Ep. 954 - Illini building March momentum after 93-73 win over Michigan?
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner react to Illinois basketball's 93-73 blowout win at No. 15 Michigan. The guys discuss a dominant performance on the offensive glass, continued defensive strides and red-hot second-half shooting. The guys also discuss how the team has responded from a throttling at Duke to potentially build some March momentum.
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| 0:44.5 | Music Welcome in to the online choir podcast. This is Jeremy Warner, Derek Piper, live at Chrysler Center. |
| 0:48.5 | It's only at basketball. |
| 0:49.7 | We just saw Michael 2 have tweeted. |
| 0:51.3 | Are they back? |
| 0:52.1 | Is that what we're going to title this on YouTube? |
| 0:54.3 | Get those big bold letters? Are the line I back? They felt like it. And even some of the players |
| 0:59.0 | were saying they feel like they're back to playing the way they were earlier in the year. |
| 1:03.3 | 93-73 win over number 15 Michigan. One of the best wins for the year for the Illinois. |
| 1:09.2 | And one of the best dominant stretches we've seen from them in that second half. I felt like Illinois controlled this game for most of it, Derek. They led for 32 minutes of it, but felt like they let some opportunities slip away in that first half. Kyle and Boswell kept them afloat. Offensive rebound and kept them afloat. And this game with 30 second chance points, a season high, and by far, they're high against a high major. But then the shots finally started to fall. 11 of 23 from 3. Even Kerry Booth got one late in this game. Ben-Hum Brickhouse hits a couple. Casperus finally breaks out of funk, hits a couple. Jake Davis hits a couple. One of the best wins of the season, |
| 1:45.9 | Derek, and one that gives you hope now that we're in March. So the time of year you want to start |
| 1:50.9 | having that confidence, start playing your best basketball. And it feels like a game they can really |
| 1:55.2 | build off of. And a lot of different things when you think about just the energy and the grit that |
| 2:00.5 | they had to go to the |
| 2:01.3 | glass the way they did and they gutted through an ugly first half now they did not play all that |
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