Ep. 586 - Illini fall 71-68 at No. 14 Indiana
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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🗓️ 18 February 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner react to Illinois basketball's 71-68 loss at No. 14 Indiana. The guys discuss a valiant effort without Terrence Shannon, including a big game from Matthew Mayer and Luke Goode's emergence, but break down late-game struggles and continued shooting struggles. The guys also discuss whether Indiana star Trayce Jackson-Davis is making a case for Big Ten Player of the Year and look ahead to the Illini's upcoming schedule and what there is left to learn about this team before the NCAA Tournament.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the online inquire podcast. Jeremy Warner here live back at the fort, |
| 0:17.3 | holding down the fort here at Illinois, Derek Piper and Joy Wagner were in Bloomington, |
| 0:21.6 | Indiana for a phenomenal basketball game. Of course, it did not go Illinois's way. They led for |
| 0:26.7 | 26 minutes at number 14, Indiana, despite not having Terrence Shannon Jr., who was out with a concussion. |
| 0:33.7 | But Derek, they weren't able to hold on. It kind of had a lot of similar vibes to the Iowa loss where, man, you love the effort, |
| 0:41.4 | man, you love the toughness and the way to take the lead on the road, |
| 0:45.9 | but she didn't execute enough to get a big quad one road victory. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, the execution down the stretch was spotty. |
| 0:52.1 | He didn't have the three-point shooting there in the second half, 0 for 8 from deep. And of course the RJ Melendez three that could have tied it. It looked like a pretty good one, a lot better than the wide open shot that he took earlier in the game, which of course didn't hit anything. But yeah, I mean, you can also throw in Matthew Meyer going off in the first half, which is something that happened there in Iowa City. And same thing here today as he was red hot. |
| 1:14.7 | I mean, four threes was just making plays all over the core, blocking shots. |
| 1:18.0 | He had to be great for an Illinois team that was missing their leading score in Terrence, |
| 1:21.9 | Shannon. |
| 1:22.2 | And he really was there in the first half. |
| 1:25.0 | I think that Luke Goody provided a really nice spark off the bench |
| 1:29.0 | at 23 minutes. That was great to see. Ty gave some really good minutes too. And like you said, |
| 1:34.2 | I mean, it was a high-level basketball game. Another one, I know that Illinois fans, when you think |
| 1:38.5 | about Iowa being a rival, Indiana being a rival, you're probably not too satisfied with the old, |
| 1:43.8 | you know, that was a really fun game. |
| 1:45.2 | It doesn't do it enough when you get swept now by Indiana. |
| 1:50.1 | But considering the circumstances, I think it was a pretty impressive showing for Illinois. |
| 1:55.0 | But, of course, they haven't been in a whole lot of close games. |
| 1:58.3 | And that one in the Iowa game game you made some mistakes down the |
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