Purdue's Final Four Preview! Billy Keller, Mitch Daniels, Brad Miller, Mark Montieth, and Rob Blackman Join!

(00:00-26:08) – Query & Company opens on a Friday with Jake Query, Jimmy Cook, and producer Eddie Garrison discussing last night’s NIT Championship game where Indiana State fell to Seton Hall. Additionally, they get into a debate about the future of Josh Schertz.

(26:08-44:55) – Former Indiana Governor and Purdue President, Mitch Daniels, joins Query & Company ahead of the Purdue’s Final Four game this weekend against North Carolina State to discuss if he heard the fans wanting Matt Painter fired years ago. Additionally, he talks about how the professionalism aspect to being an athlete is starting to take over in college athletics. Finally, he applauds the job that Purdue has done over the years as an academic institution for its student-athletes.

(44:55-50:16) – Hour one concludes with Jak, Jimmy, and Eddie discussing how their baseball teams are doing so far in their beer bet.

(50:16-1:13:31) – Former Purdue Boilermaker and Indiana Pacer, Brad Miller, starts the second hour of the show discussing Purdue making it to the Final Four this weekend, how he’s looking forward to catching up with Gene Keady this weekend, applauds the job Purdue has done by making sure Coach Keady is along for the ride with Purdue, discusses how he felt seeing the Sacramento Kings trading Tyrese Haliburton to the Indiana Pacers, and states that he’s moving back to the state of Indiana this summer.

(1:13:31-1:36:38) – Another former Purdue Boilermaker and Indiana Pacer, Billy Keller, joins Query & Company to share how excited he is about Purdue playing in the Final Four, echoes what Rick Mount said yesterday about the 1969 Final Four team that was banged up against North Carolina and UCLA, recaps the last Final Four run in 1980 for Purdue where he was an assistant for Lee Rose, and discusses the relationship he had with George McGinnis before he passed in December of 2023.

(1:36:38-1:36:54) – Jake closes out the first hour of the show by reminding people where they can get all the Purdue interviews that the shows have had this week.

(1:36:54-1:57:43) – Mark Montieth joins Query & Company to begin the final hour of the show to discuss what he learned from following Gene Keady around for a book that he wrote, reacts to the news that Pacers owner Herb Simon is being inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, previews an upcoming book that he finished around Bill Vukovich, and discusses how Matt Painter kind of follows Bob Knight’s blueprint with recruiting players within the state of Indiana.

(1:57:43-2:16:06) – Radio voice of the Purdue Boilermakers, Rob Blackman, joins Query & Company to give his perspective on the relief that the players had after winning the Elite Eight game last week, reveals that Zach Edey’s biggest focus on this season was to improve defensively, shares what kind of person Edey has been throughout all the success the last two seasons, and takes us through all the events that have taken place for Purdue this week.

(2:16:06-2:21:11) – Today’s show ends with Jimmy sharing his JCook Plays of the Day and Jake, Jimmy, and Eddie sharing their thoughts on Purdue’s game against NC State!

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