Ep. 1170 - NBA Draft lottery fallout & Combine preview; Eric Bossi on Illini hoops recruiting
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Kyle Tausk discuss what this week's NBA Draft Combine means for Keaton Wagler, Kylan Boswell and Andrej Stojakovic, as well as Wagler's best NBA Draft fits and the Bulls landing the No. 4 pick in the lottery. 247Sports national basketball director Eric Bossi then joins Werner to discuss Illinois basketball prep recruiting, its top-10 Class of 2026, its early 2027 commits and other 2027 and 2028 targets.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the Yonite Quire podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | It is Jeremy Warner and Kyle Toss with you. |
| 0:18.2 | We are going to catch up with 24-7 sports director of basketball recruiting. |
| 0:24.6 | Eric Bossy is going to join us. We'll talk a little high school recruiting with Eric. Caught up with |
| 0:28.5 | Joe Hendrickson of City Suburban Hoops Report last week. Kind of got the in-state Chicago focus. |
| 0:35.1 | We'll focus more nationally with Eric Bossie this week as the evaluation period opens up the first of the spring, May 15th here on Friday. So we'll get some insight from Eric about that. Some of the targets, Illinois is going after. But first I want to catch up with Kyle Tosk, which we have to give a big congratulations. Kyle Tosk completed with the University of Illinois. |
| 0:55.6 | Congratulations, Kyle. |
| 0:56.8 | When is graduation for you, man? |
| 0:59.4 | Graduation is coming up this coming weekend. |
| 1:01.9 | Commencement is on Saturday, and then my college of media ceremonies on Sunday night. |
| 1:06.5 | So I've officially finished all my school responsibilities responsibilities now I'm just passing the time until I |
| 1:13.3 | officially get to walk that stage so it's pretty exciting big moment has it really sunk in yet to me |
| 1:18.9 | like I think it will once I actually go through next weekend but I haven't really it hasn't really |
| 1:24.9 | even hit me yet what it what, this is happening for me. |
| 1:28.3 | Big moment for you, bigger moment for the parents that can just say, hey, we're done. We're done. Kyle's off on his own. But big moment for us too, because I know you're starting full time here at Alana Inquirer here very, very shortly, which we are excited about. but congrats Kyle. |
| 1:42.3 | That's a huge deal. |
| 1:43.8 | Get that University of Illinois degree. |
| 1:47.0 | And what looks like should be a beautiful... excited about, but congrats, Kyle. It's a huge deal. Get that University of Illinois degree. |
| 1:47.0 | And what looks like should be a beautiful week, so good time, good time. But we got a lot to |
| 1:52.2 | catch up with basketball-wise. It's really a good time for Illinois basketball. And we're thinking |
| 1:57.1 | about what I would assume when Terrence Shannon Jr. are doing in the playoffs with a fun Timberwolves team that got game three with Wemby, deserving that ejection. But the Spurs are a better team, but Minnesota Timberwolves pretty good too and very entertaining team. So great to watch them. Now we have three players in the scouting combine this week in Chicago starts as we're recording this on Monday. |
| 2:20.6 | Adre Soryakovich is working out this afternoon. |
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