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Speaker 1: the Fan. Hope y'all had a terrific weekend. By the way,

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Speaker 1: want to say happy birthday, eighteenth birthday to my oldest

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Speaker 1: son Jake. As I mentioned last week, he was born

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Speaker 1: on Selection Sunday, and even though he's not a big,

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Speaker 1: Selection show for a few minutes. He made it through

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Speaker 1: about the first region or so, and then he had

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, but we.

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Speaker 2: Going out tonight.

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Speaker 3: Brother Pot belated Happy birthday to Ryan bow and if

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Speaker 3: I can throw that nice absolutely over the weekend we

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Speaker 3: celebrated with my brother.

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Speaker 4: So happy birthday to a great, great human.

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Speaker 3: And Notre Dame basketball will get back to where they belong.

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Speaker 4: There we go.

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Speaker 2: You didn't sound you, You didn't have any conviction in that.

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Speaker 1: Man, It was pretty weak right there.

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Speaker 4: Not Dame Basketball get back to where they belong.

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Speaker 2: Come on, here we go, Michaeh.

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Speaker 1: And when Micaeh Shrewsbury next walks without that little go

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Speaker 1: kart that go, they will be a top twenty team. Kevin,

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Speaker 1: let's go, I thought the scooter was.

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Speaker 3: Gonna Ron Hunter magic it a little bit. Now, that's

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Speaker 3: one of my favorite March memories. RJ Hunter hitting the

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Speaker 3: three Ron falling off.

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Speaker 2: Isn't RJ like a high school basketball alump? That's a

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Speaker 2: game in Indiana.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Pike, you know, help back up to the

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Speaker 4: the scooter. There just an epic, epic moment.

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Speaker 1: Uh so Purdue. Wow, it almost felt like they were

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Speaker 1: getting better and better with every game. Did they get

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Speaker 1: their juju back? Their swag? Did they get it back

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Speaker 1: this past week?

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Speaker 5: Juju shimmer reference for Chris ballad there for their sake.

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Speaker 5: Let's hope that doesn't train in the direction that his

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Speaker 5: tenure has happened. But yes, they did look I think

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Speaker 5: like the best version of themselves all year. And the

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Speaker 5: most impressive part was, I think defensively what they were

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Speaker 5: able to do to Michigan, because we've talked about it

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Speaker 5: all year where their defense.

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Speaker 2: Just hasn't been up to par. But that to me

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Speaker 2: is what you can win with.

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Speaker 5: And Brighton talked about that after the game, where it's like, look, man,

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Speaker 5: even if I haven't shot the ball very well, we

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Speaker 5: got to find other ways to just get a win.

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Speaker 5: And what I love about this part of the year

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Speaker 5: is that the style points don't matter anymore.

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Speaker 2: Just get it done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was kind of further that defensive

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Speaker 3: point there. You couldn't go back to really the Nebraska

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Speaker 3: game on Friday. I want to say Nebraska, I believe

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Speaker 3: it was their third lowest point total all season long,

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Speaker 3: Ucla I think it was their fifth lowest. And then Michigan,

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Speaker 3: as weird as it sounds, the Michigan scores like none other,

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Speaker 3: that was their sixth lowest. So I mean, you're talking

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Speaker 3: about teams that have played what thirty some games at

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Speaker 3: this point in the season, and Purdue is holding them

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Speaker 4: I mean at times during the regular season, these teams are.

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Speaker 3: Having program records set against Purdue when they when they

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Speaker 3: it's just how they won the tournament. You know, Fletcher

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Speaker 3: Lawyer I thought was really good throughout the entire stretch there.

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Speaker 4: And I thought Kluff was tremendous.

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Speaker 3: I thought they should have gone at the very least

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Speaker 3: co most outstanding players. I get when Brad Smith sets

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Speaker 3: give it to them, but I felt little Peyton Manning

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Speaker 3: super bully to me.

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Speaker 4: But I thought Oscar Cluff deserved it.

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Speaker 5: Should have just gave it to Kluff. I don't believe

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Speaker 3: People were comparing my beard to Kluff spirit, so unfortunately

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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't have the dual left hand that

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Speaker 3: Oscar Cluff. Hass you still go to this left?

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Speaker 1: How long does it take when you when you the

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Speaker 3: It was a process on Saturday to get to get

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Speaker 1: That's the appropriate use of a young of a youngster

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Speaker 2: I don't know. We gotta check out with these child

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking to Isaac Trotter from SIBIA Sports.

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Speaker 1: He's a basketball analyst coming up top of the hour.

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Speaker 1: He says that Arizona has the easiest path to the

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Speaker 1: Final four by saying they do not have one team

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Speaker 1: its region that is outstanding on both sides of the floor.

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Speaker 1: And what he says about Purdue. He says number two

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Speaker 1: seed Perdue is the number one offense in the country,

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Speaker 1: but while the defense has shown a bit more grit,

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Speaker 1: there are still real holes here. Arizona's positional size and

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Speaker 1: athleticism will be extremely obvious if this matchup presents itself

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Speaker 1: down the line.

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Speaker 2: Look at Kevin, he's already analyzing.

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Speaker 5: He's looking at what Isaac is saying and looking at

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Speaker 5: the bracket again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we talked Friday, right, didn't We asked

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Speaker 3: to play if you were Perdue? Because I think all

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Speaker 3: last couple of weeks. We've kind of known this is

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Speaker 3: going to be the group. Jeff, I think you and

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Speaker 3: I are on the duke thought there just a little

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Speaker 3: been there before. Yeah, I mean, Arizona would worry me,

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Speaker 3: but there is part of me it's like, Hey, at

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Speaker 3: that point, you're forty minutes away from coming to Indianapolis,

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Speaker 3: I welcome to the NCATE tournament. And you know, again,

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Speaker 4: I mean James brought up Darius A. Cuff earlier.

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Speaker 3: I mean Wisconsin with Nick Boyd and John Blackwell and

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Speaker 3: I mean, that was a great finish with the Axle

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Speaker 3: problem to have. We weren't necessarily discussing this. I think

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Speaker 1: They start fairly close to home at Saint Louis, so

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Speaker 1: i'd imagine there'll be a pretty big crowd of boiler

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Speaker 1: seven thirty five. So that's what's going on as far

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Speaker 1: as as their draw is concerned. But you mentioned Duke

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Speaker 1: They lost they lost their starting five last year to

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Speaker 1: the NBA. They're the number one overall seed James despite

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Duke being being good is not a surprise to anyone.

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Speaker 5: But the Boozer twins I think are really playing well.

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Speaker 5: And actually was the other Boozer that played well I

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Speaker 5: Cam shot like three for seventeen from the field, which

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you go back to Purdue and they're run

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Speaker 1: through the Big Ten, and you know, they got out

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Speaker 3: I think the stat was Purdue led, you know, one

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Speaker 3: hundred and sixty minutes they played across those four games.

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Speaker 3: Of course, I think they led for one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty two of them. I mean, it's damn impressive what

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Speaker 4: So hell of an accomplishment for that crew.

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Speaker 3: And now you have the chance to write the final

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Speaker 4: So I know you brought.

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Speaker 5: About that on social media, Kevin and kind of putting

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Speaker 5: it out there like all in totally. I was like, man,

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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, when you think of it, they've won

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Speaker 3: two Big ten Raglar season titles, which even Matt Painter

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Speaker 4: You know, he did Mitch it.

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Speaker 3: He goes, Michigan is the Big ten champion, but we

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Speaker 3: are the Big ten Tournament champion.

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Speaker 2: So ah, semantics.

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Speaker 3: You know Painter always points out out of twenty games

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Speaker 3: means more than just three or four. But you've won

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Speaker 3: two Big ten regular season titles. He won two Big

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Speaker 3: ten tournament titles. They've won seven NCAA tournament games, and

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Speaker 3: now we'll see what they can do. I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: it's absolutely incredible what that senior class has done. And

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Speaker 3: way here and Mark I don't know today we'll play it.

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Speaker 3: But Brad Smith, that's some audio you're kind of describing

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Speaker 3: is not run from that when asked about it. I

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Speaker 3: think it's a good thing he is now going to

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Speaker 3: get this assist record Friday night. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: it's affecting his play from a shooting standpoint at all,

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Speaker 3: but I think it's just smart, like all right, beat

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Speaker 2: There you heard that, Queens. He's already counting you out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we do have Queen's coach on tomorrow, hopefully, don't

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Speaker 3: you guys don't bring that up.

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Speaker 4: When he joined you said I would never do that

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Speaker 4: to you. Nine o'clock tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: First question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he wouldn't do that to anybody, would you.

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Speaker 3: Second round match up here for Purdue, they could be

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Speaker 3: seeing former Indiana legend Malik renew.

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Speaker 4: I did see the Miami Hurricanes, right, Kevin.

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Speaker 5: I was chilling last night and I'm in a group

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Speaker 5: text with a few other cult writers, and Joel text

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Speaker 5: the group and says Steve and I hate your team

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Speaker 5: At all I did see that, you know, filling the listeners.

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Speaker 1: Mark Dychton, maybe Sauce should be the general manager.

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Speaker 4: On the March.

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Speaker 1: And really, that is your local unless you count, and

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Speaker 1: I think we do. I think we've counted Miami of

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Speaker 1: Ohio with some local ties at the coaching head coaching position.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting for us, right, Kevin, we like that, well, Arnette,

440
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Speaker 1: those are our two teams.

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Speaker 4: We're struggling, struggling for a lot of local connections.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's check the payless Lickers hotline. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we're bringing Isaac Trotter from CBS sports basketball analyst and

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Speaker 1: covers the sport and all things tournament, and he's kind

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Speaker 1: enough to join us here on a Monday morning. It's

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Speaker 1: Purdue or bust around here, man. But they did a

447
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Speaker 1: nice job getting through the Big Ten Tournament. So first

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Speaker 1: of all, good morning, Isaac, Thanks for being here. Were

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Speaker 1: you satiated this past weekend. You need a day or

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Speaker 1: two to kind of take your breath in again.

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Speaker 7: No days off are allowed in these parts. So yeah,

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Speaker 7: I was in here in Chicago for the Big Ten Tournament.

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Speaker 7: Got to see Purdue up close for three or four

454
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Speaker 7: days in a row, and it feels like they got

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Speaker 7: their swagger back a little bit. I wouldn't say that

456
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Speaker 7: this is maybe a get right tournament for them, but

457
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Speaker 7: I just felt like they found more grit this past

458
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Speaker 7: week and they played really well against Nebraska. I thought

459
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Speaker 7: they played really good against Northwestern for long stretches, found

460
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Speaker 7: a way to win against UCLA and then take care

461
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Speaker 7: of business against Michigan and kind of good vibes are

462
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Speaker 7: kind of back in that locker room. And now they

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Speaker 7: get a two seed that draws kind of good, I

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Speaker 7: would say for the most part, and now we go

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Speaker 7: so I'm just it's interesting. It feels like the long

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Speaker 7: regular season, you could make a really good case that

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Speaker 7: Purdue was a bit of a disappointment, but it feels

468
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Speaker 7: like in March you can kind of erase all of

469
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Speaker 7: those bad juju with a little run and produce certainly

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Speaker 7: started that here at Chicago.

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Speaker 5: This week again, we're talking to Isaac Trotter here on

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Speaker 5: one seven five the Fan. He covers college basketball for

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Speaker 5: CBS Sports in twenty four seven Sports as well. Also

474
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Speaker 5: used to play basketball with him in college. And my

475
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Speaker 5: chest still hurts from his post moves, so to Isaac

476
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Speaker 5: on that front. But Isaster Clough in the post Seriously,

477
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Speaker 5: if you know, if you have any little physicality, hit him,

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Speaker 5: my boy, Isaac.

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Speaker 2: But jokes aside, my.

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Speaker 5: Guy, when you look at what Purdue has done this season,

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Speaker 5: I know you touched on a little bit there, but

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Speaker 5: how much do you think this last run will not

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Speaker 5: define Braden Smith's legacy? But perhaps you know, shape the

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Speaker 5: way we viewed in the long term because we know

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Speaker 5: they've done everything, but you know, get that final national championship,

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Speaker 5: but just this run in general, how important do you

487
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Speaker 5: think it would be to get back to the Final

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Speaker 5: four here in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 7: It just it would be a chance to put him

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Speaker 7: down as an all time great. You know, I think

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Speaker 7: that you could put him on that short list of

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Speaker 7: the best Purdue players of all time if he can

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Speaker 7: lead this group back to the Final four one more time.

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Speaker 7: And you know, I think that the vibe around this

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Speaker 7: team has been a little bit iffy for long stretches

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Speaker 7: this year, and I think you've seen Purdue take Saint

497
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Speaker 7: Punch's and they lose five games at home and kind

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Speaker 7: of wondering how a senior laden team with this much continuity,

499
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Speaker 7: like why they can't get over the hump. But I

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Speaker 7: do think that Braden has hung in there, and you know,

501
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Speaker 7: he's two away obviously from bringing the Alzheim assist record,

502
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Speaker 7: but he's just continued to hung in there and fight.

503
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Speaker 7: And I think defensively, especially yesterday, I thought he played

504
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Speaker 7: great defensively for long stretch and that's not necessarily going

505
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Speaker 7: to be a huge strength of his game, but they

506
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Speaker 7: need that moving forward. And Queen's in that first round game,

507
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Speaker 7: like they got guards who can go. They play Missouri

508
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Speaker 7: and Miami in that second game, like they got guards

509
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Speaker 7: who can go, and I think Braiden's ability defensively to

510
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Speaker 7: play his best basketball is going to be huge. And

511
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Speaker 7: obviously I think he is one of the most special

512
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Speaker 7: floor generals that we've ever seen, especially when you see

513
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Speaker 7: him up close. The way he manipulates defenses is pretty uncanny.

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Speaker 7: He will have his moment in the sun, I think,

515
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Speaker 7: with the obviously breaking the Alzheimer's sist record here in

516
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Speaker 7: the next game or two. But I do I kind

517
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Speaker 7: of feel like there's also a little bit more that

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Speaker 7: he can bring as a score and if he can

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Speaker 7: put it all together here, like when you got a

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Speaker 7: point guard like that, you have a chance. And Purdue

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Speaker 7: has a chance to make the Final four because Braiden

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Speaker 7: Smith's on it's basketball team.

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Speaker 4: As a answer to this is probably obvious.

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Speaker 3: But if I gave you the one seeds or I

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Speaker 3: gave you the field, who would you take to.

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Speaker 4: One at all?

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Speaker 7: The one seeds? For sure? You know, I think the

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Speaker 7: data would back that up that the one seeds are

529
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Speaker 7: a little bit different this year than compared to the past.

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Speaker 7: Do I think if you kind of look at betting odds,

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Speaker 7: like the top four seeds. There's like twelve point favorites

532
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Speaker 7: or more for all of the top four seeds in

533
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Speaker 7: every single game. So it's like it feels like there's

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Speaker 7: a big gap between the haves and the have nots,

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Speaker 7: and then there's another gap between the elites and the halves,

536
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Speaker 7: right Like Arizona is the year of like it's the

537
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Speaker 7: year of skilled size honestly in college basketball. Arizona's like

538
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Speaker 7: one of the biggest rosters in college basketball. Michigan's one

539
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Speaker 7: of the biggest rosters. Ducause built an enormous team, and

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Speaker 7: so has Florida. So those four teams are just so

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Speaker 7: physical and so elite defensively with very few guys that

542
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Speaker 7: you can really pick at and go at defensively that

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Speaker 7: I feel like I have to go with them. I

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Speaker 7: have Arizona winning this whole thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they are certainly extremely skilled one through five there,

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Speaker 3: and they're big men are pretty impressive. Okay, how about

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Speaker 3: a four seed or lower if I kind of put

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Speaker 3: the feet to the fire a little bit there and said,

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Speaker 3: a four seed or lower that you think could be

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Speaker 3: an indie, anybody stand out to you, albeit obviously a

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Speaker 3: long shot.

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Speaker 7: It's definitely a long shot. But the way Wisconsin is

553
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Speaker 7: playing right now is just different.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 7: Nick Boyd like has a snarl about him that he

556
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Speaker 7: just is not scared of anybody. And then you throw

557
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Speaker 7: in John Blackwell, like those two guards can really really

558
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Speaker 7: go that. They gave Illinois sixty nine points this week

559
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Speaker 7: at the Big Ten Tournament, which is really impressive, and

560
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Speaker 7: they came back the next day and just went right

561
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Speaker 7: to war against Michigan. So I think Wisconsin's straw is

562
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Speaker 7: pretty brutal. Like an Arkansas matchup in the round of

563
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Speaker 7: thirty two is tough Arizona and the sweet sixteen is

564
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Speaker 7: really tough as well, But that group can play at

565
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Speaker 7: a very very high level and at the five spot.

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Speaker 7: Like that's that's an interesting one. You know. Another one

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Speaker 7: I would look at is Vanderbilt. You know, I think

568
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Speaker 7: they're pretty brutally underseated and they're at the five line

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Speaker 7: as well. And Tyler Tanner has been absolutely terrific so

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Speaker 7: far this year, probably like pound for pounds, one of

571
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Speaker 7: the best athletes in college basketball. It sounds weird, but

572
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Speaker 7: like he's six steve, he's one hundred and eighty poun

573
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Speaker 7: He just gets by everybody in the paint has a

574
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Speaker 7: huge wingspan, like just destroys people off the bounce. I

575
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Speaker 7: think they could beat their first round matchup of McNeice

576
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Speaker 7: and Nebraska, and then they'd have potential rematch against Florida

577
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Speaker 7: in the sweet sixteen, and they just destroyed Florida in

578
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Speaker 7: the SEC tournament. So those are the two that I

579
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Speaker 7: would potentially look at. But the more I look at

580
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Speaker 7: this bracket, the more chock I think it, ever is

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Speaker 7: just because I do feel like the gap between the

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Speaker 7: haves and the have nots, as I was saying earlier,

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Speaker 7: is pretty wide.

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Speaker 1: What's it look like for Miami of Ohio and a

585
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Speaker 1: getting in and the play in game and that's awesome,

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people were saying they didn't even

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Speaker 1: deserve to get in because they didn't win their conference

588
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Speaker 1: tournament and even though they ran the table in the

589
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Speaker 1: regular season, Like what do we really make of Miami

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Speaker 1: of Ohio at this point?

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Speaker 7: You know, I think it was a really good indicator

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Speaker 7: that road wins are important, and I thought that Miami Ohio, Yeah,

593
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Speaker 7: they weren't able to play any of those elite teams

594
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Speaker 7: in non conferencely because no one wanted to play them,

595
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Speaker 7: but they did a good job of just like stacking

596
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Speaker 7: as many road games assle which helped their numbers, really

597
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Speaker 7: boosts them up and wins the bubble, which is the new

598
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Speaker 7: resume metric that the committee is using. And now we

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Speaker 7: go And I think it's an interesting conversation here, especially

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Speaker 7: in that first four, because if you put like the

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Speaker 7: most mediocre, like high major team on paper, it would

602
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Speaker 7: probably look a lot like SVU. And I think we'll

603
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Speaker 7: get to see you a little bit of like what

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Speaker 7: the gap is like between the most mediocre high major

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Speaker 7: team and one of the best mid major teams in

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Speaker 7: college basketball in Miami, Ohio. And this is a group

607
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Speaker 7: that they have great connectivity. They move the ball in

608
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Speaker 7: the incredibly high level. They're sistraight, they do a good

609
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Speaker 7: job of just passing it. They cut extremely well. I

610
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Speaker 7: think Travis Steele has done a good job of modernizing

611
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Speaker 7: his offenses. But I'm just kind of curious how this

612
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Speaker 7: first matchup goes against SMU, because SMU definitely has more athleticism,

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Speaker 7: they have good rim protection, they have guards that can

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Speaker 7: really play in Boopy Miller. If BJ Edwards can play,

615
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Speaker 7: that would be huge. And obviously Jeron Pierre is you know,

616
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Speaker 7: kind of a nightly sixteen to eighteen points per game score,

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Speaker 7: but you know it's Miami, Ohio. Is like the beauty

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Speaker 7: of them is like they're a team. Like they're not

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Speaker 7: like this like five star here, four star recruit here,

620
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Speaker 7: great transfer here. They're just a team. And I think

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Speaker 7: that's the beauty of college basketball. That they've just gotten

622
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Speaker 7: better and better and better as they've stayed together longer.

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Speaker 7: And I'm just kind of curious that they they can

624
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Speaker 7: go toe to toe with a high major, like they

625
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Speaker 7: want their shot at the high major. Here's your chance,

626
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Speaker 7: Like you get to go out and prove it against

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Speaker 7: of you.

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Speaker 1: All Right, the other thing you mentioned in a moment ago,

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Speaker 1: we heard it all day long yesterday. We heard it

630
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Speaker 1: leading up to selection Sunday, Wins above bubble, which is

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Speaker 1: the brand new thing, And that's essentially how'd you do

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Speaker 1: gain individual game by individual game based on what you

633
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Speaker 1: were expected to do in that game? Is that kind

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Speaker 1: of the easiest way to say it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like what would the average bubble team do

636
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Speaker 7: against your schedule? It's the easiest way to kind of

637
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 7: try to like figure out like the differentialentiating schedules and

638
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 7: the biggest thing that we learned from that metric is

639
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Speaker 7: that road winds are like gold. Like if you have

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Speaker 7: a six percent chance to go on the road, the

641
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 7: average bubble team of the six percent chance to go

642
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 7: on the road and win a game at Purdue, and

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Speaker 7: you're able to go win that game, like, that's plus

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00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 7: zero point nine to four and wins above bubble. I

645
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 7: thought the committee is basically like they've gotten all in

646
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Speaker 7: on it. You saw that you basically yesterday the only

647
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Speaker 7: team with a positive wins above bubble score that didn't

648
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Speaker 7: make the tournament was Auburn, And I'm cool with that,

649
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 7: right Like Aubred at sixty losses, i'd have been the

650
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 7: most losses of any of an at large team would

651
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Speaker 7: have had and made the tournament. So if you can

652
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Speaker 7: manufacture your wins bub bubble, you go on the road,

653
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Speaker 7: you beat teams to have a positive wins of bub bubble,

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Speaker 7: you have a really really good chance of making against

655
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Speaker 7: a tournament.

656
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Speaker 5: Isaac, I do want to pivot a little bit to

657
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Speaker 5: do mainly because the Pacers have a chance to get

658
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Speaker 5: the top four pick in the draft, and they land

659
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Speaker 5: the top four pick, they get to retain it.

660
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Speaker 2: Otherwise, if it's a little bit higher. It goes on

661
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Speaker 2: to the Clippers. Saw all that in mind. I feel

662
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: like we've talked a lot, sorry.

663
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Speaker 5: Here on these airwaves about aj de Banza, Darren Petersony,

664
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Speaker 5: Karen Bus has kind of flown under the radar a

665
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Speaker 5: bit for our audience. How good of a player has

666
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Speaker 5: he been this season? And is he the National Player

667
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Speaker 5: of the year. I know that's been a discussion as well.

668
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's fanos. He is literally inevitable. Every single game,

669
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Speaker 7: he just finds a way to contribute. And I would

670
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Speaker 7: encourage anybody go watch that ACC Tournament finale against Virginia,

671
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Speaker 7: Like he had thirteen points on three for seventeen shooting,

672
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 7: and was the best player on the floor, Like the

673
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 7: eight assists that he has. His playmaking is just terrific,

674
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 7: completely relentless on the offensive last and he's just wired

675
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Speaker 7: to play winning basketball, like just so so good on

676
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Speaker 7: the glass, makes great decisions in the post if you

677
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 7: double him, he's finding the open man. He's just relentless.

678
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Speaker 7: And I think early in the season I was a

679
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Speaker 7: little concerned about like his feet, like he doesn't get

680
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Speaker 7: a ton of lift in the paint. But all of

681
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Speaker 7: those kind of issues have kind of gone away for me.

682
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Speaker 7: He is a knockdown shooter over forty percent from three

683
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Speaker 7: point range, just gorgeous stroke and makes all his free

684
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Speaker 7: throws tough in the paint. And I just think the

685
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,959
Speaker 7: winning is something that you just can't overemphasize. And he

686
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Speaker 7: is certainly running away with National Play of the Year.

687
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Speaker 7: And my concerns about him as a pro, like we're

688
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Speaker 7: a little higher at the beginning of the year, and

689
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Speaker 7: I have none now, Like I just feel like he

690
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 7: has just wired to play winning basketball. And if you

691
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Speaker 7: put him on the same floor with like a Tyrese Haliburt,

692
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 7: like the type of process sing for your point guard

693
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 7: and your power forward at the same time, like that

694
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Speaker 7: would probably break a lot of computer models.

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Speaker 4: I like it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks as always for joining us, Isaac Trotter, CBS Sports.

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Speaker 1: Your time has arrived, my friend. It's gonna be a

698
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Speaker 1: lot of fun from here until we get done in

699
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Speaker 1: Indye the Monday nights, first Monday night in April.

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Speaker 7: So of course, guys, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 6: There.

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Speaker 1: You got a lot of people sitting a little bit

703
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Speaker 1: straighter up in their seats on the way to work

704
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Speaker 1: this morning, perdue boiler makers once again better than a

705
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Speaker 1: top four seat, better than the number three seed, all

706
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Speaker 1: the way up to number two as a seed in

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Speaker 1: the West after running the table in the Big Ten

708
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Speaker 1: Conference tournament in Chicago this past week. And the man

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Speaker 1: who watched it all unfold right before his eye joins

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Speaker 1: us now in the Payless Lookers hotline. Our good friend

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Speaker 1: Rob Blackman joins us this morning, Rob, take a deep.

712
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Speaker 1: I'm probably you've taken a few deep rusts since yesterday,

713
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Speaker 1: But how about that?

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Speaker 6: Well, good phrase? I think how about that? Well, I'd

715
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Speaker 6: like to say I saw that coming the way Purdue

716
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 6: had been struggling there late in the regular season. Just

717
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 6: wasn't quite sure what we might see in Chicago, But

718
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Speaker 6: we did see a renewed sense of effort and enthusiasm

719
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Speaker 6: on the defensive end, and I think it is fair

720
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Speaker 6: to say that was the difference maker, not only yesterday,

721
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Speaker 6: quite frankly, but really in all four of those games.

722
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Speaker 6: I mean, look, you guys may have already spoken about this,

723
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Speaker 6: and I like Purdue shot the ball particularly well, you know,

724
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Speaker 6: four of fourteen from three, and that was kind of

725
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Speaker 6: the story of the whole week. For Due was not

726
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Speaker 6: a great shooting team, but for whatever reason, Produce found

727
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Speaker 6: a renewed sense of purpose on the defensive ended man

728
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Speaker 6: that certainly seemed to make a big difference. Rob.

729
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Speaker 5: I don't know how much you believe in artificial intelligence AI,

730
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Speaker 5: but how about that number forty one Brandon Smith a

731
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Speaker 5: little different than the one we had saw previously?

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Speaker 2: What the jersey you ripped?

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Speaker 6: We kept joking on air, and I'm certain this was

734
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Speaker 6: I wasn't the only one to think of this, but

735
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Speaker 6: we mentioned it multiple times. If he would have broken

736
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Speaker 6: that assist record, does that mean that we would have

737
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Speaker 6: had to send the number forty one to Springfield?

738
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Speaker 7: And that would have been odd.

739
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Speaker 6: Twenty years from now, you're walking through the Basketball Hall

740
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Speaker 6: of Fame in Springfield, you're like, for do number forty one?

741
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Speaker 6: Who was that?

742
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Speaker 7: I don't remember that guy? But yeah, that's it.

743
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Speaker 6: I mean, just kind of adds to his legacy, doesn't it.

744
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Speaker 6: It's so crazy that that he had what eleven says,

745
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 6: he wrote turnovers yesterday. Mike, here's a guy to me,

746
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Speaker 6: and I don't even know the best way to phrase this,

747
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 6: but how about a guy that gets named the tournament's

748
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Speaker 6: most outstanding player, yet in the four games that he

749
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 6: played only scored in double figures in one game one game.

750
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Speaker 6: The other three games, if you remember, he scored five

751
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Speaker 6: points in all three of the games, fifteen total points

752
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Speaker 6: in the other three games. It is still named the

753
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Speaker 6: tournament's most outstanding player. So that is yeah, that's a

754
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 6: hell of a story. And then to finish it off

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Speaker 6: by wearing the number forty one jersey, that just adds

756
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Speaker 6: to the to the what will someday be some some

757
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 6: great focalore to set around and talk about with Purdue

758
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Speaker 6: basketball fans.

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Speaker 3: The Purdue Global Radio Network where you hear the great

760
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 3: Rob Blackman Barby Ridell, of course, and they are off

761
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 3: to Saint Louis Friday, seven thirty five, it'll be purduing

762
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Speaker 3: Queens in the two fifteen matchup.

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Speaker 4: Rob First, thank.

764
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Speaker 3: You for the time, because I know obviously it was

765
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Speaker 3: a busy, busy week in.

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Speaker 4: Chicago for you.

767
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Speaker 3: And I kind of want to go back to what

768
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Speaker 3: you said earlier, like if you look at their defensive effort,

769
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Speaker 3: I want to say Nebraska is their third lowest scoring

770
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 3: total of the season, Ucla, I believe is their fifth lowest,

771
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Speaker 3: and then Michigan their sixth lowest, Like you win.

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Speaker 4: The Big Ten tournament.

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Speaker 3: That is a hell of an accomplishment, especially in a year

774
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Speaker 3: like this, But the way they won it, I think

775
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 3: is almost the most impressive aspect of Like, it's the

776
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Speaker 3: biggest question mark we've had all year long with this team.

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Speaker 4: That's how they wanted.

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Speaker 3: They didn't win it in ninety to eighty eight shootouts,

779
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Speaker 3: which I think they can win, but winning it in

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Speaker 3: that manner, I'm curious is what that'll do for them

781
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 3: psyche wise heading into a tournament where inevitably you're going

782
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 3: to need some of that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And you know, I'm always a bit cautious because

784
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 6: I was at that was courtside when Purdue won the

785
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 6: Big Ten Tournament the last time and then went to

786
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Speaker 6: Columbus and lost to a sixteen seed. So I'm always

787
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 6: cautious about just how much momentum does a Big Ten

788
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 6: Tournament win really provide you going into the NCAAA tournament.

789
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 6: But with that being said, it does certainly feel like, yes,

790
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 6: Purdue has has put it together at the right time,

791
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Speaker 6: and especially on the defensive end. One of the big

792
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Speaker 6: talking points with the coaching staff when they were with

793
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Speaker 6: the team late Saturday night and then again Sunday morning

794
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Speaker 6: with their film review was that, look, guys, when we

795
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 6: played Michigan the first time, we scored forty eight points

796
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Speaker 6: on them in the second half, forty eight points on

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Speaker 6: the on the second best defense in the country. If

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Speaker 6: you look at adjusted defensive deficient defensive efficiency numbers, we

799
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Speaker 6: own forty eight points on these guys. Scoring against these

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Speaker 6: guys is not going to be a concern. But can

801
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 6: we continue to show the improvement we have on the

802
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,760
Speaker 6: defensive end in this tournament? And you saw that yesterday,

803
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Speaker 6: and yes, to your point, if you look at all

804
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 6: four games as a whole, defensively, Purdue has taken a

805
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Speaker 6: step in the right direction. I don't think there's any

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Speaker 6: way around that. I would also add this. I was

807
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 6: at the practices leading into the Big Gin Tournament, and

808
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Speaker 6: I hope they I don't think they would mind me sharing.

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Speaker 7: This with you.

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Speaker 6: The first practice on day one, that was all defense.

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Speaker 6: There was no there were no offensive drills in that two.

812
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Speaker 7: Hour practice session.

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Speaker 6: It was a It was a point of emphasis from

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Speaker 6: the coaching staff that come hell or high water, we're

815
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 6: going to get back to being a team that can

816
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 6: guard a little bit here. And you know, obviously that

817
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 6: worked at least for you know, this four game stretch,

818
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 6: and now you hope that that again renewed sense of

819
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 6: purpose on the defensive end carries you, that carries with

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Speaker 6: you into the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 4: Rob I kind of felt very similar to the Cult

822
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Speaker 4: Super Bowl. They gave the MVP to Peyton Manning.

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Speaker 3: I thought Dominique Rhodes should have gotten it, or maybe

824
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Speaker 3: even Joseph and Die. In that game, Braden sets the

825
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Speaker 3: record for assist in a Big ten tournament, so I

826
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Speaker 3: fully understand why he won it, But man, I thought

827
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Speaker 3: Oscar Cloff deserved it. I just thought he was so

828
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Speaker 3: good throughout all four of those games.

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Speaker 6: Oh, just look at the numbers to what twenty I

830
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Speaker 6: think yesterday was twenty one and five or twenty one

831
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Speaker 6: and six. And we kept harping on this in the

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Speaker 6: broadcast nineteen and ten against Northwestern, twelve and ten or

833
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Speaker 6: nine against Nebraska, seventeen and fourteen against UCLA. Yes, I

834
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Speaker 6: mean average the double double if you look at the actually,

835
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Speaker 6: if you would look at his numbers from last year

836
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Speaker 6: at South Dakota State when he was seventeen and twelve,

837
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Speaker 6: they were very similar. And look, it's one thing to

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Speaker 6: do it at South Dakota State. No knock on those guys,

839
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Speaker 6: but to do it in a Big ten tournament against

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Speaker 6: a Big ten competition, my point being, I would wholeheartedly

841
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Speaker 6: agree with you.

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00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 7: I felt like he was.

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Speaker 6: Produced best player, certainly most consistent player through that four

844
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Speaker 6: game stretch, and quite frankly, if we're handing out, you know,

845
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Speaker 6: honorable mentions for outstanding Player of the tournament, I think

846
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Speaker 6: Trey Kaufman, Wren and Fletcher Lawyer too would have been

847
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Speaker 6: right there in the voting process, which to me again

848
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Speaker 6: is exactly what.

849
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Speaker 7: You would want.

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Speaker 6: You know, if you're going to go out anyway in

851
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 6: the postseason, you're going to go out with your four

852
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 6: seniors that play the minutes, most minutes, you know, swinging

853
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 6: in fighting to the very end. And that's that's what

854
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 6: Purdue fans saw. And again you hope this continues on

855
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 6: the Saint Louis.

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Speaker 1: Talking to Rob Blackman, voice of the Brdue boiler Makers

857
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Speaker 1: here at ninety three to five and one O seven

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Speaker 1: to five the fan Payless Liquors Hotline that stretch for

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Speaker 1: about five minutes in the second half yesterday, the game

860
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,839
Speaker 1: was starting to get tight and Braden Smith and Trey

861
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Speaker 1: Kaufman Wren just started playing the two man game, and man,

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Speaker 1: did they play that upside the head of Michigan. Have

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Speaker 1: you seen them be more efficient for a concentrated period

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Speaker 1: of time than they were for that five minutes yesterday?

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Speaker 6: I have, Jeff, but never against that level of competition,

866
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Speaker 6: you know, I should not say that. Last year against

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Speaker 6: Houston in the sweet sixteen. Purdue also founded the nice

868
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Speaker 6: thing about PJ Thompson, who I think most Purdue fans

869
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Speaker 6: no calls the offense, runs the offense. If he finds

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Speaker 6: something that's working, he does not go away from it.

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Speaker 6: He will go to the well twenty straight times if

872
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 6: he thinks he can get a bucket, which to me

873
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 6: is what that's good coaching, right, I mean, you figure

874
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 6: out something that works, why would you ever go away

875
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 6: from it? PJ never goes away from it until you

876
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 6: stop it. But yeah, and you guys saw it right.

877
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 6: Purdue is just run on that little two man game

878
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 6: with a ball screen, and two things are going to happen.

879
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 6: If you got to switch, then Braden was going to

880
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 6: back out and try to take a Diemarra off the bounce.

881
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 6: And if they didn't get to switch, then they just

882
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 6: pocket passed it in there to Trey and he was

883
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 6: man was he? He was playing like a man among

884
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 6: boys yesterday? But yes, and someone pointed this out to me,

885
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 6: I don't know if this is true, but apparently Perdue

886
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 6: went from number two to number one and adjusted offensive

887
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,919
Speaker 6: efficiency after that game yesterday. And fndeed that is true,

888
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 6: I'm thinking to myself, Yeah, probably because that was about

889
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 6: as efficient offensively as Purdue could have been yesterday, and

890
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 6: it really all came down as silly as it sounds

891
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 6: to just running the same play over and over and

892
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:48,919
Speaker 6: over and over.

893
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,439
Speaker 5: So Rob my last one from me when it comes

894
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 5: to the ripped number three jersey, do we just resetitch that?

895
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 2: Does he get a new jersey? Is he wearing forty one?

896
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 2: Moving forward?

897
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 5: These are questions that are very demanding right now for

898
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 5: the fan base.

899
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 6: James, I can tell you're a media and they're just

900
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 6: like me because I actually, and just by dumblock, on

901
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 6: the bus ride home yesterday, I sat with our equipment

902
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,240
Speaker 6: manager we set together, and I asked him the same question,

903
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 6: and this is how the process works. Number One, Purdue

904
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 6: does have a backup number three jersey of the same

905
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 6: the same color and everything with Smith on the back,

906
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 6: but it was back at West Lafayette, so there is

907
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 6: a backup jersey. H So number one, they did stitch

908
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 6: let me let me back up. They did stitch the

909
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 6: jersey back up at halftime, but it looks so terrible

910
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 6: they chose not to wear it. He could have warned

911
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 6: in the second half, but it was so ugly. Looked

912
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 6: like Frankenstein's face from what I'm told, so they chose

913
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 6: not to put it back on him. But they do

914
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 6: have a backup jersey back in West Lafayette that they

915
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 6: can use. And plus, our equipment guy had already spoken

916
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 6: to the folks at Nike and they promised them they

917
00:41:58,040 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 6: will have them a new.

918
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 7: One before the week is over, so they have a

919
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 7: backup to the backup.

920
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,280
Speaker 6: So all should be fine with the black Nike jersey

921
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 6: that says Purdue across the chest.

922
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 5: All right, I guess we should be fine with some

923
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 5: of these equipment issues as long as they keep winning.

924
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 4: Right, Who was doing the stitching? That's what I want

925
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 4: to know.

926
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 3: If we've got a Grandmauther Singer machine down there in

927
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 3: the basement of the United State.

928
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 6: The Chicago Bulls or Black Hawks actually have a seamstress

929
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 6: on the whole time salary. I love it.

930
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 3: I don't know we know anything at all rob about

931
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 3: Queen's Saint Louis.

932
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think Purdue isn't play.

933
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 3: I don't even know the last time Purdue would have

934
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 3: played and said, I think that's where arch madness is.

935
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,280
Speaker 3: You got anything for us on Friday night? The location

936
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 3: of the team.

937
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 6: I took about five minutes on the bus ride home

938
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 6: to look up their stats. The one thing that jumped

939
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 6: off the page, I mean, really two things. They scored

940
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 6: a bunch of points. I mean they had I don't

941
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 6: know how many games this year they've scored ninety, but

942
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 6: they've also given up a bunch of points. They've had

943
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 6: a bunch of teams scored ninety or one hundred against them.

944
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 6: That was the first thing that caught my attention. The

945
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 6: second thing was they do have six guys averaging double

946
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 6: digit scoring, which to me is a that's a pretty

947
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:08,879
Speaker 6: unique number. I can't think of the last time DUE

948
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 6: played a team where the other other team had six

949
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 6: guys at average double digits. So apparently this group has

950
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 6: no trouble scoring the ball. Didn't sound like they are

951
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 6: very good defensively, but again that's that's just with a

952
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 6: quick look at the stats. And I was quite frankly

953
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 6: way too tired to do more than five minutes worth

954
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 6: the work last night. So that's about all I know

955
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 6: on those guys.

956
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: Always great to talk to you, Rob, Get some rest,

957
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: rest that voice coming up Friday night. Saint Louis seven

958
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,760
Speaker 1: thirty five against Queens, Round one of the NCAA tournament.

959
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: Right back where they're supposed to be, right.

960
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 6: Well, that's where we all thought we'd be when it

961
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 6: all started. It it looked a little looked a little

962
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 6: harry there for a while, but yes, we're back where

963
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 6: we thought we'd be.

964
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: You did a great job pulling it out for us there, Rob,

965
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:51,439
Speaker 1: keep it going

966
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 7: Okay, Thank you guys,