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Speaker 1: Any more details. It's ten away from four.

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Speaker 2: This is ESPN fifteen thirty on Molegger College Basketball season

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Speaker 2: and during the college basketball season. On Wednesdays, our friend

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Speaker 2: Rick Buring joins US Musketeer Report dot Com and the

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Speaker 2: Color Analyst on NKU radio broadcast. We talked Xavier and

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Speaker 2: NKU basketball with Rick. The Musketeers open up the Richard

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Speaker 2: Patino Ero with a win over Marist on Monday. Darren

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Speaker 2: Horn's team knocked off u C Claremont in blowout fashion.

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Speaker 2: The Norse will take on Tennessee on Saturday. Meanwhile, the

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Speaker 2: Musketeers are getting set to take on Lemoyne, which is

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Speaker 2: a private Jesuit college in Syracuse, New York.

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Speaker 1: Rick is with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hi, Rick something, Well, I'm just sitting here doing

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Speaker 2: a sports talk radio show. What was the biggest positive

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Speaker 2: to come out of Xavier's win on Monday?

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Speaker 3: Well, that they won it, right, I mean, that was

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Speaker 3: very much in question. Now, they did build up a

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Speaker 3: twenty point lead early in the second half, and it

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Speaker 3: looked like they might cruise after a rocky start to

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Speaker 3: the game, but then they went in a long, extended

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Speaker 3: six plus minute drought, scored a basket that went through

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Speaker 3: another six plus minute drought on the offensive end, which

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Speaker 3: completely erased that twenty point lead that they had built up.

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Speaker 3: And I think you know what you asked for the

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Speaker 3: most positive part, and that was that they found a

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Speaker 3: way through all that adversity in those cold spells to

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Speaker 3: make the necessary plays at the end of the game,

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Speaker 3: make the free throws and win it. But I think

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Speaker 3: those droughts that we saw are probably the biggest concern

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Speaker 3: and something that we're going to be talking a lot

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think if you went into the season thinking,

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Speaker 2: you know what, this is going to be a rough

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Speaker 2: year for the Musketeers, I'm not sure that Monday did

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Speaker 2: anything to make anybody not think that way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's fair. And it went about as

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Speaker 3: expected based on the things we've been talking about with

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Speaker 3: this team in the preseason, and that's they don't have

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Speaker 3: a true go to leader on the offensive end. Now,

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Speaker 3: I think you saw a few guys Malik Messina, Moore,

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Speaker 3: guys and Alright and Yovan Malishovich step up. But that's

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Speaker 3: also against Marit and Maris is a pretty good defensive unit.

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Speaker 3: Over the last few years, so I expect that'll continue

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Speaker 3: again this season. But it's a lower level than what

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Speaker 3: you're going to face throughout your non conference schedule and

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Speaker 3: into Big East play, So they're definitely going to have

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Speaker 3: to find some ways to manufacture more points and not

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Speaker 2: I felt like they got to the ram and just

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Speaker 2: couldn't finish often.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of that.

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Speaker 3: You know, that's part of it is guys being able

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Speaker 3: to finish better, maybe finished through physicality a little bit more.

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Speaker 3: But also I think part of it is just having

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Speaker 3: Big East team. They're being asked to be ones or twos.

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Speaker 1: On this team. Well, what can you tell me about Lemoyne.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a team that was the fourth worst defensive

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Speaker 3: team in the country last season. They're just in their

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Speaker 3: third year of Division One, they're still in their probationary period.

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Speaker 3: They're not eligible for the NBA Tournament.

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Speaker 1: They were a Division two.

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Speaker 3: School who made the jump but they were not very

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Speaker 3: good defensively last year, so in the portal this year,

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Speaker 3: on watching their opener a few nights ago against the

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Speaker 3: non Division one opponent. They scored a bunch of points

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Speaker 3: It could be a rough start again for Xavier as

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Speaker 3: they find their footing, but it's not going to be

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I can tell you about Lemoyne?

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Speaker 1: What's that that the Dolphins?

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Speaker 2: No, I didn't know that Tom Browning pitched there before

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Speaker 3: I did not know that a big Tom brown and guy.

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Speaker 1: I did not know that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he played college baseball Lamoynese College in Syracuse, New York.

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Speaker 2: What do we learn about NKU against UC Claremont.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's always you take it with a grain of

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Speaker 3: But I liked what I saw from an offensive perspective.

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Speaker 3: I had been thinking throughout the preseason that this team

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Speaker 1: To be the case in this game.

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Speaker 3: They had multiple guys I think three or four starters

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Speaker 3: And think they had six guys overall make a three pointer.

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Speaker 3: So that's the thing that would excite me the most

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Speaker 3: as an NKU fan. They tied the school record for

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Speaker 1: Do you think that the UC Claremont Cougars will have

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Speaker 1: a good season.

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Speaker 3: My guess is yeah. They usually do pretty well in

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Speaker 3: but they didn't have the level of athleticism or size

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Speaker 1: What's gonna happen when the Norse plays Tennessee good question.

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Speaker 3: I mean, kind of one of the exciting things. From

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Speaker 3: rocky footing when you start the year. They've got new teams,

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Speaker 3: they've got new pieces trying to fit in. They don't

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Speaker 3: feel like a well oiled machine. If you're facing them

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Speaker 3: NKU is in this case. So hopefully you catch a

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Speaker 3: on the road to win one. But hopefully also the

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Speaker 3: Norse can keep the three point shooting going, because that

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Speaker 3: was pretty impressive on opening night. If they can knock

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Speaker 3: down some threes, you'll definitely have a better chance.

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Speaker 2: NK you and Tennessee on Saturday at three o'clock. Rick Brown,

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Speaker 2: color analyst. By the way, I did color because Terry

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Speaker 2: Nelson had a medical issue. I did color for the

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Speaker 2: UC game on Monday. Do you think that that will

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Speaker 2: at all impact your place in the area? College basketball

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Speaker 3: Well, it won't affect my place because I'll stay last

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Speaker 3: where I've been, But I do think it might shuffle

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Speaker 1: So thank you for that. I appreciate it. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: a little bit more concerned about Byron quite frankly. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see, we'll see how they shake out

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Speaker 1: at the end of the week. I'm not sure. I'll

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Speaker 1: let Byron know you said that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, please do. That'd be great. Rick, thank you as always,

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Speaker 2: and we'll talk next week.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: That's our guy, Rick Boring Musketeer Report dot com in

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Speaker 2: the color analyst. He's actually a good full time color analyst,

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Speaker 2: as you could tell on NKU Radio broadcast the Norse

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Speaker 2: on the road in Knoxville against Tennessee on Saturday. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: Xavier getting said to host Lemoyne tomorrow night, I do

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Speaker 2: like Richard Patino on Twitter at after the game on

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Speaker 2: Monday was giving out grades. He graded the performance of

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Speaker 2: the student section and then a grade for the offense,

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Speaker 2: with a small synopsis of how the Musketeers played offensively

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Speaker 2: and then a small synopsis of how they played defensively.

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Speaker 2: I hope that should be mandatory for all college excuse me,

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Speaker 2: all college basketball coaches. Years ago, Nebraska had a coach

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Speaker 2: a lot there, but at halftime of Nebraska games he

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Speaker 1: So there should be some of that as well. There

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Speaker 1: you go.

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Speaker 2: Rick Burring Musketeer Report dot com Nick Caral says the

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Speaker 2: payroll is basically going to be the same.

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Speaker 1: We have to get to that next. If you're fifty

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Speaker 1: five or