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Come on.

So just everybody relax on IU.

I know we're grading them against can they win the national championship.

This is a flawed team, but a flawed team is going to win the national championship this year.

Welcome, everybody, again to another episode of the show, bringing really awesome guests today.

Today, we have the honor of being joined by Zachery Lang, who is a student at Indiana University University.

Former collegiate wrestler whose experience with influenza really dramatically changed the way that he thinks about the disease as well as prevention.

Zach is currently studying public finance and management with a minor in law and public policy at Indiana University, where he's also been involved in various campus services and health care related advocacy.

He serves as a public health advocacy intern with Families Fighting Flu.

is really active in Indiana University Dance Marathon, which is focused on supporting children's hospital.

And he leads also outreach initiatives for an initiative called Be a Kid Again, which is a service that helps support children with various medical illnesses.

But, you know, the reason we're talking with Zach today is really deeply personal because back in January of 2025, at just 19 years of age, Zach was a highly active college student and former NCAA wrestler, became really seriously ill After what he felt was just a common cold, but the condition went on to deteriorate.

Hey folks, welcome back.

Galen Clavio here, and this is the Bison briefing, our check-in on IU Athletics.

And we got a lot to talk about today.

A lot of things going on in the IU Athletics space.

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I'm Yael Cassander.

And I think that's a big part of Indiana basketball.

I think Bob Knight was a part of that with IU.

They ran the motion offense or the passing game that pass and screen away, get your teammate open.

And then I just think basketball was the sport in the small towns of Indiana that people rallied around, their high schools.

We're taking the camper, taking the kids.

One last camping trip down to Tailgate at IU by the baseball fields.

We went there a couple weeks ago, and it was nice.

So we're going to go back there.

So my folks are really getting up there in years and you worry about them.

They say, you know, mom wanted to go to Indiana University.

She had happy memories of eating strombolis there.

So they're going out there for a couple of days.

I've never been a part of a court or a field storming.

I mean, because I went to Indiana University when our football team was terrible.

So there was absolutely no opportunity to storm any field unless we wanted to storm in protest.

And then we were always we were really good in basketball.