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- 0:00[SPEAKER_03]: You are listening to the Alexandria Tigers boys basketball season update and holiday tournament preview podcast With guest grant Shouse of the action sports network and Alexandria head coach Marty Carroll And it's only on the central Indian sports report
- 0:26[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome Alexandria Tigers fans to the Central Indiana Sports Group 4 for our Alexandria Tigers boys basketball Season update and And preview of the inaugural Central Indiana holiday classic being played at Alexandria.
- 0:43[SPEAKER_03]: I would and Frank
- 0:45[SPEAKER_03]: Coming up, I spoke with Grant Shouse of the Action Sports Network, who's called the Tigers last five games, and with Alexandria Head Coach Marty Carroll about his team start to the season and this weekend's Central Indian Holiday Classic.
- 1:01[SPEAKER_03]: Grant and I spoke with Coach Carroll following the Tigers 67-41 win over Edinburgh on Monday.
- 1:09[SPEAKER_03]: Before we get to that one, I'll let you know that on Friday night, we will have a recap of day one of the holiday classic.
- 1:18[SPEAKER_03]: We will have scores and highlights from all three locations and Saturday's matchups for you.
- 1:26[SPEAKER_03]: On Saturday, we will have recaps of all three pool championship games at Franklin, assuming we have local teams playing in all three games and it appears that we will, it would take some serious upsets for that not to happen.
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- 2:04[SPEAKER_03]: Alexandria is off to a strong start and their eight season underhead coach Marty Carroll.
- 2:11[SPEAKER_03]: against the same schedule that they started at 0 and 4 against last year.
- 2:16[SPEAKER_03]: It's their first 3 and a start since Carole's 2019 squad, the win-19 and a and won their first section in 20 years.
- 2:23[SPEAKER_03]: Also their most recent sectional.
- 2:26[SPEAKER_03]: This is their second holiday tournament of the week.
- 2:29[SPEAKER_03]: The Tigers be Edinburgh 67-41 on Monday, a game I called on the Action Sports Network with Grant Shows.
- 2:37[SPEAKER_03]: The Trinity Lutheran 59-56 on Friday evening to improve the five and three on the year.
- 2:43[SPEAKER_03]: They were then beaten in the final seconds by Indianapolis Riverside in Tuesday's championship game at Edinburgh.
- 2:50[SPEAKER_03]: Grant is coming up momentarily to talk about Alexander.
- 2:53[SPEAKER_03]: He covered all three of the games in Edinburgh game, like I said, their last five games.
- 2:58[SPEAKER_03]: Grant and I also interviewed Coach Carroll after Monday's game that is coming up too.
- 3:05[SPEAKER_03]: All of Friday's games are at home for Alexandria and they started 10 a.m. Friday against
- 3:14[SPEAKER_03]: By the way, KIP stands for Knowledge is Power Program, and it's a college prep public school in Indianapolis.
- 3:23[SPEAKER_03]: The Tigers then get a big test from Randolph Southern at six, back at Tiger Gymnasium.
- 3:29[SPEAKER_03]: The Rebels are five and two and coming off a 60 to 41 when at rival Winchester on Tuesday.
- 3:36[SPEAKER_03]: Alexander also hosts pool F with Blackford Crothersville and defending classes,
- 3:45[SPEAKER_03]: Blackford features Division 1 Prospect Mari Legut and Place Clinton Perriot Noon and Crothersville the southernmost team in the field as 6.
- 3:56[SPEAKER_03]: Tickets are $15 and with that purchase you will receive a bracelet that will also be good for games at Elwood and Frankton.
- 4:07[SPEAKER_03]: The winners of the pools will play
- 4:11[SPEAKER_03]: in a championship game eight o'clock Saturday at Frinkleton with second and third place games being played at 10 a.m. at Frinkleton on Saturday morning take it's a $10 Saturday and good for the entire day at Frinkleton.
- 4:31[SPEAKER_03]: He said that the championship games are not necessarily determined because CIC teams are going to try to avoid each other if it all possible, but looking at the favorites in each bracket, it probably will be Alexandria and Blackford on Saturday.
- 4:48[SPEAKER_03]: Blackford won at Alexander on December 12th, 57 to 49.
- 4:53[SPEAKER_03]: Again, we will have our...
- 4:56[SPEAKER_03]: Day one recap of some time on Friday night and then we will have recaps of all three pool championship games from Saturday at Franklin on Saturday evening.
- 5:08[SPEAKER_03]: Please join us for both of those.
- 5:11[SPEAKER_03]: Please stay tuned for Grand Shows of the Action Sports Network, then Alexandria Head goes one year.
- 5:22[SPEAKER_03]: Join me now to talk about the Alexandria Tigers and Grand Shouts of the Action Sports Network who just called three Alexandria games in the last two days and I called one of the witchy friends coming up with a children Carol and this time in the book but he interviewed him after getting one of the terms you're thoughts on Alexandria this week and what they accomplish and how they look heading into this term
- 5:50[SPEAKER_02]: I'd actually see them in the last five weeks.
- 5:54[SPEAKER_02]: We're going back to your next workout.
- 5:57[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know.
- 5:59[UNKNOWN]: What are you going to tie yours?
- 6:00[UNKNOWN]: How about that?
- 6:00[SPEAKER_02]: What's going on?
- 6:01[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
- 6:01[SPEAKER_02]: I told them to get these broken wap behind you there right before Christmas, and then right after Christmas.
- 6:08[SPEAKER_02]: Down there at Edinburgh, you get to Edinburgh, Trinity, Lutheran, Indianapolis, Riverside.
- 6:13[SPEAKER_02]: They, this is a group of guys that Marty and them have been waiting on and there for a few years now to get developed.
- 6:21[SPEAKER_02]: They've not had the best seasons.
- 6:24[SPEAKER_02]: The last.
- 6:26[SPEAKER_02]: the last couple years, probably not where they'd like to be, but this year I think's different, you know, they're five and four right now.
- 6:36[SPEAKER_02]: They've played a really good schedule, you know, eSports a good team, Wapahani's a good team, black for it's a good team, and Indianapolis Riverside, who beat them on Tuesday night in the Edinburgh Tournament Championship, is...
- 6:51[SPEAKER_02]: a good team, I kind of say that a little reluctantly because I felt like Alex and Andrea should have won the game.
- 7:00[SPEAKER_02]: But just looking at what they did in the Edinburg tournament, they'd be Edinburg, Edinburg is, they're sorry, broccoli.
- 7:08[SPEAKER_02]: Edinburg is not a good team.
- 7:10[SPEAKER_02]: They actually finished last in their own tournament over the weekend, or saw that, or the sweet, yeah.
- 7:17[SPEAKER_02]: The Trinity Lutheran game,
- 7:22[SPEAKER_02]: Good team, that's a good team down there and see more.
- 7:26[SPEAKER_02]: They had a kid down Hudson laying, you average is 20, 21 points again.
- 7:30[SPEAKER_02]: Play's on the same A, you team that's Jake's tonnacle and Jaden Yowl's from O'Kill, he's on the same A, you team is then.
- 7:38[SPEAKER_02]: So he's a little, they're, they're a little familiar with some of what's going on up here and and they played Alex and Andrea, and that was a good
- 7:51[SPEAKER_02]: They had nice production out of a, out of Bryson Eccler in those first two games, like you and I saw him in the first game, he scored 23 points.
- 7:59[SPEAKER_02]: I think he scored what 19 of him in the first half against that inburg.
- 8:05[SPEAKER_02]: And he fished to 23.
- 8:06[SPEAKER_03]: And the bassline, a lot of it working the bassline player movement.
- 8:10[SPEAKER_03]: Really good player movement between he and Mason Fuller and that one.
- 8:14[SPEAKER_02]: He's kind of had a coming out party at least earlier this week down there at Edinburgh because he had 18 against Trinity Lutheran on Monday night and Again, doing the same things he did in the game against Edinburgh, which you saw, which was getting the ball in the baseline, cutting of the rim, getting the basket, creating space It's some really tough twos tough fade away turn around jump shots and didn't have the best game on Tuesday night in the championship
- 8:43[SPEAKER_02]: But it was big for them in the fourth quarter.
- 8:46[SPEAKER_02]: So looking at the championship against Indianapolis Riverside, who is a fairly new school, only about five or six years old there.
- 8:54[SPEAKER_02]: Riverside, I think it started the beginning of this decade around 2019, 2020.
- 8:58[SPEAKER_02]: They are the sister's school of Indianapolis hair and high school.
- 9:06[SPEAKER_02]: So think Franklin will tell S. Gaitzane,
- 9:12[SPEAKER_02]: i think i was wondering why i saw her in bus there in bird yeah it's i i believe it's one of those deals it's something like that right so again for you know our listeners think frankden lapel for heron and riverside and they came in undefeated and they're they're athletic they're big they can jump they can shoot i i thought they're a good team you started that a kid named tie hopper's a nice point guard
- 9:40[SPEAKER_02]: I like their their big guy Jason Bennett.
- 9:43[SPEAKER_02]: He he here's the guy that about the four six five little stocky He he he he he he was the guy that was a Probably there Would be a true post presence on most teams, but he refused to go down underneath It was getting it or it was standing out shooting threes and
- 10:06[SPEAKER_02]: Riverside in that game actually banked in a couple, just shots that normally don't go in.
- 10:14[SPEAKER_02]: And Alex and Andrea actually got down by 12 points in the third quarter.
- 10:20[SPEAKER_02]: Things look pretty bleak, Marty had to call time out.
- 10:22[SPEAKER_02]: They were down 32 to 20.
- 10:23[SPEAKER_02]: And then Alex and Andrea went on a 20 to 7 run and took the lead.
- 10:30[SPEAKER_02]: And it was 41 to 39.
- 10:35[SPEAKER_02]: or it's 40 to 39 and Riverside called a timeout.
- 10:39[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what happened.
- 10:41[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what was said, but the official was talking to the coach for Riverside and as he called the timeout and then he hit him with a tee, gave him a technical.
- 10:55[SPEAKER_02]: So when you get a tee, you can't stand a breast game as the head coach.
- 11:03[SPEAKER_02]: but you can't stand up and if an assistant coach gets it, you can't stand up because it's on your bench.
- 11:09[SPEAKER_02]: So RiverSky got a T and put Alexandria at the line.
- 11:13[SPEAKER_02]: And you're kind of thinking, okay, Alexandria was just down 12.
- 11:17[SPEAKER_02]: They've come back, they've now taken the lead.
- 11:20[SPEAKER_02]: And now Riverside gets hit with a technical, okay, we can come down, hit some shots, hit free throws, get a couple stops on defense and we can pull away and win this game is what you're thinking if you're out of the Andrea and credit to Riverside for bending and not breaking, you know, they.
- 11:43[SPEAKER_02]: They hung right there, Alexandria took back the lead, Mason Fuller, had a huge steel.
- 11:50[SPEAKER_02]: Like came out of nowhere, had this steel went up, laid it in, gave Alexandria the lead, and then they missed two crucial free throws.
- 11:59[SPEAKER_02]: And the same thing kind of happened in the Trinity Lutheran game the night before, but
- 12:08[SPEAKER_02]: Call the timeout, had the ball in the base line.
- 12:12[SPEAKER_02]: Came out to get ready to end down to Marty and then call the timeout for Alexandria, set up the defense, and they got it in and you could see it developing.
- 12:21[SPEAKER_02]: You could throws the ball in and they work it around the entire perimeter and throw it back into the corner.
- 12:29[SPEAKER_02]: It was kind of that action.
- 12:30[SPEAKER_02]: And they got it into a guy named Cassidy Dash.
- 12:34[SPEAKER_02]: Cassidy Dash, little like a ball in a China shop.
- 12:38[SPEAKER_02]: and got it into the lane and threw up a runner to give him the lead with seven seconds to go.
- 12:44[SPEAKER_02]: They definitely did have one or two time outs.
- 12:47[SPEAKER_02]: And he let him play through it.
- 12:48[SPEAKER_02]: Cam Maccatee, who was their leading score on Tuesday with 18 points, came down, had a nice look that would have won the game, a nice runner.
- 12:59[SPEAKER_02]: And just came up a little short and Riverside hung on the win 50 to 49.
- 13:03[SPEAKER_02]: So heart breaking lost for Alexandria, but they're going to have an opportunity to try and win a championship again this weekend at the Central Indian holiday
- 13:15[SPEAKER_03]: And it looks like the path to a championship to play kip legacy at 10 a.m., then they play Randolph Southern at 6 o'clock a game that should be fairly competitive.
- 13:26[SPEAKER_03]: We expect Alexander to win that.
- 13:29[SPEAKER_03]: And then likely Clinton Prairie, a program that you're familiar with in the quote unquote championship, I think they're going to avoid black for either way, so I'm not sure exactly how that's going to work out.
- 13:42[SPEAKER_03]: So most likely it's going to be Clinton period of a program you're familiar with.
- 13:45[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's an opportunity for the Tigers to go three and a that's what you can help for because this team is this team plays about eight guys that do nice things and I think are good teams and I think is a good team, you know, they've kind of changed
- 14:10[SPEAKER_02]: They were starting John Aiman.
- 14:12[SPEAKER_02]: They took him out of the starting lineup.
- 14:13[SPEAKER_02]: He now comes in off the bench and they've moved Mason Fuller into the line, or into the starting lineup this week.
- 14:24[SPEAKER_02]: And so you pair Connor Kettery, he's a great shooter.
- 14:28[SPEAKER_02]: Jackson, Bryson, die, can shoot the ball, camp, Machete is someone that Marty told me last night before the game that
- 14:37[SPEAKER_02]: he he wants to see can't market to take a big leap because i know he's a guy that can be our best player and he was then a little bit of a slump did not have a great game in the first two games and in the championship he came out and he had 18 he had a nice game and he took that step that they wanted him to take and
- 15:00[SPEAKER_02]: they're jelling together.
- 15:01[SPEAKER_02]: This team is, this team's a good team, but the schedule they play is, is a, is a tougher schedule.
- 15:08[SPEAKER_02]: And again, if they can get three, even if they can get to this week, that does a lot for this team's confidence going into the tough month of January where now they're going to play.
- 15:30[SPEAKER_03]: Grant, before we get to coach Carol, I want to get your opinion on this tournament.
- 15:38[SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
- 15:39[SPEAKER_03]: I like the idea they have six different pools.
- 15:42[SPEAKER_03]: They made them all so that they're kind of even pools with the favorites being the hosts of those pools.
- 15:50[SPEAKER_03]: And I like the way they're doing it.
- 15:52[SPEAKER_03]: It's a good way to see a lot of different schools.
- 15:55[SPEAKER_03]: And from what I hear, they're gonna try to continue to increase the competition level.
- 16:00[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a neat idea, and I know that, uh, Brent drops then and Marty Carroll, uh, are, are really, really excited about it, and says, says Coach Man's sky up.
- 16:12[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I think they're all really excited about it.
- 16:16[SPEAKER_02]: This kind of format of a tournament is starting to become a little bit of a trend.
- 16:21[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you've seen these type of tournaments arise, like, like, the wedded tournament over Richmond that, I know you've covered, you covered Jeffersonville and that.
- 16:31[SPEAKER_02]: And that's, that's a lot of big little, and you all been a, you know, Lawrence Berg has a tournament like this as well.
- 16:39[SPEAKER_02]: This is a little unique because I think this is,
- 16:42[SPEAKER_02]: One of it's not the biggest field for the tournament.
- 16:46[SPEAKER_02]: There's 18 teams coming up, Alexander, the Brankton and L would.
- 16:53[SPEAKER_03]: And the competition, but it's essentially three different government.
- 16:57[SPEAKER_03]: It's essentially three different tournaments though, and I kind of like that.
- 17:01[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and, and I think it's cool if, if you're a fan that just wants to go and watch because you're like, okay, at this time I can go over to Alexandria, oh, when right after this I'm going to go right out to the car and jump in the car and drive to over to Frank didn't watch the next game.
- 17:17[SPEAKER_02]: Then, oh, it to a clock I'm coming back to Alexandria for this and then after that I may go over to Elwood.
- 17:22[SPEAKER_03]: I grant I'm going to be at L Wood at 10 for L Wood in North White.
- 17:27[SPEAKER_03]: Then I'm going to go over to Alexandria to watch Blackford and Clinton Prairie.
- 17:33[SPEAKER_03]: And then I'm going to head to Franklin at 6 o'clock to watch Franklin in North Johnson and Tri Central and Winchester and have a full day of basketball and we will have a day one recap at the end of it.
- 17:49[SPEAKER_03]: And Greg, I may come down and join you on Friday.
- 17:51[SPEAKER_03]: Please stay tuned for Coach Carroll and his thoughts on Monday's game against Edinburgh in Edinburgh and the tournament coming up this weekend.
- 17:59[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks so much Grant.
- 18:01[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for having me, Greg.
- 18:13[SPEAKER_01]: We're here with Marty Carroll, the head coach, the Alexander Tigers, good win in that first game for today, 6741 attack the basket, got good looks on offense, just was that the game plan to start.
- 18:26[SPEAKER_00]: We tried to get the ball to the high post, tried to draw the big kid, he's a big kid, tried to draw him to us a little bit and then work on the baseline.
- 18:38[SPEAKER_00]: I thought the aclar was great.
- 18:42[SPEAKER_03]: the ball movement player movement, particularly in the first half, you had to love that.
- 18:47[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we, everybody knew where we wanted the ball to go and then knew what to look for once I got there.
- 18:55[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, I thought we shot some shots there in the first half from the high post that
- 19:09[SPEAKER_01]: So which would have helped to draw the big kid to him some but it worked out and it's good now You're setting yourself up to now play for a championship.
- 19:21[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, that's the idea.
- 19:22[SPEAKER_00]: I do think we'll probably have to have a better effort tonight than we even played this morning.
- 19:31[SPEAKER_00]: It's probably a better opponent.
- 19:33[SPEAKER_00]: And actually they play a lot like we do, so I think it'll be interesting.
- 19:38[SPEAKER_03]: really good sign for me or team to come out on a Monday at noon and put together particularly like I said the second half was a little sleepy but the first half you completely dominated.
- 19:49[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, which you never know that's why I told them an hour and a half bus ride sitting down for a little bit.
- 19:57[SPEAKER_00]: It is noon on a Monday after Christmas.
- 20:03[SPEAKER_00]: nobody knew what to expect, but I thought we, for the most part, got done what we wanted to get done.
- 20:12[SPEAKER_01]: Talk more about Brady Gats today, came in off the bench and he's kind of slid it.
- 20:17[SPEAKER_01]: He started for you for three years, two or three years.
- 20:21[SPEAKER_01]: He's played his role well off the bench to start the year.
- 20:26[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure he wants to start.
- 20:30[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody does.
- 20:32[SPEAKER_00]: but he's done a really good job actually him and Fuller have both started a lot of basketball games for me and to have two seniors come off the bench.
- 20:44[SPEAKER_00]: Mason started today and it looks like that's probably going to
- 20:50[SPEAKER_00]: he and Brady of both brought you know just good solid play when they come in and Brady's actually starting to shoot the ball better so we're hopeful that that's a plus.
- 21:03[SPEAKER_00]: Seven games this week why were you willing to do that?
- 21:08[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I was going to sit at home and do nothing else is one reason.
- 21:15[SPEAKER_00]: The other reason is we had committed to playing this before the, before the other tournament this weekend, which I think is going to be fun for everybody.
- 21:30[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that next year will
- 21:34[SPEAKER_00]: do both of them again next year.
- 21:37[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully the one at home goes well and we can continue that for a while.
- 21:42[SPEAKER_03]: And that's mostly what I wanted to talk about here real fast is that tournament coming up for a special that we're doing here at the Central Indiana Sports Report.
- 21:52[SPEAKER_03]: What is it about that tournament that you wanted to participate in and what do you think it'll do for your team different than what the Madison County tournament did?
- 22:00[SPEAKER_00]: I think the main thing is
- 22:04[SPEAKER_00]: So overall, you've got 18 teams playing in it, which is kind of cool.
- 22:11[SPEAKER_00]: I know Greg Gregg struggles doing all three of the final games, so that'll be cool.
- 22:19[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully we can play in one of those.
- 22:23[SPEAKER_00]: But the biggest thing is it's just, as opposed to the county tournament where you're playing the same schools.
- 22:30[SPEAKER_00]: over and over.
- 22:31[SPEAKER_00]: It's a chance for everybody, you know, us L would and Frank to play different opponents and get different people in and then we're all three hosting on Friday.
- 22:42[SPEAKER_00]: So it's a different kind of expectation than the county tournament, isn't it?
- 22:47[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I would say so, you know, the county tournament, you know, through the history of it, it seems like the same
- 23:00[SPEAKER_00]: pretty much win, which they should in my opinion.
- 23:07[SPEAKER_00]: But I think the idea of a county tournament is a good idea.
- 23:14[SPEAKER_00]: My biggest issue was it's playing the same teams multiple times in a year.
- 23:25[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like the last four or five years, we've played Elwood somewhere along the tournament and then a week later play them in a conference game.
- 23:33[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think fans got off like that, and I don't like that.
- 23:38[SPEAKER_00]: So again, completely different teams in the Central Indiana holiday tournament, if you will.
- 23:49[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking forward to it.
- 23:51[SPEAKER_03]: Grant, were you done with your questions?
- 23:52[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry I didn't mean to hijack now.
- 23:54[SPEAKER_03]: Good.
- 23:55[SPEAKER_03]: Well, here's one, we'll both want to know.
- 23:58[SPEAKER_03]: This early in the season about a month in, how are you feeling about where your team is and is it meeting expectations so far?
- 24:05[SPEAKER_00]: I would say we were close.
- 24:09[SPEAKER_00]: I think I thought the first couple weeks we were really good and really,
- 24:19[SPEAKER_00]: more precise maybe and then three tough losses in a couple bad atmospheres.
- 24:29[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping that helps us down the road so I'm for the most part I'm pretty happy but I know there's room for improvement.
- 24:42[SPEAKER_03]: And Grant, and you talked a little bit about the job price and declared did.
- 24:47[SPEAKER_03]: Mason Fuller today took one shot, but he had six assists and six rebounds and was really active.
- 24:53[SPEAKER_00]: You had to do it like his game today.
- 24:55[SPEAKER_00]: I love the effort that he plays with.
- 24:57[SPEAKER_00]: He, today's the first game he started and he's a second leading rebounder on the year.
- 25:05[SPEAKER_00]: So.
- 25:07[SPEAKER_03]: He's kind of aggressive, he is he is he is he is he a neckler both very aggressive off the start yes So yeah, Mason's done well, that's why he is starting now Thanks so much to Grant and Coach Carroll for joining us at the point in the end Thank you for listening Hope it's great to meet you back in the video Thanks for watching
- 25:58[SPEAKER_03]: And I'll see you soon.