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Here are your hosts, Jason Andera and Nate Wek Another week of game time here on SDPB Jandy hard to believe, but we are entering playoff push season here with high school football in South Dakota.

A few teams that just have one game left on their schedule with a bye or things like that.

But yeah, just a couple of weeks until we start the playoffs for high school football and it's time to figure out which teams need to position themselves, either for a home game or, you know, home field throughout.

Or there's a lot of different factors that come in, or even if they're going to make the playoffs here in the next couple of weeks.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's just a lot of exciting things, a lot of things to follow here as the calendars now in October.

So it is definitely that time of year.

Game changers.

We talk about it every single week.

Big list again this week.

Jandy, let's get to it.

Yeah, we had a lot of great performances.

And of course, Jaren, deal.

He's one of our regulars.

Did it again.

16 of 18.

This guy was on point.

Take some lessons.

Kyler Murray 295 yards, three touchdowns.

He ran for 52 yards and another touchdown.

Big win for him.

Another one of these peer quarterbacks.

I think that we're going to be great playing quarterback is throwing some really nice balls down the field.

And how about Devin and Nandor?

He got Hitchcock to layer back on track after last week's loss.

Beating Falcon a really good team.

And he did it by running the football.

34 carries, 280 yards and three touchdowns.

And oh, by the way, was efficient throwing the ball as well.

Another guy who was efficient throwing the ball Peyton Glenn out of Rapid City Christian.

He threw for almost for 300 yards and four touchdowns and also scored one on the ground.

And their big win over Miller.

And while we're talking about quarterbacks let's talk about Mitch Grant again.

Yeah Mitch Grant nine of 15 174 yards.

Did have three touchdowns through the air.

Also had 58 yards rushing and a score with his legs as well.

Another really nice solid performance for Mitch Grant.

Yeah.

Jake Hall says, speaking of injuries, stepped in for Ryder Mueller after he got injured and ran for 100 yards and also made a pick on defense.

Yeah, this is just, you know, next man up mentality, right?

That's what a lot of coaches preach.

And we saw it here with Al Seth.

Big win for them over Harrisburg.

Landon Kizer went for almost 200 yards on the ground and three touchdowns and did it on the defensive side as well.

Tayden Kerrigan of Freeman didn't have to throw many passes but five completions.

They were all for touchdowns I was there to see this too.

It was it was amazing the way he was throwing the ball.

Do you think that's how they wrote it?

Wrote it up?

Hey, every time you do throw a pass, we want it to be a touchdown.

I mean, that's the goal, but it hardly ever happens.

Congrats.

Dictate and Kerrigan, Oliver Walton and the rest of those receivers who had a big day, Camden Kessler had a big day running the football 130 yards on the ground.

Four touchdowns and also 150 through the air with another touchdown.

Big win for them over a good health 25 touchdowns there for yet another five.

Jack Hudak he had a huge day for Yankton.

Maybe the best that they've had this season.

He really was clicking, We've seen Yankton have some struggles this season.

To really have an efficient day like this, you know, from one of your your top players, you know, how important is that to a Yankton squad?

You was connecting.

And this gives them a chance because 11 as we'll talk about in the playoff push, still pretty open.

So for him to get some confidence with a almost 400 yard passing day and five touchdowns through the air is huge.

Brady Majors out of O'Gorman went for 147 on the ground and three touchdowns.

Jason Porth has become a regular the last few weeks.

Not only what he does offensively but defensively.

But this week it was all on the ground for Jason Porth.

Yeah averaging a touchdown on one of every ten carries right I mean that's a very very efficient day from Porth.

Benjamin Prall from Great Plains Lutheran has made it back to back weeks on the list.

Two passing touchdowns for him, three more running the football and then led the team in tackles as well and made a defensive pick.

So all around great performance.

Carter Shuffle Bean you know he was the target for Jaren Diehl yet again.

And he is.

He has just been lighting it up yeah shuffle bean and I think that's the best.

It's one of the good stories with 11 of this year that we've seen.

Everybody kind of went into the year.

You know everybody's talking about Terwilliger and what he brings to that pure offense.

And it's like shuffle buy in has gone right in.

Shuffle.

Buy in has just been absolutely fantastic.

for sure, for sure.

And let's talk about dual now.

They had a bounce back victory, thanks in part to their quarterback Aidan Sievers with 182 yards rushing and three touchdowns.

Ellen Simmons has been over at 200 a couple times this year.

Did it again win their win over Hill City.

And they needed every one of those yards in a 4230 to win 212 yards for touchdowns.

For Ellen Deer Smith of Sioux Falls.

Christian was just consistent and they needed a spark on offense to get that win over Madison.

He gave them that spark with eight catches 120 yards.

and he's a freshman.

He is a freshman out.

Boden Stevenson stat sheet stuffing.

Day 11 carries 242 yards for touchdowns.

Was efficient.

Throwing the football for two more touchdowns and also made a pick on the defensive side.

How about Eddie Stover of Lakota Tech?

Yeah, let's talk about this one here.

A quick six and a half sacks.

Just like, what are we doing here?

That's incredible.

He's turning it up.

And that was huge for them because that's a third straight victory for Lakota Tech.

They're on a roll.

We've talked about Lakota tech.

We said, I think this is going to be a year where they're going to have their eyes set on some different things and some different goals, not just winning a game.

And as you mentioned, three straight and that defense, you know, he's starting to figure things out.

With Lakota tech as good as their offense can be in some of these games, that defense and laced over stepped up six and a half sacks might want to block him next week.

Hey Tucker Swenson, speaking of defensive performances, you know, a turn to the defense for pure because they came up big there with nine tackles, a tackle for loss, defensive interception.

That was huge.

Ryder Thompson of Canton had a big day, receiving the ball 166 yards through the air and also ran a touchdown in from 63 yards out.

Brodie Van Roekel you know, it's either him or Aiden Hammett every week for for at Point Jefferson, which really leads us to say they do a great job blocking for the Huskies, don't they?

Yeah we talked.

It seems like we've talked about this oh point Jefferson, offensive line, the scheme and just everything that they do well to run the football and when when Elk point Jefferson has an offense that can run the ball well, they're going to have a good year.

And they definitely did.

He went for 169 and three touchdowns in their win over Sioux Valley.

And then Bane Yellow Eagle out of Todd County.

They rolled it up.

He had 12.8 yards per carry in a pair of touchdowns.

So neither night's win is they stay undefeated Todd County rolling right now in 98 in all nations football.

All right.

Well we're talking about playoff push right.

But for some some of the sports in South Dakota we've already hit you know the state tournaments specifically with tennis and golf.

Both of I should say fall golf which is a boys AA boys boys golf.

They have their state tournament in the spring along with the three girls classes.

But yeah, boys and boys golf took place this week from Aberdeen and Mitchell.

And then also you have the a girls state tennis tournament as well, taking place from Rapid City.

Definitely something to keep an eye on.

And then Harrisburg did something pretty extraordinary as well.

Yeah.

So first of all, you know, Cheer and Dance is another one of these sports.

It's going to have their state competition coming up here in a few weeks.

Harrisburg 297 was their score out of 300 possible.

Like that's if you don't follow it.

That is crazy for the for the activities and the sports that were where you're judged and and you're looking at like some of these finesse things and things like that, especially with marching band in the judging, to have 297 out of 300 is so incredibly rare.

It's it's as close to perfect as you can get.

That's amazing.

And again, it's great to highlight so many different sports doing such a good job.

You know, as we come to their tournament seasons, we want to highlight as many as we can.

All right.

And we also have Sioux Valley.

And I believe they're going for their 20th class A state cheer title.

You got Dakota Valley, who's a prominent in dance team as well with class A on the dance side.

Brandon Valley is tremendous in dance as well.

So there's going to be some, if you like, cheer and dance and it's going to be a really exciting year.

There's a lot of good storylines to follow when we get to the state competition here in a few weeks from Rapid City, I can't wait.

All right, let's take a look at some of this playoff push we got going on.

And we'll start first with 11 triple A. Yeah, there's a lot of different things to keep your eye on here.

Of course an 11 triple A almost every team makes the field.

So that's I mean it's still there's still some doubt because the Rapid City schools have yet to get a win.

A thing to note here is the one game that teams play outside of their class.

So the Omaha teams that the Metro teams have been playing in the double AA teams that the other teams have been playing do not count toward the playoff seeding.

So that's something to keep an eye on, as we have a lot of head to head battles that mean a lot for seeding.

But right now, the top seeds nearly want to be a top two seed here.

Yeah, because that'll get you home games up until the semifinals are Jefferson and Brandon Valley.

And boy they have looked like it.

Yeah I mean you've been a fan of Jefferson from the get go this season.

You know I really like Brandon Valley because I think with Matt Christianson they're always going to have a chance.

They do the little things so well with Brandon Valley.

You know we saw those two teams meet up you know and it was a it was a close battle, you know, classic type of game.

But I don't know what you can say about both of these two teams outside of I think it would be kind of fun to see these two teams play again.

It would.

But that brings us to the next part is you've got some real contenders lurking here between 3 and 5.

And of course these teams want a home game if they can.

They want to get to that four spot.

You know, you'd like to get to that three spot, you know, to be able to play game so you don't have to play the number one seed if you do get past the first round.

So those teams right now all these four win teams Harrisburg O'Gorman and Lincoln and they're they still have a couple of games against each other here coming down the stretch.

So all these teams have a chance to really push themselves all the way up to a, number three seed.

Yeah.

So like you know, you look at like Harrisburg, you look at O'Gorman, you look at Sioux Falls, Lincoln that was projected as such a, a high, a high ranking, you know, in the preseason, you know, they've had a few hiccups and stuff throughout this year.

If you're one of those teams that's in that 3 to 5 range, what are you looking to accomplish here?

Now obviously you want to win, but but what are some things you're looking for with your team?

Here's the thing is, especially with O'Gorman, you don't have a lot of depth.

So this is when you know you're turning everybody loose to play both sides of the ball, to do everything you can to win.

I think Lincoln's the same way.

The last year, few years, we've seen them down the stretch, turn some of their offensive players loose to play on the defensive side, which is where they've had those issues.

And that makes them a more complete team.

Now of course you're one injury away from you know knocking the guy out on both sides of the ball.

But I think that makes Lincoln really dangerous.

And then Harrisburg their only two losses have really have come to those top two teams.

So I still think they're in position to really make some noise and get that number three seed.

They have a really tough game, which we'll talk about in the top tilts against an Omaha team.

But again that's not going to count toward their positioning.

Correct.

And I'm glad you mentioned that because I think sometimes when we when we go through some of these games, it is something that we do need to mention.

So thanks for bringing that up, Chandler.

You bet.

11 double AA.

All right.

Peer has really came out the gate strong this year.

They've looked great.

They've had a few moments where games have been gotten a little tight, have been tight.

You know, third quarter getting close to the fourth quarter.

And then they always seem to sort of find that footing and the box score always looks way different than the game.

Sort of felt a little bit.

But Pier Steve Steele 100 win coach.

Now congratulations to Steve.

Yeah 100 wins.

Wow.

This guy is going to make some noise.

If he stays doing this he's going to he's going to start collecting a lot.

He's still pretty young by the way.

He is.

Well thank you because I'm almost the same age.

So I was very young.

So we'll see how long he wants to do this.

But if he wants to keep doing it he's going to put up some major milestones.

But yeah, they have looked like the number one seed you know coming into the year.

And they've played like that.

They are finishing teams off in the fourth quarter.

And you know with with Steele.

And that coaching staff they just get better throughout the year too.

So that's the scary part.

But you've got Terry who I feel like played with them had those injury problems.

If they can get some of those guys back, they're not going to get all of them back.

But if they can get some of those guys back, they're a legitimate number two.

And I think they're going to hold that spot at number two in the, in the standings.

Yeah.

It's been a phenomenal story this year, just the way that they've shown growth.

They played not intimidated to like, you know, you think of a team that has played in all of these different classes of football the last ten years.

They just look like they belong and they're ready to make a stand.

And that's what I love about them.

They just don't play scared.

Especially when we saw them play here a few weeks ago.

They didn't look like they've they felt overwhelmed by having to go to here to take on the dynasty.

They hung with them.

They hung with them.

And and they've even more confidence now that they know they can hang with them.

Exactly.

The.

Yeah, those are the two teams we're looking at, you know, with the pole position right now to make it to the dome.

But again, you got a mess between, you know, three and eight really.

All these teams have a chance to to work their way up and make a little push here.

Yeah.

We talked a little bit about Yankton through in the Game Changers part.

But Yankton is a team that has had you know, they've had some games that the games have just gotten away from them a little bit this year.

But, you know, then they have a big performance, almost like I don't want to call it a get right game for them.

But but that was their best.

It was it was.

So you got Yankton.

Maybe they're starting to find that offensive stride now at this point of the season.

And you got Watertown.

Well this is the first time this year we're going to talk about Mitchell and what they did against Watertown last week.

Take them to overtime and find a way to get him.

I know they have four wins now right.

And we haven't talked about them all year long.

And they've got a quarterback who can throw the ball.

They've got a running game that they can really lean on.

Their line is young and big, and I think Watertown was surprised a little bit by what they saw in the physicality of that game.

So I still think Watertown is a contender, but I think they got, shocked.

I think so to that game.

Right.

And that's and that's just kind of goes to it like it's hard to really get a gauge for these, this three through eight spot because it's sort of like last year a little bit with 11 where everybody starts kind of beating each other a little bit in some of these different spots, and we're sort of seeing that again in this 3 to 8 spot.

You know Spearfish, you got Huron, you got Sturgis.

I mean all of these teams are looking at the standings and stuff right now saying, okay guys, any one of those spots, you know exactly any one of those spots three through eight.

And so these next few weeks are really important for all these 11 teams to position themselves, to not have to play here.

It really is, is one of those main goals, I think, for all these teams.

All right.

11 a Sioux Falls Christian kind of the same thing with Pierre.

How we talked about Pierre just being that number one seed like Sioux Falls Christian sort of looks like that.

They do.

Can you imagine how good they'd be if they had Watson back as well?

Because that's the one thing I think they're missing is some explosiveness on offense.

They haven't like just pulled away from teams, but their defense is not so good.

And now the last two weeks their defense won their one.

The game for them against Dell Rapids.

And I think they kind of won the game for them against Madison as well, where that game was in the balance with a little bit.

But then they just controlled the football and Trey Mason is able to control the football.

Cooper stranded doing his job to control the football.

But they are missing some of that electricity at that passing game that they had last year.

All right.

West central they're looking like they're probably the number two seed.

You know the 11 A's have been a little weird this year.

You know because outside of Sioux Falls Christian from the top, we've seen a lot of shuffling around with some of those two to 5 or 2 to 6 or 7 spots with their going into the receiving votes.

This was like the first week.

I looked at 11 and I said, I think they maybe have this right.

I think they got it right.

Yeah, exactly.

And I've been one of the few people that have had West Central, and I really think that they are a team to watch out for.

But I was worried because Lennox gets better and here he goes on.

So that was a great game to see what West Central play Lennox and West Central for them, confidence wise that means a lot for Lennox.

You know they've got the confidence from what they've done over the last few years.

I think they're still going to have confidence going forward.

So now you got two really confident teams.

I think as we enter this last couple of weeks of the season.

So those two teams to me are the most scary.

But I think we have an intriguing team out there in Madison.

I got my eyes on them last week.

I got to watch them play Sioux Falls Christian and they they can hang with these top teams.

They have a way.

And again, you got a quarterback like Henry V who makes things happen.

And to me that's the X factor that of not a lot of teams in 11.

They have.

And they definitely have one of the most electric players in the class.

You know, another team that you know let's just talk about this team.

Team you mentioned an intriguing team, but another team that's sort of popping up in 11 now two is Vermillion.

And all of a sudden how about them.

Like what's going I know what they have.

You know they have a big test this week.

You know when they play Sioux Falls Christian.

Right.

But you know but Vermilion you know, look at what they've done here the last few weeks.

They're not going away quietly.

We saw them pull off one of the biggest upsets I've seen because we kind of forgot about them.

But you look at their schedule and, you know, they started out a little bit rough with some losses to canton and maybe some other teams.

They probably now think they can compete better, you know.

But Kyle Cleveland, their sophomore receiver, has been huge the last couple of weeks.

And their win over Dell Rapids woke up a lot of people.

And people don't want to play Vermillion, even though they just now are in that top eight.

So they they're just hanging on for playoff life.

And now they have some tough games.

So it's going to be tough for them just to make the playoffs.

But they'll be a dangerous team to play if they do.

All right.

Class 11 B so right now you've got Elk Point Jefferson with the seed point advantage over Saint Thomas More.

So basically those two teams undefeated.

But Clark will Lake still undefeated.

And they only have one game left on the season.

They they've struggled more in their games.

But there's an outside chance that you know they could be a top two seed in this thing which we don't normally think of.

Clark.

Right.

Like being that team.

But they could do that.

And then another battle is coming up for that top four.

You want to be a home team.

And right now winner is in that four spot.

But duel and Wagner with just one loss are kind of competing for that spot.

So, it's going to be huge these last few games to see how duel does and see if they can get a home game out of this.

How about Wagner, man?

Like just, you know, you lose, you lose some weapons on your team.

You have question marks coming into the year that maybe just kind of hindered what some of the outside noise thought of your program, and you're just sneaking away here doing, putting your head down every week, doing your job, picking up wins.

And all of a sudden now we're at the, you know, we're in October and we're like, hey, how about Wagner?

They're beating the teams.

You're supposed to be like, you look at the records of the teams they've beaten and you're not, you know, it's not super impressive.

But then for the honestly for them to go to Chamberlain and get a win against Chamberlain, to me, I think Chamberlain is a very valid, valid win for them.

So for them to get that win and then to play with winner with, you know, with a whole scores to me, give them a little statement like, hey, let's not forget about Wagner.

They've got they've got some talent.

All right.

Now what do we like from this class.

Well you've got parks and who's been at the top all season long and and they do look like they seem to be.

But I think there's a lot of contenders here because I've seen teams kind of look like they're asking on the way up.

Platt get is is definitely one of those teams that is working their way up.

They lost to Parkeston in the regular season, but you know that was early in the year.

And we talked about this last week.

Some of these early season games you have to kind of throw out with some of the injuries and some of the, the, you know, cramps and stuff that they had to deal with in that game.

And again, a ton of one loss teams.

You've got Hamlin, Britton, Hecla, Garretson got a big win last year and they are only a one loss team.

So again the fight for that home field that this that's what I always look at is those top four.

You want to be in one of those top four positions in Hamlin's lone loss of the year was right out the gate to Castlewood.

So you got Hamlin who since that in that August loss?

Yeah.

Has been winning games and.

Right.

And that lost they had two to Castlewood was out of class.

Exactly.

They haven't lost to anybody in nine yet.

So yeah let's not forget some of these teams.

And and another thing to mention is you know, you want to be you get 16 teams here just to make the playoffs.

So, you know, there's some dangerous teams to me in the right now between that eight and 16, you've got Bynum, who's spent most of his season in the top five, Sioux Falls Lutheran, which played really well against good teams at the top.

And even Hansen with their record, it just doesn't feel right at three and three.

They they've been able to compete with some teams.

So you got some dangerous first round match.

We usually don't have a ton of great first round matchups for in football.

We definitely could have this year.

Yeah.

And then just another real quick note too with 11 be and the three nine man classes they took because of the 16 teams, they will start their playoffs a week earlier on the schedule, which is also why they started their season a week earlier at the when we were in August as well.

All right.

Nine a let's talk about this one.

This is a fun class.

This is a fun class.

I mean, all year we've just been talking about Freeman and Castlewood.

Freeman.

Castlewood.

But guess who the number one seed is right now?

It's Sully Buttes.

And remember, this was a sneaky team a couple years ago and got it done.

Very sneaky team this year as well.

And based on their schedule, they could end up as the number one seed in nine A. And then you've got Castlewood, Freeman and Timberlake all undefeated in this class.

Yeah, lots of undefeated teams across the board which you know that right there.

You know makes this it's going to be sad because you're going to have some teams that are going to maybe lose that first game, you know, in the postseason and or, you know, maybe you get to the the dome and you have two undefeated teams going after it.

It's just sometimes it's just a pity one of them has to lose.

Right.

But that's the way that it's a sometimes goes.

When when we get into some of these nine man classes and and I'm again, as I look at this, I think you're going to have some road teams once you get past the quarter or the yeah.

Into the quarterfinals, you get some road teams are going to be really dangerous.

And Howard and Centerville forked in maybe Kimball, White Lake.

These are teams I think that could compete with any of those top teams in the class.

And they're going to be possibly playing on the road.

So keep your eyes open.

Nine A is going to be one of the most fun classes.

All right.

And then of course we got nine B. Saint Mary's has been you know they've had some moments this year where you know it's not like it was a year ago where they're just, you know, dominating everybody week by week.

There's been some close matchups for them.

But you know, what do you think of Saint Mary's as the one.

Well they've been ranked number one all year.

But again you come down to seed points and that's how you see the playoffs.

It's it's probably going to be well if they can finish things off.

And we talked about this in the beginning of the year.

You know we could have seen Wall Warner and Saint Mary's all go undefeated because they don't play each other.

There's some questions in the middle of the season if that was going to happen.

All three of those teams left some doubt.

But all three of those teams really could end the year undefeated, which will make a very interesting playoffs.

And nine B and then you throw in teams like Avon who we know can play with those teams right at the top.

Even Hitchcock, Tulare and Coleman Eagan have been playing better.

Nine B is going to be a little deeper than we've seen in the last few seasons.

Yeah, this is the one thing with high school football too, right?

We do media votes every week.

Those do not reflect.

Right.

The seed points.

The seed points are built in with their own formula.

And obviously seed points work a little bit different too, with even some of the classes schedules and, and things like that get, get worked in to seed points.

You.

So yeah, exactly.

I have a lot of people ask me on that.

Like what's the difference?

Well that's the difference because rankings mean nothing from the media.

They're fun to talk about.

But and it's all about seed points.

So that's why we turn our attention to standings at this point time of the year.

All right.

All nations real quick.

We got a few really good teams.

And you know, we could even just put these into the top tilts.

But you know Winnebago going against Mac palooza this week and both those two teams only loss was to Todd County who is the top team right now in nine days.

So I think this is, you know, a game where they can make an impact on, hey, we think we're a contender in this class.

All right?

And then, obviously, you know, we every week we do go through these top tilts.

Let's just jump into them because there's a few here, you know, Omaha, North play and Harrisburg.

We talked about that a little earlier.

Won't count against anything with playoff with the seed points and things like that.

But this has been interesting.

You know, just kind of watch some of these games against Nebraska seeing how South Dakota is doing against some of these Omaha teams.

And it'll be we get another opportunity this week.

The Nebraska teams have only one one this year.

But this week they got it.

They got a good shot.

Yes, the Omaha North team is legit.

They are really good.

Their only loss this year was a close one, to, one of the top teams in Millard South.

So I think that they're, they're going to.

That'll be a fun one to test yourself against.

If you're Harrisburg again it doesn't matter.

But that's that's going to be like big boy football.

And it's in Harrisburg correct.

It is.

Yes.

All right then you got Mitchell.

We talked about this team.

That's all of a sudden popping up.

They're going to get a real big test this week against here.

Yeah yeah.

And t area better better be awake for this.

They I'm sure they've been getting reminders all week like hey this team could be for real.

So yeah Mitchell again huge test for them.

And all those 11 games are going to mean a lot here down the stretch.

An 11 A you got intriguing Madison Bulldogs taking on West Central in Hartford.

Yeah this Madison team.

Like I said they played pretty well with Sioux Falls Christian couldn't really just couldn't take the ball away from them is Sioux Falls Christian just possessed it basically the second half to kind of pull away.

But their team that they can play with these top teams.

But West Central's been so good this year.

And again, we've talked about it.

The explosive plays to me has been the difference than Hamlin at Garretson as well.

Both of these teams you know we just we just got done talking about both of these teams.

You mentioned Hamlin you know hasn't had a loss in class.

Well Garretson there's only one loss so far this year in class.

And and they've got a chance to make a real statement in this game.

Viborg Hurley at Centerville one of the shortest commuting games of of the week for the opposing team.

That'll be I always like these ones just because the communities are just so close together.

But you know fiber Hurley at Centerville, I think by itself is has the makings of a good game.

And we talk about playoff positioning like both of these teams need some serious help with the playoff positioning to stay out of the, you know, the road as many road games as possible.

So a huge win needed for both of these two teams.

Any other games we need to have our eye on this week.

That's a that's a good slate.

But next week, you know, we get to the last week of the season for some of these small school teams.

So yeah, I mean there's a lot more out here that mean a lot more playoff wise than what we mentioned.

But those are some of the top teams.

All right.

Well there's our playoff push for the week.

Another week of game time.

We'll be back next week.

As we said kind of recap where we're going to go from here as the playoffs are getting closer and closer.

I'm network is Jason Bandera another week on game time on SBB.