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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 866 - Keaton Wagler & Brandon Lee commit to Illini hoops; Tim Anderson departs

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper joins Jeremy Werner to break down what four-star Class of 2025 guards Keaton Wagler and Brandon Lee bring to Illinois basketball. He breaks down why the Illini prioritized them and who could be next in their Class of 2025 efforts. Piper and Werner then discuss the official departure of assistant coach Tim Anderson and what it means for Brad Underwood's program.

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Music Welcome into the online choir podcast. We got Derek Piper back on the podcast.

0:47.3

And I gotta be honest with you, Derek.

0:48.8

This is much overdue, but I've been on the road.

0:51.1

There's a lot of football things to cover.

0:53.0

It's amazing what happens, how busy you get when you get a four-0 football team to cover. So we are sorry for the delay.

0:58.3

We didn't have a Keaton Wagler reaction pod by itself. We didn't have a Tim Anderson pod reaction by itself because Illinois, kudos for the Friday night news dump right before a huge football game.

1:10.8

Well executed. We were pretty

1:12.4

busy. We couldn't handle all that. But now another commitment, Brandon Leak is here. So we bring on Derek.

1:18.3

But football is taking precedence for one here, Derek, and heading into October.

1:23.8

I love it. Yeah, we saw that in 2022. Basketball is kind of quietly sneaking up on us. I can't

1:28.9

believe Big Ten Media Days next week. So that's pretty crazy and the trip to Ole Miss will be here

1:34.1

before you know it. So, and yeah, this is usually the time. I know standard and things have changed

1:38.9

with the portal and whatnot, but the fall was always big, official visit and commits and all that

1:43.7

and getting hyped up around

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