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Speaker 1: Welcome to Gophers Basketball Week lead with Nico med bed

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Speaker 1: Wo to you buy Buffalo Wild Weaves, the official sports

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Speaker 1: bar of March Magnus No, here's the voice.

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Speaker 2: Of the Gophers, Mike grim.

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Speaker 3: It's our final show before the holidays. Welcome to Buffalo

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Speaker 3: Wild Wings. I am Mike Grim. No justin Guard today.

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Speaker 3: He is traveling with family as they head to a

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Speaker 3: little early for the bowl game. As we'll have Bold

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Speaker 3: duties coming up this Friday. Nico medvettis here and it

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Speaker 3: is the holiday week. You got to win before the

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Speaker 3: last game, or in the last game before the holidays.

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Speaker 3: Last night beating Campbell by twenty eight points in a

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Speaker 3: game you jumped out to a ten to nothing lead.

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Speaker 3: And you told me in the pregame that you wanted

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Speaker 3: to be because you hear the stories of the teams

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Speaker 3: that kind of look ahead, everyone's excited for Christmas and

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Speaker 3: what have you, and then you know they come out

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Speaker 3: a little flat. You said, let's be the other team.

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Speaker 3: Let's be the team that takes care of business. And

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Speaker 3: it looked like from the opening tip your team was

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Speaker 3: ready to do that. They did.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't trying to create a fulfilling prophecy, but I

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Speaker 4: was pretty open and honest about it.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're coming off finals.

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Speaker 4: Too, and guys had a great approach, and so it's

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Speaker 4: always fun those ones when you can jump out early

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Speaker 4: and never look back, and it always makes the Christmas

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Speaker 4: break just a little bit nicer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. And it was I think twenty three

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Speaker 3: to six at one point, and you mentioned too in

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Speaker 3: the pregame that Campbell would fight and they trimmed it

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Speaker 3: to eleven. They got it down to nine I think

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Speaker 3: at one point. But you guys always seem to have

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Speaker 3: an answer. We did yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So again I thought the guys had had a

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Speaker 4: really good approach and we executed really well on offense.

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Speaker 4: I thought, you know, defensively we did some good things.

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Speaker 4: Our hands were active, we got contributions from a lot

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Speaker 4: of different guys.

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Speaker 3: And so it was good.

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Speaker 4: I thought the team has improved here the last couple

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Speaker 4: of weeks, and it showed yesterday.

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Speaker 3: And I want to ask you, I've got that on

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Speaker 3: my list of stuff to ask you about improvement in season,

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Speaker 3: but I want to keep talking about the game specific

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Speaker 3: from last night. First, you in the pregame also had

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Speaker 3: mentioned that they really like to feed the ball and

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Speaker 3: you were obviously you watch the film, you're correct, because

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Speaker 3: they just kept trying to feed it and it looked

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Speaker 3: to me like you guys had prepared for that because

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Speaker 3: you were forcing turnovers. I think they had seventeen turnovers.

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Speaker 3: It was an immediate double, sometimes a triple even on

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Speaker 3: that high low game that they had so talk me

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Speaker 3: through one. When you see the scout and then when

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Speaker 3: it's implemented, when it works, how satisfying that is as

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Speaker 3: a coach. Yeah, I mean, you know, this was a

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Speaker 3: game that really concerned me.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'd watched a lot of them on film,

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Speaker 4: and they had played a lot of these teams really tough.

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Speaker 4: You know, it took Penn State everything they had to

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Speaker 4: beat them. I mean, they West Virginia. The Wisconsin game

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Speaker 4: was a five point game with us six minutes to go.

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Speaker 4: They'd really battled, and obviously, with our lack of depth

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Speaker 4: in the interior right now, you know, foul trouble was

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Speaker 3: They were going to continue to throw it in there.

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Speaker 4: So that our guys and our staff did a great job,

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Speaker 4: you know the last few days really preparing for that,

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Speaker 4: and it showed up and we you know, tried to

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Speaker 4: make a conscious effort to not let them hurt us inside.

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Speaker 4: And I thought, you know, other than some offensive rebounds

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Speaker 4: Sometimes when you're doing that, you're out of position on

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Speaker 4: the offensive glass. But for the most part, I don't

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Speaker 4: have a lot of complaint.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it always helps when the shots go

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Speaker 3: in at the rate they were going in too, right

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Speaker 3: on offense. Yeah, that's fun.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot easier game when that when the shots

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Speaker 4: and all those things, but you know, it requires guys

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Speaker 4: to to make shots. And so we've been shooting the

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Speaker 3: As we look at the stats, field goal percentage for

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Speaker 3: So pretty good across the board there. And you're right,

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Speaker 3: the assist numbers go up when the baskets go up, right,

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Speaker 3: That's exactly it. It's funny about the free throw shooting too.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of one of those things we never tierbout. God, well,

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Speaker 3: they really did a great job at the free throw.

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Speaker 3: I we're only going to hear about if we don't. Yeah, go,

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Speaker 3: you go eight for sixteen, and it's you know, the

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Speaker 3: whole world's going to end. And oh my eight for nine.

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Speaker 3: No one says a word. You know, no one says

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Speaker 3: a word. But you know, we didn't get to the

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Speaker 3: line you know a lot yesterday. But I thought we

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Speaker 3: generated a lot of really good shots. It two looked early,

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Speaker 3: it was apparent early that they were going to let

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Speaker 3: the game be physical, that they be in the officials,

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Speaker 3: and it looked like both teams of adjust to that.

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Speaker 3: It got to be a pretty good wrestling match. There

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Speaker 3: are times it got to be a physical game.

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Speaker 4: We better get used to it because as you get

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Speaker 4: even deeper in Big ten play, that's what it's going

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Speaker 4: to look like every night.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they let the guys play a little bit, and

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Speaker 3: Let's talk a little bit individually. Obviously, Kade Tyson has

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Speaker 3: leading scorer yesterday with twenty four points. I thought the

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Speaker 3: key stretch for him and for the team was they

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Speaker 3: of a sudden he hits back to back threes. I

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Speaker 3: think just before halftime a little bit, and all of

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Speaker 3: it really I thought the game at that point that

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Speaker 3: it was a huge stretch.

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Speaker 4: You know, both Langston and and Croc you Corior Johnson

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Speaker 4: that run. And so I thought that was a huge

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Speaker 3: We also went to our zone defense a little bit.

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Speaker 4: I thought we got like three consecutive stops, knocked the

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Speaker 4: ball away, we're able to score, and you're right, balloon

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Speaker 4: the lead back up to seventeen. And really I thought

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Speaker 3: Then there was a stretch in the second half where

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Speaker 3: Isaac picked up three second half fouls. You take him out,

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Speaker 3: and I don't think the offense went away necessarily, but

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Speaker 3: it wasn't flowing maybe as well as it had and

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Speaker 3: of a sudden you put Isaac back in and the

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Speaker 3: next thing you know, it's a Tyson dunk, Tyson three.

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Speaker 3: A couple of late shot clock situations with the three,

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Speaker 3: and the games over then at that point.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's really coming on. I mean, he's grown a

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Speaker 4: particularly in the last couple of weeks, and I think

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Speaker 4: he's doing that on both ends of the floor. It's

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Speaker 4: And so, you know, one thing, with the numbers we

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Speaker 4: have in our rotation, these guys, you know you're gonna

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Speaker 4: foul in these physical games, but we really have to

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Speaker 4: eliminate some of the silly ones.

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Speaker 3: And it doesn't seem like it.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it's not the you know, people look at the

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Speaker 4: fourth fiul or whatever it is, but a lot of

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Speaker 4: times it might have been your second foul was maybe

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Speaker 4: one you could have avoided, and you just can't afford

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Speaker 4: to pick up any cheap ones because we need you

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Speaker 3: And sometimes it's just bad luck. I thought, I don't

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Speaker 3: thought he was even giving ground to try not to

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Speaker 4: Well, because sometimes you know you're put in a situation

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Speaker 3: Blow a whistle.

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Speaker 4: But I thought it was the foul before that that

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Speaker 4: he probably reached down unnecessarily on a play, and he

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Speaker 4: picked up that one, because sometimes you know it's in

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Speaker 3: Hurt, doesn't hurt, right exactly with him, I think I

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Speaker 3: have these numbers right, since Chauncey was injured out in

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Speaker 3: kelln He He mean, Isaac has thirty one assist in

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Speaker 3: seven turnovers, so in the whatever five and a half

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Speaker 3: six games, Since that's a pretty good ratio you're to

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Speaker 4: Huh, that's pretty good no, I love I love seeing

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Speaker 4: that and I think he's doing it too by continuing

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Speaker 4: to pick his spots and be aggressive and getting comfortable

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Speaker 4: with what we're doing. He's rebounding the ball pretty well.

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Speaker 4: I think he had two blocks last year. I gave him,

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Speaker 4: you know, made sure I pointed that out to the team,

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Speaker 4: and he made sure everybody on the team you know,

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Speaker 4: recognized that too. So he's really a good young player

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Speaker 4: and he's going to continue to get better and better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then he had fifteen points. He had fifteen

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Speaker 3: in the win against Indiana, So he's got some scoring

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Speaker 3: punch to him too, he does.

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Speaker 4: I think, you know, he's really really shooting the ball

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Speaker 4: well in practice, gaining confidence, you know, in himself. And again,

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Speaker 4: I just think the sophomore year, there's just a ton

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Speaker 4: of room for growth. And we talked about, you know,

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Speaker 4: players improved during the season, but I think we're going

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Speaker 4: to continue to see it. And now a lots on

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Speaker 4: his shoulders, you know, with the injuries, and like I

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Speaker 4: told him, he's going to grow a lot through this.

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Speaker 4: It's going to end up being a really good thing

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Speaker 4: for him. Yeah, and when you play minutes, you just

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Speaker 4: get better. Right, you've been through the Wars. Experience matters,

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Speaker 4: and the more you play, the better you're going to be. Better,

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Speaker 4: You're going to be and it's it's that's part of it,

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Speaker 4: but it's your your approach. He really cares, he really

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Speaker 4: wants to be good, he wants to do the right thing.

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Speaker 3: He's really really coachable.

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Speaker 4: So you put all those things together that then you

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Speaker 4: really got something good.

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Speaker 3: And obviously here in Minnesota, everybody loves a Minnesota guy

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Speaker 3: But then you see his smile which kind of lights

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Speaker 3: It's more Gopher Basketball Weekly with Nico Medved. We're at

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Speaker 3: Gophers get a win last night. Now seven and five

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Speaker 3: play then for good. We'll talk about that here in

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Speaker 3: a little bit. We were talking during the commercial break

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Speaker 3: about the bench. Obviously with injuries, you're playing mostly two

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Speaker 3: guys off the bench. Nia and Maya got in there

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Speaker 3: a little bit and got a bucket, which was fun

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Speaker 3: to see last night as well. In some cases, follow

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Speaker 3: trouble kind of forces your hand in terms of how

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Speaker 3: you handle the rotation. But how do you how are

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Speaker 3: you and the coaching staff now navigating kind of playing

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Speaker 3: through that seven man rotation?

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Speaker 4: Man, that's a great, a great question. I mean, I

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Speaker 4: think it starts, you know in practice. You know, we've

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Speaker 4: had to kind of adjust first of all, how long

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Speaker 4: we go what we do. We've got to get better,

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Speaker 4: but we probably can't go as long. We don't do

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Speaker 4: as much live stuff. That's been a challenge, you know

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Speaker 4: for us. But sometimes, you know, you learn as a coach.

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Speaker 4: You got to go through that a little bit. It

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Speaker 4: just helps me grow as a coach too. How can

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Speaker 4: we get even more creative to kind of do the

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Speaker 4: things and accomplish the things that we want to get

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Speaker 4: to you know in the games. I mean that starting

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Speaker 4: group is going to have to log a lot of minutes.

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Speaker 4: That's just what it is. And as Kai and Grayson,

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Speaker 4: you know, continue to get better and better, you know,

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Speaker 4: they can log more minutes. Sometimes fouls force your hand.

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Speaker 4: You know, I mentioned it before. We've really got to

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Speaker 4: do even a better job of eliminating the silly files.

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Speaker 4: Like yesterday, for example, in the game, if people remember,

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Speaker 4: I don't remember if it was a second or third foul.

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Speaker 3: I think it was a second one.

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Speaker 4: But you know, Janalen Crocker, Johnson's going after an offensive

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Speaker 3: He really doesn't have much of a chance to.

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Speaker 4: Get it, but he's battling and he kind of goes

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Speaker 4: and I'm like, you got to let that go. You

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Speaker 4: just can't afford to pick that up. And then you

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Speaker 4: pick up your second foul, and there's what eight nine

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Speaker 4: minutes to go in the half, and you just you

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Speaker 4: got to let that one go. And so I think

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Speaker 4: it's just continuing to learn those things. Maybe that slap

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Speaker 4: down file that Isaac had, and I think it's going

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Speaker 4: to make him a better player in the in the

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Speaker 4: in the future.

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Speaker 3: And then you know, nemo.

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Speaker 4: He just got to continue to work, you know, he's

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Speaker 4: got to continue to work and be more consistent in

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Speaker 4: practice and take care of himself at a high level.

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Speaker 3: And he can do that.

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Speaker 4: I know, maybe he has a chance as the season

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Speaker 4: goes on to play some more is there?

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Speaker 3: I mean, in a weird way. Sometimes you know you've

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Speaker 3: recruited a bunch of guys, You've got ten guys on

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Speaker 3: the bench, so so you're fully healthy. I'm guessing the

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Speaker 3: coach feels the need to rotate guys in. Yes, you

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Speaker 3: want to rest guys, but you also want to make

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Speaker 3: sure everyone's in the mix. Is in a weird way,

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Speaker 3: can have an only seven help a team play at

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Speaker 3: peak level?

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Speaker 4: Well, there's some true to that. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 4: one of the things I learned really quickly as a coach.

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Speaker 4: One of the biggest decisions and most important decisions you

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Speaker 4: have to make is who needs to play? And once

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Speaker 4: you figure out these are are not you know, I

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Speaker 4: preferably like to have kind of a nine man rotation.

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Speaker 4: It fluctuates a little bit every year. You know, who

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Speaker 4: are those guys who needs to play? What are the

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Speaker 4: roles they need to be in? And once you figure

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Speaker 4: that out. Now you can really try to figure out

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Speaker 4: how we maximize us Well, now the decision making is

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Speaker 4: taken out right, so then the decision making is done

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Speaker 4: for you. So you're right in a way like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: this group right here, this is it. How do we

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Speaker 4: maximize what we have right now to be successful? And

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Speaker 4: so it does take some of the decision making out.

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Speaker 4: And it, don't get me wrong, I'd prefer to have more,

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Speaker 4: you know, a few more guys here, you know, for

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Speaker 4: the long haul and to compete at the level we

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Speaker 4: want to compete at. But again, we just got to

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Speaker 4: focus on what we have, you know, and the guys

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Speaker 4: that think have been buying into that. And you know,

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Speaker 4: Jalen's going to have to play center most of the

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Speaker 4: time for us, and he's playing you didn't play that

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Speaker 4: much first center for us last year, you know, Colorado State.

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Speaker 4: But he can do it and it's created some opportunities

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Speaker 4: for him as well.

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Speaker 3: Remember, and I know you used some of the John

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Speaker 3: Bline principles and offense, and he's he was one of

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Speaker 3: my favorite guys to one cover and chat with when

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Speaker 3: I had the chances and watch his team's play. And

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Speaker 3: if you go back to his really good teams. He

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Speaker 3: made two Championship game appearances. He really played seven guys.

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Speaker 3: I mean his starters were thirty six thirty. I mean

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Speaker 3: Trey Burke was playing thirty nine minutes a night. You know,

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Speaker 3: some of these really good teams. And I and I

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Speaker 3: I'm like, he's got a five star guy that's playing

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Speaker 3: like two minutes a night and another four star guy

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Speaker 3: that's not even playing, And so I asked him about it.

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Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, he goes, they know they have to

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Speaker 3: wait their turn. We made it clear these are our

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Speaker 3: seven best, and that's where we're going with and he goes,

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Speaker 3: I think his philosophy was seven play seven and if

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Speaker 3: you have to play eight or nine, maybe you do.

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Speaker 3: And if they have to wait, they have to wait.

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Speaker 3: But we're trying to win, and this is how he

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Speaker 3: thought they would win more games than not. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think you know, you look at it

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Speaker 4: and again, some of your best guys and most experienced

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Speaker 4: guys are going to play upwards of thirty some minutes

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Speaker 4: a game. That's just kind of what it is, but

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Speaker 4: it's still those vital minutes from the bench that when

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Speaker 4: you need him right in a key situation that it

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Speaker 4: could be fouls or just all right, we got to

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Speaker 4: get this guy, you know, a break, and you can

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Speaker 4: kind of be creative from when you're going into a

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Speaker 4: media timeout. After immedia timeout, you get a little bit

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Speaker 4: of a of a longer rest and so yeah, but

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Speaker 4: you know, yeah, you're right, the main guys are going

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Speaker 4: to roll a lot of minutes, and hey, that's what

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Speaker 4: they signed up for.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know you're probably sick of answering the

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Speaker 3: of the guys that you're hoping to maybe get back

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Speaker 3: at some point.

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Speaker 4: Unfortunately, no, right, yeah, nothing is nothing has really changed,

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Speaker 4: you know with those guys. I mean, Chauncey did have surgery,

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Speaker 4: you know, on Thursday, and that went well. He's doing well,

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Speaker 4: so he'll stay here, you know, over the holidays.

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Speaker 3: His family will come in to see him.

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Speaker 4: But so he had successful surgery, so that's a good thing,

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Speaker 4: so he'll start that that rehab process. But as far

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Speaker 4: as Rob and BJ goes, really nothing has changed at

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Speaker 4: this point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and will you depending on where that heads and

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Speaker 3: where the season heads could and maybe we're putting the

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Speaker 3: card ahead of the horse here. He weuld just have

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Speaker 3: to wait to see. But is it well, there have

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Speaker 3: to be Do you think those two guys could make

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Speaker 3: a decision as to hey, it might even serve them

656
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Speaker 3: best to all right, we're just gonna.

657
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Speaker 4: Not play, you know, I don't know if we're at

658
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 4: that point yet. There's so much to play. Like in

659
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 4: Rob's case, you know, this is his fifth year. Yeah,

660
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Speaker 4: you know, would he get him? I don't know. So

661
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 4: we'll see as we get going here a little bit more.

662
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 4: There's still so much seasoned pay Yeah, you know so,

663
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 4: But you know, listen, I think they're doing what they

664
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Speaker 4: can right now. It's just kind of unfortunate situation.

665
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, let's take another break. We'll have the

666
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 3: long contested too. I tried to come up with a

667
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 3: couple of questions without guards you here. It probably won't

668
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 3: be the same, but we'll see how it goes. Might

669
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 3: be better. It might be better, I mean, he might

670
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 3: you know, it might be over for guardsy. You know,

671
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 3: if we if we slam dunk this thing. We do

672
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Speaker 3: want to remind everybody that you can, especially during this

673
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Speaker 3: holiday time, visit the University of Minnesota Bookstore. It has

674
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Speaker 3: the area's largest selection of U of M and Golden

675
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Speaker 3: Gopher apparel, gifts, and novelties for fans of all ages,

676
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Speaker 3: from the latest styles to timeless favorites. It is your

677
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Speaker 3: one stop shop, and every purchase directly supports the University

678
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Speaker 3: of Minnesota. You can shop in store on campus or

679
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Speaker 3: online at bookstores dot umn dot edu. One of the

680
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 3: benefits of coming here to the show in person, we

681
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 3: have a sign up. Everyone can put their name in

682
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Speaker 3: the hopper and coming up a little later in the show,

683
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Speaker 3: during our final commercial break, we will draw a winner

684
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Speaker 3: of a twenty five dollars gift card from the bookstore.

685
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Speaker 5: Stay with us.

686
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Speaker 3: It's Go for Basketball Weekly with Nico Medved from Liar Fielded.

687
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Speaker 5: Welcome back.

688
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 3: It's Go for Basketball Weekly with Nico Medved. We thank

689
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 3: you for joining us. We are at Buffalo Wild Wings

690
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 3: here on campus. Buffalo Wild Wings the proud sponsor of

691
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Speaker 3: Go for Athletics and the official sports bar of March Madness.

692
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 3: We're back to Tuesday next week, by the way, so

693
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 3: mark your calendar. Is will be a Monday night game

694
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Speaker 3: next week with Fairleigh Dickinson and then the day after

695
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 3: we'll have a Tuesday show here on campus at noon,

696
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 3: Mike Grim with you. JG has the day off. We're with,

697
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 3: of course, the head coach, Nico medved You told us

698
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Speaker 3: yesterday in the pregame interview your belief that players can

699
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 3: get better in season, which makes sense. But I think

700
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 3: a lot of people think, oh, in the off season,

701
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 3: you're lifting weights and you're doing a lot of drills,

702
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 3: and that's where the big progress isn't It probably is

703
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 3: the big progress. But you're a believer in guys also

704
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 3: improving as this season goes on on. Take us through

705
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 3: your philosophy and how that works one thousand percent. I mean,

706
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 3: I think that I'd argue you make as much growth there,

707
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 3: sometimes even more during the season if you're playing. Obviously,

708
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 3: the off season's critical, like you said, strength conditioning. You're

709
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 3: really honing some skills that you know, maybe you're not

710
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 3: able to get in the game yet, so that's critical too.

711
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 3: But I just think throughout the season, you know, we

712
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 3: really try to be intentional about the film. The daily

713
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 3: vitamins we call them, you know, individual skill instruction, both

714
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 3: ends of the four, whether it's footwork, finishing, you know,

715
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 3: reading a situation, footwork on your shot, I mean, you

716
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 3: name it. You can go on and on doing those

717
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 3: things throughout the year.

718
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Speaker 4: And those daily habits really add up, you know, and

719
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 4: I've just seen it throughout my career. We do it

720
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 4: too in the weight room, you know, how we approach that,

721
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 4: how you take care of yourself, you can you can

722
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 4: mature change of habits, how you sleep, how you eat,

723
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 4: you know, all those things. And so we really put

724
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 4: a premium on that. We have every place we bat

725
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 4: and I've seen it work, you know. So it's our

726
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 4: hope with this year's team. Yeah, that guys just continue

727
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 4: to get better too. A guy like Isaac, you know

728
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 4: from where he was, can he just continue to you know,

729
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 4: have the daily grind, the daily vitamins, keep getting better

730
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 4: and keep stacking days. It doesn't mean every game is

731
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 4: going to be better the next, but when you stack

732
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 4: those days up and you look at from you know,

733
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 4: end of October kind of we're doing the exhibition games

734
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 4: to you know, the Big Ten tournament, you can get

735
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 4: a lot better.

736
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. And he even said in the postgame

737
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 3: interview last night after the game that he does feel

738
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 3: he can feel the game slowing down for him a

739
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 3: little bit. He has that confidence you can see almost

740
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 3: as the game goes on, the confidence building each each week.

741
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And you know, and I think what people don't

742
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 4: see on the outside too, is how much just emotionally

743
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 4: these guys go through. I mean, there's all the physical

744
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 4: stuff right the like you said, the film and the

745
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 4: and the drill work, the skill work, the practice, but

746
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 4: it's also just maturing emotionally, you know, not getting too up,

747
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 4: not getting too down, learning how to manage all those

748
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 4: things than a game, the frustration that you have, the

749
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 4: joy and exhilaration and just all those ups and downs

750
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 4: and learning how to go through that is a huge

751
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 4: part in development. And I'm really seeing that from him

752
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 4: here again, even from the fall to right now.

753
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, we're ready for the long contested too.

754
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: Let's do it.

755
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Speaker 4: I kind of feeling could it be like Tom Brady

756
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 4: coming in for you for Drew Blood?

757
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 3: It might be.

758
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I kind of feel it. Yeah, I JG's listening.

759
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 4: But you better be careful. Better be careful. We have

760
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 4: careful taking those days off. You don't want to take

761
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 4: a day off. I'm all right this is going to

762
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Speaker 4: be a holiday.

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Speaker 3: Themed uh long contested too. Do you have in your

764
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 3: lifetime from from way back until now a favorite Christmas

765
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 3: present that you got that stands out to you either

766
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 3: you know, something maybe last year or something when you

767
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 3: were four years old or something in between. Boy, that's

768
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 3: such a great question.

769
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Speaker 4: I think if I remember, and I won't because the

770
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 4: years just go by, you know, I say the days

771
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 4: are long, but the years go by.

772
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Speaker 3: Right.

773
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Speaker 4: At one point, I know, I've got like my first Nintendo, right,

774
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 4: you know, game thing with the cassettes, and that was

775
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 4: just like mugic oh man. And I'm trying to remember

776
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 4: the games that we had first, but getting that first

777
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 4: Nintendo in video games, it was the Atari first, right, yes,

778
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 4: but then the Nintendo came out and it was just

779
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 4: that much better. Yeah, I'm trying to remember what the

780
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 4: game was everyone played on that was it?

781
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 3: Was it Mario Mario?

782
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 5: Yeah?

783
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, that was awesome, and so that might have

784
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 4: been my favorite. Like as a kid, we got that

785
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 4: and then we kind of got into the video games too,

786
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 4: and that was fun. You just felt like you were

787
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 4: kind of doing something really cool that not all that

788
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 4: everybody else was doing.

789
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're talking about the very first Nintendo you were

790
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 3: remember way back maybe you're maybe not quite old enough.

791
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Speaker 3: Was it Paw? It was a pong? Was that the

792
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 3: name of it?

793
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Speaker 9: Like?

794
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 3: That was the first game, and that was basically two

795
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 3: little stick things. You're like playing ping pong and then

796
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 3: and you're thinking that's pretty cool, and then Atari comes out. Yeah. Now,

797
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 3: where I grew up, a radio shack was going out

798
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 3: of business, and my parents bought me a game called

799
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Speaker 3: The Odyssey, which was like the Atari knockoff. So instead

800
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 3: of like Donkey Kong, I had to play a game

801
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 3: called Pickaxe. Pete never heard of it? Act, how about

802
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:21,439
Speaker 3: that the Odyssey? So that that was yeah, yeah, actually yeah,

803
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 3: And I think was pac Man on Atari too? I

804
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 3: think maybe?

805
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 4: And then the other one was it Nintendo came up?

806
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Speaker 4: Was it the legend of Zelda? Was that like a

807
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 4: big game?

808
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 3: I don't remember. I don't know. Yeah, maybe I'm way off.

809
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,720
Speaker 3: I don't know. Man, it was the original the Nintendo

810
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 3: sixty four or was the sixty four then later I

811
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 3: think sixty four was late later. Yeah, But that that's

812
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 3: so that you think that's your number one. Then then first,

813
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 3: it's the first thing that just came to my mind.

814
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Speaker 4: I've got you know, he got some great gifts throughout

815
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,760
Speaker 4: the years, but that one, Yeah, I just I remember

816
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 4: that and like that was pretty cool. And then you

817
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 4: get the gift and then yeah, you know a lot

818
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 4: of video games, but me and my brothers we could

819
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 4: just you know, play that and we just thought it

820
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 4: was the coolest thing ever.

821
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. All right, So are you do you

822
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 3: get gifts for your kids or does your wife pick

823
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 3: those out? Or as a basketball coach, do you have

824
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 3: time to head to Kohle's or something. I do. I

825
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 3: do everything you do, all the shops, I do all

826
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 3: of it. I mean, I do everything right.

827
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 4: I got to coach the team, I got a recruit,

828
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 4: I gotta do everything around the house and by the

829
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 4: Christmas all of it. Yeah, oh my gosh. I mean,

830
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 4: I don't know what I would do without Erica. So

831
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 4: she handles, you know, she handles that for the most part.

832
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 4: I shouldn't say no, my kids aren't listening here, but

833
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 4: you know, and then I know what happens when I looked, really,

834
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 4: you know, hey, thanks dad.

835
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 3: You know are you when your kids open the presence?

836
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 3: Are you as surprised as they are sometimes I wouldn't.

837
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 4: Say that much, but like, remember we got that for

838
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 4: that Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, I remember, you know, so yeah,

839
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 4: but she's the cool mom, so she knows, you know,

840
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 4: what's what they want exactly.

841
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 3: Very good. How about for your holiday celebrations, do you

842
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 3: have a favorite or a traditional food? Is it always

843
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 3: the same each year or how does that work in

844
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 3: the house?

845
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 4: Well, way back, you know when I was a hey, gosh,

846
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 4: I say way back now. It was when I was

847
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 4: when I was a kid and growing up here, you know,

848
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 4: we would always we'd end up going to Mass at midnight.

849
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 4: You know, we did the midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.

850
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 4: But we always had this kind of traditional I'm my

851
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 4: dad's side. The family Slovenian, so we would always have

852
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 4: the you know, traditional Slovenian sausage, sour kraut. We had

853
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 4: this this soup that we made and the homemade bread

854
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:24,800
Speaker 4: and that was pretty cool. We still do that today,

855
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 4: so we'll still do that over at my mom's house.

856
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 4: Even when we were in Colorado, we would order not

857
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 4: the not the stuff you go here, but we would

858
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 4: order it from the iron range, you know, all the

859
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 4: way all the way up there, order the real stuff,

860
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 4: right if you want to want to do it. So

861
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,919
Speaker 4: we still would get that for Christmas and and yeah,

862
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 4: we'll do the same thing here Christmas Eve. Now we

863
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,439
Speaker 4: will not go to Mass at midnight. You know, I'm

864
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 4: too old for that, you know what I mean time.

865
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I would be so sound asleep by that.

866
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 4: But but we will do that. So yeah, that's kind

867
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 4: of been been a tradition in the medved household and

868
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 4: one that we've stayed with, is it?

869
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 3: And the sour krauts ausoe really good? Yeah for you

870
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Speaker 3: this time around, So this is kind of your first

871
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Speaker 3: Christmas back in your home city with your family here

872
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Speaker 3: a little extra special meaning this year for you, you

875
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Speaker 3: know what, It'll be cool.

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Speaker 4: I mean again, I remember my parents still live in

877
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Speaker 4: we spent So that will be kind of cool this

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881
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883
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Speaker 3: I'll say this though too.

884
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Speaker 4: You know, when you coach now in this and the

885
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Speaker 4: grind of these seasons, and as you know now more

886
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Speaker 4: than ever, everyone thinks, well, the season's over. Heck, when

887
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 4: the season's over, the next six weeks are almost busier

888
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 4: been the.

889
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Speaker 3: Ones that you just you know, I went through.

890
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,919
Speaker 4: So we get this little four day break here, boy,

891
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Speaker 4: you got to enjoy it, man, go off the grid

892
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 4: a little bit here, and so also just going to

893
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Speaker 4: enjoy some time just being at my house. Sure, and

894
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 4: we've had people over and all that stuff like that.

895
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Speaker 4: So it's going to be nice just to have some

896
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Speaker 4: time at home.

897
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Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome. All right, how was that for the long

898
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Speaker 3: contested too? All right, we get we did.

899
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900
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901
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902
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll let him do it next week. But but

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Speaker 3: it's going to be tested. We're going to see, you know,

904
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905
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Speaker 3: So it's a coach Medved and I here flying a

949
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Speaker 3: two man game big ten. We're almost set to resume that,

950
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 3: and I know you want a few days to yourself

951
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,439
Speaker 3: before you really have to dive into that. But how

952
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 3: much at this point, knowing that you're you know, you

953
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 3: have your own team to worry about, and you want

954
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 3: to get ready for each of these games. But how

955
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 3: much do you pay attention this time of year to

956
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 3: the other games? Played Auburn the other day and they

957
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 3: suffer a faith that almost everyone that goes into that

958
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 3: place suffers. I think that was a twenty eight point

959
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 3: game too, And Auburn's rank twenty first, so Produe's pretty good.

960
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 3: Nebraska's undefeated, Michigan's undefeated, There's four teams in the top

961
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 3: fifteen out of the Big ten. So how much you're

962
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 3: paying attention? Well, you just made me pay attention right there.

963
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 3: If I wasn't, I guess I am.

964
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Speaker 5: Now.

965
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 4: You know I've watched most of the teams play a

966
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 4: little bit. I have a pretty good idea, But honestly,

967
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 4: like right now, I just and I know it's a cliche.

968
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 4: I'm just worried about us, man, I really am. You

969
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 4: take them one at a time, you keep getting better.

970
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 4: You have no control over what anyone else is doing

971
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 4: in their program right now. The only thing you have

972
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 4: control over is what we're doing. And so now this

973
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 4: is the Big ten is what it is. We got

974
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 4: a lot of teams that look like they could be

975
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 4: national championship, you know, contenders, but that's what you sign

976
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 4: up for and it's kind of program we aspire to be.

977
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 4: And so you know, we're gonna get our chances here

978
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 4: to challenge ourselves.

979
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 3: But the best way to do that is to continue

980
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 3: to get better and worry about our own house. It's

981
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 3: new too, in terms of now year two of this

982
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 3: eighteen team league, and it's different than it used to be,

983
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 3: so to speak. I'm not saying it's better, it's worse.

984
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 3: It's just different in that you play everybody basically just once.

985
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 3: You only play three teams I think twice now, So

986
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 3: it's more of almost like a football schedule where you

987
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,919
Speaker 3: play you know, you play somebody there at their place

988
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 3: last year, you're playing them at home this year, and

989
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 3: vice versa. I don't think that's how it was. Right

990
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 3: in the Mountain West, it was more of a you

991
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 3: play almost everybody twice.

992
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, we finally we had gone to we were

993
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 4: you know, everybody twice. Then we added somebody. Then there

994
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 4: was most of the teams twice, a couple of one plays,

995
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 4: and then we got twenty game league schedules, so.

996
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 3: True round robin, home and home. I loved that.

997
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought that was great, just playing everybody twice.

998
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 4: I love that kind of competition that way. You know,

999
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 4: trying to sweep a team two times was always really

1000
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 4: satisfying but really hard to do. But you know, that's

1001
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 4: not the way it goes here, you know, And so

1002
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 4: I think there's probably pros and cons to both. I

1003
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 4: do like the fact that they made the decision this

1004
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 4: year to let all the teams in the Big Ten tournament.

1005
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 3: Yep.

1006
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 4: And when you look at it what happened last year

1007
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 4: and I wasn't here obviously, but boy, to get into

1008
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 4: the tournament that last butt, I mean, it went down

1009
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 4: to the wire, right, and you've got all these teams

1010
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 4: within a game, like in Nebraska's case last year, they

1011
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 4: get left out.

1012
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 3: They were on the bubble. They were on the bubble,

1013
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 3: you know. I mean, they had a chance.

1014
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 4: They go to a Big Ten tournament, they win two games,

1015
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 4: they're in the NCAA tournament, and they get left out

1016
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 4: because of and think about how much the schedule impacts that. Yeah,

1017
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 4: So I mean it could just literally come down to

1018
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 4: who you played at home and on the road, and

1019
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 4: just by the luck of the draw, who you And

1020
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 4: so when you're playing this unbalanced schedule like that, I

1021
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 4: think it's hard to leave somebody at home, you know,

1022
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 4: And so I'm happy that they're doing it that way

1023
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 4: this year.

1024
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Speaker 3: I think that's the reason. That particular Nebraska situation is

1025
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 3: the reason, and it's going to happen again.

1026
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 4: I mean, it could happen again that the league is

1027
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 4: so deep and you're just coming down to a couple

1028
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 4: of games and it literally could just come down to

1029
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 4: who ended up, you know, going to Purdue instead of here,

1030
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 4: and and I don't think that's fair.

1031
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 3: Well, when you think about that last year, I'm trying

1032
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 3: to remember how it all unfolded. I remember the Gophers

1033
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 3: went down there and upset Nebraska late in the year,

1034
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 3: and at that point they had I think, we're coming

1035
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 3: off of a loss at Ohio State, But prior to

1036
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 3: that loss of Ohio State, they're like in all the projections,

1037
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 3: solidly in absolutely, and so then they losed Ohio State,

1038
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 3: the Gophers get them on their floor, first time Minnesota

1039
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 3: had won in that building, and then I think the

1040
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 3: final game they're playing in Iowa. The winner of that

1041
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 3: game makes the Big Ten Tournament and the losers out.

1042
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 3: And as you said, Nebraska is still on the bubble

1043
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 3: at that point, so they lose the game, they don't

1044
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 3: get a chance. I remember talking with an opposing coach

1045
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 3: at the Big Ten Tournament and he was basically saying,

1046
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 3: if I'm Fred Hoiberg, I'm so mad right now. Look,

1047
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 3: they lost some games. If they just win one of

1048
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 3: those who are probably in, but still the league in

1049
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 3: essence kind of pulls the track door on you there

1050
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 3: in terms of their rule on that thing. And I

1051
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 3: get it these as well, just win another game and

1052
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 3: it's fine. I mean, I can't be that now. That's

1053
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 3: easier said, it's not easy. It's not easy all these games.

1054
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 4: I mean, everybody looks at every single game is just

1055
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 4: people have no idea how hard winning is. And so

1056
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 4: so yeah, I think it was a good move by

1057
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 4: the league, I mean, to protect ourselves and so everyone

1058
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 4: will get it.

1059
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 3: We'll get a crack at Yeah, all right, how about

1060
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 3: this for the craziest idea You'll hear all season people

1061
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,760
Speaker 3: talk about the non conference schedule and all this stuff.

1062
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 3: So there's eighteen team Big Ten. What if you played

1063
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 3: a round robin thirty four game schedule and that's all

1064
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 3: you played? Wow, you just really threw that. Yeah, what

1065
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:34,919
Speaker 3: the heck?

1066
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 4: You know a couple of things. Man, we can go

1067
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 4: down the rabbit hole if you want.

1068
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 3: Here.

1069
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,479
Speaker 4: I do think I do think you're going to see

1070
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 4: as this stuff evolves, in my opinion, and what do

1071
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 4: I know, but I think you're going to see the

1072
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 4: basketball schedule eventually get expanded. I think you will end

1073
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 4: up playing more. But they get one more game next year.

1074
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 4: But I could see us going to a forty forty

1075
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 4: five game kind of deal.

1076
00:45:58,040 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 3: And why would they do that?

1077
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 4: Yeah you know, I mean you can sell the TV

1078
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 4: rights for for more more games, more money, more high

1079
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 4: profile games, more money. Right, I could see that, so

1080
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 4: that I could see something like that, whether we go

1081
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 4: to thirty four games or not, but I could see

1082
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 4: more high profile games, more games in general because of

1083
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:20,959
Speaker 4: the revenue piece of it too.

1084
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:23,760
Speaker 3: Gosh that they're they're here all summer.

1085
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Speaker 4: And I'm not saying I'm necessarily a proponent, but I

1086
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 4: do think we need to evolve here with the with

1087
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 4: the times, and I do think you'll see more of

1088
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 4: these high profile opponents too. These neutral site games you

1089
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 4: know right now are probably not going away. People want

1090
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 4: to know why you're not playing more games at home,

1091
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 4: like home and homes. It's just become harder and harder

1092
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 4: because you know, there's a monetary component. You go play

1093
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 4: these one off neutral games. Usually there's money involved for

1094
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 4: both schools, and in today's day and age, that's difficult

1095
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 4: to turn down.

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00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 3: You know. That's just kind of the way that it is.

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00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 3: So yeah, and with you and we've got just a

1098
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 3: minute or so, And I wasn't even necessarily intended to

1099
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 3: go down this, but I always am intrigued by the discussion.

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00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 3: So scheduling now for next season, even though you've got

1101
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 3: lots of stuff to worry about for this season, when

1102
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 3: does that start? In earnest, in regard to the non

1103
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 3: conference appontment, we're already doing it.

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00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:16,919
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean next year, you know, we've got

1105
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 4: to find the multi team event that will be in

1106
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 4: a couple of these you know, neutral games that we've

1107
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 4: talked about. I mean, those are critical to developing your

1108
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 4: non conference schedule. You kind of work everything else around that.

1109
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 4: We don't have any home and homes we had the

1110
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 4: Missouri game this year. We actually were about ready to

1111
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 4: schedule Vanderbilt home and home, but that fell through once

1112
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 4: we had to play at Missouri.

1113
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 3: But no, we're working on it right now.

1114
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 4: It's different than football that seems to be done like

1115
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 4: forty years in advance or whatever.

1116
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,720
Speaker 3: With I think we're going to Alabama in like twenty

1117
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:43,760
Speaker 3: ninety eight or something.

1118
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean. But but no, I mean,

1119
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 4: we're we're kind of working on that right now. But

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00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 4: because the team's change so much year to year, sometimes

1121
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 4: people want it. They don't want to schedule out too

1122
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 4: far because you don't know what it's going to look

1123
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 4: like in three years.

1124
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 3: Matt Vandy would have been nice. Their arena, the kind

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00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,800
Speaker 3: of old history or a Memorial Coliseum where you'd be

1126
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 3: on the end zones, the benches are in the in

1127
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 3: zones and then play at the elevated floor here. That'd

1128
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 3: make for some fun team cool. Maybe one day, maybe

1129
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 3: one day you can get that one scheduled. All right, well,

1130
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 3: very good. We always appreciate it. Happy holidays to you,

1131
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 3: and I know you always want to wish all the

1132
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 3: Gopher fans that.

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00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, happy how it is Merry Christmas terry, But I

1134
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 4: tell you it was really cool. I thought that we

1135
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 4: had a really good crowd yester yeah to bet on

1136
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 4: break and the students thought the crowd was good. And

1137
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 4: so hopefully that continues to grow. But appreciate all of you.

1138
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 4: Have a merry Christmas. Go Gophers. All right, very good.

1139
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Speaker 4: There he is the head coach. He is Nico Medved.

1140
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Speaker 3: Next game a week from tonight, Monday, the twenty ninth,

1141
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 3: Fairleigh Dickinson coming to town eight o'clock. The tip we'll

1142
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:40,240
Speaker 3: take here at seven thirty and tickets available at gophersports

1143
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,760
Speaker 3: dot com. We have Go for Football this Friday. Please

1144
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 3: tune in. One thirty is the pregame. Three thirty the

1145
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 3: kickoff Minnesota and New Mexico from the Rate Bowl in Phoenix.

1146
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 3: This has been Go for Basketball Weekly with Nico Medved

1147
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Speaker 3: from lear Field