February 23, 2025 • 58 mins
Indiana found itself down by a dozen at halftime before coming alive behind its defense en route to a 15-point win over Purdue. We broke down what went right, what it means, and heard your thoughts on the game.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Him. You're doing everybody on ten bike offf and welcome
to the Piague's Close Game Live. Indiana scores a huge, huge,
seventy three to fifty eight win over the Purdue boiler
Makers as Indiana really just put together it's best second
half I've seen in the Mike Woodson era. It's really
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that simple. Indiana has just turned in the best performance
that we've seen from them in a long time. In
that second half, the Hoosiers outscore Purdue forty eight to
twenty one in the half, hold Purdue to just thirty
percent shooting after the break, erased quickly a twelve point
halftime deficit in front of a raucous crowd at Assignmon
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Scott Assembly Hall. Indiana scores forty eight points in the
second half, shoots fifty two per cent overall, sixty four
overall from the field in the second half alone, and
just absolutely took it to to do and never let
them crawl back in once this this massive run they had,
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including a fourteen and nothing run that they put together.
Indiana just just dominated this second half and it made
you question, you know, what what it is that that
has been missing from the from this team. They one, two, three, nine,
six hundred is your number. I'm here to take your
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calls here, and I'm just really really excited for what
you have to say about this one, because this is
a game that I admitted I came in and I
thought Indiana would win this thing. They they have not
maybe been playing their best basketball of late, but they
played Purdue tough in Mackie Arena, Produce slumping a little bit,
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and as this time off has built, I thought to myself,
you know what, I think that the Hooterras are going
to be able to squeak out in this one. Then
they come out and they turn in kind of a
dud of a first half. There was some booze in
the stands and going into halftime and the place was
was kind of dead, kind of dead. And then the
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Hoosiers come out in the second half and just absolutely
torch perdue in every single way. Indiana turned for sixteen
perdue turnovers versus taking care of the ball themselves just
seven turnovers on the night for Indiana. Head coach Mike
Woodson stuck with his his seniors. Basically in the second
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half thelone, Indiana played just six players. You had Miles
Rice Anthony Leo, Malik Renew Goodie, Trey Galloway, and Umar
Ballo and that's it, and then includes McKenzie and Baco
who did not see the floor in the second half.
As it is, Indiana only went eight deep, adding Carlisle
and Imbaco, but they weren't doing what they needed to
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do and the Hoosiers end up pulling off the victory.
I want to hear from you at one, two, three,
ninety three, twenty six hundred is the number. We have
a lot to go through with this ballgame, because Indiana
turned in a performance I don't think a lot of
people saw coming. You had kind of an odd thing
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to it, being the fortieth anniversary of night Throwing the
chair and Mike Woodson says that he has the actual chair.
That was a bit of a head scratcher for me,
because you know, that's something that I've looked into before
and other people have as well, and the cot the
consensus was nobody knew where the chair was. The actual chair. Woodson,
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at least in his postgame that you'll here in just
a few minutes, did make kind of a compelling argument
that that that it is the actual chair and if
it is that's great. That's great. I'm a history guy.
I absolutely love that. But Indiana being able to pull
off this victory was very exciting for these fans, for
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the players who deserved one of these, and especially for
the way they played in the second half. The Miles
Rice is somebody that I've been hard on myself this season,
and I don't feel bad about it because of his inconsistency,
but credit where credit is due. He really changed what
this ball club was doing and was able to completely
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control what Braden Smith was doing in the second half. Smith,
a huge part of what Purdue has done this year,
is held to just eight points on the game. He
had just one point in eighteen minutes in the second
half and had five turnovers. And it's one of those
games where you say, hey, you know this defensive in
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tensity was fantastic. Where the hell has this been all year?
And again, if you even got sixty percent of this
every game, it would be a different season. We're not
going to worry about the past. There's nothing that could
be changed about that. This win is really important in
building an opportunity for Indiana to go to the NCAA Tournament,
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which is just mind boggling considering the struggles that they've had.
But the resume is what the resume is, and there
are opportunities coming up for Indiana in the very near future,
including Wednesday here at Simon Scott All Assembly Hall against
Penn State. Indiana sits at sixteen and eleven overall after
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this victory. If the Indiana is able to go ahead
and beat Penn State here, go out to the West
coast and beat Washington and Oregon and play Ohio State here,
that's an extra four wins, get you to twenty wins
before the Big ten tournament, and that sets you up
in a pretty good situation. The question is, of course,
what kind of consistency are we going to see. Are
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we going to see the Indiana from the first half
of the game, or are we going to see Indiana
from the second half against Perdue or even a reasonable
facsimile there up, so we will see light one, two, three, nine, Green,
twenty six hundred is the number. Lines are open. We
want to hear from you here on this Sunday afternoon
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because looking at the atmosphere here in this place, best
atmosphere that they've had maybe all year, which is expected.
It's Purdue, but still students were lined up to the
road an hour and a half before the game. Fans
were engaged. It was a packed house. It was how
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Assembly Hall is known to be and expected to be.
And this is what people want. And when the Hoosiers
came out and started to struggle through the second half
of the first half, last ten minutes of the first half,
it was an issue. It was an issue. People were antsy.
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And the Hoosiers came back out at about five and
a half minutes left in the half. I thought it
was really early. But whatever was said, it worked and
the kids turned up the intensity and got the job done.
And that is what is important. That's what is important.
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On the chat extension for what he says, Hope wood
he stays a few more years. He finally got over
the hump. We did have Woodson say use that phrase
that he always does, so we have that def on
the chat says amazing, what happens whuld you play with
effort and execution on the defensive end, And that to
me is absolutely the case. That is absolutely the case, Indiana.
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What in the effort on the defensive end of the
floor created turnovers, created live ball, turnovers that led to
easy baskets. The defensive intensity they showed, it's unsustainable for
any team. But again, I'm not asking for what we saw,
you know, in that second half. I'm asking for, you know,
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give me sixty percent of that something where you're really
locked in and you're active on every possession. I think
that that is really a huge part of this that
they were able to do that. Adam says Woodson had
to get fired to get mad enough to actually coach.
I don't know about mad enough, but I will say
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it does seem like he was more willing to take
make some changes along the way. Change up how they
were playing defense, shaking up a lineup, you know, sticking
with one big at a time, sticking with what is
working hasn't always been a strong suit of his. It's
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credit for this one. He shook up the starting lineup.
You started with Ballo and Mbaco on the bench. They
came in and Baco only plays nine minutes and is
scoreless in this one. And we'll go over the individual
stats in just a little bit, but this was a
team that showed up to play in the second half,
and that was really really important. It's just looking right
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here Jordan Halls is walking across the floor about to
say hi to Jeff rab Johnson Trevor Andershock from from
peakus dot com. But it's a good win for Yordy
to have, it for Woodson to have as well, because
this has been a struggle. Eight one to two, three
nine three, twenty six hundred is the number you guys
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all when they lose, So give us a call when
they win. Jeff Sherman says, three and one in a
winning Indian, they'll be able to make a case. Anything
less than that will require winning a big ten tournament.
I don't know about that. Ringon one is really important.
Being able to get to twenty wins. I think that
is that is the important part. That number of twenty
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wins is going to be really, really important. Lynn says
there was some inspiring basketball in the second half either way.
Hopewoods and realizes that kids that play together with heart
and passion on every possession, both offensively and defensively, this
is what this game was about. It was about turning
up the intensity, being able to find what works, and
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effort just about effort and being locked in. And they
rattled perdue in this one. Now, to be fair, Urdu
did a terrible job of guarding the paint. There was
just nothing inside. They could not handle Malik renewed, they
could not handle Umar Balo. The Hoosiers for the game
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score forty four of their seventy three points in the paint. Now,
them scoring a bunch of points in the paint isn't unusual.
That is where the bulk of Indiana's scoring comes from.
And ultimately, when you look at this at the team
from just a stat standpoint, the Hoosiers didn't shoot well
from three, just four of nineteen on the day, and
didn't shoot well from the free throw line just sixty
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five percent. But it wasn't just that they scored plenty
of points in the paint. It is that they the
ease of the points scored in the paint. The Hoosiers
didn't have to work as hard as maybe sometimes they do.
Hoosiers were unselfish with the ball eighteen assists on twenty
eight made baskets, just did a nice job of finding
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the open man and converting, especially in the second half.
Especially in the second half second half, you had eleven
assists on sixteen made baskets. As the Hooiers went sixteen
of twenty five from the floor in the second half alone.
Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is
the number I want to hear from you as I
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wait for for some phone calls to come in, I'm
gonna go ahead and pull up Mike Woodson's postgame press
conference that he had, where again he talks a little
bit about the the chair, which I thought was it
was kind of a fun thing. It just overall talks
about his team's performance against the Boilermakers.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Mike, you guys just had nine gay nine days between games,
and you were down twelve at halftime.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
In both cases, this team could have easily packed it in.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
They didn't.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
What can you say about that second half and how
that happened?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Great second half. I mean, I didn't play very many
people off the bench. I kind of rolled the seniors.
We've been in a lot of close games over the
last month and able to get them over the hump,
and tonight they refused to lose. I thought the second
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half we did everything from a defensive standpoint that we'd
worked on these days that we had to practice, and
it was a nice carryover. You know, we could couldn't
make a shot the first half. I thought we got
some decent looks, we just couldn't make them, and they
made shots. And I thought the second half our defense
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really picked it up and we were able to get
stopped and then we started to make shots.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Mike, I guess sort of double barrel. But two questions
was similar, sort of, I guess strain One what led
to what led you to want to maybe shuffle the
lineup up a little bit? And two, just how do you,
sort of I guess, as a coach evaluate a performance
from the four guys that didn't come off the floor
in the second half, Luke, Anthony, Trey and Miles Well.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I mean in the lull run, you know, we can't
play those guys those many minutes. You know, the rest
of the way, you know, I'm still gonna need guys
to contribute off the bench. So you know, I'm not
throwing in the towel on any of our players. I mean,
I'm a big believer in guys. It's what you do
when you get in the game, and you make the
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most of it to put us in the best position
possible to win. And you know, I don't know it
was senior. You know, seniors. You know that carried us tonight,
and I refused to change up in anything that much,
you know, through throughout the course of the second half.
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And Ballow, you know he'll be back in there, Mac,
He'll get an opportunity to possibly be back in there
again as well. But I elected to go this way
this evening. Yeah, Mike, on that after the game time,
when everyone kind of just rallied around you, hugged you.
What did that moment that love really mean to you?
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It means a lot, you know. You you know, this
is my fourth year here. You know, Anthony and Gallo
and League, you know, they've been around me the longest
and they know truly what I'm about. And you know,
these new guys have had a tough priority time figuring
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me out. But we still got a lot of basketball
still left to try to figure each other out, you know.
But it was special, you know. I mean, anytime your
your players rally around you, because I do love them
and I'm sure they love me as well.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
How important Anthony Leal's efforts particular defense kind of been
a catalyst for you guys when you've had success kind
of down the stretch after putting him the starting lineup
against a hot state.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
You know, he's been huge. I mean you expect that.
You know, Anthony's been around me a while and he's
gone through a lot with me. You know, we didn't
play him a whole lot early because I just didn't
play him, and but he he never quit working, and
you know that's a testament to him as in terms
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of how he approaches the game. And now he's getting
an opportunity to play and he's making the most of it.
And you expect that from seniors. I mean, I wouldn't
expect anything less. So it's a good showing tonight based
on how we played, you know, the second half. So
I'm happy as hell.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Mike miles Rice defense on Braden Smith in the second
half Britain. Smith had five turnovers and even when he
didn't turn it over, he was able to slow them
down quite a bit. He illustrate how important Miles's defense
was at the kind of the head of the Snake.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I thought Miles's defense tonight was probably the best he's
played since he's been here. You know, we had a
few you know, Garden Smith, he can't just play that
that young man with one guy. He's he's really that good.
And you know, Gallo had him some, Anthony had him some.
But I thought Miles did a tremendous job in garden
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him because he's a tough guard. I mean, you know,
when things break down, the ball gets back into his
hands and he's able to make plays with the basketball.
So I thought we did a good job with him tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, because just kind of following up on that, Smith
and Kaufman Wren in the second half combined for two
points on zero five shooting and looks like eight turnovers
just in the second half, Like, what was the key
and why were you so effective to taking those two
guys who were obviously really good out of there.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
They're their main two guys along with Moore, And that's
not taking anything away from the support and cast. You know,
when they beat us up at Westlafaiette, it was those
three that got us. And you know, I just felt
if we could cut one, maybe two, you know, we
put ourselves in a better position to win the ball game.
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And we were fortunate enough to cut both of them,
you know, and which a lot of teams don't do that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Coach, what can you say about your trio of Indiana
kids and Goodie Leland Galloway and their performance in that
second half.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
It was tremendous. You know, like I said earlier, you know,
their seniors, this is their last goal. They won't get
another shot at Purdue unless it's in tournament play. And
you know, since we've been here, it's be The series
now is four and four. So that's something to smile
about because Painter is the hell of a coach and
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he's had some nice players around his program that's helped
him win a lot of games, and so this was
a big win for our program.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yeah, coach right over here, just kind of follow up
on that.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
For you personally, it is if it is your last
time against Purdue as well, what does it mean to
you and how gratifying is it to go out on
a game like this.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Well, it's always special when you beat Purdue. You know,
we had battles when I played here for coach Knight
and Purdue ending my career in college in the sweet sixteen,
so you know, I mean, I've had a history and
a lot of experience in dealing with Purdue over the years,
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and the games are always tough, you know, I mean
regardless of how much talent each team has, who has
the most talent? Those two particular games are always pretty tough.
And I thought we battled the first half, and they
were the better team the first half, but the second
half was our half.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Coach, right here, we all saw that you used Coach
Knight's chair on the bench. Why was that a meaningful
decision for you on the fortieth anniversary of that infamous
chair throw?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
But you guys don't realize that is probably the chair.
I've had it a while. I know a lot of
people say they have the chair. But guy by the
name of Scott Greer, who was the track coach, let's
take that back, not the track coach, the tennis coach
chair many years ago. He was the only one thinking
out of the box that night when night through that chair.
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And that morning he got up and he came to
Simbley Hall and he got the chair, and he got
Sam Bell and and Jaguely and Doc Counselman and Coach
Knight to all sign off on and took pictures with it.
And good friend of mine, his wife was Scott Greer's daughter,
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and they he passed away about a year ago, And
and there sat the little red chair with all the documentation,
and I happened to get my hands on it. So
that's why I was special to have it here tonight.
I wasn't gonna throw the chair, but but I did
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want to sit in it.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Last question, Jeff, Yeah, coach, I just wanted to get
your thoughts on Malik's game tonight, scoring, rebounding, had the
four sets. Just what led to him playing this well,
this consistency, didn't even miss a shot from the field.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Well, we were able to keep him on the floor
here and there. You know, he didn't get in a
whole you know, he had four files I believe coming
down the stretch. But you know we were able to
you know, mix him in and then get him some
rest and get him back in there. But Malik's been
a he's been a solid player for us. You know,
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he reached a thousand point Plaid told today, and that's
that's pretty special, you know when you play college basketball.
So I just I can't help but think if he
continues to work and stay healthy, you know, he'll continue
to do some wonderful things and college basketball.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Thanks coaching.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I take myself off mute. There is Mike Woodson during
his postgame press conference, again compelling argument with the chair.
Because I the whole game. I was like, hey, wait
a second, uh, here's what here's I had been previously
told the chair was lost. So if that's the case, great,
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that's fantastic. That's fantastic. Here here's the The interesting thing
about that press conference is him talking about Anthony Lele
and he's like, I just didn't play him. Given how
useful Anthony Lele has been, how impactful Anthony Lele has
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been without needing the ball in his hands, I really
think that it was an odd thing for an odd answer,
just say I didn't think he was ready, or I
just didn't play him. You know, you should have. You
should have Anthony Leo. By the way, they'd kick a
guy in the junk today and they reviewed it. Yes,
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they thought that he his foot slipped. His foot didn't slip.
He kicked a guy in the junk. The important part
on that is they looked at it and instead of
there being a flagrant, they probably looked at it and said, hey,
you know what, that should have been a foul both ways.
We didn't call it that way. So the produced guy
got his Anthony got his you know, no harm, no foul,
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which I'm actually okay with. I'm actually okay with it.
What I mean, he should have been called for a foul,
should have been probably been a flagrant foul. But here
we are. It's the big ten. Eight, one, two, three,
nine three, twenty six hundred is the number. Give us
a call. I want to hear from you again. It
is one of those situations where Indiana when they lud
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you guys, love to light up the phone lines. I
want to hear from you. Well, wait for some calls
to break down. Some of the individual performances in this game.
Trey Galloway led the Hoosiers. Let's start with Malik Renew
to do that. Him an Gallo both had fifteen points
in this one. Renew gets the start seven to seven,
shooting from the floor, converted his free his only free
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throw attempts, six rebounds, four assists. He did have two turnovers,
had a block and a steal in twenty four minutes.
So even at that, for as effective as he was,
it was more of an efficient game. And he wasn't
asked to play giant minutes, and I think that that
was really important in this one. Trey Galloway fifteen points
on five to ten, shooting one to five from three
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point range. He had four rebounds and nine assists versus
just two turnovers thirty eight minutes for him, he's plus
twenty on the night. Anthony Leal eight points on three
or four shooting five boards, four assists, had two blocks
Anthony Leal did and three steals. I had a huge
game in this one. Luke Goody eleven points on four
to nine, shooting two to six from three point range.
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He had a rebound and he also had a steal
in thirty three minutes. I want to get to Miles
Rice because Rice was an important part of what happened
here at Simon Scott Assembly Hall today. Twelve points on
four to twelve shooting one of three from the three
point range, had two rebounds, one assists. He had three
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steals in thirty one minutes. Now all three of those
steals came in the second half. He was plus twenty
seven on the night because he played all twenty minutes.
In fact, Rice, Leal, Goody, Galloway all played every minute
of the second half, and it was Rice who scores
ten points on three to seven shooting. But it was
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his defense that made the difference. The defense was everything,
playing it simple. Defense was everything in this one, and
it's the reason why Indiana bounced back. It's the reason
why Indiana won the game, and it was because of
the quickness and the way that he was locked in defensively.
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And again, you wonder where the hell has that been
all year, because we've seen some flashes of it. But
that was a silent sustain twenty minutes of playing tough defense,
caring about it on every possession, and really being active.
And Indiana won the ball game because of it. And
it's great for him to get the minutes, great for
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him to be able to get that done. It's important.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
This is a.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Wild team because they can play like they did in
the second half. We've seen it. Know it's a it's
a it's an opportunity. Just doesn't make sense why we
don't see it more often. Eight one, two, three, nine three,
twenty six hundred is the number Hoosiers with just eight
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points off the off the bench in the second half.
They had twelve on the day, twenty three points off
of turnovers, and again you run into that off of turnovers,
they had sixteen points off of turnovers in the second
half alone, I'm sorry, nineteen points off of turnovers in
the second half alone, and they just absolutely disrupted everything
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Purdue was doing. And that's what it comes down to.
On the chat, some talk about the NCAA tournament. You know,
somebody heat says Arkansas's on the bubble with the five
and nine conference record. It's conference record sits here at
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seven and nine, but it's at sixteen and eleven overall.
But they do have a win against Michigan State now,
they do have a win against Purdue. Those are very important,
which makes these last five games absolutely critical. You lose
to Penn State, if you lose to Washington, if you
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lose to Ohio State, even here, you better you better
put together something in the Big Ten tournament. They're running
out of opportunities to build that resume. This is a
huge portion of it. But more than a few are
going to look at things and say, well, yeah, and
Purdue is also slumping real bad because they've now lost
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four straight and that's where they're at. But to me,
it is really really important that they were able to
get this victory, no question about it. Eight one, two, three,
nine three, twenty six hundred is the number. Trecas says.
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Basing out the floor made it easier for points in
the paint, and it did. It did. When you have
room to operate, you spread guys out, it did you
more opportunities to get to the lane. Just makes everything
more free. And that's exactly what Indiana was dealing with.
They were able to just have more room to operate
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because they went one big, swapped out, bollow and renew.
And that's how it should have been going the entire season.
That's how it should have been going the entire season,
and instead that's not what happened at all. Is it
better for our net if Ohio State or UCLA wins
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this game? I don't know that one off the top
of my head. I would.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I would.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I just know that you know, Indiana's got to worry
about itself that that, to me, is the main thing
Indiana worry about itself. Get those victories because getting to
twenty is going to be critical. Ohio State beating UCLA
would certainly help Indiana's win at Columbus. It would raise
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that profile maybe a little bit and knock down UCLA's
considering they want here at Assembly Hall. So maybe that is,
you know, would be a positive for the Hoosiers. But
they have to worry about themselves. That that's the main
part of this. They just have to to worry about themselves.
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Harpoon says on the chat. People in the no say
Indiana must go win three and one or four and
oh get to the twenty win Mendoza line and then
win two games in the Big Ten tournament. I think
more than it's that twenty point twenty win thing is
the key. That line, to me is a big one,
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always has been. Actually, Lynn also says, I think Hoosier fans,
including myself, are delusional when we think the team can
go on a long winning streak when we just lost
eight of our last eleven games. That's where I am
on it, because can the team put together a streak? Sure?
Sure can. Can the team go to and two or
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one and three? Damn right they can because we've seen
them do it. We've seen them do it along the way.
So the challenge here is that letdown game against Penn
State here on Wednesday. I want to go back and
talk about that Penn State game. The Hoosier has won
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that ballgame at the Palestra in Philadelphia. That was not
a true home game for Penn State. The Palestra is
a couple hours away from Penn State, but the students
were on Christmas vacation, so they weren't there. Still, Indiana
scored seventy seven points in that ballgame, and including forty
eight in the second half alone, but Penn State gave
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Indiana all that could handle throughout that game. You consider that,
you know Penn State is not a good basketball team,
not saying that they are, but in that situation on
what is more of a neutral court than anything else,
Penn State, they gave Indiana problem. Their quickness gave Indiana problems.
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So the Hoosias are going to have to stay out
of foul trouble inside. I would like to see Mike
Woodson continue to stick with one big on the floor
and keep moving them back and forth. That's one thing
that hasn't made any sense all season is you have
the opportunity to play bollow and renew plenty of minutes
without wearing either one of them out. In this game,
renew plays twenty four minutes, follow plays twenty two minutes.
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That's about perfect. And you always have a really critical
fresh big on the floor. That makes sense to me
to be able to do that. Uh, Instead, that's not
what we've seen, so that that that is really an important, good,
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good point by Jeff. You want UCLA to keep winning,
so it stays a Q one loss that win at
Ohio State, It'll be Q one no matter what. That's
that's an excellent point. It's an excellent point. Eight one, two, three,
nine three, twenty six hundred is the number board than
a little surprise that you guys are shy on the
phone today, But that's okay. It feels good to get
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a win. Uh. Twitter is such an interesting garbage place too,
as you have somebody on Twitter says is bitching about that.
No compliments from Payter on Indiana's play today. In his
postgame presser, I blamed the loss of one hundred percent
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on his player's lack of concentration. Look, man, I think
that just the easy things that I've seen, the early
things that I've seen. From what he said, he was
complimentary to Indiana. Talked about a challenge when your team
is struggling and it's hard to argue with them. Indiana
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rattled Purdue, their defense rattled Perdue, and in the first
half it didn't happen, and the second half it did.
All that changed ultimately for Indiana was its intensity. That's
what really changed in the second half of this one.
Indiana's defensive intensity got went to eleven and that's what
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it was. Eight one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six
is the number. We got a call call, I have
your name, where you're from? And what you got?
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Yeah, Troy from Elkhart, Hi.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Troy from Elkhart. Great to hear from you again.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Good to you know, good to hear your show.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
And you know it's great when we had today, just
going off of what you were saying, I you know
the whole, you know, and I've made that comment, you
know about.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
The you know, spacing out the floor. Why what you
couldn't figure out the whole? You know, I can't play
Bollo and renew at the same time. Otherwise, is cloud
got the saying why it took them till now to
figure that out? It just baffles my mind. You know,
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it's the bottom what it could have. But then you
just wonder how the season would have been and if
you you know previous seasons, the you know, you know,
if he would have figured some things out, you just
wonder and it's you know, I've said it before in
the comments, you know, a day late and dollar court h.
(36:22):
I just I feel bad for what he is a coach.
I feel bad to players, I feel bad for us
as fans because the event's so much different.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Let me ask you why you feel as a coach.
I agree with you the players and the fans, but
why do you feel bad for what he as a coach?
It seems to me that since he made this announcement
that all of a sudden you've seen far a different approach.
And it took almost you know, being forced out for
him to start to change what he was doing. These
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changes could have come earlier in the season, but there
was almost a stubbornness to it that is odd to me.
So I was curious about why why you feel sorry
for Woody as a.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Coach, because his intentions is coming back to Indiana were
we're pop you know, we're good intentions, and you know,
he he he really shouldn't have been a coach. Here's
no collegiate coaching experience and no understanding of recruiting and
all that stuff, and then getting rid of Mata and
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you know, I don't know the situation with pride for
getting rid of prices as well. Uh just didn't help
the situation.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Both decisions that were woody based to what both decisions
that uh you know, wood he made too. Yeah, he
didn't even lean on what Mada was was offering as
much as he could have. And that to me, that
that's why I I just I just I understand what
you're saying. Absolutely, he wanted this to work, but I
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also feel like he maybe wasn't as open to suggestions
until he actually announced that he was leaving.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
And and you see in all aspects of life, you know, work,
situations relates, you know, just friendship, personal relationship, et cetera,
et cetera. I've I just with what do you would
have seen the light before instead of having to go
through this? I guess that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
But I understand.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
I'm glad we're moving forward. Yeah, I just lads to
the win lads happy that you know, Purdue and their
fans could hear, because that's our stance. It's not that's
not for them to use against us, or for any
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other teams to use against us. That's for us to
use against other teams. When we say who's your daddy?
We mean it? Uh yeah. So anyways, you know, like
the efforts of players, especial player on the defensive side,
and you know, like you said, and others have said
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one where it's been all year regarding you know, I'll
nitpicks on a few small things once one a little, big,
big thing. Pray, for the love of God, please no
more free that's just not your shot. I know you
make him every now and then, but he's ope those
that that is not your shot. And and then goodie,
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I I I'll knit picked on. You know, it was
under five minutes they were pressing us, being bounded, his
ball on the sidelines, the ball back and he's behind
the half court line. For for some reason, he's holding
the ball instead of just crossing over the line. There's
no one in between him and the half court. That's
that's all I do. Stuff that I are fundamentals whatever
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you want to call it. As a as a Rabbit fan,
I don't understand why he was holding the ball. And
and you know, just replayed again. It was right under
you know, about under between five and four and a
half minutes left in the game, and he just hold it.
Just someone as across the half court and it's like, dude,
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you got like two feet to get across half court line.
You know that that's just about as bad as when
I see us. Uh. You know, Waite goes about, you know,
seven to five seconds left and the shot class before
we take it, shot before we decide to actually make
takes the most to get to a shot, and then
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you know, we wonder why we have these you know,
low percentage got at you know at the end of
the shot class. Uh, that's just you know, again, I'll
knitpick takes. I got in it to get something, even
in the wins. But I'm overall very happy and again
glad we got to and up your daddy and for
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you in their fans and hearing that and understand point
of that, cant.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Well, that's one thing. I am very happy about the
victory for the fans because they they've wanted this for
a long time and they want to cheer for this program.
They want. It's not a matter of negativity, because negativity
just to be negative. To me, people are dying for
a good basketball program here, and so at least for
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one afternoon, one half, they got exactly what they were
looking for. I really appreciate the ABU.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
Yeah that's the other for one path. Yeah yeah, apiated.
Appreciate you still man.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Thank you good therapy, Yes, sir, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Thank thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Thanks. Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred
is a number we got somebody else that's on the
call right now. We have a call here. This one
a little bit different, says anonymous. So let's see what
this one is. So call her to have your name,
where you're from, and what you got.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
I can't.
Speaker 10 (42:11):
This is Kevin in Bloomington.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Hi, Kevin, how are you doing.
Speaker 10 (42:15):
I'm good, good, No, just enjoyed the game. I pretty
well checked out after the Iowa Illinois blowout. I did
watch today because it was Purdue here. Totally dull with Woodson,
but did enjoy the game. I'm curious your thoughts on
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postseason if we don't get in the tournament, which I
don't think we will. You know, I don't know, maybe
they're back into something, but do you think that they
accept an NI t bid? And also I've heard something
about some kind of other champions tournament or some do
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you know what I'm referring to be put.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
On by Fox.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah, I've heard. I know you mentioned it. I vaguely
remember seeing something about that, but I I I don't
know how you qualify for that if if it's I'm
trying to think if that is a thing that I've
that it was for teams that won their regular season
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championship and lost in their conference tournament. Maybe I don't
know exactly what, but that seems like vaguely familiar to me.
I would be surprised, if you know, they go to
the n I T if they would accept a bit,
because more teams are walking away from that. And then
you also get into a situation where some players might
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decide I'm not going to bother with the n I
T and and cut out of this thing. Look either
way you look at it, I really feel that next
year's roster is going to be so drastically different that
that we're seeing the last five, six, seven games of
most of these guys that are on the roster. So
I think that if you get into the postseason, it's
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one thing it's the NCAA Tournament, it's something completely different
if it's the NIT or or a different tournament. So
that to me, is is where I would be curious.
I'd be surprised. If guys are willing to play in
those kind of events, I.
Speaker 10 (44:23):
Hope so I really don't want to watch them in
the n it. I'm not hoping for that. I want
this to be over. After the Big Kid Tournament. I'm
ready to move on. So I'll hang up, kid.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
I love your stuff, buddy, and have a.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Great day, all right, Thank you so much, appreciate it,
Thank you so much to call.
Speaker 11 (44:40):
It.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
One two, three, nine, three, twenty six hundred is the
number this is. I don't know exactly what the story
is here. You have a looks like a Twitter feed
called Bob Knight Legacy, the official account of basketball coach
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Basketball Hall of Fame coach Bob Knight, managed by Knight Legacy,
and in it this this old tweet. It says, don't
believe everything you hear on TV. We have good reason
to believe otherwise that the chair is different. The way
I'm reading is they're saying that they have the chair
and they have a picture. So I don't know. I
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don't know that. To me, that's an interesting, uh interesting
side note to today. And the historian in me says, yeah,
I know, this is it's it's a great discussion. It's
a great discussion. Uh Ethan says, had to get off
Twitter because of how toxic the fan base was getting
on there. It's Twitter in general, you know, rot your brain.
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I try not to get on there too much. Jeff says,
the great thing about this final stretch is just root
for IU Wood. He has gone regardless of the outcome.
There's no draft pick. Let's win and see what happens. Okay.
So that's actually, uh an excellent point and something that
has been brought up before.
Speaker 11 (46:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
This is and somebody on actually Twitter asked me after
the game. He said, one of the things I want
to bring up, well, let's see what he beats Purdue,
not just today but several times. It may still get
into the tournament, has been in the tournament. Still want
to see him go. And my answer to that was yeah,
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because one half doesn't change a season. Let's not let's
not fall into recency bias here and and have it
to where, hey, you know what, that's Indiana one a
ball game. So that is it's changed everything. The die
is cast on where we're going from here. And I
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think that's really important because eking your way into the
NCAA tournament is uh not what we're what you're looking
for here at Indiana. It's not a matter of being delusional,
it's not a matter of anything. You're your year four,
You have an nil support the likes of which few
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teams can match. You should be contending in the mix
for a Big ten championship. You shouldn't be playing with
the bubble for the NCAA tournament. But at the very least,
you should be absolutely in the mix for the Big
ten championship along the way, instead of going on a
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five to six game losing streaker or you know, not
winning a game for nearly two months in Assembly Hall.
So this is still to unchange anything about the season.
It's great for a Sunday and Eric has it exactly right.
I'm happy Wood he is four and four against Purdue,
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but the goal that I use to win Big ten
championships and he's not even been close. And that's exactly
the take away. Eight one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six.
It's a number. We got another call caller for your name,
where you're from, and what you got?
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Hello?
Speaker 11 (48:11):
Can you hear me? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (48:12):
I can hear you. Just find how you doing tonight?
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Okay?
Speaker 10 (48:15):
All right.
Speaker 4 (48:16):
My name is Steve.
Speaker 11 (48:17):
I'm actually from Logan Fort, Indiana, and uh as I
watched the game today. Completely different effort and defensive effort
in the second halt. We have not seen that all seasons.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
This is my thoughts. Absolutely, absolutely in the second half
and is a completely different effort level.
Speaker 11 (48:41):
Yes, so I'm not what turned them around, but that
is something that we have not seen this whole year.
And very surprised that it took, you know, us gitting
down to Purdue, you know, by double digit, to them
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back and the log.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
In, Yeah, why does it take that to have the
light come on? I agree? I agree completely, yes, and
again it's one of the one of those games where
the talent is there. You know, the talent is there.
You see it, and you just wonder why we don't
see it more consistently.
Speaker 11 (49:20):
Why isn't The question is why isn't the effort there?
Speaker 4 (49:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (49:26):
I tell my do I second and third grade team
that I coached one thing that you can always control
as your effort. You're not going to make every shot, right,
but you could you could try.
Speaker 11 (49:36):
Yes, And as a motivator, you should be able to
motivate your team to play defense and and really get
after your opponent each game. So very surprised. I again,
I don't want to back them a great win. I
was very surprised that they came back because I honestly
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at that time, thought that they game was over. And
now actually I think if they can get motivated, they've
got one, two, three, four more games. They can win
these games. They could get into the NCAA tournament. But
I still don't see this team, you know, going any further,
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maybe than the first round.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
Yeah, classic trap game coming up Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (50:23):
Tell you that.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (50:26):
So, uh just wanted to call in.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
Appreciate everything you do.
Speaker 11 (50:30):
I'd like to listen to your games after the seasons
or after each game, so appreciate one to call in.
Just take the comment, appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (50:43):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (50:44):
Thanks. Eight one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six is
the number. It's starting to come in. Now we've got
another caller. Caller, if I have your name, where you're from,
and what you've got.
Speaker 8 (50:56):
Hey, it's peterful, California.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Hey, Peter, how you doing.
Speaker 10 (51:00):
I'm doing pretty good.
Speaker 4 (51:01):
I'm just docked.
Speaker 8 (51:04):
Try not to act surprised, but uh, you know, I
traveled to watch this team quite a bit this year.
I went to the Bahamas and was just you know,
I wasn't in the Bahamas. I don't think I would
even entertain the idea of going back to Bloomington for
this game. I ended up bailing last minute because I
just did not want to go through that emotional roller
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coaster and I just had to inclusion already in my
mind of what was going to happen.
Speaker 6 (51:31):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (51:32):
And right now I'm fighting the urge. I just I
expect this team to come out in one of the
upcoming games and trouble lull where they give up a
big week and then fight just to get back to
even and then fall short. And it's just such a
horrible need to be in because I want to root
for this team. I'd love to see Mike Woodson go
out on at least a positive note and have some
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of the kids that are that are fighting at least
see acknowledge did not have all this sustain But it's
kind of where I'm at, and I I'm very proud
of the effort they gave today.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Yeah, absolutely, And everybody keeps using that word effort and
rightfully so. And uh again, people want to root for
the team. They want to root for a future that
can be brighter. And you see a game like this
and it's encouraging because again it shows you what is
possible for this team that we just haven't seen it
with any kind of consistency.
Speaker 4 (52:24):
Exactly.
Speaker 8 (52:24):
And you know, I won't even let myself or you know,
entertain the NC double as Like I said, I've traveled.
I went to see Whatston you and I know they
got a back, you know, going out to Portland after
they won the playing game, but they got their doors
blown off in that NT double a game. Well, you know,
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a handful games has gone to I mean, my my
coverage is not think of the games that I've gone to.
The one one we had was against Michigan State State
a couple of years years ago in mar Bates, you know,
played out of his mind. But I just want to
call and say you're doing a great job. I'm really
happy for the guys, and we'll see what happens. But
I do think writer finger ahead and you know, again,
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hopefully these guys.
Speaker 4 (53:09):
A lot of the positive bills.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Yeah, absolutely, I agree. I appreciate the call, and uh,
you know, thank you so much for the support.
Speaker 10 (53:18):
Of course I'm a good one.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Thanks. Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred
is the number. Uh, just stay on for a couple
more minutes here for anybody else that wants to hop
in here. Look, every time Indiana has had a season
and here under Mike Woods and it's been a blowout loss,
doesn't mean it's going to happen this year. History doesn't
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predict that every team is different, and again, opportunities still
exist this year and it's it's really kind of amazing
because the fact that they were able to beef up
their win total throughout November and December is really really important.
At this point, there's seven and nine overall in the
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Big Ten. You want to get that. You know, certainly
you have the opportunity here to get to what is it,
eleven and nine, you're five hundred and the Big Ten.
You get to twenty wins, you're going to have yourself
a good opportunity. Some of the upsets in the conference
tournament will make a difference. So it's still a rocky
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road to get there, but you know, just being able
to build on this second half is going to be
really really important. I say that this Penn State game
is a classic trap game because it is you know,
you come off a big high of beating Purdue. Have
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a home game eight thirty on a Wednesday. The crowd
won't be nearly what it was today because it's it's
a Wednesday evening. And then there's a trip to the
West Coast coming up March first and March fourth, so
you're gonna have a whole different situation there and being
able to put together a stack a couple of wins
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after all that travel won't necessarily be super easy. Take care, yeh.
Trevor Andershock coming by on his way out. I know
that he's already given his thoughts on the game. Be
sure to check that out on peaks dot com. Him
and Rabbi and Jared Kelly got together. But Washington sits
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in the last place in the Big Ten. That's the
other thing is Penn State is second to last in
the Big Ten. Washington is lasting the Big Ten. Oregon's
sitting at nine and eight in conference, and Ohio State's
at seven and nine, and Indiana needed overtime to beat
them at their place. Again, opportunities here. That trip to
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the West Coast is going to make a huge difference
on this season is going to look like. Well, the
Hoosiers managed to pull off the victory at Simon Scott
Assembly Hall by playing their best half of basketball of
the Mike Woodson era here in the second half, outscore
Purdue by twenty seven points in the second half and
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completely a race at twelve point deficit. Firecrackers were here
at halftime. That is my favorite halftime show. Always gets
the place really excited. Haven't had a lot of halftime shows.
This year's been a little bit different, but they had
the fire crackers today and that's fun if you know.
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The Firecrackers, by the way, is a jump rope group,
a bunch of kids doing jump rope, and it sounds silly,
but they're really really impressive, really really high energy and
really got the crowd, you know, perked up. And then
the Indiana ran off sixth straight i think in to
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open the second half, and that allowed that energy from
halftime to continue to build and so that was really
important for the Hoosiers as well that they were able
to do that. They scored the win. Mike Woodson four
and four in his eight games against Purdue, and again,
as you heard him say, unless they meet in the tournament.
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That's it for him. Taking on Purdue, a big win
for the program, a big win for the fans, a
big confidence building win for the Hoosiers, and now you
got to do it again. And that has been where
Indiana has struggled a little bit. But you know, it's
a day to time. At this point, we know what
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the future is going to be in terms of if
Woodson will be back or not. The chair thing was
a cool thing, even with the little controversy. We'll keep
an eye on that. So I love that. But Indiana
seventy three to fifty eight winners at Skimon's Simon's got
Assembly Hall, moved to sixteen and eleven on the season
and keep their path to an NCAA tournament appearance open
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at least for another couple of days. What's all the
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Folks are out of time. But for now and for Jeff, Trevor,
Matt and Jared, I'm ken Biakoff saying thanks for listening. Everybody,
Him. You're doing everybody on ten bike offf and welcome
to the Piague's Close Game Live. Indiana scores a huge, huge,
seventy three to fifty eight win over the Purdue boiler
Makers as Indiana really just put together it's best second
half I've seen in the Mike Woodson era. It's really
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that simple. Indiana has just turned in the best performance
that we've seen from them in a long time. In
that second half, the Hoosiers outscore Purdue forty eight to
twenty one in the half, hold Purdue to just thirty
percent shooting after the break, erased quickly a twelve point
halftime deficit in front of a raucous crowd at Assignmon
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Scott Assembly Hall. Indiana scores forty eight points in the
second half, shoots fifty two per cent overall, sixty four
overall from the field in the second half alone, and
just absolutely took it to to do and never let
them crawl back in once this this massive run they had,
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including a fourteen and nothing run that they put together.
Indiana just just dominated this second half and it made
you question, you know, what what it is that that
has been missing from the from this team. They one, two, three, nine,
six hundred is your number. I'm here to take your
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calls here, and I'm just really really excited for what
you have to say about this one, because this is
a game that I admitted I came in and I
thought Indiana would win this thing. They they have not
maybe been playing their best basketball of late, but they
played Purdue tough in Mackie Arena, Produce slumping a little bit,
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and as this time off has built, I thought to myself,
you know what, I think that the Hooterras are going
to be able to squeak out in this one. Then
they come out and they turn in kind of a
dud of a first half. There was some booze in
the stands and going into halftime and the place was
was kind of dead, kind of dead. And then the
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Hoosiers come out in the second half and just absolutely
torch perdue in every single way. Indiana turned for sixteen
perdue turnovers versus taking care of the ball themselves just
seven turnovers on the night for Indiana. Head coach Mike
Woodson stuck with his his seniors. Basically in the second
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half thelone, Indiana played just six players. You had Miles
Rice Anthony Leo, Malik Renew Goodie, Trey Galloway, and Umar
Ballo and that's it, and then includes McKenzie and Baco
who did not see the floor in the second half.
As it is, Indiana only went eight deep, adding Carlisle
and Imbaco, but they weren't doing what they needed to
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do and the Hoosiers end up pulling off the victory.
I want to hear from you at one, two, three,
ninety three, twenty six hundred is the number. We have
a lot to go through with this ballgame, because Indiana
turned in a performance I don't think a lot of
people saw coming. You had kind of an odd thing
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to it, being the fortieth anniversary of night Throwing the
chair and Mike Woodson says that he has the actual chair.
That was a bit of a head scratcher for me,
because you know, that's something that I've looked into before
and other people have as well, and the cot the
consensus was nobody knew where the chair was. The actual chair. Woodson,
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at least in his postgame that you'll here in just
a few minutes, did make kind of a compelling argument
that that that it is the actual chair and if
it is that's great. That's great. I'm a history guy.
I absolutely love that. But Indiana being able to pull
off this victory was very exciting for these fans, for
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the players who deserved one of these, and especially for
the way they played in the second half. The Miles
Rice is somebody that I've been hard on myself this season,
and I don't feel bad about it because of his inconsistency,
but credit where credit is due. He really changed what
this ball club was doing and was able to completely
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control what Braden Smith was doing in the second half. Smith,
a huge part of what Purdue has done this year,
is held to just eight points on the game. He
had just one point in eighteen minutes in the second
half and had five turnovers. And it's one of those
games where you say, hey, you know this defensive in
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tensity was fantastic. Where the hell has this been all year?
And again, if you even got sixty percent of this
every game, it would be a different season. We're not
going to worry about the past. There's nothing that could
be changed about that. This win is really important in
building an opportunity for Indiana to go to the NCAA Tournament,
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which is just mind boggling considering the struggles that they've had.
But the resume is what the resume is, and there
are opportunities coming up for Indiana in the very near future,
including Wednesday here at Simon Scott All Assembly Hall against
Penn State. Indiana sits at sixteen and eleven overall after
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this victory. If the Indiana is able to go ahead
and beat Penn State here, go out to the West
coast and beat Washington and Oregon and play Ohio State here,
that's an extra four wins, get you to twenty wins
before the Big ten tournament, and that sets you up
in a pretty good situation. The question is, of course,
what kind of consistency are we going to see. Are
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we going to see the Indiana from the first half
of the game, or are we going to see Indiana
from the second half against Perdue or even a reasonable
facsimile there up, so we will see light one, two, three, nine, Green,
twenty six hundred is the number. Lines are open. We
want to hear from you here on this Sunday afternoon
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because looking at the atmosphere here in this place, best
atmosphere that they've had maybe all year, which is expected.
It's Purdue, but still students were lined up to the
road an hour and a half before the game. Fans
were engaged. It was a packed house. It was how
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Assembly Hall is known to be and expected to be.
And this is what people want. And when the Hoosiers
came out and started to struggle through the second half
of the first half, last ten minutes of the first half,
it was an issue. It was an issue. People were antsy.
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And the Hoosiers came back out at about five and
a half minutes left in the half. I thought it
was really early. But whatever was said, it worked and
the kids turned up the intensity and got the job done.
And that is what is important. That's what is important.
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On the chat extension for what he says, Hope wood
he stays a few more years. He finally got over
the hump. We did have Woodson say use that phrase
that he always does, so we have that def on
the chat says amazing, what happens whuld you play with
effort and execution on the defensive end, And that to
me is absolutely the case. That is absolutely the case, Indiana.
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What in the effort on the defensive end of the
floor created turnovers, created live ball, turnovers that led to
easy baskets. The defensive intensity they showed, it's unsustainable for
any team. But again, I'm not asking for what we saw,
you know, in that second half. I'm asking for, you know,
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give me sixty percent of that something where you're really
locked in and you're active on every possession. I think
that that is really a huge part of this that
they were able to do that. Adam says Woodson had
to get fired to get mad enough to actually coach.
I don't know about mad enough, but I will say
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it does seem like he was more willing to take
make some changes along the way. Change up how they
were playing defense, shaking up a lineup, you know, sticking
with one big at a time, sticking with what is
working hasn't always been a strong suit of his. It's
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credit for this one. He shook up the starting lineup.
You started with Ballo and Mbaco on the bench. They
came in and Baco only plays nine minutes and is
scoreless in this one. And we'll go over the individual
stats in just a little bit, but this was a
team that showed up to play in the second half,
and that was really really important. It's just looking right
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here Jordan Halls is walking across the floor about to
say hi to Jeff rab Johnson Trevor Andershock from from
peakus dot com. But it's a good win for Yordy
to have, it for Woodson to have as well, because
this has been a struggle. Eight one to two, three
nine three, twenty six hundred is the number you guys
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all when they lose, So give us a call when
they win. Jeff Sherman says, three and one in a
winning Indian, they'll be able to make a case. Anything
less than that will require winning a big ten tournament.
I don't know about that. Ringon one is really important.
Being able to get to twenty wins. I think that
is that is the important part. That number of twenty
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wins is going to be really, really important. Lynn says
there was some inspiring basketball in the second half either way.
Hopewoods and realizes that kids that play together with heart
and passion on every possession, both offensively and defensively, this
is what this game was about. It was about turning
up the intensity, being able to find what works, and
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effort just about effort and being locked in. And they
rattled perdue in this one. Now, to be fair, Urdu
did a terrible job of guarding the paint. There was
just nothing inside. They could not handle Malik renewed, they
could not handle Umar Balo. The Hoosiers for the game
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score forty four of their seventy three points in the paint. Now,
them scoring a bunch of points in the paint isn't unusual.
That is where the bulk of Indiana's scoring comes from.
And ultimately, when you look at this at the team
from just a stat standpoint, the Hoosiers didn't shoot well
from three, just four of nineteen on the day, and
didn't shoot well from the free throw line just sixty
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five percent. But it wasn't just that they scored plenty
of points in the paint. It is that they the
ease of the points scored in the paint. The Hoosiers
didn't have to work as hard as maybe sometimes they do.
Hoosiers were unselfish with the ball eighteen assists on twenty
eight made baskets, just did a nice job of finding
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the open man and converting, especially in the second half.
Especially in the second half second half, you had eleven
assists on sixteen made baskets. As the Hooiers went sixteen
of twenty five from the floor in the second half alone.
Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is
the number I want to hear from you as I
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wait for for some phone calls to come in, I'm
gonna go ahead and pull up Mike Woodson's postgame press
conference that he had, where again he talks a little
bit about the the chair, which I thought was it
was kind of a fun thing. It just overall talks
about his team's performance against the Boilermakers.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Mike, you guys just had nine gay nine days between games,
and you were down twelve at halftime.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
In both cases, this team could have easily packed it in.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
They didn't.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
What can you say about that second half and how
that happened?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Great second half. I mean, I didn't play very many
people off the bench. I kind of rolled the seniors.
We've been in a lot of close games over the
last month and able to get them over the hump,
and tonight they refused to lose. I thought the second
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half we did everything from a defensive standpoint that we'd
worked on these days that we had to practice, and
it was a nice carryover. You know, we could couldn't
make a shot the first half. I thought we got
some decent looks, we just couldn't make them, and they
made shots. And I thought the second half our defense
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really picked it up and we were able to get
stopped and then we started to make shots.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Mike, I guess sort of double barrel. But two questions
was similar, sort of, I guess strain One what led
to what led you to want to maybe shuffle the
lineup up a little bit? And two, just how do you,
sort of I guess, as a coach evaluate a performance
from the four guys that didn't come off the floor
in the second half, Luke, Anthony, Trey and Miles Well.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I mean in the lull run, you know, we can't
play those guys those many minutes. You know, the rest
of the way, you know, I'm still gonna need guys
to contribute off the bench. So you know, I'm not
throwing in the towel on any of our players. I mean,
I'm a big believer in guys. It's what you do
when you get in the game, and you make the
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most of it to put us in the best position
possible to win. And you know, I don't know it
was senior. You know, seniors. You know that carried us tonight,
and I refused to change up in anything that much,
you know, through throughout the course of the second half.
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And Ballow, you know he'll be back in there, Mac,
He'll get an opportunity to possibly be back in there
again as well. But I elected to go this way
this evening. Yeah, Mike, on that after the game time,
when everyone kind of just rallied around you, hugged you.
What did that moment that love really mean to you?
(15:04):
It means a lot, you know. You you know, this
is my fourth year here. You know, Anthony and Gallo
and League, you know, they've been around me the longest
and they know truly what I'm about. And you know,
these new guys have had a tough priority time figuring
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me out. But we still got a lot of basketball
still left to try to figure each other out, you know.
But it was special, you know. I mean, anytime your
your players rally around you, because I do love them
and I'm sure they love me as well.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
How important Anthony Leal's efforts particular defense kind of been
a catalyst for you guys when you've had success kind
of down the stretch after putting him the starting lineup
against a hot state.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
You know, he's been huge. I mean you expect that.
You know, Anthony's been around me a while and he's
gone through a lot with me. You know, we didn't
play him a whole lot early because I just didn't
play him, and but he he never quit working, and
you know that's a testament to him as in terms
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of how he approaches the game. And now he's getting
an opportunity to play and he's making the most of it.
And you expect that from seniors. I mean, I wouldn't
expect anything less. So it's a good showing tonight based
on how we played, you know, the second half. So
I'm happy as hell.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Mike miles Rice defense on Braden Smith in the second
half Britain. Smith had five turnovers and even when he
didn't turn it over, he was able to slow them
down quite a bit. He illustrate how important Miles's defense
was at the kind of the head of the Snake.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I thought Miles's defense tonight was probably the best he's
played since he's been here. You know, we had a
few you know, Garden Smith, he can't just play that
that young man with one guy. He's he's really that good.
And you know, Gallo had him some, Anthony had him some.
But I thought Miles did a tremendous job in garden
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him because he's a tough guard. I mean, you know,
when things break down, the ball gets back into his
hands and he's able to make plays with the basketball.
So I thought we did a good job with him tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, because just kind of following up on that, Smith
and Kaufman Wren in the second half combined for two
points on zero five shooting and looks like eight turnovers
just in the second half, Like, what was the key
and why were you so effective to taking those two
guys who were obviously really good out of there.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
They're their main two guys along with Moore, And that's
not taking anything away from the support and cast. You know,
when they beat us up at Westlafaiette, it was those
three that got us. And you know, I just felt
if we could cut one, maybe two, you know, we
put ourselves in a better position to win the ball game.
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And we were fortunate enough to cut both of them,
you know, and which a lot of teams don't do that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Coach, what can you say about your trio of Indiana
kids and Goodie Leland Galloway and their performance in that
second half.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
It was tremendous. You know, like I said earlier, you know,
their seniors, this is their last goal. They won't get
another shot at Purdue unless it's in tournament play. And
you know, since we've been here, it's be The series
now is four and four. So that's something to smile
about because Painter is the hell of a coach and
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he's had some nice players around his program that's helped
him win a lot of games, and so this was
a big win for our program.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yeah, coach right over here, just kind of follow up
on that.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
For you personally, it is if it is your last
time against Purdue as well, what does it mean to
you and how gratifying is it to go out on
a game like this.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Well, it's always special when you beat Purdue. You know,
we had battles when I played here for coach Knight
and Purdue ending my career in college in the sweet sixteen,
so you know, I mean, I've had a history and
a lot of experience in dealing with Purdue over the years,
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and the games are always tough, you know, I mean
regardless of how much talent each team has, who has
the most talent? Those two particular games are always pretty tough.
And I thought we battled the first half, and they
were the better team the first half, but the second
half was our half.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Coach, right here, we all saw that you used Coach
Knight's chair on the bench. Why was that a meaningful
decision for you on the fortieth anniversary of that infamous
chair throw?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
But you guys don't realize that is probably the chair.
I've had it a while. I know a lot of
people say they have the chair. But guy by the
name of Scott Greer, who was the track coach, let's
take that back, not the track coach, the tennis coach
chair many years ago. He was the only one thinking
out of the box that night when night through that chair.
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And that morning he got up and he came to
Simbley Hall and he got the chair, and he got
Sam Bell and and Jaguely and Doc Counselman and Coach
Knight to all sign off on and took pictures with it.
And good friend of mine, his wife was Scott Greer's daughter,
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and they he passed away about a year ago, And
and there sat the little red chair with all the documentation,
and I happened to get my hands on it. So
that's why I was special to have it here tonight.
I wasn't gonna throw the chair, but but I did
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want to sit in it.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Last question, Jeff, Yeah, coach, I just wanted to get
your thoughts on Malik's game tonight, scoring, rebounding, had the
four sets. Just what led to him playing this well,
this consistency, didn't even miss a shot from the field.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Well, we were able to keep him on the floor
here and there. You know, he didn't get in a
whole you know, he had four files I believe coming
down the stretch. But you know we were able to
you know, mix him in and then get him some
rest and get him back in there. But Malik's been
a he's been a solid player for us. You know,
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he reached a thousand point Plaid told today, and that's
that's pretty special, you know when you play college basketball.
So I just I can't help but think if he
continues to work and stay healthy, you know, he'll continue
to do some wonderful things and college basketball.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Thanks coaching.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I take myself off mute. There is Mike Woodson during
his postgame press conference, again compelling argument with the chair.
Because I the whole game. I was like, hey, wait
a second, uh, here's what here's I had been previously
told the chair was lost. So if that's the case, great,
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that's fantastic. That's fantastic. Here here's the The interesting thing
about that press conference is him talking about Anthony Lele
and he's like, I just didn't play him. Given how
useful Anthony Lele has been, how impactful Anthony Lele has
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been without needing the ball in his hands, I really
think that it was an odd thing for an odd answer,
just say I didn't think he was ready, or I
just didn't play him. You know, you should have. You
should have Anthony Leo. By the way, they'd kick a
guy in the junk today and they reviewed it. Yes,
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they thought that he his foot slipped. His foot didn't slip.
He kicked a guy in the junk. The important part
on that is they looked at it and instead of
there being a flagrant, they probably looked at it and said, hey,
you know what, that should have been a foul both ways.
We didn't call it that way. So the produced guy
got his Anthony got his you know, no harm, no foul,
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which I'm actually okay with. I'm actually okay with it.
What I mean, he should have been called for a foul,
should have been probably been a flagrant foul. But here
we are. It's the big ten. Eight, one, two, three,
nine three, twenty six hundred is the number. Give us
a call. I want to hear from you again. It
is one of those situations where Indiana when they lud
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you guys, love to light up the phone lines. I
want to hear from you. Well, wait for some calls
to break down. Some of the individual performances in this game.
Trey Galloway led the Hoosiers. Let's start with Malik Renew
to do that. Him an Gallo both had fifteen points
in this one. Renew gets the start seven to seven,
shooting from the floor, converted his free his only free
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throw attempts, six rebounds, four assists. He did have two turnovers,
had a block and a steal in twenty four minutes.
So even at that, for as effective as he was,
it was more of an efficient game. And he wasn't
asked to play giant minutes, and I think that that
was really important in this one. Trey Galloway fifteen points
on five to ten, shooting one to five from three
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point range. He had four rebounds and nine assists versus
just two turnovers thirty eight minutes for him, he's plus
twenty on the night. Anthony Leal eight points on three
or four shooting five boards, four assists, had two blocks
Anthony Leal did and three steals. I had a huge
game in this one. Luke Goody eleven points on four
to nine, shooting two to six from three point range.
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He had a rebound and he also had a steal
in thirty three minutes. I want to get to Miles
Rice because Rice was an important part of what happened
here at Simon Scott Assembly Hall today. Twelve points on
four to twelve shooting one of three from the three
point range, had two rebounds, one assists. He had three
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steals in thirty one minutes. Now all three of those
steals came in the second half. He was plus twenty
seven on the night because he played all twenty minutes.
In fact, Rice, Leal, Goody, Galloway all played every minute
of the second half, and it was Rice who scores
ten points on three to seven shooting. But it was
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his defense that made the difference. The defense was everything,
playing it simple. Defense was everything in this one, and
it's the reason why Indiana bounced back. It's the reason
why Indiana won the game, and it was because of
the quickness and the way that he was locked in defensively.
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And again, you wonder where the hell has that been
all year, because we've seen some flashes of it. But
that was a silent sustain twenty minutes of playing tough defense,
caring about it on every possession, and really being active.
And Indiana won the ball game because of it. And
it's great for him to get the minutes, great for
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him to be able to get that done. It's important.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
This is a.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Wild team because they can play like they did in
the second half. We've seen it. Know it's a it's
a it's an opportunity. Just doesn't make sense why we
don't see it more often. Eight one, two, three, nine three,
twenty six hundred is the number Hoosiers with just eight
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points off the off the bench in the second half.
They had twelve on the day, twenty three points off
of turnovers, and again you run into that off of turnovers,
they had sixteen points off of turnovers in the second
half alone, I'm sorry, nineteen points off of turnovers in
the second half alone, and they just absolutely disrupted everything
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Purdue was doing. And that's what it comes down to.
On the chat, some talk about the NCAA tournament. You know,
somebody heat says Arkansas's on the bubble with the five
and nine conference record. It's conference record sits here at
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seven and nine, but it's at sixteen and eleven overall.
But they do have a win against Michigan State now,
they do have a win against Purdue. Those are very important,
which makes these last five games absolutely critical. You lose
to Penn State, if you lose to Washington, if you
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lose to Ohio State, even here, you better you better
put together something in the Big Ten tournament. They're running
out of opportunities to build that resume. This is a
huge portion of it. But more than a few are
going to look at things and say, well, yeah, and
Purdue is also slumping real bad because they've now lost
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four straight and that's where they're at. But to me,
it is really really important that they were able to
get this victory, no question about it. Eight one, two, three,
nine three, twenty six hundred is the number. Trecas says.
(29:07):
Basing out the floor made it easier for points in
the paint, and it did. It did. When you have
room to operate, you spread guys out, it did you
more opportunities to get to the lane. Just makes everything
more free. And that's exactly what Indiana was dealing with.
They were able to just have more room to operate
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because they went one big, swapped out, bollow and renew.
And that's how it should have been going the entire season.
That's how it should have been going the entire season,
and instead that's not what happened at all. Is it
better for our net if Ohio State or UCLA wins
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this game? I don't know that one off the top
of my head. I would.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I would.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I just know that you know, Indiana's got to worry
about itself that that, to me, is the main thing
Indiana worry about itself. Get those victories because getting to
twenty is going to be critical. Ohio State beating UCLA
would certainly help Indiana's win at Columbus. It would raise
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that profile maybe a little bit and knock down UCLA's
considering they want here at Assembly Hall. So maybe that is,
you know, would be a positive for the Hoosiers. But
they have to worry about themselves. That that's the main
part of this. They just have to to worry about themselves.
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Harpoon says on the chat. People in the no say
Indiana must go win three and one or four and
oh get to the twenty win Mendoza line and then
win two games in the Big Ten tournament. I think
more than it's that twenty point twenty win thing is
the key. That line, to me is a big one,
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always has been. Actually, Lynn also says, I think Hoosier fans,
including myself, are delusional when we think the team can
go on a long winning streak when we just lost
eight of our last eleven games. That's where I am
on it, because can the team put together a streak? Sure?
Sure can. Can the team go to and two or
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one and three? Damn right they can because we've seen
them do it. We've seen them do it along the way.
So the challenge here is that letdown game against Penn
State here on Wednesday. I want to go back and
talk about that Penn State game. The Hoosier has won
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that ballgame at the Palestra in Philadelphia. That was not
a true home game for Penn State. The Palestra is
a couple hours away from Penn State, but the students
were on Christmas vacation, so they weren't there. Still, Indiana
scored seventy seven points in that ballgame, and including forty
eight in the second half alone, but Penn State gave
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Indiana all that could handle throughout that game. You consider that,
you know Penn State is not a good basketball team,
not saying that they are, but in that situation on
what is more of a neutral court than anything else,
Penn State, they gave Indiana problem. Their quickness gave Indiana problems.
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So the Hoosias are going to have to stay out
of foul trouble inside. I would like to see Mike
Woodson continue to stick with one big on the floor
and keep moving them back and forth. That's one thing
that hasn't made any sense all season is you have
the opportunity to play bollow and renew plenty of minutes
without wearing either one of them out. In this game,
renew plays twenty four minutes, follow plays twenty two minutes.
(33:05):
That's about perfect. And you always have a really critical
fresh big on the floor. That makes sense to me
to be able to do that. Uh, Instead, that's not
what we've seen, so that that that is really an important, good,
(33:25):
good point by Jeff. You want UCLA to keep winning,
so it stays a Q one loss that win at
Ohio State, It'll be Q one no matter what. That's
that's an excellent point. It's an excellent point. Eight one, two, three,
nine three, twenty six hundred is the number board than
a little surprise that you guys are shy on the
phone today, But that's okay. It feels good to get
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a win. Uh. Twitter is such an interesting garbage place too,
as you have somebody on Twitter says is bitching about that.
No compliments from Payter on Indiana's play today. In his
postgame presser, I blamed the loss of one hundred percent
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on his player's lack of concentration. Look, man, I think
that just the easy things that I've seen, the early
things that I've seen. From what he said, he was
complimentary to Indiana. Talked about a challenge when your team
is struggling and it's hard to argue with them. Indiana
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rattled Purdue, their defense rattled Perdue, and in the first
half it didn't happen, and the second half it did.
All that changed ultimately for Indiana was its intensity. That's
what really changed in the second half of this one.
Indiana's defensive intensity got went to eleven and that's what
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it was. Eight one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six
is the number. We got a call call, I have
your name, where you're from? And what you got?
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Yeah, Troy from Elkhart, Hi.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Troy from Elkhart. Great to hear from you again.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Good to you know, good to hear your show.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
And you know it's great when we had today, just
going off of what you were saying, I you know
the whole, you know, and I've made that comment, you
know about.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
The you know, spacing out the floor. Why what you
couldn't figure out the whole? You know, I can't play
Bollo and renew at the same time. Otherwise, is cloud
got the saying why it took them till now to
figure that out? It just baffles my mind. You know,
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it's the bottom what it could have. But then you
just wonder how the season would have been and if
you you know previous seasons, the you know, you know,
if he would have figured some things out, you just
wonder and it's you know, I've said it before in
the comments, you know, a day late and dollar court h.
(36:22):
I just I feel bad for what he is a coach.
I feel bad to players, I feel bad for us
as fans because the event's so much different.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Let me ask you why you feel as a coach.
I agree with you the players and the fans, but
why do you feel bad for what he as a coach?
It seems to me that since he made this announcement
that all of a sudden you've seen far a different approach.
And it took almost you know, being forced out for
him to start to change what he was doing. These
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changes could have come earlier in the season, but there
was almost a stubbornness to it that is odd to me.
So I was curious about why why you feel sorry
for Woody as a.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Coach, because his intentions is coming back to Indiana were
we're pop you know, we're good intentions, and you know,
he he he really shouldn't have been a coach. Here's
no collegiate coaching experience and no understanding of recruiting and
all that stuff, and then getting rid of Mata and
(37:29):
you know, I don't know the situation with pride for
getting rid of prices as well. Uh just didn't help
the situation.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Both decisions that were woody based to what both decisions
that uh you know, wood he made too. Yeah, he
didn't even lean on what Mada was was offering as
much as he could have. And that to me, that
that's why I I just I just I understand what
you're saying. Absolutely, he wanted this to work, but I
(37:57):
also feel like he maybe wasn't as open to suggestions
until he actually announced that he was leaving.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
And and you see in all aspects of life, you know, work,
situations relates, you know, just friendship, personal relationship, et cetera,
et cetera. I've I just with what do you would
have seen the light before instead of having to go
through this? I guess that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
But I understand.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
I'm glad we're moving forward. Yeah, I just lads to
the win lads happy that you know, Purdue and their
fans could hear, because that's our stance. It's not that's
not for them to use against us, or for any
(38:50):
other teams to use against us. That's for us to
use against other teams. When we say who's your daddy?
We mean it? Uh yeah. So anyways, you know, like
the efforts of players, especial player on the defensive side,
and you know, like you said, and others have said
(39:11):
one where it's been all year regarding you know, I'll
nitpicks on a few small things once one a little, big,
big thing. Pray, for the love of God, please no
more free that's just not your shot. I know you
make him every now and then, but he's ope those
that that is not your shot. And and then goodie,
(39:33):
I I I'll knit picked on. You know, it was
under five minutes they were pressing us, being bounded, his
ball on the sidelines, the ball back and he's behind
the half court line. For for some reason, he's holding
the ball instead of just crossing over the line. There's
no one in between him and the half court. That's
that's all I do. Stuff that I are fundamentals whatever
(39:56):
you want to call it. As a as a Rabbit fan,
I don't understand why he was holding the ball. And
and you know, just replayed again. It was right under
you know, about under between five and four and a
half minutes left in the game, and he just hold it.
Just someone as across the half court and it's like, dude,
(40:17):
you got like two feet to get across half court line.
You know that that's just about as bad as when
I see us. Uh. You know, Waite goes about, you know,
seven to five seconds left and the shot class before
we take it, shot before we decide to actually make
takes the most to get to a shot, and then
(40:39):
you know, we wonder why we have these you know,
low percentage got at you know at the end of
the shot class. Uh, that's just you know, again, I'll
knitpick takes. I got in it to get something, even
in the wins. But I'm overall very happy and again
glad we got to and up your daddy and for
(41:02):
you in their fans and hearing that and understand point
of that, cant.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Well, that's one thing. I am very happy about the
victory for the fans because they they've wanted this for
a long time and they want to cheer for this program.
They want. It's not a matter of negativity, because negativity
just to be negative. To me, people are dying for
a good basketball program here, and so at least for
(41:27):
one afternoon, one half, they got exactly what they were
looking for. I really appreciate the ABU.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
Yeah that's the other for one path. Yeah yeah, apiated.
Appreciate you still man.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Thank you good therapy, Yes, sir, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Thank thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Thanks. Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred
is a number we got somebody else that's on the
call right now. We have a call here. This one
a little bit different, says anonymous. So let's see what
this one is. So call her to have your name,
where you're from, and what you got.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
I can't.
Speaker 10 (42:11):
This is Kevin in Bloomington.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Hi, Kevin, how are you doing.
Speaker 10 (42:15):
I'm good, good, No, just enjoyed the game. I pretty
well checked out after the Iowa Illinois blowout. I did
watch today because it was Purdue here. Totally dull with Woodson,
but did enjoy the game. I'm curious your thoughts on
(42:35):
postseason if we don't get in the tournament, which I
don't think we will. You know, I don't know, maybe
they're back into something, but do you think that they
accept an NI t bid? And also I've heard something
about some kind of other champions tournament or some do
(42:56):
you know what I'm referring to be put.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
On by Fox.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah, I've heard. I know you mentioned it. I vaguely
remember seeing something about that, but I I I don't
know how you qualify for that if if it's I'm
trying to think if that is a thing that I've
that it was for teams that won their regular season
(43:21):
championship and lost in their conference tournament. Maybe I don't
know exactly what, but that seems like vaguely familiar to me.
I would be surprised, if you know, they go to
the n I T if they would accept a bit,
because more teams are walking away from that. And then
you also get into a situation where some players might
(43:45):
decide I'm not going to bother with the n I
T and and cut out of this thing. Look either
way you look at it, I really feel that next
year's roster is going to be so drastically different that
that we're seeing the last five, six, seven games of
most of these guys that are on the roster. So
I think that if you get into the postseason, it's
(44:08):
one thing it's the NCAA Tournament, it's something completely different
if it's the NIT or or a different tournament. So
that to me, is is where I would be curious.
I'd be surprised. If guys are willing to play in
those kind of events, I.
Speaker 10 (44:23):
Hope so I really don't want to watch them in
the n it. I'm not hoping for that. I want
this to be over. After the Big Kid Tournament. I'm
ready to move on. So I'll hang up, kid.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
I love your stuff, buddy, and have a.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Great day, all right, Thank you so much, appreciate it,
Thank you so much to call.
Speaker 11 (44:40):
It.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
One two, three, nine, three, twenty six hundred is the
number this is. I don't know exactly what the story
is here. You have a looks like a Twitter feed
called Bob Knight Legacy, the official account of basketball coach
(45:02):
Basketball Hall of Fame coach Bob Knight, managed by Knight Legacy,
and in it this this old tweet. It says, don't
believe everything you hear on TV. We have good reason
to believe otherwise that the chair is different. The way
I'm reading is they're saying that they have the chair
and they have a picture. So I don't know. I
(45:24):
don't know that. To me, that's an interesting, uh interesting
side note to today. And the historian in me says, yeah,
I know, this is it's it's a great discussion. It's
a great discussion. Uh Ethan says, had to get off
Twitter because of how toxic the fan base was getting
on there. It's Twitter in general, you know, rot your brain.
(45:47):
I try not to get on there too much. Jeff says,
the great thing about this final stretch is just root
for IU Wood. He has gone regardless of the outcome.
There's no draft pick. Let's win and see what happens. Okay.
So that's actually, uh an excellent point and something that
has been brought up before.
Speaker 11 (46:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
This is and somebody on actually Twitter asked me after
the game. He said, one of the things I want
to bring up, well, let's see what he beats Purdue,
not just today but several times. It may still get
into the tournament, has been in the tournament. Still want
to see him go. And my answer to that was yeah,
(46:29):
because one half doesn't change a season. Let's not let's
not fall into recency bias here and and have it
to where, hey, you know what, that's Indiana one a
ball game. So that is it's changed everything. The die
is cast on where we're going from here. And I
(46:49):
think that's really important because eking your way into the
NCAA tournament is uh not what we're what you're looking
for here at Indiana. It's not a matter of being delusional,
it's not a matter of anything. You're your year four,
You have an nil support the likes of which few
(47:12):
teams can match. You should be contending in the mix
for a Big ten championship. You shouldn't be playing with
the bubble for the NCAA tournament. But at the very least,
you should be absolutely in the mix for the Big
ten championship along the way, instead of going on a
(47:33):
five to six game losing streaker or you know, not
winning a game for nearly two months in Assembly Hall.
So this is still to unchange anything about the season.
It's great for a Sunday and Eric has it exactly right.
I'm happy Wood he is four and four against Purdue,
(47:53):
but the goal that I use to win Big ten
championships and he's not even been close. And that's exactly
the take away. Eight one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six.
It's a number. We got another call caller for your name,
where you're from, and what you got?
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Hello?
Speaker 11 (48:11):
Can you hear me? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (48:12):
I can hear you. Just find how you doing tonight?
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Okay?
Speaker 10 (48:15):
All right.
Speaker 4 (48:16):
My name is Steve.
Speaker 11 (48:17):
I'm actually from Logan Fort, Indiana, and uh as I
watched the game today. Completely different effort and defensive effort
in the second halt. We have not seen that all seasons.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
This is my thoughts. Absolutely, absolutely in the second half
and is a completely different effort level.
Speaker 11 (48:41):
Yes, so I'm not what turned them around, but that
is something that we have not seen this whole year.
And very surprised that it took, you know, us gitting
down to Purdue, you know, by double digit, to them
(49:02):
back and the log.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
In, Yeah, why does it take that to have the
light come on? I agree? I agree completely, yes, and
again it's one of the one of those games where
the talent is there. You know, the talent is there.
You see it, and you just wonder why we don't
see it more consistently.
Speaker 11 (49:20):
Why isn't The question is why isn't the effort there?
Speaker 4 (49:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (49:26):
I tell my do I second and third grade team
that I coached one thing that you can always control
as your effort. You're not going to make every shot, right,
but you could you could try.
Speaker 11 (49:36):
Yes, And as a motivator, you should be able to
motivate your team to play defense and and really get
after your opponent each game. So very surprised. I again,
I don't want to back them a great win. I
was very surprised that they came back because I honestly
(49:58):
at that time, thought that they game was over. And
now actually I think if they can get motivated, they've
got one, two, three, four more games. They can win
these games. They could get into the NCAA tournament. But
I still don't see this team, you know, going any further,
(50:18):
maybe than the first round.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
Yeah, classic trap game coming up Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (50:23):
Tell you that.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (50:26):
So, uh just wanted to call in.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
Appreciate everything you do.
Speaker 11 (50:30):
I'd like to listen to your games after the seasons
or after each game, so appreciate one to call in.
Just take the comment, appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (50:43):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (50:44):
Thanks. Eight one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six is
the number. It's starting to come in. Now we've got
another caller. Caller, if I have your name, where you're from,
and what you've got.
Speaker 8 (50:56):
Hey, it's peterful, California.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Hey, Peter, how you doing.
Speaker 10 (51:00):
I'm doing pretty good.
Speaker 4 (51:01):
I'm just docked.
Speaker 8 (51:04):
Try not to act surprised, but uh, you know, I
traveled to watch this team quite a bit this year.
I went to the Bahamas and was just you know,
I wasn't in the Bahamas. I don't think I would
even entertain the idea of going back to Bloomington for
this game. I ended up bailing last minute because I
just did not want to go through that emotional roller
(51:25):
coaster and I just had to inclusion already in my
mind of what was going to happen.
Speaker 6 (51:31):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (51:32):
And right now I'm fighting the urge. I just I
expect this team to come out in one of the
upcoming games and trouble lull where they give up a
big week and then fight just to get back to
even and then fall short. And it's just such a
horrible need to be in because I want to root
for this team. I'd love to see Mike Woodson go
out on at least a positive note and have some
(51:53):
of the kids that are that are fighting at least
see acknowledge did not have all this sustain But it's
kind of where I'm at, and I I'm very proud
of the effort they gave today.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Yeah, absolutely, And everybody keeps using that word effort and
rightfully so. And uh again, people want to root for
the team. They want to root for a future that
can be brighter. And you see a game like this
and it's encouraging because again it shows you what is
possible for this team that we just haven't seen it
with any kind of consistency.
Speaker 4 (52:24):
Exactly.
Speaker 8 (52:24):
And you know, I won't even let myself or you know,
entertain the NC double as Like I said, I've traveled.
I went to see Whatston you and I know they
got a back, you know, going out to Portland after
they won the playing game, but they got their doors
blown off in that NT double a game. Well, you know,
(52:45):
a handful games has gone to I mean, my my
coverage is not think of the games that I've gone to.
The one one we had was against Michigan State State
a couple of years years ago in mar Bates, you know,
played out of his mind. But I just want to
call and say you're doing a great job. I'm really
happy for the guys, and we'll see what happens. But
I do think writer finger ahead and you know, again,
(53:09):
hopefully these guys.
Speaker 4 (53:09):
A lot of the positive bills.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Yeah, absolutely, I agree. I appreciate the call, and uh,
you know, thank you so much for the support.
Speaker 10 (53:18):
Of course I'm a good one.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Thanks. Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred
is the number. Uh, just stay on for a couple
more minutes here for anybody else that wants to hop
in here. Look, every time Indiana has had a season
and here under Mike Woods and it's been a blowout loss,
doesn't mean it's going to happen this year. History doesn't
(53:42):
predict that every team is different, and again, opportunities still
exist this year and it's it's really kind of amazing
because the fact that they were able to beef up
their win total throughout November and December is really really important.
At this point, there's seven and nine overall in the
(54:05):
Big Ten. You want to get that. You know, certainly
you have the opportunity here to get to what is it,
eleven and nine, you're five hundred and the Big Ten.
You get to twenty wins, you're going to have yourself
a good opportunity. Some of the upsets in the conference
tournament will make a difference. So it's still a rocky
(54:28):
road to get there, but you know, just being able
to build on this second half is going to be
really really important. I say that this Penn State game
is a classic trap game because it is you know,
you come off a big high of beating Purdue. Have
(54:50):
a home game eight thirty on a Wednesday. The crowd
won't be nearly what it was today because it's it's
a Wednesday evening. And then there's a trip to the
West Coast coming up March first and March fourth, so
you're gonna have a whole different situation there and being
able to put together a stack a couple of wins
(55:12):
after all that travel won't necessarily be super easy. Take care, yeh.
Trevor Andershock coming by on his way out. I know
that he's already given his thoughts on the game. Be
sure to check that out on peaks dot com. Him
and Rabbi and Jared Kelly got together. But Washington sits
(55:33):
in the last place in the Big Ten. That's the
other thing is Penn State is second to last in
the Big Ten. Washington is lasting the Big Ten. Oregon's
sitting at nine and eight in conference, and Ohio State's
at seven and nine, and Indiana needed overtime to beat
them at their place. Again, opportunities here. That trip to
(55:56):
the West Coast is going to make a huge difference
on this season is going to look like. Well, the
Hoosiers managed to pull off the victory at Simon Scott
Assembly Hall by playing their best half of basketball of
the Mike Woodson era here in the second half, outscore
Purdue by twenty seven points in the second half and
(56:21):
completely a race at twelve point deficit. Firecrackers were here
at halftime. That is my favorite halftime show. Always gets
the place really excited. Haven't had a lot of halftime shows.
This year's been a little bit different, but they had
the fire crackers today and that's fun if you know.
(56:42):
The Firecrackers, by the way, is a jump rope group,
a bunch of kids doing jump rope, and it sounds silly,
but they're really really impressive, really really high energy and
really got the crowd, you know, perked up. And then
the Indiana ran off sixth straight i think in to
(57:02):
open the second half, and that allowed that energy from
halftime to continue to build and so that was really
important for the Hoosiers as well that they were able
to do that. They scored the win. Mike Woodson four
and four in his eight games against Purdue, and again,
as you heard him say, unless they meet in the tournament.
(57:23):
That's it for him. Taking on Purdue, a big win
for the program, a big win for the fans, a
big confidence building win for the Hoosiers, and now you
got to do it again. And that has been where
Indiana has struggled a little bit. But you know, it's
a day to time. At this point, we know what
(57:43):
the future is going to be in terms of if
Woodson will be back or not. The chair thing was
a cool thing, even with the little controversy. We'll keep
an eye on that. So I love that. But Indiana
seventy three to fifty eight winners at Skimon's Simon's got
Assembly Hall, moved to sixteen and eleven on the season
and keep their path to an NCAA tournament appearance open
(58:07):
at least for another couple of days. What's all the
time we have on the Peaks postgame Live. I want
to thank you for listening, and I want to remind
you to visit Peaks dot com for the very best
and I you football and basketball coverage you're gonna find
anywhere nobody covers. Who's your recruiting better than Jeff rab John's,
Matt Weaver, Trevor Anderschach, and Jared Kelly. So come be
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dot com. Folks, you are not going to be disappointed.
(58:30):
Folks are out of time. But for now and for Jeff, Trevor,
Matt and Jared, I'm ken Biakoff saying thanks for listening. Everybody,
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