Ep. 1162 - Mike LaTulip evaluates Illini basketball's offseason retool
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer basketball analyst Mike LaTulip joins Jeremy Werner to discuss Illinois basketball offseason retention and roster retool. LaTulip breaks down the importance of returning five core pieces from the Final Four team and the additions of Stefan Vaaks and a top-10 prep recruiting class and the Illini's potential flaws.
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| 0:49.6 | He said he's like a caged animal wanting to talk a line at basketball. |
| 0:52.1 | So we let him loose. |
| 0:53.9 | Michael T up talks about |
| 0:55.2 | illinois retention efforts with illinois basketball we talk about the addition of stephan vox the providence |
| 1:01.2 | transfer guard top 15 overall transfer we talk about this very talented freshman class for |
| 1:07.7 | illinois with quittin coleman lucasillo, Xavier Zens, the latest edition, |
| 1:12.5 | Ethan Brown, and Landon Davis, and what they can bring. And the staff's bet that those guys will |
| 1:18.0 | make an impact right away. We talk about John Blackwell, going to Duke. And we discuss a topic |
| 1:24.2 | that Mike was pretty heated about, about the guard position for Illinois. |
| 1:28.8 | So we talk about all of that. |
| 1:30.1 | We talk about the Big Ten so far. |
| 1:31.5 | What he thinks about some of the other teams of dishes in their offseason so far. |
| 1:36.1 | So sit back, relax. |
| 1:37.3 | Michael Toop is coming up on the podcast. |
| 1:39.6 | A few items I do want to hit on before we get to Mike is the NFL draft does start tonight. |
| 1:45.4 | We're recording this on Thursday. |
| 1:47.3 | We've got the first round of the NFL draft. |
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