8 | and they got two more games. |
| 0:37.4 | We'll lead up to that, Oregon, as well as a trip to |
| 0:40.1 | Maryland to wrap up the regular season. But Mike, it is March. Happy March, man. How you doing? |
| 0:45.6 | I'm doing great. I'm doing great. It feels like, how don't you want to say it feels like March has snuck up |
| 0:51.4 | on us? Because you're anticipating it every year. |
| 0:55.5 | And it feels like once all the conversation starts getting to seating and every game feels consequential in that particular department, then yeah, we're here. |
| 1:05.2 | It's March. |
| 1:06.4 | Well, Michigan came in here. |
| 1:07.9 | We knew this is going to be the biggest test that I don't know I was going to face. |
| 1:10.6 | We knew they had to make shots. And boy, Michigan came in here. We knew this was going to be the biggest test that Illinois was going to face. |
| 1:15.4 | We knew they had to make shots. And boy, Michigan just overwhelmed them, Mike. And a blowout loss of the score looked closer than it actually was in that second half. |
| 1:20.7 | So why? Why did Michigan just overwhelm Illinois in this one? |
| 1:24.3 | It's one of, if not the best teams in America. And you've got to be airtight with your |
| 1:30.3 | execution. You've got to be airtight with your toughness against a team like that, or they're |
| 1:34.8 | going to blitz you. And I think those are the games to me where IQ and toughness have to be the |
| 1:42.1 | first things that you bring. |
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