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Welcome back to Crimson cast, 

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folks, Gail and caveat here. 
Get my microphone up so you can 

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actually hear me, it is 
Saturday, the 11th February. 

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Hopefully you are all having a 
good start to the weekend as we 

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get ready for another big. 
Weekend of college basketball. 

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We're almost completely clear of
the Super Bowl. 

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Once you get past the Super 
Bowl, you know what that means? 

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Lots of college basketball for 
essentially the next seven weeks

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and my favorite time of the year
personally. 

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So, hopefully, everybody's 
excited about what's coming up 

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here and for the first time in a
while, it feels like we've got 

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an Indiana basketball team, that
could be a contender down the 

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stretch, certainly in terms of 
the NCAA tournament and and, you

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know, while Big Ten is probably 
Out Of Reach at this point. 

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Purdue's just too far ahead 
Indiana's. 

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Got a real chance to continue on
this hot streak that they've 

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been on for close to the last 
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And who knows at that point you 
always want to get hot at this 

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time of year. 
So I'm flying solo today. 

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We're not going to go terribly 
long but I didn't want to go 

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into the Michigan game, this 
evening without having something

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on the podcast feed. 
So I'll talk a little bit about 

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the matchup between Michigan and
Indiana. 

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Also, going to talk a little 
bracket out Oh, gee later. 

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As I've been putting brackets 
out on the Twitter feed over the

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course of the last couple of 
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I generally don't do brackets 
till the first of February, it's

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just a little too early to do 
them before then because there's

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so much movement and even now 
there's just a lot of Shifting 

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around in terms of seed 
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things like that about a couple 
of teams in the just in the last

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two weeks. 
Go from not even in my bracket 

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projection to, you know, having 
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It's it's a pretty still a 
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All right, let's dive in and 
talk a little bit about IU as 

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they take on Maryland. 
Today, this is an interesting 

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game. 
The computers are confused about

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what to do with this game. 
If you look at Ken pom, Indiana 

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is a the slightest of favorites.
A 52% favorite in this game 

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projected to win, 75 274 if you 
looking torvik. 

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Indiana is a one point Underdog 
but not even a full point there,

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a half Point Underdog in this 
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If you look at fpi the, the 
matchup predictor on ESPN, 

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analytics Indiana's, given a 
63.7% chance of Victory and yet 

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the consensus spread in this 
game is Michigan - to at least 

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as of right now. 
So you know, you see all of 

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those and it's like it's really 
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going to happen. 
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standpoint of this game, really 
a lot of it comes down to a 

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couple of different factors you 
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the way that they're approaching
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on a Michigan team that is on 
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know, really playing well 
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But also has had some really, 
really bad games over the course

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of the season and it's hard to 
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with this Michigan team, you 
look at their results and their 

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wins. 
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are as follows. 
They beat Maryland at home on 

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New Year's Day by an obscene 
amount of points. 35 points, 81 

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246. 
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which is a really good win this 
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Northwestern's been awesome at 
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them as a single digit seed now 
and Bracketology, they won at 

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home against Ohio State. 
State, that's not as impressive 

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as at home against Northwestern 
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Pitt, that was very early in the
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State at home by 10. 
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tier two victories. 
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For the most part. 
They had a really questionable 

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loss to Central Michigan. 
One of the worst teams in 

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college basketball back at the 
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They lost to Purdue, they lost 
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Virginia, both of those games, 
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They've lost a bunch of games 
and Road neutral sites, nothing 

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to be ashamed of Predictors, you
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their 69th and be pi and you 
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away from home. 
So most of their damage this 

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season has been done at home. 
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what Indiana's done and Indiana 
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Their predictive numbers are a 
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computers regard the two teams 
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this matchup and say, well, this
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saw with the Purdue game last 
week, a matchup between two big 

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men who are pretty dominant, and
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He's given I you some fits at 
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Davis. 
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really elevated himself as a 
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That's really the primary 
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these two players. 
Trace, Jackson day, Uses more 

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possessions. 
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rebounds. 
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and he blocks more shots than 
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surprise to some people. 
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teams and I think it's clear 
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You know, you look at the 
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the season from the role players
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efficiency in scoring. 
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to compare to Trey Galloway 
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terms of efficiency Off the 
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jet Howard. 
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certainly been a very good 
player and he might present a 

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particular challenge for IU 
because that's a second, big 

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post player that they're going 
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game, you know, and Howard's 
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He didn't play against Purdue at
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Michigan might have done in that
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But If he had played but he has 
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about an average of 30 minutes 
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efficient from a scoring 
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He can shoot the ball from 
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How Michigan is able to play and
how Indiana is going to defend 

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them? 
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a better three-point shooting 
team than a lot of what Indiana 

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has faced so far this season. 
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Indiana shoots about 38%. 
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35 percent from three but 
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ability to shoot threes and they
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rate than Indiana does 32%, of 
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comes off of three-pointers 
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It's only about 25% or so. 
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do a lot more of their damage 
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And I think that'll be the big 
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Mark is, how how does Indiana 
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And then how does Michigan try 
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You know, Michigan overall is a 
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Team their 42nd in the country 
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Not as good as Indiana Indiana's
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we're Michigan. 
Really falls down in this 

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matchup and overall, on the 
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they have struggled a lot in 
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They Avant really stopped teams,
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play. 
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when you look at what Michigan's
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Nebraska, they have played three
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row. 
So I look at this game and I say

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to myself, you know, a lot is 
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Indiana sustain offensively Even
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against Rutgers and the one that
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They once again, had a long 
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that ended up in paralleling, 
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Now, I you deserves a lot of 
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but I, you just placed so much 
better at home than they do on 

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the road that you worry, if they
go into another one of those 

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types of swoons on the road, are
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back and, you know, put in a 
points on the board to win? 

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In these two teams are 
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In terms of how they approach 
things defensively, Michigan, is

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kind of extreme and that they 
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they also don't force turnovers.
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version of that. 
Indiana with about 3%, higher 

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turnover rate on offense, but 
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a bit more. 
So, that's a matchup to watch 

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their when Indiana beat Purdue, 
one of the big reasons they were

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able to do so, is that they 
forced Turnovers through 

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defensive play not necessarily 
through regions or you know, try

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and individually steal the ball 
but a lot of running the clock 

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down as far as the shot Glocks 
concerned, that's going to be 

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something to watch for this. 
Indiana team is, can their 

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defensive intensity Thrive 
throughout the course of a 

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40-minute game on the road and 
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At this point? 
It really is kind of interesting

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to watch this Indiana team and 
what to expect from them on the 

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road, you know? 
No, you look at that Illinois, 

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game that Indiana played and 
you're like, wow, look at what 

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the potential is and even the 
Iowa game, and the Maryland game

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that Indiana played on the road,
those were games that Indiana 

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I know they lost the the 
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statistically for the most part,

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And the question now is, can 
they build off of these two wins

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and put themselves in? 
Addition to pick up another road

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when I think Indiana needs some 
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The big thing for my opinion, at
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terms of seeding, is that they 
don't have a lot of wins away 

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from Assembly Hall. 
There, they're four and six 

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Yeah, one of those is a road win
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One of them is a road win 
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So, you know, a couple of the 
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home are really good and They've
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opportunities to pick up. 
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Northwestern without, you know, 
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games won't hurt Indiana, but it
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tournament. 
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If you're Indiana Looking across
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a couple of other things to note
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You know, Indiana has shots so 
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and you know, that is going to 
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watch in terms of can Michigan's
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Indiana's trying to do in terms 
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stymied Northwestern. 
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an effective field goal 
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lost, and that was really what 
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be able to win those games 
Purdue with an effective field 

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that they played back at the end
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66 percent effective field goal 
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three and you know, so both 
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Like produce shot 22 438 from to
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from three in that game, Indiana
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those things and it's something 
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Pike will talk about. 
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bit with with folks that are 
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they've got all the benefits of 
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score in the post and Trace 
Jackson Davis. 

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But as we saw in the Rutgers 
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just get like two of the group 
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should be no miller, cop Tamar 
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consistently from three. 
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offense, you make it much more 
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defense and, you know, the the 
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and succeeded with in the first 
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game was. 
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opponent shoot from outside. 
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Jackson Davis beat us on his own
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victory in that game. 
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in this one. 
How well do they handle being 

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able to kick the ball outside? 
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Indiana did in that Rutgers game
actually had a pretty bad 

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shooting game you know, relative
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Do in other games, they only 
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percentage, you know. 
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and that really did help make 
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still is not shooting that much 
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Play you go back to the Maryland
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two percent from the field in 
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3411 3 and 18 for 45. 
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the Illinois game when again 
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threes, they're only 349 but 
they were 31 446 from to and 

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shot 64 and a half percent 
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in that one. 
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much of what Indiana has done in
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they've won seven, out of the 
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gotten good shots and they've 
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easily and they haven't 
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they turn the ball. 
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Ironically the Illinois game 
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that they had the worst turnover
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games. 
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taking care of the basketball, 
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earlier on in the season. 
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think about in this game. 
This is absolutely a winnable 

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game for Indiana. 
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most winnable game left on the 
schedule until they play 

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Michigan again on senior night, 
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So this feels like the type of 
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Where if Indiana can put the the
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what they were able to do at 
home behind them and really 

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focus and say, you know what, we
got an opportunity here. 

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If we play well to pick up a 
huge win to get our ninth 

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victory in the conference and to
really put ourselves in the 

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driver's seat. 
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the course of the last six games
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you know, you the big question 
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mentality. 
How does I use mentality work in

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situations like this where 
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We've seen Indiana struggle in 
those situations for so long. 

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It's hard to get really fired up
about the idea that they're 

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going to be able to handle it 
here, but I keep getting 

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surprised by this IU team, and 
it really feels like after that 

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Penn State lost mentally, this 
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halftime of the Wisconsin game, 
you know, which was a pretty 

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close game at Halftime. 
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turn the screws on the Badgers. 
The second half. 

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really impressed with the 

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mentality that this Indiana team
showed, this is going to be a 

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huge test. 
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enough time has passed from the 
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going to take anything for 
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know, you just all you have to 
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Indiana fared in the past 
against Michigan and you realize

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that Indiana has had some 
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Michigan at home. 
I got absolutely obliterated. 

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Now, they did turn around and 
beat Michigan in the Big Ten 

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Tournament, but had to come 
back. 

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But, you know, essentially in 
the last 10 minutes, to do that 

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Michigan, for whatever reason 
has really done a good job of 

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creating problems for Indiana 
and I'm really curious to see 

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how Indiana mentally comes out 
and approaches this game. 

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Weird tip x 6 o'clock on a 
Saturday. 

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We've had a lot of weird tip 
times for television purposes 

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here, lately, but should be a 
fun one. 

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To watch. 
So, hopefully the Hoosiers come 

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out, successful in this contest.
And if they do, you know, they 

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got another tough one right 
afterwards against Northwestern,

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but you can go into that game to
some degree knowing that you've 

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already gone on the road against
a similar level opponent and 

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Come Away with the victory. 
Let's go ahead and switch gears 

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will talk some Bracketology on 
the men's basketball side. 

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I've been putting some brackets 
out and it's been really 

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interesting kind of watching 
things rise and fall. 

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Let's start with Indiana and 
kind of talk through where 

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they're at, as far as I'm 
concerned and I feel like we're,

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I've got them right now is 
pretty much in line with where a

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lot of other people have 
Indiana, which is right there on

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the border between the four 
seeds and the five seeds. 

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This Indiana team right now. 
They have a lot of things going 

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for them and that, you know, 
there's there's really kind of a

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shelf I think in terms of where 
teams are between like 

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essentially kind of the the 
teams that are in the mix for 

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three, four and five seeds. 
There's a couple of teams in the

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six seed range and then you've 
got a bunch of teams that are 

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significantly below that so 
Indiana like what's helping them

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stand out right now. 
You know, why is the team that 

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17 and seven knocking on the 
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Call a protected seed which 
would be essentially a four seed

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or better. 
A lot of it is because Indiana 

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has both a very impressive 
overall resume using any of the 

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metrics that you are used there.
Whether that's K Pi or Sor or 

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the jng report and they're also 
very good in the predictive 

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statistics. 
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statistics, what I mean by that 
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this is where essentially, they 
take the Games overall 

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performance. 
And they try to project how that

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team would play against other 
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performance. 
And right now, Indiana's 21st 

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and Ken Palm, but their 14th and
BPI, their 14th, and Sega, and 

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they're a little lower and 
torvik their 25th. 

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But overall, you know, they're 
they're solidly a top 20 team, 

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if you average, most of the main
ones out. 

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Indiana with for Tier 1, winds, 
right now they beat Purdue at 

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home. 
They've won at Xavier. 

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They want at Illinois. 
And they beat Rutgers at home. 

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They have for tier 2 victories 
and those are the home games 

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against Michigan State, North 
Carolina, Ohio, State, and 

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Wisconsin, almost all of their 
losses are in the tier one 

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category. 
The only one. 

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That's not as the Northwestern 
loss. 

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That's a tier 2 loss, but no 
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So no bad losses at all right 
now. 

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And really Indiana won't have a 
bad loss. 

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The rest of the season they 
could literally lose every 

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remaining game. 
And all of those would be I 

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think at worst a tear to loss. 
How does that compare to the 

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teams around them? 
Right now? 

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Indiana for me on my board is 
the best 5th seed. 

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They are really tight with TCU 
and I've gone back and forth 

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about whether TCU should be 
ranked ahead of Indiana. 

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Or behind, ultimately, when I 
was looking at it this morning, 

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I said to myself, I'm going to 
rank TCU slightly behind 

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Indiana, largely because TCU 
does have a really bad loss on 

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their resume. 
They have a tear for loss 

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against Northwestern. 
Western State. 

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Now, that's not a horrific loss.
Northwestern State would be an 

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auto bid right now out of the 
Southland, but the predictive 

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Czar better for Indiana and 
Indiana's. 

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Overall, resume ranking is 
better than TCU. 

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So even though tcu's got a 
couple of awesome victories, 

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they want to add Kansas and they
want at Baylor, you know, 

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they're not that much more 
impressive than Indiana that you

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would ignore the averages of the
overall rankings. 

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You know. 
It's going to be interesting 

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because I think these two teams 
are going to kind of be in a 

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dogfight, the rest of the way. 
Both of them at the exact same 

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record at 17 and seven. 
Cans are huge. 

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Me TCU has six Road neutral wins
Indiana's only got four and 

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going back to what I was talking
about earlier that is why this 

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game is so important today for 
Indiana's like you need more 

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games on the road or a neutral 
sites to help improve your 

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overall resume. 
And the way that you look in the

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eyes of the committee Indiana's 
strength of schedule overall is 

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is slightly better their 17th. 
In the country is drank the 

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schedule. 
All their 20th in the net. 

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So there's a lot of things where
you look at the way that this 

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Indiana team is stacked up and 
they're in pretty good shape. 

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Now, I still do have them behind
a bunch of teams that it's going

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to be hard for them to get above
unless Indiana runs the table or

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those teams really struggle. 
So, for instance, on my board 

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right now, in what would be 
called the S curve where you 

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rank, all of the teams that are 
in the field. 

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One through 68, the four teams 
that I've got in front of 

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Indiana right now that have the 
44 seeds. 

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Marquette, Kansas State, 
Connecticut, and Iowa State. 

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Then you look at those teams to 
Iowa State's a good example, 

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Iowa State, only for Road in 
neutral, wind, same as Indiana, 

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but the the depth of wins that 
they've got at the top and the 

449
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:07,200
lack of anything other right now
than a tier 1 loss, makes it so 

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that. 
Iowa State still just sit 

451
00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:13,400
slightly had, I mean, Iowa State
right now, has seven Tier 1 

452
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,800
victories. 
Three of them are at home, 

453
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,400
Kansas Texas. 
Us and Baylor. 

454
00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:21,000
They want at TCU, they beat 
Kansas State at home. 

455
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,600
They won on a neutral court 
against North Carolina and they 

456
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,900
won at Oklahoma. 
They have the fourth toughest 

457
00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:30,300
strength of schedule in the 
country right now, and their 

458
00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:33,000
predictive Czar about the same 
as Indiana a little bit worse, 

459
00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:35,300
but their resume rating is 
slightly better. 

460
00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:39,100
And so you look at that and, you
know, Iowa State's probably 

461
00:25:39,100 --> 00:25:41,400
going to end up with at least 
one tier, two loss. 

462
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,700
Thanks to that loss. 
That they had at Texas Tech. 

463
00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:50,800
But it isn't there yet you look 
at some of the other teams that 

464
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:56,500
Indiana is in the mix with and 
Yukon is another one that you 

465
00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:58,300
look at. 
And you say well that's that's a

466
00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:05,200
team that's kind of in the same 
area as Indiana Yukon with six 

467
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,000
Tier 1 victories. 
And they've got a couple of 

468
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,800
neutral Court victories. 
That are pretty awesome. 

469
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,300
They won on a neutral court 
against Alabama. 

470
00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:14,000
They want a neutral court 
against Iowa State, they do have

471
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,300
one questionable law. 
That happened about a month ago 

472
00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:17,100
against st. 
John's. 

473
00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:19,000
But they've only got six total 
losses. 

474
00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:21,800
They have a pretty good strength
of schedule and their predictive

475
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:22,400
Czar. 
Awesome. 

476
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,000
Like if you look at Ken, Palm 
Yukon is still six because of 

477
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,900
how efficient they were earlier 
on in the season. 

478
00:26:28,900 --> 00:26:31,700
So my point in saying, all that,
I'm not going to go through each

479
00:26:31,700 --> 00:26:34,300
of the teams. 
But my point is, if Indiana 

480
00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:37,000
wants to get to protected, cede 
territory, if they want to get a

481
00:26:37,008 --> 00:26:41,500
four seed, they're going to have
to win, you know, not just the 

482
00:26:41,508 --> 00:26:44,100
majority of the remaining games,
but they're going to have to win

483
00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:45,100
some road games. 
Yes. 

484
00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:47,700
And they're going to have to 
essentially take care of 

485
00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:50,500
business against a team like 
Illinois, who's in the general 

486
00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:53,700
mix of where Indiana is at 
within the seed field right now,

487
00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:57,600
you can afford to lose that, 
Purdue you can afford to lose at

488
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,400
Michigan State, but I think if 
Indiana Harbors dreams of being 

489
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,400
a four seed or better, they 
probably need to win the other 

490
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,900
games that are on their 
schedule. 

491
00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:09,800
And hope that some of the teams 
above them lose some games, 

492
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,800
inexplicably, kind of like Texas
Tech losing or, you know, 

493
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,300
beating Iowa state, that helps 
In that equation, st. 

494
00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:20,300
Mary's who I'd had above Indiana
up until very recently, they 

495
00:27:20,300 --> 00:27:23,400
lose that Loyola Marymount. 
And suddenly their resume 

496
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,600
doesn't look quite as good. 
Not to the point where you would

497
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,600
just slot them into a four-seat 
ahead of Indiana right now. 

498
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,700
I've got them behind Indiana by 
a couple of spots and so it's 

499
00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:35,900
not impossible that Indiana 
would get, you know, a for I 

500
00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:38,000
think it's definitely within the
realm of possibility. 

501
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,300
I even think Indiana if things 
broke right for them, could get 

502
00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:45,600
to a three seed, but it would 
require them jumping all Four of

503
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,700
the teams that I mentioned plus 
jumping one of Tennessee, 

504
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:55,100
Virginia, Gonzaga and Xavier. 
That seems a bit unlikely given 

505
00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:57,600
that gonzaga's not likely to 
lose another game until they get

506
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,800
to the the West Coast Conference
tournament. 

507
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,700
Virginia is really established 
themselves as a very solid team 

508
00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:08,400
Tennessee's almost Untouchable 
from a resume perspective, it's 

509
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,800
hard to see them dropping out of
the three line, and they could 

510
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:15,300
be a to. 
So that leaves Xavier who Even 

511
00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:19,300
explicably, lost a bizarre game 
to Butler last night. 

512
00:28:19,300 --> 00:28:22,700
But overall, even though I, you 
beat Xavier at Xavier, Xavier 

513
00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:25,500
has had a more impressive season
overall in terms of what they've

514
00:28:25,508 --> 00:28:29,200
been able to accomplish. 
So I think at this point, if 

515
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,300
you're a not you fan, unless I 
you runs the table if they, you 

516
00:28:32,308 --> 00:28:35,100
know, they win at Purdue, they 
win the big or get to the Big 

517
00:28:35,100 --> 00:28:36,900
Ten Tournament championship 
game. 

518
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,100
Certainly, in that scenario, I 
think it's possible that they 

519
00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:42,800
could make a movement up to a 
three-c, but I think right now, 

520
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,300
four or a five? 
For is probably I think the 

521
00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:48,700
ceiling right now for Indiana 
and less things really break 

522
00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:50,700
their way and they win a lot of 
games. 

523
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,500
And certainly it's possible for 
Indiana to drop back. 

524
00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:56,500
If they lose a bunch of games 
down the stretch here and the 

525
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,600
teams that are in the mix with 
them, don't I could see them 

526
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,300
dropping down to a six or even a
seven and a bunch of things 

527
00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,900
broke wrong but it's important 
to keep in mind that this is a 

528
00:29:06,908 --> 00:29:10,400
Continuum. 
And overall, when you look at 

529
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,400
the way that brackets have 
broken over time, rarely are you

530
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,400
operating? 
In a vacuum, there's always 

531
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,300
something happening elsewhere. 
That's going to have an impact 

532
00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:23,400
on where you sit within the 
overall rankings and Indiana's. 

533
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,300
A good team. 
I mean, they are, are they a 

534
00:29:25,300 --> 00:29:28,000
great team? 
I would say no, but I don't know

535
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,800
that there are a whole lot of 
great teams, really. 

536
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,500
I mean, I would, I would even 
argue that there's, there's 

537
00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:37,300
three teams that are clearly 
from a resume perspective, at 

538
00:29:37,300 --> 00:29:39,700
least, in my mind above 
everybody else, and that right 

539
00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:43,500
now is Purdue Alabama and 
Houston after that. 

540
00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:46,200
Even for that. 
Fourth number one seat, it is a 

541
00:29:46,208 --> 00:29:48,500
bit of a challenge to figure out
like, is it Kansas? 

542
00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:51,500
Is that Arizona? 
Is it Texas is at UCLA, you 

543
00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:54,000
know, it's just Baylor deserve 
to be in the conversation, just 

544
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,100
Tennessee deserve to be in the 
conversation and then there's a 

545
00:29:57,108 --> 00:29:59,700
bit of a morass after that as 
you try to figure out like, how 

546
00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:01,900
do you ranked teams 9, through 
20? 

547
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,700
And a lot of it just depends on 
what do you prefer last year. 

548
00:30:06,700 --> 00:30:09,500
Indiana, you know, one of the 
reasons why they barely made it 

549
00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:13,200
and they end up being in the 
play-in game is because they 

550
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,800
didn't have a lot. 
A lot to recommend them as far 

551
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,800
as the tournament selection 
committee was concerned, you 

552
00:30:19,808 --> 00:30:23,600
know, they didn't have Road wins
of note, they or wins away from 

553
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,000
Assembly Hall of note. 
They did most of their work at 

554
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,400
home, their best win away, from 
a someone who last year was in 

555
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,200
order Dame and their best road 
win in the Big 10. 

556
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,800
I guess was Maryland. 
And then of course, you know, 

557
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,500
they beat Michigan and maybe the
Illinois. 

558
00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:39,900
And that was what got them in a 
lot of people, if you'll 

559
00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:42,500
remember last year, thought 
Indiana was a lot further into 

560
00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:44,500
the field than they were. 
You? 

561
00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:46,500
Look at that result and it's 
like, gosh if they hadn't beaten

562
00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:48,300
Illinois, they probably weren't 
in the tournament at all. 

563
00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:51,600
That's not this year's team. 
Now this year's team they've 

564
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,300
wanted Illinois. 
That's very helpful. 

565
00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:55,500
They want Xavier. 
That's incredibly helpful. 

566
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,200
Those are going to continue to 
age really well. 

567
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,000
And now you look at the last 
seven games and this is the 

568
00:31:01,008 --> 00:31:04,300
difference between a good 
regular season and and really 

569
00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:07,500
kind of a Redemption story 
regular season for this Indiana 

570
00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:09,400
team. 
And that's what's going to be 

571
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,600
really fascinating to watch all 
of the teams that Indiana plays 

572
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,000
in can Palm from this point 
forward. 

573
00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:18,300
Word, the worst ranked team is 
51st, and that's Michigan, you 

574
00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:19,700
know. 
So they've got everything from 

575
00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:23,300
the 5th ranked team and Purdue 
up to the 51st ranked team in 

576
00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:25,900
Michigan, seven games against 
some of the best that you've 

577
00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:28,300
seen in the Big Ten so far this 
season. 

578
00:31:28,700 --> 00:31:31,000
And it's going to be really 
fascinating to watch a lot of 

579
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,100
unique and different types of 
matchups. 

580
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:35,900
It's going to require 
versatility from this Indiana 

581
00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:38,700
team to capitalize. 
But if they shown us everything 

582
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,100
or anything over the course of 
this, last eight games, it's 

583
00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:44,000
that they do have the ability to
capitalize. 

584
00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:46,800
Is and to play different styles,
and to have success against 

585
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,800
different types of teams. 
So, we'll see what happens. 

586
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,900
Anyway, that'll wrap it up for 
the show today at this. 

587
00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:54,600
I promise you, I was going to 
keep it short. 

588
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,500
So we will be back, probably on 
Sunday to recap, what happened 

589
00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:00,100
in the IU? 
Michigan game. 

590
00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:03,800
And we will also talk a little 
bit about the week coming up. 

591
00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:07,300
It's like two games a week. 
The rest of the way a lot of 

592
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,200
basketball, not just with 
Indiana, but with the entire 

593
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,200
Big, Ten should be a lot of fun 
if you like college basketball 

594
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,700
and I'm guessing if you Listen, 
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00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:19,200
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596
00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:22,000
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597
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,100
They'll be going on, are 
immediately after the game 

598
00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:26,300
against Michigan. 
Be sure to check out the Crimson

599
00:32:26,300 --> 00:32:30,300
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602
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,800
Clabby will catch you folks on 
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603
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,300
Bison. 
So long, everybody. 

604
00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:17,500
Listen, you do so my thanks to 
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00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:20,700
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606
00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:23,000
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They'll be going on, are 

607
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,800
immediately after the game 
against Michigan. 

608
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,400
Be sure to check out the Crimson
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609
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,700
with Amanda Foster and check out
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610
00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:33,100
them. 
As always for sponsoring the 

611
00:32:33,108 --> 00:32:35,500
network, I'm Galen. 
Clabby will catch you folks on 

612
00:32:35,500 --> 00:32:37,300
the flip side, bring back the 
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00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:38,300
So long, everybody.