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How we doing everybody and welcome into Wisconsin. Sports on the go with Trage. I'm your host, trage, it is Sunday, championship Sunday. Right, it's championship Sunday. Everybody is just hooting and hollering If you're from philly, because you know philadelphia eagles. Moving on to the super bowl.
Speaker 2:There, the rest of america is like eh, and we were hoping for jayden daniels, but hey, aaron's happy, so that's what matters here right now. The chiefs and bills that's a dog fight 22, 21 as they go in the third there. So we're going to keep an eye on that as we go along here. But right now, I mean, the only save, the only savior that we have left that can save the football season is Josh Allen. That's it. That's all we got Josh Allen, boys, we got to root for him. This is all we got. Jane Daniels is gone. Okay, jordan love way gone. He's been gone for a while now. It's all up to Josh Allen If we have to watch patch mahomes and the chiefs take on the eagles round two, right part two.
Speaker 2:Oh yay, part two again. I'm gonna lose it. I'm gonna lose it. I just can't handle it there. But hey, we got lots. Get into today lots of wisconsin stuff. Get into. We don't care that much about patch bones, we're gonna get into a lot of wisconsin stuff today. Aaron is with me today. Aaron, how we doing? It's sunday night. You're feeling frisky. The eagles got the win, philly's probably. I mean the bars are probably lit up right now. It's like pandemonium out there. How are we doing?
Speaker 3:yeah, I mean you got what you gotta. Grease the poles right, that's what they say. Grease the poles up. Uh, yeah, I mean I can't lie to you.
Speaker 3:As much as I downplay the nfl at times to be super like it's it, for me it's always super bowl or bus, like making the playoffs is whatever, like if you can get all the way there, it'll be great. I mean, I'm elated. I will say I'm not going to rub it in whatever you want to say, but I'm happy, I'm over the moon a little bit. But you know, like Kobe said, man, if you get to the Super Bowl and you lose, what's that? I hate that. It was a good season. I hate that If you don't win the Super Bowl, I don't care, I don't, I really don't. So it's like Kobe said, you know, job's not finished, job's not finished. So happy to be here If we have.
Speaker 3:You know, if the Eagles go on to play the Chiefs, it's playing the Chiefs and the refs. And, like you said, part two is kind of I, I I'd kind of like it, rather see it be the bills as well, just from a fan perspective. Like the cheese is like okay, it feels like the Patriots now, like it's the same thing over and over, but yeah, long story short, pretty pretty happy. I mean just, you know Washington was just kind of outmatched out there, so moving on.
Speaker 2:It's a good day for Eagle fan right? It's a good day there, and you know what you want to make yourselves feel better if you're a Packer fan. Actually, I don't know if this makes you feel better. It didn't make me feel better In the last. This was from Zach Cruz. He's over there on Twitter there In the last six years of the Matt LaFleur.
Speaker 2:It's gotta be so that brings you back to the square one of the whole matt lafleur argument is is he good enough to get you over the hump, right? Is he good enough to take you to that next level? Because right now, if you look at the history, right, everybody wants to go with historical stats to look at what to look at here. Matt lafleur, in six opportunities, has lost to the nfc champion, or four times, four times. You can look at that as being well. We lost to the team that went to the super bowl. That's cool, right. But you can also look at it as if we would have beat that team, the Eagles. If we would have beat the Eagles, played the Rams and then would have ended up playing the Commanders because the Packers have won that trip, right? Because, honestly, if you look at that, you wouldn't have played the Rams, right, you would have ended up playing the Lions. You would have ended up playing the Lions, right, like the Commanders did. The ended up. You would ended up playing the lions. You'd ended up playing the lions, right, like the commanders did. The packers saw that. I mean they played the lions twice and they played them pretty well. I mean they didn't get over the hump. But it's like you look back at this, you look at that path and you're like, could they have gotten over that hump? And it's just, you always got that could have, could they, could they have. And it's now you look towards the future with matt lafleur. Now you look towards the future with Matt LaFleur. Can he, can he, can he beat that team right, if Gutekinds goes out this offseason and gets him, let's just say, a Max Crosby or I mean way out there, right Miles Garrett or a guy like DK Metcalf from that wide receiver room, can Matt LaFleur be the guy to take you over that hump. That's what we wait and see now. That that's that's why I think this season is it's a lot of Matt LaFleur's career right here, right here with the Packers at least, because when I look at it, I'm like the windows open right now. I don't know how much more of a window you can open up. It's going to be next year, after this, next year, the year after, where you're going to get even more cap space, because you will lose the devondre campbell and I believe there's another contract I don't know which one, but it's still on the books there but you're going to lose those contracts, those that come off the books. You are going to have more with jordan love there. You're going to have more with some other guys there and trying to keep guys around, but I mean the the book. The book on matt lafleur, I don't know.
Speaker 2:We talked about ben johnson's comments the other day as like, not adam, but until matt lafleur does something, everybody can poke shots, everybody. They're not friends. I get that. The comments that he made were they, you know, justified? I don't know. But until he proves it, till he proves that he can beat one of these teams and go on a run and get to the NFC Championship game and get over that hump. I mean Dan Campbell. I love Dan Campbell, right. I love what Dan Campbell's done with Detroit Lions and he has given himself a leeway for probably about 10 years. I don't know because the way that that organization was before he got there to now, he's bought himself a lot of time. But when I look at dan campbell it's like he's got to get over it eventually, right?
Speaker 3:kyle shanahan yeah, he's been right like holy cow. I mean, how long is that going?
Speaker 2:on yep, they got to get over that hump, they got to get to that next level and it's a question of can they get there? That's going to define. You know, it's like you always say with mike tomlin you, you don't like Mike Tomlin, simply because Mike Tomlin, he gets you 500. He gets you a winning record, he gets you into the playoffs but doesn't win you any playoff games.
Speaker 3:And I don't want to sound like it's every year. Honestly, there's limitations to teams. We can look at certain Packers teams like teams, like that team isn't going to go to the cerebral. Or like a certain eagles team they're, they're, they're a 10 and 7 style team. My argument is always you know, if you have the talent in-house, right like kyle shanahan, he I mean, how many years of that crap is going on? You know, yeah, if I'm a 49ers fan, I'm like look this guy, he's the guy that can get you. You know, he's the chauffeur and he'll get you like 400 feet to like right before where you need to go Right. You're 400 feet like towards your destiny. Oh, I'm going to drop you off here.
Speaker 3:It's like, dude, you never finished the job and it's not all coaching. I get that, it's like, but we're talking about a results-based business and I'm in the floor. You know you take over a franchise. It's a dumpster fire. The Packers are never a dumpster fire and I can definitely have respect for that. It's not like the freaking Tennessee Titans where it's like holy crap, can you win more than three games a year? That's a challenge half the time. But you know, you come into a situation with Aaron Rodgers, I think I just I've never been in love with Aaron Rodgers. In the playoffs I almost put more on him than LaFleur. Now you have a younger quarterback. You know the ceiling's high but you know he kind of regressed this year. Now is that injury? Like there's so many questions and it's like I said at certain points in guys' careers it's put up or shut up, like I think it's been put up or shut up for Mike Tomlin for five years, but now people are putting them on the hot seat and he probably still won't get canned for another two years at the very least with the same results.
Speaker 3:But I mean you got to just look at yourself in the mirror and say you know when, when you know what's it going to take. Is it more talent? Is it, is it better coaches around it? Like something you know. You, you want to raise the bar. You like every team wants to go to Super Bowl and certain teams try to like I try harder than others. I think there's teams out there that are like, what are the Raiders doing? Like they're just spinning their tires forever. Basically, you bring in Pete Carroll. Okay, we're going to completely switch things up. Yeah, I guess the Packers are in a situation where they're good, it's like that good to great, to elite conversation where it, where it's like how do how do we make steps forward? Cause staying the same sucks, I would argue. Staying the same as the worst, honestly, then then backtracking and restarting sometimes is is better, I mean look at the lines with Dan Campbell.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, no, 100%.
Speaker 2:If you're not progressing, you're regressing. That's all that it is. You can't, you can't stay stagnant. You have to get better, along with teams right with you, because we expect the Bears are going to get better right, I don't know, but we expect it. The Lions constantly coming back now the Vikings underneath Kevin O'Connell he's been fantastic. So the NFC North is a good division now. So you have to progress with them now. And who do you blame at the end of the day? Right, you have to come out of every season and you have to say why didn't it work? What was the reason why it didn't work?
Speaker 2:Do you want to look back to Gutekens' draft classes? Were draft classes not good enough there? Or that draft class for that season? Was it not good enough? The guys that he got the year before, did they not progress enough? Is it the defensive line coach? Right, they fired the defensive line coach. They thought he was the issue, so they got rid of him there. Hopefully that helps out there.
Speaker 2:You look at the offense there. What's going to fix the slow starts? That's a question Matt LaFleur has to answer. Why do his guys look like they don't come out with the fire? Another question Matt LaFleur has to answer the special teams. I would get rid of Basaccia. I don't know why we keep bringing them back. That's a question that needs to be answered. Every single year we have a special teams problem. We hopefully have the kicker figured out. Hopefully the Packers get uh, brandon McManus back because from what? Everything that I saw, he was solid. I mean he missed that one kick against the Eagles there and outside of that he was solid all season long. So I cannot blame that guy for one missed kick in the playoffs, like that's for what he did for the Packers or before that. I'm good with him there. I mean they have a lot of questions that they have going into this off season. We're gonna I mean we got lots of weeks to answer all those questions right. The NFL off season seems to take forever. Combine is going to be coming up, they're going to have all the pro days, everything like that. So we're going to have a lot of answers to a lot of our questions, with even what Brian Gutekinds is going to want to do out there in free agency. So we'll kind of see what he does there. I did see before we get there.
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Speaker 2:But I want to get into a little bit more Brewer talk. Today I saw across social media. I saw a little comment, or a commenter today sent this to me Jesus Maid is the youngest prospect on the MLB Top 100 list. He's 17 years old. 17 years old. Think about that for a second. I mean, that's high school. You're still in a high school age and you're in the top 100 for MLB prospects. That's unreal, that's just. That is awesome. So I mean the Brewers got a guy like that down in the system there. You love to see that, aaron. You had the list up before top 100 prospects. Did you find the other four Brewers? It was Jefferson Cuero's on there, jesus Made Jacob Mizorowski and then Cooper Pratt are all on there.
Speaker 2:Where are they ranked right now Within that top 100?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so first one, you know we come down here at 47 is Cuero, the catcher. Also, I mean, a lot of these guys are young, right, but 22 years old Jesus, made like you said, 17. Crazy, cooper Pratt, 20 years old Jesus at 56. Cooper at 57, respectfully. And then you work your way down a little bit further here, rounding out the last guy you know, mr Irrelevant, if you will right, almost at 100 there, but not to be forgotten is Jacob Mizorowski.
Speaker 2:I hopefully didn't butcher that too much. Jacob Mizorowski, you got her spot on.
Speaker 3:Right-handed pitcher 6'7", I mean Josh Hader 2.0, right, that dude chops gas. You want to see some phenomenal movement on pitches.
Speaker 2:Right-handed pitcher six foot seven I mean josh hater 2.0, right like that dude chucks gas. You want to see some phenomenal movement on pitches? Look up jacob mizorowski. That breaking stuff is nasty. He strikes you out while you're sitting there watching him strike that's how nasty it is.
Speaker 2:You're like how do guys even look at that? I didn't see that. I didn't even see it break. Jacob Mizorowski is going to be a dog when he gets up to the big league level and he might be a guy where we could see him this next season. I really do believe he might be a guy where he could be on the fast track. I don't think he's going to be a starter though he's a starter down in the minors. I don't think he's going to be be a starter. I think they bring him up the corbin burns route. I think they put him in the bullpen. I think they let him sit out there, get his stuff ready like 2018 corbin burns. Get him on the bullpen, let him get to his stuff, figure it out, get comfortable at the big league level and then move him into starting rotation. I think that's the way you work it and I would love it.
Speaker 2:That dude's got some gas. He. The problem with him is with that gas. It's the stamina. He has problems going over like four innings. That was his biggest problem. It was getting past that fourth inning and staying in control and staying in command of everything. So that's the one thing to watch out for with him. But that dude, he's going to be a problem. He's going to be a problem for opposing hitters when he gets up there.
Speaker 2:Jesus made fantastic to all the, all the videos that I've seen off Jesus made down there hitting that dude. He's got a smooth, smooth stroke. We could see him. He's not coming up this year. Like nobody freak out and think we're gonna have a 17 year old in the bigs this year. I'm gonna say he could probably be like a 19, 20 year old in the league, so like a Jackson Churrio kind of route. I think he could be up that fast. Cooper Pratt too I think he's going to be a guy. We could be talking about him in a couple of years. I really do. He's fantastic.
Speaker 2:Jefferson Quero we talked about him the other day. I don't know. I don't know because you have you have William Cont and backup catcher. Do you want him to be a backup catcher and not get consistent time? Because then you're not developing a prospect, then you're letting him sit and sulk, so it's like you almost leave him down. You almost leave him down there and then it's like he's not getting time at the big. So you never know what he is right. So it's going to be hard to see what's going to happen with Jefferson Cuero For me.
Speaker 2:If a team out there wants a high, highly rated prospect, a catcher, I might try to swing a trade. I really would. I might try to swing a trade with, let's just say I don't know there's some teams out there with third basement where you could be like, hey, I got Jefferson Cuero, he's top prospect here, he's one of the top prospects in all baseball. I mean top 100 lists. He's up there at pretty high. We could ship him off to you, maybe, slap on a couple of pitching prospect or something to go along with them. And I don't know, maybe like the Phillies, the Phillies maybe they would look to move Alec Boehm. Yet I don't know, like I mean JT, real Muto is only getting older Right AT. Real Muto is only getting older right and you're going to need to catch her eventually, right.
Speaker 2:And Jefferson Cuero is in AAA right now. Last season we didn't get to really see him right because he got hurt, but he's in AAA. You know he's got a boatload of talent. Trust me, watching him in spring training, that dude can chuck out a lot of guys. He has got a cannon of an arm so you watch him down there, the Phill tape on them, which they should be able to find the tape on them. I mean, I, I could see a team like the phillies being like, hey, we need a guy to, you know, step up here and be the youthful catcher that we could need down the road, because jt's not gonna be there for a long time and I don't know who the catcher prospects are for the phillies, but I would imagine they're probably not higher than jefferson cuero is and probably not highly touted like jefferson cuero. It's like I don't know. That could be a team, right. That could be a team where you reach out and you're like we know you guys aren't sure about trade or getting rid of Alec Boehm, but here's our offer, see what you want, right, so it's. I mean, there's all those options out there and that would be definitely something.
Speaker 2:If I'm the Brewers I'm looking at, I want to continue this talk. I want to continue this talk. We'll talk about this on the backside. We got to hit our first ad break here. We'll come back. I want to talk about this just a little bit more. And then we got to get to badge basketball because the corn huskers, they got shucked today. They got shucked and I want to talk about it on the backside of this break here. So we'll be back on the backside of the ad break here this show is brought to you by these fantastic sponsors Pittsville Farm and Home Center.
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Speaker 2:That's all you need to know. Game day supply down there. So I wanted to get to. We do have one text and this is what I want to get to. When we came back, before we got to the badgers here, um, we got one across texan line and do you think high schoolers should be considered as a prospect? That's interesting. So I would have to ask this person if they could elaborate Is that before they got drafted or is this when they get drafted? Because technically, when they get drafted, they're already technically a prospect, so then they'd be in that ranking there, but is it before they get drafted?
Speaker 2:Are lists for, like, top high school prospects? There are lists out there that you can get different, like if they go to different camps or if they're a part of different programs, they'll rank them on there. I know there's one, uh, pbr. I got. Pbr is a pb, pb, something in the state of wisconsin. I see there are a couple different things in the state of wisconsin for them there, but uh, they do. They do a rankings list where guys can go there and show off their skills and everything like that, like arms speed, velocity or whatever you are. If you're an infielder, you're an outfielder, you're a pitcher, you're just looking for hitting. They'll show all your different metrics and they'll put it all up on the site for you, and then they'll have it all there. Oh, here we go. Here's the question. Here's another question, for it's real fast here. Should they be able to get drafted out of high school?
Speaker 3:I don't see why. Why not, right? I? I mean jeter jeter is one that comes to my mind that, uh, oh no, he went on and played at michigan, or did maybe he dreamed of going on to play at michigan baseball's different baseball's, different like you look at.
Speaker 2:Okay, like hypothetically, football is impossible. You ain't getting drafted out of high school to play football, unless if you're just like I mean thor or the hulk, you know, walking out there. You ain't getting drafted straight out of high school playing the nfl. The nba, I would say, is even different. I don't see many high school athletes like everybody's I. This is is going to piss off a lot of people when I say this. So just wait for this one. This is going to fire up a lot of people.
Speaker 2:I am not that impressed with Cooper Flagg From Duke. Everybody's like oh, these NBA players are like this is the greatest thing. This is the greatest guy I've ever played against. He's got so much talent. He's going to be the next star. He's going to be the next star. He's going to be the next this and that.
Speaker 2:I watch my Duke. He's got a lot of growing to do. Be honest with you, and it's going to tick off. If anybody out there is a Duke fan watching, they're pissed. They're like slamming their keyboard against the wall right now. They're pissed right. They're like what is this idiot talking about? He's got a lot of growing to do and, honestly, I look at him and I'm like they thought that coming out of high school he was playing NBA guys coming out of high school and they thought this was the next dude. And I watched my Duke and I'm like he's got a lot of. He's got a lot of growing to do. He's got a lot of things he's got to fix before he can be at the next level, be in the NBA and be successful.
Speaker 2:Baseball you're in the minors for a while, unless if you're like a Jackson Turio or you're a superstar, right, a perennial superstar like Juan Soto, right, juan Soto went to the minors pretty fast there too. Look at a lot of these other guys. They're like four, five, six years in the minors before we ever even figure out who they are. I mean, baseball is different. I think baseball, yeah, yeah, you should be able to draft out of high school because, honestly, if you go to college for baseball like unless if that team that drafts you is going to start you out at, let's just say, the triple, like the double a level I mean the double a level at least you're 22 years old already by the time you get out of school. Four years, right, I mean 18, 19, 20, 21. You're about 22 years old before you start your big league career and you get down there and maybe they put you in like high a and now you got to work your way from high a all the way up.
Speaker 2:I most of the guys that get drafted out of high school are all they're like. They're, they got the talent, they're ready, they're gonna succeed at the next level. The other guys go to college. So I don't go to college, so I don't have a problem with it. I don't have a problem with guys getting drafted out of high school for baseball. Football is never going to do it. Basketball they've done it, but I just don't see it really working in today's leagues. I think it's too fast. I think guys are too big. I think that they wouldn't be able to keep up in the game and I think they'd just be a bust.
Speaker 3:They wouldn't be able to figure it out fast enough and people would give up on them. So I, I can't see it in any other leagues, but in baseball, yes. Yes, I could see it definitely working there. Yeah, I, I definitely agree. I mean, I think with baseball though that's the thing, like I mean, if you play it like a south carolina or like, uh, texas or like you know, there's some marquee school schools like you play really good competition, it could be a good thing for you. Um, now, like you said, if you come out late like you're a senior and then you get drafted and stuff like that. But I still think I mean baseball. You know, harper, uh soto, all those guys started like they, all of them had to make their path right.
Speaker 2:Christian, yelich like these guys, no, matter how good you were, didn't he? He was juco too, wasn't't he yeah?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So that's the thing, like no matter how good you are coming out of high school, college, like you have to prove it at the next level. You know, you know these guys I mean Jackson holiday was in, was in summer league ball for a little bit Um, you know, we've seen guys down there in Florida and like in different leagues and everything like baseball, the grind to get to the show is is the ultimate grind. Like you have to prove it at every level. So I mean, getting getting drafted out of high school doesn't mean much until it's not like you're getting drafted in the first round of the NFL draft and like you're expected to play. Like that we're talking. These guys have to prove it at a single a. You know high a double a, like it's a, it's an absolute grind. So yeah, getting drafted out high school, that's a whole, that's a whole. Like you're just you're just getting started, you're just scratching the surface yeah, no, I would agree, I would agree and great question.
Speaker 2:Great question because I think that's, uh, something that is talked about a lot. I football has never really talked about it because, like I said it's, it's physically impossible to I, even college guys, some college guys don't even match up to what the NFL has to throw at them. But, like the NBA, that's something that's been taught. I mean, look at LeBron. Lebron never went to college. Maybe he could have used a little bit of college, but he never went to college there, so I mean that's.
Speaker 2:Everybody's got their own opinion on Mr LeBronron and mine is that he sucks. So that's just how I roll with it there. But I want to get to the Badgers, aaron, because, like I said before them, shuckers, they got shucked. They got shucked in this game by the Badgers. It was just that kind of day. It was just that kind of day in Madison and we loved it. We loved every second of it.
Speaker 2:Connor, a season comes back. I was a little worried, right, I was. I was a little sketched out. I was like I don't like this. You know, connor's coming back, I gotta feel any of my torches for 40 or something. Nah, none of that, none of that.
Speaker 2:In this one, badgers start out hot. And this is. You talk about that west coast road trip that they had right, they played against usc and ucla. Both those games they had slow starts, slow starts. That game against usc, I believe their first three, three possessions resulted in a turnover, like that's a slow start I'm talking about. And UCLA, ucla came out hot. The Badgers came out hot in this game here. Badgers 19-2 run. To start the game they were 5-6 from downtown, 5-6 from downtown. Wow, I mean wow Just came out hot and this is my favorite part. So Badgers, go on that big run. Nebraska closed that gap. They came back. Nebraska came back in this one. Don't let that final score fool you. This game got down to four. Jack Janicki had a huge steal, took it down, threw the hammer down there later in that first half and then the route was on. Jack Janicki flipped the script for me in that game. He completely flipped that script. In that moment. The momentum was all kind of favor in Nebraska. Wisconsin was on this little cold spell. Jack Janicki changed that game. Love to see that.
Speaker 2:There, john Tonje and John Blackwell, the Johns, right, the John brothers, there, those two, I mean I will argue with a lot of people that might be the best backcourt in the country, blind and simple. John Blackwell, I mean the other day he goes for 30 plus. John Tonja gives you nothing against UCLA. Both of them went off. This one. Here. John Tonja goes 27 points, nine for 19 from the uh, from the field in this one. But it's three point percentage and unreal, unreal for John Tonje from downtown. Four for five, four for five from distance, or no, yeah, five for 11. Sorry about that. Five for 11. I got my stats are all flowing around here Five for 11 from downtown. For John Tonje in this one, just under just under 50% on the game.
Speaker 2:This guy, when he gets rolling, watch out John, john Blackwell. Same difference for him, same difference. The Badgers might have the best backcourt in the country, just the way that they have the ability not just to beat you at the three point line but to beat you off the bounce. And the question then becomes right, because when you've got a team like this, right, like the Badgers, becomes right because when you got a team like this, right, like the Badgers, one through five, it doesn't matter what Greg Gard does, right, he's got to start games.
Speaker 2:John Blackwell, john Tonje, max Klesman, steven Crowell, nolan Winter all five guys can knock down threes. They go to that bench. They bring in Carter Gilmore I don't know what he did in the off season except for work, because that guy and his shot and his scoring ability has been an A-plus. Carter Gilmark in knockdown threes. Kamari McGee I don't know what kind of juice that he, what he does in the locker room before he comes out before every game, but this guy is unconscious from downtown. I don't know what it is. I absolutely don't you want to talk about a guy who upped his craft going into this season Kamari McGee 54% from downtown on the season. Aaron, he's about 55%. He's 54.8% from three on the season so far. That is unreal, and it's not like this is a guy who shoots like he's only shot like 10. This is a guy who shot 30 plus threes already and he's 54.8% three. That is unreal. You want to talk about a percentage jump last season, 27 from three, 27, this season, 54.
Speaker 2:I it the thing with the badgers and this is what really was evident in this game here their depth and their ability to score, not just in the starting five, but their ability to score on that bench, the ability that when they go to that bench, you still have to respect everybody that's out there. You still have to respect a guy like Carter Gilmore or a guy like Jack Janicki, who had a three for three on this game here. And then Kamari McGee. The depth of the Badgers is their saving grace, because what do you do defensively? Right, most of these teams out there? You look at them. You're like well, you know, we can hone in on this guy and we slow him down. We can beat this team right.
Speaker 2:Wisconsin put up 80 plus points and john tonjay scored zero, zero points in this game here and I know we're gonna harp on him. I know a lot of badger fans out there gonna harp on him. Stephen crowl had one point in this entire ballgame. He didn't shoot. He didn't shoot once in this game and the Badgers put up 83 points. He didn't shoot one time. Your big guy gave you absolutely zilch. Nothing, zero, nada across the board. You still won the game. That's.
Speaker 2:What speaks volumes to this team is they can score in a boatload of different ways. Now in this game here in Nebraska they doubled the post, right, I don't want to have everybody blaming Steven Crowell for getting a zero. Yes, I wish you would have that big post presence that would score you buckets all the time, 100%, I agree. In this game here they doubled down to the post. The thing with Steven Crowell is and when they is and when they, when we talk about him getting involved because I know we always put it in the pre-game notes, right, all the time when we're pre-gaming for these games, when we do the preview, I always say get the post involved, right. I don't mean score it, I don't mean have the badgers score it, what, what, or have the post score it. What I mean is get the post involved to the point where steven kral is getting doubled and he can kick out the shooters. That that's where I'm looking at. That's where I'm looking at with this team right now. They and John said it perfectly and I see a John I haven't seen John in a while here in the comments. Love to see you on the show here. John said it perfectly.
Speaker 2:Thing with the badges weakness If they clean up, could be a dangerous team. Clean up those turnovers, yes, yes, 100%. Because if you look in the Badgers losses, if you look at every single loss that the Badgers have had turnovers, the Marquette game turnovers, illinois turnovers, ucla turnovers, michigan you could go back to turnovers. You could say there was a few costly turnovers in there that if you clean them up, there's some that you're like, ah, that happens right, when a foot steps out of bounds, it happens. Those Some that you're like, ah, that happens right, when a foot steps out of bounds, it happens Like. Those are the ones where it's like, ah, crap, you know, you just move on with life. It's the costly passes, it's the bad passes, it's the dangerous things that they do. Those are the ones that kind of irritate you, and that's where it was against Marquette, that's where it was against UCLA was up, those turnovers.
Speaker 2:I got to be honest with you right now. If the Badgers figure it out defensively which was another one of my points in my notes and I tweeted out there too this was the best defensive game I've seen from the Badgers all season long, all season long. And I know Nebraska is not as athletic as a UCLA or an Illinois or even a Michigan State. I know that. But this is a starting point. This is a starting point in this game here, defensively, their rotations look better. Their help side defense was phenomenal. In this one they were keeping Nebraska out of the lane. They were checking out shooters, boxing out, cleaning up the glass.
Speaker 2:In this one here I mean the Badgers 38 rebounds. They had what? 43 rebounds to 35 rebounds in this one, mm. They have what? 43 rebounds to 35 rebounds in this one, mm-hmm. You love that, you love that. Y'all rebound the team, y'all rebound them. Turnovers in this one for the Badgers, I mean eight, eight turnovers. Talk about what you can do when you only have eight turnovers in a basketball game. This is a team that can put up 80-plus.
Speaker 2:And the awesome part and this is a thing I never thought I would say with the Wisconsin Badgers, we just expect 40 points at the half. We just expect it. Now, like before, if we had 40 at the half or even like 30, we were like, oh man, wow, we're going to have a burner tonight. Boys, like we're, we're lighting them up, this is going to be it. Now it's like we score 40 at the half. We're like we could have done better, right, could have done better, right, could have been better. There's a lot of things that could have went better that half. I don't. I'm just looking at it as this Badger team is doing things that are unheard of Wisconsin. This from Benjamin Wargill over there on Twitter. I just saw his tweet earlier today.
Speaker 2:Wisconsin scored at least 80 points for the 13th time this season, equaling the third highest such total and the most since 1970 to 1971 season. The school record is 15, set in 1963, 1964, which the badgers are on pace, of course, to shatter, like they're going to go way over the top of that right now. So you're, you're seeing what the difference is right now in this. Uh, badger is badger, offense all the way around. Uh, john did I want to read this comment here from john?
Speaker 2:Uh, defense looked good and very clean. Defense too. Only gave up. What four fouls? Uh, let's see your player falls on the game. 11, 11 in two halves the game. I mean watching it. That was partially because I mean the refs, they stayed out of it, which I love. I love that reffing was pretty clean in this game here, because nebraska only had 11 fouls. I mean, it was just clean basket. You could call it clean basketball, you can call it. The refs were kind of just swallowing the whistle. I like that. It was a little bit of both in this one and that's what you want.
Speaker 2:A big 10 basketball game on a sunday afternoon at new. And like I don't want the other night at ucla, when there was 50 fouls and it was just, I Like, and there was 50, some free throw shot, like I don't want that. I don't want those crappy games. I want a game like this where you just let them play. If it's obvious, yes. If a guy gets hammered going to the rim and he gets thrown into the back, yes, like, blow the whistle. I agree with those. If it's tick tack, let it go, just let it go. Let them play it out Right. Those are the games that we love, so I love seeing that there. But hey, we got to hit an ad break here. I want to talk more badges in the backside. We got some comments from Greg Gard here that I wanted to get to. I want to get to that.
Speaker 2:I want to talk a little bit more of the stats here that we saw out of this one. We got a quick little one. Like I told you guys last week, there we're. We got the radio show coming up. The show will be on the radio. We got to get used to the three ad breaks. Right now, technically, I only have two sponsor ad breaks, so we just hit that countdown there so we can have that for the recorded versions, everything like it. Yes, just bear with us during the 10 second countdown there in the middle. But I want to get more Badgers here because, aaron, this was a great game. This was a great game for the Badgers here. 83 to 55 was the final there. The Badgers wire to wire. We're in control of this game here. It got close, like I said, four-point game there at one point. Then the Badgers jumped back out and I think that's another thing coming off.
Speaker 2:This game that I loved was that we've talked about in the past. Right, what was it? The Ohio State game, the USC game, those two games where it was like the Badgers built a big lead and then those teams came back on them and they made it close at the end. And in both games right, the USC game Badgers really pulled back ahead after the half but you, ohio State, took them down to the wire. Right, this game here, nebraska closed that gap and the Badgers took a big halftime lead. Right, they had 12 point lead going into the half. They didn't waver off that lead.
Speaker 2:Right, the badgers threw the haymaker to start this game. They got a little like nebraska was throwing, like they were trying to kick you in the face, but they were missing. Right, maybe they just whacked. You grazed your ear a couple times and then wisconsin threw a haymaker right back at him and it was done. It was done. They came out and they controlled the pace. They controlled this game. That's what we wanted to see out of a Badgers team was just utter dominance.
Speaker 2:Right, wire to wire. Can you dominate a team? Wire to wire? This game here. This game here the Badgers dominated wire to wire and if you ask the Nebraska fans, it's like what have you done this year? Besides, beat Arizona Shut up?
Speaker 2:I saw somebody comment that earlier on a post. They're like, ah, you know, let's just, it's like shut up, shut up. I mean, that's enough. That's enough on this. But, um, greg guard, I want to talk about a few things.
Speaker 2:Greg Hart had to say after that one and they talked to him in the post game because the Badgers, they're going to have this little little road trip here. They're going to have a lot of road games coming up here pretty soon. They go to Maryland, they go to Northwestern, they come back home for Indiana, they go to Iowa, they go to Purdue and then they come back home for a few there. So they're going to have a couple of road. They're going to have some road games there. Four of their next five are going to be on the road there before coming back home for Illinois, oregon, washington. But then they have another road trip there with Michigan State and Minnesota. So they have a lot of road games here, right, and Gregard has said we're getting on a plane, we're going somewhere to play basketball.
Speaker 2:That's all he said. That was his comment on it. I love that comment. Right, he said there are a lot more difficult things out there in life than where you have to play. Tell us where we have to play, tell us where. Tell us where we have to play and we'll be there. I love that. I love that comment because greg guard we heard from it was ucla's coach crone in the other day where he's like we've seen the statue of liberty twice in two weeks or something like that, and you know he's getting all fired up and having to play and I don't know if this was a shot at him for saying that and everything like that. But greg, greg guard's like dude, we're gonna get on a plane, we're gonna go to maryland, we're gonna take care of our business, we're gonna go back, we're gonna take on northwestern and then we're gonna come back home for indiana and then we're gonna go back on the road. We're gonna take on iowa and then we're gonna go to purdue, then we're gonna come back home and take on Illinois.
Speaker 2:When you go to the big dance and this is what Cronin and a lot of fans and a lot of fans get irked with this one but when you go to the big dance. You're on the road for how many weeks? If you go all the way to national championship right, you got the round of 64, round of 32, sweet 16, elite eight, final four, national championship You're on the road for six games. Right there, you're on the road for six games. What gets you better than playing on the road in the Big Ten? What gets you more ready for the dance? Like Greg's? Like, bring it on right.
Speaker 2:We got to prove to ourselves that we can not only win at home, but we can go on the road and win basketball games. Because you know for a fact and when you're at home you have the crowd right, the crowd's into it, the crowd's with you. When you go on the road, they with you. They're most time against you, unless you go to indiana right now. Then they're booing mike woodson and they're trying to get them fired, but outside of that they're with you, right. So that's the thing. You go on the road in the big 10. You have a stretch of games like this. I think it builds you a little bit more.
Speaker 2:You go, if the badgers can go, to maryland, right, and john said it right there. Perfect, john said it right there. Perfect, john said it right there Perfect, maryland is a sleeper team. They just had another good game there, I agree. I agree 100%. Maryland has been playing a very good basketball as of late. Maryland's been fantastic as of late I shouldn't even say they've been playing very good basketball, they've been fantastic Beat Indiana today and they had that win against Illinois by 21 in Illinois. They went to Illinois and beat them by 21. I get Avicic wasn't playing for Illinois, so they're missing the big fella. I get that. But you got blasted on your home court by 21. That's different. That's not just missing one guy, you got blasted by Maryland. And then they did have that win against Nebraska before that there. So Maryland started to hit a little bit of a streak there for good game.
Speaker 2:So maryland, that maryland wisconsin game could be a very good game. There could be a top 25 matchup too, because maryland could be ranked in the top 25. Right now you actually look at the espn matchup predictor for that game. They have a 66 chance that maryland wins that game over wisconsin. So that tells you the faith that they have in wisconsin right now in what I mean, and the faith they have in maryland at this very moment, especially in a road game there. So maryland is favored right now in that, I think, but could be a top 25 matchup. So I agree there. But I like that.
Speaker 2:I like that greg guard basically saying like, hey, we gotta go on the road anyways, like it's gonna happen at some point in the year. It's sucks in our schedule that it's four of the next five, but we're going to get her done, we're going to get through it. We're going to win some basketball games. You go four out of the next five. You win for the next five. That's a win. That's a win. You go on the road and you win three of those road games in Maryland, northwestern. You win in Iowa. You beat Indiana at home and then you play Purdue on the road and maybe you play a close game, but Purdue, because Mackey Arena just absolutely sucks to play in for Wisconsin.
Speaker 2:I don't know what it is Like they got. That place is cursed, that place is cursed. I'm convinced that place is cursed. But you go down there and maybe you pull off, you rattle off a win down there. I mean they have a lot of good opportunities in front of them. They're going to have a stretch of games here Purdue, illinois, oregon, washington, then Michigan State. That's a lot of ranked matches right there. That's a lot of big-time games for the Badgers there coming up and I can't wait. I can't wait. You want to prove it. There's your chance. There's your chance night there.
Speaker 2:Minnesota's starting to find their groove. So even Minnesota coming up late in the season for the Badgers that could be a tough game. Minnesota's got that win. They just beat Oregon and I believe before that they beat Michigan and Iowa. They got a win against Michigan, iowa and Oregon. Three straight wins for Minnesota after they got beat by Maryland and lost to Wisconsin there. I mean that's a pretty good. Minnesota's starting to figure it out there.
Speaker 2:I don't like Minnesota, but they're starting to figure it out. I'm looking at all these. I mean the Badgers got tough. They got a tough schedule in front of them and they knew that. They knew that Big Ten's always tough. They knew that it was going to be a tough sled in there.
Speaker 2:John says don't sleep on Northwestern, sleep on Northwestern. I agree, northwestern's got some good players too. Martinelli's still there, barnheiser's still there, nicholson is still out there for him too, and that Leagy's playing pretty good basketball for Northwestern. So all the way around I mean Northwestern's got a pretty good team. I just watched them take on Illinois today. I believe Illinois pulled that one out there. But outside of that I mean Northwestern solid ball club they got some solid players, some experienced guys, badgers they got experienced guys too, and that's where I think the Badgers have been playing well right now is they got the maturity. The maturity level of Wisconsin, I think, is what puts them over the edge of some of these other teams John Tonje Blackwell in his sophomore season there. Steven Crowell getting older. Same with Gilmore Max Klesman. If Gilmore Max Klezman, if Max Klezman figures it out on a consistent basis, this team is going to be scary, and they're scary right now. But if Max Klezman can shoot it consistently and you put him in the backcourt with John Blackwell and John Tonje, watch out for that, because if Max Klezman can bring it up with these other two, this team is going to become deadly.
Speaker 2:From downtown I saw the stat over the last. Oh, I just had it up just before there and I did. I didn't want to lose it there. Um, greg guard that's not a quote from Greg guard across the board, we see, offensively we're a handful. When we get ourselves locked in defensively, we become a complete team. That was something that we just stated on before there.
Speaker 2:This team the thing that they were lacking, like John said, was turnovers, was a big problem but also defensively. We said when this team could figure it out defensively because that game to Illinois, right, they lost that one. They put up 80-some points, 80 points against Illinois, and they lost it 86-80. You don't lose many games like that UCLA. You put up 83 points and you lost. You shot 50% from the field, 50% from the three and 85%. In that game against UCLA they shot from the free throw line right around it. There I think they were probably around like 89%, if I'm not 85. They shot 51, 51 from the field, 50 from three and 85 from the free throw line and they lost that game.
Speaker 2:What's the thing that keeps holding the bag? It's defense is. It's picking it up on the defensive end, and we talked about it. What did we see better in this nebraska game? Defense went off. They played a lot better and the shot it was shot blockers too. I haven't seen the badgers block many shots in a while and Nolan Winter had one. I believe in this one here. I believe Gilmore if he didn't have one. He had an attempt at one, but either way, I mean they're getting some shot blocks attempts. You love to see that.
Speaker 2:This was a stat I was looking for. Wisconsin was a combined 33 for 67 from three-point range in two games. So that would be against UCLA and against this Nebraska team here 32 for 67. Wow, wow. When this team gets rolling, they're hard to beat. That's what we're trying to say here. When this team gets rolling, they are hard to beat. Aaron, was there anything you saw coming off this game against Nebraska? You're like, wow, this Badgers team they're starting to feel it in this Big Ten schedule. It's starting to ramp up a little bit. The record's starting to look good here for the Wisconsin Badgers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean one person you bring up a lot there, like Max Klesman. I mean we've kind of harped on this team. Are they a great rebelling team? I wouldn't say they're a great rebounding team. Right, that's something they can always get better at. I mean he crashed the boards for seven as this mic continues to fall off the table. Seven boards tonight, like that's. I mean out of a 6'4 guard, right, Like that's impressive, like there's something to be said for that. Are you going to get seven boards every night? Probably not right. But when another guy can kind of step up in a role like that, that's good to see.
Speaker 3:Any type of experience and any type of broadening your game in a dominant win that gives you confidence. Hey, we go play a better team down the road here. Maryland even, let's say, max Klesman has some more confidence, maybe in the rebounding department. You know, like just that type of thing Like you bring up. You know I'm a big John Tonje guy from afar a little bit, but I'm a big John Tonje guy Like this was a game like you expect. I'm not going to say every night, but you expect him, he can do this a couple times a week. Right, he can give you those, you know, 27-odd points there. So, like you love to see that, I mean they just took it to them right, even when it got close.
Speaker 3:Okay, hey, we're going to put the foot back on the gas, like we're going to show them. You know they can't hang with us and that's what you got to do. You got to put these teams down and kick them while they're down and just keep going. So I mean love to see a lot of what they did today and, like you said, you know Steven Crowell giving you basically, you know, seven boards, three assists and one point, but you know everybody else scoring for the most part. You love to see it and I think this is a win they can build off of.
Speaker 3:As far as you know, outside of, you know your main guys, you know you see some bench guys you know be productive here and just this is going to be a stretch right, like this is going to test them. This is going to test their merit a little bit. Being on the road, tough environments like Maryland that's a good environment, I know that and some others you know we talk about here. So you know you want to go into a stretch like this with a win, and with a dominant win, I think. At best you know that is the situation that you're looking at and it played out like they took care of their business and we moved forward and onto the road trip that will happen here soon.
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Speaker 2:I would agree, I would like to see the Badgers move the ball a little bit more at times. I think there's I can't say I've watched a game so far this season where it was like a complete game. I was like why don't we know the whole game? I was like move the basketball a little bit more. I just think at times they get away from it. They get too stagnant.
Speaker 2:It's like today they put the gas pedal down and dominated, and in other games they took it off and they just tried to coast. Right, they tried to coast and the problem is is, when you coast, you can coast to a point, but then you get to that point. You can coast to a point, but then you get to that point. It's a question of can you put your foot back on the pedal and burn it a little bit more? Can you get back to that bigger lead? Right, when a team you're up by 15, they close it to eight, can you get back to 15? Those are, you know, those kinds of teams very far and few between right, you got to know that. Put the gas pedal down, build yourself a lead and then maybe slow it down a little bit, maybe try to play a little bit more.
Speaker 2:I still don't like the isolation basketball thought there, but slowing it down then not trying to rush shots, that kind of thing. So great question there. I completely agree. I wish the Badgers at times they got to get to keep moving the basketball there. But, aaron, we're right at the end, right at the end here. Was there anything else I?
Speaker 3:mean big win by the Badgers 83 to 55. There we talked about the Brewers a little bit, anything else. We got to wrap us up here for the day real quick. Not so much. I mean obviously this, this AFC championship game, coming down to the wire, as as it always is with the Bills and Chiefs, it feels like. But I'll be, I'll be shocked if the Bills pull this off. It's, it's just, you know, know, unfortunately, it seems like history is probably going to repeat itself. I mean it's the chiefs don't lose. I mean it's very rarely lose, it's just, it's. Wow, I don't know, it's going to take a miracle drive. I mean, you know, as we're seeing it, fourth and fourth and five on buffalo, 47 there.
Speaker 2:So quick one from john here. Quick one from john, any team so far that we see as dark horses I've been saying st john's before the season and also mississippi state to make deep runs there is there any dark horse teams we're looking at? And he said all, of course, wisconsin. Thank you for the love there, john. Thank you for the love there. Um, if we wanted to look at just big 10, like if we wanted to say, well, what's the big 10, what's that one team in the big 10 where I think they could make a run Right, I would say my dark horse team right now not expected team would be Maryland.
Speaker 2:I like what Maryland's got. Julian Reese has been playing fantastic, leslie's been fantastic. I like what they have. Um, I'll tell you, I mean Michigan State, purdue, michigan, I don't think there's any surprises. Illinois, oregon, I don't see as a surprise. Ucla, I don't see as a surprise. I would say Maryland would be my one. Um, the opposite of a dark horse would be Indiana. Indiana has kind of fallen off. They want to fire Mike Woodson at this point here, so they kind of he's kind of out the door.
Speaker 2:I do agree with St John's, though. St John's nobody talked them. They weren't even ranked for the longest time and they just, I mean, got the kibosh. Now they're finally ranked and I agree with St John's comment there. Let's see here Any other teams that I would say.
Speaker 2:Right now Texas Tech is having a very underrated season. They're very underrated 15-4 at the moment there. So I would say 15-4. I like Texas Tech. I would also say teams that guys aren't talking about Clemson, clemson at 17-4. I love what they've shown right now in the ACC. Louisville was pretty high up there, talked about to start the year. They had some pretty good transfers coming in, chuckie Eppern being one of them there. So I would say Louisville and then Wake Forest has been pretty darn good here in ACC play. So I would say that some of those teams right there would be kind of my dark horse. I don't know if they make a run, but I think they could make some noise and I think they're interesting, interesting stories to keep an eye on there.
Speaker 2:Outside of that, I don't really have any dark horse teams at the moment. March Madness is so hard to pick a dark horse team. Just because it depends. It depends there. Uh, we do have one across twitch. We we're out wisconsin sports show. We're wisconsin sports show there. So, uh, we got one more, one more real fast here job. We gotta get out of here. Uh, rumor gonzaga job will be open in the next few years with few stepping down, next year with few stepping down. That would be interesting. That'd be interesting. I've, I think, gonzaga. Aren't they joining a conference? I thought. I thought I saw gonzaga's jumping in a conference for basketball. Aaron, are they jumping in a conference in the next couple years for basketball? They're a different conference. They there are currently in that, uh, the whack or whatever you call it. They're the west coast w I don't know west coast something, crapola conference where they don't play anybody. I thought they were talking about movements.
Speaker 3:Yeah, pack 12, which is what the pack 2 I mean really, I mean the pack 12 is restructuring.
Speaker 2:Restructuring it and they're gonna have gonzaga in there, so it's gonna be a little bit more games from. The problem with being a gonzaga, like I said, is they play in that craptastic conference with absolutely nobody in it and then I mean they have to play all these non-conference games against like kentucky and alabama and all these top 10. They play the top 10 teams in the country for their first like 10 games of the season and then they end up like five and five coming out of that it's like, well, the record's actually not that bad looking at who they played. So I mean gonzaga's it's always a tough one, but maybe getting into the pack, maybe getting some more competition, some better teams, that can get you more of that net ranking and get you more of them quad one wins or quad one, quad two that'll be huge for gonzaga there. So I mean I don't know, I don't, I like, I like few there. So I don't know, I don't know if you'll step down. Um, I was just looking at the sec here because I was scrolling down here. I don't know if any team in the sec is really a dark horse for me.
Speaker 2:I mean mississippi state, like john said there. But outside of that, I mean all these teams were previously ranked there texas, I will say texas. They're sitting there at 14-6. They've hung close with a lot of great teams so far this year. Texas is a team that I could see them finding a way to squeak some games out there. So watch out for Texas possibly being a team to make a run there. But outside of that, I mean it's college basketball. You never know.
Speaker 2:March Madness is so tough. You have to get to the Madness first and then you can worry about it. Right, you to the madness first and then you can worry about it. Right, you got to see the tournament, the, the conference tournament games first, and once you get into the conference tournament games, then you, like, you pick your nc state to win a few games. When nc state rattled off the acc tournament and made it in, then put the run onto the final four, like those are when you have to worry about it there.
Speaker 2:But, aaron, we ran long, a little bit we ran long, but hey, that's, we got a lot of good stuff coming back. On Wednesday we got to talk about the Super Bowl matchup because we're going to have that figured out here with the Bills and the Chiefs, so we're going to be able to talk about that. Who's going to be taking on the Eagles there in New Orleans? So we're going to get into that. We have more Badger talk to get into on Wednesday there on the show here. So with that, for Aaron and myself this has been Wisconsin Sports on the go with Trage. Thank you all for tuning in. We'll catch you guys back here on Wednesday, but until then, see ya.