Speaker 1: Six, nineteen seven hundred wilwr Nol Carrier Sports doc presented
Speaker 1: by Kelsey Chevalley. A Lance Canlister Musketeers coming to any
Speaker 1: bottom of the yard, Joe and Byron. We'll set it up.
Speaker 1: Let's talk some college basketball, serve up some weekend hoops conversation.
Speaker 1: A big fan of our first guest a college basketball broadcaster,
Speaker 1: A versatile multitasker. He calls games, he watches games, he
Speaker 1: talks games. He's the host of the wildly popular The
Speaker 1: Rebound Rundown podcast. That must mean we're talking to Paul Frichner.
Speaker 2: How are you, Lance?
Speaker 3: I appreciate you having me on. Yeah, getting ready for
Speaker 3: some hoops here at ten thoughts tonight and busy weekend
Speaker 3: all around around the Try State.
Speaker 2: So I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 1: You've got a good catching up. Let's start with the Musketeers.
Speaker 1: A lot of emotion and energy spent in winning the
Speaker 1: shootout is the case all the time. It's always interesting
Speaker 1: to see how the teams react and recover for that
Speaker 1: next game. Xavier can't afford a letdown certainly tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. Zebra.
Speaker 3: Over their last twenty two home games, following the Crosstown shootout,
Speaker 3: when you follow up the shootout with a home game.
Speaker 3: Xavier's nineteen and three in their last twenty two, so
Speaker 3: they handle it pretty well coming out of winning a
Speaker 3: game like that. But yeah, week off, it was finals
Speaker 3: week this week for Xavier. So you got to get
Speaker 3: back to the drawing board and think to yourself, if
Speaker 3: you want to accomplish some things this season, right if
Speaker 3: you if you have larger goals this year to try
Speaker 3: and pick up some significant wins, and Richard Patino in
Speaker 3: year one at Xavier, you can't afford to drop a
Speaker 3: game like tonight where you're almost a twenty point favorite.
Speaker 3: This is a game for Xavier where Missouri State is
Speaker 3: gonna try and muck it up. They draw a ton
Speaker 3: of fouls, they commit a ton of fouls, they're fine
Speaker 3: to go to the free throw line and Xavier on
Speaker 3: their end. You know, it's changed so much. They changed
Speaker 3: the starting lineup of about a month ago. Now it's
Speaker 3: worked to perfection. They were points away from beating Georgia
Speaker 3: down in Charleston. Now they've ripped off four or five
Speaker 3: straight wins. Trying to lead into this game tonight with
Speaker 3: a win and close out the non conference season on
Speaker 3: a high note before Big East play starts on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned the lineup change, and I think for
Speaker 1: people who look and saw what happened at Santa Claire
Speaker 1: and wondered the path Zager might be on, that was
Speaker 1: truly a defining at least early on in turning point
Speaker 1: of the season, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was.
Speaker 3: I mean they ended up losing that game by nineteen,
Speaker 3: but look, it was a thirty point game with less
Speaker 3: than two and a half minutes left. That could have
Speaker 3: easily been way worse than it was. And they got
Speaker 3: back to the drawing board in between that Monday and
Speaker 3: Friday when they went to play Iowa, and they made
Speaker 3: some significant changes. You know, they went to Alright at
Speaker 3: the point, Yovan Malischevich at the five. And what that
Speaker 3: does is it gives you a more potent offensive lineup.
Speaker 3: You might give a little bit up defensively with some size,
Speaker 3: but it gives you something offensively and it's worked great.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: They lost by nineteen to Iowa, but it was a
Speaker 3: different kind of nineteen point loss. They were kind of
Speaker 3: in that game for a little bit until it got
Speaker 3: out of hand. And now They've been able to ride
Speaker 3: that wave over the last few games.
Speaker 2: You know, heading into tonight.
Speaker 3: So they beat Cincinnati, they beat West Virginia, they have
Speaker 3: some by game wins in there as well, and you
Speaker 3: know Creighton coming to town on Wednesday. That'll be a statement
Speaker 3: tone setter to start Big East play.
Speaker 1: You see his first game since the shootout tomorrow at Atlanta.
Speaker 1: They take on Georgia. The Bearcats non conference resume doesn't
Speaker 1: have much on it. It's got damage in the Eastern
Speaker 1: Michigan game. How important is the opportunity in terms of
Speaker 1: tournament resume, If that's the ultimate goal for the Bearcats,
Speaker 1: it is vitally important.
Speaker 3: Lance you go to Georgia to play this game down
Speaker 3: in Atlanta. Technically it's a neutral site game, but look,
Speaker 3: you're playing this game in Atlanta, it's basically an away game,
Speaker 3: and you play Clemson as well, and so you figure
Speaker 3: if you're Cincinnati, you pretty much have to get those
Speaker 3: two wins leading into Big Twelve play.
Speaker 2: There's a very easy.
Speaker 3: Argument you could make at the Big Twelve is the
Speaker 3: strongest conference in the country right now. You probably say
Speaker 3: the Big Tens just a step above, but the Big
Speaker 3: Twelve is looking fantastic this year, and so there will
Speaker 3: be plenty of opportunities for Cincinnati within conference play to
Speaker 3: build your resume, but maybe don't put yourself in such
Speaker 3: a hole to where you have to do that in
Speaker 3: Big Twelve play, because it's going to be so tough
Speaker 3: night in and night out. If you can get the
Speaker 3: Georgia game against a really good Georgia team that so
Speaker 3: far only has the one loss, and the one loss
Speaker 3: is to Clemson in Charleston, and then you go and
Speaker 3: you play Clemson as well.
Speaker 2: If you can get those two games and you finish.
Speaker 3: The non conference season with three losses, the Eastern Michigan
Speaker 3: loss is what's really going to be holding Cincinnati back.
Speaker 3: I mean, the loss is Xavier, it's not a killer.
Speaker 3: The loss of Loiso definitely not a killer. Losll is
Speaker 3: a national title contender. The lost of Eastern Michigan you
Speaker 3: have to you have to really right the ship, and
Speaker 3: you can do that. You can start by doing that
Speaker 3: with beating Georgia and Clemson here to close the non
Speaker 3: conference Paul.
Speaker 1: Fritchender checking in top level of hoops from the rebound
Speaker 1: Rundown Kentucky Welcome's Eye, you to RUP one very cool
Speaker 1: to have that rivalry back on too. Are Kentucky's issues fixable, Paul,
Speaker 1: or are they terminal in terms of hopes of a
Speaker 1: deep run in March.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really don't know if this Kentucky team is
Speaker 3: fixable right now, Lance, because they have a lot of
Speaker 3: talent and sure, you know Jalen Lowe, Jacon Quaintan's they
Speaker 3: dealt with injuries this season, no doubt, but they don't
Speaker 3: have a high major win yet. And Indiana's coming. Like
Speaker 3: you said, I think you're spot on.
Speaker 2: I love that this game is being played.
Speaker 3: I love that Kentucky and Indiana are playing, you know,
Speaker 3: at Rupp Arena. It's not a neutral site game. It's
Speaker 3: Indiana going on the road to rup But Kentucky playing
Speaker 3: simply doesn't have enough shooting on this roster. Their offensive
Speaker 3: issues have been terrible. They just have not looked like
Speaker 3: a cohesive unit and so because of.
Speaker 2: That, they've looked out of sorts.
Speaker 3: They haven't gotten great effort out of the guys they've
Speaker 3: needed good effort from, and they've looked, you know, at
Speaker 3: times very good, but at times they looked really really bad.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think there is a lack of
Speaker 3: shooting on this team, that's going to hold it back.
Speaker 3: And you know, Low and Quaintance not playing is certainly
Speaker 3: gonna hinder their possibilities this season as well.
Speaker 1: Maybe flying under the raid Army they shouldn't be. Travis
Speaker 1: Steels RedHawks are ten and Oh they're at Eastern Kentucky
Speaker 1: and Paul, you know that in watching them, the efficiency
Speaker 1: of that Miami offense is really something to watch, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. They're a really really fun team. Evan Ipsorrow,
Speaker 3: the point guard, went to Coming and Catholic, a local product.
Speaker 3: They're a really fun team. The other night, you know,
Speaker 3: it was a bit of a heart attack type game
Speaker 3: for Miami.
Speaker 2: They were up sixteen or eighteen.
Speaker 3: With about six and a half minutes left and then
Speaker 3: that game ended up going to overtime, but they gritted
Speaker 3: it out. Suitor, who was the preseason player of the
Speaker 3: year in the MAC, he filed out and they were
Speaker 3: still able to grit that went out. Really nice win
Speaker 3: at Asheville. Miami's in the midst of a four game
Speaker 3: a road trip right now, four game road series before
Speaker 3: they come back home, and hey, they're.
Speaker 2: Nine to zero.
Speaker 3: They go to ten and Oh tomorrow night. If they
Speaker 3: go to ten and oh, they will match their best
Speaker 3: start in program history. They've started ten and oh twice Lance,
Speaker 3: but it was back in nineteen eighteen and nineteen forty four,
Speaker 3: so it's been a long time. They haven't played the
Speaker 3: most challenging schedule. But you know, I had Travis Steele
Speaker 3: on the Rebound rundown this summer and he said, look,
Speaker 3: it's not because of the lack of trying. I've been
Speaker 3: trying to schedule a lot of these games, but these
Speaker 3: high major schools aren't incentivized to play the you know,
Speaker 3: one to one fifty type team that might end up
Speaker 3: beating you, And so that the high major schools want
Speaker 3: to beat up on the smaller teams, which is understandable
Speaker 3: because that's how the net all works out right now.
Speaker 3: But in Miami, they've won, the games are in front
Speaker 3: of them. That's all you can do, and right now
Speaker 3: they're undefeated.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the really important question. During
Speaker 1: the shootout, you partnered with Red Panda to toss the
Speaker 1: balls to her. It was a flawless execution on both ends.
Speaker 1: Where would that currently rank on lifetime accomplishments of Paul Fritcher.
Speaker 3: It's number one lance and there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: I've been watching Red Panda since I was a little kid.
Speaker 2: I love it. I've been going again.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm telling you, she is the best. She's
Speaker 3: the nicest person in the world. I'd met her once
Speaker 3: before a halftime show, but I hadn't been able to
Speaker 3: throw the bulls. And the marketing team came to me
Speaker 3: about a month ago and said, hey, for the Crossdown shootout,
Speaker 3: she's going to be here at halftime, can you throw
Speaker 3: the bulls? And I said it'd be the greatest honor
Speaker 3: of my life, and and it was fantastic. She's the
Speaker 3: nicest lady ever. I'm glad to see she's back after
Speaker 3: she broke her wrist last year, and she puts on
Speaker 3: a heck of a show, no doubt.
Speaker 1: No doubt, fantastic. All Right, tell everybody who has not
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Speaker 3: film breakdown, some you know, cinematic recaps. We've been at Cincinnati,
Speaker 3: will be at Dayton on Tuesday for the Florida State game.
Speaker 2: We go to Cincinnati where Xavier.
Speaker 3: We're all over the place here covering college basketball locally, Miami, NKU.
Speaker 2: All of that. So check it out the Rebound Rundown.
Speaker 2: Appreciate all of you subscribing and listening. I love it.
Speaker 1: It is so well done, so informative, and I really
Speaker 1: appreciate you making time tonight to enjoy the hoops tonight
Speaker 1: in this weekend.
Speaker 2: All right, absolutely, you two land come a good weekend.
Speaker 2: All right you too.
Speaker 1: There you go, Paul Fritcher, check it in the Rebound Rundown.
Speaker 1: I love the rundown. Xavier and Missouri State coming up.
Speaker 1: Musketeers and Bears. They've met one previous time. That was
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen twenty twenty season, sentas fifty nine to
Speaker 1: fifty six to the final Tyreek Jones at fifteen. In
Speaker 1: that game. Paul Scruggs had fourteen in that game. Xavier
Speaker 1: leads the Big East and they are fourth in the
Speaker 1: entire country and assist the turnover ratio, meaning they dish
Speaker 1: the assist and they don't turn it over much to
Speaker 1: assist over to assist to every ratio of just over
Speaker 1: two in that category. Savior at last check was an
Speaker 1: eighteen and a half point favorite, still at this moment
Speaker 1: eighteen and a half point favorite, total of one forty
Speaker 1: eight and a half in that one. One last note
Speaker 1: before Joe and Byron, if you're considering the deck the
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Speaker 1: themed apparel, a sweater, a Santa hat, you name it.
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Speaker 1: Tell them I said hey. Kids' activities including a station
Speaker 1: to write letters to Santa and holiday coloring, and don't
Speaker 1: forget the meet and greet. Tucker Barnhardt and JJ Hoop
Speaker 1: on the scene from one to two. I wish I
Speaker 1: had more tonight. I don't, but I'm excited to check
Speaker 1: out what the Musketeers do. Joe and Byron will set
Speaker 1: it up next. This has been RNL Carrier Sports Talk,
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