Ep. 861 - Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn; Piper's update on Illini basketball staff, 2025 recruiting efforts

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper joins Jeremy Werner to discuss the status of Illinois basketball assistant coach Tim Anderson and what his potential departure would mean for the program. Piper then updates the Illini's recruiting efforts, including official visits for 2025 prospects Keaton Wagler, Brandon Lee and Trey Maddox as well as the latest with target Jacob Furphy. Illinois sophomore guard Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn joins the guys to discuss his offseason, what he learned as a freshman on an Elite Eight team and all the newcomers on the Illini roster.

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1:08.1	We got some recruiting to talk about.
1:09.6	We're going to catch up with Drake Gibbs Lawhorn later on in this podcast as well, so I'm excited about that. But Derek, it's never a dull moment with Illinois basketball, so we'll dive into potential staff news. But how are you, man? Illinois football has been the focus because they're 3 and 0, but we've got to get some hoops yet. Yeah, I'm doing good.
1:29.7	Enjoying this start to the Atlanta football season.
1:44.1	Cannot wait for Friday night. I mentioned this on the radio. It's one of those. I know that you'll be there out in Lincoln. I imagine it'll be just an amazing environment, raucous crowd. Such a huge opportunity for Beelman Company. but for back home, you're texting your buddies, your family,
1:49.1	like, where's the watch party? How are we doing this? How we gather around the TV to consume this game? And man, just the buzz that will be amongst Atlanta Nation if they do pull it off. But yeah,
1:54.1	it's, it's been a while. There haven't been too many opportunities where you have those opportunities
1:57.5	to watch those games and have that hope and see two ranked numbers
2:02.6	next to both sides. So enjoying that aspect of it for sure. Yeah, it's kind of like,
2:07.8	I was trying to think of a basketball comp of this for the 1920 season, but Illinois had the
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