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Late Night Hawkeye Hoops Comeback win, Lee Sterling's Super Bowl bets, Wade Lookingbill talks Hawkeyes · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon On a
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Thursday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network. Trent Condon and Ken Miller will
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talk sports with you for the next couple of hours.
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Thanks for starting your afternoon with us.
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Here's what's coming up on our program busy program here today.
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Lee Sterling, who joins us a weekly during the regular
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season, regular football season, NFL and college.
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He will be back with us with some of his Super Bowl props
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that he does each and every year at Lee Sterling,
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paramountsports.com and about at 12:30, we'll pick Lee's brain on
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some of the props that have caught his eye.
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paramountsports.com for Lee. Then, then Wade Lookingbill,
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Trent and I will get back to talking about Iowa and
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Washington. A difference of two halves game
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if there ever was one last night as Iowa comes back and takes it
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to the Huskies and pulls away to win by double digits.
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In the end, a huge win for Iowa. Wade lookingbill at 12:45, Eric
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heft on Iowa State, he'll talk. I kick off our number two.
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It's been a long time since we've seen the cycle Cyclone men
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seemingly, but they will play on Saturday afternoon.
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That's a 1:00 tip. Baylor shares the floor at
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Hilton Coliseum with the Cyclones.
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Eric Heft at 1:00. And then two of our regional
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teams, we do this every single year.
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We've talked to David Kaplan, he got his pick.
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We talked to Dane Mazatani earlier in the week, covers the
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Vikings, so we'll do the Chiefs with Nick Athen, but precede
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that with Dave Sinican about 1/25.
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He covers the Green Bay Packers own coverage.com.
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Talk about the offseason so far for both of those regional teams
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and get their pick on the Super Bowl.
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Trent will make some picks at about old 150 or so.
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Circa Sports sponsor those and we will get on out of the way.
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What a game. What a finish for the Hawks last
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night. Tate Sage great 1st 20 minutes.
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Cooper Koch took over for him in the next 20 minutes.
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Banks misses a free throws. Got that out of the way.
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Starts to starts Fulgaris. He'd probably too late if he
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didn't buy stock. Yes, you're probably too late
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because this guy's game. Oh boy, what a game.
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Absolutely incredible. So many different avenues to go.
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You mentioned Cooper Koch, the opening possession for
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Washington when he's getting back down by and he wasn't even
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on Steinbach at the time. He was on the other guy, Peck
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Nang, and he like, oh boy, this is going to be a long night
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because he just bullied them and went right up there and like,
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this is a physical disadvantage. And it showed that in the 1st 20
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minutes didn't. It he, he battled, though he he
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didn't back down, he kept coming at them.
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And I think that's maybe my biggest overview of this whole
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thing. And we'll get into kind of the
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nuts and bolts of everything and, and the way that it played
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out. But it just going back and what
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we've seen recently from Iowa basketball, first, a game like
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that, that team's not down 7 at the half.
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They're 17. Yeah.
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And then they don't come back. No.
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They get beat by 20. Five yes, most of them yes,
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that's what we've been been used to and it's the West Coast.
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Here's the other thing that I don't want to miss.
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I want to get get back to your point Washington.
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They had this game circled. They needed this game
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absolutely. This was maybe as you pointed
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out yesterday, maybe their last chance and they realized that
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this was an important game for them and when I was way.
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Absolutely. This is not a great match up
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either for Iowa. I mean, this is a really big
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team inside, super athletic. I think it did he help that
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Yates went out because he was giving up some issues off the
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bounce, but a couple of components too.
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And like, how do you allow a team that we know Iowa is a good
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defensive team, how do you allow anybody to go to?
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What you just said, you haven't said that in 15.
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Years. No, not at all, right, 20 to 26
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from the floor in the first half, they're shooting 77%.
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Six of eight from three. Well, huge component of that.
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Your best on ball defender kill Combs gets hit with two early
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fouls and so you lose that Ave. you saw in the second-half.
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Both Combs out there and also Isaiah Howard what he did on
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ball of really frustrating. Diallo have a ten assist.
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Diallo he was unbelievable in the 1st.
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Half. He was incredible.
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And I call him yesterday Speedy it's.
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Zoom, Zoom. Yeah, Zoom.
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Diallo. I I like speedy better.
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Zoom's good. Yeah.
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Speedy's better. Speedy's better finishes the
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game with 12 assists but six turnovers and many of those in
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the second-half as Iowa ramped up that defensive pressure.
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Washington was also hitting shots in the first.
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Just tough. They were.
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I mean, 18 footers, you don't take that shot.
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It's an awful shot. You never, I mean, Mr. Mayor, my
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basketball coach in high school, he would have been screaming.
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Mr. Mayor, I don't think you've ever brought up Mr. Mayor.
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Keith Mayor, who I know listens to the show still from time to
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time. Welcome, Keith.
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If you're out there and if you're not, somebody get a hold
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of Keith. Absolutely, and he hated the
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long twos. Take a three pointer, get to he
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is. He was a new school thinking
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back in the old days, way back in the day and won a state
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championship at Osage, so he knew what he was talking about.
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But those were the kind of plays, though, that Washington
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was just hitting all over the place and three-point shots they
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normally don't make. They were going down, but you're
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down by 7. You feel good about that.
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I felt fine about Iowa in the spot they were because you knew
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Washington was not going to play at that blistering pace.
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I didn't have as much confidence as you just because of the size
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I thought was such a such a factor.
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I, I last until half time, as I said it wouldn't.
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I don't think I'm alone. I think a lot of people probably
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took that path this morning and were pleasantly surprised once
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the once you got to the end of it or if you cheated and looked
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at the box score, whatever. I'm not passing judgement by any
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means, but it was a, it was a really good win And look, Iowa
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went to the West Coast and went and come home, comes home with
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two wins. Huge.
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You're thinking, well, just get a split, get a split, get a
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split. For a split right?
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Now, and if you're good with it, yes, you go get both of those
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games. And I was in front of them.
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Home for Northwestern at Maryland.
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By the way, Doctor Stephen Fuller, he's going to be giving
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away tickets here and for, well, he won't, we will, but they're
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Doctor Fuller's tickets. We'll give those away in the
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first hour of the program. Fullerdental.net.
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You mentioned Fool Garris, and when Fool Garris came in for the
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first time, he looked awful and it.
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Cause of the size I think. Here we go again.
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It's going to be one of those games where, you know, you just
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aren't going to get anything out of Big Al and you're going to
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have to figure it out and kind of piece it together in other
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ways. But he came in the second time.
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He got a bucket at the rim and it felt like it just, it calmed
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him. And McCollum, after the game he
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talked a little bit, saw the quote from him where he
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mentioned in the past he was hard on him.
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OK I did see this on this is all new to me this is.
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Good in the past. I'm just paraphrasing it, but in
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the past he would maybe give him a holler, ask him, you know,
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what are you doing? Whatever it is, he might wilt a
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little bit. That wasn't the case.
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He took the criticism, yes, and and learning all right, this is
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the way I this guy's going to coach.
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We've talked about this before. He wasn't around through this
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summer. He wasn't part of the spring to
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the locker room videos that we saw and all those different
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things. He was playing for the Spanish
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national team. So he's still fighting his
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footing and it feels like it is coming on.
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He was really, really good in different ways, taking those big
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guys out the way they spread the floor.
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And then he saw it again and it was Bennett Sturtz.
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And, and it takes us 8 minutes before we get to Bennett Sturtz,
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which is is just crazy. But this is where we are at this
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point. 22 points, 5 assists. It felt like he had for granted,
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yes, you're, you're just going to get that.
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But him getting to the rim missed a couple of three
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pointers earlier in the game, like, oh, what's going on here?
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We've seen these last two games more and more of him off the
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bounce getting to the rim, something we didn't see a ton
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early in the season. That's incredibly infective and
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the way they can spread the floor.
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I. Love the way it goes high off
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the glass, knowing that he's got a big in front of him and that's
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probably going to get swatted away and he's got the the
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wherewithal to be able to make that adjustment go high off and
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finds its way to the bottom of the cup.
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I actually shot worse than the second-half that they did in
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the. First, you know, that's hard to
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believe. I saw that set somewhere too.
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Yeah, 17 to 2861% in the first half, 14 of 24 in the second,
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but six of 10 from the three-point line and that
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definitely aided in how good that it looked.
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This is a nice win. I think Washington is going to
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battle their way back. They're going to be on at
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minimum the precipice. I mean, can't you see that team
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play in Dayton? They they finished that closing
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stretch 6 and 1, you know, something like that maybe win a
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game in the Big 10 tournament and they're what would be about
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19 and 15 or something like that.
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And here they are. They're playing the Dayton and
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you get the late night game. I I could definitely anticipate
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that. That's a talented team.
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Really. A lot of.
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Talent that's good. I love Steinbach.
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They're good, yeah. Dana Sprinkle's a good coach,
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too. Yeah, but I'll tell you what
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give you that If Ben McCollum had that same group, Yeah.
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Would they be 12:00 and 11:00? No, no.
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Beth gets got this higher right. She'd absolutely.
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He did, yeah. The guy can flat out coach,
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right. Every single level that he's
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been to free throws for Iowa, he's going to pick some nits
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there. But Nana Woo was brutal.
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I don't think he made one. But still, you got to see, you
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know, you want to see a few more of those fall when they get that
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opportunity for some freebies. But Sage, great 1st 20 minutes,
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Cooper Koch 2nd 20 minutes was all about those two and they
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kind of split that up perfectly. But Banks misses the free throw.
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Kind of glad it happened right early when it did right I.
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Think you could see a little like work on his face, like
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almost all right, pressure's off.
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Don't have to talk about this anymore.
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We just move on, start a new streak and he's 2 for two after
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that. He's got he's got two more.
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He's at 2 now and just reset the clock and don't have to worry
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about that likely for the rest of the year.
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I mentioned Manuel and what we've seen out of him.
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I thought he battled hard in there too.
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They needed that, obviously against this kind of opponent.
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Yeah, the over 4 at the free throw line, not good, but really
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like what we saw to him. He was really active on the
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defensive end of the floor. He had a couple of steals for.
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Yes, finished with three in the game.
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He he was really good. It's just tail 2 halves control
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and now it sets the scene for this team.
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The winning streak's at 5. Likely he's going to be 7 in the
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first sold out environment. Carver, under Ben McCollum will
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be the Purdue, too. Bad they're playing on Super
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Bowl Sunday and I get oh the Northwestern yeah the north
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because Thursday you're not going to come back Thursday
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Saturday, but I would like to have seen you know what Carver's
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attendance would have been because it's a 2:00 tip on yeah
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you know and if. You're in.
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It's hard for here. It is it's it's.
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Hard for for our listeners in the corridor, Iowa City, Cedar
10:10
Rapids, you, you need to get out there.
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Right. But here's the good news if
10:13
you're if you're headed out there by the time you get within
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range, KXNO one O 6.3 will be beaming into your car.
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Yes, and we've got Super Bowl coverage.
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What did Sean say? Super Bowl coverage starts at
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like, let me get the sheet. We can answer 11 AMI think.
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It's 11 AM, 11 AM Super Bowl preview and then Super Bowl
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Insider, then the Super Bowl Tailgate Show, and then the
10:33
pregame show and then finally the game Broadcast starts at at
10:37
4:00. O'clock so you could listen to
10:38
the pregame on the way over, you listen to the game on the way
10:40
back, and you're going to be a good shape you.
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Won't miss much depending on you know, what part of town you
10:44
live. In I'm already looking forward
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to the Purdue game though, if it plays out that way.
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So Purdue currently, they had that three-game losing streak
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throughout Maryland. They're off this week.
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They don't play again until Saturday.
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They get Oregon all right, they're going to win by 100,
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sure. Then they go to Nebraska.
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Tough game, good game, that's. Tuesday next week before the
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Saturday game against the Hawkeyes.
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If, and I know it's a big IF going to Nebraska, you don't
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just walk into Pinnacle Bank. Well, hang on a second.
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If Purdue is 20 and 4, Iowa is 19 and five, how about that?
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That one, that environment we're seeing this fan base start to
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buy back into men's basketball could be a special day over.
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At no, absolutely could. Just don't don't lay an egg.
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You've got to build it in full. You've got a a upper echelon
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team and you're you know what, you're starting to enter that
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category as well. This is a huge, huge win for the
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Hawks. Again, they go to the West
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Coast. This doesn't happen to go out to
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the West Coast and to win two games like they did.
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OK, just well done. Well done on all accounts by the
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Hawks as they pull away in the second-half and win
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convincingly. And who held them to, what, 26
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points in the second-half? Right.
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It wasn't just the shooting percentage came back to
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normalcy, it was overall holding that team down.
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Absolutely. All right.
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Couple of calls in here. Jim, you go first.
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Jim, welcome. Thanks for being patient.
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How are you Jim? What's what's your thoughts on
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last? Night doing well I stayed up for
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the whole game you did you know Mccollum's imposure will was
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kind of the theme at the beginning of the year I thought
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the imposer will in the second-half and I thought the
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Steinbach kind of I don't know kind of backed off with from the
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physicality they can man yeah I was giving them and the other
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guys I just I thought that was a big turning point because we
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couldn't stop him in the. 1st. Half the Hawks couldn't stop him
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in the first half, but I thought might have been the halftime
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speech. You guys need the man up here
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and impose your will. I thought they did so.
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And I agree with you, Trent. Very good win and I could see
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them in Dayton very easily. That's the talented team.
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But I'm glad with columns and our team and not in there.
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Go Hawks. Yeah.
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Thanks for the call, Jim. I appreciate you being patient
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and call anytime. Let's get Jeff next.
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Hello, Jeff. How are you?
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I'm doing well, Ken. You're going to love this.
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So last night I got to go to Blue Pearl.
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Do you know what that is, Ken? I have no idea.
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OK, so that's where you take your dog.
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You know, like late night. Something was wrong with one of
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my dogs, so I have to go. There it is.
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I don't know if Trent knows about this or he's been there.
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If he has any animals. I mean, it's a tear jerker.
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There's there's there's dog cats getting put down.
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It it is crazy in there. It was.
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Where is it? Where is.
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It it's over off of Merle Hay. OK.
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And so I bought my phone, like most of us, I was probably going
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to be in bed by 10. And so I'm watching the game
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there. I got my Iowa State stuff on and
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an Iowa guy, a fan comes over. He's like, hey, are you watching
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the game? And I have my Iowa State stuff
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on. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'm
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watching the game, you know, yeah.
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OK. And he sits down and we have
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this conversation in the middle of the, you know, pandemonium in
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there. An Iowa fan to an Iowa State fan
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were watching the game. It was it was very cool.
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Now talking about the game, I honestly think this is the their
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best win of the year. I think it's better than
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Indiana. I think it's better than UCLA.
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You guys kind of touched on it. This was an absolute must win
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game for Washington. You've already talked about it.
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The crowd knew what the coaches knew what the players knew it.
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Iowa took their best punch and again, coaching halftime, making
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adjustments. We know that Ben can do those
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kind of things. To be honest though, you know,
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we talked about, you know, Ben and, and the offense is 1 style.
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Well, if the first half they were, they were going up and
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down and they were scoring, what that shows to me.
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And again, we didn't, you know, I don't think you guys have
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talked about this. The spacing offensively was
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Immaculate. The slip, the dive, the pick and
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roll, the pick and pop, the passing was on point.
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And what it shows to me, and I don't think this is hyperbolic.
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Yeah, it's Washington. We know their record and on and
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on and on. I think this Iowa team can win a
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couple games in the tournament. I think Iowa and Iowa State both
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can go to the second weekend. I think that it's not just Oh
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well, Iowa State. They got to get great coaching
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staff and great athletes. I think this Iowa team was been
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on the charge to go to a Sweet 16.
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You guys have a good day. Hey, no, no, no, no, hang on.
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Jeff jumped out. I.
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Don't know how his dog is. But it Blue Pearl, Yeah.
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I've never heard this middle. Yeah, Tom.
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And by the way, I hope he's right.
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Yes. Wouldn't that be something?
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To do that in your number one can.
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This team in in your number one. Obviously the draw, right?
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It's, it's the draw. Get off the 8-9 game.
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Right. And where does bracket Matrix
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have them today? Well, here's the because a lot
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of bracketologists probably aren't adjusting.
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They haven't updated yet, right? They are an 8 seed, but there
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are some, there's some sixes out there.
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There are, there are, yes. Couple of places have them as a
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six. I believe that is the high
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watermark for Iowa. Going through 9 is the lowest
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that it is. You look at the teams kind of in
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front of them right now. Auburn, Central Florida, Central
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Florida have a better resume than Iowa.
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Well, they had a nice way to get sent.
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They did and they got killed. Yesterday they got murdered.
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Kentucky, come on. It depends what day you watch
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them, but I agree. The six seats, Clemson,
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Louisville. They're terrible.
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Saint John's, You love the Johnnies.
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Well, nothing much as I did before the.
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Year you need to buy him now. You shouldn't have been buying
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him before the year. Arkansas, I think Iowa has a
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chance to run up that. Certainly seedless now.
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That's just their second quad one victory.
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Going to need more than that. There's going to be
16:23
opportunities for them. Let's get Tom in here and then I
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want to dive into the resume a little.
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Bit Tom, thanks for being patient.
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Tom, how are you? Well, as good afternoon, doing
16:33
very well before I get to the Hawks.
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Love listening to you guys Before I forget, remind me of
16:43
the retirement plan. I couldn't believe it when I
16:45
heard that. I just love listening to your
16:47
show. Haven't done it for a real long
16:49
time, but so but, but to the Hawks, you know, I just watched
16:54
the first half and it sort of reminded me of of, of the Hawks
16:58
under Fran McCaffrey. You know, Washington was getting
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pretty easy buckets. We couldn't seem to stop them.
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And and I didn't think it would be the same old, same old.
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But when, when I then saw that the Hawks had won by 10 and and
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locked it down second-half. Wow, that that's impressive.
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I mean, I think under the under Fran that that was a 9094 to 80.
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Yeah, absolutely. I agree.
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I agree. That's what we've been used to.
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It's it's different. This guy can flat out coach and
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we're both McCaffrey guys. Yes, absolutely.
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I like friend McCaffrey, but there's a difference, Tom.
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There's a difference. Tom, thanks for listening.
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Glad you're part of the program and call anytime.
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OK, Tom, thank you. Thank you.
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June is when 10, Ken says he's retiring.
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I'm going to lock him in that room.
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Not going to allow. It so I'm gone for two weeks yes
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now during this two weeks you're gonna have fill in hosts.
17:53
Yes, absolutely. Is my Co host maybe?
17:56
Part of this could be, could be. You'll see.
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I mean my, my replacement, your Co host.
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Yes, yeah, that's that's the theory.
18:02
At least get some new voices in here, some different names, and
18:05
yeah, we're going to be trying a little bit.
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I thought about that driving home.
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I kind of struck me. Is that's true?
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Weird. No, it's not.
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But yeah, you know, here's the here's the point that I'm at
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God. I wish it doesn't always happen
18:16
that way. You very rarely see retirements
18:18
in this business. You do.
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That's very true. You know, I'm still not
18:21
convinced yet, but I feel pretty good about it.
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Yeah. There.
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I get to do it on my own terms. June 24th.
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That'd. Be June 24th. 30 years from day
18:30
one to day finale. It's a Wednesday, you can't make
18:33
it to Friday. I just, you know what the hell?
18:35
No, my son's coming, so I spent. A couple of days.
18:38
So there's a reason, yeah. I used to take Kale to was when
18:41
I called the race when he was a little kid, and now he's going
18:43
to come back for dad's dad last day at work so.
18:45
And he likes to, he likes to fire at the horses, too, like.
18:48
He loves it. Yeah, it absolutely does.
18:51
See that one first hand. Yeah, but you know what?
18:54
It's funny he mentioned that because he he was cussing you
18:56
the other day for teaching him craps.
18:58
Oh. Really.
19:01
Don't. Not not my fault.
19:02
Hey, you just got to have those dice rolling the right way and
19:04
you're going to be OK. Oh, he says he loves it.
19:06
He's got a craps problem. Yes, and.
19:09
He's in the wrong city to have a craps problem.
19:10
Yeah, that's a problem a little bit different for me to take the
19:12
half hour drive out to Prairie, which happens every other year
19:16
basically for me, a little bit different when you're living
19:18
there in Sin City. Yeah, I will resume.
19:20
We've talked a ton here the last 2-3 weeks.
19:22
The gap between the predictive metrics, Ken Pomeroy, Bartorvic
19:27
drink, I know it's a drinking game.
19:28
Every time that I bring up those names and the result base, what
19:31
your resume actually is at this point, well, that gap is
19:35
narrowing pretty significantly now.
19:37
Iowa jumped up again. They're 15th in the country at
19:40
Ken Palm. Are they really?
19:41
They jumped up four more spots after that 10 point Rd. win
19:45
against Washington, 18th of Bartorvic on the other side.
19:48
The result base what your resume is, strength of record.
19:52
That's ESPN's metric that they use.
19:53
That was 40, I want to say a couple of weeks ago.
19:57
It's up to 26 wins above bubble. That is another one that has
20:00
been used more and more by the committee lately, up to 26.
20:03
So that gap is closing while also improving on both sides 17
20:07
and 5. 2 quad, 1 victories, no bad losses.
20:11
As we saw the Minnesota won the worst.
20:12
How about Minnesota yesterday? Yes, that one looks a little bit
20:16
better, certainly for the resume.
20:17
And Jeremy Fears looks worse. Yeah, that was a bad luck.
20:20
After his performance. Was a bad luck.
20:21
And five and O against quad 2. That'll also go a long way.
20:25
The combined 7 and 5, quad 1 and quad 2.
20:27
Good shape, a lot of resume building wins and.
20:29
Jerry Palm Apparently, according to Benny, Benny sent this along.
20:32
Benny's going to Vegas tomorrow. Lucky dog.
20:35
Jerry Palm has. I was a five seed this morning.
20:38
There's a high watermark that would be a good one.
20:40
I'll say sign for a bunch of those again, bracket matrix.
20:43
That's where all of the bracketologist is kind of a a
20:47
cross section. Look at all of them where they
20:49
have every team and it's not updated daily as well.
20:53
It is, but the bracketologist don't get to their there's each
20:57
and every day. So we'll we'll watch for that.
21:00
You say his name and he appears. It's like, what do you say in
21:03
the beer? Mother Mary.
21:05
Mother Mary, I have. No idea.
21:06
What are you saying to Mary? Base baseball, Betty, he's on
21:08
the line. Let's get to him.
21:11
Hello, Betty. How are you?
21:12
Are you packed yet? I'll be packing tonight, not on
21:16
the road until 2:20 tomorrow afternoon, so I got.
21:19
So was that an Legion flight or what?
21:20
A Legion. No S Southwest.
21:22
They leave at 2:20 in the afternoon now.
21:24
I thought it was always noon. 2:20 I get there at like 3:15,
21:29
yeah. Perfect.
21:30
Hopefully, hopefully gain some time in the in the air, but.
21:32
Where are you staying, Flamingo? We're staying at the Flamingo.
21:36
We're already set up for three to six happy hours at Blondie,
21:43
$25 all you can drink domestic, domestic drafts and wells for
21:48
happy hours, so 3 to 6. You'll be well lubricated after
21:52
that. Then you could.
21:52
You won't. See, so yeah, that's why, that's
21:54
why I stayed up late last night to watch the game.
21:56
I'm trying to get on my Vegas clock.
21:58
There you go. When you thought I don't want to
22:00
be asleep out there by 11 trying to trying to work it out like
22:04
stayed up till one which is only 11 out there and I want to stay
22:07
out a little later than that so. Will you?
22:09
Going out there. Will you jump in an Uber and go
22:11
to Circa for at least during your stay at all?
22:15
We're we're on a party bus on Saturday night after dinner and
22:19
I think we're going to head down to Fremont Street for a little
22:21
bit on Saturday night. Is he working Saturday night or?
22:29
Saturday and yeah, he's there. I'll tell him you're coming.
22:33
In there no no doubt about it, but what what a crazy sequence
22:37
events with we're fighting Scubal.
22:39
We want to give him 19 for and they asked for 32 and then they
22:42
gave Framber Valdez 38 million well.
22:44
That's, you know what, that's, that's just, that's just
22:47
ammunition for next year because Scubal, his free agency and you
22:51
know, Scott Boris is going to be comparing the Framber contract
22:53
to anything Scubal signs. So in the short term, it's bad
22:56
news. In the long term it was good
22:58
news, I think. But that's a pretty good one
22:59
too. Yeah, and the crazy thing is
23:02
Valdez is represented, I believe, by Boris too.
23:06
Yeah, I think they have ammunition for the arbitration
23:08
case too. They're willing to pay my
23:10
client, my other client, 338,000,000 for three years.
23:14
And we want to settle on a 2 times that young winner that's
23:17
younger for for 19. And it's just more ammunition
23:21
for Boris. And I'm not a Boris fan, but
23:24
yeah, I was looking at the racketology he had him up to #5
23:28
going out east. Their first round match up with
23:31
Liberty. And if they win, they get
23:33
Florida the number one seed outing.
23:35
Duke and Florida's a four. And Duke's the one.
23:40
The bracket, the, the bracket they're in.
23:42
Needsless to say, I don't want them to be in at Palm's right.
23:46
Duke's the 1. Duke's the one, Houston's the
23:49
two. Produce the three produce the
23:52
three. Florida's the four.
23:54
Iowa's the five, North Carolina's the 6th.
23:58
Oh, it's not fair. Kentucky 7.
24:02
Villanova 8. Good God.
24:03
Yeah, that's the bracket of. Death right there.
24:07
Hey, enjoy your trip. Say hi to Kale.
24:09
If you get out there at Circa, I'll let him know you're coming.
24:12
All right? Have fun, Benny.
24:13
Take care. Yup, take care.
24:14
Good to hear from you Baseball Benny.
24:17
Stayed at the Flamingo. That's where I stayed.
24:18
My first. Well, many times out there,
24:20
that's where we stayed. Used to love the Flamingo.
24:23
It is rundown, yeah. Last time I was there a year or
24:26
two ago, just made a stop in. Did you walk out to the pool?
24:30
No, I didn't, but we spent a lot of time.
24:32
It was a it was a beautiful pool.
24:35
Early 2000s. That was the smell.
24:37
You're right, it was a lot of fun back in the day.
24:40
Had a lot of ales out there. Yeah, it was a good spot.
24:43
All right, take the time out. We're going to be joined by Lee
24:45
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Lee Sterling. Paramount Sports is next.
25:01
Wade looking. Bill still to come, Eric Heft on
25:03
Iowa State. He kicks off our number 2,
25:06
Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
25:16
Back with you on a Thursday, it's Miller and Condon on the
25:18
Iowa Sports Radio Network. Glad to have you aboard with us
25:21
here today as we get ready for Super Bowl 60 and the betting
25:27
angles of things. Lee Sterling's been helping us
25:29
out all season long from Paramount Sports and I just lost
25:32
Lee so. Well, we'll get him back.
25:34
I was just talking to somebody who just stayed at the Flamingo
25:37
and said that it's pristine. It's it's way back.
25:40
It's back to being what it was back in, back in the turn of the
25:43
century. The pool is spectacular.
25:45
It really is. And it's, it's where it's
25:48
located. I mean, it's right across the
25:50
street from Caesar's Palace, next door to what now I think is
25:54
the Cromwell. The links to the if you walk out
25:56
the front of the link straight to the right, the Hard Rock is
25:59
not far away, obviously, when when it opens its doors.
26:03
The former Mirage boy, that guitar gets bigger and bigger
26:05
every single day. I see that picture of the strip.
26:08
Let's get Lee Sterling in here from paramountsports.com.
26:11
Lee Trenton, Ken Happy Super Bowl.
26:13
Lee Sterling, how are you? I'm great, I am great would have
26:17
been the greatest of all time if Miami would have been able to
26:20
pull off come back when. But still.
26:23
I mean it was it was 5 weeks of a lot of fun and excitement and
26:28
it was great to go to a game with some Indiana fans who were
26:31
passionate about their team. Just an incredible atmosphere.
26:35
So turned out it was a great run.
26:38
I just feel good that my University of Miami football's
26:42
back. Yeah, no, though, hey, real
26:43
quick and we'll get that one, obviously.
26:45
When you start with the national anthem with you, do you remember
26:48
what your get in price was for your ticket 'cause I saw some
26:50
crazy prices with all the Indiana fans.
26:53
Do you remember what you paid Lee, just as an aside?
26:55
So I paid face. I paid face, but yeah, so I'm
27:00
I'm a hurricane club member and I have season tickets don't go
27:03
to many games anymore, but give them to friends and family.
27:06
But the face value I was about the 10 yard line lower level was
27:13
1100 dollars. No, no, but I mean it's crazy.
27:18
I mean the the get in price for most of the week until maybe an
27:22
hour or two before the game was just under 4000 upper deck end
27:26
zone. So yeah, that's a little pricey.
27:29
That's almost like Super Bowl prices.
27:31
And a lot of Hoosier fans made their way down to South Florida,
27:34
too. Boy, they travelled in a big
27:35
time way. And a great game that came down
27:37
to the wire. And that's what we're hoping
27:39
for, something good at the end. We definitely got that.
27:41
Well, let's hope we get something good in the Super
27:43
Bowl. Before the Super Bowl begins,
27:44
though, we kept wagering opportunities.
27:47
We got a chance to fire away. And of course, one that you've
27:49
talked about four years, Lee, is the national anthem.
27:52
Fill us in what you anticipate and let's see if we can make a
27:55
little money before the game even kicks off.
27:58
Yeah, So what I look at, and I would never be able to do this
28:04
for my daughter is an actress and she really loves to study
28:09
it. And what she says is the last
28:11
few years have been tough. I mean, Reba McIntyre two years
28:14
ago ends up repeating the last line and takes it from an under
28:18
to an over and. That's a bad beat my.
28:21
Daughter had the under. Yeah, that's that's a bad beat
28:25
right there. Really bad, but I mean, it was
28:28
interesting was a lot of sports books ended up paying on both
28:31
sides as a goodwill gesture. Last year's over under ended up
28:35
going under by 1/2, a second to a second.
28:39
So she had predicted the first nine she won last year was
28:43
unfortunate 2 years ago, but she loves this here and she thinks
28:47
she's going to push her record to 11:00 and 1:00.
28:49
So Charlie Puth to sing in the national anthem and he's never
28:52
sang it before, but he did do an interview with Ryan Seacrest a
28:59
couple weeks ago. We know he's a composer.
29:02
He really thinks that this is an incredible honor and not just a
29:08
singer. Like said, he composes on music.
29:10
He will have a choir and an orchestra with him.
29:13
So starts from the first note that he starts singing till the
29:16
end. She thinks it's going to go
29:18
over. It's a minute and 59 1/2
29:20
seconds. She likes the over a lot in the
29:23
national anthem. Well, we bring in an orchestra
29:25
with you, it's liable to extend it a little bit.
29:27
Well, good stuff. And by the way, can we bet that
29:30
here in Iowa? I know in Illinois you can.
29:32
Missouri. I don't think we can here in
29:34
Iowa. But if you're listening in our
29:36
neighboring states, fire away. Let's get to some of the things
29:39
we know we can bet, and that's player props.
29:41
You want to just start with the New England and then we'll get
29:43
to Seattle. Is there a Patriots prop you
29:46
like better than anything? What else?
29:47
Tomorrow or on Sunday rather, Lee.
29:50
There's a couple Mack Hollins I like over 15 1/2 yards on his
29:56
longest reception. You're you're not going to see
29:58
them. I went back and said didn't run
29:59
one flanker screen with him all year.
30:02
He's a straight line guy. Usually you know, 64220 long
30:07
arms. He can go up and make a catch
30:09
down the sideline. Usually catches 2 balls on
30:12
average per game and sometimes 3, but usually once more than 15
30:17
1/2 yards. Guards like him over there.
30:19
Stefan Dicks. I like the under 4 1/2
30:21
receptions. The reason I like that under is
30:24
he's had four and five receptions the last two games.
30:28
Seattle's going to play a lot of man to man defense and I think
30:31
he's lost a step on the other side.
30:34
And I also like I like Drake May over a half a reception.
30:38
He's thrown 8 interceptions last 13 games.
30:41
So I think he may have some problems with his shoulder like
30:46
that. Over on the other side for
30:49
Seattle, there's two player props I like.
30:52
I never do the first touchdown so random.
30:55
I mean, if you got 20-30 people you want to put names in a hat,
30:59
great fun, go for it. I would rather go Kenneth Walker
31:04
Seattle running back anytime touchdown think that's a better
31:07
value and Cooper Cup over 2 1/2 receptions.
31:10
He's come become more a part of the offense and really good at
31:14
reading zone defenses, finding the right seam and being able to
31:20
to know where to be for his quarterback.
31:22
I like over 2 1/2 receptions and then the game.
31:24
I like Seattle. I think Drake, he's not 100%
31:28
think that Ramande Stevens is probably due for a fumble and
31:32
the Legion of Boom 2 loves to go for the ball and you got it.
31:37
You got to hit home runs, you got hit big plays.
31:39
And I think they should have worked Trevion Anderson back
31:43
into the offense and he's not not much a part of the offense.
31:48
And if you have to go 12/14/15 plays, that's going to be tough
31:52
doing it against the Seattle defense with without having a
31:56
couple penalties, a turnover in some case.
31:59
So I like Seattle and Sam Darnold, think he's finally the
32:02
green lights on for the guy. Think New England's going to be
32:06
back. But I I think this much to ask
32:09
too much in one year might be way, way too much.
32:12
Let's take Seattle later. 4 1/2 think they went and covered
32:14
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32:20
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Good stuff, Lee Sterling, thanks for what you did for us all
33:01
season long. Appreciate it.
33:03
Enjoy the Super Bowl, Lee. Thank you.
33:05
You too guys. Take care.
33:06
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So maybe locked on horse racing is not crazy.
33:11
Oh, right, yes, they're going to be retired.
33:15
You're looking for the ally. I can put you in the right
33:17
direction. I just say it.
33:20
We'll be joined by Wade, looking Bill on the other side, Miller
33:23
and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
33:30
Hi, Mary Condon, welcome back. About 12 minutes before the top
33:34
of the hour, let's get right to Wade looking Bill, former
33:37
Hawkeye. He joins us more on Iowa,
33:40
Washington, Wade, Trenton. Ken, how far did you make it
33:42
Wade in the game? You know what, I stayed up for
33:45
the whole game there to the from the 10th to the very end, yeah,
33:50
I was very focused. But you know if, if, if these
33:54
teams want their $87,000,000 or whatever they get from the Big
33:58
10 Network, they're going to be playing these types of games
34:01
these types of times for a, for a long time.
34:03
And you know what McCollum says? Let's not make a big deal of it.
34:05
Let's embrace it, you know, And I love that part about.
34:08
It what what a great quote, he said.
34:10
That this is what it is. We're we're both teams got to
34:13
play. I I think that's really good.
34:14
Just another thing that I think he's doing correctly.
34:18
It's it's been fun. Pushing a lot of the right and
34:21
the West Coast that was a bugaboo, certainly not for this
34:24
squad as they go to and O out there with a win against Oregon
34:27
and against Washington tail 2 halves.
34:29
Obviously defensively, what did you see in the first half?
34:33
Washington was making some shots, but was it a lack of
34:36
connectedness out of Iowa? I know Combs was dealing with
34:38
foul trouble. What did you see in the first
34:40
half that maybe was concerning and what you saw in the
34:42
defensive end and that what turned around in the second-half
34:44
on that end of the floor? To me, I, I saw a team that had
34:48
been living in hotel rooms for four or five days, been out of
34:52
the routine, a little rusty. Now Washington's got some dudes,
34:56
They got that Indiana transfers, McDonald's all American, the the
35:00
big guy in the medals, a lottery pick.
35:02
Those UST transfers, they got some talent.
35:05
But I think it was just something Iowa just, you know,
35:08
they, they were pretty good themselves offensively really
35:10
good, but they were just horrendous defense.
35:12
I think it was you, Trent, that put that screen set up.
35:15
Iowa had three rebounds at half, not offensive rebounds, 3 total.
35:20
I've, I've never seen that before.
35:22
And then the second-half, they just imposed their will, got
35:24
back to the way we've seen Iowa play, guarded Washington
35:28
obviously cooled off And they, you know, they win comfortably.
35:31
Yeah, they they certainly did. What do you think about Fulgaris
35:34
from when you first saw him to where he's at now?
35:37
How big? How much of a different player
35:39
is he, Wade? He's a he's a guy that can make
35:42
some money playing basketball. It's going to be in the NBA, but
35:45
he's got a chance because he's that he's that stretch floor
35:48
stretch, 469, maybe even 610. And he's got some post moves
35:53
too. And and you forget, I forget the
35:55
story, but I think he was playing with the national team
35:58
over the summer. He didn't come into Iowa City
36:01
till later, almost early fall. And all these guys had to play
36:06
what they have to. What they did, I'm sure, is just
36:08
go play, pick up games and see who can, who can shoot, who can
36:11
hand on the ball, who can I throw a lob to, who can I post
36:13
up? You know it, It takes a while to
36:15
get that chemistry. And I think you see that with
36:17
Iowa. Well, Garris for example, he was
36:19
great in that first half. Needed that.
36:21
Also needed what they got off the bench from both Tate Sage in
36:24
the first half. Isaiah Howard I thought was
36:26
tremendous defensively and there's just something about
36:28
Howard. How is that the tallest guy, you
36:31
know, for a wing or anything like that?
36:32
He's bouncier than you think, a really good defender, and he
36:36
understands angles when he's getting there into the paint,
36:39
how to hit that fade away shot to go up and over, you know, a
36:42
smaller defender. Really like his game.
36:44
Tell us a little bit your thoughts on both Howard and
36:46
Tate, what they provided. Yeah, and I, I think, I think
36:50
the, the first thing that jumps into my mind is, is toughness.
36:53
You know, I, I love Bennett Sturtz and he is an unbelievable
36:56
player, but he's a little bit like Keegan Murray, the Murray
36:59
brothers with that personality, you know, and which is terrific
37:02
probably in a point guard. But then you need guys like like
37:05
Chris St. who I played with was, was, was emotional and had some
37:09
toughness. I think what that's what I see
37:10
with with, with, with with stage and with, you know, other guys
37:15
off that bench, they just they just come in and they they're
37:18
going to get 6-7 minutes and a half and they're going to make
37:20
the most of it. And you know, they got some
37:23
pieces. Cooper Cots played well that
37:25
second-half. You know, not not the greatest
37:28
competition, but a road win against the Quad One team, he'll
37:33
take that every night. Yeah, a team that was hungry,
37:36
that knew that this was an opportunity for them, maybe
37:39
their last chance at a quad one. They had this game circle the
37:42
fans, the coaches, the players, they were all invested in that
37:45
game. And it looked like in the 1st 20
37:47
minutes. But Iowa had different plans in
37:49
the final 20 minutes, thankfully.
37:51
So they won five in a row, Wade, including back-to-back wins on
37:54
the West Coast. Here comes the Northwestern
37:56
outfit that I mean, let's face it, it should end up in the win
37:59
column. They got absolutely destroyed
38:01
last night. When you look at this Iowa with
38:03
team, do they have a chance maybe to better where your
38:06
expectations were pre season? Might this be a a six seed
38:11
maybe, maybe a 567 somewhere in that range once we get the
38:14
selection? Sunday, yeah.
38:16
So I think there's two things. You start talking about seeds
38:18
now, you want to be in that, in that top eight, that top 8 for
38:23
the Big 10 tournament, because then you get they're not going
38:25
to be in the top 4 where you get that triple by.
38:27
But if you're in that top eight, you don't play to get this
38:31
right. You don't play Tuesday or
38:32
Wednesday. So that's one thing.
38:34
And then to me, like with with the NCA tournament, if we're
38:37
going to look that far ahead and now that the schedule gets
38:40
tough, it's going to get a lot tougher.
38:42
You'll let at Maryland should be a win.
38:45
But but but they Got Talent. But then you got Nebraska twice.
38:48
You know, you got Michigan, you got Purdue again.
38:50
But if you're looking then towards the NCA tournament, I
38:53
think the biggest thing is to stay off that 8-9 line.
38:57
If you could get a seven seed, because if you look at the one
38:59
seeds you got, obviously Arizona, probably Duke, but
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those teams to me seem a lot. Yeah, Yukon, those teams, you
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know, a lot more dangerous than when you look at the 2 seeds.
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So that 8-9 game, that's the one you want to stay away from.
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Get that seven. That 710 matchup is dangerous,
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but it's, you know, should get a win.
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Now you got a two seed that that that next weekend.
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I think that's where you want to be.
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You want to be an 8 seed at least in the Big 10 tournament
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and try to get a seven seed stay off that 8-9 game in the Big
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Dam. Greedy.
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How about a six? Yes, absolutely.
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Even better. Yeah.
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I mean, it's, you know, it's it's just going to be tough.
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Can they can they win out Wisconsin?
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Well, yeah, but maybe it's going to be tough, you know, can they
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can they maybe get Purdue or or Nebraska at home?
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Yeah, maybe, you know, maybe what.
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See. Good stuff Wade looking Bill get
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thanks for giving us a few minutes Wade well done on
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staying up last night. I had you figure figured for
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half time and turning out the lights and watching and.
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Wade with Iowa hoops. I got you.
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Good stuff, Wade. Thanks, buddy.
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We'll talk to you down the road. See you, pal.
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Wade, looking Bills, we check in on Iowa.
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All right, You want to go to the Northwestern game.
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Caller number one right now is going to get an opportunity.
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You have to pick up the tickets at the box office at Carver
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Hawkeye Arena. It's a 2O clock tip on Super
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Bowl Sunday. It's a Sunday game.
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Sure, you can go before you call.
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Yeah, don't, don't win them and just have them sit there in the
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box office. Let somebody claim them that
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wants to go to the game. Caller number one Doctor Stephen
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Fuller fullerdental.net E 29th and SE 8th St.
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In altoonafullerdental.net, Doctor Fuller's tickets to watch
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Northwestern and Iowa to caller #1. 515284. 5966 hour 2 Eric
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