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The Purdue Report with Jake Dunn: Big Ten Tournament Preview (2.195.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_01]: you are listening to the Purdue report with Jake Dunn, every Wednesday on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to the Central Indian Sports Report Boiler Maker fans for this week's Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jake and I talked on Greg and his friends talk sports my new daily podcast on Monday about what's been going on with the Boiler Makers and talked a little bit about the Big Ten Tournament Jake and you were pretty positive.
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: for coming out of another loss again five at home this year.
• 1:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just unreal.
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: You kind of said all things are out in front of them.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: All their goals are still within reach.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, you're right, but I'm worried they're gonna lose die you and then losing the first part of the insia tournament right now.
• 1:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I can certainly understand that, that fear.
• 1:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know I've said it in the, in the, in the rear season, how this team is, it's old and has the leadership.
• 1:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I, I certainly hope and, and I do think that they will turn up a little bit here for big 10 tournament and, and March madness.
• 2:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think that honestly have a pretty good road.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think to make it to the big 10 championship, not saying they will, but I think as a seven seed,
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: You probably couldn't ask for a better path to the championship.
• 2:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think they'll turn it up here.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the one couple games here in the big tournament, and then we'll see what happens in March.
• 2:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the confidence, oh, meter, not at zero.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's for sure.
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: This team has too much talent for that.
• 2:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Too much talent, too much experience as well.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think and I'm kind of hoping that this will.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: that experience will carry them here in the NCAA tournaments.
• 2:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think at the very least, they'll make it to the three, 16, certainly have the potential to go further than that.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it'll depend a little bit on the matchup and where they fall on the bracket and stuff.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: This point of regular season, again, it's the whole new ball game now that's now that it's March.
• 3:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the problem, Jake.
• 3:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: three weeks ago now it's time to start turning it up now it's time to turn it on and show their senior leadership now it's time to beat Wisconsin now you know it's time to put your foot on their throat beat Michigan State show it the whole world now that you lost a Michigan show the whole world you're going to beat Michigan State at home and it's just not happening.
• 3:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: from this team.
• 3:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: We saw it early in the season, uh, but ever since the ever since the calendar turned to 2026, it seems like it's kind of a different team here.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, um, I think map ain't Eric and can have these guys ready to go for for the big 10 tournament and for March madness, but all we can do is watch is there's nothing, nothing we can do.
• 4:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, we just got to sit back
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And of course, we're going to talk about Purdue's path coming up here in the big tin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Just wanted to start off with a little philosophizing here, Jake, how Purdue fans should be feeling at this point.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And honestly, it's not hope I'll lost, but it's been hard to watch.
• 4:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was constant game.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: I could only watch with one eye.
• 4:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just, it was so hard to watch, Jake.
• 4:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because you just, we've seen it.
• 4:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So when we've seen it over and over here,
• 4:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, we have, and we've talked about through all these disappointing times and the regular season now that you would hope a team with with this many seniors and as much experience that these guys have that we wouldn't be having some of these losses, some of these miss apps, hopefully something can get figured out here with the defense, they can have more effort and energy on the defensive and the Wisconsin game for.
• 5:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: first five minutes or so, the game I felt like they were doing really well offensively for some turnovers.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really kind of got to Wisconsin, but then Wisconsin just shot lights out.
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, hopefully the team that they get in the NCAA tournament will not be a good shooting team, but we'll see because obviously you have to be somewhat decent to make the NCAA tournament.
• 5:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: The other thing that's been interesting about this Jacob is Matt Painter's always been so good at finding the right combination of players and playing time.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's always been so good at it starting off with this and just move into this and then try and that and that doesn't work so you go to that and he finally comes up with the right formula and
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: have waiting for him to do it this year and he just hasn't.
• 6:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's because it's a bunch of seniors, but he's never cared.
• 6:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's never cared if he stepped on toes or hurt feelings before.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not sure why that wouldn't matter.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just not sure why he's not following that right combination.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think so too.
• 6:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the, you know, even when, you know,
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, some of those lineups, you know, there were still, you know, a couple of games or two where, you know, they mixed up the starting five and you know, we just haven't have a seen that to your point Craig.
• 6:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we love first comes to mind.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, was in the program for a long time did a lot of great things and then suddenly.
• 6:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: was buried on the bench because he couldn't do certain things.
• 6:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we just haven't seen him go to a move like that.
• 6:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't want to point out any one player.
• 6:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm not sure Oscar Cluff fits in the starting line up with these guys.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just don't know if you can play Cluff and T.K.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: R next to each other and be successful defensively.
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: T.K.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: R at the five we've seen is been a lot more switchable on defense.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would certainly like to like him to be a little bit better defensively.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, Ostercloth, the past couple of games has made some strides, but still you're still leaving some meat on the bone there, you know, on the defensive end.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying he can't be an important part of the team, Jake.
• 7:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying fewer minutes with TKR, kind of how he refused to play Williams and EDI together.
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure he needs to go to that extreme, but you kind of separate him and let TKR play the center minutes and see how it goes.
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: But at this point, it might be too late, but I'm kind of surprised he hasn't done that, especially because of the development of Jack Benter, who I'd like to see even more.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, Jack Benner has a really good shooter.
• 7:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think having TKR and House for Cloth together, certainly, you kind of lack some of the spacing that you get when you have either a four or five who can step behind the arc and shoot it.
• 8:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, it just seems like it seems like a miss here somewhere from the staff in terms of personnel.
• 8:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: a trade coffin red just never really developed a three point shot.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, there was, you know, his sophomore junior, you know, I think he, he made some threes.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but just never really, never really developed that or maybe to Zack, he used to situation where, you know, he can't shoot threes, but just, you know, there's no real point or need to.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, it certainly seems like the, those don't, don't work as well as they probably
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, Jake, let's talk a little bit about the Big 10 Brakes.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, Jake, we are going to keep this one pretty short, because you and I are going to be doing a Big 10 Preview, hopefully, if we can get everybody together with, alright, you guys, Mike Hustle and Grant Shows, and talk about the Big 10 Tournament.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But let's do that ourselves real fast and take a quick look at the brackets and
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Purdue plays whoever comes out of Penn State Northwestern and Indiana.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Could play Indiana for the first time in 28 years in the Big Pinsor.
• 9:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, certainly be something, I think it'd be a good matchup here again.
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think Purdue is definitely the better team.
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: They shouldn't have lost the first time in Blooming 10.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it'd be a nice sort of almost end to the seniors' careers.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: They can be IU one more time and get above the 500 mark with Purdue and IU in their careers.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: If IU ends up winning, which, if Northwestern can get past Penn State,
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Northwestern, month or so ago, went into Bloomington and BU.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if they can do that again, we have another interesting match up here with Purdue and Northwestern.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: And there's no assumption that Indiana's going to get past Northwestern Jake because I, like I said, I've been kind of obsessed with this.
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: How they haven't played each other in 28 years.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: About 10 years ago, I started picking up on this.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: What the heck is going on?
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Every year, I say,
• 10:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: How is it possible that two rivals of not play each other in a conference championship in 28 years?
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And this year, it looks like they're going to, but there's also been about three other times, Jake, where it's look like they're going to.
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And IU is lost.
• 10:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we'll see what happens in that one.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would welcome that match up a little bit more than North Western.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I would have a reason they just have ways to play the close with Purdue cell.
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I, uh, I would mind getting a chance to hopefully beat, uh, why you again pretty pretty soundly.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just love when Purdue and I, you play each other, Jake, I got to admit it.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's one of my favorite things.
• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then Nebraska with Michigan State on the same side of the bracket, as you said, Jake, a pretty good path if you're looking for some success and again, not very confident, but it does line up well.
• 11:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we saw Purdue go to Lincoln and then dominate early.
• 11:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll also make Nebraska came back and made a close game.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Perrin appointed it over time.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Purdue can beat Nebraska.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: And while I was going to come down to defense and then the other teams ability to make threes and I would welcome a matchup of Michigan City.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think they played really well against Purdue.
• 11:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think Purdue could beat them if they were playing again.
• 11:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't want to those, but we got a can't count on IU very much.
• 11:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Then once can't count on Northwestern.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: That game was close.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: That game was close.
• 12:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: That game was close.
• 12:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: That game was close.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: That game can even count.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And state that game was close.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: That act back again.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: So nothing, nothing's ever going to be using the big 10.
• 12:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: But this is such a nice thing for Purdue if they can, you know, the November Purdue can show up.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, certainly have a nice path here to the championship.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a big gift though.
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: It is a big hit and I kept saying no, no, no, I want to be a top four seed.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I want a double buy, but I might even like this better than be in the two seed.
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think so too, and something that we had talked about great deal length benefit that would purge its out of this, I guess, is, or I guess I should read phrase anyway, but if it brain smith gets out of this, it's not a game to try and rock up assist, it's a chase
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: faking, make it to the championship game, which again, it's a big big if, but if they can, and you know, there's only a couple of games in March, again, another big if that record would be looking pretty nice for him to take.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just hard to pick, you know, some mission, again, they've lost some teams here, like Wisconsin for example, but I just think they're too good of a team.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard for me to pick against them.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think the winner will definitely come out of that
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know I'm going out on a big limb there, but that's, uh, those are my, those are my pick.
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: And give me a, uh, I'll take this in this march.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
• 13:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we're now joined by my cuttle, so, uh, Jake, we're going to go and talk some big thin basketball with Mike, and I think we're going to be joined by some others as well, so.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for doing the Purdue Report once again, Jake, and, uh,
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, go listen to our big 10 tournament preview, which we released on Tuesday morning and maybe Jake will pick somebody different.
• 14:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: You never know.
• 14:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: And again, starting Wednesday night with IU and Northwestern, we will have a recap at the end of each night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And we will also all be talking about it on Greg and his friend's talk sports.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Please check it out.
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