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Here's your host, Duane Calendar.

Welcome to the show, we are looking at the Midwest region.

Otherwise known as how many games will it take for Purdue to completely choke

because there's one thing I know with pretty much certainty

Purdue is not winning this region. I I will stake this very much. I will be stunned if Purdue somehow makes it out this region without flubing.

Because the way Purdue plays, this tournament seems ripe for an upset even as early as round number two.

It's like we had the debacle last year with Purdue going out in round one. I don't think it happens

this year, but man, I have a tough time with Purdue as a whole, as a number one seed because the way Eighty plays outside of the big 10

when refs are not going to give him the leeway of being as physical as he is in the paint. It's the reason why I don't

think he's going to make it in the NBA. It's the reason why I think he struggles, comes

tournament time.

He's gonna get into foul trouble the way he plays.

He's gonna need a big 10 referee crew

in his match-ups,

and that's just not how the NCAA tournament is set up. I don't think he's

going to get the leeway he's so accustomed to and produce ball handling is so

suspect that they're going to run into issues in this tournament.

I don't care how how deep they get into it.

Whether it's, and again, I don't love this bracket at all, but the truth of the matter is between Utah State and

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