Ep. 544 - A marquee win at Mecca!
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner discuss Illinois basketball's 85-78 overtime win over No. 2 Texas at Madison Square Garden. The guys discuss Matthew Mayer's heater, dominant stretches of defense, clutch late performances from Jayden Epps and Terrence Shannon and how this talented, deep team is growing through nine games. The guys also look ahead to Saturday's game against Penn State and take listener questions.
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| 0:44.4 | Jeremy Warner, Derek Piper, New York City Skyline behind us. |
| 0:48.3 | We're at Madison Square Garden, covering a basketball game, and it was a pretty great one. |
| 0:52.2 | It's Illinois defeats. Number two, Texas, previously unbeaten Longhorns, 85 to 78 in overtime. |
| 0:59.0 | Derek, they come back from a 10-point second half deficit with eight, nine minutes left in this game. |
| 1:04.0 | Show the resilience, but you're wondering in those closing minutes, can they do enough to close out of the victory? |
| 1:09.0 | Something they weren't able to do against Virginia, something they weren't able to do against Maryland after getting behind, making that |
| 1:14.9 | comeback. But they find ways to close in this one. What was different about Illinois basketball |
| 1:20.1 | tonight in one of the biggest environments in basketball against one of the best teams in college |
| 1:24.8 | basketball? Well, the way Matthew Meyer played got you there because, I mean, I don't know how the heck the Illinois came back where they were going a nine-minute stretch of two points, and they were down to town where they had to go. But, yeah, you get to the point of you're in crunch time. You have that momentum coming back where you're getting stops and since here was really great defensively and I thought that that was a big key as well and |
| 1:45.7 | Jaden Epps gets another crack at shooting a three with a less than a minute to go and that one goes in from the corner then gets fouls a really bad foul by Jabari rice deep in the back where which put him on the line chance to tie the game and even Chris Beard tried to ice him a little bit by calling the timeout in between the two, |
| 2:02.3 | but he makes both of those. |
| 2:03.6 | And that's a guy that Brad's been trusting late in games and thrown out there and obviously |
| 2:08.7 | paid off. |
| 2:09.4 | And then overtime, Territ Shannon just finally awakened. |
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