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INDIANA 98, ALABAMA A&M 51: Reaction with Grant Shouse, Mike Hutsell & Michelle Garmon (2.77.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to a special edition of the IU report with Grant Shouse and My Cutsal.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And today with special guest Michelle Garmin, their reaction to Indiana's season opening 98 to 51 when over Alabama, A&M.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And it's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: IU report, a special edition of the IU report here on the Central Indiana Sports Report Grant Shows hanging out with Mike Hudson, Michelle Garmans, somewhere around here as well Greg Mengelves producing this thing at Forbes.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: and good start to the Darren DeVries there tonight Indiana gets a 98 to 51 win over Alabama and in.
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I know it's just Alabama and in, but you said it Mike and our thread.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: When you think back to the debut of the last two coaches, this one looks like how it should look.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, a 50 point win over a,
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  [SPEAKER_03]: A quad 3, quad 4 opponent, a low-kinned pomb team, and you dominate the game like that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's how these kind of by-game should be, and that's a good sign for Indiana early on.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, you want to come into these games, and you just want to...
• 1:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: You want to have fun, I think they did that, throw in balls off the back board with 16 minutes to play and just side miles is putting people on posters, but more importantly for the net and all the metrics, you just want to put up a big number.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And this was a 30 point spread that they covered at by half time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This game was over effectively before the first TV time out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's everything that you want to see in a game like this.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You got your stars had big games.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You had five guys and double figures.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You had surprised performance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you saw signs of life out of just sign miles that you haven't seen.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He hit a three and he had that huge dunk in the second half.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to go to a much bigger step up in competition on Sunday, but you gave your faith in something tonight that they haven't really enjoyed in a very, very long time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's just a beat down and aesthetically pleasing is one of my favorite terms.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And just a brain of basketball that they you haven't seen in Bloomington in a very, very long time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: three-pointers, backcuts, no mid-range jumpers, dunk, 14 or 15 dunks, I think, so what they finished with the night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Just a fun, fun start to the, to the new era.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And you can't really complain about anything coming out of that one.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And I think what, one of the more impressive things about it was, again, you pointed this out.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You were able to speed the first half a little more
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  [SPEAKER_03]: uh... i saw the entire second half and uh... you didn't have a system sleepwalking on the bench over there which was nice to see you had guys in tune coaching their team up and uh... again uh... there's a lot of positive things to take away from this first game the competition is what it is like that alibana and empty was it going to be the
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, the Dallas Mavericks out there, I mean, this was a team that is not very good is a low rated Ken Pon team of like we said in college basketball and Indiana took care of business like they should and when you go back to years past and these by games in the beginning of year, especially in the last two years.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Like Indiana would be leading right state.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'd seven eight points with I've managed to go in the game and and you were kind of puckered there because you thought the right state hit a couple threes and get in and, you know, get back in the game.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And you could be staring down the barrel of the the epitome of brutality lost.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So Indiana proved that I think kind of shuts and people up there and that aspect tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: for those full few people that we're talking about it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But the competition definitely is a step up on Sunday when they have to play Marquette in Chicago.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I went to touch back on something Mike said a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you remember last year, it was Tennessee.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We played in that exhibition, right, and played in really tough.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and one in Knoxville, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then we came out and played with a phargeic, uninspired basketball in the season opener.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And today, I was really impressed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I got to see the entire first half myself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I loved it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you came out and Indiana played inspired.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I looked at Craig and I told him one was it, Indiana has better ball than movement
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and moving without the ball more than they ever did in my quicksins entire four year tenure and probably even Archie Miller's four year tenure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was incredible to watch for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's such a modern brand of playing the game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And for four years, we talked about it a little bit last night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They just weren't fun at all to watch.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They dumped the ball to the post.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And guys would walk it up the court with Archie, just go Romeo and Lineford, the best player on his team would go stand in the corner for her long periods of time without the ball and then he'd have to bail out the offense.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You don't see that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There was a possession and I think it was in the second half.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So Grant, you probably saw it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: they didn't get a basket out of it, but the ball movement, Robbie Humble was just in all of the ball movements.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like all five guys, I think touch the ball at least twice on a position and it ended up with a wide open look for Wilkerson who unfortunately didn't hit the three, but we haven't seen anything remotely resembling that in the last eight years
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not going to sit here and fall in on about a win over Alabama, A&M, but at the same time, I'm going to enjoy something that I haven't been able to watch for the better part of a decade.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's just a fun brand of basketball to sit and watch my team play.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And this was a game that you could tell.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They played inspired like Michelle said this is a game that you could tell they were ready to just come out and I think get it going Probably have been chopping at the bit for the last probably since the Baylor game to play another game and they came out and
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  [SPEAKER_03]: did what they're supposed to do.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We said it a lot in the reactions to these football games, the Indiana State football game.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Like they came out and they won 73 to nothing like they're supposed to do.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Indiana wins 98, 51 and they do what they're supposed to do.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And now your intention starts to focus over to market.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: where that's a that's a good market team in November, like you said a few weeks ago Mike, you want to get shock uh and you know you want to get shock and march you don't want to get shock and November and Indiana is going to be getting crime shock a smart on a neutral floor, which will be interesting.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So I think that there's a there's a lot of great things to carry into that game going into Sunday and a nationally televised game and if you can win that one, I guess Mark had on a neutral floor.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: First of all, how great is that for your resume to try and go to the NCAA tournament later on down the road?
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, also how great is it for the national media and some people in the in the conference to start turning heads and say, hey, look
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We've talked about how this team's not on any radars and people don't pay attention.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the state is forgotten about them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody really cares to go to the game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You went on Sunday.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All of a sudden, you realistically are probably going to be, I think it's 9 and 0 would be the number when you head to Indianapolis in December to play Louisville.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And you're going to have a top 10 team that you're playing that day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Potentially the same day is Indiana's playing in the big 10 championship and football in the same city the buzz year fought all of a sudden you've got people paying attention again to Indiana basketball because now if you go out there and lay a giant turd in the punch bowl against Louisville that's another story for another day, but it's an opportunity.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Sunday is a huge opportunity.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm really glad I pulled the trigger and decided
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is a game I'm going to go to because I'm actually really looking forward to.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I want to see how this team matches up with a market team that lost has lost a lot of really good players over the past couple years Tyler co-licks in the NBA came.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: breaking in a new roster, they had a big win over Albany, 80 to 53 on their opener on Monday night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we don't know a great deal about market right now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're they're they're a new team, just like Indiana's a new team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So let's I think metric wise.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They look very similar on paper.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's it's a good opportunity.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a good opportunity to get your
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  [SPEAKER_01]: you're to run up a good record at the beginning of the year and get like you said a good resume win early in the year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Who are you going to that game with on Sunday, Mike?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Taken taken the pivot man my six foot four 14 year old.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A very good one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's we're we're heading up Sunday or Saturday and going to spend the weekend in Chicago.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the one thing I like about what I saw tonight and what I like
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Darynda Vriescoch team is in the way he plays is I don't think market is going to be able to speed IU up to where they're uncomfortable physical fast relentlessly some physical the three words that they use with the IU football team is I think just as prevailing it with this basketball team
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think you're right there and I think Indian has guards that are going to be able to handle some pressure because we know what Shaka loves to play some havoc and I don't think Markets going to be able to overwhelm Indian in the interior Which is a big fear that I have now if you watch tonight I know Michelle said you you were able to see a couple times
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Indiana was just given up straight line drive to the to the basket and there was no back, nobody back there to provide any sort of resistance they had some mixed up on some post doubles.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Devries likes to really really pressure the ball on the outside so teams with that let us is and like I expect market to have.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: could potentially face, create a lot of problems.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how much I'm ready to buy into Connor and write, keeping guys in front of him just yet.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he looks, he looks a little over match physically.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And he also looks like he always smells a fart.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you noticed that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He definitely looks like, and he may not be, but when you think of Indiana, you think of farm kids with the,
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: basketball goal and the hay loft and everything kind of inner it kind of fits that image.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He certainly does.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He he looks like he was if you asked AI to make a Indiana high school basketball player and just create a photo of him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It would probably pop up the picture even though he didn't play here in the state.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's a bunch of kids in Borden Indiana that look like it and who are going to start their season here around Thanksgiving and that's what it Indiana class a high school player looks like is Connor and right.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, with.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: With that being said Indiana picks up a good first win.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Move to one and out.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: against Alabama and a 98-51 like we said earlier.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Women's theme also gets off to good start over Lipskin.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: To open up their season, you were there, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We'll just see out of that team there.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: How the women's theme looked down there at assembly hall on Tuesday night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They looked really good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They looked a lot like the men's team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they're brand new pretty much also.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they do return Cheshiosky, only returning starter from last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then they only have three other players that were on the team last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And one of those Lene Beaumat was red shirted.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They look good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're defensively.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They, Terry starts a true freshman, which if you know Coach Morn, that's kind of rare.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Navia Coffee.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She is a ball hawk.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: basketball IQ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She's fast and that's Indiana's women kind of played a lot like the men.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They pushed the ball their fast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are faster.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're more athletic than they were a year ago.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And even probably two years, the transfer from UCLA, the center.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: keep getting tongue twisted on her.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But she looked really good inside last night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, this Indiana woman's team's going to be like the minced team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be fun to watch.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I, you fans are going to enjoy hoops at the hall.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I will say this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know Terry spent some time with Coach Sig.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She said that in a recent interview that
• 14:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: learning how to navigate the portal and what in I L money and everything and I think you get some great tips and I think she took it to heart and I think you can tell it on the court.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's a good sign of a well-ran athletic department there when you have coaches from multiple programs and sports that can lean on each other for guidance.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's a promising sign there in the
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  [SPEAKER_00]: when else you like to see is back when cream was the coach you saw a lot of the men's players and you saw coach cream at the women's games.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't see a whole lot of that the last that years never thought once.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the men's team, I know for the exhibition, the men's team and coach deliveries and his staff were at a assembly hall to watch to watch the women play.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And like you say, Grant, that is a well run athletic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: program as a whole when other teams support each other.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks guys.
• 15:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Don't forget we'll be back on Friday to preview the Penn State football game and then Saturday to react to the Penn State football game and then Sunday we will react to the market game that Grant and Mike and Michelle have been talking
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Think about it.
• 15:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna have a volleyball team in the NCAA Tournament for the first time, and I'm not sure how long.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, nice.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Good, too.
• 15:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Is, can I just throw a one thing out there?
• 16:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Is Indiana about ranked number 22 in Finland like Central Indiana sports before it is?
• 16:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, they are not.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: No, thank you so much.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's true, I got an email.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: on Wednesday saying that we have the number 22 rated sports podcast in all of Finland.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We love you, Suami.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I have no idea how that's possible.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much to Grant Mike and Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They all have been very busy working for me this week and I really appreciate it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for listening.
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