Ep. 587 - Illini, Melendez bounce back against Gophers
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner react to Illinois basketball's 78-69 win over Minnesota. The guys discuss RJ Melendez's bounce-back performance, Jayden Epps and the Illini breaking out of a shooting slump and Matthew Mayer raising his game with Terrence Shannon Jr. out. Then the guys look ahead to the two upcoming games this week: Northwestern and at Ohio State.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the On Enquirer podcast. Happy nights. It's all you night owls watching on our |
| 0:18.0 | live YouTube channel. Appreciate you joining us join us and i'm always on the |
| 0:21.6 | youtube late at night whether it's listen to music or listen to who the bears are going to trade the |
| 0:26.3 | number one pick for derrick piper so thanks to all those for joining us on the youtube channel or |
| 0:31.5 | for listen to this next day like normal people on the podcast welcome in it's a better day as |
| 0:35.9 | illinois snaps their first two-game losing streak of |
| 0:38.6 | the season with a 78-69 win over Minnesota. Some good things in this game. Maybe it's not the, |
| 0:46.2 | I guess, the margin of victory, some might want, but Illinois had this under control through most |
| 0:51.1 | of the second half, Derek. You get all five starters scoring and double figures. |
| 0:55.9 | Terrence Shannon out. |
| 0:57.1 | Everybody stepped up in the scoring. |
| 0:59.5 | Matthew Meyer with 22 points. |
| 1:02.2 | He looks like an alpha right now for this team. |
| 1:05.0 | Coleman Hawkins was 16 points. |
| 1:06.5 | He did a couple big threes, three three-pointers for him tonight. |
| 1:09.3 | Jade Nepp's fantastic to start the second half. 17 points for him. That's a big 10 high. Three three-three-pointers for him tonight. Jade Neffs, fantastic to start |
| 1:11.0 | the second half, 17 points for him. That's a big 10 high. Dane Danger had 12 points. You drew |
| 1:16.5 | 10 fouls tonight, but we do have to start probably with the story of the game. What a feel-good game |
| 1:23.1 | for RJ Melendez. His first career double double, Brad Underwood sticks with him in the starting lineup, gives him 10 points, 11 rebounds, |
| 1:31.2 | a couple big dunks, hit a three. |
| 1:33.3 | I thought he traveled. |
| 1:34.5 | So the referees gave him a nice one there, but he sinks the three. |
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