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Sweet 16 thoughts for Iowa & Iowa State, Bill Seals talks Cyclones, Bill Bender talks March Madness · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  All right, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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  Wednesday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network,
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  Trent Condon and Ken Miller for the next two hours talking
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  sports with you. Thanks for starting your
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  afternoon here with us. We'll take you till 2 off the
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  bench, 21 till 5. Here's what's coming up on our
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  program. Our #1 going to have a couple of
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  bills, Bill Seals, who is in the car headed to Chicago, the out
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  of state men's team scheduled I think to take off right about
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  now from Ames. As they head over.
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  They're going to get to Chicago, get to the team hotel, have a
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  little grub, a little a team meeting once they get there.
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  And then apparently, TJ and a couple of players will be made
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  available. A good chance the Jefferson
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  question comes up very early whenever that media opportunity
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  avails itself. I doubt we'll hear from
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  Jefferson or the media will hear from Jefferson today.
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  But TJ will speak to the media at the team hotel roughly 3
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  o'clock today. So if you're looking for some
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  news, if anything, that may come out on Justin Jefferson, that'll
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  be around that time. So Bill Seals will join us.
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  Obviously, we'll talk about the Iowa State women's program.
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  They lost another player to the transfer portal today.
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  Today a freshman didn't play a whole lot was I don't know if
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  she was injured in place since the end of January.
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  As I looked back at their at their at at her game slate, if
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  you will, from from the season Freya Jensen.
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  She's entered the portal, but now with Addie Brown.
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  And by the way, you see Addie Brown's do not contact.
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  Really. Yes, that's all.
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  She went into the portal, which means she's already got her next
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  home when you see that little tagline attached to it.
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  But there's no tampering in college athletes.
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  Didn't you know this? I did know that, which was kind
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  of surprising when I saw that. Don't know where she'll be
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  going. I know there's a lot of Hawkeye
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  fans love to have her. Yes, absolutely.
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  Not sure if that's in the cards or not.
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  She's from, I looked, I didn't know Kansas.
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  I mean, closer to home, who knows where she's going, but we
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  know that she is going. Texas.
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  She'll have her opportunities. There's she's going to have her
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  choice. Yeah, she's going to have.
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  Well, she could have apparently she's made her choice, right,
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  because the the do not contact goes with it.
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  So we'll see where that happens. Obviously the, the shoe that may
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  or may not drop and, and, and if it does, and that is the and,
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  and no offense to anybody else on the roster, but if Audie
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  Crooks decides or, and, and I would assume she'll, she just
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  wouldn't stay and say nothing, right?
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  I mean, she would come out and say no, I've decided to stay,
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  which I don't anticipate is going to happen, but we'll see
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  where it goes. But when that happens, what what
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  does that mean as far as the head coach, Bill Fenley, who's
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  been there a long, long time, 30 plus years?
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  And you talk about leaving money on the board, she's obviously
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  doing very well as we've seen commercialized, but this is a
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  nationally relevant player. She is offensively as well
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  known. Is anybody in women's college
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  basketball? Yes, You know why the national
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  media gravitated towards her? Portnoy McAfee.
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  You know when Portnoy was doing the the the football game of
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  names for for Fox, he ran down Audie Crooks.
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  McAfee loves a lot of national media loves Audie Crooks.
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  So yeah, she's very well known of anybody on that team.
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  Absolutely, and there's a a wide range of people that another one
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  and you imagine her playing in a system like at a South Carolina
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  and Don Staley getting the best out of her, not just
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  offensively, but on the defensive end of the floor and
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  and there's there's so many layers to it.
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  It's a tough spot. So what are we going to hear?
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  Something from the Iowa State when it's basketball side or do?
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  You wait till after the men are finished playing or after they
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  get good this weekend. Right.
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  You almost have to, right? At least.
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  Don't want to step on their toes.
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  I mean, they're in the Sweet 16, potentially Elite 8 this
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  weekend. Absolutely.
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  Playing for the first time, right, For Final Four since
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  1944, when it wasn't even the Final Four, right.
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  Just there's four teams left. Yeah, these teams are playing.
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  That's not what it was dubbed at that time.
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  Wonder who came up with that and did they trademark it?
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  And if they didn't, shame on you, yes.
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  Or if that was even a well. The NCAA's got a trademark.
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  Now. Well, they do, absolutely.
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  Sweet 16 and Elite 8. Yeah, we heard, as we heard
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  first hand, we've saw, we found out DraftKings, they sued
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  DraftKings are are there, was it cease and desist or did they
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  file suit? Anyway, it happened over the
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  weekend, Thursday or Friday. Everything that happened in
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  those days gets. I mean, it's just lost.
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  Right. Yeah.
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  Here's one The NFL starts on Wednesday night.
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  Were you aware there's no well, there is a Thursday game.
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  So that opening week, when the Super Bowl champ, the curtain
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  goes up on the NFL season. That's Wednesday this year,
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  which there's no Friday game. Right was out there for a while,
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  but. Made official, Seattle will host
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  to be determined on Wednesday night.
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  Thursday night, the Rams and the Niners collide in Australia.
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  Remember, we were trying to shoehorn that game into the
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  schedule. Absolutely.
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  But just point being is with with the tournaments going on,
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  whether it be the conference, everything kind of took a back
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  seat, including the NFL, which seldom happens.
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  Do you have any idea what the time difference is in Australia?
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  Oh no, it's got to be 12 hours plus.
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  Because, all right, what time is it in?
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  Because it's in Melbourne. Right, Melbourne.
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  Yes, they're playing at the home of the Melbourne Cricket Club.
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  So it is currently 4 O 6:00 AM Thursday there.
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  So if that game kicks on, we'll do the math here.
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  So Fast forward 7. So that'll be like an 11 AM kick
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  off time in Melbourne for them Friday, which would because we
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  go, it'd still be a Thursday, it'd be Thursday morning for.
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  No. No, it'd be yeah, Friday
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  morning. What?
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  Oh, today's Wednesday. So it's Thursday, they are
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  currently just turned into Thursday.
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  So yes, we Fast forward 7 hour, it'll still be the same day.
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  No, it'll be the day before. No, it's the day after.
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  Good God, it'll be an 11 AM kick off the.
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  In Australia locally for 7:00 for seven.
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  O'clock Central, I'll kick off for that Thursday game.
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  Day 2 TBD, at least of these two knuckleheads.
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  Oh boy, from noon to two. But yeah, we got Wednesday
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  football, Thursday football, nothing on Friday.
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  Brazil's had it the last couple of years and.
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  They'll be college game games I'm sure on Friday though.
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  Do you think they would? Oh, absolutely.
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  Yeah, why wouldn't they? Yes, yeah.
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  For the Carl's game. Well, anyways, as we inch our
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  way closer to the tweet 16, which gets underway tomorrow
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  night, by the way, Bobby Hanson's going to join Trenton
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  High tomorrow. Look forward to catching up with
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  Bobby Hanson. And yes, and we've had calls
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  during the break last couple of days.
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  You could be able to get Sip Sip coming on this week.
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  Oh, Sip's coming on. You'll be here tomorrow at 1:30.
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  I'm excited for that because I was calling basketball when
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  Siple joined last after his idiotic comments, so we'll see.
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  Yeah, it'll be. It'll be fine.
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  I'm not sure they were there for the the first weekend of his
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  radio station and and his the website has everybody there
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  every Nebraska, like the whole state was there.
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  So we'll see where that goes. So I did a crossover last night
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  on the podcast with Mitch Sherman, who we've had on a
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  radio show a ton. He does the very good guy locked
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  on Cornhuskers side of things. And him and and we had Doc
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  yesterday and and Sherman and Doctor collaborating, yes,
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  something. And they have a column come
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  together on the Iowa, Nebraska angle of things too leading into
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  the game. And we're trying to figure out
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  what's it going to look like in the building, say 18,000 is the
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  building and kind of the breakdown of population number
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  of fans that get there. Now.
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  I think Iowa is going to be decidedly 4th.
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  I don't think there's any way that they surpass certainly
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  Houston. Being at home, it's you can walk
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  from their campus to the building.
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  You have that component. Nebraska that got the jump, the
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  way they traveled and they haven't had to pay for bowl
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  games once in the last two decades.
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  Been a while. They saved up a lot of money.
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  And if you're a basketball fan, you've been saving your whole
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  life. Exactly.
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  There hasn't been anything you've had to worry about there.
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  Illinois this is what they travel for is their basketball
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  program, although. I think football's cutting into
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  that a. Little bit, but still I.
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  Mean. No, I agree.
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  I agree. Yeah.
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  It's a basketball school. But but more so Illinois
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  football getting getting on the map with Bill.
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  But yes, I agree with your point how wholeheartedly.
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  And they've always travelled well for basketball, so they're
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  going to have a good contingency so as.
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  Carver knew first hand. Yes, back in the day.
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  Absolutely with the Orange crush covered in multiple times and
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  take it over. I broke it down like 9000
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  Houston. Out of 18,000.
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  Out of 18,000 and maybe that's low 9000.
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  Boy, oh boy, I don't know. Maybe 3500 each for Nebraska and
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  for Illinois and like 1500 for Iowa.
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  You think Illinois fans will be on par with Nebraska?
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  See, I think Nebraska will be clearly #2 as far as do you?
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  I do, just like you said. I mean, they've what have you
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  spent their money on? Now the drive because same thing
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  flights that happened here leaving both CID and leaving out
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  of DSM if. Anything was drivable.
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  Right now, I would be driving. I would not be taking my chance
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  of the TSA lineup. I saw a line, in fact, in
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  Houston this morning and there was, I don't know, some
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  politicians. I think that's the, I think
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  that's the airport they closed overnight.
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  George Bush, yes. Yeah.
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  And it was like a three hour minimum line to get through
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  there, right? Good luck, good luck, good luck
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  getting there. Drive time from Lincoln to
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  Houston. I'm going to go 10 hours. 10
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  hours Lincoln to Houston. Let's do up.
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  Bring up the Google Maps. Here we go.
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  Lincoln. No, not Lincoln bar.
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  Why? Why does it just assume that I'm
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  coming from a bar? What is wrong with Google?
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  Does it know me too well? No.
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  Lincoln NE, that is going to take you via car.
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  Da, da, da, 13 hours. So basically the same from here.
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  From Des Moines about 13 hours. Now Iowa City a little bit
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  further, it's like 15 hours. Champagne, though, are we
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  getting too far back out to the east?
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  We're going that direction from Champagne, 14 hours.
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  So we're all in the same. About the same, yeah.
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  Everybody's basically in the same boat now.
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  If you're a majority of Illinois fans actually live in Chicago,
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  you're adding even more to that. It's going to be an expensive
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  trip. Tickets are still ridiculous.
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  What does the building look like if we get Iowa, Illinois?
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  Oh my God, Nebraska or Nebraska fans tickets are available.
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  Houston fans tickets are available.
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  I wonder if there's people that are waiting for that Hawkeye
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  fans, cause 'cause you're paying through the nose for it to get
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  there for tomorrow. You take Friday off, you hop in
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  the car, you got a full day of driving.
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  You're a fork because your team just advanced last night.
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  You beat Nebraska, you ended their historic season.
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  You did that. You hop.
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  Jump it on your text thread with your buddies.
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  What do you got? Should we go tomorrow?
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  Should we go tomorrow? Because on top of it, those
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  tickets, if you're playing Illinois as opposed to much more
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  manageable. Oh, God, yeah.
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  You're not talking about I want to sit in the lower bowl for
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  this. Right.
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  OK. Then you're going to, it's going
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  to cost you $1800. Nebraska fans are headed home,
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  too. And that's a component to it.
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  That is probably best case scenario.
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  I think it is. Is that one you don't.
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  Want you don't want, yeah, you don't want Houston to be there
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  sharing the floor with you because those tickets, well, did
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  you see? And there was, they got a laugh
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  out of it to me. And I guess it's funny in their
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  response, some respects. When Samson got off the bus,
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  they took, they took a bus from, you know, their, their team
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  complex to the, to the team hotel.
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  That was a long 5 minute drive. Oh man, yeah, that travelled in
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  this tournament. Just where's on.
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  Yeah. And then the chuckles.
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  Who do you like in the Houston, IL game?
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  Do you have a lean one way or the other?
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  Well. I've got an 80 to one on here on
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  Illinois, so I'm rooting for Illinois.
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  OK, inviting a line I to get home for me.
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  I think Houston wins the game. You do.
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  I mean, it's, it's just it's defense versus offense.
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  It is absolutely another component that does.
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  Look, I won't be shocked if Illinois wins the game.
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  No, they're tremendous. They really are.
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  They're so good offensively and they can, and it's not just a
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  guy we know about Wagler. Right.
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  And just turned himself into a lottery.
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  Yep. There's a whole bunch of EUR
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  that can shoot the basketball. Ben McCollum thought he was
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  going to get a trick. By the way, Ben McCollum, he did
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  every media. I don't know who the Sid is.
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  Over there is the big whites. Still no James Allen's The
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  Basketball. OK, James Allen's the
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  basketball. His phone never stopped ringing,
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  and he accommodated as many people as he could from a
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  colony. And well done, Ben.
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  You get it. You're selling your program.
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  Your program's hot right now. You're the talk of college
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  basketball, or certainly one of them.
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  I know there's a little North Carolina putting the popped up.
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  Yeah, it's gonna take some attention away.
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  And maybe in Lawrence as well. But yesterday, McCollum, he was
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  all over national media. Hats off, hats off.
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  Sell. Your program.
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  Your program's hot. I absolutely loved.
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  We talked about a Monday, what he said.
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  You know about you want to play tough for us, we're looking for
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  tough. Guys.
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  And you're soft? Nope.
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  Go elsewhere and his message is not going to change.
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  I mean, that's what the message is.
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  But to do that to get that national scope and that's people
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  wonder what happened to Iowa basketball and why we saw, you
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  know what the cratering that happened to tennis wise a year
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  ago. It's this, it's this build up,
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  it's this fun, these Sweet 16, the second weekend, the things
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  that the Cyclone fans have now seen three times in the last
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  five years and they've seen a bunch of times what, 6 Times Now
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  in the last 25 years that they've these 3-4 days of just
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  then building up again. And the spotlight that you get
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  it and the national talk and the conversations that are happening
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  everywhere from ESPN to every podcast, every radio station.
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  They're talking about your team. When you don't have that, it's
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  just disappointment. Yeah, disappointment.
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  That's what happens. That's how you can fracture a
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  fan base and what we saw and Ben McCullum brought that back in
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  year. One yeah, Chad, if you know this
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  time this week, most years we're we're taking a long look at the
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  Texas Rangers for the Milwaukee Brewers.
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  We're we're we're deep diving baseball, probably dipping our
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  toe into the NFL draft at this point.
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  It has been such a blast this week to have two of our well,
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  three of our teams made the tournament.
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  Two of our teams survived the first weekend of the tournament
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  and and both of these teams have a legitimate chance.
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  I mean I was what a point and a half dog.
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  Yep, Yep. Iowa State is a 4 1/2 point
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  favorite, roughly. Has the Jefferson.
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  Willy or won't even baked into that line possibly.
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  Because. Has it moved?
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  Let me see. Did I?
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  Did I look this morning? I didn't.
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  Let me look and see what the movement is like on that.
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  I think that I may be overstayed injuries in my handicapping and
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  concerned because I asked the question to Mike Palmer a while
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  ago with JT Toppin and he's like even JT Toppin a all American
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  couple points. It just, it's mind boggling for
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  me to try to wrap my mind around something like that because.
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  I see a quarterback go down of any ilk.
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  It's a touchdown, yeah. Absolutely, and depending on the
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  backup bits it might be 10 points.
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  But even an all American player is just that small to the point
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  spread. So Jefferson's same realm as JT
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  topping maybe a point point. And a half numbers gone down was
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  4 1/2 everywhere yesterday. There's a couple of fours
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  popped. Circus 4. the Super Book is 4.
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  Caesar's is 4, South point, Chris Andrews down to 4.
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  By the way, did you see some of the pictures from the South
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  point? The opening.
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  I did, yes. Good for you.
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  Chris does a great. Job it really does look if you
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  if you want to get to Vegas for the Super Bowl or for the
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  opening weekend of March Madness and you don't have you know, an
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  unlimited because it's getting expensive folks, it is to do it
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  South point does it does it the way it should be done.
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  It's like turn it back the clock.
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  You know the food prices, the beer prices incredibly
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  reasonable. There's no charge to get into
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  their event. Now you're not going to be in
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  the sports book. You can you're not going to
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  place to sit, but it's and it's such great property.
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  I love staying there. I'm.
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  Right there with. Right, I love school.
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  It is old school by a bunch of old school bookmakers that are
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  still on duty. Where I taught your son Kale how
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  to throw craps. That's right.
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  Sorry about that. Yeah.
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  You mentioned that about a month ago, That damn Condon when he
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  had a bad night. It happens.
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  Yeah, it does. That was a fun trip though.
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  Anyways, let's get the baseball Benny in here.
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  Let's pick his brain. Benny, let me put the right
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  button here. Hello Benny, how are you?
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  I am doing fantastic opening night in baseball, Iowa and Iowa
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  State in the 316 this weekend. Just want to pick Condon's brain
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  with Crayton, Luz and McDermott. Yes.
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  Is there any way we can get back in the Jayden Kuhn?
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  I thought you were going Owen Freeman.
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  Yeah. I was going to cut you off.
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  I don't. Yeah.
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  We don't want him. No, I don't.
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  I don't think that Owen Freeman is going to be welcomed back in
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  Iowa City anytime soon, even with the regime change.
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  But that that aside, Betty, I brought it up on Monday even
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  before the McDermott news was official to Ken.
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  I brought it up on the air. From what I have ascertained,
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  this is not reporting. So who are the schools first?
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  Iowa State's in Iowa, the 1st. Time, yes, TCU was also were
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  they with Jamie Dixon and Illinois I think was the other
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  one. Iowa has not.
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  Nebraska as well. Yes, yes, Iowa did not slow down
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  the relationship. The conversation, not with Coon
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  but representatives, continued the connection to Storm Lake.
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  Now I've had people tell me they believe it's a done deal, that
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  you. Go in Iowa.
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  It is not a source that I would say, Oh yeah, that's happening.
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  Is that something? Again, I'm reporting by any
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  means, but there are people in the basketball community that
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  think that this is happening does.
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  He have a no cut. No, he doesn't.
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  Because, you know, he says Creighton's still very much in
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  the picture. Exactly.
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  We'll see and the process changes.
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  I mean, when you get to this point, he's a top 150 kid, but
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  there's going to be other programs that are getting
• 18:15
  involved and there's going to be roster flipping and a lot going
• 18:18
  on. He's going to have plenty of
• 18:19
  options, but I think he'd be a good fit.
• 18:22
  He's kind of a big two guard, 65 thick, strong.
• 18:26
  Is he he will improve, but what he is in the athleticism that
• 18:30
  he. Has a little shorter.
• 18:31
  No, I would put him a more muscular joy range.
• 18:36
  Think of that kind of body type, more muscular than him, but Luke
• 18:41
  Wrecker, like something in that range.
• 18:43
  He is athletic. We'll see, though.
• 18:46
  He's also playing 3A basketball and and seeing how that
• 18:49
  translates right away. Sometimes that doesn't matter.
• 18:51
  And I didn't see him or hear much about him on the AAU
• 18:54
  circuit. I do know though, that Iowa has
• 18:56
  maintained it, maintained the relationship and certainly I was
• 18:59
  going to be in the mix at minimum.
• 19:01
  Benny, let me ask you about your braids real quick.
• 19:03
  Did they finish 4th or 5th in the East?
• 19:07
  So with the with what we're dealing with, with the tapes
• 19:11
  together. Profar.
• 19:14
  Yeah, I don't. Profar has lost cause.
• 19:17
  Anyway, I loved the Usrimsky signing when they made it so the
• 19:21
  Usrimsky was going to get a boatload of that badge.
• 19:23
  You still have a coup and you still have Olson and Riley who
• 19:26
  crushed the ball this spring, more worried about they're
• 19:30
  because you could have bounced back years out of all these and
• 19:32
  those types of players. More worried about, you know,
• 19:35
  Grant Holmes has a UCL injury, he's trying to rehab it.
• 19:38
  You've got Reynaldo Lopez, who he has a part, Yeah.
• 19:43
  Grant Holmes has a partial tariffs.
• 19:45
  UCLA just rehabbed it, didn't undergo the knife.
• 19:48
  He got Lopez that made one start last year, missed the rest of
• 19:52
  the season. Bryce Alder made 25 or 30 starts
• 19:54
  with a 5.30 ERA. Strider didn't regain the
• 19:58
  velocity that he lost after his second surgery on his elbow.
• 20:02
  Was averaging 94 1/2. And now he's got an oblique
• 20:05
  strain. So you're talking about a
• 20:07
  boatload of guys that are #4 and five starters and their best
• 20:11
  pitcher in camp was a. 20 year old kid that's barely pitched
• 20:15
  above a ball that pitched a couple games last year and had a
• 20:19
  13 point ERA, but in spring training the 1st 1st, 9 innings
• 20:25
  that he went he had 17 strikeouts, no hits, no walks
• 20:29
  allowed. Yeah, they don't call him the
• 20:31
  baseball Benny for nothing. Other than that, how's the play,
• 20:34
  Mrs. Lincoln? Hey, Benny, we got a run, buddy,
• 20:37
  We got a run. I just got one.
• 20:39
  Go, go. One more question.
• 20:41
  Are there any point guards that have Iowa that might be entering
• 20:45
  the transfer portal that we you think we could get like if
• 20:48
  Xavion Lee. He's in.
• 20:50
  Transfer portal, should we get him?
• 20:52
  I don't know on that front. There was another thing and
• 20:55
  again, this is just a rumor and appreciate the call Benny some
• 20:58
  rumbling that was out there that maybe I already I was already
• 21:01
  identified their guy no name behind it, no connection,
• 21:04
  nothing like that. But I did see that speculated
• 21:07
  about that Iowa has an idea of what direction they're going.
• 21:12
  But again, this is the rumor, but just something that I heard
• 21:15
  and I like to pass along those things to our.
• 21:18
  Lives. Is there any connections with
• 21:20
  Lee in Florida in the portal? I don't think so.
• 21:22
  Let's get Andy Hawkeye. Andy's on the road, he said.
• 21:25
  He was leaving. You're on the road.
• 21:26
  Where are you? Hey, guys.
• 21:29
  Yeah, we are an hour and a half in.
• 21:32
  We're in Missouri because I saw the firecracker stores.
• 21:36
  In Missouri, as soon as you get across the border, right there
• 21:40
  they are. All the weed and fireworks you
• 21:41
  can handle. Absolutely.
• 21:44
  I was just counting. I think we're just going to hit
• 21:46
  4 states, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, so.
• 21:50
  Good stuff. What?
• 21:51
  So what time's ETA? The was app Waze app every say
• 21:57
  it says 1230 but that's without stopping.
• 21:59
  So we'll see if we can get there by two, 2:30 if we go all the
• 22:04
  way. Good stuff.
• 22:05
  Thanks for chiming in, giving us an update on the trip safe drive
• 22:10
  and enjoy the game. But thanks for listening, Andy.
• 22:12
  Hey, thank you. Hey, and one last thing.
• 22:14
  My cousin, third cousin's dentist, said Jane Coon's coming
• 22:17
  to Iowa. So that works for us.
• 22:19
  Everybody. We we've used that as gospel
• 22:21
  before, yes. We have dentists in this radio
• 22:24
  station anyway, so that's another story.
• 22:28
  Bill Seals on the road to Chicago.
• 22:30
  He's next. Miller and Condon, Iowa Sports
• 22:33
  Radio Network 30. Miller and Condon welcome back
• 22:37
  yeah I was sports radio network or wherever you are listening
• 22:40
  grateful that you are Trenton I until two Bill Bender from the
• 22:43
  Sporting News 45 minutes. David Kaplan off to Chicago
• 22:47
  preview the Cubs the White Sox etcetera.
• 22:50
  Will the bullet will the Bulls need a new head coach All those
• 22:53
  topics with Cappy at one O clock then former Hawkeye basketball
• 22:56
  player Wade looking Bill at 1:30 Bill seals on his way to
• 22:59
  Chicago. Bill Trenton can thanks for
• 23:01
  giving us a few minutes. I do want to spend some time on
• 23:04
  the Iowa State women, the latest there's and other players in the
• 23:07
  portal. Let's start with the men.
• 23:09
  Any whispers at all? Are you hearing anything on
• 23:11
  Jefferson? I know TJ and a couple of
• 23:14
  players will meet the team somewhere around 3:00 today.
• 23:18
  What do you anticipate when it comes to Jefferson?
• 23:20
  What are you going to hear? Well, I've got AI had heard some
• 23:26
  positive rumors, I guess you could say yesterday that the MRI
• 23:32
  on him came back clean. I think that was a kind of a
• 23:35
  precautionary move before they continued to progress in his
• 23:39
  rehab and then try and get him ready.
• 23:41
  You know, got got the swelling down in the young ankle, got a
• 23:45
  better look at it from an MRI. And, you know, I think they're
• 23:49
  doing as much as they can multiple treatments and each day
• 23:53
  and, and increasing the movement.
• 23:55
  And you know, I think they took advantage of of being back in
• 23:58
  Ames for a few days and the facilities out there and, and
• 24:03
  you know, they've got on, I think about noon they got on a
• 24:06
  plane and headed towards Chicago.
• 24:08
  And I imagine you know, the rest of today, tonight, tomorrow,
• 24:12
  they'll they'll continue to try and get him continued in the
• 24:15
  right direction. So when the team gets there,
• 24:18
  does the bus drop them up right at the front of the hotel?
• 24:21
  Seeing that some, you know, some of them, Iowa State media
• 24:25
  members might be greeting the bus and seeing if Jefferson gets
• 24:28
  off with a walking boot or with crutches.
• 24:31
  If you have to wheel them out, is that is that a possibility
• 24:34
  that that can happen? Bill Seals.
• 24:37
  Well, I think that they'll, they'll walk into the lobby and
• 24:40
  then we'll be all kind of sitting in the lobby.
• 24:43
  I'm sure as they walk in though, they'll head out and what I
• 24:48
  understand have a, well, it'll be a late lunch by the time they
• 24:52
  get there. They'll head out in and have a
• 24:54
  late lunch in a banquet hall in there and then we'll get them
• 24:57
  afterwards. But I would anticipate he's
• 24:59
  probably got his foot in the boot man got one of those
• 25:03
  rollers and you know, they'll, they'll keep being, you know,
• 25:07
  exercising all the costs and they can with him as they they
• 25:10
  get to the hotel. Question on the recruiting
• 25:13
  front, Jayden Kuhn, Mr. Basketball here in the state of
• 25:16
  Iowa, has decommitted from Creighton, Iowa, Iowa State were
• 25:20
  involved with him at the high school level.
• 25:22
  Any idea? Any renewed interest now that he
• 25:25
  has reopened his commitment? I don't think so, Trent.
• 25:29
  I think that, you know, everything I had heard in his
• 25:33
  recruitment is that Iowa State kind of dropped off on that
• 25:37
  towards the latter stages of it. I think that as you saw things
• 25:41
  play out, you know, with Creighton getting the
• 25:44
  commitment, I would imagine what I'll probably Iowa, Nebraska
• 25:47
  will be the two favorites now for him.
• 25:50
  But I don't foresee Iowa State jumping back in at this point.
• 25:54
  That is in the process though. Good stuff.
• 25:58
  Let's a couple more on basketball, men's basketball,
• 26:01
  then I want to do switch to the women's game.
• 26:03
  Just get your what what you're hearing as far as happenings
• 26:07
  there when it comes to Tennessee, Bill, what what do
• 26:11
  they do that maybe I would stay to spend more time trying to
• 26:15
  scout in advance of Friday's game.
• 26:17
  What is what would worry TJ and his staff about the Volunteers,
• 26:21
  the way that they play? Well, I think you start with
• 26:24
  the, the rebounding with, with them, they average what about
• 26:29
  45%. They, they, they offensive
• 26:32
  rebound, missed shot attempts. And that's how that leads the
• 26:36
  country per Ken Palm. You know, they're also just
• 26:39
  strong on the boards overall. They're #2 in the country and,
• 26:43
  and I believe it's rebounding margin total rebounds so as
• 26:49
  well. So I mean, they, you know, when
• 26:51
  you talk to TJ against it before they play any opponent, he's
• 26:54
  going to stress the, the, that crashed the boards, the need,
• 26:59
  the pressure, the opponent, turn them over, get in into the
• 27:02
  break. So I think you, you know, you
• 27:04
  start first and foremost, you know, Tennessee's long across
• 27:09
  that frontline as well. What's 610, I think 610 and six
• 27:13
  11611 across that frontline. And you know, Iowa State with,
• 27:17
  with Jefferson status in jeopardy, it'll be interesting
• 27:22
  to see how Iowa State plays. They they played small ball
• 27:26
  against Tennessee State and Kentucky both wins in the the
• 27:29
  first weekend. But you wonder if they might try
• 27:32
  to they, well, they might have to match up a little differently
• 27:36
  against Tennessee or, or if they'll continue to play small
• 27:39
  ball and try and get out on the break.
• 27:41
  You know, one thing I I think you look at with Tennessee is
• 27:46
  that, you know, with the offensive rebounding numbers
• 27:49
  that they've had, you know, facing A-Team like Iowa State
• 27:52
  that wants to get out and run and, you know, get get stops on
• 27:57
  defense, get out and run. Will Tennessee still send as
• 28:00
  many guys to the offensive glasses they would or do they
• 28:04
  try to get back defense? You know, we've seen a lot of
• 28:07
  teams don't like that with Iowa State.
• 28:10
  They yeah, yeah, Iowa State has turned teams over.
• 28:13
  But sometimes the points off turnovers aren't there because
• 28:17
  teams are getting back on defense.
• 28:20
  You wonder if that plays out the same like on missed baskets and
• 28:24
  how many guys Tennessee's will send to the board.
• 28:27
  So, but you know, as far as the scoring goes, Jacoby Gillespie
• 28:31
  had a huge game and their their win against Virginia, nada meant
• 28:37
  a lot of a lot of praise for him.
• 28:39
  You know, he's one of those frontline guys, but.
• 28:42
  He's skinny is what for? I mean, he's really skinny,
• 28:45
  yeah. Yeah, yeah, Iowa State's big
• 28:47
  men, will, will, will try to push him around a little bit.
• 28:51
  But you know, one, one guy, that Bishop Boswell, he's another
• 28:56
  one. I, I think you saw with
• 28:59
  Kentucky, they, they had those uncontested, those early looks,
• 29:03
  they nailed them. They, they got up to that early
• 29:07
  lead. And Boswell's a guy, I think you
• 29:10
  look at some of those secondary scores for Tennessee, he had, he
• 29:15
  was four of nine from long distance.
• 29:18
  And that win against Virginia, 4 of 10 from the field.
• 29:21
  So that gives you an idea what he's out there to do.
• 29:24
  And I think Iowa State, yeah, they're going to, they're going
• 29:27
  to be worried about Gillespie, certainly a, a meant in the
• 29:30
  front court. But Boswell's a guy.
• 29:33
  If they if they don't account for him, he could get them off
• 29:36
  to a good start. Tennessee and and make things
• 29:39
  difficult for the Cyclone. The defense and I think the on
• 29:42
  ball defense is going to be the difference for this one for Iowa
• 29:45
  State. That's why I love this match up.
• 29:47
  I just think Tennessee too careless with the ball is going
• 29:49
  to turn it over too much against the pressure when TJ talks about
• 29:52
  it and outside of the coaching cliches, you know, buying in
• 29:54
  those kind of things that, you know, we get all the time from
• 29:57
  coaches. What do you see out of the
• 29:59
  pressure that they employ and when a ball screen comes and
• 30:02
  just the way that they're able to get through that and and and
• 30:05
  change so quickly. What does Iowa State do?
• 30:07
  Is there anything that you can point to to say this is the
• 30:10
  reason that he can get all these guys?
• 30:11
  He's in guys that are limited athletically at times to play at
• 30:15
  this elite level defensively together.
• 30:17
  Well, I think it it again, it starts in what June, July when
• 30:21
  they commenced for those summer workouts.
• 30:23
  I think that that mindset starts then.
• 30:27
  I mean, the, the buy in, you're getting guys to play together
• 30:31
  and, and you know, now, now they're to the point of the
• 30:35
  season where what you, what you saw in the Big 12 after a point,
• 30:39
  I, I think you see, you see teams twice.
• 30:42
  They, they know how to, they know how to, to face a defense
• 30:46
  like that. You, you see, you know, teams
• 30:49
  that can swing the ball around you get it to a corner, skip it
• 30:53
  to the corner real quick for an open 3.
• 30:56
  And I think just now they, they play what this will be the
• 30:58
  second SEC team they play, they play Tennessee State.
• 31:02
  And I, I'm, I just, I, I think what makes it so effective at
• 31:06
  this point in the season print is a lot of these teams haven't
• 31:09
  faced a defense like this before.
• 31:11
  I, I will say though, Tennessee did beat Houston, I believe.
• 31:15
  Was it like the third week in November, beat Houston by three,
• 31:18
  saw a little bit of a similar probably defense as what they're
• 31:22
  going to see with the Cyclones on on Friday.
• 31:25
  So but yeah, I think what makes it effective in a setting like
• 31:28
  this is a lot of these teams are so speed up.
• 31:32
  You know, they get frustrated throwing the ball around.
• 31:34
  And Iowa State, I think against Kentucky, they just broke their
• 31:38
  will in the second-half and that pressure really got to him.
• 31:41
  Now, granted, I think that I think with with Tennessee,
• 31:46
  they're playing for a little bit more.
• 31:47
  This isn't A-Team that's kind of been in the tank and very up and
• 31:51
  down like Kentucky was. I think it will probably be more
• 31:54
  difficult to break Tennessee's will, but Iowa State's going to
• 31:58
  try to do that. They're going to have to do
• 32:00
  that, I think, with the rebounding factor so largely in
• 32:04
  Tennessee's paper. Yeah, Tennessee.
• 32:05
  In Tennessee, Houston played in Vegas the same tournament Iowa
• 32:09
  State was in, right? The what they call it, the
• 32:11
  Players era tournament Bill. Last thing, let's switch to the
• 32:16
  women. Another Freya Jensen has entered
• 32:19
  the portal. Not that she scored a bunch, but
• 32:22
  the shooter that everybody's waiting to see what happens or
• 32:25
  the decision that everybody's waiting to see.
• 32:27
  Obviously, Audie Crooks, Addie Brown is gone.
• 32:30
  We know that. What do you expect?
• 32:33
  What's going on here? And obviously the Bill Fenley
• 32:36
  question gets louder and louder and louder Bill.
• 32:40
  Yeah, it really does. It really does.
• 32:42
  Kenny Fryer was the the latest to go into the portal today.
• 32:47
  If I recall. She had dealt with an an injury
• 32:50
  I think in the season and just never really got never really
• 32:54
  got going. I think when the season came
• 32:56
  around to start and she wasn't healthy and kind of got
• 32:59
  relegated out of the rotation. You know, the rest is history
• 33:03
  there. But you know, six so far in the
• 33:06
  portal. I I think you could say that two
• 33:09
  of those pretty big losses, obviously Addie Brown, Iowa
• 33:14
  State's most complete, most all around top player, Reese Beatty,
• 33:19
  I think, but baby, she had a a bright future.
• 33:22
  I think what we saw her as a freshman and you know, we will
• 33:26
  see. We still haven't heard anything
• 33:27
  out of Audie Crooks. What what she's going to do Jada
• 33:31
  Williams. That's another both of those in
• 33:34
  that junior class from this year.
• 33:36
  Eddie Brown was as well, but Audie and, and Jada were on the
• 33:40
  on the podium after the loss to Syracuse that the topic actually
• 33:44
  did come up and they both kind of skirted around the idea.
• 33:47
  And then that didn't really think it was a question as far
• 33:51
  as what they're going to do next season.
• 33:53
  But it makes you wonder with Addie Brown hitting the portal
• 33:56
  if something's brewing up there. And I, I think you know, you,
• 34:00
  you look at the recruiting circles as well.
• 34:02
  I think it's probably a consensus out there on the trail
• 34:06
  and opposing coaches and stuff thinking that that Bill's going
• 34:09
  to be done after next season, but he's going to have a lot of
• 34:14
  players to replace. And the other thing is, is the
• 34:17
  perception is that he's done after next season.
• 34:21
  Well, he's got to replace at least six so far players on that
• 34:25
  rock. It's untenable.
• 34:27
  It's untenable. It's untenable.
• 34:28
  Yeah. Yeah, right.
• 34:30
  Hey, Bill, listen, we're out of time, brother.
• 34:31
  Appreciate what you do for us. cyclonereport.com, We'll have
• 34:35
  the very latest from Chicago, and TJ meets the media about
• 34:38
  3:00, somewhere around that time this afternoon.
• 34:41
  Bill, thanks for doing this, buddy.
• 34:42
  Appreciate it. Yeah.
• 34:44
  Take care guys, we'll talk to you soon.
• 34:45
  Yeah, good to talk to you. But great point about Bill his
• 34:48
  contracts up next year right do it now.
• 34:51
  I mean, if you're not going to resign them with all these all
• 34:54
  this attrition Bill Bender next Miller and Condon I have sports
• 34:57
  radio network All right, 12:45-ish Miller and Condon
• 35:01
  welcome back David Kaplan kicks off our number 2 Wade looking
• 35:04
  Bill about 1:30. Bill Bender right now Sporting
• 35:07
  News for Bill, primarily football, but he covers all
• 35:11
  sports. Got his hot list up for the
• 35:15
  coach at North Carolina to replace Hubert, to replace
• 35:18
  Hubert Davis. Hello, Bill Bender, good to talk
• 35:21
  to you and very glad to see that on your list, neither Ben
• 35:24
  McCullum or TJ Otzelberger listed as we want to keep both
• 35:29
  of these guys here in the state. How are you, Bill?
• 35:32
  Well, you're not going to like the list I'm making now.
• 35:35
  You want about a a certain Kansas coach that is
• 35:39
  contemplating retirement because I think both of those coaches
• 35:43
  would be on the hot board for Kansas if that happened.
• 35:45
  Indeed, that that does make sense.
• 35:47
  We'll see if either of them go. They're both busy this weekend,
• 35:51
  which is just great for our state, Bill.
• 35:53
  I mean, 2 to 216 teams left. Two of them move the needle like
• 35:56
  none other here in the state that we call home.
• 35:59
  So when you watch this tournament, Bill, who's caught
• 36:01
  your eye? If you had to re rank them, who
• 36:04
  do you think right now the team would be to beat?
• 36:06
  When you lay out what lies ahead of them, who do you think the
• 36:09
  team to beat right now the most probable winner is?
• 36:14
  Right, like they got to get by Arkansas, not going to be easy,
• 36:19
  but they've been the most complete.
• 36:21
  And that's not to say the Big 10s obviously been the big story
• 36:24
  of the tournament with the six teams and the four of those
• 36:27
  teams have played for national championships since 2000.
• 36:30
  The the development of Iowa and Nebraska and just two
• 36:34
  unbelievable games. If you're a fan of just
• 36:37
  basketball at large, those were incredible basketball games.
• 36:40
  So, you know, I would say Arizona followed closely by
• 36:43
  Michigan and then followed after that.
• 36:46
  Keep an eye on Illinois. I mean, tell me somebody looks
• 36:49
  better than them there. They are dominating people.
• 36:53
  This will be the first time I believe ever that two teams
• 36:55
  coming off of back-to-back 20 point victories will be facing
• 36:59
  off here in the Sweet 16 with Illinois and Houston.
• 37:01
  They collide in that one. I'll build the Big 10 angle.
• 37:05
  It goes without saying though, without a national championship,
• 37:08
  doesn't matter when we're talking about the national scope
• 37:10
  of things because that is something that hangs out and I
• 37:13
  hear it all the time from my Big 12 fans.
• 37:15
  And you hear from the SEC people and you hear from the ACC Unless
• 37:18
  you win a national championship, your conference can't be
• 37:20
  considered the best. Yeah, You know, they dominated
• 37:24
  the first weekend and that's the point.
• 37:25
  Like, what better time than now to close this drought and
• 37:29
  mentioned Michigan, mentioned Michigan State.
• 37:31
  We know all about how good they are.
• 37:35
  You know, my Sweet 16 picks are up and if they come through,
• 37:37
  which they've been OK, straight up, OK, they've been so, so
• 37:42
  against the spread. But straight up, I have
• 37:46
  Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, all all advancing to the Elite 8,
• 37:52
  and I'm missing one. I'm blanking on my 4th one.
• 37:54
  I have Michigan State losing. So who am I leading?
• 37:57
  Oh, and I have Illinois winning. Yeah, I think Illinois, if they
• 38:00
  can get to 75 points, that's the magic number.
• 38:04
  It's hard to do against Houston. If they get there, they're going
• 38:06
  to win that game. And then Friday, you've got Duke
• 38:09
  in a close game and I'm with you.
• 38:10
  I think this is a nail biter. I think it's way too many
• 38:13
  points. Michigan gets by Alabama,
• 38:15
  Michigan State falls to UConn. Bill that that region, it could
• 38:20
  be a Final four. I mean, you take a look at the
• 38:22
  names, right? It truly could be a final four.
• 38:25
  I mean, the coaching matchups, etcetera, etcetera.
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  My God build this tournament just it wasn't great the first
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  weekend for a lot of reasons. This weekend's off the charts.
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  This is the price of getting rid of Cinderella.
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  It's not, you know, you lose that weekend, but what do you
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  get over 4 days? You get, you know, I, we were
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  just discussing this in the Sporting News planning meeting.
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  Rick Pitino. This is, this is the most mind
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  boggling thing to me. He took a team to the Final four
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  in 1987 at Providence. It's been 40 years and he might
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  do it again with St. John's, which would be a four
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  different school. So you know that that St.
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  John's Duke game is as good as it gets.
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  Michigan State U Conn with those two coaches on the sideline is
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  as good as it gets. And I think you just said it
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  best that that does feel like a Final Four within the
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  tournament. They.
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  All do though. And they all do.
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  They all feel closely. They all feel like Final Fours
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  within the Final Four. We were talking a little bit
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  earlier about conferences and the ACC North Carolina fires,
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  Hubert, they're going to move on.
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  Duke. Has Duke just separated
• 39:30
  themselves somebody else? Because we're used to seeing
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  6810 ACC teams and you know, 3-4 of them are Final four
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  contenders year in, year out and that hasn't happened in quite a
• 39:41
  while in that conference. Is it just as simple as the
• 39:43
  money, the Big 10, the SEC, what they've done?
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  We'll see kind of going for what the Big 12 looks like.
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  Is that what it is? What's gone wrong here outside
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  of Duke with a ACC basketball? Money.
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  It's money. I think it really is.
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  I mean, when 10 of the Sweet 16 schools are from the SEC and the
• 40:01
  Big 10, I think you can't help but ignore the money.
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  And, and I was talking to Mike De Corsi, our great basketball
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  writer, about this and when I was doing the Hubert Davis list
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  and I said, he said, you know. They're going to have a hard
• 40:14
  time pulling somebody from the SEC or the Big 10 because of the
• 40:17
  money. So you look at a coach like
• 40:19
  Vanderbilt's Mark Buyington, he's probably a really good home
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  run. Team.
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  North Carolina job, but can they?
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  Which one's the better job that's become fluid?
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  I mean, I would say, you know, North Carolina is probably the
• 40:33
  second hardest job in college basketball behind Kentucky.
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  Kentucky's impossible. Like, you can never win enough
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  there. And I think North Carolina's
• 40:43
  pretty close. Yeah, Big Blue Nation.
• 40:45
  They're different, no doubt about that.
• 40:47
  Kind of like Husker football in in in a lot of ways, it just
• 40:50
  means more. That's seemingly all they've
• 40:53
  got. No and no doubt about that.
• 40:54
  Speaking of college football, Bill, anything that we should
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  know? Is there any rule change you're
• 40:59
  keeping an eye on? Anything that we might have
• 41:01
  missed as we've been focusing on college basketball?
• 41:05
  Well, I on the side here, I've been getting, you know, by the
• 41:08
  way, Sporting News will have a college football preview
• 41:11
  magazine this summer, isn't it? Magazine We're, we're, we're
• 41:15
  really excited about having that magazine, the preview mag that
• 41:19
  you get in the summer. And I was working on some Big 10
• 41:23
  previews this week and you know, I get you excited about that.
• 41:26
  I think not so much a rule change or anything like that,
• 41:29
  but just looking at that, that pier of the Big 10 isn't Ohio
• 41:33
  State, Indiana and Oregon. Who's going to be that school
• 41:36
  that maybe jumps up and and grabs your attention and reaches
• 41:40
  the playoffs? There are plenty of candidates.
• 41:42
  It's going to be a fun season, no doubt.
• 41:44
  Looking forward to that and yeah, getting the old magazine
• 41:48
  back out there again. Sporting.
• 41:49
  News keep us. Posted on that Bill, absolutely.
• 41:52
  You know, Bill, with that, we talk about it, but it's always
• 41:55
  so busy at the end of the football season, right?
• 41:57
  We're getting ready for the playoff.
• 41:59
  The importance of the Sporting News still has being part of the
• 42:03
  consensus All American honors. Is that something for you?
• 42:06
  I mean, that has to a put a little bit more pressure on what
• 42:09
  you guys do at the Sporting News.
• 42:10
  But still it to this day, as the industry industry has changed,
• 42:14
  that The Sporting News still has that moniker has got to be
• 42:16
  pretty special for you. Oh, for sure.
• 42:19
  Well, and, and to be clear, it's we're just doing a preview
• 42:21
  magazine, not like an every week thing like we used to.
• 42:24
  So which means a lot to me because I when I started at
• 42:28
  Sporting News we did have the every week magazine and so and
• 42:31
  the preview magazines are so important to us.
• 42:33
  It was newspaper when I first started to get it right.
• 42:38
  And, you know, we celebrated our 140th anniversary and to be a
• 42:41
  part of a publication where you're working with Mike De
• 42:43
  Corsi every day. And the, the, the all American
• 42:48
  part, though, that is the, and I tell you guys this every year,
• 42:52
  it's arguably the most stressful thing they that I do because I
• 42:55
  take so much pride in, in carrying that on.
• 42:58
  And, and you know what it means to the schools, the conferences
• 43:01
  and some of the discussions we have, it might just say second
• 43:04
  team All American, but it means a lot to us.
• 43:07
  Bill Bender from the Sporting News, Look forward to that Bill.
• 43:09
  Can't wait to to get it in my hands and and get up to speed on
• 43:14
  college football when it gets back.
• 43:15
  Bill, thanks for popping on. Appreciate it.
• 43:16
  Bill Bender, thank you as always.
• 43:18
  Hey. No problem, thanks for having me
• 43:20
  on. Going to talk to Bill Bender
• 43:21
  from The Sporting News is we take a minute for Bill.
• 43:25
  You know that that Bill's right In a lot of ways, the second
• 43:28
  weekend of the tournament is this.
• 43:31
  I wonder what this is going. Is this going to be more popular
• 43:34
  than the first weekend of the tournament because of the fact
• 43:37
  that Cinderella is dead and the point spreads are all 182526?
• 43:41
  Well, we've seen this historically.
• 43:42
  St. Peters when they got to the
• 43:44
  Sweet 16, those games did not rate.
• 43:47
  Cinderella does not rate when we get to the second.
• 43:49
  Slate, we've got the eight games we've got this week on Thursday.
• 43:53
  Friday are nuts. Hour 2, Cappy kicks it off off
• 43:57
  to Chicago. Wade lookingbill, transplays of
• 43:59
  the day. That's hour 2.
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  It's next on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.