Ep. 1193 - Isaac Trotter's Illini basketball offseason outlook
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C
4.9 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
CBS Sports college basketball writer Isaac Trotter joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to discuss the Illinois basketball offseason. The guys chat about early impressions of Keaton Wagler in the NBA Summer League, how Michigan's turmoil impacts Illinois and the Big Ten and the most intriguing things of Illini summer workouts. Trotter then discusses the Illini's top 2027 NBA Draft prospects.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the online inquire podcast, our buddy Isaac Trotter, CBS Sports College Basketball |
| 0:18.7 | writer joins us to hit on a number of college basketball topics. |
| 0:23.4 | We talked some NBA Summer League and early impressions of Keaton Wogler's first two games |
| 0:28.1 | against some high-level opponents in his draft class. |
| 0:32.3 | We also chat about Michigan in turmoil. |
| 0:35.5 | They lose Dusty May to the NBA. They promote Mike Boynton, |
| 0:39.7 | former Brad Underwood assistant and assistant in last year's national title team, |
| 0:43.7 | at least in the short term. In Ward Manuel, their AD, seems like he's in hot water |
| 0:48.2 | after all the investigations into their football program around Shroom Moore. So what's that |
| 0:53.3 | mean for Michigan? What's that mean for Michigan? |
| 0:54.3 | What's that mean for Illinois and the rest of the Big Ten with the national title team, |
| 0:57.8 | the Big Ten power now seemingly in trouble and having all this instability. |
| 1:03.3 | And then we talk about summer workouts for Illinois. |
| 1:05.9 | Isaac very high on the Illini, but he talks about what he is most interested in to see if they can be that |
| 1:11.8 | Big Ten favorite heading into the season. He talks about David Merikovic and the front court |
| 1:16.4 | that is returning. It talks about the guards, the young guys on this team as well. And then we |
| 1:21.8 | have some fun later on in the podcast talking about the NBA Drap Rocks prospects on this Illinois |
| 1:27.4 | team because they are |
| 1:28.6 | loaded with them probably one of the best teams when it comes to NBA draft prospects and quantity |
| 1:33.8 | and quality of them in the country. |
| 1:36.4 | So Isaac gives us who he thinks is the best NBA draft prospect on this team. |
| 1:40.2 | Some other guys who could go first round and some guys who go second round as well. |
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