Ep. 948 - What's behind Illini WBB's hot streak & Bret Bielema's staff changes

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss Illinois football's recent staff announcements, including Trent Harris and Alex Panos taking over the outside linebacker room from Clint Sintim and Nate McNeal returning to the Illini recruiting department for a third time. The guys then break down Illinois women's basketball's hot streak of 10 wins in 11 games, including a program-record eight-game Big Ten win streak. The guys discuss a special senior class stepping up, a five-star freshman hitting her stride, two top-5 opponents this week and the future of the program.

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0:55.2	Music Welcome into the online inquire podcast. It is Jeremy Warner and Joy Wagner. We're getting ready to head out to New York City to cover Illinois at Duke. We've covered a lot here on the podcast with Michael Toop and Derek Piper about basketball and we'll see how it all goes against one of the top teams in the country. But we're heading
1:00.3	out to New York City. Looking forward to that. Get to see the big city a little bit. Are you excited,
1:04.9	Joe? I am excited. I'm going to have a little bit of time to explore, Jeremy, see what's going
1:10.4	on out there, get some slices of pizza.
1:13.2	Had a good slice in Madison, and it kind of was like a little teaser for New York, a big New York slice, and now let's get the real thing out there.
1:21.4	Is a guy who grew up 45 minutes south of Chicago, people hate me for this, but the New York slice, pretty good. I'm a fan of the New York slice. The deep dish, not as much for me. I love Chicago-Land pizza, but I like the thin crust. So New York slice is pretty good, but we got to go somewhere other than Sabarro, all right? I'm out. Good luck. Look, I'm a big guy. I could probably stand to walk a little bit. So I do get down on the deep dish pizza, but for the ease of, I'm not a messy person, but for the ease of just a New York slice, not having to worry about everything else. No one cares about that. Jeremy, there's exciting football stuff, exciting women's basketball stuff to talk about. Yeah, that's what we want to talk about today,
2:03.7	other than New York slice is women's basketball. What a resurgence for them after all this
2:09.1	injuries? Ten of their last 11, they have won. Huge weekend out in Los Angeles. As they play
2:14.9	UCLA. We're recording this on Thursday. They play UCLA tonight. And then they
2:19.1	play USC, the number three and number four teams in the country this weekend. So we will dive into that,
2:24.7	Joey, because I know you cover this program really, really well, and you know them really, really
2:28.7	well. And I think people should be paying attention to them. And I think people are. And I think
2:33.5	people are pretty proud of what they're doing.
2:35.5	So we will dive into that.
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