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Speaker 2: Sure have it's five oh five. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Alboegger,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for listening. Hopefully you're having an

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Speaker 2: awesome Monday.

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Speaker 3: Let's let's talk some.

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Speaker 2: College hoops the same and your Musketeers are getting set

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Speaker 2: to open up Big East Play on Wednesday with a

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Speaker 2: home tilt against Creighton. That game is gonna start at

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Speaker 2: six thirty X. You coming off a fifth consecutive win

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Speaker 2: on Friday night, beating Missouri State seventy five to fifty seven.

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Speaker 2: Muskies going the league play with an eight and three

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Speaker 2: record and five straight wins. As I just mentioned, it

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Speaker 2: is awesome to get a chance on the eve of

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Speaker 2: the eve of Big East Play starting. The head coach

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Speaker 2: is always awesome to have you. Good afternoon, How are.

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Speaker 1: You doing great? Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you joining us.

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Speaker 2: You appeared on our show a few days before the

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Speaker 2: season opener, and we're trying to figure out who's gonna

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Speaker 2: do what, what you're gonna put on the floor in

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Speaker 2: the first game. We knew the first month and a

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Speaker 2: half of the season was going to be a learning process.

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Speaker 2: There have been some ups and downs and a lot

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Speaker 2: more ups recently. What are the handful of the biggest

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Speaker 2: things you've learned about this team through eleven games.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think they're willing to adapt, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we've made some changes, whether it was to our lineup,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's taken to coaching. You know, we're number

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Speaker 1: you know. So it's a great group. They played very

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Speaker 1: unselfish basketball, and they're getting better and better every game.

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Speaker 1: You know, so very very grateful to just be dealing

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Speaker 2: You're You're not You're never I guess where you want

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Speaker 3: And you haven't lost since. Is that did you feel this?

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Speaker 2: You didn't win the game, but that night, in the

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Speaker 1: You know, it's really hard as a coach because you

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Speaker 1: It's not that they're their fault, but they certainly build

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Speaker 1: I knew that, you know, when we played in Missouri State,

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Speaker 2: You're obviously always keeping an eye on the league, but

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Speaker 1: You know, I watched the Providence at Butler game that

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Speaker 2: Of mid February, I watched on social media video of

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Speaker 3: I can't thank you enough for doing this.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on the five straight wins, Best of luck on

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Speaker 3: Coach, thanks so.

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Speaker 1: Much, all right, thanks for having me. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: That's the head coach at Xavier University. By the way,

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Speaker 2: more tonight Richard Patino Show at seven pm on fifty

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Speaker 1: A ten minute delay back from Kellogg Avenue eastbound two

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Speaker 1: seventy five, another accident now only blocking the left line

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Speaker 1: after Hamilton, I'm at ezelk with traffic