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[SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every Wednesday on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back Purdue fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for this week's Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jake, welcome back to another Purdue Report and as we talked about on my new podcast breaking his friends, talks forks on Sunday, Purdue ended their game, losing streak with a 30-point win at Maryland, a not good Maryland team, so it didn't tell us much, but better to win than lose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to go back a real faster than the beginning of the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had Purdue at 22 at 0.0 at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just wanted to remind of everybody that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Clearly, we're not going to get that type of team as I thought we might be an all-timeer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But clearly a national contender still Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I want to examine the question to what level.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are they still a big tin contender?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are they a final four national championship contender?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are they even the best team in the big tin?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And those are the questions I want to ask Jake Dunn and really more than that discuss with Jake Dunn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jake, welcome back and it was more of a relief than anything Sunday wasn't it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Really good to see the team have that sort of performance reminds me of the Texas tech game
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fletcher lawyer got back in the group.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we couldn't see him going.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Braden Smith played really well on both sides of the ball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Really he obviously had a good offensive game, but also had a good defensive game too with his effort and that translated to other players on the floor as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So really good to see that type of performance from the team again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would expect kind of coming up here this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to have a very similar performance against a work in a home and then we go into probably the roughest stretch of a freeze season year over the next five games or so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad they're going right into the fire here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We need to know, is this team going to be any good or not?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to find out when they play Nebraska.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, Michigan
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[SPEAKER_01]: All back to back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, let's go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It'd be nice to not have a slump, but every team's going to have a little bit of a slump there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And did to have a couple of get right games here against Maryland in Oregon to then prepare to go into the into the me to the schedule here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're over halfway through the conference season and here in a is five weeks or so we're going to be in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: conference term and then March Madness time and for no college basketball season will be over so just trying to try and enjoy it here and hopefully we can see as per new team make it back to Andy in the further final four.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Jake, we haven't checked your confidence, oh, meter in a while.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, mine at the beginning of the season was at 100.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had no doubt this team was a team of destiny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to win the national championship.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right now, I put mine at about 43.9 that their national championship level contender.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I've gone way down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I still believe they can be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe in Matt Painter, I believe in Braiden Smith.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I still believe in my heart, they're going to be a contender, but Jake, where's your confidence on a scale of 1 to 100?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, I say probably a 40, it's a pretty pretty close story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You were at the start of the season, certainly was.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a little bit of a higher number, I don't know if I would've been a hundred percent, that they're going to buy it, but they're only two games behind Michigan and Illinois for the top of the conference.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Would have really liked to win that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What I can still annoy it, till it be down one game, and then you still have Michigan at home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also Michigan State at home too, but Purdue still controls the destiny has to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: essentially perfect from from here on out, probably for a chance to contend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's about?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, can they do it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, odds are probably not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's still the big tin tournament, which produce only only one a couple times in that painters tenure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And obviously, the big prizes is March.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, if the slump here in January allows us to go far in March.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jack, I want to get your opinions on what you've seen from the Big Ten, because I've seen a lot more of late.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I have some views to share from what I've seen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the issue is there are still two or three things that they haven't figured out that have kind of been lingering issues that you kind of expected him to figure out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But there's still plenty of season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You kind of trust Matt Painter to figure him out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, offensive rebound, or I say that defensive rebounding, keeping the other team off the offensive boards and in particular.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Maryland wasn't good enough to take advantage of it, but the wide open three point shooting part of it against UCLA and USC and Penn State and I when all those teams getting hot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: was that they just had guys who had good games, but part of it is they're getting some pretty open looks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How concerning is the perimeter defense for you at this point?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we saw a little bit of an improvement to make here from Maryland.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We saw that in that game that we still have awful lot of wide open shots for Maryland.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They just couldn't make them in and that's something
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I thought we saw a little bit of a improvement on from a defensive standpoint for Purdue not switching everything like they had been doing still a little bit of a concern for me certainly, especially as if we get into in the March where it's a winner go home, so stakes are way higher than what they are here in the regular season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: no more looks from three, then they close the basket.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But teams sending a hot march and if you're given up on a threes, and you're not making your shots and turn them all over, then that's a, it can turn out to be a pretty bad recipe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the term, as we've seen historically, here from produce sometimes, still a little bit of concern for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a sweet 16, if not in lead 18, especially if they can keep playing like they did here against Maryland.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's pessimistic as I am compared to the beginning of the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I still do believe if you gave me one team I would take for do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I still think that I just think there are a lot of really good teams, and I have no idea which one is the best.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Duke has looked really solid too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's a lot of Illinois here might be the hottest team in the country as of right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Kansas and North Carolina suddenly are playing pretty well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Texas Tech is suddenly playing pretty well again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they'll start discounted this Nebraska team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've been short handed this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They lost twice, but they're really good, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's that's a game that, you know, the start of the season we kind of called out a little bit
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[SPEAKER_00]: a, you know, that's usually a fairly tough place to play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You do, as it hasn't, it should clarify their eye.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I called that out as a, as it's kind of a tough game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It might as Oregon, you know, ask a, it tells you what I know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They kind of high on Nebraska all season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like I said, they've been short handed year and drop a couple, but still necessarily one of the best teams in the big 10 and one of the best teams in
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[SPEAKER_00]: going to be a tough one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's hopefully this is where you're your expertise and an experience as a senior, you know, comes in how you've, you know, four out of the starting five or seniors here for Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you open in a game and admire me like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's that's one that you can come out with a win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My pain is the best making adjustments.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there's any coach in the country.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's better
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's one that's glaring and it's out there and it's been talked about, I don't think we've discussed it very much and that's that maybe Oscar Cluff and Tracop and Rindome belong next to each other, you're thoughts on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a little bit easier to to look at TKR next to a true big man when the true big man is that key to and there's a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: more game complement them there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We never really solid trick often ran to develop a three point shot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If that would have materialized, I think you could probably be a little bit better with fit next roster class, but I saw an IU game late when Purdue kind of went to TKR at the five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They played better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Masterclass is still a very good player.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's like a things here for Purdue, but he does a little bit of a liability on the defensive end, the least on the
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[SPEAKER_00]: but we're TKR is a little more switchable under some of these guards down the stretch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have some gloves that brings a lot to the table from a rebounding perspective.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's hard to replicate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think from an off at some standpoint, sometimes are gonna need TKR out there at the five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not having any time to score in the ball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna need your best players out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: TKR at the five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People have been pretty impressed with Jack Banner at the four, so he brings a lot of a lot of good things to the table and excited to see all his career progressives here under Matt Painter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: More Benter minutes, more Meyer minutes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I think.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It looked really good on Sunday as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know we only get Oscar cloth for one year, but I'm
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[SPEAKER_00]: kind of prospects that produce bringing in through the high school recruiting rings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, we haven't talked about it much because he's redshurning, but Raleigh Burgess, I think he, I guess this red shirt season, if he's anything like TKR's red shirt season, it would be a good thing for him, people who do red shirt under Matt Paine are typically to be better off for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think you can be a factor either at the four or the five next
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[SPEAKER_00]: going to be a lives in kind of your three star players.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I still have some good pieces on the roster and some good pieces coming in where you still a still be a top 25 team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jake, I promise this is not related.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just made me think of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not piling on Oscar Cluffier, but I caught Will Berg the other day and he's playing awfully well at which it does date.
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[SPEAKER_00]: use a guy that that I thought would have put it together a little bit more than he did a Purdue, especially with with Purdue's coaching staff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's the decrease level of competition or what that's kind of allowed him to play really well, but in a he moves really well for a size.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You did do some good things that Purdue and showed some flashes sometimes, but never could really just kind of put it all together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So happy for the kid,
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[SPEAKER_00]: pretty good kid and I said you'd be pretty well-liked in the program and glad you're as glad you're doing well, which shall stay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Last two games, six for eight, 16 points, six rebounds in a loss against a good Tulsa team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the game before that 15-point win over Memphis, 10 points, 10 rebounds, four assists.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been playing really well, Blake, for which to stay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Jake, going to take a quick break here when we come back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about the big tin and how you think it stacks up at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, welcome back, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And through most teams, having played 11 big 10 games, Michigan and Illinois tied it off the standings, a 10-in-1, Michigan ranked second Illinois ranked fifth, ninth ranked Nebraska 10th ranked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Michigan State are both 9 and 2, number 12 for do, and Wisconsin are 8 and 3.
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[SPEAKER_01]: UCLA is a and 4 IU trying to get to 7 and 5 as we speak, laying out at USC.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe you couldn't include any of these you might didn't mention there, but Jake, your thoughts on the elite teams and the big 10, and maybe who's a little better and who's not as good as you thought coming into the season?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we talked about it towards being a season that I thought and still kind of partially think Michigan State is a little overrated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They haven't really played anybody
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[SPEAKER_00]: They played Nebraska and Nebraska ended up losing by two, but until they played Michigan, they have not played a ranked team at all in the conference.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They played Duke and non conference lost by six and then beat North Carolina, we have miles 20 also played Kentucky and Arkansas, but I still don't think that they are as good as kind of what they're ranked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremy Fierre's really good player, he's obviously kind of a star on offense, but I still think that once they play a team like Michigan or once they come to Mackierrina and play, you know, Michigan again, I think those are games that they'll ultimately drop so I know they're, I know they're ahead of Purdue right now the standings, but I think I think that'll, you know, that'll drop and I think they've had a.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, a pretty easy schedule in the conference anyway.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's four teams for the big team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'd say I'd say Michigan, Illinois, the Braskin and Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think UCLA just has, you know, they're kind of in their own head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Mick McCron is kind of in his own head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Iowa has proved not, you know, they're okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're probably making retirement, but you know, they're not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They haven't proved to be anything
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wisconsin, I think they're fairly pedestrian as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's these.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's this big a separation at the top and from the middle of the big 10 I've ever seen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty top heavy into your point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember another time where it was like this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Since then, UCLA, Iowa, Indiana are all pretty good teams, not near the level of the other the other five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the third of the conference, these kind of got a big, big, big, keep the crap honestly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's really, it's a washing tin, Minnesota, and Northwestern Rutgers, Maryland, Penn State, and Oregon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know about the Washington in that group, we're not probably, but the others.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And again, Oregon was my team that I thought maybe keep an eye on that a good inside out game last year, both guys were back with the rest that team's horrible, and of course they had some injury luck.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So most disappointing is definitely Oregon, but and Maryland is so bad Jake.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so obviously, we talked about it's good to see Purdue and by 30, especially on the road.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's just not a very good Maryland team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I know they were some in the big gym.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're in worst in Penn State, nor even though they meet Penn State.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't, they played a couple teams close in the conference, but it's just not, you know, it's, it's, it's, they're just pretty bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's this, this is not really, not really a way around that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as Williams, I wouldn't be surprised if he left Maryland after, after this year, I know he just got there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: there, they're really bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's just no way to go around that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a chance Northwestern's going to be better by the end of the year than those other teams, but I'm not convinced of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's possible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I definitely thought with Nick Martinelli coming back, I thought that they would be certainly a little better than they are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And at your point that they very well could kind of put it all together here towards the
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're two and nine the big 10 currently and just how do I look good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's last two questions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's start with this one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Who do you think wins the big 10 and if you think it's Purdue, who's going to be their top can to challenger?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it's Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to be Michigan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's just hard to hard to pick against them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I know they still have to come to Mackie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They still have to go to Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Self to play Michigan State.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they just, they just look, you know, pretty on something for right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Here's why I don't think it'll be Michigan and why I think it's still my being a brass kit, but I think it's going to be Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Michigan's guards are pretty good, but man, they can be horrible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And some matchups are just in some nights, and they're going to lose a game that they're not expected to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've already done it a couple of times where they lost one and almost lost another.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's gonna happen again to them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I also don't think they're gonna win the National Championship because of that as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't think there's guards when they're good, Michigan's unbeatable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But on the nights, they're not very good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The team just isn't very good, and I don't trust them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was like that Auburn team a few years ago with Jabari Smith.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You knew when their guards were good, Auburn was the best team in the country, but you knew with those guards, they weren't gonna win anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's how I see Michigan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But man, those guys up front are good aren't they?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Axel Lindberg, you just insane hammer or when I was calling me Carlos is dad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And those are a two community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They just looked very good and hard to hard to really pick over one of those two for national player the year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, they're like for Michigan too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like Johnson a lot for Michigan too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he and Kado, their guards are good some days and when they're not, it's not a very good team, but I like cheddar too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like their entire front line.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would take it in a heartbeat, but their guards just don't trust them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I trust our guards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Michigan hasn't kind of a tough stretch here to to close the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have the host.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you see a lay at home on Valentine's Day, and they have to go play at Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then they played Duke on February 21st, and they play Minnesota at Illinois at Iowa, home against Michigan State, say they've got a kind of a tough stretch here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've got a few kind of by games, I guess if you will, and the home against Penn State at Ohio State, which that's a rivalry game,
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[SPEAKER_00]: a little more competitive, but if I was to talk, if Ohio State doesn't make the term that Jake Dealer might be fired, and then they're going to go to Northwestern, and that's when they search, starts there against UCLA and finishes against Michigan, but I think certainly it's if Illinois can keep it up, I think, and my eyes that they would be Michigan's kind of
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Big Ten Championship, they do play each other on a February 27th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they still have to play each other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nebraska has a fairly kind of easy schedule here to close out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Their toughest games are coming up here against Purdue on Tuesday, February 10th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They travel to Iowa on February 17th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they don't really have another hard game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: until they close out the season at UCLA on March 3rd and then a senior day, they host Iowa on March 8th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So between then they have Penn State Maryland and I guess I got to go to USC so they made drop one of those West Coast games but kind of a little bit of an easier schedule there for I think all those contenders that Nebraska's probably got the easiest schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that team's so impressive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They might be the most balanced team in the big 10.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty who probably is, but Nebraska might be second.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're good at every position.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're deep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They do a little bit of everything well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure Nebraska is not a top five team by the end of the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Especially if they can say healthy and keep one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm a big fan of Fred Hoyberg and why he's been able to do there at Nebraska.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and Connor Seagin from Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was on that team and he got hurt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's, you know, they'd probably be even better with him there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And who is your national championship pick at this point and if it's Purdue, who's their top competitor?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think at the very least, though, they'll make the sweet 16, you're really kind of hard press to pick against Arizona.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have yet to lose a game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They frankly don't really look like they're going to lose a game just the way that they, the way they play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's hard going to be hard to lose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they're not getting to the big 12 on beat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that big 12 is insanely good right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not, I think the national champions might come out of that conference and it might not be them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And man, that conference is good, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it's just kind of flying under the radar.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I take the big 12s definitely the biggest or the best conference here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So far, the season, looking at Arizona's schedule, they play at Kansas on the night, then they host Texas Tech on the 14th, four days later on the 18th, they host BYU.
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[SPEAKER_00]: three days later, they play at Houston.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then they traveled to Baylor on the 24th host Kansas on the 28th host Iowa State on March 2nd.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they finished the season that call
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've never quite seen 11, 13, 16, 8, 11, 7 in a nine-game stretch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that is tough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I guess, first time I looked at their schedule a while, they haven't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They played Alabama and the non-conference and they blew them out of the water and they hadn't played.
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[SPEAKER_00]: another ranked team until they went to BYU last week and beat them by three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I guess Dave, they've still been playing some solid teams but just not not any ranked teams.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they got to finish with that brutal stretch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So to your point, I guess now seeing now they probably
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[SPEAKER_00]: down to big troubles and tough conference, but they just looked really good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they're still still my pick to win the national championship, even though they do have that tough stretch there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, if you have a team Kansas and BYU, they have a couple of special players on those teams.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully, hopefully, a future pace are on one of those teams, but for Cameron Booser,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Or Caleb Wilson at North Carolina.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All four of the franchise guys, I believe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Jake, well, it's been an interesting season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Way more interesting than I hope it would be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's been interesting nonetheless.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was to a confident scale and map painter what you're one to a hundred.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh, eight in that painer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, it's, it's, it's a hundred.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be 98.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
26:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I, I have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, definitely have, uh, apple compils in him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, I wouldn't want anybody else to be the head coach of Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've got a lot of confidence in him and, and hope that, uh, you know, some of the, this three-game stretch here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're really
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[SPEAKER_00]: was the kick in the pants and the team needed and I like to finish out the season strong and hopefully peak in March.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pull her up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
26:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Pull her up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Pull it up.
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