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Parish. It's Monday March 5th, 2018.

Welcome back to the Ion College basketball podcast.

I got Matt Norlander here with me and let me first apologize for lack of a Sunday night podcast.

I believe this is the first time all season that we haven't had a Sunday night podcast or at the very least a Sunday afternoon podcast.

But I was traveling to New York last night in Norlanda was at the Big Ten tournament title game at Madison Square Garden.

So the timing just did not work out, but here we are now.

And let's just start with the big tournament where Michigan beat Iowa Nebraska Michigan state and Purdue to win the first and possibly last big tournament at Madison Square Garden.

So that's back to back big tournament titles for John B line. You were there. Norlander. What were your impressions of the big tournament in New York City.

You know GP. I knew you were going to ask me that and I thought about right before we go on the podcast. I almost never do this.

But let me let me just let me hit the tennis ball right back at you. Before I give you my impressions of the week.

What is your thoughts on sure the results of the tournament itself, but as someone who wasn't at the garden and wasn't in the city.

What were your impressions of this entire experiment if you will with the big 10 decided to do what it did the way that it did it.

It looked great on TV.

You know that it looked like a big time sporting event. And I think that's just I think the garden has a lot to do with that.

You know, I wonder if you couldn't put basically any power five league tournament in side Madison Square Garden every once in a while and just turned into an event because it felt bigger because it was at the garden.

The other thing I would say is that I know the condensed schedule was problematic and the coaches were not fans of that.

I think Jim Delaney, the big 10 commissioner was a fan of that of that. But I do think it's worth something. I don't know what.

But and I don't know if it's worth enough.

But being the only thing on Friday night, for instance, it felt like the whole college basketball world was watching Purdue Rutgers.

Everybody was tweeting about Purdue Rutgers. If you fast forward a week and put Purdue Rutgers that same game on this coming up Friday night.

I also got an ACC game going on in an SEC game going on in a big 12th game going on how many people really watching Purdue Rutgers.

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