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BONUS: Ohio State Men's Basketball Unveils Nonconference Schedule · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to a special bonus episode. This is the time
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  Speaker 1: of year when we have the good problem of too
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  Speaker 1: much to talk about and not enough time to talk
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  Speaker 1: about all of it. Get a chance to talk to
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  Speaker 1: talk about some basketball. On this episode, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be talking about the Buckeyees non conference schedule for the
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  Speaker 1: men's basketball team. Can welcome in Marcus Hartman, the basketball
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  Speaker 1: insider from Buckeye Insiders dot com. Before we welcome Marcus
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  Speaker 1: and I'll just run through real quickly the full list
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  Speaker 1: of the non conference schedule for Ohio State this year
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  Speaker 1: BYU November second, They're going to play in Salt Lake City,
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  Speaker 1: which is I guess technically a non a neutral site,
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  Speaker 1: but probably not quite truly neutral. Then November sixth, Youngstown
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  Speaker 1: State coming to Columbus, November ninth, Marshall coming to Columbus
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  Speaker 1: November thirteenth, a little step up in quality. Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: going two face Yukon in the Gamble Pavilion in Stores, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: Then back home for Prairieview A and M on November sixteenth,
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  Speaker 1: UMBC November nineteenth in Columbus, Vanderbilt, November twenty fourth in Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: Lipscom November twenty ninth in Columbus. They will go to
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame December twelfth, Stonybrook coming to Columbus on December nineteenth.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Buckeyes will take on the Kansas Jayhawks December nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: that will be in New York as part of that
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  Speaker 1: CBS Sports Classic that they play in every year. And
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  Speaker 1: then finally Mississippi Valley State December twenty second in Columbus
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  Speaker 1: and Marcus. You know, you look at this schedule and
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  Speaker 1: the first thing that jumps out to me is I
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  Speaker 1: feel like most of the biggest, most exciting games are
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  Speaker 1: not going to be at home for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah, for sure. It's not in terms of
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  Speaker 2: not that anybody most people worry about this that much anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not a lot for the in person home
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  Speaker 2: crowd necessarily. And that's just kind of how it works.
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  Speaker 2: When you've got they still have buy games that they
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  Speaker 2: need to bring in to fill the seats, and then
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  Speaker 2: there's certain slots that everybody has and you end up
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  Speaker 2: with some of these neutral site games and then and
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  Speaker 2: part of it is that they do have a home
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  Speaker 2: and home with a couple of the games, so those
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  Speaker 2: will be people coming back or they already played on
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  Speaker 2: the road. So that so that and is maybe just
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  Speaker 2: the way it breaks from one year to the next.
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  Speaker 1: So when you're looking at these kinds of schedules, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like you want I don't know how well this
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  Speaker 1: is set up in terms of the net rankings, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, the quad one wins. This is all the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that you're not thinking about right now. But when
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  Speaker 1: by the time you get to February and March and
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  Speaker 1: you're looking at NCAA tournament rankings, that's where you start
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  Speaker 1: looking at, oh boyd do they have quad one wins?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not going to dive into the real nitty
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  Speaker 1: gritty of how this all works, but when you're playing
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  Speaker 1: really good teams, you're gonna get credit for a quad
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  Speaker 1: one win, whether you get them at home or a
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  Speaker 1: neutral site or on the road. When you're playing the
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  Speaker 1: teams that are kind of in the like forty to
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  Speaker 1: fifty range, if that's on the road, you know that
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  Speaker 1: can slide it up into maybe a quad one win,
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  Speaker 1: or if you play them at home, then it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a quad two game. The short is, you
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  Speaker 1: want as many quad one wins as you can get
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  Speaker 1: going into tournament season, and last year that was a
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  Speaker 1: big thing for Ohio State where they didn't have any
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  Speaker 1: for quite a while, and then things sort of sorted
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  Speaker 1: themselves out later on and they got a couple and
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  Speaker 1: then also they had some wins that moved up to
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  Speaker 1: Quad one. Long story short, it feels like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: playing Yukon on the road obviously, that's that's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a great game. That's gonna be a tough game no
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  Speaker 1: matter where you play Yukon. But I always feel like
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  Speaker 1: the tournament that they play in in New York, the
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  Speaker 1: CBS Sports Classic, it just rotates. It's Kentucky, and it's Kansas,
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  Speaker 1: and it's North Carolina and it's Ohio State and they
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  Speaker 1: just play. They just shuffle the teams they play every year.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that that's a neutral site game, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that is I guess benefited them at times in the past.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that also feels like, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: traditionalist in me keeps saying, boy, it would be great
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  Speaker 1: if you could play those games at home. You know,
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  Speaker 1: have like go to rupp Aerna, go to the Dean Dome,
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  Speaker 1: go to fog you know, to Allen Fieldhouse and have
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  Speaker 1: some of those teams come to Lumpus at some point too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, some of it is you kind of, And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what the TV contract situation is with that game,
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  Speaker 2: but some of it is you kind of, Especially as
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  Speaker 2: a fan or a media that's interested in interesting games.
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  Speaker 2: You have to take what you can get, and so
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  Speaker 2: maybe that's the best that you can do. You're right,
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  Speaker 2: it's better to play that in a neutral site than
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  Speaker 2: not play it at all. But it does seem like
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  Speaker 2: playing it on the road versus at home would be better.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the way things are now, you know they
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  Speaker 2: this kind of became a big talking point in February
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  Speaker 2: and March. You know that with the NET they stacked
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  Speaker 2: the deck for the major conference teams. So as long
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  Speaker 2: as you just play major conference teams pretty much, even
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  Speaker 2: the bad ones, you still get a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: credit for and especially on the road. So that's one
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  Speaker 2: thing that works out. Like, you know, look at this schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Even if Notre Dame turns out to be not very good,
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  Speaker 2: it won't hurt your schedule, and it might hurt help
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  Speaker 2: your schedule as long as they're somewhat decent, and then
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  Speaker 2: if they're good, it's all the better. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: really would like to win that game, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to hurt your your your ranking either way, even
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  Speaker 2: if they're bad. So you look at what you can
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  Speaker 2: pick up with a lot of these things. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I would think the way the net is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: having all these road games means they have a chance
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  Speaker 2: to have an extremely good net even if they you know,
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  Speaker 2: not that they need to win all of these games.
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  Speaker 2: Would be good to win a couple of them, but
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  Speaker 2: it should stack up well for them because it's it's
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  Speaker 2: not like the computer points in the high school Ohio
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  Speaker 2: high school football where you get nothing if you lose,
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  Speaker 2: if you win, you still get some credit and if
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  Speaker 2: you or if you lose, you still get some credit,
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  Speaker 2: and if you win, you get a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it'd be interesting to see. There's no doubt
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  Speaker 2: that this is a challenging schedule and it's got and
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  Speaker 2: it's not lacking for star power either.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is definitely there have been years where all
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  Speaker 1: has its schedule has been a bunch of hood ads,
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  Speaker 1: So it's definitely definitely better than that this year. You know,
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  Speaker 1: starting with BYU, those two teams were actually directly next
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  Speaker 1: to each other, in the final Ken Palm rankings from
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  Speaker 1: last year, for whatever that's worth, which is not very
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  Speaker 1: much considering the amount of turnover that there is on
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  Speaker 1: college basketball rosters at this point. But that's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good solid opening opening game there. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: on the road at Yukon Vanderbilt is a they're starting
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  Speaker 1: a home and home with Vanderbilt this year, which is great.
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  Speaker 1: You're bringing an SEC team in they have not played
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety eight. And then Notre Dame. That is
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  Speaker 1: the return game from a game that was in Columbus
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  Speaker 1: last year. Buckeyes won that one. They have a four
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  Speaker 1: game win streak against Notre Dame and then Kansas, and
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  Speaker 1: then finally, my favorite note in the whole thing is
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi Valley State. This is the second time these two
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  Speaker 1: teams are playing. The first one Older Ohio State basketball
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  Speaker 1: fans may kind of vaguely remember this one the first
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  Speaker 1: game of their NCAA tournament run in nineteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 1: They were playing I believe it was a one versus
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  Speaker 1: sixteen game against Mississippi Valley State in nineteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 1: They won that one quite easily. Again, A guess that
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  Speaker 1: is probably not going to be a particularly close game
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  Speaker 1: again this year, but it is definitely definitely an interesting one.
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  Speaker 1: And this is this is you know, we're the full
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten schedule is not out yet, that will come out.
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  Speaker 1: We know who they're playing where, we don't know when yet,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, when you look at the whole schedule here,
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  Speaker 1: this is a year when they have almost all of
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  Speaker 1: their difficult or projected difficult games away from home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting just the way it broke out with
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  Speaker 2: the Big Ten schedule. We don't know when the Big
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  Speaker 2: Ten games are yet, but we know who they're playing,
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  Speaker 2: and so they're playing The teams they played twice are Iowa,
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  Speaker 2: Penn State, and Michigan. You know, Penn State probably won't
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  Speaker 2: be very good, Michigan's still being projected to be in
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  Speaker 2: the top ten, and Iowa, you know, last year they
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  Speaker 2: made the surprise run in the tournament, so you can
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  Speaker 2: expect them to always be a tough team to play.
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  Speaker 2: But then if you look at the only at home,
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  Speaker 2: it's Maryland, Michigan State, Northwestern Oregon, Rutgers, Washington, and Wisconsin. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Michigan State is the only team in that group that's
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  Speaker 2: projected to be ranked at this point. Maybe Wisconsin, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can expect them to usually be good. The other
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  Speaker 2: teams I wouldn't expect a whole lot out of But
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  Speaker 2: more so than that, the road schedule is the road
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  Speaker 2: only schedule is Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Purdue, u c
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  Speaker 2: l A USC. All of those teams except for Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: are currently projected to be ranked if you look at
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  Speaker 2: the early list from ESPN, CBS, Fox, places like that,
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  Speaker 2: and I would say it's a good bet that Illinois
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  Speaker 2: and Indiana and Purdue and UCLA and USC are going
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  Speaker 2: to you know, we'll see if I'm Nebraska's staying power.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, and they you know, they made a
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  Speaker 2: surprise running the tournament last year too, right, So so
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting that the way the non conference schedules shook out,
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  Speaker 2: But then the Big Ten schedule looks to be pretty
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  Speaker 2: tough and it's heavily tilted toward the big games are
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  Speaker 2: going to be on the road. Now, we'll see how
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  Speaker 2: that how that turns out. There could be some surprises,
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  Speaker 2: you know, who knows, maybe Maryland finally bounce US back,
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  Speaker 2: maybe Oregon bounce US back. Washington could be you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a wild card. Maybe the Indiana still remains
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  Speaker 2: Indiana and they're not actually good, but never not that
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  Speaker 2: ever playing there is ever easy. And we'll see how
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  Speaker 2: kind of how these things shake out. But I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the the interesting thing is that just how tough
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  Speaker 2: the roads schedule looks like it's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is not exactly Again, going back to those
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  Speaker 1: net rankings, you'd rather have those those tough teams at
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  Speaker 1: home and the easier teams on the road where you
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  Speaker 1: maybe get a little bit of a bonus or playing in.
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  Speaker 1: But that is not how the schedule worked out this
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  Speaker 1: year for Ohio State. So there you go, a quick
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  Speaker 1: run through just some of the some of the early takeaways.
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