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The Purdue Report with Jake Dunn (2.53.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome, Boiler, Maker fans, to the Central Indiana Sports Group port, for today's Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm your host, Greg Mengeau, and I am joined by Jake Dunn on the Riverside app.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we are going to talk mostly basketball, a little bit of football, welcome, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's always things that are having me and glad we can start to finally at a point in the year where we can start to finally talk about basketball.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you're not produce football fans, Jake and I will be back on Friday to preview the Purdue Minnesota football game and then we'll be back on Saturday or most likely Sunday our reaction to produce upset win over the go first.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We also will have a little Purdue football news at the end of this podcast, but this is going to be 95% basketball.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Matt Payner's podcast with John Rothstein and I have Thoughts Jake and I assume you're always willing to talk boiler, make your basketball for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't gotten the chance to listen that podcast yet but I did see some clothes from it and Matt Payner's always a good listen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He doesn't do coach speak.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I will say that this podcast, if your goal was to get nuggets about this team,
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[SPEAKER_03]: uh... there wasn't a whole lot of that they must have talked about what it's like to recruit these days and the landscape of college basketball and the last the last couple years run and and him being a cubsman but there were some things and i'm gonna talk about it also the times and tv details have been released for all thirty three for new basketball games this year i support and jake
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[SPEAKER_03]: The basketball fan day and scrimmages are scheduled for 10 days from to now at back year reign at a get your first glimpse of a team that returns 86% of its scoring from a sweet 16 team, a team that Matt Payner told John Rothstein on Tuesday has enough fire power to win a national championship.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the team that went to the national championship two years ago, obviously was really good team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, he was just such a big piece of that with him gone, I think that forces the rest of team to be a little better and I think they've stood up to that task so far as green.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is the most complete team that Matt Painter has had certainly in the last 10 plus years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would agree with him that this is probably his best shot that he's had so far as
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[SPEAKER_03]: If it's not as most complete team, his most complete team was in 2011, unfortunately, injuries stopped at that one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We might be on a completely different trajectory in Purdue history right now, if Robbie Hummel had not gone up to Minnesota and torn his ACA.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I completely agree.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I will never acknowledge Connecticut's 2011 National Championship.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can never convince me that a opportunity with Robbie Hummel does a easily do that Connecticut team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And Jake, we're just 16 days away from the Scrimmage of Rupert Arena.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And now less than a month away from the season opener against Evansville at Mackey Arena.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right around the corner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I, uh, really excited to
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[SPEAKER_01]: get to watch that Kentucky game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know I've talked about it before, but once in a lifetime, type of opportunity for these players to go and play in a arena like Rep Arena.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's really cool thing that college basketball is doing now where you have these kind of marquee games, even if they are exhibition games and their forks' charity.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So raise the money for stuff like that is really cool thing that teams are doing
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was able to make the trip to Rapparina.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's on my bucket list of places to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But unfortunately, I didn't able to make the trip.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've been there too many times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Every time I go there, it's just ugh.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, let's get to the news of the day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that is that Braden Smith is the preseason Big Ten player of the year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He was the unanimous choice, and the third straight season that a Purdue player has been the big 10 preseason player of the year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was a 10 member panel of media that covers the big 10 full time and Tray Kaufman ran also unanimous first team, neither of those is a surprise.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Braden Smith, you could argue his biggest competition for Big 10 player the year was team mate, Drake Offman ran to your point, not no surprise that Braden Smith was named the preseason Big 10 player the year and if he ends up winning yet, that'd be the fourth straight year that a pretty players won it right, because he'd want to twice and then Braden Smith won the two years of him, two right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The voting for Big Ken Preseason Player of the Year, Braden Smith's number one, Drake Hoffman, or number two.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Bennett Sturts of Iowa was number three, Yaxel Linnaborg of Michigan, the Nick Martinelli of Northwestern, Bruce Thornton of Ohio State, Nate Bittle of Oregon, Jackson, Shell State of Oregon, really like him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's gonna be a nice duck steam.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Donovan Dent of UCLA and John Blackwell of Wisconsin were the players who got votes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think obviously a lot of really good players on that team and tiered point or we're going to have a pretty nice squad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd like to what I saw from Nate Bittle last year and Oregon always has a fairly solid team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and the big team just not nearly as good as produce the exact place luckily I believe Purdue gets Oregon at home right yeah so the last year went to Oregon it was able to to win so they get Oregon at home this year so that would be a nice and very you don't
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[SPEAKER_01]: This year's West Coast trip is at USC and at UCLA and late January.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I looks like both those games would be on peacock.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully those should be fairly winable games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So notes from Matt Painter's podcast with John Rothstein on CBS Sports Daniel Jacobson, he said is up to 250 pounds and the experience with USA
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really excited to see him play this year, see how he has developed in the off season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think from him resting, he probably could have came back towards the end of the last year, but that there was really no point to bring him back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm glad that he's had almost an entire year of rest, got her one or two minutes into the second game of the year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's got a bunch of rest, so it has got some good experience with Team USA,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really looking forward to seeing how he performs and how he transforms this Purdue defense that really struggle to keep people out of pain and keep people from scoring in the pain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the center position is my favorite position in basketball, so I'm really excited like Ziffer Hand and Oscar Colossus, as well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He also said, boomer mayor, the freshman from Tel Aviv, 64 freshman guard, he said he is very physical and tough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That fits in pretty well with the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I felt great Smith is pretty pretty physical and tough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Same with the same thing with the trade coffin, Randy, he's not not afraid to, you know, you know, be physical on both offense and defense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think you'll you'll see that with Jakara Harris, more as he kind of takes on a bigger role this year in CJ Cox is just just tough and liberal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if it's in really well with the team, I think the personalities match really well there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, excited to try to see him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, get to play this year and learn one learn under brain smith to play with brain smith and three just to learn from the staff and learn the system as a whole.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going excited for him this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They'd be even more so just to see him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of take FOIA at the reins next year after brain smith graduates.
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[SPEAKER_03]: John Rothstein asked coach painter who had improved the most over the off season on his roster and he said basically it was pretty even that everybody did exactly what they were asked of during the off season and they all improved in their different ways but the three guys that he mentioned individually were you mentioned them CJ Cox and Jakari Harris
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[SPEAKER_01]: I knew of Jack Banner a little bit and followed him from a distance, you know, online through his, you know, later years of his high school career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad you read Shirtin and I wasn't really sure what to expect of him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But some of the clips we've seen from, you know, skirmishes and practices and things, we're really excited to see what he brings to this team and just how he fits into the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know they brought in Liam Murphy from North Florida who's white to out shooter, but I expect Jack Benner from kind of what I'm reading to really play a pivotal role on this team at the fourth position of a position that I thought you wouldn't really have much of a chance to play, but it sounds like he's kind of gotten bigger, gotten more physical and
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're has a decent shot to card on a roll there as a as a four.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's another thing he said he really loves the depth of this team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He said depth is a bit of a two-edged sword because you really want to play your best players as much as possible, but really loves the depth of this team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I wonder where the minutes are going to come for Benter and into a lesser degree here
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[SPEAKER_03]: with Jacobson and Cloth and Burgess and there's not a lot of minutes to go around there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matt Payner, we've known him for not having much of a leash with his rotation, usually only place seven, eight guys, sometimes nine guys with the team this deep, it's hard to hard to divvy up the minutes there, and it's also hard to get good production when
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[SPEAKER_01]: only, only given players three, four, five minutes of game time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not consistent, longer stretches.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's, yeah, that's why he gets paid the big bucks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a decision to make in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's proven to us that we are just going to have to trust the decision that he makes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He said he also likes what he's seen from freshman and one West and senior Lee and Murphy, who I'd completely forgotten about to be honest with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You talk about death.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I completely forgot about a pretty darn good player transfer from North Florida Said he might be the best shooter on the team That's that was his specialty shooting he had quite a few attempts at that North Florida I think one some of the most attempts in the country and made a net a break in a clip So he was he was out earlier and through You know the fall cracks is and and or some of the cracks as I should say he was out
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[SPEAKER_01]: within with I think it's a shoulder injury, but he's back to being full go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's got a pretty quick release.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if he's on the floor, can't really leave him open.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But you can't really sag off him because he will make you pay for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't envy the opposing coaches of the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a pretty will play this year because you can't really leave anybody open.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can't really help off anybody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to be our team to guard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it really strong offense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think if the defense can just take a step here, produce going to be in a great spot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the thing Coach Painter said that was most interesting to me in the podcast was this year, they are talking a lot about the final four.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're talking a lot about it being an Indianapolis and how much they want to be there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they are talking about winning national championships.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He says it's a different approach that he's taken.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He said he wants it out there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He wants to speak it into existence.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He wants them to know that's the expectation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think in the clips I saw from the podcast, you know, he said that your best season is always going to be your bar or your standard, the expectation that you set for yourself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm glad that he's
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[SPEAKER_01]: sharing that with the team, you know, everybody on the team knows that it's a goal, knows they know that they're capable of achieving that goal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some really glad that he's being open and honest about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Making it known that that's kind of the expectation that's that's definitely themselves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, this nucleus of the brain smith, the flesh of lawyer, TKR, they were on that team that was to fairly Dickinson, the first round.
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[SPEAKER_01]: they know that when it comes to crunch time, you know, comes to come to March and April, they know that they can't really mess around.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got to be serious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think we'll see that it quite a bit throughout the season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And last thing about the podcast, and I'm going to paraphrase here, but painters said basically, if they play defense and rebound, ain't nobody beat them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If we are able to get rebounds and get out and transition with all of our depths and talent and athleticism, it's going to be hard to imagine anybody beating them, but they're going to have to play defense and they're going to have to rebound to make that happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you mentioned, got a good amount of playing time and scoring back from last year, those were the biggest weaknesses for Purdue, like said, like I mentioned earlier, having a hard time keeping people out of pain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So when you get
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[SPEAKER_01]: You bring in Oscar Cluff from South Dakota.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was one of the best scores in college basketball at the center position.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can rebound really well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the best rebounders as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like seven foot, six, 11.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's obviously going to be a little bit tougher to shoot over than Trick Offman, Ryan might have been at six, nine, six, 10.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of people may not know this, but that's how to go to state program is really good and he was their best player for a couple of years there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, so I know he was interested in Purdue and I think Iowa State was really kind of the other big competition for him, but I'm glad that he realizes the opportunity that some front of him to play for a national championship at Purdue and understands kind of the success
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[SPEAKER_01]: success and at the pro level, whatever that looks like for him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, really got it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's on the team, you mentioned that the team's step with Roy Burgers and Antoine West, I think, is a really hard decision to, you know, to make their with those two and whether or not to to red shirt them last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Going into the season last year, you can kind of made a pretty strong argument for Roy Burgers to red shirt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, he didn't, and I think if it worked out anyway, because dang object was not got hurt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Roy Burgers had to play anyway, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: his, you know, his shin or I think there's a shin, but his leg wasn't fully healed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stecca limited limited him as we got, as we progress to the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So now that he's had, you know, a surgery on it and has, you know, had some, some time to rest, is really kind of, with, I mean, with Daniel Jacobson, with T.K.R.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oscar Cluff in front of them is really not much of a path to playing time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to make it right now, but one that I think Matt Painter is ultimately going to leave up to Raleigh and who have the option to make that decision of whether or not he wants to pressure not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So he's got skill.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He moves well for his size and if he can get that brand and brandly and Matt Painter seasoning for another year come back and he might be very valuable piece.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I can be a big good for him to register to get more practice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, in the run training, it can still practice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can still do everything that the team does.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just not playing the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I think it'd be really valuable for him to register and figure to be a really big piece of this team coming to the next year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So with the Antoine West, Matt Painter is going to
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, he's a freshman, he's physical, he plays defense, he plays hard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, it's in a way, well, the team, but there's just not much of a path to play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, yeah, brain strength, much of a lawyer, CJ Cox, to car here, so a liar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, there's just a lucky one in front of them, but he's a guy that, you know, if he gets hot, he's, he's hard to stop.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, Glenn, Glenn, I don't want to make that decision, Glenn met Painter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of players but not a lot of minutes to go around, so I would be interested in seeing how that shakes out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're willing, we'll shake out in the 33-game regular season and as I mentioned at the top of the podcast, we now know the Times and TV details for every game coming up for the season including the skirmishes and I have details here Jake.
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[SPEAKER_03]: at Rubber Arena and a scrimmage against Kentucky, I know it doesn't count for the record, but it's going to count in most people's eyes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 6 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_03]: on the SEC network.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know we've talked about this in a prior podcast, but Matt Painter's approach to these is really to kind of put his team and tough situations.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The team may be the players may be
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, a conference game or a non-conference game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's really just kind of to get to see guys like, you know, Roy Burgess and Antoine West to give them some playing time to really kind of see how they fit in all summer that they're practicing that I guess themselves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This would be the first opportunity that the coaches in play you can see how they match up against other players not on Purdue's teams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The scrimmage against Kentucky will be really telling for that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For those of you that don't know players can play in these exhibition games and it doesn't burn their red shirt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll be until the the Evansville game and if they play, they won't have the opportunity to red shirt unless they get hard to put them like that later and see some, but these exhibition games are great and Alex at good experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I could tuck you good good test for a road environment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it'll be packed for that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even though it is a screen vision doesn't count.
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[SPEAKER_01]: still be a great road environment and a good test to really try to instill that it's going to be going to be crying until it's a long season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Especially in the big 10, there's going to be a lot of adversity.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So my school started your season off with tough environment like that and and a team that's going to be pretty similar to what to once you'll see in March and April.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Again, that's 16 days from right now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As Jake mentioned the season, openers at home against the Evansville Purple Ace's 632s day on the Big Ten Network.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thursday, November 13th, 7 o'clock at Alabama at when is on ESPN 2 on Thursday evening.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In both games in the Bahamas Memphis on Thursday, November 20th,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Neither Texas Tech or Wake Forest on the 21st is on the CBS Sports Network.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Both games are in the evening.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We already knew those, but just going over all of it right now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The big tin opener, of course, there are two games in December before the big tin season really gets going.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then you mentioned Iowa State earlier.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They are in Mackey noon on Saturday, December 6th, the first network television game of the year CBS on Saturday, December 6th.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that'll be a great game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Always nice for some big power conference opponents to come into Mackey and get to play a really good team in Iowa State.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I should be a great game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then the following Saturday, the boilermaker's host, Mark Kett, at McEurina 2PM on the peacock app.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Few of the games on the peacock app.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you don't have the peacock app, and you are in to Big Ken basketball, I would probably suggest that you get it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty good to happen, anyway.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So probably worth the investment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then the following Saturday, December 20th, against Auburn at the fieldhouse and downtown Indianapolis,
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[SPEAKER_01]: people kind of joke that T-Cock always hurt for Big Ten basketball is kind of turned into the pretty basketball app.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you want to watch pretty basketball this year, they've got, I think, more than five games on T-Cock and it's about six or so, maybe even more than that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Quite a few games on T-Cock.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you want to make sure that you subscribe to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the rest you should be able to, I guess they have one game on Big Ten Plus, exhibition against UND, but besides that,
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[SPEAKER_01]: are on big 10 network or, you know, Fox or Fox sports one, so all should be games that people normally get, but, yeah, the peacock, you'll have to go to the app to get that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So be sure to download that app.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now the, you know, now the NBC is in the NBA.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, that it's got rights to the broadcast in the NBA.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, seven pacer's games are on the peacock app too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and down in Mission Robby home earlier, he is going to be an analyst for them for NBC.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if any bully maker fans want to listen to Robby, I believe he will also still be doing college basketball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But he has to see some, yeah, he's awesome.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I mean, when I'm biased, but this is without bias.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He is really good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And by the way, Ray Feld Davis is fantastic in the studio as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, so always good to see some former boilers in the media like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you want to see Robbie be sure to tune into the NBA on on NBC, which is also on peacock.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Robbie does a great job of, you know, when he's doing Purdue games not to be biased and out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And there are times that he is biased, but it's always at the appropriate time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's really good at that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: One of the best for sure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now we get to the meat of the big tin schedule Saturday January 3rd at Wisconsin 8 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_03]: on Fox Saturday January 17th and Tuesday January 20th they go out to UCLA and USC both of those are on the peacock app again going over the highlights of the Purdue schedule the announcement of the finalization was Tuesday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then Saturday, January 24th at home against Illinois, 3 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_03]: on Fox, and it's going to be one of the best games of the year, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, really hoping that a pretty old isn't too tired or too jet lags from the trip out west for that Illinois game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Illinois is a really good team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got a really good players.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of them from overseas seems like they're kind of more of a professional team than a college team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: environment and college sports these days.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, the previous good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I need to be at the best for that game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Digged opportunity for a former tip to blue devil, former Huntington, Forster, former Evansville Purple Lace and now current Illinois, finding a line I had been on our cows.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, first grade, no player we've ever liked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, that is the truth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that you get opportunity for him to get to play in
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I've said before I'll say it again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope he scores 70 but I hope pretty still so comes out to what That's right I hope he loses hard But has a good game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, great very much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely
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[SPEAKER_03]: First game against Indiana is in Bloomington Tuesday, January 27th, 9 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_03]: on the peacock.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a little, a little inconvenient.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The fact that games on CBS at Maryland, 1 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_03]: on Sunday February 1st and at and Oregon at home at 1 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_03]: on Saturday, February 7th.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The home games against Michigan and Michigan State Tuesday, February 17th and Thursday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Glory 26th are also on the peacock app and then the return trip IU at Purdue 8 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Friday for a very 27th on Fox.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So a nationally network televised game, Jake, but the IU Purdue games this year Tuesday at 9 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_03]: on the peacock app and Friday night and can we please
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like these games are boring on the weekend and the afternoons.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know you want to get your best teams in prime time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These games are boring on the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Tuesday, or Friday night in prime time, that'd be good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly exactly, not Tuesday at 9 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_01]: on peacock.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's not set in yourself up success in my opinion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So from a viewership standpoint, but
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[SPEAKER_03]: I get that the big ten is invested in the peacock at being successful and moving a lot of their coverage there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I get all that, but let's not do that with how you produce.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know I'm sure MSC and peacock paid quite a bit of mind the big ten for these big games, but beyond it we got a we can't be having one of the best rival racing college basketball on a Tuesday night at 9 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_01]: on peacock.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what would love to see these games beyond the weekend?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What they belong?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they open March on CBS in Columbus against the buck guys.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 130 on the first and they finished the regular season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 4 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Saturday, March 7th at home against the Wisconsin Beatiers on CBS.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and me and Murphy too, so be a pretty emotional day on Saturday, March 7th, against Wisconsin, but hoping the arguably one of the best trios in Purdue history, I think they could really stamp that if they win a national championship, but one of the best trios in Purdue basketball history can hopefully go on on the high notes on on the 7th against Wisconsin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I see 33 and O.J., that would be ideal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen teams of this caliber lose, maybe an at Rutgers or maybe an at Merrill.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And there's some kind of sleeper games in there that's, you may not think it'll be very close but turn out to be, you know, to be pretty good games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can have my guesses on which games those might be.
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[SPEAKER_03]: at Alabama.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's the one that jumps out to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, one that I could see them having a really hard time and a tough environment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You look at Wisconsin at Maryland at UCLA.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Those are the ones that you would think.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then, you know, you have Illinois at home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really believe they're going to be favored in all 33 games for sure for sure obviously barring any sort of, you know, don't say any sort of trouble that they're doing may get into barring any sort of that pretty should be favored and don't you not end every game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's still hurts.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's not just Robbie Humble who got hurt.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're Glenn Robinson injured his back the night before the regional final.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You had uh, I, I was a cost breaking as I was a boss.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was going to say, dude, from Alabama, I didn't have to get injured.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure that would have made much difference.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't think that team was playing well enough at the end of the year, but Matt Painters convinced that they go to the final four.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If I was a cost doesn't get hurt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There I just.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He knows more than I do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It seems to be a lot of what ifs and not at least in a recent pretty basketball history.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, not just recent, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It goes way back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Way back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And once again, Jake and I will be talking Friday morning about the Minnesota game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I got to admit as of right this moment, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have not watched one play of the Minnesota Golden Covers this year, so I got some work to do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: but in some news, Tony Grimes will play on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I glad he's back at practice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the secondary issues you've seen go deeper than him, obviously it's still hurt to have him out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But Minnesota, I also haven't really washed much of much of their tape, but they don't have the traditional, you know, run heavy offense or you know, power run identity, I guess I should say, that they normally have.
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... first time in in years that they haven't had a you know thousand yard russia uh... they're in the backfield so uh... still a tough team no uh... got a pretty solid quarterback uh... but uh... a defense that allowed fifty two at Ohio State and uh... and barely survive the Rutgers on the Rutgers twenty seven twenty four earlier this year so uh... going to be a and intriguing matchup uh... minnesota has kind of owned the series at home
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Minnesota opened as a ten and a half point favor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a little closer than that now But yeah, it should be pretty similar spread to to Illinois around around seven Seminary points at kickoff.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So should hopefully be a close game Well, we go yes being analytics says 36% chance pretty wins this game I'd say more like 45
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[SPEAKER_03]: More on that Friday, thanks, Jake.
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