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I'm just going to be real brutally honest.

You guys didn't want to hear a reaction podcast last night, did you?

No, of course you didn't. I didn't really want to do it, but honestly my wife has been out of town and I'm single

dadding it and it was a late game and everybody was mad so I said hey I'll just

put the podcast off until tomorrow in which I will then just do some general Iowa State basketball thoughts as we prepare for the month of March and everything that lies ahead for this basketball team.

I don't really necessarily need to get into like box

scores and stuff like that from the Texas game. Iowa State got its ass kicked.

We had a strong suspicion if you watch pre-game and stuff that that would happen.

Jarrett Stansberry and I had a pretty good feel for that and that's exactly what

went down. You look ahead now to this home stand, which is really important, right?

Let's just talk about the team as a whole right now where it's at that you know the big 12 you

you all know the meat grinder that it is I don't need to put it into words

we've talked about that for months now. The crucialness of these next two

games, right? They just need a little momentum. Don't forget, you know, last season how bad things had gotten at the end of the year.

They were downright terrible at the end of the big 12 season. Okay, their last three games, Iowa State loses.

They scored 53 points at home against Oklahoma State.

Lost at Baylor, 756868 that one wasn't terrible but then you

Lost in that big 12 tournament game to Texas Tech by 31 right and at the end of that

do you remember the feeling going into

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