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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno Feb 6 · Coaches Corner

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  Reminder, top of the RT you caught and Butler for the excel Michaelsphinoway Norman
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  on McCall tip off. Probably twenty of quarter to nine guys are number one
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  in the country. I'm sure you've watched them once or twice. What are
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  your thoughts on Dan's team. I mean, you know, they get these
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  little injuries here and there. They lose Donovan for a few games, they
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  lose Castle for a few games. I think Alex Caravan's playing tonight. I
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  haven't seen anything on Twitter from the writers that would indicate he's playing, but
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  it seems like he might. But this team just is. They get after
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  it. They find ways to win, and they're unselfish. That's the great
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  thing about watching the guys. Yeah, and they defend well, yeah,
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  they play great defense. I think it's great the way the Big East men's
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  basketball is played because they just play, you know, they play really,
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  they play really hard. They compete, you know, Dan, it's pretty
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  hard on the guys, and they respond like most good players do. And
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  I'm not surprised that they that they are where they are. Their coaching staff
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  does an unbelievable job, but working with these guys individually and as a group,
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  and and they're they you know, once you win, you know,
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  you have this expectation of winning. You feel like you can handle any situation
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  that comes up and it doesn't matter who's missing. You just plug another guy
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  in and you know, it's it's it's really fun to see them do what
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  they're doing, uh, even though they probably don't get the same level of
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  respect that you know, some of these other teams around the country. Everybody's
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  all got god about everybody else. But you do see people at the national
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  level being, oh, God, guy over Yukon because I don't think they
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  want to be because I don't know why. You know, like it's like
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  they're the defending national championships. Why aren't you like, oh, jumping up
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  and down at the fact that they're number one in the country and they're probably
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  going to be the number one, number one seed if it was Duke or
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  Kansas or North Carolina or Kentucky. That's all you be talking about all year
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  long, all over the TV. Oh my god, this guy's this,
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  this guy's that, this guy's this, this guy's that, Oh, this
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  guy's We beat the shit out of all those teams. So I don't think
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  we are getting enough respect. And I think Danny loves that. Oh,
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  I agree. There they have a scenario two where they could do something like
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  your team has done forever. Now, granted, the tournament's different. You
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  get two games at home and then you go somewhere like Bridge Porter or Albany.
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  This year Albany, but they have a chance they don't have to get
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  if they go to the final four. There's a scenario where they play in
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  Brooklyn in Boston. There you go. That doesn't happen very often on the
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  men's side. But that's why you play the regular season, right, these
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  crazy basketball people that think you should play and god knows where. Why they
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  don't say, why does football not play at home? Well, because they
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  were fifteen to one, so they play at home. Why does baseball get
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  home field advantage? Well, because they want like more games than you tea
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  you did. Why did they say that in basketball? You know you have
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  to go play there? Why says who? We earned the right to play
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  close to home by how we played during the regular season. So don't tell
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  me, you know, whether it's our guys or whether it's us. Oh,
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  you always got to play in Albany or Bridgeport. Yeah, we did.
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  You want me to tell you where Tennessee played all their NCAA tournament games.
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  You don't want me to tell you. You want me to tell you
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  where UCLA man played all their ncats one of the games you don't want to
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  know. Okay. So the object is you win a bunch of games during
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  the regular season, and then you get to play as close to home as
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  possible. So Brooklyn is hosting, So the guys are going to go to
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  Brooklyn if they deserve it, and then they're going to Boston if they deserve
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  it. Well, if those two places weren't hosting, they wouldn't go there
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  with the right, right, So we go to Albany. Why because Albany's
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  hosting, and if we deserve it, we deserve to go to Oh you
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  go to Bridgeport? Yeah, because we're number one in the country. We're
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  number one, number one, So we go to the closest place. Yeah,
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  like when we used to when we had to go to Lincoln, Nebraska.
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  I remember, yes, Well, the other choices were right, we
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  had to go Lincoln to break Yeah, the other choices were Maryland, if
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  I remember, right, in South Bend, and we had to go to
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  Dayton how many times? I like, Dayton at museum is amazing. I'm
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  just saying we went to Trenton. Yeah, we went in Philly, Greensboro,
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  yep, Greensboro two thousand and eight, right, went to Trenton one
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  year. You go wherever you go, wherever they tell you. These are
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  the people that have the regionals, and if you win enough games, you
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  get to go there. So don't bitch and moan that you get to go
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  there if you're the number one seed. Right by the way, if you've
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  never been to Dayton, you love airplanes? The Air Force Museum is phenomenal.
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  It is really good. And they have a separate hangar where they have
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  Jfkazl air Force one and some test aircraft. Yeah, it's it's spectacular.
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  You ever been there? You know why? Yeah? You know why?
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  They have the first four you know the other teams. You know they have
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  sixty four teams, right, and then they have four more, right,
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  and they always have those planes in Dayton. The men, yes, yes,
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  because it's unbelievable facility like during the Atlantic ten h but Dayton, I
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  mean it is spectac accularly beautiful and they fill the place. Oh, I
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  wish we had something like that on campus, but you know, we're Connecticut
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  Lanta, steady habits. We're not going to have that Campu's not bad,
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  No, it's not bad. That's like you know, I love Sophie Laurrenn.
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  She's not bad, but she's ninety, so sometimes you know it's time
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  for something younger. I'm not talking about like me personally. I'm just talking
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