Ep. 952 - Isaac Trotter on Illini's stretch run & March Madness; Genesis Bryant on Illini WBB career & 'the best year yet'
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Illinois senior guard Genesis Bryant joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner to discuss Illini women's basketball's Senior Day on Sunday, how Illinois changed her career and life, how the Illini battled through injuries to get back into the NCAA Tournament and the future of the program. Then CBS Sports and 247Sports college basketball writer Isaac Trotter joins Werner to discuss Illinois basketball's up-and-down last month and what he thinks of the Illini for the stretch run before breaking down the landscape of the Big Ten and college basketball entering March.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the O'Anne Enquirer podcast, talk a lot of basketball on this one. |
| 0:16.9 | Catch up with our buddy, former O'Anna Inquirer intern, and we're so proud of what he's become. |
| 0:21.5 | Isaac Trotter, CBS Sports, and 24-7 sports college basketball writer. |
| 0:26.6 | We talked to him about Illinois in this last six to eight weeks of ups and downs for them, |
| 0:31.1 | and what he thinks to them, down the stretch of the season. |
| 0:34.2 | We also talk about the Big Ten and the NCAA tournament, who he likes nationally |
| 0:38.1 | going into this one. But before we get to Isaac, we had a great conversation with Illinois |
| 0:42.8 | Women's Basketball Guard and senior Genesis Bryant, future star in the media, Genesis |
| 0:49.3 | Bryant, but current star for Illinois Women's Basketball. We talked to her about senior night |
| 0:54.1 | that is upcoming. |
| 0:55.3 | I encourage everybody to go to, I guess, it's senior day. On Sunday at State Farm Center |
| 1:00.2 | is Illinois host Michigan for a big game that if Illinois wins that, they have a pretty good |
| 1:04.3 | chance as long as Ohio State helps them out with a win over Maryland. Pretty good chance at |
| 1:10.0 | the four-seat in the Big Ten tournament and a double-bye in the |
| 1:13.5 | big ten tournament. |
| 1:14.6 | And it'd be a huge game for them for NCAA seating as well. |
| 1:17.4 | But what a season it has been for Illinois women's basketball despite all the injuries |
| 1:21.5 | they've had. |
| 1:22.6 | And Genesis Bryant is a huge part of that. |
| 1:25.0 | We catch up to her about her journey at Illinois, |
| 1:27.7 | what this place has meant to her after it didn't go so well at NC State, |
| 1:31.7 | why this program has had success this season, |
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