Ep. 978 - Jakucionis & Riley declare for NBA Draft; Could Illini & Adam Miller reunite?
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Derek Piper react to a newsy weekend and Monday for Illinois basketball. The guys discuss Kasparas Jakucionis and Will Riley declaring for the NBA Draft, their projections and what having a pair of one-and-done draft picks could mean for the program. The guys then discuss what they saw from Illini commit David Mirkovic and Illini target Dame Sarr in the Nike Hoop Summit. Plus, the guys discuss the potential of a reunion with Adam Miller and whether he'd fit the roster.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the On On Inquirer podcast, what a newsy weekend and a newsy Monday for Illinois athletics. |
| 0:19.4 | Thank you to Illinois athletics for making it a non-newsy Sunday outside of |
| 0:23.2 | Maddie Weber, Villanova, Commit for Illinois Women's Basketball. |
| 0:26.6 | But I was able to watch Rory McElroy and that roller coaster of an epic master's victory. |
| 0:32.2 | I was all in on that. |
| 0:34.0 | That was such great theater. |
| 0:36.5 | And thankfully for Rory, found a way to pull that one out, |
| 0:39.4 | to get the career grand slam. What emotion, loved it. But that's not why you came to this podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | It's because we got a lot to talk about. We're going to focus on a football podcast later in the |
| 0:49.7 | week. We still want to see if there's any more news that comes out of official visit weekend. |
| 0:54.1 | That has been successful so far as Illinois adds two commitments, one from We still want to see if there's any more news that comes out of official visit weekend. |
| 0:57.5 | That has been successful so far as Illinois adds two commitments, |
| 1:00.0 | one from three-star linebacker Tony Williams. |
| 1:05.8 | Archie McDaniel doing work at linebacker in this class and really over the last six, seven months. |
| 1:10.1 | He adds another one of the third linebacker commit in this class and Tony Williams, |
| 1:11.0 | really good athlete. |
| 1:14.8 | And then three-star Florida defensive back, Elmerian Thomas. |
| 1:16.4 | Aaron Henry has a type. |
| 1:20.2 | Florida, feisty, long, really athletic. |
| 1:22.1 | Elmerian Thomas fits the bill. |
| 1:26.8 | Illinois offered him very early, and they were able to close on him early as well. |
| 1:28.0 | He's a heck of a story. |
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