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College basketball obviously has been pretty fabulous of late.

And like I said, I watched last night, you know, we talked so much about Michigan and, you know, clearly Purdue.

What Iowa State has done lately, you know, has been impressive in spurts.

You know, Arizona is really good.

I'm telling you, I think Illinois is last night seven players and double figures and just the way that they can hit open shots from all areas.

They've got a really good point guard. I mean, Illinois is, it's tough to pick up Michigan State. I mean, to pick the best team in the Big Ten, Michigan is obviously on another level. But man, that is a deep, deep league.

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Mike DeCorsi is with, of course, the sporting news, as well as Big Ten Network and joins us now on the program. Hi, Mike. How are you? Great, Jake. How are you? You know what? I can't complain. It's a great time of year. We've kind of made it at least for now into the false spring.

And college basketball... can't complain. It's a great time of year. We've kind of made it at least for now into the false

spring. And college basketball is invigorating. And I want to give you an observation, Mike,

and then I want you to tell me if the observation is off base, because it may well be. But it seems to

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