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The IU Report with Grant Shouse: Non-Conference Basketball Schedule (Podcast No. 328.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_03]: Before we get to this week's IU report, the first and a couple of weeks want to tell you about our plan going forward with Grant Shouse and the IU report.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Every single week, we're going to say forty five weeks a year at a minimum.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to have an IU report where we mostly talk men's basketball football, but also some women's basketball.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And as we're going to today, a little baseball and some other sports as well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Every single week, pretty much throughout the year, we will be talking to IU sports.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And whenever there's an IU football or men's basketball game, we will preview it, and then we will review it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Review it afterwards with a short recap, ten minute or under, as I say recap of the game with me, and then grants reaction to the, we'll say mostly victories, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's hope, let's hope for
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[SPEAKER_03]: Especially up here in football season, we expect victories.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Every single time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's the plan starting the first or second week of August.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll get that figured out pretty soon.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I like everybody know, but we're going to continue to do that through July as well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But we will have a set day in time where it comes out every single week with Grant looking forward to doing this grant.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's fine.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's been fun so far.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indian Sports Report podcast number three hundred and twenty seven point one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The IU report with Grant Shows.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to talk a little IU baseball draft major league baseball draft.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then we're going to talk about the IU basketball schedule.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The non-conference schedule is pretty much set everything at times and we're going to get grants reaction and his prediction on what the Hoosiers are going to do in the non-conference.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mendel.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Grant, today we are here to talk about the IU men's basketball schedule, the non-conference portion of the schedule is complete.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we're going to talk about it game by game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But first we want to talk about a little baseball and our guy Deventeller who we talked about all year along with some other talented players for IU baseball.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Wasn't as good a season as we'd hoped for the Hoosiers, but there definitely were some standouts.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Deventeller was one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Give me the details.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's the program's all time leader in home runs, which we said it all year when we were talking about baseball was that's saying something for a program that's had a guy named Kyle Schwerber.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That played in the program and is a great player in the major leagues now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Devon Taylor was taken with the forty-eighth pick in the draft by the
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oakland Athletics.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They will always be the Oakland Athletics to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just the A's now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're just the A's.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just the A's.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They'll always be Oakland in my heart though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, they'll always be Philadelphia in my grade.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How are you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got to be like aiding.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, that's going way back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's going.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What the hell?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't even know who that is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So one of the all-time agreements.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, he was taken by the A's now and by the time he would get up into majors, if he does, they'll have their new stadium.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You would imagine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that would be great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good for him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a guy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I would go quick though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he could.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When you go through college and you're a college all-American, the steps are a little faster as long as you're getting the right hang of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, look at a guy like Colson Montgomery, who's from
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[SPEAKER_01]: Honeyberg Indiana, who you may have covered at some point you covered everybody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He went to South Ridge and was a great player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He just made his major league debut a week or two ago and with the Chicago white socks and I think he was taken in twenty nineteen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he was right out of high school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't go to college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it took him six years out of high school pretty much to what it does.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to take Dev and Taylor some time to get up into the big leagues.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If he does some players.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, sure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Get to double A and he's got the tools to do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we expect him to be starting in the major leagues at some point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Would be cool to see him succeed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think he's going to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's going to have a standout career.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll definitely keep an eye on Devon and he'll definitely be part of the IU report going forward.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like guys like Kyle Schwarber who's speaking of which as we are recording the Major League Baseball All-Star game is about to get underway and Kyle Schwarber is of course a guy that we're going to keep an eye on even though he's playing for the fillies we still love him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Although there could be exhibitions added and we've gotten some news on that grant and we'll talk about that in just a second.
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[SPEAKER_03]: practice gets underway sometime in October.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There will be some kind of midnight madness or who's your hysteria.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever the new coach decides it's going to be.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we won't know that for a little while.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But we do know that the regular season starts November fifth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What do we know about exhibition in Indiana and Baylor are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and a discussion whether or not they want to play an exhibition game at Gainbridge Field House.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This would be a charity.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would assume a charity exhibition game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This charity exhibition allowed by the city and love them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're really cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It make for some good non-conference games and for a good cost.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And don't count.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, along run you can kind of do with what you want.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Indiana beat the number one team in the country last year and a charity exhibition.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They beat Tennessee the number one team in the country.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And a charity exhibition game on the road at Tennessee, which was pretty neat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But they're in discussions with Baylor on whether or not they want to play one of those charity exhibitions at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Word on that has not been official yet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was just in talks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if it's in talks, you would almost assume that it's likely going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But those used to be close scrimmages.
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[SPEAKER_01]: they were called secret scrimmages and they've kind of done away with the secret scrimmages and if turn those into the charity exhibition.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a great idea, but the secret scrimmage was done.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I disagree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's pretty cool.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then somebody would leak what happened and then people would just speculate.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I get it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I get it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let us see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's it's twenty twenty five for the.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let us see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And TV networks can buy it and sell it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All kinds of good things can do with it and it doesn't count and that's I like that so much important thing I think used to be that they would place division two or division three any of that plan that you know not that I've heard Indiana has in the last few years when Mike Woodson was the coach because of his relationship with Steve Downing the AD at Marion they were playing Marion for a few years in an exhibition
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... and then pat night of course was hired to be the coach at marion and they did that last year against mike with which makes sense a former player of past that i say let's keep it up i hope they do i really do it's a really cool listen and i you let's get marion on the exhibition schedule you you would hope they would do that and i think it's cool for you know someone like pat who
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[SPEAKER_01]: has literally never not been attached to Indiana basketball, whether he was a part of the program or not, he's always been attached to the brand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of schooled the name he was literally born into it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a cool thing and I saw him about a month ago and I
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[SPEAKER_01]: for some reason the glycodask team if that was going to be happening.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I haven't heard, but hopefully they get someone like, hopefully they get someone like Marion on the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But funny story about one of those is that Indiana one year played Indiana Westsland, which, you know, I know the tonnacles, the coach that I we really would love that to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And his son.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They played Indiana one year when Indiana had all the depot, Zeller, Wattford, all those guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And
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[SPEAKER_01]: Indian a Western got off to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ten zero lead.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were attending that thing and Creen called a timeout and after that timeout, they flipped the script and they ended up blowing them out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it would be cool for them to scrimmage Mary and her eye woo or someone like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll just have to see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What we do know is that the regular season kicks off Wednesday, November fifth, I believe the third is the first day that you can be scheduled.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Most of the big ten gets started on the fourth.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You get started on the fifth at home against Alabama, A and M. What do we know about?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I believe there's a hornets.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What do we know about them and what they have coming back what they did last year?
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[SPEAKER_01]: LMA and M comes to town they were a bad swag team last year went the worst conference in the country yeah they went ten and twenty two and
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[SPEAKER_01]: to be a good confidence booster for Indiana to win on opening night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's all, I mean, I'd say that's all you can really say about him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We probably expect that one to be like a seven or eight o'clock probably a big ten network game or even a BT and I hope not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh man, I hope not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we only know the television for one of these games that we'll let you know when we get there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Game two is a whole different story.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Grant Marquette comes to Chicago to meet the Hoosiers at a kind of halfway point there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: that weekend Sunday November ninth, we do not have a time yet.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tell us what you know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be a good first test for Indiana under a new coach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Looking forward to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were twenty three and eleven fourth in the big East last year market.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Seventh seed that lost in the first round.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lost guys like Cam Jones, who's now an Indiana Pacer to the draft.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But they got some good guys coming back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nigel James and Michael Phillips, the second to Marius Owens.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Also be a top player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of NBA potential.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There would be a good first test for Indiana against Marquette and that game is going to be played at the United Center on Sunday November the night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: expect a pack house.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't help that they're playing a team like Alabama and in the first game that you know you're going to blow them out unless you want the confidence booster.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I guess this is a good idea.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'd rather do that than play a mid-major and lose.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_03]: By the way, if you if you schedule Indiana Wesley and her grace be careful this year is they're going to be really good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Another team from the state of Wisconsin, the following Wednesday, November, twelve is Milwaukee.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The second game at assembly hall.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What do you know about Milwaukee?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're they're always good in their conference in the horizon league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were twenty one and eleven last year kind of a disappointing fourteen and six in their conference play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lost in the conference tournament.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lost in the conference tournament to Oakland.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of my favorite teams in the country, Oakland.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: John start doing the Oakland report pretty soon hit me awesome man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I could contact a couple guys to get him on here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: John love Lace is a guy to look out for for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and another guy I remember well in that horizon league tournament phase on field they could be a tournament team this Milwaukee team and this is not that's not a sleeper team man that that is a that's going to be a good mid major test for Indiana at home it's obviously going to be a very winnable game where Indiana will will be favored but what sleep on that Milwaukee team they're pretty darn good
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then the next Sunday, so it was Wednesday, Sunday, Wednesday, Sunday, incarnate word as a home, that could be anytime from noon to eight o'clock.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who knows?
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[SPEAKER_03]: A couple of years ago, it seemed like incarnate word was a program that was on the rise in the last couple of years, haven't been quite as good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they lost their top three players last year and they, they've been competitive in that, in that, in that south-link conference.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, since moving there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But just haven't really been able to get over the hump and think that's probably going to be another easy win for Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then Thursday, November, twenty of his Lyndon, what at Lyndon one is a program on the rise grant.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, anytime you're going to play a mid major team like that at home as an Indiana, you're going to be favored.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can't take opponents lightly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if that'll be one that they could get a hiccup because
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[SPEAKER_01]: they're they're going to be getting ready to play a power five team it'll be in kind of a weird time of the year team with a lot of kids back from last year's team and i u has none you know that's kind of a any team that has that advantage especially early in the season is going to be a team to watch out for yeah i mean we'll see and that falls right in the middle of
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... kind of the sort of feast week which is the week of i i really consider feast week starting a week before thanksgiving for college basketball and or people who don't know what that is that's basically when college basketball takes a basketball all the time yeah son of the sundown pretty much yet around the clock basketball if you have us being plus you could watch it the rest of your life literally literally and i've done it yeah exactly it right it i would say it rivals because it's not better than the month of march but
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It certainly competes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It answers a lot of questions that you have early on in the season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It kind of shakes things out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's why they do it, especially those tournaments.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, those, you used to be a lot better when they were about eight of them and you could kind of watch all of them now that there's a hundred and fifteen of them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a little harder.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But still, a lot of good matchups early in the season and a lot of good players.
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[SPEAKER_03]: One thing I like to do is look at NBA mock drafts and kind of look at it from an NBA perspective.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So get a lot of games on a short amount of time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My Thanksgiving.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Most people's filled with football.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mine's filled with a lot of college basketball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One hundred percent man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the people that like, oh yeah, we're going to put the lions on on Thanksgiving.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why are we not putting the battle for it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, like what why are we not watching the battle for Atlantis?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, why are we not watching Providence play Oklahoma while I eat a bunch of turkey, you know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that I think that that's gonna be an interesting test for Indiana and this next game Gonna be a good test going into the next big non conference game, which will be a home game against Kansas State on Tuesday, November, twenty-fifth, which will be the
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[SPEAKER_01]: Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have a new transfer in PJ Haggardy that came in who's going to be their point guard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have a really good coach in Jerome Tang.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be a team to look out for it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It would be a good game at home for.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I similar to you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, almost complete roster overall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's I'm really glad they scheduled an on conference team like that, especially with a being at home and
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[SPEAKER_03]: And next year when there are more answers, more questions answered.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hopefully there'll be a couple more of those on schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The a couple more Kansas state caliber teams.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You understand that there are a lot of Alabama A&M's and Milwaukee's and incarnate words this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's not do that too much in the next few years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Although we've got some good ones coming up here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, Bethoon Cookman is next there the Saturday after Thanksgiving, which is typically Old Oak and Bucket Saturday, but with the Old Oak and Bucket being played on Friday this year, which would be really cool to go to and talk about teams on the rise here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Thune Cookman's always been one of the worst programs in the country.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now they have Regethius.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is the head coach, a former NBA head coach, a former NBA player and teammate of my uncle, John.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I remember him from when I was four years old at Market Square Arena and going and hanging out with the team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Artists go more, lift me up and let him be dunk when I was four years old.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Was that cool?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Regethius was part of that and probably the best looking man and all of
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[SPEAKER_03]: in the NBA at the time according to the ladies.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And he's now at the butthium cookman and that program is on the way up still.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you don't win this game, something's wrong.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It'll be a it'll be as.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My buddy John Ross seems as it'd be the epitome of brutality.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So not as bad as losing to Alabama.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it would be right or incarnate word.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, even that or Chicago state later on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That level.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But one day, Regithias will have them competitive.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They'll have them in the NCAA tournament.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe even this year, but it'll be as a sixteenth seed or something like that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I, you should win that game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the one game that we have lots of information on Grant Saturday December sixth at Gamebridge Field House.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Indiana will be taking on the Louisville Cardinals, which is a rivalry that
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like this one and the next one we're going to talk about with another team at Kentucky spoiler alert.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Kentucky Wildcat should be on the schedule every single year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This game will be at two o'clock.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is the care source, invitational supporting mental health.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That game will be on CBS.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So expect some of the top broadcasters and analysis in the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This for that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Fort for that game at Gainbridge Field House and be a good test for Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We said that in a lot of these games so far, but this one is this one in Kentucky is by far the two biggest not conference games in a long time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: this Indiana program and talent wise is going to be one of the best rosters in the country.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have no idea it's a brand new roster again like a lot of teams so we have no idea how it's going to gel and shake out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But talent wise Louisville's going to be almost as good as anybody in the country.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well it's going to be a fun game to watch and I'm really excited for that game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Indiana's got a good shot going in if they can get off to a good start and they're not comfort schedule with
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[SPEAKER_01]: winning games, of course, and blowing teams out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll just have to see where they stand on that, but I think that's a really winnable game for Indiana going into Kentucky the next week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me tell you, if I Ubits Louisville, it's a really good sign for Coach DeVarice.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I would say right now I'd be shocked if I Ubitel.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we'll just have to see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll have to see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But it's possible if everything went right for you, there's no doubt they can be that level of a team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's really hard to bring a team from a bunch of different programs and put it shake it all together and come out really successful by December six.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, as all I'm saying.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, and then a big road game, a true road game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Saturday, December the thirteenth, Indiana will be taking on Kentucky at Rup Arena Kentucky, of course, went to the NCAA tournament last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, I mean, what do you gotta say?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's Kentucky.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We all know how good they are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We know how good they can be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is this one of the only times you'll be rooting for Indiana?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm rooting for Indiana all the time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All the time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If it's against the school outside of Indiana, I'm from Indiana.
19:55
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
19:56
[SPEAKER_01]: I really hope Indiana can just go down there.
19:59
[SPEAKER_01]: and throttle in this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they will, but man, I hope they do.
20:04
[SPEAKER_01]: And it would be such a sight for them to go in there and kick their ass.
20:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I hate, I went to that hate, I respect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: in some manner, John Calipary, when he left and took the Arkansas job and all those Kentucky people who wanted him out, they wanted him gone and then he took the Arkansas job and they're like, hey, why have you take the Arkansas job?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, why is it matter to you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You want to be gone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So when he took that Arkansas team into rep last year in one at rep, I was one of the biggest John Calipary fans on the planet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I hate Kentucky.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll never forget one year is drag Arkansas into Kentucky's where I get to me.
20:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll never forget when I was a kid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This was around the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably went a bit of year or so after that Wattford hit the shot for Indiana to beat Kentucky.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll never forget my dad for Christmas got his dad, my grandpa, an IU cutting board.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, but you cut food on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They still have, I think they still have it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He got it for him.
21:16
[SPEAKER_01]: And he told me, and I'm never forget being a little kid.
21:18
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, you know Grant, you know what I'm gonna do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every time I'm cutting like carrots, on here, cutting something, I'm just gonna go, Kentucky, Kentucky, Kentucky, Kentucky.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Never forget.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's, we hate, I mean, I might hate Kentucky more than Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've got a buddy who is from Lexington.
21:39
[SPEAKER_01]: who's a big Kentucky fan and he started a little podcast last year and he had me on the talk about Kentucky.
21:47
[SPEAKER_01]: And when he proposed the idea to me, we did it over Zoom and it was really fun actually.
21:52
[SPEAKER_01]: When he proposed the idea to me, I'm like, is this guy think he's getting on here?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm gonna come on here and
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[SPEAKER_01]: And crap on Kentucky.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why would you have me on your Kentucky vodka?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's a good dude.
22:06
[SPEAKER_01]: We were actually going to link up and I think it's going to be twenty twenty seven when Indiana plays Kentucky.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, it'd be twenty twenty six when Indiana plays Kentucky at Lucas oil stadium.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and we're gonna go to the game and talk quite crap to each other and nice.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As much as I hate to say it, and I'll never admit this again, Grant.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Some Kentucky fans are okay as human being.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Some of them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This guy I'm friends with is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, not very many.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Daniel Suttath is a good guy, my former boss at the News and Tribune.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Good guy.
22:39
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
22:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Love's Kentucky loves Kentucky shout out a guy.
22:43
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about shout out Alex Holder.
22:44
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna send this to him and shout out Alex Holder.
22:48
[SPEAKER_01]: He uh I met him.
22:49
[SPEAKER_03]: He was not all Kentucky fans are awful.
22:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I met him.
22:52
[SPEAKER_01]: He was doing play by play for ninety six nine the wire and
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[SPEAKER_01]: Evansville.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was he's doing a castle night basketball game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I met him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a big Kentucky fan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I tell him I was like, I'm a big eye.
23:06
[SPEAKER_01]: You think.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we got a lot of castle nights.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Alex him in way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Went to Clemson Jack Menji.
23:15
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
23:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Went to Xavier and Iowa.
23:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So if you could win one non-conference game hands down, it's Kentucky.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It might be worth losing all the other non-conference games.
23:29
[SPEAKER_03]: I was going to have some next.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Would you give all of it?
23:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Would you take a one hand?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's pretty embarrassing.
23:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Just to be Kentucky.
23:38
[SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of which Chicago State is next, maybe the worst team in the entire country last year.
23:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Funny story about Chicago State.
23:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I was on a, tell you, I was going on a work trip.
23:48
[SPEAKER_01]: We went up to Green Bay and all there.
23:50
[SPEAKER_01]: We had to go through Chicago and we went right by Chicago State University on our way.
23:56
[SPEAKER_01]: That was pretty cool.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm sure it's a cool place, but the basketball team is sock.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, but whether it's Saturday, December, twentieth.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So again, that could be any time of the day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Pied noon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: BDN, probably big ten plus.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then the non-conference schedule concludes Monday, December, twenty second.
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[SPEAKER_03]: At home, against Sienna, a program that has been very, very good at times, grant, but not so right now, although they did add a former Iowa player, six, eleven, Riley, Mulvey.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So who knows what to expect from them, but that's another one you would expect to be a win.
24:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think it's a decent, non-conference, a little non-conference schedule for our first year coach.
24:44
[SPEAKER_01]: I like it.
24:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Coming into the big tenets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's got a lot of buy games on there, which is
24:49
[SPEAKER_01]: You're paying these teams to come and play you, but I think for big name, non-conference opponents is enough for a first year, especially when you have at least three of them carrying the way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At least three of them carrying the way that market, Louisville and Kentucky carry.
25:06
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, Grant, as an outsider, I would predict that I will be seven and four what's your prediction?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd say anywhere between eight and three and nine and two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: they're they're gonna win their by games and they're gonna I think they're gonna win all their by games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they can sneak to out against Marquette and Kansas State but it'll be hard to be a little bit I know they're gonna be as hard to beat Louisville as it'll be to beat Kentucky at Reparina
25:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Just because you're playing them in Indianapolis at a neutral side, it's going to be basically a home game for you.
25:41
[SPEAKER_01]: You have a lot of home crowd fans behind you.
25:43
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd be stunned if they beat Mark Kett the second game of the season.
25:46
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I say eight and three.
25:48
[SPEAKER_01]: because I think Markets probably gonna be one that could get him.
25:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Seven and four, I take it.
25:53
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I don't think they'll lose the Kansas State at home.
25:56
[SPEAKER_01]: You're juiced up.
25:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a game you're gonna be really juiced up for because it's at home.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And unless things go horribly, the only other possible losses would come at home and that would be Milwaukee or Lyndon Wood.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Those were the only two that would be the right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Lyndon Wood, I have a hard time seeing that.
26:14
[SPEAKER_03]: Lyndon Wood, of course, is a division two program.
26:16
[SPEAKER_03]: It's on the rise to division one.
26:18
[SPEAKER_03]: but they are a great program that has a lot coming back and a really good recruiting class for their conference.
26:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
26:25
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll take seven and four.
26:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll take eight and three.
26:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll take nine and two, ten and one and eleven and a no.
26:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm more concerned about winning those bygames.
26:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I think as a fan and as the I guess you're I you guy.
26:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I can take losing to your four power four schools, power five schools, I guess.
26:48
[SPEAKER_01]: but don't lose to an Alabama and don't lose to an incarnate word or Chicago state or a CNA.
26:55
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't lose to those teams.
26:57
[SPEAKER_01]: If you beat them, awesome.
26:58
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you can beat those four power four schools, market, Kansas State, Louisville and Kentucky, you're set.
27:05
[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't see eleven and out, but I don't necessarily see O and eleven.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely don't see O and eleven at all.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, if coach the Reese comes in and is as good as coach the netty was from from the jump with that program, maybe they are ten and one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's out, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It could.
27:25
[SPEAKER_03]: They can.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the talents there if they put it all together, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's possible.
27:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
27:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I like the bison.
27:35
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very cool.
27:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell us the latest.
27:36
[SPEAKER_01]: It finally got a we knew that the bison is going to be there, but it finally got its official makeover.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's what it's going to look like.
27:45
[SPEAKER_01]: If at all possible you should use the background for this episode as that bison you'd find it online so people when they're listening to it they can see it it's hard as really hard to describe what it looks like you know what I mean it's just it's a cartoon buffalo that's that like it acts like a human I mean it's all I can really explain and it's it's it's a little generic it's a little cheesy but it's supposed to be I think it's one of a kind all like it it is so
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's... I'm a fan of mascots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I always have been.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ever since Poly Panther, when I was a kid at Elwood, I've always been a fan of mascots.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Boomer came of age when I was in middle school.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've always been a fan of mascots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure people are wondering, why a bison?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here's why.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Indiana State Seal has a bison on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And what is known is blooming to now, back hundreds of years ago, bison used to roam.
28:43
[SPEAKER_01]: through that area, that was where Bison lived in Indiana was in what is now Bloomington.
28:51
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's talk about the TBT.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's a for people who don't know what the TBT is.
28:58
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of an up and coming thing.
28:59
[SPEAKER_01]: It's I think it's a great filler when sports are kind of at a wall in the month of July, you know, you love basketball and like the people in Indiana do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The last few years there have been Indiana just added a team, which these TBT teams, a lot of them consist of alumni from a school that's Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to hear what their team, which I love the name assembly ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's good one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna hear names that you probably never heard before because they didn't play it Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But in Indiana, there's teams, the Butler team, which is called All Good Dogs, the Valparaiso team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe Valparaiso has a team.
29:36
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's isn't necessarily alumni.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's more guides who want to play professionally.
29:40
[SPEAKER_01]: This is professional basketball.
29:42
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not college basketball.
29:43
[SPEAKER_01]: This is professional basketball.
29:45
[SPEAKER_01]: But if you're an IU fan, this is something to keep an eye out on.
29:48
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's five on five and tells about the format.
29:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
29:51
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's single elimination.
29:53
[SPEAKER_01]: hence the name of the tournament.
29:54
[SPEAKER_01]: How many things?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe there's sixty four somewhere in there.
29:59
[SPEAKER_01]: There's regions that consist of people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Google it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's the Indianapolis region.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's the James Madison region.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to be hosting a slow games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's the Kentucky region and the Louisville region, which it was cool last year because the Kentucky team and the Louisville team played each other in kind of their quadrants championship.
30:26
[SPEAKER_01]: They played in the championship and it was like a sold-out crowd.
30:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
30:29
[SPEAKER_01]: They played it freedom hall and there was a fight after the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They all got into a big prize.
30:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
30:36
[SPEAKER_03]: So that was, you know, for those who don't know, I've been to the Jeffersonville, New Albany newspaper the last few years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And where I was, I would say it was, thirty three percent IU fans, thirty three percent Louisville fans about
30:50
[SPEAKER_01]: thirty percent Kentucky fans and about five percent Purdue and other it's it's cool if you love basketball look it up look up tbt tbt hoops dot com and when you run this first thing Wednesday morning I hope people go and do that and yet tickets the Indianapolis region is being played at hinkle fieldhouse which will be really cool the assembly ball team will be playing they'll be playing on Saturday July nineteen that four clock that game will actually be televised nationally
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[SPEAKER_01]: on fox sports one so you can say home and watch it a lot of these teams are teams that are uh... putting together for charity and all that kind of stuff it's is it's almost a chair it's kind of a charity thing like the idea it's it's a really cool idea and it's grown last year the team that one of was a team called carman's crew which is the Ohio State alumni team which had guys uh... led by guy by the name of Jared selling jar
31:46
[SPEAKER_01]: who is a solemnly Celtic and played in the NBA.
31:50
[SPEAKER_01]: So here's what the assembly ball team will consist of.
31:54
[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of these guys are who I grew up watching.
31:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So this really hits close to home for me because it's the guys that made me fall in love with it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see who stayed in shape, Grant.
32:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Al Durham.
32:05
[SPEAKER_01]: who played it in the end and went on a profit and transferred to Providence.
32:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Christian Wattford is technically a player, but he is more of the GM kind of a coach role.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of our heroes for beating Kentucky.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He will be a part of this James Blackman Jr.
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[SPEAKER_01]: American kid, just like me, will be I watched his dad when I was a kid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know him all the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: James Blackman Jr.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He is a six four shooting guard who played at Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a decent player at Indiana bounced around in the G in the D league G league as it was transforming at that time.
32:43
[SPEAKER_01]: They will also have a guy with a name of Geron Cumberland who is a six five shooting guard who plays for the Delaware Bluecoats and the G. Lee.
32:51
[SPEAKER_01]: He went to the University of Cincinnati.
32:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Jordan Halls will also be a part of this team, but he would be a part of the team and last year at least he was a kind of the coach player coach player role.
33:03
[SPEAKER_01]: he last played for MHP Ryzen Ludwig's bird in Germany.
33:09
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he spent time on the Indiana coaching staff with Mike Woodson.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He will be a part of the suffered him in high school as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jordan King is another, he's a six foot point guard from Richmond University.
33:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Julian Gamble is another, he's a six nine center from the University of Miami.
33:27
[SPEAKER_01]: He was on the team last year.
33:28
[SPEAKER_01]: He is a starting center.
33:30
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of these guys, I'm telling you, you're not going to have heard of.
33:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
33:33
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's for the guys like James Wackman Jr., and some of these other guys like Christian Wattford and Jordan Halls, it's more for the fans.
33:42
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and you can get autographs from I mean, you don't want to be bugging them during games and stuff, but you can get autographs from them before after take pictures all this kind of stuff.
33:53
[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's really a neat thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's set up for the fans.
33:57
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not for these players trying to make money or still trying to play for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's for the fans.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Juan Morgan is another that will be coming back.
34:07
[SPEAKER_01]: He was there when I covered him for the year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was there.
34:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
34:11
[SPEAKER_01]: How to stand in the NBA with the Utah Jazz for a minute?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
34:15
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a six-eight-power four-off.
34:18
[SPEAKER_01]: They have another guy by the name of Luke Fisher who is six-foot-eleven.
34:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Sarger discreared Indiana and then transferred to Marquette.
34:26
[SPEAKER_01]: He did the reverse-time crane.
34:28
[SPEAKER_01]: He went from Indiana to Marquette.
34:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Instead of Marquette to Indiana.
34:32
[SPEAKER_01]: But he is another one that would be on the team.
34:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Miller Cop who is a recent guy will be playing as well.
34:38
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the guy I'm telling you when he checks into the game.
34:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's going to give him a big round of applause.
34:45
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how it was last year.
34:45
[SPEAKER_01]: He checked in everybody like that place reward.
34:49
[SPEAKER_01]: He is a six foot seven small forward who is playing for the Oklahoma City blue in the G league.
34:56
[SPEAKER_01]: He went to Northwestern and to Indiana.
34:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Another guy, QJ Petersen, a six foot point guard from Virginia Military Institution.
35:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Race Thompson, a former Indiana Heuser, will also be on the squad as well.
35:10
[SPEAKER_01]: He is a six eight power forward who is playing for the Memphis hustle in the G league.
35:14
[SPEAKER_01]: He went to Indiana University.
35:17
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, he's guys right here.
35:21
[SPEAKER_01]: or two guys that I know you've heard of, and a lot of fans will remember them.
35:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Troy Williams, six foot seven small forward who went to Indiana.
35:30
[SPEAKER_01]: He was on the team last year, but didn't necessarily play a whole lot.
35:33
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he was battling an injury, but he was a part of this team last summer.
35:37
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the last guy, everybody's gonna be there to see he took over in a game last year.
35:42
[SPEAKER_01]: And a guy who I think, if given the right opportunity could still play in the league, you know who it is?
35:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Yogi Feral.
35:50
[SPEAKER_01]: Yogi Farrell five foot eleven point guard for Mendiana he will be there he will be kind of the he'll be the fan favorite you know he he's why people are gonna go and people love this guy last year he was the most popular player at this particular regional site going to be really fun i hope they can i believe they're the two seed in all of this in Carmen screw the Ohio State team is the one seed
36:14
[SPEAKER_01]: So it'd be nice if Indiana can get to the championship, which would be a week from Tuesday, so a week from tonight.
36:22
[SPEAKER_03]: Mark Titus on the Ohio State team.
36:24
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he was at one time.
36:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he was.
36:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's why I know of the tournament.
36:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Probably.
36:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I love Mark Titus.
36:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
36:31
[SPEAKER_03]: Been a fan since he played at Ohio State.
36:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Played as generous.
36:35
[SPEAKER_03]: One minute.
36:36
[SPEAKER_03]: He was on the team.
36:37
[SPEAKER_03]: He would play one minute when they had big leads.
36:41
[SPEAKER_01]: They basically club trillion the the TBT does a really good job at making this about the fans and Whoever wins the tournament gets a million dollars in the die and the guys will split it however they want the coolest thing about it is that I don't know what winner of what regional they would play but
37:03
[SPEAKER_01]: between those two regionals, whichever site.
37:06
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's say they're playing the Kentucky regional in the next round.
37:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoever sold the most tickets between Henkel and the Kentucky Regional.
37:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoever sold the most tickets is where that game will be played.
37:21
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, that's a good idea.
37:22
[SPEAKER_01]: So you really don't know where it's going to be.
37:24
[SPEAKER_01]: So you got to, that's why they want people to come to it by the tickets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, if you're keen wins, you'll get to watch them again here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to be really cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's, you know, guys that come out to it, Trash Jackson Davis came to it last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it was all up in arms about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna see guys that you can go down and take pictures with, they'll sign autographs for you and your kids.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's such a cool thing, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm really looking forward to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's become kind of a staple.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Me and my dad went to it a few years ago when it was at U.D.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Arena and Dayton.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we saw the Dayton play, the Dayton team play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You liked that place, don't you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was the first time I'd ever been there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I told my dad, I said,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I have to come to the NCAA term here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So ever since then, I've gone to it there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'd like to remind us of the days, dates again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It will start, it actually starts this Friday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of the sites are Friday, but the particular one at Hinkle will start Saturday, July, and the Butler team will be playing the Valparaiso team at two o'clock.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That game will be at Hinklefield House.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What's Drew sitting up?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Huh?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's Drew sitting up?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, you wish, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Greg Tonigle sitting up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He went to Valpa.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But um, I'm just kidding.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But wouldn't that be cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This it would.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That game will be taking place at two o'clock on Saturday, July, and will be streamed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know, not a big fan of this, but it's just how it's going to be for the first part of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be streamed on YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Very cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the assembly ball game, the IU team, will be on Fox Sports One.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So just check.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, look it up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: TVT hoops.com.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Find all your information about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't know about it, I think a lot of people kind of know about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's becoming a mainstay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would say a mainstay, but it's, I hope they don't go away for more attention.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great idea.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a great kind of thing to give sports fans in the summer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, to get, if you're a, maybe a catch on with baseball and a little catch on with those sports.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope so.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Really cool thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be really fun.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much to Grant for joining us again, and talking to some IU sports.
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