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Greg & His Friends Talk Sports ... with Grant Shouse & Kevin Helfrich (2.197.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to, Greg and his friends talk sports.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 10 to 20 minutes every day, Greg and his friends are talking about what Central Indiana Sports fans are talking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every day on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much, producer Susie and welcome Central Indiana Sports fans.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do the Central Indiana Sports Report for my new podcast, Greg and his friends talk sports.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm your host Greg Mangel and every day my friends and I are talking about whatever simple Indiana sports fans are talking about coming up today Friday the 13th of March 2026 we have a big 10 recap with Grant Shows including a record breaking night from Braden Smith and the Purdue Boilermakers scores and highlights from across the country plus the Pacers lost their 11th street game in a
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[SPEAKER_02]: He beats a zoo bots debut, and we look ahead to Friday including the start of the NAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament by Fred Kevin.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hellfric will be a long preview that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There will be no cults report this week, but we will try to put together one this week and there's a lot to talk about.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also no fever report or pacers report this week unless there's breaking news.
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[SPEAKER_02]: because all of our focuses on high school and college basketball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're talking high school in AI and NCAA, all the rest of this week and the rest of the month.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to have great shots of my cuts along so much you're all going to be sick of them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for joining us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My friends and I will be back tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And here's what happened on Thursday, March 12, 20, 26, and the 18th ranked Purdue Boilermakers beat Northwestern 81 to 68.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was not that close.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oscar Clevver 19 points and 10 rebounds, Trake Off been ran 19.6 rebounds.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Grant, they were combined 15 for 19 from the field with 10 offensive rebounds.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes those guys can get that team bog down, but sometimes they can work together very well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Braden Smith moved into second all time on the career college basketball assist list with a tournament record 15 assists on Thursday night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: His 1,045 assists past Ed Kota and Chris Korshiani and the second place tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's now just 31 behind national record holder Bobby Hurley with 1,076 and four amazing years of Duke
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[SPEAKER_02]: Purdue plays number 11 Nebraska Friday at 630 all the games on Friday on the Big Tin Network.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just get the Fox one app trust me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you're a big tin fan, you will enjoy it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Boy of the Maker is one in Lincoln and over time on February 10th.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And on the same side of the bracket in a game that absolutely does not matter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All is workers in UCLA and grant recording this at 10 30 on Thursday and UCLA's ahead by 10.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No one cares, the winner will face Michigan State late Friday, in Chicago, and will probably be eliminated 24 hours from now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Number three, Michigan, Ohio State to open the day Friday in Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I hear Ohio State and Michigan don't like each other, Grant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But guys, B.D.I.
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[SPEAKER_02]: always help me to to 69 on Thursday and Bruce Thornton is good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the second quarter Friday is number nine, Illinois, against Wisconsin after the badgers held off Washington for an 85, 82 win
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[SPEAKER_02]: John Blackwell's 34 most ever for a badger in the big 10 tournament and welcome Grant.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Big 10 tournament man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the one that I'm the most glued to because my team plays in the conference.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, they traditionally have always stuck to the big 10 tournament.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But hey, never stops the basketball fan me from watching it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm teaching third graders on Friday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're having a basketball day at class.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So when they get back from lunch, they'll be watching the big 10 turn and up on the big screen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's how you do substitute teaching right there, Grant.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I got full permission from the teacher to do it beforehand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm excited about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited for these kids to get a kind of a core memory.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that'll probably, hopefully, they'll ride with for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm really looking forward to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But anyways, with the big 10 turn of it, the one game I'm real excited for, man, I can't wait for that Wisconsin-Linoid game to 30.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the first night game with Purdue and Nebraska, where I know Purdue's the 7th seed Greg, but, man, they've got a great path to get in position, to play for a championship in the big 10.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I get that I mean, as I may lose the Nebraska idea they might Nebraska will be fresh coming in that is the kind of the concern.
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[SPEAKER_01]: hard to do it and especially if you play the second round if you play the Wednesday and you want to play Sunday you're playing like five days in a row by game by at least half time a game three in a Dave Chandley said this there tonight you're just tired your legs are just going to give out eventually so it's tough to make a round which is why they set it up the way they did for the top four seeds so only half to play three in a row and the way that it's set
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[SPEAKER_01]: these top teams to the one through four to win the championship.
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[SPEAKER_02]: As much as I was saying about UCLA being a waste of time for this game tonight, it should be for pretty good games on Friday, it might be the best day of the whole tournament.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a fan favorite day of the whole tournament just because now it's it's more balanced.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got all the good teams playing you got your mid tier teams playing that are good enough to beat the good teams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's everybody's favorite day of the tournament to be honest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think my favorite thing about basketball and March on days like this is like, man, I sat on my couch all day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want you to wall the wall, basketball, I didn't do any work and do anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just watched Mark Fannis all day long and man, now it's one o'clock in the morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to go to bed and then you get hit with the thought, oh my god, I get to do this again tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's ain't over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I get to do this again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I love about the NCAA term.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pride aid gets to wake up and do it again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And of course, you and I will be talking all week next week about the NCAA tournament as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But real quick, your thoughts on Braden Smith and what he's accomplished at Purdue from an IU fan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got to give the tip of the cat to the guy, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I've told a lot of people I told some of this today is when he was in high school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He played at Westfield.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He won Mr. basketball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll die on this hill.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was the best high school basketball player I've ever seen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And for him to translate his game from the high school to the college level is unbelievably impressive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's her typical Indiana kid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a group in a basketball family.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Went to the state school, started the state school for four years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna leave as one of the all-time
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[SPEAKER_01]: and just really impressive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I gotta give the guy a lot of credit for what he's done and credit for staying there for four years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I know it's the rival and you don't like him, but just the job that the coaching staff has done with him in Matt Payner to make him the player he is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just pretty impressive.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Grant Shows.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much everybody go listen to our high school regional preview podcast when we release it a little later Friday and grant will be back tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Grant.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, Greg.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, for those of you dying to know UCLA did beat Rutgers 72 to 59 and we'll play Michigan State in the final game Friday and Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Friday's first ACC semi-final, both games on ESPM, will be number 10 Virginia against Miami after the hurricanes knocked out number 24 Louis Vol III afternoon, Virginia Miami tips seven followed by Duke against Clemson which just defeated number 19 North Carolina 80 to 79.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Hutsel predicted it on the last night's show,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Fuller to State Game Duke, everything it could handle, and a game that was also 80 to 79.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Isaiah Evans scored 32 points for the 30 and to Blue Dose.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The final four in the Big East in New York City, number six you've gone, number 13 St. Johns, Seaton Hall, and Georgetown, after the boy has upset Villanova late Thursday, 78 to 64.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It'll be St. John's seat in Hall at 530 in the first semi-final at Madison Square Garden and on Fox.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Followed by Yukon against Georgetown at 8 on FS1.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Those are four big East throwbacks that could be the 1986 final for the Big East Terminal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Greenfield's Rayland Moans, 9 points for Yukon in a 1938 with a resabial.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the Big 12 in Kansas City, number two Arizona, number five used in
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[SPEAKER_02]: Number seven, Iowa State number 14 Kansas are the final four after all four one on Thursday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Iowa State beat number 16 Texas Tech 73 to 53 of engine a recent loss to the Raiders in Ames a couple of weeks ago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Number two Arizona also beat Iowa State recently and the Cyclones get another shot at the Wildcats on Friday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: at 7 o'clock on ESPN.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then I conclude Friday in Kansas City with number five Houston against number 14 Kansas two great games, again probably the best conference in the country.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kentucky Ole Miss Oklahoma and number 25 Tennessee won in the SEC Thursday in Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Friday it's Kentucky against number four Florida won, then number 22 Vanderbilt against Tennessee.
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[SPEAKER_02]: followed by the last game of the day number 17 Arkansas against Oklahoma all four quarter finals in the SEC are in are on the SEC network and apparently number 20 Miami's on the bubble after losing its first game of the season after starting 31 or no they lost 87 to 83 to 17 and 15 new mass in the quarter finals of the Mac tournament on Thursday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and the maximized finals, you master Lito and Akron Kent State.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We get it five o'clock on Friday from Cleveland.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No major NFL news today after a couple of cook days to start the tampering period, nothing that moves the needle at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And our NFL guy will rather fertile be a long if there is any major news and
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[SPEAKER_02]: We will debut our new podcast next week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Greg versus Will versus the world could not wait for that podcast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a prediction slash debate show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's going to be a lot of fun.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Please tune in for that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Pacers lost their 11th straight game, 123 to 108 in Indianapolis on Thursday night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: spacers have the worst record in the NBA at 15 and 51.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It votes a zoo bots.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 8.6 rebounds to assist in 16 minutes in his pacer's debut.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ray Carlisle was very complimentary of the newest pacer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The sun's pulled away at the fourth quarter for their fourth straight win and 5 of 6.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're currently 39 and 27.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 7th in the west, just a game behind the wolves for the final secured playoff spot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Lakers, rockets, and nuggets for a top three position in the West.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Our Pacers guy, Mike Rich is away for the weekend with the Army and is unavailable.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Again, no cold snowpaces.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's no fever report this weekend, and less there is breaking news.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The next couple of weeks is going to be all about high school sports, NCAA, and an AI basketball here on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Again, it could be an emergency podcast at any time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: there's plenty going on with all three of those teams.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All three podcast should return next week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And looking ahead to Friday, March 13th, 2026, the MacWibbins tournament restarts in Cleveland with top seed Miami against rival Ohio at 10 a.m. followed by defending champion and
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[SPEAKER_02]: 2026 Co. Mac Champion Ball State, 26 and 6 against Toledo at 1230, both games are on ESPN Plus.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Jamieship game is at 11 a.m. on Saturday on the CBS Sports Network and hopefully Ball State will get an 3rd crack at Miami.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the NIA women's national championship gets underway at 16 sites this afternoon, including Marion.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We will have results for you on Monday morning's podcast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All the championship games are on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have previews of the Indiana Wesley and then and women coming up here with Kevin Helferick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They'll also talk about some of these other games I assume.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Taylor plays against host Georgetown in Georgetown, Kentucky at one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Bethel is up against Langston, Oklahoma at two thirty in Henderson, Tennessee.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ed five and four Wayne St. Francis hosts a brush at Kentucky at six thirty top seed Marion host Haskell Kansas in Indianapolis and Huntington faces Oregon Tech in McKinsey, Tennessee at eight thirty.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And 10 seed Indiana Wesleyan is against seven seed cumbersome Kentucky in Rio Grande, Ohio.
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[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, Kevin, I know that the town's pronounced Ryle and I don't care.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not saying that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was saying, Rio, yeah, I'm not saying it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The second game is approximately eight o'clock.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I welcome Kevin, and Hilfric, to Greg and his friends talk sports and Kevin, not been the normal year for the Wildcats.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Here they are in the tournament again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and it's Coach Whaley's ninth year and it's his ninth appearance in the NAA turn of I was a little bit skeptical about them getting in at one point and still a little bit surprised even at the 17 and 13 record.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's their worst record under Coach Whaley in his nine years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They never won less than 20 games in the season under him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So give them credit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're in now records don't matter, you know, you put the ball up and you see what happens and that's what they'll do come tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You wouldn't be shocked if they make a run, though, would you?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think their goals got to be to try to win these two this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think if you can get to the sweet 16, for what I mean, I consider that as successful run in the tournament.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't expect this team to get to the final four of the championship game, like they did last year, they just aren't good enough, unfortunately this year, to be that team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, should mention that the national finals are a 16 team
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[SPEAKER_02]: and it is played in South Dakota, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's just that the Iowa actually flew out in the truck.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The winners, it's just that the Iowa, so and Indiana Westin has been there only a time, so they've won a national title twice.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But just like the man, that's been when there were two divisions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's just one division now and they're yet to bring home that red banner in the single division.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's something I know, both programs would love to do sooner rather than later.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Kevin, tell us a little bit about Indiana Wesley and I, the struggles and why have they've been able to recover and make a run to get into the tournament.
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[SPEAKER_03]: First of all, you just look as shooting percentage, they don't shoot the basketball real good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They shoot percent on the season, and at least you 31 percent from 3 point range and you know, free throws, not bad, 71.9 percent, but they turned the basketball over 15 times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a little bit too much to be overly successful.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They've struggled off-fencedly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They have under 70 points of game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Defensively, they've held their own.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They've given up only 62 points of game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But you look at it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Look, they played Marion twice this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Actually, three times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They've lost all three to them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And Marion's one of the top teams no doubt in the NEI, but they lost rather handily into those occasions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The one was by 36.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think the other was by 42.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That should tell you a lot right there that this just isn't the same in the Western team that it's been as recent as last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They just don't have all the pieces this year and it's been a struggle no doubt and they've had some injuries along the way, but this year young they got some young nucleus that will be back next year to get in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: one of the best players in the state on board next year in the nesteros won from norwell probably got to be runner up miss basketball.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I think the future is bright for me in a wrestling, you know, they just got to do what they can in this tournament.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You take it one game at a time at this point and you hope that some of your younger players get valuable experience in this tournament run and and then I'll cater you forward to next year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If a team from Indiana makes a run in the national championship, it's going to be their same-foranthus or Marion, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: out of those two I think really probably marrying you look at them on the season they were twenty-nine and two Saint Francis to another outstanding year twenty-seven and four but anything else they didn't think Francis twice so those are the feathers I guess in any in a Weston's cap this year they really fared well against Saint Francis who was right there at the end they lost the conference by one came to Marion so it was all because of any in a Weston they take care of his is against any in a Weston both times their conference champions but the Wildcats were able to knock them off
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[SPEAKER_03]: twice.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I think those two teams are really the only two teams from the conference that stand any kind of chance of making a deep deep run in this in this postseason.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And again, we'll have results and highlights from all seven women's and all seven men's teams from the NAIA tournament on Saturday morning show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll have those results for you first thing Saturday and we'll have the results on Sunday from the championship games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll have our national finalists and we will
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully get to talk to Kevin after the game's as well he plans on being in Marion and Again, it's same with the men
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[SPEAKER_02]: All of the championship games are on Saturday and in Georgetown, Kentucky, IUK faces host Georgetown at one followed by Bethel against love Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Top seed Grace hosts Johnston, Tennessee at one in Winona Lake, Taylor plays Northwestern Iowa in Orange City, Iowa at 530, three seed Huntington House Bellevue in Nebraska at one and two seed Indiana Wesleyan hosts 15 seed St. Francis, Illinois at 530.
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[SPEAKER_02]: before Shawnee State Ohio against Dalton State Georgia at Lucky Arena in Marion Kevin.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is the one we expected me to analyze later in the win, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you would hope so, but if you remember last year, they didn't win and they hosted as well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They lost to that life team out of Georgia that would have advanced to them to the sweet 16, but I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's some good teams in this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can't look past things for instance in that opening round.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's the team that's 23 and 7 coming off at
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they've won five in a row.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And as you know, and you know, Wesleyan is coming off a loss against Grace, the only team to beat him in their last 21 games and all three losses has been to the team that's been wearing the jersey that says Grace across that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, for any and Wesleyan, I do expect them to win the opening round.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think it'll be easy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It never is come postseason play.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I looked at this Saturday game if they get there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, there's a couple teams in that that they could face in Dalton State.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who's, you know, they're 23 and eight.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They've won 11 or row and they won a tournament championship.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So there are no easy wins in March.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But Coach Sautical wins these games at home in this tournament, typically.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, opening round.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think his record is 16 in one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So he's fair pretty well in the opening round and he unless we know Roll has the most wins in the NEI tournament as far as Crossword leaks teams go.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're 39 and 14 under Coach T. Yeah, they've been there done that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is a team though You look at it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They've had some injury bugs throughout the year that really has had to develop younger players at a much quicker pace and
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is the team that really found their stride, I think, especially the last 20 games of the year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They played some really good basketball added chance to win that conference championship up at Grace.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They trialed anywhere from five to 10 most of that contest, but they had the chance late to go down and score, they turned it over, but they lose by two points.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So nothing to hang your head on there at Grace to the team is gonna be there in the end.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can almost guarantee that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, the fat for a,
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a place in the N. Weston hasn't been since 2018 and that year they want it all.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's been a while for N.D. N. Weston to take Ben there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They'd love to get back there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Is this year the year?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll find out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's not going to be easy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This team's going to have to, they can score points with the best.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm no doubt about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They average well over 85 points of game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The thing that concerns me and it was gotten them every time they played grace is they just haven't been able to get stops when they needed them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you go against a team that can score like you can.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's what it comes down to, who can play in better defense and get the stops Kennedy on Weston do that wouldn't matter's most.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully, they get another shot at Grace wrote.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and the good thing about that is they wouldn't seem until the championship game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I would, I would like Indiana Weston's chances, because I don't think Grace, it's hard to be to team four times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They've done it three times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Can they do it a fourth time?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think Indiana Weston could stop that 10 game losing streak against the Williamsers and find a way to win a national championship if they were to get in that in that situation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That would be so much fun, Kevin.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That would be a heck of a ride and a heck of a final, and across those league would have the national team chip and that would be a perfect ending to this season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kevin, let's talk about it more tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That sounds great looking forward to it, and appreciate your time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's always great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're a great job.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll have more college basketball conference tournaments and I'll look ahead to every IHSA boys basketball regional in the state.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we'll try to talk to a coach or two on tomorrow's show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much, Kevin.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And thank you everybody for listening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: On tomorrow's show, of course, we will be talking about more conference tournaments in college basketball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also, be previewing more of the,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Boys, high school basketball regionals.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have a full regional preview.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Every regional in the state grant and I did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll be out a little later Friday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Please check that out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We spoke to Lapella Head Coach Kevin Cherry for that one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we hope to hear from Blackford Head Coach Aaron Daniels on this show tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also be talking with Kevin about Indiana Wesleyan and the in-air internments and probably other stuff that I can't think of right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for listening, please share.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Central Indiana Sports Report is a product of ITG media, and I'll see you soon.