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Music Welcome to the Yonanquire podcast today. It's Jeremy Warner and Derek Piper.

And my kids went off for their last day of school this morning that we're recording

this on Friday, May 30th, Eric.

So it feels like summer is here. And the fun thing about summer is we get to dive into some fun things. It can maybe expand, think back, revisit some things. And that's what we're going to do today. I thought of, you know, Jalen Brunson playing as well as he in the playoffs. Kind of made me think, what if what if jelan brunson and actually picked

illinois as he was leaning towards at one point in his recruitment which you covered very very well

and it's got me thinking of let's let's go over some of the biggest what ifs in illinois basketball's

recent history we're keeping this to the 21st century because it's what derrick and i really

remember that's what we have covered uh so we're going to go down the rabbit hole of some of these. It should be a fun exercise, Derek. Are you ready for all of these? I sent you a list. I don't know if you've added any yourself, but we can pull on some strings here. I told you before we hopped on. It feels like a couple of these could be its own podcast. So we'll try to be as fully prepared. My mind was just going, oh, remember this, remember this.

Don't forget to mention this nugget about a certain one.

So yeah, it's a bolsterous list. And obviously, if you go back predating our time covering Illinois basketball or even really,

you know, we would have been young or even not born.

Like, what if the Dion Thomas Bruce Pearl thing never would have happened?

What if that 84 team doesn't play in Lexington for the elite eight?

So like there's a couple of those through the years.

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