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Richmond WBB’s Run Ends in Durham | Selection Sunday, Nebraska & What’s Next · Spiders Sound Off

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  Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Spider Sound
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  Off. This is Tom.
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  And this is Porter, still in Durham, NC.
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  Yeah, so I drove back last night and Porter is still down in
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  Durham. We'll get into that game.
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  Obviously, this is the kind of our episode of the season is now
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  over. It was over for the men's team a
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  week ago. It's over now for the women's
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  team after the, the, the loss in Durham.
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  So we'll talk about all of that. We may go back a little bit.
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  So the last time we did our podcast, it was the Kennywood
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  episode and we it was also kind of Selection Sunday.
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  So we didn't really get to talk a lot about it.
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  We, you know, had a little video with coach Russell, which was
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  awesome. But anyway, we're going to take
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  a little step back, talk about kind of women's team and
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  Selection Sunday work our way through to our experience.
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  Cameron Indoor for my first time there.
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  Porter, is that your first time? There was my first time there in
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  that, in that temple of basketball, and we'll talk about
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  that for sure. And so we'll talk about that and
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  then a little bit of, you know, our thoughts on next year and I
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  guess what the summer may may hold for us as your favorite
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  Spiders basketball podcast. But anyway, let's talk about
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  Selection Sunday Porter. I know we got, I guess, you
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  know, the team wasn't really ready to do a giant party for
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  Selection Sunday cuz unlike like last year, I think it was kind
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  of a given they were getting an at large bid.
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  Two years ago they won the tournament.
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  This was very 5050. So as media members, we got
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  invited. So kind of thank you for the
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  school to inviting us to a selection show.
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  But what was what? What was your experience like,
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  Porter? Oh, I thought it was fantastic.
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  I mean, we went in was the Spider Hall, which is the upper
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  level of the Quealy Athletic Center there, and they had set
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  out chairs behind where the team was going to sit.
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  You have that ginormous TV on the wall that took, it's like
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  the size of a house, which was just a special place to watch
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  it. We, we networked a little bit,
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  talked to some of the folks that were there.
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  That was kind of fun. They had food and nice little
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  food spread in the back. You and I had kind of just
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  recorded with Kenny and I had to swing by.
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  I had a quick church meeting that I had to attend.
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  And then we, we met up there right at the, at the time of the
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  show, Coach Roussell, to his credit, kind of came out and
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  said, hey, folks, put your phones away.
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  I don't want anybody breaking the news, good or bad, before we
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  get it. So we want to all learn
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  simultaneously. So we all put our phones in our
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  pockets, turn them off. So we were watching with the
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  team and, and probably about 40 to 50, you know, close
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  supporters of the team as the news broke.
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  And it was it was legit chaos. When I'll say this, the screen
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  it. So we're sitting behind the
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  teams. The screen kind of froze for a
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  second, but that the audio kept going and I just heard Nebraska
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  Richmond and everybody jumped up except for me.
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  And that's a different story. Everybody jumped up to to
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  celebrate, but I didn't see it. I heard it before I saw it and.
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  I'll tell you one thing, this is kind of criticism of the
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  selection show is like for the the teams that are in that first
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  4 does not really a first four reveal.
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  It is like, well, here's Baylor and they were up against
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  Richmond or Nebraska. Yeah.
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  So it's like, I mean, that's a poor way to announce that.
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  Especially like if the for some of the first four teams, like
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  they're the last teams in, you would think you'd have some even
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  when you get. I mean, I, I, I like how they go
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  bracket by bracket, but at some point when you get to like,
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  well, this is our first bracket with the first four-game and in
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  the, and you show your own little bracket of the first four
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  and be like, we've got Nebraska. Yeah, against Richmond, like, it
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  was just like a throne in there. And so, well, and I don't know,
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  I didn't notice the screen freezing, but it was just like
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  you heard it before. You saw it.
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  You saw? It right and there's I mean
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  that's I mean opposite maybe that's what.
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  It was and then everybody jumped up.
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  So I the screen froze for me 'cause I saw the backs of of the
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  team. But I would say the the IT was
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  the second bracket they revealed we were in and we knew we'd be
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  on 11 or 12 line because we were going to be one of the last
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  teams if we made it. And so we were waiting for the
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  11th and the twelves largely. I don't think any of us saw us
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  being the 8-9 or 10. So we kind of were waiting
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  anticipate in anticipation. And then you heard Richmond and
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  it was just chaos, which is great.
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  So important question for you who has got better dance moves,
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  Elaine Bennis from Seinfeld or Coach Russell?
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  Because that celebration was Guy.
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  With leg kick and it was almost I, I, I'm trying to think of the
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  analogy. It was almost, you know, it was
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  a, it was a triumphant, like almost like a worldwide
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  wrestling, you know, celebration, you know, just kind
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  of like the, the arms came wide, the leg came way high.
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  It was like, you know, stomp on your opponent kind of like a,
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  like a, like an exalt. He was just super excited.
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  And it was, yeah, it was legit natural to see that that
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  excitement for him. And yeah, it was nice.
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  I was in the second bracket. So it's one of those like just
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  imagine if you don't hear your name and you're waiting for the
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  third or you wait for 4th and you're Oh yeah, you're like, is
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  it going to happen or not? So it was, it was kind of
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  thoroughly, which was nice. And let's talk for a second.
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  I mean, only time in the history of Richmond basketball we've had
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  back-to-back at larges. So what a credit to Russell and
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  staff and the and the senior leadership of this team.
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  Just, you know, just a special achievement.
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  And then this is the only Richmond basketball team in
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  history to have three consecutive NCAA appearances,
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  right? Three in a row.
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  Again, these are these are unparalleled achievements in
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  Richmond basketball. And that's the that's the whole
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  program. I mean, Rochelle has built a
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  program that sustains success. We can talk about next year
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  towards the end of the episode a little bit, but like it is a, it
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  is a juggernaut of, of, of women's basketball and everybody
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  labels us a mid major and we are mid major.
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  I, I acknowledge that. However, Gonzaga was a mid major
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  until they were not in men's basketball, right.
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  Connecticut, you know, probably was not considered a major in
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  women's basketball until they hired Gino Remo.
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  So I look at this is like this is just, you know, steps on a on
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  a journey with a great staff, a great coach, a great program.
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  So I'm just really, really happy for what the ladies achieved
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  this year. And and that selection show for
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  me was probably the highlight of doing this podcast, Tom.
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  I mean, I'll be honest, it was we're not doing it for the
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  money. You know, each of these podcasts
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  are still brought to you by Porter and Tom.
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  Yeah, that's right. But like just getting invited to
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  that and seeing that moment that that made it worth it for me.
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  Yeah, and let's not forget, I mean, the coach said this, you
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  know, before the show started. Like the team somehow he kind of
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  got probably the vote or the team captains to agree that they
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  were going to do this. Like the the the players did not
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  have to put themselves out there and he and they didn't know what
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  was going to happen. There was a, you know, probably
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  is just as big of a chance that we went through the four
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  brackets and they didn't hear their name And they were there,
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  you know, in that state with the fans or, you know, some fans and
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  a lot of media kind of right behind them.
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  So, you know, credit to the team kind of how however that came
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  about where they decided like, we want to be there, we want, we
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  want, we want to be on, you know, that, you know, a show in
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  a sense. And that could have been a sad
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  one. Thankfully it was a joyous 1.
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  I I did notice afterwards some of the players kind of hitting
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  the table that had like the, you know, the brownies and cookies.
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  So they they deserve that. Oh yeah, that reward after
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  hearing they were, they were they were in the in the show.
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  And you saw the assistant coaches, they scrambled
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  immediately. They weren't, they went to work
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  like the second they heard that we won the guys, they had a
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  celebration hug from coach yourself.
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  And then they would there's the assistants were off to work
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  working on a game plan, etcetera.
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  So. Yeah, that's right.
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  So. But the cool thing about it,
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  Tom, for me too, is like it started the the process for us
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  because like I, I had kind of plans set up for the second-half
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  of the week. I cancelled all of them.
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  You know, I'm like, I'm going to Durham, right.
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  Once we saw I was driving distance, I would have flown it
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  too if it was we had to fly, but I was, I was going to the first
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  round game. And to, you know, as spider
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  fans, you know, we don't, we're not Duke in terms of like every
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  year we're in the tournament. So when we make the tournament,
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  it's a big deal. And it's worth, you know,
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  travelling out to. And so I was, I was excited.
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  I, I cancelled the second-half of my week and I, I made, I made
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  plans to drive to Durham right away.
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  How about just this? Maybe it's a little bit to next
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  year, but it's like 3 in a row and Ali is the only junior on
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  the roster. So she's her freshman,
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  sophomore, junior year in the tournament, Yeah.
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  She's the only person in program history who might make 4.
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  And I don't, I don't think we're going to make the NCAA's next
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  year, folks. It's going to be a very young
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  team. But I mean, you know, we could,
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  I mean, you know, put resell together in the a 10 tournament
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  with any team and it's a dangerous out right.
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  So if Ali, if Ali comes back, and I'm really hopeful she does
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  because you know what is what a legacy she's built for herself
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  now at Richmond, you know, second team all A10 a chance
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  next year to probably end up being a first team all A10
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  player. And you know, I mean, that
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  probably puts Ali in the Hall of Fame.
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  I mean, 3 instantly appearances is unparalleled post season
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  success. Other than you pretty much
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  Rachel and Jayden and Maggie. So like that in and of itself.
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  Plus you get 2 all A10, you know, years.
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  That's a that's a Hall of Fame career, right?
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  All of a sudden, yeah. And, and, and coach will say, I
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  mean it a little bit, kind of talking about this freshman
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  class and what to expect. It's like Ali didn't play much
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  her freshman year. Yeah, So, and look, with, you
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  know, she had a great year last year, you know, stepped it up
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  again this year. So yeah, we got a bunch of
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  freshmen who actually got a lot of minutes this year.
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  Yeah, some more than others. So there's a lot to come.
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  We'll get to that in a bit. But anyway, so we went down to
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  Durham. There was a nice pre game event
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  at kind of a hotel they have right on campus that was walking
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  distance from Cameron indoor. So that was a a great
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  opportunity to kind of hang out with whatever 100 Spider fans or
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  yeah, there's. Been 100 folks there.
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  I got a chance to meet Ryan Colton.
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  He's in the he's one of the assistant athletic directors.
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  His wife Brittany talked to them for a little while.
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  That was lovely. I thought that was a, you know,
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  great representatives of the of Richmond.
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  I met Doctor Halleck and his wife, his wife Tina.
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  Tina's a Lister, by the way, Tom, she mentioned she listened
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  to our pod. She recognized us, which was
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  great. And so thank you for listening
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  to the pod. Met Jim Merritt down there.
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  He was there that they put out a nice spread.
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  You know, it's a, it's a, it's a nice spread for, you know,
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  people who make the track or who are local.
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  We, we had a contingent with us. We had RC Cola flying from New
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  York. We had D Hall and his wife drive
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  down from Vienna. We had your your your good
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  buddy. From Doctor.
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  Durrell. Of his wife.
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  Yeah, we had a nice contingent show up.
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  The food was good and they had a cash bar.
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  I I was working, so I didn't partake until about half time of
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  the game itself. So yeah, it was it was it was
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  good. I thought the I thought they,
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  they did a nice job. One of our listeners, Rogers,
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  came over and talked to us a little bit.
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  So that was fun. You know, after the pre game, I,
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  I, you know, we had, we bought tickets because we support,
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  we're supporting the women's basketball thing.
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  So we don't, we bought tickets for ourselves, even though Tom
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  and I also had media passes we could get in without paying.
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  We bought tickets and that was a good, I thought, a good move.
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  But we wanted to sit together and we didn't.
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  Sit with all the crowd. Right.
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  Either so. But I had to go over and get our
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  media passes or at least try to get both of them.
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  I was able to get mine. I wasn't able to get yours so I
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  walked over a little bit early. Nice walk across to the to
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  Cameron and door. It's kind of there's a nice quad
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  right outside of it where you've got the bookstore on one side,
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  the football stadium, Cameron indoor.
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  It's it's a really nice set up. They've got their Duke.
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  I have never been to Duke University.
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  This is my first trip. So I really liked that.
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  I did get lost looking for the media entrance by the way.
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  The signage was not quite as good as it wasn't Henrico, but I
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  did eventually find it got my pass that gave me access to
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  pretty much anywhere I wanted to go in the building.
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  So my first time walking into Cameron Indoor was kind of
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  through a side door and then I walked onto the floor and man,
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  for a basketball fan, that was just that was just a special
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  moment. That is a temple for basketball
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  fans. If you've never seen a game
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  there, folks, I heavily recommend it.
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  It's just, it's just amazing. Yeah, I mean every seats a good
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  seat there. This probably I didn't count,
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  but probably 100 different banners hanging up which are
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  kind of men's and women's, whether it's ACC.
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  Title or a lot of banners? Or NCAA appearances and that I
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  think, you know, I think the men's team had five championship
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  banners up there. Which are the bigger ones?
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  I will. Some of you who are our faithful
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  listeners have heard me say this before, like you, you look how
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  places like that do banners and then you come to the Robinson
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  there where they're like tucked away and hidden up against the
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  wall and you can barely you can't read them if you're on the
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  other side of the stadium. Like I wish for the the before
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  we did all the renovations, our banners like hung from the
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  rafters and we don't have many of them, but it's still kind of
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  look when you you could see them and you could read them.
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  And the ladies are stockpiling some banners, man.
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  Yeah, and it's a little bit of, you know, you're hot.
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  You put them up against the wall because you're worried someone
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  might not be able to see. Like, like, I want to get to the
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  point where our fans can't see the court from their seat very
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  well because there's too many banners in their face.
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  Like, right, well, let's, I want, let's, let's get those
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  banners where you can read them from any part of the stadium.
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  We're going to need more banners to do that too.
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  So we gotta and it sounds like, I mean, you know, on the spend
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  side, we're going to be spending some money so in the portal.
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  So that that I think will come our way.
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  Hey, a couple other things about Cameron experience.
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  So I did. We did get a review on the
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  pretzel. I was told it was a 12 out of
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  10. I had the pretzel.
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  It was legit dude. It was really, really good.
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  So. I got it without salt because I
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  can't have my blood pressure spike so I'm literally like.
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  Is that because you're working or that's because it's in
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  general you go? I don't know, man.
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  Like, you know, I get old and blood pressure starts to go up
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  and you can't tell why. It's not like I've got a ton of
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  stress. So I'm not sure.
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  And when you walk around the concourse Cameron Indoor,
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  there's a lot of kind of history there that try to tell the story
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  and actually intent, I think intentionally some of those
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  photos from the history like look older than they really are.
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  Sometimes. The thing that I, you know,
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  reading some of those, I think this was that half time I was
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  entertained to know And for kind of kind of old spiders like us,
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  we remember the days of having to do class registration where
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  you went up to a table and had to get in line to like get into
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  a class. There was one of the write ups.
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  There was like back in the day, like there was the concourse at
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  Cameron where all the students went to kind of register for
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  class. It reminded me of the some of
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  the good old days and some of the craziness of, of getting to
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  the front of the line and hearing like, oh, that class is
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  full. And then it's like, oh, now, now
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  what do I do? You're like, now what classes am
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  I gonna skip? Right.
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  Yeah, They don't have to worry about any of that.
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  But anyway, yeah, Cameron was awesome.
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  We we had nice seats. Every seats was good.
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  You guys sent into amazing section.
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  We were section 6 I think, right?
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  Yeah. Now I will tell you, I think the
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  attendance was like 700 and something.
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  So it's like, that's what U of R used to be like, yeah, you know,
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  four years ago. I'd say Richmond probably had
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  between 3:50 and 400 of the people there came down from
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  Richmond. It was a nice, a nice crew
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  traveled and that that's a credit to the program.
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  Right, yeah. I don't know who it was, but we,
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  I think we had like a local high school band, like with the
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  Richmond T-shirts. They sounded great.
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  They sounded great and. They, they sounded awesome.
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  They had like, they had like four or five tubas, but like.
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  They didn't. They weren't playing songs that
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  we're used to hearing at the Robin Center either, So it was
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  like, but it was a great. I'm not sure and.
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  So give credit. Whoever paid for that on the
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  Richmond side did did a solid because.
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  That was yeah, I'm glad we had it.
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  But. But anyway, Nebraska, what's?
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  Interesting. Can I tell you one little kind
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  of complaining story here? So, so I get out on the floor,
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  right, and I'm got my media pass.
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  I'm standing underneath the basket and our ladies are
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  warming up next to me. And Nebraska has this inflatable
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  mascot. I guess he's famous little red,
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  I think his name is. I'm not sure.
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  But anyway, he's, he literally is, you know, probably about 8
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  feet tall. And the top half of it just
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  jiggles back and forth when you, you know, whatever.
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  So inflatable things. Right, the thing comes over and
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  and and and does like an Ace Ventura to me in a way.
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  It's like just right in my face just wagging the because I have
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  my Richmond gear on and my media.
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  So like it's kind of annoying me, right?
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  It's right next to me and it's like bebop.
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  And so I'm like, whatever. So I went, I went back, found
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  our seats during the first free throws.
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  That mascot was right behind the basket and making all sorts of
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  back and forth movement. And I'm like, you can't, you
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  can't put a mascot directly behind the girl's basket to on
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  her free throws. I mean, you can move it off to
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  the side, but like right behind the basket.
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  To me, that felt like a little bit egregious.
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  And I I. And I think it's Lil red, Lil
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  red, Lil red, Lil red. And it's been voted like the
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  best inflatable mascot in America, by the way.
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  So it's legit, but. So it's it's interesting to me.
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  I mean, nothing you can do about it, but we're like, we're
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  playing a team that has the same kind of red that we're red.
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  So like their fan, like the whole place was red.
• 17:25
  Oh, and we. Were in a section that was half
• 17:27
  and half so we had half Nebraska in front of us and Nebraska
• 17:29
  behind us. But Richmond was mixed into the
• 17:31
  section, so it was and their. Chants are for Big Red.
• 17:33
  That's kind of their nickname. So it's like, you know, it
• 17:36
  wasn't like we all, every spider could have worn red, but every
• 17:39
  Nebraska fan was wearing red too.
• 17:41
  So it was. It wasn't like you could tell
• 17:44
  exactly where the fans were until, you know, the yelling.
• 17:47
  And I'll say this to their fans are pretty nice people.
• 17:49
  I mean, they have that Midwestern kind of easygoing
• 17:52
  nature. Like I didn't.
• 17:53
  We, we found, I, I found the people very pleasant around us.
• 17:56
  We were the ones probably making the most noise.
• 17:58
  Well, they're also pleasant because they went, you know, 11
• 18:02
  for, 22 for from three-point Land.
• 18:04
  They opened up a can of whoop ass on this is what you're.
• 18:06
  Saying, yeah, that's right. We can talk a little bit about
• 18:08
  the game. I mean, I think, you know, first
• 18:10
  half we had a great second quarter and I remember we were
• 18:13
  talking at half time like I think what the second quarter we
• 18:15
  kind of mucked it up and we got to the foul line.
• 18:18
  We were driving a lot. We kind of stopped the shooting
• 18:21
  threes as much and we you know, we defended well in that and I
• 18:26
  and maybe they stopped doing what was made them successful.
• 18:29
  So I think they they got 1/2 mean Nebraska got 1/2 time
• 18:33
  speech of like, you know, you know, go back to what you're
• 18:35
  good at. But half time we felt pretty
• 18:38
  good. We took a nice group photo of us
• 18:40
  all smiling and happy at half. Time.
• 18:42
  Yeah, we felt like we were right back in that thing.
• 18:44
  Didn't. We we should have taken a photo
• 18:45
  after the third quarter like whoa, I think we went, we went
• 18:51
  so from down to and half to down 16-5 minutes into the.
• 18:55
  Yeah, we got, we got rolled order.
• 18:56
  And we haven't scored yet. Felt a little like UCLA.
• 18:59
  UCLA last year. By the way, can I just give a
• 19:01
  shout out Brit Prince #23 for Nebraska?
• 19:05
  We've talked a lot about analytics on this show and
• 19:07
  that's a jump shot is is fading in the game.
• 19:10
  Let me tell you what Britt may single handedly bring back the
• 19:13
  jump shot to college basketball. She is so quick off the dribble
• 19:17
  and she has one of the prettiest rising jump shots in any
• 19:20
  direction, right or left in motion in the air that she just
• 19:23
  drains it. And So what a player she is.
• 19:26
  And the other girl I'll give a shout out to was #14 I think her
• 19:29
  name is, is it Kaylin Hike or Kaylin Hake?
• 19:31
  Kalin Hake. She was just ice water in her
• 19:35
  veins from three in that second-half.
• 19:37
  I, Rachelle talked. To her for the game.
• 19:40
  What's that? She was 4 for five for the game.
• 19:42
  Yeah, Rachelle talked to her after the game.
• 19:44
  He in the line, he stopped and talked to her for probably 30
• 19:47
  seconds to a minute. And I don't know what he said,
• 19:48
  but I'll have to ask him next time I see him.
• 19:50
  But she was a she was a a thorn in our side in that second-half.
• 19:53
  They have a very good team, well coached.
• 19:56
  Here's the difference in the game.
• 19:57
  They hit their threes in the first half.
• 19:59
  We were, I mean, we had open looks.
• 20:02
  I mean, we had some really good open looks.
• 20:03
  We just missed our threes. And you know when you're, when
• 20:06
  you're a team built around the three, if you miss your threes
• 20:08
  against the top, I think they were a top 30 in the net.
• 20:11
  You're going to, you're going to lose the game.
• 20:12
  You got it. We got to play one of our best
• 20:14
  games to beat A-Team like that, like we played it.
• 20:17
  Yeah. I mean, I guess the the the part
• 20:18
  that I would, I mean, you're right.
• 20:20
  What like they shot 11 for 22 from 3:00 and we are 4 for 23?
• 20:25
  That's the difference. Those those 7 threes, that's 21
• 20:27
  points. Like I would it all came back to
• 20:31
  the the start of that third quarter, yeah, where we didn't,
• 20:34
  we didn't score for 5 minutes and I don't think it was like we
• 20:38
  needed to hit our threes like we needed to score.
• 20:41
  Yeah. And you know, we are scoring
• 20:43
  from two in the second quarter. We went, I was kind of doing
• 20:46
  some doing, doing some complicated math this morning.
• 20:49
  So we went O for 8 before we got our first basket in the 3rd and
• 20:53
  that was at about the five minute marking and we went down
• 20:55
  from 2 and half to down 16. So they were making all of their
• 20:59
  shots. So I mean, I think they get more
• 21:02
  credit than our defense gets picked on, but obviously our
• 21:06
  defense wasn't great in the third quarter cuz that team just
• 21:11
  kind of lit us up. And then we went over 8 and I
• 21:14
  was looking at the data and I don't think Rachel got a shot
• 21:17
  and I think Maggie went O for one.
• 21:18
  So Nebraska's defense came out in the second-half and kind of
• 21:22
  prevented them from really getting a lot of action in that
• 21:26
  first 5 minutes. And that we tried to get
• 21:28
  everybody else involved. We missed some layups, we had
• 21:30
  some bad turnovers. It was just like a snowball.
• 21:33
  It felt like the. First time we played Rhode
• 21:34
  Island, to me, they just, they just, they were on and we
• 21:37
  weren't. And the second time we played
• 21:39
  Rhode Island, of course, we won by 20 some points.
• 21:41
  So like it's the kind of thing where you got like you just have
• 21:44
  to play. It's insidably tournament
• 21:45
  basketball. You have to have one of your
• 21:46
  best games. You're going to play a top 30 or
• 21:48
  40 team no matter what. You know, we just didn't have
• 21:51
  our best game. And it doesn't it's not it
• 21:53
  doesn't take anything away from the fact that this is a three
• 21:57
  time insidably team that they back-to-back at large.
• 21:59
  I mean, to me, the magic of the moment was the trip itself,
• 22:04
  driving to Durham, hanging out with all of the, the people
• 22:08
  around the program before the game, getting to see, see
• 22:11
  Cameron Indoor as, as media. I mean, who would have thought
• 22:14
  we would be doing a media pass for, for an NCAA game in Cameron
• 22:19
  Indoor. That was just fantastic.
• 22:20
  And you know, I mean, we got a chance to, to, to just enjoy
• 22:26
  this ride. I actually bought a, an NCAA
• 22:29
  shirt with Richmond's logo on it.
• 22:30
  So that'll be a little keepsake I get out of this whole thing.
• 22:34
  And you know, we saw, we we saw and actually, quite frankly, we
• 22:37
  documented, I think we have over 30 hours of spider sound off out
• 22:40
  there in the ethosphere now. We documented this journey of
• 22:43
  the special team. And I mean, you know, that was
• 22:45
  that was a lot of fun, man. I I mean, it was a real, it was
• 22:48
  a it was a great year. We didn't have to have an
• 22:51
  incident play tournament game on either side at the end of the
• 22:54
  year when we did our predictions.
• 22:55
  I think, you know, we weren't we we thought the ladies could do
• 22:59
  it. We neither of us had the men in
• 23:01
  the instantly tournament. I think I had them in the NIT
• 23:03
  and you had them like 17 wins. You were pretty close.
• 23:05
  I'll give you credit on that. I think I actually nailed the
• 23:07
  ladies record, by the way, at the end of the season.
• 23:09
  So like it, it was a great year to to do the our first year of
• 23:14
  the podcast, right. And why don't we spending a
• 23:18
  minute or two and just talk about kind of our go forward
• 23:20
  plans just to kind of fill people in who who listen to us
• 23:23
  about what we're thinking here and you know what we're going to
• 23:26
  do for the for the next. So we.
• 23:27
  Started this pod in July of last year.
• 23:31
  And so we haven't really experienced the March and even
• 23:34
  in July it was kind of what did we talk about because there was
• 23:38
  only so much going on. We got to a practice I think
• 23:40
  later in July, maybe it was early August, but so we've got
• 23:44
  whatever 3 1/2 months until we get to that July time frame.
• 23:48
  So I think we're going to and some of this, you know, we ask
• 23:51
  you to give have some patience and, you know, play it by ear.
• 23:54
  But we're going to try to get out there every couple of weeks
• 23:57
  with whether it's an interview, obviously over the next month is
• 24:01
  going to be these teams are getting formed based on the
• 24:04
  portal. So we'll we'll definitely be
• 24:05
  back as news comes out on what the portal looks like, both
• 24:09
  retaining players and new players, because I think both
• 24:11
  teams are going to be very active.
• 24:14
  They have to be active in retaining and in bringing,
• 24:17
  especially on the men's side. We're going to bring in a lot of
• 24:19
  players, I suspect. But we also got freshmen coming
• 24:23
  in. So we'll we'll we'll talk more
• 24:25
  about the freshmen classes. But yeah, I think it's fans.
• 24:29
  We're I think we'll when we do release, I think we're this is a
• 24:32
  lot of like we're thinking about, we haven't done it yet,
• 24:34
  but I think we're kind of stick back to the Mondays like when we
• 24:37
  are doing weekly in July and August, like we went Mondays is
• 24:41
  kind of the main date. So I think we're going to kind
• 24:42
  of try to stick to let's getting Monday releases out and I think
• 24:46
  we're going to try to do it every other week.
• 24:48
  We'll see if we always have enough to talk about.
• 24:51
  And we'd love your feedback on things that you want to hear
• 24:54
  about as well. I mean, I feel like on my list
• 24:56
  is kind of the freshman class kind of getting to know them and
• 24:59
  the and the portal folks that come in is going to be a big
• 25:02
  part of what I'm hoping we can accomplish over the next.
• 25:05
  I mean, I'll say this too, like we had a lot of guests this year
• 25:08
  appreciate first of all, all of our guests coming on.
• 25:11
  I think, you know, we started off talking about the Sweet 16
• 25:15
  or sorry about the the Syracuse win, the 35th anniversary of
• 25:19
  that. We ended kind of our last
• 25:21
  interview of this season with Kenny Wood from that team.
• 25:23
  That was a really special moment.
• 25:25
  We talked to Dairy and we talked to Kendall.
• 25:26
  We had all kinds of the ladies on the team, both active and
• 25:29
  past members. We had Aiden Hargarbright on the
• 25:32
  show, Coach Mooney, Coach Russell, all very supportive.
• 25:35
  So we appreciate everything they did to support the show.
• 25:37
  Jason and and Keelan in our first season were fantastic,
• 25:40
  helping us out, getting access to people.
• 25:44
  You know, we, we, we put a lot of energy and time and effort.
• 25:48
  Obviously we're doing this just as a, as a, as a, as a passion
• 25:51
  project. We don't, we don't have any
• 25:53
  external sponsors. Not to say we wouldn't, we
• 25:55
  wouldn't want one breaking even wouldn't be a bad thing to do
• 25:58
  with this thing eventually. So if you guys want to sponsor
• 26:01
  us, we're now in 30 different countries.
• 26:02
  I'd say we have about 200 plus active listeners each episode.
• 26:06
  So that's it's been kind of an exciting little, you know,
• 26:09
  progress we've seen on it. But I think we're also, you
• 26:12
  know, we we put we put a lot of energy into two a week.
• 26:15
  And so that we you come out of this season a little bit tired
• 26:18
  and you just need a little bit of a break.
• 26:19
  So I like the every other week goal.
• 26:21
  I'm not tired. You're not tired.
• 26:23
  I'm a little but. It's more of, I mean, what made
• 26:25
  it easy twice a week was that there was games to talk about.
• 26:28
  Yeah, that's true. So I think this I, I think we'll
• 26:31
  look at the next few months until they start practicing
• 26:34
  again and we can really, you know, get and look at the team.
• 26:37
  It's kind of I think our focus is going to be on these new
• 26:40
  teams that are forming and then maybe some interviews of some
• 26:45
  some other stories from. Yeah, we'll need more stories.
• 26:48
  I mean, I wish we had, we were doing video back when we had
• 26:51
  Mike Scrocky, who's our first guest on Spider Sound off
• 26:53
  because like, you know, that was a great story.
• 26:56
  We broke it over 2 episodes. We had we had the ladies from
• 27:00
  last year's team, you know, do Addie and Katie doing an
• 27:02
  episode. I wish we were doing video.
• 27:03
  Then Rachel came on before we're doing video.
• 27:06
  So, you know, really appreciate everybody who was patient with
• 27:09
  us as we learned how to do this. And I think, you know, over time
• 27:12
  I'm we've gotten a little bit better.
• 27:13
  I mean, I might I got the best sound guy in the business on the
• 27:15
  other side over there. So he's put he's put together
• 27:18
  some, some wonderful. You know, you don't really
• 27:21
  realize all the all the subtleness of the transitions
• 27:23
  between segments and the music and making sure the music fades
• 27:26
  at the right time. But when we were planning on a
• 27:29
  multi a multi win tournament, Tom actually is is going to take
• 27:34
  a little trip here. And so I was going to be the
• 27:36
  sound guy for anything that we did past this game.
• 27:38
  And so I've learned how hard it is.
• 27:40
  And so I got even more respect for what Tom does every day to
• 27:43
  get. This you know what, something
• 27:44
  thinking about other things we can do this offseason.
• 27:47
  Hopefully we can have an interview with our first drafted
• 27:50
  WNBA player. That would be special.
• 27:53
  By the way, she, I, I do believe she will get drafted.
• 27:56
  I think you. Know so the draft is April 13th
• 27:58
  OK so again that's what's a second-half of April maybe we
• 28:02
  can we can work that out either way if she doesn't get I mean
• 28:06
  the WNBA is only so big the draft is not the the the biggest
• 28:11
  thing it's not you know there's not as many teams as the NBA but
• 28:13
  we we know she's going to be in camp somewhere yeah I.
• 28:17
  She'll get. Drafted.
• 28:18
  Most folks have her as a second round pick.
• 28:20
  We'll see what happens. I'm sure there's a combine and
• 28:23
  other things that that the players do before that to really
• 28:26
  kind of nail down that position. But but all those camps start
• 28:30
  kind of April 19th right after the draft.
• 28:33
  So hopefully we can we can get her and hack me.
• 28:36
  Rachel will probably find herself in ANBA camp as well,
• 28:40
  trying to be a three-point specialist.
• 28:42
  Yeah, somebody. Absolutely.
• 28:44
  I mean, it's a, you know, I mean, it's it's the most viewed
• 28:47
  episode. I think we put out with Scott
• 28:49
  Unger's episode. If you haven't watched that one
• 28:51
  or listen that one, I would heavily encourage you to go back
• 28:53
  and listen to that one, especially the second-half.
• 28:55
  It's a story beyond basketball and you realize what an
• 28:58
  inspiration that Scott and his wife are for their positivity in
• 29:01
  life. Heavily recommend you listen to
• 29:03
  that one. That's probably been the the
• 29:06
  best episode. I feel like I did just because I
• 29:08
  feel like it was it was beyond just talking about spider hoops.
• 29:12
  And so yeah, that was a special one for me.
• 29:15
  How about you? What was your What was your best
• 29:16
  episode? Yeah, I mean, I I think you
• 29:18
  mentioned though, I think my favorite was just Scrocky
• 29:20
  because that was both you're talking about the Kansas game
• 29:23
  and kind of the story of the basketball being kind of
• 29:26
  absolutely that was a good Yeah, in a sense taken by one of his
• 29:31
  manager trained. Yeah.
• 29:32
  And kind of that surprise I always kind of picture in my
• 29:35
  head of when Scrocky asked for the ball and then didn't know
• 29:38
  that the guy stuck snuck it for out of I love it out of Kansas
• 29:42
  and gave it to him. It's kind of my my favorite
• 29:44
  story of the year. That was a good idea.
• 29:46
  We've there will be things to talk about over the next month.
• 29:49
  Now I hope we, I know we put #1 on the list.
• 29:52
  When we hear that Coach Russell is coming back, we'll be kind of
• 29:55
  the thing we're most looking forward to hearing.
• 29:57
  Top 10 coach in America. And and then hopefully that
• 30:00
  happens and then it gets into kind of the players.
• 30:03
  I think on the men's side, when we hear Argo brides coming back,
• 30:05
  I think we'll be very happy. On the women's side, it's
• 30:08
  getting getting Ali coming back. None of this is a given these
• 30:11
  days. I mean, she played a wonderful,
• 30:15
  wonderful part of defense on 23 yesterday.
• 30:17
  Yeah. But anyway, so we'll we'll have
• 30:19
  plenty to talk about. And when there is big news, I
• 30:23
  think you should expect Porter and I will be talking on the
• 30:25
  phone and being like, it's now the time.
• 30:28
  Yeah. But if there's no news, we'll be
• 30:29
  back in a couple weeks to talk about kind of what we're hearing
• 30:33
  or what's out there, whether it's kind of concrete news or
• 30:36
  not. So we're not going away.
• 30:38
  And again, we're we're open to other ideas or folks you'd love
• 30:41
  to hear us interview because there's a lot of great stories
• 30:44
  out there from. Also would love to, we'd love to
• 30:46
  invest a little bit of money in the spider sound off studio, you
• 30:49
  know, just to, to create like a backdrop that's that's
• 30:52
  consistent with the quality of the sound that we've been
• 30:55
  putting out, you know, so I'm still working on my partner on
• 30:57
  that one. Yes I do.
• 30:59
  I'm not a non profit and I do some of the calls.
• 31:02
  It's the bluegrass jam that's in May.
• 31:04
  And I do some of the calls and I just hook up to the podcast
• 31:07
  equipment because it sounds better than my laptop.
• 31:10
  And they, they see all the spider stuff behind me and
• 31:13
  they're like, and they don't even know I'm on a podcast.
• 31:15
  I'm like, you know, what are you doing?
• 31:16
  And I'm like, oh, there's a reason for that.
• 31:20
  But anyway, so look forward to the next few months.
• 31:24
  Again, kind of reach out if you've got some ideas.
• 31:27
  We we, we'd love to hear hear from you.
• 31:29
  But until next time, make. Sure, you like and subscribe to
• 31:33
  and this is Porter. And this is spiders sounding
• 31:38
  off. See you.