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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 2: It is the local Toyota Dealers KSR postgame show. How

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Speaker 2: about that one. We're gonna approach record numbers tonight as

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Speaker 2: Kentucky beats Duke for the first time since twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 2: seventy eight, seventy four in the Champions Classic in Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: And it is and it is an absolutely awesome night.

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Speaker 2: I've been sitting here watching sort of online and getting

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Speaker 2: messages and it's like it's the best of BBN tonight.

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Speaker 2: This fan base that is so excited and so refreshed

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Speaker 2: and so into it comes out and gets the win

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Speaker 2: that it deserves with a massive victory in Atlanta. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna get you ready. We're gonna open up the phones

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Speaker 2: here in just a minute. But I just want to

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Speaker 2: take a second just to think about what we saw

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Speaker 2: in Atlanta. A huge win against a very, very talented

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Speaker 2: Duke team. They are that is an excellent young team

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Speaker 2: of guys that play, that have unlimited potential. But this

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Speaker 2: Kentucky team that we've been waiting all year to go, Okay, we.

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Speaker 1: Know they're good, but how good are they? Well?

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Speaker 2: Tonight you saw them beat as talented a team as

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Speaker 2: there is in the country.

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Speaker 3: Now we've got a special guest on the line.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll just go right in.

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Speaker 2: For the first time ever on the KSR postgame show,

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Speaker 2: we are joined by Mark Pope. Mark is on the

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Speaker 2: team bus on the way to the plane.

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Speaker 1: Mark. How excited are you right now?

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Speaker 4: Oh, guys, man, we're excited. We're just enjoying this process

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Speaker 4: of growing together as a team. And there's a great

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Speaker 4: venue and VbN showed out in massive ways. It made

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Speaker 4: it feel like a home game and so especial night

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Speaker 4: for us. Let's keep going.

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Speaker 2: I've always believed that the best of Big Blue Nation

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Speaker 2: is when you actually get out on the road, especially

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Speaker 2: in like Nashville and Atlanta where it's close enough that

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Speaker 2: people can drive.

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Speaker 1: Did you feel that tonight?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys, I have. I mean, I know I'm

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Speaker 4: talking about thirty years ago, but I have such incredible

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Speaker 4: memories of games and the George Dome, and I mean,

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Speaker 4: just as Catlanta to me, like it's always been Catlanta,

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Speaker 4: it just it just is and it certainly felt that

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Speaker 4: way again tonight. And it's really special city. I think

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Speaker 4: our I think BBN has such a beautiful presence here,

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Speaker 4: not just traveling but also living here, and it's a

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Speaker 4: special city. It's very much a second home for all

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Speaker 4: of all BBN.

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Speaker 2: You listen, you're one of us. You know what this means.

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean. You know what Duke is

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Speaker 2: to this group, going back all the way to ninety two.

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Speaker 2: Hadn't beaten him in ten years. Also, just they've had

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Speaker 2: a lot of games like this, we've lost in the

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Speaker 2: last however many years. What do you feel for the

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Speaker 4: Well, I love it, you guys know, I'm such a

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Speaker 4: I just love this place so much. I love the

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Speaker 4: history of Kentucky. And so actually we you know, on

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Speaker 4: Sunday night, we met as a team to kind of

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Speaker 4: do our first break down. No, I'm sorry, it was

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Speaker 4: early Sunday morning. I guess we meant to do our

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Speaker 4: first breakdown of this game after after the buttnail game,

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Speaker 4: and we started with a little bit of a hype

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Speaker 4: video and just gave our guys context. So the beginning

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Speaker 4: highlights about his national championship against Dukes, and then we

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Speaker 4: kind of went through you know, uh, you know, of

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Speaker 4: then uh the comeback Cats Massa champions in ninety eight,

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Speaker 4: and and and just gave our guys a sense of

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Speaker 4: So our guys were very, very aware of what this means.

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Speaker 4: And this is how fun this this matchup is, and

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Speaker 4: it's special. It's just a special for Kentucky. Man, we

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Speaker 4: all feel the same way. And I'm hoping that everybody

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Speaker 1: Well, I would I.

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Speaker 2: Want to say something to you about that, because you know,

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Speaker 1: But I was in Lexington Mark.

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Speaker 2: I saw more blue today than I've seen in a

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Speaker 1: But like, I know, you're kind of happy that we're

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Speaker 4: Well, and that there's actually uh, that's actually the best

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Speaker 4: just knowing that everybody in our you know this, this beautiful,

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Speaker 4: Hopefully everybody's got a little memory they can put in

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Speaker 4: you know, third game, it's only a third game in

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Speaker 4: the season, but it's a it's a it's a great win,

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Speaker 4: and it's a terrific team and in a in a

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Speaker 2: Give me one quick basketball point. You know, we watched

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Speaker 2: There was some stagnant parts of the offense. You came

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Speaker 2: just from a basketball standpoint, what you thought changed?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So for me, I probably should have I probably

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Speaker 4: That you're just collecting data, right, You get kind of

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Speaker 4: you know, we just got pullarising in transition ailation and

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Speaker 4: So we tried to busch stuff. We tried to you know,

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Speaker 4: we were concerned about it because they're so good once

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Speaker 1: Responded, really well, I'll leave you with this.

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Speaker 2: You know we probably have I'm sitting here looking we

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Speaker 2: may have more people listening to this post game show

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Speaker 2: at one o'clock in the morning than we've had for

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Speaker 2: a regular season game, maybe since I've been doing it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you have to go to March to get

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Speaker 2: to see numbers like this. What's your message to this

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Speaker 2: fan base that's all staying up in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the night to hear you?

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Speaker 4: Man, listen to every single person V then I just

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Speaker 4: hope everybody feels how much we love them and how

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Speaker 1: This is us.

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Speaker 4: This is us. It's not about me, it's not about

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Speaker 4: our players. It's about Kentucky. That will never change as

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Speaker 4: long as I'm here, as long as you catch on,

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Speaker 4: this team are here because we feel it, and so man,

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Speaker 4: be safe, celebrate like crazy. The best thing I had

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Speaker 4: I got on the bus today. Thank you, guys. I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna throw Kirk Chris under the bus. So we got

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Speaker 4: going to class tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Class person.

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Speaker 2: Great interviews after he had some great interviews after it

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Speaker 2: was over to Mark, I'm happy for you, but I'm

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Speaker 2: also happy for this fan base. I hope your team

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you all.

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Speaker 2: There you go, Mark Pope, thanks thanks to him for

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Speaker 2: it is. And you heard him say. I can't tell

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Speaker 2: not know that they showed the nineteen seventy eight, nineteen

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna give you my summary of the game.

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Speaker 2: But to me, it's almost more than actually winning the

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Speaker 1: Years, really talented guys making plays, maybe even getting an

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Speaker 1: reverse of what the last few years.

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Speaker 2: We talked about that going into the game that in

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Speaker 2: some this Kentucky team is like the Kansas and Duke

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Speaker 2: teams we've played some in the last few years, and

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Speaker 2: this Duke team was like us the last six or

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Speaker 1: I have to tell you, watching even early when.

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Speaker 2: We got the lead, I kind of thought, I don't

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Speaker 2: felt like our baskets. When we scored it was hard.

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Speaker 2: When they scored it was easy.

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Speaker 2: They were really having their way with our defense. You know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know that we ever got easy baskets the

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Speaker 2: entire game. But that's almost what makes it more gratifying.

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Speaker 2: We don't really have a player on this team who

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Speaker 2: because I think Duke is a really really good defensive team.

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Speaker 2: We don't have guys who can just clear people out

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Speaker 2: We really don't have that, which means if basket has

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Speaker 2: guys like Andrew Carr taking it the huge and one

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Speaker 1: I thought it was a three when he took it.

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Speaker 2: This is the fourth time we've beaten them, and two

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Speaker 1: If we lost, they would have even the series, but

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Speaker 2: But more importantly to me, we get this win. We

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Speaker 1: We didn't really know.

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Speaker 2: We didn't know these guys they really we had no

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Speaker 1: Well tonight we know this team is good. Big Blue

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Speaker 2: And no matter what happens over these next few weeks,

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Speaker 2: be real, this is a game we've lost for a decade.

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Speaker 1: Now we've won it. And I couldn't be more happy

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Speaker 2: And there's no saying like, oh, don't get too excited,

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Speaker 2: If I say how giddy, I am giddy. I was excited.

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Speaker 1: I was nervous about this game. Billy.

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Speaker 2: I was pacing. I haven't paced in a game that

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe Fox monk, what'd you do?

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Speaker 3: So you left the bar?

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Speaker 1: Well, I left the bar.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I'll get ready. I kind of wish

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Speaker 1: Worth it. It was worth it, all right.

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Speaker 2: We'll open up the phones eight five, nine two, eight

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Speaker 2: take a break. Thanks to Mark for coming on. This

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Speaker 2: is the Local Toyo Dealers KSR Postgame Show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. It is the Local toy Dealers KSR Postgame Show.

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Speaker 2: Nice to have U. Nice to have Mark call in

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Speaker 2: so exciting. All right, I've talked a lot. I'll have

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Speaker 1: There are tens of thousands of people listening to this,

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Speaker 1: so let's just go who's up first.

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Speaker 3: Let's start with Edward.

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Speaker 1: Edward, what's up? Edward? Hey? Matt, how are you brother? Doing? Great?

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Speaker 6: Good?

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Speaker 7: Good to hear?

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Speaker 8: Hey, listen, I had no idea when you guys were

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Speaker 8: going to open up the phones. I dialed two hundred

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Speaker 8: into ten times worth every single dive. Wow, love, Matt,

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Speaker 8: I got I got two quick things I want other

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Speaker 8: people to get on. I'm sitting here with my UK

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Speaker 8: remember those, I'm twenty three years old, steeling like I'm

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Speaker 8: ten again. This is what we've been waiting for.

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Speaker 9: I am ecstatic.

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Speaker 8: Two keys to the game that we don't win without

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Speaker 8: they held it down. They delivered every single time we

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Speaker 8: Props to them and the other guys as well. Second thing,

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Speaker 8: which was extra sweep. I think Pope saw at halftime

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Speaker 8: that they were that Duke was really leaning on their freshmen.

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Speaker 8: I don't really know the one shooter kids name, so

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Speaker 8: I called a nipple. I didn't really know how to

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Speaker 8: say the whole name. Yeah, well, there's like something before that.

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Speaker 8: And then he leaned on Cooper Flags who you know,

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Speaker 8: as advertised. But it turned the ball over and that

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Speaker 8: But we came out on top this time.

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Speaker 3: We did.

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Speaker 8: Caleb Wilson gets your bags packed, buddy, you're.

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Speaker 2: Coming up like you seem pretty happy, he said. I

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Speaker 2: appreciate the call. Good stuff. He seemed pretty happy on

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Speaker 2: his social media post. I think you hit the two guys.

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Speaker 2: I mean Car and no Way are the huge parts

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Speaker 1: He didn't look scared.

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Speaker 2: He made I thought his hand one plays the biggest

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Speaker 2: You won this game in my opinion, because of those

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Speaker 2: have games where he's huge, But they the other eight

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Speaker 2: even said there were things we didn't see that Jackson

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Speaker 1: Who's up next. Yeah, you mentioned it.

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Speaker 3: Cooper Flagg had two turnovers in the final thirty seconds.

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Speaker 1: Boy was that sweet. Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And and look, I mean, I'm I'm, you know, a

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Speaker 2: Duke fans a hard time, but that he's awesome.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's awesome. He's seventeen years old, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's seventeen years old. He's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Now, I think Duke's to starting five. He's really talented.

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Speaker 1: Is good.

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Speaker 2: You know, their big guys stayed cramped a lot in

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Speaker 2: But they're starting five. That's a good team.

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Speaker 1: Who's next, Alex, Alex, go ahead, Alex.

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Speaker 10: Hey man, I want to tell you why I'm so

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Speaker 10: excited about this team. I mean, not only did we

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Speaker 10: beat the most talented Duke team since two thousand and one,

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Speaker 10: according to Jay Williams on the halftime show, but we well, By.

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Speaker 2: The way, I don't think that's crazy. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a Duke. I'm not trying to

440
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,240
Speaker 1: sing Duke's praises. But I don't think Jay was crazy

441
00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:57,959
Speaker 1: with that statement.

442
00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,479
Speaker 10: But go ahead, Yeah, no, I was just gonna say

443
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,159
Speaker 10: I honestly, I thought, you know, we won in a

444
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 10: style of play that I did not imagine going into

445
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,159
Speaker 10: the game, you know, would be very effective for us.

446
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,920
Speaker 10: I think Duke essentially took away the three point shot

447
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,040
Speaker 10: from us in the second half. We only made I

448
00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:15,720
Speaker 10: think one to three in the last twelve and a

449
00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 10: half minutes of the game. We were down three exactly.

450
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,880
Speaker 1: We only made one three in the last twelve minutes. Well,

451
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:21,679
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that.

452
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,399
Speaker 10: You know, we want to It was just a grind

453
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 10: it out inside the art game and you know, arguably

454
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 10: our best player, as you mentioned, was a non factor.

455
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,679
Speaker 10: So I just I couldn't be more impressed with how

456
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,119
Speaker 10: the team popped back tonight. And hey, we we actually

457
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 10: closed it out at the end, so.

458
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 6: We got to love that.

459
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:37,399
Speaker 1: I love it.

460
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I appreciate, I appreciate the call. It did

461
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,439
Speaker 2: feel like we've lost a version of.

462
00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,440
Speaker 1: This game a lot over the years, and we and

463
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 1: we won this one.

464
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 2: And I don't think we had more than a handful

465
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 2: of easy baskets. I feel like they worked and clawed

466
00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:02,439
Speaker 2: for every single one of those points. Just that right

467
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 2: now on the ESPN, they're showing the end. You know,

468
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 2: the shot flag flag hit the and one to go

469
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 2: up seventy sixty nine was a great shot. But then

470
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 2: to come back car gets his and one that that's

471
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,639
Speaker 2: just a huge play. You just had the number one

472
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 2: pick in the draft come take you and get an

473
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 2: inn one to take the lead, and then you come back.

474
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 1: And do it back to him. That's just that's a

475
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 1: gutsy play.

476
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,320
Speaker 2: Andrew carr Man, you know, he'd been the one guy

477
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 2: that people were like, I don't know, Well, he showed

478
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 2: tonight why he's so important and effective.

479
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 1: Who's next? Lee?

480
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 7: Lee?

481
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:39,879
Speaker 1: Go ahead?

482
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 11: Lee?

483
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 5: Hey man, I'm like you. I was pacing the floor

484
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 5: and I was even sneaking turning the radio on to

485
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 5: get the look a quicker updates than what was happening

486
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:50,960
Speaker 5: on the TV.

487
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,440
Speaker 1: Last that's funny you didn't want you wanted to have

488
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 1: a head start.

489
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 5: There you go, and that kick. That first call is

490
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 5: twenty three. I'm sixty nine right now. And when I

491
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 5: was twenty three years old, I was sitting on a

492
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 5: second row in the National Championship game against Duke, and

493
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,200
Speaker 5: I saw cal Macy thow a past the givings that

494
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 5: was just like that pass that was thrown in the

495
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 5: last seconds of the game tonight, and man, it just

496
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 5: I just sit there and said, it's good to have

497
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 5: a game coach again at the University of Kentucky, you know,

498
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 5: play out there doing this stuff.

499
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 2: A couple Okay, before you owe me on that point,

500
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 2: let me just say, if you go back and listen

501
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 2: to what Mark said about adjustments to Tom and then

502
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 2: even what he said to me, You're exactly right. This

503
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 2: is a smart dude who makes in game adjustments and

504
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 2: it is fun to see it.

505
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 5: It's no coincidence and a couple of things that I'm

506
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 5: gonna hang up, and I just I'm just glad to

507
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,120
Speaker 5: be up. We got great big Valentines on this team,

508
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 5: and that's gonna go.

509
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 12: A long way.

510
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 5: They play hard, and they got a good hearts and

511
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 5: the Duke teams seemed really exhausted that last time.

512
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that. I'm glad you said that.

513
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: I do think we warmed down.

514
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 2: I think we warmed out our depth because you know,

515
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 2: they really only played six guys and one of them

516
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 2: was hurt a lot and is heard, you know, cramped.

517
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 2: In the second half, our depth really showed itself because

518
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 2: I agree with you.

519
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: I think they were tired at the.

520
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 5: End, and we didn't miss much when we put in

521
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,239
Speaker 5: our second five is don't man, And we outscored him

522
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 5: forty to twenty six in that second half. And you

523
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,200
Speaker 5: could just see their legs, the Duke's legs gone that

524
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 5: last ten minutes five minutes of the game. But I

525
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 5: tell you what that that car is a stud. He

526
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 5: is a stud and we're lucky.

527
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:41,640
Speaker 12: To have him.

528
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 5: And yeah, nobody's overlooking this team anymore. Go Cats, and

529
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 5: uh Pope is our hope and he proved the nation tonight.

530
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 5: What kind of team we got in?

531
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Speaker 4: Man?

532
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 5: Is that unbelievable with not having a player on that

533
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:56,680
Speaker 5: team last year?

534
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 7: What what he's all?

535
00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: No, it's amazing.

536
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,480
Speaker 2: Bring a team, Yeah, to bring a team who could

537
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,640
Speaker 2: win that game. I appreciate the call. I mean literally, look,

538
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 2: this is.

539
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: Dude Scott three top ten picks and we have no

540
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: first round picks. I think that's fair to say. And

541
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 1: but we want and that's it's just it's just fun,

542
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: and it's it's what Kentucky fans want. It's it is

543
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: what they want.

544
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 2: There's such happiness around this this group, and and felt

545
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 2: like they had to earn it by the way we

546
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 2: bench points. We we outscored in bench points? Do twenty

547
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,120
Speaker 2: is it twenty nine to six?

548
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: Twenty five? Twenty five? Why you gotta correct me? Can

549
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:43,919
Speaker 1: we just say you just want to get it right

550
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:52,360
Speaker 1: for all the thousand? Okay, well twenty nine, Skyler, Skyler,

551
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: go ahead, Skyler.

552
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 13: Hey, this is Brent.

553
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 11: I'm calling in shout out to Skyler.

554
00:25:58,359 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 12: Dean Davis.

555
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 11: Hey, this call is for all you basketball Bennies out

556
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 11: there who have been berated and belittled for so many years.

557
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 11: This is what it looks like to believe in a

558
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 11: group of young men, pull them together, unify them, to

559
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 11: give them a shot to wear a jersey that they

560
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 11: never thought they could wear, and to see what they

561
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 11: could do together. I was so happy for Mark Pope

562
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 11: and all Mark Pope did on the postgame interviews is

563
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 11: deflect to what a blessing it was to be a

564
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 11: part of the BBN, and what a blessing it was

565
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 11: to coach those guys. I have sat with my two

566
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 11: sons for the past eight years and tried to talk

567
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 11: to them about team while listening to some of the

568
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 11: rhetoric of our coach over the past couple of years,

569
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 11: trying to get behind him. And it is so refreshing

570
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 11: to see a humble man who leads well, who believes

571
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 11: in his kids. And we're sitting out here in California

572
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 11: right now, shout out to everybody who knows who this is,

573
00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 11: and we are just we are elated at watching teams

574
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 11: basketball again. And Matt I just want to Billy shout

575
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 11: out to you man. You're great, and I just appreciate

576
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 11: you guys doing this. We're staying up late out here too,

577
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 11: listening to you.

578
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much. I appreciate, appreciate the call.

579
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it was charming at first, the basketball

580
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 2: BENI stuff, but there was a part of it that

581
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 2: was like, you know a little bit like don't question us, Well,

582
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 2: this is what this fan base likes. Being talked to

583
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 2: where Mark explains everything right like where he explains what's

584
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 2: going on and we see it. This group, you know,

585
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 2: we'll see this is a long year. Who knows what

586
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 2: it'll be like at the end, but this group has

587
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 2: the potential to be special for UK fans in the

588
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 2: way that first group with Rick was, because there is

589
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 2: a sense of this team's more talented than Rick's first team,

590
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 2: but there is a sense of, like what Mark said,

591
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 2: none of these guys thought ever dreamed they could be here,

592
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 2: and that's probably true. I don't think there's one person

593
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 2: on this roster except maybe Garrison just because of where

594
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 2: he was recruited, who probably at any point in their

595
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 2: high school or college career thought they would play here

596
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 2: amongst the guys that are playing, and there's something kind

597
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 2: of cool about getting to see them do it and

598
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 2: have success, because in the future we're gonna have guys

599
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 2: of a different high school pedigree so that they did

600
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 2: think it, but this one they didn't, and it makes

601
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 2: it kind of extra special watching them get to do it.

602
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: Who's next, Pat? Pat? What's up? Pat?

603
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 7: Pat?

604
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 4: He's still there?

605
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: Did you meet your phone? Pat? All right? Put Pat

606
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: on hole. We'll give him another chance. Who's next, Joe's next? Joe,

607
00:28:58,440 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: go ahead, Joe.

608
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 7: Thanks for loting Matt. I did Mark Pope a lot

609
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 7: of credit. Jackson Robinson was having an off game, Matt,

610
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 7: but that score was tied and he threw that ball.

611
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 7: Our team did to Jackson and I and I thought

612
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 7: that ball was going in. God loved the young man

613
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 7: he had. At least he had guts to take the

614
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 7: shot that did not go in, but that cold I'm.

615
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: Glad he took that shot. He was, he was open.

616
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 2: He needed to take it. It would have given us

617
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 2: the lead. He missed it, but he needed to take

618
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 2: that shot. He missed it, but he at least did

619
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: because I was worried in the first half Joe. He

620
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 2: looked nervous and scared to me, and I was glad

621
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 2: to see him take that shot, even if he missed it,

622
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 2: because if he passed it up, that wouldn't have been

623
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 2: a great sign.

624
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 7: And hopefully the recruiting will pick up. Lord knows, Matt,

625
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 7: we're gonna need a few players. I know we'd go

626
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 7: to the transfer portal, but if we could get to

627
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 7: Wilson Kidd, that would help a whole lot. And my

628
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 7: last thing I'll get off. We got a big game

629
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 7: for the ladies on Friday. That well, I can't. I

630
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 7: was getting ready to say something bad against a little bit.

631
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 7: I'm not going to do it.

632
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: Well, well, yes we do. We'll talk about the Louisville game.

633
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 2: We got plenty of time that because that Louisville women's

634
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 2: games Friday, and I think that's we need to make

635
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: that a special atmosphere as well.

636
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Joe, Who's next? A nine eighty seven? Moose? Moose,

637
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: go ahead, moose, Hey Matt.

638
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 12: My dad's been gone to the local sports show since

639
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 12: I was a kid, so I figured i'd be the

640
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 12: first time long time.

641
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 7: The thing about tonight was when Jacks kept the fouling.

642
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 12: Of three and he went wonder three at the line

643
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 12: and then.

644
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 7: Down the court. A couple plays later we found him

645
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 7: a three. He went three for three. I was like, oh, no,

646
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 7: here we go again. Yeah. Players were resilient.

647
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 12: We went into halftime and I knew the coaching was

648
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:53,479
Speaker 12: going to be all about Pope because I thought Shier

649
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 12: was a player, then coach, but Pope was a player,

650
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 12: then coach, coach and then had a head coach opportunity.

651
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 7: And I text him my dad.

652
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 12: He said, these players are fighting, and I was like,

653
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 12: I think these guys are gonna pull it off.

654
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I will say I did.

655
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 2: I didn't really know that we ever would, but you know,

656
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 2: I think I think we were down what six maybe

657
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 2: with seven minutes to go, and they had a couple

658
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 2: they had three open looks to go up eight or nine,

659
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 2: including two back to back open threes. They kept getting

660
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 2: offensive rebounds and they missed them all and then we

661
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 2: came down, got back to back buckets and cut it

662
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 2: to two, and then we were right there. So you know,

663
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 2: I'm impressed. I appreciate the call with the halftime adjustments,

664
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,239
Speaker 2: especially defensively, I mean, they were just you heard him.

665
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 2: I mean he said, I probably should have probably should

666
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 2: have adjusted quicker in the in the first half. Well

667
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: he adjusted in the second half because they started coming

668
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 2: out on the ball screens, they started pressuring up top.

669
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 2: They didn't in the first half. They were kind of

670
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 2: sagging off, going under seth Greenberg pointed that out at halftime.

671
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 2: You can't do that against guys that are this talented.

672
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 2: If you if you go under on on uber talented

673
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 2: guys you're you're you're cooked, especially somebody like Flag and

674
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 2: and and Ca Nipple. But in the second half they

675
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 2: played it differently, didn't adjust. Duke was not able to

676
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 2: adjust to our adjustments, and uh uh you you know,

677
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 2: they were able to have the success. Who's up next?

678
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: Let's give Pat one more? Try Pat? What's up? Pat?

679
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 7: Are you there?

680
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: Yes? Go ahead?

681
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 14: Can here?

682
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:39,239
Speaker 4: All right?

683
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 14: Here you go?

684
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 7: Awesome win.

685
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: Uh.

686
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 14: They got a lot of versatility.

687
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 11: I call it HDG hard to guard.

688
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 14: I was in a bar and a guy told me,

689
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 14: what do you think I've said, he'll make adjustments at halftime,

690
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 14: they'll be fine. Tack of a job. And the thing

691
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 14: about it is we want we beat them, and our

692
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 14: best player had one point.

693
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's what I'm saying. I mean, that's you know,

694
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: if we.

695
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 2: Had lost, it was gonna go I was gonna say,

696
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 2: oh no, you know, another close loss. But we should

697
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 2: be positive because we didn't get anything out of Jackson Robbinson.

698
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: We won and didn't get anything out of it, you know.

699
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 2: And we shot well, and we shot well from three.

700
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 2: We shot well from three, but we just didn't shoot crazy.

701
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 2: We shot forty percent from three, We hit ten threes.

702
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 2: That's probably low. I would have thought we needed to

703
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 2: hit thirteen or fourteen. We got out rebounded only by four,

704
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 2: but at one point Duke's rebound advantage was twelve, So

705
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's still a lot of Now,

706
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 2: granted they shot four for twenty three from three, They're

707
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 2: not gonna do that a lot.

708
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: But we took advantage of our opportunity and won.

709
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 14: Yeah, very seldom are you gonna hold him under ten?

710
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 2: No, No, I agree with that. I appreciate the call.

711
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 2: He was off and he was he was kind of timid.

712
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 2: I was, I mean, only took four shots Jackson Robinson.

713
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 2: But you know, we want and hopefully it'll be a

714
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 2: good uh learning adjustment for him going forward. I will say, Billy,

715
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 2: the only thing I saw tonight that I'm I'm okay

716
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 2: with us doing less of is having Tomari Williams.

717
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 1: Initiate the offense at the top. Yeah, like there was

718
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: there was too much.

719
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 2: Like I get that they're gonna have him out there

720
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,760
Speaker 2: and then he does handoffs and he's a good passer,

721
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 2: but there was too much of him just like clearing

722
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:32,240
Speaker 2: out and dribbling.

723
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: That's you know.

724
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 2: He Now, he did have ten points and eight boards,

725
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 2: and I thought actually had a couple of big bat buckets,

726
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 2: but there was also too much go into the basket.

727
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 2: And then and then Garrison came in and provided a

728
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 2: spark in relief. Well, let's take a break A five

729
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 2: nine twenty two eighty seven. Cats get a big win.

730
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 2: We'll take your calls. We'll go to uh at least two.

731
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 2: Billy always kicks me off at too, because what happens

732
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 2: at two like something happens.

733
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: Our day changes in the logs, and it yeah, stupid

734
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: STUFFID days and logs. We'll take a break of right

735
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: back KISR looking back. It is a local toy dealers

736
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: KSR postgame show eight five nine two eight oh twenty

737
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: two eighty seven. Since Billy's kicking us off at too,

738
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to waste time. Who's up next? All right,

739
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: let's go to Jake Jake. How are you Jake? Jake?

740
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 3: All right, we'll try him later.

741
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 13: A Brad, Brad, go ahead, Brad, Hey, I'm I'm partying

742
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 13: down here in Allen County. I just gotta say, Cooper Flag,

743
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 13: if you're listening, I hope you poop your pants the

744
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 13: whole way home. Back to North Carolina and Jay billis

745
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 13: I hope you never get another ice cream conant Rapperena,

746
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,479
Speaker 13: And I'm just so proud to be a cat fan,

747
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 13: and I'm gonna I'm gonna stay up all night and party,

748
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 13: maybe have a bmfire.

749
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: See here you go.

750
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 7: I like it. You know what.

751
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 2: I said this, uh this morning, and then actually Drew

752
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 2: said it this morning. Then I said it on social

753
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 2: media after. We're gonna be so obnoxious Billy the BBN

754
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 2: over the next over the next few weeks, like we are.

755
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 2: But you know that's us at our best. I have

756
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 2: hanging in my house in Louisville. An article that The

757
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 2: New York Times did in twenty fifteen at the Final Four,

758
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 2: or maybe it's twenty twelve. It was one of those

759
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 2: two years, and it said the headline is something like

760
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 2: true to itself, BBN toots its own horn or something

761
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 2: like that. And it really means a lot to me

762
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 2: because it quotes Oscar Combs and me talking about Big

763
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 2: Blue Nation. But the point of the article is we're

764
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 2: the loudest fan base in college basketball and it's not

765
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 2: even close. Well that's true, but it's been kind of

766
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 2: difficult in the last few years. It ain't gonna be difficult,

767
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 2: right now, who's next, Leslie, Leslie?

768
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Leslie?

769
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 15: Hey, Hey, were you laughing at how subdued Mark seemed

770
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 15: to be on the call for mister Hyde when he

771
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 15: called in.

772
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 16: He seems so subdued.

773
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 15: I was a little surprised by that.

774
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 1: Well, it's weird.

775
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 2: He's like half subdued and half cerebral. Excuse me, half

776
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 2: like crazy excited kid and half cerebral, you know what

777
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 2: I mean. And I think we saw the cerebral si

778
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 2: suicide tonight.

779
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 15: Well, I will say that he is the master. I

780
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 15: will call him the doctor. I know, Doctor j wasn't

781
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 15: really a doctor, yet he was called the doctor, So

782
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 15: I'm calling it was close to a doctor, Pope because

783
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 15: for three years after he was close years at Columbia,

784
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 15: and then he dissected Duke's defense and he stitched together

785
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 15: the perfect remedy. So he is literally so perfect. Yeah,

786
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 15: that's what I'm saying. But the one thing I'm looking

787
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 15: forward to is I can't wait to see the video

788
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 15: of the lady from Cynthiana running naked.

789
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 16: In a hollered.

790
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we got we got some videos coming, that's right.

791
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,760
Speaker 2: And I gotta tell you, I'm gonna say this tomorrow.

792
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 2: I appreciate to call the woman in Cynthiana who said

793
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 2: she was gonna go nicke it in the holler. You know,

794
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 2: you gotta send it to us in a way that

795
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 2: I can use it. I can't put my want the video. Okay,

796
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 2: well yeah, I mean.

797
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: It does, like I don't. We don't have to see

798
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: things like you can do, you know, Billy like you,

799
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: you do tastefully nude sometimes. Oh yes, that's kind of

800
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: what we're talking here. But like if you're gonna be

801
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: nicked in the holler, you gotta be nicked in the hall. Yeah,

802
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:30,439
Speaker 1: I don't.

803
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 4: I don't send out my tasteful nude times.

804
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: What I've heard? Who's next? Bt BT? Hello?

805
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 3: BT Hey man, what's going on man?

806
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:41,919
Speaker 1: How you doing doing? Good?

807
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 7: Man?

808
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 3: I'm doing great as well. I got a couple quick

809
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 3: points for you, man. So just to sum it up,

810
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 3: you know, I'm twenty four, so this is probably what

811
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,919
Speaker 3: the second time in my lifetime I've seen us be duke.

812
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 3: It is an amazing feeling. Man, It's absolutely awesome.

813
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, that it's true.

814
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 2: You've only seen it twice, that's right, because you weren't

815
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 2: alive for ninety eight, so but you also don't have

816
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:06,919
Speaker 2: the pain of the ninety two game.

817
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: So it's kind of a it's a watch.

818
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 3: Oh don't worry, Matt.

819
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: I've seen it.

820
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 3: My dad had it on VHS and I watched it

821
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 3: when I.

822
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: Was like five years old. I know all the pain, man,

823
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: I get it. Whatever.

824
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 3: I got another point too, dude, Yes, yeah, So yeah,

825
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 3: I'm a big WW fan. And I'm looking on Twitter

826
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 3: and I'm looking on Instagram. People are saying all the

827
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 3: Pope era begins, but I think this is also the

828
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 3: attitude era of Kentucky basketball. There were plenty of times

829
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 3: in this game where we could have given up, and

830
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 3: I think other teams in the past that would have

831
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 3: given up. But we fought hard, and we were strong,

832
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 3: and we were physical, and we did not give them anything.

833
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it shows so much about our

834
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 3: team and about our coaching that, you know, while it

835
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 3: looks down and you know, we gave them the entire

836
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,439
Speaker 3: paint in the first half. Now, they got some great

837
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 3: players on team, but we did not give up. And

838
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 3: I think it means so much to just where we

839
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 3: are right now as a team.

840
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you.

841
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 2: I think they give I didn't expect this team would

842
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 2: give up, but I think there were a bunch of times.

843
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call that there were moments that I

844
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 2: thought it was gonna get away from us.

845
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: You know, the lead, I don't think it ever got

846
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: to ten. It may have once, but it was mostly

847
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:27,959
Speaker 1: hovered at nine.

848
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 2: And I think we got to nine three different times,

849
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: where then we hit a three to cut it to six,

850
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 2: and that was a big difference, and you know, we

851
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 2: won ugly. We've talked so much about how Mark Pope

852
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 2: basketball is fun to watch him pretty. This wasn't really pretty.

853
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 2: This was gutsy and the caller's right. I think at

854
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 2: one point Duke was up like twenty eight to six

855
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,919
Speaker 2: in points in the paint. But in the second half,

856
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 2: I don't know what it ended up, but we made

857
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 2: that a lot closer because we started getting easier baskets

858
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 2: and getting to the rim ourselves.

859
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: Who's next, Wade, Wade? How are you, Wade?

860
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 17: I'm good?

861
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 1: Are you good?

862
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 18: I've got two things for you real quick. I want

863
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 18: to touch on one thing you said in the first segment.

864
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 18: You talked about how hard it's been the last few

865
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 18: years for Kentucky fans, just with how basketball's gone. And

866
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,720
Speaker 18: I really resonated with that because in the twenty twenties

867
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 18: when I married my wife, and I've been trying to

868
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 18: show her the joy of Kentucky basketball, but all she's

869
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 18: been able to have is heartbreak and frustration and disappointment.

870
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 18: And I've just been trying so hard to give her

871
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 18: something to hold on to. And I know that this

872
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 18: game is only the third game of the season, but

873
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:42,720
Speaker 18: it just feels so much.

874
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 14: More than that.

875
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: I totally agree with that.

876
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 2: I like that word joy because there hasn't been a

877
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 2: lot of joy in the last few years. You know,

878
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 2: there have been moments that were good, you know, I

879
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 2: think of the win at Kansas that one year, the

880
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 2: win at Tennessee, a couple of times I think we

881
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 2: won there in games we didn't think we would, but it.

882
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 1: Just there has there just hasn't been a lot of joy.

883
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: This is like joy, you know, this is a joy.

884
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 2: This is the fun part of being a fan, and uh,

885
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 2: you know, it has it has been a while since

886
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 2: we've had that, and it's been honestly a long time

887
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 2: since we've had it in the regular season. We just

888
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,800
Speaker 2: we just have not won these, especially non conference games,

889
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 2: a lot that have been like this, and it's awesome.

890
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: To get one. Yeah, it is.

891
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 18: It's it's huge, and I've been able to celebrate with

892
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 18: my wife and my daughter. My The other thing is

893
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 18: I just in the last few years, I've always gotten

894
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 18: this feeling when we're on the verge of a loss,

895
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 18: just this gut feeling. I feel like I had that

896
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 18: in the first half. And I don't know if that's

897
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 18: just me conditioned to feel like, oh, we are outclassed.

898
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 18: We're not going to be able to win this game

899
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 18: if we're not as talented, and I guess I just

900
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 18: have to recondition myself to we.

901
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 2: Do have to recondition ourselves, yes, because we we're not

902
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 2: as talented as them. I mean, we're not like they're

903
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 2: they've got more talent than us. If I'm a Duke fan,

904
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 2: I'm still optimistic about the year that they're they're good.

905
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 2: And I had that same feeling of well, we're just

906
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 2: not as good these guys, and and in the last

907
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 2: few years when I didn't think we were as good,

908
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 2: I just assumed we were getting beat I don't think

909
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 2: we can assume that this year. I appreciate the call.

910
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 2: I think we're like the teams like it's again, it's

911
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 2: like a reversal. We're like a team. I don't know

912
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 2: what the example of a of an example of an

913
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 2: SEC team that's given us problems. Well, I mean Tennessee

914
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 2: in the last couple of year has been really talented.

915
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 2: But the first six five to seven years of the

916
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 2: of the Barnes era, we worked more talented than them

917
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,280
Speaker 2: every year and they usually beat us at least once.

918
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 2: And I think there was a sense probably of Tennessee

919
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 2: fans that yeah, you all may have better players, but

920
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 2: we're gonna beat you.

921
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: I think that's not something we're used to at Kentucky

922
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: is that feeling?

923
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 2: But we may have that some this year where yeah, okay,

924
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 2: y'all have more talent, but we have you know, eight

925
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 2: gritty seniors and Mark Pope. That's that's just that's not

926
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 2: something we've had in a long long time. I mean

927
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 2: you probably have to go back to like the Tubby

928
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 2: era to find times that it has felt like that.

929
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: Uh, and it does right now. Maybe you know three

930
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,720
Speaker 1: four oh five era of Kentucky. Who's next, Cat Daddy,

931
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: Cat Daddy? How are you.

932
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 6: Hey, I'm great, It's a wonderful night. I just want

933
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 6: to call it in and say I'm really excited about

934
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 6: our Unita.

935
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 1: Roster.

936
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 6: And when I say that, we have a roster of

937
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 6: kids who have been told you could be in the

938
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 6: in the NBA except you need a jump shot. You

939
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 6: could be in the NBA, except you need to be

940
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 6: more physical. You can be in the NBA, except you

941
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 6: need to be able to handle the ball better. And

942
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 6: Coach Pope has went out and got a roster of

943
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 6: kids that says, you need to prove you can do this.

944
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 6: And I think that they went out tonight and took

945
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 6: the first step and proven that I can do those things.

946
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 6: And you need to watch us for the rest of

947
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 6: the year because we're going to try and do those things.

948
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: I like it, appreciate the call. Nobody on this team

949
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: is like perfect.

950
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 2: Every player on the team has, like what's interesting, They

951
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 2: all kind of have a glaring weakness, but Pope is

952
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 2: able to scheme around it and make it work. And

953
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 2: that's what coaches do, right, Like all these guys have

954
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 2: things you can exploit or things that they're not great at,

955
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 2: but like they work around it and play to their

956
00:45:59,000 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 2: players strength.

957
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, that's that's what you're supposed to do.

958
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I think it's funny.

959
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 2: There's never been a Kentucky team where the fans knew

960
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 2: less about him before this started than this one. But

961
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 2: I just have a feeling this is gonna be a

962
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 2: team that, like people look back on really really fondly,

963
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 2: because you know we're going we know them now.

964
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 1: I can tell you this.

965
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 2: After tonight, everybody knows who those guys are. I hope

966
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 2: those guys were us. When they get back to Lexton,

967
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 2: they're a lot more famous than when they left.

968
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,919
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, who's next? Hunter? Hunter? What's up? Hunter?

969
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 9: I'm grateful, Matt. This is I'm gonna be completely honest.

970
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 9: I turned the game off at halftime because I thought,

971
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 9: you know, our offense is getting shut down. We weren't

972
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 9: gonna be able to do anything. I wouldn't go play

973
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 9: church basketball. I came back to check the score and

974
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 9: I'm I said some prophetic words in the Lord's house.

975
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 9: I got summer penttant to do on Sunday, that's one

976
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 9: hundred percent sure, But just that's I had the cow

977
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 9: PTSD and I feel like a lot of the fans

978
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 9: have had it. It's like, when we couldn't score an

979
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 9: offense in that beginning half, I was like, we're not

980
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 9: gonna be able to change because that's what we've been

981
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 9: conditioned to do last four or five years. And it's

982
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 9: so relieving to look back and watch that second half

983
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 9: and watch that adjustment and watch us crawl back when

984
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 9: most people counted us out. And I am just so grateful.

985
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 9: I am bought in as ever in the last six

986
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 9: years of being a fan, and I'm so excited for

987
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 9: what this season holds.

988
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: Go Cats. Love you guys, appreciate the call, totally agree

989
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 1: with all that. You know, we we didn't win games

990
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: like this in the last decade. We just did. I

991
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:43,919
Speaker 1: mean we just did. We did. We would have lost

992
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: this game by.

993
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 2: Well, we wouldn't have won if this would if this

994
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:55,320
Speaker 2: had been a different year, But we adjusted.

995
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: And I don't even ness I think we played particularly

996
00:47:58,280 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: well well.

997
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 2: We beat the number six team in the country with

998
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 2: three of the top eight picks, and I don't even

999
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 2: know that we played all that great. That's also pretty positive.

1000
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 2: A five, nine, two eighty seven. Let's take a break.

1001
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 2: We'll take our final segment. Billy so the computer doesn't explode.

1002
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 2: Let's go to commercial. We'll take your calls. Be right back.

1003
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 1: It's a Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show.

1004
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 2: Welcome Back, final segment, Local Toy Dealers KSBAR postgame Show.

1005
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 2: Great night in Lexington, Great night in Atlanta.

1006
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: Uh if we have? Have we heard from somebody yet?

1007
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 1: Who is at the game? Oh?

1008
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 2: The other one person said they were at the game

1009
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 2: A five nine eight zho twenty two eighty seven. We'll

1010
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 2: be back in the bar tomorrow. I got some good.

1011
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 1: News, Billy. Oh, what's that? Guess who's going to be

1012
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 1: in the bar with us on Thursday? Who? Deron Lamb

1013
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: and Marcus t Oh Yes, well, happy for Drew. Better

1014
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: have the dumb button on. But Doron Lamb and Marcus

1015
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 1: Tige in not in studio at KSPAR Thursday morning, for

1016
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: the for the for the KSR show.

1017
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 2: That should be a lot of fun with those two guys.

1018
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 2: I know Drew especially will be very excited. Who's up next?

1019
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,280
Speaker 1: Brody, Brody? How are you? Brody?

1020
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:16,399
Speaker 9: Hey?

1021
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: What's up?

1022
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 12: Man?

1023
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 17: I appreciate you taking my call.

1024
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:19,320
Speaker 1: What's going on?

1025
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 17: I was thinking that I feel like over the past

1026
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 17: ten years I've been conditioned to think that a basketball

1027
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:34,280
Speaker 17: team that will win comes off of, you know, extreme athleticism,

1028
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 17: a team that will just overwhelm you with talent, and

1029
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 17: my goodness, tonight, it's fun to see a team that

1030
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 17: is a bit deprived of those things, that will fight

1031
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:52,919
Speaker 17: and win off of just execution and making a jump shot.

1032
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 17: It's a refreshed a breath of fresh air, for sure.

1033
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: I agree with you.

1034
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 2: I mean, in MO years, when if you go back

1035
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,720
Speaker 2: and you look, if we found out in the early

1036
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 2: games that the team wasn't as talented as we hoped,

1037
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 2: it was kind of a bad sign for the year,

1038
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, It wasn't It never felt

1039
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 2: like we were gonna overcome our talent level. I don't

1040
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 2: feel like that this year. I don't think this team

1041
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:23,280
Speaker 2: is super talented, but I do think they are super

1042
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 2: like smart and play hard and fit well together.

1043
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: And that is it, and that's exciting.

1044
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 17: And those and to see those things with the Cal

1045
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 17: teams were that was extremely exciting too. I mean I've

1046
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 17: gotten behind the yeah, oh for sure, I'm a cow believer,

1047
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 17: cow believer, but it's it's super exciting to see this

1048
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 17: from this team at this point and shout out to

1049
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,359
Speaker 17: coach Pope and Coach Figer, like those guys are killing

1050
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 17: it right now.

1051
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're exactly right. It was I appreciate the case.

1052
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 2: It was exciting in a different way. It was like, Oh,

1053
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen nowt what are they gonna do?

1054
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 7: You know?

1055
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: This is this is just different.

1056
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 2: It reminds me. It actually reminds me of the Tubby

1057
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 2: teams in the sense of when Tubby was at his best,

1058
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 2: it felt like the whole was greater than the sum

1059
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 2: of the parts. And I kind of feel like that's

1060
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 2: what this is like as well.

1061
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: Who's next, Greg, Greg? Go ahead? Greg?

1062
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 11: Eh, Matt.

1063
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 19: I just want to say, man, I am so grateful.

1064
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: I was.

1065
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 19: A senior in college when Kentucky won in twenty twelve,

1066
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 19: and that's not even what I'm calling about. I just

1067
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 19: want to say. This is a shout out to my

1068
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 19: dad who's in the Cardiac unit, because he's the one

1069
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 19: who adopted me and took me to Kentucky in nineteen

1070
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 19: ninety eight, made me a Kentucky fan, and he told

1071
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 19: me tonight, cats are gonna win. Cats are going all

1072
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 19: the way. Love you guys, Thank you so much.

1073
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: Thank you prayers for your dad.

1074
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 2: If you're like, if you're in the CARDIACU listening now

1075
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 2: or on podcasts, We're thinking about you and got this

1076
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 2: win for you.

1077
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: Let's see, I would do time. What time we have

1078
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: to be out? It's one fifty one, we had be out?

1079
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: What time? Fifty eight?

1080
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 5: Seven?

1081
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 1: Fifty seven fifty eight? All right, let's just go until

1082
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: fifty seven eight. Who's next? Dave, Dave, go ahead, Dave,

1083
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: Hi Matt.

1084
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 16: I live in California. I grew up in Lexington. I

1085
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 16: had to sell Cox to get into the game. My

1086
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 16: dad was an husher and at seventeen we moved to California.

1087
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:40,320
Speaker 16: But I've been a Kentucky fan, very very serious Kentucky

1088
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:43,399
Speaker 16: fan my whole life. My retirement dream was to get

1089
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 16: to go back to Kentucky and during basketball season, and

1090
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 16: the last two years we've gone back for a month

1091
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 16: and it's been like being in heaven. I mean, I

1092
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 16: love loved the feeling. I had hope. Every year I

1093
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:00,839
Speaker 16: had hope and I I got to got to see

1094
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 16: Oscar Seaway play. I got to see last year's fabulous

1095
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 16: team played. My bubble was burst. But you know, the

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00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 16: journey is what it's all about for me. And I

1097
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 16: want to remind you in nineteen sixty six, everybody remembers

1098
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:19,879
Speaker 16: the Kentucky Texas Western game.

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00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: Yeah in the semifinals.

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00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 16: Yeah, that that was the big game Kentucky Duke. And

1101
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 16: ever since watching that in black and white on my

1102
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 16: TV set, every Kentucky Duke game is huge and I

1103
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 16: just absolutely loved it tonight. It's a real treat. My

1104
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,919
Speaker 16: wife and I do a bourbon and coke toast after

1105
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 16: every game to salute the best play.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you two questions. Let me ask you

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00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: two great questions. Number one, are you going to get

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00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 1: to come for a month this year?

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00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 16: I definitely am. We're going to go to a van

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00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 16: down there.

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00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 2: And number two, how many How many cokes did you

1112
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:01,919
Speaker 2: have to say to get into a Kentucky game?

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00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 16: Well, you just you had to sell cokes for the

1114
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 16: first half and then if you if you had sold

1115
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,439
Speaker 16: enough racks, you could go sit down.

1116
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: Is that right?

1117
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 2: So you would sell hang on, you would sell them

1118
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 2: like where in the stands or outside in the in.

1119
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:22,720
Speaker 16: The stands, I was going up and down the stairs

1120
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 16: selling cokes. If I had enough racks, I could go

1121
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 16: sit down and I'd go sit on the behind the

1122
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 16: behind the standard, sit on the standard until the Kentucky

1123
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 16: State policeman would run me off, and my dad would

1124
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 16: watch me march down to the other end and sit

1125
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 16: at that stand until you.

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00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 2: Got kicked out. The man from my heart. Well, listen,

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00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 2: that's very cool. Thank you very much for calling, and

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00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 2: come see us when you're here.

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00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 1: For the Vandy Gate I will.

1130
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 16: I love your shows, Matt, thank you.

1131
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. All right, that's a neat story. Who's

1132
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 1: up next?

1133
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 5: Nathan?

1134
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: Nathan? Go ahead? And Nathan.

1135
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 7: Hear me, yes, go ahead.

1136
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 20: I'm how you guys doing.

1137
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 7: First of all, great, first time, long time as well?

1138
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 1: Who are.

1139
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1140
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 20: Who are just giving you guys some more insight from

1141
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,839
Speaker 20: actually being at the game. It was absolutely amazing at

1142
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:22,760
Speaker 20: our atmosphere, it was just crazy. Oh my gosh.

1143
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 1: What of the crowd the whole work. What percentage of

1144
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: the crowd do you think we're Kentucky fans?

1145
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:34,240
Speaker 20: Honestly, I would say it was probably like sixty forty Kentucky.

1146
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 6: Maybe.

1147
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 20: I was at the UNC Kentucky game last year and

1148
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 20: it was probably like seventy five twenty five UNC like

1149
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,399
Speaker 20: it was. It was way different than than this one.

1150
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:47,919
Speaker 20: And there it was a whole There was a whole

1151
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 20: row of Duke fans in front of me and a

1152
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 20: ton of Kentucky fans all around me. We were all

1153
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,280
Speaker 20: just going crazy, chanting.

1154
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 7: We were up in the two twenty.

1155
00:55:58,080 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 20: It was just absolutely amazing atmosphere.

1156
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: Well awesome.

1157
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you had a great time, and this

1158
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 2: will be one you remember. I appreciate the call. Let's

1159
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 2: do one more real quick, Billy.

1160
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Ron Ron real quick.

1161
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 7: Got about a minute, Matt.

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00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 21: When Mitch Barnhart was interviewed about his coaching process, he said,

1163
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 21: you had Hurley and then Drew and if he was honest,

1164
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 21: and he said Mark Pope was his third choice. My gosh,

1165
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,360
Speaker 21: the balls on this guy to make that higher.

1166
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 6: Give me five.

1167
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 21: Coaches right now currently that are better than him in

1168
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 21: college of basketball. He's the top three coach in my

1169
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:39,839
Speaker 21: opinion right now in college basketball. The man is on fire, gocats,

1170
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 21: the future is bright.

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00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: I love it. Well, you're right.

1172
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:46,760
Speaker 2: I mean another person Mitch Barnhart should take about because

1173
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 2: a lot of people, including the person you're listening to,

1174
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 2: questioned it at first, but he would he had conviction

1175
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 2: on it.

1176
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 1: You heard it on my show that morning, and what

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00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:02,320
Speaker 1: an amazing start. Folks. These are great nights like this.

1178
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:04,280
Speaker 2: We haven't had a lot of them in the regular

1179
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 2: season or in the postseason honestly for a number of years,

1180
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 2: but we had them tonight.

1181
00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:08,439
Speaker 1: Enjoy.

1182
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 2: This is the feeling that makes you excited to be

1183
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 2: a Kentucky fan. Two o'clock in the morning, up happy.

1184
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 2: I know I might have a hard time falling asleep,

1185
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 2: but we got too because we got to go do

1186
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 2: this again in the morning. It's so nice to get

1187
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 2: a victory like this, and it's especially nice to do

1188
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 2: it with a guy who bleeds it as much as

1189
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 2: we do. Congrats to Mark Pope. Congrats to the players

1190
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 2: who all played great. Congrats to all the administration, all

1191
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 2: the people around the program, and congrats to this fan base.

1192
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 2: It's so nice to hear all of you happy. I'm excited,

1193
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 2: you're excited. We're in for a fun year. Thank you,

1194
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 2: folks very much for listening. I'll see you at ten

1195
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 2: o'clock tomorrow from Ksbar.

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Speaker 1: This has been the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show.