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Thursday NCAA UConn MBB Press Conference · Coaches Corner

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Speaker 1: All right, we're joined right now by the University of
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Speaker 1: Connecticut student athletes. Just a reminder, as a courtesy to
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Speaker 1: Name and media affiliate each time you ask a question.
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Speaker 1: for questions. We'll address those at the end. Recording the
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Speaker 1: press conference on cell phones or cameras is prohibited, so
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Speaker 1: please don't do that either. Yukon second seed in the East.
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Speaker 1: So their thirty eighth appearance in the tournament and they're
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Speaker 1: sixth straight. Huskies have seventy two all time wins in
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Speaker 1: the tournament, with six national titles, including back to back
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Speaker 1: in twenty three.
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Speaker 2: And twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Yukon earned an at large bit after finishing the regular
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Speaker 1: season twenty nine and five. So got to the student athletes.
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Speaker 1: Here are questions for the student athletes. Please raise your
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Speaker 1: hand right here.
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Speaker 3: First, Domamury Hartford current Alex. The vibe going into this game,
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Speaker 3: the coach messaging going into this game, is it similar
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Speaker 3: to maybe the Iona game when you were a freshmen
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Speaker 3: and it was four versus thirteen. There's a lot of
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Speaker 3: tension there I mean, I know the coach kind of
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Speaker 3: these games kind of drive them nuts sometimes, but I
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Speaker 3: was just wondering if if there's a similarity in the
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Speaker 3: vibe and the messaging.
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Speaker 4: I think there's a similarity into which we're we've reached
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Speaker 4: march Mann is now we've reached. You know, we've been
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Speaker 4: blessed to be in this opportunity to play against a
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Speaker 4: good team, and it's now just doing what we do best,
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Speaker 4: controlling what we can control, and really just having respect
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Speaker 4: for everybody that we play, so never overlooking anybody. And
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Speaker 4: that was similar against Iona. It's the same right now
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Speaker 4: with Furman. So you know, just going out there being
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Speaker 4: the best versions of ourselves, being sharp and doing everything
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Speaker 4: in our power that we can control.
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Speaker 2: Other questions, questions and back right there. Yep.
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Speaker 5: This is for a mon Kid web with store Central.
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Speaker 5: This is for Solo and Alex Wilkins on Firman. What
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Speaker 5: makes him such a dynamic player and what what do
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Speaker 5: you guys need to do to make sure and contain him.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we know about Wilkins. He's a great player with
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Speaker 6: the ball, but off the ball he's just as dominant.
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Speaker 6: So I mean, we just got to make sure we
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Speaker 6: play the back door cuts, make sure we can't let
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Speaker 6: him cut us. But also they have so many good
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Speaker 6: players on the floor that could also do the same
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Speaker 6: things pretty well too, so just being locked in off
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Speaker 6: the ball, and also just with Wilkins, just really just
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Speaker 6: blowing up the fit, like making sure we blow up
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Speaker 6: his handoffs and just fistins ball screens. But I mean,
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Speaker 6: that's just the biggest thing going in this game.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I was just gonna say he's fearless as
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Speaker 4: a freshman, He's fearless and he's super confident out there,
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Speaker 4: so doing everything he's got to. He's got to earn
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Speaker 4: everything tomorrow. That's what we got to do as a defense,
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Speaker 4: and really, you know, just try to make everything hard
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Speaker 4: for him. But he's he's one talented player and we've
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Speaker 4: respected him ever since we started watching film on them.
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Speaker 2: Questions for student athletes, yep, down on the front.
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Speaker 7: Matt Demick Daily Campus solo. If Stiles isn't available for
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Speaker 7: these next two games, what does the backcourt have to
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Speaker 7: look like and accomplished to be successful this weekend?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, the biggest thing is just being ready
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Speaker 6: for every single possession. I'm we're really confident about silas
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Speaker 6: in general, but being ready for every single possessional offense
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Speaker 6: and defense. And I think just controlling the game. I mean,
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Speaker 6: that's the biggest thing of being a guard, is just
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Speaker 6: being able to control the flow of the game, whether
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Speaker 6: it's going our way or not, just staying within it regardless.
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Speaker 6: And that's just the biggest thing going into this.
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Speaker 2: Questions other questions, Yep, down here on the front.
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Speaker 8: Hi, Sam Calahuan Daily campus terrorist Cooper bads were coming
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Speaker 8: off a big game in the conference champion in their
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Speaker 8: conference championship.
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Speaker 2: What do you have to do to contain him?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean he's he's a long athletic man, running
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Speaker 9: five man when they shooting on the year from from two.
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Speaker 9: So knowing that he's a left shouder guy, uh uh
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Speaker 9: right hand the post, that's a good touch touching the posters.
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Speaker 9: Really just be ultra physical. Watching the whole framing team.
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Speaker 9: They're dynamic team. They love to run pretty really good offense,
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Speaker 9: and they execute their offense at a high, high pace,
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Speaker 9: high rate. So we're just being physical, you know, biggies basketball.
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Speaker 9: I mean, we were in one of the toughest, scuritiest
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Speaker 9: conferences in the country, so we're just going out there,
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Speaker 9: playing physical and focus what we have to do on
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Speaker 9: the defensive end.
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Speaker 3: Got here, Terriss, you've been here before. What are the
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Speaker 3: jitters like going into the first game. I mean a
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Speaker 3: lot of times that's when teams maybe don't play as
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Speaker 3: well as or up to their capabilities because they maybe
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Speaker 3: have some jitters. And if you have experience, you could
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Speaker 3: deal with that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that process.
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Speaker 10: Like for you?
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Speaker 9: Honestly, it's been a blessed I mean last year I
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Speaker 9: was way more nervous because you know, you're a kid,
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Speaker 9: you always dream to be in an n CUAA tournament,
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Speaker 9: and yeah, last year I was. I was nervous and
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Speaker 9: nervous wreck But I ended up settling in that for
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Speaker 9: his game of Oklahoma game, which I did pretty well.
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Speaker 9: So coming in in my second year, my last year
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Speaker 9: college basketball last year March madness, I'm definitely a lot
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Speaker 9: more more poise this this year around. So Lee just
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Speaker 9: taking it all in, staying president and you know, just
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Speaker 9: ready ready to go out there, have fun and dominate.
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Speaker 9: Dominate with a great group of guys and yeah, just
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Speaker 9: have fun out there.
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Speaker 1: Are the questions for the student athletes. Great, Thanks guys,
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Good Rush, I'll be back with coach early shortly.
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Speaker 1: All right, we're here with Yukon head coach Dan Hurley,
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Speaker 1: in his eighth season leading the Huskies, led you kind
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Speaker 1: of back to back championships in twenty three and twenty four.
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Speaker 1: This is the second program he's led to the NCAA tournament.
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Speaker 1: He led Rhode Island also in seventeen eighteen. Coach Early
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Speaker 1: opening statement.
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Speaker 11: Seventeen eighteen, Yes, that was great. And now Rody women's
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Speaker 11: teammates tournament. So congrats, congrats the coach Tammy there. Yeah,
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Speaker 11: obviously excited to be here. It's what you work for
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Speaker 11: all year and you know, just really excited to you know,
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Speaker 11: to get on the court eventually tomorrow night. You know,
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Speaker 11: at ten, we'll get on the court and uh, you
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Speaker 11: know and play a program and a team and a
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Speaker 11: coach and players that you've got tremendous respect for just
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Speaker 11: the way they play, how it shows up on film.
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Speaker 10: Uh, you know.
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Speaker 11: Just they're they're they're they're an impressive group with with
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Speaker 11: uh and in coach Ritchie I think is you know,
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Speaker 11: is an excellent coach. So, you know, excited about the
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Speaker 11: opportunity to uh to get an opportunity to play in
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Speaker 11: the in the best sporting event that we have in
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Speaker 11: this country.
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Speaker 2: On Friday, questions for coach story right then here.
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Speaker 3: Domadmory Hartford current. Uh Dan, You've been in these positions.
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Speaker 3: You've been on almost every side of these. You've been
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Speaker 3: the favorite and lost, You've been the underdog and one.
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Speaker 3: You know, what's your level of anxiety, your level of
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Speaker 3: your mindset, what's your messaging in the situation you're in
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Speaker 3: right now?
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Speaker 11: I think you know the number on the nerves will
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Speaker 11: never go away, you know. I think you think, uh man,
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Speaker 11: if I just win a championship, I'll never be nervous again.
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Speaker 11: You know, the pregame jitters night before a game where
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Speaker 11: you don't sleep, I mean, none of that stuff. It
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Speaker 11: dissipates by accomplishment. If anything, it uh you know it,
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Speaker 11: you know it creates, you know, an even higher standard
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Speaker 11: in your mind of what you want to achieve, which
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Speaker 11: you know it definitely churns. But I would say, just
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Speaker 11: this point of the year, I think you have more
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Speaker 11: anxiety November, December, January, you know where you worry more
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Speaker 11: about losing a game and the domino effect that it
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Speaker 11: could have now on dragging you through a miserable season.
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Speaker 11: You know, like you're in November December. Man, if we
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Speaker 11: lose this game and then I got this coming up,
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Speaker 11: it could we could.
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Speaker 10: Lose three in a row. You know.
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Speaker 11: Now the season is is going to be a disaster
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Speaker 11: for the next couple of months. Whereas when you get
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Speaker 11: to this time of year, it's like, you know, win
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Speaker 11: or the season's over. Is kind of in a weird way,
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Speaker 11: it's kind of freeing where you just go out, you
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Speaker 11: play your you play your heart out, you coach your
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Speaker 11: heart out, and the next day, you know, if you win,
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Speaker 11: it's it's it's survive, advance and and some level of joy.
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Speaker 11: If you lose, you're not picking the pieces up the
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Speaker 11: next day. The pieces are gone.
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Speaker 8: Other questions for coach early right there, coach Sam Callahan
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Speaker 8: daily campus, Alex Wilkins really confident freshman point guard.
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Speaker 2: What do you like out of him?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean he's got great size and uh, you know,
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Speaker 11: really really talented player. I think, Uh, you know, coach
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Speaker 11: utilizes them really well offensively. You know, they do a
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Speaker 11: lot of things on offense. Uh, you know, I feel
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Speaker 11: in a lot of ways, it's like looking in the mirror. Offensively,
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Speaker 11: we do a lot of the same things. So you know,
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Speaker 11: they use him the way you know we use Silas
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Speaker 11: the way you use the way we use Tristan.
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Speaker 10: Uh.
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Speaker 11: You know Newton at the point card position, and he's
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Speaker 11: got that great positional size and uh, you don't see
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Speaker 11: many freshmen that are as productive as he is, uh,
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Speaker 11: you know, or can score at all three levels like
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Speaker 11: he can. And it's also dangerous as a passer.
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Speaker 5: Questions for coach in the back right there, Well, mind
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Speaker 5: kid with store Central, is Ferman better than its record
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Speaker 5: in your opinion?
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Speaker 10: And what what.
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Speaker 11: Gives you that impression of some Yeah, I mean this
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Speaker 11: the SoCon is uh, it's it's a it's an underrated league.
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Speaker 11: I was surprised to see them, as you know, as
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Speaker 11: of fifteen. Obviously everyone comes in here and you know,
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Speaker 11: you know it's gonna talk up their opponent. But I
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Speaker 11: think just watching that league I had, I watched ten
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Speaker 11: of their games. I went back to earlier in the
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Speaker 11: in the non conference, uh and watch some and then
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Speaker 11: I probably watched their last seven games that they played,
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Speaker 11: and uh, you just see a really tough league, I mean,
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Speaker 11: and like a lot of good teams they kind of
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Speaker 11: you know, beat the beat the heck out of each other.
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Speaker 11: There's a lot of balance. There is not much difference
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Speaker 11: between you know, East Tennessee State to won the league
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Speaker 11: and and and the seventh place team.
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Speaker 10: In terms of records.
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Speaker 11: So it's a it's a really good league and uh,
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Speaker 11: you know, they got really good players, they got an
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Speaker 11: excellent coach. You know, we've got to be ready, We've
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Speaker 11: got to be at our best on Friday.
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Speaker 2: Questions down here in.
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Speaker 7: The front, Hey, coach mad Demick Daily Campus Silo's Demery
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Speaker 7: confirmed us a few minutes ago in a tweet with
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Speaker 7: Joe Ruda that he's good to go tomorrow. To what
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Speaker 7: extent is that going to be? Is it fully available
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Speaker 7: or is there gonna be any kind of restriction on him?
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Speaker 10: I was how long ago?
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Speaker 1: Is that.
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Speaker 10: Okay? How you do?
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Speaker 11: Uh yeah, yeah, I wass get ready to check the
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Speaker 11: questionable box.
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Speaker 10: So it's good that we're all on the same page.
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Speaker 2: Other questions in.
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Speaker 11: The back, the refer that to my GM Tom Moore,
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Speaker 11: all injury query.
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Speaker 2: Hey, coach don leaves me with the USA today?
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Speaker 12: Can you just talk?
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Speaker 1: I was just in the locker room, and you know,
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Speaker 1: Alix is talking about putting a lot of pride into
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Speaker 1: the defense this past offseason after where it ended last year.
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Speaker 7: Can you just speak to the growth of your defense
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Speaker 7: and how you guys were able to get back to
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Speaker 7: what it was like those two back to back title runs.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean that's uh, you know, just having an
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Speaker 11: elite defense is what sustains you. And you know, I thought,
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Speaker 11: you know, in in New York, you know, two of
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Speaker 11: the three games it was it was elite and uh,
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Speaker 11: and we were victorious. And then it was and it
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Speaker 11: was far less than that on Saturday and and uh and.
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Speaker 10: And we lost.
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Speaker 11: So you know, we we know that, uh, we've got
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Speaker 11: to do this with our defense. We obviously have some
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Speaker 11: I think, uh, you know, some guys that are due
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Speaker 11: from a shooting standpoint to get hot here. You know,
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Speaker 11: I think we've you know, we we've we've uh, we've
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Speaker 11: got some of the best shooters in the country on
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Speaker 11: our team that uh, obviously we need to get hot
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Speaker 11: in this tournament. But you know, our defense was top
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Speaker 11: five for a while. In the games that we've lost,
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Speaker 11: it hasn't been that. All starts with Silas and Taris
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Speaker 11: setting the tone.
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Speaker 8: So other questions, Yeah, right, back there, Jonathan Tannebell from
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Speaker 8: the Philadelphia Inquired.
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Speaker 2: Dan, you mentioned a minute ago about sort of the
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Speaker 2: freedom of the mentality of the winner go home sort
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Speaker 2: of what it takes off.
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Speaker 12: But you've got some guys veterans, we've been at this before.
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Speaker 2: So when you have a loss in a Big East.
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Speaker 8: Tournament final the way that one was, does that one
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Speaker 8: stick in your mind or does it not matter anymore?
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Speaker 10: Or how do you play off that?
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Speaker 11: You know what it It kind of ruined selection Sunday
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Speaker 11: a little bit. You know, It's just that from that standpoint.
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Speaker 11: But I think in terms of having your team's attention,
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Speaker 11: you know, having a team that that is hopefully you know,
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Speaker 11: ready to show show some teeth here. Uh, you know
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Speaker 11: on Friday night, relative to how hard we're gonna play,
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Speaker 11: you know, we we got punked, uh in terms of
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Speaker 11: our effort, in terms of our will, in terms of
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Speaker 11: our competitive character. And that's not who we are as
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Speaker 11: a program, you know we uh yeah, But we've also
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Speaker 11: too when when you're when you when you come up
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Speaker 11: small in that championship moment, and it was the second
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Speaker 11: time probably in about a ten day span with the Marquette. Uh,
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Speaker 11: the Marquette loss. On top of that, you know, there's
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Speaker 11: also you got to rebuild the psyche a little bit.
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Speaker 11: You got to remind this team, you know, we've beaten
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Speaker 11: the one seed, we've beaten the three seed, we've beaten
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Speaker 11: a four seed, we've beaten a two five. You know,
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Speaker 11: like you've got to kind of build them up a
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Speaker 11: little bit. Yeah, it's probably not always my specialty.
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Speaker 2: Other questions in the back Yep.
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Speaker 12: Daniels's associated press. Can you is there a common denominated
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Speaker 12: see between the two national title teams and this one?
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Speaker 12: And that's maybe on the court, of course, but maybe
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Speaker 12: a little bit more they Are they similar the way
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Speaker 12: they are in the locker or they similar in the
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Speaker 12: way the way they approached the game?
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Speaker 11: You know, I would say they've they've shown and again
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Speaker 11: it's like I got to get in trouble by doing
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Speaker 11: this earlier with the team. But I would say just
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Speaker 11: the twenty three team was inconsistent. You know, it was dominant,
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Speaker 11: It had some dominant wins, you know my uh So,
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Speaker 11: I would say, you're hoping that we were able to
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Speaker 11: turn We took a twenty three semi final loss to Marquette.
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Speaker 11: We took a terrible January and we're able to dominate
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Speaker 11: the n SMA tournament two years in a row. I
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Speaker 11: would say, I'm waiting to see that personality from the
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Speaker 11: group of those two teams where you know they take
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Speaker 11: the court to shoot here and you see that that
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Speaker 11: Yukon swagger. You want to see that Yukon swagger on
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Speaker 11: Friday night at ten o'clock. That's what those teams had.
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Speaker 11: I didn't have to talk them into winning games in
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Speaker 11: this tournament like they were in the tournament to kick
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Speaker 11: some serious you know what. And I want to see
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Speaker 11: that from the team O.
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Speaker 2: The questions for coach down here.
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Speaker 13: When or are uk on Sports Network Dan, you said
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Speaker 13: on Sunday that Jalen Stewart was close. What's the status
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Speaker 13: for tomorrow's game and you get him back? What does
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Speaker 13: he bring that you haven't had these last six games.
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Speaker 11: Where Silas when I ask him to him tweet it
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Speaker 11: or whatever. Yeah, he's questionable too, another one in the
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Speaker 11: questionable box. I don't know what time I've gotta drop
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Speaker 11: that in that ballot in there for the Yeah, he's
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Speaker 11: gonna be questionable for this. I would say, you know,
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Speaker 11: he's got a chance for tomorrow and if not, you know,
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Speaker 11: and if we're still playing on Sunday, he'll he'll have
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Speaker 11: a shot for that, but I'm not sure he'll be
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Speaker 11: out there shooting today. Well, you tell me what you
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Speaker 11: think of how he looks.
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Speaker 2: Right down here.
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Speaker 3: You alluded at the beginning, and as you frequently have
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Speaker 3: over the years, that this is the greatest sporting event
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Speaker 3: or one of the great sporting events and in the country,
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Speaker 3: and one of the reasons probably everybody tunes in the
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Speaker 3: first couple of games to see games like this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and root for the.
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Speaker 3: Miracle, right, yeah? Would do you do you advocate keeping
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Speaker 3: the tournament the way it is in terms of the
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Speaker 3: automatic qualifiers and all of that.
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Speaker 10: Do you still like.
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Speaker 3: That aspect of it?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean I like the smaller you know, I
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Speaker 11: think expanding would be you know, it would be a mistake.
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Speaker 11: I think it's uh, you know, I think you get
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Speaker 11: to at some point here, I think, you know, the
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Speaker 11: bubble gets to be kind of like a little bit weak,
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Speaker 11: you know. So, Yeah, I mean I like it being
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Speaker 11: a hard sporting event to qualify for. I think makes
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Speaker 11: it more exciting, you know. I think it's at the
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Speaker 11: perfect number. I don't know what was Miami of Ohio.
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Speaker 11: They were one of the last teams in right, I
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Speaker 11: guess because of the obviously incredible season, and you watched
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Speaker 11: them last night and you're saying the tournament's perfect. Don't
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Speaker 11: change it.
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Speaker 2: Any the questions for coach right, turn the back.
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Speaker 14: I just keep flying Mike Anthony from hersy get out
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Speaker 14: of ky damn Uh. I wanted to ask you about
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Speaker 14: Alec Millinder. The fans obviously don't get to see him
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Speaker 14: in those two hour game win those on TV, so
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Speaker 14: maybe a lot of people don't know a lot about him,
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Speaker 14: but I know you know your your group of guys
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Speaker 14: thinks the world of him. I'm wondering what you think
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Speaker 14: that's made him a a good fit for the program
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Speaker 14: and what this experience has been like for him get
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Speaker 14: into Dancy.
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Speaker 2: Of LA tournament.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, so Alec had chances. I think there's some a
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Speaker 11: tens level schools. I think that he would have been
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Speaker 11: guaranteed to uh to get minutes at definitely be a
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Speaker 11: rotation piece.
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Speaker 10: And I think you know he.
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Speaker 11: He uh, you know it came to you kind of
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Speaker 11: compete to to be in the rotation and uh and
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Speaker 11: and and and he's helped us you know, he's helped
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Speaker 11: us win some games.
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Speaker 10: Especially you know, early in the year.
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Speaker 11: But uh, he just uh, you know, he's a real
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Speaker 11: he's a real guy. You know, he's a guy's just
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Speaker 11: he's uh, he he's he's a he he's a he's
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Speaker 11: a special man.
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Speaker 10: He's a strong man. He's a smart man. Uh. He's
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Speaker 10: a great communicator. Uh. He really cares about the team
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Speaker 10: and his brothers. Uh.
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Speaker 11: He's not just the type of friend either to our
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Speaker 11: players and and to his teammates that he just tells
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Speaker 11: them what they want to hear. Sometimes he actually is
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Speaker 11: is the mirror. He's the truth for them. And uh,
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Speaker 11: sometimes it's hard for those guys to hear, but he
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Speaker 11: keeps it real. And I think that's why people respect him.
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Speaker 10: You know.
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Speaker 11: And based on Siles, you know Siles's injury, and and
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Speaker 11: and Jalen Stewart, you know, and and and uh, you know,
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Speaker 11: Malachi with a little something going on. You know this,
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Speaker 11: you know you may be seeing more of him than
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Speaker 11: than you've seen to this point.
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Speaker 2: Thanks coach, you appreciate it.
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Speaker 10: I appreciate it. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Yep, thanks, thank you, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, Thanks everybody for coming to all today's press conferences.
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