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Greg & His Friends Talk Sports ... with Jake Dunn, Mike Hutsell, Grant Shouse & Elijah Poe (2.188.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to, Greg and his friends talk sports.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 10 to 20 minutes every day, Greg and his friends are talking about what Central Indiana Sports fans are talking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every day on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now let's follow it and have a live away from extending now in the wind number 20 and leaving them behind the HTO Alexey Alex Paul and that team brought the lumber to St. Petersburg.
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[SPEAKER_08]: They built a wood shed and have taken the field to it today He's cleaned off of turn 10.
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[SPEAKER_08]: It's the turn to 11 to 12 for the final time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The air championship
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[SPEAKER_02]: send no better way to let the field know that you have every intention of winning a fifth and to have a dominant day of the season opener at St. Peter'sburg.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The lead will lose to 12.8 seconds seed weaves to the bottom of the race track back to the high side wave checkers are out and Alex, although we'll get off the seeds and it doesn't fire, so the way he ended in 2025 he wins the players don't read three of St. Peter'sburg waiting for the right time.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Good morning, good afternoon or good evening Central Indiana sports fans, whenever you've tuned in to Greg and his friend stalk sports, love having you here.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm your host Greg Mingell and this is my daily podcast, 10 to 20, maybe 30 minutes depending on the day.
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[SPEAKER_07]: My friends and I talk about what Central Indiana sports fans are talking about.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And coming up on today's show, Purdue IU, the Pacers, the Boom, all lost on Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I'll just blow open the 2026 season the way he finished the 2025 season, just being better than everybody else in his win in St. Petersburg.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Before we get to all of that, we have a Pacers report released early Monday and first thing Tuesday, even late Monday night, probably we will have an IU report with Grant
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[SPEAKER_07]: Our Purdue Report with Jake Dunn is Wednesday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He is also coming up with a recap of the Purdue loss.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And we'll have an Indie car report on Thursday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And of course Elijah Poll is coming up with his recap of the race in St. Petersburg.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All those podcasts are in their normal day and time.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We usually have a cults report on Friday and a fever report on Sunday, but because those are in their off seasons and it's boys basketball section a week.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We will not have either of those unless there is breaking news.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Speaking of basketball sectionals, we'll have previews of the Elwood and Eastbrook sectionals on Monday night and recaps of both sectionals following games on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you so much for joining us, my friends and I'll be back tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the day after that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Fourth home loss of the season against Michigan State earlier in the week.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It was an 82-74 loss at Ohio State.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Braggon Smith had 20 points and seven assists, trade-cuffmen were in 19 points and nine rebounds, blah, blah, blah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: As Purdue falls to 22 and seven, 12 and six in the big tin, and Jake, this has been a really frustrating season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're frustrating season, purchase here and so are the same problems we've seen all season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This game, Ohio State scored 1.46 points per possession.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Got 55% or more from most of that, most of the game, controlled the glass, and every time Purdue started to make a push, they'll have to say head and answer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Bruce, just can't contain dribble penetration.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's collapsing the defense, generating duct-down dunks, generating corner threes too, and just forcing rotations in this team for whatever reason just can't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: seemed to communicate Matt Painter said in the post game will do you know a few things right here I know the position or two or really do everything right and then the next game or the next possession they'll go and you know do something they just did right on the last possession they'll they'll get wrong so I don't really know what what the problem is here communication obviously is part of it just the whole team really is just just fading at quite possibly the worst possible time
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's a really bad body language.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It looks like some bad attitude problems.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe that's just the last couple of games.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not liking what I'm seeing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Me neither.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think we can speak for most of the fan base today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't like what we see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would agree that it seems to be a some attitude problem zero on the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So some of these guys who have, for the past three years, the reason we'd like to have so much
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[SPEAKER_01]: now you know now they're the ones that are they're lacking the effort that you know for the best three years they've they've been the ones who really made the charge there so for new only had six turnovers the entire game so usually enough you know game like that this is turnover ratio was at 2.17 so pretty good numbers ones that you probably should win the game but you also look at defensive rebounding percentage now the 65 and
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[SPEAKER_01]: committed six more fouls than they drew up in the block shot, not only for fast break points, so you waste offensive efficiency when you can't get stops.
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[SPEAKER_07]: There is good news, Jake, and that is all of the goals that they have, or still out there ahead out in front of them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is this team before the season started, said that it was National Shape and Chipper, or your file for a bust.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So here lately, they've showed that
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to be a bus, as well as shown us here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We need to in 7, 12 and 6, or it is probably going to play on Thursday in a big tournament.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of them they don't do very often and got at Northwestern with Northwesterns.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You don't play to pretty pretty close here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Recently, just like Ohio State has an inciner day against Wisconsin, and Wisconsin's a team that has won and Mackie more than I think anybody here lately.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And a team that they're tied with in the standing,
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[SPEAKER_01]: What we thought might be a little bit of an easier finish for Purdue, they've turned into one that is pretty, pretty important.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, this team in this group is they've made a final four, they've won a big 10-chabet chip, they've been ranked number one on the nation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That painter reminded everybody that in the post game press conference, but right now they just look, they look sideways.
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[SPEAKER_01]: when they defend well, they're good, but right now I think, go, most are by would just settle for just the solid.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Jake, thanks so much, you and I will talk more about all of this on Wednesday's Purdue Report and I got a lot to say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can't wait.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Follow her up, follow her up.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Number 13, Michigan State's Typhold, IU and a 7764 win in Bloomington, the Hoosier shot just 39% and may just 10 of 35, 3.10%.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Spartans led 39 minutes and 16 seconds in this one and just like Jake and I All right you guys Grant Shouse and my cuts will not very happy following the loss Here are the thoughts from our IU guys Grant Shouse and my cuts will a short clip from there IU report, which we will release first thing Tuesday morning My cuts will this is a Very very fresh trading
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[SPEAKER_05]: As it always seems to be, you're on the bubble, come March 1st, don't know if you're making the tournament, you lose a game to Northwestern on Tuesday, then you come back on Sunday and a national televised game and suck the entire 40 minutes against Michigan State.
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[SPEAKER_05]: you're on the outside looking in with Minnesota and Ohio State coming up and then hopefully a Cinderella run in the conference tournament to get you in these in the NCAA tournament if you're in the end.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Just seems like every single year that this has kind of been the thing and it's just getting old.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, we talked two weeks ago about this team and where it was and
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think it was 8 and 6 in the conference at that point, and we just talked about how you can't go lose them all.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, guess what they've done?
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[SPEAKER_04]: They've gone out in most of them all.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So four straight, second time this year, in Big Ten Play, they've gone on a four game skid.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And the difference between the two is there's not going to be time to get it back.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This time, you've backed yourself into a corner that I don't think you can get out of.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So congratulations on,
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[SPEAKER_04]: Not being able to accomplish the most basic, easy thing that an NCAA program should be able to do.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And that's qualified for the field of 60, eight.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's not that frequent, difficult.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And Indiana has made it next to impossible.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So good job.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hell of a way to introduce yourself to the program there, Darren, and the boys.
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[SPEAKER_05]: There's things like today, Michigan's stages.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They just couldn't.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm they could miss, but my thing is they hit shots whenever they needed to hit shots because then to get it down to five and then next thing you know Michigan State was back up ten because they'd come down and hit a three.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They just didn't make many mistakes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They're just a more talented team.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The roster's more well constructed.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And if Indiana wants to be a Michigan State, there's going to have to be some more well constructed roster here in the next few years because
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think first year under a new coach, you can get a pass for this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Although it is frustrating, you can get a pass for it, but this cannot just be the thing year in and year out, like it has been over the last six years or so.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's just not what the fans wanted.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's not what the program needs and I'm not sure what the answer is at this point.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The thing about it is we knew all along this was not going to be the easy win on the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This is really freaking good team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This is a two seed in the tournament.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe a three.
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[SPEAKER_04]: One of Tom is those best constructed roster that he's had in several years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And you're right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They, I mean, credit to them.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They played really, really well.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We talk about it in the pre-season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If there's one thing about Michigan State, as you can see that team go out and hit two for 25 from three in a game.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, guess what they didn't do today?
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[SPEAKER_07]: It didn't miss.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The Hoosiers host Minnesota on Wednesday, then finished their regular season on Saturday, Adohio State on Fox.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The new AP and coaches ranking should be out later Monday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We'll have those for you on Tuesdays, Greg and his friends talk sports.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The ACC Big Ten and Big East tournaments are all next week as of today, March 2nd, 2026.
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[SPEAKER_07]: In the Big Ten, Michigan is a lock at the top spot.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Currently Nebraska and Michigan State are tied for second, Illinois's fourth and Purdue and Wisconsin are tied for fifth.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Of course, they play each other in the regular season finale.
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[SPEAKER_07]: UCLA 7th, Iowa and Ohio State are tied for 8th, and Indiana is alone in 10th, 8th, and 10th, a game ahead of USC and Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Big story in the Big 10 on Sunday was USC announced that veteran, veteran, he's like 32 years old.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Chad Baker, Missouri is no longer with the team.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The horizon league tournament gets underway Monday at 7 and Cleveland with the league's two worst teams, the 10th of seed Cleveland State, and the 11th seed IU indie
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[SPEAKER_07]: the winner plays top seed right state on Wednesday and Dayton and Purdue Fort Wayne is in Green Bay and it's first round game, quarter final semi finals and championship are Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at the Fairgrounds in Indianapolis.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The MVC tournament gets started on Thursday and St. Louis, all three Indiana teams, 7-seat Valpo, 10-seat Indiana State and 11-seat Evansville will play on the first day and one of them has to win because Valpo and Indiana State play
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thursday S6 with the winner taking on two seed Bradley, the championship game, a Sunday on CBS at 11am.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And the division three brackets will be announced at 230 this afternoon.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We will have those for you on Tuesday show.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The Anderson Raven should be in that one.
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[SPEAKER_07]: In a women's college basketball Purdue 162 to start 67 to 62 at Northwestern and it's regular season finale.
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[SPEAKER_07]: and punched the stick into the big 10 tournament wins day in Chicago, the 13 and 16 boiler makers of the 14 seed and will face 11 seed Oregon wins day in the first round in approximately 9pm.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That follows 17 and 13 IU against 13 and 16 Wisconsin at approximately 630.
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[SPEAKER_07]: IU is one three straight and six of eight including a 7774 went at Wisconsin on February 4th.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The badgers lost that game and since then have lost nine in a row.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Han Hadagos scored 30 points, had 10 rebounds, 7 assists, and 5 steals, in Notre Dame 65-62 upset when at number 10 Louisville on Sunday afternoon.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The Irish are the 5 seed in the ACC tournament in Atlanta, and will face either Miami or Stanford Thursday in the tournament second round.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Louisville is the two seed behind Duke.
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[SPEAKER_07]: 12 and 18 Butler is the nine seed in the Big East Tournament and will face number eight Georgetown Friday at one in the opening round.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The Bulldogs are one three straight including a 66 58 win at Georgetown on February 21st and at seven o'clock Monday night the crossroads women's tournament championship.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's number six St. Francis at number four, Marion, the coogers of 27 and 3, the Knights are 28 and 2, but one of their losses came at home against St. Francis on January 10th.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The Knights then avenge that loss on February 14th with a 6658 win in Fort Wayne.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And the NAA, a tournament, fields, the men's and women's will be announced Thursday at 6th.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The Pacers lost their sixth game in a row, 126 105 to the visiting Memphis Grizzlies in their final of four straight home games, of course, they lost all four of those.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now they go on their four-game road trip out west to face the Clippers Wednesday, the Lakers Friday, the Blazers Sunday, and their Sacramento against the Kings, the only team in the NBA with a worse record than the Pacers, on Tuesday, March 10th.
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[SPEAKER_07]: As of right now, the bottom three in the standings are the Kings, Pacers, and Nets, who
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[SPEAKER_07]: The bottom three teams have the best odds for the May 10th draft lottery.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's 14% chance to get the number one pick and a 52.1% chance of getting a top four pick.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Of course, the Pacers traded their pick if it's pick number five through nine.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We released our Pacers report with Mike Rich and guest Michelle Garmin.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Early Monday, we talked about the six game losing streak.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And the Noblesville boom also lost on Sunday, opening March with a 1-18-1-14 loss in Mexico City to the Capitans, despite 24 points of 11 rebounds, 7 blocks, 5 assists and 2 steals from Jalen Slosson, who signed a 2-way contract with the Pacers late last week.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Noblesville's now tied for 7th in the Geely East, a half-game behind Delaware for the final playoff spot with 10 games left to play.
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[SPEAKER_07]: the boom stay in Mexico City and we'll face the captain's again on Tuesday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And the indie car season opened Sunday in St. Petersburg and you'll never guess who won.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's right Alex below who won eight of the 17 races last year and ran away and hit and the season opener in St. Petersburg beating runner up Scott McLaughlin by nearly 13 full seconds.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He took the lead after the initial pit stop and ran away with the victory.
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[SPEAKER_07]: with Glocklin who started from the pole led the first 34 laps in finish second.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Person Loon Guard was third then Kyle Kirkwood and Paddo O'Word.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Joseph New Garden started 24th and finished 7th.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Go check out our full recap we did on Sunday with Elijah Poe and Michelle Garmin.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And here's my friend Elijah Poe with a quick recap from Sunday's race.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Elijah race number one is in the books and it's the same old story.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, it is Greg, Alex Plough, yet again, just takes it and runs away with it like he always does.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Perfect strategy called by Chippkin, I see racing in the number 10 crew, and Alex Plough delivers as always.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And despite him winning by what was at 13 seconds, it still was a really fun race to watch.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it really was.
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[SPEAKER_06]: For a second and third and fourth place, you know, they were about in a half second of each other with about 10, 5 laps to go.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So it was really entertaining racing throughout.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Really interesting strategy cars with any car making teams run two soft tires in a primary tire A really really fun race and just glide in a car's finally underway here as we get the first race out of the way And those guys you've finished second third fourth fifth and seventh are Other guys who are expected to be in the championship race so I guess the rest of the field it can't be too disheartened
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you got a good point.
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[SPEAKER_06]: There's a shot with Scott McLaughlin, Chris and Lune Guard, Kyle Kirkwood, Petra Award, even Marcus Erickson had a really great day in Joseph Newgarden, all up there at least.
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[SPEAKER_06]: At least if they're chipping away points and maybe Alex Flob can't run away with this one when we were five weeks into it like he did last year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But right now, everyone is living in Alex Flob's world and in the car.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's Groundhog Day all over again for all these and new car drivers, because now maybe the fourth or fifth season where you look at the first that points leaders as the first couple of weeks play out.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Now, I'll expose that top like you always is.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks so much, Elijah, everybody go listen to our full recap of the St. Peter's Burger.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Of the season opening St. Peter's Burger race
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[SPEAKER_07]: Michelle Garment of the Tipton Tribune and L. Wood Colleater, we broke it all down.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It was a lot of fun.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks so much, Elijah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you, Greg.
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[SPEAKER_07]: An unbeaten fishers is the unanimous number one in the final IBCA single class coaches poll released Sunday evening.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The Tigers have won 53 games in a row in the regular season and start their quest for their second state championship in three years.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Friday against either Hamilton Southeastern or Westfield, Silver Creek is number two then Pike Crown Point Plainfield.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Mount Vernon Northridge Carmel, Terahotin North, and Lawrence North.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Ben Davis's 13th Cathedral 14th, Hamilton Southeastern 18th and Brookbuff, 20th.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We have the USA Today Media poll results for you on Tuesday's show, and on Tuesday locally in Boys Basketball sectionals, Zion'sville against Noble'sville and Westfield against Hamilton South Eastern at Noble'sville, Muncie Central against Richmond and rivals Pendleton Heights and Anderson at Greenfield Central.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Mrs. Sinowaw against New Haven at Belmont, North Western takes
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[SPEAKER_07]: Newcastle sectional at the largest high school basketball arena in the world.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It'll be Jay County against Yorktown, then Hamilton Heights against the host Trojans.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Try Central against Northfield at Westdale, Anderson Prepagan's International at Indiana Deaf, and in class 2A where most of our attention will be this week.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's Eastern against Wabash and number 2 Okill against defending state champion Manchester at Manchester, Alexander and Blackford and Madison Grant against Burst at Eastbrook.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And at L Wood, it's tip that against Taylor and Frank didn't against LaPelle.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Again, we will preview the sectionals at L Wood and Eastbrook later tonight, and we will have recaps from each day Tuesday Friday and Saturday from both of those sectionals.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks so much for joining us.
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[SPEAKER_07]: My friends and I will be back tomorrow with a brand new show.
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