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Speaker 2: So the NCAA tournament selection committee is gonna meet here soon,

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Speaker 2: and the Miami RedHawks could be the team they agonize

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Speaker 2: over the most. Miami won again last night. Gutsy performance

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Speaker 2: him here. That felt like and look, they they've got

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Speaker 2: four more games to go in the regular season. That

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Speaker 2: felt like a significant hurdle on the road to a

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Speaker 2: MAC regular season title, which should not be undervalued, and

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Speaker 2: a significant hurdle on the road to an undefeated season,

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Speaker 2: which Miami has a chance. And I said they have

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Speaker 2: four games left. They have five games left. My mistake

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Speaker 2: the next one being at home against Bowling Green on Friday,

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Speaker 2: but on the road against a UMass team that played

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Speaker 2: them really tough here three weeks prior, a UMAs team

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Speaker 2: playing in front of a crowd that felt like you know,

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Speaker 2: that game was a big deallast night. That felt like

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Speaker 2: more than your garden variety mid to late season MAC

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Speaker 2: game in February, you know, all the height Travis Steel

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Speaker 2: on game day, Malette Hall being a madhouse recently, Wally

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Speaker 2: Zerbiak being in town like that, that felt last night

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Speaker 2: in Massachusetts, shot over fifty percent of the game last night.

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Speaker 2: The RedHawks are not great defensively, and yet every time

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Speaker 2: they had to make a play, every time it felt

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Speaker 2: like they needed a bucket, they got one. And that

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Speaker 2: has been something this team has done all season long.

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Speaker 2: They are now twenty six and oh now it's worth

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Speaker 2: pointing out that for NCAA tournament consideration purposes, which let's

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Speaker 2: hope and like I hope they do this big cooles

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Speaker 2: hell to see them go into the NCAA Tournament undefeated.

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Speaker 2: Let's hope that they go in as an automatic qualifier,

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Speaker 2: regardless of whether or not they win out in the

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Speaker 2: regular season. But it's a fair question, and what's going

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Speaker 2: to happen if they lose in the MAC Tournament after

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Speaker 2: winning all of their regular season games. I'm on record

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Speaker 2: for what it's worth, which is nothing. I believe if

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Speaker 2: they finish the regular season with a zero in the

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Speaker 2: lost column, the committee is going to put them in. Now.

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Speaker 2: The committee is not going to put him in with

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Speaker 2: a protected seed. The committee is not going to put

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Speaker 2: him in with a seed that's in the single digits.

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Speaker 2: The committee is going to put him in with a

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Speaker 2: low seed, maybe as low as maybe fourteen. That's because

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Speaker 2: of their schedule. But you know, the NCNAA Tournament Selection

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Speaker 2: committee uses the net ranking is Ken pomp Ark Torrific.

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Speaker 2: They don't use The committee doesn't use a team's record

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Speaker 2: against the point spread. Now, maybe individual committee members take

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Speaker 2: a glance at how teams have done against the point spread,

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Speaker 2: But frankly, I feel like it should be a metric

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Speaker 2: because what a point spread does is it levels the

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Speaker 2: playing field. The purpose of a point spread. If you're

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Speaker 2: looking at one individual game, let's say it's a high

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Speaker 2: major versus a low major. It's duke versus let's say

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Speaker 2: Jacksonville State, Well, the point spread is going to be

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Speaker 2: huge in that game. It's going to be let's say

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Speaker 2: it's thirty three to thirty four points, thirty four and

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Speaker 2: a half points. That's designed to level the playing field.

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Speaker 2: The opponent is not the team. The opponent is the spread.

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Speaker 2: Miami this season against the spread. Now, in the three

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Speaker 2: games they've played against non D one opponents, there's no

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Speaker 2: point spread. For the most part, there's never a point

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Speaker 2: spread for games like that. But in the twenty three

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Speaker 2: games they've played against Division one opponents, Miami against the

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Speaker 2: spread is seventeen and six. They cover nearly seventy four

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Speaker 2: percent of the time. In all of Division one men's

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Speaker 2: beat basketball this season, only four teams have covered more frequently.

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Speaker 2: None of them, by the way, are Power five teams.

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Speaker 2: By the way, for what it's worth, Michigan fourteen and

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Speaker 2: twelve against the spread, Duke fourteen and twelve against the spread,

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Speaker 2: ten against the spread, Arizona fourteen, ten and one against

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Speaker 2: the spread. Now, most of us would agree those are

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Speaker 2: great teams. They're not covering with the regularity that Miami is. Again,

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Speaker 2: the opponent is the spread. It's not the team you're

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Speaker 2: playing against. Seventeen and six elite in that regard. So

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Speaker 2: if we have to do this where it's hey, bring

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Speaker 2: up Miami, and we've got to talk about how the

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Speaker 2: schedule and you know that the schedule, and look the schedule.

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Speaker 2: You can't get around it. It's bad. It's bad if

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Speaker 2: you look at it. It's bad if you crunch the numbers.

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Speaker 2: Travis Steel himself has acknowledged this. How do you not

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Speaker 2: our schedule leaves a lot to be desired, But it's

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Speaker 2: not like they're just eking out wins, barely beating people

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Speaker 2: on a regular basis. They've had some close calls the

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Speaker 2: first UMass game, both Buffalo games, especially the one here

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Speaker 2: where they needed a last second shot to force OT

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Speaker 2: The Kent State game also in overtime, but with regularity,

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Speaker 2: they're covering against the number more than almost anybody else

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Speaker 2: in the sport. By the way, this season, the RedHawks

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Speaker 2: have played eight games in which they've been favored by

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Speaker 2: ten points or more, so more than a third of

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Speaker 2: they've been favored by ten or more. They're six and

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Speaker 2: them all. But they've covered at least ten points in

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Speaker 2: six of the eight games. So when they're opposed to

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Speaker 2: win big, they win big. By the way. In conference play,

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Speaker 2: there is only one team from a power conference that

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Speaker 2: covers against the number in conference play at a better clip.

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Speaker 2: It's Washington. Washington covers in Big Ten play seventy three

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Speaker 2: point three percent of the time. Miami is nine and

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Speaker 2: four against the spread. They cover at a sixty nine

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Speaker 2: point two percent clip elite, elite, elite against the spread,

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Speaker 2: Elite against the spread when they're favored by a lot,

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Speaker 2: and elite against the spread in conference play. And for

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Speaker 2: what it's worth, they have played four games this year

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Speaker 2: where they've been underdogs. They've won them all, obviously. So

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Speaker 2: when they're expected to win big, they win big. Whether

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Speaker 2: they're expected to win, they win, And when they're not

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Speaker 2: expected to win, they still win. So if we're gonna

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Speaker 2: Miami play. If we're gonna do this, like, let's look

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Speaker 2: at how they're winning. Are they winning games they're supposed

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Speaker 2: been expected to lose, they've still won, obviously. Yes, How

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Speaker 2: all right, the schedule stinks. And I'll be the first

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Speaker 2: to admit I'm sure Travis would as well. You wish

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Speaker 2: that those three games that were against non Division one

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Speaker 2: And who knows man. Maybe they lose one of those games,

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Speaker 2: but we can't prove that they would have. All you

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Speaker 2: They're not eking out four point victories against teams that

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Speaker 2: they're favored to beat by twenty They're not barely beating

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Speaker 2: floor with them. How much the tournament committee is going

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Speaker 2: to consider this? Oh no, how much should you? And

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Speaker 2: I consider it when we talk about what they've accomplished

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Speaker 2: this year a lot? And like the whole thing about

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Speaker 2: It's like, well, if they get in, they ignored the schedule.

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Speaker 2: The schedule is going to be a factor. Mike de

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Speaker 2: Coursey talked about this with US last week. In two

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Speaker 2: And if you're a Xavier fan, you probably remember with

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Speaker 2: fondness during that run where they won the A ten

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Speaker 2: up being a one seed. Billy Packer, the Late Billy Packer,

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Speaker 2: complained about it on TV. They were still seated first.

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Speaker 2: The A ten might have been held in higher regard

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Speaker 2: than than the MAC now, but they were seated first.

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Speaker 2: Miami is going to be seated first. Miami is not

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Speaker 2: going to be seated fourth. Miami is not going to

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Speaker 2: be seeded six. Miami's best case scenario is probably an eight,

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Speaker 2: and that's if they win every game and win the

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Speaker 2: MAC Tournament. The schedule gives them an extraordinarily low seed ceiling.

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Speaker 2: The two teams this century that have gone into the

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Speaker 2: tournament undefeated, Gonzaga and Kentucky, were not eleven seeds. We're

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Speaker 2: That is, if they win every game and win the

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Speaker 2: MAC Tournament. And again we're getting a little ahead of ourselves.

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Speaker 2: They do have five regular season games to go. If

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Speaker 2: make it, their seed ceiling will be even lower. So

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Speaker 2: like nobody's ignoring the schedule, nobody's ignoring who they've played.

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Speaker 2: It gets factored in, It gets factored into the conversation.

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Speaker 2: It's why this is a conversation to begin with, Like,

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Speaker 2: the only reason we're talking about Miami maybe not making

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Speaker 2: their schedule. But to me, all right, the schedule is

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Speaker 2: people by more points than Vegas is saying they're supposed to.

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Speaker 2: Vegas is pretty good, so maybe you disagree. Five point three, seven, four, nine,

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Speaker 2: I'm putting him in the NCAA tournament. They can collapse

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Speaker 2: Ken Palm gives them a seventy eight percent chance of

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Speaker 2: beating Bowling Green Sarring Tarrek, Sorry, Taron. They're giving them

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Speaker 2: They still have some work to do. But if the

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Speaker 2: topic is g should Miami actually make it if they

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Speaker 2: do run the table and lose in Cleveland? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: because while the spread is not really an official NCAA

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Speaker 2: Tournament Committee metric, I'll apply it. And for my money, yeah, man,

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Speaker 2: that we say, like, well, who'd you play and who'd

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Speaker 2: you beat? All right, well, hooja play? Eh, that leaves

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Speaker 2: something to be desired. How much did you beat people?

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Speaker 2: By average margin of victory close to nineteen points. They're

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Speaker 2: sort of understand that in this sport, you're gonna play

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Speaker 2: regular season, play in conference, and you know you gotta

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Speaker 2: I would talk about this all the time when UC

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Speaker 2: really hard to cover against the number. A common opponent

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Speaker 2: for Miami and Michigan, A common opponent for Miami in Arizona.

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Speaker 2: A common opponent for Miami and any other Bubble team

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Speaker 2: is the spread. That's a common opponent. Miami is better

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Speaker 2: Others in that time are going to find other things.

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Speaker 2: Baseball is going to have to deal with that once

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Speaker 2: it comes back. It's a twenty six from six o'clock.

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Speaker 2: We'll try to squeeze in a phone call or two

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Speaker 2: on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports.

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Speaker 3: Station, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic from the UC.

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Speaker 2: This report is sponsored by all Right if you're looking

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Speaker 2: for NKU. Tonight Lily got we win yes s United

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Speaker 2: States and overtime by Swindon. They went right to overtime.

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Speaker 2: Who won the final? The United States will play Slovakia

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Speaker 2: in the semifinal. It'll be Canada and Finland in the other.

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Speaker 2: I did not see who scored. I just saw the celebration,

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Speaker 2: so I did not get a chance to see who

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Speaker 2: found the back of the net for the United States. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 2: they advance after giving up the game time goal with

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Speaker 2: one thirty one to go. The United States ends up

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Speaker 2: winning in overtime by a score of two to one.

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Speaker 2: So so there you go. When is the semifinal semifinal

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Speaker 2: game is going to be on Friday yet? Because tomorrow

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Speaker 2: is Tomorrow's the gold for the women's and so the

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Speaker 2: semifinal games I believe are on Friday. Bronze medal game

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Speaker 2: would be on Saturday. Gold medal, gold medal games like

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Speaker 2: the last event of the winter Olympics. That is going

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Speaker 2: to be on Sunday, So the US will play Slovakia

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Speaker 2: on Friday. How cool was that for US Friday? We

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Speaker 2: have more horns on Friday? Was that Quinn Hughes. They're

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Speaker 2: all congratulating Quinn Hughes. All right, Quinn Hughes ends the

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Speaker 2: game of the Minnesota Wild ends the game for the

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Speaker 2: United States and for Sweden. For what it's worth. In

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Speaker 2: the US advances quickly NKU tonight against Prdue Fort Wayne

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Speaker 2: Radio cover John ESPN fifteen thirty. That's gonna be at

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Speaker 2: six thirty. The FC Cincinnati game tonight in the Cocka

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Speaker 2: Cap Champions Cup against q Owen, MFC Owen MFC, I said,

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Speaker 2: is going to be on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. We

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Speaker 2: got a few minutes here waiting patiently is John Michael,

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Speaker 2: John Michael, how are you.

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 2: Now? How you doing?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 5: Hey? I was thinking about like the RedHawks, they definitely

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Speaker 5: gonna get in and everything like that if they go

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Speaker 5: undefeated for the whole season. And it reminded me because

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Speaker 5: you said red Hawks, and do you remember when that

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Speaker 5: mascot beat up that other mascot in the A ten?

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Speaker 5: Is that like Saint Joe's or something beat up the

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Speaker 5: owl or something.

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Speaker 2: Saint Joe's mascot got into a fire. And what made

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Speaker 2: it significant is if you are the Saint Joe's mascot,

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Speaker 2: you earn a scholarship if you never stop flapping your wings.

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Speaker 2: And the Saint Joe's mascot in the middle of the

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Speaker 2: fight never stopped flapping its wings.

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Speaker 5: I love that guy, and I knew you's growed up

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Speaker 5: like you. You spent some growed up time in New York.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 5: I really won't say I'm sorry for the passing of

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Speaker 5: mister october Man.

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Speaker 2: Mister Reggie Jackson passed away.

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Speaker 5: That Jackson guy passed away, the guy that was on

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Speaker 5: Sir Love He sounded like it. No, I do not

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Speaker 5: like green Eggs and Hams them.

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Speaker 2: I am all right. I don't know that that is.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that that's Reggie Jackson. But John Michael, thanks,

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Speaker 2: thanks very much. I love you. I love you too, Taran.

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Speaker 2: Is there an argument for not taking as many calls

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Speaker 2: on this show after that one? Who was that that?

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Speaker 2: Whose voice was that? At the at the beginning the

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Speaker 2: phone call? Because when I threw it to John Michael,

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Speaker 2: what I heard didn't sound like someone named John Michael

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Speaker 2: Friday at three ten. The goldhorn. You gotta find a Slovakian.

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Speaker 2: I don't know Slovakian music to play with their goldhorn,

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Speaker 2: which hopefully we never use. That's cool. I love it hockey, really,

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Speaker 2: I am a and say it all is a very

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Speaker 2: very very casual hockey fan. But I like to live

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Speaker 2: the cocky. I like the three on three in the overtime,

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Speaker 2: and what I like most about the overtime is regulation ended.

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Speaker 2: We didn't skate off, didn't bring out the zamboni. We

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Speaker 2: just got back out there and played so good. US

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Speaker 2: wins beat Sweden. That's awesome, so as Rick Broring, he

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Speaker 2: joins US next.

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Speaker 3: Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic.

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Speaker 1: From the UC Health Traffic Center. Around forty percent of

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Speaker 1: cancers are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference.

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Speaker 1: Call five one, three, five eight five UCCC westbound two

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Speaker 1: seventy five. After the double A highway right lane is

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Speaker 1: blocked from an accident. Looking at a fifteen minute to

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Speaker 1: lay back from four to seventy one northbound seventy one

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Speaker 1: to seventy five approaching Donaldson. It's police activity on the

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Speaker 1: right shoulder and westbound River Road accident at Galvin Avenue.

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Speaker 1: I'm at ezelic with.

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Speaker 2: Traffic, ESPN fifteen thirty. Rick Browing Xavier Basketball Musketeer Report

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Speaker 2: dot Com, NKU Radio. You'll hear him tonight, Norris taking

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Speaker 2: on Perdue for Wayne at six point thirty on ESPN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. Let's start with last night. If you're Richard Patino, uh,

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Speaker 2: you want Trey Carroll to be a part of a

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Speaker 2: game ending possession. But do you want him bringing up

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Speaker 2: the ball.

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Speaker 6: Well, here's here's the thing about Xavier's end of game situations.

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Speaker 6: They don't have a good option. Like as much as

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Speaker 6: fans are frustrated with Trey Carroll handling the ball in

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Speaker 6: tight spaces and trying to do everything in those spots

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Speaker 6: and obviously have six turnovers in the game last night,

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Speaker 6: it's not the first time we've seen him get swiped

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Speaker 6: by an extra defender or in last night's case, that

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Speaker 6: last turnover wasn't even a double team situation. He was

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Speaker 6: just dribbling above the court and kind of threw it

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Speaker 6: away as he came into the front court. So yeah,

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Speaker 6: that is obviously not ideal. He probably isn't skilled enough

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Speaker 6: to be asked to handle those situations all the time.

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Speaker 6: But the reality of the situation for Xavier is they

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Speaker 6: don't have good playmakers. They ultimately want the ball in

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Speaker 6: his hands in those situations, so you kind of have

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Speaker 6: to live with them. I was texting a friend last

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Speaker 6: night about the game, and I said, you know, it's

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Speaker 6: one of those situations where you couldn't win with Trey

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Speaker 6: Carroll last night, but you wouldn't have even been close

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Speaker 6: without him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, multiple things can be true, right. They

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Speaker 2: have no chance of winning that game without him yet,

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Speaker 2: And my first thought after the game last night was,

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Speaker 2: holy crap, Trey Carroll only had six turnovers because I

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Speaker 2: felt like he had ten.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean that's the case.

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Speaker 6: It was not just the end of game situation, but

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Speaker 6: early in the game too, he had issues where it

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Speaker 6: really felt like I think there was a post on

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Speaker 6: my message board in the first few minutes where it's

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Speaker 6: like I'm done with Tray Carroll being allowed to touch

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Speaker 6: the ball on the offensive end, which obviously he ended

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Speaker 6: up leading the team in scoring and having a huge night,

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Speaker 6: so it's like there's a lot of frustration there leading

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Speaker 6: into that end of game situation, and yet he's been there,

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Speaker 6: clearly their best player, and he clearly is the guy

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Speaker 6: that keeps them in most of these games down to

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Speaker 6: the wire. But yeah, is he's an ideal go to

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Speaker 6: alpha score? Obviously not. And that's been the case all

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Speaker 6: season for this team. It's one of the reasons they

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Speaker 6: have the record that they do.

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Speaker 2: You and I have talked a lot this year about

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Speaker 2: how if you look at the talent, it feels like

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Speaker 2: and I think most Xavier fans would agree. I think

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Speaker 2: Richard Patino has gotten as much out of this collection

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Speaker 2: of players as you could have asked, certainly as you

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Speaker 2: could have asked after we watched him play a handful

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Speaker 2: of games. Yet for the most part, and there have

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Speaker 2: been exceptions, like to Paul here, there have been so

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Speaker 2: many of these games that were there for the taking

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Speaker 2: down the stretch where they just don't make the play.

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Speaker 2: How much is coaching culpable for that?

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Speaker 6: I think that's something we do in all sports, you know,

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Speaker 6: Like we talk a lot about it with Zach Taylor.

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Speaker 6: We post his record in one score games or games

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Speaker 6: by decided by a touchdown or less, and it's like, well,

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Speaker 6: I don't know how interesting those stats are because the

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Speaker 6: reality situation is that's what good teams do, they win

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Speaker 6: close games, and that's what bad teams do, they lose

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Speaker 6: close games. And we knew going into the year that

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Speaker 6: this Xavier team wasn't very talented. That doesn't mean you're

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Speaker 6: going to get blown out every game, and obviously they

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Speaker 6: have had a few blowouts, including a couple of the

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Speaker 6: biggest losses in Sintas Center history this year. But ultimately,

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Speaker 6: that's what it means to me, when you see a

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Speaker 6: bunch of close losses, you have a team that's not

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Speaker 6: good enough. All of these guys are getting paid to

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Speaker 6: play at the Big East level now that before that

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Speaker 6: they were all on scholarship, so it's not like they

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Speaker 6: can't play basketball at all.

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Speaker 4: They're going to score some points. They're going to be

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Speaker 4: in these games.

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Speaker 6: But the difference between a good team and a team

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Speaker 6: that just doesn't have enough is you lose a bunch

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Speaker 6: of close games.

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Speaker 4: And that's the situation Xavier finds itself.

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Speaker 2: What was going through your mind at halftime of the

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Speaker 2: NCAU game against Indianapolis.

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Speaker 6: It it felt like a carbon copy of the first

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Speaker 6: game against them, quite honestly, and k you digged itself

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Speaker 6: a hole. You kind of start to see a little

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Speaker 6: bit of a fight back before the end of the

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Speaker 6: first half, but then you kind of don't get all

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Speaker 6: the way there. You screw up the end of the

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Speaker 6: half situation, and you still go down trailing, and you're thinking, well,

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Speaker 6: on one hand, we've already seen.

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Speaker 4: Them do this before.

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Speaker 6: They can come back and they can finish this game

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Speaker 6: off and turn it into a win. On the other hand,

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Speaker 6: it was certainly frustrating to go into the halftime seeing

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Speaker 6: them trail again against a team that has the worst

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Speaker 6: record in the league. But they turned it around in

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Speaker 6: the second half, and defensively, some of the plays they

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Speaker 6: made down the stretch in that game where the types

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Speaker 6: of things that we've been talking about all year they've lacked.

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Speaker 6: And they didn't just play solid down the stretch. I

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Speaker 6: mean they had multiple emphatic blocks, a steal that led

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Speaker 6: to a transition layup by Donovan Odey. I mean the

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Speaker 6: final four or five possessions of regulation, almost all of

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Speaker 6: them featured a big defensive play by Nka.

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Speaker 2: They played Perdue fort wayns and I'm coming to the game.

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Speaker 2: I'll be at the game, Tyce. Yeah, records.

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Speaker 4: Want to know with you in attendance.

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Speaker 2: The Norris have an unblemish record when I show up,

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Speaker 2: they do not have an unblemish record against Perdue Fort Wayne.

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Speaker 2: That is a game that they were in control of

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Speaker 2: for the first half and for the early portions of

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Speaker 2: the second half, and then it all sort of fell apart.

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Speaker 2: What went wrong in that game? That has to go

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Speaker 2: right tonight?

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Speaker 6: Well, I think the first thing is you've got to

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Speaker 6: be able to defend Perdue Fort Wayne without fouling. And

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Speaker 6: it starts with the leading score in the conference. And

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Speaker 6: Corey had not definitely a candidate for Player of the

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Speaker 6: Year in the Horizon League. This year, he's the only

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Speaker 6: player in the conference averaging over twenty points per game.

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Speaker 6: He got hot and he got to the free throw

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Speaker 6: line a lot. In the second half of that first game.

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Speaker 6: He finished with twenty five points. And that's what when

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Speaker 6: they win, he scores efficiently. He's shooting fifty nine percent

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Speaker 6: in the games that they win. He's shooting like forty

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Speaker 6: low forty percent in the games that they lose. So

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Speaker 6: you're not going to completely shut him down, but you

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Speaker 6: got to slow.

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Speaker 4: Him down and make it difficult for him on the

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Speaker 4: offensive end.

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Speaker 2: What is the dumbest question you've ever asked about basketball? Coach?

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Speaker 2: And when he lasted. When he asked it, did you

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Speaker 2: get accused of raising your voice? I did not get

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Speaker 2: accused of raising my voice. Actually, Richard Patino handled it

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Speaker 2: very well last night. I asked him.

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Speaker 6: You know, I was interested that he brought up the

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Speaker 6: transfer portal during his Coaches show, the last two Coaches Show.

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Speaker 6: He said, like, we're already having transfer portal meetings. It's

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Speaker 6: just the reality of how the sport works now. I

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Speaker 6: found that to be interesting because a lot of coaches

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Speaker 6: lie about that type of thing and say we're only

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Speaker 6: focused on our current team, and the fact that his

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Speaker 6: team really isn't playing for much of anything meaningful right now.

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Speaker 6: I thought it would be interesting say like, hey, you

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Speaker 6: keep having all these close losses that seemed like your

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Speaker 6: team's lacking something has Has that led to some clarity

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Speaker 6: on what you might be looking for in the transfer

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Speaker 6: portal And a lot of people felt like that was

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Speaker 6: an out of pocket question after a close loss, which

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Speaker 6: I think we're.

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Speaker 4: A little bit too soft on coaches in these days.

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Speaker 6: I think they're it's fine to ask them questions about

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Speaker 6: their job, whether they won or lost their adults, and

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Speaker 6: they're getting paid a lot to do it. But he

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Speaker 6: handled it great. He said, you know, I respect your question,

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Speaker 6: but that's not it's not on my mind right now.

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Speaker 6: It's not what I'm thinking about.

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Speaker 2: As a coach. Ever accused you of raising your voice?

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Speaker 6: No, but I'm not really raise My voice kind of

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Speaker 6: goes while we're talking to coach, and I'm kind of

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Speaker 6: hard to rattle in this situation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, By the way, wouldn't it be a bigger story

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Speaker 2: if we found out that coaches and their staffs weren't

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Speaker 2: starting to prepare for the opening of the transfer portal.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's the thing, right, I mean, like they all

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Speaker 6: lie about that. I'm like, no, we're only focused on

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Speaker 6: the current game ahead of us. Then you're an idiot,

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Speaker 6: because the whole sport relies on the two weeks that

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Speaker 6: are about to happen here in a few weeks, and

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Speaker 6: if you're not preparing for that, then you're completely behind

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Speaker 6: the eight ball because everyone else is talking to agents

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Speaker 6: and all types of things. And to be honest with you,

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Speaker 6: that's why I like Richard Patino. He's honest about those things,

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Speaker 6: and his coaches show. He's like, yeah, we're talking to

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Speaker 6: agents already. I'm sure our guys have agents reaching out

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Speaker 6: to other schools trying to figure out what their market's

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Speaker 6: going to be. It's just the new reality of the sport.

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Speaker 6: But he didn't want to talk about it after.

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Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I could sort of understand it was

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Speaker 2: a tough loss. Well, but perhaps I'll get a chance

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Speaker 2: to say, Hidi tonight, thank you.

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Speaker 4: As always, I look forward to it. Thanks mom.

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Speaker 2: All right, there you go. There's our guy, Rick Boring.

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Speaker 2: You'll hear him in just a few minutes. About thirty

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Speaker 2: minutes or so with Jim kell as MKU get set

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Speaker 2: to take on Purdue Fort Wayne. We've got college hoops, soccer, baseball,

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Speaker 2: and so much more. Tomorrow we're back at three oh five.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget Tony Pike. Sincy three sixty is at noon.

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Speaker 2: Have a great night. Thanks to Terren Bland for producing,

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