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INDIANA 84, MARYLAND 66: Reaction with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell (2.135.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_00]: you are listening to a special edition of the IU report with Grant Shouse and Mike Hutzl their reaction to the Hoosiers 84-66 win at Maryland on Wednesday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Please join us for their Peach Bowl preview on Thursday.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back, I U fans to the I U report here, Grant Shows with my cut soul and Greg Mengeldas.
• 0:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Indiana, a big win over Maryland on the road on Wednesday night, Lamar Wilkerson scored 16 straight in the second half and Mike, I just felt like this was one of the games Indiana had to have.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this wasn't, this wasn't a, uh,
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: be nice to get a win here or this wasn't a you know you should win this game this is the game that you this was a must that was a bad that's the worst Maryland team I think I've ever seen that was terrible I did not know thing I know for all pains hurt buzz Williams is in his first year but you lose that game
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's few and far between coming up on the schedule over the next eight, nine games you had to win that one.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And to their credit, after a kind of a slow start to the first half, they really just buckled down and got it done.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right, and hopefully that can give you some momentum going into what's probably the biggest game of the season so far on Saturday against against undefeated Nebraska at home.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I know how we talked about at the beginning of the season, like how the the four non-conference games with Kansas State, Market, Louisville, and Kentucky were the biggest games on the early part of the schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: This is the biggest conference game so far.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I know people are still maybe a little iffy on Nebraska because it's the Nebraska or the wheels going to fall off the bus for this team, but they're 15 and out.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: and they're going to be undefeated coming into assembly hall on Saturday and hopefully your fan base is writing the high of a peach bowl win.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And you can get a lot of people in assembly hall and try and win that game on Saturday.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It would be nice to hand Nebraska their first loss of the year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, at this point, if you're not about it in Nebraska right now, then you just simply aren't paying attention, long as one streak in the country, I keep coming back to it.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: They won the crown last year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They didn't lose their last game last year, and they haven't lost the game this year.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, kind of like via the 2024 Indiana football right now, just nobody knows anything about them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There's a meme I saw somewhere this week where it was Tom Osborne and Bob night sitting next to each other and they just kind of looking and night says, yeah, I don't
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  [SPEAKER_02]: you do not give Fred Hoyberg that 10 season man.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was, it was destiny.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So now, going back to Maryland for a minute, really good all around second half performance, like you mentioned, a horrible shooting first half, two of 12 from the field, from the three in the first half.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And we all know what Indiana's offense looks like when it doesn't hit threes.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And in the first
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  [SPEAKER_02]: that's just a dire setting to play a basketball game in.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There was nobody there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you could hear a fan cell phone ringing on the TV broadcast.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's how bad it was.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Maryland was just their fans are tuned out.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: 630 coming from DC to Maryland.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, good luck with that rush hour.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But then the second half, Indiana, Lamar Wokerson gets hot.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: For the second straight game, oddly enough,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: really efficient offensive performance from a lot of people Connor in right.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's been in double figures though he ever just three and a half a game he's been in double figures two two straight now so looks like maybe they got some things that they worked on.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: over the break when they had that two-week window to sort of like bootcamp it a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The rebound and hasn't been as atrocious they outreed on a Washington who's a much bigger team than them on Sunday night and then tonight they they competed on the boards.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There was a couple of times they missed a free throw block out and Maryland got a three out of it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Overall, I'm not going to say it's a good win because, like I said, that was a horrendous Maryland team, just unspeakably bad got dumped on twice by Reed Bailey bad, but they come out of it with a win that they had to have and they did it convincingly.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't a squeak
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and I think the last couple of Indiana teams probably don't go out there to Maryland against that kind of team and win the way they did tonight.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's probably, it's probably a game.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not saying they would lose, but I think it would probably be more of a game.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So hopefully, the, well, actually, I know for a fact, the coaching is better.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And again, it's the building blocks here.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Of the season you're going to go through like this.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Like you're, you make it run out of the gym in a conference game at some point this year, but if you can go on the road and win in the big tent, it's hard to win on the road in the big tent.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: No matter who you're with, uh, it's, uh, and right thing is the toughest conference to go and win on the road in, and so Indiana is able to do that against Maryland.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And hopefully again, that propels you some momentum going towards Nebraska.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, this is going to be a tough stretch in the month of January.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's brutal.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: What's coming up over the next few weeks?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You got in Nebraska.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Then you go to Michigan State.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You come back and you play Iowa who's just lost last night or Tuesday night to at Minnesota.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You talk about road losses, both these teams are now lost to.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Minnesota on the road in the stretch.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You have Michigan.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You have your LA trip coming up at the end of the month produce in there before the end of the month.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's the eight game stretch.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The eight game stretch.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They have coming up is the maker break moment of their season.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They can obviously go overnight.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's going to tank the season that they do.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They've got to come out of this stretch with winds.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who they're going to come against.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You got a road game at the Brazeln Center coming next week.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You got to protect your home court when you can.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And that starts with the big top 10 matchup against number 10 Nebraska.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The undefeated courant Huskers, and I don't know what that crowd's going to look like because I expect to hear VA huge turnout in Atlanta on Friday night.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So we'll see what the home environments like the students.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think we'll be there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You saw a game of 12,000 fans on Sunday night grant that you said actually kind of showed up and was a little little vibrant.
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a little rest and see what it looks like on Saturday morning at noon, or excuse me, Saturday at noon after the beach ball.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You mentioned the eight games stretch there.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I think ideally, and maybe realistically you would like to come out of that, obviously you'd like to come out.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: just what how tough this league is man.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's just going to be hard.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I think that if you could come out six and two, five and three, I think that is going to look pretty good on your
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  [SPEAKER_03]: uh... resume on selection Sunday and and it just with the again with the next eight games like you just mentioned uh... that's what made tonight just so crucial that they had to win this game transparently had a nice game transparently is had a nice last two games had a good game against watching ten on sunday uh... i think you're gonna start seeing more guys come to life here in the month of January that
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  [SPEAKER_03]: are adapting to college basketball, like Trent Sicily, or adapting to a new system like some of these guys.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So I really hope that things start really clicking on all cylinders for this team.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And Lamar Wogerson is obviously at this point, I think it's pretty clearly as established himself as the guy on this team at the beginning of the year, we thought it was going to be more of a co-number one, Tucker to Varies and Lamar, whoever had the hot hand.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think most nights we all kind of know the first guy that's going to get the shots up and put the points up is probably going to be Lamar.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: For the last two, these two conference ones they've gotten, they've managed to win these games without big nights from Tucker at all.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's been, he's been in a slow stretch, really, almost since the Kentucky game.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's had a couple good shooting nights here and there in the also ran games, but.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: They need him obviously to be a good score, but he's doing a good job of not forcing the issue either.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: You think he's going to go up there and throw up 12 13 shots a game.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But at one point he was one for three from the floor and seen perfectly content because Conorway was putting some points up and in right was in double figures and Read Bailey
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  [SPEAKER_02]: got 15 points tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was a little bit inefficient.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He was four of nine from the field, but did make seven free throws.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And this team hit free throws well tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They were.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They didn't miss one in the first half.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think the only miss four for the game.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They didn't turn the ball over.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Only 10 turnovers tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And one of them was just in garbage time.
• 10:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: They tried to throw a baseball pass and Connor just can't quite catch it on the sideline and just flings it back into the court.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So some things to, the some things positives here, not a great win, but a must win, and they got it done.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for listening to the IE report with Grant Chalson.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Mike Hudson, Greg Mendel as well for the big thanks to him for allowing us to come on here and talk about IE sports, be sure to tune into the Peach Bowl Preview, which will have coming out on Thursday at three o'clock.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's going to be a good one.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So.
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