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Greg & His Friends Talk Sports ... with Grant Shouse (2.202.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_00]: you are listening to, Greg and his friends talk sports.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 10 to 20 minutes every day, Greg and his friends are talking about what Central Indian sports fans are talking about.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every day on the Central Indian sports report.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, producer Susie and welcome Central Indian sports fans to the
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Central Indiana Sports Report for my new podcast, Greg and his friends talk sports, and we're a month into this, and I still continue to call it my new podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how long I can do that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Coming up today, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026, St. Patrick's Day, and we didn't have much going on on Monday, but there is a ton of news to talk about, and of course we're gonna look ahead to Tuesday.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We have Colts and NFL news, Pacers and NBA news, and Aliocastron Evans will be back at the Indy 500, plus the United States is in the world-based ball classics.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Major coaching news and boys and girls basketball locally, plus my friend Grant Shows is in Dayton as the NCAA tournament gets underway this evening.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll preview Monday's games and talk about why he loves to go to Dayton so much every year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That conversation is coming up and are looking ahead to Tuesday segment.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for joining us.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: My friends and I'll be back tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the day after that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The Colts have reportedly given Anthony Richardson permission to seek a trade.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe the saddest story in Indianapolis Colts history.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He and the staff just could not figure it out what a shame.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Reports are that the jets are interested.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And big NFL news on Monday may be bigger than people realize.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Jalen Waddles have been traded from the dolphins to the Broncos for a first-third and fourth-round draft pick in the 2026 draft.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And suddenly the Broncos look like the favorite to win it all.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The US beat the Dominican Republic 2-1 and Venezuela beat Italy for the 2-on Monday to set up.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Tonight's World Baseball Classic Championship in Miami, it'll be Nolan McLean starting for the Americans against Eduardo Rodriguez for Venezuela.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And it's first ever WBC final that game is on Fox 1st pitch, is it eight?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: and the NBA took its first steps of Monday to expanding to Seattle and Vegas.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The NBA owners announced they'll hold a vote next week to explore adding two teams for the 2028-29 season.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So, local news and notes, no surprise, but A-Leo Castro Navas will drive for Meyer Shank, for whom he won his fourth Indianapolis 500 and 2021, this may, for the 500 once again.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, he will drive for an unprecedented fifth Indian-500 victory.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Fisher is looking for a new boy's basketball head coach after Garrett Wyninger, stunningly resigned as the leader of one of the state's top programs, Wyninger, who led Fisher's to a state championship in 24 and a 53 game regular season winning streak is joined the staff at Iowa United Prep under Keith Smart.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And Noble's well-girls basketball head coach Donna Buckley has resigned her position after
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Mount Vernon, senior, and future Purdue Boilermaker, Luke Urdle, and Lawrence Central Senior Law at Lampley have been named, named, Naismith, all American honorable mention.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Urdle is averaging 24.5 points, 10 rebounds, and 6.5 assists, as he and the marauders will play in the new castles to my state on Saturday.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Lampley is an all-American from Lawrence Central, who is headed to LSU next season.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The National Association of College Athletic Directors has named Indiana Athletic Director Scott Dolson, the NCA Athletic Director of the Year, and Grace College Athletic Director Chad Briscoe, the NAIA Athletic Director of the Year, and I can never say NAIA.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Former Frank Denigo and current Butler Slugger McKinna Alexander's been named Biggie Softball player of the week after she had two doubles, three homerons and 10 RBIs in a three game sweep of Villanova over the weekend.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And looking ahead to Tuesday, Mark 17, the Paces are at Madison Square Garden at 730 and we'll try to end a 13 game losing streak.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The Paces currently have the league's worst record at 15 and 53.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: A game and a half behind the Washington Wizard to have lost 12 in the row.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Two games behind the Brooklyn Nets and two and a half behind the Sacramento Kings.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thing in the bottom three is the key to have the best odds possible for the top pick in the draft or a top four pick.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The draft lottery is May 10th and could be one of the biggest days in Pacer's history.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The current mock draft at Tankathon has the Pacer's taking BYU's AJ Devonza with the number one pick overall, but now we go to the Tankathon draft simulator and hit the simulate button.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Ooh, and they dropped the number five where the clippers would take the pick.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: If it's not in the top four, of course, the whole dream goes away.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But the NBA owes us and it's happening this year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Again, May 10th is the big day.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The simulator also has Darren Peterson number one to the jazz, Campbell's are number two to the bulls, and to Bonson number three to the wizards.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Caleb Wilson number four to the meds.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I will talk to my glitch for tomorrow's show about tonight's game and other pacer stuff, including Beatsa Zubot, first full week as an Indiana pacer.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: In the NCAA Tournament gives underway Tuesday with 16 seed UNBC against 16 seed Howard at 640 from Dayton, followed by 11 seed Texas and North Carolina State.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Both games are on true TV, and my friend Grant Shows will be there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, grand shout.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be now, and to talk about the first four in Dayton, and Grant, I don't really care about the matchups very much.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I want to know about your experience going to Dayton every year and why you love going back each year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would have really loved to go the year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I, you was then at which was in 2022, played Wyoming.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I really wanted to go that year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: My dad's gone to it over the years.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, he's from Dayton is a local grew up in Zina, which is right next door and frequent a Dayton and right state and those schools there, graduated there in U.D.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Arena and every time we'd go to Kings Island, when I was a kid or we could be coming back from Kings Island and we'd go through Dayton and we'd pass U.D.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Arena right on the interstit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it is one of the coolest looking arenas because it looks like an air, literally the
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  [SPEAKER_01]: like it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, seriously, you have to look up a picture.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's really sweet.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can see it right by when you're going by the interstate.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a beautiful arena.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's not a bad seed.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's real intimate in there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot like kind of going to a big time high school tournament game at Indiana at one of the big gyps.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of what it's like.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking forward to the experience.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I've done the back-to-back days where I went on Tuesday, went with my dad two years ago, and we drove back, and then the next dad drove back over by myself, and when I was at the first four game in Dayton.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: in 2024 where Colorado State played Virginia and it was the game where Virginia literally didn't score a basket and over almost an hour of real actual time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that was unbelievable like that like seriously you're sitting there watching the game and you're just like dude what are we watching like this is awful it was just a real
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  [SPEAKER_01]: just wasn't entertaining at all.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And so I've done it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I've met people that go there and go into games.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I've met a lot of people that and you meet people from all walks of life that enjoy sports and enjoy basketball and it's kind of made the experience memorable.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I was going to do the double day last year, the back to back night to it and pull in the trigger.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I went Tuesday, which I thought would be a better match up with North Carolina and San Diego State.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then I was gonna go back for the Texas Xavier game, which turned out to be a classic and a great game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't go and I'm still kicking myself for it to this day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'll be at both nights when looking, especially looking forward to Wednesday for the Miami Ohio game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no kidding.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's gonna be a great win.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think Miami's kind of America's team going in this tournament aren't there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think so, you went 31 and won this year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They absolutely had to be in the tournament.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What have been an absolute travesty to see them not in the tournament?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think I actually would have been upset if I saw Indiana over them in the tournament.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Seriously, that's how just pathetic that would have been if they hadn't made it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Justin Kirby from Novel's Vills on that team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You also have,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... Peter suitor who's a current or who is a carmel who is probably their best player on that team is real fun to watch and then in Indiana guy and Travis steals the egg coach so there is some uh... there's some Indiana connections and you're right i think they are america team going into it and i think they'd be america team if they were still undefeated and tonight u mbc howard of course u mbc the darlings of the tournament a few years ago howard
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  [SPEAKER_02]: the alma mater of one of our favorites.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And then there's Texas against North Carolina State.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: One team I felt didn't belong in this tournament was Texas, but then matter now does it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, Gus Johnson is a graduate of Howard.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So he is obviously one of my favorites.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm too old with talking about.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Howard and UMBC see those 16 16 games the casual ball now or the casual ball viewer don't like those games Greg they don't like those games I love those games
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Those always were the best games or the more evenly match games.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Last year when I was there and I saw Alabama State play and they won on a last second tip in at the buzz just before the buzzer.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Just in all time class, they got it was there for it and it was really fun.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Those 16 games are fun and I think the best one will be UNBC Howard.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that'll be the best 16 16 game of the two.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They played each other during the year out in Maui and now they're meeting in Dayton.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Texas, this is the second year in a row.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They've been in it in Sean Miller.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Second year in a row, he's been in it with two different teams.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He had Xavier there in the first four last year playing Texas and then left to take the Texas job ironically after beating them in the first four.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So there's that and I think that,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's going to be some juice in the building for that again because that's kind of the ticket seller there that's what people want to see is the two kind of notable schools playing with NC State and Texas.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So there's that to look out for, I think the Tuesday night matchups, again, I know I said it on the NCAA Tourmic Review.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the Tuesday night matchups are probably the two best of the two days, but the one that's really going to have
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And Grant just mentioned it, everybody go check out our NCAA Tournament preview, which is coming out a little later on Tuesday, and it's not just a typical boring.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: This is who I got.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: This is who I got.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I promised.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was a lot of fun.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Grant's IU partner, Mike Hutzl, was there, and our Purdue guy Jake Dunn, and Michelle Garmin, was there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So please go check that out, and we will be talking in the NCAA Tournament all week.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And, granted, I'll be back tomorrow with a recap of the first day of the NCAA Tournament and a preview of the second day in Dayton, and also his broad casting partner, Kevin Helfreck, will be along to talk about Indiana Wesleyan and the NAIA men's and women's national finals.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll have a full schedule for you as well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Grace Men are also in Kansas City, and St. Francis and Marion women also in Su City.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much for listening, we'll be back tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The central Indian sports report is a product of ITG media, and I love Susie.