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Hello and welcome to the beat reporters here in the Northwest Bank Studios presented by Kelderman Manufacturing.

Happy crossover season, gentlemen.

We are all done covering men's basketball media day,

and it's easy to get caught up in those storylines.

And forget, we've got a dang big football game coming up this weekend.

How are you guys handling the exhaustion and fun of

crossover season? I'm a vet, so I want Ben to comment first for sure. Yeah, I guess I also

enjoy the newness of it all in the first crossover season. It was funny last year, it was kind of right

when I had gone on the scene. And I walked into men's basketball media day, not knowing any

faces, guys. You know, you were looking around like, holy moly. So it was a lot of fun going in there

on Wednesday, you know, seeing some faces I knew and some new faces as well that we'll get into.

Yeah.

And I'm a year older and obviously the vastly oldest among us.

It is, it does tend to get exhausting, but it's good because you've got a lot of good things to

write about, talk about, pot about, create videos about. So exciting times for sure.

Yeah, it's, it's fun. It's my first crossover season on the beat, if you will. And that's,

it's probably a step down, honestly, from what I'm used to because I'm taking the high school

sports out of it. I'm taking Drake basketball and Iowa basketball media days out of it.

So honestly, it's obviously more Iowa State content, but that's not a bad thing at all.

That's, it's like a drug at this point. So we are, we're all

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