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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike, Cincy three sixty about Cincinnati. From Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: this is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back our three since e three to sixty ESBN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station, and a good way to

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Speaker 2: get the Monday started, because what we're gonna do here,

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Speaker 2: Austin is something we'd like to do during the season.

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Speaker 2: What happens to winners on this show, they go first.

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Speaker 2: Winners go first on this show. So shout out to Louisville,

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Speaker 2: a winner over the weekend over SMU, shout out to Kentucky,

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Speaker 2: the Kentucky Wildcats, who I can't figure out, Austin, and

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Speaker 2: I've tried to. Kentucky was coming off a brutal stretch,

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Speaker 2: a brutal game against Vanderbilt. They lost eighty to fifty

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Speaker 2: five after putting together five wins, and then they went

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Speaker 2: on the road to Arkansas, and despite being teed up

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Speaker 2: what felt like I think four times in the second half,

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Speaker 2: Kentucky received technical fouls. Despite that, Kentucky was able to

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Speaker 2: weather the storm in Arkansas and beat the Razorbacks eighty

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Speaker 2: five to seventy seven. So shout out to the Kentucky Wildcats.

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Speaker 2: They moved to six and three in the SEC. That's

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Speaker 2: good enough to be tied for third behind Florida at

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Speaker 2: seven and two in Texas A and m who's at

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Speaker 2: seven and one. So a very up and down season

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Speaker 2: so far for Kentucky. That'll continue in just a couple

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Speaker 2: of days as they host Oklahoma at Rupp Arena later

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Speaker 2: this week. The Xavier Musketeers after again a very up

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Speaker 2: and down stretch. That's the hardest thing. It feels like

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Speaker 2: the consistency locally, it just hasn't been there this year

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Speaker 2: to where it has been in years past. Xavior has

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Speaker 2: been up at times, they were trending down at times.

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Speaker 2: In fact, going into the game against the Paul on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: they had fallen in three straight games Creighton, Saint John's

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Speaker 2: Paul in the second half by eighteen points before starting

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Speaker 2: a rally that ended with a walk off to beat

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Speaker 2: the Paul sixty eight to sixty six. We played the

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Speaker 2: audio a little bit earlier. Xavier was led again by

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Speaker 2: Trey Carroll, who had twenty one points. He has been

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Speaker 2: unbelievably good for Xavier this year, who continues to find

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Speaker 2: ways to win, who continues to find ways to put

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Speaker 2: good product out there. I know it's not clean all

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Speaker 2: the time, but I still contend, as Xavier fans out

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Speaker 2: there that I've talked to, that the future feels very

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Speaker 2: bright with Richard Patino as the head coach because of

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Speaker 2: the improvements that this team continues to make as this

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Speaker 2: season wears on. Do we have a little Richard Patino?

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Speaker 2: After the win on Saturday?

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Speaker 3: We sure do.

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Speaker 2: Can we play some of that?

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Speaker 3: Here's coach Well, an amazing win.

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Speaker 4: To be down nineteen in the second half out of timeouts,

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Speaker 4: at a time was phenomenal. You know, I really challenged

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Speaker 4: our guys after the Seaton Hall game and talked about toughness,

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Speaker 4: and that was true toughness at its finest. So very

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Speaker 4: proud of our guys.

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Speaker 5: A lot of your wins this season have carried a

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Speaker 5: common theme of, you know, offensive explosion, whether it's Jovon

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Speaker 3: Off and leading these guys.

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Speaker 5: But tonight you hold them to sixty six points in

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Speaker 5: the last five minutes. I think they just had the

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Speaker 5: proud of you are your team to win with defense

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Speaker 5: in that sense?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, certainly we've had our moments where offensively,

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Speaker 4: to win games like that in this league. Everybody's going

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Speaker 4: Last time we played them, we made ten. They made

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Speaker 4: You know, we had a lot of fouls to give,

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Speaker 5: How challenging is it to mount that comeback without any timeouts?

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Speaker 2: Extremely?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a lot of things going for us

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Speaker 5: Philip mentioned fatigue, and it just looked like DePaul set

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Speaker 5: lack of energy And where do you think that came from?

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Speaker 3: Early? No idea?

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I think I think we were

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Speaker 4: then we started pressing. We started being more aggressive on

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Speaker 4: so I think they're scared to get beat. We just

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Speaker 7: Up and pressure the ball.

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Speaker 6: Richard also seem like you guys did a much better

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Speaker 6: I think they missed four or five basket or attempts

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Speaker 4: It's huge offensively for us to make layups. You know,

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Speaker 4: I know it's obvious, but we got to get to

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Speaker 4: Yes we can hit some threes, Yes we're very, very unselfish,

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Speaker 4: but when you're in a five out situation, like you've

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Speaker 4: And then we did a really good job of disrupting

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Speaker 4: we made some, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, So that is some Richard Patino after the win.

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Speaker 2: You know what was interesting and stood out to me

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Speaker 2: Wes Miller since he's been a Cincinnati Bearcat. Assistant coaches correct,

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Speaker 2: the assistant coaches made a great suggestion, and that's what

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Speaker 2: we did. I've yet in five years to hear Wes

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Speaker 3: I feel like I don't hear that a ton to

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Speaker 3: haven't heard that from Wes.

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Speaker 2: And again, that's not always easy as a coach to

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Speaker 2: I was at a timeouts we had to burn them

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Speaker 2: a great push to switch ball screens. I listened and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's why they're there.

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Speaker 2: That's why they're there to provide you with something and Again,

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Speaker 2: I don't know the ins and outs of what happens

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Speaker 2: he highlighted the fact you're down eighteen points, some's got

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Speaker 2: to change, took what his assistant coach had to say,

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Speaker 2: and they come back and beat the Paul on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you want to talk about a tough

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Speaker 2: seven days coming up for the Muskies Austin. Tomorrow they

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Speaker 2: are on the road against the second ranked team in

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Speaker 2: the country, the Yukon Huskies. They come back a week

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Speaker 3: So it's kind of like the opposite of the Bearcats,

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Speaker 3: where they feel like their schedules kind of front loaded

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Speaker 3: with all those good games early yep, and it evens

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Speaker 2: But yeah, locally the other And again, if you're wondering

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Speaker 2: why why don't we talk Bearcat winners go first?

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Speaker 3: I think some people would say, we don't have to

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Speaker 3: talk about the Bearcats at all. Winners, some probably don't,

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Speaker 3: some probably don't want to.

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Speaker 2: Winners go first. Not only did Miami win on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: John John one as well, he had a half court shot.

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Speaker 2: Did you see that video? I did, John John.

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Speaker 3: He wasn't wearing that damn elf suit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mullett Hall again, I.

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Speaker 3: Heard that he showed up in the elf suit and

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Speaker 3: they said, dude, it's February.

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Speaker 2: Makes sense, you're good. Ten thousand, six hundred and forty.

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Speaker 3: It's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Show up at Mallet Hall to again watch Miami move

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Speaker 2: to twenty two and oh Miami, and the second half

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Speaker 2: at one point was down by five points. They put

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Speaker 2: it together. They put together an intense, intense rally and

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Speaker 2: they come out winners on top of Northern Illinois on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: So Miami in Arizona remained the lone unbeatens in D one.

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Speaker 2: You want to talk about Mllet Hall Austin twenty eight

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Speaker 2: straight wins at Mallet Hall.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome for the RedHawks.

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Speaker 2: Brent Byers twenty one points led the way for Miami.

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Speaker 2: Peter Sooter at a nineteen antoine Wolfork had fourteen and twelve,

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Speaker 2: and again Miami just defensively was able to get it done.

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Speaker 2: They forced seventeen turnovers. It's everything impressive about what Miami's

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Speaker 2: many ways. They took an eighteen to three run in

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Speaker 2: the second half to pull away from Northern Illinois. You

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Speaker 2: know what, Austin, do we have any Travis Steele?

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Speaker 3: We do?

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Speaker 2: Can we get Travis Steele again? Winners go first on Mondays.

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Speaker 2: Here's Travis Steele after the win.

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Speaker 9: You know, I think our guys at halftime got the

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Speaker 3: We got to start playing defense. Liten. It's been about

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Speaker 3: three and a half games.

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Speaker 9: Well, we've been winning, but like you know, it's been

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Speaker 9: almost like a tennis match.

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Speaker 7: It's like a rally.

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Speaker 3: It's like we score, they score, We scored, they score.

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Speaker 9: And we didn't shoot the ball well obviously tonight, and

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Speaker 9: we got to let the offense breathe a little bit earlier,

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Speaker 9: a little bit a hair more.

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Speaker 3: But again, we'll take.

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Speaker 7: A lot of the shots that we got.

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Speaker 9: We still scored eighty five points, were seven to twenty

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Speaker 9: eight from three and still score eighty five. That's pretty good.

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Speaker 9: But again, we're not gonna shoot like that many nights. Thought,

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Speaker 9: I love the looks that we had overall, but our

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Speaker 9: I thought it led with Antoine. I thought Antoine's activity

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Speaker 9: in passing lanes. His ball screen defense was more aggressive.

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Speaker 10: We played with more hands, We made them missed and

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Speaker 10: hope that they would miss. We were just more active

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Speaker 10: and I thought that forced some turnovers, sped them up,

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Speaker 10: which then allowed us to be able to get out

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Speaker 10: on offense and transition and push the ball, which is

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Speaker 10: way we want to play. So that picture that we

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Speaker 10: had in the second half of our defense need to

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Speaker 10: see moving forward. I think if we want to be

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Speaker 10: able to continue to get the results that we want

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Speaker 10: and to become a team multimately we want to become.

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Speaker 2: That is what Travis Steele had to say after another

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Speaker 2: win by the Miami RedHawks. They moved to twenty two

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Speaker 2: and zero. I would imagine they're gonna get They're gonna

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Speaker 2: up in the AP this year.

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Speaker 3: I believe they already did. Okay, if give me just

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Speaker 2: They have not scored one hundred this year, not even

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Speaker 3: They scored one hundred on Miami back in twenty twenty two. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Welcome back since e three to sixty ESPN fifteen thirty

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Speaker 2: And even more problems for the Cincinnati Bearcats. Mustafa Chom

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Speaker 11: heard them in the last two timeouts, they're like, we

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Speaker 11: got to finish this thing. We can't have any plays,

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Speaker 11: we don't go after the ball we got, Come on,

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Speaker 11: we got to play with better effort like you people

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Speaker 11: would be really proud that that support our program. To

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Speaker 11: hear how they're handling a night like tonight, not the results.

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Speaker 11: Not okay, I'm not I'm not happy about it, proud

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Speaker 11: about it. But our kids got a lot of fight

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Speaker 11: and a lot of heart. And whether you see that

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Speaker 11: or not when you watch them play, I don't know.

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Speaker 11: But the they're they're given more than people realize, and

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Speaker 11: they're they're a little war out.

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Speaker 3: This will be a really needed break to get our.

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Speaker 11: Get our bodies back this week and hopefully we can

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Speaker 11: find a way to get healthy again.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So he doesn't believe in that crap?

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Speaker 2: First of all, before we even get into that, am

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Speaker 2: I led to believe that Cincinnati bad the proud Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: basketball that I grew up on. They're now in the

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Speaker 2: huddle down thirty talking about let's play for pride? Is

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Speaker 2: that what we're at? No, you did say proud like

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Speaker 2: I and what I don't even I don't even believe

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Speaker 2: the way they were playing. I don't believe that was

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Speaker 2: even happening down thirty. Come on, let's let's let's finish this.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they were And again, what gets me

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Speaker 2: the quote there anytime Austin you hear someone say, quote,

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Speaker 2: this isn't an excuse at all.

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Speaker 3: What do you think is coming an excuse?

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Speaker 2: Correct? I don't believe in that crap. But let me

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Speaker 2: tell you about this excuse I have, even though I

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Speaker 2: don't believe in them. We've been in three time zones

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Speaker 2: in six days. Anybody else travel in college basketball.

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Speaker 3: A lot of teams, so that happens.

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Speaker 2: That's just not here. Multiple bodies down Austin February college

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Speaker 2: basketball and guys are banged up. Yeah, long season, long season.

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Speaker 2: It's a strange situation. We've just identified that that's not strange.

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Speaker 2: It actually happens everywhere, right the travel, Yeah, those games.

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Speaker 2: People would be really proud to hear how they are

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Speaker 2: handling a night like tonight in what way? In what

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Speaker 2: way does a seventy six to fifty four drumming at

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Speaker 2: the hands of Houston elicit anything in my thoughts of

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Speaker 2: Woy I'm proud of that team today. Nineteen turnovers and

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Speaker 2: when you turn it over nineteen times, you better be

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Speaker 2: forcing them four turnover differential alone, just the turnovers.

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Speaker 3: In a game.

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Speaker 2: In which the Bearcats lost by twenty two, they were

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Speaker 2: outscored by twenty four off turnovers. They were outscored by

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Speaker 2: eighteen in the paint, So you want to figure out

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Speaker 2: how to get the game back under control. And it

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Speaker 2: wasn't like they got bullied. This is the first game

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Speaker 2: in a long time that I actually think Austin that

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati out rebounded Houston thirty five twenty nine. I'll read

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Speaker 2: about him on the offensive glass as well turnovers, But

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm supposed to be proud of the team that

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Speaker 2: didn't roll over when they were down thirty. That's where

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Speaker 2: we're at. I can't wrap my head around that. And

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Speaker 2: again to say it's not an excuse because I don't

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Speaker 2: believe in that crap, and then feel the need to

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Speaker 2: go deliver an excuse like you're the only team that

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Speaker 2: has to travel across time zones. Is anyone feeling bad

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Speaker 2: for them Autin because they spent six days in Arizona

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Speaker 2: last week?

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Speaker 3: No, especially now when they're getting paid. What are we doing.

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Speaker 2: They played twice in Arizona and they were there six days,

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Speaker 2: came back, Coleman got to win against Baylor, and then

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Speaker 2: went to Houston. That's not an abnormal schedule in college basketball.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: If they would have done like Houston Wednesday Baylor Saturday

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Speaker 2: or Arizona Wednesday, Baylor Saturday Arizona State, then I'd say, Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's a little weird. You'd go to Arizona, back Homeman,

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Speaker 2: then to Arizona. They didn't. They played back to back games.

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Speaker 2: They were in Arizona for six days, they came back,

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Speaker 2: Coleman got to win, and then they went to Houston.

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Speaker 2: That's not the most tough schedule in the world. Everyone's

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Speaker 2: banged up, everyone has skeared issues. But to say it's

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Speaker 2: not an excuse and then use it as one, that's weak.

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Speaker 2: So no, I'm not I'm not proud to hear how

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Speaker 2: they handled a loss so well. It's not supposed to

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Speaker 2: be where where the program is at in year five

516
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Speaker 2: under west Miller, moving forward and trying to chart a

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Speaker 2: new path into the Big twelve. Up next for the Bearcats,

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Speaker 2: West Virginia comes into Town Thursday, a seven o'clock start

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Speaker 2: at Fifth Third Arena. They follow that up with a

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl Sunday, two o'clock start against UCF. So back

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Speaker 2: to back home game is that Hopefully that'll help the

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Speaker 2: scheduling mishap here Austin. Back to back home games coming

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Speaker 2: up for the Bearcats. Big for the body clock, Big

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Speaker 2: for the body clock. We'll take a break, we'll come

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Speaker 2: back and we'll get to Moegger here shortly for quick.

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Speaker 3: Nick little AFC North updates. As coaching staffs continued to

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Speaker 3: be filled out across the division, we'll give you the

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Speaker 3: latest when we come back.

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Speaker 2: Next on the Home of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: No scripts, no filters, just pure sports talk.

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Speaker 1: Moeger today at three pm on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: But I was little, I think all right, Dan, welcome

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Speaker 2: back since e three to sixty ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Sports Station. We're rolling along here in our number three

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Speaker 2: on a Monday afternoon. We've got a couple things here Austin.

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Speaker 2: What do we got here before we get to Mowaga.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the AFC North coaching staffs continue to get filled

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Speaker 3: out As new head coaches build out their staffs, the

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Speaker 3: Baltimore Ravens have hired a defensive coordinator. They have hired

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Speaker 3: Anthony Weaver, who was the defensive coordinator the Miami Dolphins

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Speaker 3: last year, and he was with the Ravens from twenty

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Speaker 3: one to twenty three in assorted roles, including being the

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Speaker 3: assistant head coach back then. He was a head coaching

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Speaker 3: finalist in Arizona and in Pittsburgh, but ends up in

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Speaker 3: Baltimore as the Ravens defensive coordinator. You might remember the

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Speaker 3: Bengals put up forty five on his defense towards the

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Speaker 3: end of this year when they were in Miami. Dolphins

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Speaker 3: and the Ravens have different players, but you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean. So Anthony Weaver the new DC in Baltimore. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh, three assistant coaches named Jason Simmons will be

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Speaker 3: the defensive pass game coordinator and defensive backs coach. Scott

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Speaker 3: McCurley will be the inside linebackers coach, and Steve Scarnekia.

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Speaker 3: Is that name sound familiar? Scarnekia of course, Dante Scarnekia,

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Speaker 3: the longtime offensive line coach with the Patriots. Steve Scarnekia

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Speaker 3: has been named the chief of staff for Mike McCarthy's

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Speaker 3: staff in Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, I just got this email here

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Speaker 3: from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I think this is kind of cool. Now are you?

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Speaker 3: Would you consider yourself to be patriotic? Your patriotics one

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Speaker 3: of my key principles in life. Well, you know, twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty six, we're celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth birthday

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Speaker 3: of the United States. That's right well in Cooperstown at

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Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame and Museum. All summer long, they

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Speaker 3: will have on display the American flag that was rescued

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Speaker 3: by Cubs outfielder Rick Monday in center field at Dodger

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Speaker 3: Stadium back in nineteen seventy six. You remember those guys.

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Speaker 3: We jumped onto the field, doused it in lighter fluid,

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Speaker 3: and we're going to light the American flag on fire

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Speaker 3: in the outfield at Dodger Stadium. And I did not

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Speaker 3: know this until reading this today. Rick Monday was a

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Speaker 3: former US marine. Wow, he saw what was happening. He

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Speaker 3: sprinted over there, snagged the flag and took off with it.

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Speaker 3: Eventually gave it to one of the other pitchers. I

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Speaker 3: think that was on the field for the Dodgers or

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Speaker 3: the Cubs, whoever it is, got a standing ovation from

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Speaker 3: the visiting career. He was the visiting player, got a

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Speaker 3: standing ovation from the crowded Dodger stadium, and then another

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Speaker 3: one when he came to the plate an inning or

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Speaker 3: two later. So I thought that was cool that they

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Speaker 3: have that flag and it will be out on display

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Speaker 3: at Cooperstown all summer long. It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: That is way strong.

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Speaker 3: He actually received a phone call from Gerald Ford after

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Speaker 3: the game, the president at the time, to tell him,

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Speaker 3: thank you. Pretty cool call to receive. It's pretty neat.

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Speaker 2: Mulwager standing by to join us for Quick Hits next

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Speaker 2: ahead of the Mowaiger Show. It all happens on ESPN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 12: thirty I Hard Radio.

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Speaker 7: From the Baker Heating Tempstar Weather Center. Here's your forecast.

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Speaker 13: This report is sponsored by Mel's Auto Glass. Most of

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Speaker 13: the cloudy with some flurries today. Heis in the low thirties.

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Speaker 13: Tomorrow is a nine first warning weather alert. Day two

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Speaker 13: to four inches of wet, slushy snow is expected. Hies

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Speaker 13: once again in the low thirties and then things dry

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Speaker 13: out and turning colder for Wednesday and Thursday. Heights will

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Speaker 13: first one of meteorologist kJ Jacobs.

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Speaker 3: Mel's auto glass is a clear choice.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time for quick hits on Tony Pikes. Since

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Speaker 1: three sixteen was.

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Speaker 3: Looking for Mo.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're back since E three sixty ESPN fifteen

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Speaker 2: thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. This Mowaiger Show is coming up

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Speaker 2: next on the Home of the Bengals ESPN fifteen thirties,

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Sports Station. MO and I are just going on

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Speaker 2: or we're realizing there's people that work here that are

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Speaker 2: just now finding out where this this studio actually.

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Speaker 7: Is interesting how that works.

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Speaker 2: Before we get started, can I do something that I

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Speaker 2: normally don't do show? I don't feel like I had

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Speaker 2: it today. I don't feel like I had the whole

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Speaker 2: package today, just bringing it to the show. Okay, And

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Speaker 2: one thing I live by is I'm not someone to

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Speaker 2: make excuses. But there's been some sicknesses going around.

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Speaker 8: Uh huh.

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Speaker 2: The snow kept the kids home last week and again

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Speaker 2: I hate this crap. Yes, I don't do excuses, but

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Speaker 2: I think everything else happening went into my show.

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Speaker 8: Is that it like the circumstances surrounding you. Does that

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Speaker 8: make it okay having to drive?

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Speaker 7: You know that you live in one place and work

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Speaker 7: in another.

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Speaker 2: And I can't travel and I'm not one to make excuses,

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Speaker 2: of course or not.

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Speaker 8: No, if you have to say I'm not one to

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Speaker 8: make excuses, you are likely then following it up with

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Speaker 8: an excuse. Like if someone says no offense, guess what's

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Speaker 8: coming out of their mouth.

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Speaker 2: I'm shocked. Yeah, that in today's college basketball, travels a thing.

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Speaker 2: They spent six days in Arizona.

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Speaker 7: You're in the Big twelve.

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Speaker 2: You spent six days in Arizona, came home and played Baylor,

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Speaker 2: and then had a road trip to Houston, and now

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Speaker 2: you're back home for two It's not the hardest schedule around.

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Speaker 2: It happens everywhere.

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Speaker 7: They didn't travel across the planet. Correct, They traveled one.

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Speaker 2: Time, and they didn't go like it was an Arizona

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Speaker 2: home game, Arizona State. They stayed in Arizona for six days.

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Speaker 2: They came home for a game, guess what February second,

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Speaker 2: A lot of teams in college basketball banged up.

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Speaker 8: When you decided to join the conference that spans four

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Speaker 8: time zones, yeah, potentially right?

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Speaker 11: Is that right?

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Speaker 7: Is there a Pacific Time Zone team?

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Speaker 3: I guess not.

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Speaker 8: But when you decided to join a conference that spans

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Speaker 8: three time zones? Yeah, what did you think was going

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Speaker 8: to happen? I know no coach made that decision. Sure,

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Speaker 8: but this is what comes with playing in the Big twelve.

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Speaker 8: I mean, like every other Big twelve mc cronin complained

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Speaker 8: about Big Ten scheduling, your school decided to join the

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Speaker 8: league that spans the entire country.

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Speaker 2: It would also help, like McK cronin's comments, if after

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Speaker 2: those comments, you beat a top ten team, yes, that

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Speaker 2: makes it a little bit easier. Yes, But to me again, like,

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Speaker 2: I don't what I don't want to hear after losses,

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Speaker 2: a loss where they lost by twenty two, it could

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Speaker 2: have been worse, is well? Man, those guys in the

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Speaker 2: huddle at the end of the game, they were making

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Speaker 2: sure we're going to play hard like that. I'm over that.

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Speaker 2: I'm over the play hard stuff. I'm over the moral

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Speaker 2: victory because instead of losing by thirty. You lost by

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Speaker 2: twenty two.

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Speaker 9: I get it.

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Speaker 2: Guys, go down and hurt. You're not at full strength.

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Speaker 2: It's college basketball. It's nineteen to four and turnovers. It's

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Speaker 2: lost number eleven. Yeah, they're eleven and eleven yet to

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Speaker 2: win away from it's lost in arena.

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Speaker 8: It's just now turning to February. Yep, it's lost number eleven.

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Speaker 8: Like that's a fact. Yeah, when you have eleven losses

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Speaker 8: going into February, your season isn't going great. Whatever reasoning

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Speaker 8: you want to come up with, whatever rationale, whatever excuses

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Speaker 8: one may want to make. Like, unfortunately, I think we're

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Speaker 8: to the point that there is nothing the head coach

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Speaker 8: of this year's team is going to say that's gonna

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Speaker 8: make anybody feel any better.

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Speaker 7: It just we're well beyond that.

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Speaker 8: And so I'm not gonna hold a coach that accountable

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Speaker 8: for stuff he says at this point, because nothing he

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Speaker 8: can say is gonna make anybody feel any better. To me,

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Speaker 8: the big takeaway was the two current standard setters in

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Speaker 8: the Big Twelve are Arizona and Houston. You've had no

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Speaker 8: chance to beat either. When that changes, the program is

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Speaker 8: turned a corner. When that changes the program is back,

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Speaker 8: and it feels like the program has a very long

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Speaker 8: way to go to go from where it is to

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Speaker 8: where Houston and Arizona are. The barometer isn't no knock

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Speaker 8: on these programs West Virginia or Baylor or Kansas State

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Speaker 8: or somewhere in the middle of the pack. If you're

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Speaker 8: going to be in the Big twelve, the idea is

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Speaker 8: to win the Big twelve. The idea is to advance

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Speaker 8: deep into the NCAA tournament. Houston makes the Sweet sixteen

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Speaker 8: every single year, yaquisite. Arizona has the best team in

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Speaker 8: the country according to most That's what you're trying to be.

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Speaker 8: And it feels like they're all ways away from that.

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Speaker 8: And so unless you give me the answer to how

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Speaker 8: you're going to get there, how you're going to get

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Speaker 8: to where Houston and Arizona are, there's nothing else, no,

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Speaker 8: of course not. There's there's nothing else that any coach

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Speaker 8: is going to say that's going to make any one

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Speaker 8: of us feel any better.

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Speaker 2: A big weekend?

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm. What do you got coming up on the

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Speaker 3: show today?

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Speaker 7: We're going to talk about the big weekend.

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Speaker 8: Red's got a bat Yes, Heniorez, Hey you, hey, Nick

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Speaker 8: krawl having a good old laugh and a lot of

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Speaker 8: people who said he was taking the off season off.

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Speaker 8: So we will obviously discuss how you Hanio Suarez. Because

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Speaker 8: I'm dreaming of something. I hope this dreams comes, this

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Speaker 8: dream comes to fruition. We'll spend time on it. Jeff

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Speaker 8: Carr is going to join us. Plus, do you realize

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Speaker 8: what the New England Patriots did this year? It's something

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Speaker 8: the Bengals must copy. Okay, that coming up in the

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Speaker 8: four o'clock hour, and you'll hear my conversation with five

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Speaker 8: time NBA champion Ron Harper.

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Speaker 7: Wow, who is at the Miami game on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Miami playing well, Zans playing well.

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Speaker 8: The idea of Zabor had a great comeback. I'll say this,

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Speaker 8: for much of that game, they didn't play well and

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Speaker 8: it broke a three game.

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Speaker 2: Losing and I get like, maybe some coaches just don't

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Speaker 2: operate this way. But Patino said something in his post

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Speaker 2: game that I haven't heard in five years of west

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Speaker 2: here in Cincinnati. He said, I've got to give credit

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Speaker 2: to my assistance. They came to me in the second

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Speaker 2: half and they said we need to do this on

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Speaker 2: the screens. We adjusted. I give them credit. It made

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Speaker 2: a difference. I'm not one time in five years remembered

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Speaker 2: Wes saying anything about his assistant coach, let alone watching

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Speaker 2: them in a game and how they operate.

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Speaker 8: Be honest, how many head coaches go out of the

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Speaker 8: way to mention their assistant coaches.

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Speaker 2: Not many, So that's not a Wes Miller. Not many.

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Speaker 8: I honestly, I don't recall make that often. In the

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Speaker 8: post game, you know, think Darren Savino pulled me aside and.

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Speaker 2: Said he was getting beat down the whole game.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I was yelling at his assistant coaches. So that's

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Speaker 8: I'm not gonna holp, but I did appreciate that. Richard

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Speaker 8: said that the comeback was remarkable. Philip orovichin and hits

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Speaker 8: a shot that it was funny watching the the the

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Speaker 8: video of Joe and Byron that they posted on social

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Speaker 8: media after DePaul tied the game.

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Speaker 7: They looked despondent. They needed that because of who they

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Speaker 7: played coming the next week. The next week is.

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Speaker 8: It's really really hard, but no awesome comeback for the Musketeers.

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Speaker 8: It was great to see things go their way. Richard

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Speaker 8: said what he said about his staff, I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I mean I haven't heard many postgame press conferences where

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Speaker 8: a men's head college basketball coaches said, you know, it

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Speaker 8: was my assistance that came up with that bright idea

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Speaker 8: to run this player. You know, my assistants told me,

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Speaker 8: here's how we attack that defense.

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Speaker 2: Miami's at large chances, how real are they?

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Speaker 8: If they don't go undefeated, they don't exist. If they

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Speaker 8: do go undefeated, I think it's going to be interesting.

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Speaker 2: Because it's not like they've been like clean in the

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Speaker 2: mac Buffalo. Is that overtime one five one? Do you

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Speaker 2: win that state?

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Speaker 11: No?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, But it's like they still have They got to

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Speaker 2: go to Buffalo, they got, oh you twice. Still on

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Speaker 2: the schedule Toledo, who's near the top, So they're still

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Speaker 2: going to play some some challenging games. But man, they

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Speaker 2: just find ways to check the box. Every time I

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Speaker 2: watch them.

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Speaker 11: They do.

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Speaker 8: I mean, you know, I said this after their Umask game,

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Speaker 8: like good teams find a way to win when you

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Speaker 8: don't do everything well, and they had gone through a

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Speaker 8: stretch where they really hadn't defended. I think what's really

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Speaker 8: going to hurt them is if you look at the

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Speaker 8: twenty two wins, only nineteen of them count as it

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Speaker 8: relates to the NCAA tournament. And you know, Pete Gillen,

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Speaker 8: I guess made headlines because this weekend he said they're

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Speaker 8: they're at large.

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Speaker 7: Schedule is going to hurt.

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Speaker 12: It will.

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Speaker 7: But if you go undefeated, you know, like then it's

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Speaker 7: how do you lose in the MAC tournament?

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Speaker 3: Sure? Is it like this year?

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Speaker 8: Lose by two points in the championship game? Because then

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Speaker 8: I would have a hard time keeping them out. Also,

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Speaker 8: like who else makes it? Who steals been? What do

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Speaker 8: the other conference tournaments look like? If it's go undefeated

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Speaker 8: and then play Round one of the MAC, or play

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Speaker 8: in your first round game of the MAC tournament, and

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Speaker 8: you lose by like eighteen points, that's probably going to

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Speaker 8: be an issue. But I just there's certainly like a

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Speaker 8: low seed ceiling. I don't know that in the absence

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Speaker 8: of winning every single regular season game that they have

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Speaker 8: a legitimate at large chance. Remember the MAC hasn't had

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Speaker 8: a second team make it since Miami in nineteen ninety nine. Crazy,

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Speaker 8: So it's you know, the Mid American Conference has great

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Speaker 8: history and tradition, but there's not a lot of precedent

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Speaker 8: where a team wins the Mid American Conference loses in

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Speaker 8: the tournament and then still makes it.

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Speaker 7: But also none of those teams went in.

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Speaker 2: Unbeatn what'd you make of Rick Barnes the way he

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Speaker 2: started his post game? Sometimes I wonder if my guys

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Speaker 2: are betting on games.

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Speaker 8: Probably not the first come back will come back to

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Speaker 8: Did acknowledge That's not something I should have said?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but a lot of fans have wondered that about

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Speaker 7: their teams.

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Speaker 2: Good on Hidlayer and in the time this happened, Kentucky

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Speaker 2: just received another technical foul. They're eighteenth against Arkansas and

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Speaker 2: they found a way to win as well. Mo's next.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, Have a great rest of your Monday.

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