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Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Today on the Illinois Inquirer podcast, let's get you ready for the NCAA tournament, shall we?

Illinois, the number six seed in the Midwest region, takes on number 11 seed Xavier, who defeated Texas in a phenomenal playing game on Wednesday night, setting up an 845

central time tip off from FISA Forum in Milwaukee. Welcome in, it's Jeremy Warner, and we get you

ready for this showdown in the first round matchup in the NCAA tournament. Let's see if Illinois

can put together a run or is it a one and done against the Xavier team.

That has been very, very hot.

We get the lowdown on the musketeers from Rick Roaring, who covers Xavier for 24-7 sports.

Phenomenal breakdown of what's gotten into this Xavier team?

Why is it playing so well?

And how does their veteran heavy roster really show up in the positive column for

them but also what challenges does illinois face for Xavier also derrick piper makes his triumphant return

to the podcast we've missed him he's been sick but he's back here in milwaukee he gives his thoughts

on this illinois team heading into the n c w a tournament so let's break it all down. Coming up next on the Alina Inquirer podcast. All right, happy to get some Xavier insight from Rick Broering covers Xavier for 24-7 sports. Rick, how are you, man? This has been quite a run for the musketeers here. Yeah, it's been an interesting last 24 hours for certain. They sneak into the tournament.

It feels like one of the last teams in.

They had a little more wiggle room as it turned out than we all thought going into selection Sunday.

But since then, obviously a crazy game at UD Arena last night.

And now today it's everyone headed out to Milwaukee and trying to figure out what's going on next and how they match up with this Illinois team. So it's been a fun time here. And then you get the coaching rumors that we were just talking about before we came on here that we'll dive into at some point with Texas opening up. But Xavier took care of Texas last night. I was at a bar here in Milwaukee watching that game and midway through, Rick, I said, I think Xavier's

going to win this game because they just felt like the smarter team. Some of their shots

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