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Speaker 2: Gotta make your layups, gotta make your layups. Bengals made

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Speaker 2: talk about. Bruce Pearl versus Miami UC wins, Xavier wins,

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Speaker 2: We'll keep you up to date on how that game

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Speaker 2: is going as the afternoon unfolds. The Bengals have passed

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Speaker 2: an early season test this and I'm not the only

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Speaker 2: person to say this, and this is not the first

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Speaker 2: time I've said this, this is an extraordinarily important offseason.

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Speaker 2: If the Bengals are going to win a Super Bowl

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Speaker 2: with Joe Burrow as the starting quarterback while he's in

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Speaker 2: his prime, this offseason is going to have a lot

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Speaker 2: is going to have a lot to do with that.

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Speaker 2: They have a lot of really hard things to do.

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Speaker 2: It's hard roster building in the NFL. We make it

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Speaker 2: sound easy, but it is hard. They have to make

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Speaker 2: the right decisions in free agency, make the right investments

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Speaker 2: in free agency. They have to find guys who fit

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Speaker 2: specifically what they're looking for. They have to identify the

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Speaker 2: right players and then convince them to come to Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: They've got to nail it in the draft. They need

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Speaker 2: picks in. They've got to do some hard things when

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Speaker 2: it comes to some of their own players. They have

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Speaker 2: in the coming weeks and months. So you gotta do

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Speaker 2: the easy stuff. Then you got to take care of

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Speaker 2: the easy stuff. Getting Dalton Reisner done is easy. You

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Speaker 2: can't make threes until you make layups. Signing Dalton Reisner

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Speaker 2: was a layup. A layup. Here's a guy who wants

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Speaker 2: to be here, has stated publicly his desire to be here,

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Speaker 2: who last season helped give Joe Burrow the best offensive

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Speaker 2: The Bengals offensive line at the end of the season

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Speaker 2: last year was performing at the highest level of any

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Speaker 2: back to like twenty sixteen. It's not to say that

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Speaker 2: Who's going to give you a level of stability that

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Speaker 2: And so to whatever degree you want to give Duke

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Speaker 2: it to him. But they made it, and to a degree,

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Speaker 2: they pass a very big and important early season test.

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Speaker 2: Not the easiest or hardest test I should say the

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Speaker 2: This was a second grade spelling test. Bengals passed it.

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Speaker 2: the off season really hasn't started yet. The league year

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Speaker 2: They didn't add guard to their short term needs. When

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Speaker 2: it comes to the draft. They pretty much set themselves

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Speaker 2: They passed an early season test. And now and it's

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Speaker 2: That is an oversimplification, because sure, they could use a

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Speaker 2: It's going to take some time for these guys to gel.

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Speaker 2: Like we talk about the benefits of continuity all the time,

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Speaker 2: So you got a dude who wants to be here. Also,

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Speaker 1: They made a lamp again.

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Speaker 2: twenty four and four. In Xavier's two games this past week,

436
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Speaker 2: you see is getting set to take on BYU tomorrow.

437
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Speaker 2: Boba Miller, I'm sorry, Mustapha Chom for the second consecutive

438
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Speaker 2: week earns Big twelve Starting five honors. What else do

439
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Speaker 2: we have? We have honors for some NKU players. You

440
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Speaker 2: might hear me right now and think most sounds distracted.

441
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Speaker 2: I'm just woefully disorganized. Donovan o Day Second Team All

442
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Speaker 2: Horizon League and Tay Doser All Defensive Team in the

443
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Speaker 2: Horizon League. The Norris Open up Horizon League Tournament play

444
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Speaker 2: at Oakland on Wednesday. Go look at that bracket. Tell

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Speaker 2: me that it makes any sense. And hockey tonight. The

446
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Speaker 2: Blue Jackets have lost their first two games post Olympic break.

447
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Speaker 2: There at Madison Square Garden tonight to take on the

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Speaker 2: New York Rangers.

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Speaker 1: You are caught up?

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Speaker 2: Uh. This hit the internet and went viral. More on

451
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Speaker 2: Dalton Riser in the Bengals coming up here in a

452
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Speaker 2: little bit. Miami plays Toledo tomorrow and then the RedHawks

453
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Speaker 2: will play oh you in Athens on Friday, and if

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Speaker 2: Miami wins both of those games, they will have gotten

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Speaker 2: through the regular season with an unblemished record, and obviously

456
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Speaker 2: with each game that the RedHawks win, like ideally, this

457
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Speaker 2: is a moot point, because they win the MAC Tournament.

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Speaker 1: And they're in.

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Speaker 2: As the max automatic qualifier at that point. If they

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Speaker 2: do that with no losses, it'll be interesting to see

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Speaker 2: where they get seated in the NCAA Tournament. But yes,

462
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Speaker 2: it is totally fair to wonder what will happen with

463
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Speaker 2: Miami if the RedHawks lose a game. Now, if they

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Speaker 2: lose a game in the regular season, had they lost

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Speaker 2: that game on Friday, that would have been a Q

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Speaker 2: four loss. That would have been devastating to the RedHawks.

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Speaker 2: If they win these last two games and then lose

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Speaker 2: in the MAC Tournament, I guess the question becomes, well,

469
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Speaker 2: when did they lose and who did they lose to?

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Speaker 1: But they're at large.

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Speaker 2: Bonafides are one of the hotter topics in all of

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Speaker 2: college basketball right now, so much so that it was

473
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Speaker 2: brought up on TNT's coverage of college basketball this weekend.

474
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Speaker 2: TNT has been awesome covering college hoops. There's a real

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Speaker 2: big game field to a lot of the games, even

476
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Speaker 2: some games that aren't quite that big. But as one

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Speaker 2: might imagine, Miami's NCAA tournament bonafides did get discussed, and

478
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Speaker 2: these comments from Bruce Pearl have drawn the ire of

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Speaker 2: a lot of RedHawks supporters.

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Speaker 6: Miami or howe, here's the deal. Are we gonna select

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Speaker 6: the sixty eight most deserving teams or are we gonna

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Speaker 6: sixty select the sixty eight best teams. If we're selecting

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Speaker 6: the sixty eight best teams, then mimbo how is gonna

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Speaker 6: have to win their tournament to qualify as a champion

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Speaker 6: because as in at large, they are not one of

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Speaker 6: the best teams in the country and that's gonna be

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Speaker 6: a difficult choice for the committee to make.

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Speaker 2: So, and the ad David Saylor, has clap back at him.

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Speaker 2: I guess Bruce also said that Miami would finish in

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Speaker 2: last place in the Big East. I didn't see that,

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Speaker 2: didn't hear that. I was not watching T and T

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Speaker 2: or True TV whatever it was when Bruce Pearl made

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Speaker 2: those comments.

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Speaker 1: I did see that they, as we say, went viral.

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Speaker 2: So let me give you my take on Miami, and

496
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Speaker 2: it's it's really been unchanged. If they pull this off,

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Speaker 2: if they win their last two games, and they'll be

498
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Speaker 2: favored at home tomorrow against Toledo, Kenpalm dot Com gives

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Speaker 2: them a seventy eight percent chance of winning, and I

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Speaker 2: believe they'll be favored against Ohio, a team they beat

501
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Speaker 2: by sixteen at Malett Hall. That game would be on Friday.

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Speaker 2: They're given us seventy four percent chance of winning that game.

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Speaker 2: That point thirty one to oh Now, for the purposes

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Speaker 2: of seeding them and selecting them to the tournament, they

505
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Speaker 2: would be twenty eight to zero because they had three

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Speaker 2: non D one games that don't count.

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Speaker 1: But they will have pulled this off.

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Speaker 2: If they do, I think they're gonna make it. The

509
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Speaker 2: schedule lack thereof, you might argue, is going to be considered,

510
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Speaker 2: will make their seed ceiling very very low. But I

511
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Speaker 2: would be really surprised, and I'm no bracketologists, but I'd

512
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Speaker 2: be very surprised if the committee ignores the zero and

513
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Speaker 2: simply does not put them in the tournament. That would

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Speaker 2: be surprising to me. That has been my take all along.

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Speaker 2: And there's there's taking two teams from what has historically

516
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Speaker 2: been a one bid league. And there's you know, understanding

517
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Speaker 2: that the schedule is weak, there's no getting around it,

518
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Speaker 2: and you could factor all of that in. We're not

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Speaker 2: talking about a team with two losses or four losses

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Speaker 2: or one loss We're talking about a team that will

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Speaker 2: have gotten through its full season, played an entire conference schedule,

522
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Speaker 2: having to go on the road, having played the last

523
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Speaker 2: month or so with a target on their back because

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Speaker 2: of having no losses. It cannot help but believe that

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Speaker 2: the tournament selection committee will honor the zero and pick them.

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Speaker 2: So that's been my take for like three weeks. That said,

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Speaker 2: Bruce Pearl is not necessarily wrong, Like that's not me

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Speaker 2: saying it. Let's just let's look for example at kenpalm

529
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Speaker 2: dot com, where the RedHawks are the eighty seventh ranked team,

530
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Speaker 2: like behind teams that have no prayer of making the tournament,

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Speaker 2: like Notre Dame, like Mississippi, like George Washington, like Syracuse Hell,

532
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Speaker 2: they have nearly double the Kem Palm rating of Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: and Cincinnati is a fringe bubble team, maybe a little

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Speaker 2: bit less fringe, but still a bubble team that wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be in the tournament right now if the bracket were

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Speaker 2: being drawn up. They've got a ton of work to do.

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Speaker 6: So, like.

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Speaker 2: Bruce Pearl, is not necessarily wrong that you could look

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Speaker 2: at Miami versus the field, versus all the other teams

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Speaker 2: and you could conclude that they're not one of the

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Speaker 2: best sixty eight teams, are not one of the best

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Speaker 2: thirty seven at large teams.

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Speaker 1: That is reasonable.

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Speaker 2: It is also reasonable to say, look the schedule being

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Speaker 2: what it is, the flaws of it being well established,

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Speaker 2: you simply cannot exclude a team that went through the

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Speaker 2: entire regular season without losing a game. Like there's there's

548
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Speaker 2: room for multiple truths. Miami is an extreme example. Every

549
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 2: year there are teams that post really good records that

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Speaker 2: have no chance of getting in as an at large

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Speaker 2: because they're not one of the best at large teams.

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Speaker 2: But we haven't had anything like this, And if you

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Speaker 2: want to use history as a guy, you know Saint

554
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Speaker 2: Joe's in two thousand and four went twenty seven to zero,

555
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Speaker 2: lost famously to Xavier in the Atlantic ten Tournament. Not

556
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Speaker 2: only got in, got in as a one seed. Nobody

557
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Speaker 2: is making the case that Miami should be seated first

558
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Speaker 2: or fifth or anywhere with a single digit next to

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Speaker 2: their name. Now maybe that changes if they win these

560
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Speaker 2: next two games and then win the MAC Tournament.

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Speaker 1: So, like Bruce Pearl is.

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Speaker 2: Not necessarily wrong, you could argue, and I think successfully.

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Speaker 2: He's maybe not the person that you want to hear

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Speaker 2: this from because he coached Auburn until the day before

565
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Speaker 2: practice started and then he left basically engineered things so

566
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Speaker 2: that the school had no choice but to hire his son.

567
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Speaker 2: His son's team has been very much a bubble team

568
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Speaker 2: this year. I felt like it burst this weekend. And

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Speaker 2: so is he coming from a completely objective place. I

570
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Speaker 2: don't know that the answer is yes or no, but

571
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Speaker 2: it's fair to wonder. So, like if anybody else says

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Speaker 2: that he's on set with Jamal Mashburn, Jamal Mashburn, who

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Speaker 2: I think is like a blossom does a color commentator

574
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Speaker 2: doing college games for Turner. If that's Jamal Mashburn saying

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Speaker 2: that with no emotional skin in the game because his

576
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Speaker 2: kid's not coaching Auburn, maybe it's taken a little bit differently.

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Speaker 2: But when you remove that and just look at the

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Speaker 2: comments or listen to them, like, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: metrics that will tell you that Bruce Pearl is not wrong.

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Speaker 2: That said, we're not talking about a four loss Miami team,

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Speaker 2: or a two loss Miami team, or again right now,

582
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Speaker 2: at least a one loss Miami team. This will change entirely.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps if they lose one of the next two and

584
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Speaker 2: lose in Cleveland in the MAC Tournament. My guess is

585
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Speaker 2: then they're on the outside looking in. But it's a

586
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Speaker 2: team that won all their games. It's something extreme. It's

587
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Speaker 2: an extreme example of a team succeeding in part at

588
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Speaker 2: least due to the schedule. And so for me, I

589
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Speaker 2: just could be dead wrong about this. There's no shortage

590
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Speaker 2: of people I'm sure who would disagree. I think if

591
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Speaker 2: a team gets through a four month season without losing

592
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Speaker 2: a game, I care about the schedule. The schedule will

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Speaker 2: impact their seating. Their schedule is why we're talking about them.

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Speaker 2: To begin with. There are not that many other teams

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Speaker 2: in college basketball that if they were undefeated on March second,

596
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Speaker 2: we would still be wondering are they going to make

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Speaker 2: the tournament? So it's not like the schedule is being ignored,

598
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Speaker 2: but sure, it's fair to say they're probably not one

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Speaker 2: of the best sixty eight teams. A lot of metrics

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Speaker 2: will tell you that. Now the net rating has them

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Speaker 2: within the best sixty eight teams. But you know, it's

602
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Speaker 2: interesting when they release the preliminary bracket. I heard nobody

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Speaker 2: with the committee use the net rating as something that

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Speaker 2: they talked about.

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Speaker 1: We'll see.

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Speaker 2: Ideally, Travis Steel's team wins the next two. They went

607
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Speaker 2: out in Cleveland, and they go into the NCAA tournament

608
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Speaker 2: basically as the automatic qualifier, and they have a zero

609
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Speaker 2: in the lost column, and then they're even more interesting

610
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Speaker 2: once the tournament gets here. But like, you know, he's

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Speaker 2: taken a Bruce Pearl's taking a lot of heat. Sure

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Speaker 2: it's coming at him on social media, and Bruce Pearl

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Speaker 2: opines about a lot of things that have nothing to

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Speaker 2: do with sports, and so for that reason, maybe that's

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Speaker 2: why he's in a lot of people's crosshairs. But as

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Speaker 2: it relates to his specific criticism of the RedHawks, like,

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Speaker 2: that's not.

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Speaker 1: Coming from a.

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Speaker 2: It's not coming from a crazy place, that's not a

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Speaker 2: hot take. He just might not be the person to

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Speaker 2: be able to objectively opine on Miami's resume and their

622
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Speaker 2: bonafides because you could wonder whether or not he's being

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Speaker 2: objective due to the fact that a Sun.

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Speaker 1: Coach is Auburn. That's it twelve and four.

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. We haven't even touched on the Bearcats who

627
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Speaker 2: win again. And you talk about there being multiple truths. Uh,

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Speaker 2: this is something we discuss all the time. There's room

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Speaker 2: for multiple troops when it comes to UC basketball. Will

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Speaker 2: do that coming up in the four o'clock hour. More

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Speaker 2: They're winning the game six y four, which is largely irrelevant.

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Speaker 2: Nick Sander was on the hill for Cincinnati for Brady

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Speaker 2: Singer win two, a better second inning than his first.

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Speaker 2: Matt McClain is now batting five thirty eight during Cactus

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Speaker 2: League games.

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Speaker 1: You are reasonable if you go.

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Speaker 2: That that that's nice, but it doesn't guarantee that he's

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Speaker 2: gonna have a productive season in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: That's fine, but.

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Speaker 2: It's it's okay to look for signs that might suggest

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Speaker 2: was last year. Matt McLain is a huge part of

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Speaker 2: this organization. He's a huge part of this team, and

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Speaker 2: like it always as as much as we've talked about

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Speaker 2: a Uhaneosuarez and his addition to the team, like they

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Speaker 2: view Matt McClain as a corner stone. The leash for

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Speaker 2: him last season was exceptionally long. There were times last

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Speaker 2: year where I didn't necessarily understand why we did the

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Speaker 2: whole thing in April and May last year about worrying

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Speaker 2: reality is like this team's chances of being better offensively

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Speaker 2: are enhanced the more players that they have that have

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Speaker 2: quality seasons. You can't have that many guys who have

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Speaker 2: seasons that look like Matt mcclin's last year. And by

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Speaker 2: a lot, Key Brian Hayes is a below average offensive player.

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Speaker 2: And that's putting it gently. In a day and age,

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Speaker 2: and this is a somewhat harsh way of looking at it,

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Speaker 2: but in a day and age where the pitcher no

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Speaker 2: longer bats, the Reds still have a guy who basically

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Speaker 2: represents close to an automatic out. Now those words will

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Speaker 2: be thrown in my face the first time Key Brian

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Speaker 2: Hayes has a big offensive game. But if you're going

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Speaker 2: to accept his offensive deficiencies because he's that great with

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Speaker 2: the glove, that's cool. But it does put a little

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Speaker 2: bit more pressure on some of the other guys on

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Speaker 2: the team. You can't have more than one offensive zero.

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Speaker 2: Last year, at times it felt like Matt McClain was

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Speaker 2: an offensive zero. He has been excuse me, so far,

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Speaker 2: anything but an offensive zero in the Cactus League, and

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Speaker 2: Matt McClain homeward for the second time this spring. None

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Speaker 2: of that guarantees anything. This team desperately needs Matt McClain

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Speaker 2: to be better. It's reasonable to look for things that

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Speaker 2: happened during the spring that would suggest that maybe we're

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Speaker 2: going to see better results this year. And Noelle Marte

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Speaker 2: went deep as well, his first of the spring, both

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Speaker 2: homers off the Cub starter Jamison Tyn. Obviously, we'll update

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Speaker 2: you on that as the afternoon unfolds on what looks

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Speaker 2: like a gorgeous afternoon in Goodyear. I like it when

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Speaker 2: they play the Cubs because the ballpark looks full. Let's

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Speaker 2: face it, not a lot of folks go to Goodyear.

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Speaker 2: Most Reds home spring training games aren't played in front

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Speaker 2: of that many people, But there are teams. You know,

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Speaker 2: the Cubs have been training there for decades. They have

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Speaker 2: a big spring training park. Always a lot of folks

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Speaker 2: that go to Goodyear when it's the Cubs, when it's

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers, when it's the Giants. Today is to day

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Speaker 2: Lots of really good stuff from the draft last week.

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Speaker 2: We had a guy Ben Robinson from Grinding the Mocks.

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Speaker 2: This guy looks at all the mock drafts so you

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