Ep. 926 - Mike LaTulip on why Illini are hitting their stride; Werner on Illini football additions
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner discusses Illinois football's transfer additions of OL Ayden Knapik, TE Davin Stoffel and P Keelan Crimmins as well as a commitment from three-star 2026 DeKalb WR Davon Grant. Then Illini Inquirer basketball analyst Mike LaTulip breaks down Illinois basketball's five-game win streak, 91-52 rout of Penn State without Kasparas Jakucionis, why its defense is elite and great performances from Tre White, Ben Humrichous and Morez Johnson Jr. LaTulip then looks ahead to this week's games versus USC, at Indiana and at Michigan State.
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| 0:23.4 | Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Today on the Illinois Inquirer podcast, Michael Tuip joins me to break down Illinois |
| 0:45.7 | basketball's five-game winning streak. |
| 0:48.7 | We talk about Ben Hummerkhouse breaking out of a shooting swamp. |
| 0:51.3 | Trey White playing some phenomenal basketball and how the Illinois just rolled Penn State |
| 0:57.2 | without their best player. |
| 0:58.6 | We look ahead to a USC matchup on Saturday morning before a huge week on the road |
| 1:04.1 | is Illinois will go see Indiana and Michigan State. |
| 1:08.8 | So a huge week, Mike called it, I think, moving week, potentially for a Big Ten championship race. |
| 1:15.1 | Illinois's got a lot ahead of it, but playing like a Big Ten contender certainly right now. |
| 1:19.6 | So we'll do that with Michael 2 up here coming up. |
| 1:22.2 | But first, I got to weigh in on a little bit of Illinois football news because since Wagner |
| 1:26.6 | and I talked earlier |
| 1:27.5 | in the week on the podcast, we talked about remaining needs that Illinois had and within 24, 48 hours, |
| 1:33.9 | Illinois addressed all three of those needs on the offensive line at punter and at tight end. |
| 1:39.5 | So let's talk about what Illinois has landed as well as a huge in-state commitment in the class of |
| 1:44.8 | 26 as well. |
| 1:46.1 | But let's start with the transfers. |
| 1:47.7 | And early in the week, Illinois lands Purdue punter, Keelan Crimmons, who is about as good |
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