Why are you doing, everybody?

I'm ten Bike Coffin.

Welcome to the Pegs postgame Live, Indiana one hundred and thirteen to seventy two winners on a historic night at Simon Scott Assembly Hall.

Lamar Wilkerson forty four points.

That's a IU record for a single game scoring record here in Assembly Hall.

Also ten made threes.

That is also a program record, and a lot of stuff to talk about with this.

We're going to go right to the phones and we're gonna start with Larry.

Larry, how are you doing?

Hey, Larry from Fort Wayne?

Here we go.

You ready?

Can I got one for you?

Bring me it?

Get kat record?

Pat, give a dog.

A bone when you're playing d don't you dare leave Lamar alone.

Lamar Wilkerson a shooter so slick from deep beyond the arc.

His threes will click with every splash.

The crowd would cheer.

His name now etched in history year after year.

How about them threes?

Yes, sir, you know?

He and again the record.

The previous record was nine.

Rod Wilmot, Matt Roth and Robert Johnson all made nine.

And this one, I mean he was catching it and shooting it in rhythm.

He wasn't hunting threes.

I always joke about the Rod Wilmot heat check, which is something that Rod would do.

This wasn't a there was a one for Wilkerson.

But when you're you're you have an offense that's running as well as theirs was.

Uh, it's easy to get those open looks, and then for a shooter like Lamar, he can make them.

He's been on a little bit of a rough streak, but shoot, shoot, and they got out of it.

Yeah.

So what I want to say about that three?

To your point, he had to know he was close during that time when he had nine.

I believe he had two assists, and that just shows the quality of person that he is now to follow that up.

The other team or the other teammates, excuse me, knew that he was one away and you could see them hooking him up at the very end to help him get that, and I just thought that was just a tremendous I don't know, I just really enjoyed the team chemistry within this whole record breaking night.

I agree with you completely.

I saw a couple of them to where he had maybe he had been able to force it, but he dumped it.

Down to teammates and scored and I thought that I was That was very nice, unselfishness on his partner.

He says that he didn't know.

Davrie says he didn't know, but they knew he was getting close to something.

I don't know if I necessarily believe them.

Because people right there either that or tell at him.

But he says he wasn't hunting it, and at the very least he didn't play like he was hunting it, and that to me is as telling as anything.

And then, like you said, his teammates were looking for him.

So is it they're just looking for the hot hand?

Do they know what's going on?

Either way, it worked and it was a hell of an effort on his part.

It was.

It was wonderful, and I hope Purdue will be able to handle that.

I'll get off and let somebody else call you, brother.

I just wanted to call and let you know we appreciate you as always.

We'll talk to you after Kentucky.

Jo you.

I appreciate it.

Thank you so much, all right, buddy, take care.

Heaven on the chat says I need a producer.

I don't disagree with that.

Don't disagree with that at all.

But I'm a one man band, baby.

I got to do the press conference, and I pack up all my stuff rush back up here to get on the air here at home.

It's a little bit easier in my home studio, but I don't want to miss this.

Got another caller call her for have your name, where you're from and what you got?

Gab Ryan from around Lake Ryan?

How you doing?

Hey, man?

I apologize.

I meant to call in after the big Hoosier win Saturday night.

Yep, I gotta be honest.

I was too excited to call in.

Too excited, man, I stayed up.

I was on the phone of my dad texting buddies on Twitter.

By the time I knew it, two am had rolled around, and yeah, I need to be back in Allen County by by seven am.

So you know, Whodley County that far from Allen, but it's it's a little bit of a drive.

Lamar to night.

Man.

As a previous caller said he was, he was exceptional.

Shot it well.

I mentioned my buddy who's in the Kentucky Air National Guard.

I played Gus Backer, all right.

You ever heard Gus.

Smacker Toilet Bowl Championship on.

Hey we Yeah, me and him played in one time.

We were the Toilleote champions.

This cat, this pilot, he could really shoot it and he didn't hit that many threes, but it reminded me a little bit of his his toughness.

I do have a song or another song for you, okay, bounce Back by Big Sean.

Okay, it's it's a little bit like a damnation song.

You know you've taken some losses, come back, gather yourself and move on.

I do think Penn State is terrible.

I'm taking nothing away from the Hoosiers.

Now, I'm gonna polplar schedule real quick.

If you got just just just a moment, do you think they win more than two Big ten games Penn State?

Yes, well, I mean I will fully admit that that the only time that I've seen Penn State play is tonight, and they ran into a buzzsaw and one that really needed a like you said, a bounce back game.

And by that same token, you know, Penn State didn't play poorly.

They really didn't.

They had fourteen turnovers, but they shot forty six percent from the field, and so I mean they're going to scratch out some wins.

At home.

They'll do that more than two you know, I don't know, but you know, it's the limited thing that I saw of Penn State.

I just felt that they ran into a buzzsaw here.

I think Mike Rhodes is a good coach VCU.

They were tough.

I think he needs to get some fellows in there that you know, kind of fits his system a little bit.

And I'm their young team.

I get that.

But no, I was very very encouraged from the performance to night Lamar coming out.

One last question that lets Smiths call in.

You have a prediction for Saturday.

I have a family Christmas.

Sadly I will not be able to watch and I'm back I gotta go back down to Henry County, so I'm not gonna be able to watch the Hoosiers in at Rep.

But do you get a prediction on that?

Uh?

You know, winning a Rep's tough and Indiana still, you know, despite what they did today, they're gonna have to knock down shots like they did today.

But it's it's that quickness at athleticism and and all of that, you know in the size that Kentucky will bring.

But you're if you make shots like they do to they did tonight.

They shoot the ball well like they did, They're going to give themselves a chance.

If they don't, you could run into a situation like Louisville where you know, hopefully Indiana's defense will be a little bit more energized than what we saw against Louisville, but that one might be a tough one for where this team is unless they're shooting the ball well.

Yep, I appreciate it.

Hopefully I'll listen to fish online and can get back to Woodley County and guts.

The postgame shows, well, I appreciate your time nursing you do.

I appreciate it.

Thanks a lot, God bless it.

One two, three, nine to three.

Twenty six hundred is the number.

Let's go over a couple of the keys here in this game, and obviously it is Indiana going forty two of sixty one from the field overall, and in the first half alone, Indiana went twenty three at thirty four.

They made two out of everything three shots that they took in the first half, and then in the second half they did better nineteen and twenty seven seventy point four percent.

In the second half.

Indiana knocks down seventeen to thirty one to three pointers, twelve to fifteen from the free throw line.

Again, thirty assists on forty two made baskets.

That is the second most assists in program history.

Back in at Alaska Anchorage in two thousand and one, they had thirty one assists.

In nineteen eighty one, Indiana handed out thirty assists at home against Northwestern.

Nine times they've handed out twenty nine assists.

The last time they had twenty nine was in two thousand and six, which means, you know, this again is a historic the most assists that they've had in twenty four years.

I mean, that is you know it, really, I guess it would be nineteen years and tied for the most that they've had in forty four years.

It just incredible numbers today.

And I'm talking about Lamar Wilkerson and doing all of that.

But you know, taking into account that Reed Bailey he comes off the bench in this one first time that he's come off the bench, he responds with eighteen points on six of six, shooting six to six from the free throw line, grabs five rebounds.

I mean, he responded to being sat down about as well as you can This Indiana team just was very, very efficient.

Five players in double figures on the night.

We got another caller, caller to have your name, where you're from, and what you got.

Hi, Yeah, this is Mac Baker from Bluff in Indiana.

Longtime listener, first time caller.

Just enjoying this Hoosier win, was wondering if you had add one IU football player to this basketball roster, who would it be?

Or Mark Cooper?

Why do you think that is?

Well, he's just so athletic.

You know, he's quick.

Uh, you know, I don't know if he can handle the ball or not, but he's quick.

He could you know, we saw against Penn State what his leaping ability is like.

You know, he's a big guy.

So that would be the guy that that I would go to.

Also, you can rarely go wrong with tight ends playing, you know, and you know, unless they get too big, but you know you have tight ends are are a great option.

And uh, but it really to me it would it would be Omar Cooper.

And then I'm watching the SHOs your team, and KB, I've been going back and forth.

What do you what do you really think the ceiling is for this hoos your ball club?

Uh?

Every night, he is going to be about whether they're making shots and whether they're they're knocking him down from the perimeter.

There's not really anybody on this roster who can consistently, uh create his own offense off the bounce, and that's a concern.

Isn't a team blessed with great size, great depth inside, so you know, foul trouble is a problem.

Quickness and athleticism are also a little bit of you know, I don't want to say anchors, but weights holding this team back.

I think it's really just gonna come down to what is this team doing in terms of getting shots?

Are they knocking down shots and continuing to play unselfishly and then again just staying on a foul trouble is really important.

Now, the answer to all of that is can they be a tournament team if they're knocking down shots and if they're they're playing defense and improving game a week after week.

I think that they can be.

But you just really need to find consistency.

And the tough part about it is when you rely so much on that perimeter shooting teams can lock you down and really kind of force you outside.

And if you can't scheme something up to get guys open shots at the rim, and you don't have a ton of guys that can consistently get scores off the bounce.

That's really going to hold you back.

No, I agree.

KB.

Just want to thank you for your time.

We appreciate you.

You make my night every time Washington after who's your games?

Well, I appreciate that.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, have a good night, brother.

Take care.

Height one two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred.

Again, just just an amazing night, and it's so much fun to see after what we saw with Minnesota and what we saw with Louisville, for I you to come out here and play with the energy they did right off the the opening tip.

It was a little bit of a shift in that Sam Alexis was inserted into the starting lineup.

He plays sixteen minutes, is held scoreless, doesn't even attempt a shot.

It has two rebounds, three assists, had three fouls, which isn't great, but he's plus thirty two on the night, which is third best on the team.

You know, what are you doing to help your your your ball club?

So that was impressive.

I liked the team's energy tonight, and I think that that was really important, and this was a team that was locked in, and it continued to build as guys were making shots.

We got another caller, caller for your name, where you're from?

What you got?

Yeah, hey, this is Joey call him from Huntington.

Again, Ken, this was this was a much needed game we needed to have, and I, like one caller said, a bounce back in in a bit of a statement way as well, right, hanging in one hundred and thirteen on you know some of these preseason teams we play that are you know, ranked three hundredth is one thing.

But to put one hundred and thirteen on a Big ten team, even if it's not a great Big ten team, you know, that's that's a that's kind of a statement, I think.

Right for sure?

For sure, Oh absolutely absolutely.

It's not a top five performance in terms of points, but they had opportunities late to do that, you know, all time.

But still a great explosion of of scoring, which is just something this team really needed.

Yeah.

So the other point I was gonna make, and I think I've got to eat crow here publicly to everyone that listens to this show, is you know I've called in multiple times and been pretty critical of Reed Bailey and I know you made the comment.

You know, he responded as well as he could have off the bench.

And you know, I'm looking at his stat line right now, right he's got eighteen points on six to six from the floor.

You know, maybe a little light on rebounding for a guy his size at five boards.

But the glaring thing to me on that is Sam Alexis has arguably his worst game.

Do we see Bailey just getting the starting spot back against Kentucky or do you think that this is something where we try to roll with this spark off the.

Bench, can maybe you try to switch it up?

I mean it worked really well today.

Yeah, Bailey came off the bench and was really effective.

You know, Alexis has played and roper Rita before or at least you know they had been on a on a Florida team that was there, so that could that could be part of it.

And I've I've been somebody who's been a proponent of bringing Alexis into the starting lineup and bringing Rita as as a little spark off the bench.

It ain't broke, don't fix it, and it's not not you know, Alexis started, but It's not like he played like the first ten minute segment.

It was a couple of minutes and he came out, you know, to me, that is something that they just needed to change things up a little bit.

Darreon Devrees said as much in his press conference, and you'll get to hear that in just a few minutes, but he is I wouldn't tinker with it when it worked as well as it did tonight.

Yeah, I think the other guy that has been pleasantly surprising as of late, and I think he's emerged as a leader on this team, and I guess I didn't necessarily see it coming.

Again looking at the at the line from tonight is Teyton Connorway.

You know you touched on on thirty assists on forty two made field goals.

You know Connorway has seventeen points.

That's great, but go down the stat line seven assists too.

I mean, that guy just makes things happen and again has just emerged as as really a very pleasant surprise for this coach over here, right, Like I I didn't see that coming necessarily.

Well, and the seven assists versus just the two turnovers, so uh, and he's also limited the times and he's he's gone shot hunting too for himself.

And he's the one guy that I've seen have have little moments of that not not consistent what moments of shot shot hunting.

He didn't do it today.

He was enforcing things.

And when he does that, it's it's a huge positive for this team.

I was really happy with what I saw.

From him, one hundred percent.

Ken.

Are you making the trip down to Kentucky?

I am not.

No.

Will you be drinking any bourbon in celebration of them playing Kentucky?

Maybe?

Ken, we talked about this Woodford double a costco.

It's a great deal.

No, no, no, this isn't about a lack of bourbon for me.

Trust me.

My wife says I have too much bourbon, which is not a thing.

And I have the double oaked there.

The thing is, see the timing is I don't drink before these games, and so you know you have Kentucky will will start and I think it's a seven o'clock start.

I think maybe maybe seven thirty.

You know that starts, so after we do that, so maybe or I might save that till Sunday.

Is there ever a chance where you you pour yourself a nightcap during the Pigs post game show or is that considered unprofessional for a man in your position right.

Here, I've never been accused of being overly professional, and I take great pride in that, and I will say that after the if you go back and check the tape after the Bucket game, I had myself set right at the end of that to celebrate the end of the regular season, and I did that on camera.

So so yeah, it happens.

Yeah, I.

Mean, I'm not I'm not overly professional.

I had a nice cigar and a bourbon on Sunday after I woke up after you know what happened over at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday.

So well then I think I think if we get a win versus Kentucky, I think there has to be a victory bourbon poor on camera on the show.

I want that to happen.

Well, I mean, I take requests, so that's exciting.

I'll call my briss Christmas wish.

All right, all right, sure, thanks for everything you do.

Appreciate you taking my call.

We'll have a good evening and again, tune in huntingson News Now for all Huntings and ON'TH coverage.

Thanks so much.

Absolutely take care, appreciate the call.

All right, there you go.

Well, I've kind of committed myself with that and I'm here for it.

So eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six.

Number, let's go through some numbers real quick again.

Lamar Wilkerson forty four points on sixteen to twenty two, shooting ten to fifteen from three point range, went to the free throw line twice, had four rebounds, four assists, just one turnover, three steals.

So he played a little bit of defense twenty four minutes.

To forty four points in twenty four minutes.

Get the hell out of here.

That is amazing.

That is incredible.

Numberston Connor ways seventeen points on seven to nine shooting, made both of his three point attempts, three rebounds, seven assists, we said, two turnovers, two steals.

Twenty five minutes.

He was plus thirty six on the night.

Tucker DeVries kind of a lost story in this thing.

Twelve points on five five to ten, shooting two of six from three point range.

He had a rebound, six assists versus one turnover, a block, a steal.

In thirty two minutes.

Well plus forty five for Tucker and then connor in Wright two points on one to two shooting, eight assists versus one turnovers.

So here's what you got.

You got en Right with eight assists versus one turnover, Connorway seven assists versus two turnovers.

Tucker six assists versus one turnover, ten turnovers for the Hoosiers on the night.

That is efficient.

And so the Indiana has been far more efficient this season than they haven't been.

And so that's why that Minnesota game and the Louisville game were I don't know, it wasn't shocking, but it was just different than what we've seen.

Will that continue, Kentucky will be a nice measuring stick on that going Coming up here off the bench again.

Rebailey eighteen points, five rebounds and assists, steal twenty one minutes.

Nick Dorn, it was great to see him out there and putting in twenty five minutes, so his minutes keep going up.

Thirteen points on five to seven shooting, two to four from three point range.

He added two rebounds in twenty five minutes.

Trent Sisley plays twenty two minutes, doesn't try to do too much.

Four points on one to four shooting, missed all three of his three point attempts, but he had eight rebounds to go along with an assist Alexa Ristitch three points on one of one shooting that came from the three point line, So welcome to the scoring column, Alexa Ristitch.

He played seven minutes, got a little bit more time then he had walk on s Drew Sniveley and Ian Stevens coming in and getting a couple of minutes as well.

One thirteen to seventy two.

Just a fantastic job by that that group.

I mean, just can't say enough about it.

Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is the number as we uh, it's twenty minutes to twelve here on a Tuesday night.

I'm gonna go ahead and bring you comments from head coach Darren Debrie here because he had some interesting things to say about his team's performance, what they were able to accomplish, some of those those changes in his lineup.

So, without any further ado, here is head coach Darren DeVries during his postgame press conference.

Like that, I mean, how freeing is that to watch?

And just what do you think kind of drove that?

Yeah, like you said a few times, you know, he's had a couple of nights where he struggled, Like I was never worried about that.

You know, he's he's that level of a shooter.

And no he's not doing to forty four every night, but he has that confidence.

He puts in the work, you know, every day, and it was fun to see him kind of get loose and kind of showcase and you know all that work he puts in.

The connectivity tonight with the offense, just please with kind of improvements you made over the last two games, and you know when you does it get back to basics in practice or what do you kind of do to kind of refocus them.

Yeah, we had gone back here, you know, after after the Minnesota game and looked at some of the offenses like what what caused it?

Because it was you know, it wasn't there.

There wasn't a lot of movement and things.

So as we went backwards looking at some games early in the season comparing.

It to now, it stood out pretty good.

So we put a ton of time here this last week on just getting more actions, more movement.

And sometimes you can't always do that.

People deny you can't just throw the ball from side to side.

So at some point you still have to be able to go make a play.

But I thought the guys did a really good job night keeping the ball as we like to say hot, you know, keep it hot and keep it moving and you know, player and ball movement.

I thought was really good tonight.

Did you talk about mars ability for this is?

How helpful was it for him?

And get the team?

It's a lot you know, instill the December how a nightlight?

Yeah, I think it's uh, you know, great for him.

You know, I think, uh, even for really good shooters, you start to sometimes if you overthink it, you can start to press a little bit in your own mind, you know.

But when he gets he gets one or two down, you can just see like it was just a relief.

For him tonight.

That and then after that it was you know, then it was just fun.

You know.

So uh, yeah, he's you know, we need him.

You know, he's an important piece, you know, especially for our offense.

He draws a lot of gravity and he for that reason, and you know, when when we can get him going and then a night, you know, we get one of those other guys going, or if you can get two of them going on the same night, that's that's where you know, offensively you can do do something happen night like this exactly.

It gets to that, to that and just how important is it for I mean, you know, five different guys in double figures, the whole team sees seventeen threes go through the basket.

I know, a couple of down nights shooting coming into this.

Just how how important is a night like this where maybe ay they sort of feed off a teammate the way you talked about and be just everybody gets to feel a little bit more confident.

At the end of it.

Yeah, I think that's always good, you know, from you know, confidence individually collectively as a team.

And it's funny how that works sometimes you know, like one guy gets it going, it seems like everybody feels like they're hot.

So and really the you know, the the Louisville game, I thought we had you know, better movement and things.

We still got up to eighty points, but you know, some of those looks we just we just didn't hit them, knock them down the way that we would have liked.

But it was nice to see tonight, you know, thirty assists to go with it.

I think that's a big piece of it too, like we've talked about all year.

Yeah, you have.

Thirty assists usually that means we were getting pretty clean, good looks, the kind of shots that we wanted.

Coach, what led to the lineup change tonight and how do you feel like Reid responded, Yeah, lineup change.

Like I told Reid and Sam, it wasn't really anything more than they we just want to try to create a spark.

Wasn't anything negative towards these either one of them.

We wanted to take a look at it.

I thought.

Reid responded, great, you know, and you knew he would.

I thought it freed him up a little bit, you know, gave him coming off the bench, maybe just a chance to process, uh, you know as the game's going, allows us with Sam just a little more physicality to start the game and then read come in and kind of utilize some of his speed and things.

So, you know, he handled it great.

I thought he did a nice job coming off the bench first tonight, very aggressive.

Lamar said, tonight or earlier today, Actually you told him that tonight was going to be his night where he would go off.

What led to your thinking of that and what was that conversation like, I don't know.

I think I tell him that all the time though, but.

Yeah, we we just spent a little time just talking to him about like dude, just just relaxed, shoot, like just have fun, like let let that thing fly.

And you know, again when he sees a couple go down and you can just tell like he was he was he was feeling good about it.

Darren, did you realize I guess as Lamar was, you know, racking up the points in the threes?

Did you realize he was closing in on that threes record or the building scoring record?

And I guess was there if you did realize that, was there any emphasis to try to get him that record before he pulled him out?

And I really had no idea what the record was, but based on the fans that he was close to something, so yeah, I apparently he broke a lot of them, so good for him.

But the only thing I knew was the forty forty points, just not even whether it was a record or not, just that you know, that's a pretty cool, you know, milestone to get in the game, and you know it's cool to see him get it.

Anything else, awesome, Thank you everyone.

He won two three, nine three twenty six hundred is the number.

Again, I don't necessarily completely believe when he says that he didn't know and the players didn't know.

I don't.

I don't know.

Do you tell your players that?

Do they hear it?

I don't know.

But whatever it is, he needs to keep up what he's doing.

Got another caller, caller of your name, where you're from, and what you got.

I brought him on and then he disappeared.

Please call back.

Love to hear from you.

Sorry, you know, if dropped out.

I want to hear from you anyway.

Really interesting, you know, just him talking about how well I say that to tomorrow all the time.

You need a coach that will believe in you, and I know that the the vision, the plan for Indiana basketball is shoot a bunch of threes.

That that is what Darren Devrees likes to do.

That's how he likes to play.

And so being able to to have somebody who can encourage you even when you're in a little bit of a slump, say keep shooting, keep shooting, give it to us.

We know you'll hit him.

You know you'll hit him.

You know you'll hit him.

And when to start having it go through that really helps belief in a coach and build a program like that.

So it's it's that was good to hear, to say the least.

And again the Red Bailey thing.

You tell a guy, hey, you're not gonna start, We're gonna switch things up, just need a little spark.

How that player responds is just so incredibly important, And I mean it's everything to a program.

You know, do you have a guy who's going to be unselfish?

Do you have a guy that's gonna put this program has already shown that it is filled with unselfish players.

You know, the assists that Indiana is handing out on made baskets is incredible.

That's a function of a couple of different things.

One is unselfishness, the other is needing each other to get baskets.

And that's where I say grading off the dribble the you know, seeing that crease and taking it to yourself that isn't a big part of what Indiana's offense does.

You have guys that can make that happen from time to time.

You know, you get Wilkerson on a back cut, Doran could make some things happen with the ball.

Same thing with Taytan Connorway.

But from on a consistent basis, it's never a thing of hay Let's clear out and let him operate.

That's just not how it works.

It's not hay Let's dump the ball inside and let him operate to the point that he has to get his own bucket.

So Indiana needs all five guys on the floor to be working together.

And that is the one thing that I think it's not a strength of this of this team, but that ability to work together, to be unselfish with the ball that could help them overcome some of these teams that may not be as disciplined as as Indiana is, and that could help him overcome at least some of their shortcomings somewhere along the way.

Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is the number one hundred and thirteen points in this game for Indiana, which they moved to one in one on the conference and then the eight and two.

Overall, the fact that this is a team that even in these losses that they've had recently lost to Louisville, Indiana scored seventy eight points lost to Minnesota sixty four, So that one wasn't as impressive.

But the win over in Kansas State eighty six points.

You know, yeah, you had a hundred against Bethune Cookman, you had one hundred and one against Milwaukee, a hundred against Marquette, which is you know, isn't a bad one.

Alabama A and M ninety eight points.

This is a high scoring Indiana team.

They had these hiccups against Minnesota and against Louisville, and the key against Louisville was digging a hole early.

Avoiding that in the future is going to be critical.

But Indiana coulds filling up in a heartbeat, especially when shots are falling.

Shots were obviously falling tonight.

Will they at Rupp Arena, That's a good quest question.

But you do have games in Chicago State, Siena.

You have those before we get into the new year.

I think that this is a team that has proven it could it could put up big points in a hurry.

So that is something that's going to make teams work a little bit harder, and Indiana has shown a willingness to be patient with the ball and make teams work a little bit harder when they need to.

The Hoosiers thirty eight points off the bench, forty two points in the paint, twenty six points off of turnovers.

So again, forty two points in the paint.

You ended up with fifty one points from a three point range, twelve from the free throw line.

That's that's good efficiency you have that.

One thing I wanted to mention here too, on a non basketball note is we got to to Fernando Mendoza in the press room prior to the game.

Mendoza talked to us for about seventeen minutes.

He was such an interesting kid.

You know, had a black sleeve on his right arm.

He said that he and some people have asked us about that.

He has had a bad turf burn, he said, on his arm.

That is being protected with that.

He's going to be just fine with that.

So you know, if you if you're concerned about it, don't be.

I think that you know, he's headed to New York.

It's a Heisman Trophy finalist.

You are the quarterback and incredibly efficient quarterback on the number one team in the country.

You have beaten Ohio State, it's a college football playoff team.

You've beaten Oregon college football playoff team.

I know there is some chatter about the kid from Vanderbilt possibly, you know, making a late run at this thing.

Mendoza is the guy, and there's not a real good argument against it.

You know when when you look at his resume, what he's done against top team in the country, to a couple of college football playoffs, and he done.

He put up on so many of these games, they put up so many points.

He didn't have to play most of the third quarter.

They don't don't spout stats at me about the kid from Vandy.

Fernando Mendoza is uh should be and and it will be your Heisman Trophy winner could be if you follow the odds on this thing, Jose.

People know what they're talking about.

It's heavy in Mendoza's favor.

There's got to be some kind of effort to create some drama around the trophy.

Ultimately, the trophy is nice, but even Mendoza said that it's nicer.

Uh So it would be nice or to win the Rose Bowl, win the next game, win a national championship.

All of those things are still ahead of the Hoosiers, and so that is something that he's really focused on, but again continues to be a great guy.

Brian Haynes picks up I leave his assistant Coach of the Year by one of the organizations today.

It is, you know, exciting to see these things, things you know coming up, coming out, you know in the awards, coming Indiana's way, because they certainly has deserved it.

I just you know, it's it's it's just been an exciting week for Indiana.

You had the issue at Louisville, I understand that, but to bounce back with this one and score one hundred and thirteen points in the game, forty four points from Lamar Wilkerson in twenty four minutes, set records, Assembly Hall scoring record, three point record, all of those things are really great to see.

And it's great to have Indiana playing in a very high efficient level, you know, in Big ten against a Big ten opponent, build some momentum heading to rupp Arena, come back with a couple of mid majors before we head into twenty twenty six.

This was the game that Indiana needed at this point, and they got what they needed for so very last call for any phone calls eight one to two, three nine, three, twenty six hundred, otherwise we'll go ahead and non we'll we'll shut this down for a Tuesday evening, but Indiana eight and two overall, one in one in conference play.

This is a game that they can lean on.

It seems like they learned from an energy standpoint, and this also could end up being a team that's a lot better at home than it is on the road because you're talking about just the welcoming environment that they're used to.

That's all part of this equation.

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