Ep. 945 - No good, very bad night for Illini in 79-65 loss to MSU
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner react to Illinois basketball's 79-65 loss to Michigan State in which the Illini blew a 16-point first-half lead and failed to score during the final 8:29. The guys discuss the late-game issues and the regrettable mishap during the Terrence Shannon Jr. jersey-raising ceremony.
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| 0:45.3 | Music Welcome into the online inquire podcast. It is Jeremy Warner, Derek Piper at State Farm Center. |
| 0:48.7 | We just witnessed a no good, very bad night for Illinois athletics. |
| 0:52.5 | It included Illinois basketball, blowing a 16-point first half lead, |
| 0:57.7 | and not scoring over the final 829, missing their final 19 shots, including a lot of threes that they chucked up. |
| 1:04.0 | As Michigan State out, toughs them, and wins 79 to 65, 15-0-0 run to end this game. That was a terrible performance by Illinois in the |
| 1:13.7 | final 30 minutes of this one. We'll dive in all the details there. But we also got to talk about |
| 1:18.8 | mishap with the banner. They fixed it now. We're looking at it. Terran Shannon Jr.'s banner. |
| 1:23.9 | Hang, it's supposed to be a great night, and Illinois pulled this off great with Iowa to Sue and Kofi Coburn. But as he unfurls it, it's upside down. And it was just an embarrassing moment. It should have been a moment where everyone had this huge roar and everyone gasped. And I know it's not the way they wanted it to go. And Josh Whitman, kudos to him. The Illinois athletic structure came out, addressed, and said it's being addressed. And there were some really tough conversations with some people in this building. But just a terrible night, Eric, an embarrassing night on a couple fronts for Illinois basketball. So go ahead, where do you want to start? I tried to see if I get my camera to be upside down to start this thing. I couldn't figure it out. |
| 2:01.7 | We need somebody to help us out there. |
| 2:04.5 | But yeah, this thing was bungled and it had the setup to be special. |
| 2:08.2 | And one of the more memorable nights in recent memory at this building, when you have the sellout and you have Izzo here, you know what he's playing for on their side. |
| 2:17.3 | You've got the rematch |
| 2:18.2 | factor which look there's a lot of friction maybe it is i would say it's probably two-sided after |
| 2:24.0 | you know seeing sparty twitter over the last month or so uh in response to brad complaining about |
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