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Tom Kakert talks Hawkeyes, the Chicken Coop Contest & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hour number two welcome Miller and Condon.
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We take you until well top of the hour off the bench at that
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time, Sean Roberts, Lucas strain 335 left Michigan, a 12 1/2
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point favorite, leads Ohio State by three.
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Ohio State bringing the ball up the floor.
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Still to come this hour, we'll give four of you.
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Toward the bottom of the hour, we'll give you an opportunity to
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call in and get you set up to win some grub from the chicken
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More information on that coming up.
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Trent's got some plays of the day.
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Circus Sports sponsored those at about 10 minutes or so before,
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too. Let's talk some hoxie's.
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Tom Cacart, hawkeyereport.com Did you come home, Tom?
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Are you still in Chicago? Oh, I I headed home after the
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game. So yeah, I got.
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Busy week coming on. And I didn't want to have to
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drive in this awful wind today. So just nasty.
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Yeah, hey, I love Chicago. I think a lot of people love
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Chicago. I don't love Chicago when it
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comes to an event like this. Indianapolis is further to
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drive, but I think it's a better destination because, you know,
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the fan bases, they can, you know, get together and they can,
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you know, you know, where everybody for the most part is
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going to be found, you know, partying in advance of the game
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or after the game. And and it's that's not just not
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going to happen around the United Center.
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How was it received as far as those two cities that seemingly
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share this event? Yeah, it was especially
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Wednesday, the sparse crowd. You know, there was a lot of
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people there for the Iowa game and there was even less people
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there, surprisingly for the Washington USC game.
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Not a lot of USC Washington fans that made the trek to to shy
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town. But yeah, it's just because the
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United Center is just off in the distance.
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It's not it's not a downtown arena.
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And that's the great thing about India's Cambridge is right
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downtown and there's all the bars and restaurants within a
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couple blocks of there. And you got places you can go
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and hang out with your friends and just not you got to drive to
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the United Center and that's just where you sit.
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And you just, it's not like you can go to, you know, a pub or a
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bar or something and watch some other games then walk over
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there. It just doesn't happen.
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This team battles back again down 16 against Ohio State, an
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opportunity to tie the game. We'll talk a little bit about
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the end game situations, but we've seen this continually out
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of this squad at times out man, they battle back.
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They believe they they keep fighting out there.
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And I know there's frustration losses of eight of the last 10
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that's definitely going to be there.
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And you see it on the message boards and on social media.
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People are not happy about that. But when you take that step back
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and look at big picture, building the culture, it's
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something that's difficult for us to talk about on radio, for
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you to write about. It's something that you just
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have to see, right? It's the old adage of what I
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know, pornography when I see it. I know culture when I see it.
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And with this Iowa program of Ben McComb, it does feel like
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the culture is building in a good place.
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Yeah. And it's kind of, you know, I
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would compare it to like the culture under experience.
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It's just it's going to be kind of the same thing is you just
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kind of have to build that base and it takes time.
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When we saw that with Kirk, it took a couple of years to
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finally get there and, you know, break the rock, if you will.
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And to me, success was making the NCAA Tournament this year
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with this team. And they're going to do that.
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They're going to make the NCAA Tournament.
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And we'll see if they can win a game.
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Maybe, you know, if they win, too, then they're really, you
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know, then they'll build a statue for Ben McCollum outside
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of Carver Hawkeye Arena. I'm half kidding, folks.
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But yeah, that it's, it's a start now.
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And then after the season's over, it's about going shopping
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and trying to build something. Because I think he probably a
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bit about, Oh yeah, the, the type of players you have to have
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in the Big 10. I I think that's one of the
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things that he's probably learned a.
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Little bit about yeah, I couldn't.
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Agree, have to upgrade. Absolutely.
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I couldn't agree with you more. And we just saw I, we had a
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caller during the during the break, knowing you were coming
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on, asked me to ask you that. I mean, how is his message being
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received? Are they making any inroads to
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towards next year's team? Have you got any Intel you can
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share? And it's there's really nothing
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that they can officially do, you know, with the portal yet
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because those guys are not in the portal and you're that
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really doesn't open up until April 5th.
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So he's got to wait. But I'll, I'll tell you this
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because I know just talking to other approaches and in the
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business, I mean, there's been discussions with agents.
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Hey, I'm going to have five guys.
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These guys are probably going to be in the portal if you're
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interested when the portal opens in April, and that's probably
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going back to January. There's this stuff just goes on
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behind the scenes. And so you've got kind of an
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idea about who's going to be available and the next step is
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the price tag. And Jamie Shaw from on three,
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one of our basketball recruiting guys put a story up this week
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where you know, the average cost of a really good top level
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center in the portal this year is going to be about $3,000,000
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a year. A really good point guard is
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going to be 800,000 to $2,000,000.
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So that's what you're dealing with now is it's, it's a
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financial decision for a lot of these guys too.
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When it comes to that, how was Iowa's Iowa men's basketball
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NIL? Good shape, middle of the pack,
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lower third of the Big 10. Where would you kind of rank it
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right now from what you know in their ability?
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You need a point guard, You need a rim protector.
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As you said, those are going to cost money.
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How is Iowa financially in the NILN scape for the men?
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I know that they're working hard to get kind of AI guess you
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would call it almost a war chest to put together.
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I think they're just out of the the house settlement.
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They'll probably have about four mil is whatever guess out of
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that. You know, football's going to
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get the bulk of that, but and then they're going to have some
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extra money. So I would guess, boy, I think
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they'd probably want to be, you know, 4 million on the outside
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stuff and then 4 million from the from from house.
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So if they can get somewhere around there that's competitive
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to the mid upper pack of the Big 10 is my, my estimation.
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But there be a lot of Big 10 schools that are over 10 pretty
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easily. Yeah, no doubt.
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Tom, do you know where the team's going to gather on
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Sunday? Will be an open event?
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No, there'll be a media opportunity afterwards.
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You know what they're doing for the Selection Sunday show, by
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the way, if you can't be in front of your TV, we're we're
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going to air it on KX note from 5:00 until 8.
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So you'll see the bracket unveiled and then that's the
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Westwood one programming and then obviously banter about the
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brackets and etcetera. So do you know where the team's
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going to be, Tom? I have not.
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I know they were talking about it.
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I think then wanted to wait until after the Big 10
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tournament got done to kind of make some decisions.
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They were, I'm hoping that they're going to let us kind of
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do something. I know there was some talk of
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the men's and women's team kind of getting having an event
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somewhere, but I don't know that that's probably going to happen
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now. So we'll see.
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But I hopefully we'll we'll be able to talk to some of the guys
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and get to see their reactions when they see their name up on
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the on the board. What are you hearing, what are
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you seeing? We talk about Bracket Matrix a
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lot with all the bracketologist put together.
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They have Iowa as a #9 see currently when you put it
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together as low as a 10. I think there was an 8 out
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there. I know a lot of Hawkeye fans
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want to see him out of the 8-9 game.
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I know Ken Miller wants to see him out of the 8-9 game.
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What do you anticipate we're going to see on Sunday?
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I think it's probably 8-9. I don't think they're going to
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get to A7. I think the 10s are worse than
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Iowa's resume, so it's probably going to be 8-9 somewhere.
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Here's my my my fun thought. Ten wins the Ivy and they get
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get a 16 and they go against whoever it is that Iowa has in
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the the 8-9 game. Wouldn't that be fun?
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You guys get to interview Fran again?
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That'll be great. Wouldn't that, wouldn't that be
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fun and that would be awesome. Maybe the 8-9 game is TCU so you
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get Brock Harding there. We mentioned that earlier.
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Yep. That would be that's at the
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Athletic has Iowa versus PCU in the 8-9.
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Wouldn't that be something? Wouldn't that be something if if
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Fran makes a tournament just to begin with?
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Fran makes a tournament, which is something that could happen
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and then he gets a 16 and we're in the same place.
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What would be fun? Trevor alluded to it earlier.
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The final shot, Hostin's final shot, yeah, he had to be
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anticipating contact. Tom, we both kind of feel that
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way. I think McCollum kind of tipped
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his hand that that's what they thought was going to happen.
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That had to be what predicated that disappointing shot at the
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end there, right? They were, they were, they were
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yelling foul, foul, foul before the play even inbounded and the
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players were reacting to that and they he was coming there
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guys coming at him foul, foul, foul.
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So it was a good trick on their part.
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You know that to to pretend like they were going to foul and keep
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verbalizing it like that and then I will reacts that way and
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I don't I still don't think he got touched.
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He claimed he got. No, I don't think he did either.
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Yeah. I think he just kind of dove
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backwards and shot it and put it on top of the backboard.
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Howard's shot was right on. I thought it's just a back iron.
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I mean, I wouldn't that have been something if that one went
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in. But yeah, you just you can't dig
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that hole and they dug a hole. And and then if I wonder what
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would have happened if I say Howard doesn't dribble a ball
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off his foot, you know, maybe they get a bucket that on that
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possession and things are a little different.
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Before, I don't want to forget this, so I'm going to come right
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back with a question here. Sturtz's quad, I think that's
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what they would refer to it during the game.
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He didn't miss much time. He was.
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Out for a minute. He did take him off the floor
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for a minute, but is there? Is this serious, Tom?
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How concerned are they, if at all?
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He told me he got a knee to that quad.
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He's got a big pad on that, on wearing those compression shorts
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and it's a padded thing, so it had to have been a pretty good
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knee. I think he's probably dealing
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with something already there and he says he's going to be fine.
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So he's going to basically get like a week off from playing.
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So I think from that aspect it's probably good because what he
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was he was on fumes yesterday for sure.
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At the end of that game. You could just his body
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language. I, I was watching him and he was
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just taking these deep breaths when there was any break and
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just he wasn't grabbing his shorts because he doesn't want
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to show people that he's tired, but he was, he was exhausted.
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Tom, take us to the postgame press conference and thought it
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was really interesting. McCullum talking about going
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from really good to great and not settling.
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I know that people want to build a trophy if you just get them to
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a Sweet 16 this year. Doesn't sound like though that's
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what he wants. When you hear him, you're in all
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those press conferences. We've had opportunities with
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talk with him. He is a very interesting guy to
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hear speak and doesn't just give you cliches.
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He digs a little bit deeper. Take us into that press
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conference yesterday, what he said and what he's still trying
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to build with this program. It was, it was so fascinating
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listening to talk about that. And it sounds like he's read the
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the Jim Collins book Good to Great.
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And just he doesn't want to, you know, he said sometimes feels
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like this team is just happy being good and that they can be
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great. And he said he did that in his
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career when he was making Sweet Sixteens and felt like I'm doing
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pretty good. And he had to push himself a
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little bit more to to be great and then start winning national
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titles, started just making it the sweet Sixteens.
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And it's he just that's his mentality.
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And that's why I think he's going to be successful is
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because he just doesn't accept good.
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He he's never going to be one of those guys that's just like, oh,
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OK, if we've made it work, we're good here.
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And we're just going to start kind of being on cruise control.
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He's just ultimately motivated. I'll tell you Wednesday that was
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on edge, as on edge as I've ever seen him on a sideline, because
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I think he felt they had to win that game to feel good about
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making the NCAA tournament. And he was, he was wowing so
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tight and you could tell he was exhausted after the game when we
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were talking to him. He was just like he's spent
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because he he was expending so much energy on on the sidelines,
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just coaching the team and getting them to that, that win.
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And I was worried when it was down 11 got to say that.
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And then 21 zip run usually turns those rounds upside down.
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And you could tell Maryland's body language just they they
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left the building, they were ready to go home.
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Unbelievable. Well, we won't talk to you till
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the tournament is underway. We'll either be recapping
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Thursday. As long as the game's not
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happening at that, well, that's. True too, as long as so is this
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the year a Big 10 team wins a national championship?
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Boy, I would like to say yes, but I think if Michigan's got a
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shot, they really do. I think they're, I think they're
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pretty good. I don't know how they're doing
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right now. Up 3 was 6 seconds left.
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Well, they're going to hold on then.
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Yeah, they're going to hold on. So that's that's I think they've
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got a chance just because they've if they shoot the ball
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well, you know, I'm Duke was team to beat him, but I don't
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know how healthy that Duke team is going to be moving forward.
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The team I'm kind of watching is Florida, because that's the team
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that's kind of just caught fire and somebody might have invested
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in them when they were plus 1000.
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I know I don't know. I don't know anybody who would
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do that. But you know, somebody might
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have done that when they saw them winning some games.
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So. And you know, the Gators are
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good. They got a Condon on their team
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that that makes them great. Takes them to a different level.
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Is that your cousin? Is that your tall cousin?
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Yes, yeah, he's a foot and a half taller than me and from
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Australia, but we're related somehow, someway.
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I'm going to take credit because we don't get a whole lot of
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those, certainly in the condo lineage that are played at that
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kind of level. Tom, want to jump over to the
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women's team. The UCLA game was a disaster.
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I mean, everything that could go wrong did.
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UCLA was not missing. And if UCLA shoots like that,
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they're beating UConn and maybe beating UConn convincingly.
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I don't think they're going to shoot like that against them.
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But that's way down the road still with that loss.
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It's so ugly, A50 point loss. Are there is there any danger
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that they're not a number two seed?
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And with it, if they are #2 what path is it going to be?
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Who would likely be the number one seed in the bracket that the
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Hawkeyes are in? That's a great question.
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I I still think there are two because it's a, it's a body work
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thing. And their worst losses were
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against the top two teams in the country, UConn and and UCLA, and
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they lost them. That's three of their losses.
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So yeah, I, I think there's still a 2, but I don't know that
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they'll get matched up in the same bracket was either UCLA or
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UConn, maybe UConn. I don't know that they'll do it
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with UCLA just because they played twice now.
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So maybe maybe they'll get South Carolina in in their bracket.
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I'm kind of curious who they get per three seed, if it's going to
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be like somebody like a Louisville or something like
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that that they get get matched up with.
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So we'll we'll find out, but I'm anxious to see what they, what,
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what, what teams are coming to Iowa City too, because that'll
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be a that'll be interesting that that second game has always been
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a tricky one for Iowa, even when Caitlin was really cooking.
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Have you seen her place and she's been back at all?
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I just saw highlights, so I haven't seen much because I've
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just been kind of busy and just doing other stuff and I just
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like guess I'd like to watch her play and like to watch some play
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sometimes. So I'm going to have to TuneIn
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this weekend. Angel Reese decided she wanted
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to be the point guard at one point in the game yesterday.
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She took the rebound away from Caitlin, decided to throw the
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ball the length of the floor and promptly threw it right out of
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bounds. There there's you can't tell me
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there's not there's not a hatred there one sided all you know and
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they and anyways it's it's it hasn't.
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I saw, I saw one, I saw one highlight where she where
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Caitlin threw threw an assist to to Angel.
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Reese, I saw that. Yeah, I did.
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Yeah. You know what?
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She's so fun to watch. I just.
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I can't get enough of her playing basketball.
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I truly can't. I hope she stays healthy and I
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hope there's a season she TV. She is, yeah.
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Must be, Yeah. Just as there's one, there's you
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get those athletes every once in a while.
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Tiger Woods was that way with golf.
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Yeah, you know, And she's, she's the same way with basketball.
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You're just watching to see what she's going to do next.
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Yeah, no question. Thank you, Tom.
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Appreciate this. We'll talk to you from somewhere
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next week. Hopefully your schedule will.
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Appreciate that, Tom. Yes, absolutely.
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Yep. See, buddy.
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Good to talk to you, Tom Caker, hawkeyereport.com as we check in
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on the Hawks. So do you have a feel where
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they're going? I think they're gonna end up on
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Duke's side of the number ones. And yes, they can play Michigan
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in the round of 32. I know there's people out there
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have the old rules that are in place.
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That's not the case anymore with these bloated conferences.
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Now. We saw it in Des Moines,
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Michigan State, Minnesota, played in the second round,
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played just once in the regular season.
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So they could be could be placed with the Wolverines.
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I don't believe that's going to happen, though.
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I just have a sneaking suspicion it's going to be an 8-9 game.
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They'll be facing off if they win against Duke in the second.
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Round which one seed would Duke? Would be the one seed.
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But did you? Were you going to ask me which
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one seed that I would rather see or that I would have a better
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chance? I'm not sure the answer is an
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answer. I watched a lot of the Florida
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State game last night. Yeah, they if it would have shot
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at. Them, yes, absolutely.
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That's not a good Florida State. They're playing a lot better and
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they're really young, but. Look at Ngapa, they're centre.
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He's a hell of a player. I think I'm saying his name
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right. He's a really good player and he
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didn't play a lick. Last night, Arizona's a terrible
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match up for Iowa if they get shipped to San Diego to play
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Arizona. Are we overlooking Arizona?
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I've always thought all year, most of the year, I thought it
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was Michigan and Duke on their same on one level.
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Then a little drop to Arizona, then a little drop to, you know,
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a Florida, a Yukon, and now Yukon's falling off of that.
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Maybe, maybe Arizona's the team I'm sleeping on.
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Obviously we'll get a good look at them tonight as they'll play
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Iowa State. It's a 3 point shooting.
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The lack of three-point shooting that they have overall, that's
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2. Guards.
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They got 2 bigs. They just don't shoot a ton of
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them and. You know what really like on
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that team where I think maybe he comes off the bench or Waka.
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He's a hell of a player. You know my love of Della Roso.
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And him too. I absolutely love that dude.
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He's out there fired up shots, not always great shots, but he's
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going to get his. When he gets into the ball game.
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He's a chucker. I like chuckers sometimes.
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Usually unless they're playing for my team, then I hate
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chuckers. Michigan has prevailed, and I'll
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use it. Prevailed because Ohio State
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gave them all they wanted. 7167 It was a tussle.
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Hats off to the Buckeyes. Hats off to the Buckeyes.
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I want to pass along one more Hawkeye note.
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I was looking. I know everybody just goes to on
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the women's side, Charlie Karine, because there's not a
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whole lot of bracket just that are out there.
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Is he the only one? No, there's there's others out
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there and I thought is. He the only one that's credible.
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I think other people. Are they?
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Yeah. Well, it's a place that I go
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often for analytical sites on the women's side 'cause they're
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just aren't the same volume. It is her hoop, stats.com.
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Her hoops what stats.com, Their pragetology.
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I just found it really interesting.
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So they have Iowa as A2 seat. They open up against Green Bay,
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UW Green Bay in the first round and then get the winner of
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Georgia, Syracuse. And we remember the Georgia game
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a couple years ago. That was a tussle against the
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Bulldogs. They are in the same bracket,
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though. The number one seed is South
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Carolina. And of the number ones, maybe
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that's the best one. But here's the next level.
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I know too, you don't want to play.
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Yes. Definitely not UCLA.
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Definitely not Yukon. Also the 8-9 game in the South
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Carolina and Iowa bracket. Iowa State.
21:14
Villanova. Wouldn't that be something?
21:15
South Carolina, Iowa State in the round of 32.
21:18
That'd be great. We saw going back to the
21:20
freshman campaign for Addie Brown and the whole crew.
21:24
They gave Stanford a tussle in that second round match up.
21:28
The metrics. Don't love this Iowa State team?
21:30
What did they play? Was that two years ago?
21:31
Members on Thanksgiving weekend, Iowa State women played South
21:35
Carolina. Oh yeah, it was two years ago.
21:37
It wasn't this year, was it? Yeah, I think it was two years
21:40
ago. I think you're.
21:41
Right yes, it was not good no, they lost by 50 a lot yes, it
21:45
was a ton and that was on big Fox 2 it.
21:47
Was yes. It was a nationally televised
21:49
game. You're right.
21:50
And got blitzed by that one that that South Carolina team is much
21:54
different than this South Carolina team that has lost
21:57
three games this year. They're still good, but they
22:01
lost to Texas twice. They lost to Oklahoma.
22:03
Branchek's squad got that one done.
22:07
Of the ones, they're the most beatable, but there's still
22:11
another tier. Yep, Nope.
22:13
I I agree with you, by the way, since Thanksgiving entered our
22:15
conversation. I'll never understand it, but
22:19
there's a lot of people that don't feel that that the NFL is
22:21
doing us any favours by putting a game on Wednesday night.
22:25
What's wrong with it? I'll never understand more
22:28
football being a bad thing. I get that it dilutes a little
22:32
bit of Sunday's slate because we're going to have three games
22:35
Thursday, one game Friday. What's ever left is going to be
22:38
Sunday. But what else is going on on
22:40
Thanksgiving Eve? I know that if you're in your
22:43
20s and your 30s, you're going to a bar and you're drinking to
22:45
your, you know what face, right? Absolutely.
22:47
I get it. People travel that people
22:49
travel, but a lot not. Everybody just sits in their
22:51
basement. But a lot of people have already
22:52
got home, and if you don't really like your family, you've
22:55
had enough of them already, You can turn the TV on and open your
22:58
app and fire. I don't understand why it's
23:00
getting as much pushback as it is because it's a Wednesday.
23:04
I think it's just so many people are enough is enough.
23:07
But hey, but is it? Yeah, is it?
23:10
I'm not in that camp. For people that have regular
23:13
lives, it is. I know you're not.
23:15
And you really haven't ever been that way, right?
23:18
You are, you are in the upper what, not even the first
23:22
percentile, the 10th 1 percentile of people that could
23:25
just do whatever you want, watch whatever you want.
23:29
That's not the reality for so many people.
23:31
A lot of people are spread thin. You got a lot going on.
23:34
And for so many, it's just here's another one.
23:37
Here's another. But if you're on a plane, you
23:38
can watch it on your. But not always, not everybody.
23:41
If you're in the car, you could turn the the radio on and find
23:44
the game somewhere. I the old, the old.
23:49
Does the NBA play? I know the we have college
23:51
football for like, the second week in October, every day
23:54
leading up until that Tuesday of Thanksgiving week.
23:57
I don't think I know the NHL plays on Thanksgiving Eve.
24:03
I don't know if they're gonna stick a game in there.
24:05
You got my vote. Not that it matters.
24:07
Miller and Condon. All right.
24:08
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Miller and Condon glad you're with us on Des Moines Sports
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Station One O 6.3 KX&O. Hi, Miller Cod, and welcome back
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Iowa Sports Radio Network. Glad you're with us.
24:47
We'll take you until 2:00. I guess there's going to be a
24:50
massive snowstorm coming north of us.
24:52
Minneapolis Delta's apparently cancelling flights already for
24:55
Saturday and Sunday. Jeez, have you ever heard of
24:57
that before? This far out?
24:58
Well, I guess Saturday is tomorrow.
25:00
Like in Buffalo, things like that potentially, but.
25:03
Yeah, I saw. Green Bay's going to get 2 feet,
25:06
Minneapolis a foot and 1/2. Good for those crooks up there.
25:09
Yeah, stay away from us. Let'd be glad not to be flying
25:12
through the Twin Cities. I saw this is a really nice
25:14
airport. So it's spring break week next
25:16
week or started today for the kids and I saw on Monday it's
25:20
going to be 16° by Wednesday 67. It's unbelievable and we we may
25:24
get some snow meteorologist Ken Miller.
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Yes, Brian, Andy, Todd and Tyler will give you 4 games.
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If you get the most right, you'll get a $50.00 gift
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It's one of the three chicken coop locations, 12725 Meredith
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labor just southwest of the DMAC campus in Ankeny.
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The tiebreaker was going to use Canada versus the US in the
25:55
World Baseball Classic quarterfinal tonight, but I'm
25:58
tired of the United States beating Canada and anything, so
26:01
I probably don't want to be reminded of it.
26:04
So we're going to use Cedar Falls and the Dragons in the 4A
26:08
boys championship game. Total points.
26:11
That's the tiebreaker. You'll have to call 96.9 the
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bull. That game's in 90 minutes.
26:16
It is. So you're going to get off the
26:17
air. Maybe beat me out the door
26:19
today. No, no chance.
26:21
You are out the door within 10 seconds of the show ending every
26:25
single time. There's no way I can beat you.
26:28
Is up first. Hello Brian, How are you?
26:31
Hi gentlemen. Thank you for accepting my call.
26:34
Good to talk to you. So Arizona is a 3 1/2 point
26:38
favorite tonight over Iowa State.
26:41
Oh, I think I got to take Arizona.
26:44
Houston, a 5 1/2 point favorite over the Kansas Jayhawks?
26:51
I'm going to take Houston. Purdue, a 3 1/2 point favorite
26:54
over Nebraska. Oh my gosh, I I'm going to take
27:05
NU. OK, Duke, a 10 1/2 point
27:08
favorite over Clemson. Duke.
27:13
Give us an idea, Trent, how high scoring these 4A games have
27:16
been? Johnston keeps the scoring down,
27:19
OK, They want to keep it in the 40s or 50s, OK Cedar Falls will
27:22
get out and run a little bit more.
27:24
So there's at least a little overview for the list.
27:26
OK. So there's kind of a little help
27:28
there for you, Brian, if you need it.
27:31
Total points. This is the tiebreaker closest
27:33
without going over Cedar Falls Johnson 4A final coming up at
27:37
3:00. I'm going to say 110. 110 it is.
27:41
Brian. Have a great weekend.
27:43
Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you.
27:45
Hello, Andy. How are you?
27:47
How are you? Good.
27:48
How are you guys? Good.
27:49
Arizona 3 1/2 point favorite over Iowa State.
27:53
They're down, Wildcats. Houston gives 5 1/2 to Kansas.
27:58
Rock Chalk. Jayhawk.
28:00
Purdue 3 1/2 point favorite over Nebraska.
28:04
Or boilers. Duke, a 10 1/2 point favorite
28:07
over Clemson. New keys.
28:10
Cedar Falls Johnson tiebreaker closest without going over Andy.
28:15
1091. 09 Thank you, Sir. Appreciate it.
28:19
Todd is with Miller and Condon. Hi, Todd.
28:23
Hey, Ken, how are you doing? Good.
28:24
Thanks. Arizona 3 1/2 point favorite
28:26
over Iowa State. Then you heard it here first.
28:30
Iowa State does not lose again this season.
28:33
Wow, mark the tape a parade of names.
28:39
Where would they? Have and I'm leaving it.
28:41
OK. Where would the parade be in
28:43
names? Well, there's not a ton of
28:45
options. That's that's why I'm asking.
28:46
Yeah, put. It right up Welch Ave.
28:49
There you go, Todd Houston, 5 1/2 point favorite over Kansas.
28:54
Kansas. Purdue, a 3 1/2 point favorite
28:56
over Nebraska. Nebraska.
29:00
Duke is a 10 1/2 point favorite over Clemson tonight.
29:07
Clemson. Taking the points, I like it a
29:10
lot. Cedar Falls Johnson total points
29:13
closest without going over Todd. 98.
29:17
Thanks Todd. Enjoy the weekend.
29:19
Hey, thanks, Ken. Yep, Trent.
29:21
Good to talk to you. And then Tyler is our final
29:24
contestant. Hi, Tyler.
29:28
Howdy, howdy, let's get it. Absolutely.
29:30
Arizona 3 1/2 to Iowa State. Let's go Iowa State.
29:35
Houston, a 5 1/2 point favorite over Kansas.
29:39
Well, I'm actually a Jayhawk fan coming going to the game right
29:43
now from Des Moines, but I'll take the I'll take the Cougars.
29:45
Do you have your tickets already?
29:47
Yes. I do.
29:50
How much did you pay for them do you know or did you get them
29:52
well in advance? We I got them last night after
29:57
they beat TCU, although I was sweating that game.
29:59
Pretty far, yeah. So what'd you pay?
30:06
Around 3:50. All right, good stuff.
30:09
You've got good seats by the sounds of things.
30:10
Did I give you Purdue 3 1/2 over Nebraska?
30:14
I'll take the Boilermakers. All right, Duke 10 1/2 to
30:16
Clemson. Amy Clemson.
30:19
Tiebreaker Cedar Falls Jefferson total points closes without
30:23
going over. I'll do 97.
30:26
Who do you want to win the early game?
30:27
As a Jayhawk fan, you'd rather play Iowa State?
30:31
No, I mean, I'll, I'll pull for the clones.
30:33
You know, I, I feel like, I feel like Iowa State fans hate KU
30:38
fans a lot more yeah than the other way around.
30:41
So like I pull for Iowa State no problem.
30:43
Just when they don't play, you know, KU obviously, but I feel
30:46
like, you know, those cyclone fans, they they want KU to lose.
30:49
No. Matter.
30:50
Well it would be to their benefit.
30:52
If they win, they get a cheaper ticket if Kansas fans don't
30:55
enter the building tomorrow. So no.
30:57
That's true. That's very true.
30:59
Drive safe, enjoy the games. Tyler.
31:00
Thanks for listening man, appreciate it.
31:02
Yep. Thanks guys.
31:03
Good to talk to you on his way to Kansas City.
31:06
A Jayhawk fan for the game tonight.
31:07
We do we have any consensus? No, in fact, we are split two
31:11
and two everywhere in all four games.
31:14
I thought more people would take Duke and I think I like Clemson
31:17
to the points tonight. Do you?
31:18
Don't you? Didn't have a pick on that one.
31:21
We're playing a lot of games today.
31:24
So give you some extra time, is that what you're?
31:25
Saying we we have a lot of games on the dock.
31:27
I told you this, this might be my favorite day to bet.
31:30
What is there, 44 games? Is that what I heard?
31:33
There were like 40 some. It's so much fun being in Vegas
31:36
today, on this day rather. And yesterday's good, too.
31:40
It's a perfect one. A lot of games you get teams
31:44
that know each other. The importance for so many
31:47
teams, though, sometimes we overstate the importance because
31:49
we know that these conference tournaments don't really matter.
31:53
The bracket's going to be done tonight and they'll say they
31:55
have all these maturations, but after watching the.
31:57
Big thing. You think it's done tonight?
31:59
Basically, yeah. Yeah, we've seen it year after
32:02
year after year. Conference tournaments do not
32:06
matter as it pertains to moving up seed lines, even if you get
32:09
great victories. Now for Iowa State, it could
32:12
matter because they are right between either the last two seed
32:15
or the first three seed. And if they win, coupled with
32:18
Michigan State getting beat by UCLA, bye by Illinois getting
32:23
beat by Wisconsin, that's really going to matter, I believe for
32:26
Iowa State regardless of what. Because you think they could see
32:29
the deuce the two line. I do.
32:31
I think it's still on the table for them and you stack up their
32:34
resume in comparison to a lot of teams and you throw an Arizona
32:36
neutral court win on top of it. That's done here.
32:40
Not on Friday, and certainly not on Sunday.
32:42
It's a joke. What sees Miami of Ohio.
32:44
Or are they in the tournament they're in as a 1314 No 14?
32:49
No, you can't be in that large at that low.
32:51
No, they're going to be, if they're in a 12, probably 11.
32:55
Maybe in the play in game? I don't think they're going to
32:57
put them in a play in game. I believe that they're going to
32:59
have them not in a play in game. Now you also think of that.
33:03
We know the play in games do not rate very well.
33:06
We know that the numbers aren't there.
33:08
You want to generate interest is there Dayton?
33:10
Yeah, give me the Power Five team that our power.
33:13
What are they in? Basketball is 565.
33:17
Give me the power, the big school that's going to play on
33:19
Tuesday or Wednesday in Dayton. How about a Texas squad like
33:25
that? Just into the tournament?
33:27
Sneak in is Auburn. Sneaking in.
33:29
No, I hope not. They're dead.
33:31
Yeah, see Bruce Pearl making a fool of himself yesterday.
33:34
Bruce it just gets worse and. Worse, it really does.
33:37
One thing after another and there is a ton of different
33:40
things there. Texas, Miami of Ohio.
33:44
That would be the match up. Big brand.
33:46
Those two teams facing off against each other would be
33:48
good. The storyline, man.
33:52
Losing to UMass. I heard you say that yesterday.
33:55
I disagreed because, well, hey, I had UMass in the points they
33:59
they played earlier though too, did they?
34:00
And UMass, it was another one of the games.
34:02
That has been on fumes for the last two weeks, 3 weeks.
34:05
They've been pulling out games game after game and finding ways
34:08
to win, but it's not a team that is playing.
34:11
I don't think of their apex at this moment in time either.
34:14
There was a reason they were not even the favorite going into
34:16
their conference tournament. So let me take a one step
34:20
further. Does this get I don't want to
34:22
spend a ton of time in Ohio? It's an intriguing.
34:25
It is. But does this, does this help
34:27
them in the tournament? Because now that unbeaten things
34:30
no longer on their back, you know, they were carrying that
34:34
weight of being an unbeaten team 31 and oh, everybody's talking
34:38
about them now. They're no longer.
34:40
Pressure off a little bit, a little bit.
34:42
You're playing with house money kind of in there.
34:44
Yeah, I can buy that. I could buy that because that
34:47
zero it matters. We saw it matter in the NFL with
34:50
the Patriots and what they were dragging around and if they
34:52
would have lost that regular season finale against the
34:54
Giants. I think they win the Super Bowl
34:56
and win instead. Of the Giants beating them in
34:58
the Super. Bowl, absolutely.
34:59
I think that pressure, it builds.
35:01
We see that continually happen. I can buy that theory,
35:03
absolutely, because I think you saw Miami, Ohio, because they're
35:07
a better team than they looked, even in some of those victories.
35:09
Early when you started you when you alerted me about this team
35:13
in the back, you know, mid to late January somewhere around
35:17
there. Yeah.
35:18
I mean they they were on on fumes.
35:20
Yes. And now the pressure's off.
35:23
Just get in. I could also see them not even
35:26
put them in Dayton saying that the 31 and no matters.
35:29
I know that metrically, this is not a good team.
35:32
This is not a team that should be in consideration for at large
35:34
unless you look at wins above bubble.
35:36
And that's the one thing that is keeping them afloat.
35:39
And we found out when the committee came out.
35:41
One thing about the committee, when we get the bracket reveal,
35:45
this is the thing that bothers me now.
35:46
You love the football TV show. I hate it, but I'm fine with the
35:51
way that basketball does it. Having just one.
35:53
I think that's the right way to do it by.
35:55
The way I don't love the football TV show as much as I
35:58
used to this year kind of ruined it for me.
36:00
Finally you finally got there in your final year on the end with
36:03
me. I finally, after a decade of
36:06
yelled about it, you finally came around.
36:08
Yep. The basketball 1 Why can't they
36:11
give us a full bracket? Because in the grand scheme of
36:13
things, the top 16 doesn't matter.
36:14
Yeah, no, I know. We know those teams, right?
36:17
I want to see what. Or maybe 16 and 17 and 18.
36:21
There might. But I agree with you, yes.
36:23
I want to see what does matter to this committee because that
36:26
fluctuates every single year. Sometimes it is a certain
36:29
metric, sometimes it is. And if we got that snapshot of
36:32
what this specific committee is looking for, I think a would be
36:36
more important when we get to this point in time to figuring
36:38
things out better than what we get on the football side.
36:40
Because they just make things up on the fly and lie about it
36:43
every single week, which there's a reason that drives me nuts.
36:47
If we got a full bracket, I think we'd have a better idea at
36:50
this point. Well, is SMU actually fine?
36:53
Is Miami of Ohio actually fine? Is are these bubble teams good?
36:57
Is Iowa maybe possibly going to be a Ted seed?
36:59
Because you look at the way that they are built, there's not a
37:02
whole lot of quality in their resume when you take a deep look
37:05
underneath it in comparison to some of the other 8910 seeds,
37:09
maybe Iowa does fall to a 10 because of that, but we don't
37:12
know because we don't get that full bracket.
37:14
We will get Trent's plays of the day.
37:16
They're coming up next. Circus sports sponsors.
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Those Mike Palma's in the air as we speak.
37:20
That's why he didn't join us today.
37:22
Where's he? Flying to.
37:23
He's flying home. Oh, he.
37:24
Is yes, he was home. Oh, he was, he was visiting mom
37:28
in Dubuque. Oh, Nice spent two or three days
37:30
over in the eastern part of the state and he flew out of Cedar
37:33
the, what's it called, the Eastern Iowa airport.
37:35
It is, yeah. I saw some pictures CID.
37:39
That's what it is. Yep, it looks really nice.
37:42
I guess I didn't know. What to expect?
37:44
They've made improvements. Yes, it looks, I mean, I'm not
37:46
sure how many terminals they have, but the photos that I saw
37:48
from it, you know what it might have been.
37:50
It might have been. Oh God, I can't believe, I can't
37:55
think of the name. The hero flights.
37:56
What do they call them with with the veterans, They get on the
37:59
plane and they and they fly to the monument or the the wall in
38:02
Washington. Are they called hero flights?
38:04
Not sure, but anyway, so I saw some footage of it.
38:08
I thought wow, I just. That's way nicer than I thought
38:11
it was. I've.
38:12
Flown out of have you a few times did.
38:13
You save money. Yes, yeah.
38:15
And well, when I also lived in Eastern Iowa and that's where
38:18
you fly out of. Sure.
38:19
Was he with that or Mason City Municipal?
38:22
I'm not going out of Osage, that's for sure.
38:24
So yeah, Waterloo, not a whole lot of opportunities.
38:26
So yeah, we flew out of seed wraps.
38:28
Now when I was growing up, not we only flew I think twice
38:31
growing up ever, but it was out of Minneapolis.
38:34
Oh, you go north. Yeah, because Minneapolis.
38:36
This way because Delta's cancelling at weekend rather
38:38
because Delta's cancelling. Flights We get to the airport in
38:40
just over 2 hours. It was faster than getting to
38:42
Des Moines to Minneapolis. And Minneapolis airports.
38:44
I like that. Airport.
38:45
I do too. All right, Miller and Condon
38:47
back with Transplays of the Day. They're next.
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It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.