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Speaker 2: All right, seven o'clock hour underway, seven oh seven to

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Speaker 2: Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet Alliance Catlester Solid.

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Speaker 2: First hour, Rick Minner, a former UC football coach son

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Speaker 2: of now New Baltimore Ravens coach Jesse Minner, checked in

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Speaker 2: Mark Adams ESPNU previewing those Miami RedHawks. He's on the

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Speaker 2: call tomorrow night on ESPNU. It's the RedHawks take on

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Speaker 2: UMass that in the first hour. Let's get started with

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Speaker 2: more hoops in our second hour. Selection Sunday is March

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Speaker 2: the fifteenth, that's forty eight days away. I'm excited to

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Speaker 2: talk with our next guest because a listener said you

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Speaker 2: get him on. My next guest is the creator of

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Speaker 2: samsum Sports Media, home of NKY Bracketology. He's a bracketologist.

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Speaker 2: Check out nkybracketology dot com for more on that. Let's

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Speaker 2: go straight to the source and welcome in Hunter Sansom Hunter,

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Speaker 2: how are.

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Speaker 3: You hey, Way, so I'm doing great? How are you

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Speaker 3: I am?

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Speaker 2: Well? Give me a First, let's backtrack a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Give me your story in the setup. How and why

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Speaker 2: did you start doing something like this?

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Speaker 3: So, I'm actually a nurse by trade. During COVID, got

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Speaker 3: just being like at the hospital so much so started

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Speaker 3: doing like following college basketball a little bit closer. Had

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Speaker 3: here I am projecting teams out and doing all this

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Speaker 3: It's blossomed into this very nice, fun thing that leads.

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Speaker 2: Me to you. And this will be a dumb question,

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Speaker 2: but I'll ask anyway. I assume you are based at

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Speaker 2: nkybracketelogia dot com. You're based in northern Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: I am based out of all right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So are you a for those unfamiliar with the Sight,

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Speaker 2: are you a one man band or do you have

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Speaker 3: Completely one man band? Everything you see is me. I

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Speaker 3: do a podcast with a co host out of Chicago.

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Speaker 3: But other than that, everything's meat.

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Speaker 2: It is fantastic. I love it. All right, let's make

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Speaker 2: our way through some of this. Forty eight days out

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Speaker 2: from selection Sunday, let's maybe start with the the easiest thing.

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Speaker 2: Although it was a losing weekend for U See and

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Speaker 2: Xavier are both in that territory now. I've just you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm not considering either team at this

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Speaker 2: The Kentucky Wildcats have won five straight. How if they

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Speaker 2: were jello? Are they solidifying as an at large bid

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Speaker 3: They are much more solidified now than they were let's say,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because it was I mean, it looked it was dicey,

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I had been out at one point in

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Speaker 3: I had them actually projected out, and now I have

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Speaker 2: The Miami RedHawks play tomorrow night twenty and oh, I

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Speaker 2: think the obvious question is, and you know what the

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Speaker 2: naysayers will point to. They'll point to their strength of schedule.

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Speaker 2: They quote unquote haven't played anybody assess their assess their

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Speaker 3: So Miami, it's I mean, and I hate to say that,

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Speaker 3: the naysayers are a right to an extent with it

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Speaker 3: Right now, Ohio State's doing a little bit better than

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Speaker 3: But after that Ucla win and they kind of stack

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Speaker 3: So on the outside looking in, but still absolutely have

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Speaker 2: I don't want to leave Darren Horn's NKU Norris out.

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Speaker 2: He always talks about three days in March, and it's

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Speaker 2: gonna take that to get it at large. It would

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Speaker 2: or to win the rising leg, of course, But you

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Speaker 2: have a in looking at NKY bracketology dot com, you

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Speaker 2: have a tab related to and cover the Norris correct.

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Speaker 3: I do so. I graduated from MKU in twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: as well, so mku's always held that special place. They

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Speaker 3: a grow while I've been their situation, so I cover them.

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Speaker 3: The Hall of Voice is the official name of it.

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Speaker 3: That's actually a newer name, and there is absolutely that

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Speaker 3: tab there on the website for that. But they look good.

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Speaker 3: Their peak is the best team in the horizon. However,

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Speaker 3: they're just inconsistent as can be right now, so trying

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Speaker 3: for all that matters.

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Speaker 2: Hunterson's I should ask you, am, I am I pronouncing

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Speaker 3: You are, Oh.

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Speaker 2: I greatly appreciate that, right. I even wrote it out phonetically.

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Speaker 2: I will tell you I wrote it out phonetically and

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Speaker 2: I was still panicked I would blow it. So I'm

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Speaker 2: very happy I have not check out kybracketology dot com

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Speaker 2: as of today. Who would your four number one seeds be?

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Speaker 3: As of today? I have Arizona, Duke, Yukon, and Michigan

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Speaker 2: And the best conference to this point in college basketball is.

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Speaker 3: The best conference is the Big Twelve. It's just a

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Speaker 3: So? I would argue it's stronger this year, at least

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Speaker 3: so I mean there's a lot of movement. You're seeing

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Speaker 2: Hunter. For those who are running to check it out

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Speaker 2: now are going to check it out, tell them what

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Speaker 2: you offer on a daily basis At nkybracketology dot com.

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Speaker 3: Yeah so inkybrectology dot com has all of my content

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Speaker 3: linked there. There is a daily viewing guide for all

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Speaker 3: of the games that you need to keep track of.

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Speaker 3: I post one every single day. If you subscribe, you

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Speaker 3: On Twitter x as all of my content, I interact,

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Speaker 3: I will respond to fans. I'm not one of those

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Speaker 2: Boy, And is the night is getting underway? In college basketball,

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Speaker 2: there's at least a couple of games to really keep

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Speaker 2: an eye on with Louisville Duke and man BYU Arizona tonight.

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Speaker 3: Two amazing games. I love that we were able to

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Hey, I'm I'm glad we could do this. I

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Speaker 2: my way. I'm glad you could make time tonight. And

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Speaker 2: I heck I we've got forty eight days till selection Sunday.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind bugging you again if you've got time

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Thanks first for the listener who gave me the

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Speaker 2: Just let me know excellent sounds good? Thanks under take care,

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Speaker 2: Thank you? All Right, there you go, Hunter sandsam Inky

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Speaker 2: bracketology dot com. It's it's a really good look, a

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Speaker 2: deep dive look that's easy to understand. If that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of information there and he makes it

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Speaker 2: to offer a little perspective on Rick Bettino and the

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Speaker 2: and observations from the UC performance through the eyes and

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