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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 977 - Isaac Trotter on Illini basketball offseason so far

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C

Football, Sports

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

CBS Sports and 247Sports college basketball writer Isaac Trotter joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to break down Illinois basketball's offseason so far. Trotter reviews the Final Four and the Illini's 2024-25 season before breaking down the state of the transfer portal, Illinois retaining Kylan Boswell and Tomislav Ivisic, adding Zvonimir Ivisic and David Mirkovic and what they need in the backcourt and what it will cost.


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Music Welcome into the online inquire podcast.

0:45.9

It is Jeremy Warner.

0:50.7

And today we're going to talk about the college basketball offseason, the final four that was.

0:53.8

And what Illinois is doing this off season in the transfer portal.

0:54.6

And the transfer portal at large, we bring in CBS sports 24-7 sports college basketball writer Isaac Trotter fresh off

1:01.0

the trip to the final four that you talk about drama you talk about great teams some up and down

1:06.8

play there as we get in college basketball Isaac Isaac. But man, what was that experience like

1:11.0

covering the final four? Yeah, three of the best games that I've seen this year, right? Like

1:15.6

Auburn, Florida was awesome. Duke Houston was awesome. And then just in the championship game,

1:21.0

to get a game like that was really, really cool between Florida and Houston. It's funny,

1:25.4

all three games at the under four media timeout in the second half,

1:29.0

the team who was winning did not win the game.

1:31.3

So it was just, it's a really cool drama and, you know, big time teams.

1:35.0

That's what you get when you get four number one seats there, that caliber.

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