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Cyclones fall at Arizona, ISU cuts women's gymnastics, Adam Emmenecker previews Arch Madness · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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Here's what's coming up on our program.
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Only guest in the first hour will be toward the bottom of the
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hour. A friend, Adam Emmenecker, will
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join us. We will preview.
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The Missouri Valley Conference Tournament gets underway on
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Thursday with two of the Iowa teams in action on Thursday.
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Eminecker will be in Saint Louis and will pick his brain on what
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he thinks is going to happen over the Thursday, Friday,
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Saturday, in the championship game on Sunday with Adam
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Eminecker, former player of the year in the Valley, coming up
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here at 12:30. Doko Pizza, a couple of
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locations, the original on Forest Ave. just a stone's throw
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from the Knapp Center and also in Ankeny, the Shops at Prairie
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Trail. Hour number two, Scott
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Dockerman, he is back from Indianapolis.
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We will do some combine stuff with Doc.
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We're also going to talk about his lengthy piece that published
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yesterday as he put his college basketball knowledge back to the
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test yesterday, ranking the top 50 rivalries in college
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basketball. Of course, Duke, Carolina and
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numero Uno, but he went through the other 40 nines, so we'll do
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that with Doc. A couple of other things as
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well. Look forward to catching up with
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Scott Dockerman. Haven't been able to do that in
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the last couple of weeks. And then Bill Bender will put a
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bow on the show Bill by writes for The Sporting News.
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We'll do both with Bill. We'll do football, we'll do
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basketball. Trent will make some picks on a
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much more broader version of men's basketball schedule
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tonight and see how he can do with that Circus sports
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sponsors. That comes up about 10 minutes
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before too Well, what started out to be a very, you know,
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promising night going into at 8:00 big spot, big Monday Duke
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game was over. Not going to push it back in the
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late 20. Tried to search for the game on
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the ESPN app, whatever the hell that is.
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Started on time eight O 7 tip and went downhill from there
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early. Both teams just couldn't hit the
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broadside of the barn. But but Iowa State falls got
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embarrassed again second time in what, 48 hours that this team
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has fallen. They are not the playing their
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best basketball, putting it mildly.
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And I believe it's fatigue as we talk about this team every
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single year. The March collapse that we see,
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sure, they put it back together. But when you're starting to see
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year after year after year, this team seemingly wears down.
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And guest after guest after guest, this team practice is
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harder than I've ever seen. You should come to practice and
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watch how Steam practices. Maybe you ought to, you know,
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pull back the range just to. I'm not saying it happens every
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day, but just maybe that's part and parcel of the reason for
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these collapses. Am I nuts?
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You're not nuts at all. And right at the top of my notes
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from the game. Tired, they're legs.
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How many times have I brought up this year when we're talking
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about why this season can be different, why this is going to
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be the team that does breakthrough, that gets to an
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Elite 8, maybe even a Final Four when we talked about it because
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of the depth that they use throughout the course of the
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season. But yet again, even playing more
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guys, more minutes off the bench, we're still seeing once
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again, a very tired basketball team.
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And outside of the year 2 years ago, the Sweet 16 lost to
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Illinois. That is the only season that
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they haven't had pretty significant either February's or
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Marches where they have really struggled down the stretch and
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it's the same thing. It is a team that looks dead
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tired. Last night they looked awful.
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There was no lift from the. Arizona's good.
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No way. Right?
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Arizona's good. Let's put.
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That there, yes, yes, right. They're not just good, they're
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great. Yeah, that is a great basketball
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team. One of.
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Three or four that that you. Could make a case they can cut
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down the. Nets, absolutely.
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They are that talented, that good.
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But we were also talking about Iowa State.
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If it would have, should have. Everything goes way.
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Maybe they're one of those teams.
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Well, not anymore. I would be surprised if this
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team gets on the first weekend. This team has that look to me.
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They look like the team that lost Ole Miss and got blown out
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of the building last year. It is a very similar one.
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The good news is you got time. You got a cakewalk, you would
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think against Arizona State get right.
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Who knows what happens in Kansas City?
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Hopefully you get knocked out early.
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Right, and you're not alone. And Ivan, I had two different
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Cyclone friends in my life say the exact same thing last night.
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I hope they want and done in Casey now.
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One and done means losing to a kind of bad team.
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I don't know if you want to quite do that.
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So who would it? Be at this point, is it Central
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Central Florida on the bottom part of the bracket?
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UCF down there? Who would be up top?
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So let me bring up the Big 12 here quickly and get that in
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front to die. Here we go.
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So if everything projects out, they would play the winner of
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Baylor, Arizona State. OK, so probably advance the
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bears one would assume. And that's not a great loss.
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You know Baylor's better than the record is, I think.
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They've had a bad year, they've had it down here.
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That I don't know if it's going to be a seed loss, but if it's
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on the fringes it's certainly not going to help.
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Well, do you think there are two, see here today, as we said,
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I don't either. No, no.
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I think they're clinging two or three at this point.
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I would think so too. And you know the the problem
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with bracket matrix is I do wish they had a way.
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Update the damn thing. Well, because not everybody
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updates because they have all the bracketologist, the hundred
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hundred and something that are not their fault.
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You're right, it's the bracketologist.
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It's the bracketologist that don't have it updated every day.
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And because of that, I wish there was a way to sort it, the
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ones that have updated a day later, because looking through
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here, almost everybody is from yesterday before the game
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happened where Iowa State was the last #2 seed going into last
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night. Now Rd. loss to Arizona should
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not disqualify, you know, as as a number two seed, even as ugly
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as things were for a while last night.
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But you look at the teams that are behind them at this point,
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Michigan State, Nebraska, Purdue, Texas Tech, all those
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teams certainly have opportunities to pass them.
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And if it would end in that a loss to say Baylor in the first
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round, then I think that's what we're talking about a three
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seats still the overall resume, they're in good shape there.
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That's the other component is we fall into this victimhood of
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well, and the latest is what happens.
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We're told it's not. I think that's a lie.
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We're still, we have a committee of people that put these
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brackets together and I go back to a dozen years ago, 2014 Iowa,
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their resume was not a team that should have been shipped to
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Dayton. There is not one thing that you
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can point to to say yes, that team showed up when he looked at
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the totality double. Overtime.
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No, just single, single overtime.
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They didn't even cover. Lost my 12 in overtime against
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Ted to see it. I think they were like a 2 1/2
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point underdog. But when you look at the Iowa
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State resume in comparison to those 3 four teams that I just
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mentioned, they're still in really good.
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Yeah, they're in good. Shape they're fine, but I mean
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Andy cast today has them at least starting in Saint Louis.
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They've been but they've been shipped S to Saint Louis where
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there'll be a three seed Uconn's the one Iowa actually is in is
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in the same region. They would they're nine seed
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against Miami. But if cats prediction is even
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close to being right, there would be a three seed.
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The six seed is Tennessee. The two seed would be Illinois.
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So that that seems like a a spot that you wouldn't mind being and
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that would other than the fact you don't get Chicago, you'll
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get Houston. But I just think that they're
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retired group Trent and you when you take a look at the shooting
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woes that this team has currently.
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I mean, Jefferson was awful last.
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Night. Let's not sure go to he was God
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awful other than the free throws which he made, which he does
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crazy, right? I mean, if they if you're
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looking for a positive in the game, they were 12 of 13 from
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the charity stripe last night. But Jefferson 2 of 17.
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Manchilovich was two of eight. Let me get my glasses.
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And then you drop down to Nate Heisey, who if he's on the
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floor, yes, he plays some defense.
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What? But yet when he's got an
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opportunity to shoot the basketball, make the shots, you
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know he's missing. He he can't miss those shots.
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Bateman's going to fire up a bunch of them, and that's OK.
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He's a shooter. But.
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But started what? O for five.
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He did as as they finally made one and.
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Had that second one then shortly after and he was like 2 or 7 and
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all right still curate. Is a liability offensively
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Munchilovich puts put somebody in his face.
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It's not going to normally it's not going to end well with
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length, with length, right, of course, yeah, with length.
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The ball goes down inside to Buchanan.
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He's looking to pass it out. I just I like Buchanan's game.
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It's just I don't know what it is.
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I think it's I think it's a big reason is just how they must be
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exhausted. I think here's the good news.
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They don't play till Saturday, right?
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That's a tough turn around, tough turn around. 2 upper
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echelon teams in the Big 12 in Texas Tech and in Arizona in 48
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hours and a long road trip to be thrown in there.
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I know they're on coming. Off a long a long road trip too.
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That's true. The UConn or the the Utah rather
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trip. All right, let's take a few
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calls in here. Love to hear what you have to
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say. If you're so inclined, we will
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line you up right now to do so. How do you feel?
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What did what's wrong with this team?
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Can you pinpoint or is there nothing wrong in your mind?
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This is the a product of a back loaded Big 12 and there's no
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denying that that schedule has been back loaded.
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But I think that's great. I mean it's not just Iowa State
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that's playing in these. You know, the tougher, the
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tougher teams on their schedule are in the final cups, a couple
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of weeks of the regular season. This is a conference thing and I
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think it's great for the conference to play these
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unbelievable games late in the year.
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Let's take Mike 1st and we'll go through and clear them all out
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here. Hello Mike, How are you?
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What did you see last night? Is the sky falling?
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Yeah, well, it is. Welcome back, honey.
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One and done in the NCAA Tournament.
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You know why? Because these guys are run down
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their legs. You know, their legs are tired.
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They can't shoot, you know, and he does that every year.
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He goes to an 8 man rotation. If you're going to play that
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hard and practice play that, that defense during the game,
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you got to go to a 10 man rotation.
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Where's that one guy that he hasn't played all year?
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He got in, He made a couple baskets when he got in.
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I mean, Lipsy, if he's, I mean Jefferson is our point guard and
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you know, he's going one against five, you know, and we're
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turning the ball over. We're throwing up the shots at
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the basket against the seven foot eight guy and you're not
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going to make these shots. And we got to if you have to put
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four guys screening below Savitch, you got to do it and
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the and the other guy bait. But you got to have these guys
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shoot 53 pointers because they keep trying to go inside.
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You can't go inside. You're going to get the ball
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stolen and because they don't call reaching in anymore.
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And when you got a guy guy that's 73 in the middle, you're
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not going to get a lay up there. What do you guys think?
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I think that's a very good call, Mike.
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Appreciate it. And you get back to us.
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Yeah, good to hear. From you one and done, says Mike
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in Waterloo. I never thought I'd hear the
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name. No, that's a great point.
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Right. This guy's as optimistic as any
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of our callers, less slash listeners over the years.
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I, I, I would be shocked if they make it to the second weekend.
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Look, it's great for business if they do.
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And I hope like hell one of them does.
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You know, one of the teams in our state does.
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But it's a man. Oh man, I'm not sure it's the
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one from Story County at this point or any of them.
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Jeff, welcome to the show. How are you?
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What's going on? Nothing much.
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It's going to be hard to follow up that call, but I'll do my
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best. You know, last night, you know,
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I don't want to say it's it's fatigue again.
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I think that's could that be a part?
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Absolutely. But let's let's start with the
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positives. You touched on free throws, You
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know, I touched on rebounding and, and you know, they were,
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you could tell it was, it was a point of ethicist last night to
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get on the glass. You know, offensive rebounds,
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yeah, which was great. Which they which what they did.
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And I thought the same thing. And then, you know, Seth
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Greenberg said the same thing at halftime.
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OK, So what, you get offensive rebounds?
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What do you doing with it? They didn't do nothing.
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With well in two year point, Sean Roberts just left the left
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the studio, he said. You got 15 offensive rebounds
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but only 5 putbacks. Points off second voice.
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Thanks. Second, yeah, second chance
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points. And that's my, that's, that's
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the point. What did, what did you do with
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it? Now, you know, Mike touched on
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this, they, you know, they, they try to run as much as they can
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for Montsilovich. Now, again, you guys watch
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Cyclone fans watch a lot of people watch when they run a
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highball screen and they have Tetra or Buchanan up there.
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You could tell they were just sagging all the way into the
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point, into the paint. There's nothing there.
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And they never got out of that action.
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They stayed in that action all night long.
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Now when you have Torre in there with Buchanan and Heise there,
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there's there's no driving light 0.
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So then you can't get downhill. The shooters are getting stuck
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on and then you're trying to mix and match things that it's just
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it's not there. So I don't think it's fatigue
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when you're watching that last night and you're thinking, OK,
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if they're in the tournament, you're going to have some tight
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rims, you're going to have some some lower.
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It's not going to be Hilton. Now, I'm not going to come on
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here and say there it's a one and done opportunity.
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But when you watch this team again defensively, you know,
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when they're when they're getting a aggressive and there's
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guys that are just they're easy blow by.
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You know, Machilovich was getting blown by.
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When you put Bateman in, he's getting blown by even, You know,
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you're even watching their best defenders.
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And then with the turnovers, yes, it wasn't the best game for
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them, but it didn't start with Arizona.
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This has been going on. We've been watching this.
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This happened at TCU. This happened at Cincinnati.
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This is the woes they've had on the road.
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Not again, not just this season, but for a long, long time now
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moving forward. Yeah, they get Arizona and I, I
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watched on this yesterday. I don't really care what they do
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in the Big 12 tournament. I don't know where they're set
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up, if they're going to play Kansas that second game and if
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they would. OK, so you get Kansas that
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second game and then Arizona. That does not mean nothing to
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me. I don't care if they win.
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That means nothing to me. It's getting in the tournament,
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hopefully getting a good draw. And how about kind of like Iowa?
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How about getting off to a hot start?
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How about getting getting a coach to call a time out within
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the first TV time out? That's what Iowa and Iowa State
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needs. They need to get off to a hot
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start and let someone ride them to the finish line.
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You guys have a good. Day.
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Thank you, Jeff. Appreciate the passion as
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always. Ben, how are you, Ben?
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Are you there only once lost, Ben?
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No big deal, we will try to get him back on.
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Maybe he had a bad line there. He wants to a call back.
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Did you see much of the Duke game?
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I did a little bit, not much because when I turned it on it
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was just. His team is.
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Unbelievable. So I truly are.
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I mean, I watched probably like a 8 minute stretch.
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They're so connected on the defensive end.
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I mean they are just at such a high level over there.
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And we saw what they did against Michigan.
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The ACC is not very good. It doesn't matter.
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This is an elite team. Over under #1 seeds in the Final
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Four at the Condon Casino, would you set it at 2 1/2 or 3 1/2?
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That's where we'd set the numbers 2 1/2, but we'd probably
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have to play around with the juice.
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Because I think everybody's going to take the over.
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It is those three teams are separating themselves, Duke,
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Michigan, Arizona. We both love Florida.
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And out of that next year, who who are you confident with right
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now? Illinois.
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Nope, Houston. No Purdue, certainly not Sparty,
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no Iowa State. God, no UConn.
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Maybe, maybe that's the top ten. We have two other teams that we
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like 2. Yeah.
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That you're confident can, yes, I think this team absolutely,
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even regardless of draw, can make a run.
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I so I tried to find this today because I think you, I thought
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you said that it's out there somewhere, maybe FanDuel or
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something. Arizona, Michigan versus the
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field or Arizona, Michigan and Arizona versus the field.
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Could you find that price anywhere?
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And the reason I'm asking is I'm not going to bet it, but I'm
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going to use it in our Mediacom show.
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Oh, gotcha. I don't have it handy.
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I'll look around maybe during the process and at this.
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Point it, it just seems, I get it, it's a sporting event.
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You got to win six games. It's it's a one and done.
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There's all of those things working, but I just can't see
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anybody other than Ducor, Michigan, and I think there's a
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gap to Arizona Believe. It or not?
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Yeah, I'm. I'm with you.
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Not a huge gap by any means, but a gap to #3 and I think Arizona
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is #3. I put you those two together,
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Arizona on their own tier. Yes, and then?
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Florida, yeah, Yukon, probably. Maybe that's another tier.
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And then you get into the flawed teams, you get into the teams
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that are talented enough. The Houstons, the Texas Techs,
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The. You know, fill in the blanks,
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Illinois. Bracket opens up those kind of
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things, team versus field. That is just Arizona.
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I saw that, yeah, I've seen that.
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I haven't seen when you put them together, if you can just get
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and I'm sure somebody's got it out there and if somebody does,
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I'd be interested in knowing that what that price is because
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man, oh man, Duke is on a different level.
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Michigan watching them on Friday night.
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Just destroy Illinois that. Building was lit.
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To welcome the Wolverines. And the Wolverines quieted that
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building in a blink of an eye. Disappointing effort last night
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for for the Cyclones, it really was.
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And they kind of got that ugly start.
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I mean, they weren't going to just go out and outscore that
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team. They kind of got the start that
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they needed. Yeah, then both teams were
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struggling to shoot the ball. Snap of a finger.
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It just completely goes. What was it, a 12?
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Two, No 15, three run to end the first half.
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Is that what it was? 15 Three run at the end of the
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first half and they could never recover.
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From that, they got it to seven at one point there with what
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maybe 8 minutes left, I can't remember the time when they got
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it to seven and boom, just right again.
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Arizona team Bradley had an answer.
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He was really good. It was good to hear him, you
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know. What Bradley did play well,
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Yeah, Yep. They're a team that is difficult
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to say, well, this team should be, this guy should be the MVP
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of the Big 12, right? He should be player of the year
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because they're just so deep and there's so many different guys.
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Would Bradley be the guy though, that you point to for Arizona?
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Man, I like breweries a lot too, but Bradley's they they've got
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they've got some options. Even the big fella crevice in
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the middle, Awaka off the bench. What a game he had last night in
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his 25. Not saying player of the year,
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but Trent's point they got they're so damn depth or so damn
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deep, rather. Delorso, Awaka.
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They're they're a pain in the you know what?
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Arizona's a pain in the you know what to whoever comes up against
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them as we move on through March.
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Hello, Devin. Welcome to the program.
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Devin, how are you? Doing good gentlemen.
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Happy Tuesday. Kenny, you said you said Story
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County reminded me of a rant you went on a couple months ago
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about left lane campers on in the Interstate.
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Well, I got another one for you. How about when when I get over
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in the left lane on the Interstate to let someone merge
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over, that person should not be matching my speed in my work
19:06
fan. It tops off at 70 and so I
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cannot sit in the left lane and just hold up traffic.
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And that just absolutely sends me over the edge.
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And it made me think. And the people behind you.
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And then another thing in more, I guess basketball related or
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NIL related in the world of NIL, Ken Miller, how much do we got
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to pay you to keep you around at least one more year?
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You got to go one more, man. You got to go one more.
19:28
Thank you, Devin. Appreciate the call.
19:30
You bet, you bet. I don't think you have to talk
19:32
Ken into it. That's not me.
19:35
That's not going to happen. She's not going for.
19:37
It no, it's not happening. Sadly, yeah, very sadly, no. 30
19:41
years is enough too, but it's it's I've had my turn anyways.
19:47
Devin's a good photographer by. The way yes, he is I.
19:49
Saw some of his work in fact I I think you know you nobody sees
19:52
your likes anymore, right When you like something on Twitter.
19:55
I think that stays. When I used to like stuff, it
19:58
used to show up on other. People's feeds, right?
20:00
Yes, and I think that's changed now.
20:02
Yes, Devin's a hell of a photographer.
20:03
He posted some Drake photos of his time.
20:06
Is he graduating or something because he said he enjoyed his
20:09
time there in the tweet that I saw.
20:11
Boy, he's a good photographer. Good dude too.
20:13
Yeah, is he? You met him.
20:14
Met him up at the KXNO video game thing that he.
20:17
Participated. I'm not even, I can't remember
20:20
if he was in the league or just showed up.
20:21
But yeah, having a good dude. So is this a yearly thing you
20:24
guys? Are going to continue forward
20:25
this. I think so.
20:26
I mean, it's, we're two years in and it's been fun and I get
20:29
trounced. And I mean, you have those elite
20:31
level guys that know that all the cheater codes and, and know
20:33
the certain plays that are gonna work every single time and
20:35
there's nothing you can do. And I just throw my controller
20:37
down and get it all frustrated. But, and I found out something.
20:41
So my little guy Jack, he's starting to get into the college
20:44
football video game and he's got some of the same anger problems
20:47
Dad gets every once in a while. Well a couple nights ago he was
20:51
hollered at the TV the Hawkeyes were not playing well and it
20:53
went down there and he had missed 4 field goals.
20:55
Take him off Twitter. He was.
20:57
He was not. Pleased.
20:58
No, it doesn't go. It doesn't go.
20:59
Good for Dad right now. The Hawkeyes get an embarrassing
21:02
loss. All right, one more, one more
21:03
topic before we go to break. DraftKings has this available.
21:08
Max Crosby's next team Did you see who's favored to be the
21:13
where Max Crosby plies his trade and gets his mail next year?
21:16
I. Didn't, but the way that you
21:18
frame it make me believe that it's the choice of course.
21:21
They are two to one, the two to one choice.
21:24
Max Crosby on the Chicago Bears on that defensive line.
21:29
My God, talk about an area of need.
21:32
How good would that be? What are you giving up?
21:35
Well, obviously you're going to have to it's, it's going to be a
21:38
lot. Couple first rounders.
21:39
Probably he's not a quarterback, but he's a health player.
21:42
Yeah, they did this with Khalil Mack.
21:44
And what did they give up for Khalil Mack?
21:47
Great question. I think it was a couple of
21:49
first. Rounders, I believe you are
21:50
correct. What we do know, it was too much
21:52
because bears trade Khalil Mack. Let's see what they gave up for
21:57
that one. Not as much.
22:01
They gave up a second round pick and a sixth round pick.
22:05
What for Kalu Mack? That can't be right.
22:08
Well, it's AI, so it's probably wrong, right?
22:10
I don't. Know two first round picks?
22:11
Yeah, there it is. Come on, AI.
22:13
AI sucks. Two first round picks for Kalu
22:16
Mack and this guy's in that same kind of, I think a talent range.
22:21
Kalu Mack also rumored to be going back to your squad.
22:24
Oh, really? Yeah.
22:25
You know, we'll see as they try to build that, that line and
22:28
what I think is going to be just a fascinating division.
22:30
It's going to be great. It is.
22:32
So what does? David Montgomery?
22:34
We talked about it briefly yesterday.
22:35
What? What does him?
22:36
Going to Houston mean as far as Houston's chances.
22:40
Nothing, because they've. Still got CJ Strouded
22:42
quarterback. Is that where you're going?
22:43
I was going to start with the offensive.
22:45
Line. Well, that's bad too, yes.
22:47
Not a good combination. A quarterback that looks lost.
22:50
Trent, I haven't seen a quarterback play that poorly.
22:53
Now I did watch Stidham. That's true, but he's a backup.
22:56
Different circumstances. Yes.
23:00
I have no idea. And to regress the way he did.
23:03
It and as quickly as it happened, yes, he went.
23:06
From He's not quite there, you had these questions with him,
23:09
wouldn't afford to start the year, whatever they were, and he
23:11
wasn't playing well. Then he started to figure it out
23:14
and that just completely fell off a Cliff after that,
23:16
culminating with what we saw in the playoff game where looked
23:19
like he was playing for the wrong team.
23:20
I mean, that's he was awful, terrible in that game.
23:24
So for David Montgomery, behind a bad offensive line and the
23:27
quarterback? Get Tank Dell back, obviously
23:30
Collins is still there, Schultz their tight ends, a nice player.
23:33
Defence is loaded. I mean, defence is elite to
23:36
begin with, but it's CJ Shroud. And a bad offensive.
23:39
Line and a bad offensive line. I don't know what their cap
23:42
space is like I don't know but if if they can fix that old line
23:47
maybe Houston is a factor worth looking at.
23:49
One final thing, you saw the news today from the athletic
23:53
director at Iowa State. Gymnastics is going away for
23:56
Iowa State. Now they.
23:57
He earlier had suspended the remainder of this season.
24:01
And then ultimately today the the the sport was done away
24:05
with. Like I don't know if there'd
24:08
been a time up until today in my 30 years that we talked about I
24:11
state gymnastics. So I don't want to parachute in
24:13
and RIP them for anything or question because I just don't
24:16
know. And I feel a lot of place doing
24:18
that. It is a sport that we don't have
24:22
high school gymnastics here, right?
24:24
There's no high school athletic gymnastics.
24:26
Teams, You know what? I hadn't thought about it that
24:29
way, but I I think you're right. They are going to bring a
24:32
women's sport in. Probably basketball.
24:35
I mean, probably wrestling, rather.
24:36
I think that would be the one that makes the most sense and
24:38
you see the growth of that sport, you see what's happening
24:41
on the girls side. Yeah, and on the eastern side of
24:43
the stage as well. Absolutely.
24:45
So part of Cyhawk. That would make a whole lot of
24:47
sense. I know people would love to have
24:48
hockey. It's too expensive.
24:50
It is, yeah. It's too expensive, I.
24:51
Think I think people love to have baseball in age.
24:54
Well, that's a men's sport, right?
24:55
Yeah, that's a good point. You have to have a women's
24:57
sport. Yeah, yeah.
24:58
So we're talking about matching scholarships and Title 9 and to
25:00
do that, it's another women's sport that is going to come in.
25:03
I would say that wrestling is probably the easiest decision
25:06
there and I just don't know what else makes sense, financial
25:08
sense along with. This so help me out with this
25:11
because you you obviously follow the high school sports and
25:14
you're working tonight you're going to be working Thursday is
25:18
girls wrestling in the state of Iowa taking off like a rocket
25:22
ship. Oh.
25:22
Absolutely. I mean, the participation
25:24
numbers are through the roof. Every single year they're going
25:26
up. Yes, Are they?
25:27
The growth has been huge. We've seen already they went
25:30
from one class when it started up now to two classes.
25:33
The girls union is now sponsoring it.
25:35
Something that wasn't happening early on.
25:36
It was more kind of a club sport type of thing and it's built up
25:39
from there here just the last couple of years, multiple
25:42
sessions sold out over in Iowa City or Coralville at the arena
25:45
over there. So absolutely, look at
25:47
participation numbers. A sport that matters in the
25:49
state of Iowa, this would be How about across?
25:51
The country? What about Division One?
25:53
Well, there aren't a whole lot and I was preparing for
25:55
nationals, women's nationals. And how many teams will be
25:58
there? I'm not sure the number of
26:00
teams, but you look at the teams there, it's not.
26:02
I was not facing Penn State and Ohio State and Iowa State.
26:06
It is a bunch of D2 and D3 schools that are wrestling at
26:09
the NCAA level for women. So there's growth potential
26:12
there. We see it happening so.
26:13
It's ground floor, essentially, yeah.
26:16
And one that makes sense in the state of Iowa.
26:17
We'll take your time out. Adam Eminecker will join Trenton
26:20
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26:23
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26:26
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26:47
Conference tournament gets underway on Thursday.
26:49
Our guy, former player of the year in the valley, Adam
26:52
Emmenecker joins us. Preview Saint Louis where you
26:55
will be. Adam Emmenecker, good to talk to
26:57
you. How are you?
26:58
Are you on your way there as we speak?
27:01
I am not on the way as we speak. I will be tomorrow morning.
27:05
But yeah, looking forward to a Missouri Valley Conference in
27:09
Arch Madness. First three games on Thursday
27:12
this year with only eleven teams and then the the quarterfinal
27:16
Friday where we'll have a couple great matchups without question.
27:20
Yeah, no doubt about it. You know, Trent and I were
27:22
kicking around as we normally do at some point bet the betting
27:25
odds for the respective tournaments etcetera.
27:28
I was blown away that despite the fact that you and I has to
27:32
play on Thursday and as you know, there's only been there's
27:35
never nobody's ever got out of Thursday to cut down the Nets.
27:37
Only I think 1 school has made it as far as the final before
27:41
succumbing on Sunday. The Panthers are actually the
27:44
second betting favorite in this event.
27:47
They've got a favorable draw, one would assume, but at the
27:49
same time, Adam, they've got that extra game.
27:53
Yeah, yeah, You know, you look at the draw and it's pretty
27:56
tough. I think that the whole bottom
27:58
part of the bracket, yeah. Bradley is the two seed.
28:00
Illinois State is the three you and I in Evansville, of course
28:04
playing on Thursday and then Valpo against Indiana State.
28:07
And I think when you look at those matchups, you know, of
28:10
course you're going to look and you're going to think the first
28:12
team that would probably be the second favorite would be the two
28:15
seed in Bradley. Well, Bradley in their first
28:17
Friday game would either play Valpo or Indiana State.
28:21
Valpo Bradley split with this this year Indiana State Bradley
28:25
won A2 overtime game in Terre Haute and then was down with
28:29
just about a minute and a half to go before overcoming They
28:32
were down the whole game before overcoming the sycamores.
28:34
So I think you look at Bradley and know their Friday games
28:37
going to be a challenge, but the same is true for you and I I
28:41
think the the betting odds are a big bet on Ben Jacobson coming
28:44
back after last year. This team disappointed going out
28:47
in the Friday game last year in arch madness and this this is
28:51
going to be a hungry group. You have to assume they're in a
28:53
pretty good position to beat Evansville and then a match up
28:56
against an Illinois State Redbird team that you and I have
29:00
lost both games to. So this will This will be an
29:02
interesting match up for the Panthers but they have a tough
29:05
Rd. You mentioned that Illinois
29:06
State team who you and I would face with a win against
29:09
Evansville. Talk about two great victories.
29:11
They go on the road beat you and I.
29:13
They were ridiculous from the field in the second-half against
29:15
the best defense in the MVC. And then they got beat Belmont
29:18
at home to end the regular season.
29:20
What's gone right here recently for Illinois State and yes,
29:23
they're the number 3 seeds, so they are a contender to cut down
29:26
the Nets. What has changed for the red
29:28
birds? Yeah, so the Red Birds have won
29:31
three out of four and that goes a long way.
29:34
You know, you look at this team was pre season #1 in the league
29:37
and when they were sitting just a little while ago at 9:00 and
29:40
7:00 in the standings, there were people that were wondering
29:43
is, is Ryan Peeden going to be around next year?
29:45
Right. I mean that that's where the Red
29:47
Bird fans were. But you see how this team has
29:50
closed the year and it is it is consummate to the firepower that
29:54
they have. They're really balanced.
29:55
They have Chase Walker, who is an all league guy.
29:58
A year ago I voted him second team.
30:00
This year we'll see where he ends up shaking out.
30:02
But he is one of the toughest covers in the league and you
30:05
have a lot of perimeter shooting.
30:06
This team's been better defensively of late.
30:09
That's a pretty good Illinois State ballclub.
30:11
I wouldn't be surprised to see them in a Sunday game as well.
30:14
Well, let's go from a team that's Arrows pointing up to a
30:17
team that lost their nine their final nine regular season game.
30:20
What happened with Drake this year?
30:23
Can you pinpoint it? I mean, obviously putting
30:25
together roster, new coach etcetera.
30:27
They've been there before and it's been successful in the
30:30
past. This year obviously not the
30:32
case. What happened is they, you know,
30:34
lost their final nine games. What was the main reason for
30:37
that? Any.
30:37
Idea. Well, if if it was a singular
30:41
event, I have a high amount of confidence that the coaching
30:44
staff would have figured that out and right the right at the
30:46
ship. You know that the team, I think
30:48
you look mid seasons and it's six and five in the league and
30:51
you felt OK. You felt OK about this group
30:53
maybe being 500, maybe being a little before.
30:56
I think part of the challenge is the league closed.
30:58
It closed won the schedule got a little bit harder right So
31:02
losing games to Bradley, losing to at Belmont, losing at
31:05
Illinois State. That was three in a row that
31:08
helped start this losing streak. And, you know, I think one of
31:11
the things that we've seen over the course of this year, for the
31:13
most part, this direct team's been pretty competitive, just as
31:16
had a hard time finding the right mix, the right combination
31:19
to close games. And in particular, it's been
31:22
making all the little hustle plays and, and, and having the
31:25
right level of scouting report buy in and depth on the
31:29
defensive end. And you know, I think you look
31:31
at the talent this group has, some talent they've just
31:34
haven't, they've been on the wrong side of a lot of those
31:37
5050 games down the stretch. When you look at Eric Henderson,
31:41
you're #1 here in the Valley coming from the Summit League, a
31:44
very offensive minded league, now moving into the NBC, known
31:47
historically as a more defensive, more rugged type of,
31:50
of league. Is he going to have to change
31:52
either the type of player that he's looking at in the portal
31:55
and recruiting at the high school level and maybe even
31:58
style of play a little bit? Because South Dakota State,
32:00
really outside of the one year when they had Douglas Wilson,
32:03
the, well, Hoover grad in the middle there, and they had
32:05
Shireman, who's now in the NBA, they were never a great
32:08
defensive team. Do you think Henderson's going
32:10
to maybe have to go back into the toolbox and reconfigure the
32:13
way that he coaches? Yeah.
32:15
You know, I don't know if it's reconfigure the way you coach
32:18
necessarily, but I think if you look at Belmont as a potential
32:21
model, there's, there's a great corollary in that Belmont, the
32:25
first couple years they were in the NBC, you know, they were,
32:27
they were used to both Belmont and Murray State just pretty
32:30
much dominating the OBC that I'm talking to.
32:33
Some people affiliated with the programs, they would say that,
32:35
you know, we knew we were going to start out with eight wins
32:37
because there were four teams that weren't going to beat us
32:39
basically, right. And then you just have to make
32:42
sure you're up for the for the best games.
32:44
That's not true in the Valley. How Casey Alexander has evolved
32:48
his team is he's had a bunch of red shirts.
32:51
So he's got a few guys that are freshmen red shirts this year
32:54
that are making big contributions, but they've
32:57
gotten more defensive minded. They've got more versatile on
33:00
that end and they've gotten bigger in the middle.
33:02
I think if you talk to coach Eric Henderson and and his staff
33:05
and what you're thinking about as you go into the transfer
33:07
portal, you go into recruiting next year, we're going to be
33:10
looking to get a little bit thicker on the interior.
33:13
And they're going to be looking for some experienced guys to try
33:17
to build overtime, bringing some people in new that can kind of
33:20
fit that culture. Adam Ebenecker joins us.
33:23
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33:27
and the boys in the afternoon. Schweiger was really good on
33:31
Sunday in the final finale for both you and I and Drake of the
33:35
regular season. Can you make a case that
33:38
Northern Iowa is playing their best basketball and is about to
33:41
go on a run here in Saint Louis? Well.
33:44
I, I think they're, you know that they are incredibly
33:46
capable, right? And I think when you look at
33:48
that Panther ball club, you have 3 or 4 potential X factors and
33:53
Ben Schweiger is is a big part of that.
33:55
You look at you think about Schweiger, you think about Leon
33:58
Bond and you think about the punch that occasionally Ben
34:01
Jacobson gets from the three-point line with Wise Brode
34:03
or Poke. You look at the balance on this
34:06
Panther ball club and because you know they're going to be
34:09
good on the defensive end, it's going to give you an opportunity
34:12
to win. Really what you're looking for
34:14
for that staff on the offensive end, you're looking for one of
34:17
those one or two of those guys to really have that 12/15/17 in
34:22
point outing. That's enough to carry this
34:25
Panther offense with the consistency of Trey Campbell and
34:28
Will Hornsteth and Tristan Smith.
34:30
It's one of the guys around those three that have to have a
34:33
really good game. And I think if you look going
34:35
through the weekend, there's three or four guys that if one
34:39
has a good game on Friday, if they get to Friday, 1 has a good
34:42
game on Saturday, one has a good game on Sunday, you and I could
34:46
break that streak of being the first team that played on a
34:48
Thursday and potentially gets the auto bid to the NCAA
34:51
tournament. If the favorite Belmont does win
34:54
it, they are by far the best team in the league.
34:56
And you look at their resume, obviously what they've done this
34:59
season, they are projected right now to be a 12 seed in the NCAA
35:03
tournament. Does Casey Alexander squad have
35:05
enough to pull an upset, maybe a 512 matchup and I know matchups
35:09
are going to dictate that. And is there enough on this
35:12
squad to win a couple of games to get to a Sweet 16?
35:15
Yeah, I definitely, I mean, I think you look at the balance
35:18
for this group, one of the Belmont Elite skill is their
35:21
ability to spread the floor on the offensive end and shoot.
35:24
And the ability to spread the floor on the offensive end and
35:27
shoot means it can get you into a lot of games.
35:29
Where they've gotten better, as we've talked about, is they're
35:31
they're better with from an athleticism standpoint, they're
35:34
better defensively and they also have pretty good depth off the
35:37
bench. I think this Belmont team,
35:39
unfortunately, where we sit today, I think they'd be on the
35:42
outside looking in if they're not able to win, if they're not
35:46
able to win the conference tournament.
35:48
But this is definitely going to be a dangerous team and they're
35:51
sitting around where Drake was last year in the net, so
35:54
probably hovering around what would be an 11 or 12 seed if
35:57
they're able to make it in. Well, last thing for me on away
36:00
from the Valley want to ask you about Miami.
36:02
Just your opinion on Miami. If they, you know, make it
36:05
through the regular season, there's two games left there, 29
36:07
and O, that would get them to 31 and O before their conference
36:11
tournament. If should they get beat, what's
36:15
the is the committee going to have a difficult decision or in
36:18
your mind the body of work going 31 and O during up until your
36:22
conference tournament, Is that enough?
36:24
Where are you on Miami should they lose as far as hearing
36:27
their name called on Selection Sunday?
36:30
I mean, isn't it wild that we're talking about a team could be 31
36:34
at one point and we're saying that they're not even a
36:37
potential to be in the NCAA tournament?
36:39
I mean, I think obviously you can hear what some of the
36:42
detractors would say, right? Miami has played one quad 2
36:46
game, 0 quad one games and 1 quad 2 game.
36:50
But, you know, I think the challenge is when you look at
36:53
the body of work, how do you not let a team in that has over 30
36:57
wins in the regular season, even if they're mostly quad 3 in four
37:00
games? I am a proponent of this team
37:02
has shown an ability to win. They've shown an ability to win
37:06
throughout the course of an entire season.
37:08
This is this is a group that deserves a shot at the NCAA
37:11
tournament, but maybe they can't lose in the first round of the
37:13
Mack Tournament. But I, I think this Miami team
37:16
has done enough to be in. Final thing from me, it is award
37:19
that you won way back in 2009. It is the Larry Bird Award
37:23
trophy. This year you have Belmont, but
37:25
as you talked about the balance of this squad, who is your
37:28
player of the year? Who'd you vote for the race?
37:30
It's the season. Yeah, so I voted for Tyler
37:33
Lundblade and and a big reason for that, I thought Jaquan
37:36
Johnson of Bradley was pretty deserving as well.
37:38
He was #2 you look, purely statistically and Jaquan Johnson
37:42
leads the Valley and steals. He's in up in the top and
37:45
points, he's up at the top and assists.
37:47
He just does so much for that Bradley team.
37:49
But I thought the three-game difference just in terms of how
37:52
Belmont finished above Bradley in the overall final record.
37:56
And you look at how much Tyler Lundblade means to that team,
38:00
yes, he leads them in scoring, but it's more than just his
38:04
scoring. It's ability to space the floor,
38:06
which isn't a statistic that's easy to quantify.
38:09
He is really important to that group and I think by far the
38:12
most important player on a team that ran away with the league.
38:15
That's why Tyler Lundblade got my vote.
38:17
Good stuff. Adam Eminekar, thank you as
38:19
always for doing this. Enjoy.
38:20
Saint Louis appreciates coming on and thank you.
38:23
Sounds good. Thanks guys.
38:24
Good to talk to you, Adam Amenecker, as we check in on the
38:28
Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.
38:30
You can make an argument also on that team, which Darnowski, the
38:32
big guy, I mean, he's incredibly important for what they do.
38:35
I wonder if those guys are maybe even going to split some, both
38:38
probably will. And if that's going to be the
38:40
the case and and if it does play out in that fashion, then Jaquan
38:43
Johnson very well could win it. And talk about a dude that's
38:46
going to get paid. Yeah, I guess.
38:48
If there's a if there's a silver lining in Drake's here, most of
38:52
the roster returns. Or is that a good thing I'm.
38:55
Not sure, but at least at least you'll know some of the guys.
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I was looking through the Missouri Valley Player of the
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Year. Some of the names are just
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absolutely incredible. Of course, Larry Burt, you start
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there. Lewis Lloyd, we know that name
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certainly around here. Paul Pressy when he was at
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Tulsa, played in the NBA for 12 years.
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Xavier McDaniel, Hershey Hawkins, back-to-back for him.
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You go here in recent times, and these are the most recent ones,
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but it starts Tucker to Reese twice, AJ Green, Cameron
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Kretwig, AJ Green again, Marcus Towns at Loyola, Fred Van Fleet,
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Set Tuttle, Doug McDermott twice, Adam Cook, Adam M and
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Ecker. There's been some.
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Dudes and some some local ties. I mean, that's why the Valium
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started really moving the needle here.
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So you said M and Ecker wanted an 09?
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I thought it was 08. Was it 08?
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I'm Miller and Condon, welcome back final couple of minutes.
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All right, so we are in the midst of the girls state
40:49
tournament. Boys next week you're going to
40:52
be you're going to be calling games on Thursday on the Bulls.
40:55
So I'll be solo Thursday, but let's spend.
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We only got a couple of. Minutes left in this segment.
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Teams to beat Who is the where? Where does the power lie?
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And is there a team that maybe not on everybody's lips that can
41:09
win it all, but that you think that, you know, don't sell X
41:12
team short? I I don't think so really now
41:16
Darling has closed the gap with Johnston, but we certainly know
41:20
what we've seen recently out of this Johnston team and just what
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a behemoth that they are and. Across all the sports, really.
41:25
Well, the exception of football, right?
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Yes, but for girls basketball it is Johnston.
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They win title after title after title.
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They have been and they are undefeated again this season.
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But the couple of times that we've seen who pushed them, do
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you? It was Dowling, it was Dowling,
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yeah. So Dowling is the one there.
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On the other side of the bracket.
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We'll have first game Ankeny against Johnston.
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That'll be at 10 AM Thursday morning.
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And then it'll be Dowling Catholic against Waukee
41:47
Northwest, which also should be a really good game there.
41:50
The gap is not as big as it's been a couple of times on the
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girls side with Johnston and everybody else.
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Dowling had them on the ropes. John Sears daughter, by the way,
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is on that Darling team as a freshman.
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Yes, they got the the molar set of girls that are really, really
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good for Darling. So they've played them close
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earlier this season. Still, it's Johnston.
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They are a prohibitive favorite in 5A on the girls side.
42:13
Shock if they got beat, right? Surprise.
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How do you? How do you?
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How do you? Beat them from what you've seen.
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I mean, is there a? It's their physicality that sets
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them apart. And they've got a they've,
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they've got a girl that's going where.
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Notre Dame, Yeah. Jennica Lewis, yeah, right.
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She's going to Notre Dame top 20 player in the country.
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She's been a stud since she was a freshman.
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And absolutely. Was it always going to be Notre
42:35
Dame? Where any of her I I was stayed
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at least get a look. Yeah, Iowa was involved until
42:39
the end. I think that they were a
42:40
finalist for her, but don't know if it was spread the wings,
42:44
whatever it was, but Notre Dame, yeah, it's Notre Dame.
42:46
Hard to hard to say no. Worked out well for Caitlin
42:49
Clark, but went that direction on the boys side of the big
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school class. You have the most talented team
42:56
I still believe is Waukee Northwest.
42:58
Now they lost to Cedar Falls, They lost to Waukee.
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They have a couple of other losses.
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They are though, when you talk about talent, I mean so.
43:04
It sounds like it's more wide open, the boys and the girls.
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Oh absolutely, yeah, there, there's no doubt about it.
43:08
On the boys side, it is Cedar Falls #1 as they should be
43:11
because they have that win against Waukee Northwest and and
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what they've done over the course of this season.
43:16
Waukee Northwest, Colin Rice on his way to Nebraska next year,
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scored fifty last time out. But what we've seen for Waukee
43:24
Northwest and Coach Watson's teams is the going gets tough.
43:29
They were at times more talent in the Valley over the last
43:31
three years, but they couldn't get it done at the state
43:33
tournament. And you just wondered.
43:35
He doesn't play a ton of guys. It is A5 band rotation, one
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other guy that comes off the bench and that is it.
43:41
But tight moments, they have not been able to step up.
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Raw talent, absolutely. When he got a guy going to
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Illinois and Nebraska and you're starting five in the state of
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Iowa, that doesn't happen very. Only did I hear you right.
43:51
You only play six guys. Yeah, yeah.
43:53
That's it. Matt Kitelin is going to be a
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college quarterback. He is a really, really good
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player. Dash Kukan is their only
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underclassmen that plays. He's a study, so fun to watch.
44:02
They got all the pieces. Leonard Davis is going to
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Illinois. He's 6 foot 10.
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He can shoot it from the outside.
44:08
He's incredibly skilled. Isaiah Oliver is as good as an
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athlete as you're going to find Dean Oliver, son, who's on his
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way to Iowa to play football next season.
44:16
That's the group that they have. If it all comes together, Waukee
44:19
Northwest should do it, but we haven't seen them be able to get
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the hump there. Walk.
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He's going to be there in the mix, I believe.
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And to get to the state tournament.
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I got a great one tonight. Roosevelt playing host to
44:31
Johnston. By the way, the game already
44:33
sold out. Wow, yes, at Roosevelt's gym.
44:36
So I've got to get over there a little bit early and get set up
44:38
before the love. Roosevelt's Gym I.
44:39
Absolute. I'm right there with you.
44:41
Been a couple of years since I've been over there.
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So excited to get back to do that one.
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Is the pool still? Open must be right.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything's good as far as I
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know, unless it's closed here in the last couple of years, but
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that should be a great game tonight.
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Two teams play really good basketball at the end of the
44:55
season. Now that game, 7:00 tonight with
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the Dragons and the Rough. On the bull right. 96.9 FM.
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Good stuff. All right, our number 2 is
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coming up next. We will start things off with
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Scott. Dr. Min, our friend from the
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