Ep. 999 - Top storylines for Illini basketball summer workouts
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Derek Piper discuss the latest with Illinois basketball, including marquee nonconference matchups with UConn and Texas Tech, Kasparas Jakucionis getting invited to the NBA Draft and a few prep prospects to watch. The guys then dive into their top storylines to watch for Illinois summer workouts.
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| 0:00.0 | The Premier League is exciting. |
| 0:04.0 | It's exhilarating. |
| 0:07.0 | And sometimes it's... |
| 0:11.0 | So when you need something to help you ride the highest and loads of all that action, |
| 0:17.0 | grab a Coke to keep you in the game. |
| 0:20.0 | Time to refresh. |
| 0:21.6 | Time for a Coke. |
| 0:23.6 | Coca-Cola, official partner of the Premier League. Welcome in to the online iguire podcast. |
| 0:45.2 | It is Jeremy Warner and Derek Piper. |
| 0:47.5 | Step away from football. |
| 0:49.0 | It has been really active the last couple weeks. |
| 0:50.8 | A lot of recruiting going on and a lot of big news with the house settlement, all of that. We've got to catch up on basketball. So we brought in Piper today. We're going to break down some of our top storylines for summer workouts, which are about to get underway with all the players starting to get to campus. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about some of the fun things we get to look forward to. I'm ready to catch up with Brad. |
| 1:12.0 | I know it. |
| 1:12.3 | It's been a while since we've been able to catch up with him or any of the players. And I'd like to talk with Cameron Crocker, the new assistant coach at some point. But we'll get to all of that. But Derek Piper, how are you, man? I'm good. Yeah. I'm watching from afar a little bit on the football side. |
| 1:26.5 | It's been quite eventful and exciting as far as all the dominoes falling there and all the prospects coming to campus. So we were talking before we hit record. Do miss some of the days of the fall prep recruiting, what it was in the basketball side. All the official visits lined up. Now, I did just recently write about a number of guys to know in the 26th class. We'll get to that. There is a wide net right now and some guys that are going to be a factor as things push forward. But obviously, the portal is king. But it's been fun. We're gearing up, like you said, summer workouts. Excited to hear the early buzz out of there the who's standing out how |
| 2:01.3 | things are going we'll get into the storylines but uh things are going well we've talked about this so |
| 2:06.1 | many times i hate to belabor the point but like part of when we started this is we've been following |
| 2:11.3 | jalen brunson and joan evans like for a year and some of these guys multiple years you know |
| 2:16.8 | go through all these prospects |
| 2:18.0 | that we've covered. |
| 2:19.0 | Jeremiah, who's the big man that went to Missouri? |
| 2:22.9 | Tillman. |
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