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Big Ten Schedule Reaction (The Purdue Report with Jake Dunn, 3.47) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to a special edition of the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: His and my reaction to the Purdue Men's Basketball Big Ten Schedule announced late last week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With all the football stuff, I just now had time to get it posted.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So please enjoy our reaction from late last week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome, boiler maker fans of the Central Indiana Sports Report for today's Purdue Report with Jake Dunn, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Purdue Basketball schedules out today, you text that it to me, with a screenshot, I still haven't looked at it, so I don't know what it is as of right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to let you reveal it to me right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have not seen a single thing hit me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A Purdue wrapped up the preseason practice this week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The regular season practice will kick off on Monday, September 21st, and preparation for the start of the season on the next mission game against.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ball State on Sunday, October 8th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to hit an awesome highlights here of the non-conference slate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... we've got you know the game against ball state uh... got the game against uh... peru four wane at four wane in the uh... alan county war memorial call a sim which will be a really cool event on thursday on his twenty seven that would be great that's not a thursday october twenty second uh... pretty interesting and i've had a lot of dates at the uh... war memorial call a sim she's a big hockey fan so that would be great if you guys can not get to that uh...
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[SPEAKER_00]: and then another exhibition game at UConn that is on Tuesday, October 27th, the exact location is still to be determined there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've heard that maybe at UConn in their home gym or maybe at the Lovegan Sun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, that's still being worked out, but then the regular season tips off, produced playing on opening night, among Monday, November 2nd against Gonzaga and Las Vegas, at Team Mobile Arena, home of the Las Vegas School.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, that'll be a great game, and certainly a real test.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, the exhibition gets you kind of a real test as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, we all know produce kind of stance for exhibition games, not necessarily being the most prepared to go on to work on Purdue rather than be their opponent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But tomorrow is your board approach.
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[SPEAKER_00]: exactly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just try to work on Purdue after opening up against Gonzaga.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got a handful of home games against some, you know, nine power conference opponents until they go to the Sketchers Fort Mire tip-off, the week of Thanksgiving, they will play Oklahoma and Fort Mires, that is on Thursday at number 26.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So with the Big Ten Schedule,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Purdue will kick off on Tuesday, December 1st at home against Iowa.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good opener.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then just a few days later on Saturday, December 5th, they travel to Iowa to play Iowa State on as part of the non-conference schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the big tennis is expanded and it started to add in some of these early December games for
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[SPEAKER_00]: games, Iowa, they will travel to Madison, Wisconsin on two data simple ways to take on the badgers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That'll be a really good game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So good chance to be to another.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then on Friday, December 11th, Purdue will take on Tennessee as part of the non-conference slate again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go have the anti-classic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: on Saturday, December 19th, it's called Rado.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've got another gaming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's held back to us in between that Colorado game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the next big-king conference game on Wednesday, December 30th against USC, that'll be at home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: West Lafayette on Saturday, January 2nd, still at home, it gets Rutgers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So three of the first four at home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: in the correct, for, for, for, for conference, exactly right after that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And no easy ones, but I would think they'd be the favor than all of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, yeah, I think Wisconsin will have a pretty decent, um, I'm talking about the home games, the home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then, uh, kind of the first real test year of the season for the conference slate anyway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tuesday, January 5th, uh, Peru, a travel to champagne and take on Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Illinois expected to be a national
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then it's funny you mentioned that the next game is on Friday, January 8th to take on the Raining National Champions, the Michigan Wolverines and the Inarbor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a ruster, it's there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and to make it even harder, they will take on at home on Tuesday, January 12th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that'll be in West Lafayette.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was actually at the game last season where Purdue lost to Ohio State.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you were, and that was not a fun trip to Columbus, but this one will be in Mackie, so hopefully be a little bit of a better outcome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they will travel to the Twin Cities
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[SPEAKER_00]: And following that game on Wednesday, January 20th, Purdue would travel to state college to take on the Penn State and the Alliance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Should be an easy one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You would hope so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Purdue has dropped some against Penn State in state college for games that they should have won.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully they can take care of business there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Before I also remember one in the middle of their big ten
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[SPEAKER_01]: they were there and they were down like 26 points in the second half and had to come back and win that one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So certainly some memorable games in St. College, but you probably didn't remember John Kerspin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nope.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was a 2000 Purdue out of chance to win the
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[SPEAKER_01]: then John Crispin became the announcer in the big tin for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then Marilyn comes to West Laugh yet on Saturday, January 23rd.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to say, Jake, I don't know anything about Marilyn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What are the expectations for them?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know they had an okay team last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Purdue, if I remember correctly, took care of them pretty soundly, but they've got a pretty good coach, Buzz Williams, so I'm sure they'll get a good, good to get some people to see the pool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It came from Texas saying him to Maryland.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's right, and it had an okay season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just my mind, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm excited for this next game, Tuesday, January 26.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Purdue host, the Nebraska corn huskers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The interesting to see what Nebraska has this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I expect them to be pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The season as you know, they were kind of my sleeper team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, last season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I am still so pretty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that they lost future paces.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Rink Mass.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you said did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You said did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that I should still be a good game though, Connor or season will get to play again in, and whether it's real yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it'll be a nice game for him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hope he's healthy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But believe he should be fully healthy this season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that'll be a nice test before a Saturday, January 30th matchup and East Lansing against the Michigan State Swart, and Tom Mizzow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is a really, really tough stretch, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is a, I don't see any way you win the big tin with that schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember last year seeing the schedule and thinking, well, that's about as easy as it gets for a big tin schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is not the case that you're Jake.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I kind of feel like there's a good mix for the most part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: of like, of like, you know, kind of different tiers of the big tan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm at least that we've seen cutting going back to the to the start of the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got Iowa and Wisconsin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are two for the probably comparable teams to Purdue this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got USC.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got USC as long as they have all their players back and they say healthy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You should be a pretty solid team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's what we hear every year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: with one therefore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I hear every year too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you've got Rutgers in there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you've got that kind of tough stretch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Illinois at Michigan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have a state.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then you've got Minnesota and Penn State, both on the road.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That'll be hopefully a little bit of some easier games, although they're on the road and no game is ever easy to pick 10.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, exactly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like it kind of
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[SPEAKER_00]: with these teams.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we left off there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess Michigan State on January 30th is returned to calendar February.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Purdue will travel to the Skataway and take on the Rutgers Charlotte Nights on Wednesday, February 3rd.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that'll be a hopefully a nice trip for the boilers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And also, we haven't really had a reason to talk about it here on the Prue Report.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I did see some from the other day that Steve Fickelli, the head coach of Ruggers is battling cancer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I believe he will kind of be stepping away from the program a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So obviously, we'll be thinking about him this season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, nice whenever a Rutgers comes to town early on in the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This Rutgers game in the next game Saturday, February 6 against Northwestern.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That'll be a nice kind of start to the, uh, you know, start to the, to February.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's been a team knowsably missing so far.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, February.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, and we're about to get into it here with the, the real kind of tough stretch of the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've got Friday, February 12th, Purdue will host Illinois in the fighting of Lini.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then four days later on Tuesday, February 16th, we'll play the team down south, the IU Hoosiers in Bloomington.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're going to get them twice in a couple weeks here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you'd see a few more games here between the two match-ups.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But after the trip to Bloomington, Purdue will host UCLA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll get UCLA at home and that'll be a nice match-up last year for the travel to UCLA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lost, late on a, I forget who hit the shot, but it was the last second shot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Done.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Beginning of late when I stayed up late for that nonsense, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_00]: me too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And obviously the TV channels that these games will be on in the times have yet to be announced for most of the games, especially the comfort games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's difficult.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, no exactly when these tip-off times will be, but over the period isn't have too many late-night games to do, eventually got revenge in the big 10 tournament last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, beat them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you see it was down a player or two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But after that UCLA game, Purdue would travel and make it to West Coast trip to round out the month of February.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So on Wednesday, February 24th, Purdue would travel to Eugene, Oregon and take on the Oregon ducks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, normally that would be a game that you would go, oh, that's not going to be a good Oregon team this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They kind of underperformed and you know, granted, they did have some injuries, but a lot of different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, definitely underperformed last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so some of their best players either leave due to graduation or transfer out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I don't really know it to expect from Morgan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jackson's Sheldon, how it lovable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, with before I'd been doing go from Coca-Cola, and I also don't really know it to expect from Purdue's next opponent here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Saturday, February 27th, Peru will play in Seattle against Washington.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know what to expect from me to those teams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not expected to be very good either.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Finally to round out the conference regular season, Peru will host IU again on season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought you were going to say they only played up once and I was going to be furious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, because I thought those days were over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, okay, good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, Peru will basically, I mean, unless they change it, they don't produce, basically always play IU twice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the play twice upon it's, I don't really know, a better way to put that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the teams that produce place twice this year are Rutgers, Illinois, and IU.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I would like to see at B.I.U.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and Illinois every year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think so, and hopefully I will be very good and we can have a nice three-game stretch there against teams and are very good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I'd be honest, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really, really want to see the days when I, you and Purdue are both good at the same time again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been such a long time since both teams have been, like the last time both teams were like national contenders, like really at the same time was the late 80s.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just would like to see that again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have played each other in the Big Ten tournament since the 90s.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, we always find if Indiana is a little better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like baseball's better when the Yankees are good and football's with a little better when the cowboys are good, even though we hate them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Call it a basketball's a little better when Indiana doesn't suck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, as long as produce one, they can be as good as they want to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, uh, yeah, so that's a quick preview of the upcoming, uh, 206, 207 schedule for your Purdue Polo makers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sounds like a good one, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's an NCAA tournament team for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It'll be interesting to see what happens.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It looks like, uh, if I just had to guess that's a 500 big 10 schedule for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But that'll be plenty good to be a six-seed maybe five-seed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, I guess, um, obviously, there's a lot of unknowns.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, I feel like this goes, yeah, yeah, there's a lot of the ranges about comes to this team could be as is very, very wide.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, but I think, you know, kind of like Tom Mizzle, Michigan State can have a not very talented or experienced roster and they must still be a very competitive team big tent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I kind of come to expect that with Purdue now under Matt Painter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think even if Purdue may not be the most put together team, they'll still be a contender for sure, and if you want to give people some fits in the conference.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If that coaching staff gets the right group of guys, they're definitely capable of outperforming expectations.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's been a nice trend here for Purdue over the past, you know, handful of years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: of people saying that when Carson Edwards leaves, Purdue won't be very good again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, then you get guys like Jade Nivey, and then whatever Jade Nivey leaves for you won't be good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, whenever Zack Evie leaves, Purdue won't be good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So now we'll get to see when Brandon Smith, T.K.R.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and Flutter will leave, Purdue won't be very good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get to see Purdue answer that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so far, they've had a very strong truck record of answering those doubts with proof that they are able to come back even stronger than before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, even a good Purdue team this year's gonna struggle against that schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a tough one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's exactly what this year's team needs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These schedules just like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much to Jake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thank you so much for listening.
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[SPEAKER_01]: every single day looking really forward to this Purdue basketball season is going to be very interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks again, Jake and I will be back later this week with a Purdue Notre Dame