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The Voice of the Cyclones John Walters, Matt Snyder previews the WBC Final & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hour number two, Millery Condon Welcome back Iowa Sports Radio
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  Network Trenton I until 2:00 off the bench to until 5 overtime
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  Iowa. Little done hiatus for the rest
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  of the week. No, no, it'll be for 1/2 hour.
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  Oh. It's only half hour, yes.
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  So the Westwood one coverage starts at 5:30, correct?
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  Gotcha. So we'll get to hear a snippet
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  from. Something morning show, the
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  morning show, You got it. Let's get the snippet from John
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  Walters. Morning snippet.
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  By the way, Matt Snyder coming up, CBSSports.com recovers
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  baseball. He's in Miami.
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  We'll preview the championship game tonight.
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  John Trenton, Ken, as always, thank you for doing this.
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  John Walters, you've been calling Iowa State games for a
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  long time, both football and basketball.
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  When you hung up the headset or took the headset off you and
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  Eric on Friday and maybe exhaled, did it dawn on you what
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  you just witnessed? The game that you would just
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  called on the Iowa State Radio Network just how good it was and
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  how many people are going to remember that one as one of the
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  better basketball CT or games they've seen in some time?
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  Did it dawn on you instantly, John, what you'd witnessed?
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  It did. It did.
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  Absolutely. You know, we kind of said it was
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  an honor to even be able to to be able to witness that game,
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  you know, and much less get to call it.
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  And so and I and, you know, looking right next to me, Jay
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  Beilis was shaking his head in awe at that game too.
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  So, you know, if he's reacting that way, you know, it had to be
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  pretty special. And it was it was amazing.
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  It was amazing, the shot making the clutch plays down the
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  stretch, the, you know, the, I don't want to say high stakes
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  because these teams were going to the NCAA tournament and they
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  knew that, but still they wanted to win.
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  They're compete like crazy. And it was just an awesome
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  environment to be a part of. And man, the crowd was still
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  buzzing. You know, several minutes after
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  that game was over, there was kind of like this stir in the
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  crowd that just wouldn't go away.
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  And we all, we all realized we had witnessed something pretty
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  special. Did you open up the box score
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  from the championship game just to check if Del Warsaw had made
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  a three? He didn't, by the way.
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  I mean, unbelievable. Yeah, you know, and what's
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  amazing about that? So you know, obviously he was
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  recruited there to shoot 3. That was kind of his what his
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  role was going to be, but he wasn't shooting them that great.
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  In fact, he had a lower shooting percentage from three on the
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  season than Damon Lipsy did coming into that game.
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  And he goes out there and he looks like Larry Bird, you know,
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  I mean, but that's what this time of year is, is, you know,
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  guys rise up. I mean, they're probably saying
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  the same thing about Killian Tory, right?
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  You know, so it's it's fun. I think it's what makes the
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  makes this time of the year great.
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  Is is the unexpected heroes that rise up in these games, and he
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  was definitely one of them for Arizona.
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  John, you mentioned Killian Torre and maybe that's the
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  biggest take away from that game outside of how great a game,
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  maybe it was the game of the year in college basketball this
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  season. Not just that he was making
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  shots, but he was looking to make shots.
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  I he looked different out there. Maybe you just look different
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  when you're making shots, but there was a more aggressive
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  nature. They went to him a couple of
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  times. I saw there was a couple of
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  sets. It looked like TJ even set up to
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  get him the ball out there on the wing and and give him some
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  opportunities there. You hope that this is going to
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  turn into something we're going to see growth there.
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  But that was a kind of offensive performance.
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  It felt like we really needed to see if Iowa State's going to
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  make a deep run. Tori had to have a performance
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  like that. Yeah, and it's a small sample
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  size, so, you know, you don't want to get too carried away
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  with it. But at the same time, he did
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  look like he was hunting his shot.
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  You know, he looked aggressive, He looked confident.
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  And yeah, it was great to see. And it wasn't like they, some
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  teams lay completely off of them and maybe those shots are even
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  harder to make. They weren't playing completely
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  off them. They were they were guarding
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  him. They're giving him a little
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  space, but they were guarding him and and he still knocked him
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  down. So you know, the most
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  encouraging thing is probably those couple of mid range
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  jumpers that he knocked down. And maybe that's something that
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  he can do is take a couple dribbles and knock down those
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  free throw line jumpers like he did.
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  Because you're right, teams are going to give him that space.
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  They're not going to, you know, they're not going to all of a
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  sudden say we got to get right out on him.
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  So if he can make some shots, it's absolutely a bonus for Iowa
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  State. But he's already, everything he
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  does offensively is gravy because of what he does
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  defensively. But you know, early in the
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  season he scored twenty against great and he came back the next
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  day, scored nineteen against Syracuse.
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  We know he can score and he just has been lacking that
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  confidence. But that was the exact opposite
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  the other night. It looked like he was full of
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  confidence in that game. And you mentioned his defense.
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  I mean, those two shots at the end, particularly the last one
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  that Bradley made, I mean, just full, full marks to Bradley,
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  right, for making the shot because Tory was all over on
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  both of them. He had him guarded.
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  Oh, you can't guard any better than that without following, you
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  know, and that's exactly what he did.
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  And Bradley just brought back so many memories of Monte Morris
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  saying that not against Texas, you know, the and in that
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  tournament setting, you know, when Monte hit that shot from
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  that same exact spot of fade away.
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  Also, the feeling is, you know, joy of winning, but then you
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  look around you and people are just excited because they know
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  they get to stay another day too.
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  And that that was probably the same feeling the Arizona fans
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  were having when that shot went down.
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  But yeah, tip your cap. He's the Big 12 player of the
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  year for a reason. Obviously he knocked out a
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  clutch shot, but man, it was it was kind of the perfect ending
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  for that game. If you were just a casual fan
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  and you didn't care which team won, all you could ask for to
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  end that game would be a buzzer beater.
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  And that's exactly what we got. We've seen great performances in
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  Kansas City that has led to disappointment in the NCAA
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  Tournament. We've seen it go the opposite
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  direction when you go down there to Kansas City.
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  I told myself I wasn't going to let what I saw in Kansas City
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  sway my opinion of Iowa State and then I get right back on
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  board and this team can make a deep run after what they did in
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  Kansas City. Do you almost treat Kansas City
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  almost as a one off? Like almost a completely
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  different season than everything else just because at times it's
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  looks so different than what we've seen the rest of the year?
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  Yeah, it kind of is, although I, you know, that's the way I would
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  say played in those first two games, especially the way they
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  dismantled Texas Tech and Texas Tech could not get into its
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  offense at all. You felt really good about the
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  way this team was playing. But I said there for the game
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  against Arizona, I just want to see win or lose, I would say
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  keep that positive vibe going and keep playing really well,
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  you know, because it'd be such a downer.
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  You just lost Arizona by what, 1617 during the regular season?
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  If you lost by that similar margin in that game in Kansas
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  City, maybe you don't go into the NCAA Tournament with as much
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  mojo as you do. But I think these guys are full
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  of confidence right now, and they should be.
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  And they're hopeier than they were when the other years have
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  gone into the NCAA Tournament. And I think that's something
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  that we forget about. You know, I mean, last year's
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  team didn't have Keyshawn Gilbert Tayman lips.
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  He was really hurting down the stretch.
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  I mean, Kate Kellerman played eighteen games, 18 minutes and
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  in that game down against BYU, that 9692 thriller in Kansas
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  City last year. So, you know, it's it's a
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  healthier team than it was a year ago.
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  And I think it's a team with a lot of momentum of real positive
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  vibe. And I don't see any reason to
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  look at any of that as any kind of a negative going into the
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  post season. I think it's all positive and I
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  just try to go go keep doing the same stuff.
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  When the bracket came out, Selection Sunday, when it became
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  apparent the path that Iowa State was going to have to take,
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  what went through your mind, John, when you saw what lies
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  ahead? Drivable distances for you know,
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  that was number one of my my list.
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  Yeah. And tickets are still going to
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  be hard to get with Purdue down there in Kentucky.
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  I mean, it's going to be hard to get tickets in Saint Louis, but
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  fans that don't have to invest now in an airplane ticket can
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  take that money and invest it in their game tickets and still
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  feel pretty good about it. I think a lot of Iowa State fans
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  will make their way there. And it's a great environment.
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  I've been down there many years from the Missouri Valley
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  Conference tournament. It's going to be a great
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  environment. And yeah, drivable there.
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  Drivable to Chicago if they have to advance, drivable to
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  Indianapolis if they happen to advance.
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  That's a dream scenario and you hope it all plays out.
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  Don't know if it's a dream scenario but boy the path at
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  least to an elite 8 and play to seeding looks very good.
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  Potentially Virginia in the Sweet 16, but before that you
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  got to win a couple of games. Virginia again in Chicago, Sweet
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  16. We remember that one, obviously.
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  From a few years back was Shayock.
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  Yes. I I want to get your thoughts,
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  though I don't know if you've peeked ahead or started building
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  your board, regardless if it's Kentucky, Santa Clara on what
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  you've been doing in preparation work.
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  No, you're getting ready for Tennessee State first, but what
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  you have in the round of 32. Yeah, that's exactly what I've
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  been doing is watching Tennessee State, watching Santa Clara and
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  Kentucky, just getting ready. And you know, Kentucky is
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  underachieving this year by their standards, and yet they're
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  very dangerous with a take a whole way.
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  Why was State fans are very familiar with when he played at
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  Oklahoma and obviously Aberdeen is a really good player.
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  Dubate is an excellent player transferred in from Alabama.
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  So they have they have excellent players.
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  They certainly had the budget to go spend in the offseason to get
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  some players and they're they're dangerous.
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  Team Santa Clara, I really like, I love the way their team plays
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  and Herb Sendex, A terrific coach and Alan Graves coming off
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  their benches, an excellent, excellent player and Christian
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  Hammond, a great scorer, their lead guard.
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  So they've got plenty of weapons.
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  They share the ball really well. They're efficient offensively.
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  They're really efficient. That's a team you'd have to
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  limit their pay touches. I won't be surprised at all if
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  Santa Clara beats Kentucky. I think it's really a coin toss
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  type of game. Obviously Kentucky's going to
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  have a ton of fans there and that should help them a little
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  bit. But a Santa Clara win would not
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  surprise me that much. But either way, if I was taking
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  it by Tennessee State, they're going to have a they're going to
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  have a good challenge coming up in that second round.
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  Absolutely. What is playing in the big Big
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  12 do for this, for this team as far as getting them prepared?
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  I mean, they faced Arizona as recently as Friday, they've
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  played Houston, they've played Texas Tech, they've played
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  incredible competition at the top of the Big 12.
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  What does that do is in preparing A-Team for what lies
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  ahead in the in the big dance. I think it has to help.
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  I mean, not only because you face the level of competition
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  you face, but because you face so many different styles in the
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  Big 12. I mean, there's the suffocating
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  defensive team like Houston, there's the guard oriented,
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  especially after the top and injury, a great 3 point shooting
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  team in Texas Tech. You know, there's there's all
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  these different styles in the Big 12.
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  And I think that led to itself to being prepared for pretty
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  much anything. But you know, with Iowa State,
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  there's so much about what they do.
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  They don't concern themselves as much about what they're playing
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  against in the scouting report as much as they do.
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  Let's go and pose our will on this game and you know that'll
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  be the challenge against Tennessee State.
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  I watched Tennessee State's championship game and it was
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  ridiculous. They could not miss a shot.
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  And this is a this is a team that does not depend a lot on
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  the three-point shot. They hit about 6A game.
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  They shoot about 33% from three. That's not their bread and
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  butter, but they go out against Morehead State.
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  They hit 12 of 15 threes in the first half.
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  It was the best 3 point shooting first half of any team in the
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  country all season. And then he ended up hitting 16
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  in the game. And so it's like holy cow, every
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  day he could not miss. So and that's, that's what's
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  great about the NCAA tournament, right guys?
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  I mean, that is a team can catch fire.
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  A-Team can get hot and knock off anybody.
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  And that's what we love about it.
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  We also hate it when we're on the other end of it.
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  But that's that's exactly what makes the tournament great.
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  So they're coming in feeling great about themselves as well.
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  It's to be a lot of fun. John, you've been around calling
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  games for the Cyclones now for a long time.
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  You've seen what, 5 Sweet Sixteens during your time?
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  But I know Cyclone fans, they want to take that next step and
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  seating wise, there's an opportunity.
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  Is there anything that feels different with this group
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  leading into the NCAA Tournament?
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  Anything that you get different kind of vibes or different kind
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  of health? Anything that you can point to
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  that say this is the year you feel like a breakthrough is
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  really possible. Well, I think it's possible.
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  I will also say that the big, the NCAA tournament, it's a
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  total crapshoot. You just, you don't know, you
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  know, you think you know, and just when you think you know,
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  you don't. But as far as health of the
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  team, which you mentioned, that's in a much better place
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  than it was last year certainly or even the year before.
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  I think you know, T JS first couple teams had to rely so much
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  on their defense. This team is able to play good
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  offense. They have obviously all
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  conference caliber players at three different spots.
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  You know, the bench guys are really productive and and fill a
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  great role for this team. I love what Buchanan brings.
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  I love, you know, the the little intangible stuff that you get
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  from a heizer of Buchanan or Bateman.
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  And so I think they have some of the IT factor that you want to
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  be a team that can go make a deep run at this time of year.
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  But a lot of it's walking match ups and just what I just
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  mentioned, you know, do you run into a team that can't miss a
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  shot? You know, think about Iowa State
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  hosting Texas Tech and Hilton Coliseum, their one loss at home
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  this year, a team that just can't miss even if they're
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  closely contested. It's right at the shot clock
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  buzzer. That's where the upsets happen
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  in college basketball and that's what we love about it.
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  But I do feel great about Iowa State.
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  I think all the pieces are there.
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  They're well coached. They have a tremendous
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  chemistry. That's the part of it that I
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  think it's underrated by people is just are these guys still
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  enjoying coming to work every day and playing together?
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  These guys love it. They don't they don't want this
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  thing done anytime soon. So I think that part of it will
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  carry them and I'm super excited about what they can do.
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  I think they could. They could make a deep run.
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  It's a bounce to the ball, but I think it's possible.
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  You mentioned last year with with Gilbert and Lipsy in the
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  injuries and I'm not asking you to disclose something that may
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  not be public, but for for what we know, this is a team that's
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  going into this tournament pretty good health for just
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  getting through the rigors of the Big 12.
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  I know Lipsy had that quad a couple of games back.
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  I think that's what it was. But he was back on the floor
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  shortly thereafter. This is a pretty healthy team,
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  John. It feels like it to me.
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  And I haven't been to practice since the games in Kansas City.
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  But Tamon is a tough guy. He came back into that game, you
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  know, and that that alone to me is a very good sign.
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  And he said after the game, it's not as serious as when he
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  strained the groin in in Las Vegas.
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  And obviously, he did the same thing last year.
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  So it's been an ongoing problem for him.
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  But it seemed to be a minor tweak.
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  And I was really thrilled that he was smart enough to get
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  himself out of the game right away.
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  Asked the official to stop. That's.
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  Right, he did. Get evaluated, you know, instead
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  of pushing it because when he came back in, obviously he had
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  the confidence that he could go out there and make plays and it
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  wasn't going to bother him. But you don't want to be in that
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  no man's land with that. And so I think with a full week,
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  you know, between those games, that really gives them an
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  opportunity to be 100% or close to it.
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  And yeah, I don't know of any other injuries that could could
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  slow Iowa State down. I didn't see anything else that
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  surfaced there. So yeah, much, much healthier
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  team than it was a year ago going into the NCAA tournament.
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  John, I want to go backwards a week and go to Kansas City when
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  the floor is being ripped up. We don't media guys, we are
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  media guys. We know that everybody has
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  opinions and there's probably, I'm sure a lot of conversations
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  back in the green room and back in the media availability area
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  and all those different places. What was it like leading up to
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  that point and where you're hearing grumbling, where people
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  kind of whispered tones talking about the glass floor and the
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  possibility of a change? Well, I didn't hear any
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  rumblings. I did say on the air that big
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  troll has to do something about because, you know, in that
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  second game against Texas Tech, guys were slipping all over the
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  place. And, and I'll give the officials
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  credit, you know, they could have called a million traveling
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  calls in that game. They kind of swallowed the
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  whistle. And unless it was really, really
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  obvious, they didn't call it travel.
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  Otherwise it would have been a really choppy game and really
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  ugly. But no, I mean, and everybody
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  was slipping in when Christian Anderson got hurt and hopefully
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  he's OK. I think everybody just said to
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  themselves, what are we doing here?
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  You know? And look, I give the Big 12
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  credit for trying something new and different.
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  And it was pretty cool looking during timeouts and before the
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  game and all that. But I also give them a ton of
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  credit, even more credit for listening to their coaches and
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  their players and saying, OK, we got to do something about this.
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  It's probably not safe and changing it, you know, and so
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  the the quality of basketball in the Arizona, Iowa State game,
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  we've already talked about it was off the charts.
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  I'm not sure it would have been if it was played on on the glass
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  floor. And so I'm really glad they
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  changed it and and I'm really glad nobody got seriously hurt.
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  Hopefully Anderson's OK. John, great stuff.
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  Thanks for doing this. Appreciate what you do for us
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  and hopefully you got a lot, a lot of basketball still to call
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  in this 2526 season. Thank you, John Walters.
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  Appreciate it. Thanks guys.
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  Yep, good to talk to John Walters as we check in on The
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  Voice of Iowa State League 20. It's very 24 years since Pete
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  Taylor passed away. Yes, Yeah.
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  And he John called the games on TV on WO i.e.
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  SPN Plus. ESPN Plus, before that he was
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  the TV voice of Iowa State. And then when Pete passed away,
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  we went back on the air at the Jock that day.
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  Oh yeah. When Pete passed away, 'cause it
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  was the afternoon, I don't know what we were carrying.
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  We had a morning show, afternoon show.
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  We had some national programming, but we all went
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  back to the studio and did, I don't know, just 3 or 4 hours of
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  callers from Iowa State fans and memories of of Pete Taylor.
• 18:01
  Anyway, yeah, it's 1:20. We'll talk to Matt Snyder coming
• 18:05
  up next. Get a feel for what it's like
• 18:07
  for him to be in Miami and the WBC championship game that will
• 18:12
  take place today. By the way, yes, you hit
• 18:15
  yesterday. Oh, absolutely.
• 18:17
  You had Venezuelan, your one and only pick.
• 18:20
  Another winning day. Another winning day.
• 18:22
  It's been a good week. Well, it's been one day.
• 18:25
  Well, it's been a good week dating.
• 18:27
  Yeah, let it know. Okay, now you put.
• 18:29
  It that over the last seven days we're up 15 units.
• 18:31
  All right, when you put it that. Way 31 and 15 against the
• 18:34
  number. You're unstoppable at this
• 18:37
  point. Well, no, not at all.
• 18:40
  I got 3 plays of the NIT tonight.
• 18:43
  Did you so? You got into it a little bit.
• 18:44
  A little bit. It's not brutal.
• 18:46
  Did you see the The Crown tournament?
• 18:48
  I did. See the bracket the?
• 18:49
  18 brackets, so they cut it down.
• 18:51
  And you know what, good for them for realizing it and the fact
• 18:54
  it's going to, it's going to take place.
• 18:56
  The Final Four games are Saturday before the The real
• 19:02
  Final Four is. That what it is.
• 19:04
  And then the championship games on Sunday, I think before the
• 19:07
  women's game. OK, so they're obviously staying
• 19:10
  away from those two, but like they realized they might have
• 19:13
  something here. Worth the shot?
• 19:14
  I think so, yeah. And it's Las Vegas.
• 19:17
  We like that. We do.
• 19:18
  Did you see the blowback on from Big 12 fans that wanted to move
• 19:22
  the tournament to Vegas? The Big 12 tournament?
• 19:25
  Look, I get it if you're if you live in Tucson or you live in
• 19:29
  Phoenix or for those parts. But at the same time, like I, as
• 19:33
  I said to somebody that that reached out by Twitter, I said
• 19:37
  I'd like to see every championship game, every
• 19:39
  championship regardless of sport in Las Vegas with one exception,
• 19:44
  the Big 12 tournament. The big job.
• 19:46
  I think it's, I think it's deserves to stay in Kansas City.
• 19:49
  What do you remember? What year?
• 19:50
  The Big 10 because are they confirmed that they're going out
• 19:53
  there? Is it 2028?
• 19:55
  For the Big 10, football or basketball isn't football going
• 19:59
  too? I think it is.
• 20:01
  Nothing on the books, regardless of what Nicole Arbach tried to
• 20:05
  say when we reported. Are you sure they did?
• 20:08
  I am 100% sure, yes. There is nothing definitive on
• 20:11
  the books about that, but it's going to happen.
• 20:14
  And the and the basketball is going out there.
• 20:16
  I think that has been confirmed though 2028.
• 20:20
  Maybe well, they moved it around mean they they've had it in
• 20:23
  Washington. Did they have it in New York one
• 20:26
  year? I know they did.
• 20:27
  Washington did they have? It in Yeah, and they had to play
• 20:29
  a week earlier. That's right, because it's Big
• 20:31
  East, right? It was a disaster.
• 20:32
  Yeah, it was. Here we go, Upcoming Big 10
• 20:35
  tournament locations. All right.
• 20:37
  The women will be there next year in.
• 20:40
  Vegas. In Vegas, March 3rd through the
• 20:43
  7th, wheels are turning. Then the following season, the
• 20:49
  men will be out there at T-Mobile Arena for both of them.
• 20:53
  Check football for both so the women stay as well.
• 20:55
  For no, no. Then they go back to
• 20:57
  Indianapolis. But yes, both 2027 with the
• 21:01
  women and 28 with the men will be played at T-Mobile. 2028
• 21:04
  women going to Detroit? Oh come on, why do you hate
• 21:09
  Detroit so much? You put it up against Las Vegas.
• 21:13
  Well, sure, but Detroit can get things too.
• 21:17
  This. Weekend in Vegas.
• 21:18
  It's 90° Detroit's in the 40s and it's overcast.
• 21:22
  It's going to be 85 here on Saturday.
• 21:24
  That's true. It is.
• 21:25
  How about how about what we had yesterday?
• 21:28
  Fast forward five days to what we're about to embark on this
• 21:31
  weekend. My God.
• 21:32
  But you know what the bad side of that is?
• 21:35
  Your wife's. Oh yeah.
• 21:37
  Spring cleaning got some work to do around the house outside.
• 21:40
  Screw that, not happening. Let me know how it goes.
• 21:46
  The Big 10 football championship game confirmed through at least
• 21:48
  2028 in Indianapolis. Is it?
• 21:50
  Yeah, that wise up. 125 Matt Snyder Next.
• 21:54
  Miller and Condon, Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 21:58
  All right, 130 Millory Condon, welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio
• 22:01
  Network, Trenton. Ken with you until 2.
• 22:03
  The boys are at the rally house in Ames today.
• 22:07
  Lucas and Sean on location. Rally house in Ames.
• 22:10
  Their program gets underway at the top of the hour.
• 22:13
  Let's talk to our buddy Matt Snyder.
• 22:15
  He's in Miami. It's the final tonight of the
• 22:18
  World Baseball Classic. Venezuela came from behind to
• 22:21
  beat Italy last night 4 to 2. The final in that one they get
• 22:25
  the United States and what promised to be just well, I hope
• 22:28
  it's a good I hope it's a a good baseball game.
• 22:31
  I think we're we're in store for one.
• 22:33
  Matt joins us. He'd been covering the vent.
• 22:35
  He's in Miami. Matt.
• 22:36
  I can't I've been looking forward to asking you this,
• 22:39
  especially after last night watching the way the game
• 22:42
  unfold. It's just different watching
• 22:45
  this is supposed to the World Series.
• 22:46
  You've seen you've covered numerous World Series.
• 22:50
  You're in person at the World Baseball classic.
• 22:52
  It's just a different event, isn't it?
• 22:55
  Yes. I mean, I'm trying to avoid
• 22:57
  hyperbole and racency bias, but honestly, like in the concourse
• 23:03
  last night after the game, I never have seen anything like
• 23:07
  that. Just the crowd, Venezuela fans,
• 23:12
  the the chanting and dancing and playing music in the crowd.
• 23:16
  Like it, it was like the 9th inning.
• 23:20
  You know, there's nail biter type pitches in this.
• 23:23
  There's people playing music in the crowd.
• 23:24
  You don't, we don't see that. Major League Baseball.
• 23:28
  It's incredible. Yeah, I, I just, I, I don't even
• 23:32
  know how much, how much more to say.
• 23:34
  Like it. It's just an unbelievable, just
• 23:38
  unbelievably fun. That passion that we see in the
• 23:41
  World Baseball Classic, that extra that seems to be there,
• 23:45
  there's a little more trash talking that is happening and
• 23:47
  there's chirping in the dugout. So we definitely get that at the
• 23:50
  Major League level. Is that something that you would
• 23:53
  like to see a bigger part of Major League Baseball is taking
• 23:56
  that, or is that impossible to do?
• 23:58
  We're talking about a mini tournament here, played over a
• 24:01
  couple of weeks, over 162. And we definitely see the
• 24:04
  intensity that does ramp up when we get to playoff time.
• 24:06
  But could we get a little bit more Major League Baseball?
• 24:09
  Do you like what you've seen? And I want to see more of it.
• 24:12
  Yeah, like over 162 games, we'd run out of gas, right?
• 24:19
  We did this every single game. But you know, the playoffs, we
• 24:22
  could use a little bit more of the, the energy, like, and there
• 24:26
  is, there's great, great energy. I think the main thing is I
• 24:31
  always just want everybody to be themselves.
• 24:33
  And like I saw Bryce Harper said like, hey, I love it.
• 24:37
  I just, I don't dance because I'm a terrible dancer.
• 24:39
  Like it just everybody being themselves is amazing.
• 24:44
  I don't think we need to contrive and say, hey, we need
• 24:47
  to have dancing before every single game and every dugout the
• 24:50
  way Venezuela was dancing last night.
• 24:53
  But hey, if there is more of it, awesome.
• 24:56
  That would be really fun. Just as long as it's not
• 24:59
  contrived and we don't run out of gas because we have a
• 25:01
  marathon of a regular season. But it's just, yeah, I mean,
• 25:06
  yes, I guess the short answer is yes, a little bit more.
• 25:10
  But yeah, we have to be mindful of the long, long season.
• 25:15
  Have you been? Is it, I guess if you run across
• 25:19
  Major League players who were surprised that this event, what
• 25:23
  this event maybe has meant to them, has that when they when
• 25:26
  they got there, when they knew was going to be this year, not
• 25:29
  sure that they went into with the feelings they're going to
• 25:31
  come out of the event with. How about that?
• 25:34
  Really. I'm no what what surprises me is
• 25:38
  that basically none of them act like that like almost all of
• 25:42
  them act like they knew that this was going to mean more to
• 25:45
  them and they they've always wanted to wear USA on their
• 25:48
  chest, for example, and the other countries it seems to mean
• 25:52
  even more. I mean, you saw the shot of
• 25:53
  Ronald de Cunha junior last night after the final out.
• 25:56
  It looks like he was crying into his glove.
• 25:58
  And that was just the semifinal and they've only played six
• 26:01
  games. You know, it's, it's and I, I
• 26:05
  still go back to in 2023, I was in the Dodgers clubhouse at the
• 26:10
  same time as the WBC was going on and Max Muncie was talking to
• 26:15
  people and he said, I, I think it means so much more because
• 26:20
  you're not playing for a paycheck and it's not your job.
• 26:22
  And it's easy to say, Oh yeah, they get, they take it for
• 26:26
  granted, they get to be rich to play a game, but it's still a
• 26:28
  job. This isn't the job.
• 26:30
  This is, hey, I'm volunteering to play in a representing my
• 26:34
  country. That just means more.
• 26:38
  And I think that's what it's all about for all of them.
• 26:40
  But even guys like Nolan McLean, who's I don't remember rookie
• 26:46
  eligibility left or not, but he only has eight career Major
• 26:49
  League games under his belt. He just said, man, I've always
• 26:54
  wanted to represent USA and I don't think it's a no brainer to
• 26:57
  take part in the event when they invite you.
• 26:59
  Why wouldn't you want to represent your country?
• 27:01
  Most guys have kind of been like that.
• 27:04
  You just said something that I didn't realize, that they don't
• 27:06
  get compensated for this at all. I didn't even think about that.
• 27:11
  I'm sure they do a little bit, but it's just nowhere near
• 27:14
  right. Yeah, it's, and I, I think it's
• 27:16
  not really about that. I, I think it's just, you know,
• 27:20
  they, they already make plenty of money in their particular
• 27:23
  season. I, I think it's just about, hey,
• 27:27
  this is a really cool event and we're trying to win for our
• 27:30
  country. So did you see the reason that
• 27:34
  Team USA is the home team in this one today?
• 27:36
  Of course. What is it?
• 27:38
  All right? No.
• 27:40
  Get ready, settle in. All right, because both teams
• 27:43
  come in with A5 in one record, a coin toss was needed in order to
• 27:47
  determine which team would get the final at bat.
• 27:49
  By virtue of having a higher ranking in the World Baseball
• 27:53
  Softball Confederation rankings at the start of the tournament,
• 27:56
  Team USA was given the honor of getting to choose heads or
• 27:59
  tails, and they chose correctly about that.
• 28:04
  So if you're going to go through the trouble of having that
• 28:07
  ranking, why wouldn't that just be the team?
• 28:09
  How would it be you get to pick the coin toss?
• 28:11
  Yes, exactly. I had the exact same thought.
• 28:13
  But but here we are. All right, let's talk about how
• 28:16
  the staff's going to go, what we're going to look like, kind
• 28:18
  of layout, a blueprint for us and what we saw.
• 28:20
  I saw Mason Miller. If it's a safe situation, he can
• 28:24
  go. It doesn't look like they want
• 28:26
  him to go and certainly we can understand why his team doesn't
• 28:29
  want him to go. But if it does come down and
• 28:31
  it's a four, three-game, yes, you want Miller in the back end
• 28:33
  of things. Map out how you think this is
• 28:35
  going to look as it pertains to the rotation and how they're
• 28:38
  going to play through with the bullpen.
• 28:40
  Yeah, so the the pitch limit is 95 for starters, but it's spring
• 28:44
  training. Mcclain's a kid.
• 28:46
  He and Mark Rosa both basically said he's probably going to be
• 28:50
  65 to 70 pitches. So maybe 4 innings, maybe 5.
• 28:54
  If he only goes four, I think they might try to get a little
• 28:58
  more length. Somebody like Matthew Boyd, who
• 29:01
  it's a good contrast to McClain. You've got a power righty.
• 29:04
  Go to a crafty lefty like Boyd to get to the late innings.
• 29:09
  And then I think if if all things are OK with everybody and
• 29:14
  they've checked with every team, that's the other thing that's
• 29:16
  difficult about this is you have to make sure everything is what
• 29:19
  is OK with every team. But my hunch is Derosa would
• 29:23
  love to stick with Bednar in the 7th, Garrett Whitlock in the 8th
• 29:26
  and Mason Miller in the 9th. So it's probably, if you can do
• 29:31
  it, McClain, however much you need at a Boyd and then those
• 29:34
  back three guys. But, you know, it's also
• 29:38
  possible he doesn't even bother with Boyd and he uses some of
• 29:40
  the relievers like Tyler Rogers, Griffin Jacks, Derek Clevenger
• 29:45
  through the middle innings. So it'll be very interesting to
• 29:48
  see how to roast the pieces together.
• 29:50
  But you know, if, let's say, the Yankees, Red Sox and Padres are
• 29:56
  annoyed with him for the use of that NAR, Whitlock and Miller,
• 30:01
  so be it. It's the Finals, Whatever.
• 30:03
  Yeah, no doubt. You think Fox has been surprised
• 30:06
  with the with the results of this, with the kind of the the
• 30:10
  way it's been received. I haven't seen television
• 30:12
  numbers. I'm guessing tonight's going to
• 30:13
  do a huge number, despite the fact that it's up against the
• 30:17
  the 1st 4 on TRU TVI think a lot of people are going to find this
• 30:20
  game. What have television numbers
• 30:21
  been like? And wonder what Fox kind of put
• 30:24
  out there prior to the term. What was what they hope to
• 30:27
  achieve? I only saw the pool play numbers
• 30:30
  and they were the largest ever. So I, I think that, I mean,
• 30:35
  maybe, yeah, they might be surprised, but I, I think it's
• 30:38
  been I, I can, I can speak to the, our, our website, CBS
• 30:42
  Sports traffic, WBC stories have been absolutely killing it.
• 30:46
  Absolutely killing it. This is the most anybody has
• 30:49
  ever paid attention. I, I, I felt like coming in,
• 30:53
  this was the most excitement there ever was.
• 30:55
  And that's come to fruition with the numbers that we're seeing.
• 30:58
  So it, it seems like this event, it was always a hit worldwide,
• 31:03
  but it took a while to get like a major foothold in USA.
• 31:07
  I think we're the ones that have Major League Baseball, and so
• 31:10
  many fans still care more about their Major League Baseball
• 31:12
  teams than this event. But I think it's really growing
• 31:17
  and starting to gain a foothold among casual sports fans.
• 31:19
  You're seeing more and more people who don't pay that much
• 31:22
  attention to baseball talking about the WBC, and I think we're
• 31:26
  going to tune tonight. So I think we've got a lot of
• 31:28
  momentum with this thing at this point.
• 31:30
  No question. And somebody just reached out to
• 31:31
  me. Will Henderson, Witt play
• 31:33
  together, therefore keeping Bregman on the bench?
• 31:36
  Have you seen the starting lineup yet?
• 31:39
  I have not, but my expectation is that Derosa will stick with
• 31:43
  Gunner Henderson at third base after, I mean, he hit a home run
• 31:46
  live game. Of course I saw, Derosa said
• 31:49
  after the game. Like Gunner Henderson was 7 for
• 31:51
  nine against Severino coming in. If that was really all he was
• 31:55
  doing, then I don't know. I sure hope it wasn't just a
• 31:59
  night at bat sample that all of a sudden was like, hey, maybe I
• 32:02
  should play the better player at third base.
• 32:04
  Well. I'll tell you.
• 32:06
  I'll tell you why, hopefully. He sticks with it.
• 32:08
  What what this, this event is done for people who don't watch
• 32:11
  the Kansas City Royals very often if you're not in the
• 32:13
  Midwest. Oh, yeah.
• 32:14
  I mean, watching Bobby Witt do what he's done in the field, my
• 32:17
  good God, he's he's one of the guys that's going to come out of
• 32:20
  this tournament that more people are going to know maybe who
• 32:24
  Bobby Witt Junior is prior to this beginning.
• 32:26
  He's been unbelievable. And that's the thing, he doesn't
• 32:29
  have the eye popping numbers in terms of like he hasn't hit a
• 32:32
  home run, for example. He hasn't tripled or anything
• 32:35
  like that. But just watching him working
• 32:38
  the good at bats, getting on base, running the base as well
• 32:41
  as you mentioned, exceptional defense and exceptionally fun
• 32:46
  shortstop. Like he's one of the most fun
• 32:48
  players in baseball. And you're right, like Kansas
• 32:51
  City, not on national TV that often.
• 32:54
  So casual fans probably don't know that much about him, but
• 32:57
  yeah, holy folks, he's been so fun.
• 33:00
  That unassisted double play on the wand.
• 33:05
  So do I bat? By the way, I mentioned this in
• 33:08
  a column the other day, but would you ever say you could
• 33:10
  call somebody the Most Valuable Player in the game when they
• 33:12
  only faced 1 batter? But Tyler Rogers coming in and
• 33:16
  getting that double play 1 soda was huge.
• 33:18
  That was an amazing, amazing play by Witt that he just made
• 33:22
  look easy so people don't go as crazy over it.
• 33:25
  So tonight we saw the passion of the fan from Venezuela.
• 33:29
  We obviously know it's in America, it's in Miami.
• 33:32
  What do you anticipate the crowds going to be like A 5050
• 33:35
  split, 6040? Give us a ballpark figure what
• 33:39
  the ballpark is going to look like tonight.
• 33:41
  I, I think it'll be similar to the USA Dominican Republic game,
• 33:44
  which felt close to 5050. But if anybody takes the lead,
• 33:50
  let's say 5545, I would go with Venezuela.
• 33:53
  It was ridiculous last night. And there's a huge Venezuelan
• 33:58
  community in Miami over here in Doral, right next to the
• 34:01
  airport, one of the biggest Venezuelan communities in
• 34:04
  America. So they're here.
• 34:07
  So yeah, I probably around 5050, maybe a little more Venezuela.
• 34:13
  But the good news there is even if USA fans are a bit more
• 34:17
  subdued in baseball compared to let's say Asian or Latino fans,
• 34:23
  when the other teams fans are cheering loud, it always
• 34:27
  naturally makes you cheer louder too.
• 34:30
  So the USA crowd is going to match whatever the Venezuelan
• 34:33
  crowd is doing. So it's, man, it's going to be
• 34:36
  raucous. Upcoming baseball season, once
• 34:38
  we get through the WBC, yeah, there'll be a little spring
• 34:41
  training left and it'll be here before we know it with the
• 34:43
  earliest full start Major League Baseball history.
• 34:47
  I mean, it's the big storyline, what we're going to see with the
• 34:49
  technology and the ABS and. By the way, they need that in
• 34:52
  this event because. That was a miss.
• 34:54
  And the USA. Yeah.
• 34:56
  That was a miss. Is that going to be the biggest
• 34:59
  storyline early on? Yes.
• 35:01
  Probably, yeah. And it's one of those things
• 35:02
  like we've talked about this before at the start of the year,
• 35:07
  there's always going to be more drama around and everybody's
• 35:09
  going to go crazy about how big of a deal is.
• 35:11
  But, you know, two or three weeks in the season, we're just
• 35:14
  going to get used to it. And then it'll we'll move on.
• 35:17
  And it's the replay review system has done great things by
• 35:22
  and large, and they've worked out the Kings and all that
• 35:24
  stuff. ABS is so much faster, so much
• 35:27
  easier, so much more streamlined.
• 35:30
  We'll barely notice it once it once we get it, once we get used
• 35:35
  to the game. But yeah, I mean, I guess when
• 35:37
  we would notice it is when there's a game changing call
• 35:39
  like we saw at the end of the USA Dominican Republic game,
• 35:41
  when Perdomo should not have gotten punched out.
• 35:44
  It should have been first and 3rd for cut to eat.
• 35:47
  I heard CB Buckner was doing a spring training game and he got
• 35:50
  overruled 3 times in the first inning.
• 35:52
  This guy is so bad. So bad, right?
• 35:55
  I'm Matt. Thank you, buddy.
• 35:56
  Appreciate it. Enjoy tonight, board the way
• 35:59
  they're not going to move you from the media seat you've had
• 36:01
  over the last few nights, are they?
• 36:03
  Wow, That's prime seating. Good.
• 36:05
  Yeah. Good for you.
• 36:06
  Yeah, it's, it's great. I'm jealous.
• 36:07
  I'm blessed. Yeah.
• 36:08
  Very grateful. And we didn't even bring up
• 36:10
  Hoosier basketball to you. Well, there's nothing to bring
• 36:12
  up. That's OK.
• 36:15
  I bet both, but. If we wanted to talk football,
• 36:17
  I'm guessing you'd be OK with that, right?
• 36:20
  That would be OK. We'd let him do enough of that
• 36:21
  in the fall. He can't be all sunshine to
• 36:24
  rainbows for vets. Matt, we'll talk to you in the
• 36:26
  weeks ahead, pal, thanks for jumping on with us.
• 36:27
  We truly appreciate the relationship.
• 36:29
  Thank you buddy. Take care.
• 36:31
  Good to talk to you Matt Snyder, by the way, follow him on
• 36:33
  Twitter. I wish more people would at Matt
• 36:36
  Snyder. SNYDERCBS at Matt Snyder CBS.
• 36:41
  He's a great. He's a great baseball writer and
• 36:44
  we see what media, what happens. It's clicks, it's click, it's
• 36:47
  click world. And if you like what Matt does
• 36:50
  for us and gosh, you know what we do, and he's makes such a
• 36:52
  difference to our program. He's great on baseball and if
• 36:55
  you would be so inclined to give him a follower, certainly click
• 37:00
  on his stories and give it a read.
• 37:02
  And he's been tweeting out all the extras that have been
• 37:05
  happening around the ballpark and the seed and in the
• 37:07
  corridor, the hot dogs that he had.
• 37:10
  Yes. Did any of those jump?
• 37:11
  Off. Well, I would eat none.
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  You're not a hot dog guy. I'm not, but I would eat an
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  American one. The American one, that was the
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  one. Yesterday was brisket.
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  Yep, and something on. It brisket, cheese and crispy.
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  Ice. But when you look at the other
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  though, the one right below it, the.
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  The one no. No, that wasn't it.
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  Maybe right above it. The Japan ones, it's fish, yeah.
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  Crab salad. Yeah, no wasabi.
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  Mayo Yeah, that doesn't sound. Good.
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  What was the one right about? The Italian one.
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  That's it. The garlic parmesan bun.
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  Yes, Sliced tomato. Yes, sliced mozzarella.
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  Yep, I love mozzarella. And a little pesto.
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  I'm in, I'll try it. That one's good, but the other
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  countries? No thanks.
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  Venezuela, Onion, cabbage, pink sauce.
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  No, I I what is pink sauce? Pink sauce scares me.
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  I do not want anything called pink sauce and anything that I
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  eat. No.
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  Yeah, that, that one is a definite no for me.
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  And the Dominican one, there's a couple of words I don't know.
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  Yeah, I'm out. If you don't know the words, you
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  probably shouldn't say them on the ring.
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  Or eat. It well take your time out
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  Trent's plays the day they're coming up next.
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  So we've got NIT tonight yes. Are you going to follow up your
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  unbeaten World Baseball Classic record with another play
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  tonight? There is a prop that I have on
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  the list. It is not a official play yet,
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  but we will see in the coming minutes here during the break if
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  it becomes an official play. And then you do have some first
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  four. I do have yes first four action
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  also. Circa Sports sponsors Trent's
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  plays of the Day. Coming off a winning week,
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  Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  I'm Miller. Condon, welcome back 10 minutes
• 38:44
  before 2. The boys that the rally house
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  today, Shawn and Lucas to until 5 rally house in Ames for their
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  program and abbreviated overtime.
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  Iowa coming up at 5:00 and then right into the first four both
• 38:57
  tonight and tomorrow and wall to wall coverage courtesy of
• 39:01
  Westwood one on Thursday. Bounce around coverage where
• 39:05
  they call wrap around coverage of the tournament.
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  They're not going to linger at one game.
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  Whenever the action says get over to X, that's where they
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  will take you and you know they'll keep you there before
• 39:15
  they move around. And likewise on Friday, with the
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  exception is at 6:45, we'll have to cut out of Westwood 1 and go
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  catch the wild. I'm not sure if they're home or
• 39:25
  not. 645 seems to be a putt drop at 7:00.
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  So Iowa wild rather coming up Friday at Friday evening and
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  then right back into the tournament on Saturday and
• 39:36
  Sunday, etcetera, etcetera. All right, Trent Condon, I got a
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  lot of picks today. He went and started basketball
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  and do baseball. What's that prop you were
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  teasing in in World Baseball Classic?
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  So I'm looking at NOLA McLean strikeouts.
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  Take a. Just take a guess.
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  Well, I don't know how. How long is he going to pitch?
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  Just in right, right. If he goes is 3 innings, 4
• 39:59
  innings. Probably that's what I'd kind of
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  anticipate. So let's say his he gets 12
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  outs. How many of them are via
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  strikeout? I don't know. 3 1/2.
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  It's 4 1/2, which seems a touch high against this Venezuela line
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  up, and there's definitely some free Springer swingers in there.
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  Let's do it. Let's make it official.
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  I hadn't done it yet, but under 4 1/2 strikeouts now you got to
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  lay little juice -125 But we're going to go under 4 1/2
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  strikeouts for Nolan McLean can. I stop you.
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  Yes. If this one goes down and
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  flames, you're going to blame me?
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  Yes, absolutely. OK.
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  Yeah, I got I got to look to pit.
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  Of course not. I put all my picks out there
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  every single day, even network November, December, January,
• 40:45
  February, November, not to remember Awful, awful, awful,
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  awful. I took it on the and we just
• 40:51
  keep going right back to the world.
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  Absolutely. All right, basketball picks for
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  tonight. NIT grabbing the points with UNC
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  Wilmington. They're getting 5 1/2 at Yale,
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  Going to do the same. Stephen F Austin getting 7 1/2
• 41:04
  at Tulsa. At Auburn, they're going to be
• 41:07
  sleepy. Oh, grabbing the 17 1/2 with the
• 41:10
  Jaguars of South Alabama. So three dogs in the NIT
• 41:13
  tonight. As always the NIT.
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  It is about motivation and I don't see much motivation for
• 41:20
  Yale after letting that one slip away Sunday.
• 41:22
  Quick turn around, I like UNC Wilmington, they got upset early
• 41:27
  in their conference tournament. I like Stephen F Austin more
• 41:30
  than Tulsa, who did not look good.
• 41:31
  Tulsa was really good for a while.
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  Were they? They limped.
• 41:34
  To the finish line and then Auburn don't think their heads
• 41:37
  are going to be on straight. They should be able to just roll
• 41:39
  the ball out, win. That's got Steven Pearl as their
• 41:41
  coach. I don't think that.
• 41:42
  Helps. Well, I hope they get beat right
• 41:43
  because I was sick of listening to Bruce Pearl, who, by the way,
• 41:45
  I don't know if he should be in that spot.
• 41:47
  He should. He can't do it.
• 41:48
  I agree. He has not shown an ability to
• 41:51
  be impartial, right? That is a problem in that chair.
• 41:55
  Now going forward, not sure Auburn will be in that spot, but
• 41:57
  I'm not sure he can. What if they are?
• 42:00
  Right, exactly. We go right back to the well
• 42:02
  again, 2 plays I mentioned every single year.
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  I just take whoever's the underdog in the 16 versus 16
• 42:10
  outright now. You're not going to get great
• 42:13
  money because you're laying it on the money line on both sides.
• 42:16
  UMBC, though, is playing in the playing round.
• 42:19
  How? I have no flipping idea.
• 42:22
  You talk about something egregious that the committee
• 42:24
  messed up. It is putting UMBC in one of
• 42:27
  these play in 16 matchups. This has seven teams below them
• 42:32
  at Ken Palm. Any power ranking you look at,
• 42:35
  this was like the 62nd, 61st best team in the field and yet
• 42:39
  they're in the play in. So this would be maybe the one
• 42:42
  knock on the committee. Oh, absolutely.
• 42:43
  By by by all accounts, they were universally praised.
• 42:47
  This is pretty egregious. So just for comparison, UMBC is
• 42:51
  185 teams below them. Tennessee State, well, Iowa
• 42:54
  State will play Furman, Sienna, Howard and Liu, all teams at Ken
• 43:00
  Pomeroy that are below them. Yet here they are playing in to
• 43:04
  get into the bracket by the one. Texas stinks.
• 43:07
  NC State got on hard times. I just think they're better.
• 43:09
  I don't believe in Sean Miller's squad.
• 43:11
  So in the cheater bowl tonight I will take Will Wade and a strong
• 43:17
  ass offer -1 1/2. Baseball.
• 43:20
  You found it. Just that one prop.
• 43:22
  Just. Doing the one prop good.
• 43:23
  Stuff. Too big of a price on the money
• 43:25
  line for you? And -280 yeah, surprise, too.
• 43:28
  That's going to do it for us. The boys are at the Rally House
• 43:30
  off the bench. Coming up next, we're Miller and
• 43:31
  Condon. Trent and I talk sports with you
• 43:33
  Monday through Friday from noon until 2.
• 43:35
  Thanks for being with us on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.