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The Purdue Report with Jake Dunn (2.169.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome Purdue fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for this week's Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
• 0:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Jake, one of the most emotional games I've ever witnessed that wasn't in the NCAA tournament on Tuesday night at Nebraska.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: It went from
• 0:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is the team we've been waiting for.
• 0:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is a team that can win the national championship.
• 0:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: To, this is a pretty disappointing way to finish the game to, oh my gosh, we're going to lose this game.
• 0:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's the worst loss I could remember in a long time too.
• 0:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how to feel about this win, Jake.
• 0:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of right there with you.
• 0:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it definitely felt like a tournament type game to me as well.
• 0:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: It part of survived an advanced year.
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just like you do in the tournament.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: to your point, they dominated for 30 minutes, nearly gave it away, and then at the end, showed enough resolve, I guess, to escape Lincoln with a 771 an overtime.
• 1:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it wasn't just that they gave it away.
• 1:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was kind of how they gave it away.
• 1:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: And don't get me wrong, Nebraska took a lot of that.
• 1:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's a really good team that didn't play very well early on.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: were too late in the season to be seeing this many concerns this many cracks this many issues.
• 1:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was nice to see Purdue be able to come out and kind of blitz Nebraska like they did at their four threes before the first media time out and at the first media time out of 14 to one lead.
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that was good to see Purdue dominated the glass, which is again good to see
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: In the first half, they had 10 second chance points in that really helps at the tone.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: For the game, there are defensive rebounding percentage was 84.6.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's well above the season average of 73.5.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: TKR had 19 rebounds, Oscar Colff had 14 rebounds, and it proves really just able to overwhelm in Nebraska.
• 2:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then that's kind of when the turbulence hit.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: to perhaps get one on an 18 to two run that slice that 22 point lead down to five and what fell like a blank and that's a theme that is continued here extended lapses where the game just kind of flips.
• 2:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Purdue did attempt 46 three pointers which that is a school record.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Fletcher lawyer took 17 three point attempts.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's the second most in school history.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, he did.
• 2:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, he did.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Before finishing, I think it was about five finished five twenty from the field.
• 2:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: He could not hear anything.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He had about seven shots that really would have just ended it.
• 2:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Couldn't have had a single one of them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think if production too little better than they did, I just said, as a terrible shooting night from
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's not a great shooting night, but Purdue again was able to pull through.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: 21 offensive rebounds.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that is that is pretty insane.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: And off of that 17 second chance points, Nebraska only had six.
• 3:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that was the other thing.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They were really good on the defensive classes as well.
• 3:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, Purdue had 54 total rebounds, which that's that's pretty, pretty crazy.
• 3:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's 33 between two guys, as you mentioned, 40 between three, if you throw in Brighton Smith's, eight.
• 3:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: That is some good rebounding.
• 3:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Matt Painter teams tend to do that, particularly late in the season, get better and better at rebounding.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: And again, to be fair, you blow that against Iowa, you blow that against IU, you blow it against USC, it's a bad sign.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: you blow it against Nebraska.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's a little bit understandable because that team can score fast.
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they can.
• 4:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Pretty good.
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Performances here from a rank-mast price Sanford guys that we kind of called out in our preview.
• 4:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: They played pretty well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Jim Marcus Lawrence, number 10 for Nebraska also had
• 4:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: pretty good game that there are team that, you know, we said they're pretty pretty fun to watch and should be a pretty entertaining game.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I get to see some of the best offense in the country and and Purdue against one of the better defenses in the country in Nebraska.
• 4:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: So nice to nice to pull up with with a win here, even if it did take over time, still nice to get to win.
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yep, and I think that's what we take away from it.
• 4:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: They are still in the big 10 race now tied
• 5:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And as well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so current big 10 standing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Michigan, 12 and one, then you have a four way tie with teams.
• 5:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Illinois lost to Wisconsin tonight.
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, so look like Illinois was in control when I was watching.
• 5:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they, they ended up dropping that one to Wisconsin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So currently Illinois Nebraska Purdue and Michigan state are all tied with three losses.
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Suddenly we really just need to look at Michigan's schedule and kind of figure out it's the king come over the lots somewhere.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily they're here a week from a week from Tuesday.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: They do play at Purdue.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know.
• 5:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: We got to have a two games.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They do play Michigan State.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They do play at Illinois.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: They play Michigan again.
• 5:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Our Michigan State, excuse me.
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: That one's a home, but yeah at Illinois at Purdue.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So there's a chance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: certainly a chance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it'd be nice if I guess I don't know I could drop another one there too because Purdue will play Michigan, hopefully Michigan State both on home.
• 6:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it'd be nice to to win both of those and if you don't know I could could drop one then that would leave kind of
• 6:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: And to start tonight, kind of gave you that confidence that this is a possibility.
• 6:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Late in the game, it kind of went, uh, started off.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, dang, this is the, uh, the team we saw.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: November against Texas Tech and then throughout the game, you just kind of started to see the old Purdue team that the price, the recent Purdue team, I should say that, uh, that we've all, um, seen and been so much frustrated with, but
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, Jake, this is not a reaction podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll get your quick reaction on Greg and his friend stock sports.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: This is a pretty report.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So we're not just here to talk about the reaction to this game.
• 7:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: But of course, that's top of mind right now.
• 7:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do have a couple of other subjects I want to talk to you about.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: And tonight, Braden Smith, tennisist, he now moves up to six on the all-time assist list, passing the great Sherman Douglas.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Probably don't know who that is, do you, Jake?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I do not.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He actually played in the national championship game against Indiana in 1987.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He was the best player on the Syracuse team that Indiana beat.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: buzzer.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He was a great one, but Braden Smith is better.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: And now come next for a way from Steve Blake.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And no matter how you count the baked in record, he will be the all time leader.
• 8:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: So with Braden Smith's 968 career assists, the Ed is current rate of 8.75 assists a game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: pass Bobby Hurley for most most career success in NCAA history.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if we count, hopefully, you know, at least, you know, two or three games here in the Big Ten tournament.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think at 50 50 man.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Real rig.
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He might do it during the national championship game.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: And if they could get there, that would be amazing.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: That would be awesome.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think it'd be a big kind of way often of not only his shoulders with the teams, shoulders.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I guess there's still possibility that Purdue could finish outside the top four and not get the double pie in the big-to-term at which would help the record.
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: But certainly would help the record.
• 9:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: We would necessarily want if he, if his current rate was to keep up through five post-easing games, he would finish three behind Bobby Hurley, which that would be, then make you pretty sick to your stomach, I think if you're, if you're Brad Smith.
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, I'll tell you what, if he comes up three short during the national championship game that they win, I think we'll all just be okay with it.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think so too, like so too.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So their next game,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: is on Valentine's Day so that the Saturday at 5 p.m. at Iowa.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's another big game here for Purdue.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Carver Hawkeye Arena's never never an easy place to play.
• 9:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that maybe you can get another, you know, double digit assist, you know, night there and and for you can.
• 10:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'd take care of this and
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes he was.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes he was.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Man is he good.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes he is.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Adam and a minimum.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: He has nine games left in his career.
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: If he wanted to be the end of those nine games, he'd have to average 12 assists a game.
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: He, the, the media, and I guess if you will, 12 games seven in the regular season
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: you would need to average 9 assists a game and the maximum if he had 7 regular choosing games left 3 big 10 tournament games and 6 and see the way tournament games he would.
• 10:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: need to average 6.75, which that's currently too below is current season average.
• 10:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: So he's certainly on track and it'd be nice to have a really strong performance against you know, Michigan or Iowa or Michigan State, where you can rack up a lot of the assists and come out with a come out the win as well, it'd be the best of both worlds there.
• 11:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: So 18 assists and a big win at Iowa, is that what we're saying?
• 11:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you can have another 14 assists game, like you did against Penn State.
• 11:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: But when they played Iowa, it'd be a month from Valentine's Day, January 14th.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: He finished with A to system that game.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: The granddad was at home.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: But hopefully they can have a repeat performance and maybe you may be able to get lucky and get a couple more added on to his total.
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hey Jake, let's preview that game and talk about the rest of the schedule here in a second.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: JGSP and analytics says Purdue has a 56.6% chance of winning at Iowa and man, I am trepidations about this one.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Be too.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I, uh, I think that's a pretty accurate score or a pretty accurate percentage there.
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm afraid that Bennett starts will kind of go off and, um, you know, you didn't have a
• 12:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think you may have a little bit better success there, so hopefully for Rook and scheme of something defensively to try to keep him from going off, but also in the game, Amaki, it was the other guys around him that really caused this game to be close and caused for him to be down a half time.
• 12:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, get a scheme of your best stuff defensively and hope that they don't shoe.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: 80% or whatever was in the first half, like we did at Mackey, it's a pretty pre-ecker percentage there from for me, it's been analytics and Tuesday night was really the start of a tough five game stretch at Iowa on Saturday and then home against number two Michigan on Tuesday, home against IU on Friday the 20th.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: home against Michigan State on Thursday, the 26th, and then it gets pretty easy out of Ohio State at Northwestern Wisconsin at home.
• 13:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I say all that to say this, they're heavily favored in every game except for the Michigan game, which ESPN analytics has produced at a 47.9% chance to win that one and the Iowa game after that, they are heavy favorites in the final five games.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm surprised to see the Michigan State game, so I'm still a lot excited.
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, Peyton Alex gives pretty of a 69.4% chance to win that one.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Seems about right to me.
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're still, they're still top 10 team.
• 14:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Tom is still a still a great coach.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know Peru's gonna have his number here in the past few years, but I was still so expect to be a little bit lower than that, maybe around 55 or 60.
• 14:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: You feel like this Purdue team can compete with Michigan?
• 14:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: If they play like they did for the first 10 minutes of the game, I think probably so.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I say leave the door open like they did here for Nebraska.
• 14:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Michigan plays the way they have for most of the season.
• 14:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if there's going to be much of a chance to close that door.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: If they leave it open.
• 14:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a good matchup for Purdue.
• 14:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they match up well with their bigs and they have way better guards.
• 14:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's the way I see it.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think they're pretty as big as there was good as Michigan's, but they do match up well with them.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hope you're right.
• 14:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: You were right here.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: You had Purdue beating them.
• 15:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wouldn't quite buy six, but it's still enough for the win.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm glad I was right.
• 15:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think all of Boiler nation has gled them.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was right because for a minute there, I really thought we were going to have a horrible podcast.
• 15:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would have been out with a pretty pretty tough podcast to get through if we would have choked that one.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Jake, thanks so much for staying up late.
• 15:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: We will talk some more boilermaker basketball and maybe some other stuff.
• 15:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Next Wednesday as we do every Wednesday and Jake will join me on Greg and his friend stock sports every time.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: Purdue plays a basketball game and sometimes he previews him if it's a big game like he did
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: the Nebraska games.
• 15:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: That means like the next four, I think Jake you'll probably be previewed with.
• 15:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
• 15:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 15:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sounds good.
• 15:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: I really appreciate everything you do.
• 15:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: No appreciate the opportunity to talk about what I love pretty basketball.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, they're up Jake.
• 16:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Pull it up.