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Welcome back to Crimson. 

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Cascading Claudio, Scott 
Caulfield joining me at once 

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again, it is Friday, the 10th, 
Happy Spring Break to those who 

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celebrate, which I think is 
Maybe Just the school population

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here at IU, but for those of you
in the eye, you system Happy 

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Spring Break and officially 
starts today and basketball 

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season upon us. 
I you back in the Big Ten 

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tournament in the quarterfinals 
as they play. 

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The Maryland Terrapins tonight. 
We promised you a preview 

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podcast and that's what we're 
here to do, Scott. 

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Good to see you already been a 
pretty wacky week in terms of 

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conference tournaments. 
We've I've lost a bunch of 

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parlays on one team, just 
completely crapping the bed. 

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Ed, so we know we're fully in 
the swing of things here. 

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How are you doing? 
I'm doing well. 

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I've actually done pretty well 
in parlays. 

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I need Alabama and Houston to 
both win today. 

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I put a lot on Pacers moneyline 
last name of the Pacers game. 

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Like the rockets. 
Look, horrible. 

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I'm like Pace with money online,
easy. 

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And then it's like goes into 
overtime. 

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It's like just what nothing, be 
easy, huh? 

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Kuwait and what we need to give 
the full context. 

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Not only did you do that but you
texted are gambling, like text 

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thread, which like James from 
Crimson cap. 

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Ash is on and you're like, put 
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moneyline, the Rockets are 
terrible, and I'm sitting there 

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watching the score go by and you
know, it's like rockets with in 

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like six or eight in the third 
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And I'm like, yeah, Scott don't 
text these things. 

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Like you're just, you're just, 
you're just giving the kiss of 

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death on these either, because 
you put it away, you put it 

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apart. 
It was like, what? 

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- 3000 or something like that 
for the cake. 

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We got there. 
Okay, got there. 

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They won. 
The money line. 

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Doesn't matter how we got there.
You're in the throes of March. 

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It's Conference tournament time.
I would also. 

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As for the listeners were 
recording this as the Purdue 

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Rutgers game is going on, so 
they will probably be. 

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This might be another one. 
We do live to tape play-by-play 

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of a, another big 10 game, it's 
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I mean, Rutgers jumped out to a 
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scrambled back into it. 
And was I think leading at 

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halftime. 
But it's been a nip and Tuck 

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game all the way through. 
We're talking about that the 

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rest of the Big Ten tournament 
and what we've seen so far and 

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then Indiana's matchup versus 
Maryland. 

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So anyway, let's go ahead and 

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talk about what's going on so 
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With the exception of the 
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yesterday, all the games in the 
Big Ten Tournament thus far have

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been won by the lower seeded 
team and, you know, that's 

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probably going to end today 
whether or not, I'm obviously it

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ended last night. 
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news that Bryce Sensabaugh Liz 
is out today for Ohio State 

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which is going to put a pretty 
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three and three. 
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through what we've seen thus far
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is its wide open, like we talked
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what, what can we expect from 
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And from really all these 
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that they're going to perform 
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found so far, is that generally 
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A lot of Teams that have 
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Haven't performed quite as well 
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seen the opposite. 
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figure out Illinois and win that
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Last night when Illinois was 
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doing everybody a favor and 
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I mean, that was one of the 
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I've seen from Michigan in the 
Big Ten tournament since last 

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year, when they blew a second 
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against Indiana and lost. 
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up on that you think is 
particularly notable in these 

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early games that we've seen. 
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noting and I'll be the first one
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I'm not sure Juwan. 
Howard is having a good year 

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Coach man. 
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Yeah, that's a bold statement. 
But yeah, 18 minutes without a 

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field goal. 
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see teams like, you know, Iowa 
who just torched us for like, 90

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points and they get the neutral 
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Struggling to score points per 
possession around what they 

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finish off with but it's like 
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a half ago. 
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of upsets but it's like you have
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outside of Minnesota winning 
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because they're bad every other 
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about whether it's a tie-break 
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underdog versus a favorite. 
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this year. 
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of have it break this way. 
I As a Indiana fan on an Indiana

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podcast and Indiana boy and an 
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I was happy to see Penn State 
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I just I would you know Illinois
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some higher-end ability. 
I'm not super excited to play 

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Penn State either. 
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coming out of that matchup but I
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that the bracket is breaking 
nicely and it does, I'll stop 

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there. 
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breaking nicely, and it was nice
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Yeah you know it's funny because
when we were running through the

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various scenarios you know that 
people tweet at the account and 

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say something along the lines of
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or that team and I see this with
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that will put up as well and 
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of the day, there is no magic 
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all easy teams, like everybody's
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know, especially now that you've
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of games out of the way, it's 
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in it, including Ohio, State 
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and I wouldn't bat an eye. 
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when you think about Indiana and
where they're at, yes, the 

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bracket is breaking fairly well,
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rather played Illinois, then 
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where it's like, you know, I 
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deal. 
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match up any worse. 
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Illinois because we've done it 
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team doesn't know that they can 
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I'm sure they assume that they 
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vibe because you got blown out 
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Is it is funny after so many 
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Wednesday or Thursday. 
That's it is wild. 

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It's like we're Friday at 1:30 
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We still have another eight 
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It's like it's like we're so 
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Like we either play on Wednesday
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feels like conference. 
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and it's like we haven't even 
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Yeah, I know it's it's it's a 
kind of a peculiar thing in that

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it just in especially when you 
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I mean, remember last year like 
this, the game, the Purdue 

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Rutgers game is going on right 
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Was Indiana, Illinois last year 
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this point, you're in it, you 
know, it's very unusual for IU 

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fans at least being on the 
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having played this, like, 
they'll be the last team that 

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And so, they take on a Maryland 
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know, I look at them and I say 
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clearly that is a bit Mercurial 
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you for the way that they 
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You know, they ended up winning.
They were three and five at one 

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point in the Big Ten and I 
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back a little bit more, they 
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with the three and five like 
since going since getting to 

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that three and five mark 
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to go eight and four down the 
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the four losses. 
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at Nebraska. 
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loss at Michigan State and one 
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Penn State, which frankly I 
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the two or three, most freakish 
endings to a game that we saw 

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like the the number of things 
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the shot that was taken, you 
know, the All getting knocked 

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out of the marrow and player's, 
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Maryland. 
And it going right to the Penn 

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State player, having be right in
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Marilyn should have won that 
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And so when I look at this 
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this is a better team than I 
think a lot of people are giving

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them credit for to some degree. 
I almost think the HomeAway 

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split thing has been perhaps in 
this applied to Maryland in that

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like IU has been outside of the 
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Really struggled in a lot of 
their Road games, whereas 

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Maryland down the stretch here 
really has, and like, the game 

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at Ohio State was the one 
outlier, but everything else is 

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looked really good. 
And if you look at it, if you 

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take the, the tempo free 
statistics from Maryland, over 

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the course of like February 1st 
until now, because that's about 

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when things started to turn 
around for Maryland, they lost 

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the game against Purdue, you 
know, on the road on the 22nd of

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July of a Jill of January, and 
then, from there, They went 

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eight and four since February 
1st, Maryland, is 18th in the 

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country overall, in adjusted 
efficiency, their 27th in the 

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country, in offensive, 
efficiency their 35th and 

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defensive efficiency. 
They've been real slow. 

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Like they've played like a 
Purdue Tempo down the stretch 

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here in terms of what they've 
tried to do and you compare that

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to Indiana who in the same 
stretch even though Indiana's 

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one one more game. 
Indiana, 6 and 3 in that stretch

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Five and four actually they're 
six and four now in that stretch

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Indiana's 54th in the country. 
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is 63rd and offensive 
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Their 73rd and defensive 
efficiency, Indiana has been one

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of the worst rebounding teams 
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country since February 1st. 
It's all part of this plan that 

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Mike Woodson has been putting 
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offensive, efficiency. 
Overall, they've kind of 

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sacrificed the board's now. 
Deanna is one games in that 

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time, period. 
They've actually they've racked 

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up the wins. 
They need to be a protected 

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seed, but if I'm looking at 
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Divine, who the better team is 
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played, it's hard to look at 
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it's Maryland. 
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me, I'm gonna go back to what 
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You know, like at this point 
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so it's like there's no easy 
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for this and I'm thinking about 
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I'm less interested in the 
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seen this throughout the year 
that very few games have any 

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that I can think of have we lost
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Kansas where you would Like that
team was doing stuff that we 

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couldn't stop and we had no 
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but you know, x-ray of the 
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unfocused and really. 
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How are we going to show up? 
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focused and engaged for 35 of 
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we're not going to, we can't 
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going to win. 
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look through the and even the 
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you know, the game at 
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engaged for the last 15 minutes.
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being kind of disengage from the
start Michigan State. 

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We had moments where he made 
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kind of didn't and I'm not 
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getting beer. 
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just we don't pay attention but 
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Iowa game. 
They were going to do whatever 

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they wanted, you could say. 
Oh, it's tough to stop stop 

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Chris Murray, but it's like, 
it's also, he was getting pretty

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damn good. 
Looks like we were just kind of,

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we were kind of checked out so 
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gaming, it's Maryland for 
Odyssey. 

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All the games moving forward is 
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ceiling and pretty low floor 
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Where if we come in locked in, I
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thing, but I think, if it, if we
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more than 10 plus minutes in the
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And I think that's kind of dip, 
doesn't matter. 

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On the opponent, whether it's 
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Maryland, like they all present 
different issues and different 

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things we can talk. 
About. 

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But I think the main key is how 
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And if we attack the game with 
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high-level defense, I think we 
win three in a row. 

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You're in a far more optimistic 
spot than I am. 

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What up? 
What up? 

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I think, I agree, I agree. 
No, I agree. 

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There's nothing that says that 
Indiana couldn't do what? 

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You just described. 
All the pieces are there, and 

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there's a type of team that 
stops. 

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But swear, it's like this team. 
Does this and wants no, no, I 

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agree. 
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Iowa, who were bad matchups. 
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four games were very close. 
I, you know, but the problem for

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me with this IU team right now 
is what happened in that Iowa 

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game and what happened in the 
Michigan game. 

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And I just this team, I can't 
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the end of its rope. 
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themselves for one, big push 
towards the end of the season 

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and we're conserving energy, I 
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My tendency is to think that 
it's the former, that this might

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be a spent Force. 
At the end of the day, because 

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I've been monitoring stats 
closely. 

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I've been looking at what 
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haven't looked good lately in 
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their defense, or their effort 
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larger point that you were 
making Like, they've really 

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struggled to maintain 
consistency. 

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They've they struggled to get 
coincidentally occurring, good 

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effort games from multiple 
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that's kind of the kiss of 
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And, you know, it's interesting 
because the defense has been 

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about the same for the course of
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nosedive. 
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beginning of February, like, 
Right after Indiana and Rutgers 

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played Indiana, will had been 
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offensive teams in the country, 
you know? 

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I think they were like in the 
top 15 on a rolling average with

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liked or vicar with Eric 
Haslam's statistics, since then 

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their offensive efficiency 
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Like I said, about 14th, or 15th
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thirty Fifth. 
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negative momentum that we've 
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lot of it is Is there not 
rebounding there, they're not 

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turning the ball over which is a
really interesting aspect of all

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of this but they're not doing a 
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So they're not extending 
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this kind of weird environment 
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they did against Purdue. 
They've got a good chance of 

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winning the game when they're 
not hitting shots, or when 

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they're letting their opponent 
hit shots, they're they're in 

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real trouble and they don't seem
to be able to like Play with the

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same level of forest, they were 
playing with in that stretch 

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where they, they won eight out 
of nine games. 

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And while that was not aired 
because in this fret just kind 

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of been the emergence of jail 
Hood Jiffy know, like he was 

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doing well, but this is kind of 
where he's emerged, so to speak,

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it's weird welding those things.
That so it's odd though, 

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because, you know, it's funny, 
if you look at his game by game,

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like, offensive rating, it 
always it's just like it is 

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completely danced around. 
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a player. 
And, you know, so it's like he 

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had an above average game 
against Michigan. 

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He had a significantly below 
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He had a significantly above 
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above average game against 
Michigan State below average 

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against Illinois, below average 
against Northwestern, and then 

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right at his average in the 
first Michigan game. 

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So, you just don't know what 
you're going to get out of jail.

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New trophy, no consistently and 
unfortunately like, you know, 

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outs, if you know, the Purdue 
game was. 2nd best game. 

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He's played in the last month 
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Yeah, I mean, the Ohio State 
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magnum opus from the season, but
that Purdue game is right up 

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there. 
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February, he was essentially a 
net negative with the one 

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exception of the game at 
Michigan. 

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Like he was, he was slightly 
above average on that in that 

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one. 
And and that was a game where 

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most of his contributions came 
in terms of the assist, he was 

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dishing out but the rest of the 
time he has kind of turned into 

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a Score first. 
Guard and there's nothing 

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inherently wrong with that, but 
it's not really how Indiana set 

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up to play properly. 
And I think that because he's 

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had to take over so much of the 
offensive initiative. 

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It's created a scenario, where 
Indiana ends up being very boom 

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and bust and you could say 
they've been just as much bust 

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as they have been boom. 
Really since then the game at 

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Northwestern where you just like
they'll fall behind and games 

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that have these long stretches. 
Don't play particularly well. 

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And again that Purdue game is 
really the only one where you 

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could say they can They carried 
it all the way through? 

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So I'm going to be really 
fascinated coach. 

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Fino, had a terrible game at 
Maryland. 

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I think you could actually make 
the argument that, that was the 

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worst game. 
He played the whole season. 

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Yeah, you know, and you know, if
you forgotten that I mean he was

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he was 1 for 14 from the field. 
It forces four turnovers and he 

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had an offensive rating of 32. 
Which wow. 

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Like for a starter that. 
Is real bad. 

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He's unlikely to play as bad 
and, you know. 

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Now, most most starters, don't 
normally have a game where they 

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score more than their worst game
of offensive rating, like to 

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have a game where you scored 35,
and then also have a 32 off, it 

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goes into wild. 
Wow. 

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And anytime your point guard has
more turnovers than points in a 

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game. 
That's a bad side. 

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So look, this is, we're not here
to criticize jail and Ruffino. 

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But we are here to say that I, 
you has to have Didn't see, you 

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know, I think it's not just the 
the bench, the bench has gotten 

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a lot of attention and certainly
I you needs to get contributions

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from people off the bench if the
game against Michigan showed 

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anything, it's like this team is
so much more. 

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It's how do I put this? 
This team is so much better when

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they are able to not have a huge
drop off as soon as somebody 

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goes off the floor and that 
seems very Elementary like you 

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would be like, why are? 
You know, we should be beyond 

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that, but clearly Indiana has 
struggled with that. 

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And so tomorrow, Bates ends up 
being the difference between 

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Indiana beating Michigan and 
losing to Michigan at home. 

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I don't know how much we can 
trust the bench and I also don't

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know how much we trust. 
The individual members of the 

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starting lineup. 
Trace Jackson. 

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Davis seems to be back. 
He had a really big game against

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Michigan. 
That was nice to see, but what 

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are you going to get out of the 
rest of the team especially 

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defensively and Scott this kind 
of goes back to your effort 

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point, this Indiana team so 
much? 

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What they do offensively? 
Well, seems to stem from 

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defensive effort and it's like, 
when one starts to go away the 

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other just vanishes and that's 
going to be a really fascinating

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Trend to watch. 
As we see this game on full 

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tonight. 
Yeah. 

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No. 
It's they are. 

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They are intertwined. 
And it's like the effort on 

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defense helps the effort on 
offense. 

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No, I agree. 
It's the, there's a lot of 

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people on this team that are 
kind of boom and bust and it is 

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it's tough. 
But again, I look at it as, you 

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know, I hope that they can find 
ways to got to use the word. 

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Hope, I shouldn't be doing that.
But, you know, they say that 

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there's a way that you can, you 
know, get a little more locked 

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in and that, you know, being on 
a neutral site is going to help,

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you know, some of those and 
maybe some of that, you know, 

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lack of effort is either not 
lack of effort, but lack of 

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focus is more on, you know, 
tough road crowds being little 

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too hyped at home. 
Like maybe maybe a neutral 

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Court, will help this team 
Thrive and help some of the, you

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know, I don't know. 
You're bumming me out cause that

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you're talking. 
I breathe everything. 

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I agree. 
No, I agree with everything 

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you're saying and it is, you 
know, in the end that is like I 

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talked to Jared the other day 
that, you know, I do think you 

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know, it's tough because this 
team has such a high ceiling and

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that is true. 
Like when things are firing on 

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all cylinders, this team could 
win the Big Ten Tournament could

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go to a final four but like in 
the end they're probably not 

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going to do either just because 
of all the things. 

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Things that you said, I think 
that end that doesn't mean that 

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it's bad or negative, or this 
was a bad season, but I do think

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everything you said is valid. 
And I do think that, you know, 

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I'll speak for those who like 
I've got to keep my emotions and

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my, you know, aspirations in 
check because I get a little bit

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like you. 
I can't wait like, you know, it 

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all looks good. 
We had, you know, because we're 

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just we're never going to be at 
100% high level performance for 

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40 gate 40 minutes a game for 
three games in a row. 

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Just this team has not shown any
history of doing that all 

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season. 
And even the micro or the macro.

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So it's you know, I do think 
that's kind of where you know we

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need to reset it just be like 
you know at some point that's 

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what's going to fail. 
This team is just their ability 

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to execute on a you know minute 
by minute and play-by-play 

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basis. 
I will say as pessimistic as I 

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sound and I know I sound 
pessimistic, I don't understand 

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what's going on with the betting
line for this game. 

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So both teams started off plus 
one, which I don't think I've 

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ever seen. 
That's not how it's Opposed to 

445
00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:11,600
work with that was still mine 
earlier. 

446
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,600
Everybody. 
Here is both teams were plus one

447
00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:16,900
on draft kills everybody. 
There was no favorite. 

448
00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:19,800
Now what's happened since then 
though, what's happened? 

449
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,500
What's happened since then? 
And we're recording this about 

450
00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:23,700
1:45. 
And for those of you who don't 

451
00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:27,400
gamble, please understand that. 
The betting line is a proxy for 

452
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,500
the way. 
The public feels about the game,

453
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,500
and a way that the sports books,
feel about the game based upon 

454
00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:35,200
information they're getting so 
whether or not you're gambling 

455
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,400
or not, the point spread is 
actually a good thing to watch. 

456
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:42,400
Indiana is Two and a Half Point 
favorite in this game according 

457
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:46,400
to bed, MGM. 
And that's really interesting to

458
00:23:46,408 --> 00:23:51,300
me because if you look at the 
projection on Ken pom 

459
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,700
Maryland's, a two-point 
favorite, you know, even on 

460
00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:56,200
torvik Maryland's, a one-point 
favorite. 

461
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,900
So I am really curious why the 
line has gone, the way that it 

462
00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:02,600
has like where this confidence 
in Indiana is coming from. 

463
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,000
I can't tell if this is just 
public money coming in and then 

464
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,600
the sharps are going to come in 
and grab things but Maryland at 

465
00:24:09,608 --> 00:24:12,800
plus two and a half. 
I mean, that feels like 

466
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,100
something. 
I might want to jump on. 

467
00:24:15,700 --> 00:24:18,300
I won't because I can't bet 
against Indiana. 

468
00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:21,700
At least not under normal 
circumstances, but I do look at 

469
00:24:21,700 --> 00:24:23,100
that. 
And I'm like, I wonder what 

470
00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:27,500
what's going on at this point. 
So, great call, I'm not even 

471
00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:30,300
looked into that. 
I've, I've had such bad history 

472
00:24:30,300 --> 00:24:33,700
betting on or against Indiana 
this year that I'm, they are a 

473
00:24:33,708 --> 00:24:35,300
complete. 
Stay away team for me, I just, I

474
00:24:35,308 --> 00:24:37,300
don't, I don't know them. 
Yeah, it's I've been, I will say

475
00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:39,600
if anybody was tempted to wager.
This game. 

476
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,400
This is a tough one because it's
these are very evenly matched. 

477
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,700
I mean, you look at you know, we
talked about Eric Haslam's 

478
00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:48,900
website a bunch because it's a 
good way to do like in the 

479
00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:52,700
moment comps of the two teams 
that are playing and like today,

480
00:24:52,900 --> 00:24:58,500
Indiana, Maryland, it's Maryland
by three essentially on that and

481
00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:00,900
yet you look at the actual 
individual numbers and it might 

482
00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:02,700
be even slightly closer than 
that. 

483
00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:05,600
And so these are very, very 
evenly matched teams, according 

484
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,500
to the computers. 
Let's talk about and a little 

485
00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:11,900
bit, you know, in the first game
that these two teams played 

486
00:25:11,900 --> 00:25:15,700
against each other. 
You know, it was, it was really 

487
00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:19,400
kind of, I mean, Jamir young and
Dante Scott, both had really 

488
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,100
good games. 
Young with was 346 from three, 

489
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:28,300
Maryland did not score 
incredibly well in this game. 

490
00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:31,900
They only, you know, ended up 
with 1.06 points, per 

491
00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:34,900
possession. 
However, Indiana scored 

492
00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:38,000
terribly, like, Maryland really 
did a good job defensively on 

493
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,100
them. 
Indiana was Only what they were 

494
00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:47,100
20 1456 from the field, they 
were 18, 445 from to try. 

495
00:25:47,100 --> 00:25:48,600
Jackson Davis, had a pretty good
game. 

496
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,500
He had 18 points, 15, 20 18 
points and 20 rebounds, which is

497
00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:57,200
still nuts to think about. 
And the, and race Thompson was 

498
00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,500
actually fairly good internally 
or inside, like he was over two 

499
00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:04,400
from three, but he was 4 for 6 
from to race and Trace combined 

500
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,900
to go 7 for 8, from the 
free-throw line. 

501
00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:11,300
And no one else was in double. 
Jurors Miller cop had a decent 

502
00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:13,800
game. 
He got hit 2 out of 3, 3, excuse

503
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,700
me, one out of four, 3s scored 
seven points. 

504
00:26:16,700 --> 00:26:18,900
Overall, everybody else really 
struggled, we mentioned Jalen 

505
00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:19,600
Hood. 
Fino. 

506
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:24,200
As one who struggled quite a bit
IU, has got to figure out how to

507
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,100
score points and how to get the 
tempo up. 

508
00:26:27,300 --> 00:26:29,900
Maryland in the game in College 
Park. 

509
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,000
Absolutely took Indiana out of 
their element. 

510
00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:35,300
They made them play a Tempo, 
they weren't happy with and 

511
00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:38,000
they, You know, despite trailing
early. 

512
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,900
I mean I you Forget was up 
seven. 

513
00:26:39,900 --> 00:26:42,800
I think in that game in the 
first half, with about 10 

514
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,400
minutes to go, Maryland, just 
gradually made it harder and 

515
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,400
harder for Indiana to do 
anything offensively. 

516
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,500
I don't know if they'll be able 
to pull that off quite at the 

517
00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:55,200
same level on a neutral floor. 
They haven't played as well. 

518
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,400
Defensively away from home, but 
I do think that, you know, if 

519
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,000
I'm Indiana I've got to be 
thinking about. 

520
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:07,000
Well, gosh, if I can, we've got 
to figure out a way to continue 

521
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000
to score in the post, but 
where's the The outside shooting

522
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,400
like where's where are the three
is going to come from? 

523
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,800
Can we get people open? 
That's I use not going to be 

524
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,400
able to win if they try the same
pattern that they did before 

525
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,700
where they're just dumping it 
down low constantly and trying 

526
00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:23,400
to score in the paint all the 
time. 

527
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,200
I do think Tres Jackson Davis 
has made a lot of strides even 

528
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,300
from that game which was not 
that long ago in terms of 

529
00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:34,200
looking a bit more to throw 
passes out to the perimeter when

530
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,500
he's getting doubled and so that
might have something to do with 

531
00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:39,000
it. 
Also with Jalen atrophy no can 

532
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,700
Like even a third of the shots 
that he missed in that game 

533
00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:44,400
maybe that helps with the 
offense a bit. 

534
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,000
But certainly you don't look at 
the first game at least I don't 

535
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,700
and say this is an impossible 
task for IU. 

536
00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:54,000
I just I know what Indiana needs
to do in this one in terms of 

537
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,600
Indiana, probably needs to 
score. 70 75 76 points in this 

538
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,100
game. 
I don't know if they're going to

539
00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:00,900
be able to do that. 
Given how they've played over 

540
00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:02,300
the course of the last few 
weeks. 

541
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,400
Yeah, I mean that first game, 
Marilyn had a 13-2 to run and 

542
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,500
then there is also a stretch 
from about the sixteen and a 

543
00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:12,000
half minute Mark in the second 
half until the 10-minute Mark 

544
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,600
were Indiana, went from 37 
points to 42. 

545
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,800
So they scored five points and 
like a sediment is span or six 

546
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,200
happen is fan. 
And you just you can't that's 

547
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,400
something that we just, we can't
do. 

548
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,400
And as the tournaments go deeper
and the teams get better. 

549
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,300
You just, you can't have that. 
And that's where your point. 

550
00:28:29,300 --> 00:28:33,200
Like if you're dumping it in we 
have to score or if Trace is 

551
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,000
passing it out. 
Like that's where you look at a 

552
00:28:35,008 --> 00:28:38,200
guy like tomorrow baits. 
Like those those bench guys or 

553
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,700
tray Galloway, Cop, like they 
have to start hitting some of 

554
00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:45,300
those 3s or taking them because 
you just need some points. 

555
00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:48,300
Like you can't have multiple 
lulls in a game like this, 

556
00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:52,000
probably for the rest of the 
season and expect to get away 

557
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,300
from it. 
And the trouble is, as you 

558
00:28:53,300 --> 00:28:56,300
mentioned, it's like we have a 
history of even recent history, 

559
00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:58,300
our last couple games of doing 
that, you'll make the Michigan 

560
00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:00,200
game. 
I think it was like something 

561
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:05,100
like 5210 over a period of time.
Like there was a huge like long 

562
00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:08,900
extended run any and that's get 
that gets back. 

563
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,100
To it as this team is 
susceptible to like a 14-2 to 

564
00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:15,100
run a quick hitter but they're 
also susceptible to these like 

565
00:29:15,300 --> 00:29:18,100
runs that don't show up on the 
Ken Palm chart just because like

566
00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:22,200
a 5210 run is like 90% of the 
game or they just kind of go 

567
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,500
comatose for 38 minutes and it's
hard to show and that's you 

568
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:29,100
can't have really either of 
those or if you do you've got to

569
00:29:29,108 --> 00:29:33,300
like get out of it real quick, 
so yeah. 

570
00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:38,500
I think ultimately, I mean, I 
here's the thing as we've talked

571
00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:41,200
about, with this team quite a 
bit, I won't be shocked if they 

572
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,700
win handily. 
I also won't be shocked if they 

573
00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:44,800
lose. 
Actually, I take that back. 

574
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,100
I will be shocked if they win 
handily because I you doesn't 

575
00:29:47,100 --> 00:29:49,900
seem to win games handily at 
this point. 

576
00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:54,000
Now, maybe again, this is the 
one factor for me is like, how 

577
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,000
much like did the fact that 
they've gotten some days off? 

578
00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:00,200
That they've had a chance to 
rest and recuperate that they 

579
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,800
realize that the end is in 
sight? 

580
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,500
Like they're out of February, 
there into March, it's a 

581
00:30:03,508 --> 00:30:06,200
different thing. 
You know, do they look at this 

582
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,200
game and say you know what we 
you know we're going to be able 

583
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,600
to bring 100% effort and 
intensity and and do so in a 

584
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,300
way, I think, you know, Trey 
Galloway had such a terrible 

585
00:30:16,300 --> 00:30:19,500
outing against Michigan. 
He's certainly do for a good 

586
00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:23,800
outing overall and I think 
really kind of needs one against

587
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,300
Maryland, as he didn't have a 
great game. 

588
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,800
You hit a couple of Threes which
was nice but didn't do a whole 

589
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,300
lot else. 
And also picked up four, fouls 

590
00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:34,100
like he's got to keep that in 
check. 

591
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,300
And you look across the board 
with this IU team, you know, 

592
00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:43,400
race Thompson, Trace Jackson, 
Davis, Jalen Hurd Ruffino, you 

593
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:44,900
know? 
And and Trey Galloway. 

594
00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:47,100
That's really become the group 
that you have to get something 

595
00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:48,700
out of consistently and then 
Miller cop. 

596
00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:50,900
If he can. 
Add something on the end is a 

597
00:30:50,908 --> 00:30:54,000
nice bonus Indy. 
The big thing for Indiana here 

598
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,600
to me is like, can they get 
their three-point shooting to 

599
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,400
the point where it takes some 
pressure off their offense? 

600
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,800
And can they keep their 
defensive intensity up with the 

601
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:07,000
idea that Maryland at the end of
the A is not an overwhelming 

602
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,500
offensive force that they're 
trying to deal with, you know, 

603
00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:13,800
Maryland is they're they're 
they're fine offensively. 

604
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,600
They're fine defensively but 
most of the time like you mean 

605
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,300
they're not a good three-point 
shooting team. 

606
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,600
They're an okay to point 
shooting team. 

607
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,500
You know, the I guess the the 
the other thing that I get 

608
00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:27,400
concerned about with this 
matchup for IU, is that where 

609
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,000
we're Maryland really thrives as
they don't turn the ball over so

610
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,800
they're able to get shot volume,
you know, they're getting shots 

611
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,200
on all their possessions. 
Possessions and Indiana isn't 

612
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,400
turning teams over very much 
right now and really hasn't all 

613
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,800
season. 
So, you know unless Indiana can 

614
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,300
can actually do that. 
I think of it unless Indiana can

615
00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:49,700
get some scrambles going where 
Maryland starts to feel 

616
00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:51,600
uncomfortable starts to turn the
ball over. 

617
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,200
I do worry that Maryland just 
going to have enough Shots by 

618
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,300
volume that they'll be able to 
score enough points to beat 

619
00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:00,300
Indiana. 
I'm very curious to see how that

620
00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:03,400
goes though. 
I will say this just taking 

621
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,400
aside from the As, you know, the
thing that this Indiana team for

622
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,500
the most part this season, 
whether it's at Xavier the home 

623
00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:12,100
game against North Carolina, 
table to the home game against 

624
00:32:12,100 --> 00:32:15,400
Purdue the second. 
Go first game against the home 

625
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,500
game against Rutgers. 
I would also the home game 

626
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:19,500
against Illinois, the road game 
against Purdue, and then the 

627
00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:22,300
home game against Michigan. 
You know, when when the lights 

628
00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:24,900
are bright and like, when this 
is a kind of a really, a key 

629
00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:29,000
game, this team has shown up 
where they seem to falter is 

630
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,700
where, you know, we won the key 
game or were in the midst of a 

631
00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:35,100
winning stretch and like, we're 
just going to Kind of mentally 

632
00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:37,600
take a break, you know, whether 
it's that the game at me, 

633
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,500
unfortunately, the, the at 
Maryland game or, you know, the 

634
00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:46,500
middle of the Iowa game on the 
road, or, you know, the Rogaine 

635
00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:47,500
Michigan was just such a 
Michigan. 

636
00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:49,500
State was such a bizarre game, 
kind of putting it off to the 

637
00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:51,300
side but like, the, the home 
game against Iowa. 

638
00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:55,400
It's like this team seems to 
falter, or lose focus more. 

639
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,700
When they've already 
accomplished, you know, the hard

640
00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:00,900
tasks right, and they're getting
better at it, but we do the game

641
00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:02,900
of the home game against Rutgers
was, then, you know, kind of 

642
00:33:02,908 --> 00:33:04,300
solving that a little bit after 
winning. 

643
00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:06,900
The Purdue, but most of the 
games weren't kind of comes in 

644
00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:09,100
with a lot of hype. 
And a lot of, you know, eyeballs

645
00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:11,100
on it has been where they have 
done. 

646
00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:13,900
Well, so, that makes me feel 
like I could see them winning 

647
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,900
tonight. 
Winning handily tonight based on

648
00:33:15,900 --> 00:33:16,500
that. 
Yeah. 

649
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,800
And then maybe letting their 
foot off the gas either, you 

650
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,200
know, tomorrow against 
Northwestern or even in the 

651
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,200
final against whoever they 
decide to play. 

652
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,800
It seems like that's more in. 
The mo of this team is kind of, 

653
00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:30,800
you know let let let their foot 
off the gas when they've 

654
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,900
accomplished a little bit but 
not a lot, we'll see what 

655
00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:36,600
happens. 
And I think if I had to register

656
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,300
an official projection for this 
game, I think I've got Indiana 

657
00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:41,600
coming up, just short in a tight
one. 

658
00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:44,700
Yeah, I agree with everything 
you just said, I think Indiana 

659
00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:47,500
does tend to come out at least 
recently when the lights are 

660
00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:49,900
brighter and I think this is, 
you know, this team's gonna have

661
00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:52,000
a measure of Revenge in mind 
because of the way that they 

662
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,600
played at Maryland, they're 
going to know that they have to 

663
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,400
play better and that does help. 
I just the fact that Maryland 

664
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,300
got to play yesterday and kind 
of got warmed up. 

665
00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:04,200
I always think that that's a bit
of a disadvantage to the higher 

666
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:05,000
seed. 
Team. 

667
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:10,199
And in this case, we know that 
Maryland has the as multiple 

668
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,600
guys that can shoot from 
outside, we know that they can 

669
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,500
defend pretty well and that 
combination concerns me when it 

670
00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:19,100
comes to what i is going to be 
able to do so I think Indiana 

671
00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:22,300
comes up maybe three point 
shorten this one. 

672
00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:27,600
I'll say Maryland winds like 73 
to 78 would be my projection 

673
00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:31,100
which again I don't think it 
hurts Indiana very much. 

674
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,199
There's an outside chance they 
might drop to a five seed. 

675
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,300
Do you know? 
But honestly at this point being

676
00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:40,100
a four or five, I don't think it
matters that much larger because

677
00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:43,100
of what's going on around them, 
in terms of like teams winning 

678
00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:45,000
in the conference tournament. 
Whether there's some minut 

679
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,100
changes in seating. 
But also, I think if this is 

680
00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:49,900
closed, I do think it really 
affects Indiana one way or 

681
00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:51,500
another. 
I would like to see them win. 

682
00:34:51,900 --> 00:34:54,900
I just don't have a great 
feeling going into this game. 

683
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,800
II for what I from what I just 
said. 

684
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,700
I think the is going to win. 
I can see them winning by like 

685
00:34:59,700 --> 00:35:05,200
four or five, maybe, you know, 
72 65 or something I tend to, 

686
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,300
you know, what I look at some of
the your more the bracket 

687
00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:10,900
ologist than I, but as a bit 
more of an amateur side, it does

688
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:14,200
feel like based on some of the, 
you know, Xavier Virginia doing 

689
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,000
well Miami Florida doing well. 
But it this could drop Indiana 

690
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,700
to a five if they lose this, 
which to your point isn't the 

691
00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:25,000
end of the world but you know, 
maybe it does. 

692
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,900
Lose them, the ability to have 
maybe a placement in the South 

693
00:35:28,900 --> 00:35:31,200
Region. 
Maybe it doesn't me at this 

694
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:32,400
point. 
It does feel like we're kind of 

695
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,700
near the bottom of the four 
seed, line and Marquette Xavier,

696
00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:38,300
or going to take the preferred 
well, first, round region. 

697
00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:41,800
So it's like there's not because
of other teams in the area being

698
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,500
close to us. 
And we're we're kind of in the 

699
00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:45,800
pecking order. 
Feels like there's really not 

700
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,500
much advantage or disadvantage. 
We're not getting much Advantage

701
00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:49,800
being at the bottom of the four 
line. 

702
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,400
Just because all the teams that 
are above us are all regionally 

703
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,000
close to us. 
So, therefore kind of all the 

704
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,900
advantages. 
Are being sucked away. 

705
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,400
We'll see what happens is we 
move forward here. 

706
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,900
Indiana taking on Maryland 
tonight and will be around 

707
00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:06,600
tomorrow to talk about what 
happens and either preview the 

708
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,700
next game or wrap up the first 
part of the postseason for. 

709
00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:14,100
I, you will see what happens 
when are the other anyway, we'll

710
00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:18,200
keep it short, thanks to you 
Scott, and thanks to you folks, 

711
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,500
for listening and thanks to our 
friends at home field, Apparel 

712
00:36:20,500 --> 00:36:23,300
in the whole family to back 
home, network will be back 

713
00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:26,300
tomorrow to talk what happened 
in this game and and see what 

714
00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:28,400
comes up next. 
Whatever that happens to be for 

715
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,700
Scott, I'm Galen. 
This is Crimson, cast will catch

716
00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:33,400
you folks on the flip side, 
bring back the Bison, so 

717
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:33,900
everybody