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Buckeye Basketball Making Strong Case For March Madness · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, February eighth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. All right, today, we're gonna be talking basketball.
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  Speaker 1: And in case you did not stay up or turn
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  Speaker 1: the game off and discuss in the first half, when
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes fell down seventeen points against Maryland, oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: you missed a heck of a second half by Jake
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  Speaker 1: Diebler and his team. Bruce Drton more than thirty points
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  Speaker 1: banked home a game winning three pointer with seven seconds left,
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  Speaker 1: the huge win for the Buckeyes over number eighteen in Maryland.
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  Speaker 1: We were there cover the postgame press conference. Some interesting
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  Speaker 1: stuff in that game, And frankly, I just want to
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  Speaker 1: let you hear from these guys because we've really not
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  Speaker 1: done a whole heck of a lot of basketball on
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  Speaker 1: this show or anywhere else, just because it has been
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  Speaker 1: a fairly busy football season. But this basketball team definitely
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  Speaker 1: worth letting you hear a little bit from and definitely
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  Speaker 1: worth paying a little more attention to. So again, let's
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  Speaker 1: start with the just Jake Diebler's overall thoughts on the game.
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  Speaker 1: I will apologize. First of all, the camera will shake
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  Speaker 1: at the start of this, just we're getting it set up.
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  Speaker 1: It was sort of a little bit of a hustle
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  Speaker 1: to get everything set up after the guys got set down,
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  Speaker 1: So the camera's going to shake for a minute if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching. But you know, this is a team that
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  Speaker 1: came from back down from seventeen points. So Jake Diebler's asked,
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  Speaker 1: you know what this says about the team the program,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll hear him talk about these two guys. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not watching, you're just listening. The two guys with
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  Speaker 1: him are Bruce Thorton and Micah Parrish.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly so thankful for these two, But I just want
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  Speaker 2: you to understand, like how connected and tough this is.
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  Speaker 2: We have really preached that from day one, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was.
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  Speaker 4: On full display tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we lacked a little bit of that early, but
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  Speaker 2: it took everything we had from a toughness in its
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  Speaker 2: togetherness thing to come back win this game against a
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  Speaker 2: really good team who's arguably playing some of the best
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  Speaker 2: basketball in the league right now. So these two guys
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  Speaker 2: certainly lead the way for us and have now for
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  Speaker 2: a significant time, and we've talked about that after games.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just I'm so thankful for these guys their leadership,
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  Speaker 2: and thankful for players stepping up and making plays.
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  Speaker 4: How about that.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Dorton, as mentioned, had a monster game and yes
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  Speaker 1: he hit that game winning three point or with seven
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  Speaker 1: seconds left. Finished with thirty one points, eleven for eight
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  Speaker 1: team from the field, two for four from three, seven
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  Speaker 1: freight from the line, five rebound, six assists, really great
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  Speaker 1: three steals, even great overall performance from Bruce Thorton. He
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  Speaker 1: played three minute of the game, a full forty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: What kept him going in what was a somewhat frantic
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  Speaker 1: forty minutes of basketball.
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  Speaker 3: We just need to just win. We got a ranked
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  Speaker 3: opponent in the house, and we came short a couple
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  Speaker 3: of times, and I just told I, I just to
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  Speaker 3: keep keep shooting the wide open shots, just keep making plays.
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  Speaker 3: And we have we have a lot of gamers on
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  Speaker 3: our team. So they made big time plays over and
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  Speaker 3: over again, even though we have mistakes. So just moved
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  Speaker 3: on to the next play and showed up as a win.
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  Speaker 3: We can give him the day off for those forty
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  Speaker 3: minutes if we need to.
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  Speaker 1: Buck Gys had to overcome a lot to pick up
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  Speaker 1: that win on Thursday night. Not only were they coming
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  Speaker 1: back from that seventeen point deficit in the first half,
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  Speaker 1: they also had to overcome a really, honestly a terrible
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  Speaker 1: performance the first time they played Maryland this season. So
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  Speaker 1: when you know, did that take that toughness that Jake
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  Speaker 1: Diebler has been talking about, is that part of how
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  Speaker 1: they did that?
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  Speaker 2: I think yes, I think absolutely are our toughness and
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  Speaker 2: I just this group is connected and I I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean for that to sound cliche, and it may be
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  Speaker 2: hard to see something tangible like that at times, but
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  Speaker 2: it really is about our toughness and how connected we
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  Speaker 2: are and we're playing.
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  Speaker 4: We're playing with better attention to detail.
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  Speaker 2: We're playing, you know, with more smarter possessions, and we've
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  Speaker 2: been doing that consistently. We talk a lot, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we've been doing it for most of the season
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  Speaker 2: about growing. I always felt like this team had the
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  Speaker 2: ability to grow throughout the course of the season, and
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  Speaker 2: we talked about it right just recently that we weren't
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  Speaker 2: done growing, like we haven't arrived yet.
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  Speaker 4: And so I think we're seeing that.
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  Speaker 2: We're seeing real growth, certainly with some guys individually, but
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  Speaker 2: we're also seeing it as a collective group.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it's that time of year.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that really changed the game with
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeye defense tightened up quite a bit in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. Maryland was fifteen for twenty in the first
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  Speaker 1: half from two and then five for twenty three from
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  Speaker 1: two in the second half. So what did they change
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  Speaker 1: on defense in the second half to change that? This
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  Speaker 1: is Mike ah Parrish answering this.
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  Speaker 4: We just kept fighting.
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  Speaker 5: I mean in the first half they was making some
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  Speaker 5: tough shots, but We also didn't make it tougher for them,
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  Speaker 5: so they second half the cards fought through the screen
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  Speaker 5: it's the big this's day job, and cast them some shots.
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  Speaker 5: At halftime, Coach was telling us, we just got to
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  Speaker 5: play harder, play with my heart so matter fact, the
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  Speaker 5: group of guys are that we have. We responded to
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  Speaker 5: that and we went out there to play harder.
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  Speaker 1: What does it take to overcome not only that huge
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  Speaker 1: first half deficit, but also, as I said earlier, this
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  Speaker 1: is a team that smoked them earlier in the year
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  Speaker 1: in College Park. There's a little stuff going on probably
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  Speaker 1: between your ears at that point as well. Here's mikeah
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  Speaker 1: Parrish answering that, and then Jake Diebler jumps in as well.
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  Speaker 5: And it's a lot of things that that goes goes
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  Speaker 5: into that. But our willingness to win, the toughness that
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  Speaker 5: we have as a team, like Coach said, connectedness that
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  Speaker 5: takes all apart uh, just just giving yourself up for
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  Speaker 5: the team as one of the biggest things you can
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  Speaker 5: do to hope and win.
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  Speaker 4: So man, that's what everybody did tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, just if I can add Adham, I thought,
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  Speaker 2: you saw, certainly these guys play extremely well. Ques's defensive
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  Speaker 2: possession at the end of the first half, Sean Stewart
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  Speaker 2: getting some fifty to fifty balls, devons like you go,
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  Speaker 2: Evan Mahafee having a big time defensive stop. You go
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  Speaker 2: through every single player, and there was something impactful from
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  Speaker 2: an energy and toughness standpoint in that stretch, and certainly
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  Speaker 2: these guys, these guys led the way with that. I thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, John had some really good tough defensive ISO possessions,
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  Speaker 2: Like there was just there was, you know, contributions from
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  Speaker 2: a toughness standpoint from everybody, and Mike's right, that's it
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  Speaker 2: took everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another one with Jake Diebler. What was going wrong
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  Speaker 1: early that the Buckeyes ended up getting fixed later on
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  Speaker 1: in the game to really turn things.
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  Speaker 4: Around because of how good they are.
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  Speaker 2: You let some guys get some easy looks early and
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  Speaker 2: now all of a sudden, when you're challenging.
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  Speaker 4: Shots better, they make them right.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought that's the way it started, Like they
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  Speaker 2: got some good looks early in our ball screen coverage.
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  Speaker 4: Just we weren't we weren't executing well enough.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it was us not fighting through the screen well
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  Speaker 2: enough and creating space for them.
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  Speaker 4: They were hitting.
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  Speaker 2: A short roll and sometimes the level of our forward
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  Speaker 2: wasn't good enough. So there were some little details there, certainly,
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  Speaker 2: but I think some of it was they were able
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  Speaker 2: to get a rhythm offensively, and that's a really good team.
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  Speaker 2: And when you get a rhythm like that, now, like
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  Speaker 2: there were some tough shots that we challenged that they
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  Speaker 2: made in the first half, but we made them do
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  Speaker 2: that right consistently for the rest of the game, and ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was enough to now force them And
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  Speaker 2: we talked about a halftime like, we have to force
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  Speaker 2: them to miss. We can't hope they miss. We got
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  Speaker 2: to force them to miss, and I thought we really
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  Speaker 2: did a good job of that. And really the kind
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  Speaker 2: of back end of the first half and second half.
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  Speaker 1: Not only is Maryland a good team, Maryland is also
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  Speaker 1: a big team. They've got a lot more size in
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State. And you'll also got to remember the Buck
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  Speaker 1: guys were playing without Aaron Bradshaw, one of their most
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  Speaker 1: important big men, because of an illness. So how do
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  Speaker 1: you come back that. Bruce Thornton jumps in first on
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  Speaker 1: this one, and then you'll hear a little more from
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  Speaker 1: j D.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta find a way.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I could just tell you, like it's like
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  Speaker 3: a box house or like a scheme, like usually got
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  Speaker 3: to go get the ball at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 3: And I just feel like we just I just feel
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  Speaker 3: like we wanted we wanted it more than know. So
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  Speaker 3: like at the end of the day, if you if
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  Speaker 3: you don't, if you tell you, we hold each other accountable,
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  Speaker 3: tell each other, yell at each other. We need this rebound,
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  Speaker 3: and everybody respond to correct weight. Nobody gets mad, nobody
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  Speaker 3: in their feelings. We just go get We just go
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  Speaker 3: get it the next possession we did.
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  Speaker 2: I thought both these guys right sometimes when that when
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  Speaker 2: when their size got it, we we were there waiting
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  Speaker 2: and we called it out like we had some steals
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  Speaker 2: when they got some of those some of those rebounds
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  Speaker 2: or the balls being knocked around. And you know, both
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  Speaker 2: these guys and we've talked about it, their defensive rebounding
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  Speaker 2: is important for us, and they contributed significantly to that.
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  Speaker 2: So that's one way as you get in there and
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  Speaker 2: you scrap right and you kind of he brings it down,
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  Speaker 2: you take it. Both these guys had deflections and steals.
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  Speaker 2: So I think I think that's part of it. But
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  Speaker 2: it is some good old fashioned fight and heart.
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  Speaker 1: And finally the comeback coming back from seventeen points. That's
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  Speaker 1: not something you can do all in one shot. It's
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  Speaker 1: sort of a little bit of it at a time
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  Speaker 1: and then all at once at the end. So that
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  Speaker 1: comeback really started right before half done. The buck Eys
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  Speaker 1: were down fifteen right before the half and just put
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  Speaker 1: together this quick, little six to zero mini run to
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  Speaker 1: cut it to nine before halftime. How big was that
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  Speaker 1: in the big pick?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think it, you know, it kind of validated
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  Speaker 4: what we talked about.
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  Speaker 2: We said, like, hey, let's get this thing to single
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  Speaker 2: digits and we're not going to make up this whole
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  Speaker 2: deficit at once, so let's get it to single digits.
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  Speaker 4: And we did that.
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  Speaker 2: Then we talked about in the second half kind of
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. Let's get this thing down to a
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  Speaker 2: couple possessions going into the last segment of the game,
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  Speaker 2: and then like we're ready to go win it now,
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  Speaker 2: Like maybe we didn't do that earlier in the season,
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  Speaker 2: We're ready to.
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  Speaker 4: Go win it now. And so I think that was
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  Speaker 4: a big part of it. But it I felt like.
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  Speaker 2: The momentum shifted at the end of the first half,
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  Speaker 2: and again it was some of those plays we talked
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  Speaker 2: about that really just some like tough individual plays.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you guys enjoyed that. This has certainly been
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  Speaker 1: an interesting basketball team. They've They've had some really really
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  Speaker 1: big wins. They've been a really impressive resume in some ways.
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  Speaker 1: They've also found a way to lose four really really close,
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  Speaker 1: one possession games that would make where their record would
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  Speaker 1: look a lot different if those games had swung a
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  Speaker 1: different way. They've had some blowout losses. It has been
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  Speaker 1: kind of an inconsistent year, but it has been a
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  Speaker 1: really interesting team to follow. You should probably be following
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  Speaker 1: that with us there at bucke huddle dot com if
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  Speaker 1: you are interested in where they stack up right now
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  Speaker 1: in bracketology.
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  Speaker 4: It's a little early, but I yes, I did look
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  Speaker 4: this up.
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  Speaker 1: They're currently ranked as a nine seed in bracketology, so
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  Speaker 1: comfortably in the field, but you're looking at maybe a
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  Speaker 1: second round game against a one seed at that point,
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  Speaker 1: so you'd like to bump up a couple seed lines
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  Speaker 1: if you can there, But we'll.
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  Speaker 4: See if they can do that.
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  Speaker 1: Their next game is Sunday at Nebraska, that's two o'clock
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  Speaker 1: on Big ten Network. Next home game Wednesday night at
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  Speaker 1: eight thirty against Washington I thicket will be available for that,
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  Speaker 1: so if you want to go see Jake Diebler's team
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  Speaker 1: in person, you can do that Wednesday night at the
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  Speaker 1: Shot at eight thirty. That'll do it for today. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 4: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.