Ep. 985 - Isaac Trotter evaluates Illini's roster reset
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
CBS Sports and 247Sports college basketball writer Isaac Trotter joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to give his thoughts on Illinois basketball's offseason. Trotter breaks down what excites and concerns him about the Illini's 2025-26 roster, how the new pieces fit, potential leaps for the returners and X-factors. He then discusses how the Illini stack up in the Big Ten and a big week ahead at the NBA Draft Combine for Kasaparas Jakucionis and Will Riley.
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| 0:00.0 | And we're back. Welcome in to the O'Anquire podcast. It is O'Anon Inquirer |
| 0:18.2 | Publisher, Jeremy Warner. Refreshed, relaxed after a week away, and happily, nothing huge |
| 0:25.6 | happened while I was gone. But we're back on the podcast. I appreciate you guys, |
| 0:30.0 | giving us a week off of that. Kudos to Joey Wagner, Derek Piper for filling in, |
| 0:34.6 | some great content on the site for the past week, but we did take a week |
| 0:37.9 | away from the podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | But we are back and we're talking O'I.Nai basketball. |
| 0:42.3 | I figured it was a good time with Illinois basketball's roster all but set that we catch |
| 0:48.7 | up with our guy, Isaac Trotter, CBS Sports, 24-7 sports, college basketball writer. |
| 0:54.0 | Our former O'I.9thquire intern, Isaac, has gone on to do great things nationally. |
| 0:58.7 | And what I love about Isaac is he really dives deep into not only the analytics, but the |
| 1:04.1 | trends of college basketball. |
| 1:06.1 | He's so into the rosters and the roster rebuilds. |
| 1:10.3 | But he's so insightful on all that stuff. |
| 1:12.8 | I figured it's a good time now that we have on paper what Illinois will be next year. |
| 1:17.3 | So we break down what he thinks of this roster, what are the strengths of it, what excites him |
| 1:21.6 | about this roster, what concerns him a little bit, how it stacks up in the Big Ten, |
| 1:26.1 | and then we break down some of the individual pieces who could be some X factors on this team as well. And then we look across the Big Ten. And we also talk about the NBA draft coming up because he will be at the NBA draft combine. Casper Sackashonis will be at the NBA draft combine. And Will Riley will be at the NBA draft combine. And I wrote in my seven thoughts piece today, something that I found pretty interesting. |
| 1:47.4 | From 2007 to 2019, Illinois had two participants in the NBA Draft Combine, two guys who were invited. |
| 1:54.2 | That was Myers-Lundered in 2012, Brandon Paul, and 2013. |
| 1:58.9 | Over the last six years, Illinois has had 10 invitations to the NBA |
| 2:04.5 | Draft Combine with six players. So Coleman Hawkins, Terrence Shannon, Jr., I would assume with Kofi |
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