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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike, Cincy three sixty about Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: From Cincinnati. This is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports station.

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Speaker 1: Our number two is here. Let's dive right in. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk more college basketball. As the calendar gets ready to

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Speaker 1: turn to March. NKU starts to play their best basketball

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Speaker 1: seeming the year in and year out. Let's talk Norse.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk some Xavier Musketeer basketball and college hoops in general,

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Speaker 1: with our guy Rick Bryn joining us right now.

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Speaker 3: What's up Rick?

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Speaker 2: Talk about? Are you having me on to talk about

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Speaker 2: the big news?

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Speaker 1: What do you you want to talk about? Doug Gottlieb,

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Speaker 1: Is that what you're talking about?

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Speaker 2: No? The big news out of Highland hips last night?

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Speaker 1: Did you not hear mo Agger courtside?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? The NKU administration took a vote and they decided

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Speaker 2: that the iheard guy they want representing the NORSE going

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Speaker 2: for Austin.

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Speaker 3: Wow, what a turn of events.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing, massive, massive game last night in Island Heights,

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Speaker 2: easy one to get to on a Wednesday evening, and

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Speaker 2: Austin Elmore is nowhere to be found. Tony, I couldn't

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Speaker 2: believe that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that just a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 3: Moe was ejected from sitting courtside at an n KU

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Speaker 3: game to now being the the delegated member. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's it's impressive comeback player of the year moegar huge.

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Speaker 1: I mean this, this is massive news right now that

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Speaker 1: we're hearing and and again you have to question where

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Speaker 1: has Austin been? What has been more important?

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Speaker 2: Jar? You tell me, I don't know, Like I'm not

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm behind the scenes. I'm in a media role.

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Speaker 2: But like, if you're a fan of a team that

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Speaker 2: is fighting for its life. Five seed host a home

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Speaker 2: first round game in the Horizon League Tournament and you

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Speaker 2: gotta must win at home against pretty far Wayne, you

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Speaker 2: would think Ale, like Austin Elmore would be there.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, that's a great point, you would think.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that's something that Darren Horn has addressed and

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Speaker 1: it's now something that this team has to overcome to

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Speaker 1: move forward. And they've done that. They had the five

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Speaker 1: game losing streak, They've now won three in a row.

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Speaker 1: What's been different with this basketball team?

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Speaker 2: Rick? You know, it's funny because we've talked about it

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Speaker 2: throughout the I've talked once or twice with you guys,

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Speaker 2: and then Mo has gone every Wednesday, and we seemingly

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Speaker 2: through about a month long stretch, maybe even longer than that.

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Speaker 2: It was like, you know, is this team going to

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Speaker 2: be able to figure out how to close games out defensively?

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Speaker 2: Can they get the stops they need to win some

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Speaker 2: of these closed games in the Horizon League. And they've

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Speaker 2: started to do that, and then last night, not only

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Speaker 2: did they do that, they didn't need that at the

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Speaker 2: end of the game. They were doing it early on.

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Speaker 2: They were getting big plays defensively in the first half.

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Speaker 2: That's at the tone. And then there was a middle

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Speaker 2: part of the second half where they had a twelve

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Speaker 2: point lead and within forty seconds pretty four wing and

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Speaker 2: hit back to back threes. They cut it down to six,

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Speaker 2: and you kind of get that, I'll know, here we go,

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Speaker 2: this is gonna be another wild ride to the finished

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Speaker 2: type feeling. But the Norse had a great answer for

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Speaker 2: it on both ends of the floor. They extended their

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Speaker 2: lead right back to double digits and they closed it out.

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Speaker 2: So you know, they've been getting good contributions from from

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Speaker 2: some role guys like Kay Josher, who had fifteen rebounds

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Speaker 2: in last night's game, and he's had two made threes

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Speaker 2: in each of the last five games, at least two

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Speaker 2: mad threes in each of the last five games, And

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Speaker 2: I think that's been big for them. But the biggest

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Speaker 2: thing is just what we've been talking about all year

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Speaker 2: with the defense. It seems like they've finally been able

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Speaker 2: to marry the explosive scoring on the offensive end with

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Speaker 2: shutting down the other team in key moments when when

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Speaker 2: it's clutch time, and they've been much better at that.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the importance of last night's game, three more

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Speaker 1: why that seeding and where k you was trying to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you get a top five seed this year,

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Speaker 2: you get to host first round game, and yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: what MK used battling for right now. It's always just

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Speaker 2: now this year there's an extra play in game on

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Speaker 2: four and five seed if everything goes Chalk. They will

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Speaker 2: So it's a big deal to at least have a

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Speaker 2: good opportunity to win that first game and get the

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's all types of scenarios still out there

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Speaker 2: for NKU. It's so tightly bunched up from third all

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Speaker 2: the way down to like seventh right now in the conference,

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Speaker 2: just like a game and a half separating everybody, seemingly

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Speaker 2: so any every round of games for the league, it

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Speaker 2: seems to jumble the rankings back up. So there's still

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Speaker 2: a lot of scenarios still in play. MKU I believe

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Speaker 2: parody of the league this year, so it should be entertaining.

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Speaker 1: If you do go on the road to Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: Do you think Doug Gottlie will be coaching in that

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Speaker 1: game or facing another suspension?

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Speaker 3: Good question.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'll say this, I'm glad Doug said it like

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Speaker 2: I'm glad someone at NK you didn't have to say it, because,

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Speaker 2: quite honestly, he's right. He's right. The officiating has been

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Speaker 2: bad this year and his technical that he got, we

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Speaker 2: have the audience like that that's been posted online now

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Speaker 2: clear audio is nothing, nothing that would warrant a technical foul.

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Speaker 2: And you know, it's a hard job to be an official,

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Speaker 2: that I would tell the Horizon League officials that they

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Speaker 2: at the higher level conferences is quit worrying so much

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Speaker 2: about dealing with the coaches. You can't have rabbit years.

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Speaker 2: You can't go back and forth with them and argue

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Speaker 2: and fight. You can't get sensitive and t them up

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Speaker 2: because as they called you out or actually exposed you

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Speaker 2: on a bad call, you just have to let that

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Speaker 2: probably a little too passionate calling out that the supervisor

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Speaker 2: of officials for the league was a bold choice, certainly

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Speaker 2: dropping f bombs was a bold choice pounding the todium

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Speaker 2: like that, But he wasn't wrong about anything he said,

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Speaker 2: in fact that it needed to be said.

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Speaker 1: Three games remaining. Their next game at Youngstown State, if

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Speaker 1: they do secure that first round home game, is that

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Speaker 1: a game that potentially k you would even want Austin

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Speaker 1: Elmore to attend at this point or since he's not

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Speaker 1: been there, do you just want him to stay away.

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Speaker 2: Austin Elmore has been a flag carrier for the North throughout,

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Speaker 2: has been here, he has been He's always going to

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Speaker 2: be our guy. But it is I can't deny the

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Speaker 2: fact that there were a lot of conversations last night

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Speaker 2: about like where is Audie? It's a big night, did

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Speaker 2: the stars were out? You've got no sitting courtside. He's

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Speaker 2: a noted ud alum U s fan and he's there

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Speaker 1: Yesterday talking about one to go to a UC baseball game.

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Speaker 3: I didn't say that yesterday. I said that this morning today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's a part of a thing to promote

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Speaker 3: the radio station that I work for.

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Speaker 1: I get it.

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Speaker 3: So I mean try to turn around on me all

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Speaker 3: you can. I've been to plenty of Norse games. I

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Speaker 3: mean people forget I was the guy who was it

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Speaker 3: was just me. People forget it was it was just

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Speaker 3: me standing outside the bathroom at Malett Hall interviewing John

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Speaker 3: Brannon just a couple of years ago when I was

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Speaker 3: in college. So you know, I've I've been through it,

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Speaker 3: and I will be back. I might be back sooner

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Speaker 3: rather than later. But I appreciate that everybody is worried about.

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Speaker 2: All I know is there's one home game left in

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Speaker 2: the regular season. It's against Wright State. You know how

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Speaker 2: we feel about that, Austin, So you know we'd love

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Speaker 2: to have you. We'd love to have you. Now.

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Speaker 3: Typically I go to that game every year. Sometimes I

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Speaker 3: go up to the Nuthouse. Sometimes they go down to

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Speaker 3: the Truist, but I'm typically there.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that needs that. This is unbelievable, So courtside again, thanks, Rick,

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Speaker 3: appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: I will find you a ticket. Let me put it

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Speaker 2: that way. I will get you a ticket.

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Speaker 1: Uh Rick, Let me ask you about the Musketeers as well.

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Speaker 1: I know you talked to me about this yesterday and

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Speaker 1: another heartbreaking loss and the decision you want to get

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Speaker 1: the ball to Trey Carroll late, But do you want

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Speaker 1: It's a hard situation because Trey Carroll has literally done

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Speaker 1: everything that this team has needed and more this year.

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Speaker 1: But at what point do you stop if you're a

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Speaker 1: Xavier fan saying, man, they're playing well, they're just coming

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Speaker 1: this season a little bit differently Richard Patino's first year,

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Speaker 1: how the roster came together. I'm not saying to throw

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Speaker 1: away year, but you're learning a lot about this year.

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Speaker 1: But at some point the close losses had to become

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Speaker 1: a little frustrated fans.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I have no doubt that it gets hard

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Speaker 2: to watch your team lose games in heartbreaking fashion, game

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Speaker 2: after game. You know, the good things is at this

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Speaker 2: point you probably are a little desensitized to it because

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Speaker 2: out the string on a season that's going nowhere, and

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Speaker 2: you know, hopefully you're playing better basketball, which I do

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Speaker 2: think they are, and maybe you can scare some teams

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Speaker 2: in the biggest tournament. The likelihood of them winning the

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Speaker 2: I think it's like you're kind of just playing out

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Speaker 2: these games are as heartbreaking because of that, but it

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Speaker 2: is still hard to watch. That was an entertaining game.

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Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun action. There were some

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Speaker 2: big time shots being made on both sides. And you

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Speaker 2: know that that Tray Harrold thing is tough because it's

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Speaker 2: like both things can be true that he cost you

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Speaker 2: the game. You couldn't win with him playing the way

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Speaker 2: he did with six turnovers and the big turnover at

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Speaker 2: the end that everyone's talking about. At the same time,

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Speaker 2: you're not in that game without Trey Carroll and you

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Speaker 2: don't have any of the success that you've had this

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Speaker 2: year without Trey Carroll. So it's just the reality of

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Speaker 2: having a roster that isn't well enough constructed, you know.

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Speaker 2: And like you said, it was an impossible situation for

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Speaker 2: don't have the firepower they need, especially in those late

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Speaker 2: Bro?

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Speaker 3: We all heard this one. This is a motion we

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Speaker 2: Thank you, I do. It's not good for me.

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Speaker 1: Would be remiss not to ask you, and I know

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Speaker 1: and it's now a national conversation that's happening Rick quite frankly,

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Speaker 2: Darren Pearson's a loser, Like, who in the world doesn't

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Speaker 2: A selfish guy, a guy who's only about himself, Like

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Speaker 2: I don't understand the long term play by Darren Peterson.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying anything like that, but if anything, this

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Speaker 1: Would you bench him ahead of Saturday's game? Would you

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Speaker 2: For your sake? Sure?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Don't play it.

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Speaker 1: That's all I needed.

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Speaker 2: Let him keep it within fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Rick, I, I was just say, I appreciate everything except

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Speaker 1: How can folks follow along with uh? With everything you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I find me on Facebook or whatever. I just

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Speaker 2: I was like, what are you talking?

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Speaker 3: It's your mind out of the gunner, dude, that's not

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Speaker 3: what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: Out of the gutter. I would think about COVID. I

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Speaker 2: just thought like, what a what a reference. We're going

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Speaker 2: back to twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, that's not that's it's not that's not true.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, good luck with your jab boys on Facebook.

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Speaker 1: Check out Rick on Facebook. Rick, thanks a lot, Thanks Rick,

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Speaker 1: the reverend, the reverend, he was ready to go today.

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Speaker 1: I always think last night, I always realized that, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're we're weeks removed from Darren Horn kind of going

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Speaker 1: to bat for you, according to Rick, And now that's

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Speaker 1: changing apparently.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that anybody's gone to bat for me.

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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know that I think about it.

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Speaker 1: Who's who's it's been. I don't who's the two and

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Speaker 1: four hole hitter around you in the three hole outside

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Speaker 1: of protecting you, outside.

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Speaker 3: Of my parents and my closest friends. I don't know if, if,

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Speaker 3: if anyone has gone to bat for me anytime recently.

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Speaker 1: Brorian's off that list.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize Moe was court side good Stuf