Welcome in to the online choir podcast.

It is Jeremy Warner and Derek Piper.

We are back in Illinois.

It was a late night.

It was a lot going on. and it was a loud arena.

So apologies for not having the live podcast immediately after Illinois' second round,

NCAA tournament lost to Kentucky.

But it's nice to kind of dive through everything we heard from the players and Brad Underwood.

We can think about it overnight,

and with the Transfer Portal opening, we figured it doesn't hurt to think about these things and see

if anything happens early in this morning. Nothing out of Illinois yet today. Obviously, they got a lot of

meetings to go through, but we have plenty to talk about here. This is our offseason review,

our offseason preview, but as well as our season in review. And we're plenty to talk about here. This is our off-season review, our off-season preview, but as well as our season-in-review. And we're going to start with the season-in-review, Derek, and then we'll get to the off-season preview, which I know most people are already turning the page to next year. But we've got to talk about what happened last night in the Lost Kentucky and what happened with this season. But how are you, man? We're a little over-caffeinated, probably a little under-arrested coming into this. So deal with us this morning, but Derek, good to see you, man. Good to see you. Yes, checking both of those boxes for sure, strolling into the champagne area around 2 a.m. last night. But, hey, we made it happen. I'm proud of the covers that we had. And, yeah, a little bit of time to close the eyes and decompress a little bit.

But yeah, I look forward to diving into what happened. But really, I know everyone's focus

turning into the transfer portal. Happy transfer portal season, everybody that celebrates. I don't know if I celebrate.

I survive.

But it will be exciting to get through the possibilities and different ways this staff can go.

And how it comes together will be really interesting to see here in the coming weeks in a couple months.

And before we dive too far into this, I just want to give our plug. This is the perfect time of year to sign up for a VIP membership. I am very proud of the coverage we've had the last couple weeks. Joey is in Austin right now covering the women. They tip off at 1 o'clock against number one-seed Texas. Obviously, as Joey well wrote, and he's such a good writer, but a Texas-sized challenge,

but nothing to lose. So we'll see what happens tonight, and he's done great coverage there from

Austin. And I thought, what I love about the Inslee tournament is the access you get to these players.

And I know after the game, these players don't want to talk to us after that loss, but I do think we got great insight, and you can read a lot of that at alonanquire.com, but right now 50% off of VIP membership, more than $60 in savings. I know a lot of you just watch on the podcast, and we love you for it, or listen on the podcast, we love you for it. But the insight you're going to get from Derek throughout this crazy month or two ahead,

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