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Greg & His Friends Talk Sports (Today's Friends: Jake Dunn & Justin Ullom, 2.174.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to, Greg and his friends talk sports.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 10 to 20 minutes every day, Greg and his friends are talking about what Central Indiana Sports fans are talking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every day on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Good morning, good afternoon or good evening Central Indiana Sports fans whenever you've tuned in to Greg and his friends talk sports.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We are so happy to have you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm your host, Greg Mangell, and this is my new podcast, 10 to 20 minutes every day.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Talking about what central Indiana sports fans are talking about.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Coming up, we have new college and high school basketball polls.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Michigan is the new number one in college basketball.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Just so happens that the newly minted top ranked Wolverines are in West Lafayette tonight.
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[SPEAKER_05]: coming up here in just a second I will preview that win with my friend Jake Dunne.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Lots of boys basketball on Tuesday night in Central Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We will look ahead to that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I spoke with my friend Yorktown head coach Justin Alum about the matchup with his former team, Muncie Central tonight and talked to him about his team which is on a five game winning streak.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Before we get to all of that, when I let you know what's going on at the Central Indian Sports Report on Monday, we released a fever report and a paces report plus our first major league baseball report of the year, early Tuesday, we released our IU report with Grant and Mike.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And on Wednesday, Jacob will be back to Breakdown Purdue, Michigan on our weekly Purdue report.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Please join us for all of it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks so much for joining me and my friends.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We'll be back tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the day after that and the day after that
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[SPEAKER_05]: So Michigan is the new number one after previously unbeaten Arizona lost its last two games.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Surprisingly, the first time Michigan has been number one since 2013.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Arizona fell to number four behind Michigan.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Houston and Duke.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Number two, Houston and number three Duke both played on Monday night.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Houston lost a 10-point lead in the final five minutes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and lost 70-67 Iowa State and Duke beat Syracuse 161-64 Monday night.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Beyond freshman Cameron Boosers 22 points and 12 rebounds, he scored his 22 points on 10 attempts in just 22 minutes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Man, I'd love to see him with the Pacers.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Produce up to number seven, the largest jump in the nation of six spots for number 13 after winning at Nebraska and at Iowa last week.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That of course sets up the big one tonight in West Lafayette.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The top ranked Wolverines against the seventh ranked blue boy their makers at McEurina.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Produce one for an arrow, Michigan is one, 10 in a row since it's only lost of the season that was at home against Wisconsin, meaning
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[SPEAKER_05]: Michigan is unbeaten on the road this year.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Vegas favors Michigan by two and a half points even in West Lafayette.
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[SPEAKER_05]: ESPN analytics says Michigan has a 52.2% chance of winning the game.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I say produce going to win this one and they're going to win the big 10.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What do you say Jake?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's a good grade.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I love your optimism.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I still, uh, Michigan's maybe one of
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm looking at Kenpong right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They have a fourth ranked offense and the first ranked defense according to Kenpong.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They rebound pretty well offensively.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're at 24th of the nation in that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then this, they are second and 2 point percentage, 90th and 3 point percentage, shooting 35% from 3.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So they've got a really, really good offense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: defense got size across the board, it's typically switch one through four on defense and that can help to really shut down some of the actions that posing offensive is trying to run, so sometimes we've seen Michigan kind of lose focus, they sometimes have streaky shooting and they can be known to coast sometimes for 10 to 15 minutes allowing no opponent to take advantage kind of
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[SPEAKER_02]: pre-stack roster and you're gonna be a tough came here for the pull-and-makers.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's a good matchup for Purdue Jake.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think the Michigan's front line is a little better than Purdue's, but pretty even right.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then the back court, I think Purdue is better.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Now, don't get me wrong.
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[SPEAKER_05]: On its best days, Michigan's back, when those guys are playing well,
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[SPEAKER_05]: But they're vulnerable.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I said, I think last time it reminds me of Auburn a few years ago, when they had Jabari Smith, they also had two really talented guards who just liked to shoot.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And sometimes that's what happens with Michigan's guards.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They got the best players in the country underneath.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And their guards like to take the majority of the ball possession.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I think that's a key.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Gotta keep the ball out of the middle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: For sure, get a win the possession game, a slow it down a little bit, or run your offense for some turnovers on defense, you know, win the rebounding margin, those are all kind of going in the end.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And make your shots obviously.
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[SPEAKER_02]: to your point Craig, you got to force the team to take jump shots, especially Axel Linnonburg.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's okay, jump shooter, but if he gets down hill, good luck stopping him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, Michigan can kind of blitz you pretty quickly on the offensive front, they can score, you know, they can go on 10-0 runs, in a blink of an eye.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kind of like Purdue can, you're got to make sure you protect that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Laura, the seven footer, he was on UCLA last year,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Braids Smith was kind of able to take him out of the game, you know, last year, a foul trouble and just kind of doing different things offensively.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you kind of force them to be uncomfortable, keep him in drop coverage, things like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think just prevent easy fast break points, be ready to shoot and let Braids Smith cook.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's pretty much most of those things
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think Michigan might have three of the best 20 big men in the country.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's a brilliant, it's a pretty fair assessment there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I really like Johnson.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think Lyndon Borger, Mara, get most of the attention, but Johnson kind of does the dirty work and man, that team's going to be tough to beat, but you know what?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think this team's playing awfully well at Purdue and I think there might be on their way back to be in the best team in the country.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I hope so, and obviously if they can be the newly minted number one team in the country, I think that goes a long way to support your claim.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, I was like Morris Johnson for Michigan, I mean, 69, 250 pounds is a sophomore averaging 13 and a half points, 7.3 rounds, 1.2 assists and 1.2 blocks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It uses a high energy guy, it's physical, and it's got a lot better from his time at Illinois last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: that's two players that we've mentioned by the way that transfer from fellow big 10 teams, which is, that's just, I still like that at all.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So two years to transfer within the conference.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They, they should bring that back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't disagree.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm excited about this one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If Purdue can pull off this one, uh,
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[SPEAKER_02]: I may be all the way back to the preseason highs in our confidence, so meters.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've seen Michigan come in and beat Purdue in Mackey.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've also seen Purdue come in and kind of blitz Michigan and really not really making much of a game, so I think the range of outcomes is pretty vast.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, you know what happened when Magic Johnson brought his number one Michigan State Spartans to Maccare Arena in 1979?
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[SPEAKER_04]: What happened, Greg?
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[SPEAKER_04]: They left with a loss!
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[SPEAKER_04]: They went on the win last championship over Larry Bird, but they left Maccare Arena with a loss, and that's exactly what's going to happen to this number one team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Tonight, Jake, thanks for your time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I appreciate it as always, and boil it up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, thank you, boil it up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Also on Tuesday night in the big tin number nine Nebraska is at Iowa Michigan State fell to number 15 and host UCLA earlier on Tuesday night Illinois fell to number 10 despite beating IU by 20 on Sunday Big Hummerhouse and the Alinai lost to Wisconsin at home last Tuesday and they are in LA to face USC Wednesday in UCLA Saturday this week.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Also Tuesday, the number 22 Miami Red Hawks put the nation's only unbeaten record on the line at 15 and 11 UMass.
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[SPEAKER_05]: 25 and oh, Miami is led by Carmel's Pete Suter and Fisher's Justin Kirby.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They combine for 22 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists per game.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Also, in the Mac 8 and 17 Ball State, is at 13 and 13 Ohio at 7 and Athens.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Miami has more of a...
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[SPEAKER_05]: Indiana influence on their team then.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Ball State does.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe that explains why both teams are where they are in the standings.
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[SPEAKER_05]: New polls and high school boys basketball as well.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Unbeaten Fisher still on top of the single class coaches poll.
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[SPEAKER_05]: All 22 first place votes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: 51 straight regular season wins for the Tigers.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They're followed by Silver Creek Crown Point Pike Plainfield
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[SPEAKER_05]: The number one's in the USA today, Mediapul.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Fisher's got all 18 first place votes in 4A.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Silver Creek, all 17 in class 3A.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Pay only got 12 of the 17 in class 2A.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Number 2, O'Kill got 4 and number 3, Westview 1.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And in class A, unbeaten counts got 16 of the 17 first place votes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Number 22, Bar Reeve got the other one.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Locally, in 4a, Mount Vernon is ranked 4th, Carmel 8, Hamilton, southeast, and 12th.
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[SPEAKER_05]: 3a, cathedral is 2nd of Silver Creek, Garen Catholic is 9th.
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[SPEAKER_05]: In 2a, O'Kill's 2nd, Chinatown, 11th, Franklin, 12th, and LePel 14th.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Somehow, because they beat number 11 and number 12 this year, just beat number 11.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Chinatown is quite easily.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And in Class A, Southwood is 5th, Rossville 7th, Liberty, Christian 8th, and Monroe, Central is 10th.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Looking ahead to Tuesday's games, we start as we always do with the conference that was nice enough to name itself after this podcast.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That of course is the Central Indian Conference.
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[SPEAKER_05]: 2A number 12, Frankton is 15 and 4 and is 1-8 in a row.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They host Daleville.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Tonight the Broncos are 3 and 14 should be the 9th straight win for the Eagles.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We'll have a full report on the game later.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Tuesday night with head coach Brambrobsden.
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[SPEAKER_05]: 5 and 12, Tipton goes to 2A, number 2 O-Kill, the Golden Eagle 16 and 1, and Eastbrook is 10 and 8, they got a 5 and 14 wall bash.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Also in Madison County, 11 and 7, Anderson hosts 11 and 8 short ridge.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And in a Hoosier Heritage Conference, 14 and 4, Pinnleton Heights hosts Newcastle.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The Trozans have won three in a row, Pittleton has won its last two after a two game losing streak and finishes high second in the HHC.
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[SPEAKER_05]: In Howard County, 14 and five Coca-Cola looks for its 8th win and a row at home, against 7 and 11 Metro, the Wildcats won the NCC on Friday by Beating Richman 59 to 43.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And 5 and 13 Clinton Perries at 12 and 7 Eastern, the Comments of 1, 5 and a row and
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[SPEAKER_05]: behind the hot scoring of Colton Lindsey, in Hamilton County, 15 Ann's re-shared in host A and 11 Western Boone, the blackouts of one seven of their last date, including a 5857 win over Carroll on Friday night two clinched the Hoosier Heartland, and 11 and seven Westfield, host 13 and 6 University in an inner county game.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Lots of games in Delaware County on Tuesday night.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Seven and ten burrs goes to four and 13 southern wells.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The hours of one five of their last nine after two and six start.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Nine and nine Wabahani host, 12 and eight Bethesda Christian.
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[SPEAKER_05]: 11 and eight Delta is at home against seven and 12 Rushville.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Delta is one seven of its last nine.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And ten and seven monthsy central goes to 11 and seven Yorktown.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Muncie Central's one three of its last four in the Anderson 65 to 63 on Saturday, Yorktown has won five games and a row.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I spoke with Tigers head coach just in all of them about his team, late Monday night.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well coach five wins in a row and none of those five were against bad teams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's been a little bit of a good run for us, you know, I hesitate to say, you know, that we haven't played well earlier in the year because we certainly did, but we've put some complete games together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What's a band that's made your team so successful as late as you said play well throughout the season?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that I really think the difference is guys have started to believe, early in the season, we were, as coaches, just, I think, frustrated that we believed in what we could achieve, but that we weren't sure the players believed it, and there was some, some timidness or indecisiveness in games, especially maybe in some bigger moments or second halves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We just kept kept at it kept preaching our beliefs in them and I think it generally takes one good lens or one one nice showing to kind of Get over that bump and I think we've done that here in the last month It seems like it's a team with pretty good balance not only scoring wise, but three or grade
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is going to sophomore that starts in place a lot of minutes, a great junior class and then four seniors, fortunately, kind of row raise been out for the year with some health issues, but he's a big part for us, a smart kid and seeing the game from a different perspective and helping us really as coaches at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of, a lot of balance, we certainly have a couple of go-to guys in the big moments but on any given night we can have some guys step up and lead us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And looking ahead at the sectional just a few weeks away, that has to be your goal.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Looks like it's kind of wide open.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a fun one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really think any of the six of us could string two, three, once together and win that thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a round robin of who's beat who so far.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, that'll be a fun one week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was a big win over Jay County on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it was a great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Guys played well really for four quarters and I felt we thought we really put it together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Seems like you're pretty
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it really has been been a good, good set that's the biggest thing that I would say that brings you joy as a coach and allows you to enjoy it is that the guys are so connected like we were joking as coaches just this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like after practice we're sitting in the office like waiting on guys to come out and they're just in a lot of room having fun sitting around talking and so we really have a pretty close knit group and as you know that that helps you not only on the floor but it just helps you feel good about what you're building.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And on Tuesday night a team you're familiar with multi-central of course you coach last year most of the kids from last year's team back this year.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Do you have mixed feelings going into it, or how are you feeling about it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, not mixed feelings, it's it's it's it's been fun to watch a watch a lot of film and scout them to let over the weekend here and just see the really the success and the growth of so many of those guys, the freshman became sophomores and the junior class became seniors and it's just
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's good to see them doing well, I have, you know, not mixed feelings, but certainly going to be an interesting night early, just seeing so many kids, you have good relationships with and spend some time with, and so, you know, while I want them to do well, and go, I'm disconnecting it to be a tight and competitive game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, thanks very much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: See you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks so much to Jake and Justin for joining me before we leave today.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Want to give you a couple of Olympic updates.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The American women's hockey team beat Sweden five.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Nothing early Tuesday to earn a medal and we'll face Canada for the gold on Thursday at 1.10 PM locally.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Canada beats Switzerland 2 to 1 earlier Tuesday.
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[SPEAKER_05]: U.S. men will face either Sweden or Latvia in the quarter finals on Wednesday at 3.10 local time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Americans finished first and third in the new Olympic event the women's mono bob sled Elena Myers Taylor won the gold and Cali Humphrey's the bronze Weather caused disruptions to the snowboard in aerial competitions and On Tuesday figure skating returns with the women short program and the two man bob sled finals are three this afternoon But I'm really loving the speed skating
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks so much for listening.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Please remember we'll be back tomorrow.
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