Ep. 980 - Mike LaTulip on Andrej Stojakovic, Adam Miller & Illini basketball offseason so far
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner chats about Josh McCray transferring to Georgia, four-star DB Victor Singleton flipping his commitment from Illinois to Texas A&M and a big week for the Illini football roster ahead. Then Mike LaTulip joins him to talk about the Illini basketball offseason so far, including Kylan Boswell, Tomislav Ivisic and Ty Rodgers returning; Zvonimir Ivisic and David Mirkovic joining; and the possibility of Ben Humrichous returning. LaTulip then breaks down the potential fit of Cal transfer wing Andrej Stojakovic and Arizona State transfer guard Adam Miller.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the online inquire podcast, Michael Tulip joins us to talk about the Illinois basketball offseason so far. |
| 0:19.8 | We got a lot to talk about, a lot to catch up on since the end of the season when we talked to him last. And we wanted to get him on and he wanted to come on. He reached out to me, so I'll credit him for putting this together. But he wanted to talk to us before he gets away from a much needed, much-deserved vacation to a tropical place that he'll bring up. |
| 0:38.3 | But, yeah, we got a lot to talk about, including Andre Stoyakovich, the Cal Transfer, who is headed |
| 0:43.5 | to Illinois today for his first visit, recording this on Monday, by the way. |
| 0:48.1 | Travis Branum 24-7 Sports reported that just as I started recording this open. |
| 0:53.2 | So we talk about the potential fit for |
| 0:55.7 | andre stoiaakovich what he could bring to Illinois we talk about Adam Miller as well |
| 1:00.2 | we also got to talk about the foundation of a pretty good roster here yes Illinois needs to |
| 1:05.8 | add but they have set a good foundation of a roster so we talk to Michael two about |
| 1:10.8 | Tomislav Ivisich |
| 1:12.1 | returning for another season. Kyle and Boswell returning for another season. What that means for |
| 1:17.0 | Illinois and how they can take their game to the next level. Then we talk about two front court |
| 1:21.5 | additions for Illinois. Zvonimir Ivisich and what he brings alongside his seven foot brother, rim protector, obviously a shooter, but how do they fit together? How could they play together? We also bring up David Mirkovich, the 19-year-old from Montenegro, who is one of the most highly regarded Europeans who's coming over under 19 Europeans to play college basketball this season. How does he add to that front court both short term and long term? |
| 1:47.2 | We also talk about the surprising return of Ty Rogers, what he brings, what role he can play |
| 1:51.9 | on this team and what Michael Tuup, who's been through a redshirt year, thinks Ty can gain |
| 1:56.7 | from a redshirt year. |
| 1:58.0 | We also chat about Benham Rickaus, the potential of him returning. |
| 2:02.2 | Brad Underwood said last week to us that he wants Ben Homer Kouse to return. |
| 2:06.8 | What does Mike think that looks like for Illinois and Ben Hummerkhouse as well? |
| 2:11.7 | So we've got plenty of talk about with Michael Toop, all the Illinois basketball stuff you want to chat about. |
| 2:16.3 | So we'll have that here coming up. |
| 2:18.0 | But there are some things we've got to talk about with Illinois football, |
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