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Big Ten hoops, ISU Hosts Tech, Iowa women survive Illinois, Tom Kakert talks Hawkeyes & the Chicken Coop Contest · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Well, it was a big, great Big 10 game last night, really was.
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I know you were busy doing high school stuff.
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No, not last night. Oh, he didn't have a game?
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Last night no, no, it's tonight yeah it's tonight and that's a
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hell of a game you're going to be forced to watch under and
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tape delay but last night was good as well.
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Michigan State and Purdue, and there's some about this time of
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year in his own. There's the same can be said for
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this time of year in Purdue because one team's arrow usually
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points up the other one. Just what's it going to take for
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Purdue? And I kind of get that feeling
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again. Yeah, absolutely.
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This has the feeling of a team that should be better than they
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are just can't get there. This is a team that they've
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dominated Michigan State in that building.
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It's been 12 years since the last time that Michigan State's
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gone into into US Lafayette and gotten a victory.
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Coupled with the wins in the Big 10 tournament in Indianapolis, I
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think it'd been another two or three games that were there in
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the Big 10 tournament. So this is a series that Purdue
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has owned. This is a matchup that works out
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incredibly well, and yet last night it was once again Braden
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Smith down the You need a big shot, You need 3.
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You get a look. Not even close.
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Nope, he wasn't. And that team, he got Kaufman
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rent a great look. The baby hook inside, that's
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exactly what you want. Clank back.
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Iron back. Iron.
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Yep. It just one after another with
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this squad, Purdue cross off to make even a run to the Final
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Four I. Think so, Trent.
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I wish I didn't have as many tickets on them as I do Michigan
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State. On the other hand, I wish I had
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more car that dunk that left-handed dunk off the off the
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steel and him with the uncontested breakaway.
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You know, Showtime was coming and he did not disappoint as he
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threw that one down. But I I know that the the
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history has left some as far as cutting down the Nets in the
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championship for, for the Big 10 has left some scars.
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Man, oh man, they certainly seem to have some power at the top of
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that conference. And we'll see those maybe the
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two best teams in the conference go head to head here tonight.
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What promises to just be a classic.
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I can't wait for 7:00. Michigan, Illinois, you know, I
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love those, whether it be Friday night in the fall or and then
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into the winter months with Big 10 hoops.
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I'm so glad that they've taken over Fridays.
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The match up tonight, Illinois got a shot.
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I mean, I know it's a point flip game.
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Yes, because they can. Score.
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They can score, and I think that's the big Ave. too.
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Michigan, one of the few things they're susceptible to is pick
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and roll. You go back to their one loss of
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the season before the Duke game, the Wisconsin game, it was the
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pick and pop. What does Illinois have?
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They got big guys that can step out and also knock down threes.
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And you know, if you make the wrong switch on waggler and he
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just hunt right? I mean, he he like he gets to
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glean in his eye that all right, you're going to switch here.
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What? A year he's had.
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You're going to pull up and he is so good.
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I just had like half step back shot.
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I'll bet he has. I think this is going to be a
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high scoring game. I think it's going to be an
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entertaining game. Winners in what, the 90s?
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Upper 80s, probably 80s. He has something along those
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rates. That's the total if you looked.
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I have that, do you play? Do you don't normally?
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Play. I don't, but this one caught my
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attention. 158 1/2 Wow. That seems.
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Low, absolutely. I jumped aboard with that when I
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first blush. Yes, Illinois last year,
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Underwood had Dusty Bay's defense and remember that was a
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game they scored like 60 some points in the second-half,
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scored fifteen straight positions.
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Now, this is a different Michigan team than certainly
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they were a year ago, but I think Underwood feels confident
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in the matchup of what they do offensively.
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And this is a much more talented Illinois offensive team than
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they what they were a season ago.
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So I think we're going to see points in this one.
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I think it's going to be entertaining.
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One angle that I really like, Illinois to win the first half,
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Michigan to win the game. You know, if you're looking at
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the same game parlay kind of thing, putting something like
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that together, because we see in Illinois will just happen over
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the weekend against UCLA up 32 to 10 and then blow the game.
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They've done that plenty of times this year.
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So that's one angle that I'm looking at, Illinois maybe first
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half and over and something else.
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But I think we're going to be entertained at minimum tonight.
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No, I know we are. I can't wait for it.
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It's going to be a heck of a basketball game there.
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Sadly there are precious few left of them.
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But then then we get the the main course right on to what?
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3 weeks from today will be the second day of the tournament.
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The three weeks that. Is not not the second day, it
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will be the. 4th day. Oh well, sure.
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Right. I got you.
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Yeah. The Tuesday.
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Wednesday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
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yes, it'll be Day 4, right? Isn't that just crazy?
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Three weeks from today just blows you.
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Blows the mind, all right? We're going to be talking about
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next week. I mean, Arch Madness is going to
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be. I know it's going to be well.
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Tournaments are underway. Yes, absolutely.
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We have both the Big 10 and Big 12 will be happening on the
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women's side next weekend. So does Drake pick off you and I
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this this weekend and I don't? Think so.
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If they do, what does that do for the Panthers?
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Well it means that they rematch each other more than likely.
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That is the path that Curtly is there.
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So if you play around with the B ball dot, not nothing, not net,
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give Drake the victory, they will rematch in the 8-9 game.
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The winner will get Belmont. If you and I though does get the
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victory here and everything else normal happens.
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Still you and I does have to play in the Drake Invitational
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in the opening round is they will take on Indiana State.
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With the win, they would get Murray.
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State, where did it go wrong for them?
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I know an injury's been a part of it, but yeah, they bounced.
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Out of that, though, you know, that's kind of the confounding
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they have a. 4th game-winning streak at one point in the year
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3 or 4. Didn't they go on a little run?
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They did. They had won five out of six
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once they got Tristan Smith back and once he got back at, they
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lost two close games. Now they're both at home.
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They're both games that they were favored against Southern
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Illinois and Illinois State, but mentioned the Illinois State
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game. They're making shots.
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They just couldn't get the stop at the end that they needed and
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that one didn't see much of the Southern Illinois game.
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But they're 22 point losses. I don't think it changes a whole
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lot, but I guess it changes. Got to win an extra game and
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only one time before have we even seen the team make it to
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the title game in Arch Madness. That had to play in the opening
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round. That was Evansville a few years
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back. So it is a rarity even to get
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there out of the spot. No, it was Valpo.
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Excuse me, I think that was the team that got it.
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But regardless, it's incredibly difficult to do it a grind it
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out kind of thing. Still, I think you and I for
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them, this is the best path. If they do win this game, Murray
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State, a team that they beat twice.
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UIC. Are you scaredy of Illinois,
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Chicago? That's who they'd face in the
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semifinals and then the championship.
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But they'll Monsieur. OK, so be it.
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I think this is the best path. That's why you and I has to get
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this victory against Rick. Just you need to get this win.
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You're on the bottom half of the bracket, you're away from
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Belmont and at least give yourself a punchers chance.
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I don't think that's the case if they lose this one.
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And the numbers, what 4? Four and a half, 4 1/2.
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Yeah, that's what Torvich has it.
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Yeah, we're starting to see some numbers pop for Saturday's game,
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but nothing yet for for Sunday. That's too far ahead.
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Speaking of that, so Iowa State, Texas Tech is out of DraftKings.
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Eight and a half 9/9 at one place.
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But it wasn't, and I'm not surprised by that.
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So going back to one of the first games that happened was
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out the projected Ken Palm number.
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There was a 4 1/2 point difference between the opening
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line and what was projected. Basically saying the JT Toppen
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should be about that kind of player, which I completely agree
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with. I think he is a 4 1/2 point
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player. He is that important to Texas
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Tech. Yet the projected number for
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this is 7. I thought this thing was going
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to be double figures and I jumped aboard with Iowa State
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right away. Saw that 8 1/2 pop this morning
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and I jumped aboard with it because Toppen is that
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important. Yes, we've seen Texas Tech play
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better play OK since he's gone down.
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Got the wins against K State and against Cincinnati.
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I'm not impressed by either of those teams.
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I know what Cincinnati did a fog they've.
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Taken a couple, but they're not going to get to the tournament.
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No, no, they're ho hum. That's not enough, Christian
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Anderson. Yes, he can beat Cincinnati at
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home by himself. This is a completely.
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Player 2, but they don't have yeah, I mean, obviously.
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Yeah, this is a completely different animal walking into
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Hilton. I think the clones cruise in
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this one. And then get ready for Monday
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night, when Arizona will host Iowa State.
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So how quick do you think the turn around is before they get
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on the plane on Saturday? I mean, how is it you got some
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time to go home? Yeah, I think so.
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I mean, you're not gonna, you wouldn't travel till Sunday,
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would you? Sunday morning.
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You want to get out there and then practice in the afternoon
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walkthrough. I don't think they're leaving
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Saturday. You don't think so?
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I mean, I would it's, I love Tucson.
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Yes, it's a little bit different when we do in Tucson compared to
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what the basketball team is going to be doing, but if I was
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them, I'd get on the plane Saturday evening.
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Just get there, get acclimated, right?
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I don't wonder where they stay when they're out there.
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They play probably. I think there's a Marriott
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downtown not far from campus. I'd go to the foothills.
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That's where all the nice resorts.
10:24
Are. Lowe's Ventana Canyon.
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You spend it all to JB Pollard's buddy.
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Not well. Yeah, I was spending my
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companies. But that's good, that works too,
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right? It it, it indeed did.
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Before we before we move on, I want to get to this Trent.
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So Trent will come back in a second because there was an
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announcement made yesterday regarding the Big 12 tournament
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and the the championship game. What did you, what did you, what
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was your take away from Franfishela and Buke Shambi
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essentially getting bumped for Schulman and Bilas when it comes
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to the Big 12 championship? Like Franfishela's the Big 12.
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Yeah, like him or not, and I kind of depends when I watch,
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Yeah. I'm with you.
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Yeah, there there's times like. That, But you can't deny his
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passion for the Big 12. Oh, absolutely right.
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He loves it. I love that part about him.
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And Bukhsami's a solid. A solid can be.
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I think Bukhsami's a pro. You know how I feel about him as
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the voice of the Cubs. But I was surprised.
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Why are they doing that? So they're going to call Billis
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and Shulman are going to call the Big 12 Championship, get on
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a plane and go do the SEC Championship the next day.
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Why? Because they get the SEC,
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they're the A-Team, they're the number one right?
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And you have these things. And if you're Brett, your mark,
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that's what you want. Is it though?
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I think so I. Mean when?
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When we get to football, it's not like somebody's calling the
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Friday night game and then jumping on and doing.
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I mean, Sean Mcdonough's doing one game and then Fowler's doing
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the next game. But we've seen those guys have
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quick turnarounds, haven't we, in football teams that we've
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seen a teams do that, we've seen them have the quick turn around
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and do multiple games depending on the way that it's set up?
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I think so. I I like it.
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You do? Oh, absolutely.
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I don't. I don't.
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I feel bad for Boog and for Fran.
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I think that this is a slap in the face of for now, look, he's
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making millions of dollars. Yeah, he's making millions of.
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And listen, Schulman's my guy. He's the voice of the Jays.
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He's great. I love Dan Schulman.
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Yeah. Fine Canadian boy.
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It's a better team than what you have, as much as I like Boog.
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But as much as I mean, these guys drip Big 12, Schulman and
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Billis, yeah, that's ACC, that's SCC.
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That's not the Big 12. They they they they have
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parachuted in and called Big 12 games this season.
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But I, I, I disagree with you. I think for Sheila and Buke
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Shambi have carried this conference on Monday night
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through the entire season, yet the biggest game of the year.
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You guys get out of the way. Yeah, thanks for thanks for your
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troubles. We got these guys coming in.
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Game day is also coming. That's probably a part of it.
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Jay Billis is going to be there for game day along with Jay,
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Will and the rest of the crew. So they're going to be.
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There, I don't have an argument for that.
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That's an excellent point I never thought about.
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This. They're coming.
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Do you want the spotlight? The Big 12 wants that.
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We know what your mark wants. He wants pomp and circumstance.
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He wants it to be a huge production.
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It's not just basketball. You got the crazy thing.
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He had to say that. I'm sure there was
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conversations. Yeah, I don't know.
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That's why I'm asking. I mean, if you're going to get
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game day to come there, Billis is going to come and then, all
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right, Jay, just watch the game and then hop in the plane and go
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call the SEC. Or you also can have the A-Team,
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the college basketball A-Team to do it.
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I mean, it sounds like you want Ron Franklin to call all the Big
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12 football championship. Games I like Ron.
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Franklin, I did too. He's dead, right?
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Yeah, he is. Yeah.
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I think he died, yes. Yeah.
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Didn't he? Was it him that got into trouble
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with? Yeah, sweetheart.
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Jeannie. Janine Edwards.
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Janine Edwards. I'm sure it was Janine Edwards
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who at the time, I think was married to the office or the
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defensive coordinator for Oklahoma State.
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Anyways, I know what that has to do with this story, but.
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It was Holly Rowe that he said. No, if Ron Franklin had
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something. Oh, there was multiple.
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I think there was. I think if so, there's.
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A Holly Roe incident and there's.
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A Janine Edwards. There's something with Janine
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Edwards. Jeff, you hang on.
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We've got some uncovering to do here.
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Oh called her Janine Edwards. Sweet baby.
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That's what he did. And with the Holly Roe
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incidents? Was so the Holly Roe preceded
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the sweet baby? This was yes, 2005 with Holly
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Roe and then 2010 with Ron. Franklin.
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OK, so they gave him a chance, You know, grow up, old man.
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Things have changed. Franklin responded.
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Holly Rowe added if the coaches are giving up, what does it say
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to the players? Franklin responded.
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Holly, it's not giving up. It's 4921, sweetheart.
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Very condescending. Yeah, and then could call a
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game. Yeah, he was good.
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He was a good announcer. But a?
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Little misogyny some, but he. Never survived or he never, I
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don't think, worked again after the Jeanine Edward, correct?
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That was that was him. Yep, pulled from the Fiesta
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Bowl. Was he?
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Yeah, he was good. He was really good.
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Let's get Jeff in here. He's been on hold for some time.
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Welcome to the program, Jeff. How are you?
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Doing good. Welcome back, Ken.
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Thank you, brother. You know, it's funny you guys
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talked about this. I, I was going to lead with it
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anyways. I totally disagree with Trent.
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I know Trent's an Iowa fan. He watches basketball.
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I get all that. I watch Big 12 more than more
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than most. Fran is Big 12, period.
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I don't think you could say first team.
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In my opinion, the first team is Fran.
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He is the first team. When you watch a game, when they
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zoom into his space to lead into the game, the guy is smiling ear
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to ear. He can't wait enough to talk
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about the Big 12. He can't post enough on social
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media about the Big 12. He reminds me of Kevin Harlan
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and Reggie Miller, the NBA. They don't and they're not
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together no more on March Madness.
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Fran to me is not just the A-Team, he's the A+ team.
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I love to listen to Fran talk about the Big 12.
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I can't wait to listen to if it's Iowa State versus whoever,
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I want Fran there. I want Fran name.
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That's a big loss. And you know, Ken, you said it
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before, when I think of Jay, I think of ACC, you know, and Jay
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has his one sided opinion that I don't need to go into the weeds
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here. But 18 or not, you know, game
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day or not, I'm ready to tune into the Big 12 championship.
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I want to hear Fran. Now Fran is I, I just dived into
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a article. Now he's going to call games up
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into the final, so he'll be there.
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I think that makes it worse, quite honestly, that you're not
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good enough to call the final well.
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But he's perfect, I mean, and he's making millions.
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He's professional enough to be like, you know what?
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I'm I'm just paraphrasing, guessing.
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Also, I'm I'm still going to do it 'cause I just love it.
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Anyway, well, he is. He is to continue with the
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story. Apparently, he is going to do
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the be the analyst for the radio broadcast of the big 2012
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championship of ES Audience. Yes.
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So, Jeff, got a question for you.
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Yeah. Do you have a problem when Kevin
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Harlan comes in and calls the final of Arch Madness?
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Who takes them to that point? Well, it used to be Mitch
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Holtis, and yeah, it's the Saint Louis guy.
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Oh, he's called it for years. But regardless, do you have a
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problem with that? I wouldn't have a problem
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because I like Kevin Harlan. I'm just not a big.
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I'm not a big Jake. Bill, that's what it is.
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That's it's not a friend thing. It's AJ Billis thing for you
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then. Yeah, yeah, it's AJ Bill.
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I'm just not the biggest J Bill again, I don't need to get in
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the weeds with the the side J Bill, J Bill likes to talk
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about. That's not that's another
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conversation. I'm just not the biggest fan of
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of him, which I'm sure you guys have same opinions on other on
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other analysts like I'm, you know, on an island here.
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But yeah, that that that is true.
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I just again, I can't say enough.
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When I think of Big 12, I think a friend like he is, he is the
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guy in my opinion. But you know, it's, it's about
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money and, and I guess A-Team and that's fine.
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I just wanted to kind of touch base on that since you brought
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it up. I don't.
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Yep. Yeah, go ahead.
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You got tell Mel's. Yes, I don't think you've
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touched based on this. I've been thinking about it and
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I think it's coming around the corner.
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So I was state seeding for the tournament.
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I've done a little digging in the in the Midwest.
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If they're a one seed or a two seed, that does not matter.
18:12
They'd meet in Saint Louis. If they are in the Midwest, the
18:15
Sweet 16 Elite 8 is in Chicago, Final Four is in Indianapolis.
18:21
So what is you're saying, Jeff, what is that?
18:23
Well, what are you? What are you?
18:24
What are you trying to get? To take care.
18:26
Drivable, all drivable. You know they're going to go.
18:29
But what what are you trying to say, Jeff?
18:31
And here's what I'm saying. They take care of business
18:33
Saturday wounded animal, you beat them.
18:36
Arizona. To be honest, I don't know what
18:38
Arizona is playing for. They got a two game lead.
18:41
I think they could lose a game and still take care of business
18:44
in the Big 12. I'm not.
18:45
Well, don't they get Colorado as their final game of the year?
18:48
They got Kansas Saturday, Iowa State Monday.
18:51
I think they finish with the Buffaloes.
18:54
So who know? I'm just saying who knows what
18:56
they're really going to give Monday.
18:57
It's a tough spot. I've talked to Trent enough
19:00
about the struggles. Iowa State on the road, shooting
19:03
free throws on the road. It's tragic. 61% on on the
19:08
season. So if you can just doesn't.
19:11
I don't even know if they need to win the game in Arizona, but
19:13
if they can stay in the Midwest, Saint Louis, Chicago, Indy, what
19:18
a spot for the clone. By the way, Illinois, win or
19:22
lose, I think Illinois is the best team in America.
19:25
Get on a ticket now. They may lose tonight, they may
19:27
win. It doesn't matter to me when you
19:29
have a great coach, great guards and you can score.
19:32
I like their chances. Have a good day.
19:33
Thank you, Jeff. Appreciate that.
19:35
Are you sure you want to be the number two seed the Midwest?
19:38
Michigan's the one right? Who's the three?
19:40
Gonzaga. Who knows at?
19:43
This point, but but most importantly, you're going to
19:45
have to get to Michigan at some point yes right, but I think the
19:48
one that I saw earlier today you're going to have to get
19:50
through the Zags before that very good is that guy What's the
19:55
the big kid Huff is at his name is he back yet and it was a knee
19:59
and it was like 2 US six weeks. Isn't that what we first?
20:02
Heard that's what they said but he was still in a some kind of
20:06
apparatus that he had like a week ago.
20:08
Oh so. So obviously they missed that
20:10
time frame. Yes, because this was the middle
20:12
of January. He got hurt, Yeah.
20:14
And. Because him and Ike on the floor
20:16
at the same team, I mean, come on.
20:17
Right, but with without that, no, they're ho hum they lost to
20:20
Portland. I know it's one loss, it's the
20:22
only loss that they've had, but. Didn't they just didn't they
20:25
just beat Portland the other day?
20:26
They did, yes. They got the bounce back in that
20:28
one and we get tomorrow night, late night, Saint Mary's,
20:32
Gonzaga, that's tomorrow night. I love that game.
20:35
That is that end of season kind of thing that we get.
20:37
That is, that's Duke. North Carolina Yes, this is what
20:40
it is. Yes it is for the mid major
20:42
ranks. Yep.
20:42
What it is 930 tip off. Oh, can't wait for that one to
20:47
end on Saturday night. And beautiful Moraga, that
20:50
little gym. Is that right?
20:52
Oh yeah, you'd like to go? It's looks good on TV.
20:55
It's no, I'm not going to take a trip out there to go for that,
20:58
but just for viewing, it's different.
21:01
It's the WCC and sadly going away with Gonzaga's move out of
21:05
the WCC. It's not hard to believe.
21:07
Well, it's really not though, when you think about it.
21:08
So one final thing. My eyes last night got me over
21:11
to the Big 10 Network with Iowa, Illinois and the women's side
21:15
and eight straight 3 pointers in the second-half, nine straight
21:19
overall for the Illini. They get down 6.
21:22
They battled back and I thought it was interesting.
21:24
Jan mentioned after the game in her interview with the BTN Crew
21:28
that she felt like coming off that win against Michigan, they
21:30
were playing a little tight and you could definitely see that
21:33
that was almost her try too hard.
21:34
They jump out to a 10 nothing lead all right, cruise control,
21:37
but Guyton started hitting threes.
21:38
The former Hawkeye, yeah, that angle to it and and they were
21:41
pressing, but Ava Haydn again was just so.
21:44
Tremendous. She's sick.
21:45
Yes, and she's out there and she is screaming.
21:49
Career high, Is that what I heard?
21:50
28 points. She was tremendous.
21:52
So we'll we call this the flu game for her.
21:55
Well, she's had two of them now. The Michigan game, she was also
21:57
sick and now this this one she's still coming off the illness,
22:00
but the high, low game with her and Stalky coming at an
22:03
incredibly high level. Stalky four more assists last
22:05
night. She had seven in the game
22:07
against Michigan and watching it last night.
22:09
So you got to the state of Iowa. You remember the six on six
22:14
girls basketball game and I remember incredibly well because
22:18
what stage was really good The second to last I'm.
22:19
Not gonna say I watched it, but I remember it.
22:21
Right, watched a ton of it and they won the 2nd to last six on
22:24
6 championships. So watched a ton of those games.
22:26
Came down here for the state tournament, always really fun.
22:30
Loved that style of basketball and there were so many elements
22:33
of last night. The way that they were employing
22:35
the high low that reminded me of that.
22:37
It was that was a guard getting the ball to Stalky in the high
22:39
post though, and just seeing the different actions.
22:42
Well, Jan Jensen, where did she get her start playing six on six
22:46
basket? It was just it just flooded to
22:48
me out of nowhere. This looks like 6 on 6 basket.
22:51
Yes, I know there's ten players on that floor.
22:53
There's that 6. I get that.
22:54
It just looked so much like that.
22:56
It was just the way that they were employing some of the
22:58
different actions with Stalky and Biden.
23:00
Nice win in a game where you just didn't play great.
23:03
An Illinois team that's really talented offensively.
23:06
A Iowa native and Shawn Green, the head coach for Illinois, she
23:10
coached Dolores. That was her first coaching
23:12
stop. They said that last night.
23:13
Really good ball game to kind of grind out a night where you
23:16
didn't play your best basketball, find a way to win.
23:18
They should cruise this weekend against Wisconsin and lock up
23:20
the number 2. Seed and your leading scorer was
23:22
sick and and by Twitter was wondering what's going on, I
23:26
mean. Well, she was out of the game.
23:28
Sure. I mean that if you're going to
23:30
have her in the game, you got to have her now, what's Jensen
23:32
doing, blah, blah, blah. Well, come to find out she was
23:36
under the weather. We'll take a timeout.
23:37
We'll come back while more Iowa conversation.
23:39
Tom Caker's going to lead things off.
23:41
Eugene repay on Iowa State kicks off our number 2M Palm will be
23:44
here and about 20 minutes. We'll give four of you an
23:47
opportunity to win some grub from the chicken coop.
23:49
Miller and Condon, glad you're with us, talking sports with you
23:52
on a Friday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
23:54
Network. All right, 1230, Miller and
24:01
Condon welcome back Iowa Sports Radio Network.
24:04
So we were talking Iowa women's hoops, forgot to mention, meant
24:08
to mention Jan Jensen will join Heather and Alec first quarter
24:15
on Monday, 8:00. Jan Jensen joins the morning
24:18
show 8:00. Coming up on Monday today, Ben
24:21
Jacobson is with Sean and Lucas at 3:00 and Drake's new head
24:27
football coach Monday at 12:30. Trenton.
24:30
I will be here from 2:00 to noon to two as we always are.
24:33
Let's get to Tom Caker hawkeyereport.com.
24:36
He joins the program. Tom Trenton, Ken, good to talk
24:39
to you. How are you?
24:40
Well, sounds like everybody else gets good guests and you guys
24:43
get stuck with me. No, look at I'm we're happy to
24:45
have you. You're a staple here on Fridays.
24:47
Absolutely. And we're glad for that.
24:51
The the flu game for Hayden, is that what we're calling it
24:53
yesterday? I mean, like Trenton for me,
24:56
that's the second time she's played what she's been under the
24:58
weather. Boy oh boy, what a game out of
25:00
her. Yeah, she is just playing at a I
25:06
mean, just think about like last year at this time was when she
25:09
kind of sort of started to emerge.
25:12
It was more Big 10 tournament where she kind of came out of
25:15
her shell. And and now look at her she's I
25:20
would think of all is she going to be an all Big 10 player?
25:23
I would think should be I would think and become maybe the best
25:29
post in in the Big 10. And you know, next year she's
25:34
probably going to be, I would guess mention pre season all
25:37
American type mentions. I would think.
25:40
So she's just playing Unreal basketball right now, and she
25:45
and Hannah have really developed a really good chemistry in that
25:48
high, low action that they've been around it too.
25:51
They've been tremendous, so we've certainly seen that really
25:53
pop here these last couple of games.
25:55
Hannah exited early with an arm injury.
25:57
She sat out the Purdue game a week ago, banged up towards the
26:01
end of the season, but didn't feel like there was going to be
26:03
much outside of a break that was going to keep her off the floor
26:05
last night as she came back and this women's squad now with the
26:09
win against Wisconsin to lock up the two seed in the Big 10
26:11
tournament. They're a big favorite in that
26:13
game, projected to be a 14 point favorite on the road.
26:16
The Big 10 tournament in front of them, maybe a rematch in the
26:18
semis against Michigan. This team, are they a two seed
26:22
for the NCAA tournament? I think so.
26:26
I think as long as they don't lose the Wisconsin and maybe
26:30
lose their first game in the Big 10 tournament, I would think
26:33
they'd be safely in a two seed and that would be nice.
26:38
You know, that path gets it's pretty nice, much nicer than you
26:43
know, I think a week or two ago we would have said, well, we'll
26:47
take the fourth seed and no when now they've played their way
26:52
with some big wins into potentially being the two seed
26:56
in the NCAA tournament. Yep, sign for that in a
26:59
heartbeat. Let's let's go to the men.
27:02
It's spots like this that that make me nervous.
27:04
I mean, the Penn State game. So it's not a very good team,
27:07
right? There was going to be nobody
27:08
there. Friends and family will be
27:09
there. The atmosphere is going to be
27:12
it's going to be bad there and and there's a bad basketball
27:15
team. How does McCullum get his guys
27:18
up for for this one, do you think, Tom?
27:21
I asked him that very question. Did you morning?
27:24
OK, just basically I'm like, I'm like, how do you is this a bring
27:29
your own energy game? Because it's kind of is, it's
27:32
because, you know, and he, he probably acknowledged that, you
27:37
know, there might not be a lot of people there and, but at
27:39
least, you know, because it's harder if you're, if that's your
27:43
home arena and you don't have a lot of people there that that
27:47
makes it tougher to, to motivate.
27:50
But you know, he's like, we're happy that there won't be a lot
27:53
of people cheering against us there.
27:55
So I think they're excited to have the opportunity and they
28:00
know that they, you know, get this win and they'll lock up
28:04
that 8 for sure. And and, you know, potentially
28:09
if things go crazy somewhere, maybe it's a maybe they can move
28:13
up to A7, but it seems like it's going to be hard to get there.
28:15
But yeah, they're, you know, I really thought they played,
28:20
played a pretty good game the other night.
28:21
Bruce Thornton just I, I was shocked.
28:24
I thought Bruce Thornton was going to be on one of those runs
28:27
where he wants to get to the NCAA Tournament and Cale Combs
28:31
started him great and kept him, kept them in check the entire
28:35
night. We saw the breakout game for
28:38
Alvaro Fool Garris, and he's been playing some good
28:40
basketball. We had the stat, all of it was
28:42
finally broken in double figures.
28:44
But still this guy playing at a high level.
28:47
We know what the skill set is certainly there.
28:49
Is it just being more comfortable, being more
28:51
confident? What have you seen out of Big
28:53
Allen? Get him going because that
28:55
secondary scoring option they can get that consistently really
28:58
changes the equation for this Iowa team.
29:00
It does, it does so much. They need that second score and
29:04
then just take so much pressure off.
29:05
Bennett starts and he's able to do different things and and be
29:09
more of a playmaker and facilitator.
29:12
Along with the score. I think we're giving credit to
29:16
Alvaro's brother Nacho. Nacho is in town.
29:20
Nacho plays over in Dublin, plays pro ball.
29:25
His real name is Ignacio by the way.
29:26
And that not, but they everybody just calls him Nacho.
29:29
And yeah, he gave Nacho all the credit.
29:32
So I think Ben said maybe they could after a game, maybe they
29:36
should keep Nacho around for a couple weeks into the tournament
29:41
and everything. Yeah, that'd be great.
29:43
Absolutely get him on the plane, get him to the Big 10
29:45
tournament, whatever, whatever it takes.
29:47
He's really good. I I did see this morning on
29:50
Twitter that apparently must have been the one that you were
29:53
part of the press conference. You were part of McCollum is, is
29:56
he tinkering perhaps or is he flirting with a change in the
29:59
starting line up, Tom? And if so, what do you think
30:01
that would be? What was your take away when
30:04
that question was posed and the answer that they received?
30:08
He said that last week too. He never changes it.
30:12
So he said the same thing about 3 weeks in a row when, when
30:16
people have brought up about, hey, maybe think about changing
30:18
the line up, do something different here.
30:20
You know, he just every time then you get excited about it
30:25
and then it's the same line up. So I've, I've just, I'm just,
30:29
he's not going to, especially after a win, he's not going to
30:33
change the starting. It's not going to happen.
30:36
Going to go with it, Cooper Koch struggling with his shot.
30:39
Is it simply just confidence that you've seen?
30:41
Because it wasn't just misses. There were some bad misses in
30:44
there where he was and not just deep on a shot or just not short
30:47
on a shot. He was missing kind of wildly on
30:49
a couple of them. Where do you go with Cooper
30:51
Koch? He helped out on the boards.
30:53
We know he's a good defender and has turned himself into a good
30:55
defender. What do you do to get him going
30:57
on the offensive end? I, you know, I disagree a little
31:01
bit. I there were a couple of bad
31:03
ones in there for sure the other night, but I think the vast
31:06
majority of his shots the last few games have been on target
31:09
and they're just, he's just, I think his shots a little flat
31:13
right now because he's hitting the the other side of the iron
31:16
from those corner threes and it's just, it's kind of direct
31:20
hits at the the other side of the iron.
31:21
So that just tells me he just needs a little more arch on the
31:24
ball and and he'll have a better shot at making those.
31:27
But he's a really, I can't tell you guys.
31:30
I saw him playing AU in high school and he is AU team in
31:35
particular. He would camp out in that corner
31:38
for the corner 3 because he had a really good team and what his
31:41
center was the Flora Badinga, the Cancer Center was his center
31:48
on that team. So he was, he just reined in
31:53
threes from the corner. So I know he's capable of making
31:55
those shots against good competition.
31:57
So it's just a matter of him seeing if you go in.
32:02
But you know, I think I still got a lot of faith in Coop
32:06
because I know Coop's a really good shooter.
32:07
It's just pressing right now. Maybe just yeah, forcing a
32:12
little bit. And everyone's, you know, light
32:14
goes on a different time price. And for Trenton, I shouldn't say
32:18
Trent, I was killing him like I wasn't sure, you know, if he was
32:23
going to be a player in the Big 10 and and look what the look
32:25
what he's become. And Nebraska.
32:27
I'll throw a Condon on the bus with me as well.
32:30
Dude, I want to do it right. I want to ask both of you this
32:33
one, because when it comes to stirs, he's averaging 20.
32:36
Next closest is 10. Is there is there a a compare a
32:42
compatible to any other Hawkeye men's basketball team where one
32:47
guy means more than than Sturtz? I mean, if you take Sturtz off
32:50
this team, they're awful, right. And I know that I mean regards
32:54
was a good player, but he had Weiskamp and there's been every
32:57
other seemingly every other Hawkeye team has had a really
32:59
good player that at least had, you know, maybe not A1A, but it
33:03
but somebody that would be, you know, could you could count on
33:07
who would that B who's comparable to Sturtz as far as
33:10
what he means to this team. The one that jumps to mind for
33:13
me is Andre Woolridge in his. Season, so that's going way back
33:16
into the 90s, yeah. That that was the only name I
33:19
think he was. There was nobody else out on
33:21
that team that averaged like they, they were like low teens
33:25
on that team. But but they had good players on
33:27
that team though. Ryan Bowen, I think was on that
33:29
team, but Cooper's dad Jr. was on that team.
33:32
And yeah, so they, they they had some good players on that team.
33:37
But I would I would argue probably better players than
33:40
Bennett Churches on this team to be honest.
33:43
Yeah, with the ones you just named off, I would agree.
33:46
Yeah, Settles was on that squad, but he was banged up.
33:49
It was. No way trench.
33:50
Yes, yeah. Yeah, Jess was on that team.
33:53
Yep, they but Andre Woolridge led the Big 10 in scoring and
33:57
assists. That season was not big. 1010
33:59
Player of the year because of that cheater.
34:00
Clem Haskins and Bobby Jackson and a Big 10 championship that
34:05
should be there because that one's vacated.
34:06
Who finished second? The Hawkeyes.
34:08
And what? I haven't seen one in my 45
34:10
years on the planet. I'd like to at least have that
34:12
one. I'll give it to you.
34:14
Yeah, OK. I agree.
34:15
Hang the banner. Hang the banner over in Carver,
34:19
Penn State tomorrow. Awful environment time.
34:22
You talked about this last week when we're kind of previewing
34:24
the week ahead. It's going to be sleepy.
34:26
There's going to be nobody there.
34:27
You have to create your own excitement.
34:28
What does it gives you? What the actual basketball, the
34:31
on the floor, anything you look at Penn State wise and said, all
34:34
right, this might be a little bit of an issue.
34:36
Nothing. No, I don't.
34:39
Here's the here's the thing I said to a friend of mine this
34:41
morning. I said name me one player on the
34:43
Penn State team. Yeah.
34:44
Good point. Pete Lasicki.
34:47
There you go. Is he on the not on he?
34:49
Hasn't been there for 20 for 30 years.
34:50
Not neither are one of the Earls are on there.
34:54
Dan, Dan Earl. Yeah, none of those guys are
34:59
there. Yeah.
35:00
It's they're just, I don't know, Ben was trying to sell them to
35:04
us today that they were like 8 and one at one point.
35:07
And I was like, OK, OK, yeah, you're like Hayden trying to
35:11
sell us, but Drake was going to come in and beat you, you know?
35:15
Fairfield, New Haven, Navy, Harvard, Boston University,
35:20
Sacred Heart and Campbell. That was the 8:00 and 1:00.
35:23
The Cables got a team. Well, hey, the hey, the camels
35:27
don't don't don't you disparage the camel.
35:30
So they were eight and one at that.
35:31
Point. So just show up, take care of
35:32
business, this one should be, and then you get ready for the
35:35
week ahead. One upset, then we start talking
35:38
6-7 seed range, you pull an upset next week, obviously hold
35:41
serve against Penn State. They do that.
35:43
Then we can start having that conversation again, Tom.
35:46
Yeah, I think so. If they if they somehow beat
35:48
Michigan, then play, it's hard to keep them off maybe the sixth
35:53
line just because Michigan is going to be a one right now.
35:58
I would think so. And they're going to win the win
36:01
the league by multiple games probably.
36:04
So, yeah, that would that would be the feather in the camp or if
36:08
you go out to to, you know, play out at at Lincoln and win and
36:15
that's going to be boy, you think that's going to be a fired
36:18
up atmosphere against Iowa you. Have to, yeah, after what
36:22
happened in in Iowa City with Hoiberg etcetera, etcetera.
36:25
The Michigan game is a 7:00 tip. Did I see that these mill of the
36:30
ads? It's not 6 or it's at 7:00.
36:32
Well, that's sell out, Tom. I know it's it's a midweek
36:35
Thursday night game, senior night.
36:38
I hope so. I do too.
36:39
What are there? I'm sure there's still tickets
36:41
available, but it's not like it's an 8:00 tip.
36:44
It's it's I'm just six. It's pretty good timing 7:00
36:47
that game should sell out. I'd be disappointed if it
36:49
doesn't. I hope so, but point Michigan is
36:53
just there's there's a series of bad matchups for this Iowa team
36:56
in the Big 10 Conference this year with Purdue and Illinois.
36:59
And Michigan is one of those just with their their size up
37:03
front is just I was going to have to rein in a bunch of
37:07
threes like they did at Purdue to kind of stay in it.
37:11
And, you know, we'll see if they can do that.
37:14
One more for you, Tom, over on the wrestling front, I know you
37:17
got Tanner covering things over at Hawkeye Report.
37:19
He's doing a great job on it. Difficult spot.
37:21
You got obviously an all timer in Tom Brands and it just saw
37:25
something that really stuck with me.
37:28
Zaleski was fired. He was fired after winning three
37:30
national championships and nine seasons, but he was also coming
37:33
on the heels of Dan Gable. In 18 years, Tom Branz has won
37:37
four and it looks like they're a lot further away now than they
37:40
ever have been a winning a national championship.
37:43
Beth gets the decision that is in front of her.
37:45
What are you hearing on the wrestling front and potential
37:47
movement? I think it might be an
37:52
interesting situation in March. I really do.
37:56
I think there's the best kind of decision to make and I know this
38:01
Beth is not going to let the the story history of the Bible
38:05
wrestling program slip and become Nebraska football, if you
38:10
will. You know, just because that's
38:13
the comparison. That's the comparison is, you
38:18
know, Nebraska football was Iowa wrestling same times and just,
38:23
you know, right in the hunt. You'd argue Iowa wrestling
38:26
probably better than that. And now it's nobody's.
38:30
But here's the other thing. Nobody's even in the
38:32
neighborhood of Penn State right now.
38:33
Really. I mean, I just, you know, that
38:36
the, I mean, they slaughtered Ohio State recently.
38:40
Ohio State was missing a couple of guys that would have made it
38:43
closer, I think. But still, it was, you know, 30
38:47
points difference in a duel. It's crazy.
38:51
I mean, there, I don't know what you do.
38:55
Here's the thing I always said to Iowa fans who when they bring
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up, hey, we're going to get, let's get rid of Terry.
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Who are you going to hire? Or Tom, who are you going to
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hire? That's the Jordan Burroughs.
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Yeah, there's not an easy answer.
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There's not in Doug Schwab. You know, that would be the one
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that was the first name that came to my mind, but I'm not
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sure. Yeah, I, I mean, there's he
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would be a logical one with the kind of the Iowa ties.
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Jordan Burroughs is kind of the the bold decision.
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Maybe if you do that I but there's just not a lot of you
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know, it's Tom Ryan from Ohio State going to be interested.
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He's about Terry or Tom and Terry's age.
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So I don't know if he'd be interested in leaving.
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He's got a guy with tie with ties.
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So I just don't know that there's an easy answer like when
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when they got rid of Zaleski, the easy answer was Tom Brand.
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And that was just everybody knew this was the guy.
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And nobody will tell me Spencer Lee, because Spencer's still
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competing. He wants to wrestle in the
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Olympics in 28. He can't coach.
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He's not going to coach. So his name's off the off the
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table so. Tom Cacert, hawkeyereport.com on
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Three Media. Tom, thanks for jumping on Talk
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to you in a week's time. Appreciate it.
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Tom Cacert, thank you. You bet.
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Gate and the D Here is the tiebreaker for Jim, Derek, David
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West Des Moines. Let's get Jim in here.
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First of all. Hello, Jim.
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How are you good guys? How?
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Are you doing? Today doing OK Iowa an 8 1/2
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point Rd. favorite. Tomorrow at Penn State I'll take
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Iowa. Iowa State is going to give 8
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1/2 to Texas Tech at Hilton tomorrow I like Iowa State,
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Michigan, Illinois tonight. Pick em Who do you want?
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Is that at Illinois? It is.
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I'm going to take the Illini all.
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Right. And then on Sunday at the Nap
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Center, you and IA 4 point favorite over Drake.
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I'll take you and I. The tiebreaker?
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Arizona is hosting Kansas. Total points in that one
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tomorrow. Closest without going over Jim.
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150. Six Enjoy the games.
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Enjoy weekend. Thanks, Jim.
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Thanks guys, Have a good weekend.
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You do the same. Derek is next.
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Hi Derek, I'm doing OK. 8 1/2 is what I was giving to Penn State,
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Derek. I'm taking Iowa.
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Iowa State 8 1/2 to Texas Tech. I'll take tech.
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Whoops, thought you'd take Iowa State there.
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Michigan, Illinois. Pick them tonight, Derek.
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Who do you want? Michigan.
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You and IA 4 point favorite over Drake Sunday.
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You and I. Total points Arizona versus
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Kansas closest without going over Derek. 157.
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You have a good weekend, Derek. Thank you.
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You too, my friend. All right, buddy.
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David's with Miller and Condon. Hi, David.
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Hey guys, how you doing? Doing OK.
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I was an 8 1/2 point favorite tomorrow at the Penn State.
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All right, I'm going to go with Iowa all.
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Right, Iowa State, an 8 1/2 point favorite over Texas Tech.
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Can I take Texas Tech with the point?
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Yes, Sir. Michigan, Illinois tonight.
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Michigan, Illinois. Who do you want in that game
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tonight? Illinois.
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You and I is a four point favorite over Drake on Sunday.
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All right, I'm going to take Drake with the points.
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OK, tiebreaker David is Arizona and Kansas total points in that
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basketball game closest without going over?
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141. Thanks, David.
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Have a great weekend. Thank you all.
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Right. And Randy brings the brings it
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to a close. Hi Randy.
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Hello. I was an 8 1/2 point favorite
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over Penn State, Iowa, Iowa State, 8 1/2 point favorite over
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Texas Tech. Well, I'll take tech with the
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points. Michigan, Illinois tonight.
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Who would you like in that one? Michigan.
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You and IA 4 point favorite over the Drake Bulldogs on Sunday.
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Total points Arizona, Kansas Tiebreaker closest without going
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over. 142. Randy, thank you and you have a
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good weekend. Thank you much.
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Appreciate that. Appreciate all the folks that
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participate weekly in the chicken coop giveaway.
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Is there consensus? Oh yeah, Oh oh, Iowa game one.
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Grab the nits and the points. Take the elastic band off the
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bankroll. Historically, it is.
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It's a 70%. Good luck finding that at any
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other gambling angle really. This one is this is where the
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streak is going to break. I I just trump Penn State's
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awful, They're bad. They've beaten now they've beat
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Washington What's what, 6 win team and they beat their other
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one is Minnesota, which is kind of surprising because
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Minnesota's all right. They're OK.
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They're OK, but that's it. Went as far as Big 10 play.
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Not a whole lot of depth to that resume.
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You mentioned who they played in the non conference.
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It is ugly looking, you know, kind of the statistics, the
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numbers, there's nothing that jumps out.
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They're 293rd in the country in three-point shooting
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defensively. Every single one of their
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numbers are in the red. Meeting very bad at Ken Palm.
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This is one. Just go take care of this.
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Go in there. No dink it around.
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Get out there. Get out to an early lead, put it
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in cruise control, whatever needs to happen, but just get
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out of there, play well, get a victory.
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You get your 21st win of the year.
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Set the scene then for next week.
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And if you do that too and kind of carry a little momentum, you
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ask the question to Tom Caker, was this thing going to sell
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out? You would certainly hope so.
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I I know they're just what your rentals.
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I know it's a different era. You haven't grown up with these
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seniors, but bet it starts what he's done with this team.
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They're Penn State without him. Yes, that's a good one.
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That's a good 10. Shudder to think.
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Hour 2 Coming up next, Eugene Repay covers Iowa State.
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Mike Palm, VP of Operations at Circa, Miller and Condon on the
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Iowa Sports Radio Network.