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Boys Basketball Regional Previews with Grant Shouse & Lapel head coach Kevin Cherry (2.197.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome high school basketball fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for A.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And IHSA boys basketball regional preview with a focus on Class 2-8 North, particularly at LaPelle and Frankfurt.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm joined by Grant Shouse of the Action Sports Network and I am your host Greg Mengo and we're going to go through the regionals and talk about everything that's going on on the state and then we're going to get micro and talk about the two regionals that we care most about here in the CIC area.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Grant, thank you so much for joining me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to be a Frankfurt on Saturday or if you decided yet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I will be at Frankfurt and maybe the decision got a hold of mine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My people at Frankfurt, they got a spot reserved for me and I'll be in the house at 830.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Every day we're talking about whatever central Indian sports fans are talking about and we start grant I'm gonna go a little out of order here so we can finish with class two a But we've started in the for a south port at four.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a good one grant number three Pike number four Mount Vernon Pike one in over time classic on February 10th If you aren't gonna be a Frank right I bet that's one you'd like to be up
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[SPEAKER_01]: Certainly would be just because of the matchup.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, and I don't want to take it too much time, but I'm more, I'm more, I think, kind of want to see good teams, not good matchups, but good teams playing in interesting locations.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if you're a high school basketball fan, that may be the place to be a Southport field house on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, those are two really good teams.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Southports are great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Place to watch basketball at 7 o'clock.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's 14 and 11 Lawrence Central.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's 19 and 6, Decatur Central.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's a regional grant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But it is a little like the JV following the varsity there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you kind of wish that was lit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was the lead up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the heavyweight Tussle with Pike and Mount Vernon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That very well could be the semi for the semi state championship.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the other two regionals, one is at South Ridge.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's number nine new Albany is 21 and five should beat nine and 16 castle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And a green castle, it's 14 and 10 Columbus North, against 23 and three Terahot North.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good Terahot team for once.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and in the for a in the north it's number two crown point is twenty two and one maybe the favorite now grant a tough game though on Saturday at Michigan City against twenty two and four chesterton and twenty four and one and six ranked north ridge goes against raining three a and eight ranked south been saying Joseph a plemeth at Logan's Port at Ford's a couple of unranked teams eighteen and eight Harrison against nineteen and six homestead
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[SPEAKER_02]: and number ten carmel off its upset a fissures faces nineteen and seven four wins tonight or at new castle at four and should what it's for regional championships since twenty twenty one grant you mentioned crown point potentially being the favorite out of the for a and in the northern half i agree but man i'm telling you what look out for carmel
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[SPEAKER_01]: they're playing good baffer at right now they just beat a top ranked fissures team and when i say top ranked i don't mean just in the state i mean in the nation Greg in the nation
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[SPEAKER_01]: They just beat that Fisher's team the other night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're down 12 with three and a half minutes to go and came back to the win by one, hit some huge shots down the stretch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't be surprised if Carmel doesn't win the north and for a, I like their chance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got a great player in Evan Harrell, who's sixth nine going to Bellerman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: really good guard name Ben Bremer who's really good and and here's something to look out for Greg if they win the regional then Josh Henderson who is the son of IU Gray Allen Henderson who transferred towards the end of the regular season from university to caramel he would be eligible for the semi-state of
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[SPEAKER_02]: It could be, and it's also tough to add somebody that late in the season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No matter how good they are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're probably right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would imagine there's a plan in place, if that were to happen on how to get him ready.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But this is just an interesting thing to look out for.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It really is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We just saw it recently.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A black for it, and it's worked really well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes, it has.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll get to that one here at a moment.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Class 3A in the North, the first game at Newcastle at one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Grant is Delta 15 and 10 stunningly in their fourth straight regional and plague number 12 Blackhawk for their fourth straight regional championship all marked at Wilder does is win sectional and regional championships.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not surprised by that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Delta is a traditional excellence over there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm stunned.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought they were the fourth best team in that section.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, Jane, you're very February debt-wilder, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's all I can tell you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, Delta shocked Black Hawk last year in the regional.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I remember that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: At Logan's Portal 1, it's number nine West Lafayette is 22 and four against 19 and seven New Haven and Grant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've been saying since the beginning of this tournament, West Lafayette might be the team that comes out of the north.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually going to that game at one o'clock at Logan's
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[SPEAKER_01]: a haul down there to a frankfort to I should be there in time for the yo-kill Benton central game, but I'm really intrigued by that match of that's a new haven team It's really athletic returned a lot from last year in a section runner-up team lost a marion in the section championship
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have it seen with Lafayette, which is why I'm going to that game as I'd like to see them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of filled out how I thought things could go this weekend and filled it out for the rest of the tournament.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And with Lafayette was my pick to come out of the North in 3A.
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[SPEAKER_02]: the mind too, they are really good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also 22 and 4 Columbia City and 12 and 14 hand over central at Plymouth and Isha Cago central is 14 and 12 and one of my favorites because that's where each one more came from.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Again 17 and 7 Michelle Walker Marion at Michigan City.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, one of the things to look out for Greg real quick with Michelle walk a Marion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: is their coach Rob Berger self reported an IHSA violation that he committed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what the violation was, but he self reported it and he will not be available to coach that regional championship for Mr. Walka Marion on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he will be out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and they'll have an assist to step up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you never know how a team can respond to that if they will positively.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're playing a 14 and 12 East Chicago Central team who's no slout, by the way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're a really good team that's played a really good schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's why the record is what it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So wouldn't be surprised that maybe East Chicago Central doesn't sneak their way in the semi state.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Grant, the South is loaded in class 3-8, even though Gary and Catholic was defeated.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and that was by number 10, berbuff, 18 and six.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They take on number three cathedral, 21 and five at Martin'sville.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So number 16, Ron, Colleague, it's number four, and Northview at Green Castle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Number two, Princeton again, 17 and eight, bossy at Southridge.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And number one, 27 and one, Silver Creek again, it's number 13, Batesville.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that is at the Charles Town Athletic Arena, one of my favorite arenas to watch basketball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Same here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's crazy about what you said about the 3A South is that any given year, any of those teams could win a state championship.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, um, and all of those teams are good, but silver creak is just not another level.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Silver creak really probably could win the 4A championship.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's how good they are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Division one talent from top to bottom, um, I,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really like the 3A style.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's some great teams and whoever matches up with Silver Creek, if you could pull that off and pull it up set, would be one of the biggest sets of the year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's Silver Creek just that good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, a grant about 10 years ago, I had lunch with their current star player, Brandon Hunter, and I asked him, hey, you good at basketball, and he said, yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He wasn't kidding.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That dude, that dude is special.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got two really good other players on that team, Dane Sprigler, and Dane called well, the two Dane's, Dane's squared.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they are the real deal and not to mention their staff like we've seen other staffs around the state are are really, really good, you and I both know, you're you're from down there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My cut soul.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've all talked about how good silver creak is over the years and how good they've been.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just kind of what they do down there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a tradition of excellence kind of like what we talked about with Delta and marked that while they're very similar.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Seller's Burgundy and are also produced the greatest wife in history as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So there's that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Congratulations to Producer Seasie.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Congratulations to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Congratulations, Greg.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to go class today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to start in the north.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to finish with two as I mentioned earlier by coming up here in a few minutes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is LePel had coach Kevin Cherry with his thoughts on his team against Blackford.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Class A in the north.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 14 and 11 Fort Wayne, Canterbury against 15 and 10 Tri-County at Huntington North, 19 and 7 Market Catholic against 22 and 3.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Triton at North Jutson, number 6 Southwood against number 7, Monroe Central at LaPelle before LaPelle Blackford and a Frankfurt at the Weener Arena at Warner Clock.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's number 10 Rossville against 15 and 11 North for a million and that one's before Oak Hill Benton Central, our co-main for the weekend grant.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The matchup that I've kind of been keyed on this week in the one A North has been Rose Central in Southwood because my dad's actually calling the Southwood game so he did a bunch of interviews with the Southwood players this week and it's cutting a thing together for the radio so I've heard them talk.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I talked to their coach Christian Perry regularly for our coach's show and
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're confident going in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going for their fourth regional title in eight years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're really talented.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's been Rose Central.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be a heck of a ball game over there at La Belle to kind of get you warmed up and be the appetizer for Blackford and La Belle to follow into a.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And class A and the South again loaded.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Number three, house are is 24 and two.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They face 18 and six.
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[SPEAKER_02]: South Dakota is South Decatur at Seymour.
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[SPEAKER_02]: At four at Greenfield Central, it's number nine Liberty Christian.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're 18 and seven against 11 and 14 Greenwood Christian.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Number two bar reef takes on a number 14 West Washington at the Hatchett House in Washington, followed by number 11 Bloomfield against North East,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Greg, I, I want to talk about barry for a second.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know you and I talked about this at length the other day, but the other day is on sexual championships Saturday, there were a couple.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really had trouble figuring out where I wanted to go watch a game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I, I, I, I, I came down to two options.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oak Hill versus Rochester,
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[SPEAKER_01]: or caramel versus fishers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And those were my two options.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I could not decide, finally I did it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just said, all right, I'll go to Novel's to watch caramel and fishers leave about 330, get down there, get in line, get on the front row for a great game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Dad walks in the house, wearing a beat-up cut-off bar reef shirt that he's had for probably 15 years that he got down at the Walmart and Washington.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, we know Wal-Mart.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember that Wal-Mart being really good and we know Wal-Mart's on this podcast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Stay tuned for the Wal-Mart report, everyone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just about to say, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had the bar reef shirt on and I noticed I said, I go, yep, bar reef and orleens down their sexual championship, but let go, he could be a good game because two years ago, they played in the sexual championship, the game went five over times.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he goes, you ought to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought about for a second, I'm like, you know what, you're right, I should go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I punched in the Google Maps, we'll go, I got time, it was to do a clock, I got time to make it down there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I got in the car, drove down there, stopped the one, in Bloomington.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, I was, but I couldn't make it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stop, I could see the stadium for, again, the 2026 National Football Champions, Indiana Hoosiers, or 2025 National Champions, Indiana Football, in the distance, made my way down a legotie, stood in line, talked to some people, just kind of like you would do if you were there, just trying to learn, talk to people, and got down on the front row, sat next to
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[SPEAKER_01]: got the whole thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I quickly noticed that this is different.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is not how bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is not how we treat basketball up here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People are more into it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's more Southern feeling about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The atmosphere was really good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this brings me to the point I wanted to talk about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe aren't as talented, actually, I know for fact, aren't as talented as, like, one of the tonnacle brothers at Oak Hill or Marty Leggett Blackford or maybe Lapelle's best player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not as talented, but my God, Greg, they are just as smart as them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't make mistakes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They move the ball well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They cut hard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't take dumb shots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't turn the ball over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the game the way it was intended to be played.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you're a basketball fan, it's actually a really beautiful thing to watch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they played well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they'd be or lanes by 18.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was worth the trip down there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would recommend seeing that bar reef team if you get a chance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: pull up some tape.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The tradition they have is incredible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The support they get is incredible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Atlegoti, it was 80, 20 barre fans.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a, and granted, again, barre is 15 minutes from Legoti High School.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Or lanes is more 40 minutes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But or lanes won the state championship last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and there's a layer of some pieces lingering from that state championship team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Barri, this is the real deal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like them in one a South.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like them on Saturday against West Washington over at the edge of Allison.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Really enjoyed my trip down there and they're a fun team to watch.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All that said, I'll take Liberty Christian in the Class A South.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, we moved to Class 2A in the South and Gran Abensean again since before the tournament that Cinerville is going to be the team that's going to come out of the South.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Number 5 Cinerville is 24 and 2 and they play number 4 Park Heritage, which is 23 and 4 at Martinville.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a good one off the bat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Number six, Triton Central's 22 and three.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They play 14 and 12.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Redder at Greenfield Central.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 168 Austin against 13 and 13.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Forest Park at Charlestown.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And number one, and now the only unbeaten team in the state.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Payoli takes on number eight, Linton, 23 and four at Seymour.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Grant, we may have no undefeated teams ever this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, that that Linton Payoli game will be a heck of a game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Greg naming one good team, they've played, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, he rounds down, they beat him handily, they beat Charles town handily, they're a good team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure that 26 and I was representative because their schedule is pretty substandard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: OK, I'll give you the Browns down, considering we know the tradition of what Browns down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and Charles sounds solid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you what, I'll call the upset right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll take, went and stocked in the take down the pay-only Rams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Saturday down at Seymour.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I wanted to go back to what you said about center-vill and park heritage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Center-vill, no disrespect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, they're a great team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they kind of fall into that same category as pay-only.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They may not have played as tough as the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As park heritage, I think park heritage has dudes that
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[SPEAKER_01]: are really, really good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They got the shell ski kid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They got the pickle kid who's six eight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They competed with teams like Ben Davis this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They played Zion'sville really tough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're a really, really good team in the two-a staff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Park Heritage would probably be my pick to come out of the staff in two-a.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Grant, I'm gonna tell you this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Shay and Jay's Hollander are gonna be going head to head against Jay's and Wiltonical in the state championship to see which brother combination is better.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me tell you, these guys at centerville are really good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they're not the only guys on the team too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One is to see your ones of sophomore.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm telling you, I think the centerville team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Centerville and West Lafayette, they were the two coming into the tournament.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, hey, those teams aren't ranked as high as the other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm taking those teams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, I like park heritage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh, I like it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now we go to a to the north and this is where we are.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Most interested grant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Number three, Westview, 24 and one against number seven, Gary 21st, century 17 and six at North Johnson.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think number seven might be the favorite over number three there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Fort Wayne Loers is 14 and 11.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They take on number 11,
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[SPEAKER_02]: At four at Frankfurt at the winner arena, it's number two O kill against 14 against 11 and 14 bit in central.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then at lapel, the number nine bulldogs or 25, they take on 20 and six black for it at four.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Grant, let's start at Frankfurt and O kills you run away with this one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: they're playing at a level that is just beyond what Benton Central's playing at right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I will say I saw Benton Central against Sheridan a couple of weeks ago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They look really good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They can put a lot of points on the board.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They can score quickly, but they're just not no kills.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Atmosphere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think that a well-bitten central may have kind of gotten lucky in their sectional.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They played Western Boone and the game came down the crunch time where they worked down going into the fourth quarter against Webeau and came back and rallied in one and outscored them in the fourth quarter and ended up coming back to win the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They played with some Jews.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They played with some Jews down the stretch obviously on a fan, I don't know much about
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're rarely bad, bad teams that win a sectional.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, there seems that win sectionals that you play in the regio and you're like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, how did they win a sectional?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't necessarily think that's the case of this bit in Central Team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just that they're running into the buzzsaw, though, kill on Saturday and, and, oh, kill is competing so hard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The one thing I'll be interested in, I haven't talked to anyone quite yet, is the status on RJ Schuiger who had to miss the sectional.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And missed the last, these missed last four games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: a few weeks ago and they were hoping to have him back either by the regional or the semi state.
21:30
[SPEAKER_01]: If he doesn't play on Saturday and if they advance to the semi state, they'll try to probably have him available.
21:36
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Hill, I don't know if he's going to play.
21:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how much of a factor he'll be, but look for other guys, Jaden Youns, the Eastbrook Transferri has come in and really played his role and is adapted and had a lot of pressure taken off
21:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Because of what the two tonnacles can do.
21:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I think every player on this team has a lot of pressure taken off of them Because of what the two brothers can do what what can Jason will tonnigle do J.T.
22:06
[SPEAKER_01]: had 33 points in the sexual championship 18 of him in the first quarter Just absolutely took over in the first quarter Will had 28 on the Friday night game begins fluous cast
22:19
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just they're just on a tear.
22:21
[SPEAKER_01]: They're playing on a here right now.
22:23
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm really excited to see them compete on Saturday and hopefully advance to the semi state.
22:30
[SPEAKER_02]: And the winners of these games advanced to most likely Logan's port at the Barry bull months he central to fieldhouse that would be awesome.
22:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I could tell you blackford and lapel probably would want to go to monthly.
22:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's right.
22:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Closer and prox, then you honestly for blackford and lapel.
22:57
[SPEAKER_01]: If they were to get into a scenario where they were to win,
23:02
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... the morning game of the semi state they could probably go home that's right come back for the championship so well i know both of them could probably no kill to be honest but also as well just depending when they would play like i think it kind of depends what happens in the other two eight north games just because oh kill blackford and lapela real are closer and proximity to each other
23:30
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think whoever wins the Westview Gary 21st game.
23:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's probably going to Logan's sport.
23:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you kind of meet in the middle there.
23:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see a scenario where they would make Oak Hill, blackford, and or lapel drive all the way up to L-card.
23:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I could be wrong.
23:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I could be wrong just depending on what else happens, but I would think probably you're too best bets
24:00
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know about Gary.
24:02
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not sending Gary to Muncie.
24:03
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just not.
24:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see that happening.
24:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Gary Zell Park Logan's border Lafayette for sure.
24:09
[SPEAKER_01]: You're best.
24:10
[SPEAKER_01]: You're best bet.
24:11
[SPEAKER_01]: Probably Logan's border Lafayette and it's probably Logan's for being honest.
24:18
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
24:18
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's talk about who it's going to be at Lapelle at four o'clock.
24:23
[SPEAKER_02]: It's twenty and five lapel against twenty and six blackford and I see this is a pretty good matchup.
24:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I see it as a contrast of styles who can impose their will and what I saw last week is two teams that have become really good at imposing their will grant.
24:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what to expect in that game because I think it's a matter of who
24:53
[SPEAKER_01]: He's gone on a tear, he's played well.
24:58
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Blackford, of course, just Blackford's got one of the best players in the state with Mari Leggett.
25:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they've got the best number two option in the state in Mason Kidderman.
25:10
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll be honest with you, I've been picking against Blackford all year long.
25:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not picking against them on Saturday.
25:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm picking Blackford to win that game, against Lapelle,
25:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the ways, you know, been such a great dude to me, love his team, I think he's a great coach.
25:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are two coaches going against each other, Greg, and I don't know, you may disagree.
25:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're really similar in the way they coach the game.
25:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I think their personalities are similar.
25:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the way that they've coached the game over the years is really similar with Aaron Daniels and Kevin Cherry.
25:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to take Blackford with some senior late in guys and one of the best young players in the state to come out and win that game on Saturday and advance to the semi state.
26:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Grant, as you know, I have a Blackford Bruins report been cover in them all year.
26:07
[SPEAKER_02]: The thing that has changed here the last three, four weeks and the addition of Eli Petro's helped, particular with depth, but the difference that I've seen is Mari Legit doesn't take bad shots anymore.
26:22
[SPEAKER_02]: And he was playing hero ball a lot early in the year and he's just not doing that anymore.
26:28
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this team is dangerous.
26:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I see a scenario that they beat Lapelle grant, but I'm taking Lapelle.
26:34
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just playing too well.
26:35
[SPEAKER_02]: 678 guys coming at you in swarms and Owen Garber becoming their star and I like Lapelle and this one and maybe even another game next week depending on kind of who they get.
26:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Blackford really surprised me the other day.
26:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Not the other day, sorry, broccoli.
26:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Blackford really surprised me last week in the sectional, and their ability not to fold.
27:03
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't fold under pressure, it seems like.
27:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, in the East Frick game in the fourth quarter, they turn the ball over, I hate saying as they turn the ball over, six or seven times down the stretch.
27:14
[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
27:15
[SPEAKER_02]: They do not think that it gets lumped on you.
27:17
[SPEAKER_02]: I can tell you that.
27:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they turn the ball over, six, seven, eight times down the stretch against East Brook.
27:25
[SPEAKER_01]: and it's just their ability to bend but not break.
27:28
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what championship teams do, man.
27:31
[SPEAKER_01]: They get down, they get right back up off the map.
27:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you see in multiple championship teams over the years, just not fold under pressure like that, man.
27:41
[SPEAKER_01]: And Blackward didn't do that.
27:43
[SPEAKER_01]: There's the part of me that thinks that just they keep their composure.
27:47
[SPEAKER_01]: They know how to be composed in those big, in those big scenarios,
27:54
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're pointing about leg it and how he hasn't played hero ball.
27:59
[SPEAKER_01]: That is the best thing that's happened to them all season long, man.
28:04
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
28:05
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's figured out to not be his selfish and he's unselfish and your best player has to be unselfish.
28:14
[SPEAKER_01]: If you want to win, your best player has to be on selfish and he knows he can trust other guys to make plays, especially your coach, can trust other guys to make plays, like Kitterman to hit big shots, p-troated hit big shots as well, even guys like Reggie Durin, you never know if Black forgets in a situation where they need a big time shot and the only thing that's open is Reggie Durin in the corner.
28:40
[SPEAKER_01]: you got to be able to take that into consideration.
28:43
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that Blackford has figured out, I think they figured that out.
28:48
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's just what Championship teams do has been not breakdown the stretch.
28:53
[SPEAKER_01]: And if they get into a tight spot on Saturday, I think they could come out and win it.
29:00
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Grant coming up here in just a second as LePel had coach Kevin Cherry with his thoughts
29:11
[SPEAKER_02]: But I want to tell you right now, going into the regional.
29:14
[SPEAKER_02]: I am taking Crown Point Silver Creek, Centerville, and Liberty Christian to be my state champions, what about you, Grant?
29:23
[SPEAKER_01]: My state champions going into this weekend in 4A, I'm going to take Carmel, 3A Silver Creek, 2A, Oak Hill to cut down the nets, and in 1A, the Barri Vikings to win the state championship in four classes.
29:40
[SPEAKER_01]: And two weeks from now, I know we'll be talking about that.
29:43
[SPEAKER_01]: And who knows, you know, we may not be talking about any of those teams in the state finals.
29:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I have no idea.
29:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Nevertheless, this is the best high school tournament in America and another weekend of it rolls on here in March and I'm excited, man.
29:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Right thing, regional weekend is my favorite weekend of the year.
30:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody, please stay tuned for Lapelle Hectoscaventure.
30:13
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, first of all, what's this week been like for you and your team?
30:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's kind of business as usual a little bit in that, you know, we're preparing for our next opponent.
30:24
[SPEAKER_00]: We spent Sunday and Monday watching a lot of film and trying to get a game plan together to make a successful on Saturday.
30:30
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Tuesday, Wednesday and now today and again tomorrow, we'll just keep reducing the game plan and trying to get better at the things that we do.
30:39
[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope we'll play to our potential on Saturday.
30:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Practice been did this week.
30:46
[SPEAKER_00]: been really good.
30:47
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you get this time of the year and we started this three or four weeks ago where we started tapering our practices back a little bit.
30:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of that was because as we were getting guys back from being injured, our five guys that were playing a lot of minutes, I felt like they needed probably more rest than in normal year.
31:04
[SPEAKER_00]: So we were cutting our practices back for those guys anyway.
31:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I think just the toll the season to try to keep them mentally and physically as fresh as possible.
31:13
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the days have gone,
31:14
[SPEAKER_00]: two, two and a half hours every night for an entire season.
31:17
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are probably behind us.
31:20
[SPEAKER_00]: So we've had spirited practices, competitive practices, but at the same time we've got in, got our work done, spent some more time watching film this week, then maybe we have in the past.
31:31
[SPEAKER_00]: And some of that's just because I didn't want to, Wednesday, Thursday, watch 30 minutes of film every night.
31:36
[SPEAKER_00]: So we've tried to do a little bit each evening of watching Blackford on film and looking some different tendencies.
31:43
[SPEAKER_00]: and things that they do really well that we'll have to try to slow them down.
31:49
[SPEAKER_02]: I think if you say black for this year, most people all they know is Marty Leggett, but this team is not just Marty Leggett, isn't it?
31:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Leggett is, it's a big time score, man.
32:00
[SPEAKER_00]: When we talked last, I told Jesse, I didn't know a lot about him all the way, then they had a special sophomore.
32:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I'm watching him on film, he makes shots everywhere, incredibly tough shots, contested shots,
32:10
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know all their names, but number 23 to me, in a lot of ways, kind of makes them go.
32:15
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just rock solid steady, and if leg has a little spell, maybe where he's not making shots, or you give too much attention to him.
32:22
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how you can give too much attention to him, but he draws a lot of attention, and 23 seems to make shots.
32:28
[SPEAKER_00]: 40 seems to make a timely shot here or there.
32:31
[SPEAKER_00]: 35, the kid they've got back, our unit with eligibility now, who's played in last five or six games, he brings a little different dynamic to them as well.
32:39
[SPEAKER_00]: with his post-presents.
32:41
[SPEAKER_00]: They've got some pieces that go around like it, but I think at the end of the day, kind of starts with like it, you know, some coaches have told me they really think he's the guy that makes them go.
32:49
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think between 0 and 23, those are the, you know, priority.
32:55
[SPEAKER_00]: No, Coach, I bet you're glad to be playing this at home.
32:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, you get to this point in the season and you're in the tournament and you get to play a home tournament game.
33:03
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't, you can't complain about that.
33:06
[SPEAKER_00]: I expect the great atmosphere.
33:07
[SPEAKER_00]: One thing I had there was some thumb
33:08
[SPEAKER_00]: When I watch film, I look at the game within the game.
33:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I see different things that makes me chuckle, or I'll see things like I take notice, or whatever, but I have noticed Black for Crab.
33:19
[SPEAKER_00]: They travel really well, and they are very adamant and emotional and very supportive of their team.
33:26
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I expect to really get atmosphere over there.
33:28
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm at the Pele on Saturday.
33:31
[SPEAKER_02]: As always, in the post, he's a coach.
33:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for your time.
33:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Congratulations on the section on Jameship.
33:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Good luck this week.
33:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks Greg, I appreciate it.
33:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much to Grant Shouse as always and to the Pele Head Coach Kevin Cherry good luck to the Bulldogs on Saturday.
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