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Greg & His Friends Talk Sports ... with Mike Hutsell, Grant Shouse, Michelle Garmon & Mike Rich (2.223.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [UNKNOWN]: You
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome Central Indiana Sports Fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for my new podcast greganous friends, Talks Sports.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm your host, Greg Mangel and every week afternoon, my friends and I are talking about, but ever Central Indiana Sports fans are talking about, and of course I say every week day after noon, I did miss two days last week, one planned, one unplanned, that'll happen from time to time for now, plan on doing it every single week day by fall and hope to have a weekend host day.
• 0:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Also, I recorded this podcast a little differently today.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it'll be better in the long run.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry if it's a little shopping today.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it'll be too bad.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Coming up today, Monday, April 6th, 2026, Michigan vs. Yukon for the National Championship.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: My friend's Grant Shouse and my cousin are here to preview it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: UCLA won its first ever Women's National Championship in Tipton for Beauty and Elwood Collider and my friend and mentor Michelle Garmin discusses the Bruins dominating victory over South Carolina.
• 1:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Pacers lost with their sea lineup on Sunday and Cleveland are now on the verge of clinching a coveted bottom three record.
• 1:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: I talked with my friend Mike Rich about a bit of good news in what's really been an awful season.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Before we get to all of that, in the last day or two, we've released our national championship game preview with my Cutsal and Grant Shouse, our feever report with John Robertson and Michelle Garmin and our Paces report with Mike Rich all on the Central Indian
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We plan on having an IU report on Tuesday evening and an Indie car report on Thursday.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We're also hoping to have a Purdue report Wednesday this week and a cold report Friday.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Not sure about those yet.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Probably about 50-50.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much for joining us.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Don't forget my friends and I will be back tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It'll be Michigan vs. UConn for the National Championship tonight at 850 in Indianapolis at Lucas oil stadium.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Michigan playing for its first title since 1989 with Glenn Rice, Ramile Robinson and those guys.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And the Big Ten's first since Michigan State won it in 2000.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And UConn looking to make some history becoming the first team since the great John Wooden UCLA teams to win three national championships in four years.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: My friends Grant Shouts, my Cutsal, and I did a full preview of the game, and you could find that on the Central Indian Esports Report.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Here is a bit of that now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: could have been on one feed, I think at one point in the season, you know, they end up on the two line and get all the way to the national championship game now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These are, I think, two very deserving teams and if I'm you, Khan, I'm looking at this Michigan team like, wow, I mean, they absolutely took Arizona to the wood shed on Saturday.
• 3:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if I'm you, Khan, I think Mike, that's one of the more concerning things going into Monday night.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: This is the official, hey, Indiana, you didn't think that football title would F&B free, did you?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: National championship game.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Um, if you're, if you're euk on, at what point do you, if you're dating a day and hurly do you tell your team just stop paying attention to what you're watching?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Look.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Because that was just a bludgeoning of a team that I didn't think
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  [SPEAKER_03]: would lose a game in this tournament in Arizona.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And they hadn't trail by more than 12 all season.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It was 10 to one.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Five minutes and four minutes into the game and it really never felt like it got any closer than that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Just straight up, Mike, I'm shocked.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how you can't be.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: John.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I have a
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I was just coming into this game guys was that if Michigan played really, really well, they might have a chance in this game without a doubt, and I think that Greg, I'm curious as a Purdue fan, are you kind of glad that they got feed in the Elite 8?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They just beat Michigan, so.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I know, but man, like this is a different stage.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It really is.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: According to rumors, Michigan is going to be a five and a half point favorite in this game.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Hammer the Michigan based on everything we've seen.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They meet Tennessee by 34 in the regional final.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They're on their way to just absolutely blowing out everybody's favorite coming into the tournament.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Partly has got some voodoo magic I know after the first weekend of the tournament since he's gotten to Yukon but man you're you're looking at a team that you're going to have to start figuring out where you want to put them and the whole time best teams in college basketball conversation right now with Michigan if they finish this thing off on Monday
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You've got Kentucky, 2012.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: A lot of people like to talk to the 96 Kentucky team.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, the 76 in the N1 team.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: All the UCLA teams, it's like, where the 1934 Purdue Boiler Makers.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: By the way, UNLV-90, but I think we should just, like, after 76, just do it after that, because IU, that team, is the best non-UCL
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You're right, but the UK 96 to me, yeah, they were good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The bench from that team won the 98 national title.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's right, they were really good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And then the Kentucky and 12, with Anthony Davis, Michael Kid Girl Cruz, was going to say, that's probably the best college basketball team of my lifetime.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: is twenty-to-all Kentucky.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They lost two games that year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Could you get either of you named the two teams that beat them?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Indiana and Vanderbilt.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: At SEC attorney title game, and of course, the shot that Indiana has never forgotten about, because that was the last time Indiana fans were happy about basketball.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So, let's December of 2012.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Going back to this,
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  [SPEAKER_03]: this final four in this team and this Michigan and Dusty May and I think you're looking at at least since tooth or go 2010 to now.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You had you come two years ago was pretty much an unbeatable force.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Villanova J. Wright had some teams, but I don't know that Michigan isn't the best team that we've seen in the last 15, 16 years of college basketball, and if there's ever going to be a team that breaks the big 10 drought.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: This was going to be it and I almost feel like we're talking as if it's already happened and who knows what day and Hurley can come up with.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But man, it's it's really, really tough to envision anybody beating this team that just doesn't seem to have weaknesses.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Top to bottom, they shoot well.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They have, they have just absolute dudes on the interior.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Lindenborg played five minutes in the first half of this game.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And they were up 16 and
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  [SPEAKER_02]: UCLA won its first women's national championship in program history Sunday in Phoenix dominating South Carolina 79 to 51.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The Bruins led throughout jumping out to a 21 to 10 lead and a 36 to 23 advantage at the half.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: UCLA then outscored the game cocks 25 to 9 in the third quarter to put the game away.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Gabriella Hakez led the Bruins with 21 points and 10 rebounds and 5 assists, Warren Betz was named most outstanding player, she had 14 points and 11 rebounds in the win.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The championship is also the first for the big 10 since Purdue in 1999.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And here's my friend and Tipton Tribunal would call leader Sports Editor Michelle Garmin with her reaction.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, Michelle, I've been wrong about a lot of things in my life.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe nothing more wrong than this final four.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was going to be Yukon and Texas in the championship.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And when it was South Carolina UCLA, I assumed South Carolina was going to win it, and I was completely wrong on every game.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I will say this, I agree with you.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I thought you can't in Texas would be in the final.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: But if you remember, I said, I won't discount South Carolina in the UConn game just because of Dawn's daily, and they had a revenge on their mind from last year's disappointing loss in the championship.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: And then I thought UCLA had a chance to get South Carolina.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: What Corey Close has done at UCLA has been just tremendous.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: about her from other coaches.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I'm Terry Moran of IU has praised Corey close before and post games are just talking about Big 10 and stuff.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I understand why.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I think gratified to see UCLA win three reasons.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_04]: Fine.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Big 10 had only won one woman's national title before this year and that was by Purdue in 1999.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: So it was a long time coming.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: to because it was nice to see a group of kids seniors that as now were into this poor area that stayed together and I know Betts came in she was a transfer but that was after her freshman year at Stanford then she came in and stuck with them the rest of the way to see that group of seniors and to see how tight they are and
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  [SPEAKER_04]: And three is because of Corey close so people can get to see that she really truly is probably one of the best coaches and women's basketball just
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  [SPEAKER_04]: were not just her coaching, but just development of kids and caring and understanding.
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_04]: I find the story of her with her relationship to John when just fascinating.
• 10:56
  [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if you saw that Greg or not, but this UCLL team, I think I told you this yesterday, what impressed me the most is this team got better every round of the tournament, and that's kind of unusual at this time of year.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They were on a roll, but they got better.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And Michelle, I'm always going to cheer against the SEC, but you got to feel a little bad for Coach Daily.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: She's a classic.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, she is.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: She's another one.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I guess when I think about
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  [SPEAKER_04]: this.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I liked, I liked non-stately.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I like Corey close.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I like seeing the women's coaches succeed in women's basketball and be talked about a lot and a lot of it goes to pass some of it and she had great appreciation for Don Stanley for highly of her and I am sure that Pat would think very highly of Corey close the job that she has done at UCLA um yeah and you know
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, we already knew that, right?
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, we did.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I, you know, I'm beginning to think that must be a prerequisite to be a UConn coachman or a women's.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: It started with the other.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Because Jim Calroom was a little bit of an S. You know, you know, each other real quick.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I wanted to say we had some players on showcase in this tournament, especially in the final four that I think, uh,
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  [SPEAKER_04]: are going to do a lot of good things to improve their draft stock and then the upcoming WMBA draft.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And we will talk about that on Sunday's favorite report, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to be previewing the WMBA draft also now we're going to talk about this trade today.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So Michelle, thank you so much for your time.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate it.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: And no problem.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Thanks Greg.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: There were three big college basketball games Sunday at the fieldhouse in Indianapolis, and it ended with the NIT championship and an incredible come from behind victory by the Auburn Tigers over Tulsa, 92 to 88 in overtime, Auburn led by 21 points early, then trailed by four points with 18 seconds left.
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Ganon Golden Knights from Erie Pins of Ania Breeze to the program's first division to national championship with an 84-61 win over Lander, South Carolina in the fieldhouse on Sunday.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They won their six tournament games by an average of 20 points.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Later in the day Colin Mitchell scored on a putback at the buzzer to give Mary Washington Virginia a 7573 victory over Emory from Atlanta.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Eagles are the eighth straight first time national champion at the division three level.
• 13:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's crazy.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Indiana Pacers fell to 18 and 60 on the year, with a 117108 loss in Cleveland on Sunday evening.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was really impressive performance once again against a playoff team, with a starting lineup of Quentin Jackson, J.L.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: and Slawson, Ethan Thompson, like a Potter and Kobe Brown, Potter led the Pacers with 21 points and 12 rebounds.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Final four games, they only have to lose two to clinch a bottom three spot, which is where they want to be.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They're at home against the bulls on Tuesday at Brooklyn on Thursday.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sixers at home on Friday, pistons at home on Sunday to end the regular season.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: And here's my friend, Mike Rich, to talk about the Pacers loss on Sunday and the situation they find themselves in entering the final week.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Mike Rich is here with me to talk about a Pacers loss.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: On Sunday night, 117-108 in Cleveland, a game they led at halftime.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: They were only down a point after three.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He gave us a little bit of a scare.
• 14:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: But with a couple of Kings wins, Mike, the pace is pretty much have a bottom three wrapped up.
• 14:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's what that's definitely what it's looking like.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: They just got us to table low.
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Twenty wins this year, and they will be fine.
• 14:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: And on Sunday night, starting line up of Jalen Sloss and Micah Potter, Ethan Thompson, Kobe Brown, Quentin Jackson, look like the noblesville boom out there.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: The paces are not playing around with this tank, but those players put in a hell of a game for a up until about eight, what there's probably about.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: eight nine minutes in the fourth quarter and then I think Cleveland went on a 14.14 to run and just kind of put it away after that and the Pacers kind of came back a little bit, got a little close, Mitchell came back in and just took over the game and had no problem finishing it.
• 15:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's exactly what you want as a Pacer fan right now.
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And on Sunday night at Tyre's
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was great to see Halibut and back out there.
• 15:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was great to see warm it up.
• 15:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: He looks like he's put on 30, 35 pounds probably.
• 15:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's beefed up a little bit.
• 15:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Be excited to see what he looks like when he gets into plain shape with that extra weight.
• 15:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully he's hit in the weight room a lot more and not get in seconds at Easter dinner.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: And four games to go.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: Tuesday night at home against Minnesota, a game that the Timberwolves are definitely gonna want to win, and Thursday at Brooklyn.
• 16:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Friday at home against Philadelphia, a team is definitely gonna win, and then Sunday in the finale against the Pistons, who we don't know if they're gonna need to win or not.
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: But all they need to do is lose one game, and they have clinched a bottom three, which means they will have the best odds tied with.
• 16:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: It looks like Brooklyn and,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Washington for the number one pick and to have a top four pick in the draft.
• 16:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: That would be fantastic, as much hurt as we have had in the past with the Pacers and
• 16:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was worried kind of coming down this stretch that they could get hot and they could win a few games and kind of move out of that bottom four and not have a great chance at a top three top four pick but it's played out well and last night Mike the only way that the Pacers could assure they're tanking is the benchmark I'll see y'all come.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: say he had an injury.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's starting line up.
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: That was, you could have saw them in nobles the last week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: My great thanks so much.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We will talk again soon just about 33 days away from the draft lottery.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And by the way, we plan on having tons of coverage of the NBA playoffs on this show and on the Central Indian Sports Report Network.
• 17:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Some local news and notes, Blackford's Mari Legga, Oak Hill's Will Tonicle, Anderson's Don Bowling, New Piles Will Davidson and Cocomos DJ Nashville, participate in the IBCA Boys Basketball Futures game on the North Team on Monday June 1st at New Piles Team.
• 18:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: They'll be coached by Northridge's Scott Radaker and Westviews, Chandler-Prible.
• 18:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Emblems and Southeasterns of Arshan Clark, Susina's Jalen Foster, Lawrence North's Chandon Gilbert, and Pikes Land in Lampley will play for the South team, which is coached by Plainfield's Andy Weaver and Housers Trent Morhead.
• 18:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Former Purdue star Austin Parkinson in the Butler Women's Basketball programs have reportedly parted ways.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Parkinson went 54 and 73 and four years as Butler's head coach.
• 18:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Omer Meyer will apparently return to Purdue next year for his sophomore season.
• 18:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: Look for him to be one of the most improved players in the country.
• 18:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: He was made to be 18s go to score in.
• 18:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: He should be that now.
• 18:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Anderson's Jalen Harrelson who played high school basketball at Fissures and La Lumaire is reportedly transferring from Notre Dame, IU fans are interested.
• 19:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: The transfer portal opens Tuesday morning, more on that on this show, the next few days and weeks.
• 19:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: produce baseball's 21 and 10 overall and 9 and 6 in the big 10 after winning 4 straight conference series for the first time since 2012, it'd be ill in 082 out of 3 this weekend including 10 to 5 on Sunday.
• 19:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: And some good news, the fan dual network is shutting down after the NBA and NHL regular season.
• 19:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: So the pastures will have to find a new television home next year.
• 19:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's hope they also find a new color guy.
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Couldn't Buckner's just annoying at this point.
• 19:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: And some national news and notes, the red swept the Texas Rangers behind strong pitching performances from Chase Burns, Rhett, Louder, Brady, Singer, Tony, Santion, and Emilio Pagan.
• 19:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're now 6 and 3 tied with the Pirates, a game behind Milwaukee at the top of the NL Central Early in the season.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Cardinals are 5 and 4, 2 games back, the Cubs are 4 and 5, 3 games back.
• 20:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Cubs lost 2 out of 3 in Cleveland.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: their in Tampa at 410 Monday.
• 20:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Red Start of 4 Game Series in Miami.
• 20:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Red Start of 4 Game Series in Miami, their first road trip of the season starting at 640 Monday.
• 20:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: ESPN's Kindra Andrews is reporting some big WNBA trade news.
• 20:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Angel Reese has apparently been traded from Chicago sky to the Atlanta Dream for two first round draft picks.
• 20:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: Starting next year, looks like the fever dream is going to be one of the biggest rivalries in the WMBA.
• 20:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Can't wait to talk about it with John Roberts and Michelle Garmin on the fever report this Sunday.
• 20:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll also be previewing the WMBA draft.
• 20:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: JJ spawn won the PGA event in San Antonio on Sunday and the Masters begins Thursday or that on this show later this week.
• 21:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Tomorrow of course we'll have reaction to the National Championship game, then we'll start turning our attention to the spring and summer sports, indie car NBA Playhouse Fever Reds, Cubs, World Cup, and some local college and high school sports on this show and the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 21:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much to Grant Mike Mike and Michelle and to you for listening.
• 22:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Central Indiana Sports Report is a product of ITG Media, and I love Susie.