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Greg & His Friends Talk Sports ... with Jake Dunn, Grant Shouse & Michelle Garmon (2.193.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome Central Indian Esports fans to the Central Indian Esports Report for my new podcast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Greg and his friends talks for us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm your host, Greg Mingell.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And every day, about 20 to 30 minutes, my friends and I are talking about what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Central Indian Esports fans are talking about and coming up today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have sexual semi-final scores.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Highlights and sectional championship matchups from across Info Indiana David Malucas is on pull up Phoenix Miami is 31 and 0 and we look ahead to Saturday with my friend Grant Shouse and his IU Ohio State preview and my friend Jake done with his Purdue Wisconsin preview before we get to all of that when I let you know what's going on at the central Indiana sports and what's going on
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[SPEAKER_02]: is a really good, culturally poor on Friday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to want to check that out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was a fiery one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we have a fever report coming up on Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A pacer's report on Monday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A big 10 tournament preview on Monday evening with Jake and Grant and Grant's IU partner, my couple.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much for joining us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My friends and I will be back tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the next day and the next day and the next day
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[SPEAKER_02]: it's sectional semi final Friday night so of course so of course we start this podcast on Saturday March 7th, 2026 with the high school boys basketball sectional semi finals and as we are want to do we start in class 2a because that's where most of our interest lies
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we start in the L with sectional where Michelle Garmin of the Tipton Tribune and L would call leader.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I were tonight and it was shared in with a thrilling 6766 back and fourth victory over rival Taylor in over time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Blackhawks over came a 10 point deficit in the second half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The combined for 39 points were also on the recap with Michelle and myself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kishan Galaway scored 23 and JV on here is 22, for Taylor, they were the games top two scores.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Sheridan will play number 9, Lepel for the sectional championship, Lepelby L would 79 to 23.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And as now outscored, it's two sectional opponents, Elwood and Frankton, by combined 86 points.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's a 15 nothing run at the end of the first quarter, the blue and open, and then lapel outscored the Panthers, 30 to 6 in the second, Owen Garber, and Kso, Conor scored 15 points of piece for the bulldogs, and again, full recap earlier today on the central Indian sports report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also have a full recap with Grant Shows and Blackford head coach Aaron Daniels from
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Eastbrook sectional, where Blackford advanced, with a 42-35 win over CIC rival Eastbrook, Mason Kitterman had a career night with 22 points and Blackford star Mari Legit, a 10-point 9-ary bounce and 5 assists, and Blackford's on the sectional championship game for the first time since 2021, and there they will meet a team that's used to being there, and that's
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[SPEAKER_02]: the Raiders have been in every sectional championship game since 2018.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And at Manchester, it was second ranked Oak Hill 72 to 34 over Lewis Cass, goldmegals.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 23 and 1 on the season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They were led by freshman Wilton and gold with 28 points and 5 assists.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The goldmegals will face a Rochester in the sectional championship on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: the Zebra's A4341 winner over Wabash for their 10th win of the year, there should be another pretty easy one for ok. And we moved to the South and Class 2A and at the Ritter sectional it was university and Ritter advancing to the sectional championship, university, the defending sectional champion
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[SPEAKER_02]: Faisal Muhammad scored 16 and Josh McGee, Blake Gray, and Noah Cortez, 15 points of peace for the incredibly balanced blazers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Redderbeat Park 2ter, 66 to 51.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It Eastern Hancock, Sassina beat Kip, Legacy 60 to 45 Anne, Triton Central beat, Heritage Christian, 63 to 43, so it'll be the number 6 Triton Central Tigers, 21 Anne 3 against
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[SPEAKER_02]: four of the sectional championship Saturday night at Eastern Hancock.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And at Hakerstown, it was number five centerville easily over Hakerstown 85 to 57.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Bulldogs not 22 and 2.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Shenandoah ran past Northeastern 58 to 42.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Raiders 18 and 5.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sheneroville is the defending champion and the heavy favorite in that one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Four local sectionals of interest in class 3A
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we start at Belmont where defending Champion Marion defeated the Heritage Patriots 73 to 57 behind 29 points from Tim Jones and 17 from Jayce Freshwater.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mayor will play New Haven for its 72nd sectional championship on Saturday night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: New Haven beat Belmont 63 to 27 is now 18 and 7.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Giant 6 and 16.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Still probably the favorites.
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[SPEAKER_02]: At Logan's Port North Western defeated the host Barry 64 to 52, the Tigers now 17 and 5, they got 30 points from Colin Cook, that according to Brian Gaskin for the Coca-Cola Tribune.
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[SPEAKER_02]: North Westerns end its first sexual championship game since 2018 and they will play ninth ranked West Lafayette, the 21 and 4 Red Devils beat Peru 68 to 58.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, at Frankford, it was Burrough 76-48 over Lebanon, Chase 4-18 points for the balanced Braves, and Garen Catholic 56-34 over Danville, Jr. J. Grissom 24 points, and Jr. Carter Moran's 14 points and 8 rebounds for the 21 and 5 Golden Eagles.
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[SPEAKER_02]: On January 23, fifth ranked Garen beat 10th ranked Burrough 48-39 to win the Circle City Conference.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A Newcastle 14th ranked Yorktown defeated Conner'sville 63 to 47.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mace in Trimell 19 points and 5 rebounds for the 16 and 8 Tigers, that according to Cade Hampton of the Muncie Star Press.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Delta defeated Hamilton Heights, 70 to 61, and will play rival Yorktown for its fourth straight sectional championship on Saturday, Walker Johnson 16 points and 8 rebounds for
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[SPEAKER_02]: and Delta B, Yorktown 51 to 46 on December 12th with their first win of the season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: In Class 4A, we start with three sectionals in the South and a Greenfield Central is number 4 Mount Vernon, the defending sectional champions, 71 to 38 over Mutsi Central, future Purdue Boythermaker, Luke Earl 27 points for the 23 and 3 Marauders.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Next year should be a good one for the Bearcats.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And in the second game, it was an upset.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Greenfield Central 71 to 52 over Anderson.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Cougars now 12 and 11 on the year, Anderson, still looking for its first sectional championship since 2009.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This name may fit sound familiar.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Clay Mullins 23 points for the Cougars.
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[SPEAKER_02]: sophomore, Donnie Bulling at a game high 33 points for the Indians.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That according to Steve Heath of the Greenfield Daily reporter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mount Vernon beat rival Greenfield Central 62 to 51 in the regular season match up in Greenfield on the Nourry 9 and Tech was number 11 Lawrence North 83 to 59 over North Central and Lawrence Central 58 to 50 over Warren Central So rivals Lawrence North and Lawrence Central will meet for the sexual championship on Saturday at Tech LNB LC 80 to 70 on December 6
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[SPEAKER_02]: and an incredible night at Plainfield.
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[SPEAKER_02]: An incredible comeback for number three Pike.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They were down 10 to nothing early in 11 points at the half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And came back to beat number five, Plainfield, 56 to 53 to improve the 22 and three on the year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Quaker season ends at 22 and three.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Landon Langley, Ian McComb, and Jibari Miller combined for 39 points for the Red Devils.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Plainfield's Noah Smith led all scores with 23.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And in the second game was Brownsburg 77-73 over Ben Davis, Brandon sharp 22 points and five rebounds to lead the bulldogs that according to Jake Fiverr of in the sports zone.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So for the sectional championship, but playing field on Saturday, it will be Pike and Brownsburg, Pike beat the bulldogs 69-55 on January 2nd.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And now we move to the northern half of the drawing class 4A,
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[SPEAKER_02]: And at Noble'sville is number 10, Carmel 44 to 36 over Noble'sville.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Carmel had six players score at least six points and had no win in Double Figures.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Noble'sville, Baron Walker, headed a butler at a game hide 19 points for the millers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's more than half of their points.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That according to Richard Torres.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Antoprene Fisher's came from behind to beat number 12 Hamilton Southeast or in 75 to 65.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and outscored the royals by 14 points in the third quarter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jason Gardner, Jr. at 24 and Cooper Zachary 7 team to lead the comeback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Luke Weamer, 17 points for Hamilton Southeastern.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, Fisher is in caramel for the sectional championship on Saturday as expected.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the Tigers would be the Greyhound's 53 to 50.
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[SPEAKER_02]: On January 31st should be a great one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The sectional Lafayette Jeff got underway on Friday night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Defending Champion Harrison beat McCutcheon for the third time this season 58 to 38 The Raiders now 17 and eight on the year and there will be a re-match with Kokomo for the sectional championship on Saturday night the Wildcats will go for their record 78th sectional championship
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[SPEAKER_02]: after beating Lafayette Jeff 46 to 33 on Friday night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Wildcat shot 69% from the field in the second half and outscored the Broncos 27 to 18.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's Cocomo 2nd win over the Broncos.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This season, once for the conference championship and now to reach the sectional championship.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And in class A in the North at West Dell it was North Miami 53 to 43 over Tri-Central North Miami 15 and 9 Drogen season ends at 9 and 16 and 6 ring Southwood will be going for its 7th sectional championship in the last 9 years after beating defending champion Daleville 66 to 37 on Friday night Southwood now 21 and 3 on the year
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[SPEAKER_02]: and they won 80 to 67 at North Miami in early February.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they're happy favorites in this one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A Clinton Central Rossville avenged one of its five regular season losses with a 5737 win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Over Carol, the 10th ring torn is now 19 and five heading into Saturday's sectional championship game against Bethesda Christian a 5651 winner over frontier
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[SPEAKER_02]: Patriots are the two-time defending sectional champions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It came from city in row central 69 to 60 over Randolph's southern in the big show down on Friday night to Sean Bady 27.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Luke Morgan 23 to lead the bears who should roll to back to back championships on Saturday night against Union City who
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[SPEAKER_02]: 72 to 38 in the regular season and in the Indiana def sectional now being played at Anderson prep.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was the jet 64 to 58 over Purdue Broad Ripple and Liberty Christian 70 to 51 over Tinley so it will be an all Anderson sectional championship Saturday night at the hangar 11 and 13 Anderson prep again 16 and 7 Liberty Christian.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're in the antipacers drop their 8th straight, 128 to 117 in LA to look at Donchets and the Lakers on Friday night, late Friday night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Donchets score 44, the Lakers for straight win, and LeBron James pass cream out duly jubbar, for the most field goals at NBA history, who cares right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: The best thing I saw in the game was Jaris Walker playing the kind of role that
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[SPEAKER_02]: You kind of need to play next year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 10 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pascal Siakum, just an incredible season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Through all of it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think you get enough credit for it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 26 points and 29 minutes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: More on the Pacers on Monday on the Pacers report with Mike Rich.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And on this show on Monday afternoon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And also you can expect a fever report this Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Probably in the evening sometime.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and Jason Tatum returned for 15 points in his debut after missing 10 months with a torn Achilles and a 1-20-1-10 Boston Celtics win over the Dallas Mavericks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good news for the Celtics who now look like they are going to be serious title contenders.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And for the Pacers and Tyreys Hallaburton, who had roughly the same injury.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just a couple of months later and we'll get much more time for recovery.
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[SPEAKER_02]: in college basketball, Bradley eliminated the last Indiana team for the Missouri Valley conference tournament.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that was Valpo, 98 to 84 in double overtime on Friday night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: UIC Northern Iwin Drake also advanced Drake pounded top seed Belmont 179 and Ball State.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Beat Central Michigan at Worthon, the Cardinals made a value at run at the end of the season with four straight wins and just missed the back turn of it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Miami is 31 and 0 after beating rival Ohio 1-10-1-08 in overtime to complete their regular season 31 and 0.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Carmel's Pete Shooter, a couple of free throws with 10 seconds left in overtime and that was the difference.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ian Elmer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 32 points, and 12 rebounds to lead the 19th-ranked Red Hawks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It should be ranked higher than that, but undefeated is undefeated.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Women's college basketball Hannah Hadalgo and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish ran North Carolina State out of the gym in an 81-63 victory in the ACC tournament in Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Irish will face top-seed Duke at noon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: at Doggo 21.5 rebounds of five assists.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The second semi final is North Carolina and Louisville.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The big 10 semi finals on Saturday and beautiful downtown Indianapolis.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's dark with top seed UCLA against five C to Ohio State at two.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then Iowa and Michigan need two and three seeds.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All four teams ranked in the top 11 in the country.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pinsky teammates David Malukas and Joseph New Garden will share the front row at Saturdays 3 p.m. in Dcar race in Phoenix.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Ray Hall, Letterman, Lannigan teammates, Graham Ray Hall, and McShoumacher share the second row.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Elijah Poe, Michelle Garmin and I discussed all four of those guys in our race preview on the Indie Car Report on Thursday, please go check that out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: David Moulukus.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We will have a race reaction after the race with Elijah Poe and probably some others.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Analyze will be on this show on Sunday to react to the first oval race of the year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The race is part of an Indie Card NASCAR double-header weekend with the best race of the weekend going first for some reason.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Tyler Rettaker is the first NASCAR driver to ever win the first three races of the season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Some quick news and notes, we had a cult report on Friday with Will Rutherford and Sam Frick and it was a good one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So many FL news, Max Crossweeds have been traded for the Raiders to the Ravens for a couple of first-round draft picks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Could be a difference making move.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I covered Lamar Jackson in college at Louisville and Man I hate the Ravens, but I really hope Lamar Jackson gets it done.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe with a different team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he deserves a great guy, great player.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also, Rashad and Gary has said goodbye to Green Bay and says he'll play elsewhere in 26.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And in the World Baseball Classic, Aaron Judge had a two-run homeer in the U.S. Drew 17 walks and a 15-5 win over Brazil.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Joe Hayo Totti had a grand slam and a 10-run second inning in Japan's 13-nothing win over Taiwan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also, the Dominic Gennambit, Nicaragua 12-3, Mexico beat Great Britain 8-2.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Puerto Rico, be cube-of-fived, nothing, and cube-of-be, Panama 3-to-one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Great day Friday for the Caribbean.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And coming up on Saturday, March 7th, 2026, a busy day of course, sectional championships all over Indiana, and on Sunday, show will have scores and highlights from all of the games in Central Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But wait, there's more.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Purdue looks to clinch the fifth seed in the Big 10 tournament with the win over Wisconsin at four.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And here's my friend Jake Dunn with a preview.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Jake, it's Purdue and Wisconsin for fifth place in the Big 10 on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is not at all how I expected the season to go.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, me neither, but it's a Wisconsin team that is trying to pass and come in here and win a Matthew show, although he made a thought of what had been a little bit of a easier game at the start of the season, one that I still make pretty or can win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And should win, like they did on Wednesday night against Northwestern, but even then, maybe Ohio State's the exception, but haven't gotten your thoughts on the Northwestern game yet.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe the most pitiful game of the season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it was a bad, bad first half, probably in the minority year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I never really lost faith that the league was going to win that game, which I was even kind of surprised at those feeling that way.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It halftime, I don't know, something to just tell me that the league was going to come back and away.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And so obviously, glad that they did have another test here before the big 10 tournament in this Wisconsin team that's led by Boyd.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So he's a guard probably the leader of the team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: get to find another guys.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's kind of went off against some of these better opponents in the big 10.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He scored 27 against Iowa, 29 against the mission state, and 25 against the Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So produce definitely get out to make him have an inefficient afternoon if they want to win just a one year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jake, even I'd probably be having a lot of different conversations.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If not for CJ Cox,
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, curhype points, build them out.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hopefully he's speaking at the right time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I can remind me a little bit of, I know most of the shots for a little more wide open, but Carson Edwards, somebody just, it can remind me a little bit of him with it being March and everything.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I was having a really good shooting performance from the field, so yeah, hopefully you can kind of turn and do a course in the words here and in the tournament, but it starts here with that with this content we can't can't be thinking of ahead to that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, going to be Wisconsin first.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they cannot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I repeat, they cannot have five locks at home this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they just can't happen.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So we've talked about Nick Boyd.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm kind of being a guy I focus on John Blackwell.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I easily guy that really just teams kind of focus on these just a really good score.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's especially for a second option.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I guess a good break for Purdue, no one went through.
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[SPEAKER_04]: is probably going to miss this game.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It uses a forward, I'm a junior.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's a pretty good protector.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's also the leading rebounder for Wisconsin.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And he's stepped down and hit some threes as well.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So he's out.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's a couple of people kind of behind him that'll look to have a bigger role.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's a big break here for Purdue, but hopefully, you know, the team will still be locked in and ready to go.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It should be with winner-out, for you should really do the exploit with contents already pretty fan front core and with winner-out, makes it even thinner, so that's going to be key in the game there in a wing for the front core, continuing that duo, Nick boy did John Blackwell, and then just being tied on defense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: winner Ludes Jake and I'll be here to talk about it and Jake and I hopefully if we can get everybody together will be previewing the big 10 tournament next week with our IU guys, Mike Hutzl and Grant Schaust.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for your time as always Jake and boiler up.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, thank you, boiler up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My next guest told me he will never in his life say those words.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If 530 IU closes the regular season
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[SPEAKER_02]: The 18 and 12 Hoosiers could really use a window lock down an NCAA birth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Here's my friend Grant Shows with a preview of that one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: With an assist from Michelle Garmin.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Grant, I lock on the line when IU goes to Columbus on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely an NCAA tournament.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hopes are on the line.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think if they win this one, it is a big win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're NCAA resume.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they got to have it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They didn't play a must-win game like this in a long, long time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And the way to look at it now, going into Ohio State is that you're playing tournament basketball, the rest of the season, no matter what you get, Saturday is that basically a tournament game that kind of determine where you may fall in the March Bandice bracket.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then hopefully you can win a game or two in Chicago to really secure your hopes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ohio State's been playing well at another team that's playing for tournament for big 10 tournament seating and for a potential NCAA tournament breadth I think who's just have a chance there Columbus.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think they got a chance for the task is going to be tall Bruce Thornton is one of the all-time greats in the history of Ohio State basketball.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're a program that deserves to be in the NCAA tournament and if they win and get in over Indiana as a fan I think I can live with that just due to the fact that they're a program that deserves it I really like Jake Develer, but of course this is an Indiana podcast So I think Indiana deserves to be in if they win the game Saturday
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[SPEAKER_03]: even if they were to drop their first game in the big tournament.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So there's a lot to look at here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of things that go into it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But right now if you're down to a reason company, you're just focused on Ohio State.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're just focused on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if they're focused and they're prepared, like the way they were on, what was it Wednesday night when they beat Minnesota by 30 at home?
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[SPEAKER_03]: than I like their chances against Ohio State, but if they lose, we're going to be looking back at that Northwestern game and kicking ourselves wondering how they just could not pull that out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Grant, I will say this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the key today is Sam Alexis.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The game's down just the stretch where he has really been involved and been involved early and made a presence inside.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I used been very successful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he is going to be key to getting him involved early
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[SPEAKER_03]: No doubt about it, and if he has the type of game he had against Minnesota, then that's really going to be key to their success.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hopefully they're hitting shots, hopefully the right Tucker debris shows up, hopefully the right Lamar Wilkerson shows up as well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But Sam Alexis really could be the X-Factor on Saturday, I agree.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we will hear from Grant on tomorrow's podcast with a recap, hopefully joined by
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[SPEAKER_02]: Grant thanks as always and go I you never know I you thanks guys Also Saturday in men's college basketball 13 and 17 Notre Dame is Boston College Golden Eagles 10 and 20 and in the biggest 15 and 15 Butler 16 and 14 Nepal Also Saturday night UFC 326 Max Holloway and Charles Olivera headline
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[SPEAKER_02]: the biggest event.
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[SPEAKER_02]: On tomorrow's show, it'll be first thing in the morning again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, have an IU Ohio State reaction with Grant and Mike, a Purdue Wisconsin reaction with Jake Dunn and a Phoenix reaction with Elijah Poe and of course sectional championship results and highlights from all over central Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And once again, we will have recaps from the sectionals at Elwood and Eastbrook and we think we will have lunch with Manchester
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[SPEAKER_02]: early next week, a big 10 preview with Grant Jake and Mike.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And later next week, I look ahead to the NAI men's and women's national tournaments, 14 teams for Indiana 7 men and 7 women.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And of course, Mike and Producer Susan's alma mater, the Taylor Trojans, headed to both tournaments.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Bravo.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for joining us, my friends, and I'll be back tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Central Indiana Sports Center for is a product that I can see in the middle of it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I sure do love you, Susie.