Ep. 430 - Round Two Déjà Vu
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C
4.9 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner, Joey Wagner and Derek Piper react to Illinois basketball's 68-53 second-round NCAA Tournament loss to Houston and the end of the 2021-22 season. The guys discuss what went so wrong with the Illinois offense and guard play to close the season, flashes from the freshmen, Andre Curbelo sitting for the final 26 minutes and how this season will be remembered. The guys then take some moments to reflect on the careers of Trent Frazier, Da'Monte Williams and Alfonso Plummer -- and potentially Kofi Cockburn and Jacob Grandison -- and a short look ahead to the next era of Illinois basketball.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the online inquire podcast, Jeremy Warner, Derek Piper, Joey Wagner, huddled up in the media room after Illinois loses to Houston 6853 in the second round of the NCAA tournament. |
| 0:24.7 | A second straight year with a Big Ten title winning team. |
| 0:28.9 | This one, the regular season champion, bowing out in the second round of the NCAA tournament. |
| 0:34.2 | Let's talk about it, boys. |
| 0:35.2 | There's a lot to chew over in this one. |
| 0:39.8 | A weird call by a referee, |
| 0:45.5 | but when you lose by 15 points, you shoot six for 25 from three. There are much bigger reasons of why Illinois lost this game. So why did they lose this game? I mean, you look at it Derek, |
| 0:52.2 | three games in a row in the postseason. |
| 0:54.5 | They shot under 40 percent, and the offense was basically just a train wreck. |
| 1:00.2 | Injuries, illnesses, you didn't have Jacob Grannison. |
| 1:02.6 | Trent Frazier clearly wasn't himself the last couple of days. |
| 1:06.2 | What do you think led to this offensive downfall in the last couple of games? |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah, Trent Fraser not being right and not being able to make shots and be |
| 1:14.8 | confident. And the fact that now he's played in his last three tournament games, |
| 1:18.6 | he's gone three for 23 from the field. And I understand he's battling through him. |
| 1:22.4 | You can still see his eyes not looking all that right. And that's certainly unfortunate. |
| 1:27.1 | Kerbello to play as poorly as he did today. |
| 1:29.7 | Go 0 for 4 from the field, two turnovers, |
| 1:31.7 | didn't even play in the second half. |
| 1:32.9 | And just that roller coach that could never even out, |
| 1:35.5 | ultimately in the season, that played a big role in Illinois, |
| 1:39.8 | not having the guard play. |
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