Inside the Arc

Alec and Brandon are joined by Marlee Wierda, formerly of WCIA in Champaign to relive some of her favorite memories of her time in Champaign covering Illinois football and men's basketball before she moves up the chain to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she will have the ability to cover an "amazing" former Illini. After the conversation with Marlee, Alec and Brandon have some fun tying New Year's traditions to college basketball programs across the country in a spinoff of something the Field of 68 Media Network did for Thanksgiving. 

Two time Big Ten Champion Sean Harrington joins Alec and Brandon to remember the back-to-back B1G Championships. 

Alec and Brandon discuss the Illini's 83-79 loss to No. 11 Arizona on Saturday night at State Farm Center. Later in the show, Alec and Sim are joined by Kevin Sweeney of Sports Illustrated for further discussion of the game and some brief big picture things in college basketball.

Alec and Brandon recap the Illini's impressive road win at Iowa from Monday night before looking at the Big Ten from a big picture with a fun game or buy, sell or hold on several of the team's in the conference.

Alec and Brandon talk about all the health issues that are facing the Illini early in the season, the way the Illini have played in their last three games against Cincinnati, Kansas State and UTRGV, and then spend a short amount of time previewing Notre Dame and talk about the latest recruiting win.

Alec and Brandon talk about the Illini's disappointing 67-66 loss to Marquette. 

On Ep. 43 of Inside the Arc, Alec and Brandon talk about Kofi Cockburn's three-game suspension for selling apparel on the Player's Trunk and recap what they saw in Illinois' two exhibitions games.

Alec and Brandon are joined by Robbie Hummel of the Field of 68 media network, ESPN and Big Ten Network. Not to mention, an all-time great at Purdue. The three breakdowns the top-half of the Big Ten including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Maryland, Michigan, Purdue, Michigan State and Rutgers. They end the conversation with a fun talk about the All-Big Ten team at the start and end of the season. Before the interview, Alec and Brandon talk about Illinois' open practice and takeaways from Big Ten Basketball Media Days.

Alec Busse and Brandon Simberg are joined by James Boyd of the Herald and Review to talk about what they are most excited about heading into Illinois basketball's media day on Friday, Oct. 1. Topics of conversation include the starting five, who replaces Ayo Dosunmu's presence on the court and in the locker room plus what needs to happen for this to be a good season.

The Big Ten released their conference basketball schedule on Wednesday, so Brandon SImberg and Alec Busse break down the Illini's conference schedule from marquee matchups to trap games and everything in between. At the end of the show, they give their record prediction for the conference schedule.