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Hawkeye talk with Tom Kakert, Cyclones with Eugene Rapay, Mike Palm from Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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I'm Hillary Condon. Welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio
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Network. Our final hour of the one that's
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not yours. You've got to work tonight.
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Our number 2, Millery Condon, welcome back our final hour of
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the week. Except for you, we've got high
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school hoops tonight. Do going to be making my way up
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to your neck of the woods are you Ankeny Waukee northwest the
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top five showdown on the girls side and Waukee northwest on the
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boys side who was number one took their first loss the last
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time out against. Time for the Girls 6. 15 tip off
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for the girls side. 745 estimated for the boys, I think
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maybe like 10% of the time and actually tips off at 7:45,
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usually about 8:00 for the boys side of that one.
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Colin Rice future a line eye on the side for Waukee Northwest
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and they are loaded once again this year.
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Little night of hoops out there in a Friday.
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Good stuff on the boat, but that's not the programming
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announcement that we tease going out of our number 1.
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So I know Sean Roberts has been working hard on this with the
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Westwood one, and you've heard it all football season long, You
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know, the Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, the
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playoffs, etcetera. the Super Bowl is going to be here.
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And look, I get it right, You're going to watch it on TV if you
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have the option. But for some people, they don't
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have the option. You're out in the bottom or
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whatever the big announcement. Hand raised.
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Trench right, exactly you so I I think maybe the most now the
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Super Bowl is pretty popular, but Westwood ones maybe second
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most prominent. Package.
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Oh yeah. Would be March Madness and KX&O
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is going to be the home of March Madness.
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If you have to work a Thursday or Friday and you have to if
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you're in your job that you're driving around, you love college
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hoops, you love the first two days of the tournament or you're
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at a desk, it's your that still allows you to download an app
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and listen, you can do it that way.
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But we've got wrap around coverage of Thursday, Friday and
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then into the weekend, Saturday, Sunday, the Sweet 16, the final
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four games, the elite eight games.
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The only thing that may stop us on those might be an Iowa wild
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game because the Iowa State women, you know, they'd be
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playing in it perhaps if they get that far, but but who knows?
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So that I think it's huge used to have that property here back
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in the day and it was so damn popular.
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So Westwood one and KX&O bringing you March madness.
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We will also bring you, we're going to bring you Tom Cacart
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momentarily, then Eugene Repay and Mike Palm.
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But on Sunday day, Selection Sunday, again, you're going to
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watch it if you can. But if you can't and you're in
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your car, Selection Sunday and I need to know there was such
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programming that will air here on KXO.
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So you want to see, you know, where Iowa State's going, what
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seed did they get, where I would did they get in or did they jump
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off the bubble, those type of things.
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The Selection Sunday show will air live and then Thursday,
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Friday, Saturday, Sunday, opening weekend of the
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tournament with the entire thing.
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So that is absolute lately massive that that has come back
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to its rightful home here in central Iowa.
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After all, we are Des Moines sports station one O 6.3 KX&O
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tip of the cap to you, Mr. program director Sean Roberts
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for getting that accomplished. Let's talk to Tom Caker at
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hawkeyereport.com. Hello, Tom, how are you?
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I'm, I'm good portaling, you know?
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I'm not in the portal yet, right?
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Not in the portal. You portaled, what, two years
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ago now? Yeah, it's a little over two
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years ago. I went to Portal.
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I don't remember that. Went for over 2 on three.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, that way, yes. That was good for everybody.
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And I think that's been, don't you think, Tom?
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I mean, yeah, Rivals was great, etcetera, etcetera.
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Oh, old Chambliss was just denied his sixth year,
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apparently. Thank you.
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Yeah, How about that? So that contract will be null
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and void, I'm guessing with Ole Miss.
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Anyways, good stuff. I appreciate being that being
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sent to me, but it did interrupt my train of thoughts.
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So, but back to the rivals on three, that's worked out well,
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Tom, from your perspective, has it not?
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Yeah, because we ended up buying Rivals.
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Right. So yeah.
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I just got here earlier. Yeah, you did good stuff.
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Well, let's get into, you know, let's get to start with the
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portal, then we'll move over to baseball, arts baseball to
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basketball coming up this weekend.
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Obviously Enteringer was the one that kind of shook the
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foundations a little bit. Yeah.
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Where's any is there and is there another surprise coming?
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I guess, Tom, from what we consider a negative perspective.
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You never, you know. Yeah, you never.
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The entering your thing, you never know.
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Somebody just went, yeah, CJ Bell went in today, but that was
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a freshman and he was down the depth chart.
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So I, you know, he may want to get closer to home.
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Don't know, but yeah, the the portal is just such a you never
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know when a kids going to just decide to up and leave and and,
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you know, entering her is the classic example of that.
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You know, you, you didn't outright say, yeah, I'm coming
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back, but he kind of just danced around it and made it seem like
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he was coming back. And I don't know.
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I just kind of I kind of go back to when he walks on senior day.
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And that just seemed like an odd decision at the time, especially
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if you think you're coming back. And then now it all makes sense.
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Now it no, now we know why he did it the way he did it.
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So, but that's the world we live in.
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So good for him. You know what, Tom, you look at
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kind of the foundational movement, a couple of guys maybe
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showing up at Michigan State. We see Dakin, we see Jazz
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Patterson that are making their way there.
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Do you read anything more into it or is it just the era that
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we're in? Do you do you take this a step
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further or is it even worth the headspace to worry about down
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the road? What this means, guys leaving
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things like that because overall in comparison to most every
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other program out there, they're still aren't a ton of guys that
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are leaving Iowa. Yeah, there's still not when you
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compare it to most places. And the Dakin thing made
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complete sense, right? You know, he, he's, he's, you
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know, he was recruited to Iowa by Levar Woods and he feels
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really comfortable with Levar Woods.
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So he, it makes sense that he would want to go and continue
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his career with Levar Woods. The Patterson thing, I'm
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wondering if that was just his best offer and best opportunity.
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And and that's, that's, that's my guess is best offer, best
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opportunity to play at that level and probably some, you
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know, decent cheddar along the way.
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So why not? And I hope Jazz does really
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well. I hope he gets to be their lead
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back and has a great year because he's a really solid kid.
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I guess Hawkeye fans are holding out hope that there's a receiver
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coming to Iowa City. Can you shed any light on that?
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Tom? Is there, you know, is there a
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receiver that's kicking the tires on Iowa that you're aware
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of? I haven't really heard much
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about. I just heard the two the two
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guys that one of them committed to Cincinnati, Kate Wolford, the
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guy that they really liked early on was Tony Diaz, the kid from
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Texas Rio Grande rally who true freshman and did really, really
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well this year and got offered by Alabama.
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But he you know, he's he's been offered by Alabama now.
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So I think everybody kind of tunes that one out like, yeah,
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maybe not, but you never know. You know, I've kind of coined
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this thing. Trent Will.
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Trent will probably agree with me that Iowa almost has to pay a
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tax on receivers, no doubt, to get them.
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They just almost have to overpay for them because of the earned
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or not. The reputation of the offense is
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they don't throw the ball a lot. Receivers want to do one thing.
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They want to catch the football. So it's just just how it is and
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that's one of the things that's always going to be an issue and
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they're probably going to have to pay a tax on it.
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You also, you mentioned the Diaz moving on and losing a guy like
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Wolford who looked like a perfect fit, a guy that was a
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returner, averaged nearly 27 yards per reception, 7
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touchdowns at 19 catches. I mean, a perfect fit for what I
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was trying to do. You have to pay that taxes.
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It's just, it's that chicken and egg thing, isn't it Tom?
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Where like you can't throw the ball because you don't have
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receivers. You don't.
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He'll have receivers so he can't throw the ball, quarterback, all
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the different things. It's not just the taxi have to
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do it. It's it's the selling part of
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it. And it just doesn't feel like
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for whatever reason, the Iowa staff and Tim Lester and
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company, the message just isn't working with receivers.
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However, this freshman class, the Stinson kid, they believe
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that he's going to come in and be able to play right away.
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Yeah, they really believe that he's going to help, help them
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immediately. He's going to get in that
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semester. So they they're really high on
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him. The Schaefer kid too out of
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Wisconsin. They they like him, but they
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think Stinson can come in right away and and help them.
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And yeah, Wolford would have been like, you know, the the
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Nick Easley Kaden Legion kind of just, you know, 5-10 white ride
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receiver that catches things and makes in his quick and space and
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you kind of make things happen. That's who he was and it seemed
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like that's kind of something that they need in this offense.
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So but maybe it'll turn out to be somebody else now who who
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knows? I know they're not done and
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they're still trying to get more guys, but we'll have to have to
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wait how it and you know, safety now becomes an impressive
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position for them really because because Xavier Wampa's done and
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Conan enteringer is gone. So you're 2 guys with experience
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back there and Kale Cleric, who was their one of their backups.
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He's left too. I think probably because they
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told him he wasn't going to start and they've already got
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Anthony Hawkins from Villanova. The guy that they really, really
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like though is the the Tyler Brown kid from James Madison and
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we'll see if they can that he's on campus this week.
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So we'll see if they can reel him in.
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He would be a really good get. And also Xavier Styles from
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Robert Morris is another kid that that's been on campus that
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I think they've got a shot at. He's going to Pittsburgh on
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Saturday. So we'll see if but if they can
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get both those guys to go with the kid from Villanova, Hawkins,
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I think they'd be in better shape at the back end.
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Let's talk a little basketball. Illinois comes to town.
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Trent and I both, we looked ahead to this four-game stretch,
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thought, boy, it should be nice if you get this Minnesota win
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because here comes Illinois and then on the road Purdue in
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Indiana. Obviously the Minnesota game did
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not end at the favorable result. So when you look back at that
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game, Tom, what what went wrong? Obviously Sturtz, you know, he
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struggled shooting the basketball foul trouble in early
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in the basketball game, struggled, didn't score in the
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first half, finished with 21. Folgaris was blanked in the
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game. When you look back at Minnesota
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or when McCullum looks back, what did he say about the game
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from earlier this week? Yeah, it was just one of those
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games where it felt like at one point I was in in control, and
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then they weren't. And I thought they, and I think
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we're going to see more and more of this moving forward.
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They used #6 Minnesota Reynolds, I think was his name.
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Used him to kind of just bully Sturtz.
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Got really physical with him, got in his space and he could
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stay in front of them. And I thought that really
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bothered Bennett. He fought through those screens
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that they were trying to set up top and the result was he was O
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9 now Reynolds. Led the team in scoring.
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Yeah, and you know, I and I think, you know, for for all of
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Fran Mccaffrey's flaws, you can never say he didn't work the
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refs, right. I don't know that Ben.
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And I asked Ben this after the game.
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I said that, you know, the foul disparity was there again in a
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in a big 10 game and you know, do you need to work the rest
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more? What do you need to do there?
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And he just kind of said I need to teach the guys how to draw
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files. But I I go back to and and you
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guys will probably remember this plate.
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They get a run out and TV on Banks is going to going to the
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hole and got bodied and missed it and no call and then on the
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other end number six goes to the goes to the cup and gets fouled
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and finishes and I thought that was a huge play in the game.
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Crocker, Jones. Massive play.
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Yeah, I remember. Tom, it's Illinois.
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This is the rivalry matchup certainly for you and our for
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our friends listening over in the Quad Cities on 12:30 AM.
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Hello to all of you out there. This is certainly a big
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opportunity, a big spot that is in front of them.
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Boswell, Speaking of good defenders, as good a defenders
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there is in the Big 10, he'll get Bennett Sturtz on the other
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end of the floor. What can you tell us about this
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Illinois team and how difficult will it be for the Hawkeyes to
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find a way in the win column? They're a challenging team.
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They're the, according to Ken Palm, they're the biggest team
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in the country this year. Really.
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Yeah. And they've got the both the
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VSIC brothers and they're both over 7 foot.
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They've got guys. 7 two and seven one.
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Wow. Yeah, they got some big fellas
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on that team and you know, they've got some shooters with,
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you know, Paige Stoyakovich's kid is a really good shooter and
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a good player. The kid to watch is that King
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Waggler kid. He is.
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He's a true freshman. He was like a top 150 kid and he
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is just tearing it up. Lately.
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He has been playing terrific basketball and he's 66, got a
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little ranginess to them, can shoot threes, can get to the
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basket. So Iowa is going to have their
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hands full. And you know, the one thing that
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we worry about with Iowa is going up against size because
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they, you know, can give up some on the on the backboard.
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But I kind of think this is a get right game for Iowa.
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This is just Illinois had to play last night against Rutgers
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at home. So they got a shorter turn
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around and going on the road and I was going to be a little bit
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healthier. I think they had, you know, a
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bug going through the the team earlier this week.
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But I think everybody's gotten healthier now.
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So I just feel like this is one of those get right games for
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Iowa coming up. But if they don't get it,
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they're probably staring at a four-game losing streak and I
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don't remember the last. I don't know if Ben McCollum
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would remember the last time he had a four-game losing streak.
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I. Would be surprised if he did.
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Yeah. I didn't realize Waggler's
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leading the team in scoring. Hey, Tom Thilson, thanks for
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jumping on, as always, hawkeyereport.com.
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Part of On Three Media. Tom, thank you.
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We'll talk to you in seven days. Appreciate it, Tom.
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Yep. OK.
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See you, buddy. Let's get to from the Hawks to
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the clones, here's Eugene Repay. Des Moines Register.
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Eugene Trenton can thanks for giving us a few minutes.
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Here comes an Oklahoma State team tomorrow, an Oklahoma State
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team that on the surface may be better than, you know, we
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thought that they would be once we started turning our attention
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in some respects from football to basketball.
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But this is it's a big number. Trent said the point spreads be
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somewhere around 20. But this Oklahoma State team,
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it's got, it's a sneaky team. How about that, Eugene?
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Yeah, they're definitely a lot better this year.
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It's one of those where you really have to wait and see in
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this day and age. Oklahoma State only brought back
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one player from last season and it was a freshman that was deep
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on the bench. So really no key players were
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back. Completely brand new team.
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They're 12 and 3 coming in. They play an up tempo style, a
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lot of balance on their offense. They're averaging over 90 points
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per game with five different players averaging in double
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figures. It's an impressive team.
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They're definitely better this year and but I do that.
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Iowa State should be in good hands.
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Going to be a fast-paced game. They're going to push it up and
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down the floor. I think it's going to be an
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entertaining one. Certainly going to be one that
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will be fun for the fans to watch and get going.
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Well, we see this Iowa State team get going at 15 and oh, the
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schedule coming up after this Oklahoma State game, couple of
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Rd. trips to Kansas next week in Cincinnati after that.
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Yet you start to dream a little bit.
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I mean, Kansas, we still don't know what Peterson's going to
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look like when we get to Tuesday, how many minutes he's
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going to have, what kind of minutes restrictions there.
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That Cincinnati road trip is not certainly daunting by any means.
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How long can this go? I mean, we're talking about some
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crazy territory and certainly territory Iowa State's never
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been before when he looked forward at this schedule before.
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Definitely gets more to more difficult in February.
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Yeah, no, without a doubt. And there's a big chance here
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that they can go into February still undefeated.
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And then from there, you look at some of those home games that
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they'll have to early February. So you can really get excited
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here. There's a lot to be excited
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about. I think a lot about this streak
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will hinge on that trip to Allen Field House.
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It feels like no matter how good or bad Kansas may be, that's
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just always just such a tricky place to play in.
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But the way that Iowa State has been handling business so far,
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both ends of the floor has been super impressive.
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I thought that they showed major puts at Baylor playing very
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locked down defense despite not getting what they wanted early
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on on the offensive end, and then as things started to settle
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down in the second-half, they really pulled away there.
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They're also honoring us. Is it the 40 year anniversary of
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the Sweet 16 team, Johnny, or Sweet 16 team with Hornacek?
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Do you know what kind of special ceremonies they've got they've
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got planned for that day that I'm sure they'll introduce them
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at the very minimum at halftime? Do you know anything more about
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that, Eugene? Yeah, there's going to be a cool
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recognition ceremony for that 40th anniversary of that 1986
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Sweet 16 team that you mentioned, the the first ever
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Iowa State team to reach a Sweet 16.
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They pulled out a massive upset over at the time, top five
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ranked Michigan, who was the second seed in the NCAA
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Tournament. They're going to be recognizing
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them. They're also going to be
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recognizing Johnny Orr's two first postseason teams of the
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1984 NIT team, which was the first team to get into any sort
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of season tournament in 4 decades.
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And then the 85 team which became the first team to reach
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the NCAA Tournament for Iowa State since 1944.
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And the 19441, there were only eight teams back then, so it was
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definitely a monumental accomplishment at that time.
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Outstanding teams and there was a real possibility we could have
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saw Iowa, Iowa State collide in that Sweet 16.
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No kidding. That season, Iowa got knocked
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off by two in the first round by NC State, but they were in the
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same half of the bracket on the other side.
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If Iowa would have won, they would have played Arkansas
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Little Rock in the second round last.
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That didn't happen. The lost to NC State and we
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didn't get that match up. But just crazy.
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I mean, we talked about 40 years since that team.
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Some great, certainly memories that are there.
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Eugene, second year on the beat, great start that he saw last
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year out of this basketball team.
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What's different? What's different for this team?
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And maybe by the time we get to March, what feels different that
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they have a deep run in them? It it feels like that this
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year's team is a lot better at handling success.
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It feels like they're a lot better when it comes to main,
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you know, handling the way that they approached the game and and
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keeping it consistent rather than last year where there was a
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lot of hype, there was a lot of outside noise.
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There were also some injuries and things like that.
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But it feels like that this team does a much better job of just
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staying the course, staying true.
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It's process and it's identity. I think a lot of it helps with
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the maturity of attainment. Lipsy and Joshua Jefferson Mail
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on Televich I was taking more of a leadership role.
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You also can't discount the other returners like Nate Heisey
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and Kate Kelderman and what they mean in that locker room.
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So for me, it just feels like this team has just a lot more.
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They're playing a lot more freely, they're playing a lot
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more loosely, but they also just handle the expectations and and
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success a lot better. What what was Waco like for you
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when you covering basketball there?
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The reading is kind of built differently, right?
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It seems like there's a not very many rows in the lower deck and
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then you've got your very quickly on to that second deck.
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What's it like go watching a game?
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Their life? It was definitely a pretty cool
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arena. It's a new one that just opened
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up in 2024, but I thought the the design of it was
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interesting. Like you mentioned, you got like
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the student section right behind the benches.
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Definitely a lot, few receipts on that first bowl, but then it
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really shoots up and into the upper deck.
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I've from what I've heard about Baylor fans or just from talking
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to some locals, they have mixed feelings about it.
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They don't know. Some of them don't even know why
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they have that arena because the other one was also about 20
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years old, so it still wasn't even that old, but it was a cool
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environment. It was also nice to just be in
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Texas where it was 80°, so you got to wear the shorts.
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A little bit. That a boy.
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Good stuff. Eugene repay Des Moines Register
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desmoinesregister.com Travis signs Eugene repay on the
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Cyclones beat. Eugene, thanks for doing this.
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Appreciate you jumping on as always.
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We'll talk to you in seven days. Thanks pal.
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Thanks guys. Good to talk to Eugene Repay as
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we check in on Iowa State. And thanks to Tom Caker as well.
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Mike Palm, VP of operations at Circus Sports.
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Let's head to Las Vegas. Mike Palm, the VP of operations
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at Circus Sports. Quite a place to watch March
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Madness. Well, any sporting events to be
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fair. Hello, Mike, Trent, Ken, how are
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you? How are you, fellas?
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I think I'll be heading to Kansas City for the Big 12
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Tournament this year with Circus George.
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I think we're going to do an activation down there at Kansas
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City Live. Nice.
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Trying to put the trying to put the details of that trip
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together to come down for the Wednesday through Saturday.
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Maybe a road trip for Miller and Condon might need to make our
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way down there, too. Perfect reason to do so.
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We're in. Well, let's get I want to go
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start with last night, Mike. Obviously I know that you guys
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did not need old miss to win the national championship.
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That's putting it mildly. They are now out.
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But the game itself, obviously you're upside down futures
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market. But when the when it was all
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said and done, you know the ball was in the air and the game was
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under way. Who did you need at that point,
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Miami or old miss in the game itself, Mike?
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Well, we definitely needed old miss 'cause we took a $1.5
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million bet on Miami about 15 minutes before kick at -3 So the
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ideal situation would have been Miami by one or two, which there
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was a shot at if if Ole Miss wouldn't have got the two on
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their on their last drive, right?
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Basically the second to last drive.
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So once they got ahead three, that result probably wasn't
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going to happen. I mean, the best we could have
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hoped for was possibly Miami by three in overtime, but didn't
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happen. So we we lose big on the game,
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but we do knock out that huge liability in the national
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championship game. We Fast forward to tonight,
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Indiana, Oregon feels like that. There's plenty of people that oh
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Indiana. The way that they played an easy
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one doesn't matter about laying the points.
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What do you see in the Beck and betting market and are there
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some sharps that are on the ducks in this one?
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Yeah, there are the Publix on Indiana, There's a, there's a,
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there's a little bit of sharp money.
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I mean, it's not all the sharps. There's some sharps on Indiana,
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but more sharps are took 4 and 3 1/2 with Oregon.
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I grabbed 4 as soon as the number came out just because I
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thought the number should be 3. I could be wrong.
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Indiana's done nothing wrong. I mean, I'm just playing the
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number there. I'm playing the number plus the
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three. And I think the Oregon defense
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has gotten better. Will they be able to handle the
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Indiana offensive line? I know they handled the Texas
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Tech O line, but Texas Tech had a horrific day offensively.
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Was that because of the Oregon defense or was that because
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maybe the Texas Tech offense was overrated?
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Their defense was so good throughout the year.
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Their defense for so many turnovers and so many 3
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announces. They were always playing from
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ahead and playing on short fields.
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Maybe they were overvalued, I don't know.
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I think it'll be a very good game tonight.
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You're probably seeing the best 2 quarterbacks in college
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football. So I I would like Indiana to win
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by three would be perfect because I'd cash my bet and I do
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want to see Indiana win the national title.
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Mike, when it when it became apparent to everybody that we're
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going to get Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, I
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got to assume this is a pretty popular weekend at circus
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sports. You guys sold out with wild card
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weekend and the playoff games last night, tonight culminating
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on Monday night. Yeah, with the book.
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The book is completely sold out and about 85 percent, 80% on
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Monday. Stadium swim sitting around 90
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to 95% for every day except Monday.
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So yeah, the hotel sales, I have to tell you though, we didn't
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fill up for the last couple days.
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Usually this weekend would have been sold out well in advance,
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but we, I think Wednesday we we reached sell out.
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So the hotel pickup was a little slower than anticipated.
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I love asking you this question when it comes to primetime
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games, Green Bay, Chicago Oldest Rivalry in the NFL, then Sunday
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night Chargers, New England and then Monday night the Monday
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Night Football. Texans and Pittsburgh might
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tomorrow be the the busiest, but they the most right on Saturday
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night opposed to Sunday or Monday.
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Packers. Well, we'll be more than yeah,
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it'll be more than it'll be more than Monday because there's more
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going on to have more people around that are betting hockey
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and NBA and college basketball on Saturday obviously than on
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Monday. Monday you don't have any top 25
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matchups. You don't really get into big
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Monday for a while. So, and I think it will be
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bigger than Sunday because of the fan bases.
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You know, you have the New England fan base is is kind of
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regional and the Chargers don't have a fan base.
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So and you think about how Midwest we lean with Packers and
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Bears. Yeah, I for us, I don't think
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there's any doubt. And of course, we're in Illinois
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and in Indiana and Iowa and Missouri and we're not in, you
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know, Massachusetts or New York or California.
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So I think for us, clearly Saturday night will be the
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biggest right of the three prime time games.
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So the betting market has been flip flopping back and forth
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earlier in the week with the Packers and the Bears.
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And what are you guys seeing? Is it solidifying?
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Is this one? And you have to feel this is
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going to be a teaser league for a lot of league that a lot of
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people use. Rabin, what's currently the
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Bears plus 1 1/2, taking them up to 7 1/2, both the market
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they're going with the Wong teaser with the Bears and what
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you've seen this weird flip flop back and forth.
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Yeah, it's pretty much settled at Packers 1 1/2.
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It's interesting because if you're looking at teaser legs, I
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don't know if people want to tease the Rams down, you got to
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use the seven. Or if you want to tease either
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Buffalo or Jacksonville up, that's a really interesting
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game. I tend to believe.
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Maybe not as my I haven't heard one person that likes Buffalo
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yet, which makes me like Buffalo.
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You know, it's just when everybody's on one side of a
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game, it very rarely wins. And maybe that's anecdotal, but
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I don't think so because it happens in every sport.
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And the more the world loves a game, the more I hate it.
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So yeah, it's going to be a very popular teaser.
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Like because the Bears are at home.
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I did play the Packers when it got down to pick.
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I think the Packers have a better defense.
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And I mean, this is the third time and in what, less than 40
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days they've met. And you know, the Bears haven't
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LED one second in regulation in either game.
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And I thought in the first half of both games the Packers were
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pretty dominant. So I think the Packers are a
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little bit better. Bears haven't had a lot of
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success at home recently in playoff games.
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And so I could be wrong, and if I'm wrong, I'm happy for the
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Bears, but I I think the Packers are better.
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Speaking of Jacksonville, you guys have your exactas out now
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there's prices are absolutely phenomenal.
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I know you're going to, you know, repost them at once.
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We get everything settled this weekend in advance of the
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divisional round. But if you want a price, you
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better, you better jump in now. What's the most popular, Mike?
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Are you seeing a lot of AFC Jacksonville on either either
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side of Super Bowl exactas at Circa?
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We are. That's been the most popular bet
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in the exact is on either side. If you're isolating one team,
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it's been Jacksonville and then you know what we see?
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We see a lot of Jacksonville, Seattle, Jacksonville, Rams sort
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of isolating the NFC West teams. Those are probably the most
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popular ones involving Jacksonville and Philadelphia
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continues to sort of really be ignored in the market, even
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though they're getting bad in the game on Sunday, they're kind
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of getting ignored in terms of Super Bowl futures.
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The Jaguars are a team if it was anybody baby than the
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Jacksonville Jaguars just because of the ineptitude of
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that organization. Are they the most complete team
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right now in the AFC? That's an interesting question.
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The defense has been good all year and and Lawrence and the
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offense have really come along under Cohen.
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You know, they blow that what, 19 point fourth quarter lead in
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Houston and then they haven't had a misstep since.
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And I have to tell you, the schedule they've beaten has been
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as has been a very solid schedule.
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So I mean, I know I get it. You get that.
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You get to have Tennessee twice, but they beat some very good
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teams. And the Colts and Houston were
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both really solid teams in their division.
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And you know, they beat San Francisco, they beat Kansas City
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this year. The.
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Denver SO. If you look, they beat Denver
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pretty handily in Denver. So there's No Fear for them to
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go to Denver, right to go to Denver and I guess you know the
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small market comments sort of field in there.
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But I will tell you this. If you look statistically at
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every statistic, Jacksonville is better than Buffalo, I think,
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except out of adjusted yards per play offensively maybe, but it's
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just across the board. Every stat is better and and the
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games to pick. And in fact, in some places,
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Buffalo is a one point favorite. I think Jacoby Myers trade
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turned out to be a huge, huge win for Jacksonville.
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That's what may be the missing piece.
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Mike, no, you got to run. Thanks for popping on.
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Appreciate it. Enjoy the weekend.
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Mike Palm, we will talk to you next week.
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Thank you, Mike. Thank you so much.
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Good to talk to you, Mike Baum, VP of operations at Circa
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Sports. Download the app now.
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It's Circa Sports. Circa Sports in Iowa and for
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those of you listening on the other side of the river course,
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Circa Sports Illinois. So the Big 12 tournament just
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appeared on our radar. Yes.
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Seemingly out of nowhere, I'm in.
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I love going down there. Might take me a while because I
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believe that's usually the same week that I.
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Have. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, state basketball, that is happening.
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But we can always maneuver, figure things out, cobble
30:57
something together and make that happen.
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New thing that Circa rolled out last year at Times Circus Most
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Wanted, where they put together kind of a a parlay every week
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and you can get a pretty good price on it this week.
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I had 11. You know why I never go here?
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Tell me what it? Is it is for the NFL wild card
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round? Just on the money line, Yeah.
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You need the Rams, OK, the Packers, all right, The Texans
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and the Bills to win. So 14. 14 money line parlay and.
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What will they give you? Plus 575, but unlike other
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places, you can also bet the no -800 it's a hefty price, but
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think something's going to happen.
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Which one of the Which of those four don't you like?
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The Bills. You know, what about Monday
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night? Boy, there's a lot of love for
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the Steelers. There's a ton of love out there
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for Pittsburgh. Where's that love coming from
31:47
though? Damn, I mean sharps.
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Right. Because it's not the betting
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public. 62% of the money is on the Texans at this point, and
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I've got to guess that they're going to be the public side
31:55
going into this one. From the sharp perspective,
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Pittsburgh at home. DK Metcalf.
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DK Metcalf coming back. TJ Watt TJ Watt is now back.
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For playing last week second game.
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Yeah, something that hasn't happened.
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And maybe his sea legs back underneath him a little bit more
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going into that one. A Texans offensive line that
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stinks. A defense that is still late.
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Maybe it's taking a small step back here over the last month.
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Yeah, they were #1 going into Week 18 and they've fallen.
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So yes, they must have had a. Bad.
32:24
Now, they also had guys that were not playing in that game, a
32:27
couple of guys, and when they got the lead, as they took
32:29
Stroud out, we saw Davis Mills come back into the game.
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They did the same thing, I think with two defenders of memory
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serves that came out of that one.
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Still, even before that, the Colts were going up and down the
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field against them and that's kind of a little bit when Riley
32:42
Leonard, Riley Leonard that they were doing that play.
32:46
I don't know. And Hunter off the edge.
32:48
Those guys are so elite. They are.
32:49
I'll tell you, I like to get from Alabama.
32:51
What's his name, 02020? He's a good player.
32:55
Speed's a good player. Al Shazir is a good player.
32:59
And of course, the secondary was Stingley.
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He's a lead. He might be the best corner in
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the league, but it's CJ Stroud. Yeah, it's CJ Stroud.
33:07
In cold weather, I mean, who do you trust more, old Aaron
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Rodgers? Old Aaron Rodgers.
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I think so too. I think it's, I think I trust
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old Aaron Rodgers. I don't want to see Pittsburgh
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advance. And those three and a halfs that
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were out there in the beginning of the week, they're not coming
33:20
back. Are what?
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What are we at? It's three across the.
33:22
Board is it? Yeah, I certainly like to do 3
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1/2. Getting that hook I think was
33:28
incredibly important. There's juice all over the
33:30
place, but it is 3 flat across the board in that matchup.
33:34
You know, there was some as we look around here, there were a
33:37
bunch of 11 starting to pop Rams 11.
33:39
I don't see one anymore. It's down to 10 tens and a half.
33:43
It's, I don't see Chicago favorite anywhere anymore.
33:48
It's a point and a half everywhere for Green Bay.
33:50
Buffalo's still favoured. That's not true.
33:53
Their favorite. It's it's back and forth.
33:54
There's a couple of DraftKings and FanDuel have Buffalo
33:57
favoured. It's a pick at Circa.
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It's a pick at the Super Book. It's a pick at South Point.
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The one line that's kind of got away is Philadelphia, right?
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Well, it's coming back a little bit.
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There's a 4 1/2 out there in the market.
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There's some five and a halfs too.
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There are. And you're on the Niners.
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I'm on the Niners. I need a better injury report
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for the Niners than what we see at this point.
34:22
I'm just, I'm so ready for tomorrow night.
34:24
I bet right as a as a Packers fan.
34:27
No, Bear, as a Packer hater, don't put that grossness on me.
34:31
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't put that ugly, ugly John
34:35
Deere colors on me. Yuck.
34:36
Get that stuff away. I look at this game so many
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different ways. The football side of it.
34:43
The Packers are better. They are.
34:45
They showed it, yes. Do the Bears need something
34:48
goofy again? Well.
34:49
That's what the whole season's been like that, though.
34:51
It needs another one of those and not the 9% she is of getting
34:55
an onside kick and getting an onside kick, but a pick, 6A
34:59
short field, a defensive score. They can't be, I think even even
35:04
in the turnover and think they're going to win this game,
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gonna be plus on that side. Santos has been good.
35:09
I know you know you were never a big fan, but he's good for. 36
35:12
in but. No, he's got some.
35:14
He's got his card this year, but he's been pretty accurate.
35:17
And I, you know what? At this point, I don't trust
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Brandon McManus. No, absolutely.
35:22
I think maybe an edge there. Watch Santos miss first couple
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of field goals. Another doink.
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Double doink. Oh, my God, that's all you guys
35:29
need. Come back.
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We'll finish out the program. Miller and Condon, we're glad
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you're with us as we talk sports with you and do so every Monday
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through Friday from noon until 2 on the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network. Hi Miller and Condon, welcome
35:40
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6.3 KXNO the Iowa State Oklahoma State point spread posted as
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within the last half hour at a couple of places 18 1/2 nineteen
35:56
if you're a DraftKings customer and you like Iowa State's got
35:59
like 19 1/2. Meanwhile at FanDuel, just 18
36:04
1/2. Caesar's 19.
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So it's right in that ballpark. 18 and a half 1919 1/2 three
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o'clock tip for that one. And then Sunday Illinois invades
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Carver Hawka. What's the what's the tenants
36:16
going to be like on Sunday? Sunday morning 11:00.
36:19
I think they're going to push closer to a sellout.
36:21
I don't think they're going to get there so.
36:23
They'll beat last week's number. Yes.
36:25
Which was what, 12 and change? It was, I had assistant coach
36:28
Bryson Williams on the Locked On podcast today and locked on
36:32
Hawkeyes and he mentioned to me before we went on, they're ahead
36:36
of the pace they were earlier in the week that they were the week
36:39
before with the UCLA game. So yeah, they're hoping they're
36:41
going to push past that number and get close to a sellout.
36:44
It's been a couple of years since they're don't think
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they're going to get quite there, but 13,000 plus maybe
36:48
approaching 14,000. I think the range there'll be
36:51
plenty of orange in there, as there usually is, and hopefully
36:54
the Orange Crush will not make their way there.
36:56
Yeah, really. What's the size, dude?
36:58
How much does that worry you? Because Illinois, as Tom said,
37:01
they're a very big team. Not as much as it did coming
37:04
into the season. I was been better than I thought
37:06
they'd been on the boards. I think that, not that they're
37:09
going to win it, but there's been a couple of times that
37:11
they've been around there, right?
37:14
I think one thing and talking to Coach Williams today is they're
37:19
just trying to figure out about the whistle now.
37:22
It's been on the road the three games, but they played Iowa
37:27
State, Michigan State and Minnesota under Nico Medved. 3
37:31
teams that it's not frame Mccaffrey's defenses, 3 very
37:34
physical teams and just figuring out what it is.
37:38
I mean, you have to start teaching your guys, throw your
37:41
head back, which I hate. Me too.
37:43
The throw the head back thing is one of the worst things that
37:45
have happened in basketball. Yep, without a doubt.
37:47
James Harden started it and it absolutely drives me crazy and.
37:53
I think that might bug me more than than Aaron White did with
37:55
his embellishment when. He Oh, absolutely.
37:57
I mean, this is so much. I agree with you.
37:58
This is egregious. This is.
38:00
Yeah, this. Is you get bumped, you throw
38:01
your head back right? I hate it.
38:02
Yeah, I do too. But maybe that's what.
38:05
You have to do to buy. They're buying.
38:06
It yes, absolutely. And officials are going to do
38:08
that. If I would get to the free throw
38:11
line though 2530 times like most home teams do yeah, I think
38:15
they'll get it done. I do.
38:16
I don't think that. How many did they shoot?
38:18
Against UCLA, do you remember? I don't more because they're
38:21
home. Yeah.
38:23
It shouldn't be the gap that. We But that's the way it is.
38:24
It's always been this way in the Big 10 life.
38:26
In the not just Big 10, no, I know Missouri Valley, Big 12,
38:30
Horizon League, doesn't matter what league, that's just.
38:32
Life on the road. Life on the road.
38:35
All right, we shall see. Good stuff.
38:36
All right, Well, enjoy all the football tomorrow.
38:39
Good luck to your Bears. They need it.
38:41
What's the total? I forgot to look at that with
38:43
the with the weather, because the weather's not supposed to be
38:45
the greatest. I mean, the high during the day
38:46
is 35 and it's going to be rain and snow potentially.
38:50
Yes, now sometimes, as long as there's not wind, that actually
38:54
helps the total. I do have a couple plays, by the
38:56
way, presented by Circa Sports for tonight for basketball 1
38:59
Minnesota -3 1/2 and of course, my Oregon bet plus 3 1/2.
39:03
And how about this on the Circa Sports Iowa App?
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College wrestling. Give me the Badgers getting 33
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against the Hawkeyes tonight in Big 10 wrestling action.
39:13
That's good. I we'll have to ask them like
39:15
next time we speak of them, just how much they're seeing.
39:18
Is it growing like it did when they first started to introduce
39:21
it? That's going to do it for us.
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