00:00Now, I will say, as I've capped this game, Coach, I love over 137.5.
00:08Love it.
00:08I don't know if you and I are on different sides here.
00:11You know, we're down to the nitty-gritty of it all, but this is way too low.
00:18And I think it's a little bit influenced from the Houston game.
00:23I understand Iowa is actually, believe it or not, a tick slower than the Cougars.
00:28But they can't guard at Houston's level.
00:31Let's not be silly.
00:33And I really like what I'm seeing from Iowa's offense in these games,
00:37because they're bombs away from beyond the arc.
00:39And I think they know they need to hit threes to hang with Illinois here.
00:43I understand if people want to lay it with the Illini in this game.
00:48When I look back to a regular season meeting with a total that opened 145.5,
00:54closed 142.5, and landed 144, I see 137.5 here, Coach.
01:00I think we are too light.
01:03I think both of these teams could touch 70.
01:05I think of Illinois, and they do this sometimes.
01:08No disrespect to the Hawkeyes.
01:10We've seen Illinois come out.
01:11They have 48 at the end of the first half, 50 at the end of the first half.
01:14Wouldn't stun me.
01:15Love, love, love the over, 137.5 in this basketball game.
01:20Yeah, I don't think that Iowa has the inside play in the bigs to keep up with Illinois.
01:27So that means they have to play a different way, right?
01:29If you look at the matchup that they had earlier in the season, 75-69,
01:34we talked about a team that shot 49% from the floor, 36% from three.
01:40They shot 36% from the three in the first game, and 41% from the floor.
01:44And, Kevin, and Iowa still got the 69.
01:47So think about that.
01:48They had a poor shooting performance and still got the 69 points.
01:53I think this game is going to be up and down,
01:56because I think sometimes when you play Houston,
02:00Houston drags you into that deep end of the pool,
02:02and you feel like you're stuck in mud.
02:04And then the next game, you're like,
02:06no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
02:07Like, you're going to have to track me, right?
02:09It's like the 80-500.
02:11So to me, I agree with you.
02:13I love this game to go up and over the total.
02:16I can see this game being 75 to 80 points at the half,
02:20where you got 42-40, something like that,
02:24where you got teams that are really getting up and down,
02:26because I think the pace is going to be there.
02:28Plus, Kevin, there's familiarity,
02:29because this is a point you know.
02:31So you're going to already know what they're going to be presenting.
02:34They'll have all their count is already set.
02:36And I'm really excited to see how Sturtz does look in this game,
02:43because he's not...
02:47So I'm giving him a lot of credit for playing all 40 minutes.
02:50He's not been excellent yet, JY.
02:55You know what I mean?
02:56Like, in the tournament right now, 16 points on 33% from the field
03:02and 21% from three.
03:05He is better than that.
03:07He started to get the three-point shot going a little bit,
03:10it felt like, down the stretch against Nebraska,
03:12but can he start hot, specifically, right?
03:17Can he come out and, you know, make two of his first three threes?
03:23And it's like, uh-oh.
03:25You know what I mean?
03:26Now we've got ourselves a game.
03:28I think that's on the board.
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