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ISU Wins again in Players Era, Iowa over Ole Miss, Chris Kuball on weather conditions, Mitch Holthus preview Chiefs/Cowboys & Tom Kakert on the Hawkeyes · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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getaway Wednesday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Trent Condon and Kendaller for the next couple of hours to talk
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sports with you. And thank you for starting your
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afternoon and perhaps your holiday weekend here with us.
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Here's what's coming up on our program in about 20 minutes.
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For those of you who are travelling in the state of Iowa,
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Chris Kubal, he is the meteorologist over at WOI here
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in Des Moines, Channel 5, the ABC affiliate.
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But I've asked Chris to broaden it and he will to take a look at
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the entire state. For those of you listening on
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the network, wherever you are, we're grateful that you are so
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on. Just a a peek at what
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potentially is coming our way Saturday into sunny into Sunday
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with Chris Kubal from WOI Channel 5.
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Then we'll hear from Mitch Holtis.
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He's on an airplane headed to Dallas.
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So we left some tape for Trent and I to to hear.
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I will hear for the first time. We'll play that for you.
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Tom Keikart, he is in California, at least was last
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night. I believe you'll be there for
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the championship tonight. We'll get we'll get Tom in here.
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hawkeyereport.com recap last night, preview tonight on the
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hardwood and obviously take a look at Nebraska and Iowa.
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Bama, Bob Trenton. I will start to hour number two
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going around college football the final weekend of the regular
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season and then Mike Palm will head out to Vegas and go behind
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the counter inside the numbers with Mike Palm, the VP of
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Operations at Circa Sports will make our picks before we slide
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on out of here and turn things over to Lucas.
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As I know Sean is already on vacay.
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He I believe he's well, he's either had 1-2 places Illinois
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nor Kansas would be my thought. But so he Lucas will be manning
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the ship here this afternoon from 2:00 until 5:00.
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I don't know what we I don't know why we should recap Iowa
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State from yesterday. They're about to play today.
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Just real quick on this and I love the tournament.
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I love the competition. This is this is brutal.
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This format is idiotic. Idiotic.
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Yeah. Get some basketball people in
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here please. Yep, absolutely somebody's.
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Look, the guy's got AI think an opportunity here to have a real
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success story, but this is a disaster.
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Complete disaster. The fact that St.
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John's scores a the bucketed, you know, the final couple of
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seconds? Meaningless.
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No, and in a couple seconds as the buzzer goes off.
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Well, there you go. And it's going to cost Iowa
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State $200,000 because they can't play in it.
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So we'll keep you updated on the consolation round.
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You go 2 and O. And you're in the consolation
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round. You're not even playing for 3rd
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place. No, it's ridiculous trend and I
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love the I love the godforsaken event.
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But look at here. I saw the net real quick.
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We'll get the Iowa because boisters, he's unbelievable.
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These are Kansas, who is going to play in a bigger game today.
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Obviously their net rankings against their two opponents than
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the net rankings of the two opponents they've beaten in Las
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Vegas. Notre Dame one O 3, Syracuse
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$1.33. Meanwhile, Iowa State took care
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of St. John's 13, Creighton 38 and Iowa
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State No 200,000. For you, it's the consolation.
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Like it or lump it. Take it a step further, Iowa
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State has defeated teams Ken Pomeroy's rankings, which the
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net are still a little funky at this time, St.
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John's #12, Creighton #61 while Kansas has beaten teams 73 and
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57. Jesus.
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It's stupid. It's a stupid, stupid format.
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Makes no sense you. Have to.
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If you're going to have this carrot dangling, right, You're
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going to have this out there. There is this incentive.
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Then you have to have something. Yes, you have to have something
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better than this. You said the best sentence of of
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our 5 minutes on the air. Get a basketball person
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involved. Yes, yeah.
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Right, get get some people in the in the know how involved in
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this because it just makes absolutely no.
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Sense. And then on top of it, to have
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to play Syracuse, you're 2 and O Yeah, Syracuse is O and two.
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Yep. How?
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How can this be your format when you have a 2 and O team facing
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an O and two team? Trent Iowa State has played
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teams with a pulse, and this is their reward.
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If you are that would love to see the at minimum the Tennessee
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match up. I mean you talk about it all out
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war. Oh my God, the dumb against the
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Rick Barnes squad. That would have been absolutely
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incredible and what it looked like yes, it was going to be
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Gonzaga Michigan as Michigan was starting to throttle and Gonzaga
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did the same. All right, that's what we're
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going to. Get.
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They're good, aren't they? By the way?
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Yeah. They're good again, aren't they?
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But now to have them have to face an O and two team.
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Now here's the other part. If they had to play Tennessee or
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Gonzaga or Michigan without Lipsy.
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Fair. It might not have gone very
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well. So you could kind of play both.
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This actually maybe work, although.
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Toure was unbelievable. He was so good, he was great,
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but. Rather have Lipsy.
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This is a step up in competition.
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This is a big step up against who they would have faced.
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But why aren't they playing Alabama?
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Alabama's won a game. Yeah, they did one and one in
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this thing. Why?
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Aren't they playing at minimum one of the one win teams in
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this? Why are they playing in O2?
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What's the just? Have you seen nothing
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justification at all? Nope.
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This is rinky dink. This gives your tournament, as
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you said, that has a chance to really be something.
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This gives the illusion of idiocy of dumb people trying to
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run things. And when that happens and he
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gets some of that negativity. You're making it up on the fly
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and. That's a problem and you brought
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up with the format could be next year very similar to what this
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is and then maybe have to come back a week later.
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That's dumb. This is just it's one stupid
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idea after another. You got the money.
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That's great. Money solves a lot, but in the
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end, let's make it a basketball. And here's what they're not
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thinking about. And I know that this is a matter
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to very few people out there, but it does if you want to stay
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on the Strip, the Formula One races out there again next year.
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And for the, I shouldn't say I'm painting with a pretty broad
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brush here, but for most people who wanted to go out to watch
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this tournament, you can't afford to be in Vegas that week.
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You can't. The prices are through the roof
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at a number of these properties. So anyways, we'll see what we'll
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see what happens. We'll see what they do, how they
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tweak it. It does have a chance to be I, I
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think a pretty cool event. And we've certainly seen some
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good hoops. And I don't know what we're
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going to see as the game has started.
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We'll keep you updated on that. Let's let's touch on Iowa.
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Trent, this Ben starts his he's just, it's unbelievable to
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watch. OK, fans, it's you're, it's
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going to hit you at some point that my good God, this is the
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only year that we get to watch this dude in the Hawkeye
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uniform. He played every single minute.
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He had 29 points. And by the way, Roy Hibbert
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piped out. What an idiot.
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What an. Idiot after the game.
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We got a lot of dumb basketball people here in the 1st 7 minutes
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of the show. God what is going on here?
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I I like other guys, just what are you talking about?
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Right, he's the dude. Would you say that to a Jordan
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based Bulls? Club what?
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What would you like to see more of?
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Jeff Curry don't want him to probably play.
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He make him. Shoot the ball.
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You want Isaiah Howard, who's shooting 8% from the three-point
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line, taking more shots. No.
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Come on, Roy. No, he's your dude.
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He's your dude. Nick got some guys, man.
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Well played very well last night.
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I thought obviously Cooper Koch was terrific off the bench.
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Fulgar. They've got something in
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Fulgaris. He's good.
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They've got something in Fulgaris.
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I like Fulgaris a lot. But Bennett Sturtz, my God, what
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a player he is. He is so smart.
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Trent, I have said many years, for many years, I have the
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hardest time comparing college basketball players and their
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ability to play in the NBA. Football, you got a pretty good
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idea. Hockey have a pretty good idea.
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Baseball got an idea, right, Right or wrong?
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Have an idea. I'm most of the time wrong when
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it comes to college basketball and how this guy is is going to
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will he or will he not make it in the NBA?
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Bennett Sturtz is that guy from from from the Thunder with a
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headband. Caruso.
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Yeah, Alex Caruso. Alex Caruso and he's made 10s of
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millions of dollars. Yes.
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And Bennett Sturtz is a smarter player and I'll go on record
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saying he's a better player. I think.
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Point being, I think that anybody's cuz this guy's I'm
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sure been doubted his entire life, right?
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I mean, look at the steps he had to take to get to where he's at
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now. Two years ago he was honorable
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mention in his D2 conference. Good God, honorable mention.
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Honorable mention, Yeah. In AD 2 conference, this is a
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guy that is going to be, what, 23 I think when next year's
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draft comes around and he's being talked about as a lottery
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pick. How many 23 year olds do you
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hear as a lottery pick? None.
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None. No, because H works against him
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at that point. Absolutely, but he is in those
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circles and we'll see what happens come draft time and
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he's. Going to play in the NBA.
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He is going to play in the NBA. A guy that was just down the
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street from us over and forced to have playing at the nap
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Center was playing 2D2 basketball two years ago.
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You can't make him play outside of his style.
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You just can't. No, that's what he is.
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You can frustrate him. We saw that at times with Drake
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and there was a well we saw. One last night that they maybe
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pushed that guy from behind him to the basket.
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Yeah, that was a little flopped. In well still, but he starts
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new. They made they made the wrong
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move there. This squad though, they're it's
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different, it's so different than what you've seen in the
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last 16 years, the way that they are just going to grind you and
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it's going to be long possession.
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Will this will this play this out with me?
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What? What does this team do as far as
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I think the Hawkeye fans are OK? We're going to dip our toe in
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the water. Yeah.
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Show me. You got to prove it.
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And I'll buy some. Absolutely.
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I think they're going to buy some, Trent.
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Yes. And I really do you.
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Finish it off tonight. Be great, Canyon.
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I'm not saying they're going to sell at the building then the
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next time they come home, that's not going to happen, probably
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not. But they will beat by I think a
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fair margin. And the bar wasn't set real
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high. The numbers that Fran McCaffrey
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put in that building last year. I think that there, I think
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Hawkeye men's basketball is about to get a significant
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uptick. They're going to play a
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different style, but it's this is not Dick Bennett, this is not
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Bull Ryan, this is not Tony Bennett.
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In the 40s. Right.
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This is not just go out there and kick the crap out of the
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other team and just that hideous brand.
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It's not fast and it's not going to be fast and tempo is going to
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be slow and. If it bothers you, just watch
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#14 and just take your don't take your eyes off AM.
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Because he's moving the balls movement that they have Combs I
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thought was tremendous. Yeah, he was good too.
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And the way that they're able to take some of the pressure off
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starts is going to play 40 minutes in any kind of close
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game. That's what it is.
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But it's not going to be doing it all for 40 minutes.
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And I think Combs is a very important part of that one.
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Here's another thing, you saw, you mentioned Manwa, see him
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playing with two fouls in the first half.
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How about that? Do you see Bennett Sturtz
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playing with two fouls in the first half?
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You also had two other guys. Fulgaris had two and one other
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also had two. Yet he trusts his guys.
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You've heard it before. I, I, I know, I know.
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But it was something because. Like me and availability
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reports, it's you. It's you and two files.
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Fran McCaffrey. And and Fran, he always talked
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about and it was another thing that drove me crazy because one
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of Fran's greatest strengths was drawing up plays.
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Late game situation. He was great.
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He was he. Really was.
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Yes. Yet he wouldn't use time outs
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very often, late games, because he always said I trust my guys.
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Well, if you trust your guys enough to do that, you trust
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your guys enough not to use a time out and to Draw Something
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up, you trust them in that moment.
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How can you not trust your guys? There would be runs at the end
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of half and instead of being 3131 like it was last night, if
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Ray McCaffrey was coaching this team, they're down 8 at the
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half, they're down 10 at the half because of foul
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distribution. It just, it's the way that it
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is. I love it is thinking, I think a
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little bit deeper and that's what you get with McCollum.
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This team is incredibly fun to watch.
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Going to be a big, big time watch throughout the course of
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the year and they got a chance. When you got a boycott like
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this, I don't think you want to put a ceiling on them.
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I don't think you do. Nope.
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I'm with you. Going to be fascinating stuff to
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watch unfold. All right, let's get a couple of
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calls in here. Chris Kubal.
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We're going to get to Chris. He'll join us here in a few
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minutes. Chris, give us like 5 minutes if
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you don't mind holding. We'll get the Iowa forecast for
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the weekend. I know that snow is a big part
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of it. At least we will.
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And we'll go right to the the expert on this.
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A couple of real quick calls. Hawkeye, Andy is up first.
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Hawkeye, Andy, happy Thanksgiving.
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What's on your mind? Happy Thanksgiving, you guys.
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Yeah, Iowa basketball. How many times in the last
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couple of years with under 4 minutes left have you used the
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word toughness, defense and clutch describing a Hawkeye
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team? Yes.
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And I I couldn't agree more with what you said about Roy Hibbert.
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You could even see Steve lap this and whatever the other guy
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are going. What are you talking about?
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I saw that I'm like he is still out of it.
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But the other guy I would mention would be Isaiah Howard.
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I thought he was much like Combs is big like you said with I mean
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he brought the ball up and he get and then they ran a lot of
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ball screens with Sturt's obviously, but I thought Isaiah
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Howard. He's an athlete.
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He's an athlete. Andy, Happy Thanksgiving.
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Got to move on, brother. Thanks for listening.
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Appreciate it. Thank you.
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Yep. Let's get to Will and then we'll
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get Jeff and then we'll get to Chris Kubel from Channel 5.
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We'll get the update on what we can expect this weekend.
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Hi Will, how are you? Good.
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How are you guys? Good.
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What's up, man? I just wanted to add Trent
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pointed out the whole that the first half foul out situation
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that was totally different than what Fran style was.
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But the other thing that I love to see in that first half was,
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you know, there was a spot where Miss Ole Miss went on this six O
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run and it was never a spot that Fran in a million years would
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have called the time out and then immediately went to the
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time out and settled things down, get them back on track.
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And those timeouts in those mini run situations are so critical.
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Like Scott, Drew has done that for years.
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That's why he's an excellent end game coach.
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Yep, fair points Will. Absolutely that 6 nothing run
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would have been 12 nothing before there would have been a
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time out called. Will Happy Thanksgiving man
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appreciate it. And I think it was after a
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couple of your rock turnovers, he got pulled out of the game.
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Him and Koch, they're kind of playing A2 man game and both of
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them were kind of messing up there.
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That was another thing that I really like to see though.
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You pulled your rock out right away.
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How many minutes did he end up with?
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That was it? Yeah.
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But you stay with Cooper and Cooper.
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Catch and he rewarded him. That guy that you saw last year,
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boy, he's got a beautiful shot, right?
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But we didn't get to see him much because of the injury and
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and the illness and everything that he was dealing with a
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season ago. But you said, man, that's that's
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a good looking shot. And now you see this guy and
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there's still times they're still coaching out a little bit
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defense. He's still maybe that first move
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gets him. But he has improved.
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And even going back to the first game of the year, Cooper Koch
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has taken strides. This is dude Iowa doesn't know.
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It helps that his dad played it high, but how often do you
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remember an out of state kid that has offers from Illinois,
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home state school, Purdue, Wisconsin, Michigan State?
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Iowa doesn't win those recruiting battles in basketball
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very often. I know it helps, but they have
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that kind of guy. He just seems like, doesn't he
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seem like a guy that'd be at Purdue that would be at
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Wisconsin that we, oh, this guy is in Iowa.
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Yes, now he's at Iowa. He coupled that shooting ability
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with what he is doing and those were some tough rebounds.
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Those were just 10 rebounds that just came to him.
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He was battling in there against some athletic dudes.
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Loved his game. All right, one more call and
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then we'll get to Chris Kuboff from Channel 5.
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Jeff, welcome to the show. How are you?
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Ken, what's going on? Real quick, first thing, you
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guys know the reason why the game's not on the bus right now.
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No. Oh, you know what?
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I bet I do. It's probably programmed prior
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to the announcement of when game time is, just to guess, but I'll
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let somebody know. I did not know.
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That it's just, it's just dark on the bus.
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So that was #1 #2 you know, I'm watching the Cyclone, you know,
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the first thing that pops out to me, Tori is unbelievable.
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How he stepped in the tutelage that I got to give Lipsy to get
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him ready to go. What an unsung hero, Lips.
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Just another feather in the cap to get the kid ready to go to
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him. All through the summer.
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Nobody really talks about that. But when you listen to TJ talk
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post game and you hear the great thing, just another great thing
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that Lips he does for the program is just unbelievable.
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But to have the kid ready to go and get 20 points in a in a spot
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they absolutely needed? Yeah, why did he get teed up, by
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the way? What was the technical all
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about? So he's been he's been screaming
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after a couple layups and done. He kind of just went into him
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and screamed. And I think the I'm assuming the
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ref just said, Hey, let's just, you know, count this down
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attack. But you know, you bring up
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Heidi, who I've been kind of hot and cold and TJ, again, if you
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bring the tea lead, you know, he wasn't really into the summer
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ball and he was kind of this and that, you know, that's those are
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the games they absolutely need. He hits a couple of threes.
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He got eight points, 5 rebounds, 6th to 5th.
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That's what they're going to need to him on a on a day-to-day
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basis. And Speaking of, you know, Milan
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had a great game, comes back, gets in foul trouble, kind of,
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you know, in and out of the game the whole game and they didn't
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even miss a beat. But what scares me the most is
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when you look at their bench and they're going to need their
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bench again. You know, when it comes in the
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late days of February, when you go through this gauntlet, you
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need a bench. The way PJ coaches, you need a
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bench. Nelson Bateman, they're going to
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need these guys. They only really played, they
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only get paid. They only played eight guys.
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And the way he plays defense, you guys watch, they they run
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out of gas. So to me, a telltale sign is can
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they keep an 8-9 man rotation all the way through conference
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play and that's going to get them propelled to March.
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I don't as a Cyclone fan, and I don't want to speak for all
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Cyclone fans. I don't care what they do in the
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Big 12 tournament. Yeah, I like to see him win the
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Big 12 Conference, but it's we're out of point now.
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It's what you do in March, what you do in the big dance.
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That is what I want to see out of the Cyclone team.
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You guys have a good. Thing happy Thanksgiving.
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Thank you, Jeff. Appreciate it.
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All right, let's get our buddy Chris Kubal in here from WI
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Channel 5 here in Des Moines. Chris, thank you for being
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patient. Appreciate you coming on.
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Obviously big weekend, a lot of travel one would assume
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throughout the state of Iowa. So give us the ladies.
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Chris, when, when can we or can we expect snow?
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If so, how much snow and when does it get here?
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Get off that Crystal. Your meteorologist, Crystal
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Ball. Chris Google, good to talk to
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you. Well, that that's $100,000
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question is it not at this point?
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Thanks for having me on gentlemen, always.
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Good to be back with you. Yeah.
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I think after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, going into the
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weekend, we're going to start to be seeing some snow here across
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central and Northern Iowa that also includes kind of northwest
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and eastern Iowa at that as well, kind of becoming the
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target zone of this one. It's not a matter of if we see
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snow at this point. I think it's kind of a matter of
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how much we see and. You know so.
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Much surrounds the track on which it goes at this point,
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but, you know, does it really make a difference if you're
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talking 6 inches of snow or 8 inches of snow?
19:04
No, really, it doesn't. It's gonna be a mess on the
19:06
travel scene, I think Friday night through Saturday night.
19:08
Is there a line like, say, I-80? Is there a cut line that, you
19:13
know, north of I-80 might get, say, 8 inches South, you know,
19:18
might, might see a dusting? Is there a line throughout the
19:21
state of Iowa that, you know, people, depending on where
19:23
they're listening to us on the Iowa Sports Radio Network, they
19:26
may catch a break or or is the entire state under this?
19:30
I don't want to call it a watch because that's an official
19:32
weather term. But are they in jeopardy of
19:34
snow? Well, I, I'd say at this point,
19:37
really the entire state needs to, you know, be on alert for
19:40
this. If there is going to be kind of
19:43
cut off, it'd probably be S where either the dry air catches
19:46
us or the rain will catch us. But like, it's just that, you
19:50
know, so much depends on that track.
19:52
And we're talking, you know, still 3 days out at this point.
19:54
So we still got some time to massage.
19:57
I don't want to put out specific numbers, but you know, the plows
20:00
will be out as they keep the gas ready for the snow blowers.
20:03
It looks like it could hold some.
20:05
High end amounts, especially in central northern, I would say,
20:07
yeah, north of I-80, definitely kind of going to be in that
20:11
target zone for the possibly the hardest hit.
20:14
Now, you know, if you're looking on social media, you'll see
20:16
everything floating around out there.
20:17
And for the I'll believe it when I see a crowd, you know, that's
20:21
kind of, you know, we're starting to see them come out of
20:24
the woodwork now too. So I do think something's going
20:27
to happen. It's just to what extreme are we
20:29
talking here? All right, Chris, take it a step
20:31
further. Take us to 11 AM Friday morning
20:34
over in Lincoln. Yeah, Go to our neighbors over
20:37
there to the West. What do you anticipate?
20:38
What are you looking at for Lincoln for the Iowa Nebraska
20:41
Black Friday game? Yeah.
20:43
So getting there. You know, I think it's going to
20:45
be fine. Anyone traveling out to Lincoln
20:48
for that one? You're going to be in good
20:49
shape. Could the first couple of
20:50
snowflakes start falling during the game out there?
20:52
Yeah, I think so. But I don't expect too much of
20:55
an issue really in western or central Iowa until we go later
21:00
into the afternoon. So you get out of there, don't
21:02
go to the bar after the game or anything.
21:04
You know, I head straight home. I think you'll be ahead of most
21:07
of the weather. Most of it's going to be after
21:08
dark here in central Iowa. So it could be a little bit
21:11
earlier out there. But yeah, just right at the very
21:15
beginning. Windy conditions and Lincoln for
21:17
the game because we like to take a look at, you know the point
21:20
spread and the total a little bit so and that wind is always
21:22
in hugely impactful for that you expect much wind conditions in
21:26
Lincoln. You know a.
21:27
Little bit of it, but you haven't really honed in on that
21:30
too much just yet. Usually that's kind of on the
21:33
backside of the storm though, so I wouldn't expect anything too
21:37
hard hitting at this point, but haven't really looked too much
21:40
in detail out there on Lincoln for the wind.
21:42
The wind has been brutal in Central.
21:44
I'm guessing that's been a statewide thing.
21:46
It's, I don't remember, is prolonged even through the night
21:49
usually normally and I shouldn't say that I'm not a weather guy,
21:51
but when the sun goes down seemingly it changes.
21:54
But when's the wind pattern or when?
21:56
When are these gusting winds going to be a part of our past
22:00
instead of the present? Yeah, last night was just awful,
22:04
brutal. There was a lot of spots, 5560
22:08
miles an hour. Yeah, they're they're easing
22:11
right now. So basically the storm system
22:12
that brought snow up in Minnesota is moving out.
22:16
And the further it gets away, the less the wind is going to be
22:18
involved. So it's already on the way down,
22:20
still breezy after dark. It won't be too much left.
22:24
Chris is on X and I follow him. That's where he's my weather guy
22:28
at Chris Kuble, Kuba Double L, Chris CRC, HRISKUBA Double L on
22:36
X. He updates the weather often on
22:39
the app and I'm grateful that you do, Chris.
22:40
Hey, listen, thanks for jumping on.
22:42
Appreciate it. Happy Thanksgiving.
22:44
Chris. Google and everybody over at the
22:46
WOI. We are Iowa Channel 5, the ABC
22:49
affiliate in Des Moines. Thank you, Chris.
22:51
Absolutely, guys. Take care.
22:52
Happy Thanksgiving. Good to talk to you.
22:54
Chris Kubal that joins us is talk a little weather and get
22:57
you updated on what's going on there.
22:59
All right, take your time out. We'll come back.
23:01
We'll hear from Mitch Holtis. Do we have a couple of minutes
23:03
we can do the NFL after we hear from Mitch spent a couple of
23:06
minutes talking about some of the games do I'll save that for
23:10
when we come back. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
23:11
Sports Radio Network. I'm Millory Condon, Welcome
23:17
back. Iowa Sports Radio Network.
23:19
Trent and Ken with you until 2:00.
23:22
Tom Caker coming up. We'll head to Palm Springs to
23:24
catch up with Tom here in about 10 minutes.
23:26
Mitch Holtis and the Chiefs are on a plane headed to Dallas.
23:29
They are the 3:30 window tomorrow.
23:33
Cowboys and the Chiefs. Chiefs about a 3 1/2 point
23:36
favorite. Before Mitch got on the
23:38
airplane, he sent Trent and IA little audio.
23:40
And here's that clip from Mitch Holtis.
23:43
All right, hi, fellas. Happy Thanksgiving to everybody
23:45
in the Des Moines area. This Thanksgiving afternoon.
23:48
It's two teams that are coming off crazy comebacks culminating
23:51
and walk off field goals that will meet in Dallas.
23:54
The Chiefs, who trailed 20 to 9 Sunday afternoon with 9 minutes
23:57
to go, rallied against the Indianapolis Colts to win 2320
24:01
in overtime and a walk off Harrison Bucker field goal.
24:04
The Dallas Cowboys were down 21 to nothing in the first half to
24:07
their hated rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles, but Dallas
24:10
had a furious comeback to win 2421 on a walk off field goal by
24:14
Brandon Aubrey. Patrick Mahomes is the first
24:17
storyline in this game. He returns to his native Texas
24:20
to battle his boyhood team. He grew up about 115 miles from
24:24
Irving, where the stadium's located.
24:26
And so anyway, Pat gets to come back home to play the Cowboys
24:29
for the first time in the Metroplex.
24:32
Anytime these two teams meet at conjures up the memories of the
24:35
Dallas Texan AFL Dallas Cowboys NFL Turf war from 1960 to 1962,
24:42
which led the the Texans and AFL founder Lamar Hunt to move to
24:46
Kansas City when they became the Chiefs.
24:49
Then there's the Schottenheimer connection in this game.
24:51
Dallas head coach Bryant Schottenheimer is the son of the
24:53
late Marty Schottenheimer, who was Kansas City's head coach
24:56
from 1989 to 1998. Plus, there's the Andy Reid
25:00
versus Dallas rivalry that started when Andy Reid became
25:03
head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1999.
25:06
Coach Reid has faced the Cowboys 32 times, including once in the
25:10
playoffs. Big Red has won nineteen of
25:13
those games against the team with the silver helmets in the
25:16
Blue Star. Now, one sad note is that she's
25:18
tight. And Noah Gray won't play
25:20
Thursday, as he suffered A concussion Sunday in the game
25:23
against the Colts. And since it's Thanksgiving
25:25
week, I wanted to play a quote from a conversation I had last
25:29
week with Noah before the Colts game.
25:30
You see, November is National Diabetes Month and Noah Gray is
25:35
a Type 1 diabetic. He has become a leader and a
25:38
mentor to families and young people who have been diagnosed
25:41
with diabetes but want to stay active and live normal lives.
25:45
Now that's the case of many who live in the Des Moines area and
25:49
within the sound of this broadcast.
25:51
They want to stay active in many endeavors, whether it's sports
25:54
or something else. Just like Noah Gray, who has to
25:56
work very hard each and every day to play in the NFL and still
26:00
deal with type 1 diabetes. He gives some encouragement and
26:03
advice during this holiday week. Yeah, I think the biggest piece
26:06
of advice that I would give is just consistency.
26:08
So consistency with what you're eating before you have big time
26:12
activities. So that's sports, that could be
26:14
music, that could be school. Like if you have a big test,
26:17
just be really consistent with your diet.
26:21
And then once that you know, exam or once that football game
26:24
or practice or musical event is over, then go have some ice
26:27
cream and, and have some fun. Obviously within reason and make
26:30
sure you're taking the right amount of insulin.
26:31
But I would just really stress the importance of a good,
26:34
healthy, strict diet, eating the same thing at pretty much the
26:37
same time to get your blood glucose at a level that you're
26:40
going to feel most confident to be at when you go out to that
26:42
event. That's just that consistency
26:44
right before you are going out to do that event.
26:46
I think it's going to help get your blood sugar in a way that's
26:48
going to prevent some low blood sugars and also prevent some
26:51
high blood sugars and just allow you to go out here and play the
26:54
sport or music event or whatever it is that you're interested.
26:57
Going to hike up a huge mountain.
26:58
Do whatever it is that you want to do to the best of your
27:00
ability. Although Gray won't play
27:02
Thursday, two guys that will play or quarterback Dak Prescott
27:06
of the Cowboys and Mahomes for the Chiefs.
27:08
Prescott has the most completions this year in the
27:11
NFL, while Mahomes is second in that category.
27:14
Mahomes has the second most passing yards in the league and
27:17
Prescott is third. You see, there's storylines that
27:19
are prevalent and so is the potential drama and what could
27:22
be the most watched and most listened to regular season game
27:26
in NFL history. Happy Thanksgiving and a shout
27:29
out to the folks at Papa John's. You can't have Turkey all
27:33
weekend. So hey, how about giving Papa
27:36
John's a call and check out that those Papa Dippa dipping sauces
27:40
that they've got now again at Papa John's.
27:42
Check them out at papajohns.com. And big shout out to Tom and
27:45
Matt Donaldson and all the folks at Papa John's of Iowa.
27:47
I'm Mitch Holtis to the Chiefs. All right, thank you, Mitch.
27:50
Good stuff there is on an airplane headed to Dallas for
27:53
what I I think it's going to break records as far as people
27:56
watching this game I. Really do some estimates that
27:58
are out there. Hope it goes north of that.
28:02
I have no idea about this game. That's why I was going to ask
28:04
you which game of the four will include the Black Friday game
28:07
confounds you the most the early game.
28:10
I would no, I have a pretty strong opinion on that one.
28:13
We'll get to a little bit later on.
28:15
I'm with you. It's this Chiefs, Cowboys, I
28:17
think you can lay out a ton of different scenarios.
28:19
You know, I was leaning towards Kansas City.
28:22
The homes not good on the big spot.
28:25
The road woes. This defense for Dallas has
28:27
certainly improved. Pickens is maybe better than CD
28:30
Lamb. The red zone issues from this
28:32
Kansas City team, something that's just inexplicable from
28:35
what they have been. So I couldn't get there.
28:37
Certainly as it's it's a three and a half.
28:39
A lot of places didn't want to get there.
28:41
That's the one. What do you anticipate we'll see
28:43
Black Friday with the Bears and Eagles.
28:45
I can make in case the Bears will knock them off.
28:47
You can, yes. Just the fact that the Eagles
28:49
are sewing. Because now here's what worries
28:51
me if I'm a Bears fan, that defensive line.
28:53
Oh, absolutely for the Eagles. The Bears offensive line is OK.
28:57
Better. Better, but it's not a leap.
29:00
It means that defensive front from Philadelphia coming off a
29:03
lot. I will tell you selfishly, as a
29:05
fan, I was for Philly to finish that one off.
29:08
Yeah, as all of a sudden, you know, it's 2114.
29:10
It still just didn't feel like, well, they're not going to get
29:13
over the hump. And they get over the hump.
29:15
And even with some crazy things late that some time management
29:18
things are kind of scratch your head with Shot and Heimer, they
29:21
got it done and Dallas is now alive.
29:23
Philadelphia, I don't think that's a Philly team.
29:25
You want to walk into a pissed off Philly?
29:27
Team I, I'm with you and unfortunately for your Bears and
29:29
all the Bears fans in the listening audience, I think
29:31
that's what's what lies ahead on Black Friday, middle of the
29:34
afternoon. So the Hawks will be over or
29:36
just getting wrapping up at that point.
29:38
What am I going to miss in the Georgia, Georgia Tech?
29:41
I can do without that. Unless it's close like it was a
29:45
year ago, Yeah, well, that thing might go to three, 4:00.
29:47
Yeah, maybe do a little jumping around then, as long as we're
29:50
done for A in M and Texas because that's appointment TV
29:52
for me. That's the one, huh?
29:54
The Egg Bowl? Well, I can't watch it because
29:57
Iowa. Yes.
29:58
Oh, you're talking about the 230 window.
30:00
The 230 window. Yeah, 230 window outside of
30:02
Georgia. There's not much there, so it'll
30:04
be Bears and the Eagles. You'll hear from Tom Caker.
30:07
We'll head to California. That's where Tom is at.
30:10
He's in Palm Springs covering the basketball tournament.
30:12
He'd be in Lincoln. What a change.
30:13
Put a shock to the system. Palm Springs, CA Lincoln, NE
30:17
Miller and Condon back with Tom on the other side.
30:20
It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network Milan kind and welcome
30:30
back. Iowa Sports Radio Network with
30:33
you until 2O clock. Let's get right to California.
30:35
Palm Springs, CA Tom Keikart, hawkeyereport.com You're due for
30:41
a culture shock here, Tom. Palm Springs to Lincoln in the
30:44
next 48 hours. That's quite a contrast.
30:47
We saw a back and forth basketball game last night.
30:51
Iowa wins, pulls away at the end, and I think if the country
30:55
wasn't aware of what I was got in Bennett Sturtz, the if they
30:58
watch this tournament and continue to pay attention to the
31:01
Hawks when they're on, very quickly we'll know just what
31:03
Iowa has in Bennett Sturtz. My God, he was unbelievable.
31:08
He was like an all American, wasn't he?
31:12
Looks a lot like an All American to me.
31:14
And I, I, I said something last night that was like, this is
31:20
kind of the first time Iowa fans are seeing this version of that.
31:24
They've seen the guy who just kind of did what he needed to do
31:27
the first five games. But that was a good that just
31:30
took the game over. He was the best player on the
31:32
floor. He'll be the best on the floor
31:34
again tonight. And he is.
31:39
He is as advertised. And how about Cooper Koch?
31:43
That's the I, I, I said that the coach went home after the game.
31:47
I said between that version of Cooper Koch before and he was
31:51
like, Nope. He's got a smile on his face,
31:56
though. He liked it.
31:57
So yeah, that if Iowa can get back from Cooper, that changes
32:05
the dynamics of this team pretty, pretty significantly, I
32:08
think. Definitely tightened up the
32:10
rotation. Also last night we saw York for
32:12
a couple of minutes, had a couple of turnovers.
32:14
He got pulled out, little bit of Tate Sage, but that was that out
32:16
of the freshman. Hassan only played 8 minutes in
32:19
the game. Howard played 12.
32:21
A lot of them late, including a big dunk in there.
32:23
He's got to shoot the ball better from the outside.
32:25
But I mean, is this kind of what you anticipate is we're going to
32:28
see this rotation start to shrink down and, and they feel
32:31
pretty good. The starters, along with Fool
32:33
Garrison kind of figure out maybe that 7th, 8th spot going
32:35
forward. Yeah, I think he's pressed the
32:39
seven right now is just my guess.
32:42
I think he trusts playing seven with Amaro and and Howard coming
32:49
off the bench. Howard really struggled the
32:52
first half, but he played well in the stretch.
32:55
They put him out there on score and slow him down.
32:58
And I think it's links gave them trouble and he got a couple of
33:01
really nice effort buckets under the bucket and then the the nice
33:05
dish from the dunk to go up 860 at that time.
33:12
So yeah, he he really gave him some good minutes, but he's not
33:15
shooting the ball well. And that's one of the things
33:17
they really need him, is that ability to shoot.
33:21
But yeah, Combs, Koch and of course Sturtz all played 35 plus
33:27
last night. It was unbelievable and
33:30
obviously the the no look bounce pass at the end of the game to
33:33
seal it from from Sturtz. That was remarkable passing
33:37
play. It really was.
33:38
It's just so different, Tom. It's it's just I, I don't win.
33:42
I sound like it doesn't like the McCaffrey era.
33:45
I did, but it's just different and it's refreshing and it's fun
33:48
to watch Iowa basketball. That's maybe my, one of my
33:51
biggest takeaways is this team is just different and they're
33:55
coached differently and this is a new era.
33:57
If anybody wasn't clear that that's what we're embarking on.
34:02
And. For that first sight, I mean,
34:04
the offense wasn't great. The first?
34:06
Yep. 6-8 minutes but but defensive, I don't think we ever
34:12
see a team play defense like that.
34:16
They did to start that game. I mean, they were everywhere and
34:18
they were in past lanes, they were hustling, they were diving
34:22
on the floor for balls. They were just getting and and
34:26
partying in their chest and starting them.
34:31
It. It is fun to watch.
34:34
I'm really curious how they go tonight when it was the first
34:38
time they play back-to-back and but I don't know if you guys
34:43
watched Grand Canyon, they were old, 10 from three and shot 39%,
34:48
still 1 by 10. Hey, Tom, we're going to try it
34:51
back on a different line here quick.
34:53
We got a little funky connection.
34:54
We'll give you a call right back and get you set up.
34:56
Yeah. We're absolutely, Tom.
34:58
We're kind of losing the in and out there.
34:59
Not fair to the audience to subject them here to that.
35:03
So we're getting a football with Tom coming up.
35:05
By the way, for those of you who follow these things, the point
35:08
spread on Iowa, Nebraska, the number opened at 5.
35:11
It's 6 six and a half 6 1/2 at Caesar, 6 1/2 at FanDuel Circus
35:17
holding steady at six. What's DraftKings?
35:20
DraftKings is also holding steady at six.
35:23
Let's get Tom kicker back in here Tom.
35:26
Sorry about that Tom. We're just breaking up and not
35:29
good. This sounds hopefully fingers
35:30
crossed this will be much better anymore basketball TC.
35:34
So let's move on obviously the finale the curtain comes down.
35:38
We had simple on yesterday Tom. I want to run this one by you.
35:41
He's to Trent and I that this is the most important.
35:46
Am I getting this right? The most important game in Matt
35:49
rules Nebraska tenure. It would be their best win.
35:52
Best win should they be able to beat Iowa tomorrow?
35:56
And that was kind of that's just not them saying that's, you
35:59
know, that's kind of the feeling in the state of Nebraska, how
36:02
important this game Black Friday is to Nebraska and to Matt Rule
36:06
in particular. That's kind of wild because.
36:11
Because I was. It's not like I was a ranked
36:13
team. You know, they're four lost
36:15
team. I just I do think that it's for
36:20
a trip to Tampa. I do think that's part I think
36:27
the winner goes to Tampa and the loser is going to Vegas.
36:30
So that's that's kind of my feeling good, good options
36:35
either way, but it's kind of my gut feeling right now is that
36:40
that. They're going to.
36:41
They're playing for that boy. That's just that's amazing that
36:44
they think that rules got to get this win or it's just, you know,
36:48
that's a lot of pressure on them and I I don't know, I think I
36:55
was just going to run the ball on them.
36:57
The run defense is not good. They're giving up 167 a game.
37:00
They've given up 22 rushing touchdowns this year.
37:02
That's crazy. I mean, it's just it's wild to
37:05
look at that number and yeah, I just I don't know if they trust
37:10
Latif it's going to be windy. Is anybody going to, I mean,
37:15
isn't it just going to come down to 1310 and I was going to kick
37:17
a field goal and win and walk off because that's the way it
37:20
happens every year. Here, that's what it is and Iowa
37:25
finds a way to get it done. I, I am a little bit concerned
37:28
about Latif though, as a runner. I mean, they're going to take, I
37:30
think you're right. Take the ball out of his hands.
37:32
He's an athletic dude. He can move around out there.
37:34
We saw Iowa get gashed against Oregon in the run game.
37:37
And Emmett Johnson, he's a good running back.
37:39
I mean, he's is he an NFL guy? Who knows?
37:41
Who cares? He's a good college running back
37:43
and he's going to be getting those tough earned yards.
37:45
So the Iowa rush defense, do you anticipate with maybe the lack
37:49
of a passing threat that is out there that they're going to be
37:52
able to minimum slow down this Nebraska run game?
37:56
Yeah, I would think so. I think edge Iowa on that front
38:00
because I think I was going to probably be able to run the
38:02
ball. But I think Nebraska is probably
38:04
just going to stack the box. They're going to walk the
38:06
safeties down and say, OK, Gronowski, but I think this is
38:09
going to be a Gronowski run game.
38:10
I think he's going to. Be a bigger part of the run game
38:14
than he's been the last couple weeks.
38:16
He really hasn't been a part of it a whole lot the last few
38:21
weeks and I think this week he just kind of unleash him.
38:24
I think they've kind of been trying to get him healthier and
38:28
win some games that way. And I just, I kind of think
38:32
we're going to see a lot of boot action from him, some RPO stuff,
38:35
and he's going to keep it a little bit more and, and, and,
38:39
and try to run the ball. So that gives them another
38:41
option besides Moulton or Patterson running the ball.
38:45
Yeah, it would it be those two, Tom, No carries for anybody
38:47
else. You don't think Williams maybe
38:49
get a little bit of run in the game or no?
38:52
He might, but I, I kind of think it's just going to be those two
38:56
as the primary guys. Boy, we got we saw like ATJ
38:59
Washington 1 snap. Yeah, he did go very well.
39:01
Didn't go well. They were setting up, they were
39:04
setting up the throat of Granowski.
39:05
Howard. Oh, was it to Howard?
39:07
So Granowski was coming out the left side there and if he would
39:10
have gone that way, Granowski would have got club because
39:12
there was an unblocked defender bearing down right at him.
39:15
I didn't know he's going to Howard.
39:16
That's interesting. Yeah, it looked like it was
39:18
going to Howard, but I'm just the way he was looking.
39:21
But I who knows That thing got blown up so quickly that there
39:24
was no chance. So we see emotional Kirk again
39:28
after the game. Yeah.
39:30
We see emotional Kirk a lot though.
39:32
Do we read anything into it? Especially if they win this one.
39:36
They return to Tampa, his second home down in Tampa.
39:39
I think it's age, Trent. I cried.
39:40
Commercials. OK, I'm telling.
39:42
You so Ken just says it's an age thing.
39:44
Again, it's speculation. That's what we do.
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That's all it is. He's just, this is just what we
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get with Kirk. He's just, he's just a crying
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Kirk. He once told me his dad cried a
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lot when he was older too. So it's just the emotions.
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He just you know what it is. Because he talks a little bit
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about it. I talked a little bit about it
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after the game the other day. He just, he loves his guys and
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he's just got this emotional attachment to guys like Logan
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Jones and the same thing he got weepy talking about Jack
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Campbell. I mean, it's just same thing.
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He just these some of these guys, he is just so attached to
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him and, and it's emotional because he know he does realize
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that this is coming to an end sooner rather than later.
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And, and he just, he just loves the, the, the effort that these
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guys give him every, each and every week.
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Good stuff, Tom, travel safely. We got like 10 seconds.
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So Palm Springs going back home. Are you heading to Lincoln
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first? How are you going to handle it?
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It's Palm Springs, Denver flying out of the flying back to the
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Des Moines airport actually where I flew out of and a nice
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airport never flown out of the Moines before.
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And then and then drive over to Omaha, to Lincoln and then back
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home Friday, hopefully before the snow.
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And then it's we're tentatively scheduled.