Conference Tournaments Have Arrived | '5 Star Zone with Rico Beard'
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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From '5 Star Zone with Rico Beard and Howard Griffith' (subscribe here): The conference tournaments are upon us! Rico Beard and Harold Shelton from the Big Ten Network and preview the Big 10 tournament. Should Purdue focus on the NCAA tournament? Is MSU already in the NCAA Tournament? Will there be a Big 10 Tournament shocker, and how will Nebraska and Northwestern play as top-4 seeds? Download and subscribe to the 5 Star Zone today.
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| 0:00.0 | The Five Star Zone with Rico Beard. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to another edition of the Five Star Zone, Rico Beard, Hel Sheldon. |
| 0:08.0 | Senior research manager from the Big Ten Network, kind enough to join me once again. |
| 0:12.7 | Harrow is that time. |
| 0:15.7 | It's tournament time, conference tournament time. |
| 0:19.2 | And just kind of looking at some numbers. |
| 0:22.1 | I guess, I don't think it's overly |
| 0:24.1 | simplistic to say that Purdue should be the favorite. They've been the best |
| 0:28.0 | team throughout the whole thing. They won the conference outright. I will simply say this and I brought it up before. |
| 0:35.0 | I know, you know, Matt Painter and this is sac religious to Purdue and their fans. |
| 0:40.3 | Here I'm just gonna ask to say the quiet part out loud. |
| 0:43.0 | Should Purdue really just focus on the NCAA tournament |
| 0:48.0 | and not really try as hard to win this tournament? |
| 0:57.0 | I'll say they don't need to play their main guys a ton of minutes. I think if you have a chance to limit a Jack Eadie or Brad Smith, to 30 minutes or less. |
| 1:04.2 | You should absolutely do that. |
| 1:06.7 | I felt like last year, the championship game, |
| 1:10.5 | they looked really worn down against Penn State |
| 1:12.8 | because they were trying to hold them off. |
| 1:14.4 | It was the third game in three days. |
| 1:16.4 | Then they had the short turnaround |
| 1:17.8 | with the flight playing in New York after that. |
| 1:20.9 | And they just looked out of gas. And so you already know you're going to be the number one seed in the Midwest |
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