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The NCAA Tournament Report: Final Four Preview with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell (2.220.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to the College Basketball Report with Grant Shows and my Cutsal, their preview of the Final Four, and it's only on the central Indian sports report.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome College Basketball fans to the Final Four Report with Grant Shows and my Cutsal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Final Four, of course, this year in Indianapolis, we got Arizona against Michigan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got Illinois against Yukon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the, uh, having Duke is the member one over all seed really screwed up this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no.
0:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I, I, maybe, I think you could make the argument.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, I could tell this Duke team was kind of, uh, I don't think they were ready for it, you know.
0:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, they obviously struggled in their opening round game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: against the end of the TCU game in the second round was a dog fight, 16 was St. John's was a dog fight they wrote a pull it out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just Mike, I guess my first question for you is, how in the world do you blow a 19 point lead in the elite like that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And lose on now on what is now one of the most iconic plays in the history of the incidentally tournament.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you just have to complete completely melt down and it was pretty obvious that Duke was young, they didn't face a lot of tests over the course of the season, they were lived a pretty charm life over the whole year, they won tough games, they won the Michigan game, they, so it's not like they didn't play good competition or anything, but you know, they, in the ACC, it's kind of, I don't want to say it's
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[SPEAKER_02]: low major, but it's, it's not a rugged test for them anymore.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're, they're patty gap.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're running up big numbers against Carolina's been down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Clemson is, it's Clemson basketball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it is what it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a, it's a five to eight seed in the tournament every year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Louisville was not nearly as good as Louisville.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thought Louisville was going to be this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My amuse.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a big 10 and big 12.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're head and shoulders about everybody else.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but I mean, I mean, two tubes credit though, they one big gate, they won that Michigan game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if you were putting the two teams side by side and you had to choose Duke had two losses and beat Carolina.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So Arizona was probably the number one seed to me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But then Arizona should have been one, then in that case you make Duke two, Michigan goes to three,
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[SPEAKER_02]: uh... florida florida wasn't a bad case for the fourth number one i don't really think you could argue against it that much so uh... and i'm not here to really recede everything but uh... you're right though it would have been awesome to see Michigan and Arizona on opposite ends of the bracket so that we could see that match up monday night but
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to get, I think, too pretty good matchups out of this weekend, based on the way the, the, the brackets laid out and, and a lot of local intrigue, quite frankly, too back to James.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then Arizona, who's been the best team probably all season is there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They don't really have a lot of local ties, but then you've got obviously Matt Painter's biggest whiff and recruiting possibly ever not getting brain load Mullins to come to Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And now he's in the final four at Yukon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's actually Indiana finger prints on every team in the final four.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... where of course you got michigan and dusty may went to eastern green uh... and assistant coach for arson adjacent gardener junior who played at arson a he went to north central uh... and also was the coach at i p u i at one time of course you got mallins at you kind of needs really no introduction now and then uh... been hummer cast of course from tippton and uh... jake davis who went to cathedral both at l on a way so
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[SPEAKER_00]: it's kind of a coincidence you get four teams in there that have a little finger print pointing at Indiana, which is where the final four is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that's pretty cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Michigan Arizona game, I'm real glad that TV puts that as the second game of the night, kind of the night cap there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the heavy way to one seed remaining.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that is what I think
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and I think in my opinion, those are the two best teams in college basketball all season long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, like you just said, Mike, where you could make the argument that one of those two teams probably could have been the number one overall seed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's a shame it's not in the national championship, but that's still going to be a hell of a game there in the semi finals.
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[SPEAKER_02]: they could play out, one of those two teams, the best two teams we think in the country are going to have to go against probably the best coach of this decade in college basketball and hurley in the championship game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Guys, we're this far into Dan Hurley's career at Yukon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He hasn't lost a game after the first weekend of the tournament since he's been at Yukon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's an absurd stat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If he makes it past the first weekend, he's undefeated at UConn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it just didn't grab or to get a major job.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I could see the abrasive personality being difficult for some schools to hire, but he's a seating hall guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: His dad's a Jersey legend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He couldn't get a big East job until he went to Buffalo.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and had to prove himself in the Mac.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He didn't really go up as up the ranks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: St. John's didn't take a look at him, seat and hole never hired him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: His brother was more of a hot coaching commodity and he's flamed out now at Arizona State in his career out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, it's absurd.
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[SPEAKER_02]: People can feel a certain way about the guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Grant, I know you like him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Greg, I know you're not a fan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's an arrogant, blowhard, not a probably a guy
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[SPEAKER_02]: but you can't argue this case of freaking good back in the coach man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the two best teams could be going up against our generations best coach right now in the championship.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One of those two teams against him that that's a pretty big story line in and of it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So there's no good too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like we've dismissed Illinois this whole tournament.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know I personally have.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just didn't think
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[SPEAKER_02]: that team I think they weren't bad that they obviously were a good big 10 team got a three seed, may have possibly should have been a two, but you could make that case for a few big 10 teams.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why they decided to make the seventh place team in the conference of two seed, but you know, that's the committee's decision.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ellen Hoyt,
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're so big, they're so just tall, Markovic, you've got the eight V-sage boys, and then
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[SPEAKER_02]: Woggler's got his, he's got his group back a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He kind of, he went from NBA lottery next level.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just kind of faded back a little bit towards the end of the year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So Illinois had some losses, but he's picked it back up here in the tournament.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He had some moments in that Iowa game where, you're like, oh, yeah, I see why this guy is a top five pick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He put some guys on skates.
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[SPEAKER_02]: offensively.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's not going to stun me to see Illinois win that game other than Hurley doesn't lose at this level at UConn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to touch on your thing about Hurley there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do like him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I respect him as a coach.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's a great coach.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I think you're right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he is this generation's best coach, you know, since you guys, I think since you got the guys out of college about most of them like kind of the old dinosaurs of coach K and
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bayheim and, you know, Rick Bettina is on his way out again, is though probably I didn't have much left, but since you've gotten most of the old dinosaurs out of college basketball, I do think Hurley probably is, probably is the best remaining.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is a guy that I actually would like to have a beer with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every time I've interacted with him, which has not been much, it's been limited.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But he's always been real kind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's real down the earth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's all around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think a really great guy does the act of fool absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got some night in him in a way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, he's really going to peter crossing over the line one day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And hopefully, hopefully, it doesn't happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, you don't want to say or do the wrong thing that
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, and your career to short.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you see how close we came to that potentially being on Sunday?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I don't think in any art, I'm assuming you're talking about when he got in Roger airs phase after that shot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When he went forward to forehead with an official with 0.3 seconds on the clock after one of the most miraculous shots in the history of the game,
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[SPEAKER_02]: I, he got, it didn't get teed up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know that it should have been teed up, but what if it had?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, right, right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, and there is no way in hell Roger Ares has given that due to technical.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like he, that just ain't the kind of refey is, but it makes context with an official man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right, exactly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It makes, why put it on the table?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because he's nuts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a psycho.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's how he is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if if you're a referee, if you call that, I know that the Duke announcers were more concerned of of Malachi Smith for Yukon ran off the bench.
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[SPEAKER_02]: when it happened and and it should be a technical it should be a technical we're no referee in the history of the game is calling a technical for that in that situation there's no Ted Valentine probably would have the case on the side of the and Ted Valentines on the court that's a technical hurley gets suspended and probably
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[SPEAKER_02]: and and valentine and do encode cage just right off hugging into the sunset.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious your guys' reaction to that shot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just the entire sequence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just an absolute just Duke.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They were freshman.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They hadn't been freshman all year, but they were freshman in that moment.
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[SPEAKER_02]: is do is what they did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can't live ball turn over and in any way, shape or form there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If Caden Booser had thrown up like a half-court heave towards the backboard and missed and it gone out of bounds, it would have probably run off enough time for it not to matter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He could have thrown the ball straight up into the air and maybe hit the scoreboard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It would
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[SPEAKER_02]: and it would have taken up, at least the time that it took for it to get to the scoreboard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The only thing you couldn't do there is what they managed to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Shire was the one pointing it along.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's telling him, it throw the ball ahead, throw the ball, no, get fouled.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Get fouled.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You caught his trying to foul you there, get fouled.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I had only been paying half attention because I just assumed
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm the same right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll stop thinking it out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, this is interesting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know we talk a lot on our IU podcast, but maybe we can bring it up here with Greg on the line with us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We hear so much, and we've talked all the time about how honest Matt Painter is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you think he told Braden Braillins Mullins?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, man, if you want to play in the final four and win a national championship, go to you, con, don't come to Purdue, go to you, con.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you think he was that honest in his recruiting pitch?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because we know he's the most honest human being that's ever walked the face of the earth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine telling that kid, you don't want him at Purdue because it's going to cut into
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[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine your braille and mollins, and you get told by Matt Painter, you know what, we'd love to have you here, but I just don't know we could play over Fletcher a lawyer, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, a grant the only thing I could think of to be worse would be not hiring Dusty May so that you could keep a coach who thinks his name is Braden Mullins for another season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's that's breed that's old breed and bullets there from from Greenwood By the way Purdue report with Jake done coming up on Wednesday evening everybody Do you think Mike Woods and went to Greenwood high school to recruit him not even realizing He was from Greenville or wherever he's from Greenfield Greenfield my apologies Greenville's down by me
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious, do you guys have a favorite final form memory?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it can be as a fan or, you know, maybe if you've been to one or when it's been an ND, it's a favorite final form memory, because I got one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd like to share it first before you answer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'd like to predict the future right now and that just the hutsl is going to bring up proof.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, a different, a different team that I really dislike in the Final Four is the memory I'm gonna go with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My favorite memory is got to be, is my senior year of high school, the Final Four fell on prom night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was the year, it was Yukon the first year they won it 23, where it was.
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[SPEAKER_00]: like two mid-majors and then a team that hadn't been there in a long time and someone you just never thought was good at basketball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was the first game which was San Diego State and FAU and San Diego State hit a shot at the buzzer to win with Lamont Butler and I was watching it on my phone with a group of guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: of the dance like they were slow dance or something we were watching it on the back in the back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that shot went in and just next thing you know, like me and a group of three or four dudes are like losing our minds at prom because that shot went in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's loved it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure they did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it that truly was one of my favorite final four memories.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then in 2015, I went to the final four stuff like I was down there when
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[SPEAKER_02]: uh... with constant beat Kentucky Kentucky is undefeated that was cool so there's a couple my favorite ones i'm hoping uh... to add to that this weekend well now that now that grant has completely shit on my parade uh... i was going to go with one of my first while Greg it's hard to really talk about pretty final four memories when it's literally been to in my lifetime and one of which i was one of which i was one year old not not a real deep pool to swim in there but
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[SPEAKER_02]: Calaparie blowing that game in 2015 with the undefeated team, the, and I told, I, I celebrate my wins so much because so rarely do I get a chance to be right on college basketball picks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I told anybody who would listen that year, if Kentucky plays Wisconsin again, Wisconsin is going to win the game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: because, well, I just knew.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And my brother-in-law and my ex-wife sister, they were both they Kentucky fans.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're at the game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're texting me, oh yeah, we're going to we're going to be the new undefeated team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No one's ever going to talk about Indiana again, 76, what, and I'm like, guys, just
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[SPEAKER_02]: Be careful when when Wisconsin ends up winning that game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'd brother-in-law text me 15 bucks for my championship tickets.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you want them?
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's like yo So I got to go to the Duke Wisconsin title game that year because Calapari Calapari pissed away a undefeated season to appease the the Harrison brothers and not played Devon Booker and Tyler Ulus and the final few minutes against Wisconsin Mike I was gonna say Villanova George town, but I'm gonna change my de yours
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's my favorite month in the final four history.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's some obvious, once Keith Smart, right, 87, that's really one of my first, like a real memories as a sports fan is the Keith Smart spot shot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was young, just learning about things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that was huge, obviously, 2002 when Indiana's there,
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[SPEAKER_02]: in knockoff Kelvin Sampson ironically enough in a final for game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was pretty cool because that whole run was just out of nowhere for Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You have Chris Jenkins at the buzzer against Carolina that was wild.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Somebody Mike brought up to me the other day because I sent him a
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he said number one and I'm like, okay, I don't know about number one and I'm thinking well Jenkins at the buzzer and he brought up a point and I'm not saying I agree with you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just telling you what he said he brought up Jenkins at the buzzer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He goes, I think that's a little overrated the game was tied.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a little bit like hitting a field goal to win the Super Bowl.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's a walk off three at the buzzer to win the national championship.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no way you can think of it as being a game winning field goal in the Super Bowl.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no way you can think of it that way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll have to text some of my friends and contacts new England that I know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll see if they hit we're okay with Adam Vinityary kicking all those game winnings field goals and that won the Super Bowl and see if they were okay with how those games ended.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have a feeling their answer is going to be my.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I have a feeling I know what the answer is going to be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If it's like a bad one over Mike.
19:56
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, that bottom of the ninth grand slam you hit didn't really matter because the game would've gone to extra innings if you didn't hit it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then thugs hit in the half court shot at the buzzer for Gonzaga and Andy the last time it was here that that was unbelievable too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember watching that live.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's been some great ones, there's been, I really think that if the NCAA and I'm saying this because I'm from here, but I really think of the NCAA had a permanent home for the final for it should be Lucas oil in downtown.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, people have been saying that about, I mean, going back to the Hoosier Dome, I mean, right, it's the natural, I can't believe the Big Ten does their tournament anywhere other than Indianapolis.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's really confusing to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Other at least.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to end up in Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We know this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
20:57
[SPEAKER_02]: We hate this.
20:59
[SPEAKER_02]: You should never do an event in Minneapolis.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not even sorry.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Many apples sucks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The weather sucks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The state, you know, okay, what one wants to be there?
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[SPEAKER_02]: No one wants to go to me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, you don't look at your house, shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, boys, we're headed to Minneapolis this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just a little reminder here is that the final four is not really going to go that far from Indie next year where it's going to be a it's going to be in Detroit in 2027 the following year it'll be in Vegas in 2028 and then 2029 it's actually back in Indianapolis.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, and then 2030, I think it's in Dallas, and they call it North Texas or Dallas, but it'll be interesting to see after 2029, when the next final four will be in Indy because then you'll have had three final fours in the decade that we're in Indy, you know?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but doesn't the NTA have some sort of agreement that Indy has to host some level of the tournament like every
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[SPEAKER_02]: every other year or something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, they're because I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, seems like it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, look, look, when your headquarters are in Indianapolis, I mean, at some point or another, the the peak of the tournament and your grand finale, whatever body you're there to see,
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... has to be in your backyard like asked to come to where you're making the decisions at some point right good correct me if i'm wrong this is the third straight year that india's hosted some level of
22:44
[SPEAKER_01]: the tournament because produce first two games in the ED year we're in India right on it one a two and twenty seventeen twenty fifteen twenty twenty one twenty seventeen two thousand thirteen ten nine six five three yeah pretty much every third year it seems okay
23:06
[SPEAKER_02]: as crazy as they don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean that they shouldn't ever do it again, but how easy was it to pull off doing the entire freaking tournament in Indianapolis?
23:16
[SPEAKER_02]: That was awesome.
23:18
[SPEAKER_00]: And it truly was like one of the better tournaments in terms of the upsets and games that happened.
23:25
[SPEAKER_00]: That was really one of the best tournaments.
23:28
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was put on really great because Indiana the state has the facilities for it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I got to do that and now you've added the facility in Noblesville.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You could do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You could do things there and you have him and and and that's where the horizon league is moved there and I've been championed ships to that place in Noblesville.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No more trips to the fairgrounds for you anymore grants or I know I'm actually kind of pissed off about it to be honest because the fairgrounds were awesome hockey.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Mike, I've been on Arizona from the start.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Arizona's gonna win a good win against Michigan and be Illinois for the championship.
24:09
[SPEAKER_01]: What about you?
24:11
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I lean with you.
24:13
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, as much as I, as much as we want to talk up the big tin and what they've done in this tournament's been amazing, what was it?
24:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Five teams in the Elite A, right.
24:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Two teams in the final four.
24:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I just Arizona, man, that team just,
24:30
[SPEAKER_02]: When they get going, they can completely break you.
24:33
[SPEAKER_02]: And Purdue for a half looked like that was going to be a game.
24:37
[SPEAKER_02]: And when they came out of half time, it was, they made Purdue look like...
24:44
[SPEAKER_02]: a Mac team.
24:45
[SPEAKER_02]: And this, I mean, they completely broke Purdue spirit in that game.
24:50
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's just what they're capable of.
24:52
[SPEAKER_02]: They, they don't take bad shots.
24:54
[SPEAKER_02]: They impose, they get to the line against you.
24:57
[SPEAKER_02]: They defend their, they got big men, they got NBA level big men, co-opete is incredible.
25:06
[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's making a quite a name for himself here in the tournament, even though we are kind of already had going into it.
25:12
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, this just looks like a team that really since day one has been the best team in the country.
25:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Michigan's had its moments, but they've also had some downs.
25:25
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think in the final, I'm going to pick them to be Yukon, I just, I don't know if it's just my, I can't get on the Illinois train.
25:36
[SPEAKER_02]: I just can't do it.
25:37
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just not in my DNA.
25:39
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to go Arizona over Yukon.
25:41
[SPEAKER_02]: And amazingly, with all these teams that have made it another year with no big ten championship.
25:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
25:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Take a Michigan.
25:55
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... semi-final number two i'm going to take air zone to beat nishigan kind of for the reasons mic just that i think air zone is just i mean they're hot right now they're rolling michigan a team that i feel like has kind of in a way minus maybe be a lead a well yeah definitely not the elite a i don't want to say is underperformed in a way
26:21
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't think they're they're playing the Arizona strength right now.
26:25
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they're catching Arizona.
26:29
[SPEAKER_00]: So in the championship next Monday night at Lucas oil stadium, Yukon and Arizona, I'm actually going to take Yukon to be Arizona when they're third title and four years.
26:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, I think there's a little bit of a team of destiny there.
26:45
[SPEAKER_00]: They have the experience that Michigan and Arizona and even Illinois don't have in the final four.
26:53
[SPEAKER_00]: They've got Cariband who's played and who will play in three final fours.
26:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Solo balls played in at least, I think two or three, at least two final fours now.
27:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and then you, and then yeah, we'll be the first non UCLA player ever to win three national championships.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
27:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's the experience.
27:14
[SPEAKER_00]: There's the experience from the staff.
27:16
[SPEAKER_00]: The guys on the team, Terus Reed kind of took over, I thought, Mullins gets the credit for the hero's shot, but Terus Reed helped keep him in that game and the elite eight against Duke with his play.
27:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I'm taking you kind of be Arizona in the championship.
27:33
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I'd listen to my change, but I don't think, if I didn't make it obvious, I'm going with Arizona to win second title in school history both in Indianapolis.
27:44
[SPEAKER_02]: In 1997, in Rick Petino's last game, they beat Kentucky in overtime and ended the chance for Kentucky to win three titles in a row.
27:54
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you very much.
27:55
[SPEAKER_02]: My old Simon, you'll start everything.
27:57
[SPEAKER_02]: My boy and Grant, can we end on my parting shot?
28:00
[SPEAKER_02]: I texted it to you and I said I was going to bring it up.
28:04
[SPEAKER_02]: If you con wins, is Alex Cariband everything we're told that the Purdue seniors are accepted as the actual students to prove it.
28:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I honestly might don't know how to answer that.
28:20
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
28:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate it as always.
28:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm loving you, guys.
28:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Love you, Greg.
28:29
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when Purdue was up eight on Saturday, there was no way there would be nothing to do with us.
28:36
[SPEAKER_01]: That team was just really, really, really good.
28:38
[SPEAKER_02]: T-R.
28:39
[SPEAKER_02]: They are.
28:40
[SPEAKER_02]: I said, Purdue's up, but it took two jacquiri hairs, three, two jacquiri hairs.
28:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Mothballing, Daniel Jacobson, out of nowhere.
28:52
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, I feel like Tommy Lloyd's probably feeling okay right now, even though he's down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks everyone for listening, please check out the Indie Car Report later today and the Colt Report on Friday.
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