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Arizona Advances to Final Four Over Purdue | Inside March Madness · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: With me, Clark, Kellogg, Boost Pearl, Kenny Smith and Charles
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  Speaker 1: Barkley Fellas.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get right into it, Clark, what did you see
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  Speaker 2: in this.
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  Speaker 1: We saw arguably the number one team in the country
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  Speaker 1: show you exactly why they have been that way all season.
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  Speaker 1: They did exactly what they've been doing, contribution from everybody,
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  Speaker 1: tremendous defense in the second half, punishing offense in the
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  Speaker 1: second half, and then pulled away from a game effort
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  Speaker 1: by purduing that first round. They actually had a sixteen
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  Speaker 1: to three scoring run to start the second half that
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  Speaker 1: flipped the game, and they did it because they were
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  Speaker 1: in attack mode. Turned for Doe over a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: got in the open door and attacked the paint. Kenny,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, get off me, Kark. Chenkoff he had eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: He was unrelenting and attacking the basket now or so,
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  Speaker 1: knocking down the three in the open court. This team
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  Speaker 1: has everything that looks championship capable, and they put it
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  Speaker 1: on display in that second half dominating performance.
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  Speaker 3: Arizona just played with better effort and better energy in
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  Speaker 3: the second half. Their size and their athleticism, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: when Chekhoff and co Pete started driving down. Yep, it
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  Speaker 3: was like freight trains driving down them Boilermaker tracks.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was no stopping them. Well said ten
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  Speaker 2: of his points in the second half. There you take
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  Speaker 2: a look at it, Bruce. There he is doing this.
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  Speaker 1: Thing right in the middle of the court and then
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  Speaker 1: taking efficiently two three dribbles, getting to a spot that's
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  Speaker 1: his money shot, and then just physically overpowering whoever was
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  Speaker 1: trying to match up with him from the boiler Makers.
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  Speaker 1: That was the dominating way that the Wildcats play. They
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  Speaker 1: are physical and they stay in attack mold, especially in
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  Speaker 1: that last twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were.
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  Speaker 4: If it was a thirty two minute game, Perdue would
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  Speaker 4: be okay. But the sustainability, yeah, to be able to
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  Speaker 4: keep up scoring at that and that and that realm,
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  Speaker 4: they just couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: And this didn't have enough weapons.
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  Speaker 4: Again, at begetting his game, I was like, there's too
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  Speaker 4: many holes to plug offensively because there is no one scorer.
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  Speaker 2: There are five guys.
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  Speaker 4: You got Crevice, you got Bradley, you got Pete, Pete
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  Speaker 4: who plays very similar to you know when when you
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  Speaker 4: I used to watch their USA team when they're on
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  Speaker 4: the at and another team and at times, if you're
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  Speaker 4: watching the game or the link, you couldn't tell if
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  Speaker 4: it was Boozer or him. They played so much like
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  Speaker 4: physically coming downhill, being a strong inside.
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  Speaker 2: So this was this is.
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  Speaker 4: A well oiled, complete, yes Arizona basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: The thing I like about them they didn't have a
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  Speaker 2: great first half. They didn't panic. They just picked up
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  Speaker 2: their defensive intensity. A lot of times, when teams are
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  Speaker 2: really good, they're one dimensional offensively, they're not great defensively.
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  Speaker 2: Your defense always travels. I was proud of them because,
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  Speaker 2: like I say, they were down seven at the half, yep,
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  Speaker 2: and they just said, no, we better start playing defense.
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  Speaker 2: And they did. This team I told you I getting
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  Speaker 2: a chance to watch them play all year. I said,
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  Speaker 2: this is the best team in the country. Coach see smiling.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody except Michigan has the ability to go seven, eight, nine,
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  Speaker 2: ten deep, big, strong, athletic. They just wore Brayton, who's
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  Speaker 2: a hell of a player. I think he finished up
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  Speaker 2: one for level and in the second half after starting hot,
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  Speaker 2: he started hot. But you, like I said, Kenny Gray,
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  Speaker 2: they gonna keep coming. They are aggressive, they're tough, they're physical.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna take somebody special I've said all on it.
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  Speaker 2: I said, Man, I am worried. I'm not gonna lie
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  Speaker 2: about Michigan. But Arizona was the best team that I
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  Speaker 2: saw all year, and I think Michigan is the second
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  Speaker 2: best team I saw. And that's gonna be a ballad
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  Speaker 2: of damn that.
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  Speaker 4: That second half reminding me of one of my favorite songs,
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to the Terror Dome.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I love when Tommy Lloyd, you know, gets his team
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  Speaker 3: to the final four, he talks about ludoson you know,
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  Speaker 3: And when Matt Painter got his team to the final four,
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  Speaker 3: he talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Gene Katie given those.
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  Speaker 3: Vets the love because those guys carry on that responsible
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  Speaker 3: of those programs. I agree, to me, the two best
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  Speaker 3: teams in the country look to me like Arizona in Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: Michigan still got to get by Tennessee to see if
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  Speaker 3: they can go to.
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  Speaker 2: That final four.
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  Speaker 3: That's gonna be unbelievable Summit time.
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  Speaker 2: And as a guy who live in Arizona, it's been
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  Speaker 2: hot out there, brother, Yeah, in what way? There's so
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  Speaker 2: much pressure on those Arizona kids, So they haven't like
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  Speaker 2: they've been a number one two seed like every.
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  Speaker 1: Year for the last This is the last time they broke.
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  Speaker 2: This is the first time they know beyond the sweet shix,
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  Speaker 2: I know that's not sweet. See yeah, I said, and
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  Speaker 2: it is. It's like North Carolina. It's like, Duke, we're
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  Speaker 2: not on the level with another kind, dude. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say that, but in Arizona, the pressure is there.
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  Speaker 2: The pressure is there if you're ranked that high every year,
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  Speaker 2: like we haven't even got to the Sweet sixteen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, people didn't giving me a hard time because
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  Speaker 2: I picked Arizona every year. Of course I was like
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  Speaker 2: over twelve, but I said, yo, man, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what it is, but this team is special.
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  Speaker 3: Yea.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: You can you can either feel the pressure or apply
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  Speaker 1: the pressure, and.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they did in this game. Speaking of that,
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  Speaker 2: let's take a look at the built Better moment presented
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  Speaker 2: by body Armor. All Right, so this is a key
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  Speaker 2: play of the game. This is Australia's one. Just check
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  Speaker 2: it out. We got Arizona pushing the ball up. Who's there.
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  Speaker 2: Australia's on Anthony del Orso. Now he may be from
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  Speaker 2: down under them, but this was from Wade Downtown.
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  Speaker 1: In this three, it set off a run for the
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  Speaker 1: Wildcats and they did not look back after this fellas
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  Speaker 1: they did not know their defense. They went saran rap
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  Speaker 1: d and then smash mouth offense in that second half
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  Speaker 1: and Purdue had no answers. And again to Kenny's point,
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  Speaker 1: Charles made it the point too. They keep coming and
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  Speaker 1: they're physically imposing and that wears teams down.
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  Speaker 2: And the thing though they he started playing inside out.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. I think they got a little crazy in
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  Speaker 2: the first half. They gonna make all their best when
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  Speaker 2: they're at their best one, like Clark said, when they're
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  Speaker 2: going downhill and using their size and strength. That's right.