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

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Speaker 2: From Cincinnati.

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

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Speaker 3: Our three starts now ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: Let's do so uh with the gentlemen. We get to

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Speaker 3: speak to each and every Thursday as we start our

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Speaker 3: number three. Today just happened to coincide with the game

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Speaker 3: day for the Cincinnati Bearcats. From Bearcat Journal dot Com.

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Speaker 3: Our good friend Kegan nickoson with us right now. Hello Kegan,

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Speaker 3: Hello Tony. It's a wonderful day.

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Speaker 2: Kegan. How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing excellent. How are you?

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Speaker 3: How's your mental? You're now another week removed from your

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Speaker 3: national championship with Indiana u SE coming off a tough

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Speaker 3: loss against Houston. Where's your mental? Where does that fall?

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Speaker 3: On a day like today?

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Speaker 1: Anytime there's snow on the ground, it's to make me happier,

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Speaker 1: put a smile on my face ever since I graduated,

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Speaker 1: So it's not great.

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Speaker 3: We had a chance earlier in the week to hear

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Speaker 3: not only from Wes Miller, but from Gigsel James as well,

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Speaker 3: kind of talking about his path and how he got back.

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Speaker 3: Were there any major takeaways that you had in listening

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Speaker 3: to Gigsel James and sharing his appreciation for being back

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Speaker 1: No major takeaways. I think it sounds like he's doing good,

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Speaker 1: which is great to hear. He's a he's a good kid,

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Speaker 1: and you know, seeing everything that happened, it was really

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Speaker 1: it was disappointing, and it was it was just a

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Speaker 1: sad situation. But I know there's a lot of opinions

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Speaker 1: on what should have happened. But to see a kid

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Speaker 1: be able to be reunited with his passion and kind

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Speaker 1: of do the necessary stuff to get back on the

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Speaker 1: basketball team around his coaches and around his teammates and

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Speaker 1: it seems like he's flourishing is really good. It seemed

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Speaker 1: like Wes kind of was may be getting a little

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Speaker 1: bit emotional when he was talking about it, which is

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Speaker 1: completely understandable. Like it's a it's a sad situation, and

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Speaker 1: it's it's good to see Jisel back with the team.

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Speaker 2: A tough situation to watch.

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Speaker 3: On Saturday, as Houston took it to the Cincinnati Bearcats

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Speaker 3: seventy six fifty four. They led by as many as

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Speaker 3: thirty in that game, but in the game itself, Mustapha

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Speaker 3: cham leaves. He's on the bench in the second half

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Speaker 3: with a walking boot on. Seanna Bive is not one

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Speaker 3: hundred per he's dealing with the high ankle spring. Sincere

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Speaker 3: Harris was down seven days according to Wes Miller, with

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Speaker 3: an illness. Still no Haynes for this team. As we

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Speaker 3: get deeper into the season now in the Big twelve

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Speaker 3: slate from a health standpoint alone, what's the latest we

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like Sinceor Harris should be playing based

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Speaker 1: on the availability report last night. Surprisingly, Mustafa cham as

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Speaker 1: questionable and then Shauna bib and Jalen Hayes are still out,

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Speaker 1: which I mean, if you kind of slowed down the

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Speaker 1: video of the Sham injury, it looked a lot worse

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Speaker 1: than it actually was. So when we heard Tuesday, when

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Speaker 1: we heard Wes say that he was day to day,

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Speaker 1: that was kind of surprising to me, especially given like

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Speaker 1: how quickly he went to the locker room with Bob Mangein,

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Speaker 1: how quickly he had a boot put on, and he

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Speaker 1: pretty quick like ankle roll, ankle snap, and then he

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Speaker 1: wasn't able to put any weight on it, So that's

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Speaker 1: a big plus. Maybe he just misses a game, which

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Speaker 1: I think, given the circumstances, or be a positive outcome

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Speaker 1: of what happened. But maybe he's able to play. So

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Speaker 1: I think this is a very winnable game for Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: if Musafacham were to play. If not, as you saw,

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Speaker 1: everything went downhill pretty quickly for the entire team, kind

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Speaker 1: of showing just how important seam is on both the

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Speaker 3: This team has not got consistent road play from their

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Speaker 3: position to compete at a high level in the Big Twelve.

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Speaker 3: And while we could talk about Jizzle with that as well,

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Speaker 3: State the big win at fifth third areen. He had

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Speaker 3: over twice. Since then in four games, he's combined for

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Speaker 3: sixteen points in eleven turnovers. What has happened right now

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Speaker 3: with Dayda Thomas? Is it confidence? Is it health? Can

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Speaker 3: you pinpoint anything that leads to the struggles of one

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Speaker 3: veteran presence on this team has just not been so

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Speaker 1: Yeah, without any inside information, if I had to peg

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Speaker 1: it on one thing, I think it would just be fatigue.

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Speaker 1: Like the kids then playing thirty one to thirty four

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Speaker 1: Wes Miller has to play him, then Gisel James that much,

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Speaker 1: Kurk Krisa was injured and wasn't playing, and now he's

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Speaker 1: to ask Keshan Tillery to play like twenty to twenty

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Speaker 1: the Holman road splits and he was just kind of blunt.

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Speaker 1: He was just like, yeah, we have to play better,

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Speaker 1: like he didn't really have a formula for why it happens,

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Speaker 1: those environments, because I mean, it makes sense for the

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Speaker 1: seen some guys perform better on the road. But it's

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Speaker 1: kind of just in a case of like, this is

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Speaker 3: Boba Miller's been so good for this team. He has

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Speaker 3: an off day against Houston. Houston does that to a

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Speaker 3: lot of people where they say, this guy's not going

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Speaker 3: to beat us. They made sure Boba Miller was that

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Speaker 3: But I would expect him to get back to his

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Speaker 3: form tonight. Another player that I didn't spend a lot

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because Wes actually said after the game,

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Speaker 1: like more than likely they're probably going to have a

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Speaker 1: good for him to kind of have that good offensive

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Speaker 1: also agree with what Wes says that he's a guy

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Speaker 3: I do have to ask before I ask you about

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Speaker 3: tonight after the game, Wes Miller dives in a little

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Speaker 3: bit too, being in three time zones in six days,

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Speaker 3: that that's a part of what this team is going through.

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Speaker 3: I also think from a bigger picture, it's something similar

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Speaker 1: Don't think anyone or I don't think a coach of

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Speaker 1: I just don't get why coaches who aren't constantly playing

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Speaker 1: for me. We lost because of this, So don't really

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Speaker 1: to find a way to spend something, So like I

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Speaker 1: don't blame Wes for saying that. I just I just

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Speaker 1: don't think he should expect people to sympathize with him

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree without a shadow of doubt. That being said,

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Speaker 3: that could be the case after the Arizona loss and

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Speaker 2: What do you expect just from a of an.

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Speaker 3: Effort standpoint tonight, because they have at least answered that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think since your Harris should have

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Speaker 1: I think since your Harris takes advantage of. He'll also

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Speaker 1: great game. But I also like you talked about it

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Speaker 1: think he made seven threes against you see when they

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Speaker 1: They need to try to shut him down if they can,

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Speaker 1: like they did to Kingston Flemmings. West Virginia doesn't really

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Speaker 3: I'm interested to see again how how they fight tonight.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned what the path to victory would be the

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Speaker 3: first go around was one of those games this year

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Speaker 3: at some point is enough going to be enough to

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Speaker 3: where this team just says, man, it's just not our year.

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Speaker 3: They continue to fight, but things aren't happening for them.

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Speaker 3: I'm so interested to see how that pans out going forward.

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Speaker 3: I do have to ask on the football side of things,

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Speaker 3: some additions made to this team.

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Speaker 2: How hard is.

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Speaker 3: It when you add in the portal age and the

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Speaker 3: Can you identify that as it's happening or do you

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Speaker 1: I usually have no idea until spring practice. Like I

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Speaker 1: they had brought back Christian Harrison and Jaquan Thanks and look,

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Speaker 1: I if you had to ask me, I would probably

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Speaker 1: rather have Christian Harrison and Jikwan Sayings run it back

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Speaker 1: kind of gives some storylines and something to be curious about.

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Speaker 1: And when you're in this stage of you know, Cincinnati Athletics,

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Speaker 1: you have to take everything you can get. So Ty

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Speaker 1: Goodwill is the stud and then also friend Schild, the

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Speaker 1: of mine. Yes, he's someone that he's someone I'm going

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Speaker 1: to have a close.

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Speaker 2: Eye on, you said, minds not Mine's.

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Speaker 1: Minds. Okay, Colorado School of Mine.

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Speaker 3: All right, well it could have am im Yes, could

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Speaker 3: be interesting. Give me your score predictions for tonight, Keagan,

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Speaker 3: put your put your name on it right now.

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Speaker 1: If Data Ages are going to have a good offensive game,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say they're going to surpass seventy four. So

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say tventy six to sixty eight. There we go, SINTI,

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Speaker 1: there we go. Thanks.

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