Ep. 960 - Maryland rout just a bad matchup for Illini or a warning sign for NCAAs?

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner react to Illinois basketball's 88-65 blowout loss to Maryland in a Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal. The guys discuss whether this is just a bad matchup or a warning sign before the NCAA Tournament and what they think of the Illini's NCAA Tournament chances.

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0:00.0	Welcome into the online inquire podcast. It is Jeremy Warner and Joy Wagner here in Indianapolis at our Airbnb.
0:20.0	Got away from Gamebridge Fieldhouse as the Illinois are headed home from Game
0:23.8	Bridge Fieldhouse as an ugly 8865 blowout loss to Maryland in the Big Ten tournament
0:30.7	quarterfinal.
0:32.2	Maryland led into the high 30s in this one.
0:35.4	Never really had a chance.
0:37.1	They were down double digits for basically the final 34 minutes of this one.
0:40.9	Just a nightmare matchup is Maryland beats Illinois by 20 plus points, Joey, for the second time this season.
0:47.0	And having healthy Thomasovivis didn't matter.
0:50.0	Having Mraz Johnson Jr. didn't matter because Rodney Rice just took a flamethrower to the Illinois, Jacoby Gillespie, was great for them.
0:59.0	The perimeter defense was awful.
1:00.4	No Dare Queen.
1:01.4	A double double.
1:02.3	Looks like a lottery pick.
1:03.8	And that starting five from Maryland is really good.
1:06.2	I agree with Brett Underwood.
1:07.2	I don't know if that team will win at all, but I think they are capable of it.
1:10.2	But they just own Illinois right now. So your initial reaction to tonight's embarrassment.
1:16.1	Yeah, that's exactly what it was. You set bad matchup, and I agree with that to a degree,
1:21.0	but this team I'm writing about it, I want to get into that early because I think it's such a
1:25.9	big storyline of this season.
1:28.4	It's either really awesome and they're blowing teams out or winning by double figures or it's a nightmare.
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