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Iowa vs. Nebraska Preview, Iowa State vs. Tennessee, MLB Opening Day, Hawkeye Radio Analyst Bobby Hansen · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  All right, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on an
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  opening day Thursday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Trent Condon and Ken Miller for the next two hours talking
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  baseball with you. Not really.
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  But I just wonder if you're paying attention.
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  We will talk a little bit of baseball, but it is the Sweet
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  16. It's underway tonight at 6:00,
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  including Iowa, Nebraska. Here's what's coming up on our
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  program is Trent Condon and myself, Ken Miller with you
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  until 2:00. Bottom of the hour, A Bobby
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  Hansen, the analyst for men's basketball at the University of
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  Iowa, former NBA player, former Hawkeye, former Dowling Catholic
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  maroon Bobby Hansen coming up here at 12:30 on tonight's
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  matchup against Nebraska. Carrie Miller covers college
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  basketball on a national basis for Bleacher Report.
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  He joins us to kick off our second hour.
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  So about one O 2 Carrie Miller will be here.
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  We'll take a look at more just the two needle movers, Iowa
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  State tomorrow, Tennessee and of course Iowa.
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  Nebraska will take a look around the remaining Sweet 16 games
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  with Carrie Miller. Look forward to doing that.
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  And then off to Houston we'll go and Stephen M Simple will join
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  us or back to Houston, I guess Stephen M Simple will join us.
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  We'll get his thoughts on from a Britain Nebraska perspective
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  What he expects to see. I think Nebraska will actually
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  be on the floor when sip tox does Bobby Hansen will be
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  watching Iowa go through their shoot when he talks to us.
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  Yeah, I was got the floor from 10 till or from noon rather till
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  just before 1 and then Nebraska follows.
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  So we get simple get Bobby Hansen.
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  We'll have you covered on Iowa Nebraska just a it just feels
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  different doesn't it? Last week it was great.
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  This just elevates it to another level.
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  Can you imagine? Do you dare to imagine what the?
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  Following week would be like a final four.
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  I mean, they're two wins away. Both schools are two wins away.
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  And for Iowa, it's a coin flip, this one for Iowa State, it's a
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  goal, Eileen, yes, that you're a good favorite in and then when
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  to get there. When to get there?
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  Iowa State hasn't been to an Elite 8 in 26 years and they.
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  Got screwed a where the game was played and I hated the fact that
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  Eustacia did not get a good whistle.
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  Of course he was up against. Well, I would push back on where
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  the game was played. Was played in Michigan.
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  Right, they were the number one seat.
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  Well, get it. But sure, it was played in
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  Michigan and it didn't hurt. This wasn't like.
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  It didn't hurt Michigan State when the game was played.
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  That was an advantage, but they didn't get screwed.
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  They're A2 seat, the other team was A1 seat.
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  All right, well, it it didn't help where the game.
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  Was no, absolutely not. I'm not disagreeing on that.
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  I don't that's the one part they got a bad whistle.
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  They did, absolutely. Yeah.
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  And I hated to see him walk off the floor if.
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  Florida would had to play Houston and Houston that's
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  getting screwed. Yeah, we're number one seed has
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  to play in a 2. You know that would.
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  I think whoever plays Houston is getting screwed because they're
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  mile and 1/2 from campus for. Absolutely.
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  It's actually 2.1. Get it right?
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  Is that what it is? 2.1 miles from the from campus
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  to the Toyota Center. You're in the front door, 22
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  miles. It was a bus trip.
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  It took 5 minutes. It's like Drake played a Sweet
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  16 game in. Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo, KC
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  Center. Yeah.
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  I'm not sure that'll happen, but we will.
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  Who knows? I didn't see this coming.
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  I don't think very many people did.
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  How do you feel about the game Coin Flip?
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  It is. Both of the games earlier this
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  year were coin flips. Yeah, I don't see a decided
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  advantage one way or the other. And from the Iowa perspective, I
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  feel very confident now, Husker fans, that I know you're, you're
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  a very, very delicate bunch. You don't like what I mean to
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  you. But just listen.
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  Ben McCullum is a better X's and O's coach than Fred Hoiberg.
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  It's not that Fred Hoiberg's not a good coach, because he is.
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  He's an excellent coach. But Ben McCullum, and with the
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  success that he has had in tournament games, Fred Hoiberg
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  hasn't. Lane McCollum, OK, best player
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  now for Iowa. That best player has not played.
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  Great. Hasn't had for the last couple
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  of weeks. It's been weeks.
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  That is a concern. Sanford can shoot it in a big
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  time way, but they also have a bunch of different weapons
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  advantage. Huskers, I think roster wise by
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  an inch. Yeah, I think you've more than
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  an inch. I think they have a better
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  roster or certainly one through weight and even starting line up
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  they're better. Who's going to dictate style,
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  Who's going to? It's my column.
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  They have a team that's been able to speed them up this year.
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  Yeah, you. Just you can't.
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  You can't do it. They will.
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  And if they dictate that that very easily it comes down to 3
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  point shooting. Look at the first game, both
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  teams didn't shoot it well from three, we had more points.
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  In the second game, what happened?
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  Both teams shot it better from behind the three-point arc.
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  It's not wild that these regular season ended with that match up.
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  The last regular season game of the year, yeah, it was, and I
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  was been involved in a lot of those, which I think is awesome.
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  I do too. Yes, it was Illinois for a
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  couple of years. You know what?
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  But keep it as those two schools, those two games, yes, I
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  play Illinois or I play Nebraska.
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  That would be wonderful. Call it into the Big 10 offices.
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  Think they'll take our call? No, right.
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  Probably not. Probably not going to happen.
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  I see it as a koi flip there. There's nothing that I think you
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  can point to and say, Oh yeah, this is going to be different
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  this time. And when it comes to?
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  Well, you know what might be different this time?
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  Do you remember who had the, I mean, a career game?
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  His last name's Jacobson. I don't know his first name.
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  Kale. Kale.
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  How did I miss that name? It's my son's name.
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  But regardless, he, he, he had an unbelievable day, an
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  unbelievable day. When they pulled away in
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  overtime, it was back-to-back three said it was him.
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  Yeah, it was. It was him.
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  There is one guy, though, that does concern me that hasn't
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  played great. And he is a guy that asked no,
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  because mass finally started to heat up.
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  He was shooting terribly before the last three.
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  Yeah, Yeah, he was. Really.
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  The guy's name, That's really hard to pronounce.
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  No. OK.
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  How do you pronounce it? Starts with AB.
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  Buck Chanel. I guess so.
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  Butt dart, that's what I'll go with.
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  OK, Braden Frager, the kid who was photographed, Do you
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  remember this? It was that game, I think it
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  was. Hoiberg called the time out.
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  The team gathered on the floor. Frager was in somewhat of a mood
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  that he was not being used properly or he wanted more
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  minutes. And he was pouting.
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  And he sat on the bench and it was captured in a photo and
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  placed on Twitter. Like, what's this guy up to?
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  Frager has not played. Well, he did.
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  This against against Iowa. I was gonna say he's had some
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  moments in this tournament. He's played great, yeah, in both
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  tournament games. And this is a guy that can go
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  off. He is long.
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  He is lanky. He is a Nebraska native.
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  I was gonna say he's a local. Kid.
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  Yes, he's a Lincoln kid. And he is a guy that hasn't
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  looked great against Iowa, so you might kind of forget about
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  him as a Hawkeye fan. Who who's shut him down?
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  Do you know? Have they gone?
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  I don't know if he was to do that.
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  I don't think so. I mean, he's not a guy that is
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  tough, but he can go off and that's a guy a little bit lower
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  That does concern me a little bit.
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  He's got length, he's got shooting ability, He's got a lot
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  of things that could cause some problems.
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  So if you're looking for maybe that guy a little bit further
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  down the depth chart, he would be one that I would look at.
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  Another concerning angle for me from the Iowa perspective is
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  Isaiah Howard, who was such a tremendous defender.
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  But that air ball and it, it wasn't just that.
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  The free throw, you mean? Oh.
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  Yeah, he offensively looked scared in that game when he was
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  in there when he got the basketball, he couldn't get it
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  out of his hands any quicker. And they're going to need that
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  secondary scoring. I mean, is the likelihood that
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  suddenly after three weeks of Bennett stirred, struggling,
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  he's going to go off for 33? I I don't think so.
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  I don't. Sunday to Thursday, turn around.
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  Wish they'd played tomorrow, yeah?
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  That that extra day definitely would help them.
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  I don't think you can count on Bennett Sturt's finally going
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  off because we just haven't seen it for since the Ohio State home
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  game. It's been a long time.
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  It it has. So you need secondary scoring.
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  Is TBM Banks going to do that again?
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  No, I will say this. He hasn't played well in some
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  areas, scoring well, he hasn't, but he's still got to go in
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  between the years. Oh, absolutely, yes.
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  And so smart. He had a bucket the last minute
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  of the game that was incredibly important.
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  So and he said, and I loved his mindset, he said yesterday
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  during media availability. You know, if I'm over 20, I'm
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  still going to shoot. That's what I do.
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  I have confidence of myself. My team has confidence to be.
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  I loved hearing that and it didn't seem like.
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  Was he on a podium or was he? So was it at the locker room?
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  OK, So what was the media attendance like?
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  Did you get a look at? That not sure.
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  Anxious to see how many people went down.
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  You need secondary scoring, though.
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  Yeah, Cooper Koch went off in Lincoln.
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  Yeah, he's been Red House. Cooper Koch went off in.
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  Where were they, Tampa? So the blueprint here starts at
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  minimum say he goes 3 and 9 from three.
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  Would you sign up for that right now?
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  Yeah, I mean, he's old for 9:00. OnStar overnight you get 3 more
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  from Cooper. Catch Cale Combs went off in
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  Lincoln. That was one of his best games
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  and we've seen that at moments this year.
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  And Banks is playing well right now.
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  But The X Factor and we've set it now for 35.
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  Games the guy that made the three.
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  Alvaro Fulgaris, What he does very well determines this game.
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  Could be if they get good Al. Iowa wins, they get bad out.
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  I will lose this. I mean, is that maybe the most
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  succinct way to look at this basketball game?
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  Well, it's certainly, it's certainly a layer of a Trent.
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  I don't disagree with you there. Because look, the whole, the
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  whole season long, our conversation was, well, if
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  Sturtz goes, so go the Hawks. And if Sturtz isn't playing well
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  and if Sturtz isn't this and now they're essentially Maryland,
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  well, we've we've seen them get help in other areas.
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  And Phil Garris was certainly one of those.
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  And Koch has been really good Combs.
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  I think the way Banks has played this this post season has been
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  terrific. Yes, he really has come a long
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  way. Let's take Jim real quick and
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  then we'll get back into it. Jim, welcome to the program.
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  How are you? Hey guys, can't can't wait till
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  6:30. I agree with everything you guys
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  said. I think I'll be shocked if
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  Sanford and Sturtz don't cancel each other out.
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  In my opinion it's going to come down to Koch and Fulgaris
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  against those two guys you mentioned.
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  They can't. Jacobson And who's the other
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  kid? Frager.
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  Frager, I think those those are your difference and then banks
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  against mast but. Throw Sam Wyberg into the mixed
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  time Wybridge. A hell of a year.
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  Lloyd Berg against McCombs, that'll be another big match up.
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  I think those Bulgaris and Cots against those two, that Jacobson
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  and Prager, I think that'll be the difference.
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  Like you guys said, hopefully. Did somebody fly Fulgaris's mom
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  to the game? She is going to be there and
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  Nacho is also there. His brother and he had a great
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  game when Nacho was in attendance.
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  But didn't Nacho go to Lincoln when they got beat?
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  I don't believe. So, OK, well, good.
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  I'd be back after the casino and put more money down on my money
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  there. You go Atta boy, Jim.
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  Well. Done good after Jim.
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  Enjoy your enjoy the game tonight.
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  Best of luck to you if you are making some wagers and best of
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  luck to all the Hawkeye fans that are listening out there.
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  It would be unbelievable. I I know truly this is such
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  rarefied air rights. I don't have to remind anybody
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  where we're at and how long this has been and where wherever this
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  weekend might be taking us with both teams can be dare to dream.
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  Let me get. No, I just too soon.
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  Maybe we'll do that. But we're not on the air
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  Saturday. Here's Andy.
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  Last time we spoke with Andy, Andy was driving to Houston.
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  So obviously you've made it. How long was the drive and
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  whereabouts are you now? So we got in at 2:00 AM, about
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  13 hour. Well, it took us 14 hours.
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  We'd stopped about 15 minutes every place, only like 4 times.
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  But I'm currently standing outside the Toyota Center.
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  Nice. Any Hawkeye fans there?
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  Hawkeye, Andy. Not yet.
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  We did see a couple of couple enemy Husker fans this morning.
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  They were a little cocky, they said.
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  They said good luck in a tone I didn't really appreciate.
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  Of course, then a couple of older fans had Nebraska football
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  shirts because I don't think. From the 90s.
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  Yeah, exactly. They're all great.
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  They're all creating fans till last year.
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  That's funny. So how do you feel?
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  Give me, give me a prediction. What's going to happen tonight,
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  Andy? I don't know.
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  I'm, I'm with you guys in a coin flip, but you know what?
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  I think Ben's been studying film all night.
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  I think Bennett goes for five threes, 20 some points, 8
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  assists. I think Tate Sage is my dark
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  horse. He's going to step up tonight.
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  I'm going to go with Tate Sage. I'm going to go Hawks 73, Bug
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  Eaters 70. It'd.
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  Be a hell of a game, hell of a game.
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  So you'll stay for, you'll stay for Saturday, Andy, if they if
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  they get through the night. Absolutely.
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  Yep, we're here. We're here till Saturday.
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  Good stuff man, enjoy the game, rooting for your squad, bring
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  back. A couple of wins, Andy,
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  absolutely. I will try.
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  Thank you guys. Have fun.
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  Good to hear from you. Here's Thunder Joe.
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  Hello, Joe. How are you?
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  Hey, good afternoon. I.
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  Wanted to get tell you guys this.
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  I got a hot bet for you today. Oh no, is this going to be like
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  the 73 win bet you had for us last time, Joe?
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  I I I don't understand your language buddy.
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  Hey. Put money on Tyler.
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  O'Neill to hit a home run today. Tyler O'Neill to hit a home run
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  today. What kind of odds are we talking
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  about here? And why?
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  It's plus 350. I'm going to tell you why.
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  But your Canadian but your Canadian brethren and Tyler
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  O'Neill. OK.
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  He passed 6 opening days. He's homework.
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  Wow, really? That's wild.
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  Yes Huh, I didn't know that. And he's plus 3:50 to do it
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  today. Plus 3:50 to do it.
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  I'm in, I mean. I know I looked at him like one
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  what are two opening days in a row but no fixed.
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  No kidding. And who's pitching?
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  Joe Ryan? Well, Joe Ryan for the Twins.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right.
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  And and, well, good stuff. We'll watch that.
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  Joe. Appreciate the heads up. 3 1/2
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  to one on Tyler O'Neill to make it 7 opening days in a row.
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  Thanks, Joe. Appreciate it.
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  Yeah, it is. Absolutely.
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  See you, pal. Good to hear from you.
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  Oh, by the way, there's baseball on NBC.
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  There is, yes. I mean, this is great.
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  What a way to kick it off with ball skeens on them.
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  Peralta versus Skeens live from Citi Field.
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  We were speculating before we went on the air.
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  How about this? So we're talking about who the
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  announcer is going to, because Bonetti is going to be the voice
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  of Sunday Night Baseball, who's awesome.
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  They're going to have a rotating analyst, so they go do a Mets
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  game. It might be Keith Hernandez.
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  Yeah. What?
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  How cool. That'll be, that's what.
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  They could do, I do remember you saying.
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  That and you know, there's very few guys I think could do that
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  outside of Jason Panetti. That's just the guy.
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  Talk about talent. Just he is so accommodating, so
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  understanding, he can mold himself.
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  What's his weakness? He doesn't have.
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  One I don't think he does. He is an incredible broadcaster,
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  football, Westwood one and then, well, they needed him for CBS so
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  he had to call in. The season was sick.
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  Yes, he was on the SI Media podcast with Jimmy Trina today
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  and was listening to his like well I had to ask my new bosses
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  and they were OK with it so made that happen.
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  Tigers baseball full time NBC Sunday night baseball college
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  football? Is he ESPN for college football?
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  Where was he? Was he at Fox FS1 or one of the
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  one on Fox? He's he's fantastic.
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  He truly is fantastic. So last night on Netflix, it
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  was. So I never saw pitch.
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  My wife had the TV and I was not.
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  You can talk her out of. No, I couldn't.
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  Whatever tried. Yes, yes.
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  You tried it, didn't I? Did, didn't and and I think and
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  by the time I no, I don't want to get into her personal life.
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  I didn't win, you didn't win. So Veserjian had the call.
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  He was with Henner Punts and CC Sabath Hunter.
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  Pence, CC Sabathian, Math Vescarjian.
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  And I had it on, but I just didn't.
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  I mean, I'd pick anything up here and get kids run around and
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  everything else and just have the volume down.
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  Vescarjian calls angels broadcast I think is that.
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  Where he is now, I think he is, yeah.
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  And he's good, Yeah, yeah. But very solid.
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  Where did? He start.
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  Was he the batteries? No.
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  I mean, where did we first see him?
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  Didn't he? Wasn't there a sports show that
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  has a real stupid Your sports stocks or you?
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  The best damn sports. Show.
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  That's it. OK, he was part of.
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  That I think he hosted that. Yeah, he was with the Padres.
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  That's where I remember him. He was with the Brewers.
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  That was in fact, his first gig. 97 to old.
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  How old do you think the Surgeon is?
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  Well, if you say that was his first gig, so he's probably 25
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  then. And that was 30 years ago, mid
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  50s. Yeah, he's 58.
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  I would have guessed like 52 because it feels maybe it's
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  because he's always had a younger face.
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  But did he host that damn sports show?
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  I'm almost positive, yeah, that he was who?
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  Was on that with him. Well, it was Tom Arnold.
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  Yeah, I was I. Don't remember that.
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  You don't remember Tom Arnold? I mean, I don't remember him
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  being part of it. No, I don't think I ever watched
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  it. I did a few times.
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  Did you? Yeah, it was.
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  Because I don't listen to sports talk radio and I don't watch
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  those shows. We need to get a game of the
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  week. I'm kind of scrolling through
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  here. He was with ESPN for all but
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  yeah, Angels the most recently. But anyway, he's the 1:00
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  calling the NBC game now. This first one here SO.
• 17:35
  He's in New York. He went.
• 17:38
  He went from. San Fran San Fran caught a red
• 17:41
  eye. That had to be like a private
• 17:44
  plane, didn't it? I mean, there's no way.
• 17:46
  Chris Rose, thank you to. Chris Rose, That's another
• 17:49
  baseball guy, right? At least I think of it as.
• 17:51
  He is, yes. So.
• 17:53
  Chris Rose, I was absolutely baffled to see he was the one
• 17:57
  cuz I was like he's there now. Is Benetti going to be doing
• 17:59
  this game or they got another game coming up and he is doing
• 18:01
  the game tonight with the Dodgers and the D backs.
• 18:03
  That'll be on. Where do you?
• 18:04
  Where do you? Finding these announcers.
• 18:06
  Five O 6 sports where I find 6 sports where I find all the
• 18:08
  maps. Let's see.
• 18:10
  And what else do we have nationally?
• 18:11
  Nationally, nothing on tomorrow. Got a couple of Apple TV Plus
• 18:15
  games already. Yuck.
• 18:17
  Jesus, who's on Apple tomorrow? Let's see tomorrow Apple has the
• 18:22
  Angels at the Astros and the Guardians at the Mariners some
• 18:27
  good news also Speaking of baseball on TV and then we'll
• 18:31
  talk little Cyclones. We can't forget about that match
• 18:33
  up. After breaking down to Iowa and
• 18:36
  Nebraska, DIRECTV has signed a deal with all the teams that
• 18:42
  were kind of pending like they did last year with the Twins and
• 18:46
  the Rangers. And there's like a dozen.
• 18:47
  Of those, so it's up to 14 teams total I believe now is the
• 18:50
  number. But yeah, there was a press
• 18:52
  release that went out late last night.
• 18:54
  I retweeted it on the Miller and content account.
• 18:55
  If you are a DIRECTV subscribers, kind of not myself
• 18:58
  are. But if you were wondering what's
• 19:00
  MLBTV going to look like if I get extra headings package this
• 19:03
  year, am I going to be missing some teams?
• 19:05
  Not going to be the case. What about ESPN Plus?
• 19:09
  I don't know how that works together.
• 19:10
  I mean, it's something I'm going to have to play with because
• 19:12
  with ESPN Plus, you're supposed to get these games with MLBTV,
• 19:16
  but do you have to buy MLBTV on the site?
• 19:19
  I I don't know. It is very even for me who I
• 19:22
  consider myself pretty good at this stuff.
• 19:24
  It's a lot. It has a lot to figure out to
• 19:27
  simplify it as I go back to my old man stage, I'll just be able
• 19:31
  to flip on my TV, flip front, DIRECTV and be able to watch the
• 19:35
  Twins, the Brewers, the White Sox, the Cubs, the Cardinals and
• 19:38
  the Royals. And that's what I need.
• 19:41
  All right, so Iowa State, they will be at the United Center at
• 19:44
  some point here. I, I, I would think they may be
• 19:46
  on the floor right now. OK.
• 19:48
  They'll either be the, they'll either get the, the first
• 19:51
  opportunity or you know, the Tennessee will go 1st and Iowa
• 19:55
  State will go second. But regardless, I would think
• 19:58
  that we would get some Jefferson news.
• 20:01
  TJ yesterday, by the way, did you hear his opening press
• 20:04
  conference? I did, yes.
• 20:05
  And the before anybody even asked him the question, he
• 20:08
  wanted to start by saying he's Iowa State's head coach.
• 20:10
  Do you believe him? Yes I do.
• 20:14
  I don't believe any coach though that says anything.
• 20:19
  Well, I didn't. I heard Tommy Lloyd and I heard
• 20:21
  TJ Otzelberger. And when you put the two
• 20:24
  together, Tommy Lloyd, if you're an Arizona fan, you're a little
• 20:28
  nervous. I think if you're an Iowa State
• 20:29
  fan, I, I think he said the man, I, I think he, he calmed the
• 20:34
  nerves. Oh yeah.
• 20:36
  Absolutely. The only thing that would
• 20:38
  concern me, and I don't think he's going to North Carolina.
• 20:41
  I don't. And you said it earlier in the
• 20:44
  week and I didn't realize it was what, it's only $4 million.
• 20:47
  The buyout went the buyout, and it's not that it's just $4
• 20:50
  million. It was once 18 in his previous
• 20:53
  contract. The new contract, it was down to
• 20:55
  four. That is something that just
• 20:57
  lingers in the back of my mind, and I don't think that I'm
• 21:01
  alone. We've seen coaches say the exact
• 21:03
  same thing before. How many times do people say
• 21:05
  that Matt Campbell's never going to leave Ames?
• 21:07
  He left Ames. It's coaches in general.
• 21:11
  It's not an Iowa State thing. It has nothing to do with TJ
• 21:13
  Otzenberger. It's none of that.
• 21:14
  It's. Just coaches, with one
• 21:15
  exception. What's that?
• 21:17
  Iowa football? Kirk, two different times was
• 21:20
  very close. I know he.
• 21:22
  Kicked the tires, You're right. But he stayed.
• 21:24
  Yes, he stayed and it doesn't mean that TJ won't stay or will
• 21:28
  leave. It's just coaches in general.
• 21:30
  This is the business. And then we got Will Wade.
• 21:33
  Because how about this? Back to LSU with a strong ass
• 21:37
  offer apparently from the Tigers to go back there.
• 21:39
  So he's heading back there. You talk about two more
• 21:42
  unlikable coaches, Lane Kiffin and Will Wade.
• 21:47
  Try to find a better combination.
• 21:49
  Well, how about LSU and what they're selling with throwing
• 21:51
  the throwing women's hoops? Oh yeah, absolutely.
• 21:54
  Monkey. Yeah, How about that treasure
• 21:56
  trio early? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 22:00
  So I just texted Bill Seals to see what time they take the
• 22:02
  floor. Doctor Fuller texted me and said
• 22:04
  the home team goes second. So that would make sense.
• 22:06
  So Nebraska would be the lower seed.
• 22:09
  Higher. How do we is it a lower, higher?
• 22:12
  They're the four. I was the 9:00.
• 22:13
  So Nebraska goes second on the floor, which is why simple when
• 22:17
  we're talking to him, Nebraska will be doing going through
• 22:19
  their motions. We talked about this a lot this
• 22:21
  week, Tennessee. I think there's two big
• 22:23
  concerns. The first is the offensive
• 22:25
  rebounding, and certainly if Jefferson can't go or if he is
• 22:29
  limited, Jefferson is not a tremendous athlete.
• 22:34
  That's not the way that you would describe his game.
• 22:36
  He's incredibly skilled basketball player, but he's not
• 22:38
  a leaper. He's not a guy that jumps out of
• 22:40
  the gym. He's a solid rebounder.
• 22:42
  But Tennessee has size and athleticism up front and they
• 22:46
  rebound 44.8% of their misses. I mean, just think of that.
• 22:52
  You put a shot up on the rim and almost half the time they're
• 22:54
  getting the rebound. When this year did they play a
• 22:57
  team that exhibits the defensive prowess that Iowa State was
• 23:01
  there? Did they play Houston in Vegas?
• 23:03
  They did, and they beat them. And they beat Houston.
• 23:05
  They beat Houston. All right, well, that one that
• 23:07
  gets your attention. Absolutely the team.
• 23:10
  That was Vegas, very similar. The players are a tournament
• 23:13
  now, remember. Houston got off to a slow start.
• 23:14
  It wasn't just that lost, they had a couple other close calls
• 23:17
  that wasn't the same. They also lost to Kansas, lost
• 23:22
  to Syracuse, lost to Illinois in conference play.
• 23:26
  Looking at other teams. Kentucky beat him twice, right?
• 23:28
  Yes, they played Florida now it was in the O Dome close game
• 23:36
  Tennessee got throttled 9167. That is one that kind of makes
• 23:41
  you say and in that game they only had six offensive rebounds.
• 23:46
  Now, a bigger frontline, obviously Florida than what Iowa
• 23:48
  State has, but that's the component you look at.
• 23:51
  If Tennessee is making a couple of shots and getting offensive
• 23:54
  rebounds, all right, there's the path to victory for the balls.
• 23:57
  I don't think it's going to happen.
• 23:58
  I think the pressure that they're going to put on
• 24:01
  Gillespie, on Boswell, on A meant when he's got the ball a.
• 24:04
  Meant you can blow on him and he's going to fall over.
• 24:07
  He's 610 or six. 11205 lbs. That's skin and bones.
• 24:12
  He's talented though. No, he's a talented.
• 24:14
  He's a good player. I agree with you.
• 24:16
  He's a, he's a freshman. He's getting all these accolades
• 24:19
  for a reason, but he's kind of built like Wim Benon, just a
• 24:21
  little shorter, maybe a little skinnier.
• 24:24
  That's tough to do. It is.
• 24:25
  Yeah. And he's at 74.
• 24:27
  Right, as opposed to 6. Ten.
• 24:29
  Yeah, 6:10 That's six thatches a big, big difference.
• 24:32
  I think it's kind of simple. Like if Gillespie's really good
• 24:35
  and I want to see the same team of Lipsy we saw against
• 24:38
  Kentucky, well, that's be aggressive, right?
• 24:39
  Be aggressive. Don't.
• 24:43
  Don't settle. This is it.
• 24:45
  Oh Matt's fancy. It's going to be a long year 2.
• 24:48
  Nothing, nobody out first ending.
• 24:50
  The Pirates jumped on Peralta. Did you get your Pirates over
• 24:53
  bed on before the season? No, no.
• 24:56
  I did not, although I think they're going to finish third in
• 24:58
  a division. They're going to be better in
• 25:00
  Cincinnati. Yeah, I think they.
• 25:01
  Are did they finish second? Perhaps, but the Brewers always
• 25:05
  overachieve. We'll head to Houston next.
• 25:07
  Bobby Hansen standing by. I look forward to catching up
• 25:11
  with Bobby Hansen. That's next.
• 25:13
  In the second hour of the program, Carrie Miller from the
• 25:15
  Bleacher Report. We'll take a look at all the
• 25:17
  Sweet 16 games and then Stephen M Simple on Nebraska.
• 25:22
  Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 25:25
  I'm Millery Condon. Welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio
• 25:28
  Network, off to Houston momentarily just to answer the
• 25:31
  question that we were unsure of earlier.
• 25:33
  Iowa State hits the United Center floor for practice at
• 25:36
  3:45 today, 3:45 to 4:00. So maybe some Jefferson news or
• 25:41
  some sightings at that time. Let's head to Houston.
• 25:44
  Bobby Hanson, analyst, men's basketball radio here on
• 25:48
  Learfield. Of course, flagship down the
• 25:49
  hall from us on News Radio 1040. WHO?
• 25:52
  What a run this has been. Bobby Hanson, good to talk to
• 25:55
  you. How are you?
• 25:57
  Yeah, everything's good. Ken on Trent.
• 25:59
  Yeah, just taking a break from shoot around.
• 26:02
  Started at 12 noon and everybody looks good.
• 26:06
  Ready to go? Excited for tonight?
• 26:07
  And you've seen shoot around all season long.
• 26:09
  Is there a difference with the Sweet 16?
• 26:11
  I mean, attitude wise or nerves wise?
• 26:15
  Have you noticed that at all? Is everybody Kibbitson?
• 26:18
  But yet at the same time focused on what lies ahead.
• 26:22
  Yeah, no, you have to be. And I think Coach McCallum does
• 26:25
  a great job with that. Obviously been been down this
• 26:28
  road before when you're a four time national champion.
• 26:30
  So he's not going to let the guys celebrate and, you know,
• 26:33
  think that the season is over. You've made it here.
• 26:36
  So they they're of the belief that they can advance, keep
• 26:40
  moving here. And yeah, I think they got a
• 26:43
  great shot tonight against a really, really good Nebraska
• 26:46
  team. So having the having the season
• 26:48
  of their of their history, I guess if you will.
• 26:51
  So be great to end it tonight for them.
• 26:54
  It's indeed. Bobby, you played for a lot of
• 26:57
  great coaches. Jerry Sloan, Lute Olson, you've
• 27:00
  been around a lot, certainly at the University of Iowa during
• 27:03
  your days now calling games. You know a lot of great coaches.
• 27:06
  What's different about Ben McCullum?
• 27:08
  I mean, everybody knows hoops. If you're not the head coach, if
• 27:10
  you don't know the game, but what makes Ben McCullum
• 27:12
  different in your mind than some of the great coaches that you've
• 27:15
  been around? Well, that's a good question.
• 27:18
  Tough question. Just being around him for the
• 27:21
  year. I think it's just been his his
• 27:25
  detail, his attention to detail on everything that that they do
• 27:30
  and mostly on the defensive end. And a lot of teaching goes into
• 27:34
  the practices. You know, they do their warm ups
• 27:37
  and then they go right into the defensive mode of of where
• 27:40
  you're positioning your feet, where your shoulders should be.
• 27:43
  What are you looking for? Here's how we're going to handle
• 27:46
  this certain action. So you better be paying
• 27:48
  attention. You better know the scouting
• 27:50
  report. So that's more so than any coach
• 27:52
  I think I've ever been around at Iowa and how, you know
• 27:55
  everybody, he has great scouts. But the attention to detail that
• 27:58
  Ben McCollum and his staff have put into these games, I think
• 28:01
  it's the reason why you're seeing, you know, a nine seed
• 28:04
  knockoff #1 Florida, because they thoroughly outplayed
• 28:08
  Florida. And you know, you got the win
• 28:09
  there at the end with a great shot by Alaro.
• 28:11
  But how about the Hawks dominated that, controlled that
• 28:15
  and earned it. No, no question about it.
• 28:18
  When you watch Bennett Sturtz play and, and as we do, you
• 28:21
  know, on TV, you know, I've granted your courtside the last
• 28:25
  couple of weeks seemingly hasn't gone his way offensively.
• 28:28
  It's one thing to play every single minute in the Valley.
• 28:30
  It's another thing to do so in the Big 10.
• 28:32
  I'm not knocking the Valley by any means, it's just a fact.
• 28:35
  Do you think that the big the rigors of the Big 10 May be
• 28:37
  catching up with Bennett a little bit, Bobby?
• 28:42
  No, no, no, I'm going to, I'm going to disagree with that.
• 28:44
  Kenny, respectfully. I, I, the kids in incredible
• 28:47
  shape. I mean, he never seems to get
• 28:48
  tired. I just think that the defenses
• 28:51
  are so geared up for him coming down the stretch at the end.
• 28:55
  Obviously here in the NCAA tournament, he's going to be at
• 28:58
  the top of the scouting reports and you know, teams have seen
• 29:01
  him now second-half of the season.
• 29:04
  It's like a pitcher when you get through those first 3 innings,
• 29:06
  now you see the guy come through again that you're more used to
• 29:09
  that that fastball. So I'm going to chalk it up to
• 29:11
  the that that there's a lot more tape on Bennett, see what he
• 29:15
  does. But you know, he's so unselfish.
• 29:18
  He maybe to a point that he needs to be a little more
• 29:22
  selfish. I tell him all the time, turn
• 29:24
  that corner, get to the basket, look for your shot there.
• 29:28
  And I talked to his dad. He agrees.
• 29:31
  So but Ben is not that way. He is the Ultimate Team player.
• 29:35
  Let's get everybody involved. And he he sees the court like an
• 29:39
  old teammate of mine, John Stockton.
• 29:42
  It seems like they're always a play or two plays ahead.
• 29:45
  They know exactly what they want to do and what's going to
• 29:47
  happen. And that's why he's so good.
• 29:50
  And of course, delivered the pass that led to Alvero fool
• 29:52
  Garris knocking the corner 3 down.
• 29:54
  Bobby, we're talking about it earlier.
• 29:56
  This is going to be likely a tight game.
• 29:58
  It's going to be one in the margins.
• 30:00
  It's going to be a one guy and you know it.
• 30:03
  I listen to the broadcast now. You can hear it in Dolph's voice
• 30:05
  a little bit more than yours would.
• 30:07
  You know, if you're going to get good Al or bad Al, is it as
• 30:10
  simple as that? If Alvaro, Alvaro, fool Garris
• 30:12
  goes out there and plays well here tonight, I was going to win
• 30:15
  it. And if he doesn't, it's going to
• 30:16
  be tough to pull out a victory. I mean, can we simplify it just
• 30:19
  that succinctly? I love you, Trent, but no on on
• 30:24
  one kid. Yeah, the, you know, he stepped
• 30:26
  up and made a huge shot, but in my notes here he is The X
• 30:30
  Factor. There's no doubt about it.
• 30:32
  I mean, yeah, I don't yeah, I don't think he's, you know, he
• 30:35
  he gets 0 points when he win the game.
• 30:37
  Yeah, or lose the game. You know, I don't think you're
• 30:40
  hanging on anybody, but I think the bench is huge and and that
• 30:44
  that is my third key to the to the game tonight.
• 30:47
  I I like Alvaro, obviously, and Isaiah Tate, Sage, I think it's
• 30:51
  come into his own. But they got a couple of guys on
• 30:53
  that other bench there, Frager and and Kale Jacobson, who hurt
• 30:56
  the Hawkeyes. They've hurt him in the past.
• 30:58
  Frager playing with tremendous confidence, 6th man of the year
• 31:00
  in the Big 10. And and Jacobson really beat
• 31:03
  Iowa in overtime over at Lincoln NE, the final game of the year.
• 31:06
  He hit two threes. Yeah.
• 31:08
  So you got to pay attention to those guys.
• 31:10
  So game like this, you're right though, Trent is in the margins.
• 31:14
  It's in the turnovers. You can't turn the ball over. 19
• 31:16
  turnovers over in Lincoln really cost the Hawks.
• 31:20
  You know, the overtime lost in that one.
• 31:21
  Just 12 when we were in Iowa City.
• 31:24
  You got the victory. Sam Hoiberg is another huge X
• 31:27
  Factor, I think. Yeah, 4 Nebraska.
• 31:30
  Yeah, the almost 5 to 1A sister turnover ratio.
• 31:33
  And, you know, just listen and watch.
• 31:36
  And, you know, if he gets in the paint, he causes a lot of
• 31:39
  problems. But you got to kind of hover
• 31:42
  over the top of Sam and he gets by you.
• 31:45
  He's he's 2 Sam Hoiberg, if you will.
• 31:47
  He can do a lot of things in there.
• 31:48
  But if you can contain him, you can you can cut his production
• 31:52
  in half. Speaking of Hoiberg, how is he
• 31:55
  such a good defender? I mean, yeah, he's built his
• 31:57
  body up as much as possible, but I mean, is it that?
• 32:00
  Is it something innate about him?
• 32:02
  Because he's tremendous, So many steals game in a game out.
• 32:05
  How is Hoiberg such a good defender?
• 32:07
  I think he's smart. He's a coach's son.
• 32:09
  You know, he's been around basketball, you know the angles,
• 32:11
  you know the plan, what you want to do.
• 32:14
  His strength certainly has helped him over the years.
• 32:16
  The last couple, three years we've seen Sam, you know, bulk
• 32:19
  up and he's a leader. You know, I think the kids
• 32:22
  respect him and they, he's the heart and soul of that team, to
• 32:25
  be honest with you. You know, he's always get some
• 32:27
  fired up. He doesn't really come off the
• 32:29
  floor very much. He uses his, you know, 6 foot
• 32:33
  height, you know, as a slight I guess.
• 32:36
  So he's always going to play with the chip on his shoulder,
• 32:38
  but he is certainly is a drive shaft to that team.
• 32:41
  But they've got a lot. I mean, it's been a special year
• 32:44
  for Nebraska rink mast. We like, you know, he's the
• 32:48
  outlet guy. He's a pressure relief valve for
• 32:50
  this offense. I mean, he's always at the top
• 32:52
  of the key and he can knock down that three pointer.
• 32:54
  You got to pay attention to him. DeMarcus Lawrence can go off for
• 32:58
  big numbers as well. And then the kid from Turkey
• 33:01
  Burke, but you've been child. He's tough.
• 33:04
  He's a tough out inside. So he's always going to be
• 33:06
  scrapping for balls. So it's going to be a great
• 33:09
  game. I don't think it's going to be a
• 33:10
  high scoring game. I think you'd probably get low
• 33:14
  70s at the high point of this. You're probably going to be in
• 33:17
  the 60s for the game. But it it's going to be who can
• 33:20
  take care of the ball the most. And probably again, like
• 33:23
  everything rebounds, you got to rebound the ball.
• 33:25
  You can't give them extra possession.
• 33:26
  So and make your make your 3 pointers.
• 33:28
  You watch all these games and NCAA, the teams making three
• 33:31
  pointers, they're hard to beat in the tournament.
• 33:33
  Indeed, Bryce Sanford makes a bunch of them.
• 33:35
  You watch them as a freshman, as and as sophomore.
• 33:38
  Did you think he had this level of this next step in his game as
• 33:42
  he's obviously taken this year, Bobby?
• 33:44
  Yeah, you don't know, you know, love Peyton and everything he
• 33:48
  brought to the Hawkeyes. To me, Price was just the guy
• 33:51
  Next up. He was the one that's going to,
• 33:53
  you know, be the get that ball like Peyton was getting it, but
• 33:56
  you know, made the decision to move on and, and, and, and
• 34:00
  that's what it is. But great kid, great family,
• 34:02
  happy for his success every time he Tees it up other than against
• 34:06
  Iowa. So he's key #2 on my, on my list
• 34:10
  of key. You can't let him get going
• 34:12
  early because I, I think he's, he's kind of the, the confidence
• 34:16
  booster for that team. If he starts making a couple
• 34:18
  threes early, then they get rolling, the fans get rolling
• 34:21
  and everybody feels good. So you're in the Sweet 16 for
• 34:25
  the first time since you made a trip down to Phoenix to take on
• 34:28
  the team that won the national championship that here, UConn.
• 34:31
  This has been a long 27 years and you've been there on the
• 34:34
  sideline for all of it. What did it mean for you, for
• 34:38
  the basketball alumni, for Hawkeye fans as we look back at
• 34:41
  this 27 year drought now to be back there playing in the second
• 34:44
  weekend? Yeah, it it means a ton for all
• 34:48
  the all the guys that have been a part of this.
• 34:50
  And you know, that recent team there from 99, I remember that
• 34:55
  team with Dean Oliver, Jeff Settles and McCausland and Jr.
• 34:59
  and they were in a tough situation there with Doctor Tom
• 35:03
  not being renewed. They kind of knew that this was
• 35:05
  going to be the last go round and they had a tough Rd.
• 35:09
  I mean, when they played in Denver in the altitude and you
• 35:11
  had to go against Arkansas in that round of 32 game and Dean
• 35:16
  Oliver comes up with the flu. I don't know if people realize
• 35:20
  that, but he was, he suffered through that and chatted with
• 35:23
  him a little bit of host Michael Jordan flu game.
• 35:26
  So just, you know, in his ear the whole day, tell him, hey,
• 35:30
  Jordan did it, you can do it, come out here, we need you.
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  He was he was phenomenal going against the full court pressure
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  from Arkansas that game. And then for them to to do that
• 35:40
  for each other and do that for doctor Tom was incredible.
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  And you get the Phoenix and and you know, next week 16 against
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  Khalid Alameen. They were a good team.
• 35:48
  Connecticut was at that time, but the Hawks made a great run.
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  So this is kind of what you want Iowa basketball to be moving
• 35:55
  forward. You're always got that
• 35:56
  opportunity in the Sweet 16 and beyond.
• 35:59
  Then you got to get further than this.
• 36:01
  Indeed you do, and there's certainly an opportunity and if
• 36:04
  they do, they'll play the winner of Illinois and Houston.
• 36:06
  What's the building going to be like tonight, Bobby?
• 36:08
  Obviously it's a home game for Houston.
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  They're 2.1 mile from the Toyota Center to campus.
• 36:13
  Apparently. Illinois fans, I think are going
• 36:16
  to travel. We know what Nebraska fans do.
• 36:18
  They've been saving up for basketball for a long time for
• 36:21
  this and Iowa fans are engaged. What's the building going to be
• 36:24
  like tonight, do you think? Yeah, it's going to be crazy.
• 36:26
  I think there's going to be a lot of red.
• 36:27
  You don't know it's going to be Houston or off colored orange
• 36:30
  for Illinois, but there'll be plenty of Hawkeyes in here.
• 36:33
  They sold their allotment those 600 tickets kind of everybody
• 36:36
  else is off on their own. And looking at the ticket app
• 36:40
  that I have here, some of the prices are outrageous for this
• 36:44
  game. So, you know, travel is
• 36:45
  difficult now in the airport, you know, I don't know, I guess
• 36:48
  people hop in their cars and get down here and have a good time.
• 36:51
  Weather's terrific, obviously. So we'll wait to see, but I
• 36:55
  guarantee you, you'll hear some. Let's go Hawk chance in the
• 36:58
  building here tonight. Good stuff, Bobby.
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  Thanks for jumping on giving us a few minutes.
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  Appreciate the relationship. Bobby Hanson, thank you.
• 37:04
  OK, man. Yeah.
• 37:05
  Thank you. Good to talk to you.
• 37:06
  Bobby Hanson, we check in with from Houston and I'm glad you
• 37:11
  asked that question. Obviously it means a lot to
• 37:12
  everybody that wore the uniform and and clearly long older
• 37:16
  hockey fans, right? It's been 27 years.
• 37:20
  If you were a kid, if you were 40, you're getting up there.
• 37:23
  Absolutely. I mean, I tell you, the memories
• 37:26
  of 87, but those are faint memories.
• 37:27
  That's the age Jack is right now, and they are etched into my
• 37:33
  memory. And the UNLV lost and spring
• 37:37
  down to my room and just bawling and couldn't stop crying because
• 37:41
  Iowa was that close to a Final Four.
• 37:44
  My mom rubbing my back. It'll be OK.
• 37:47
  Roy, Ed, BJ, they're just sophomores.
• 37:49
  They'll make a Final Four. My mom's a liar.
• 37:52
  Maybe it changes this? Year it certainly could.
• 37:55
  Trent there. Two games.
• 37:57
  There's a couple of twos, but mostly one and a halfs on the
• 38:00
  betting market everywhere. This is a coin flip game.
• 38:02
  It's been a coin flip game both times they played this year.
• 38:05
  It looked like Nebraska was going to open up on them when
• 38:07
  over in Lincoln and here come the Hawkeyes and off the
• 38:10
  overtime we go. And what'd they outscore him
• 38:12
  like 14 to 6 or something in overtime, something like that.
• 38:17
  It was, it was Cale Jacobson of all people, right?
• 38:20
  Do you remember him this year? Yeah, a few, few times, but not,
• 38:23
  not not like that though, right. Yeah.
• 38:26
  I gotta watch Jacobson when Bobby's got him in his notes and
• 38:29
  I don't blame him after he saw what first hand.
• 38:31
  I'm saying watch Frager. Man, and you and you, you're
• 38:34
  Frager. Frager's your fear who won
• 38:38
  Pirates Mets based our bits are no, not bases of runners on 1st
• 38:41
  and 2nd. Luis Robert at the plate for all
• 38:44
  Kind of love baseball. For all the pirate fans that
• 38:46
  enlisted right now. I just love it.
• 38:49
  But you got a long summer. 184 days of baseball Trent ahead of
• 38:53
  us. A lot of bad baseball for me.
• 38:57
  I I wonder in the end, will I end up watching more Cubs
• 39:01
  baseball than the Twins? Yes, probably.
• 39:03
  So you'll give, I will. I think you'll give up.
• 39:05
  What's what was their win total to Twins?
• 39:07
  Do you know? Was it it couldn't have been in
• 39:09
  the 70s, Was it? Oh yeah, it was in the 70s.
• 39:12
  How many games you think? It was like 78 1/2.
• 39:14
  It was. Yeah, it was.
• 39:16
  Asinine. That's a free square.
• 39:18
  Yeah, they're going to sell off the ownership group is broke.
• 39:22
  They had to bring in new investors, the pole ads.
• 39:24
  Then they they get one rid of one of the idiots and they bring
• 39:27
  in another idiot and you we're going to do things differently.
• 39:29
  And then they fake that they're going to go out after Framber
• 39:32
  Valdez and that that was blatant lie.
• 39:33
  It just on the heels of one of your first playoff series in 19
• 39:39
  years. And your race, by the way, is
• 39:40
  out for the year. And you're tearing it down and
• 39:42
  you're tearing it down but it's slow tear down.
• 39:45
  Just RIP off the Band-Aid and sell the DMT.
• 39:48
  Speaking of that, Speaking of ripping off the Band-Aid is is
• 39:50
  Iowa State women's basketball program.
• 39:52
  Are they? I mean.
• 39:54
  I can't get a read I I really can't.
• 39:58
  I talked to. A friend of mine who's got who's
• 40:02
  a part of a group of, I would say women's season ticket
• 40:05
  holders and they've been doing, they've been season ticket
• 40:07
  holders for forever and they're the same way.
• 40:10
  They can't get read 1 minute they think Oddie's gone, the
• 40:14
  next minute they think maybe she stays.
• 40:18
  Does it matter for Fenley? Is this he's on a one year deal?
• 40:23
  Right. How do you get players?
• 40:27
  Do you get a whole bunch of 1 and done that's.
• 40:29
  That's what it's got to be, right?
• 40:30
  I mean, that's the direction to be.
• 40:31
  Seniors, that's what you get and maybe compliment it with some,
• 40:35
  but he's gone and there's no way power is going to extend.
• 40:38
  No. Absolutely not.
• 40:39
  There's no chance in hell. That's going to happen and the
• 40:42
  succession plan. What is it right?
• 40:44
  If it's Billy, well, that's kind of tough to swallow.
• 40:47
  Was. Power being tone deaf yesterday
• 40:49
  when he you know, very quickly after T JS announcement, he came
• 40:53
  out and said, see, our coach isn't going No boy, they're
• 40:55
  again they're hammering skeens. That's a three run double.
• 40:58
  But was it tone deaf? Just, you know, sing strolling
• 41:01
  the virtues of TJS and men basketball.
• 41:04
  Meanwhile, there's a fire A5 alarm fire in the women's
• 41:07
  program. At minimum, it felt weird,
• 41:09
  right? It did.
• 41:10
  Yeah, it felt raised the room. Yes, right.
• 41:14
  Perfect. Yes, absolutely.
• 41:16
  Skeens getting clobbered, Miller and Condon back.
• 41:18
  To wrap up our number one, it's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 41:20
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• 41:24
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• 41:28
  Shout out to Cedar Rapids, IA city, the Quad Cities in Sioux
• 41:31
  City along the way. Mr. Miller.
• 41:34
  Yes, all of the affiliates were. I'm glad you're part of the Iowa
• 41:37
  Sports Radio Network. Paul Skeens is out of the game.
• 41:41
  Paul Skeens is out of the game. Didn't Vinick get through the
• 41:44
  1st inning? And he was grooving some, those
• 41:47
  were. His strikeout total prop was 4
• 41:52
  1/2. Pretty safe under not.
• 41:56
  Going to get there. Not going to get there.
• 41:58
  In fact, that's that's wild. That's wild.
• 42:01
  All right, What are the other games tonight?
• 42:03
  Have you even looked? I mean, I get why we're so
• 42:05
  focused on this one. Do you have you even looked at
• 42:07
  the other game? Yeah, yeah.
• 42:08
  Is there one that. Well, sure.
• 42:10
  The Illinois Houston, I mean, assuming it goes well for the
• 42:13
  Hawks, we get the winner, We get the winner that.
• 42:16
  Look at you. You're also wrapped into these
• 42:18
  these two Iowa teams. You're off your Husker love
• 42:21
  look. I never was a Husker fan.
• 42:23
  I'm a fan of what moves the needles and when I when I was
• 42:25
  stater playing. Well, it's good for our
• 42:27
  business, man. I want to see Arkansas, Arizona.
• 42:30
  Do you like Arkansas? I'm wrapped up in Arkansas.
• 42:34
  Jacob. That and I'm invested in them
• 42:38
  also, but I just think this is a terrible.
• 42:40
  I don't think they can beat Arizona.
• 42:41
  I think they can keep it close. And if it's close, then you feel
• 42:45
  good. I just have a concert.
• 42:47
  It's going to go the other way. They're just, they're just so
• 42:50
  big inside. Brazil's hurt.
• 42:53
  Just it feels like a lot. They're going to throw Bradley
• 42:55
  and they're going to turn the length and Bury's is going to be
• 42:58
  on him and his length. I I think the match up sucks for
• 43:02
  Arkansas and again go back to a Florida game just two weeks ago
• 43:06
  they gave up with 111 to the Gators and Arizona is built very
• 43:11
  similar. Like 111 to 70.
• 43:13
  Something like that. It's.
• 43:15
  Not. Going to be that, but I think
• 43:19
  it's more likely that they get blown out by 20, that they win
• 43:23
  the game. Texas Purdue.
• 43:26
  Part of Texas love, but I like Purdue as well.
• 43:28
  Yeah, Purdue roles. I think they do.
• 43:30
  I think. They're figuring it out, putting
• 43:32
  it all together. Veteran guards absolutely And
• 43:36
  Texas look, that path was not exactly arduous no I.
• 43:40
  I'm with you. That's but that's not 11 seed.
• 43:43
  BYU without their third best player.
• 43:46
  Yeah, oh boy. Alright, that's going to do for
• 43:49
  our #1 Kerry Miller on the Sweet 16.
• 43:52
  Steven Simple, Nebraska point of view on the Big One tonight.
• 43:55
  Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.