Ep. 588 - Brad Evans breaks down Illini bracketology

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Bally Sports' bracketologist Brad Evans breaks down Illinois basketball's NCAA Tournament résumé, the Illini's best/worst case scenarios for seeding, the Big Ten's chances in the tournament and potential favorites and sleepers in the Big Dance.

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0:18.0	Price and participation may vary. Subjects availability. Today on the online inquire podcast, it's that time of year to start talking
0:36.9	brackets. And no, Illinois's not time of year to start talking brackets.
0:38.5	And no, Illinois is not in the mix for a one or two or three seed at this point, sitting
0:43.6	at 18 and 9, 9 and 7 in the Big 10 with four regular season games up to go, the Big 10 tournament
0:50.0	left to go.
0:51.3	But Illinois firmly in the field of 68 as we speak today, avoid a bad loss against
0:57.1	Minnesota on Monday night. That certainly helps. And four more opportunities to add to their
1:01.5	resume during the regular season, of course, the Big Ten tournament as well. So we went to our guy,
1:07.4	the Champaign native, the Illinois grad, now the Muhammad native. Brad Evans, ballet sports,
1:13.9	brackatologists. We've been talking to him for a long time where there's been at Yahoo,
1:17.4	wherever he's been, and his bracket big board is one of the best among all bracketologists.
1:23.5	Joe Lanardi, Jerry Palm, all these guys that you know of.
1:28.2	I go to Brad Evans because he is one of the most accurate in the business and it's all
1:33.7	really, really good stuff.
1:35.6	And I learn something new every time I talk to Brad Evans, especially about basketball
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