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Hawkeyes get past Maryland, Iowa State Historic Blow Out over ASU · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi, welcome back Miller Condon, Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  We begin. Iowa State up 30, check that 33.
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  Jefferson just Canada 3. They're up 3313 minutes, 12 1/2
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  minutes. Excuse me, left in that game.
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  Iowa clings to 11 point lead, 27 seconds left in the game.
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  Iowa basketball is Maryland calling off the dogs?
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  They are and they are they. Terrapin Cover and a Hawkeye
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  win. What was the number?
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  11 1/2. Oh no.
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  So. So you took the points.
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  Of course I did. And Sean Roberts laid him.
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  Then he laid 11 1/2. He does 11 1/2 or 12 1/2
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  depending on when he got it. So either way, he's a loser,
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  yes. Well, he's not a loser.
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  His ticket doesn't cash. There it is, Iowa with the win
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  but not the cover. As the Hawkeyes move on to the
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  next round, they'll face Ohio State.
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  Oh no, that's brutal. I don't.
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  You hate it. Would you rather get blown out?
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  When it comes down to that, yes. And basketball is by far the
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  worst sport for this because it comes down to or you going to
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  call the dogs and keep chucking. Look at Overtime and Lincoln the
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  other day. Absolutely, if you have a
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  Nebraska ticket -6 right. Well, this thing's done.
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  Or is it? You know, as I come back and win
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  it by 9. Unbelievable.
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  Iowa. With the win though, they move
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  on. A awful start to the ball game
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  for them, but really started to click as it went on.
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  We saw a huge run to begin the second-half.
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  A 20 to nothing run for the Hawkeyes at one point in the
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  second-half. This on didn't we see I was
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  taking on a 23 to nothing run on Saturday?
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  That is true, yes. Yes, the start of the and halves
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  have been pretty good here lately afford both squads so
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  ready to dig into the box score here a little bit I wanted.
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  To ask you one question before I forget, it is pursuant to the
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  Big 10 and I do want to get into the box score.
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  I just don't want to forget about this and it's a Big 10
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  team. Does Dana Altman coach his last
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  game in Oregon? I don't know and.
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  What they win They were 5 and 15 in.
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  Conference something like. That got beat by 10 by this
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  Maryland Outfit that we're watching right now.
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  And it's over. By the way, in in Chicago, Iowa
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  moves on. Fiddle was hurt.
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  Yep. So there's something, right,
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  There's something that you can point to and a pretty big reason
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  that they struggled this year. Here's what I wonder, and I
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  thought this because I flipped on Peacock yesterday and was
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  watching a little bit of it, is seeing him on the sideline kind
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  of. He looks old.
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  Yeah, well, he is. He is, absolutely.
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  That Arkansas coach Extent took a lot out of him.
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  Absolutely. He was there for 48 hours.
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  And Colin? The Hogs did not work out well
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  for Dana Altman, but with him, what kind of investment are they
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  making basketball? That's a great question.
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  Obviously we know they aren't football.
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  And they're well supported in general for all their athletic.
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  Department, one would assume. With the Nike money, we know
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  that, but in comparison? Well, they continue to because
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  Phil Nice knows spring chicken, right?
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  He's in his. He's got to be in his mid 80s.
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  Doesn't he? Because my mind went to this
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  direction. Is he just taking everything at
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  this point, knowing that he's getting to the end?
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  He loves basketball, he loves track.
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  He loves a lot of things, yeah. Track is where you know he's an
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  athlete. But football is the top of the,
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  if he's saying sorry, everybody else, I am diverting everything
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  possible to football, this needs to happen.
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  This is the the final hurdle to throw the track in there for
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  this athletic department because they've been there.
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  They played for national championships, but they haven't
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  won it. And just the importance of that
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  in comparison to basketball to to everything else, that's what
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  he wants to see. And if that's the case, maybe
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  that's the reason we're seeing Oregon, because you look at that
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  Oregon roster, it's certainly not impressive.
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  No, no, I, I, I don't know what net series going to look like as
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  a, you know, dabble. You go back to, you know, that
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  team that beat Iowa in the second round of the NCAA
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  tournament, Think of the dudes that were on that team and and
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  that guys that they got that season to just how good they
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  were. You don't see the same kind.
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  Of no, no, no, no. For the Oregon team that they've
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  had a lot of guys that have come through there and you know,
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  Duarte was on that team and that guy was he was a four-star
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  coming out of high school and they had some high level
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  prospects and that's not the case with this Oregon team.
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  Are they going to invest? Brought it back with Dana
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  another year? Hey, here's a little bit more to
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  spend. I don't know but I I had the
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  same kind. Of thought as you.
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  I'm going to look how old he is. I'm going to guess Dana.
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  Phil Knight's 88, by the way. Jesus, Dana Altman's got to be.
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  He's older than I am, 68. Let me look.
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  I thought I was typing in the box, but I wasn't.
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  Oh no, that's a problem. It is he's He'll be 68 in June.
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  68 in June. 68 in June. Not a success.
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  He's been at Oregon since 2011. Has he really?
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  2010 2011 Season. Well, Oregon doesn't move the
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  needle, but they are big 10 schools, so that's why we
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  brought it up. All right, Do you want instant
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  react to what you saw? Let's get your take slow start.
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  Yep. Little frustrating down at the.
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  Half by 1 outscored them by a dozen in the second-half.
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  As you can tell, it is not good for me to be live on the air
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  when I was playing basketball. I've told you this before, Ken.
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  This is still the team. More than Iowa football, more
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  than the Twins, more than the Bears.
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  I still get this. Is your passion.
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  That ugly reaction. I am the ugly fan in game the
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  most with Iowa basketball. No, I think that I think that
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  just kind of personifies what kind of fan you are.
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  That's your team that that's if you could only watch one of your
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  teams, this would be where you are.
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  It's Iowa basketball and I know it's the time frame that I grew
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  up and it was the only sport we could watch in the winter during
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  the week and and it was who went into it.
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  Yes, there's a lot of reasons, a lot of layers behind it, but
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  even as a guy to his mid 40s, they still pissed me off.
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  And it's it's, it's really not good to be on the air.
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  What is happening? Because I was freaking out
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  during the first half as we're going out of the air and they're
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  playing like, crap, you heard me.
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  And I'm swearing at my phone as we're watching.
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  I'm watching it on my phone. They just, I still get that and
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  I love that I still have that kind of passion because you also
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  know people in this business that don't have that.
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  I mean, it gets jaded, yes, absolutely.
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  And I don't have that with Iowa basketball.
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  But when they start clicking and it's Cooper Koch, the Cooper
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  Koch story. Five of eight from 3:00 today.
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  And when they were opening things up and took that lead
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  into double figures, it was Cooper Koch and it was also bet
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  it starts fighting him. You look at the box.
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  Score 6 of 18 from the floor for Bennett Stern. 2 and 9 from 3.
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  We were both watching when he hit the 2nd 3 pointer because
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  we're both looking down and. We're both watching when he
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  threw up a three pointer late that didn't even DRY.
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  Iron, he looks tired, plays 39 minutes, got a little break in
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  the first half of that one. Now going to have to turn around
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  with an early start tomorrow against the Buckeyes.
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  He was plus 12. But yeah, it's caught shooting
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  the basketball. They're a different team.
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  We talked about the secondary scoring.
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  They need other people to step up and in this one they got
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  other people. This is also a bad Maryland
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  team. It is.
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  Don't let what we saw, I think. Manual has played well, you
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  know, down the street. He's playing, I think his best
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  basketball of the year. The way they use him at the top
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  and the top of the key when they get him the ball there.
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  His ability to, he just understands kind of the game at
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  a high level for a big guy. He doesn't handle it great, but
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  he knows what he's doing. Passing the ball, staying away
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  from the sloppy turnovers. You know, Iowa had 11 and it
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  felt like they had 11 in the 1st 8 minutes of the game.
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  They did. Trent, is that what they
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  finished up with? They had 11, They had eight.
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  I think it was at halftime and it felt like it was just, it was
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  right there from the get go. They were playing at that sloppy
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  level. Banks was good.
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  I saw him a couple of different times around the rim.
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  Made the only three pointer that he tried.
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  This is the blueprint here. This is the blueprint.
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  It's difficult to replicate what you did against Maryland against
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  everybody else because the competition is just going to get
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  deeper. Absolutely.
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  Starting with Ohio State and that Ohio State team, we saw
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  them probably their worst game the last.
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  Month and Iowa's best game. Came in that game that we saw in
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  Iowa City a couple of weeks back.
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  I mean, you look at Ohio State and what they've done now
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  recently, the Buckeyes three straight wins, including
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  throttling Purdue, you know, beating the crap out of Indiana.
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  They went to Penn State and won by 32.
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  They also have a win recently against Wisconsin.
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  They have a win against USC before the wheels had completely
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  fallen off. So give me their, give me their
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  losses. Say what?
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  How many losses did they have? They had eight losses in
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  conference. Yeah, yeah.
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  They won 12 and eight in the Big 10.
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  So going all the way back, they lost to Illinois.
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  Was that back in December? That was the December game.
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  Yep, they lost in Nebraska at Washington.
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  All right at Michigan. OK, can understand at Wisconsin.
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  I can understand Michigan again, all right at Michigan State, not
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  Iowa. They don't have a clunk.
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  They they really don't do they like Iowa now the clunker came
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  in non conference when they lost a pit.
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  But outside of that, this resume is a lot better than I How how
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  are they? How are they struggling just
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  barely above the cut line? This team should be in absolute
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  luck. I wonder metrically what it is
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  I'm going to bring up the. Because they they beat
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  Wisconsin, they got some good. Wins in there they do.
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  Have some good wins in there. They a nice win over Purdue.
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  So they're NCAA team sheet. This is with all the metrics,
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  the result based metrics, this is wins above bubble, bubble
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  that we've heard a ton. They're 35th in that metric,
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  straight to record 36 predictive.
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  Much better. Like Iowa, they're kind of in
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  the same boat. 26 at Ken Palm, 23rd at Bartorvic.
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  Is there an anchor holding them down?
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  There really isn't What will the?
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  Point spread be tomorrow on this game.
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  That is a good question. I will find it for you here.
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  And do you remember what it was when they came to Iowa City at
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  the end of February? Iowa was laying more than I
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  thought they should. 7 1/2. Was it that big?
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  Yeah. Let's see here.
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  Iowa is favored by a point at Kenpom, so which should be
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  around there? I don't get this resume at all.
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  The. The fact that there is it kind
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  of in a purgatory right now, you mean?
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  Because for the longest time, remember they didn't have a quad
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  one victory. That was a big part of it is
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  they didn't have a quad one win. Well, now they have one against
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  Purdue, they have one against Wisconsin.
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  They even have a road one against Northwestern.
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  That was the one that flipped when Wisconsin, our Northwestern
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  had upset Indiana. That became their first quad one
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  win. They got three of them.
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  Now they're 3 and 10 against quad one.
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  I guess that's the knock. A lot of opportunities and only
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  three victories. But when I look at that resume
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  this. Will be a tough spot for Iowa
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  tomorrow. It is.
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  They took Bruce Thornton completely out of that game too.
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  We remember that. And the way that that game
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  played out is Kale Combs was it up on and they didn't allow him
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  to get the ball. And when he did get the ball,
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  they double teamed, They hedged hard.
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  Now I'm going to guess the diebler is going to have a
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  counter to that. I would like to think that's the
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  case, Trent, yes. Not not.
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  To be honest, I don't love him. I think Jake Diebler sucks.
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  Do you? I mean you talk about a guy that
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  should not over matched, Yes, in comparison, look through the Big
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  10 coaches. Yeah, one of these coaches just
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  doesn't belong here. One of these coaches, just not
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  the same. Where would you rate Jake
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  Diebler in the Big 10 XS and OS? Putting a program together?
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  I mean, look. I would defer to you on that,
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  but he's not one of the the most one of the elite basketball
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  minds That first comes pops into your head when you're talking
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  about that. Brad Underwood, Darren Devries,
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  Ben McCullum, Buzz Williams. Dusty May, Tom Izzel, Nico
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  Medved, Fred Hoiberg, Chris Collins, Dana Altman, Mike
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  Rhodes. Maybe there's one painter.
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  See Pikel. I like Pikel.
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  Yes. Mick Cronin, Eric Musselman,
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  Danny Sprinkle. Gregard.
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  At best. He's 16th I think at best.
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  Maybe. Back, back to the beginning of
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  the conversation. He'll probably come up with
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  something in a staff. All right?
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  This is how we're going to counter what they did with Combs
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  and the double teams against Bruce Thornton.
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  Bruce Thornton's a stud. He didn't look like it in Iowa
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  City. I completely what?
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  Did they hold him to that game? Do you remember?
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  Did he get the double digits box?
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  Score, by the way, Iowa State. They're they're up 30.
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  Nine, 8 1/2 minutes. 723339. This had to be a double digit
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  spread obviously. Do you want to tip that was it
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  14131215? Well, I bet this one, so let me
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  see. I mean, talk about a no sweat if
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  you're on Iowa State and you laid the points.
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  It was 11 1/2. That's all.
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  That's what I laid at Circa this morning at about 8:55.
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  Do is it still can you still see the money splits?
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  Did they get much action on Arizona State?
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  Let's see, let's bring up you're We're on the fly.
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  Today, yeah, there's nobody listening.
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  Well, there is people. That's 'cause yes, yes, yes.
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  Welcome, by the way, glad you're with us.
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  Absolutely. All right, college basketball
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  lines. Let's get to the betting splits.
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  How many people were firing away today at the Sun Devils?
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  65% of the money, Iowa State, 57% of the tickets, it's like
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  43% of those people are going to be losers on those tickets.
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  It did close at 13 1/2. So yeah, there was some Iowa
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  State's team that came in from. And you got it at 11 1/2?
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  When did you get it? It was either, it was last night
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  because I bet both Iowa and Iowa State.
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  Well, I bet Maryland and Iowa State last night when they came
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  out. We wanted to hear the betting
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  split for the Iowa game. Yeah, about even 57% on
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  Maryland, but 78% of the money was on the Terrapins as they get
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  the cover. Really. 11 1/2 the closing
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  number? Just too many points.
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  They were proven right. Was it everywhere?
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  11 1/2 is that where did it close?
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  Everywhere. Everywhere.
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  It looks like. Yeah, 11 1/2 at every single
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  spot. Get the right number though.
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  Yeah, that's what it's all about in a lot of ways.
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  Absolutely. Get the right side of things and
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  you're going to be good. What were we?
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  Oh, we're looking at the box score.
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  The first time that they Ohio State and Iowa played, Bruce
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  Thornton played 37 minutes, had 10 points, three of eight from
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  the floor, a whole of two from behind the arc, only two assists
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  2. He's much better than that.
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  Yes, much better than that. They also they were playing that
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  game without Tilly, their big guy.
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  Oh, I remember that, I remember that.
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  Will he play tomorrow? Yeah, he's back out there.
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  He played in the next three games he played in.
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  So he just missed the Iowa game. He's back on the floor.
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  Yep, 20 minutes. Doesn't make a difference.
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  Yes, he plays 20 minutes a game. He scored 7:10 and 7:00 the last
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  three times out. He's a big body.
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  He's a big dude. Christopher Tilly, the Big
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  German. Listed at 7 foot 240.
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  Thick that will be different inside so man.
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  The average on the year he averaged 11:00 and 11:00 and
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  just under 5. Also remember at that time both
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  Royal and Mobley were coming off of.
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  But Royal played pretty well in that.
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  Game he did, yeah. He was about the only one on the
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  team that did play well in that game.
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  Mobley had a couple of three pointers, as he does, 'cause
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  that guy can shoot it. But I think what if almost this
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  could be a tough heel fry? Yes, it is.
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  One guy was sick and 1 was injured.
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  I think that's what it was. But regardless, don't just think
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  it's going to be replicating what you saw.
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  Plus, the Buckeyes are playing well.
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  They're playing good basketball here down the strike.
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  Well, the the saving grace in this, if we think Sturtz is
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  tired, he was. He was on the bench for a
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  minute. He only played 39 out of the 40
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  minutes. Combs played 38.
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  Koch was in there for 33 full Garris.
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  You know what he played that was against Ohio State?
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  I don't know. We'll we shall see and I will
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  will be a slight, slight favorite in the basketball game
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  tomorrow. But that's what it's currently
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  at. How about Isaiah Howard?
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  The performance that he had makes all the shots, including a
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  three pointer. That was not the traditional
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  Airball 3 from Isaiah Howard that we're used to.
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  That's about two feet deep. Not the case of this one.
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  He has couple rebounds, 3 assists, only one turnover.
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  And he's still 2 years left. He's a sophomore.
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  He's a sophomore, correct? Yes, fool Garris gave him a
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  little something off the bench in this one, but 19 assists on
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  27 made field goals shared the ball well, I like it, including
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  eight from Bennett Sturtz. And finished with 11 turnovers.
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  11 turnovers as a team and I just had the first half box
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  score when they finished with six turnovers in the first half.
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  Felt like it was a ton more a ton more during the first half
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  of this one. Still, Iowa gets it done.
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  No worries about Dayton. Now we can put that to bed.
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  It's. Too bad.
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  Not too. Bad, I know, but they're going
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  to get an 8 or the 8-9 game and anyway, all right, so one more
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  since we're kind of talking Hawks.
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  Caitlin Clark plays today really on true TV.
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  OK, I think it's true TV. It's a it's an international
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  event. Oh, with Team USA?
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  Yeah, with Team USA, Gotcha. And they played today.
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  I think it's late afternoon. I saw.
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  I want to see. I'm going to try.
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  I mean, I don't know what else is going to be going on.
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  If there's a Big 10 or Big 12 game that moves the needle a
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  little bit, but I might at least pay attention to the box score.
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  It's been a long time. She's just played.
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  That's true, Yeah. The weird shutdown last season.
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  Did they come to an agreement? I thought yesterday was the
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  deadline. WNBAI think I thought yesterday
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  in order to make the beginning of the season they had set
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  yesterday as a deadline to come to an agreement amongst the
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  players Association and the league.
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  They did miss the deadline yesterday.
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  So they won't start the league, they won't start the season on.
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  Well, they got it done today. Right, right.
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  The deadline has passed. But yes, absolutely, if they
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  even get it done. Did they negotiate into the wee
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  hours? Do you know I meant to?
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  Look at that, dammit. Let's see.
• 17:47
  This is from ESPN, says that they what we're hearing on WNBA
• 17:53
  negotiations. Two sides did meet Tuesday
• 17:56
  evening in New York. Meeting lasted 12 hours into
• 17:59
  Wednesday morning. So they're trying, but obviously
• 18:03
  no deal that is happening there. They can't have a lockout.
• 18:07
  Try it. If they do, there there, there's
• 18:08
  this. On both sides.
• 18:11
  They're cutting off their nose to spite their face.
• 18:13
  You finally have momentum to sleep for the first time in 1/4
• 18:16
  century. They've never had it before.
• 18:19
  You had the initial bump when it launched.
• 18:21
  You also had that NBC backing, which helped when the NBA
• 18:23
  mattered at the time. They got good numbers their
• 18:26
  initial and then they fell off a Cliff as happened with the XFL.
• 18:30
  A lot of new leagues we see this.
• 18:31
  You get that initial bump and then reality sense in and the
• 18:34
  reality for the last 25 years in the WNBA has nobody watched
• 18:38
  until 22 showed up and how people are watching.
• 18:41
  And that's just watching Caitlin Clark.
• 18:43
  The league has no, it's expanded.
• 18:44
  I mean, they're, it's how the fandom has expanded.
• 18:47
  Everybody now watching the sport, you're building the sport
• 18:49
  up and then you can have a labor stoppage regardless of.
• 18:53
  Worst thing that could happen? Yes.
• 18:55
  What side it's coming from. It's awful on both sides.
• 18:59
  You have to find a way. When you finally have momentum,
• 19:02
  you have to do it. Doesn't sound good right now.
• 19:04
  No, it doesn't. All right, take your time out.
• 19:06
  I'm going to try Chef and Wade looking Bill, see if he can come
• 19:08
  on because he was in the building.
• 19:10
  Let's get him for a few minutes, hopefully on the other side get
• 19:13
  his instant reaction to that game.
• 19:15
  Iowa State, they are up 40. They're up 407737 to make it. 41
• 19:23
  on the main free throw. No, no, the other way.
• 19:25
  It was the other way. 3939 What is this?
• 19:31
  I wonder how many Cyclone fans are there.
• 19:33
  It didn't look like it was filled in a ton, but it's
• 19:35
  Wednesday. Well, if if they're not there
• 19:37
  now, there will be by this time tomorrow.
• 19:39
  I would assume when they'll play Texas Tech.
• 19:41
  And certainly when. Does TJ get the starters off
• 19:43
  there? It looks like they're still
• 19:44
  playing. Bateman's in, Buchanan is in,
• 19:47
  there's Lipsy still in, there's Jefferson Monchilovich, so
• 19:51
  they're all on the floor. Probably about time, right?
• 19:54
  Yeah, you would think 6/6 and 1/2 to play time to get them out
• 19:56
  there. You mentioned coming up this
• 19:58
  afternoon. Is there anything that catches
• 20:00
  you? USC Washington's the next Big 10
• 20:02
  tournament game. No.
• 20:04
  ACCI. Like, I like Steinbach a lot for
• 20:06
  Washington. Oh yeah, as you do.
• 20:08
  SMU Louisville No, no. SCC get started at 2:00.
• 20:13
  What do we got? Mississippi State against
• 20:15
  Auburn? No, Little Stevie Pearl no,
• 20:19
  doesn't do it for you. Doesn't what?
• 20:21
  What have we got in the Big 10? There's only one game in the
• 20:23
  Big, of course there's only one game.
• 20:25
  It's it's the USC game. Yes, USC, Washington, that's
• 20:29
  coming up. Big 12, we're going to get
• 20:31
  served up next. Cincinnati, UCF, sneaky good
• 20:36
  game. That's the one.
• 20:37
  Because I keep trying to get Cincinnati in the tournament,
• 20:40
  they're not going to get in there.
• 20:41
  I think send is where's Central Florida?
• 20:43
  Are they in? They're on the right side of the
• 20:45
  bubble. They're on the right side of the
• 20:46
  bubble. Yep.
• 20:46
  So you root for Central Florida may not root.
• 20:48
  Just to lock up another bid, Yeah.
• 20:50
  And for UCF, I think a win there.
• 20:52
  I like Central Florida. I like Cincinnati.
• 20:55
  Keep them out of date and I think for UCF too if they get
• 20:57
  that victory. What game's that tip or what
• 21:00
  time's that game? Tip 2:00, right after the Iowa
• 21:02
  State game. That'll be the next one up.
• 21:04
  Yeah, I think that's where the intrigue is not a great.
• 21:07
  To see Team USA have. To get a start time on that.
• 21:11
  I think it's 330 trend. I think it's around there.
• 21:13
  Then this evening in the conference tournaments.
• 21:15
  I'm going to watch the Minnesota game, the Minnesota that's late.
• 21:18
  It's it's 8:00 tip. That's the 8:00 tip.
• 21:21
  And they play Rutgers. Yes, you're going to be involved
• 21:24
  in that. That's where I was.
• 21:25
  That's where I plan to spend tonight.
• 21:26
  Well, how about you start your evening?
• 21:29
  What's the Big 12 serving up? The Big 12 is going to give you
• 21:33
  as I scroll through here, what is the next game in the Big 12?
• 21:37
  Oh, BYU, West Virginia. All right, and the Big 10 will
• 21:39
  have what, at 6:00? 6:00 Big 10 will have the
• 21:43
  Indiana Hoosiers trying to end A6 game losing streak against
• 21:47
  Northwestern. I you know what?
• 21:48
  I'm going to watch that game. I am too.
• 21:50
  Yeah, I'm going to watch that. Game like watching Martinelli.
• 21:52
  And I love Martinelli. Yes.
• 21:53
  Did he finish as the leading scorer in the conference?
• 21:55
  He was there the whole year, Trent, the whole year.
• 21:58
  Martinelli was, I mean on a bad basketball team, was leading the
• 22:02
  Big 10 in scoring. And he did.
• 22:04
  He finished up on top. Good for him, yeah.
• 22:06
  Beat Wilkerson in the end 22.8 per game for Martinelli
• 22:10
  Wilkerson. Rodney Rice, though he only
• 22:12
  played in six games, was the third leading scorer in the
• 22:15
  league. And they still list him.
• 22:16
  Yeah, and. 3rd in the league of guys that actually played.
• 22:20
  Bet it starts 20.2. All right, we'll take.
• 22:23
  Not very good though, according to SIP.
• 22:25
  I had him yesterday. You, you had to push back.
• 22:27
  You were not. You no, no, no.
• 22:29
  I I agreed with SIP, I agreed with Sip and I disagreed with
• 22:32
  Sip. What what Sip said was he's not
• 22:35
  better than Steve Smith. He's not better than.
• 22:37
  He's not better than that, Pierce.
• 22:39
  Right, right. And those were the guys that
• 22:42
  were included in the conversation.
• 22:44
  So I agreed with him on this. At the same time, I said, sip,
• 22:47
  he's the Most Valuable Player in the conference and Sip agree,
• 22:52
  SIP agree he's and and kind of like what we saw today.
• 22:56
  We saw his Sip thought it was a tired Bennett Sturtz.
• 22:58
  He didn't have his best game. So I think what he said, it came
• 23:03
  out wrong and he kind of felt like he had a little mea culpa.
• 23:09
  Yesterday. All right.
• 23:10
  From from sip, but when when I saw the players that were that
• 23:14
  he listed OK, Sip, you're right. If you only consider those,
• 23:18
  those are the only right college basketball players that have
• 23:20
  come through there, yes. And I think that's how we put
• 23:23
  it, yes. And Sturtz isn't one of those.
• 23:24
  OK, you're right about that. Yeah, but he's a hell of a
• 23:27
  player. Now, he also threw Cassius
• 23:28
  Winston in that mix. No, he's a good.
• 23:30
  I mean, Cassius Winston, didn't he?
• 23:31
  He was a good player. Didn't his team have some
• 23:33
  success though? Did they?
• 23:34
  How far did they go? Did he win the national
• 23:36
  championship? No.
• 23:37
  A Big 10 championship? Yeah, they must have.
• 23:39
  Oh, maybe. Probably they did win a big
• 23:41
  trend championship. No, it's been our national
• 23:44
  championships been too long. But Team Cleaves was the last
• 23:46
  point guard to win a national championship in the Big 10.
• 23:49
  But no, he he was, he was sip. I like SIP.
• 23:53
  Yeah, I like SIP too. I like give it sip a hard time.
• 23:56
  No, I know. Will you continue to have sip
• 23:59
  on? Oh, absolutely.
• 24:00
  Even Nebraska, maybe not weekly or whatever.
• 24:02
  Yeah, maybe. Bi weekly something like that
• 24:03
  yeah we'll we'll definitely get sip in the mix though not going
• 24:06
  to have them for like the central we.
• 24:07
  Got that Sioux? City of Phil, we need to do
• 24:09
  that. Absolutely.
• 24:10
  Might be making a call over to Condon Auto, see what we can do
• 24:13
  over there. Is there one?
• 24:14
  There's a dealership, Yeah, with my last name.
• 24:16
  But they don't. I mean, are you looking for a
• 24:17
  spokesman? Well.
• 24:18
  What's better? And if you're looking for a new
• 24:20
  vehicle over in the western part of the state, that's right, no
• 24:23
  further than Condon Auto where their deals are real.
• 24:26
  Who is that here? That was.
• 24:28
  I don't remember that one. It was the Ford dealership on
• 24:34
  8th. Street.
• 24:35
  Oh yeah, you're going way. Back.
• 24:36
  No, no, no, I'm not. It was it was.
• 24:38
  It was the tall black dude. The spokesman, the gal from
• 24:41
  Channel 13, was married to him. You're speaking.
• 24:45
  No, I want to get this. I want my I want my brain to
• 24:48
  work. OK.
• 24:51
  Just off 235 on 8th St. there was a Ford dealership right
• 24:55
  across the street from Jimmy's American Grill, or I think it
• 24:58
  was Jimmy's. Yeah, it was Jimmy.
• 25:00
  Oh, he's on the tip of my tongue.
• 25:01
  That dealership was not there when.
• 25:03
  I I'm not sure it's, I'm not sure it's still.
• 25:04
  Well, it's not because 20 years ago when I moved here, it
• 25:07
  wasn't. All it had to have been 20 years
• 25:09
  ago. Yeah, I think it is. 8th St. and
• 25:12
  235 big dude. You lost me.
• 25:18
  Married to Courtney Maxwell. OK, don't know that name.
• 25:21
  She was. At Channel 13, our deals are
• 25:26
  real. Thank you.
• 25:27
  Jeff Holdorf, Franklin Green. Yeah, that sounds me.
• 25:31
  You don't me or our deals are real.
• 25:35
  God, when there's no sports to talk about, folks, this is where
• 25:37
  we get to Miller and Condon. Glad you're with us on the Iowa
• 25:40
  Sports Radio Network. Hillary Khan did welcome back
• 25:48
  Iowa Sports Radio Network clones by 44.
• 25:52
  Incredible. It truly is the Arizona State
• 25:54
  guys, some tears coming down as they're making their way to the
• 25:56
  bench. Check that 47.
• 26:00
  This will help out their metrics immensely.
• 26:03
  God, let's go to Chicago. Wade Lookingbill was in the
• 26:06
  United Center. Former Hawkeye Wade Lookingbill,
• 26:08
  who joined me prior to the tournament getting under way
• 26:11
  before he made his way to the Windy City.
• 26:14
  Boy wasn't the start that Hawkeye fans wanted to see, but
• 26:17
  once they got things rolling, it was look out below.
• 26:21
  Nice win for Iowa as they move on to take Ohio State.
• 26:24
  How was the crowd? First of all, Wade, what was the
• 26:27
  building like? Yeah, Hey, guys.
• 26:29
  You know what, not a lot of Maryland fans as you would
• 26:32
  probably expect. There were maybe 11, you know,
• 26:36
  maybe double, double digits. But I was I was pretty strong.
• 26:40
  I was pretty strong. I I think it's something where
• 26:42
  every game now it's going to be a little more, a little more,
• 26:45
  you know, and that that early games are always tough because,
• 26:48
  you know, it's just it's just an early start.
• 26:50
  So guys don't want to come to that one if they're going to be
• 26:52
  there for the afternoon. But so I'll win for the Hawks,
• 26:55
  survive in advance, and you know, we'll see about tomorrow.
• 26:57
  Absolutely. We saw Bennett Sturt took a
• 26:59
  break during the first half, something that is a reality as
• 27:02
  he sat over just a minute officially in the box score in
• 27:06
  this one couple of times, not a lot of lift, had an air ball and
• 27:09
  an open 3 pointer during the second-half of this one.
• 27:13
  Betting starts, he doesn't get tired, but boy, looking a little
• 27:17
  bit worn down here at the end of the season.
• 27:18
  What have you seen from the Hawkeye point guard?
• 27:22
  Yeah, Ken and I talked about that yesterday.
• 27:24
  I think it's something where the physicality in this league is
• 27:29
  different than what he's seen at the levels he's been at before.
• 27:32
  I think that's one thing. I think there's a lot of tape
• 27:36
  out there on him now where there wasn't, you know, when they
• 27:38
  faced UCLA and and Donovan Denton, he had 22 in the
• 27:43
  second-half of that game. That was two or three months
• 27:45
  ago, but I don't know what he finished with, but 18-7 and
• 27:49
  eight or something like that. And I thought it with a solid
• 27:52
  win and it was something where the game wasn't super fast 1/2
• 27:56
  time for longer now in these tournaments, you know, I, I, I
• 28:00
  think he'll be fine. And I thought the team looked
• 28:02
  looked really good today. Cooper Koch making his shots,
• 28:05
  It's good to see. It's not the first time he's
• 28:07
  been doing. He's kind of, you know, he had
• 28:08
  that low, right, Wade, early February when his shots weren't
• 28:12
  falling. He's starting to get concerned,
• 28:14
  at least I was. But as of late, Koch is doing
• 28:18
  what everybody knew he could do and that was make some threes.
• 28:21
  And he's been really good as of late.
• 28:23
  Yeah, you know, and we again, he's a freshman, you know, you
• 28:26
  forget it's a long season. You know, he played, what, six
• 28:29
  or seven games last year then shut it down.
• 28:31
  So this is his first year being in that, you know, practice
• 28:35
  starts October 15th at the Grind.
• 28:37
  We're traveling over break, you know, all this stuff that's
• 28:40
  going on. So I think he got a little
• 28:42
  tired, but boy, he was good again today.
• 28:44
  Like he was good at Nebraska. And, you know, if it was a game
• 28:48
  they won and, and Bennett didn't get 33, you know, and Maryland's
• 28:52
  got some dudes, they got some athletes and that's that start
• 28:55
  of that second-half, They looked really good.
• 28:58
  Got it going. It was a lot of Cooper catch
• 29:00
  knocking out three pointers on top of it.
• 29:01
  Also getting to the rim and Wade, our conversations, you
• 29:05
  know this team, they're still not a great 3 point shooting
• 29:08
  team. They're OK, but that is not
• 29:09
  their best. I think they're at their best
• 29:11
  when they're getting to the rim, when they're getting into the
• 29:14
  paint and it doesn't have to be a layup every time or a dunk
• 29:16
  every time, but just getting in there closer.
• 29:19
  They've been incredibly effective in this one, including
• 29:21
  today. 36 points in the paint against a pretty big Maryland
• 29:24
  team. I still maintain that's the key
• 29:26
  for success. Too much relying on the
• 29:28
  three-point shot doesn't seem like the best idea for this Iowa
• 29:31
  team. Yeah, that's the start of that
• 29:33
  second-half. They ran that pick and roll with
• 29:35
  Cam Manuel two or three times, like he got a dunk, got a foul,
• 29:40
  you know, just kind of set the tone at that first half.
• 29:42
  They were having to work really hard for their baskets and and I
• 29:46
  I think there's an advantage for Maryland having played
• 29:49
  yesterday, you know, they you know that it's just a quick turn
• 29:52
  around. Iowa looked a little rusty that
• 29:54
  first really that first 15 minutes, I think they were down
• 29:56
  2010 or 12 points. But and you know, it's something
• 30:00
  where they they they beat a pretty good team that that's got
• 30:04
  some decent wins without Bennett going crazy.
• 30:08
  Pulgaris wasn't great today, but he didn't have to be.
• 30:10
  But again, it was Tavian Banks, our Cam manual stuff, Cooper Cox
• 30:13
  like he talked about. And of course, you know Bennett
• 30:15
  did his thing. Yeah, no doubt about it.
• 30:17
  Well, let's Fast forward to Ohio State.
• 30:19
  As Trent and I talked about in the first hour when it seemed as
• 30:22
  though I was going to, you know, put this game away, that might
• 30:25
  have been. I was.
• 30:26
  One of their best games of the year is when the Buckeyes
• 30:28
  visited Carver Hawkeye. The big guy is back for for Ohio
• 30:32
  State, this will be a different look tougher game tomorrow than
• 30:35
  the one that took place a couple of weeks back.
• 30:38
  Yeah, I think so. We we were in Iowa City for that
• 30:40
  game that that Wednesday against the house.
• 30:43
  It was just a weird feel house. It looked like a JVT and they
• 30:46
  just look lost. But give Iowa some credit cuz I
• 30:49
  think it was something that they did defensively against that
• 30:52
  team. Bruce Thornton is a load.
• 30:54
  I mean he is a big, strong dude and they got McDonald's all
• 30:57
  Americans on that team. That being said, I think it's a
• 31:00
  good match up for Iowa. I think it's something where you
• 31:03
  know, their, their bakes can't come out and, and guard Fulgaris
• 31:07
  or Cooper Koch on Iowa's offensive end.
• 31:10
  Now they're they're big and strong inside with their
• 31:12
  rebounding, but I like the match ups.
• 31:14
  But they can that one and then, you know, Michigan the next day,
• 31:19
  you know, see what happens. I think it's house money at that
• 31:22
  point. And and even if they come out
• 31:24
  tomorrow, lose a close one, that's not the worst thing in
• 31:28
  the world. You know, I just, I just like
• 31:30
  the way they're putting pieces together, putting things
• 31:33
  together and and it's just another solid win.
• 31:36
  It was it was ugly the 1st 15 minutes, but it's the Iowa way.
• 31:41
  We're we got to head down to Kansas City as Iowa State has
• 31:44
  wrapped up. They just crush Arizona State.
• 31:47
  Where's where? Where's That's unbelievable.
• 31:49
  Where's dinner tonight in Chicago?
• 31:51
  Yeah, where you, you know, we got to figure something out.
• 31:53
  We get well, we got to walk our dog, We travel with our dog.
• 31:56
  Nice. Let's get Jimmy John's for
• 31:58
  lunch. Yeah, Jimmy John's.
• 31:59
  And then we got snow flurries here, So.
• 32:01
  But I'm sure we'll find something.
• 32:03
  It's hard not to in Chicago. Good stuff.
• 32:05
  Way looking, Bill. Thanks for popping on buddy.
• 32:06
  Appreciate. It, Yeah.
• 32:07
  Thanks guys. All right, Appreciate it.
• 32:08
  Thank you. Bye.
• 32:09
  Bye. Good to talk to you.
• 32:11
  This from Jeff Holdorf. Most lopsided win in Big 12
• 32:13
  tournament plays, 4343 point margin.
• 32:17
  That record has fallen by the wayside.
• 32:20
  Final 9142 Iowa State with the victory now taking a look at
• 32:27
  some of the box score numbers from this one you talk about
• 32:29
  ridiculous I can only. Imagine.
• 32:32
  So Iowa State shoots 51% from the floor and 32 percent on the
• 32:37
  other side for Arizona State. So not a a big difference
• 32:41
  between the two. How about Arizona State though
• 32:43
  going one of 19 from the three-point line, 1 of 19 from
• 32:48
  behind the arc for the Sun Devils.
• 32:50
  Iowa State counters 10 of 25 from back behind there. 23
• 32:54
  turnovers also for Arizona State, as it was ugly, ugly,
• 32:59
  ugly, though the game was tied for two minutes and two seconds.
• 33:03
  Let's go down there. Alec Bussey, of course, mornings
• 33:05
  with Heather on the first quarter in the 24/7 sport.
• 33:09
  Alec, thanks for giving me a few, giving us a few minutes as
• 33:11
  you head down to the post game interviews.
• 33:14
  What a lopsider, what a laugher. To begin Big 12 conference play.
• 33:18
  Let me start a safe question and ask Wade, he's in Chicago.
• 33:21
  Cyclone fans, have they made their way to Kansas City yet or
• 33:24
  will they be coming in mass now in advance of the Texas Tech
• 33:28
  game? What was the building like,
• 33:29
  Alec? Yeah, I mean, there was
• 33:31
  definitely, I would say fans there to celebrate the big win.
• 33:33
  I mean, can't think of a better way to start the Big 12
• 33:35
  tournament for Iowa State with a just clear dominant win.
• 33:39
  I mean, there's no other adjectives to describe what I
• 33:42
  would say just did Arizona State and just completely dominant.
• 33:45
  And I think the cycle and fans were in attendance were able to
• 33:47
  come see it and enjoy it and there was a good amount.
• 33:49
  And if I would say continues to play, more and more of them are
• 33:51
  going to show up inside of T-Mobile Center.
• 33:53
  Yeah, it builds and we see that year after year when they make
• 33:55
  those of the people. Well, I couldn't get Thursday
• 33:57
  off, I couldn't get Friday off, but they could even make it for
• 34:00
  the Champions chip game. With that, it would be 4 games
• 34:03
  in four days if they're going to get to a championship game.
• 34:06
  Ken and I looked up at one point, there was like 6 1/2
• 34:08
  minutes left. The starters were still in
• 34:10
  there. They're like 40.
• 34:11
  OK, kind of what's going on? Still looking.
• 34:13
  Nobody played more than 31 minutes in the game.
• 34:15
  That was Jeff Jefferson and Manchilovich, who both played
• 34:18
  3130 out of Lipsy. It doesn't feel like that big of
• 34:21
  a deal, but Texas Tech tomorrow certainly going to be one That
• 34:24
  path though, four wins in four days.
• 34:27
  Do you think this Cyclone team has it in them?
• 34:30
  Yeah, I mean, it's a really difficult path if I would say
• 34:32
  it's going to get there. I mean, I think the Texas Tech
• 34:34
  match up tomorrow that I would say just want its way into is a
• 34:38
  pretty difficult match up for the Cyclones from their
• 34:40
  defensive perspectives. The way that Texas Tech attacks
• 34:43
  teams offensively is kind of a difficult match up for Iowa
• 34:46
  State. Red Raiders move the ball all
• 34:48
  over the floor. They hit the week sized shooter
• 34:51
  and because I would say it almost over rotates defensively,
• 34:53
  it leaves the weak side of the floor open for shooters.
• 34:55
  So I think that's one of the reasons why you saw Texas Tech
• 34:58
  make 14 three pointers in the first matchup between these two
• 35:01
  teams. And I would say it's going to
• 35:03
  have to be better with his rotations.
• 35:05
  I remember hearing TJ Alzberg and their players speak after
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  the first matchup between these two teams saying that he felt
• 35:12
  like the players felt like the rotations needed to be better.
• 35:15
  I think that's an accurate assumption that I would say it's
• 35:17
  going to have to focus on that better against Texas Tech here
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  tomorrow. Once you get to your post game,
• 35:23
  Blake Buchanan, how would you? How would you?
• 35:25
  What would you say about his game today?
• 35:28
  Yeah, I mean, I think it was probably the best game of the
• 35:29
  year. I think it was for. 17 points,
• 35:31
  that's the season high for him. He also had six rebounds for the
• 35:34
  Cyclones pose great energy. Obviously had another dust up
• 35:38
  with Osama Jopp on the inside. He's obviously someone who it's
• 35:43
  going to be highly paid, I guess you'd say if you're an easy.
• 35:46
  I've had an opportunity here in the last four days to get a
• 35:49
  couple technical fouls against the Iowa State had the hard foul
• 35:52
  on Buchanan here today under the rim on a dunk attempt for for
• 35:57
  the Iowa State center. But yeah, Blake McCann was
• 36:00
  awesome today when he plays that well and when Iowa State plays
• 36:02
  that well, they certainly capable of playing deep into
• 36:05
  March and. Potentially in April.
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  Go do your thing. Thanks for giving us a couple of
• 36:09
  minutes out. Appreciate it.
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  Yeah. Thank you, guys.
• 36:11
  Have a great day. Yep, you're the same.
• 36:13
  Alec Bussey, 24/7 Sports, cyclonealert.com and of course,
• 36:18
  mornings with Heather Burnside. First quarter 6 until 9 Iowa
• 36:22
  State Texas Tech line tomorrow would be what?
• 36:25
  Great question. Now, I do not believe baked in
• 36:29
  JT Toppen, though we asked he's only about a one point.
• 36:33
  Does that did that surprise you? Yes.
• 36:35
  Me. Too, I thought it was going to
• 36:37
  be about as significant of one as.
• 36:39
  Could be, yeah. But not the case.
• 36:42
  We overtime a lot of times overrate those injuries and what
• 36:46
  they mean for teams. Currently, Ken Palm has his
• 36:49
  rating at 3. Iowa State, a three-point
• 36:52
  favorite on the neutral. Floor.
• 36:54
  Somewhere around that. Somewhere around there.
• 36:57
  Maybe 3 1/2, four and a half, you know, in that range.
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  I, I wouldn't be shocked by that.
• 37:02
  Plus, what do you throw in this? I mean, you talk about betting
• 37:04
  public. People are going to want to jump
• 37:05
  on a team that won't. Oh yeah, that's a great point.
• 37:08
  We know betting public, yeah, The way that they're very
• 37:11
  quickly swayed on things and what happened lately, that
• 37:14
  matters almost more than anything when it comes to
• 37:16
  gambling. Did NC State come back and win
• 37:18
  that? Game they did.
• 37:19
  Yeah. How about that?
• 37:20
  Yeah, they were up. Oh, they got up. 50, they got up
• 37:22
  by 1, by 10, yeah. Yeah, they dominated that one.
• 37:26
  We're underway in game two of the Big 10 Tournament as it is
• 37:30
  USC and Washington. The Trojans out to a 12/10 lead
• 37:34
  in that one in the. And that's also Peacock.
• 37:37
  Yes, also Peacock and down at the wire.
• 37:40
  Kentucky is going to survive LSU, that Kentucky team.
• 37:44
  Oh. Disappointing.
• 37:45
  How much money they? Spend Oh my God, disappointing
• 37:49
  this year and. Pope, it's going to be fielding.
• 37:53
  Yeah, yes, yes, without a doubt. Kentucky's different.
• 37:55
  It's very different. Is it as different as any
• 37:58
  program in college basketball? It Yeah.
• 38:05
  Duke was a guy. They had success before K, but
• 38:07
  he built it into another level and we've just seen one guy.
• 38:11
  After I mean yes, I think the answer is yes.
• 38:15
  Plus, we're talking about a small private school in Duke,
• 38:17
  right? Kentucky is the lifeblood,
• 38:19
  right, of what they are. Yukon.
• 38:22
  Yeah, there's pressure, but I think it's different.
• 38:25
  I think it is too when you mean there you go back to to Rupp.
• 38:28
  Yes, right, 22,000 every night. So that's the bluest of blue
• 38:35
  Blues, I think. I think the pressure that comes
• 38:37
  along. With it, I agree.
• 38:38
  What is that job in college football?
• 38:42
  That's a great question. What is?
• 38:46
  Well. Jeez, it should be.
• 38:53
  And it maybe used to be the Huskers to an extent because of
• 38:57
  their success. Because it's Nebraska football
• 39:00
  and that's it. Kentucky football is
• 39:05
  meaningless. Right.
• 39:07
  Yeah. What is that change And
• 39:08
  Nebraska? Basketball's been needless until
• 39:10
  this year. Until, yeah, until Hoyburg.
• 39:12
  They've never won a tournament, right?
• 39:13
  That's probably going to change this year, I hope.
• 39:16
  UCLA. UCLA used to be that.
• 39:19
  But it's not football too. No, there's no, there's no
• 39:22
  Kentucky's on its own level. And on the football, I think the
• 39:25
  football side's Alabama. And though they've had success
• 39:27
  basketball recently with NATO, it's on what they've done.
• 39:30
  Just the pressure cookers. Alabama, I think you're right.
• 39:32
  If it's not Alabama, it's probably an SEC team.
• 39:35
  I think so Ohio State would be the only one I could think of
• 39:37
  away from that. They've had some downturns, but
• 39:41
  not at the level and they're we're we're going back a long
• 39:44
  time. They John Cooper just couldn't
• 39:47
  beat Michigan. That was his problem.
• 39:49
  Had great teams but before that they had some lean.
• 39:53
  Years in there. Fair.
• 39:54
  All right, take your time out. You've had some lean weeks, but
• 39:56
  this year you're this week rather you're seeing it.
• 39:58
  We're red hot. Absolutely.
• 40:01
  If you want to climb a board and tail them this week, not fade
• 40:04
  them, oh boy, pressure's on. You're putting the pressure on
• 40:06
  me. You feel like I'm an Alabama
• 40:08
  coach. On the Iowa Sports Radio
• 40:10
  Network. All right, final couple of
• 40:17
  minutes of our program coming up next off the bench on Roberts,
• 40:21
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• 40:28
  It is your plays of the day. You'll have more coming up over
• 40:32
  the weekend, more opportunities, more games.
• 40:35
  God this is such a fun weekend to be in Vegas.
• 40:37
  This is the time where I had, I believe, my greatest gambling
• 40:41
  day ever. I think it was on the Friday of
• 40:44
  conference tournament week. When we were out there.
• 40:47
  No random day probably a decade ago, something like that, and I
• 40:52
  was still working at the school. So we had it been more than a
• 40:55
  decade ago and I went, I think it was on Friday 27 and five
• 41:02
  against the spread. I bet seemingly almost every
• 41:05
  single game that's on the. Board there's like 30 something
• 41:07
  games. That day and it was a ridiculous
• 41:10
  and it was I mean every miss free throw went my way down the
• 41:12
  stretch, every team that let the clock run out instead of I mean,
• 41:16
  you talk about getting every single break and as just
• 41:20
  everything going your way throughout the course of the
• 41:22
  day. Now, I promptly gave it back,
• 41:23
  you know, a couple days later, I'm sure, but that's the way
• 41:26
  that it goes. But that was one of the most fun
• 41:29
  days. And for college basketball, we
• 41:31
  know how things come down to the wire, and it just all followed
• 41:33
  that way. Alas, don't think that'll be
• 41:35
  happening coming up, but we're off to a good start today.
• 41:37
  By the way, FanDuel has Iowa 1 1/2. 1 1/2 it is out.
• 41:43
  And Iowa State 4 1/2. We're and 1/2 in that one.
• 41:47
  So we were right on right around the Ken Palm number and got a
• 41:50
  tilted maybe the way we thought Tilly being back for Ohio State.
• 41:53
  That's going to be a difference and probably going to have to
• 41:55
  come up with a different type of game plan to keep Bruce Thornton
• 41:59
  not involved in that one, but we'll be back at it 11:00 with
• 42:03
  the tip of that one. Speaking of back at it, back for
• 42:05
  state basketball tomorrow. Game Game 2 will be heard here.
• 42:10
  Game 2 with Johnston and Waukee. 12:15 with the tip, we'll get
• 42:14
  things started to you and I right at noon before that. 10:30
• 42:17
  on 96.9 FM, I'll bring you Dowling Catholic against #1
• 42:21
  Cedar Falls picks for today. 4 left on the docket so far.
• 42:24
  I'm going to grab UCF and the points against Cincinnati coming
• 42:28
  up here in just a couple minutes with the tip off that one.
• 42:30
  Northwestern's one six in a row against Indiana.
• 42:33
  I got to grab the 6 1/2 against the Hoosiers, but if it happens,
• 42:37
  we know it's going to be an odd slide.
• 42:38
  I think for Indiana, if they win, they're going to win
• 42:41
  comfortably. I don't think it's going to be 1
• 42:42
  down to the wire. Going to grab the points with
• 42:44
  Rutgers tonight. We're getting 5 1/2.
• 42:46
  Minnesota a different team away from the barn.
• 42:48
  So both dogs in the Big 10. And wrap it up a little late
• 42:52
  night action as we go out to the big W Give me you see San Diego,
• 42:58
  they're laying getting 5 1/2 against Cal Santa.
• 43:01
  Barbara, all right off the bench.
• 43:03
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• 43:05
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• 43:09
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