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Seg 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 25 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, where with Dan Hurley, as
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  the Huskies continue as the number one team in the country. They've won seven
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  in a row now seventeen and two, and coach, we haven't talked for
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  a little bit. Let's catch up. A lot of good things happening for
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  Yukon right now. Tenth time in the history of the school. You're a
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  number one team, first time since nine and that and that club under Jim
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  Calhoun. Now as a coach, you've never been a number one coach.
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  And I know it's only January and it's a thing, But what's that been
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  like for you? Is it a little different in anyway? I don't think
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  so. I think you know number one being you know, number one being
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  number one, you know, midway through the year, Yah, while dealing
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  with some adversities from an injury standpoint, continue to be able to win when
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  you look at it in its totality, Yeah, we still have you know,
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  a large part of our season you have to play. But over the
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  last year and a half, up until this point last season, up until
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  this point this season, I think you know, we've been the best college
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  program in the country in terms of you know, the amount of winning we've
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  done, but we would like to be able to say that at the end
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  of the season. Yeah, that's the best part, right. You have
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  won forty eight of fifty eight games the Huskies over these last year and a
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  half, I think impressive as a number one in the history of the school.
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  Eighteen and three on the road, I mean, you got a couple
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  of you got to win at Villanova on the road. As a number one
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  team, everyone's gunning for you. It is a little different, isn't it
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  when you're the team that everyone says, well, you're the best team in
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  the country. Yeah, I think it's not that big of an adjustment.
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  You know, when you're coming in with the championship. I think when you're
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  playing at defending champs number one, number two, everyone wants to beat Yukon
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  and basketball the number three. You know, we've had a high ranking the
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  whole year, and the number one just intensifies it so well, you know,
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  well, since I've gotten here, you realize that Yukon has circled on
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  everyone's calendar. It's a big game for anyone that we play, and now
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  you've just got a little bit bigger target. But the target's always been big.
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  Hey, winning on the road. I know you talk about it quite
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  a bit. You've got three in a row on the road now at very
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  difficult places. What have you learned about this group of players in these last
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  three road wins you've been able to accomplish. Yeah, I mean we're able
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  to do two of those, you know, with that Donovan Obviously, Donovan's
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  you know, has a huge impact on things here, you know, But
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  I just really you know, love our response from the from the seat in
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  the hall game. That was a disappointing moment, uncharacteristic performance and competitiveness by
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  us, you know. And then the response has been, you know,
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  to win, to win seven Big East games in a row, three of
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  which are on the road, and majority of those were with one of the
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  most impactful players in the cuntry. So we responded like a championship level program.
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  Yeah, Yukon now six and two in the quad I area. That's
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  second best I think in America. And you know the Big East Dan,
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  right now, three of the schools are in the top twenty. I think
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  six in the top thirty if I'm not mistaken. So you've been saying this
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  all long this this is a tough conference. I don't know why nationally everyone's
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  behind behind on that one. Everywhere I go, they talk about the Big
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  Twelve, they talk about the Big Ten, they talk about these other conferences.
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  Maybe it's because we see this stuff day in and day out, and
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  I watch a million basketball games. I'm sure you're watching everything too. I
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  don't I just don't get it. Why is the Big East kind of like
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  behind the rest of these conferences in terms of respect? Yeah, you know,
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  I don't really know. I don't know the answer to that. I
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  think, you know, maybe it's, uh, maybe it's something about the
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  Northeast. But then again, you know, ESPN is located in Connecticut,
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  you know, and you got the men's and women's team both playing the Big
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  East, and and uh, you know, I really don't know. I
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  I I get to definitely get the you know, the Big Twelve, no
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  doubt, you know, it's it's a tremendous league, and those those games,
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  Uh you know, I think, uh, you know that that's certainly
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  a conference that you could make a case is the best in the country.
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  But you could also make a case that the Big East is the best in
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  the country. And when you when you look at our top top seven or
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  eight teams in our league, it is uh, you know it, it's
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  tough sled and and uh you go into some you know, really really tough
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  environments in terms of the you know, the crowds. You know wells Fargo,
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  Uh, you know that that was a heck of an environment. A
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  Centaut Center was a heck of an environment. Hinkle is a tough place to
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  win. You know, these are all hard places to win, and the
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  physicality of our games is just another level. Yeah, it's funny when you
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  go into these places and obviously no one wants you to win. You have
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  no friends in those building except family and friends. Obviously, the team seems
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  to be responding well to it. I love it because really good teams are
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  able to play anywhere and they don't need the home crowd in the sense on
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  a nightly basis to win games. What is it about this team that seems
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  to be able to stay focused, stay in their lane when eighteen thousand are
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  rooting against them. Yeah, you know, I think, you know,
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  we've got a lot of confidence. We work incredibly hard. I think,
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  you know, confidence and poise and being able to think clearly under pressure.
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  It comes from great preparation, It comes from extraordinary work ethic from you know,
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  players and a coaching staff around me that that's got pedigree and expects to
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  be successful. Yeah, and it certainly just helps that we carried Aura with
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  us on to the court. These days of being a championship level program.
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  You know, we've got that right now. We've got players that have done
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  that, that are playing in critical spots and that certainly helps the psyche.
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  Yeah, we'll focus on some of those guys have had some great opera,
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  great games here in the most recent past with Dan Hurley will continue. This
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  is the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on Liarfield