Welcome in to the online choir podcast.

It is Jeremy Warner, Derek Piper.

We did this kind of impromptu.

It's time to talk more Illinois basketball.

We wanted a pod today at some point.

But the hard part of this portal and what is going on now is there going to be breaking news at any moment.

So the internet connection is good today.

We're going to try and go with this live and break down everything that is happening

with Illinois basketball.

And Derek, that includes Ty Rogers returning. What? A little bit of a surprise to us, but the last week or so

started to make a little bit more sense. Merez Johnson Jr. going full heel turn for the

Illinois fan base and going to Michigan. Dre gives Alhorn no surprise going to the transfer portal

and so much happening

with their portal pursuits. Derek, how are you holding up? Charging the phone nonstop.

It has definitely been that for sure. It's wild out there, no doubt. But it's it's nonstop.

You can't really sit back too much and breathe a whole lot at this point in time, but a lot of things developing. It's nonstop. You can't really sit back too much and breathe a whole lot at this point in time, but a lot of

things developing, it's certainly fun to follow.

And as you're going into a dead period of this upcoming weekend, I'm kind of looking

forward to that selfishly a little bit, see if things slow down for just a weekend of the

final four.

But yeah, a lot of moving parts.

It's been crazy, some surprising developments, which we're going to get into.

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