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Speaker 1: All right, let's head to Kansas City where it's day

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Speaker 1: two of Big twelve basketball media day. Yesterday the women,

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Speaker 1: today the men. My next guest is all over it,

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Speaker 1: on the scene and covering it all for the Inquirer

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Speaker 1: Cincinnai dot Com. Always a pleasure to welcome in, Scott Springer.

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Speaker 1: How is Kansas City?

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Speaker 2: Wonderful? The sun's out, it's maybe about seventy was thirty

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Speaker 2: nine this morning, So a brisk walk over to the

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Speaker 2: T Mobile Center. But I just walked back and very

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Speaker 2: pleasant now. But I had to walk back because they're

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Speaker 2: dismantling the place because somebody named Kat Williams and then

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Speaker 2: maybe Tate McCrae. I don't know. These people are coming

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Speaker 2: to the T Mobile Center and they didn't want me there.

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Speaker 2: They had things to do.

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Speaker 1: Understood, understood, Yes, Uh.

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Speaker 2: We finished up. Yeah, good eventful day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's talk about this Bearcat team. And West has

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Speaker 1: always been an intense guy himself. I was struck by

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Speaker 1: I heard him use the term competitive edge about his

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Speaker 1: guys a couple of times today. That seems like an

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Speaker 1: important part of the DNA. He likes about this basketball team,

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Speaker 1: the edge they can play with.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that's one of the reasons he recruited the

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Speaker 2: kerkkrisa who comes with a lot of edge. And there's

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Speaker 2: a dude you got to get on the radio. That

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Speaker 2: guy's funny from Estonia, a great personality and a little

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Speaker 2: bit of news today. Maybe there's a chance he could have.

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Speaker 2: How about this Welcome to the New Era a seventh

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Speaker 2: year possibility. Yeah, so he's played five, this is six,

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Speaker 2: and there may be seven though. I don't know the loophole,

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Speaker 2: but it has to do something with his freshman year

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Speaker 2: at Arizona, which was the twenty one season. He played

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Speaker 2: eight games, played nine games last year of Kentucky due

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Speaker 2: to injury. So I don't know how it works or whatever.

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Speaker 2: If you're remember Day Day, Thomas got an extra year

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Speaker 2: because they decided the junior college years don't count, which

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Speaker 2: gave UC an extra year and the keid to winning anymore.

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Speaker 2: You hear all these coaches saying it is to be old.

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Speaker 2: You know, it used to be you know they were

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Speaker 2: the one and done. Were these high school kids coming

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Speaker 2: in and then going to the league, And now they

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Speaker 2: want to be old, and heck, now they're reaching into

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Speaker 2: the G league and pulling guys back into college so

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Speaker 2: whatever applied doesn't apply anymore. It's kind of like gambling

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Scott, I wonder what a guy like

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Speaker 1: Kerr with in personnel, do they have the ability to

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Speaker 1: pace wise push it more than maybe they have in

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Speaker 1: the past.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what he really likes. And Dayda Thomas

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Speaker 2: likes that Kerr likes to push the ball. And if

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Speaker 2: you watched when they made their run against Michigan there

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Speaker 2: in the first half, they were pushing the ball and

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Speaker 2: they're really excited about that first half. And that's something

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Speaker 2: that some of the guys on staff I was talking

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Speaker 2: want to do that. And if you really look at

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Speaker 2: that second half, Misigan's trying to win that game. They

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Speaker 2: played their guys, they played the Lindenborg played thirty one

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Speaker 2: or the forty minutes, and the Bearcats kind of kept

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Speaker 2: to their mo and split the time month. I think

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Speaker 2: Chom played twenty six, but you know, halveen Zella played

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Speaker 2: thirteen minutes. Typically in a game against the number sevent

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Speaker 2: team in the nation, that's not happening. So now let's

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Speaker 2: not get ahead of our ski as we go back

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Speaker 2: to last year at Ohio State and everyone thought, oh

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Speaker 2: my god, what four here we come. People were booking

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Speaker 2: they played. It went down hill.

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Speaker 1: That ye're right, yet every point.

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Speaker 2: It was a slippery slope from there. So I think

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Speaker 2: this team is better personnel wise looking at it. But

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Speaker 2: the pundits, you know, they're a little bit snake bit.

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Speaker 2: The John Rothstein's who he was there today, all the

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Speaker 2: famous people, Seth Davis, I got the pressures with greatness. Wow,

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Speaker 2: I'm just a guy that snuck in somewhere. But it's

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Speaker 2: fun talking to all these guys. The fran threw Shield

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Speaker 2: is them all. But but you know, I think Rostein

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Speaker 2: has them forty in his forty five and everyone's saying

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Speaker 2: but you wonder it's like everyone that put them, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think they're every bit is good. But that's the

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Speaker 2: reason they're not ranked. And maybe sometimes it's better than

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Speaker 2: not being ranked. You go back to the final four

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Speaker 2: team in ninety two. I don't think they were even

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Speaker 1: Scott Springer checking in from the acquire Cincinia dot com

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Speaker 1: covering the Bearcats for a Big twelve media day in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. Jalen Hayes big man out indefinitely. What do

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Speaker 1: they lose in his absence or and who might gain

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Speaker 1: opportunities in his absence?

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Speaker 2: Finding Tyler McKinley is the one that could get the minutes,

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Speaker 2: and he got some there against Michigan. Came in, got

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Speaker 2: some big boards. He's a great rebounder, and he's somebody

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Speaker 2: that they would have played last year as a freshman.

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Speaker 2: And then he blew his knee out so he had

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Speaker 2: to wait. But you know, he hit a three. They

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Speaker 2: had a lot of guys hitting threes. Charm hit a three.

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Speaker 2: So right now your front cord is Chom Baba Miller

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Speaker 2: who everyone loves. Frank Traschilla loves Boba Miller says he's

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Speaker 2: the best NBA prospect right now. And then McKinley, and

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Speaker 2: you know you miss with with Haines. It's a wide

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Speaker 2: body dude that you know, if your old school like me,

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Speaker 2: you like that guy that can discove his button to

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Speaker 2: the post and get things done, but I don't know

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Speaker 2: if they're going to have him back by the end

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Speaker 2: of the year or there will be a medical red shirt.

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Speaker 2: I think they're exploring all those possibilities, but I don't

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Speaker 2: think he's going to play anytime soon now. Jalen Celstein,

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Speaker 2: who did not play against Michigan, is supposed to get

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Speaker 2: some minutes Friday against Arkansas. And he's another if you

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Speaker 2: remember the UC Baylor game that was at fifth Third Arena,

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Speaker 2: Celestine started at a decent game and he's another you know,

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Speaker 2: six seven guy that can play a lot of spots.

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Speaker 2: You know, the so called positionless basketball is kind of

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Speaker 1: What are your impressions to this point of the much

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Speaker 2: Well. I saw him at Overtime Elite last year in Atlanta,

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Speaker 2: and it was right before the night before that UC

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Speaker 2: able to go to Overtime Elite. Now, Overtime Elite is

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Speaker 2: not like Anderson High School or any other place with

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Speaker 2: wooden bleachers or you named the high school. It is showtime.

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Speaker 2: They got lights, they got big scoreboards, so that atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: I think he's used to that. And you know, chrystl

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Speaker 2: I don't think he was faith now will he v faith?

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Speaker 2: And some other games? Who knows? That man? He looked

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Speaker 2: Guard he can do a lot of.

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Speaker 1: Things you you ran across talk TO, u so you

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Speaker 1: tweeted about the Former Bearcat Dan. Skillings, obviously last season

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Speaker 1: Wanted how how does he seem now and how does

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Speaker 1: he feel about this new. Opportunity seems, happy you.

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Speaker 2: KNOW i guess the change of scenery might. Help they

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Speaker 2: wanted him and Against Grand, CANYON i think he had

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Speaker 2: a double double in their first. Exhibition they brought him

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Speaker 2: Him AND i don't KNOW i heard him well since he's.

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Speaker 2: Gone he told somebody that maybe he should have redshirted last,

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Speaker 2: to us. ALL i, think let's be, honest it didn't

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Speaker 2: look like he was into. It some games When Dan

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Speaker 2: and so if he gets his head, together which he's

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Speaker 2: back at fifth Third Arena january twenty, eighth fully expecting

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Speaker 2: to be. Booed BUT i think he realizes that his

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati she was on the dance, team so he Likes.

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati even mentioned that this is Someplace i'd like to

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Speaker 2: so funny you go back To april And skillings was

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Speaker 2: Back and now it's just so. Different you don't. Know

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Speaker 2: and The Senior days are meant for guys that have

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Speaker 2: Posted well posted today's. Stuff yet the women's the media

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Speaker 2: because he had A scott sanderfield presser davedr ANDAs. PRESSER

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Speaker 2: Said i'm your compensation it is you are? Upright what

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Speaker 1: Want he Is Scott springer Of The Inquiry cincinnati dot

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Speaker 1: com and he's on x at S Springer. Sports appreciate

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Speaker 1: you Making tom and a busy. Day you always enjoyed the.

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Speaker 1: Conversation thank, You thanks very, much.

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Speaker 2: Sir all, right there there you, Go.

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Speaker 1: Scott, springer got to cover for you. Today let's do.

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