Welcome in to the O'Anne Inquirer podcast.

It is Jeremy Warner back at Illinois and Derek Piper in Bloomington, Indiana, where the

Illinois just roll the Indiana Hoosiers 94 to 69.

We had five technical fouls in this one.

We had a 30 point first half Illinois lead.

I have a sick kid in the house, so it's been a little entertaining for me.

But Derek Piper, you saw just a route for Illinois.

And I mean, this is becoming kind of a thing, routing teams that we expected to be really

good entering Big Ten play.

I got to chat about what's going out at Indiana.

We got to talk about Luke Goody, made in the middle of some melees in this one.

But I think the lead here has got to be Kasparis, Yakoshonis, 21 points, 19 in the first half, Derek. And he had, what, eight points in the assist in the first two and a half minutes of this game. It's like, oh, yeah, he's still really good. He's fine. He looks plenty healthy. And, boy, he's pretty good. This seems a lot better with his lottery pick, shocking. Unbelievable, right? Yeah, really nice, welcome news to get him back in the lineup.

And you could tell as soon as we, on the ride over, we see he's questionable on the

injury report once again, but got the feel that he would probably go in this game based on,

you know, I go back to seeing him practice towards the end there on Friday leading up to the USC game.

He's full go five on five from what we saw towards the end of that practice session.

Although both him and Brad said that he really didn't practice much at all the last two days,

was really trying to rest up and get the swelling to go down and really focus on his treatment.

But to come out here and shoot around warm-ups

and to see him go through a workout with Tyler,

and he was locked in and really didn't look limited at any fashion,

didn't have the sleeve on at that point as he was shooting a bunch of jumpers,

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