Ep. 1152 - Final Four roundtable with Isaac Trotter & Trevor Vallese

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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CBS Sports college basketball writer Isaac Trotter and Field of 68 content manager Trevor Vallese join Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to preview the Final Four. The University of Illinois alums break down the Illini's NCAA Tournament run so far, preview Saturday's semifinal matchup between Illinois and UConn and discuss the Illini's national title possibilities.

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0:00.0	Today on the online inquire podcast, let's have some fun with a few of our buddies,
0:16.7	Isaac Trotter, CBS Sports College basketball writer, will, will join us, as will Trevor Vallease,
0:22.1	content manager for Field of 68, two Illinois grads.
0:26.6	They were with me at the Jeremy Warner Show, the radio show back in the day on ESPN 935, but now
0:32.0	national voices.
0:33.8	They know the college basketball landscape in this Final Four extremely well.
0:38.9	So we will ask them their perspective as Illinois grads that kind of suffered through the bottom of the Illinois basketball downfall of the 2010s,
0:47.6	and now we've seen it rise.
0:49.5	And our part of watching it nationally as well and have their perspective there.
0:52.8	So we've got to recap the season,
0:54.3	the NCAA tournament run, and then we break down this Illinois-U-Con matchup and the Arizona-Michigan
1:00.0	matchup and a potential Illinois matchup in the title game. And oh, we talk about the North Carolina
1:05.2	job as well. So kind of a roundtable setup, Isaac Trotter and Trevor Valise had a lot of fun
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