1 00:00:06,900 --> 00:00:10,000 You're listening to the back home network, presented by home 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:19,700 field, apparel. Welcome back to Crimson. 3 00:00:19,700 --> 00:00:22,200 Gasp Kalin Claudia Scott Caulfield joining me once again 4 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:27,000 for the second time today, we're talking IU basketball, we were 5 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:30,300 uncertain earlier. Now, we're certain, we Know what 6 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:33,900 Indiana Men's Basketball and it had a women's basketball are 7 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:36,500 going to do in terms of their tournament draws. 8 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:40,100 So we're going to talk about those, and I think things turned 9 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:42,900 out pretty well for both teams. Overall, Scott, good to see you 10 00:00:42,900 --> 00:00:45,400 again. It's a rarity and a positive 11 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:46,600 one. When I get to see you multiple 12 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:47,800 times in a day. How are you doing? 13 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:50,100 Good day? Yeah, I just finished listening 14 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:53,600 to you on assembly call. So I'm getting a good dose of 15 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,700 Galen today, that's metal. Probably too much Galen for 16 00:00:56,700 --> 00:00:58,700 almost anybody. My wife can handle it. 17 00:00:58,700 --> 00:00:59,900 I don't think anybody else actually. 18 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 We can but I appreciate it nonetheless. 19 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,000 But yeah, we're here we're back. I've been doing a lot of I've 20 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,400 just been basically sitting in my chair filling out. 21 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,900 Brackets. Looking at power ratings. 22 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:12,900 Watching basketball, watching selection shows watching, ESPN 23 00:01:12,900 --> 00:01:16,300 embarrassed themselves by their entire expert panel. 24 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:19,200 Decided to put Duke is a five seed into the final four. 25 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:23,700 You know, it's a tradition as old as time almost as hilarious 26 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:28,400 as the, the incredulous sound and Rebecca Lobos voice. 27 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,300 When she found out Yukon was a two seed in the women's bracket, 28 00:01:31,300 --> 00:01:35,600 like just ESPN, just keep doing you, man that you've, you've 29 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,500 decided the corners you're going to own from this point forward, 30 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:42,500 but no in all seriousness, we're excited for both teams are going 31 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:44,000 to talk about the men. 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My wife just found out from me 52 00:02:44,700 --> 00:02:46,200 talking about it on the podcast here. 53 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,200 I just got a text she's going to want to sign up for it as well. 54 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,000 It's it's it's home-field, man. This is what they do. 55 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,400 And if you haven't done own field yet and you want to give 56 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,600 them a try, use the code home, H ome get 15% off your first 57 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,900 order. Or I'm excited, should be fun. 58 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:06,500 Yep. So let's talk about I you will 59 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:08,400 start with the men, the Hoosiers. 60 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:13,200 There was a lot of Concern. I think would be the best way of 61 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:17,700 putting it on the part of IU fans about what was going to 62 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:20,900 happen in terms of the tournament draw, lot of media, 63 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,900 lot of lot of people who are in the media had I you as a 5 seed 64 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:29,800 by about noon today and you know this is something that happens 65 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,700 every year where you know, we never know exactly how much the 66 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:36,400 tournament like the conference tournaments are going to weigh 67 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,200 in to the actual seating of the field. 68 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,000 And you know you look at IU You they lose to Penn State, you're 69 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,700 like, well, they're going to drop below so and so they're 70 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:46,700 going to drop below this team and that team and I had them as 71 00:03:46,700 --> 00:03:50,000 a for coming in the mid 15th, in the field. 72 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,500 I thought to myself, overall body of work. 73 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:53,900 Plus what? We know the committee's already 74 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:56,000 said that their preferring with their early reveal. 75 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,600 I think I use going to be fine as a for and Scott. 76 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,100 Is it turned out? That was the proper way of 77 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:03,500 looking at it. As they end up, staying ahead of 78 00:04:03,500 --> 00:04:07,000 Duke, they end up staying ahead of a couple of other teams that 79 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,400 people were looking at, as potential for seeds and they end 80 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,300 up is one. Top 16 teams in the country are 81 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:16,200 protected seed drawn into the Midwest region, which not a lot 82 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,700 of people had predicted. I certainly didn't faced off 83 00:04:19,700 --> 00:04:23,800 against Kent State as the 13 seed, with Houston as the one 84 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,600 seed on the opposite side of the top part of the bracket. 85 00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:30,400 So a lot to unpack first round, second round potential, sweet, 86 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,200 16 and Beyond. But first of all, what was your 87 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,800 reaction when you saw the reveal of Indiana as the four seed in 88 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,700 the Midwest? Yeah me it felt like we were 89 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:44,300 locked in at the for and in a weird way you know you are much 90 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:47,900 more the bracket ologist than I Eileen all my information from 91 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:52,900 you and other people but it does you know we do get so wrapped up 92 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:55,700 with this stuff near the end of the season and somewhat 93 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:57,600 rightfully. So, but it looks like, you know, 94 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,300 how do we beat and Penn State and maybe even had me beaten 95 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:03,700 Iowa at home. I'm not sure if we don't need to 96 00:05:03,707 --> 00:05:05,800 answer that. I'm not sure one of those wins. 97 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,200 Propels us to a 3. It's like It's almost like we 98 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,500 were kind of locked in after that win at Purdue into this 99 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:14,600 spot. And I'm not sure there's much, 100 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,200 we could have done to drop, we tried to do as much as we could 101 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:18,800 have seen, But as I'm sure there's much more we could have 102 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,000 done. Do you know, we're not going to 103 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,400 jump Xavier Marquette. So it's like, we're probably not 104 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,500 going to get prefer. You'll Columbus and probably 105 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:26,200 like any other three. And it's like, we're kind of 106 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,200 here and so really the last two weeks battered and didn't 107 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,700 matter. But no it's, you know, outside 108 00:05:31,700 --> 00:05:34,000 of Indiana. Purview like I said this morning 109 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,300 it's like I was kind of just slating Kansas as the Midwest. 110 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:39,900 Number one seed, and so it's like I didn't want that because 111 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:42,500 I didn't want to play Kansas in Kansas City. 112 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:46,300 Well, now we're playing Houston or theoretically we could be 113 00:05:46,300 --> 00:05:48,900 playing Houston and Kansas City and that is different. 114 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:51,500 That was a that was something, it was kind of shocking to me 115 00:05:52,900 --> 00:05:56,100 but having now paid attention to Bracketology a lot more this 116 00:05:56,100 --> 00:05:59,500 time, you know, it always seemed like Orlando and Albany were 117 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:02,000 going to be one of our sub regionals based on just the 118 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,700 other ones being taken. And so once you know, you saw 119 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:06,600 the four five matchup it was going to be in Albany. 120 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,300 It's like this is Gonna be us because, you know, Purdue is 121 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:12,100 going to be a one. You just the math, kind of just 122 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:15,200 put Indiana here. So, no, those are kind of my 123 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,900 initial thoughts. The, you know, as I listen to 124 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:22,000 you guys talk on assembly call and a lot of other people and 125 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,700 talking to some friends at a high level, you know, its first 126 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:27,400 off, it's funny. We're getting the Galen Bowl 127 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,000 here, you know, the possible Miami Florida, twice, Canada 128 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,600 men's and women's both, sorry, again the committee they don't 129 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,300 they never look at these things, but you have the K Sampson 130 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:40,500 versus IU possible. Sweet 16 matchup. 131 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:42,000 Here's the only thing that concerned. 132 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,900 The two things that give me the heebie-jeebies is that I 133 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:47,600 remember in 2000, we were a four-seat. 134 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:49,300 We played Kent State, and San Diego. 135 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:51,200 My dad. And I was how long ago it was. 136 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:57,000 We flew TWA stopped in St. Louis, we had seats and TWA that 137 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,500 were facing. It was like two seats. 138 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:01,000 Like we were facing the front of the plane. 139 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,000 There is a table in front of us that we Face the People on the 140 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,900 other side. Like the this weird setup on a 141 00:07:05,907 --> 00:07:08,400 TWA Flight where it's like, like we're playing cards. 142 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,300 It's like a table to bus almost anyway. 143 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,400 Flew to San Diego. So excited to watch. 144 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,200 I you lose to Kent State in the first round, so I don't like 145 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:18,200 playing Kent State. And oddly is everyone remembers. 146 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:19,800 We play Kent State. The next year, in the elite 147 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:23,100 eight like for two schools. That just we have a lot of 148 00:07:23,100 --> 00:07:25,300 history. I guess it's not recent for us. 149 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:27,500 It's like, you know, couple tournaments ago. 150 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:29,700 It's actually been 25. X. 25 years ago. 151 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:33,700 Said, it's a whole generation. Dude, I mean, come on. 152 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:37,600 That's, that's the first thing I thought is like, I just Don't 153 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,600 like playing Kent State's. I got want to play Richmond 154 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:40,800 again. They just got a couple teams. 155 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,900 I don't want us to play anymore, but those are some of my 156 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:45,300 thoughts. I have others that I'm going to 157 00:07:45,300 --> 00:07:46,900 pause and let you talk for a little bit. 158 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:50,800 Yeah, I mean, you know, I was not surprised by the seed, like 159 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:56,600 I said, I was a little bit surprised at the fact that like 160 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,500 you said that it was Midwest and that was entirely because the 161 00:08:01,700 --> 00:08:04,000 committee did something that I think is just inexplicable, 162 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,100 which is ranked Houston ahead of Kansas in terms of overall. 163 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:09,400 See, Feed bizarre. Been really make a whole lot of 164 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,100 sense for a variety of reasons that are kind of outside the 165 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:15,200 scope of this podcast, but it's great for Indiana. 166 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:19,100 I think, because honestly Houston is ranked as the second 167 00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:21,900 best one seed in terms of what the committee thought. 168 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:26,100 But in terms of actual the way that they're playing and with 169 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:28,800 injuries and what not, I think this is this is the right time 170 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,600 to catch Houston if you're going to catch them. 171 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:36,500 But you know, any an overall as a for I think they avoid in that 172 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:39,600 spot. The worst of the 12 and 13 173 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,700 seeds, that they might be facing when I think about, you know, as 174 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:46,500 I really dug into the numbers with this Kent State team. 175 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:50,100 I'm like, you know, there there are far worse teams that you 176 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:53,000 could be matched up against and, you know, Kent State's an 177 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,900 interesting there. There there really an 178 00:08:54,900 --> 00:09:01,000 interesting team there, I think overall, you know, they they 179 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,800 played very well in that game against Toledo, but this is a 180 00:09:03,808 --> 00:09:07,900 team that, you know, they just haven't played any Buddy, really 181 00:09:07,900 --> 00:09:10,800 since December, you know, the other than Toledo who they've 182 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,800 beaten twice. But you know, they played really 183 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:16,900 well in the three games against good teams that they played 184 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:20,000 earlier this year. Charleston Houston and Gonzaga 185 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,300 but compared to the other teams Indiana might have been drawn 186 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:26,100 against in the 413. This is the only team. 187 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:28,500 I think they would have been favored by more than a point 188 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:32,200 against it right now. They're favored by four against 189 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:33,700 them and that's, that's pretty good. 190 00:09:33,700 --> 00:09:35,000 I mean, you're going to have a situation. 191 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,900 I think in most of these 413, 512 games where the margins are 192 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:40,500 not as great as people think that they are. 193 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:44,500 But this is not like a coming out of nowhere team. 194 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:47,400 That's like awesome. This is a team that does certain 195 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,900 things well but the things we've been most concerned about three 196 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:54,200 point shooting you know like playing ridiculously fast. 197 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,100 This is not the team that does that the one thing they do well 198 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,100 that I think I you fans might be concerned about is they do turn 199 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:03,900 you over quite a bit but Indiana has been pretty careful with the 200 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:07,400 ball lately so I'm not as concerned by that as I Be 201 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:08,900 otherwise. It's going to be. 202 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:11,900 It's going to be an interesting game, but I like it real quick. 203 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:14,000 Yeah, you talk about that, like, you were mentioning this, the 204 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,500 assembly called, This is what. Also, the second part that gets 205 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:20,700 me a little bit nervous is, you know, just like you rightfully. 206 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:23,300 So, of talk about how this team kind of has a hard time getting 207 00:10:23,300 --> 00:10:26,400 up for no-name opponents with a get up for the games that, you 208 00:10:26,408 --> 00:10:28,400 know, have you know, it's produce, we're getting up for 209 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,800 this, you know, in the recent history, very recency bias but 210 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:34,500 you know, we win the Purdue game. 211 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,400 Let me back up. So everyone's looking at this 212 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,100 and like, this is a, this is a good matchup. 213 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:42,100 We got one of the better, you know, seeds to play against as a 214 00:10:42,108 --> 00:10:43,800 4C. Then we look ahead to Miami and 215 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,300 it's like, that's not, you know, it's like Dukes on fire. 216 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:50,200 Like this is of the five seeds. It just looks like a very good 217 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:55,300 bracket breaking for us. My concern is we leave the win 218 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:57,100 at Purdue and we're like, all right. 219 00:10:57,100 --> 00:10:59,300 Now we got two home games against Iowa and Michigan. 220 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:01,500 This is a pretty good setup for us and we kind of Follow that 221 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:03,100 up. And then the Big Ten Tournament 222 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:05,400 just happened. And, you know, then it's we We 223 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,900 play in the semi-final, the worst possible seed, we could 224 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:09,200 have played. It's like all the brackets 225 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,100 breaking great for us and we foul that up. 226 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:14,200 So I'm getting nervous like I almost would have rather been 227 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,700 like, oh, like you know, we're playing a red-hot Duke and we're 228 00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:20,000 playing in, you know, Greensboro something like I almost have 229 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 rather have a bad draw and then we seem to do better at that 230 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,800 like the last couple of times. We've had this moment of, like, 231 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,600 oh, things are starting to break well for us, and we have a great 232 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,600 opportunity in front of us. We fumble it away and we're not 233 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,800 able to capitalize, and that's the only thing. 234 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,500 No stats to back this up but that's one of the kind of 235 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:40,800 concerns me is, it does look like this is a really good draw 236 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,600 for us and that that in and of itself is where I have to use as 237 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,700 you always had. Trust issues and I'm nervous 238 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:49,000 that we're going to find a way to not capitalize, on a great 239 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,600 draw. Well that, yeah, absolutely. 240 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,200 But look, this happens all the time with this, you know, with I 241 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,500 you historically and certainly they could come out and lay an 242 00:11:58,500 --> 00:12:00,600 egg against Kent State and lose. And then we got a whole other 243 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,900 set of issues that we had a podcast about, which is not 244 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:06,000 ideal at that point, definitely, Save it for later. 245 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,300 But look, I as I've tried to tell people, there is no magical 246 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:12,300 pathway where you're not going to be playing teams. 247 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:14,600 That present some kind of a challenge and one's good. 248 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,400 Yeah. And and like you, I mean, look, 249 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:20,100 I think, you know, would have been better numbers wise to play 250 00:12:20,100 --> 00:12:22,600 like Iona. Sure, even Louisiana, as I look 251 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,500 at the matchup, I think would have been a little bit better. 252 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,000 Even though I don't particularly like, what Louisiana brings to 253 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,500 the table in terms of Indiana, I like this matchup for Indiana 254 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:33,000 overall I think Ken, you know, they're going to be vigilant, 255 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,900 they're going to come out. Play hard start. 256 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:36,800 Wrong. You know, the one thing I really 257 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,300 like about this is Kent, State is not a team that's likely to 258 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:42,800 bombard you from three. And that seems to be where 259 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,600 Indiana has the most trouble and the other, the other concerning 260 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,900 thing, the committee did is, you know, I, uh, I think it's odd 261 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:54,200 that you know, I last, I checked all but he is still in the 262 00:12:54,208 --> 00:12:57,200 Eastern Time Zone like they do have other games and other time 263 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,600 zones. Well could like not at 10 p.m. 264 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,400 on East on the East Coast. I like the game's gonna and 265 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,100 that's not going to tip it 10. That's gonna tip it like 10-4. 266 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,200 35. Well played until like, 1:00 in 267 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,100 the morning. You have Sacramento is a site. 268 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,200 You can play a Sacramento game and filth at 10:00 Eastern Time 269 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,500 window, like the hell are they doing well? 270 00:13:15,500 --> 00:13:16,700 Look, this always happens, though. 271 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:19,400 I mean, you know, if you look at the, if you look at the setup 272 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,800 for the times, it's always first of all, Indiana. 273 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:25,800 I mean, bob Knight used to talk about this all the time, I know, 274 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,600 you know, people like get bored with the night references 275 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,200 sometimes, but you know, he would notice how like Indiana 276 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,600 will play the last game on like Thursday. 277 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:39,100 And then they have to play the noon game on Sunday or on Friday 278 00:13:39,100 --> 00:13:44,300 and Saturday and it's absolutely not a thing that you expect 279 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:46,000 anything other than if you're an Indiana fan. 280 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,500 But you look at like the way that the Friday games are set 281 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:51,300 up. You know, they've got game 282 00:13:51,300 --> 00:13:53,500 starting at noon. I mean they've got you know 283 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:58,000 Columbus Greensboro. Both start at 12:15 12:40 and 284 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,400 then things just proceed. You know, unfortunately like the 285 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,900 only Western Fridays or friday-sunday site is Denver. 286 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Over and, you know that. Yes, you could technically start 287 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,800 them later, but you got to have a late game in the East, and 288 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,900 there's actually two of them, it's Indiana, Kent State, it's 289 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:17,600 and then, Montana State and Kansas State, and then starting 290 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,900 about 35 minutes earlier, its Florida Atlantic Memphis. 291 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:25,100 So Indiana is clearly intended to be like the Marquee name in 292 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:28,200 that time window. And it's a good spot to be in 293 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,100 because you're going to have a lot of eyeballs on you just 294 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:34,600 like, you know Kentucky's the Marquee name in the 7:00 window. 295 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,400 It's just Unfortunate that you know Indiana's got to wait that 296 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,600 long to play but hey everybody wanted a bunch of rest. 297 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,000 So I guess this is what you get. When you ask for a bunch of 298 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,300 rescue. Got as much rest, you could have 299 00:14:45,300 --> 00:14:47,800 if you'd played in Denver instead of this, you would have 300 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,400 gotten an extra 10 minutes of rest, but you got about as much 301 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,700 rest as you could otherwise it's a great point. 302 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,000 And it's like this is always it's always fun to play on 303 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,900 Friday because you're like you're in the tournament a day 304 00:14:57,900 --> 00:14:59,700 longer than other tea like no matter what. 305 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:02,700 Well you're the top, you know? It's like you're the top thirty 306 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:04,900 third team in the country long even if you lose long. 307 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Time friend of the Pod Ross, Bennett pointed out over Twitter 308 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,800 that this game is going to go long enough that they're going 309 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,200 to make it to the weekend regardless of whether they win 310 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:19,400 or lose play on Saturdays. But no, I mean look there's it 311 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,000 talked about the matchup with Kent State. 312 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,700 Check fan duel right now. Is there a bet like you know, 313 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,800 Indiana play on Saturday? That know the the look at the 314 00:15:27,808 --> 00:15:30,300 breakdown of the statistics for Kent State and Indiana. 315 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:31,400 You know what's going to be interesting? 316 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,500 Is Kent, State is not a great offense from a Efficiency 317 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:39,400 perspective, they are a pretty good defense but Indiana's a 318 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,500 better offense and they are a defense and there are much 319 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:43,600 better defense than Kent State has offense. 320 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:49,000 They both play at a similar Tempo, you know, they both you 321 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,800 know, Indiana shoots the ball better, they both defend the 322 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:56,500 shot fairly well. You know, Kent State doesn't 323 00:15:56,500 --> 00:16:00,200 turn the ball over and Indiana doesn't really force a lot of 324 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:01,200 turnover. So that's going to be 325 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,800 interesting to watch. You know, the big question mark 326 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,400 for Indiana is going to be that the rebounding aspect of things, 327 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,400 but one of the things you know about Kent State, as you look at 328 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,900 their, at their numbers is that they don't do an awesome job of 329 00:16:15,900 --> 00:16:18,400 Defending opponents off the offensive glass. 330 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,400 So this is a place where Indiana should be able to make some 331 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,600 strides. And again, as I mentioned 332 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,800 earlier, they take, you know they're they're a little more 333 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,500 balanced on offense than Indiana is but they still get the 334 00:16:28,500 --> 00:16:33,100 majority of their points from two pointers and and that's good 335 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:37,200 as well, you know, it's a It's a, it's a pretty experienced 336 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,700 team, you know, and, and it's a team that's got three seniors 337 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:43,500 that play a pretty significant amount of minutes sincere carry 338 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,300 is their starting point guard. He's played as a hell of a lot 339 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:50,500 of minutes 92 percent of available minutes this year. 340 00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:54,900 You know, he's a really good assist man, Malik Jacobs. 341 00:16:54,900 --> 00:16:58,100 The other guard is pretty good and then they've got marinate 342 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,300 Thomas who is kind of one of their primary post players. 343 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,599 I just I look over their roster and they've got some good 344 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:08,599 individual pieces, they're coached by Rob sanderoff. 345 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:10,500 I think is a good coach. He's proven himself at that 346 00:17:10,500 --> 00:17:14,200 level but this is not a perennial tournament team. 347 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:17,800 Not that Indiana is either, you know, but it's a team that I 348 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,000 think Indiana. If they Scout them properly, 349 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,900 like they're not going to deal with a lot of size issues and 350 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:25,599 they're also not dealing with a lot of three-pointer issues and 351 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:28,800 they're playing a team at the end of the day that, you know, 352 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:31,700 played a fairly decent non-conference schedule, but 353 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:33,600 their overall schedule is not that great. 354 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,500 So, I'm You know, again a fairly pleased with this, we'll talk 355 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:40,000 more about Kent State as we get ready to start that game. 356 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:43,400 But again, I think Indiana could have done a lot worse. 357 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,600 Now, looking at this sari good. This is chime in some other Kent 358 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,300 State thoughts. You know, this was mentioned on 359 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:52,800 the assembly, the Pod, you sit assembly call. 360 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:55,700 You know, when you look at IU this year, you know, we didn't 361 00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:58,800 lose to a team that was, you know, out of the top 50 and Ken 362 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:00,900 Palm. Which is I hadn't, I guess, I 363 00:18:00,908 --> 00:18:02,800 kind of inherently do, but hadn't really thought of you are 364 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,800 worst Ken Palm loss was the to With Western teams, they're 365 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,500 ranked 42nd, that's a good record. 366 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:11,500 What do you look at? You know, can stay the 71st and 367 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:15,200 Ken pom when you look at their schedule, you know, they they've 368 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,300 only played two teams in the top 30 in can Palm, which is where 369 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:21,900 Indiana is ranked and it's partially based on where they 370 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:25,300 play in the Mac. But those 22 games kind of while 371 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:26,900 I was didn't watch them. But you know they lost to 372 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:28,600 Houston. They lost again zaga the Houston 373 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,400 game. They lost Houston. 49 244, it's 374 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:36,000 a wild shark to look at on Ken pom, you know, the The win 375 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,100 expectancy for a game. That's only a five-point game 376 00:18:39,100 --> 00:18:42,700 where only, you know, 80 92 points total or scored. 377 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:45,800 It's clearly in Houston's column the entire time. 378 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:50,700 Houston went on a 15 20 run and still only 149. 244 them has 379 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:53,200 been a bizarre game. They played them tough. 380 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:56,400 It's concerning the things that I would be concerned about is it 381 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:00,200 can state did put a 10-0 run on Houston to start that game and 382 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:01,700 we know we're susceptible to runs. 383 00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:04,800 We look at the other game that can stay. 384 00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:07,000 Played. They played Gonzaga a similar 385 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:10,000 game where you know, Kent State did have a 10-0 run in the 386 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,400 second half so they are prone to go on runs against good teams 387 00:19:14,300 --> 00:19:17,900 and similarly in both of those games, you know, Gonzaga and 388 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:20,100 Houston. I obviously didn't watch them 389 00:19:20,100 --> 00:19:21,500 reading. Just kind of going off of the 390 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:24,100 the metrics here in can Palm. It looked like the game was 391 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:27,000 pretty much in hand for both of those teams and then Ken, state 392 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,600 made a run at the end to make it really close. 393 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,000 So, you know, based on that, it does seem like Kent State is not 394 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,400 even if we get up five. Ten points. 395 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:38,100 That's it would concern me as we also have a history of kind of 396 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:41,200 just mentally taken our foot off the gas, and it does seem like 397 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,500 Kent State will capitalize on that and come roaring back at 398 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:46,200 the end. So that's something I think that 399 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,800 needs to be, you know, tablets and needs to work on this year 400 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:50,800 for this next couple days. I mean, all you had to do was 401 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:55,700 watch Kent, State's game versus versus Toledo that they played 402 00:19:55,700 --> 00:20:00,400 yesterday, and you'll note that like they do have this tendency 403 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:04,800 to start going on these runs. And, you know, I look again, 404 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:06,700 Then you're going to run into trouble with with a lot of 405 00:20:06,700 --> 00:20:10,700 different teams, but Kent State, you know, they put an early 14-0 406 00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:13,700 run on Toledo but then they allowed a 12-2 run and 407 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:15,800 basically, it was tied at halftime in that game. 408 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,100 So I just, you know what? I look at this Kent State team, 409 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,600 they don't, they do a lot of little things. 410 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:25,600 Well, it's just going to be interesting to see how it all 411 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,800 transitions for Indiana, because this is a mutt. 412 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:32,100 This is by far the best team that Kent State has played since 413 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:37,600 the first week of December, And you know, that while that game 414 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,900 was relatively close. And in fact, Kent State had a 415 00:20:41,900 --> 00:20:46,700 late lead, they LED 6662 on Gonzaga with about four minutes 416 00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:50,000 to play and then Gonzaga close with an 11-0 run, and then it up 417 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,800 winning by 7, you know, they've proven that in that was in 418 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,300 Spokane. Like, you know, that was, that 419 00:20:56,300 --> 00:20:59,200 was kind of a shock the way that it turned out that it did, you 420 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,500 know, so, Kent State's not to be taken lightly. 421 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:04,200 I you absolutely can't afford to take them lightly. 422 00:21:04,900 --> 00:21:07,600 But I also think that I use got, you know, they have absolutely 423 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,900 got the talent to take this time to kind of a team on and do what 424 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:13,600 they need to do. Because, you know, they're not, 425 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,800 they're not bulletproof, they lost away games. 426 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,100 It to North Northern Illinois who's not very good Akron. 427 00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:24,300 And they also lost a ball state by 12 on the road. 428 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:25,600 They want a bunch of other games. 429 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,500 I mean, they were gonna get me wrong, they want 18 total games 430 00:21:28,500 --> 00:21:30,100 in the Mac. If you count the three games, 431 00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:34,800 they won in the tournament so I'm not by no means dismissing. 432 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,700 State. I think it'll probably be about 433 00:21:36,700 --> 00:21:40,100 a five or six point game, Max. I think it's a game Indiana's 434 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:44,800 going to probably struggle to close, but I also, I just have a 435 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,600 hard time. Envisioning, Kent State, being 436 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:53,800 able to shut down, both Trace Jackson, Davis and Jalen Hurd 437 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,300 Shafi, know. And if I, you can get anything 438 00:21:57,500 --> 00:22:00,900 off the three-point line in this game, you know, I think that 439 00:22:00,900 --> 00:22:03,100 that's, that's going to really help, you know, and it's 440 00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:06,100 interesting because Well, you know, one of the things that's 441 00:22:06,100 --> 00:22:11,000 notable when you look at the the teams that are allowing three 442 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,100 point attempts teams, put a lot of three-pointers up against 443 00:22:15,100 --> 00:22:17,900 Kent State relative to the total number of shots taken. 444 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,500 And so that's clearly been the scouting report for a lot of 445 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:23,600 teams. So maybe this is the case where 446 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:25,400 I you tries to build some of that in. 447 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,900 I hope that the hope that they try to take advantage of that 448 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,800 because honestly, though, I think a lot of the players that 449 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,200 I you would have out there that can't state would have to match 450 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,400 up against you're gonna have some height Advantage is And 451 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,000 they're going to be so concerned with trying to stop Trace 452 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,200 Jackson, Davis rightfully so that if Indiana's being smart 453 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,200 about the way they play offense, they should be able to take 454 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,200 advantage of that. But we'll see, you've been 455 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,100 talking for a long time about how the lack of tape and the 456 00:22:49,100 --> 00:22:53,000 lack of scouting is going to be something that helps Indiana you 457 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,900 know because just because you know Kent State's never played 458 00:22:55,900 --> 00:22:58,300 against Indiana at least not with this group of players. 459 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,600 So hopefully you're right on that front and Indiana team, 460 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,000 take advantage of some of the lack of familiarity with Trish 461 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,800 accent Davis. And this is not you, I don't 462 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,400 need to keep referencing, you were really good on the assembly 463 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,300 called five. Like you have a line in 464 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:14,700 reference to like, you looking at two different teams like it's 465 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:17,800 comparing apples to dolphins. I think maybe laughs. 466 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,300 But so, this is a similar comparison because these were 467 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:23,200 not the same and it's not a great analogy, but there's just, 468 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:25,800 there's not a lot of other examples of Kent State, playing 469 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,900 somebody like Trace Jackson Davis, but the closest copy you 470 00:23:28,900 --> 00:23:30,600 have is, you know, Drew Timmy Uncle Zach. 471 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,100 I'm not saying the same at all, but it's like that's a 6-10. 472 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:39,600 Very Player on a really good team when they played, you Timmy 473 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:44,300 went 11 for 15 from the field, 29 Points with 10 re, you know, 474 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:49,000 sorry 17 rebounds like Tibby completely torched them and 475 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,900 Gonzaga won that game 73 to 66. And so again, that was in 476 00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:55,200 December gonzaga's different than I you Tim. 477 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,100 He's a different type of player than Trace Jackson Davis. 478 00:23:57,100 --> 00:23:59,500 But you know, there is a comp there. 479 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:03,900 That that's a highly skilled tall player that can State 480 00:24:03,900 --> 00:24:06,600 obviously had a lot. Out of trouble playing against. 481 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,800 And so, I think that's a there's, there's something to be 482 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,100 said that. I do think that that's the last 483 00:24:11,100 --> 00:24:14,900 time they've seen somebody of that size and of that skill. 484 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:18,100 You know that gets the ball kind of at that amount. 485 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:20,200 Houston's got a lot of dudes too but they say they get spread 486 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:21,900 around a little bit more that, you know. 487 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:24,400 And it's just, you know, they haven't seen that in two months 488 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:25,800 and that you're going to trace coming in. 489 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:26,900 Suddenly It's like who that the sky? 490 00:24:26,900 --> 00:24:29,500 It's like we don't play dudes like this in the mac and you can 491 00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:31,800 see film but then it's totally different when suddenly, you 492 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,600 have traced palming the ball and spinning around you and it's 493 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:35,900 like, What the hell this happened. 494 00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:38,700 Hopefully, that's the hope. I will say, it's interesting 495 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:44,200 last year's the matchup for Indiana in the play-in game 496 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,500 against Wyoming. They're starting win percentage 497 00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:53,100 probability, on Ken Palm was 54 percent this year. 498 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:57,100 It's 63 percent. So, you know, and look, Wyoming 499 00:24:57,100 --> 00:24:58,500 gave him a game for the first half. 500 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:01,600 Indiana end up like gradually pulling away and winning by 501 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,700 eight in that game last year, you know? 502 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,100 But at least on paper, this Indiana team is a bit better. 503 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,700 Comparatively to Kent State. Then the same Indiana team last 504 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:13,500 year was to the team that they were playing and they ended up 505 00:25:13,500 --> 00:25:16,900 winning that game. So no promises and certainly 506 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:20,500 with this how you team. As we've said many times who 507 00:25:20,500 --> 00:25:23,600 really knows what you're going to get out of them but at least 508 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,900 on paper you'd like Indiana's chances All Things Considered 509 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:28,700 and that's going to be interesting to watch moving 510 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:31,400 forward. I also I also liked you when you 511 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,400 look at just the breakdowns I there was a couple brackets 512 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:39,000 where you Add Indiana and Miami is the 45, but they were playing 513 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,700 in Orlando, which I was, he would have been a geographical 514 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:43,700 advantage for Miami. So I do like that all. 515 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:47,000 But he does seem very, you know, pretty neutral there. 516 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,800 I think Indiana will draw some people. 517 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,500 There is good, Indiana contingent in the New York City 518 00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:54,100 area, but, you know, it's not ideal. 519 00:25:54,100 --> 00:25:56,100 But I, there's no other teams. They're like I'm looking the 520 00:25:56,108 --> 00:25:58,800 other games that day, you know, Yukon is really going to be the 521 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,200 Marquee team there, but that's in the first session. 522 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,500 So that's a different ticket says. 523 00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:05,700 So the fans will be, there are people who either Miami, Drake, 524 00:26:05,700 --> 00:26:07,700 Indiana, can't stay. So, it should be a pretty 525 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,300 partisan, Indiana crowd, say, just the other games in that 526 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:13,200 area, that the Yukon I own a game. 527 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,500 That's a that's going to be a wild game in the MVP Arena 528 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:18,300 because UConn's going to bring some fans. 529 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:21,600 You know Pitino has a following in the New York area. 530 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,100 And then, you know, in that Corridor he has a following 531 00:26:24,100 --> 00:26:27,100 that's going to be quite the game. 532 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,300 Well, I mean, you know, New Rochelle is not that far away 533 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,600 from from Albany. So yeah, no. 534 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,300 I mean, It's, it's going to be interesting to watch how it 535 00:26:38,300 --> 00:26:40,700 plays out. Because, ultimately, I think 536 00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:45,100 this, you know, that, that whole sub region has a lot of really 537 00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:48,400 fascinating matchups and storylines going with it and, 538 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:53,000 you know, you st. Mary's VCU Yukon, Iona, and then 539 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,900 obviously Indiana, Kent State and Miami Drake. 540 00:26:55,900 --> 00:26:59,000 And that's a, that's a really nice lineup of games. 541 00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:03,200 That's that'd be worth going. And buying tickets for it's 542 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:04,700 nice. There's not like a team. 543 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,100 That has a natural rivalry again. 544 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:09,900 Obviously pretty wouldn't be there but like it Kentucky like 545 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,800 just having a team there where it's like the fans are going to 546 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,000 be there just to kind of screw with. 547 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,200 I you like that's that's always kind of look for that too. 548 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,200 And it's like here. There's really no other. 549 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,700 You know, there's really no hatred therewith any other team. 550 00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:22,100 So that's that's nice too. Yeah, absolutely. 551 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,600 One of the thing on the Kent State matchup, we've done this 552 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,200 where we've looked at the last month of games in terms of 553 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,700 efficiency and Kent, State's actually placed slightly better 554 00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:33,800 than Indiana in adjusted efficiency over the course of 555 00:27:33,808 --> 00:27:35,500 the last month. There's Favored. 556 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,800 But you know it's important for mation to get out there. 557 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:42,100 I mean Kent State's eight and one in the last 30 days there 558 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:47,600 67th in the country in that time in efficiency margin Indiana 559 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,600 over the same period of time as 82nd. 560 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:51,200 It's not that big of a difference. 561 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,000 It's more just like statistical difference at this point, you 562 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,300 know, at this stage. It's interesting because we're 563 00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:58,700 Kent State's been the worst down. 564 00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:01,700 The stretch here has been in sending their opponent to the 565 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:04,700 foul line and that's been a problem Indiana's had all year. 566 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,300 Year. Indiana hasn't gotten to the the 567 00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:11,600 foul line particularly well and that's something I think they 568 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,100 can take advantage of if they really forced, you know, the at 569 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:17,300 the issue because clearly Kent State is struggling with not 570 00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:19,400 fouling. The other thing that's going to 571 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,100 be really fascinating, is just Indiana. 572 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,000 Since they don't force turnovers that often and Kent State does 573 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,000 how that ends up playing out because that really has been a 574 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,300 Hallmark of what Kent State's done down the stretch along with 575 00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:34,300 defending the three-point line. So a lot of things that Indiana 576 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,000 has Inability to do but maybe hasn't done as well over the 577 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,400 last month. This is the time to kind of hit 578 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,300 the reset button. Say let's get back to how we 579 00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:45,000 were playing in January because this is the type of Team where 580 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,300 you need to take advantage. And so just those are some items 581 00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:51,200 to think about as we move forward with with what we're 582 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,000 seeing here. And I look a little bit, I just 583 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,800 hop in my look a little bit larger to just in the midwest. 584 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,500 I again I'm nervous being excited about the draw. 585 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:03,000 We got because I don't, you know, it's going to be a bummer 586 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,000 if we lose to can't stay. That's like, man, we just Pissed 587 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,900 away, a great draw but all that said, you know, and I will Echo 588 00:29:08,900 --> 00:29:10,500 what you said. Like, you know, there are no 589 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:12,400 easy one seed. So I say this knowing that, you 590 00:29:12,408 --> 00:29:16,200 know, Houston is a very good team but of the one seeds, you 591 00:29:16,208 --> 00:29:20,800 know, obviously couldn't play, Purdue Kansas just they think 592 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,100 they're a bad matchup and they've shown, they can beat us. 593 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:26,700 That was obviously in Lawrence. It wasn't a neutral site but 594 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:28,600 they're they're a very good team. 595 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,600 You know, Houston of those seems like all those other ones, they 596 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,300 have some questions. Like how good are they really? 597 00:29:33,300 --> 00:29:36,000 Like they they haven't played. Of high-level competition. 598 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,400 They haven't played a lot of competition in a while. 599 00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:41,300 You know. Are they ready to play in that 600 00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:43,400 kind of bang It Up Style? We don't know. 601 00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:45,800 You know, when you look at the other seeds, you have Texas a 602 00:29:45,808 --> 00:29:48,100 team that again you know teams are good here but it's like a 603 00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:50,500 team that's missing their head coach from this year and has 604 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:53,900 been kind of pedestrian this year kind of win/loss win-loss 605 00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:57,400 win to lose to they did. They did just win the Big 12 606 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,400 Conference tournament and that's that's not nothing but you know 607 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,000 again all two seats are going to be good but then you know three 608 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,200 seed is a Our you beat him in their place. 609 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,800 So you know, when you look at those the seeds above you I'm 610 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,500 not overly frightened of a lot of those teams like I would. 611 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:17,500 If let's say we were in the bracket with, you know, Kansas 612 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:21,400 and UCLA and Gonzaga like of those teams. 613 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,400 I'm I'm a little more worried about some of those matchups 614 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,900 versus what I laid out with Houston, Texas and Xavier. 615 00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:31,500 Yeah I think that's fair. I mean looking at the second 616 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:35,000 round, matchup that Indiana's got and then kind of Going 617 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,300 beyond that. Miami Drake is a fascinating 618 00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:41,300 game Drake has played incredibly well over the course of the last 619 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:45,600 month they have been effectively a top 25 team in terms of 620 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,200 efficiency during that time period. 621 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,000 And most of that has been how well they played defense, they 622 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,100 have really ground opponents to a halt, you know. 623 00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:57,600 They're they're they're one of the best rebounding teams in the 624 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,000 country at least on the defensive boards. 625 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,100 They don't really do a whole lot of offensive rebounding. 626 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,700 And you know, they've They don't turn the ball over another team 627 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:08,200 that really does not turn the ball over. 628 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,500 Miami is interesting and that they've also played pretty well 629 00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:15,300 not, you know I mean are there more in the Indiana range in 630 00:31:15,300 --> 00:31:18,500 that in that Miami has played great offense and very little 631 00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:20,900 defense. So we got a real Clash of 632 00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:24,000 approaches in this one between these two teams. 633 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,200 If it's Miami that gets through there. 634 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,200 One of the worst teams in the country at defending two-point 635 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,100 shots which is Indiana's bread and butter. 636 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:38,300 Now, Miami is great at scoring. In a variety of ways. 637 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,000 There are top 35 team and effective field goal percentage, 638 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,700 there are top 60 team in in two point three point percentage, 639 00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:49,500 like they shoot the ball themselves very well, that could 640 00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:52,500 be a track meet. So and I would love to see that 641 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:55,400 not just because Miami is my second team having worked there, 642 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,900 but that would be a really cool matchup because it would be, you 643 00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:01,700 know, a kind of a strength versus weakness and weakness 644 00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:04,600 versus strength and you know, just all kinds of interesting. 645 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:06,200 Eating things going on in that matchup. 646 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,900 If it's, if it's Indiana, Drake, a lot of people are picking 647 00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:11,500 Drake to the Sweet 16. They've already penciled them 648 00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:16,000 into beat Miami and beat either, Indiana or Kent State, you know, 649 00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:18,700 the thing about both of these teams and I think it is 650 00:32:18,700 --> 00:32:21,200 informative to look at what they've actually done. 651 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:25,800 You know, I think you could make an argument that Kent State has 652 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,600 a better overall, resume in terms of the teams that they 653 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:33,400 played, then then Drake has like Drake's best non-conference win 654 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,400 was a neutral Court win. Against Mississippi State who 655 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,800 barely made it into the field. You know, they've scored old a 656 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,000 decent number of points in a lot of games in the Missouri Valley, 657 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,300 but they also lost, you know, five games in the Missouri 658 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:52,600 Valley and they were during that during the whole season. 659 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,200 Like they they really leaned heavily on their defense as a 660 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,800 primary component. And you know when I look at a 661 00:32:59,808 --> 00:33:03,500 team like this they're kind of like a less extreme version of 662 00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:05,600 Penn State in a lot of ways. As which I know can frighten 663 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,700 some people but the difference is you know, they have Penn 664 00:33:08,700 --> 00:33:11,900 State shooting profile but they have a defensive profile that 665 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:15,300 doesn't take nearly as as much advantage of efficiency on the 666 00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:17,000 offensive end. Is Penn State does. 667 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,900 So you know, I think Miami's Miami slightly favored in this 668 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:22,400 game. I think Miami is likely going to 669 00:33:22,408 --> 00:33:25,900 beat Drake, it's going to be a close one but even if it's Drake 670 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:28,500 that comes out of it, I think there's aspects of either of 671 00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:31,600 these matchups that you would like if you were Indiana, you 672 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,900 know, Miami is challenging in some ways. 673 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,200 Because of the offense and how well they've shot the ball but 674 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:38,900 they are certainly not bulletproof. 675 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,400 You know, they lost by 18 on a neutral floor to Maryland. 676 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,600 They beat Rutgers at home. They racked up a few scalps in 677 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,900 the SEC. Excuse me, in the ACC. 678 00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:51,600 But I mean, if you look at who they've actually beaten in the 679 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,400 ACC, they beat Duke at home, pretty handily. 680 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:59,600 And other than that they you know, that mean they they beat 681 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,900 pit barely and they're going to the tournament. 682 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:04,500 They the rest of the teams that they be. 683 00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:07,800 In the ACC, I mean you have to go all the way back to the 20th 684 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:12,199 of December when they beat Virginia Again, by 2, at home to 685 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:16,300 find a game where they beat a team that was NCAA tournament 686 00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:17,600 bound. They just haven't beaten that 687 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,800 many teams that are make that made the feel. 688 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,600 That's, it's really interesting looking at them when you really 689 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,800 pick apart their resume on. Also, the thing that I'm 690 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,500 noticing, as I look through them is, you know, they had a stretch 691 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:30,000 there, where they lost at Georgia Tech they lost at NC 692 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,800 State, they lost at Duke, they lost a Pittsburgh. 693 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,600 Their only Road wins the rest of this year, where, you know, at 694 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,300 And at North Carolina and at Virginia Tech. 695 00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:39,600 And then when you get to neutral sites because a two-point win 696 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,000 over Wake Forest, they lost to Duke. 697 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:43,699 So this is a team that you know, just based on looking at some of 698 00:34:43,699 --> 00:34:47,000 those home loss, you know, home road splits does not play well 699 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,400 on the road and does not show at least so far. 700 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,699 They played fantastic on a neutral site either and those 701 00:34:53,699 --> 00:34:57,200 all bode well because, you know, Albany is not Coral Gables as 702 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:58,800 you're. Well, aware, I'm quite aware of 703 00:34:58,808 --> 00:35:01,300 that been to both and I know which one I prefer. 704 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,700 Yeah, so look what do. What do you what do you rock for 705 00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:07,700 that game? Miami plays Indiana like are you 706 00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:09,600 know, I'm hedging. Are you doing like a Miami shirt 707 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,500 without? Oh no there's no question. 708 00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:16,000 When Indiana Miami playing burning for Indiana but that's 709 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,600 that. Yeah, so but and to some degree 710 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,000 it's sad that they you know though if they do get a chance 711 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,300 to match up in the second round that they would match up in the 712 00:35:23,308 --> 00:35:25,900 second round and much see that as like a sweet 16 game but, you 713 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:28,600 know, we can't because we can't choose any spots but going back 714 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,100 to what you were originally talked about. 715 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,600 Yeah, I mean look, Houston is it. 716 00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:38,800 It's going to be interesting because there I mean they could 717 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,000 get knocked out by either Iowa or Auburn. 718 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,000 I think both of those teams have that capacity but who do you 719 00:35:44,008 --> 00:35:49,000 rather see Houston or Iowa? Well I'd rather I'd probably 720 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,500 rather see Houston I guess I don't know. 721 00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:55,500 I mean the thing about Houston is that they're so good on 722 00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:59,900 defense and they stymie you so much and they're kind of like, 723 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,500 you know, to some degree, their profile is like a better Purdue 724 00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:08,300 do in that they live on the offensive glass and they really 725 00:36:08,300 --> 00:36:10,900 have tough you and they really make it hard for you to shoot. 726 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:14,600 But instead of having a 74 guy standing in the middle, they're 727 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,000 basically like, you know it's almost like position was 728 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,800 basketball. Like they had a bunch of guys 729 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:24,000 that are between 62 and 68 and they just exchanged all the 730 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,300 time. You know the thing about Houston 731 00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:33,900 is, if you can like score on them decently I think you're 732 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:36,700 going to be okay. Now so few teams have done that 733 00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:40,600 on them, but the flip side of it is that they really played that 734 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,500 many teams this year. So I don't think we know like 735 00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:46,500 they played Alabama at home and Alabama, scored 70 on them and 736 00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:49,800 beat them. You know, they want ad Oregon 737 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,100 and Oregon her down not be very good. 738 00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:55,000 They won versus st. Mary's, but we know st. 739 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,600 Mary's like plays a very specific style and Houston's the 740 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,300 wrong team to try to play that against a team like Indiana that 741 00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:06,600 can score in bunches. I I don't hate that matchup. 742 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,700 I would rather play that I think then play Kansas again certainly 743 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,500 I'd rather play Houston then what Alabama brings to the table 744 00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:16,800 just in terms of their length and their ability to get up and 745 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,000 down the floor. That is a say that I think 746 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,900 Indiana would beat Houston, you know, I think Houston is a 747 00:37:21,900 --> 00:37:25,600 really good team and they've proven that, but I also think 748 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,300 that if you were going to roll the dice with a one seed, I'd 749 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:32,300 rather roll it with Houston and again, it's no disrespect to 750 00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:34,500 Houston or k Samson or and because it isn't it? 751 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,700 Was job up there. But I just think that for this 752 00:37:37,700 --> 00:37:41,500 particular Indiana team, you know, the the fact that that 753 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:45,900 Houston doesn't necessarily frighten you on offense, at 754 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:48,200 least, not in terms of three-point shooting and the 755 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,700 fact that they're not going to out sighs you significantly. 756 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:53,300 I think Indiana would at least have a puncher's chance in that 757 00:37:53,300 --> 00:37:58,400 sort of a game. I agree beyond all that, though. 758 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,000 I mean, it's everything. Such a crap shoot every year. 759 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,400 You know, I spend two months picking the bracket And as we 760 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,000 were saying on assembly call, like, once you do that, it's 761 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000 almost like you can't pick games. 762 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,100 Once they're picked because you have too much of what you used 763 00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:15,600 to select the field in your brain. 764 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,700 When you're trying to figure out who's going to win, X Y or Z. 765 00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:19,900 It's like, I've programmed myself to think the one seeds 766 00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:22,300 are the best. Now I have to really evaluate 767 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:24,600 the idea that maybe they might not be the best in this kind of 768 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,800 a format. I will give you Miami last year, 769 00:38:27,900 --> 00:38:32,500 as a great example of this, who was a lightly regarded kind of 770 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:35,600 afterthought 11 seed, one of the last Large teams in the field, 771 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,700 they end up going all the way to the lead eight. 772 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,500 You know, Saint Peter's is a great example of a team that 773 00:38:40,500 --> 00:38:42,500 gets disregarded. No one was picking them to beat 774 00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:45,800 Kentucky, let alone make it to the elite eight themselves and 775 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,400 they end up playing North Carolina who again, was a 776 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,000 disregarded. Eighth seed that nobody thought 777 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,700 would do anything. They end up knocking out, Baylor 778 00:38:52,700 --> 00:38:54,700 in the second round, making it all the way to the title game. 779 00:38:54,700 --> 00:38:59,100 So I, you know, again, here's where, you know, you look at the 780 00:38:59,100 --> 00:39:01,000 first four and it's like what you can't come out of that 781 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000 because of the rest and it's like vcu's done it. 782 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,600 I think UCLA made as a title game out of the first four it's 783 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,000 like there's and then there's you know same thing with the 784 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:10,000 where you play. It's like man they have a great 785 00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:12,000 you know they're playing in front of a great crowd then they 786 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,100 lose or they wait like it is this is why it's so great is 787 00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:18,600 like it is a crapshoot and you can have years ago. 788 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,600 I remember this is going way back but the year Syracuse won 789 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,900 the National Championship. Like I want all my brackets 790 00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:26,100 because I just saw them as like think they're like a for three 791 00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:28,000 or four that year. It's like but they were going to 792 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,500 play in like Albany. Like they had a great route to 793 00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:33,800 get to the final four and I'm like they're going to get there 794 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,600 because they play. The home games and it worked 795 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,500 that time, right? But then a lot of times it 796 00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:39,400 doesn't so it's like things that work. 797 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,500 One year, don't work the other. It's fun to do. 798 00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:45,200 I will say, the, the if you didn't listen to the podcast and 799 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:50,200 it was Joe from 131 Sports his, his bracket picking logic, which 800 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,300 I liked was that, you know, his thought is, you know, go with a 801 00:39:53,300 --> 00:39:56,000 lot of higher seeds, you know, picking a lot of upsets ends up 802 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,500 losing you points later on, but really where you can win your 803 00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:02,400 brackets in his mind is trying your best to nail. 804 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,600 Those eight nine, seven ten games because that's where You 805 00:40:04,607 --> 00:40:06,300 can get a lot of early-round points. 806 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:08,700 The trouble is, those are all kind of like coin toss games. 807 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:10,100 Yeah. It's like, so basically, you 808 00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:12,500 know, do your best, you'll kind of pick your metrics that you 809 00:40:12,500 --> 00:40:16,200 like, and then either go with over flip some coins, but that's 810 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,700 kind of where you're probably going to win your brackets and 811 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:22,800 the not going to be you picking the right, you know, 12 seed or 812 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,300 the right 13 seat, right? Yeah that's I think all that's 813 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:29,300 valid. I mean it's so hard to say for 814 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:33,300 sure like what? Exactly you should prefer when 815 00:40:33,300 --> 00:40:36,000 you're trying to pick your game. There's so many factors that go 816 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,300 into it. There's things that you can't 817 00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:40,400 predict, and there's just a lot of times, there's such stylistic 818 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,100 clashes between these teams that they're really hard to figure 819 00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:48,600 out, but but look, I think ultimately there's a, there's a 820 00:40:48,607 --> 00:40:53,600 lot of fun line up, you know, or game lineups, basically matchups 821 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,900 in this tournament that are going to be enjoyable to watch. 822 00:40:56,900 --> 00:40:59,500 And I think for Indiana, it's just great to be back in the 823 00:40:59,508 --> 00:41:02,500 field. And again, they may lose in the 824 00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:04,100 first round. I'll be disappointed if they do, 825 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:06,500 but it's Possible. Kent State is a very capable 826 00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:10,500 team, but overall I think if you look at this draw from an 827 00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:13,600 Indiana perspective, you'd be like, yeah, this is exactly what 828 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,400 I was hoping we were going to get and that ends up being I 829 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,700 think about as positive as you can get on. 830 00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:21,900 What I think. A lot of people thought was 831 00:41:21,900 --> 00:41:23,700 going to be a disappointing selection Sunday. 832 00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:25,500 It to me, it was quite the opposite. 833 00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:28,400 No, Iris is about as good as I think you could have gotten 834 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,800 outside of, you know, maybe having all of this happen in 835 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:33,100 Louisville. Like that would have been the 836 00:41:33,100 --> 00:41:36,400 ultimate cherry on top, but I mean, As a city is not not that 837 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,800 not that far away. And I think if Indiana makes it 838 00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:45,400 to Kansas City to play Houston in a sweet 16 against Calvin 839 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,500 Samson, I think you're going to see a pretty large Indiana 840 00:41:48,500 --> 00:41:51,400 contingent heading over to Kansas City myself included 841 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,400 before I move to the women's bracket just curious your any 842 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,800 other high arching thoughts and any other Big Ten teams that you 843 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,500 know Rutgers not making it Michigan, not even being close 844 00:42:00,500 --> 00:42:02,300 to, you know, other teams they yeah. 845 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,900 When you look at, when you look at other big tent Seems like you 846 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:07,200 see any teams you're like wow they got a good bracket bad 847 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,600 bracket just overall Big Ten thoughts? 848 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,900 Well I thought Purdue got a gift in terms of the other three 849 00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:19,000 protected seeds in their region. Purdue the worst for seed gets 850 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,400 the worst. Excuse me? 851 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,500 The, the, the worst one. See, they were the fourth one 852 00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:25,100 seed in the mix. They were number four on the 853 00:42:25,100 --> 00:42:28,200 seed line. They got the worst to seed which 854 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,700 is not supposed to happen. That, I mean it happened because 855 00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:32,900 of geography more than anything else, but they get more cat who 856 00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:35,000 was eighth on the seedless marquette's very Team. 857 00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:38,200 But by power ranking, produce should have gotten somebody 858 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,000 better than that. They also got the second worst, 859 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,900 three seed and Kansas State who again, good team. 860 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,500 Now, Purdue did get some negatives, they got a very hot 861 00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:49,200 Memphis team, they got an fa you team, that is legit. 862 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,600 They got both Duke and Tennessee in their half of the bracket and 863 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,900 I think both of those teams could be challenging, but I 864 00:42:54,900 --> 00:42:59,900 think Purdue has a really good draw overall beyond that, you 865 00:42:59,900 --> 00:43:02,000 know, his motto is interesting, you know, it's not doesn't 866 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,700 normally happen but for the NCAA to say, you were starting The 867 00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:08,100 first, you know, two games, Zack ET starting with negative three 868 00:43:08,100 --> 00:43:10,200 fouls and he I know it's weird, right? 869 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,500 Zero. It's weird. 870 00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:12,300 But you know I mean I guess. Yeah. 871 00:43:12,300 --> 00:43:13,700 I guess you are in that throughout the year. 872 00:43:13,700 --> 00:43:14,200 Yeah. No. 873 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,200 I mean, you know, these things happen, I guess, you know, 874 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,200 legislation gets passed late, it's kind of surprising, but, 875 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,000 you know. And who am I to judge at this 876 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,200 point? No, you know, if I'm looking at 877 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,500 a elsewhere, I think that Iowa has to count themselves. 878 00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:31,200 Lucky they lost so many games this year and to still get an 879 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,400 eight seed out of that mix and to draw an Auburn team. 880 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,200 Might be a little over seated at nine is kind of a gift to Fran 881 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,600 mccaffery, and that crew. And then I get Houston who 882 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,800 hasn't really played a scene, no better guy to go to the friend 883 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:45,900 who's conducted himself with such right, you know? 884 00:43:45,900 --> 00:43:49,300 Yeah, you know, or we we continue to reward the right 885 00:43:49,300 --> 00:43:52,800 things in college athletics. It's, you know, this is where 886 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,200 life lessons are learned. And, you know, you find out that 887 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,400 if you're a jerk, you don't get rewarded. 888 00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,900 I mean, it's great. But no, I wonder if he went into 889 00:43:59,900 --> 00:44:01,900 the into the room with Chris Reynolds was like, yelling at 890 00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:03,500 him. No, no, he's just get stared him 891 00:44:03,500 --> 00:44:06,100 down, like he, Just stood in front of his computer. 892 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:09,400 I just like eyes eyes open, just like looking at him. 893 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,100 Chris is looking back like, what are you doing, dude? 894 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,400 All right, 10 seed weight, not nine. 895 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,100 We move over here with it, right? 896 00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:20,900 So the other, I don't think any Big Ten teams have anything to 897 00:44:20,900 --> 00:44:22,800 complain about. I think Northwestern had an 898 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:27,500 outside shout at a set of six seed, but seven seems fair for 899 00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:29,300 them. Illinois. 900 00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:31,200 I think is actually kind of fortunate that they ended up as 901 00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,400 a 9 as their resume really started to look bad. 902 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:38,300 Everybody around them. I will be shocked if there's 903 00:44:38,300 --> 00:44:42,400 more than three Big Ten teams around for the second weekend. 904 00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:47,000 Just because, you know, when I look around, I just think that 905 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:51,300 like Penn State's playing probably the best of any team, 906 00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:53,600 not named Purdue coming out of this tournament and 907 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,900 unfortunately they got an incredibly hot, Texas A&M team 908 00:44:57,900 --> 00:45:00,600 in the first round. And if they win that game, they 909 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:04,300 get Texas in the second round. That is rough especially for it. 910 00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:06,800 A team that hasn't been to the tournament in a while in Penn 911 00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,800 State. As far as the other Big Ten 912 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:11,500 teams, the ones that didn't get in Michigan, and Wisconsin had 913 00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:16,400 zero cause for any sort of complaints, you know, Michigan 914 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,400 had plenty of opportunities. I think if they just won one or 915 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,800 two more games down the stretch, they would have been fine and 916 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:26,200 they managed to not do that. And then, they essentially put 917 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:29,700 the, the cherry on top of the sundae, by losing to Rutgers 918 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,000 who, also didn't get in who I'll talk. 919 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,000 I'll talk about in a second Wisconsin again. 920 00:45:34,700 --> 00:45:37,600 You know, when you can't win consecutive games for over a 921 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,300 month over two months, that's just not going to get the job 922 00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:43,200 done. I mean, if you rack up the wins, 923 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:47,000 the Wisconsin had from the start of the new year. 924 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,200 It was Minnesota Penn State, Ohio, State Penn State Michigan, 925 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:52,000 Iowa and Minnesota. That's it. 926 00:45:52,500 --> 00:45:54,300 You don't get to go to the tournament, they shouldn't even 927 00:45:54,300 --> 00:45:57,500 mean they shouldn't be allowed in the NIT with that record 928 00:45:57,500 --> 00:45:59,500 since New Year. I mean that's that's that's 929 00:45:59,500 --> 00:46:03,700 pretty ridiculous. Now Rutgers, I am surprised 930 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:08,300 didn't get In and, you know, look, they, they kind of they 931 00:46:08,300 --> 00:46:11,200 crashed and burned. They were 8 and 4 and 16, and 7 932 00:46:11,700 --> 00:46:14,800 after beating Michigan State in Madison Square Garden, but they 933 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,200 suffered the injury to MOG, and they lose three in a row. 934 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,800 They end up losing six of eight and eight of ten. 935 00:46:21,900 --> 00:46:25,800 Excuse me, six of eight, and seven of nine down the stretch. 936 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,100 If you include their loss in the Big Ten tournament. 937 00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:31,500 And again, I mean if you look at the teams that they beat, I 938 00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:33,700 think it's tells the tale, they win at Purdue. 939 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,800 And then they, they beat Maryland at home. 940 00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,000 No, no real challenge there. They win at Northwestern. 941 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,900 And then from there, from January 15th on their winds, 942 00:46:44,900 --> 00:46:47,500 were Ohio State Penn State Minnesota, Michigan state, 943 00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:50,900 Wisconsin Penn State outside of the Michigan State game, which 944 00:46:50,900 --> 00:46:53,700 again was a semi home game. Not a lot to write home about 945 00:46:53,700 --> 00:46:57,300 their, you throw in another Michigan win in in the Big Ten 946 00:46:57,300 --> 00:46:58,700 Tournament. That's not going to impress 947 00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:01,500 anybody. So look ultimately, I think the 948 00:47:01,508 --> 00:47:04,200 Big Ten teams that deserve to get in got in I think they were 949 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,700 all seated fairly I don't think that there should be many 950 00:47:06,700 --> 00:47:09,200 complaints up in Chicago tonight about how the Big Ten was 951 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:13,400 treated so let's jump. Jump over to the women's 952 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:18,600 tournament that bracket was revealed and as expected, 953 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:20,700 although, you might not know it from listening to certain 954 00:47:20,700 --> 00:47:27,000 pundits in the ESPN Circle Zs. Indiana, got the number two, 955 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,700 overall seed. They were the one seed, 956 00:47:29,700 --> 00:47:34,000 obviously, one of the two teams in the Greenville Regional 957 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,200 complex. It's they've done this weird 958 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:41,700 thing in, in women's basketball where they decided they're going 959 00:47:41,700 --> 00:47:44,500 to take To whole Region's and put them in one site. 960 00:47:44,900 --> 00:47:47,300 So instead of like in the men's tournament, you've got an east 961 00:47:47,300 --> 00:47:49,600 region that's in New York City, and you get a South reason 962 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,300 region that's in Louisville and the Midwest that's in Kansas 963 00:47:52,300 --> 00:47:54,100 City in a West that's in Las Vegas here. 964 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,500 They've got a Greenville one Regional, a Greenville to 965 00:47:57,500 --> 00:48:01,000 Regional a Seattle, one Regional in a Seattle, to Regional very 966 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,500 confusing. The upshot of this is Indiana's 967 00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:06,600 going to Greenville, which is a pretty that's a decent 968 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,200 geographical location. It's within driving distance for 969 00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:13,100 IU fans. They they Get to post the first 970 00:48:13,100 --> 00:48:16,200 two games, they get a play-in game opponent in the first 971 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:17,400 round. I think it's Tennessee Tech 972 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:21,200 versus Monmouth. If I saw the draw correctly and 973 00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:25,100 then Oklahoma State vs, Miami whoever, the winner of that is 974 00:48:25,100 --> 00:48:27,500 some interesting storylines there, either way if it's 975 00:48:27,500 --> 00:48:31,500 Oklahoma State yard and garzon sister plays for Oklahoma State. 976 00:48:31,500 --> 00:48:34,600 So you got a potential familial match up and if it's Miami, 977 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,800 you've got the Cavender twins who have kind of become the the 978 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,500 social media and IL Darlings of women's basketball. 979 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,100 Potential match up there. So some interesting stuff, I 980 00:48:45,107 --> 00:48:48,400 think overall, I use bracket is about as favorable as one could 981 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,500 get, you know, would have been nice to not draw Villanova as 982 00:48:51,500 --> 00:48:54,300 the four seed is Villanova is a very, very good team. 983 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,400 One of the best players in the country, but you'll take that, 984 00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,100 if it means you don't have Yukon in your region, which Indiana 985 00:49:02,100 --> 00:49:04,000 does not, you don't have Stanford in your region with 986 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,900 Indiana does not you don't have South Carolina in your region 987 00:49:06,900 --> 00:49:09,400 there on the opposite side and you don't have to play Iowa 988 00:49:09,700 --> 00:49:14,200 until the Final Four. You know, Utah, as the two seed, 989 00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:18,100 that's the to see that you would have wanted to get and LSU. 990 00:49:18,700 --> 00:49:21,000 I don't think anybody knows how good they actually are. 991 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:26,600 There certainly good, but that's a team that frankly, I just, I 992 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,700 think that to some degree there. There there's more hype around 993 00:49:29,700 --> 00:49:31,500 them than reality. We'll have to see, but know, 994 00:49:31,700 --> 00:49:33,600 this is a really good setup for IU. 995 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:36,500 I think everybody in the upper half of the bracket is very 996 00:49:36,500 --> 00:49:39,500 beatable. I use been to a sweet 16 and 997 00:49:39,500 --> 00:49:43,700 Elite 8 in the last two years and This is as good of a drawer 998 00:49:43,700 --> 00:49:46,400 I think is Indiana. Could have expected given the 999 00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,800 way that everything played out this season, they deserved this 1000 00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:50,300 scene. I'm just glad that the committee 1001 00:49:50,300 --> 00:49:52,900 actually gave it to them. I agree. 1002 00:49:52,900 --> 00:49:54,500 I agree with all that and excited. 1003 00:49:54,500 --> 00:49:56,500 It's great. They get to get games at home. 1004 00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,000 Number two overall. See, it's fantastic. 1005 00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:00,600 You keep up with a little more that I do. 1006 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,800 I will be checking in and watching and excited to see him 1007 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:05,300 play. It's nice that you don't, you 1008 00:50:05,308 --> 00:50:08,300 know, being the number. It's nice to not have to play 1009 00:50:08,300 --> 00:50:11,600 South Carolina until the end. If you if you end up meeting 1010 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,100 them. Yeah, I mean it's the end of the 1011 00:50:14,100 --> 00:50:15,400 day. I mean if you look at the way 1012 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,400 that the tournament draws have gone you know that what knock 1013 00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,900 Indiana out of the sweet 16 last year was they had to go to to 1014 00:50:21,900 --> 00:50:26,800 Bridgeport Connecticut and play UConn in the sweet 16 and that's 1015 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:30,100 like you want to avoid that at all costs and the fact that 1016 00:50:30,100 --> 00:50:32,300 they're not going to have to do that. 1017 00:50:32,300 --> 00:50:34,900 There's they're not going to be playing in somebody else's home 1018 00:50:34,900 --> 00:50:39,100 court for the regional, they get their own home court, for the 1019 00:50:39,100 --> 00:50:42,500 first and second round games. And when they make it, The, you 1020 00:50:42,500 --> 00:50:46,600 know, if they make it to the final four, they, you know, they 1021 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:51,200 have to potentially play, either Yukon or Tennessee Tech, excuse 1022 00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,300 Jesus, or Virginia Tech or Tennessee. 1023 00:50:53,700 --> 00:50:58,200 Those are the 14 and 2 and then you got Ohio state has 23. 1024 00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,400 Who knows, maybe? Ohio State can pull an upset in 1025 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:04,100 the bottom half of that bracket, but South Carolina other side of 1026 00:51:04,100 --> 00:51:07,300 the bracket, you wouldn't have to play them to the title game 1027 00:51:07,500 --> 00:51:10,100 Stanford, other side of the bracket Iowa. 1028 00:51:10,100 --> 00:51:13,000 Other side of the bracket, like you Would only have two if you 1029 00:51:13,008 --> 00:51:16,400 got all the way to the title game, you would only play one of 1030 00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,400 those three teams and those are three of probably the four best 1031 00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,600 teams outside of Indiana in the whole field. 1032 00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:25,500 And so I feel like you know there's a golden opportunity 1033 00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:28,200 here for I you to pick up the first final four in program 1034 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,600 history and maybe even more than that. 1035 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:34,000 So we'll just we'll see how things play out but hopefully 1036 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,100 Mackenzie Holmes is unable to heal up here over the course of 1037 00:51:36,100 --> 00:51:38,900 the last week and Indiana's been able to kind of refocus as they 1038 00:51:38,900 --> 00:51:41,200 head into this tournament and they got to draw. 1039 00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,600 They wanted in the That they deserved, and we'll see how 1040 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,800 they're able to fair with that. Now, that they move forward with 1041 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:46,800 things. Yep. 1042 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,200 So anyway, that'll wrap it up for us. 1043 00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,500 We've done a lot of podcasting today, we're going to give 1044 00:51:51,500 --> 00:51:53,800 ourselves a couple of days off kind of recuperate. 1045 00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:57,300 Again, tournament stuff starts real fast, if you remember the 1046 00:51:57,300 --> 00:52:01,500 play in games from last year yeah those start Tuesday, got 1047 00:52:01,500 --> 00:52:04,000 Southeast, Missouri, State and Texas A&M Corpus Christi 1048 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,200 followed by pit, and Mississippi State. 1049 00:52:07,100 --> 00:52:10,600 So that's a way to get things started, shall we say? 1050 00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:14,300 And then, Then, you know, the, we got the second play in game 1051 00:52:14,300 --> 00:52:17,700 the next day and then Maryland West Virginia to start the first 1052 00:52:17,700 --> 00:52:22,100 full day on Thursday. That's the opening game from 1053 00:52:22,100 --> 00:52:24,500 Birmingham, Alabama. So, lots of exciting things to 1054 00:52:24,500 --> 00:52:27,700 watch out for as we move forward here, looking forward to it. 1055 00:52:27,700 --> 00:52:33,000 And I am excited for both, I you men and I you women to see how 1056 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,700 everything goes. So we'll wrap it up there. 1057 00:52:35,700 --> 00:52:39,700 Scott any final thoughts from, you know, I think, I think we're 1058 00:52:39,700 --> 00:52:40,900 good. I'm excited to get this going. 1059 00:52:40,900 --> 00:52:45,000 The last thing it just You were talking about like ESPN, you 1060 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,800 know, having some silly analysis, but it got me 1061 00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,700 thinking, just people go back and listen, Ryan rasila had a 1062 00:52:49,900 --> 00:52:51,000 interview with Chris. Fowler. 1063 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,600 I'm just telling a story apropos of selection day that he did 1064 00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,100 like a couple of the selection shows on ESPN and as you see, 1065 00:52:58,100 --> 00:53:02,000 it's a funny story on Raziel owes pod, but I'll paraphrase it 1066 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,500 here Fowler's like, you know, they've released the bracket and 1067 00:53:05,500 --> 00:53:08,800 they do the post, you know, the review show and Dickie V. 1068 00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,000 He's like, oh man, like, you know, they got, you know, they 1069 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,000 should have been in a Million Nobody else like, oh man, like 1070 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,900 you know, they gotta get in like, with those kind of winds, 1071 00:53:14,900 --> 00:53:16,800 you know, they get, you know, whatever your whatever, your 1072 00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:19,100 Virginia Tech Virginia Tech's. Got to be in and it's like, oh, 1073 00:53:19,100 --> 00:53:21,200 man, you know, uncf Rose got to be in. 1074 00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,700 I get security to break Fowler's like dick. 1075 00:53:23,700 --> 00:53:26,200 They'll can't kill it. Like someone's got to be out of 1076 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,600 the I guess they got this big fight dick like walked off the 1077 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,500 set. He's just like I was probably a 1078 00:53:32,508 --> 00:53:34,800 little too hard like I said on the air is a dickey. 1079 00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:38,500 They all can't make it like nobody should be out like he's 1080 00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:43,700 like anyways it's a funny story. Out with the selection. 1081 00:53:43,700 --> 00:53:44,800 Are you missing ESPN? Anyway. 1082 00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,000 Apropos of nothing? No, it's exciting times. 1083 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,900 You get one day off and then like dead it that it starts. 1084 00:53:49,900 --> 00:53:52,100 Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you gotta just, you got to 1085 00:53:52,107 --> 00:53:56,500 take Monday embrace it, fully catch up on that actually work, 1086 00:53:56,500 --> 00:53:58,800 done, get all your work, done, catch up on the next two hours 1087 00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,300 sleep that you missed out on from today. 1088 00:54:01,300 --> 00:54:03,700 And then, you know, get yourself focused that's that's 1089 00:54:03,700 --> 00:54:05,600 everybody's job from this point forward. 1090 00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:07,900 I'm paraphrasing every everybody else. 1091 00:54:07,900 --> 00:54:10,600 But Jim Rome always used to a segment starting tomorrow to 1092 00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,400 where it's like, you know, you can't just call in sick 1093 00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:14,900 Thursday. You know, I can't just say I 1094 00:54:14,908 --> 00:54:16,800 feel sick, like tomorrow's the day. 1095 00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:20,500 You come in man. Feel Olaf, you know, lightly 1096 00:54:20,500 --> 00:54:23,600 touch it Tuesday, maybe a little bit of clamminess, maybe feel a 1097 00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,100 little funky Wednesdays. We start getting the fever and 1098 00:54:26,100 --> 00:54:27,900 then Thursday, Friday, the days that you're sick. 1099 00:54:27,900 --> 00:54:30,500 Like, that's how you work the Thursday, Friday, how you don't 1100 00:54:30,500 --> 00:54:33,000 come in hot with, man. I feel sick on Monday because 1101 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,600 then you know, it's just you gotta play it, right, you've got 1102 00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:36,900 to play it, right? You really do. 1103 00:54:36,900 --> 00:54:40,200 You've got to you. Just got to think about it from 1104 00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:41,900 the standpoint of hey, you know what? 1105 00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,100 I got to lay groundwork here and if you lay groundwork, you're 1106 00:54:45,100 --> 00:54:47,700 going to be in good shape. So just keep that in mind. 1107 00:54:47,700 --> 00:54:52,500 Play smart play hard but play is the key play. 1108 00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:54,700 That's that's that's the important aspect of this. 1109 00:54:54,700 --> 00:54:58,400 Anyway, we'll wrap it up now. Thanks to Scott, thanks to you, 1110 00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,700 folks, for listening, and thanks to our friends at the back home 1111 00:55:00,700 --> 00:55:02,200 network. Thanks don't feel the Peril. 1112 00:55:02,300 --> 00:55:06,400 Be sure to check out the mystery box Mark 3, and we'll be back 1113 00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,900 later on in the week. We'll talk some IU basketball, 1114 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,800 as we break down further the matchup, With Kent State. 1115 00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:14,700 Look at the rest of the tournament field. 1116 00:55:14,700 --> 00:55:18,800 See what all plays out this is Crimson cast will catch you 1117 00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,100 folks on the flip side. Bring back the Bison so 1118 00:55:21,100 --> 00:55:13,800 everybody With Kent State. Look at the rest of the 1119 00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,900 tournament field. See what all plays out this is 1120 00:55:16,900 --> 00:55:19,800 Crimson cast will catch you folks on the flip side. 1121 00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:21,500 Bring back the Bison so everybody