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It's Jeremy Warner, and I'm joined by Michael Tuup, Lina Inquirer basketball analysts and

Isaac Trotter 24-7 sports college basketball writer.

I guess this is our Big Ten off-season roundtable.

That's what we're calling it.

Basically, I just brought these guys on to sort out for myself.

What the heck is the Big Ten basketball outlook look like?

Because I'm trying to figure this out,

and I figured many Alana fans would think the same thing.

So I appreciate you guys jumping out. Mike, how are you, man? I'm doing well. This is, you guys will probably get some peek behind the curtain to some of, I think, all of our texts throughout the season and throughout the offseason. So this is great. Yeah, it's basically bringing the text threads into a podcast form. Isaac Trotter, how are you, buddy?

Continue to do the great work. Appreciate it. Breaking down every transfer player. That did take some time. Yeah, no, I am recovering from that. I just got done with the SEC one today too. So, like, I'm just in a little bit of, like, of a coma. I think I just have refreshed synergy like a hundred times in a row in the last like six days.

So it's been a lot, but it's super fun. And yeah, somebody reached out to me because they heard Mike talking on the podcast or like about like our texts. And they're like, do you want to read those out loud like on like a show? And I was like, well, good thing for you. Like we got something coming right up. Don't don't you wait just you wait so guys this is kind of like before we get into these topics I'm breaking

these up by topics and if by the end you want to throw out your your projections that that would be

cool too but like how much research goes into what these teams actually are Mike because

there's so much movement with

these teams and trying to figure out who could be good and who might not be. I know we're

getting used to this every year, but this year more than any, especially four new teams coming

to the league. Yeah, in short, a lot. A lot goes into it. And part of that is because like if you want to get a true sense of what these teams are, like you have to not only, for a lot of them, it doesn't matter watching last year's team. Because I can watch last year's USC team. It's a completely different team with a new coach and 12 new players or whatever it is.

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