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

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Speaker 2: All Right, eight oh seven seven hundred wlw rn L

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Speaker 2: carry or Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. I'm Alliance Bacallister.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for being here tonight. We're on the run

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Speaker 2: to the bottom of the hour. And then we passed

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Speaker 2: the baton to Dan and Terry. They've got U see basketball.

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Speaker 2: The bear Cats play here tonight, you see is in

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Speaker 2: Tucson to take on number one Arizona. On the scene

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Speaker 2: and all over it for the inquirer would be Scott Springer.

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Speaker 2: Let's go straight to the source, sir, How how has

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Speaker 2: your day been? How are your travels to Tucson? Set

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Speaker 2: the scene for me? Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 3: Well, I was supposed to have flown to Phoenix yesterday

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Speaker 3: and been in about eleven am and got deplaned and

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Speaker 3: had to switch flight, rerouted Dallas to Tucson. Got in

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Speaker 3: about nine pm last night after we haggled over a

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Speaker 3: rental car and yeah, and then my wife's with me

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Speaker 3: on this trip because she had a week off. And

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Speaker 3: it's like, well, why in the world would you say

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Speaker 3: in Cincinnati if you had a week off. So I

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Speaker 3: had to get her a ticket and we were figuring

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Speaker 3: out how to get her in and all that. So

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Speaker 3: she's up, she's up in the nose leaves tonight. So

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Speaker 3: her heckling is not going to be a factor.

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Speaker 4: In this game. Understood. Understood.

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Speaker 2: Take me back to Saturday, they knock off number two

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Speaker 2: Iowa State. Certainly I would think a confidence boost, a

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Speaker 2: momentum builder. What stood out in that game for you

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Speaker 2: in terms of their performance.

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Speaker 3: Just the confidence that they played with and the ability

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Speaker 3: to finally finish a game, which is what's been missing.

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Speaker 3: And you look at all the games they've been really

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Speaker 3: the only game you could say that they haven't been

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Speaker 3: in is that Eastern Michigan debacle.

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Speaker 4: But every other game.

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Speaker 3: You've had leads at certain points, You've had ten point leads,

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Speaker 3: you had George on the ropes for a half, you

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Speaker 3: came back against Clemson, you know, the down at UCF.

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Speaker 3: You make a shot and they make a shot. They

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Speaker 3: just as the luck rating says that, you know, they

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Speaker 3: were three sixty four at one point, and it was

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Speaker 3: very valid if you want to call it luck or

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Speaker 3: just mismanagement or nerves or I don't know what, but

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Speaker 3: they put it all together. That's the biggest win in

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Speaker 3: the West Miller era. Now you just be number two

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Speaker 3: on your home floor. And I'm sitting here in the

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Speaker 3: McHale Center because they had to come more and get

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Speaker 3: a signal here. It's going to be about fourteen thousand

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Speaker 3: strong here, you're only playing number one.

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Speaker 4: No big deal, right, So they're very, very good.

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Speaker 3: And I think home court advantage in this league is

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Speaker 3: tremendous Skyowa State. I watched Colorado and Kansas last night.

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Speaker 3: Buffalo's had Kansas on the rope there for a little bit.

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Speaker 3: But it's a crazy league. But for them to survive,

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Speaker 3: and they need to somehow get through January a lot

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Speaker 3: better than they did last January, which they lost a

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Speaker 3: ton of games and kind of fell out of it.

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Speaker 4: So if last Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Can be a momentum, we'll see Kurk Creases out here

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Speaker 3: warming up and scheduled to play. And they're in the

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Speaker 3: black Cats uniform, which has typically been a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Of good luck.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of luck, and so yeah, if Baba Miller can

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Speaker 3: pull down a double double and then guys can hit

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Speaker 3: their shots. But you know, Arizona's crazy good. Jaydon Bradley

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Speaker 3: and those guys. If you go back to last year's game.

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Speaker 3: It was they were tearing UC up and then the

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Speaker 3: Bearcats came back and had a late comebacks. But then

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Speaker 3: good teams do what they're supposed to do close, and

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Speaker 3: that's what the Wildcats did. They closed out one by five.

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Speaker 3: So coming here as a tall order.

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Speaker 2: To be quite honest, Scott, what do you make of

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Speaker 2: Seanabay have played about five minutes versus Iowa State. Then

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Speaker 2: previous games ten, six, twelve, and nine, he went through

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Speaker 2: a stretch where he's playing over twenty nearly thirty minutes

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Speaker 2: a game. What do you make of his diminishing playing time.

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Speaker 3: I got to see him at overtime Elite last year

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Speaker 3: as a high school kid, and he was doing all

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Speaker 3: those funky moves and the fadeaways and the stepbacks and

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Speaker 3: they're going in. There's a huge difference in doing them

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Speaker 3: against a high school kid, even as talented as a

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Speaker 3: a Division one team.

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Speaker 4: And let's face it, these kids are older now.

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Speaker 3: I mean these are nine eighteen year old kids and

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Speaker 3: Sean's eighteen, and you're playing against guys that are twenty

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Speaker 3: two to twenty three, and I think everyone's found Hey,

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Speaker 3: you know, if we can get older guys that have

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Speaker 3: some talent, that might work. It's sure work for Indiana football,

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Speaker 3: and it's working for a lot of the basketball teams.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Kurk Crees is twenty five. Jalen Celestine I

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Speaker 3: think just turned twenty five. They're still playing. There's guys

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Speaker 3: in the NBA that are younger than that. But if

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Speaker 3: you can get older guys that can mess together as

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Speaker 3: a team. That's the other part you got all these

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Speaker 3: guys is if everyone's going to flip the roster, you

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Speaker 3: got to get guys that were the guy at one

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Speaker 3: place to be a part of the unit at another place.

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Speaker 3: So that's something that they all have to learn. So

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Speaker 3: you know with Sean that they put Sinceer Harris in

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Speaker 3: the lineup, he added a lot of defensive help. Still

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Speaker 3: drives it crazy when he bangs his layups a little

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Speaker 3: bit too hard, but he is a menace defensively. And

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Speaker 3: then yeah, you got to play Gizzle. They've played pretty

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Speaker 3: good since Gisel James has come back. And the one

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Speaker 3: thing with Kurk Creas is Wes Miller said repeatedly, I

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Speaker 3: like the way our offense was when we had tour

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Speaker 3: and day day in jizzl So do you get one

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Speaker 3: hundred percentur tonight? I don't know, but they like that

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Speaker 3: reguard approach. I don't know if you see more of

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Speaker 3: that tonight. But you know Jalen Sellus, the way he's

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Speaker 3: shooting the ball, you got to keep him in as

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Speaker 3: long as his back holds up.

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Speaker 2: He is Scott Springer. He is on the scene. We're

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Speaker 2: approaching game time tonight. You'll hear it here on seven

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Speaker 2: hundred W l W. He'll have it covered all over

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Speaker 2: at for the inquire since Ay dot com. Scott tell

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Speaker 2: them where they can follow, read and keep track of

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Speaker 2: everything you're offering.

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Speaker 3: S Springer Sports on on X and Cincinnati dot Com.

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Speaker 3: We'll have the game recap and some quotes and and

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Speaker 3: all sorts of things there. And I think Springer Sports

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Speaker 3: is my Instagram and I put some mountain pictures up today.

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Speaker 3: You know the good breakfast place called Frank's, Oh and

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Speaker 3: it basically said on their sign that there are better

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Speaker 4: But I don't know. It was pretty good, it was awesome.

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Speaker 3: I highly recommend Frank's Beautiful Son Beautiful.

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Speaker 2: You are the man. I appreciate you making time tonight

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Speaker 2: and making this work.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, all right, Sorry, there you go.

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Speaker 2: Scott Springer from the Inquirer Cincinnati dot com. He had

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Speaker 2: the Shanabayev situation. Highly r very highly recruited, highly ranked

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Speaker 2: freshman five minutes against Iowa State, And if you work

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Speaker 2: backwards from the Iowa State game, he has played five minutes,

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Speaker 2: ten minutes, six twelve nine. Now, prior to that, he

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Speaker 2: went through a stretch of twenty three, twenty four, twenty five,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty seven, twenty one minutes.

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Speaker 2: That obviously clearly has been cut significantly, And you always

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Speaker 2: wonder how, in particular a young player is going to

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Speaker 2: react to that in terms of his playing time