Ep. 943 - Illini snap UCLA's streak with 83-78 win
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner discuss an 83-78 win over UCLA. The guys discuss huge games from Kasparas Jakucionis and Tomislav Ivisic, continuing momentum from the win over Minnesota and a late collapse that almost cost them the game. The guys then look ahead to Saturday's game against Michigan State.
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| 0:44.4 | Late night here at State Farm Center. |
| 0:46.3 | But a good night as Illinois finds a way to beat UCLA, |
| 0:49.4 | the first team to beat UCLA in about a month. |
| 0:52.3 | I got a crazy stat about the Bruins here coming up. But 83 to 78 on the |
| 0:57.7 | surface, great win. And I still think it's a great win. But boy, Illinois made this a little bit |
| 1:03.3 | fraught near the end is UCLA races a 16 point deficit with about 4.30 left all the way down to |
| 1:10.5 | two in the last 30 seconds twice |
| 1:12.8 | with the line I find a way to get it done. Tomasov Visich with a dunk after Illinois beats |
| 1:17.7 | the press and then a huge tip back offensive rebound to help Illinois seal this thing at the |
| 1:23.5 | free throw line. So Derek, a quad one victory for Illinois. Most importantly, back-to-back |
| 1:28.4 | wins for the first time in a month for Illinois. And I know we'll talk about the end and all the |
| 1:33.7 | concerns and issues that happened there, but still a five-point win over UCLA, huge, huge for this |
| 1:40.0 | team to build on some momentum from Minnesota. Yeah, big picture. It is a nice win. You don't get |
| 1:46.0 | very many quad one opportunities at home in a given season, usually only a handful, and you |
| 1:51.0 | want to take advantage of those for sure. And I was digging up the numbers pregame, and now |
| 1:55.2 | that you look at it, as some of the slates being able to shake out tonight, Auburn number one in |
| 2:00.3 | the country is 11. |
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