Ep. 775 - Illini survive and advance at Big Ten Tournament
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Derek Piper react to Illinois basketball's 77-74 win over Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament, including big performances from Terrence Shannon Jr., Dain Dainja and Coleman Hawkins in crunch time. The guys also look ahead to Saturday's matchup vs Nebraska/Indiana.
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| 0:36.7 | Good evening. Welcome to the Alainanquire podcast. It's Jeremy Warder, Derek Piper, |
| 0:40.9 | live on our YouTube channel here at Alana Inquirer. If you're joining us tonight, hit that like button, hit subscribe. As Illinois, Derek, survives in advances. They survive when they don't |
| 0:46.7 | play their best ball. We get some big performances from some guys. We don't normally see that. |
| 0:52.1 | From Dane Dange at 18 points, eight rebounds, almost at season highs in both those categories tonight. |
| 0:57.8 | Ty Rogers, a double double for Illinois. |
| 1:00.5 | And Tarynxana was Tarynxia with 28 points. |
| 1:03.1 | But not a great night for Marcus DeMess. |
| 1:04.9 | Just seven points on three or 16 shooting. |
| 1:07.3 | Coleman Hawkins really didn't play well at all for the first 38 minutes, but huge |
| 1:11.5 | winning plays down the stretch there is Illinois overcomes a 10-point second half deficit to |
| 1:17.5 | come back, beat one of the hottest teams in the country right now. They're top 15 in the |
| 1:22.5 | country over the last, what, month, according to some of the metrics, can really guard. And they burst another bubble as Ohio State. Jake Deabor, what a run they made at the end of the years, put him in the conversation for Ohio State's future coach. We'll see if that happens. But Ohio State is not going to make the tournament now. And Illinois potentially could be a three seed after this victory. But I got to tell you, Derek, one point. I thought we were going to talk about a third straight one and done for Illinois, the Big Ten tournament. I was with you. I was already thinking about the eight-hour drive back that we were probably going to have tomorrow, and I wasn't too excited about that. So I test-wise, Illinois did not play all that well. I think Brad Underwood |
| 2:01.4 | really spoke to that after the game. I don't think he's super satisfied. Obviously, with the fact, |
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