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Big East Senior Associate Commissioner Dan Leibovitz Joins OneLegUpAlex Outside Big East Tourney 3-14-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm here with Dan Leebwood's of the Big East,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, the senior Associate Commissioner of the Big East
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  Speaker 1: outside of the Garden. This's why I come around. You
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  Speaker 1: never know who's gonna find in the streets in New York.
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  Speaker 1: How's tournament gone so far?
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  Speaker 2: In your eyes? Dan, it's been great, great crowds, great games,
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  Speaker 2: protaly competitive. Tonight should be amazing with the double hight
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  Speaker 2: or some semifinals and afford to closing it out and
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  Speaker 2: a great way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, Saint John's really made this whole city proud,
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  Speaker 1: has made the Big East proud as well?
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  Speaker 2: Or what sure? To have a team ranked that high?
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  Speaker 2: All of our teams make us proud. It's been special
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  Speaker 2: Dave accomplish this year. I'm the coach Bettino, and I
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  Speaker 2: know they have great aspirations not only here but in
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  Speaker 2: March in the ANCIL tournament as well.
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  Speaker 1: And as a member of the Big East. I mean
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on the their rise from last year to
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  Speaker 1: this year.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think that coach Bettina suddenly learned how
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  Speaker 2: to coach for New He's an outstanding coach. He changed
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  Speaker 2: the roster to something that he was more comfortable with
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  Speaker 2: in terms of physicality of athleticism. And you can see that,
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  Speaker 2: and you're Toby and his coaching with really talented. It's
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  Speaker 2: a really good character that it's a great recipe for success.
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  Speaker 1: One last thing I can't not mention Luke carna Second,
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  Speaker 1: did you ever get a chance to meet him while
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  Speaker 1: he was on this earth?
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  Speaker 2: I was in his presence. I didn't know Krs karnasecond
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  Speaker 2: very well and we might have shaken hands over the years,
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  Speaker 2: but but no, I didn't have any kind of relationship
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  Speaker 2: with him. But I greatly revered and respected coach Carnseca.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of coaches that had great success in
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  Speaker 2: college basketball that weren't uh, they weren't liked and loved
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  Speaker 2: and respected in the same way. So he seemed to
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  Speaker 2: be able to accomplish all those things. But nobody really
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  Speaker 2: had a bad thing to say about him as a person.
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  Speaker 2: And it's it's great when guys that got win all right.
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  Speaker 1: One other team I can't not mention is Yukon. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they are gearing up for a three p run at
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  Speaker 1: this Can they do it? I mean they've better a
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  Speaker 1: struggling year to somewhat right. Can they win it all,
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  Speaker 1: can they win it again?
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  Speaker 2: So they till they all. There's no back to back champions.
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  Speaker 1: And Hurley is quite the coach.
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  Speaker 2: He certainly is. He's doing a great job all right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thanks so much then, nice to meet you today.