All right. Welcome in to the online inquire podcast. The regular season is over.

So we decided let's bring in our two experts. Isaac Trotter, CBSSports.com, Michael

Tuip, our line-in-quire basketball analyst. You can see him on CBS Sports Network. Doing a lot of

great games here recently. Welcome, boys. I can't wait to break this all down. We're going to do

a little bit about Illinois. We'll go across the Big Ten, and then we'll do our annual Big Ten tournament draft to kind of preview the conference tournaments as we look ahead to March.

I wished Mike a happy March last week.

So Isaac Trotter, happy March.

How are you, buddy?

Doing well.

Yeah, this is just utter survival time for, I think, college basketball teams and college basketball

media.

It just never stops here for the next, you know, three weeks, and here we go.

You know, Big Ten tournament this week, Selection Sunday in six days.

And this is like the time where I feel like it's just a test.

It's like the test is like six days away.

And you're kind of cramming every every ounce of information

over the next uh next 72 to 48 48 72 hours mike um i can't imagine what this feeling is like

is a player what's it like as a media member now um as a media member balancing multiple jobs

it's uh it's a lot but you know's, it's weird being on the other side of it,

for sure, but it still excites you all the same. I think almost, almost more so in a way,

because there aren't any real consequences for me at this point. So I'm just enjoying it. A little less pressure, plus you get to watch all of it, right? As a player, I can't imagine you've got to watch much of it. No, I mean, I think the only stuff you really watch, I mean, if there's a big game on and you happen to be with all the guys and it's on great i'm not going out of my way to be like i got

go back and watch bama auburn from last night you know that's got more of a luxury to do that

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