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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're hugging

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Speaker 1: Gino Oriema and telling him how much we hate him,

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Speaker 1: and by hate, we of course mean love. It's Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: April eighth, and on today's show, Big Citrus Riecan Beans

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Speaker 1: to discuss Yukon's big win, Paige Becker's legacy, and all

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Speaker 1: the Final four parties and events including Sweet Hangs with

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Speaker 1: a Goat, plus Bad Backselly's using a floor to flip

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Speaker 1: a narrative, and one of the greats hangs them up.

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Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this welcome back slices.

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today. In college hoops,

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Speaker 1: the number two seed Yukon Huskies defeated number one South

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Speaker 1: Carolina eighty two fifty nine on Sunday to claim a

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Speaker 1: record twelfth national championship and first since twenty sixteen. Azy

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Speaker 1: Fund was named the most outstanding player of the Final Four,

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Speaker 1: posting twenty four points and five boards in the chip,

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Speaker 1: and Gino Oriema's coaching record in title games is now.

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Speaker 2: Twelve and one. No joke, ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Paige Beckers ended her legendary career with her first title,

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Speaker 1: putting up seventeen points in the victory, and freshman Sarah

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Speaker 1: Stronk came up huge, adding twenty four points and fifteen boards.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk more about the win and a big, fun

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Speaker 2: More college hoops.

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Speaker 1: It's award season and Juju is racking them up. We

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Speaker 1: told you last week that Juju Watkins was named the

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Speaker 1: Naysmith National Player of the Year, and over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: the USC star won a few more, including the John R.

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Speaker 1: While Juju's near term future is uncertain after she tore

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Speaker 1: wait to see what she does when she comes back.

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Speaker 1: As USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb told the ESPN, quote, her

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Speaker 2: To be legendary. End quote. Becker's picked up some hardware two.

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Speaker 1: On Thursday, she won the twenty twenty five Wade Trophy,

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Speaker 1: presented by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association to the nation's

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame's Nancy Lieberman Award, which honors the nation's

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Speaker 2: More hoops.

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Speaker 1: It's officially the end of an era, as Elena Deladan

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Speaker 1: two time WNBA MVP shared the news on Instagram, writing quote,

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Speaker 1: Deledhan led the Washington Mystics to a WNBA title in

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Speaker 1: then sat out last season. Lena is one of my

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Speaker 1: all time favorite players, a big that could shoot the

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Speaker 1: Congrats on an amazing career, Elena, from wines to woodworking

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what else is next for you.

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Speaker 1: Two unrivaled friend of the show, Annie Constable, who's now

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Speaker 1: Annie Store in our show notes. Final piece of Hoops News.

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Speaker 1: Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark is the latest guest on

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Speaker 1: David Letterman's Netflix show My Next Guest needs no introduction.

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Speaker 1: The episode available today includes a sit down at Letterman's

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Speaker 1: So spending ninety minutes just chopping it up about women's

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Speaker 1: The US women's national team played its first of time

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Speaker 1: the rematch of last summer's Olympic gold medal game. Over

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Speaker 1: southern California. Trinity Rodman suited up for the national team

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Speaker 1: formerly Haran made it too nil for the US in

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Speaker 1: Universo or Peacock to College Gymnastics, The National Championship field

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Speaker 1: is down to eight teams, with LSU, Michigan State, Utah, UCLA, Oklahoma, Missouri, Florida,

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Speaker 2: I can't believe the season's over.

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Speaker 1: It was like it totally lived up everything, but it's

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Speaker 3: It was once again incredible, ten out of ten, no notes.

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Speaker 3: When I tell y'all the China Robinson is, I said

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Speaker 1: I mean, the parties were good, the events were good,

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Speaker 2: That's tier one.

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Speaker 3: Not the whole game plan, I'm sure I'm not in

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Speaker 3: was an absolute machine. And asy Fud shout out to

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00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,720
Speaker 3: her because that was her first double digit game of

441
00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,919
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament, that final four game against UCLA, and

442
00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:30,960
Speaker 3: she set the tone.

443
00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,400
Speaker 2: She set the tone. She had been struggling.

444
00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,879
Speaker 1: We saw, of course that for nine or for eleven

445
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,600
Speaker 1: start or whatever in the previous game found her shot

446
00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,760
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, and Page kind of joked with her,

447
00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:42,800
Speaker 1: you saving all your buckets for the final four, and

448
00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,520
Speaker 1: the answer was clearly yes. But it makes a big

449
00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:49,240
Speaker 1: difference when Azy sets the tone because they're gonna work

450
00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:51,760
Speaker 1: so hard to try to shut down Sarah and Page

451
00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,320
Speaker 1: and then you just don't have enough bodies to shut

452
00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,439
Speaker 1: down all three of them, which is of course what

453
00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,800
Speaker 1: we ended up seeing in the final game as well.

454
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Speaker 2: Asy Fud I loved.

455
00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,800
Speaker 1: Her family wearing the shirts fud around and find out

456
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:09,280
Speaker 1: really And you remember in the regular season, South Carolina

457
00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:14,159
Speaker 1: got absolutely busted by yukon an absolute blowout, and it

458
00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:15,800
Speaker 1: was Easy who led the way in that one. I

459
00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,159
Speaker 1: think she had twenty eight points. They didn't have an

460
00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,720
Speaker 1: answer for her, and when she came out hot, I

461
00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,080
Speaker 1: was like, ooh, this is bad news for sci because

462
00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:24,959
Speaker 1: they kept it tight. I think it was nineteen fourteen

463
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,399
Speaker 1: after the first quarter, but you saw a z was

464
00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,040
Speaker 1: the one making all the buckets, and you're like, ooh,

465
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Speaker 1: this is gonna be bad because you know that Sarah

466
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Speaker 1: and Paige are gonna find theirs.

467
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's as a player when you know you've put

468
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,439
Speaker 3: up numbers against the team before, when you see that

469
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,439
Speaker 3: team again, oh, you're immediately licking your chops. And I

470
00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,920
Speaker 3: just feel like, you know, Azy Fudd obviously her demeanor,

471
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 3: I think pages and even more so Sarah Strong's, they're

472
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Speaker 3: all kind of you know, reserved. I'll say, you know,

473
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,080
Speaker 3: I'll answer questions in the presser, all that stuff, But

474
00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:54,919
Speaker 3: when it comes down to it, y'all don't get to

475
00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 3: see what the real dog looks like. It's the last

476
00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,520
Speaker 3: step foot on the core and asy just she turned

477
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Speaker 3: it on, ended.

478
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:05,000
Speaker 1: Up twenty four points, five assists, three steals.

479
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 2: That's what happened.

480
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,840
Speaker 3: To say, steal, she picked my laser, four.

481
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,160
Speaker 2: Cookies and you know who else.

482
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 1: Kk Arnold defensively was an energizer bunny out there. Every

483
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 1: time you turned around, she was hustling to the ball,

484
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,000
Speaker 1: making a stop, just really aggressive. And that you noticed

485
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 1: in the first half, especially with Yukon, is every single

486
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 1: one of them was so fast to the ball, fast passing,

487
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Speaker 1: especially that first quarter.

488
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,720
Speaker 2: If that pace had kept.

489
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Speaker 1: Up, oh boy, no one was missing and they were

490
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Speaker 1: going fast. And I have to say that it was

491
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,920
Speaker 1: probably not the best strategy for South Carolina, but when

492
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:42,960
Speaker 1: you're hitting all your shots like that, you're like, let's

493
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Speaker 1: keep going.

494
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,000
Speaker 2: But that benefited Yukon.

495
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,560
Speaker 1: It would have been better for South Carolina slowed things

496
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Speaker 1: down because there was no way they were going to

497
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Speaker 1: keep getting stops like that. And you knew with the

498
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,119
Speaker 1: way that Yukon's offense worked, they would be able to

499
00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 1: stay efficient like that, and it just South Carolina had

500
00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,639
Speaker 1: some players step up, for sure, but woo yeah, that

501
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 1: fed right into Yukon's hands.

502
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Speaker 5: I'm curious what the vibe was like in the arena

503
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 5: in terms of South Carolina versus Yukon fans, especially in

504
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Speaker 5: that third quarter when Yukon really separated themselves.

505
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 2: Where were you?

506
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 1: Meh, because I was actually where our suite was was

507
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: closer to a bunch of South Carolina fans, so it

508
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,840
Speaker 1: sounded like sixty forty Game Cocks fans. When the game started,

509
00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,400
Speaker 1: the DJ DJ shawna shout out. DJ Shauna, she's normally

510
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,439
Speaker 1: working Milwaukee Bucks games. She was doing all the DJing

511
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,879
Speaker 1: for the final four. She shouted out and did a

512
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 1: vibe check of like, let me hear all the Yukon fans.

513
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 2: Oh super loud. We're like, wow, let me hear South

514
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 2: Carolina way louder.

515
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:37,639
Speaker 1: Now again, I don't know if that was where I

516
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 1: was in the arena, but there was a lot of

517
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 1: South Carolina representation. And then to your point, Alex come

518
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:48,159
Speaker 1: her third quarter crickets, yep, crickets.

519
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 2: It was. It was tough.

520
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 3: So I was kind of everywhere a little bit. We were

521
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 3: going from the floor to see you in the suite

522
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 3: for all of two seconds to going back to the

523
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Speaker 3: media workerroom. So but what I will say is looking

524
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 3: from the court up at the stands behind the two benches,

525
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 3: it was like an even fifty to fifty split. Like

526
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 3: we were over on the Yukon side Sarah, So where

527
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,679
Speaker 3: Sarah was sitting, she could look down at me. I

528
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 3: was in the corner right in front of all the

529
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 3: Yukon alums and family and that stuff. So from that

530
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 3: side of the arena it was sixty forty.

531
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Speaker 2: So it was an even split. Both probably pretty even.

532
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, both fan bases definitely traveled well, had a lot

533
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,880
Speaker 3: of folks in their repon. But yeah, come third quarter,

534
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 3: when I went back to the media workroom to start

535
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 3: working on the things that China had for us, every

536
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 3: time Yukon scored, we could hear it from all the

537
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 3: way back there and we were pretty far away from

538
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 3: the court.

539
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean then it was just fans getting

540
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: excited about some big plays and you know me. She

541
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Speaker 1: mentioned that there's a stoicism a little bit sometimes to

542
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: Asy and Sarah and Paige, But Paige, when she's having fun,

543
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: it's so joyful to watch and I think sometimes. So

544
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: we got in a late night debate with a whole

545
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: bunch of ladies at a table because one of them

546
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Speaker 1: said Paige isn't a dog, and I.

547
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 2: Was like, hold up, hold up. Then we got into

548
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 2: the whole I was like.

549
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: Listen, We've extensively discussed this on our show What makes

550
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: a dog? What makes a glue gal? Can you be

551
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 1: a dog in a glue gal? Can you be a

552
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 1: glue gal and a superstar? Like all this other stuff?

553
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,959
Speaker 1: And I'm like, thankfully, most of the table, I'm not

554
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: going to out anybody might run a popular women's sports brand,

555
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: slash company, slash website, slash social outlet.

556
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 2: I'm not going to out anyone in my name.

557
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 1: But this person had some backup on the page ain't

558
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: a dog debate And the rest of the table was like,

559
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: you're out of your f and mind.

560
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 2: And I think it's for two reasons.

561
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: One still has a total babyface and is built. In

562
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 1: my opinion, if I give you the animal jack Rabbit,

563
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: you cannot find a better animal. That page looks and

564
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: acts like like she is straight up and down with

565
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: a ton of bounce. She's strong, but she doesn't look

566
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: super strong. She just looks like a kid. And then

567
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: she laughs a lot and has a lot of joy

568
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: when she plays. And if you mistake that for not

569
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 1: being a dog, you get beat by thirty points in

570
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: the National Championship.

571
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 3: I don't know how you say she's not a dog.

572
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,360
Speaker 3: When I saw her hit it and one I think

573
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 3: it was in the elite eight. Uh and turn and

574
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 3: look at the defender and say a freking one and

575
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 3: and put the you know the celebration they do where

576
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 3: they put their shoulders forward. Man, that's that's what hoopers do.

577
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 3: That's what dogs do. So if that's not dog, I don't.

578
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 3: I don't know what a dog is.

579
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 4: She's a dog's also husky.

580
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 2: She's literally she's literally a dog. Literally. We had the

581
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 2: we had the jack rabbit conversation. Someone said, would pecker.

582
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 2: I saw that. Someone said kangaroo.

583
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 1: I said, not big enough in the in the shoulders,

584
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: in the chest, because kangaroos are jacked.

585
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 2: I think she's a jack rabbit.

586
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: And I think you take her because of the braids

587
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: and the nice smiley face and how much joy she

588
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,199
Speaker 1: has out there, you underestimate what a dog she is.

589
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 2: But okay, my argument correct me.

590
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 1: Like listen, I think Aasy paced them for sure in

591
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: the final and Asy was a huge piece of everything.

592
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: I think you could argue Sarah Strong as most outstanding

593
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: player of the final four.

594
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 3: Absolutely, so I have a ballot to vote, and that

595
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 3: was the hardest decision because I wanted both of them

596
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 3: to win.

597
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 2: I wanted both of them to.

598
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 3: Get that reward because Sarah Strong actually outscored Azy Fund.

599
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 3: Sarah Strong actually broke the freshman record in an NCAA

600
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,399
Speaker 3: tournament one hundred and fourteen points, the most ever scored

601
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Speaker 3: by a freshman. She absolutely did her thing, so I

602
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,919
Speaker 3: think there was definitely an argument for that, but because

603
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,160
Speaker 3: of the way she did it, Sarah Strong. Don Staley

604
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 3: said that Sarah Strong could be in the next three

605
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 3: years the best player to come out of Yukon, and

606
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 3: I full, full throated, fullhearted, I stand behind what Don said.

607
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 3: I was arguing with people all weekend about that after

608
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 3: she said that. It's because what Sarah Strong does isn't flashy.

609
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 3: Sometimes it is, sometimes it is, but she just gets

610
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 3: the job done. It doesn't matter what you throw at her. Small, big,

611
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 3: you know, post, somebody kind of a hybrid like her,

612
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:54,920
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. She's eating them for lunch, but she's

613
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 3: not doing it with flair, so people overlook it. But

614
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 3: she absolutely could have won most.

615
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 1: She's not demonstrative out there in terms of like her

616
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: reactions or celebrations, but she gets it done. And to

617
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 1: your point, the situation, especially in those moments where you

618
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: expect someone with her like it's like Gino said on

619
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: our show, someone built like her should not be able

620
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 1: to do the things she does. And you notice it

621
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 1: most when her movement can't be intentional because it's on

622
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: a turnover or someone disrupts the ball, or the passes

623
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 1: a little bit over her, and she shouldn't be able

624
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,719
Speaker 1: to gather, collect and go up and make the layup

625
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: because the pass is leading her out of bounds, and

626
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: she does it anyway.

627
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 2: It's in those moments that.

628
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: You're like, damn, a freshman at that size that can

629
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: do that much with her body. Her body control is insane.

630
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 1: And then hit the threes and then play in the

631
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: big position and play outside as a guard like it

632
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 1: is wild to say she might be the best player

633
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: to come out of Yukon when you look at the

634
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: players that have come and then at the same time,

635
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,959
Speaker 1: you're like, watching what she just did as a freshman,

636
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: it's it's one thousand percent believable.

637
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and even more than that.

638
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 3: And this is not a knock on Page or whatsoever,

639
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 3: because they've both been through their trials and tribulations with

640
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 3: the knee injuries and all of that. But it's no

641
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 3: coincidence to me that they win a championship when Sarah

642
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 3: Strong is on the team, you know what I mean, Like,

643
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 3: she's that impactful. So yeah, but they also needed to

644
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 3: be healthy.

645
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 1: And also, I think if we watch that game three

646
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: or four more times, one of the things we see

647
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: is like perfect picks from everybody, and what you don't

648
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: then see is how somebody benefits from a player that

649
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: can't rotate and close out, and Sarah benefits from Page

650
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: and Easy being fundamentally so sound as well.

651
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 2: So yes, of course they.

652
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: Have to be healthy, they have to play together enough times.

653
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: They're a tough team because we see them in the

654
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: regular season and they don't have as many matchups against

655
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: good teams, so it's hard for us to get a

656
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: read on them. Honestly, that beat down of South Carolina,

657
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: we were like, was that an anomaly or is that

658
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: how good they are? Well, guess what, They outscored their

659
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Speaker 1: appointents by one hundred and ninety seven points in the tournament.

660
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: Aside for the yeah, tied for the fourth largest point

661
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: differential ever in a single NC Double A tournament, according

662
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Speaker 1: to ESPN Stats and Information. They had the biggest final

663
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: four win of all time in that semi final against UCLA,

664
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Speaker 1: and they were not that far off the biggest point

665
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: differential and the title game either. I mean, this team

666
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: steamrolled everything in front of them.

667
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 4: Sarah wells that number. How many did they outscore.

668
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: Their pubs one hundred and ninety seven points total in

669
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: the NC DOUBLEA tournament?

670
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,239
Speaker 5: That is? I mean, I guess they did have that

671
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 5: one oh three to like thirty four win in game

672
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 5: one of the tourney, which you know helps a little bit,

673
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 5: but yeah, wild.

674
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and listen, this is uh Don Staley

675
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: I think had some really telling when she's always so

676
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: smart and composed in the way she articulates even after

677
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: a loss, and I think to be able to say

678
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: immediately that we lost to a very good basketball team

679
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: and they beat our ass, but they didn't make us

680
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: like it. There's a difference, right to be able to

681
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: say immediately, I'm not going to comfort my players that

682
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: are crying. I'm gonna let them sit in it because

683
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: I think that will benefit them and it'll make them

684
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: come back stronger. Like the coaching that's already happening in

685
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: her head. Immediately, whatever the natural instinct is, she might

686
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: already be processing through that what's next and.

687
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 2: What's best for my team.

688
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: I think the quote I thought so not the most

689
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: to me was she said, I think they had a

690
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: better team this year. You don't always win when you

691
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: have the better team, but they had the better team

692
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: this year and they won, and that's what you're supposed

693
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: to do.

694
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 2: Right.

695
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: There's probably been moments where Don has out coached and

696
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: been able to outstrategize.

697
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 2: A better team. This is not one of them. And

698
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 2: you could see on the bench the frustration.

699
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: That gift of her yelling the F word, which was

700
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: not fud It was a different word, but might have.

701
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 2: Been fun at times as well.

702
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 4: Not maya more approved?

703
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, not maya more approved? Is right? That gift is

704
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 2: gonna get some work, Yes, for sure, yes it is.

705
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 3: But we gotta give a shout out to Don's daycare,

706
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 3: all those kids that senior class that's going out.

707
00:30:58,480 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 2: They did win a title.

708
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 3: That group is going to be special in their own

709
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 3: ways in their professional careers. But yeah, I mean it

710
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 3: was just and it's funny coming in. I picked Yukon

711
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 3: here on the show, but we also did social media

712
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 3: predictions for rising media stars. And to be a contrarian,

713
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 3: because everybody else picked Yukon, I found a way to

714
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 3: rationalize South Carolina even when my head was telling me Yukon.

715
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 3: I would have been perfectly fine of South Carolina one

716
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 3: as well. But my rationale was they've got more weapons,

717
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 3: more options, more fresh legs, Yukon doesn't necessarily have as

718
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 3: much room for error. And it ended up kind of

719
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 3: being flipped on its head in the end because to me,

720
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 3: Yukon won because they had people they knew they could

721
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 3: go to, and South Carolina was trying to figure out

722
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 3: who was going to be that entire time, and so that.

723
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: Would also like mistake three, mistake free basketball in the

724
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: game against UCLA and then basically mistake free ball in

725
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: the National Championship too.

726
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 3: They knew they had to play. That's what makes Yukon

727
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 3: so great. If we have to encapsulate what it is

728
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 3: that Gino puts into all his players is that they

729
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 3: know their standard is just.

730
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 2: They're not making mistakes.

731
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: Yea, they wanted to take themselves out of a game,

732
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: like a lot of teams will take themselves out a

733
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: game with turnovers and otherwise, they didn't do that. To

734
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: your point about the game, Cocks though, one of the

735
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: greatest four year stretches for a team, and they're still

736
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: in it because going to the national championship even if

737
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: you lose it as a part of that. But look

738
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: at someone like Bree haul four trips to the final four,

739
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: three appearances in the National Championship game, two national championships,

740
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: winning in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four, like

741
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: that's it's an unbelievable run. That's a better run than

742
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: anyone that's at Yukon right now.

743
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: Exactly.

744
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's been a little while for Yukon and

745
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: that was kind of wild too to think about that

746
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: it had been since twenty sixteen since Yukon won it all,

747
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: and to think about I.

748
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 2: Think Gino's a different guy.

749
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: And the one thing I regret about my interview with

750
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: Sue and Diana that I meant to ask and I

751
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: forgot was do you think Gino is just coaching differently

752
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: because it's a different kind of player now, or do

753
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: you also think that the players are getting a different Gina,

754
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: because in my opinion, they're getting a different Geno this

755
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: early seventies knows that he only has X amount of

756
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: years left, understands what the players need from him in

757
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: this era.

758
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 2: I think it's a different geno because.

759
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: Like Sue and Fi Defista, Callier both saw the clip

760
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: of Gino crying about Page at the presser and they

761
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: were adamant that he was not crying. They said, we

762
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: know him, there is no way he's crying. And every

763
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: other person was like, that man is crying. That is

764
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: a man who is crying. And I think he's a

765
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: different guy now in the best possible way for this

766
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: current era.

767
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree with you, and I don't think

768
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 3: you know that's uncommon, like even for the best of

769
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 3: the best, the most hard knows, the most intense, you know.

770
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 3: I remember I had a high school coach who I

771
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 3: thought for a while.

772
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 2: Was the devil.

773
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 3: I was like, lady, ain't no way, ain't no way

774
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 3: they're letting you coach high school play. But she was

775
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 3: an excellent coach. I love her so much.

776
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 2: Shout out coach Kelly.

777
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 3: But she even told us, and we had former players

778
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 3: come back and say, oh, that lady is not the

779
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 3: same lady.

780
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 2: And it's just the natural progression of things, right.

781
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 3: You get older, you get a little bit more sentimental.

782
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 3: The kids are younger in relation to you. You don't

783
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 3: want to hurt their feelings, but you also want to

784
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 3: make sure you're supporting them as a whole person. And

785
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 3: I think Gino just is naturally on that course of evolution.

786
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 3: So but I don't know. I'm still undecided as to

787
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 3: whether he was crying or not, though, because at the

788
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 3: press conference I was at, you know, I wasn't there

789
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 3: for the moment that everybody's alleging that he was crying for.

790
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 3: But at the press conference I was at. At the

791
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,399
Speaker 3: final four, he does rub his eyes a lot.

792
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 2: You know.

793
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: He literally used Page to clean his glasses one time

794
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 3: he's tied. The dude was in his early seventies, like,

795
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 3: so it's hard to call it.

796
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 2: It's hard to call it.

797
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 3: He actually was crying.

798
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: I'll tell you who was crying, Me and everyone in

799
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: the suite when Page came off the court for the

800
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: final time and hugged him and then hugged her teammates.

801
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: Literally there was a row of all four of us,

802
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: just like while I'm crying, get the next me too,

803
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: Like I'm not even gonna hide it, We're crying.

804
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 2: It was very sweet.

805
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 5: So given that we were just one hundred percent right

806
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 5: about how this was all going to play out this weekend,

807
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 5: at least in terms of the final results, and not

808
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 5: anything that happened in the games, this feels like a

809
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 5: safe space to put out a theory and I want

810
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 5: to get your thoughts on it.

811
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 4: I think Gino is done.

812
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 3: No, he's nope, he's got. He said it in the

813
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 3: press conference that he's got. He didn't say explicitly I

814
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 3: have five six seven years, but he was talking about

815
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 3: what the future of the program could look like and

816
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 3: used five six seven years from now, when I may

817
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 3: or may not be here, And so I think he's

818
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 3: definitely considering, you know, what it looks like in the

819
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 3: next few seasons. But after this, oh no, unless he

820
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 3: wants to pull a DT, unless they're literally just from

821
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 3: the same tree and he wants to just drop out

822
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 3: of this guy and say, hey, I'm gone.

823
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 2: Uh I don't think so.

824
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: No, so I before the tournament started, I wondered that,

825
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: and I think alc after we interviewed him, I again

826
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: had my one regret, which was he said to us,

827
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 1: I should have retired after Brianna Steward and we won

828
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: four in a row. And I was like, oh, I

829
00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: got to follow up on that, and he kept talking

830
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: for I forgot to follow up, and I was like, shit,

831
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 1: I want to ask more intentionally, like what the timeline

832
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: looks like for how long you're going to be coaching.

833
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: And I think right when the tournament started, you could

834
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: have convinced me that maybe if they won, he would

835
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: go out on top, you know with page But two things.

836
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: One his face when I asked her about Sarah Strong

837
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: and getting to have her for the next couple of years,

838
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: there was like almost too much joy in the idea

839
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: of like this this player is so good.

840
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 2: I'm not leaving while this player is there.

841
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: But also I know Nancy Armor was asking him a

842
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: lot of questions about when he might be done, and

843
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: he said a couple things. One of her posts, she said,

844
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 1: Gino said he quits multiple times a year, and then

845
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 1: he gets to the final four and gets rejuvenated.

846
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 2: Quote, this ruins my life every.

847
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: Year coming here, meaning like I get my life gets

848
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: ruin because I know I'm coming back. And then she

849
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: followed that up and said, Gino says, so long as

850
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: his players are still responding to him, he'll keep coaching.

851
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: When they don't, that's when it'll be time to go.

852
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: And there's no argument they're so responding based on them

853
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: winning and based on the relationship he has with his

854
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: current players.

855
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 2: So Ali would have been with you on that.

856
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: But I think we got at least another couple of

857
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: years of Geno, And I do think. I do think

858
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: as a coach that's been around as long as he

859
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 1: hasn't done as much as he has, you don't owe

860
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: anyone anything. But I do think when you have a

861
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: reputation like Gino and you are heavily recruiting with the

862
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: impression that someone's coming to play for you, there almost

863
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: needs to be a warning that the end is coming

864
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: or this is how many years I'm going to be here,

865
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: because I think it's really hard on the program and

866
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: on the players that you respect to mislead them into

867
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:37,399
Speaker 1: committing and then leave.

868
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 5: So at what point does he start giving players that

869
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 5: warning then, right cause I think that the conversation about

870
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 5: Sarah Strong is a good one, right, Like, how do

871
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 5: you leave a program when you have Sarah Strong as

872
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 5: a freshman, But when Sarah Strong is a senior, he's

873
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 5: doing his job, you'll have another freshman.

874
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

875
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the question is whether you just announce it

876
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,720
Speaker 1: two years in advance or something, and you let players

877
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: know that, hey, I still want to get coached by

878
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 1: him before he's gone and I can always transfer, or

879
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Speaker 1: they make a decision that they don't they want to

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Speaker 1: go somewhere where there won't be some sort of transfer

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Speaker 1: of power. It's hard too, because when you're Yukon and

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Speaker 1: you've got Gino for as long as you have, normally

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Speaker 1: there'd be someone who potentially is going to step up

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Speaker 1: in his absence.

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Speaker 2: But Chris Daily has been there as long as he has.

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Speaker 2: She's not a.

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Speaker 1: Spring chicken who's going to be like, well it's mine now,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you something.

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Speaker 3: So it was the funniest thing ever. I was right

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Speaker 3: there when they were cutting down the net, right in

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Speaker 3: front of the ladder. Right Chris Daly's turn comes to

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Speaker 3: cut down the net. She ain't even want to go

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Speaker 3: up there. She was like, I've been here before. The

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Speaker 3: players are like CD CD.

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Speaker 2: She's looking at.

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Speaker 3: Them like this is just another day, you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean. And it gives their duo that goes out together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. Speaking of going out, we got

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Speaker 1: to wrap this up. We could be talking about this

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Speaker 1: team and these players forever. I just want to say

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Speaker 1: how happy I am that everyone stayed healthy.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: Paige got the dub, Sarah and Azy showed out. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna get more of the incredible game Cox team. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna get more of the incredible Yukon team. It is

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Speaker 1: just making me even more fired up for next year.

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Speaker 2: And the DMV won again. Everybody.

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Speaker 3: I just couldn't hit this segment without saying ay.

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Speaker 1: The IVY League came out on top because Caitlyn Chen

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Speaker 1: was repping the Smarties.

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Speaker 4: Yes and the Asies of the World Unite.

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Speaker 2: Note.

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Speaker 3: I was second guessing myself all weekend because of you,

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Speaker 3: alex Asie.

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Speaker 4: I was like, is it Asi fun?

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Speaker 2: Asy fun?

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Speaker 5: Anyways, I did tweet this well, I technically blues guide

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Speaker 5: it whatever the word for that is, skeat it, but

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Speaker 5: I was like, I think the number of people that mispronounced.

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Speaker 5: My name is about to go way up and I'm

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Speaker 5: okay with it, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, yep, that's right, that's right. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Well, we had a blast in Tampa. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: all the people that were involved with making it a

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Speaker 1: good time except for the weather. We got to take

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Speaker 1: another break when we come back. A power move that'll

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Speaker 1: Friend of the Show Jenny Wynn has a new addition

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Speaker 1: to her famed women's sports bar at the Sports Bra

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Speaker 1: in Portland, Oregon. She's got a piece of the incorrectly

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Speaker 1: marked court that hosted games during last year's NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 2: Now you might remember this. There were some controversy last.

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Speaker 1: Year because five full tournament games were played on a

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Speaker 1: Portland court that had the wrong dimensions for one of

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Speaker 1: the three point lines. It was about nine inches short

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Speaker 1: of regulation at its apex. Now, the lines were redrawn

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Speaker 1: before the regional final between Yukon and usc but it

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Speaker 1: was an embarrassing moment for the NCAA, and frankly, it

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Speaker 1: was an infuriating one for US women's sports fans who

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Speaker 1: are sick and tired of women's sports getting less investment

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Speaker 1: and less care. Well, Jenny looked on the bright side

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Speaker 1: of things and thought that the screw up gave the

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Speaker 1: women's tournament attention, not necessarily good attention, but attention nonetheless.

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Speaker 1: So I asked her how she managed to procure a

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Speaker 1: piece of the floor, and she said it was all serendipity.

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Speaker 1: So a friend of a friend is an installer for

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Speaker 1: NCUBA and WNBA floors and he happens to be a

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Speaker 1: huge fan of the Sports Bra. His wife was a

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Speaker 1: college athlete and they have seven daughters. So he was

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Speaker 1: the one who fixed the Portland floors and he had

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Speaker 1: the incorrect boards. So months later he reached out to

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Speaker 1: Jenny and asked if she wanted him. Hell yeah, she

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Speaker 1: did so now the Sports Bra has turned the floors

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Speaker 1: into a new bar top with a great story.

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Speaker 2: We love that.

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Speaker 1: Now it's your turn rate and review. Thanks for listening, slices,

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Speaker 1: See you tomorrow. Good Game, yukon Good Game, Sports Bra

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Speaker 1: you Tampa humidity in April?

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Speaker 2: How do y'all live like that?

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