Ep. 1145 - Mike LaTulip previews Illinois vs. Houston in the Sweet Sixteen
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Illini Inquirer basketball analyst Mike LaTulip joins Jeremy Werner to discuss Illinois basketball's advancement into the Sweet Sixteen and preview Thursday's matchup against Houston. LaTulip discusses what stood out about the Illini's dominance against Penn and VCU and then breaks down the keys to the Illini against Houston, which was the national runner-up last season.
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| 0:35.1 | Welcome in to the Line Inquirer podcast. |
| 0:37.6 | It's Jeremy Warner, welcominging in Michael Latua, |
| 0:43.6 | our line-in-quirer basketball analysts. Let's preview Illinois in the Sweet 16 for a second time in three seasons as the line I take care of business in the first weekend in Greenville. |
| 0:48.4 | Beat Penn, beat VCU. And now they're heading the Houston Regional, along with two other Big Ten teams. |
| 0:54.7 | Nebraska, moving out of the Sweet 16 for the first time in their program's history, |
| 0:58.4 | their first two NCAA tournament wins, and then Iowa taking out the defending national |
| 1:02.7 | champion in number one seed, Florida. |
| 1:04.9 | It's going to be a Big Ten convention down in Houston along with Houston, |
| 1:08.3 | the Illinois' opponent here, Mike. |
| 1:10.6 | Great weekend for the Big Ten men, six sweet 16 teams here. |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah, I mean, we talked about it before the season. |
| 1:17.0 | That's, this is what I envisioned for this, this conference. |
| 1:20.3 | Now you got to do it in March and, you know, draw a lot of times can, can be helpful. |
| 1:26.4 | But these round of 32 games, mean i think there were day one was |
| 1:31.3 | solid round of 64 day two snoozer and then it just it's it's set up for back-to-back days really of |
| 1:40.8 | high-level basketball some classics mixed in there and the big 10 was front and center outside of high-level basketball, some classics mixed in there, and the Big Ten was front and center. |
| 1:47.6 | Outside a high point, there wasn't many Cinderella's here, right? |
| 1:50.6 | I mean, Iowa could be that. |
| 1:52.9 | Nebraska is a great story, even though they're number four seed. |
| 1:55.9 | I'll let you weigh in, Mike, on the national topic. |
| 1:58.0 | Why do you think we're not getting many upset Cinderella's anymore? |
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