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Weekend Recap, Bill Seals talks Cyclones · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Right good afternoon welcome Miller and Condon on a Monday
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the Iowa Sports Radio Network, Trent Condon and Ken Miller for
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the next two hours talking sports with you.
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Thanks for starting your afternoon here with us.
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Here's what's coming up on our program at the bottom of the
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hour, Bill Seals, who covers Iowa State, He will join us take
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a look at Iowa State's win over Arizona State Senior Day in Ames
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and then a look ahead to the Big 12 men's basketball tournament
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for them that gets underway on Wednesday.
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We'll to talk to Bill Seals, Iowa State related topics coming
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up here at 12:30. Scott Doctorman, he was at
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Carver back on a Thursday night for the Michigan game.
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We'll pick Doc's brain on what Carver looked like to him as he
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used to follow it back in the heyday when it was like that
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every single night. But we'll talk to Doc about
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college sports related topics, the tournament is upon us,
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etcetera. Coming up here at 1:00.
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And then Kevin Layman who was on the radio call of Northern
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Iowa's Missouri Valley Conference Tournament
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championship when yesterday he will join us at 1:30 recap a
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pretty good weekend for both of the Iowa based teams.
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Better for you and I as they cut down the Nets and punch their
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ticket to the big dance. But Kevin Layman will be here to
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recap that. And coming up here at 1:30,
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Trent will make some picks. Circus sports sponsor those
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about 10 minutes or so before 2. And we'll make way for the boys
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there at the Rally House and Ames today.
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Lucas and Sean, Rally House and aims to do their three hour
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program from three until 5:00. Hi, good to see you.
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Trent Condon, how are you? I'm doing well, a busy week and
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another busy week in front of us with state basketball on the
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boys side and then we can exhale.
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But of course we have the NCAA tournament after that, so it is
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my favorite time of year. It's really fun I I admit it.
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You have swayed me that it is not the best month on the.
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Calendar, yes. Yes, because and maybe most
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importantly, we don't have football, right.
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And that's definitely the swaying factor of it.
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But it is we do have. Football news we'll get to in
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just oh. Yes, absolutely.
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The NFL, they take a couple of weeks off and then they've had
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enough and right back to dominate the headlines.
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But let's go back to Saturday night, Saturday night, Friday
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night, once the championship game.
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Friday night. Let's let's pass out some
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flowers and and tip our caps. Absolutely.
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It was down early, Johnston. Oh, they were, yes.
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The 78 game-winning streak. You wonder if it might be how
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many? Times did you think they trailed
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this year I mean a handful I'm. Sure.
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Yeah, but that's about it. They trailed in the semi final
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two and then Jennica Lewis got going and it was deep 3 pointer
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after deep 3 pointer. A couple of 25 footers in there.
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She was tremendous. Put the team on her back when
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they needed it and then they coasted to the victory against
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Waukee Northwest. Coach Powell, who you might
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remember back in his days at Des Moines East and all the success
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that he had, he's been now over yes at at Waukee Northwest last
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couple of years I. Think I have them in my phone
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still. Oh, really?
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Yeah. Coach Powell, really good guy.
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And a couple of his assistants. I had some ties to a couple of
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them, including my wife teaches with one of his assistant
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coaches over on the South Side. But in the end, not enough.
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It was too much Johnston and it was too much Jennifer Lewis.
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She was tremendous once again. And how was the crowd?
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Good it was. I mean, the lower bowl was,
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yeah, which was great to see also for the girls state
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championship game in 5A. So the pomp and circumstance
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too, One of my favorite things they do.
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You know, I talked a lot about state wrestling, the Grand March
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and just how cool that is with all the place winners coming in
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and just an incredible scene. Something that the girls do I
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think is really awesome, too. They do it at halftime of the
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first game, which is the 5A game, the way that the schedule
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is set up and they bring in all the state champions from the
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last year, every single sport from track and volleyball, you
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know, the ones that we know. And then you see the bowling
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team comes out from Des Moines, Lincoln and you see and you also
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see some of the modified teams that are out there and, and golf
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and on and on. It's just a really cool moment.
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You see all these? Moment in front of fans.
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How many people go to state golf?
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Right or state. Bowling, right?
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Yeah. I mean, we're talking about no
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sense people. Yeah.
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And then you get that in that environment with, you know, 7000
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people in the building. That's great.
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Really, really cool. How long have they been doing
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that and who thought of it? I don't know.
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I can't off the top of my head remember it's been going out for
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a while, yes. But a really good.
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Idea it absolutely is to celebrate all the state
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champions and do it in that kind of environment.
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So tip of the ball cap is always the girls.
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You didn't do an incredible job year after year after year.
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And I also love being in the bowels of the arena and seeing
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just what a big deal they make out of it.
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It's not you're just playing a basketball game.
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It's that it is a state tournament that it's bigger and
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they have these lights up as you're coming out of the tunnel.
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They're like pink cute and and it's you know, pink as you're
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walking onto the floor. They got these different places
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where you can take pictures, you know, as a team with a different
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backdrop and really cool work that the union does and making
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that all possible. So shout out to them every
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single year. They do a great job with Girls
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State, but has it's been the last three years and what 5 the
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last seven? I think it is now the Justin
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Dragons are champs. Well, Valley will not get back
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there for the boys, but the boys do begin play, in fact have
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begun earlier this morning. So what are your plans?
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Tuesday and Thursday, correct? Tuesday, Thursday, yes, I will
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do all the quarterfinals starting tonight, 5:30, It'll be
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Game 1, Dowling Catholic against Dubuque Senior and then coming
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up after that, probably about 7:15 right in that range will
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have Urbandale trying to pull off the shocker against
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undefeated Cedar Falls 750 with the tip with The Jayhawks and
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the Tigers there, then tomorrow morning.
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You seen Cedar Falls? Not in person this year.
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I've seen them. I watched a lot of their game
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against Waukee Northwest. When they beat Northwest.
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They're just good. They run good things.
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They're really a well oiled machine every single year.
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Then tomorrow morning we get an all Central Iowa fair. 10:30 AM.
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Waukee Northwest against Johnston, followed up 1215
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Waukee, the number two seed against Cedar Rapids Prairie.
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Then back at it for the semifinals on Thursday morning
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that will start at 10:30, followed up by 12:15 and then
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the championship Friday at 3:00. Really that's that last year is
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1:00. They shift everything around and
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so this year the 4A championship will be 3:00 and we'll have that
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one on 96.9 the bowl. All right, good stuff.
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Well, we'll have fun. Time of years get through that
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and soon you'll be calling baseball.
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Games, but that's a. Few weeks off good stuff.
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Well, let's talk about some hoops before we get into some of
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the NFL news that is starting to trickle out.
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And there are a couple of really big needle movers.
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We'll get to that in a second. Let's start with how the day
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played out. And that was you and I at 11:15
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going up against UIC. And here's Kevin Harlan on the
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call. And you know what, he just, he
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elevates that tournament. I think if you turn on Channel
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8, you're getting one of the premier college basketball
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announcers doing your championship game.
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And he was really good. I mean, Bond, Leon Bond, you
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know, after that slam that was he's he's just he's so quick.
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You know, we we we recall when there's, you know, streaker out
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on that field. And I may be a streaker just
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somebody gets on to the field of an NFL game on a Westwood one
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game. He's broadcasting.
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He's so terrific and he he did the game yesterday.
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But well done you and I well done Drake too, for Drake to
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make it to Saturday. Tip of the cap to them, but UIC
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had some dudes, in particular Crawford and Henderson.
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My good God, there was a while that I didn't think Crawford was
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going to miss. He could not miss a single shot
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time after time after time. I think.
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What do they have to do for these Panthers?
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But you know what? To you and I's credit, the
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Flames from UIC would cut it to two.
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I think they did on 2 separate occasions.
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And then you and I had an answer.
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Make a three, make a stop, make another bracket, get another
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stop and extend the lead back to double digits.
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In a way, the Panthers go, and they punched their ticket for
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the first time since 2016. Well done, Ben Jacobson, who, by
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the way, will join the boys in the afternoon today at 3:00.
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That's great, yes. And absolutely a guy that is
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well respected as should be without a doubt as one of ton of
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games has been close so many times during this last one of
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the. One of the state's great college
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coaches and regardless of sport. And has had plenty of
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opportunities to move on. Has stuck in Cedar Falls and
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done a good job year after year. They're always solid.
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You know they're going to be solid and to get over the hump
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to do it in the fashion they did, Four wins and four days.
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Never been done. Never been done before.
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But there was also a reason they were the second betting choice.
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It's a good team. That's true.
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This is a good team. And we talked about from time to
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time throughout the course of the year that Tristan Smith
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injury. It just we've seen injuries all
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over the place, right? You lose a guy, it's not just
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the loss of somebody. It's not.
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It's understanding roles, this team that has just a lot of
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different kind of parts, how they fit together.
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You get him back out there and you saw during this tournament
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too, Tristan Smith, he's never gonna be a guy that's gonna
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average 15 points for you. That's not who he is.
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But he's an energy guy. He is an incredible athlete
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because he's what, 6766 maybe? 66.
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He jumps out of the gym, he's got hops to him, he can guard a
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bunch of different positions for you.
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He's really good in high post and passing down low to horn
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Seth. They got pieces and we go all
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the way back to November and December.
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This is a team a lot of people in college basketball rated as
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one of the best mid majors. If not, I think they were number
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one for a while in the poll that excludes Gonzaga.
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But the the mid major poll that is out there, that's how good
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this team was regarded. They had an injury and they
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looked really bad for times. But this is a talented team, and
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if you're looking at that 413 matchup and you're looking at
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the Panthers, absolutely, this team can win a game, maybe win a
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couple. Wouldn't that be something?
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I absolutely love the way that they're built, the way that they
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play, and they weren't good on the defensive end.
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Maybe some tired legs after playing their 14 because that's
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not stand the defense that you're used to do, certainly out
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of this squad this season. But Ben Jacobson's team is deep.
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They got a bunch of different ways that they can do it.
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This team is live when we get the bracket next Sunday.
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Won't be. Won't that be something?
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Where will they get shipped do you think?
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They can go to Saint Louis so. Because here's the thing, I'm
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sure you saw this last week, they're having trouble finding
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planes. They be in the NC double.
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A right, And that very well could lead to them staying
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close, staying inside. Not just them.
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Right. Yeah, not, not just for you and
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I, this is a cross because they're just whatever reason
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there is. A lack of charter planes.
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Yes, that's what it is at this point in time.
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So you could see even more teams staying closer to home than even
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normal and not shipping teams out nearly as much as possible.
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I threw it out before the championship.
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You saw I, I'm sure the tweet. Yes, I did.
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Possibility. Maybe 314.
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The Panthers aren't going to be a 14 seat.
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They're going to be a 13. Maybe even a 12.
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Do you think they get the high? Yes, you look through, you look
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at their resume in comparison to a lot of the low majors in the
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mid majors that are out there, they're going to be in really
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good shape. They rate highly in the
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predictive markets like net, like Ken Palm, those kind of
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places, they are very good, the resume.
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So I think 13 is the most likely with an outside shot as a 12.
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So no, we're not going to see Iowa State.
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You and I though a lot of Panther fans were salva
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salivating at that thought after Iowa and Iowa State refused to
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play them anymore. Be careful what you wish for,
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but I agree with you. It would have been fun to see
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selfishly. Then we go to to the women's
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game. Trent.
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I was I I managed to hang in till halftime.
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I got to it at halftime, 'cause we had to play.
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Well, you you didn't enjoy the second-half.
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I'm not sure how much attention to pay to it.
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I mean, a championship game, which one team wins by 50.
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I mean this is so is it more that I would just didn't play
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their game or UCLA is really good?
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UCLA both, a bunch of both. I mean UCLA is really good and
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when they make 3 pointers like that I don't know if you can't
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can beat them. That's wild.
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Did you say that because they're an overwhelming favorite?
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If they go 13 of 26 against UConn, they beat the Huskies
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because bets is going to get bets.
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She's going to be hers. And though she didn't yesterday
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because they didn't eat it, because everybody was making
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three pointers over the top of it, if it happens in that
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fashion, absolutely UConn can be beat.
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Now, you're asking a lot because the defense for UConn, even
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though the Iowa defense has improved immensely again this
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year. And that's why you like this
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team coming in and what they did in the Big 10 tournament and
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beating Michigan again and just completely shutting them down
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now. And I don't want yesterday to
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taint what they did, getting Illinois in the fashion that
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they did and then doing what they did against.
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Michigan. Michigan again.
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Again, right? So here's something for you.
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Michigan this season in their whatever 30 games or whatever it
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was where they haven't faced off against Iowa, right?
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Averages 85.7 points per game really.
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And there are two games against Iowa.
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They averaged 43. That's incredible.
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They played great on the defensive head.
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Now that basketball. Game tweets while they won't
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hold them to 45 again, you're right, yeah. 42 Amazing.
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The Michigan win was big for them.
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Solidifies definitely a number two seed.
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I do wonder though, if that loss yesterday, how much that's going
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to impact them where they are on the number two seed line.
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If it means that they're going to have to play UConn again,
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which can happen, it'll be an only eight games.
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So that absolutely could happen. And instead of getting neither,
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the other two are easy either, Texas and South Carolina.
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By the way, Texas beat South Carolina in the SEC championship
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game yesterday. Neither are easy, but you'd
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certainly prefer to see the Gamecocks or the Long.
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So when you when you're, if you were to power rank, it would be
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Yukon by an inch over UCLA, then a gap to those other two.
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Yukon Gap, UCLA gap. OK, then, Texas South.
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Carolina Gotcha, gotcha. I just got a text from my friend
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Jeff Wuldorf. The girls halftime parade began
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in 1955. Nice.
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Good for them. It's a great.
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Idea it really is I love that I love that idea.
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It's terrific. All right, let's go to the let's
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go out to Lincoln for the nightcap.
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What's this is a fun basketball game.
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I know it didn't end well for Iowa, but that was a fun
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basketball game to fight back and to get it to overtime and in
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the fashion that they did when when when Sturtz maybe wasn't
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having his best scoring day Cooper Koch picking picking up
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the his Cher Combs I thought was terrific in the game Banks did
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what Banks did vulgaris was rebounding and distributing the
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ball maybe as much as anything struggled to score, but a lot of
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positive look, I think I was going into this big 10 are into
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these next couple of events playing pretty good basketball.
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It's not like they're limping to the finish line.
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I, I like the way they, if it would have shown to Michigan
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last week and then they go to Lincoln and Nebraska had a score
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to settle. That was part of the pre game.
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Obviously you heard the talk afterwards.
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It was their senior day. They weren't going to lose on
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our floor, blah, blah, blah. You heard it all.
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So well done for I with A to get it to overtime in the 1st place
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with, with the comeback that they needed, cut down, you know,
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big gap at the end of the first half, then closed the gap to get
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it to overtime in the second-half.
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Well done Hawks. I like the way they're playing
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Trent. And maybe some positivity that
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comes out of this. Even at a loss, walking into an
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incredibly difficult environment with a lot of extras on the
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plate, Bennett Sturtz didn't play well.
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Not offensively, didn't you? He was not what we're used to
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and yet you took it to overtime against the top ten team on the
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road. Right, that is the 2 seen the
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Big 10 tournament. That has not happened with this
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team. When Bennett Sturtz hasn't been
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at an elite level, they haven't been a very good team.
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And as you said, they're Maryland.
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They're Maryland, absolutely. They're playing a day earlier in
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the big Ted tournament. If they don't have Bennett
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Sturtz but Tabian Banks and whatever.
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Why he didn't start I? Haven't.
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It was a team violation. Cacert was there and he tweeted
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afterwards and he said McCullum really didn't want to elaborate
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any further. Wasn't it wasn't a degree, just
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just something to let the team know that everybody's got to
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play by the rules? He looked awful when he finally
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came into the game too. He looked terrible.
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And then? And then got it going and.
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Found his footing, shook off the cobwebs, maybe got a little
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Gatorade in him. I don't know what it was.
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Shook off a hangover because he looked like he had one in the
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first half. I wonder.
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And well, the rumor that's out there, I'll just say what the
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rumor is. The Michigan team apparently
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stayed over and he went out with them on Thursday.
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Again, just a rumor, but that's regardless of what it was.
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He looked terrible and then looked pretty good, looked like
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Davian Banks normally does and hit a three pointer and got to
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the room a couple of times to go and be able to have a bunch of
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different guys that step up. That's what you're going to
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need. Yeah, that's what you're going
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to need. If we're talking about winning a
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game in the tournament and and doing something that we haven't
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seen in a long time, you're going to need somebody other
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than Bennett Sturtz to be able to do it.
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Now, I'm not willing to go like our buddy Stephen M simple and
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say that Bennett Sturtz isn't a very good basketball player.
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Did he say that? Yeah, SIP said that.
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We know about bad takes and SIP though, so.
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Well, I'm going to have him on tomorrow.
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So. Be prepared for more bad takes.
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I'll, I'll send you the clip because you got to hear it
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before you get a bod and you got to give it to him a little bit.
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He really said that about Sturtz.
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Yeah, I'll, I'll let's see if I can find the direct quote that
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he said, because it was it was a head scratcher from sip.
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Regardless of that, though, he definitely bet it Sturtz just
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didn't look great. And turnovers, some sloppy ones,
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more turnovers certainly in the first half of that one.
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But I thought the game could have really turned when they
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battled back at the end of the first half.
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They got it to 2726 and there was like a 3 minute stretch
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where they kept getting stops and couldn't get the score on
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the other other side. And I think Koch had a look at
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the three. He missed those early ones.
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He was one of five. I think he was getting the start
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before he finally started to fall.
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Here it is. And where was this from?
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The 93 The ticket on his radio show I got addressed.
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Bennett Sturtz, you seen great player after Blake, great player
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come through here. That's not a great player.
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He said that leading into Sunday's game.
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Yeah, well, if you look at the box score, Sip would be proven
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right if that's just the only time you saw him play.
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If you watch by with basketball this year, you know that sip.
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You're being an idiot again. Just like you thought that the
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Nebraska offensive line is going to be better than I.
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Receivers. Wide receivers SEC Yep.
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I love Sip. Malik Willis is a Miami Dolphin.
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Isaiah Likely is a New York Giant.
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And the worst news that I got today?
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Kenneth Walker, Yes, you guess it.
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He's a Kansas City chief. Now, are you getting Super Bowl
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Kenneth Walker or, well, I hope not Kenneth Walker that we've
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seen throughout his career, Yeah.
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Which of those three you like the best?
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I kind of like, I mean, Malik Willis, that's a great fit.
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Tua's going to the Falcons apparently, so they'll be
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back-to-back. Lefties Pennix and Ortua will be
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the left-handed quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons.
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I like Isaiah Lively. I think he's a great player.
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With Baltimore, they just didn't have enough room.
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Giants will use him well. Giants knowing that Kansas City
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is not going to be in the market for running back, Maybe, Well,
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who knows, because they draft before him anyways.
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But maybe that means that Jeremiah Love will be a giant.
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We'll see where that goes. But the NFL is their, quote,
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legal tampering, period. We're going to see a lot of news
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being made over the next couple of hours.
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Ken Walker is a nice running. Back.
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He's a nice running back. A huge difference maker.
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Now it's an upgrade with Steve receivers, especially with
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Rasheed Rice. And by the way, did you see the
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report? And it's been shot down.
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The first report I saw in Travis Kelsey on Saturday that he's
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coming back, but he's open to other teams.
19:59
I didn't. What a load of crap.
20:02
If he's coming back and and it's been shot down, was shot down
20:05
very quickly, there's only one player he's a quarterback he's
20:07
going to play for, right? And one coach he's going to play
20:10
for and one franchise he's going to play for.
20:12
And they all check the same block.
20:13
The Kansas City Chiefs. I mean, is that just simply
20:16
clicks? Yes.
20:17
I mean, that's the slot that is out there.
20:22
The misreporting, it's worse and worse every single day.
20:26
We talked about a couple of examples last week.
20:28
That is out there. It's more than it was.
20:31
Just be careful. Click on the Twitter profile and
20:33
see where it's coming from. There's so much more out there.
20:36
There is so much more not just on Twitter but other places.
20:39
It's lies. It is quotes that aren't real
20:43
quotes. It is all over the place and I'm
20:45
going to guess that's another one of.
20:46
Those are you disappointed Max Crosby's going Not going to be a
20:49
bear, not really for two first round picks.
20:52
There it is. That was the reason behind it.
20:55
King's ransom. I thought it was way too much
20:57
for a team that is in the next couple of years going to have to
21:00
pay cable. Well, and he's also coming off
21:01
an injury. The opportunity is now you have
21:04
to get younger at some spots. You need to find some guys that
21:07
you definitely have to hit in the draft in order for this to
21:09
happen, for them to breakthrough and take that next step.
21:12
But no, I was certainly not heartbroken about it at all with
21:16
all the maneuvering that they're doing.
21:17
Is Trey Hendrickson possibility? What what have you heard?
21:21
Because I I heard that slap on the bear side.
21:23
So. But then they signed the kid
21:25
Rashon Gary from the Packers, so he's now part of that defensive
21:30
line. The Cowboys are building them
21:32
very quietly. Go back to last year with Quinn
21:34
and Williams, the trade with Parsons with the Packers in the
21:38
1st place. So their defensive line is
21:40
getting is getting good. Yes, but Trey Hendrickson is
21:42
absolutely an option and and a really good one.
21:45
And that was what I preferred, a because you're not giving up
21:48
first round picks for it. Secondly, more of a shorter kind
21:52
of term deal. Probably going to have to give
21:54
them three years, even though most everybody just wants to
21:56
give them two. But you're going to have to give
21:58
them a third, I'm sure, to sign them.
22:00
Bears are making the maneuvers, getting under the cap, making
22:03
some tough cuts, but. Yeah, everybody has to make
22:06
them. Absolutely, yeah, we're seeing
22:07
that happen across the league and I'm intrigued by Malik
22:10
Willis. You brought that one.
22:11
I can't wait to see how he does I'm.
22:13
Just intrigued, But then we think back.
22:15
Well, Miami, the first thing that popped in my head.
22:18
Scott Mitchell, remember? Yeah, I do.
22:20
As a pack up. Oh, man.
22:21
Scott Mitchell, he might be good.
22:23
Yeah. Matt Flynn.
22:25
There was another one. Another one, most of these guys
22:28
that are the backup are backup for a reason.
22:30
For a reason. Yeah.
22:31
And when you make those kind of signings, but intrigued at the
22:34
very least with yeah. Speaking of backups, Bengals
22:36
backup Browning won't be there, which is too bad because now Joe
22:39
Burrell, he's got to face TJ Watt twice, he's got to finish
22:42
Maddox Crosby twice and Miles Garrett twice.
22:46
You think that organization's going to figure out, you maybe
22:48
should go out there and fix that offensive line.
22:51
Joe Burrell, I'm not sure he's ever going to get to that.
22:55
Take that next step. It feels like a Dan Marino it.
22:57
Kind of does, doesn't it? Got there early and that was it.
23:00
Yeah, all. Right, we'll take your time out.
23:02
We'll come back. We'll be joined by Bill Seals.
23:03
We'll recap Iowa State's win over Arizona State.
23:06
Doesn't that game feel like it was like, I don't know, a week
23:09
ago? Trent, I thought the same thing
23:11
this morning. It was seemingly so because
23:13
what, 1:00 on Saturday? Yes, 1:00 Saturday we had.
23:16
Both the NBC semifinals with the two local teams, all the hoops
23:20
that I watched on Saturday night, then on Sunday we had all
23:22
these games. Duke North.
23:24
Carolina No, it was on. It was on one of the small TV's,
23:27
but didn't have a whole lot of eyes on it.
23:29
It was. There's too much other good
23:30
stuff going on and too much local interest that I was
23:33
keeping an eye on. So didn't see a ton of that one.
23:37
It's Saturday, it's a Saturday afternoon game, and yet it feels
23:39
like a million days ago it does. And that first half, woof.
23:44
And then was it 23? Nothing.
23:46
Run. It was a 23 nothing run, 23
23:49
nothing run. Unbelievable.
23:51
Take your time out. Bill Seals is next.
23:52
Miller and Condon, glad you're with us as we get our Monday
23:55
underway on the Iowa Sports Radio Network
24:08
Top 30. Miller and Condon, welcome back,
24:10
Iowa Sports Radio Network. So I'm just opening up the
24:12
tweets from Sipples Bennett Sturtz isn't very good.
24:15
Some of the replies, oh, my God, first time in my life.
24:20
But I like to apologize to Iowa and their fans for this awful
24:23
take. Pathetic.
24:27
Oh, my God. Good stuff. 12:30 Let's talk
24:29
Iowa State, shall we? He's Bill Seals,
24:31
cyclonereport.com. He'll be in Kansas City as Iowa
24:35
State begins their tournament on Wednesday.
24:38
Hello, Bill Seals, how are you? I'm doing well, guys.
24:42
How about yourself? Doing OK, doing OK.
24:44
Trent and I were just commenting, but it seems like
24:46
the Arizona State game was days ago.
24:50
I mean, I know it was a couple of days ago, but it seems like
24:52
it was much further back than that on the calendar.
24:55
There was just so many hoops being played, but after an ugly
24:59
first half and that what it was, that's what it was.
25:00
It's tough to, you know, put a pig on that, our lipstick on
25:03
that pig. Iowa State's down what, 3 or 4
25:06
going into the locker room and then a 23 to nothing run and
25:10
that essentially at that point it was all over.
25:13
Yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't can't remember a time when Iowa
25:17
states gone on a run that long. Kenny we I mean it just they
25:23
they just totally took control of the game.
25:26
I I think a lot of lot was made a senior day on on Saturday team
25:32
and Lipsy Jefferson Heisey, those guys.
25:34
But you know, I think they really leaned into that group in
25:37
the locker room at halftime and and you saw that group really
25:41
kind of spearhead. I think this that that that
25:45
rally by Iowa State in the second-half and taking control
25:49
of the game and and really cruising from there.
25:51
I mean, they they got back to what they did well and then you
25:55
saw on a state, the points were a little easier to come by in
25:59
the first half, but I think they really put a stranglehold on
26:02
them in the second-half. I think it was about a 9 minute
26:06
scoreless streak for the Sun Devils and Iowa State really
26:10
took control of the game from there.
26:12
And you know, that's how they they're, they're going to have
26:13
to win. TJ will be the first to admit
26:15
it. They've got to, it's all got to
26:17
start on the defensive side of the ball.
26:19
They've got to turn teams over. They did that in the
26:21
second-half, especially get out on transition.
26:24
You really saw the Hilton Coliseum crowd erupt to during
26:29
that run when they were playing and exactly the way this team
26:32
needs to play. And a perfect way to cap the
26:36
career in Hilton. I thought for Tame and Lipsy, I
26:39
mean, just the prototypical box score from him.
26:42
You get 16 points, you get 6 assists, you also get 6 steals.
26:45
There was the hustle moments. There was a little bit of
26:47
everything. It really embodied the career
26:49
that we saw from Taming. Lipsy put it out on the floor,
26:52
doing it with the defense, make it a couple shots, but most
26:55
importantly, just being the prototypical point guard that
26:57
you're looking for. And obviously, a beloved
26:59
Cyclone. Yeah, no doubt.
27:02
And it was the the, the way that I think Tayman would have, I
27:05
mean, everybody would have, would have mapped this thing
27:08
out. They, you know, they, they win
27:11
big going away is kind of funny. Josh Jefferson said he likes
27:14
blowouts like that instead of close games in the in the post
27:18
game afterwards. But yeah, I mean, they, they
27:20
drew it up perfectly. They were able to get those
27:23
seniors out, get them recognized kind of one by one there with a
27:27
couple minutes left to go in the game.
27:29
And yo Taman goes over, does the the postgame interview with
27:33
Lofonzo Ellis, FS1 in front of the crowd and walks, you know,
27:40
walks away, takes the headband off, hands it to someone and
27:44
exits stage left. So I mean, it was the kind of
27:46
the perfect ending for for him and Ames.
27:48
And as everyone said afterwards, it's it's that's not the end
27:53
though. They've still plenty of plenty
27:55
of things out there, I think for this team moving into March
27:59
Madness. No doubt Jefferson had some nice
28:01
things to say about his time at Iowa State as well.
28:04
Not a surprise there. Heisey.
28:06
Likewise, but so All in all, a a perfect day.
28:11
The seniors got their recognition.
28:13
They got a win and left the floor as winners.
28:15
So let's Fast forward to Wednesday and conceivably Bill,
28:19
I mean, I won't fall off my chair if Arizona State's on
28:22
sharing the floor with Iowa State again on Wednesday because
28:25
I I think the Sun Devils are playing pretty good basketball
28:27
right now. I do.
28:30
They are, I mean, big. Can Baylor win?
28:31
Of course. They're a very narrow favorite.
28:33
I think I saw two. But nonetheless, Iowa State
28:37
plays on Wednesday. Yeah, 11:30 AM Bright and early
28:42
and yeah, gets the winner of Arizona State and Baylor.
28:45
I agree, Kenny. I think that the way that the
28:47
the Sun Devils are playing right now, they did, you know, they
28:50
had just blown out Kansas days before they headed to Ames and
28:55
they were up four points at that halftime of that game in Hilton.
28:58
So, yeah, I would agree. I think it would not surprise me
29:02
in the least at this Arizona State team wins and you know,
29:06
they're they're playing, I guess probably for their head coach at
29:09
this point with Coach Hurley kind of playing out the string
29:13
here as contracts up at the end of the season.
29:17
Everybody was kind of wondering if they would let him go ahead
29:19
and coach the postseason And appears they're they're poised
29:22
to do that. And they I think this they
29:25
they've got some weapons. This Arizona State team does.
29:28
So, you know, inside I would say job I I almost wonder if he's
29:34
better than than the the Badunga at Kansas think that he's maybe
29:39
even a little bit more skilled. Yeah, yeah, I agree.
29:44
And I think whoever his agent is, I'm sure he's probably
29:48
already gotten feelers on on you know what, what gauging what the
29:53
market might be. But I think he's going to make a
29:55
lot of money this offseason. We'll see how things work out.
29:59
But I mean, he is someone inside that that definitely teams have
30:03
to account for. And I think it took Iowa State a
30:06
little bit to get used to that as well.
30:09
Bill, the great debate continues.
30:11
I'd rather see Iowa State maybe win that first game, get knocked
30:14
off by Tech and get a little bit of rest or not make another deep
30:17
run here and have the celebration continues.
30:20
Now for the people that are hoisting the Bush Lights and got
30:22
their hotels already paid for, they're happy.
30:25
With the service industry. Absolutely, yes.
30:27
The people of Kansas City bought the same.
30:28
However, for the betterment of this team come NCAA, what do you
30:33
think is the best course here? Get knocked out, say in the
30:35
quarterfinals against Tech or make it a deep run and getting
30:39
some positive vibes going to get inside that locker room.
30:42
Well, I think that, yeah, I mean, it's, it's I, I could
30:45
argue both ways, guys. I mean, we we've seen, you know,
30:50
not with the way this team the season has played out when
30:54
they've had extended time off their feet.
30:57
They they haven't necessarily responded well to that, to be
31:00
honest. You know, they've had, it seemed
31:02
like, well, they had that midweek by earlier this season
31:06
and coming out of that, they were kind of sluggish a little
31:08
bit. Now, granted, they're not going
31:10
to come out of an extended time off and play a Big 12 team.
31:14
They're going to play probably a 14 seed or a 13 seed coming out
31:18
of that extended time off. But I think you could argue it
31:21
both ways that, you know, there's certainly, as you
31:23
mentioned, those Kansas City merchants down there.
31:26
They didn't make a whole lot of money off of Iowa State fans
31:30
last week when the women were one and done.
31:32
So I think they would no doubt love to see Iowa State make a
31:36
run and, and they're in the top half of the bracket too, that
31:39
the the first couple games would be at 11:30.
31:42
So what a Cyclone fans going to do from 3:00 on both of those
31:47
days. I think they hope that they make
31:48
a run and and can and I it's kind of shown in the past what
31:54
teams do in the Big 12 tournament doesn't make a whole
31:57
lot of impact really on seeding. I think we saw that with Iowa
32:01
State the year that they blew out Houston in in the final and
32:05
won the championship and didn't really move up.
32:08
It seemed like a whole lot on the seed line that year.
32:10
So yeah, I mean, again, I think you could argue both ways with
32:15
this team. I'm asking about Dominic Nelson
32:17
because as as I think back to last summer, Dominic Nelson was
32:20
coming to AIMS. At the time, it didn't look as
32:23
though Jefferson was going to be here, that LSU might win out for
32:26
his services. Then Jefferson says no, I'm
32:30
going to be a Cyclone. They lost Nelson and then kind
32:33
of at the last minute he committed it.
32:35
Do I have that right, Bill? Yeah, I think that that the
32:39
timelines seem to to line up with my, my recollection of it.
32:44
I think, you know also they probably got a sense on Mason
32:49
Williams as as well that he was not going to be available.
32:53
And from what my understanding, what is that Williams was not
32:57
making any NIL or I guess it's called Rev share money now.
33:02
He's not getting any Rev share money this year.
33:05
I think just beyond the minimum is he was going to be out with
33:08
that injury all season. So I think they had a little bit
33:11
more to spend with that. They had an extra roster spot
33:15
even after they gave Calderman a scholarship.
33:18
So it made sense, I think at the time to bring him in and and
33:22
offer him and and and get him on board.
33:24
What happened this year to him? I mean, he hasn't played double
33:27
digit minutes since way back in January.
33:31
Of the of the four seniors that were recognized, obviously
33:33
Dominic Nelson didn't have the senior season, you know, the
33:37
best senior season he possibly could have had.
33:39
But and nonetheless, he's going to the big dance.
33:41
What happened is how did he lose his place in TJ's rotation in
33:45
your mind? Well, I think we what we've
33:48
always seen Kenny is they they is TJ likes to play with that
33:52
seven or eight man rotation. They were playing nine earlier
33:57
in in the year and it seemed like maybe Nelson an outside
34:01
chance, maybe Mulder might be one of the might be that last
34:05
guy in the rotation. It didn't work out that way.
34:07
I think just the way things played out that that defensively
34:12
he just what kind of struggled I think to guard at this level.
34:16
And then for for everything that he brought to the table as a, as
34:21
a slasher, a driver, a guy that could get to the hoop at will.
34:25
The free throw shooting percentage that that was was
34:28
down there quite a ways. I think the last time I looked
34:31
at this. I don't think it's probably
34:33
changed with with him, but the guys that had played rotation
34:37
minutes for Iowa State, the only one with a lower free throw
34:40
percentage than him was Buchanan.
34:43
So for a guy that can get to the hoop a lot, if he's not shooting
34:47
it well once he gets to the charity stripe, then I think
34:50
there may be a liability on that offensive side it became as
34:53
well. I know it's going to depend on
34:56
what happens elsewhere in the country.
34:58
Bracket Matrix currently has Iowa State as the top #3 seed #2
35:03
seeds. In front of them, Illinois,
35:05
Michigan State, what they do in the Big 10 Tournament, it's
35:07
going to matter. Houston also in front of them as
35:09
well. Does a run to the championship
35:11
game. Does that solidify themselves
35:14
knowing that the path is going to be Texas Tech, likely a win
35:17
against Arizona? Boy, that's got to be enough to
35:19
solidify it, too. Well, you would think so, but I,
35:24
I just, I don't, I don't know. I mean, we'll, we'll see what
35:26
this committee thinks. And again, I think when they
35:30
beat, when they blew out Houston, Iowa State didn't, it
35:33
didn't really move the needle as much as you thought that it
35:36
would with the selection committee that year for Iowa
35:40
State. So we'll see.
35:42
I mean, you, I think again, as you mentioned, what what
35:46
probably happens in the Big 10 tournaments going to matter.
35:50
But yeah, I mean, Iowa State right now, I guess they can't
35:53
complain about being that top three seed.
35:55
They're going to get to play that first weekend in Saint
35:58
Louis. But beyond that, what what I
36:01
read as far as bracketology goes and they're going to go out East
36:05
to DC that second weekend if they can get out of get get into
36:10
the Sweet 16. Chicago seems like it's off the
36:12
table, right? Yeah, it does.
36:15
And and and and again, I think those those other Big 10 teams
36:18
around them kind of affecting that a little bit.
36:21
You know, right now Purdue seems that they're a little bit behind
36:25
them, I think on that three line.
36:26
And but it seems like Illinois that that might make a
36:31
difference kind of where where they end up slotting in.
36:34
And then they're going to get a what a is it a triple, triple
36:37
buy in the big 10 tournament to to play in the, you know, that
36:42
semi final quarter final round. I guess it would be for for
36:45
them. What was the reaction on Cyclone
36:48
report on your message board Bill, after the women got
36:50
bounced as unceremoniously as they did now?
36:53
Admitted the team that bounced and wanted to cut down the Nets,
36:57
which was something nobody saw that coming.
36:59
Very few but that Trent's been saying all along that this
37:01
conference really doesn't have a, you know, an overwhelming
37:04
favorite. Yes, TCU was the team that won
37:06
the regular season, but by no means an unbeatable team.
37:10
What was the kind of the feedback Cyclone report after
37:14
Iowa State got bounced? I'm guessing there's some folks
37:17
calling for Fennelly scalp. Well, I mean, it wasn't it
37:22
wasn't a positive reaction. And I think it from the even
37:26
from the onset, they they got that big deficit that they were
37:30
working, working against and this was a team they had just
37:34
blown out just weeks before this Arizona State team 1 going away
37:40
in that in that game, I think they had outscored them all, all
37:43
four quarters of that one and and just pulled away.
37:47
So I think it was one of surprise.
37:49
But again, we we've seen that the rest recipe for success as
37:54
Iowa State's got a hit. They've got to get some scoring
37:57
away from Audie Crooks. Addie Brown's not shot the ball
38:01
well since returning from injury.
38:04
They didn't shoot the ball well from the outside in that game
38:07
down in Kansas City. So I mean, it was just kind of a
38:10
perfect storm that the Arizona State was going to take Audie
38:13
out first and foremost and and make the others beat them.
38:17
The others didn't beat them, so they they went home and they had
38:20
just I think a very big surprise because Iowa State yet, I mean,
38:24
down in Kansas City, they had a huge difference in fan support
38:28
in that one. Hilton South and what Arizona
38:31
State, the women's program would have brought up for that one.
38:34
So yeah, I think just kind of a home away from home for Iowa
38:38
State and just didn't didn't work out.
38:40
And I'd like to say that they're still in the in the NCAA
38:44
tournament. I think they probably are going
38:46
to be passed that by that point of having to play or like a play
38:51
in game there. But they're probably looking at
38:54
that 8-9 game and then they're going to have to play a one seed
38:58
in Round 2. So it's, I think, going to be a
39:01
difficult road for them once they get into the NCAA
39:05
tournament. Bill, finally our last time, our
39:09
last time we talked, the reimagining of the athletic
39:12
department was not the case. Give us a take away from that as
39:16
gymnastics is going away and and a crystal crystal ball towards
39:19
the future of what athletics is going to look like.
39:22
Well, that's a that's a good question.
39:24
I I, yeah, I mean, it's, it's no mystery that the facilities for
39:29
gymnastics have been has been lacking for a while and that
39:33
that wasn't going to change in, in this new era of, of college
39:37
athletics. All of that money is going now
39:40
to pay in the athletes and the coaches and, and balancing the
39:44
budget. You know, we've seen so many
39:45
other programs around the country that talk about them
39:49
running, running in the negative and in the red, but that's not
39:54
going to happen at Iowa State. So I think that they, you know,
39:57
it just, it wasn't a problem that was going to get better I
40:01
think facility wise, you know, luckily before they started
40:04
paying the players. I think is that from an athletic
40:07
department standpoint, they were able to get that new, that new
40:11
volleyball facility built. Wrestling seems to have been
40:15
taken care of a little bit there.
40:17
I think the facility a little bit better than it had been.
40:20
I think there were plans though of getting them something new
40:23
before the NIL kicked in. So, but yeah, I mean, as far as
40:26
gymnastics and the facility upgrades, that was pretty far
40:30
down the list of things to do. So probably something that that
40:35
needed to be addressed at some point.
40:37
It was expedited here under the the recent, you know, coaching
40:41
staff. But mostly I think a lot of
40:44
negative reactions though, I think out of a national, like
40:47
from the national folks and a lot of media or a lot of former
40:51
gymnasts weighing in on it. And I think Jamie certainly
40:55
taking his hips as this thing has rolled out for sure.
40:59
But I mean, as far as what the future is going to look like,
41:03
you wonder maybe if women's wrestling probably would have
41:06
the inside track on on becoming that program that moves in.
41:11
I don't know, maybe women's bowling.
41:13
You just you never know. But I think probably wrestling
41:16
makes the most sense, I would say.
41:18
Bill Seals Well, when do you begin coverage in Kansas City?
41:21
I'm guessing tomorrow. Tomorrow, 10:00 AM at the Kansas
41:27
City Downtown Marriott. A little media availability
41:32
after Iowa State's practice tomorrow morning.
41:34
So that'll mean about a 6:00 AM departure here from the burbs of
41:39
Des Moines to to get there in time for for that.
41:43
And then away we go on Wednesday morning at 11:30.
41:47
Good stuff, Bill Seal, cycloneport.com.
41:50
Bill, thanks for jumping on. Appreciate it.
41:52
Thanks guys. Have a good week.
41:54
Yep. You're the same, Bill Seals.
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So we check in and I just may check in tomorrow.
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Oh, yeah, Why wouldn't I? Right.
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You're off tomorrow. You're going.
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To be I'm not off. Why are you calling?
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You're off. KXNO tomorrow.
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I'm on KXNO HD2 OK 96 died the bull all right.
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Well, I might just see if I can pick Bill's brain as to what
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that 10 O clock avail if anything came of it.
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All right, we'll take your time out.
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By the way, David Kaplan's going to join me tomorrow as opposed
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to Wednesday when he normally joins Trent tonight.
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He's going to be with us tomorrow because during
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Wednesday. I was playing.
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So was Iowa State, same time for both of them.
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Rapid reaction. You know, we could do that
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halftime reaction. Yeah, absolutely.
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We'll do that. We'll take a time out, come
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back, finish up our first hour of the program.
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Scott Dockerman from The Athletic.
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Kevin Layman called the games, called the whole tournament.
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Missouri Valley Conference. He's at 1:30.
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Miller and the Raiders are signing Tyler Linderbaum.
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How about that? That's a good one.
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It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network Hi Mallory Condon
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welcome back Iowa sports radio network former Hawkeye Tyler
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linderbaum 3 year 81,000,000 Sixty of which is guaranteed by
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the Las Vegas Raiders as Mendoza has his centre for at least the
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next three years that. Buys a lot of land in Solon.
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Is that where he wants to retire?
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You think he'll come back? From Solon I have.
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No idea. I know Dunker's going to come
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back. Lots of guys, yeah, right.
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There's plenty of them, yes. His dream was what did he say
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when he was on? I think it was Rome Show.
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I saw him on Twitter. He wants to get some land.
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He wants a pond. He wants to.
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He wants to just talk a pond with his NFL money and spend the
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rest of his days in Iowa. I think he can handle.
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It how about that there's worse places to be I'm all for it.
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I love this state, love it, and I won't have a pond or near the
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money that they have in retirement.
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But yeah, there's a couple of them on the Creek.
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Just those damn golfers getting away.
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Go fishing over there and get hit by a Titleist.
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Yeah, no kidding. All right, our number 2, Scott
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Dockerman, will be here. Look forward to catching up with
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Doc and then Kevin Layman on the Valley as Northern Iowa cuts
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down the net. You know, you said something and
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you brought it up last week, too, when you were having me
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guess who the second choice was in the betting markets to win
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the Missouri Valley Conference. And when you said it's Northern,
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Iowa's floored because no one comes out of Thursdays playing
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games and, well, there's only been one team that actually gets
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to the final. No one's ever got to the final
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and then won it. That was a hell.
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Of a game. It was, it really was a hell of
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a game yesterday, but as the second betting favorite, they
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prevailed. Speaking of betting favorites,
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have you been perusing the Big 10 and Big 12, not odds?
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I have not. So I was just bumping them up
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here on. Are they up on Circa?
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I saw a few of them last night as we scroll through ACC.
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All right, Big 12. Well, Arizona even.
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Are they? 2nd betting choice Houston plus
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195, your third betting choice. It's either Texas Tech or Iowa
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State. It's not Texas Tech.
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And as I was saying. Is it really?
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Plus 775. Even them having to play a
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fourth game to get to the champion or to win the
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championship. Four games in four days.
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Plus 775 on the Cyclones. Kansas.
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Plus 975. Don't.
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Well, in Kansas, yeah. No thanks.
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No. Would you take a shot at Texas
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Tech of plus 220 or 22 to one? They're on the same brack.
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Well they got players on at some .1 was sure for at that price.
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Yeah, that I was intrigued at minimum by that at 22, I hope.
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We get that Thursday, I really do.
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You want to see it, I do. Yes, I do.
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On the Big 10 side. Michigan, of course.
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Illinois, your second betting choice.
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How big of a gap? Plus 425 for them.
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Michigan plus 1/10 Michigan State, Purdue How?
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Much of that game did you see yesterday.
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Quite a bit. Did you?
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My wife was enthralled by that. Really, she's such a hell of a
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game. This crappy Iowa game off here.
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Scott Dockerman, next Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network.