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Speaker 1: It's the light turning ten off the Holy Crown.

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Speaker 2: We are here till twelve o'clock in the NCAA Tournament.

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Speaker 2: First round gets underway in just over one hour. Thanks

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Speaker 2: to our friends at Corps Light Mountain, Cole Refreshman made

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Speaker 2: when the Bertram Golf Package Tennessee Golf get Away prizes

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Speaker 2: The Hall of Fame voice of the UC Bearricats and

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Speaker 2: the iconic voice of the Cincinnati Bengals, Dan Horde is

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Speaker 2: with me.

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Speaker 3: What's up, pal?

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Speaker 1: How you doing? And I believe the runner up in

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Speaker 1: the Struggle for the Stake.

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Speaker 3: First second straight for the second year in a row.

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Speaker 1: Congrats.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking forward to the dinner again this year.

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Speaker 4: We have somebody who's volunteered to pay as long as

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Speaker 4: he can join us, so no loser does not have

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Speaker 4: to pony up.

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Speaker 3: Wow, how about that.

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Speaker 2: That's that's awesome for you guys. I wasn't paying either way,

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Speaker 2: that's true.

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Speaker 1: It's good to see it going on.

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Speaker 4: I was just telling Jim Mooring that I found a

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Speaker 4: picture on my phone today.

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Speaker 3: Of my son Sam.

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Speaker 4: Filling out his first ever NCAA tournament bracket here at

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Speaker 4: the Holy Grail when he was eight years old.

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Speaker 3: That's good fathering, isn't it. Yes, you're sitting at the bar.

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Speaker 4: Yes, thankfully the picture shows him with the water, not

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Speaker 4: an alcoholic beverage. But yeah, he got off to a

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Speaker 4: good start by filling out his bracket here.

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Speaker 1: And so there's my daughter Crosley.

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Speaker 2: This is not at the bar, at the table yesterday

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Speaker 2: while watching the first four game yesterday, filling out the bracket.

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Speaker 2: And I explained to her that the only way to

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Speaker 2: do it is to write the teams out, because she asked,

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Speaker 2: is there basically is there a computer option? And I said, yes,

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Speaker 2: but you got to do it the right way. You

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Speaker 2: got to fill it out by hand.

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Speaker 4: You're right, She's right. I'm glad she did that. House

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Speaker 4: her bracket. Who does she have winning it?

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Speaker 1: She has duke winning it.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: She came in third in a pool that I'm in

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Speaker 2: last year. Impressive and did it by.

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Speaker 1: Doing what most of us probably should do, just picked

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Speaker 3: So she went total chalk pretty much total chalk.

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Speaker 4: Well last year work because all the number ones made

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Speaker 4: it most years, Most years, that'll keep you in the hunt, right,

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Speaker 4: that will not win?

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Speaker 2: She did ask where the Bearcats are and I had

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Speaker 2: to had to explain their home. Yes, sorry, not so much.

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Speaker 2: What was those last two minutes of regulation like for you?

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Speaker 2: Last painful?

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Speaker 4: Really painful, frustrating and painful? Feel badly for Wes. Had

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Speaker 4: the final two minutes gone differently, he might still be

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Speaker 4: the head coach depending on how things would have gone

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Speaker 4: the next game against Arizona.

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Speaker 3: But really painful.

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Speaker 2: Did it feel to you that night that because of

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Speaker 2: how they lost, that sealed his feet?

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Speaker 4: But I do think what everybody said at the beginning

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Speaker 4: and unfortunately they didn't make it. It was kind of

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Speaker 4: similar to coach Saderfield. Everybody said, seven wins in a

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Speaker 3: To keep his job.

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Speaker 4: That's the bar that they set, that's the bar that

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Speaker 4: he hit, and unfortunately Wes did not hit the bar

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Speaker 4: that I think most people.

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Speaker 2: Said, why did this team this season not played to

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Speaker 3: Eventually? They did but it was too little, too late.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I hate to be.

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Speaker 4: Like X's and O's critic of Wes because he knows

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Speaker 4: think that early in the year he tolerated things that

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Speaker 4: taking too many bad shots, costing them games, things like that.

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Speaker 4: I think you get what you tolerate as a coach,

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Speaker 2: In his job, every sign points to Jared Calhoun being

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Speaker 1: Is he a guy that you remember it all?

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Speaker 3: Did you all? Absolutely? I remember him? Well.

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Speaker 4: So that was the year that we went to Velpo

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Speaker 4: really tapped into Ohio recruiting. Remember Jamar Butler, he went

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Speaker 3: Jared really knew him well.

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Speaker 4: He was kind of keeping me up to date on

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Speaker 4: He's obviously had a lot of success. He was the

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Speaker 4: best man at Joe Missoula's wedding before you there. Okay,

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Speaker 4: so Joe Missoula was his assistant at Fair State. Yes

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Speaker 4: Hopefully Utah State does well in the NCAA tournament and

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Speaker 2: Not that this should be the biggest factor, but I

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Speaker 1: Is not insignificant.

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Speaker 3: Always good.

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Speaker 4: You know, Wes did a great job of kind of

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Speaker 4: that will help with those bridges. But good to know

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Speaker 1: Weird that I have no Big twelve teams in the

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Speaker 3: Who do you have instead of Michigan?

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Speaker 4: I have, well, Michigpig twelve like you said you don't

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Speaker 3: I have both, do you I do?

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Speaker 1: I want Houston.

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Speaker 3: We've talked, we talked a year ago. No, yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 4: We sat here, we sat here at this time last year,

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Speaker 3: So it shows you. I know. I do think.

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Speaker 4: Home court advantage essentially in the sweet sixteen and the

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Speaker 4: this year. But I have Arizona winning at all, Okay,

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Speaker 4: And I do admit to having the having seen them

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Speaker 4: in person bias.

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Speaker 3: This ruins my bracket every year.

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Speaker 4: I always favor the teams that I've seen in person

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Speaker 3: So Arizona is my team. I think they're going to

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Speaker 4: But I think that is the majority of most of

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Speaker 3: So there I am thinking, just like everybody.

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Speaker 2: I wish because I didn't like the result, but I

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Speaker 2: it trick. See you see play Texas Tech, and I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I wish I knew that Christian Anderson was

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Speaker 4: And they changed the next day, so that might not

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Speaker 3: So I don't have them going very far, all right.

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Speaker 3: Iowa State, Iowa State, I have in the Elite eight.

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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously they lost to Cincinnati, they lost to UCF.

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Speaker 4: they played really well. They looked great against Houston in

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Speaker 4: Chief Championships. So my seeing them in person bias is

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati played TCU the last regular season game, and I

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Speaker 2: think that game was more about how poor the Bearcats played.

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Speaker 2: But TCU does play Ohio State the first game of

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Speaker 1: What do you making The horn Frogs.

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Speaker 4: Got TCU winning that game, but that's it. They were

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Speaker 4: better than I thought. Again when I saw them in person,

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Speaker 4: I get it now. Jamie Dixon's really good. It's a

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Speaker 4: really good offensive team. The ball pops, They've got good

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Speaker 4: inside outside balance.

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Speaker 3: So I think TCU wins today.

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Speaker 1: No Richie Saunders and BYU against Texas.

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Speaker 3: Texas wins for that reason, right. You know?

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Speaker 4: BYU won two beat two good teams after Richie Saunders

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Speaker 4: lost by twenty two at UC. I think if Ritchie

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Speaker 4: the Sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they win a game without them.

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Speaker 2: We talk about being chalky and the sort of separation

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Speaker 1: What a season.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's.

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Speaker 2: It's possible to win in year one where you're not

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean I think the other Miami the Hurricanes

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Speaker 3: This year.

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Speaker 4: Now, the ACC is not the Big twelve, but it's

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Speaker 3: He might have his own guy. Yeah, who knows, but.

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Speaker 2: We'll see, and then we have to play him. Yeah right,

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Speaker 4: But hopefully he had a great experience and UC is

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Speaker 3: That's the next step.

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Speaker 4: But you've got a guy that's seven to two that

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Speaker 2: I've I've been two games, actually, calm one filling in

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Speaker 1: The game press conference better with Mick losing or Dan losing.

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Speaker 2: I still dream of watching those two guys in the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Caleb Downs could be your slot corner

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Speaker 1: All right, let me know where the steak dinner is.

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Speaker 2: Well do if you guys aren't going to pay for it,

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Speaker 3: It pay for the booze.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's no no, now.

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Speaker 3: I remember in my mind that might be a higher task.

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Speaker 1: Oh, be careful what you say. I can't thank you.

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Speaker 3: Time and again.

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Speaker 4: It's your booze and not tnl's red wine. So it

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Speaker 1: Probably for the better. Thank you, as always.

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Speaker 3: For doing it my pleasure. Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: You're the best.

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Speaker 2: Likewise, so great, Dan Horde. Here at the Holy Grail.

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Speaker 2: We are here till twelve noon. It's the Corus light

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