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All right, let's get this over with a brutal, brutal road trip today for Iowa State losing

78 to 61 to Missouri.

Iowa State now has a day off before a road trip to Lubbock against Texas Tech who just won

its first game and feels like forever.

It was Texas Tech was victorious in the Big 12 SEC

challenge against a LSU team in, so they had to travel what was the final of that one 7668 Texas

Tech beat LSU today so a really bad match up there I mean tech was oh and eight

in the big 12 LSU one and seven so

that's how Iowa State's next opponent got after it today. I mean this one

really was just bad all around it it's it's really hard to find a positive. I mean it is noted that Caleb grill

Was out which I really just think that that was a

smart really good decision if you're TJ Ottselberger today. This game did

matter today. I don't want it to be like you don't say like oh no they all matter if you win this quad one when you know it helps you all that good stuff the the difference is that

You're trying to win a big 12 championship and that's it's kind of the problem with how they've done this big 12 SEC deal they throw it in here and it you know it gets a it just gets that lesser type of feel even though they all kind of count the same right

that the data points or whatever we want to call them but I you know I just I

wonder if if Iowa State's next game would have been on Wednesday, if Grill would have played today or not, the fact that it's on Monday, you know, you tweak it again today and it's going to be flared up and then you only have one day of recovery. I think that the getting him back for Big 12 plays, clearly the goal there.

Let's talk about this one.

The key stat to me, there's two of them, but one is the 19 turnovers for Iowa State, just really uncharacteristic

for this team to turn it over like that. Give Missouri some credit there, really poorly rated defensive team,

clearly gave Iowa State a bunch of problems today with the way that they,

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