Ep. 790 - Shauna Green on WBIT title, returning roster & portal recruiting
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner discusses the Kentucky job opening and Jase Butler decommitting from Illinois basketball. Then Illinois women's basketball coach Shauna Green joins Werner and Joey Wagner to discuss Year Two, a WBIT title, her returning roster, transfer portal recruiting, incoming five-star recruit Berry Wallace and the Caitlin Clark effect on women's basketball.
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| 0:23.6 | Coca-Cola, official partner of the Premier League. Today on the Lionan Choir podcast, Shauna Green, Alina Women's Basketball coach, fresh off a WBIT championship, the first postseason title in Illinois women's basketball history. |
| 0:56.0 | Shauna will join us to break down what that meant for her program after a disappointing start |
| 1:01.4 | to the year that ultimately kept Illinois from its second straight NCAA tournament. |
| 1:05.8 | But what a two years it has been for Shauna Green in just reinvigorating this Alina women's basketball program that |
| 1:12.4 | long has been dormant. You look at some of these stats and Shauna Green is 19 and 17 in the Big |
| 1:19.4 | 10. That is very competitive. That is a winning Big 10 record. Her three predecessors were combined |
| 1:25.9 | 56 and 198. |
| 1:28.1 | This is the best back-to-back year stretch of the 21st century for a lot of women's basketball. |
| 1:32.4 | And it should continue as they've gotten great news with three of their best players, their three best players. |
| 1:37.9 | Kendall Bostic, Makaira Cook, Genesis Bryant, all returning along with Adalia McKenzie, Shea Bowling, Gretchen Dolan, |
| 1:44.9 | and bringing in five-star McDonald's All-American Barry Wallace on the wing. |
| 1:49.4 | And they're hitting the transfer portal. |
| 1:50.5 | We talked to Sean about that. |
| 1:51.8 | We talked to her about a program. |
| 1:53.2 | We talked to her about another great final four for women's basketball |
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