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After Three Straight Losses, Can Ohio State Basketball Save Their Season? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Tuesday, February twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Or the Texas game in one
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  Speaker 1: we're are you talking about Ohio State basketball men's and
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  Speaker 1: women's And the quality of the vibes depends on whether
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about the men's or the women's team. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to start with the good vibes and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to start with Kevin Noon off bucke Huddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: He was at the women's game on Sunday when the
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes took down Perdue very comfortably in their regular season
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  Speaker 1: home finale, and Kevin, you were there, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: nice win over Purdue and Jolanni Cambridge earned Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: Freshmen of the Week honors. Buckeye women's team looking pretty
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  Speaker 1: good right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they look really good. I mean, I think there's
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  Speaker 2: still a line between USC and UCLA and then the
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  Speaker 2: next cut of teams, whether or not the Ohio State, Maryland,
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  Speaker 2: I mean where, you know, where does Iowa kind of
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  Speaker 2: fit into all of that. But I think Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: would be much more willing to take on those West
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  Speaker 2: Coast teams, maybe somewhere a little closer than going all
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  Speaker 2: the way out to the West Coast. But yeah, Jelanna Cambridge,
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  Speaker 2: real special athlete. Twenty points against Purdue, five to twelve
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  Speaker 2: from I'm sorry, three to five from outside the arc,
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  Speaker 2: just you know, seven to seven from the free throw line.
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  Speaker 2: Just a real solid, steady player. I mean, you always
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  Speaker 2: want to worry just a little bit about turnovers, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, she's done a good job of taking care
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  Speaker 2: of the ball. And you know, while you know, while
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  Speaker 2: there's women's basketball team for Ohio State may not be
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  Speaker 2: right there in that upper cut. As I said in
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  Speaker 2: the of the Big Ten, those first two teams, this
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  Speaker 2: is the type of team that can get hot at
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  Speaker 2: the right time and make make a run because they're
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  Speaker 2: starting to get a little bit more of an inside presence.
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  Speaker 2: Even though maybe maybe it's it's not their Asia Asia
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  Speaker 2: Petty still you know, is is is a load down
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  Speaker 2: there to take care of. But with uh, with with
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  Speaker 2: with with uh, with Emma starting to get some more
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  Speaker 2: minutes there their their European freshman. I think that this
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  Speaker 2: team is starting to round into shape.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not gonna make you say that last name.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay. We just got just uh. Last year had
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  Speaker 1: the Rebecca Michelle, Michilla Losa Cova and see I used
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do it. Now I can't do
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  Speaker 1: it this year. To me, haven't haven't had to, haven't
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  Speaker 1: had to say her name in a while. Mikilskakova. Uh, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: she's she's not on the team anymore. And I have
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  Speaker 1: another difficult to pronounce last name. So but you know, overall,
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  Speaker 1: looking at this women's team looking ahead to March and
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  Speaker 1: you know you're you're getting there to March now less
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  Speaker 1: than a week away. How does this team stack up
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  Speaker 1: with kind of what you generally need to make a run?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I look at at March and I think, okay,
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  Speaker 1: how's the guard play? How do they do in terms
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  Speaker 1: of turnovers? Are they super reliant on one person to score?
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  Speaker 1: You know, can they hold up to a team that
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  Speaker 1: has a lot of bigs. Are there any real obvious
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  Speaker 1: red flags or any obvious spots where it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they check some of the boxes that you need to
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  Speaker 1: check to make a pretty good run in March?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it's all little. You know,
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  Speaker 2: still can be a little hit or miss, and you
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  Speaker 2: know that's okay. They still have a couple of games left.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I think that they don't really rely
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  Speaker 2: upon just one person to carry the water for them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you have Cody McMahon, You've got Jelani Cambridge,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean right there, those two combined for
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  Speaker 2: thirty six points. Chance Gray had a huge game, twenty
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  Speaker 2: one points. You're not going to get twenty one points
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  Speaker 2: out of Chance Gray all the time. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you get twelve out of Asia Asia Petty, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't even need Taylor Theory to have a big game.
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  Speaker 2: She was held to just two points there. So I
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  Speaker 2: think they've got multiple scores. I think that you know,
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  Speaker 2: they were they were fifty one point nine percent from
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  Speaker 2: three point land. That's probably a pipe dream once you
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  Speaker 2: kind of get into the playoffs. This was not a
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  Speaker 2: very good Purdue team seventeenth out of eighteen teams in
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  Speaker 2: the Big Ten going into that game. But I think
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  Speaker 2: that I think that there's a lot there that fits well.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just going to kind of be a matter
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  Speaker 2: of can you stay hot, can you get the guard play?
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  Speaker 2: And we know that the tournament, both Big ten and
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  Speaker 2: NC two A is all about matchups, and they're just
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  Speaker 2: some teams that they're going to get, you know, that
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  Speaker 2: they match up better against. I would you know, I
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  Speaker 2: would prefer to see them not go against teams that
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  Speaker 2: really run inside out offense and having to and trade
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  Speaker 2: paint in the in the paint because it's probably not
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  Speaker 2: what they're built.
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  Speaker 1: For right now. Just to give you an update, they
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  Speaker 1: are a four seed in bracketology, and just as a reminder,
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  Speaker 1: the women's tournament the top four seeds in each region
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  Speaker 1: they get to host those first couple rounds. So assuming
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  Speaker 1: they stay kind of where they are in the bracket,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe move up a little bit, they would get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to host the first couple rounds in the
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  Speaker 1: Shotenstein Center. They got to do that last year as well.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen Big Ten teams currently projected to be in thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: That is a crazy high number and buck guys right
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  Speaker 1: now third in the conference. In the women's standings, as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, USC and UCLA a combined twenty nine and
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  Speaker 1: two in league play by the buck Eyes twelve and
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  Speaker 1: four in third place, one game ahead of Maryland and
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  Speaker 1: a game and a half ahead of Illinois. So should
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  Speaker 1: have a pretty good seat in that Big Ten women's
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  Speaker 1: tournament and have a chance to maybe pick up some
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  Speaker 1: more quality wins as they as they make a case
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  Speaker 1: for the Big Dance and where they end up there.
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  Speaker 1: Now onto the men's team, and oh boy, not the
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  Speaker 1: vibes not as good. Let's say they lost Ucla over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. They've kind of hit the skids, and boy,
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  Speaker 1: every time they lose a game, it feels like you
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  Speaker 1: look at you look down at the paint, and it's like, boy,
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  Speaker 1: they could really use another big keep. I keep thinking
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  Speaker 1: back to Felix Ocpara, who last year was one of
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  Speaker 1: the Buck guys, one of the Buckeye centers. And I
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  Speaker 1: think everyone as soon as I say that name, if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't thought about him in a while, as probably like, hmm,
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  Speaker 1: they could really use a Felix ac par on this team. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: he transferred to Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did. Ohio State goes into the portal, gets
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  Speaker 2: a couple of five star as recruit sinners. Unfortunately, it
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  Speaker 2: just hasn't worked out the way they would like. There's
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  Speaker 2: just kind of been like an alternating thing of not
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  Speaker 2: either having Sean Stewart or Aaron Bradshaw. They've not had
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Bradshaw. Ohio State doing its West coast wing right now,
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  Speaker 2: played at UCLA, will stay out west, then we'll play
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  Speaker 2: at USC kind of the way that they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: help with some of the travel concerns with this national
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  Speaker 2: conference that the Big ten is, but not having you know,
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  Speaker 2: not having that presence there, they're having to throw guys
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  Speaker 2: that maybe aren't ready out there. I mean it's Austin
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  Speaker 2: Parks has been seeing more minutes here as of late.
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  Speaker 2: He had three points in fourteen minutes. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're just they're kind of getting eight up there, and
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  Speaker 2: then you look at what happens is they can't really
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  Speaker 2: drive to the ten, so they're having to settle for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of jumpers. John Mobley Junior had eight points
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  Speaker 2: three at ten shooting. Devin Royal is hit little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a sophomore slump six points. He's had a couple
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  Speaker 2: of difficult games right there. And then you know, as
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  Speaker 2: I said, Sean Stewart had two points four fouls, only
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  Speaker 2: played twelve minutes. So when your best skilled big is
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  Speaker 2: only seeing twelve minutes because of being in just constant
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  Speaker 2: foul trouble, that's you know, that's problematic. So yeah, Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State had a nice schedule set up toward the end
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  Speaker 2: to maybe a mass a couple of wins, a couple
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  Speaker 2: have gotten away from them. It's it's starting to look bleak.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody had said, well, they're they're definitely going
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  Speaker 2: to be in the Big Ten tournament because they're only
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  Speaker 2: taking fifteen teams of the eighteen that math has had.
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  Speaker 2: They're not. They haven't secured that yet, so they need
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  Speaker 2: to figure some things out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they could technically fall outside of that Big Ten tournament.
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  Speaker 1: They are seven and ten sorry right now in conference,
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  Speaker 1: eleventh in the league. But they they have three winnable
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  Speaker 1: games left, but they also have three loser games left.
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  Speaker 1: They're at USC home for Nebraska at Indiana, and as
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  Speaker 1: I said, they're eleventh of the Big Ten right now,
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  Speaker 1: and if you look at bracket matrix, They are right
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  Speaker 1: on the NCAA tournament bubble where most sources have them in,
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  Speaker 1: but there are a few that have them out. CBS,
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  Speaker 1: for example, does not have them in the field of
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight. Right now, this just feels like you got
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  Speaker 1: three regular season games left that I just went through.
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  Speaker 1: You've probably got a winnable game. You win one, you
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  Speaker 1: win two of those, and you win one in the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten tournament, you're probably comfortably in. If you win
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  Speaker 1: less than that, then you're probably having a nervous and
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  Speaker 1: or disappointing selection Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And you know, I think that the Big
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  Speaker 2: Ten is going to get some you know, get some
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  Speaker 2: props when it comes to the selection committee. This is
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  Speaker 2: all speculation, just like we had to try and speculate
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  Speaker 2: what the CFP committee is going to do. But there's
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  Speaker 2: something to be said about how you approach the finish line.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, Ohio State is rolling and tumbling and
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  Speaker 2: spontaneously combusting and not really a good look right now.
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  Speaker 2: So those winnable games they need, they need to win
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  Speaker 2: a couple of them, and it would it'd be nice
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  Speaker 2: to make a little bit of a splash in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 2: Let's remember when John Jake Diebler was the interim head
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  Speaker 2: coach and it got named the full blown head coach.
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  Speaker 2: They caught a little fire toward the end. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to trying to find the side hatch into
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  Speaker 2: the tournament. Unfortunately that run came up short. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll see, We'll see, but this team needs
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  Speaker 2: to show a lot more hard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see where that team goes. We will also
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  Speaker 1: see this is that's not the only thing that the
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  Speaker 1: only time Indianapolis is going to come up on this
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  Speaker 1: week's shows. Kevin and Tony are about to head to
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis for the if the NFL Combine. That is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the topic this of pretty much the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the show is this week. Wanted to get a
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  Speaker 1: basketball show in here today just because we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be talking a whole lot of football and a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of NFL Combine and the rest of the week.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, you got your little dose of basketball.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have more, I'm sure coming out it is. March
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  Speaker 1: is on the way, but this week is going to
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  Speaker 1: be all about the NFL Combine. Buckeyes with fifteen players
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  Speaker 1: there most in the nation, It's one of those good
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  Speaker 1: news bad news situations. But there's gonna be plenty to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this week as we talk about all those
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes headed off the NFL, and there's gonna be plenty
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  Speaker 1: to talk about all of March as we talk basketball,
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  Speaker 1: but of course also talk about replacing those fifteen guys
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  Speaker 1: who are at the NFL Combine on this year's upcoming
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State football team as they take off spring practice
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  Speaker 1: in just a few weeks. A great place to talk
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  Speaker 1: about all of that, well, that would be Buckeye Huddle
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  Speaker 1: dot com. That's where Kevin, Tony and Nike over the team,
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  Speaker 1: OURK covers recruiting. We got our whole team of x's
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  Speaker 1: and those gurus there as well to make you a
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  Speaker 1: smarter football fan. All at Buckeyehuddle dot com. We hope
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  Speaker 1: to see you there. That'll do it for today. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.