Ep. 583 - Illini disarm the Scarlet Knights

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner react to Illinois basketball's 69-60 win over No. 24 Rutgers. The guys discuss what the Quad 1 win means for Illinois, the 19-0 run to spark the comeback and big performances from Coleman Hawkins, Dain Dainja and freshmen Ty Rodgers and Sencire Harris. The guys then look ahead to next week's games at Penn State and Indiana.

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0:00.0	Welcome into the Alana Inquirer podcast, Jeremy Warner, Derek Piper live at State Farm Center.
0:18.0	And no offense to Rutgers, which is a team, I really enjoy watching, especially just how
0:23.3	tough they play.
0:24.3	Steve Peoples, well, the good thing there.
0:26.0	But when Darren Williams and Manny Jackson are in the building, Derek, you can't lose.
0:30.8	In Illinois, found a way overcome an eight-point deficit in the first half, go on a 19-0 run.
0:37.2	And I don't know if I've ever seen this before.
0:39.5	A Big 10 team gets shut out from scoring for 10 minutes. That was an impressive defensive
0:46.1	display from a team that is one of the most impressive defensive teams we've seen. And Derek,
0:51.6	what a big win is Illinois gets a quad one victory at home. And for the first time
0:56.4	this season, they beat a top half big 10 team. We'll see if Michigan State ends up that.
1:02.2	But right now, that is one of their best wins of the season, beating Rutgers. But something
1:06.2	you've got to do at home, especially if you want to get one of those double buys in the Big 10
1:09.8	tournament. Yeah, it was a big spot for Illinois going into today and a team you now leap there in that top five, top six of the Big Ten. Rutgers now falling just a hair below you and we'll see how the rest of the weekend shakes out because what's cool about this weekend is you have the top six teams all playing each other. So Illinois getting an important win at home. You mentioned the quad one. Going into today, they'd only had one quad one win in Big Ten
1:32.1	play. So you had another one in that sense. And I know on Ken Palm, Indiana was slightly
1:38.0	trailing Rutgers as far as the Ken Palm Ranking is going into today. So Rutgers on paper
1:43.1	was the best team you'd played since Texas, which is kind of crazy. So to be able to hold on the Ford at home is really important. You still have a chance to match what's been your Big Ten home record in the three previous seasons, which has been eight and two in each of the last three, currently five and two here. So I took a couple losses early, but I've ratted off some wins here.
2:03.6	This was a big one.
2:04.8	The defensive intensity in the second half was great.
2:07.6	They weren't very good there in the first half.
2:09.7	They came way too easy for Rutgers offensively.
2:12.1	It was kind of one of the weird first half because it felt like Illinois should be down
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