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Greg & His Friends Talk Sports ... with Jake Dunn & Grant Shouse (2.194.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome central Indian sports fans to the central Indian sports report for my new podcast Greg and his friends talk sports.
• 0:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Every day for about 20 to 30 minutes, my friends and I are talking about whatever central Indian sports fans are talking about and coming up today, Monday, March 9th, 2026.
• 0:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Gotta focus on just a couple of things because I got really behind with some family stuff this weekend.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we're gonna focus on high school basketball
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Men's Big 10 Basketball Tournament coming up this week and the Colts, which is where we'll be starting today after they made a big signing and a shocking trade.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, Indic our fans and Pacers fans, don't have time today, we'll get back to all of that starting tomorrow.
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Coming up my friend Jake Dunn will join us to talk about Purdue's loss to Wisconsin, dropping to the seventh seed and possibly playing IU in the Big 10 tournament.
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: And my friend Grant Shows joins us to talk about I use Lost to Ohio State and the upcoming tournament.
• 1:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, once we get the Central Indiana Sports Report to where it's headed, my family events won't cause any disruption in the podcast, but for now, it does, and it's going to happen from time to time.
• 1:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you'll forgive me.
• 1:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're getting closer though, once we do, it will truly be every day and all our weekly shows will truly be every week.
• 1:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: At least that's the plan.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of which no pacer's report this week, there is however a fever report we released earlier this morning and later this week we will have a big 10 preview and we hope to have IU preview and a Purdue preview on their own.
• 1:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: As our focus this week shifts to Blackford, Oak Hill, LePel, Mount Vernon, Delta, Liberty Christian Carmel in high school basketball and Purdue and IU in college basketball.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, we'll still have all of the same indie car and pacers coverage will normally have going forward.
• 2:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for joining us, my friends and I will be back tomorrow and the next day and the next day of the day after that.
• 2:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Michael Pippman has been traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Colts are going to pay Alec Pierce $30 million a year, almost $30 million, four years, 116, maybe better be really, really good.
• 2:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Colts are banking him on being a high-end, wide receiver one at that price.
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're asking him to put numbers up, but I'm not sure he's capable of doing.
• 2:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: It does open up salary that they desperately need to overpay other players.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: The trade just happened.
• 2:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have any time to talk to Will Rutherford.
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: We will hear from him on tomorrow's show.
• 2:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I know exactly how he's going to feel about this because it's the exact same way I feel about it.
• 3:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad at least Pitman gets to go to a stable franchise.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: LePel Bulldogs will host the Blackford Bruins in the class 2A region after the Bulldogs rolled through the sectional at L Wood and Blackford ran the gauntlet for the Championship at Eastbrook.
• 3:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: We've released a full recap on the Eastbrook sectional with Zach Carter and a bunch of Blackford Bruins as guests including Head Coach Aaron Daniels.
• 3:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Later today we'll have a LePel sectional championship recap with Michelle Garmin and LePel Head Coach Kevin Cherry again
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: family obligations, but we'll get it to you no later than Tuesday morning.
• 3:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: LePell won its three-sectional games by a combined 107 points, Blackford went through Alexandria, which had won seven straight games, host Eastbrook and three-time defending sectional champion Wapahani to win their first sectional championship in six years.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Bruins are 20 and 6.
• 4:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Love a regional preview for you later this week with Aaron Daniels and Kevin Cherry and other guesses well.
• 4:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: The game is set for 4 o'clock at lapel on Saturday and we'll have a recap for you sometime after the game on Saturday evening.
• 4:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: The 2A game at lapel follows 24 and 7th ranked Monroe Central against 22 and 3 and 6th ranked Southwood in a class A regional at 1 o'clock.
• 4:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Grand Shows will be a Frankfurt to cover the O'Kill Golden Eagles for us.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Number two, O'Kill ran through the sectional at Manchester as everyone knew that they would.
• 4:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they should do the same to Benton Central, although I will say I've seen the Bison play and admittedly they're playing really well entering the regional Frankfurt on Saturday.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Bison R11 and 14, however.
• 4:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Benton Central and Oak Hill play the second game at Weener Arena Saturday at 4 o'clock.
• 5:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rossville won its first section since 2021 and will now try to win its first regional championship since 2002 in the first game at Frankfurt on Saturday.
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: The 25 Hornets face 15 and 11 north for a million at one o'clock at Frankfurt.
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: In the South and Class A, Liberty Christian won its fourth straight sectional as well, bombing rival Anderson Prep 81-25.
• 5:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Lions will face 11-14 Greenwood Christian at 4 o'clock on Saturday at Greenfield, central.
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it should be a third straight regional championship for the Lions.
• 5:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: And a class A is where you find the big upset and that is Carmel.
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Taking down number one, Fisher's 50 to 49 on Saturday night in the sectional championship game at Noble'sville.
• 5:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Greyhound's first sectional championship in five years.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: They should probably also win their first regional championship in five years on Saturday.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: They play a new class, new castle at 4 o'clock against a pretty good, 19 and 7 Fort Wayne Snyder team.
• 6:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: In the South End Class A, it's back to back sectional championships for our number 4 Mount Vernon.
• 6:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: After the Marauders beat Greenfield Central 64 to 50, now they'll try to defend their regional title against Number 3 Pike at Southport at 4pm on Saturday.
• 6:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Red Devils beat Brownsburg 79 to 68.
• 6:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Red Devils haven't won a regional championship in 14 years, but they beat Mount Vernon in an overtime about a month ago.
• 6:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: The other game at
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Lauren Central against Decatur Central after Lauren Central upset Lauren's North 70 to 57 and their sectional.
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the Bears and Hawks for the Regional Championship at 7 o'clock at Southport Saturday.
• 6:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: In Class 3A at Newcastle, Delta beat Yorktown, 56 to 48 for a 4-peat and they'll return to Chrysler Arena on Saturday, going for a 4-peat.
• 6:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: of regional championships as well and it's a familiar foe that they'll face 20 and 7 Black Hawk Christian.
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Eagles upset the Braves 45 to 43 in last year's regional tip is scheduled for 1 o'clock.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Once again, we will have reports from LaPelle and Frankfurt for you on Saturday evening, possibly Sunday morning, depending on how things go.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, once we're at full steam, all these things will have set in stone schedules, but for now, I think we're still getting the job done.
• 7:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: The big 10 tournament gets underway in Chicago Tuesday at five with Maryland against Oregon followed by Penn State against Northwestern.
• 7:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Penn State Northwestern winner plays 10 seed IU in the winner of that one, plays seven seed Purdue.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: After the boilermaker's lost it was constant at home on Saturday to end the regular season with five home losses.
• 7:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Unbelievable.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: My friend Jake Dunn shares my frustration with this year's boilermaker's team, but he's right.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: And everything's still out in front of him.
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jake, if you were to told me before the season Purdue would lose five games at Mac Yourena, I would ask you how many players got hurt.
• 8:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, certainly come into this this season didn't think Purdue would be able to drop that many games at home.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's how the crew crumbled and you just got to get it, you know, ticked out on the chin and I think this team's going to kind of keep working, but yeah, pretty disappointing rate where season here, but Greg is as you've said before, the rest of their goals are still ahead of them.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I did some research on this last week, and during my time of Purdue, they lost seven times in McEurina with five of those losses being my freshman years, the 2019 or 2020 season.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that was the year with Evan Booggero, was a senior at Jihad Proctor, so not a very good team.
• 8:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Pretty young team.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Draving out Williams was a sophomore, Sasha was a sophomore.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: Eric Hunter Jr was a sophomore, so
• 9:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: not a great team and a team that you look at the roster you can understand how they dropped five at a home, but this team this year is 10 times more talented than what that one was and they still dropped five at home.
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I guess what we did none of the rest of the games is zero be a home.
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe that's maybe it's a a bright spot for this team, but yeah, yeah, never would have thought that coming into this year.
• 9:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And of course we're going to talk way more about the big 10 tournament.
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: this week on our big tournament preview, trying to get everybody together to talk about what we're about to watch.
• 9:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: This has kind of become a personal obsession of mind about the last decade, Jake.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: How have I you and Purdue not played each other in the big 10 tournament?
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: In 20 years, and now it could happen.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: IU is the 10 seed.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll play the winner of the 15, 18 matchups,
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: a couple weeks ago in Northwestern and up when at IU said that you would be a pretty good matchup.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: The offense isn't necessarily the problem right now, but they can't stop, can't stop anybody it's the issue there.
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you need to make some personal change, at least line up.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe not who plays, but who plays together, and I just thought we'd see that by now, I would see him go a little smaller and they just haven't.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like, um,
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oscar Cloth that he's looked a lot better a lot more focused and a lot more energized, which is great, but from in this game against Wisconsin, Wisconsin really flipped the scripts from that first matchup, and Madison, the biggest story that game was Wisconsin's 3. shooting.
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: they went for for 25 from three in that first matchup.
• 10:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: And great guys, I think we talked a bit.
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're probably gonna shoot better than that, typically on Saturday and Macaron and they made up for that.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they went 18 of 34 from three, which says, that's just crazy.
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: In some of those shots, Jake, we're just, yeah, in saying.
• 11:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, they work.
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the only place those go in, we're by opponents at Mac Arena this year.
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sure seems like it, you know what, um, we talked about how Wisconsin hit four threes in that and that first match up the entire game in the first like three minutes it felt like that Wisconsin art hit four threes in the first three minutes of the game.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they'd already matched their entire total from the previous game in the first few minutes of the game.
• 11:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it predicted something that they most never do and that's a lose when they scored 90 plus points.
• 11:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: So produced court ninety three points historically that's been almost a guaranteed win.
• 11:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: They had one a hundred and thirty four straight games when scoring ninety or more.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's a streak dating back to 1987.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: But because of Wisconsin taught shooting and produced defensive scheme to, I guess, allow them to shoot that.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's the first, first time it lost when scoring ninety or more points since 1987.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, what have I told you I remember that game?
• 12:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do remember that game, although I don't specifically remember watching it, I'm more remember reading about it years later that.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jean Cady told the players after that game he would never allow him to play a run-and-gun style again after losing to Iowa State.
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was 1804-98 maybe at McEar in it.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: And someone had lost and I think Purdue was about to go to number one in the rankings and then they lost that game and it never happened.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I remember reading in a book about Jean Cady, there's a John Feinstein book and Mark Monty's book.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was in one of those.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: IU definitely needs one win.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it probably gets into tournament with two wins if they can be north-western and Purdue.
• 13:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's hear from my friend, Grant Showski, his thoughts on IU's potential fake going forward.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Grant now is gonna take a big performance in the big tournament.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're almost going to have to win the whole victim tournament, right?
• 13:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's shot himself.
• 13:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: A couple of wins will do it.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think Grant.
• 13:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think if you can get to Saturday, maybe even Friday.
• 13:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you can win too, if you can win, win, Dan Thursday, maybe you might be end to Bencb.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: This team has shot itself in the clip way too many times.
• 13:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: This year, Saturday was one of them just a poor performance, just a bad performance on the road.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: And after an okay start to the game,
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: pretty disappointing to see this team with how good they started out the year and cracked the top 25 and lost to the teams they were supposed to lose to it's a young it's an inexperienced team that doesn't know how to play together and it's unfortunate that they're probably not going to make the NCAA tournament this year.
• 14:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: How do you describe the regular
• 14:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: a really good roller coaster, a lot of a lot of us, a lot of downs, a lot of fall thing to dissipations and disappointing to an extent, just disappointing the way they perform when when they needed to perform.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: It seems like every game is here that they needed to perform, they needed to play well, they just crapped it away and they just played bad.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's unfortunate.
• 14:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hate that as a fan you hate that you want to see your team compete at the highest level when it needs to step up and compete the one exception being maybe the Purdue game when they wanted assembly hall was the time they
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: played up to their competition.
• 14:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: They squandered so many opportunities to be in the NCAA tournament.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: And now with a first round exit of the Big Ten tournament, if that's what happens on Wednesday when they play, then that's what happens in the seasons probably over.
• 15:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if this team would accept the postseason bid to the crown or to the NIT or what, but the NCAA tournament hopes look to be way in the rearview mirror now.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they're going to be the ten seed anyone you want to avoid or anyone you want to play.
• 15:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd like to honestly have another crack at North Wester and I'd say I think Indiana can beat them this time.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: They should have beaten the first thing.
• 15:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think if they do beat him, you know, a couple of weeks ago, then maybe, you know, we're approaching this conversation just a hair differently.
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think we are.
• 15:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we are for sure.
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't mind seeing Minnesota again to be honest, anyone but one of the top teams, I'd say, you know, I think that I'm not sure it matters.
• 15:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: This team has proven it's not going to compete when it needs to compete.
• 15:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: So why is it matter?
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, you know, it's really frustrating.
• 15:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: It is really, really frustrating.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
• 16:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: You think you're frustrated.
• 16:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you're frustrated too.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I wish nothing but the best for his team.
• 16:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing of import locally on Monday.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: However, in the WMBA, big day, as far as labor negotiations go, if things can't be ironed out by Tuesday delays, in the off-season go into effect, which likely affects the regular season and any disruption just could literally just kill this league.
• 16:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: As we discussed on this week's fever report with John Robertson and Michelle Garmin, the WMBA just cannot afford this.
• 16:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: The fever are in a great place.
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think championships are probably coming.
• 16:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a lot of fun days ahead, but they could not do this.
• 16:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening everybody.
• 17:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Central Indiana Sports Report is a product of ITG Media, and I love Susie.