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Big College Hoops Weekend Preview, Eugene Rapay Talks Cyclones & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Our number two, it's Miller in Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network. Our final hour without Ken as he
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makes his way back from vacation and he's going to be happy, at
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least for now, as the Canadians come back down to nothing.
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They get the win in the Olympics and punch their ticket into the
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gold medal match. The American team getting ready
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to get started here a little bit later on this afternoon.
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Hanging out with me today. He is Nick Marowitz from Locked
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On Cyclones. Nick, Olympic hockey doing
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anything for you. When, when Heise's involved, of
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course I love watching the Winter Olympics, but if, if
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we're going to have Heisey's score an assist to win gold
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medals, like, yeah, I'm all for it.
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That was incredible, that pass that Heisey made Taylor, by the
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way, that thing was a thing of beauty and setting that up for
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the USEUS team yesterday to beat the Canadians.
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It looked rough for a while for the Canadian men's squad squad
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and and we'll see a little bit later today.
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It maybe it's just because so many of those preliminary realm,
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I look up and it's 51 like, OK, I'm not a big hockey fan as it
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is. And then you just couple with
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the blowouts that we're seeing so often during the qualifying
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round. Maybe that had something to do
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with it. But I will tell you, if we do
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get US Canada, yeah, that's going to be appointment viewing
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for the gold medal match. 100% I like hockey personally, so I'm
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I'm a little bit more bought in it sounds like, and you are.
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But yeah, a game like that, you cannot miss that.
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So are you a Bruins fan too? We found out last week when
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you're joining us that you like all the the Boston teams, Red
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Sox, Patriots, Bruins as well. What about this?
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Remember Trent, we, we talked about this.
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It's a little embarrassing, but I can't root for the Bruins
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because they're Black. People that's right, that's.
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True. That's right, I do remember now
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my memory, so you'll find out someday.
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Your memory starts to fade a little bit, so I'll probably
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repeat myself quite often. I I get repetitive at times.
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You'll hear this some of the same stories.
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You'll roll your eyes and here he goes again but started
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getting old. Nick, that's what you got
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looking forward to get excited. Really got to It's meant that in
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my brain, when you're telling those stories, like I got to
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make sure I know your stories just as well as.
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You do yes, that's that's what we're going to be working for,
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no doubt. Nick Berevitz with us here
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today. So I want to get into a couple
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of different topics and and this one was I guess Cyclone adjacent
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former coach at Iowa State, Nate Shield House sticking with the
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Rams. He was interviewed for a couple
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of open jobs and the head coaching job.
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I made a prediction that he was going to get the Steelers job
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because he's a young guy. The last three hires that they
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made, Chuck Noel, he was a young guy.
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He was in his 30s when he was hired way back in the day.
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Bill Cower was 38 years old. Mike Tomlin was 38 years old.
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I thought they were going to continue down that path.
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Instead, they went completely the opposite direction to the
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Steelers and they went with a retread of a retread of a
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retread and McCarthy. But that aside, Nate Shield
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House staying in LA, more tutelage under, of course,
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McVeigh and a guy that feels like at some point, though, you
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talk about a star rising, that's certainly the case with Nate
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Shield House. Oh, 100% yeah.
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I'm excited to see what he can do with the Rams next season and
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what that Rams offense will look like.
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They were solid this year. It wasn't quite enough to get it
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done. Obviously the Seahawks were the
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eventual champion. So how upset can you be with a
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loss like that? But you know, as a, as a former
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Cyclone for a couple of years there, I, I do like keeping tabs
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on on coach shield house. And remember there was a
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conversation when Iowa State had the coaching position open up,
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like could Nate come back and coach Iowa State?
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What would that look like? But he he ends up staying with
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the Rams and I'm super pumped about what that offense will
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look like with with Matt continuing the to further his
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career. Yeah, absolutely.
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And the big season and the team that actually pushed the
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Seahawks and one of the few teams that could move the ball
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against the Seahawks, and that was one of the few, was the Rams
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this season. They're going to be one of the
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favorites going in once again next year and what they're going
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to be able to do. But good to work out a shield
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house. Did your pass ever cross when
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you're at Iowa State when he was coaching?
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He would have been coaching when I was a student.
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Yeah. I didn't personally ever meet
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him. But you know, I wasn't quite,
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quite a top caliber wide receiver.
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I wasn't on the team. Right.
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Yeah, yeah, I got that. I got that.
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Well, Nick, from there we continue on and we talked
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earlier about the matchups. Quick hit again, the BYU matchup
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for Iowa State late night, 2 emotional wins.
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There are things you can look at it situationally and you can
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just look at it X's and O. It's going to be a tough
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environment. They're playing without
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Saunders. Maybe they found some things out
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there last time out against Arizona.
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They came back against Arizona without him and I think that's
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said a lot here. Plus Iowa State with the angle
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that they have, I don't know there.
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There's a lot of signs that point to at minimum, it's
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probably going to be a weird one up in Provo.
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Yeah, absolutely. I will say that Iowa State, you
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know, looking at if you want to go into the like coming off of a
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win or, or coming into a trap game or whatever it is, Iowa
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State's only indicator would probably be the loss to
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Cincinnati coming off of Kansas. I I actually feel pretty good
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about them off of their two big wins.
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You're looking at like big win over Purdue on the road.
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Then you've got Iowa, yes, it's at home, but everybody knows how
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big the side Hawk is and they win that game.
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So from that perspective, I do think Iowa State is OK.
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It really comes down to how does the matchup look and and where
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do the, you know, specific assignments fall for where does
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TJ Altelberger try to get guys on the floor?
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I like where Iowa states at over their last two.
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I think their effort has been really, really high and I think
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that they're they they're falling into their roles, each
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in their own role as a player. So I like them from that
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perspective. But if BYU pushes hard and Iowa
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State loses that identity, which they have this season in the
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past going into ISO ball, getting confused on defense,
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this could end up being either very, very close or an upset for
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sure. We talked earlier about Iowa,
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Wisconsin. I hate the matchup.
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I hate the spot. I mean, there's so many factors
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that you point against coupled with what we've seen out of this
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Iowa team and just the rest of the squad in order for Iowa to
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go in and beat Wisconsin this weekend, a Wisconsin team that
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themselves has been wildly inconsistent this year.
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A you got to run him off the three-point line.
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You can't let him get to the rim.
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All the things that we talked about earlier.
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But you need other guys to step up.
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And Nick, when you look at this Iowa squad and outside of well,
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you know what you're going to get mostly game in a game out
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from Bennett Sturtz, Tavion Banks is a nice role player.
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He hustles his ass off. He does all the the little
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things, the intangibles, right? You're going to get that out of
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him, man. Yao, he is not a scorer by any
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means. It comes down to Cooper.
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Koch has got to make more shots, and though he's been OK and
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knocked out a couple, he's got to have a couple more.
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You need one of the two guards off the bench, either Sage or
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Howard, one of those guys to step up.
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Kale Combs is struggling mightily.
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It comes back to something I feel like we've been talking
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about all season long, though, is Alvaro for Garris.
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And when fool Garris has scored in double figures, they're 11
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and O this season. It's been inconsistent out of
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him. I don't know.
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When you see the Hawkeyes and you see him, it feels like you
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can tell right away. Is it you're going to get good
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Alvaro? Are you going to get bad Alvaro?
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This feels like a game. If they are going to go up there
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and get a victory like they need a 1518 point performance from
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him. Yeah, I agree with you
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completely. Just to obviously a lot of my
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expertise right now is with Iowa State and to draw the comparison
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there against Houston, you got 8 out of play to six out of
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Bateman. And then obviously the go ahead
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shot from Heisey had 11 off the bench.
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Iowa State was extremely deep in that game.
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Not necessarily the case every single game, but when you're
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able to get that kind of contribution off the bench or
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from players that maybe don't always show up, if they show up
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and have a big night, yeah, Iowa, I think Iowa has to have
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that to win this game, which is unfortunate.
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But that does that means that it is within reach, right?
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Like it doesn't necessarily have to be some sort of miracle that
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they pull off to get this win. I think it's possible.
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It's possible. I wouldn't say probable, but it
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is possible. The projected void spread right
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now is Wisconsin by three. That's how they have it set up.
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Two, excuse me, at Ken Pomeroy and three, 3 1/2 over at
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Bartorvic. Those are the numbers that are
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out there. We'll see a point spread likely
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sometime tomorrow on that front. Speaking of that, I wanted to
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see DraftKings has been doing a really nice job here recently of
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getting a lot of the weekend games in college basketball,
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getting those point spreads out early and for years and years
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and years, you'd have to wait until a late afternoon before
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the game, those kind of things before you'd actually get a
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point spread. You can always project them with
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the advanced analytic sites, but yes, it is.
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So take a stab at this one. I'm going to put you on the
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spot. We'll see how your gambling
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brains working today, Nick. Iowa State at BYU, the line is
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available. You can wager on this.
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What do you have for Cyclones and Cougars?
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What's the line right now? What I want to see what you
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believe is. OK, OK, yeah, well I will say
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this last time I was on, I made 2 picks, hit them both.
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Yes. So that was that was a nice
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start. That was a nice start to my
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picks on the radio here. I like Iowa State in this game
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and I do think it'll end up being maybe 13 points.
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It's it's not going to be a 13 point game the entire way.
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Let's be very clear about that. I think it's going to end up
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being a foul situation and a late bucket here or there.
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I think Iowa State wins this one probably somewhere in the 83 to
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70 range. I think their defense is going
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to be too much for BYU. So you're pretty confident?
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Well, if that is the case, you're going to cruise to a win.
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The Cyclone's a 3 1/2 point favorite in this one, 3 1/2.
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So it sounds like Dick's saying, put all your money put.
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No, we'd never say those kind of things.
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Never do that. Bet a unit whatever you're
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comfortable and comfortable losing.
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That's all that we say to bet on this program -3 1/2.
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Currently the line of DraftKings for Iowa State and BYU.
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And it's not just Hawkeyes and Cyclones this weekend, Nick.
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This weekend we get #1 verse #3 two versus 4.
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Let's start Michigan, Duke and the Wolverines.
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Outside of that loss, their only loss of the year at home at the
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hands of Wisconsin, they have been absolutely incredible.
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What they did when they went out in the players era, what they
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did, the dominating performance a a 40 point win against both
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San Diego State and Gonzaga. They beat Auburn by 30 out
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there. What they've done through the
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Big 10, and though they had a downturn, I think there was a
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run of like 6 straight games that they didn't cover,
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including the one loss that they had against Wisconsin.
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They bounced back in such a big way.
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Yet you go back and forth with this Michigan team, they were
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down 16 to Northwestern, a bad Northwestern team.
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They were down 16, came back at 1 by 12.
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But watching them Tuesday night against Purdue in West Lafayette
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dominated that one really from start to finish in any glimmer
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of hope that Purdue would have of a comeback.
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Seemed like Michigan had an answer every single time.
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But on the other side's the Dookies and I love going back in
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history. This is something that used to
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happen a lot more often. You don't remember it because
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you're young, but this was something that happened on a
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yearly basis. You'd get one of these big non
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conference matchups in late January in sometime in February.
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I'm happy to see this coming back.
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And I read a little bit about that.
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There is one of those basketball groups that puts together exempt
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tournaments and the like. They're the ones that are behind
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having this game being played in DC.
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But what a matchup and potentially this is what we're
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going to see on Monday night for the national championship.
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Yeah, there's a very real chance to these.
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These two teams are just incredible.
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Yaxel Lindenborg has been phenomenal for Michigan and you
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mentioned kind of that drop that Michigan saw in that, you know,
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6 game stretch or whatever it was.
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I don't wouldn't expect Michigan to perform at the level they
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were performing at, you know, during the the players era all
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season long. And I said the same thing about
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Iowa State. Like you just can't keep up that
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level of intensity for an entire year.
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I despite even that stretch of games, still think Michigan is
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the number one team. Obviously Arizona has been kind
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of in that conversation and, and honestly, any of the top five
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teams I think on any given night could be the number one team
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that day. But for the season so far,
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Michigan has just been unreal. And this is a real true treat
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here. I, I don't know if I'm able to
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make a pick on Duke or, or Michigan here.
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Obviously Cam Boozer has been incredible for, for those Blue
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Devils, but the way I'm looking at this, considering I'm a Big
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12 fan, this is big 10 ACC. This is literally just sit back
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with your popcorn and relax. This is like watching the Super
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Bowl when your team's not in it kind of thing. 2 1/2 the number
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Michigan favored over Duke. Again, neutral court for this
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one that'll be played in DC. Well, you definitely can provide
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a lot of context with our other top 4 matchup, Arizona at
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Houston, pretty simple, at least for me.
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Arizona, there's been so much talk about the three-point
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shooting. They shot it well the last time
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out. This Arizona team, they are big,
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they are physical, They can beat you a bunch of different ways.
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But then Houston, I just love their toughness.
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And I think you understood last week when I talked with you,
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Nick, when you were on the program with us.
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My absolute love affair that I have with Kingston Flemings.
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I have I have a crush on Kingston, Flemings and and how
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about some of the shots that he made on Monday, though he had
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that late near turnover that really cost Houston a chance to
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tie that thing up. Fleming, though, an absolute
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stud, he is a difference maker. What do you think we're going to
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see in this one down in Houston? In fact, a point spread out also
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for this one. Cougars favored by 5 1/2.
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Yeah, that's that's I think how it's going to go.
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I do feel pretty good about Houston in this one, especially
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coming off of a loss to Iowa State.
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And when you look at Houston's schedule, they've got Kansas,
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they got Iowa State, they got Arizona on this, this very short
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stretch. And so they have to show up big
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time for these games or else like where do they go in the Big
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12 tournament where like all the seating and everything?
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So they have to win these games. When you speak on Arizona's 3
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point shooting, I just wanted to bring up because I brought up
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volume earlier for some context, Iowa State shooting, what is
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this? 30, almost 40% on the season,
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they've shot 590 threes, almost 600 threes.
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Arizona, yeah, a little bit below that 35.6, but they've
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only shot 432. So about what is 160 less
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threes? Arizona just doesn't operate
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from really outside of the arc. They'll they'll go a game and
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shoot 3 or 4 times. So I do think you're going to
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get that tough matchup on the inside.
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And I think Arizona's kind of familiarity with that is going
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to play a really strong role in Arizona.
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Of course, everyone wants to talk about like live by or die
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by the three. I think Arizona is going to feel
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a little bit more confident in this game and the fact that they
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don't have to shoot well, they can just play their game and and
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compete with Houston. But with what Houston has on
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their talent, you know, talent wise on their roster and what
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the position they're all are coming off of a loss to Iowa
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State at Hilton. I I like Houston in this game,
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but this is yet another juggernaut versus juggernaut was
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an immovable force versus unstoppable object.
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The other way around. This is going to be a fun one
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too. Also have to remember Arizona
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for the second straight game they'll be playing without their
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star freshman Co of Pete is not going to be out there.
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He's going to be out. They had another one of their
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players, I can't remember off the top of my head that was out
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with an illness. I'm not sure if he's going to be
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back for them, but taken not a deep Arizona team either.
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Tommy Lloyd hasn't gone real deep into that bench this
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season. So how impactful that's going to
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be. But we know Pete's not going to
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be there as he's not going to be there for this matchup in that
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one couple of their Big 12 ones, Texas Tech now played without JT
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topping. Now I Speaking of lost money, I
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got a couple of tickets on them to make a final four a national
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championship long shot. I I'm a big Mccaslin fan.
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I love this team. I love the way that they were
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built. Christian Anderson, an absolute
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stud. They're not making a final four
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without JT topping. But just how much do you
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diminish Texas Tech? And certainly knowing that
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they're coming up for Iowa State?
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Yeah, I I think it's going to be a huge change to how that team
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operates. JT Toppen has just been so
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incredible. And when I watched them play
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against Arizona State that game, I did feel like they looked out
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of sorts. They look confused.
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There are turnovers left and right, and I don't think that's
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characteristic of the Red Raiders this season.
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But moving forward, that could be a little bit more what we're
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used to. The rest of their schedule goes
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Kansas State, Cincinnati, then they'll be in Hilton, and then
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TCU and BYU to round out the season.
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I could realistically see them going what, two and three maybe
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through that stretch. TCU seems to be a pretty solid
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team. If you pick one out of the TCU,
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Kansas State, Cincinnati, I think they're capable of losing
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any one of those. I don't love where Texas Tech is
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at anymore without JT Top, and they're still a very good team.
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I'm not gonna act like they're gonna go in 5-10 the season, but
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they JC Toppins presence will be missed for sure.
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Absolutely, definitely changes the equation for that squad.
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One final thing, you watch a lot of college hoops as I do and as
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you look through, we know the top tier teams, the four that we
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just mentioned with Duke and Michigan and Arizona and
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Houston. You get into that next group.
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Florida, the defending national champion, how they've turned
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their season around after a slow start.
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Iowa State, that next tier team. I want to go a step further
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though, and if you're looking for a dark horse Final Four
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team, A A-Team say comes from a five seed or worse, something
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like that, maybe a four seed or worse.
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Is there anybody that's caught your attention this year?
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Like Kansas normally would be one of those teams?
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I think they're an absolute cross off with what's happened
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with Darren Peterson and and Bill Self in the way that he
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just looks incredibly frustrated because you don't know, you
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don't know what you're going to get out of them.
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Is there anybody though that you like out of that next group of
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teams? You know, there, there's a few
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teams out there that you could definitely look towards.
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I don't know if I want to throw this name out there.
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It's it's really, really out there.
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I think it's high point, OK, when you're looking at the net
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rating versus pace, the trapezoid of excellence, if you
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will, they, they favor them very, very highly.
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And teams like Ozaga, I'm not high on Vanderbilt.
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I guess Louisville could be in that conversation.
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I believe it's high point. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong comes
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out of nowhere. Don't sleep on like we could be
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looking at like a Saint Peters type of like nobody knows who
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they are. Elite 8 appearance is is kind of
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what I'm looking at for them. All right, well, if high point
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does that, and that's one thing when we get to the tournament,
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you can bet on them not to make a final four.
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You can also bet on make the Sweet 16, so you might be able
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to get a good price, but your bracket, you're looking for that
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upset. Nick's helping us out here, High
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point. I'm going to circle them and
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when they show up on the television, I'm going to get a
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glimpse at them too. I I'd love to do that and this
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is the only sport for me, Nick, where I can sit there and I can
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watch a random Summit League game and I am completely
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content. I can't do that with college
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football. Look, there has to be some kind
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of angle that I have or maybe some kind of bet that I have to
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really sit down. But I am completely fine
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watching low, major, mid major basketball, random stuff.
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These Friday nights before the Big 10 started to bully their
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way in. I loved when we got the Mac
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Games, the Metro Athletic Conference and we had Canisius
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against Manhattan and those kind of ones on Friday nights.
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I absolutely love that. But High Point as a team, I'll
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be honest, I haven't seen. I'm going to put them on my
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list. So there's the dark horse right
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there. What are you going to do when
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the bracket shows up in high points?
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The 15 against second seeded Iowa State.
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Well, I don't know if I feel great about that.
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Oh, man, yeah, this is I I love. I live for March, though, man.
18:44
Like as the weather starts to warm up and golf starts to
18:47
become a real possibility and we're filling out brackets, like
18:51
even, you know, like Lipscomb in Iowa State last year was like,
18:54
oh, this is upset alert. And I was like, yeah, it's going
18:56
to stink if Iowa State loses, but we're watching March
18:59
Madness, man. So this is going to be electric
19:00
either way. No doubt about it.
19:02
We're going to take a quick timeout.
19:03
More Cyclone talk coming up on the other side Fridays it is
19:06
Eugene repay from the Des Moines Register and a couple of
19:10
matchups out in Utah. We'll talk about that and more
19:12
on the Cyclones with the Jeep. Eugene, when we come back, Trent
19:15
Con and Nick Marowitz with you today, it's Miller and Condon on
19:18
the Iowa Sports Radio Network. Welcome back.
19:20
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19:37
Eugene Repay is joining us. So I texted Eugene, setting a
19:41
time for today a little bit earlier.
19:43
Didn't hear back right away, which is fine.
19:45
That's going to happen. And then I had that sinking
19:48
feeling. Oh no, Maybe Eugene's on his way
19:50
out to Utah. But you tell me, Eugene, the old
19:53
man on the beat, Travis Hines, he took this trip.
19:55
So you're stuck here in Iowa. He gets to go have fun in Utah.
19:59
Yeah, Travis Hines is flexing his seniority, maybe squeezing
20:02
in a ski trip, maybe squeezing in a couple of national parks.
20:05
But yeah, he'll he'll be representing the register for
20:08
both the Utah and the BYU games. Still, you got to go to Vegas.
20:12
You've had some good trips already, so you can't complain
20:14
too much right now. In the old days.
20:16
I'll tell you as I'm the old timer here with Nick hanging out
20:18
with us as well today, Eugene, that back in the day both the
20:22
guys that were covered in Iowa State got to go on all the
20:24
trips. But we know it is a different
20:26
world, unfortunately for all of us in the media environment, and
20:29
not the case for things like that anymore.
20:35
That I was about 50 years younger, but I mean 50 years
20:38
older back then or whatever it may be.
20:40
But then sometimes I think of the trade-offs where you don't
20:42
have Wi-Fi, you don't have laptops, so I don't know.
20:45
Have to hit those deadlines a little bit different back in the
20:48
day too compared to getting things online and get them up at
20:51
the Boyd register.com and that's where you can find all the work
20:53
from Eugene rope Eugene. Let's get into the matchup
20:57
coming on the heels of those great victories at Hilton.
21:00
Now you go on the road against BYU.
21:02
Richie Saunders is out as he has lost for the season with his
21:05
injury. That changes the equation.
21:07
But a tough environment, a tough spot coming off those emotional
21:10
victories against a BYU team and still they might have the number
21:14
one pick still over on that side too.
21:16
This is not going to be an easy one against the Cougars.
21:19
No, not at all. And BYU has been having a little
21:22
bit of a downturn in recent weeks.
21:23
They've lost six of their last nine games.
21:25
When you have a player like AJ Debansa, who so far is also just
21:30
been as advertised, you look at who Iowa State has faced and
21:34
straight games, you got Darren Peterson projected #1 Kingston,
21:37
Flemington and Houston and projected #5 and now AJ Debansa
21:41
projected #2 and he's been stepping up his game with
21:44
Saunders out. He just came off of a 35 point
21:47
outing against Arizona. Debansa seems to have this knack
21:50
for elevating his game in the second-half or in crunch time.
21:53
And this is a guy that can score anywhere on the court.
21:55
And now he's got a pretty good dynamic duo partner.
21:58
And Robert Wright, a former Baylor transfer who's built off
22:02
of his freshman year at Baylor in a big way.
22:05
And he's just seen statistical jumps all across the board.
22:07
So that's a pretty good two man tandem that anyone in the Big 12
22:11
would love to have. Yeah, when you look at this Iowa
22:15
State team and what they've been through this season, you talk
22:17
about the last two wins over Kansas and Houston.
22:19
I was making the argument this week that these two were their
22:22
biggest wins by far. Purdue hasn't quite panned out
22:25
to what the I thought they were going to be.
22:27
Same thing with Saint John's. Where do you think Iowa State is
22:29
that momentum wise? We're seeing more contribution
22:31
from the bench. Like, yeah, this BYU team is
22:34
going to be tough, but if they can get this win and continue
22:37
that momentum into the Arizona game, where do you kind of
22:39
project Iowa State finishing through these last five games
22:42
here? Yeah, 100%.
22:44
I think if they're able to beat BYU and we'll see what happens
22:47
in that Arizona game. But right now I would agree that
22:50
those last two ones that they just had are the two biggest of
22:53
the season especially. They have those games and
22:55
back-to-back games and a 72 hour time span.
22:58
Like you look across the country, I don't know if there's
23:00
anyone who had a 72 hour stretch like that.
23:03
So for Iowa State to come in with this much momentum, if they
23:07
can keep building on the road, beat Utah, beat BYU, and then
23:10
we'll see what happens in Arizona.
23:12
But that one seat is still on the table.
23:13
It's not completely out of the equation.
23:15
There are a lot of teams jockeying for that and it's
23:17
definitely going to be a crowded race at the top.
23:19
But right now I would say he's doing all the right things to
23:21
keep that on the table. Eugene, we've had seen this
23:24
program have so much success down in Kansas City at the Big
23:28
12 Tournament. But in a way, this team feels
23:31
different. I mean, it feels like there's
23:32
more upside, there's more opportunity.
23:35
I know we're still a couple of weeks away and you're never
23:37
going to throw games. However, when we get to Kansas
23:41
City, in terms of maybe success for the NCAA Tournament, would
23:46
it be a bad thing if they get knocked off in the semifinals,
23:49
get that extra day of relaxation?
23:51
You're never going to have TJ Otzelberger say that they're
23:54
going to do it. But just for the betterment of
23:56
this squad and hope of making that deep run in the NCAA
23:59
Tournament, would that be a bad thing?
24:01
It might be one of those things that maybe if it pans out and
24:04
and I would say goes deep at the end, then you think, oh, OK, it
24:07
all worked out, that's good. But but right now I don't yeah,
24:10
I agree. I don't think also Burger
24:12
anybody will say they should throw the game.
24:13
But you look at that semifinals, just the top 6 seeds in general,
24:17
like it's going to be a dogfight.
24:19
So it's not going to be, you know, if you were to fall in the
24:21
semifinals, that wouldn't be it's not a loss you beat
24:24
yourself up over. It would be to one of those high
24:26
caliber teams ideally. So it wouldn't be the worst
24:29
thing in the world, but maybe it would all pan out.
24:31
They get that extra, they have rested.
24:33
It all parlays into a deep NCAA Tournament run.
24:36
Yeah, I mean, personally, I'm of the belief that winning those
24:39
big games is great momentum builder for going into the NCAA
24:42
tournament. And when you talk about what it
24:44
takes to win those kinds of games here, Eugene, Iowa State,
24:47
when you look at the bench and the contribution over the last
24:50
few games, guys like Jamario Bateman, Nate Heisey, even
24:53
Dominicus Playdo has stuffed up big time for the clones.
24:56
Is it possible to continue getting that kind of
24:58
contribution from those guys? Or is Nate Heisey going to kind
25:01
of look like he did last year, where he had a few games where
25:03
he stepped up and then he ended up not doing quite as much as I
25:06
think that the clones needed when March came around?
25:10
Yeah, that's definitely the the thing that everyone's going to
25:12
be wondering to see. And TJ Altelberger will be
25:14
challenging those guys that keep growing.
25:17
But I think the encouraging signs are you look at Dominic
25:19
has played a, it feels like every week he's gotten better.
25:22
Every week he's become more comfortable on the floor.
25:25
You just look out how physical he is when it comes to like
25:27
boxing out or just rumbling with opposing big men.
25:29
He's not he's not the initiator. And as opposed to before, when
25:33
he was still trying to figure out the tempo and the
25:35
physicality, Jamarian Bateman is getting more and more
25:38
comfortable. He's becoming known for giving
25:40
that big shot off the bench, and if you can continue to be that
25:42
offensive spark plug when things aren't going well and buckets
25:46
are dropping, he can break the ice.
25:47
That's just such a huge momentum boost.
25:49
And then Nate Heise, we know that he's a hustler.
25:52
We know that he brings the toughness plays in the defense.
25:54
But if the buckets are going to start to drop and come
25:58
consistently, it can only bode well.
26:00
So for this bench, I do have faith in this bench to keep on
26:04
contributing. But yeah, of course you're going
26:06
to want to see more consistency out of them.
26:08
But I think the upward trajectories of freshmen coming
26:11
in, that's the most promising sound right there.
26:14
You know, one thing I found interesting is we know that
26:17
they're going to be staying in Utah.
26:18
They got the next game coming up in Salt Lake City against the
26:22
utes is the team building aspect of this, you know, being around
26:25
for 3-4 days together and no going back home, going back to
26:29
your apartment, going to classes, those kind of things
26:31
and just all as a team in a way. This is also something you're
26:34
going to see very similar in the NCAA tournament.
26:36
Wherever the location is, you're going to be together.
26:39
You know, for those 3-4 days when you're there, it's almost
26:41
like a test run, if you will, for the NCAA tournament and, and
26:44
what you want to do, scheduling, practice times, all like that.
26:47
Feels like there's a lot of positives that could come out of
26:50
this trip out there. Without a doubt and to have it
26:53
at this point of the season, so late, just a few weeks before
26:57
the Big 12 tournaments and the NCAA tournaments.
26:59
And I know that this is something that also Burger and
27:02
the players have been excited about the team building aspect.
27:04
Of course, they got the big games to play and and the
27:07
practices, but also just have this time where you're not
27:10
around campus, you're you're alone in a foreign land, you're
27:13
not surrounded. You're surrounded by just your
27:15
teammates, you're spending a lot of time, their coaches, just no
27:18
distractions. So I think that this is
27:20
something that will be good for the team.
27:22
We did joke around. We asked Jamari and if you know,
27:25
you guys have got a couple of speechers planned or anything
27:27
like that. But but he said TJ Altelberger
27:29
doesn't like the injury to risk. So I'm sure they have some sort
27:32
of activity. We it just won't be skiing.
27:34
Maybe curling? That might be a little bit.
27:36
Better, yeah. Yeah, Speaking of the Olympics,
27:39
has Nate Heisey talked anything about how he compares to his
27:42
sister? The I know the win over Houston
27:44
was, you know, like that kind of shot only comes once in a
27:46
lifetime, but winning a gold Olympic battle is is just as
27:49
big, too. Yeah, we haven't gotten to speak
27:52
to him since that. That was complete.
27:54
But the one thing that just stood out was just how psyched
27:56
he is for a sister. Just seems to be nothing but
27:59
love. When he's not practicing, when
28:01
he's not playing, he's keeping tabs.
28:03
He said that his whole family is is in Milan right now for the
28:07
Olympics, but they, I don't know, hopefully they got the
28:09
catch for the Houston game. I know it was probably late over
28:11
there, but what an exciting time for the Heisey family.
28:14
Just a big week overall. Start out big with Nate's big
28:17
shot. Now it ends big with the gold
28:19
medal. Got an opportunity before they
28:21
departed for Utah to talk with Jamari and Bateman.
28:24
And we saw Speaking of that big shot and he's not shy.
28:27
He's going to hoist it. If he's got a crack, he's going
28:29
to fire. And we saw that maybe a couple
28:31
of them ill advised on Monday night.
28:33
But when he hit that big one, definitely change the equation
28:36
on top of it. During that time, Milan was
28:38
sitting at the check in the scores table.
28:40
He was ready to check in. If there's a dead ball, Bateman
28:43
was going to go out. But tell us a little bit more
28:45
about about the freshman, you guys getting the chance to talk
28:47
with him a little bit earlier this week, your thoughts on
28:49
Jamari and Bateman and as a freshman and not an easy program
28:53
to come in right away and make an impact.
28:55
He's certainly been able to do that.
28:57
Yeah, there's one thing that TJ also Burger has been really
29:00
hammering home. This was even in preseason,
29:03
early on in the season, he just mentioned how Jamar and Bateman
29:05
had probably some of the best habits, work ethic, discipline
29:10
that he's ever seen from an incoming freshman in his years
29:13
of coaching. And you saw earlier on Jamar
29:16
Bateman still had an adjustment period.
29:17
You could kind of see the flashes.
29:19
You can see the glimpses. But now I think you can see that
29:21
hard work and that dedication is really starting to pay off.
29:24
He's super confident right now. You mentioned a couple of those
29:27
threes. Yeah, I thought that they were
29:28
like NBA range, and I was a little surprised by some of
29:31
those takes. But he even did that in the
29:32
Kansas game as well. And I think this is just a guy
29:35
who was just super confident in his work and his process.
29:38
I think you mentioned also how Mom Televich is getting ready to
29:42
check in. But when Bateman hit that first
29:43
big three, it was kind of like, oh man, maybe you ride the hot
29:47
hand. And TJ Alto Burger gave a little
29:51
insight on that. And Montelvich said that he was
29:53
OK with letting Bateman in because he hit that big one and
29:56
then it paid off with that second one.
29:59
But when you see that kind of trust in a freshman from TJ that
30:02
that kind of praise from him, it definitely holds a lot of
30:05
weight. And you see Bateman just
30:07
continuing to deliver off the bench, especially in conference
30:09
play. Yeah, I've been talking this
30:11
week about how big I thought team chemistry is for for this
30:15
team and, and seeing that kind of all right, well, let the guy
30:18
who's hot right now, even though I'm shooting over 50% from
30:21
three, let the guy who's hot stay in the game.
30:24
But when you talk about how well Iowa State's been playing this
30:26
season, obviously a phenomenal record at 23 and three, third in
30:30
the Big 12, couple of rough losses, They're all on the road.
30:33
What is your concern level when it comes to Iowa State not
30:36
playing at home? Perfect at home.
30:37
But unfortunately for all Cyclone fans out there, Big 12
30:41
tournament, March Madness not going to be played in Hilton.
30:44
Is that a concerning kind of piece of this Iowa State puzzle
30:46
to you? I don't, I wouldn't say it's
30:49
concerning just yet. I think that there are still
30:51
some big opportunities on the road and and neutral sites to
30:54
learn from or, or see how they react and respond.
30:57
I think it's not uncommon to see a lot of really good teams be
31:01
monsters, just bulldoze everybody at home.
31:03
And then when you go on the road, it's just never easy,
31:06
especially in the Big 12. Sometimes you get caught,
31:08
sometimes it's just a tough thing to do in general.
31:11
I mean, the Big 12 is just so loaded.
31:13
The TCU one definitely stands out as just a Stinger, just an
31:16
absolute stinker and the Cincinnati 81 as well.
31:19
But I think overall Iowa State is pretty good and neutral and
31:22
away like the records still pretty good.
31:24
I think that this Utah trip will be very telling.
31:27
How they compose themselves at McHale in Arizona will also be
31:31
very telling, but I wouldn't say it's a red flag getter or sound
31:35
the alarm type. It's just more so we'll learn so
31:38
much more from this team in the next couple of weeks.
31:41
The Kansas and Houston games were very exciting and those
31:43
were definitely stating and wins in themselves.
31:46
But now can they do it on the road against the March key
31:48
matchups Like you mentioned, they did it against Purdue, but
31:51
that was just so long ago that it's not that it's irrelevant.
31:54
It just doesn't hold the same kind of umph that it used to
31:57
back then. But if they can do it now coming
32:00
down the stretch, you got to feel really good about their
32:02
prospects in March. Eugene repay from the Des Moines
32:05
Register Eugene, out of time for today.
32:07
Appreciate yours. Time is always a little bit
32:10
easier. So you got a 930 tip off.
32:12
What does that mean for your deadline?
32:14
As we come full circle, the beginning of our conversation.
32:17
It means a lot of coffee, some Monster Energy drinks, TV and
32:21
and hopefully a good game. But yeah, no, it's going to be a
32:24
late 1 here in Iowa, but yeah, definitely going to be hustling
32:27
and hauling. And I'm going to guess the
32:28
sleeping in then on Sunday morning, no doubt.
32:30
Eugene, as always, thank you for your time.
32:33
Thank you guys so much, have a great weekend.
32:35
Eugene Repay with the Des Moines Register, he joins us here on a
32:39
Friday as we talk some Cyclones. So you're confident, you said
32:42
earlier, Nick, about this matchup against BYU.
32:46
What about that Utah game now? They're going to be a huge
32:49
favorite in that one. It's not going to be a tight
32:51
spread like we see in the BYU game.
32:54
Utah, I know they beat West Virginia.
32:56
I watched a bit of that. What was that Wednesday night?
32:58
Maybe I I'm still baffled how that happened.
33:02
Utah's just bad. And even if Utah was, you know,
33:05
OK, I think it'd be a little bit more concerning.
33:08
But that even ratchets up the importance of this BYU game cuz
33:11
you're talking about getting a couple of quad a quad one
33:14
victory and a quad 2V with the two Rd. games that you have even
33:16
against the down Utah squad. So the opportunities there and
33:19
we're talking about resume. We mentioned a game came down to
33:22
Houston and Iowa State and the mock selection process that the
33:26
media members went through yesterday.
33:27
So they're right close to that line of getting a number one
33:29
seed. Another quality victory like
33:32
this on the road against BYU and then not stub your toe against
33:35
Utah, That's going to go a really long way.
33:37
Yeah, no, I agree. And when you look at Utah, I
33:40
it's kind of amazing that they have ten wins.
33:42
So like, how did they get that done?
33:45
And you know, you have to show up for every single game in the
33:49
Big 12. It's kind of how I'm looking at
33:50
this. Like it'd be so easy to just
33:52
look past Utah and see what they have down the stretch.
33:54
But I know that Altoburger, if you remember back to the Purdue
33:57
game, everyone was talking about how big this game was going to
33:59
be. And Altoburger told me like, I'm
34:02
literally, we're not going to answer any questions on that.
34:04
We have Alcorn State. So I will answer questions on
34:06
that. But if it's about Purdue,
34:08
that'll come later. And so I know that Iowa State's
34:10
going to be in the right mindset.
34:12
It's just about you got to get it done.
34:14
And that's what happens every single night in the Big 12.
34:17
A huge opportunity. Like you said, I think this is a
34:19
great point for Iowa State to go into that mindset of when you're
34:23
on the road for back-to-back games and run a, you know, 6432
34:26
or in the second weekend or whatever it is.
34:29
It's a totally different feel than playing at home or even
34:32
just A1 and one home and away. So huge opportunity for Iowa
34:35
State this weekend to really make some moves, I feel like,
34:39
towards what it would take to win a national title.
34:41
That is Nick Marvitz joining us from Locked on Cyclones.
34:44
When we come back on the other side, well, last week he was 2
34:47
and O in his picks and that's a lot better than I could do.
34:50
So he's going to help us out. I got some picks for you as well
34:52
coming up in the basketball weekend picks presented by
34:55
Circus Sports. That's next on Miller and Condon
34:57
on the Iowa Sports Radio Network final segment of the week and
35:01
final segment for us on Miller and Condon before Ken gets back
35:05
from vacation. He'll be back with us on Monday.
35:08
Nick Marvitz hanging out with me today.
35:10
Trent Condon on the show and our final segment of the daytime for
35:14
our picks of the day presented by Circus Sports.
35:16
Got some plays for tonight, few for over the weekend that have
35:19
definitely caught my attention. Nick, so you've been here on my
35:23
bumper music coming back out of break as I figured out how to
35:26
feed that down to you now. And we're figuring out all the
35:28
kicks of everything with you working remotely with us here,
35:32
these two times here over the last couple of weeks.
35:34
But Nick, I'm an old guy. I like grunge music.
35:38
I like late 80s, early 90s rap. That that's my era.
35:41
What does a young man like you, What kind of music are you into?
35:44
Oh. It's actually a good question.
35:46
You know, I'm a big ACDC Metallica fan.
35:49
I'll listen to, you know, I grew up on 2000's pop.
35:52
Whatever's on the radio, then definitely a punk rock guy.
35:56
It's honestly whatever's on. You grow up in the locker room,
35:59
there's stuff that can't be played on the radio on there.
36:02
So I mean, as long as music is playing, I'm probably honestly
36:05
dancing. And then it's a little
36:07
embarrassing sometimes. What you gotta do what you
36:08
gotta. Do no doubt operate there with
36:10
you, yes, Bop your head a little bit.
36:12
I think you've been liking my music.
36:13
Hold me in music right a little bit.
36:15
Yes, I mean, we're on a video call here.
36:17
I know we're listening over the radio, but you probably look
36:19
over a few times, see me bop into it.
36:21
Yeah, this is a good time here at Miller and.
36:23
Con. That's right, yes.
36:24
And when Ken's back then, yes, the music starts to go back a
36:27
little bit more 70's rock, that's more Ken.
36:29
So I play back and forth and we we hit a little bit of
36:32
everything. So when you say early 2000's pop
36:36
music, because another thing when you get older, everything
36:38
starts to just kind of mush together.
36:41
What kind of pop music are we talking about?
36:42
Is this this is after like Backstreet Boys and Instinct.
36:45
That was that was in the late 90s.
36:47
So it's past that Lady Gaga that is that what we're looking for?
36:51
Give me, give me some of the pop people of that era that I should
36:53
remember. Gwen Stefani maybe, OK, Lady
36:57
Gaga would have been like applause or whatever that was.
36:59
I still listen to some Backstreet Boys from *NSYNC for
37:02
sure. There you go.
37:03
It's really, I usually just ask my my AIDJ to write some stuff
37:08
for me and I'm just like whatever is on is on, you know?
37:11
They nail it absolutely All right, let's get into picks.
37:14
Let's get back to my specialty way to lose money and that's
37:17
what I've been doing here with my gambling picks.
37:19
So we will try to do better here.
37:22
Got a lot of games spotlighted, but you had a couple that if you
37:24
were at least interested in including one tonight, the
37:27
Battle of Indiana, the Hoosiers and the Boilermakers.
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Purdue coming off the loss against Michigan, Indiana on the
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right side of the bubble currently.
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But this would be a huge, huge victory obviously for them.
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And Purdue not just lost to Iowa State and early Michigan.
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They had three losses at Mackie, A rarity certainly for that
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basketball program. What caught your eye with the
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Hoosiers and the Boilermakers? I just don't believe in Purdue.
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Honestly. I don't know if I love Indiana
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necessarily when you look at the matchup or whatever, but I
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believe that they have something that Purdue doesn't.
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And of course, when you look at like Indiana versus Purdue, the
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rivalry too. I do want to throw something out
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here. I know this isn't what we
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necessarily talked about, but I want this pick because I don't
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want you making. OK.
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I'm taking Iowa State over BYU, OK?
38:13
I do you have you picked? Iowa State over TCU.
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It did not end well. So I'm taking Iowa State and the
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points I I predicted it was like a 13 point game.
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It should be no sweat for me, but I I just want to make sure I
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made that pick so that you couldn't give the clothes
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another loss. Jump aboard early?
38:30
Absolutely. I got a couple.
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I'm playing Merrimack tonight. This is just a numbers play of
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the numbers that I use to say this is 1 to jump on.
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So I will do that -3 1/2 against Sienna also tonight.
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And I've been fading them way too much.
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The undefeated RedHawks of Miami of Ohio.
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I'm grabbing big guy State Bowling Green plus 8 1/2 tonight
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as this will be senior night for Miami of Ohio.
38:53
It has to end. I saw a simulation, a team of
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the same profile, basically the same team, just run a
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simulation. How many teams, how many times a
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team like this would be undefeated against Miami of Ohio
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schedule and it was like one in 11,000.
39:07
That's what we're talking about here with this 26 and O Miami of
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Ohio squad. I'm not taking Bowling Green to
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win and I'm not going to jump on the money line, though you can
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get better than three to 1. I'm going to grab the points.
39:17
So get in the 8 1/2 with Bowling Green over the weekend.
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You've heard me say it throughout the course of the
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day. I think I was going to get
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pummeled. I think they're going to get
39:26
absolutely drilled in Madison. When that line comes out,
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regardless of what it is, I am going to jump on the Badgers and
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do it. Probably double fisted.
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That'll probably be a 2 unit play for me.
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We're going to jump aboard a little bit more.
39:37
We're not going to go crazy. I don't throw out and this is
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100 star play anything. We're not going to do that
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though. Maybe that would dig me out of
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the deficit that I've had here recently.
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That was absolutely though for me, a circle spot.
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I, I like Michigan, I don't love them.
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I mean, it's 2 1/2, so boy spread.
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Really not overly relevant in that one.
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Definitely going to be taking a peek at that.
40:01
I'll see what happens there. Arizona, Houston with Pete out
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that point spread we mentioned earlier that was 5 1/2 didn't
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have a big lean on that. So it's going to be a great
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weekend at college basketball and incredibly important.
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NB as back started. They got going again last night
40:15
after the All Star break. We got Olympics going on still
40:18
as that'll culminate coming up this weekend.
40:20
But a good week for college basketball to thrust themselves
40:24
in. And you know, Nick, one of the
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great things about this season is it started all right, here
40:28
comes, let's start with Boozer right at Duke.
40:30
And it's a name that we know because of his dad.
40:32
That definitely is of course, I mean, that's got to be a guy
40:35
even for you that sort of make you feel a little bit old,
40:37
right, when you see Boozers kids out there now playing at Duke.
40:40
But you have that component. This freshman class has been so
40:44
incredible. But the storylines of college
40:46
basketball, coupled with all the negative stories that are
40:49
happening in the NBA and the continued tanking, it feels like
40:52
there's a real opportunity for college basketball.
40:55
Look, it's not going to be what it once was, just a different
40:57
environment we're talking about and guys sticking around for 3-4
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years. But it feels like college
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basketball this season has a big chance of gaining even more than
41:06
national spotlight. I would argue, and I guess I
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don't know if this is something you've talked about or, or
41:11
whatever, I would argue the college product is better than
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the NBA product. Just for me, when you look at
41:16
what, yeah, when you look at night in, night out, what the
41:18
NBA looks like is, is so and so playing and what's the All Star?
41:22
What's like that doesn't happen in college other than for one
41:26
team, basically for Kansas, that's literally the only team
41:29
that I can think of where it's not.
41:31
You know what you're getting. And so I'm 100% with you.
41:34
I I prefer watching the college ball.
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And I think that that reigns true for both football and
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basketball. So I don't know if maybe I'm I'm
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biased, but yeah, man, this is going to be a phenomenal weekend
41:43
of games. We have the US hockey team,
41:46
they're getting ready to take the ice. 210 will be the puck
41:50
drop. That one against Slovakia, if
41:52
you missed it earlier, Canada came back and got that and got
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it done. Do you know offhand when the
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gold medal match, when the time is actually going to be for that
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one? For the women or no, the men?
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The men, yeah, I don't. Off the top of my head, I was.
42:08
Oh, I found my quick fingers. Sunday morning, Sunday morning
42:12
at 8:10 AM, I'm coming off of state wrestling, which is a
42:18
long, long night on Saturday. Then we got the Iowa State game
42:21
that is going to go until midnight at best, at least,
42:25
right? And we'll probably get triple
42:26
overtime on top of it. I'm sure that's going to happen,
42:29
so we're going to have to do it. It's going to be a lot of
42:31
coffee, a lot of caffeine, but we'll make it happen.
42:33
US though, they got to finish it off here today against Slovakia
42:37
coming up with the puck drop a little bit later.
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No, I got that wrong. That was Eastern 710 central.
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Oh, good God. All right, get the alarm going.
42:45
Here we go. Well, Nick, hey enjoyed this so
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much. Thank you so much for joining us
42:50
here a couple of times these last two weeks.
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Yeah, man, thanks for having me. I'm, I'm super excited to keep
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talking Iowa State every chance I get here, so thank you.
42:58
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43:14
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