Ep. 581 - Mike LaTulip breaks down Illini's loss at Iowa

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Illini Inquirer basketball analyst Mike LaTulip joins Jeremy Werner to break down 'a hell of a college basketball game' in Illinois basketball's 81-79 loss at Iowa. LaTulip breaks down why the Illini lost, what it means, Matthew Mayer's NBA Draft stock, recent offensive struggles for two stars and what freshmen Jayden Epps and Ty Rodgers have shown recently. The guys then look ahead to the week ahead, including Saturday's game against Rutgers.

Note: The guys talked before Illinois announced Tuesday's game against Minnesota was postponed due to COVID-19 issues inside Minnesota's program.

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0:00.0	Today on the online inquire podcast, Michael Tulip joins me to give his thoughts on Illinois
0:16.9	Basketball's 8179 loss at Iowa and to look ahead at the week that will be for Illinois basketball's 81.79 loss at Iowa. And to look ahead at the week that will be for
0:23.4	Illinois basketball, and we found out right after we recorded this that the Illinois Minnesota
0:28.4	game will not happen on Tuesday. So apologies, but we recorded this right before that news came out.
0:34.4	So we discussed Minnesota a little bit, but we really don't because it wasn't going to be
0:39.1	that important of a game unless Illinois lost, and I think Illinois was going to win that game
0:43.7	anyway. But that has been postponed as Minnesota is having COVID issues inside their program right now.
0:50.9	People had their feelings, whatever, in 2023 of all of that. Minnesota's had injury issues
0:56.8	here recently. They've basically had seven players here recently. Dawson Garcia, their leading
1:01.1	score, best player, has been out with injury. Braden Carrington, freshman has been playing a lot for
1:06.1	them, miss the last six games with a leg injury. So you had COVID into that and all of a sudden they
1:11.7	don't have enough players for this game. And Big Tense COVID policy as of last season was that the
1:17.0	teams figured this out, that they don't have like a forfeit rule. They started off the year last
1:22.2	year with that and it didn't work out too well for them. So that's what the rule is and they will try
1:27.2	and make this up.
1:28.2	And the date that I have circled on my calendar as of right now would be February 20th,
1:35.1	because neither team has a game on the Sunday before.
1:38.5	Neither team has a game on the Tuesday afterwards.
1:41.3	They have midweek games after that, I think Wednesday and a Thursday for each of these
1:44.5	teams. So, yeah, you got to pack in some games. It's not entirely great for Illinois to have
1:51.1	packing games. I know Brad Underwood didn't like that earlier in the year, but they can make up
1:55.2	this game and you hope it is a win for Illinois at home. But that will not happen. and they will have a lot of time to prepare for a huge game
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