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Speaker 1: The following takes place between eight pm and nine pm.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's keep it rolling. We gotta hustle.

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Speaker 3: Dan and Terry coming up bottom of they are coverage

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Speaker 3: of the Bearcats who play here tonight. Of course, seven

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Speaker 3: hundred WLW Bearcats hosting b YU tonight Senior Night. Let's

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Speaker 3: talk some Bearcats with the man who is Bearcat Journal

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Speaker 3: dot com.

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Speaker 2: That would be Chad Frendall. How are you?

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Speaker 4: I'm good. I'm good. I running around, had to pick

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Speaker 4: a daughter up from volleyball race to fifth third Arena.

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Speaker 4: Just got here, so we're in good time. We're ready

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Speaker 4: to go.

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Speaker 2: Perfect. Perfect for a scene setter.

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Speaker 3: Why what is the what is the number one factor

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Speaker 3: on your list? To explain how this team has won

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Speaker 3: five of its last six.

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Speaker 4: They finally have what they have been missing for three

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Speaker 4: years in the Big twelve, and that is two guys

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Speaker 4: playing at an all conference level in Baba Miller and

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Speaker 4: Mustapha Cham and they're having to do it differently to

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Speaker 4: keep those guys as effective as they have been. They're

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Speaker 4: running a lot of offense through Baba, but those two

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Speaker 4: guys stepping up and playing at an incredibly high level

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Speaker 4: has raised this team ceiling. The other thing that I

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Speaker 4: think has been really critical is inserting Jalen Celestine into

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Speaker 4: the starting lineup after he fully got recovered. He had

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Speaker 4: back surgery in the offseason. I don't think a lot

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Speaker 4: of people know that, and it took him a while

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Speaker 4: to get back to one hundred percent. But since he's

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Speaker 4: been back playing at a high level, he's got the

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Speaker 4: highest offensive rating on the team. He's the guy that

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Speaker 4: can open the defense, stretch the defense, allow room for

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Speaker 4: Miller and Tom to operate in the paint. And they've

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Speaker 4: just gone from they were dreadful on offense, just absolutely

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Speaker 4: dreadful for November, December and most of January, and then

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Speaker 4: you get into February and those couple guys have played

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Speaker 4: at a high level and it's completely changed who this

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Speaker 4: team's identity is.

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Speaker 2: It is a senior night.

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Speaker 3: I always enjoy drawing on your perspective, and as much

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Speaker 3: as you are around these guys, I wonder articulate the

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Speaker 3: importance and what you will remember about day D. A.

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Speaker 2: Thomas and his time as a.

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Speaker 4: Bearcat, How hard he's worked, how much he's improved, how

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Speaker 4: much better of a player he's become, how much better

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Speaker 4: of a leader he's become. I mean, he was one

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Speaker 4: of those kids that got caught up in COVID and

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Speaker 4: didn't really get a chance to be seen as a fit,

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Speaker 4: ended up at junior college, worked his butt off at

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Speaker 4: junior college, got an opportunity here, and has just consistently

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Speaker 4: gotten better. You know, he's not, you know, an all

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Speaker 4: big twelve type guard, but he's a Bearcat. Like if

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Speaker 4: you look back at the definition of guys that you

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Speaker 4: consider the heart and soul of UC's program. He's got

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Speaker 4: that toughness, that work ethic, you know, the ability to

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Speaker 4: produce maybe better than you thought he was going to

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Speaker 4: when he came in. And I mean, we're not going

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Speaker 4: to see this very often. Lance. Yeah, he's played one

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Speaker 4: hundred games as a Cincinnati Bearcat. He's scored a thousand points. Like,

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Speaker 4: it's just not something you're going to see much anymore

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Speaker 4: going forward. So you know, he's got a special place

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Speaker 3: Last check, you see as a point and a half

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Speaker 3: favored against his BYU team. Tell listeners who might not

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Speaker 3: know what they need to know about BYU.

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Speaker 4: First, you got to know aj Debantsa. He's outstanding and

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Speaker 4: he's going to be a top three pick in the

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Speaker 4: NBA draft.

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Speaker 2: He's six'.

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Speaker 4: Nine he plays like a. Guard he can shoot, it

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Speaker 4: he can handle, it he can get to the. Rim

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Speaker 4: HE'S i think over the last six he's averaging twenty

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Speaker 4: nine points a. Game he's and he can, rebound he can.

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Speaker 4: PASS i think the passing is kind of the what's

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Speaker 4: Up Big Veella Well Dante corleone siding here Outside Sister.

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Speaker 4: Arena the passing has been the Difference lance in their

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Speaker 4: last five, games he's been incredible. Scoring LIKE i, said

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Speaker 4: he's up around thirty points a game in their wins

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Speaker 4: had seventeen assists and the three losses he's had. Three

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Speaker 4: so you can let him be a. Scorer they're going

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Speaker 4: to go to, him high, volume heavy. Volume he he's

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Speaker 4: gonna get. Points but if you can keep him from,

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Speaker 4: FACILITATING i think you have a chance to slow them.

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Speaker 4: Down the other name to watch Is Rob. Wright cincinnati

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Speaker 4: played him At baylor a couple times last. Year he

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Speaker 4: struggled Against cincinnati's. Defense he struggled Against Dade thomas And Gisel.

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Speaker 4: James SO i think that he's kind of the. Key

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Speaker 4: if he gives them a second. Scorer they're a team

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Speaker 4: that can put up enough points to beat. You he's

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Speaker 4: gonna get probably twenty. Points the key is does he

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Speaker 4: do it in eleven? Shots does he do it in

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Speaker 4: twenty two? Shots and if you can frustrate him and

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Speaker 4: make him take some bad, shots you can really bog

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Speaker 4: down THIS byu. Offense so those are the two main.

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Speaker 4: Guys their third, Guy Richie, saunders who was first Team

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Speaker 4: ago and they're they're not the same team without Having,

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Speaker 4: saunders who could shoot from, three take it to the

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Speaker 4: rim and gave them that third. Weapon, offensively they're not

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Speaker 4: the same team offensively without.

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Speaker 3: THEM i know you are not a, bracketologist nor do

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Speaker 3: you play one on the, Radio but can you create

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Speaker 3: a path short of winning The Big twelve that gets

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Speaker 3: them inside the bubble and into the.

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Speaker 4: TOURNAMENT i think if you win two to close the,

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Speaker 4: season you win this, one you win AT, tcu and

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Speaker 4: then you win your first round game in The Big twelve,

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Speaker 4: tournament which would likely be a rematch WITH tcu or

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Speaker 4: Maybe West virginia depending on how the season plays. OUT

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Speaker 4: i think you're right at the cut. Line now it's

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Speaker 4: impossible to predict because you don't know what the other

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Speaker 4: teams around them are going to. Do and let's be,

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Speaker 4: honest they've made it very tough on themselves because they've

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Speaker 4: to get. In now they've got two point one. Opportunities

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Speaker 4: so if they win, both you're increasing your. Metrics you're

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Speaker 4: increasing the new the new terminology this year lance the

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Speaker 4: new metric wins above. Bubble you're increasing your wins above.

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Speaker 4: Bubble so there's a path if they wanted to really

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Speaker 4: kind of leave no doubt you win in the. Quarterfinals

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Speaker 4: but they're probably trending for the eight or nine. Seed

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Speaker 4: know who's going to be waiting in the quarterfinals of

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Speaker 4: The big twelve tournament That, Arizona And i'm gonna be,

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Speaker 4: HONEST i think they could play one hundred. Times what

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Speaker 4: so fundamentally sound LIKE i JUST i have a hard

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Speaker 4: time seeing them knock off In. Arizona, now if you do, that,

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Speaker 4: The Big twelve. SEMIFINALS i don't know how they would

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Speaker 4: you're in the, semifinals you'd beat a number one seed

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Speaker 4: like that would be really.

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Speaker 3: HARD i believe The Big Twelve awards should be announced Probably.

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Speaker 3: Monday any early thought on what Bear cat may wind

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Speaker 3: up in what?

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Speaker 4: CATEGORY i think you'll See Boba miller on one of

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Speaker 4: The All conference, teams probably not first, team but he's

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Speaker 4: been so good so consistently throughout the season that it

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Speaker 4: just makes sense that you would see him on one

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Speaker 4: of those. Teams Mustapha chom has played at that level

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Speaker 4: for the last, month but he didn't do it consistently

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Speaker 4: enough at the beginning of the, Season so maybe you

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Speaker 4: see like an honorable mention for. HIM i don't know,

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Speaker 4: that you know They Buck harris was first Team All

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Speaker 4: defense last. YEAR i don't think he's played enough this

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Speaker 4: year to get that award unless he gets it on.

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Speaker 4: Reputation BUT i do think there's a really good chance

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Speaker 4: maybe second or third team For Boba miller because he's

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Speaker 4: he's been that good all. YEAR i, mean you, know

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Speaker 4: have average double digit rebounds At. Cincinnati Bob i's gonna

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Speaker 4: do it this, year and probably pretty easily unless something drastic.

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Speaker 4: Happens BUT i think you'll see him on an all conference,

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Speaker 3: Keegan the crew will be all over this spring footballs

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Speaker 3: just around the corner and layout everything? Bad how about that?

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Speaker 3: Layout everything being offered by and can be consumed Through

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Speaker 4: Com we'll be following all the way up to Selection

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Speaker 4: sunday to see if this team has a chance and

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Speaker 4: if they don't make a. Tournament if they don't make the,

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Speaker 4: tournament what happens With Les. MILLER i, mean that's the

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Speaker 4: million dollar question right. Now if he makes it, in

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Speaker 4: he's definitely. SAFE i would. Say if he doesn't make it,

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Speaker 4: In john cunning is Getting John cunningham's gonna have a tough.

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Speaker 4: Decision so we're going to be all over. That we

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Speaker 4: will be all over every spring football practice and much much.

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Speaker 4: More plus let's not Forget Jordan bishall's baseball. Team big

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Speaker 4: win Over Western kentucky today and they're gonna be a

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Speaker 4: lot of fun to follow this spring as, Well.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about.

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Speaker 3: It you are the MAN i, know uh Crazy EVENING

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Speaker 3: i appreciate you carving out some time and appreciate the conversation.

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Speaker 4: Anytime, Lass thank, you, Sir thank.

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Speaker 3: You Chad, brendle Bearcat, journal dot com, bearcats and by.

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Speaker 3: You coming Up bottom of The hour With dan And

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