Another Illinois basketball great joins Champaign on Ice. This time around it is Meyers Leonard who had a successful career playing high school basketball in Robinson, then at Illinois and having an accomplished NBA career. He talks with Deon now with his life outside of basketball and how he has handled the situation that caused the end of his career as of now.

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Purdue vs Illinois a few days ago was a thriller - coming down to double OT with Purdue coming away victorious. Long time Illinois journalist Loren Tate joins Deon to talk about how good this current Illinois basketball team is plus some insight on a lot of history of Illinois hoops and comparing some of the all time great Fighting Illini teams.

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Malcolm Hill is the third all-time leading scorer at Illinois. He got tons of recognition across the state prior to his recruitment, got all the accolades, but did not make it to the NBA right away. Hill spent some time overseas till going to the G-league and getting a 10 day contract for the Atlanta Hawks this season. Listen in to hear his whole story about his time at Illinois, career in tons of countries across the world and getting the experience in the NBA.

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Sergio McClain has had a huge impact on basketball in Illinois, but seems to not be talked about like the top guys in Derrick Rose and Jabari Parker. McClain talks about his time at  Peoria Manual High School, playing under Bill Self at Illinois, and how good the current Illinois team is.

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Prior to the COVID-19 cancelation against Florida A&M, Illinois had really started to look like one of the top teams in the Big-10. Tyler Repking, founder of his own "Repking Media", joins Deon to talk about the current team and the recruits Illinois has started to bring into the program in Ty Rodgers, Jayden Epps and Sincere Harris, as well as other prospects in the Illinois area.

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A lot has been going on with COVID and college basketball. Although Illinois hasn't been directly affected yet, Derek Piper from 247 sports joins Deon to talk about the impacts of COVID, the current Illinois team and expectations for the rest of the season.

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Ervin Small was the one who got Deon Thomas to being who became to be at Illinois. Small was Deon’s mentor, and the two go back and rehash their history at Simeon, Illinois and current Illinois men’s basketball

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Deon and his producer, Jon Surratt talk all things Illinois basketball on this episode of Champaign on Ice. They talk about the blowout victory against Rutgers, upcoming game today against Iowa, plus a Q&A from fans who submitted questions on Twitter

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Illinois is 5-2 so far to begin the season, but with players like Andre Curbelo sidelined as of right now, did they seem to figure things out over their three game winning streak? Kendric Prince from the Illini Guys joins Deon to talk about what's going right and what's going wrong so far this season.

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Big Ten Network analysts Trent Meachem, former Illinois men's basketball player, joins Deon Thomas to talk all things related to Illinois currently, as well as Trent's past career at Illinois and new path working in the media.

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