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Longhorns Feelin Sweet, Baseball Rollin · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: He's a Texas legend, a Hall of Fame broadcaster, the
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Speaker 1: voice of the Texas Longhorns, and your host of the
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Speaker 1: Craigway Show.
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Speaker 2: Here he is now craig.
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Speaker 3: Way Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred of the Zone Andrews
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Speaker 3: and we'll hang out with you this Monday afternoon. After
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Speaker 3: a ginormous win for the Texas women's basketball team, put
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Speaker 3: it on the board, sixty five forty eight win against
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Speaker 3: the Illinois Fighting.
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Speaker 4: And Orange Illy Illinis.
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Speaker 3: Either way, Longhorns women move on to the Sweet sixteen,
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Speaker 3: and Craig Way had that final game call.
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Speaker 4: This is what it sounded like.
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Speaker 5: For the fourth time in his five seasons as head coach,
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Speaker 5: Vick Chafer will take the Texas women's basketball team.
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Speaker 4: To the Sweet sixteen.
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Speaker 5: Final score this afternoon here in Austin, the Texas Longhorns
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Speaker 5: sixty five the Illinois Fighting ALAINI forty eight. Next up,
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Speaker 5: burning up Aham, Alabama and matchup number two with the
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Speaker 5: Tennessee Lady Balls as Texas wins its thirty third game
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Speaker 5: of the season to advance to the Sweet sixteen.
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Speaker 3: And in that win, Madison Booker twenty points nine of eighteen,
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Speaker 3: shooting six rebounds, one assist, two steals in the win,
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Speaker 3: and the Longhorns they went on a game of runs. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: when you talk about basketball, it's a make or miss league.
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Speaker 3: When you talk about the Texas women will they made
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Speaker 3: a lot of them in that win. Shot forty six
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Speaker 3: percent from the field and they didn't even need to
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Speaker 3: hit a three from downtown. The way that Vick Shaffer's
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Speaker 3: team had played in this contest, it was force turnovers,
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Speaker 3: which they did plenty of twenty turnovers by Illinois and
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Speaker 3: the Texas win and then get to the free throw
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Speaker 3: line and shoot some free throws, not of twelve for
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Speaker 3: the Longhorns this afternoon. So that is what is going
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Speaker 3: to come down to. That's what it came down to
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Speaker 3: today for Texas. They came in as obviously the slight
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Speaker 3: favorite against number eight seeded Illinois, and now they go
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Speaker 3: on and take on the Lady Bols, a team that
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Speaker 3: they played earlier this season. You got to feel pretty
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Speaker 3: good about where Texas is coming in to the final
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Speaker 3: stretch right Sweet sixteen allite eate. This is the team
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Speaker 3: that's trying to get over the hump and get to
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Speaker 3: the final four in the national Championship. When you look
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Speaker 3: at the rest of the NCAA bracket. The teams that
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Speaker 3: they have to beat are still very much still in contention.
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Speaker 3: Right We talked about that ultimate The box office trio
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Speaker 3: is what I'm calling it. The opportunity to play three
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Speaker 3: seeded Notre Dame, potentially one seed out of the number
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Speaker 3: two overall one seat I should say in you the
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Speaker 3: South Carolina Game Cocks, and then potentially Yukon on the
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Speaker 3: other side of the bracket. This box office trio that
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Speaker 3: I'm calling it is still very much in play for
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Speaker 3: the Texas long runs. But of course they got to
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Speaker 3: get past the Lady Bowls and the Sweet Sixteen first
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Speaker 3: you go through the rest of women's basketball. One other
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Speaker 3: game finished up earlier today. That's two seed and c
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Speaker 3: State taking Michigan State to the Cleaners eighty three p
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Speaker 3: forty nine win for the wolf Pack, and that's in
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Speaker 3: Region one, in the Spokane Region. Obviously other games going
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Speaker 3: on right now. They've staggered these games where it's one
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Speaker 3: after the other after the other out of the SEC
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Speaker 3: number three seeded Klahoma versus number six seeded Iowa. That
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Speaker 3: game just tipped off seven thirty one left in the
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Speaker 3: first quarter. Iowa leading Oklahoma eight to four. That's in
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Speaker 3: Region four in the Spokane region as well.
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Speaker 4: Tonight.
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Speaker 3: A lot of a men's basketball to get into. None
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Speaker 3: of those game is going to be happening during the show,
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Speaker 3: but the lineup card for tonight a couple of heavy hitters.
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Speaker 3: Number two seeded Alabama versus six seeded BYU one seed
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Speaker 3: in Florida versus four seeded Maryland. See how Maryland one
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Speaker 3: the other night, one seeded Duke versus four seeded Zona,
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Speaker 3: and three seeded Tech versus ten seeded Arkansas. And this
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Speaker 3: past weekend, if you were locked in on college basketball,
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Speaker 3: you were one of millions. We all were watching our
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Speaker 3: brackets kind of go up in flames. It's always after
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Speaker 3: that first couple days, that Thursday, if you can keep
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Speaker 3: it perfect, you're doing better than most. You can keep
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Speaker 3: it perfect. Going into the weekend, you feel really confident,
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Speaker 3: But it's always that fir, just the weekend of tournament
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Speaker 3: play that you gotta tell everybody, Hey take the kids out,
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Speaker 3: Hey take the dog out, Hey take the cleaners out,
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Speaker 3: take the garbage out. I'm not leaving this couch. I
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Speaker 3: want to watch all of these games. How they're all
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Speaker 3: gonna stack up. And it was an exciting weekend, obviously
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Speaker 3: for the men. Obviously an excited weekend for the men.
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Speaker 3: This this past weekend, Saint John's losing two Calipari's Arkansas
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Speaker 3: razorback team. I didn't have it in the cards. I
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Speaker 3: didn't think that that was what was gonna happen. I
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Speaker 3: had Saint John. I bought into the Big East hype.
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Speaker 3: I bought into the Johnnys and they disappointed me once again.
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Speaker 3: Another game that Saint john loses when they felt like
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Speaker 3: the better team. I went through the records, I went
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Speaker 3: through the shooting for Saint John's this season in the
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Speaker 3: Red Storm as a team, nine percent from downtown, twenty
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Speaker 3: eight percent from the field. And there's teams that are
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Speaker 3: obviously built for March, and there's teams that just aren't
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Speaker 3: ready for that spotlight. And you know, you like Patino,
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Speaker 3: you like what he's been able to do. He feels
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Speaker 3: like the godfather of college basketball in a lot of ways.
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Speaker 3: But in a game like that, you gotta find a
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Speaker 3: way to either call timeouts, get your guys back under control,
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Speaker 3: let them potentially, you know, get their legs back underneath them,
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Speaker 3: and then stop shooting.
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Speaker 4: The three.
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Speaker 3: It seems like everybody wants to be this three point
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Speaker 3: shooting team. They want to go out of their way
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Speaker 3: to be a team if they're not really like and
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Speaker 3: Saint John's fell into that trap on Saturday. They wanted
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Speaker 3: to be this team that got out, that scored the
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Speaker 3: shot threes, and it just did not work out for
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Speaker 3: Saint john in that one. But the sneaky thing, and
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Speaker 3: I think the thing that people aren't going to be
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Speaker 3: talking about going into this Thursday slate of games is
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Speaker 3: how bad Arkansas was from downtown as well, two of
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Speaker 3: nineteen shooting ten percent. Again, if Arkansas wasn't able to
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Speaker 3: dominate the glass the way that they were getting forty
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Speaker 3: five rebounds, if they weren't able to play defense the
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Speaker 3: way that they were forcing six turnovers and get to
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Speaker 3: the rim against Saint John's, this is a different story.
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Speaker 3: It was a game that now where it's in the
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Speaker 3: rearview mirror, I don't see Arkansas moving much further. I
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Speaker 3: don't see this team getting to an elite EID or
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Speaker 3: a Final four because of their lack of shooting, because
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Speaker 3: of the fact that they haven't looked great from downtown.
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Speaker 3: Now Texas Tech obviously has their work cutout for him.
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Speaker 3: Sweet sixteen team. They are a team I think when
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Speaker 3: we made the brackets earlier last week, I was talking
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Speaker 3: to Ishmael Johnson from Dave Campbell's, who does a really
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Speaker 3: good job on the college basketball podcast over there. We
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Speaker 3: were talking about what's the most likely team out of
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Speaker 3: the state of Texas to make a run. Houston was
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Speaker 3: the one that everybody circled. Baylor was a potential upset
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Speaker 3: and an upset team, and Texas Tech was a team
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Speaker 3: that we both kind of agreed on that we're warm on,
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Speaker 3: we're not hot on. We like them, we don't love them.
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Speaker 3: And Tech against Arkansas, I'm taking the Red Raiders in
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Speaker 3: that matchup. Other news, obviously, the Longhorns securing their next
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Speaker 3: head coach, Sean Miller after Xavier loses this past weekend.
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Speaker 3: Jerry still out. I'm gonna I'm gonna hold out. I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna hold out my thoughts and my opinions
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Speaker 3: on this highre for a little bit longer. I know
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Speaker 3: a lot of people are jumping on it, They're very excited. Clearly,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna hold out. I'm gonna get wait to see
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Speaker 3: what that introductory press conference looks like I'm gonna wait
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Speaker 3: to see what that recruiting class looks like before I
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Speaker 3: pick my side one way or the other. I will
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Speaker 3: say this though, Roddy Terry leaving with a lot of grace.
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Speaker 3: Love to see the way that his final press release
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Speaker 3: will get into that a little bit later in the show.
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Speaker 3: I love to see the reaction from fans as well
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Speaker 3: as he exits stage left. Dream job, got to coach
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Speaker 3: his dream school. Love to see that. When we come
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Speaker 3: back more from the Texas women's win, a sixty five
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Speaker 3: to forty eight win against number eight ceed Illinois. We'll
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Speaker 3: try to get you some of that postgame audio as
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Speaker 3: well as play your post game with Craig Way and
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Speaker 3: Vic Shaffer.
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Speaker 4: All that coming up next.
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Speaker 3: Craigway Show continues Andrew Zimmill sitting in for Craig on
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Speaker 3: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Hopefully you guys
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Speaker 3: had an excellent weekend. A lot of college basketball happening
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Speaker 3: over the weekend. How many brackets are left perfect? I
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Speaker 3: think I saw this in the morning was one. I
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Speaker 3: think I saw one bracket according to ESPN, was still
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Speaker 3: perfect throughout all of this, which is kind of crazy
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Speaker 3: to think about that.
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Speaker 4: There's millions of us every year.
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Speaker 3: Who put it all together, who try to, you know,
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Speaker 3: come up with the perfect bracket. We spend time watching
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Speaker 3: college basketball all year, putting it all together, and still
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Speaker 3: can't get close to a perfect bracket. Can't get close
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Speaker 3: even having what half of a day on Thursday close
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Speaker 3: enough to a perfect bracket. A lot to get into, obviously.
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Speaker 3: In this hour two of The Craig Way Show, Texas
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Speaker 3: women win their matchup against Illinois earlier today in what
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Speaker 3: was relatively a one sided game, especially considering the second
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Speaker 3: half sixty five forty eight win for the women.
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Speaker 4: Leading scorer, for you.
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Speaker 3: Was Madison Booker with twenty points, nine of eighteen shooting
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Speaker 3: from the four, six rebounds, two steals, one assists. That's
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Speaker 3: why she is the SEC Player of the Year. Taylor
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Speaker 3: Jones twelve points in the win with five or five rebounds,
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Speaker 3: and Rory Harmon to four steals in the win with
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Speaker 3: seven assists played very well for the Texas women well.
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Speaker 4: Obviously.
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Speaker 3: The big games coming out of the weekend for college
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Speaker 3: basketball the forty Acres was the signing the made official
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Speaker 3: Xavier's head coach Sean Miller reaching an agreement to be
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Speaker 3: the next head coach of the Texas Longhorns. Now Miller
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Speaker 3: was a veteran head coach who led teams to thirteen
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Speaker 3: NCAA Tournament appearances in his career, including two of the
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Speaker 3: past three years at Xavier. He's won four hundred and
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Speaker 3: eighty seven games, a winning percentage above seventy one percent. Quote.
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Speaker 3: Sean played a key role in getting the Musk Year
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Speaker 3: basketball back on track. Xavor eighty great Christopher said in
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Speaker 3: a statement.
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Speaker 6: Quote.
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Speaker 3: He guided our program through a rapidly evolving college basketball
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Speaker 3: landscape and is a great partner in the process. We're
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Speaker 3: grateful for everything Sean has done for Xavier basketball over
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Speaker 3: the past three seasons. Now Roddy Terry was let go
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Speaker 3: and form Sunday We now return. Terry had taken over
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Speaker 3: on an interim basis for Chris Beard after the suspension
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two. He got the official job after
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Speaker 3: a twenty twenty three Elite eight appearance. He got long
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Speaker 3: Horns through the NCAA Tournament in each of the past
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Speaker 3: two seasons Xavier heedd Texas obviously in the first four
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Speaker 3: Texas was able to hold on. I got a thirteen
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Speaker 3: point lead at one point before it was erased by
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Speaker 3: the Musketeers. Yeah, so big for the University of Texas, obviously,
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Speaker 3: finding their guy. You hope that this is the coach
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Speaker 3: moving forward. You hope that this is the right move
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Speaker 3: for the Longhorse moving forward.
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Speaker 4: I'm still holding out judgment.
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Speaker 3: I'm waiting for that introductory press conference to decide one
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Speaker 3: way or the other how I feel about this move,
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Speaker 3: because John Miller is a very good coach. But when
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Speaker 3: I saw the reports earlier this week or at least
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Speaker 3: this weekend after that Texas loss, the idea that was
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Speaker 3: it was gonna be big game hunting. I was expecting
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Speaker 3: a Caylee Pario. I was expecting a Rick Patino. I
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Speaker 3: was expecting a Jay Wright. I was expecting somebody with
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Speaker 3: like a lot of name gravitas. Sean Miller is a
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Speaker 3: very good coach, obviously, But when you consider the last
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Speaker 3: hire that happened at the University of Texas, it was
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Speaker 3: a coach that was playing in a national championship just
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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks earlier. Actually, let's be honest, a
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Speaker 3: couple of days earlier. In Jim Slosnagle for the baseball program,
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Speaker 3: so when you say to me, hey, we're going after
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Speaker 3: some big game hunting, I'm thinking to myself, Okay, well
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Speaker 3: we're not going to have a decision until early April
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Speaker 3: because I'm going to expect to see the national championship
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Speaker 3: coach come into Texas. But you know, like I said,
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Speaker 3: I'm excited for Sean Miller. I'm not saying that I'm not.
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Speaker 3: I'm just holding out judgment to decide one way or
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Speaker 3: the other how excited I should be. I think that's fair.
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Speaker 3: I don't think anybody would disagree with me. Update right
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Speaker 3: now after the first quarter, number three seeded Oklahoma leading
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Speaker 3: six seeded Iowa twenty to eleven. As that one continues
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Speaker 3: to roll on other news as we wait for the
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Speaker 3: NCAA Tournament to start their postgame press conference with the
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Speaker 3: University of Texas women, We're gonna try to bring you
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Speaker 3: that press conference as live as we can. We also
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Speaker 3: have Jim Slasnagle coming up later in this hour as well,
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Speaker 3: his postgame after the Longhorns win big over the weekend,
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Speaker 3: a three or two to one series win against LSU
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Speaker 3: in what was a very good, exciting weekend of baseball. LSU,
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Speaker 3: the number two team in the country currently in the rankings.
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Speaker 3: This is a program on the baseball side of things
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Speaker 3: that after a serious win against Mississippi State in that
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Speaker 3: seventeen game win streak to start the season that I
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Speaker 3: have pretty I'm pretty high on right now. I don't
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Speaker 3: think anybody can disagree. The next time the Longhorns will
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Speaker 3: be at home is tomorrow's six thirty first pitch against
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Speaker 3: sam Houston State against the Bearcats before going to Columbia,
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Speaker 3: Missouri to take on Missouri. Now, the next big one
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Speaker 3: that I have circled on my calendar is that matchup
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Speaker 3: against Texas State. Now, I understand everybody, of course, rolling
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Speaker 3: their eyes collectively here. All you're excited for the Longhorns
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Speaker 3: to take on your Bobcats, this school that you graduated from.
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Speaker 3: You're excited for that one, obviously, Zimbo, you want to
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Speaker 3: see the long Horns and Bobcats play at the dish. Yeah, No,
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Speaker 3: I am excited for that because I think two things
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Speaker 3: can be true. I think that this could be a
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Speaker 3: very good matchup for the Longhorns. It's the Texas State
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Speaker 3: team that's kind of turning the corner a little bit here.
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Speaker 3: They're kind of figuring out their pitching staff. It's a
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Speaker 3: Tuesday game, and when you are the Texas Longhorns, and
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Speaker 3: when you are beating the number two team in the country,
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Speaker 3: you get a target on your back. This is one
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Speaker 3: of the best teams in the country. So while yeah,
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Speaker 3: Tuesday night game, you shrug your shoulders whatever you'll see.
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Speaker 3: You know it'll be a fun game. It's cool to
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Speaker 3: bring on the kittie cats, but whatever, I don't care.
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Speaker 3: I'm excited for it because I know the Longhorns are
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Speaker 3: going to get the best out of not only sam
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Speaker 3: Houston State, but also Texas State. I know that they're
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Speaker 3: going to throw their number one pitcher because they want
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Speaker 3: to beat Texas, which means the hitters for the long
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Speaker 3: Horns they are going to see good pitching, which means
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Speaker 3: the fans that are at the Dish are going to
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Speaker 3: see a good game. That's what I'm excited for. I
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Speaker 3: don't know why anybody wouldn't be excited for sam Houston
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Speaker 3: State coming to town. I don't know why anybody wouldn't
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Speaker 3: be excited for Texas State coming to town, because that's
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Speaker 3: the type of atmosphere the Dish springs, that's the type
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Speaker 3: of energy the Longhorns exude.
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Speaker 4: I'm excited for it. I'm excited for tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: I'm excited for next Tuesday when Texas State comes down.
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Speaker 3: Then they have a little bit of a home streak
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Speaker 3: as a Georgia rolls into town as well as Houston Christian.
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Speaker 3: So going to Missouri this weekend, another home series against
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Speaker 3: Georgia the following weekend, and it'll be it'll be good.
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Speaker 3: And this Texas baseball team against LSU looked great on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Right Fielder Max Blue drove in four of the six
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Speaker 3: Texas scores, highlighted by a two run shot in the
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Speaker 3: fourth and rb at triple in the sixth inning. Blues
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Speaker 3: four hundred and three foot blast, you know the tape
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Speaker 3: measure set seventy two hundred fans in fury, in a frenzy,
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Speaker 3: i should say, after they jumped out to.
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Speaker 4: A five zero leap.
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Speaker 3: Early run support provided more than enough for right hander
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Speaker 3: Roger Rojos and southpaw Dylan Atlantis in his first start
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Speaker 3: as a in the burnt or Rost toss a career
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Speaker 3: co long five and two thirds innings with two run
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Speaker 3: baseball punched out six batters along the way. Valantis retired
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Speaker 3: nine to the final ten LSU batters, which is nothing
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Speaker 3: to turn your nose up at. Hold the visitors hitless
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Speaker 3: over the final three and one third frames. The freshman
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Speaker 3: struck out five of the six Tigers he faced. And
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Speaker 3: that has really been the story of this Longhorn baseball team.
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Speaker 3: And the story of this team obviously is going to
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Speaker 3: come down to the pitching staff. And I've talked to
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Speaker 3: Roger Wallace last week. I've talked to talk to Craig
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Speaker 3: as well about this. The pitching staff this season seems
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Speaker 3: a lot different. The vibes feel just a lot different
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Speaker 3: this year compared it to years past. And I don't
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Speaker 3: know what that is. A lot of people are attributing
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Speaker 3: it to Max, we know, the pitching coach. I tend
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Speaker 3: to agree, but it's weird to think that one coach
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Speaker 3: in one specialized position, pitching can completely turn around a
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Speaker 3: pitching staff like you wouldn't think about that. That's not
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Speaker 3: something that comes to mind, I think for the casual
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Speaker 3: baseball fan. Now, obviously, the guy who is listening and
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Speaker 3: watching and intaking every single Longhorn Baseball game will tell you, yeah,
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Speaker 3: you know, pitching is the most important thing. And as
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Speaker 3: a former pitcher now granted, not a Longhorn pitcher, not
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Speaker 3: a big game pitcher, but as a guy who used to,
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Speaker 3: you know, watch pitchers, I can tell you it is
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Speaker 3: the most important position. That every single play begins with
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Speaker 3: that guy touching the ball. I would say that's probably
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Speaker 3: kind of important, right. And the pitching staff like Texas
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Speaker 3: that's built with a bunch of young guys who are
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Speaker 3: already falling into line, and a bunch of young guys
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Speaker 3: who were faced against the Mississippi State team play excellent
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Speaker 3: facing the LSU team with big bats who LSU, who've
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Speaker 3: talked to their fans, they think they're going to Omaha.
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Speaker 3: They might early number top three team early season five
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Speaker 3: to get back to Omaha. And I would say, if
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Speaker 3: you put the board up, who's most likely to win
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Speaker 3: the whole thing? They're in that conversation, you face that
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Speaker 3: type of hitter in your place, and you pitch as
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Speaker 3: good as this pitching staff did. Yeah, I'm gonna say
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna take Texas. I feel good about this pitching staff.
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Speaker 3: I feel better about this pitching staff then maybe I
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Speaker 3: have ever And that's saying something, and again that goes
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Speaker 3: credit to Jims Slashdangle the head coach and gives credit
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Speaker 3: to Max Wiener, the pitching coach. All right, when we
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Speaker 3: come back, we'll hear from Jimmer Slashdangle. We're also trying
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Speaker 3: to get you that Texas women's post game as a
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Speaker 3: head coach Vick Schaeffer and his players talk to the
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Speaker 3: NCAA media. Longhorn women win today, move on to the
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Speaker 3: sweet sixteen bought sixty five to forty eight win against Illinois.
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Speaker 3: We'll have more with you or more for you here
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Speaker 3: in a bit on the Craig Way Show. Andrews Im
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Speaker 3: Andrews Im will hanging out with you this after noon.
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Speaker 3: And we continue to work our way into this Texas
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Speaker 3: Women's post game, where we're still waiting for the nc
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Speaker 3: double A to give us our to give us our
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Speaker 3: postgame audio as they do what they do, what they do.
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Speaker 3: All right, So we wanted to hear from head coach
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Speaker 3: Jim Slowsnagle as he and his crew win big this
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Speaker 3: past weekend.
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Speaker 4: Let's hear it sports Radio.
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Speaker 3: Okay, let's we're still getting weird feedback here. We'll try
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Speaker 3: to get it fixed for you here in a second.
20:53
Speaker 3: It's it's one of those things where you're working in
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Speaker 3: live radio, you're trying to get everything going and you
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Speaker 3: still don't have your Jim slopsnangles sound.
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Speaker 4: That's fine, all right, right now, let's give you an update.
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Speaker 3: Is we got four to thirty left going into a
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Speaker 3: halftime of number three Oklahoma and number six Iowa thirty
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Speaker 3: two to twenty one. The Sooners lead the Hawk guys
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Speaker 3: in Region four Round two, as that one of those
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Speaker 3: teams trying to advance to the Sweet sixteen as well,
21:23
Speaker 3: Texas Punch they're taking to the Sweet sixteen. Longhorns win
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Speaker 3: sixty five to forty eight against number eight seeded Illinois
21:33
Speaker 3: earlier today. Leading scorer for the Longhorns was Madison Booker
21:37
Speaker 3: twenty points, nine of eighteen shooting from the floor, oh
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Speaker 3: one from downtown, six rebounds, assist in two steals, and
21:45
Speaker 3: she was really everywhere on the court this afternoon, just
21:49
Speaker 3: doing everything that you wanted the SEC player of the
21:52
Speaker 3: Year to do, which is, you know, one of those
21:55
Speaker 3: things that as we talked throughout the season, this is
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Speaker 3: one of the best players in college basketball. This is
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Speaker 3: the best player in the SEC, and I continue to
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Speaker 3: not hear her name or the Longhorn's name nearly enough
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Speaker 3: for the national conversation. I'm looking, I'm listening, I'm reading,
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Speaker 3: and I cannot find anybody who's picking Texas to move
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Speaker 3: on past the final four. In fact, I've seen a
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Speaker 3: lot of Notre Dame coming out of the Birmingham region,
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Speaker 3: the Region two or Region three out of Birmingham. I
22:31
Speaker 3: haven't seen a lot of Texas, which concerns me. I
22:35
Speaker 3: don't understand what the disrespect is coming from, because, look,
22:39
Speaker 3: Vick Shafer is a coach who's cut down plenty of nets,
22:42
Speaker 3: and he's gotten this Longhorn team to a spot here
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Speaker 3: that you feel very comfortable putting a lot of eggs
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Speaker 3: in the basket. You feel very comfortable putting a lot
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Speaker 3: of support and a lot of.
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Speaker 4: You know, just a lot.
22:58
Speaker 3: You feel very comfortable putting respect on the Texas women
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Speaker 3: going forward, and I don't understand why we're not seeing
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Speaker 3: more of that from the national media. And I always
23:10
Speaker 3: credited to living in a burnt orange bubble. I always
23:13
Speaker 3: say that that might be part of my problem, is
23:15
Speaker 3: that because I'm living where I'm living in the area
23:18
Speaker 3: that I'm living in that that is the reason I'm
23:21
Speaker 3: not seeing more of it that you know, it's the
23:23
Speaker 3: old school, build a chip on the shoulder type of thing.
23:26
Speaker 3: Like I'm more Are we actually being disrespected or is
23:29
Speaker 3: it just me? Is it a perceived disrespect or is
23:32
Speaker 3: an actual disrespect? So speaking of disrespect, speaking of a
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Speaker 3: disrespect to the sport, I've been standing on, shouting from
23:43
Speaker 3: the hilltops the mountaintops to anybody who would listen that
23:47
Speaker 3: Baseball deciding to go across the pond, decided to go
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Speaker 3: to Japan to start Opening Day, did not feel like
23:55
Speaker 3: the right thing for the fans, pe only the right
23:58
Speaker 3: thing from Ajor League Baseball. They made a lot of
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Speaker 3: money off of it felt like the very best thing
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Speaker 3: for Major League Baseball because they're going and taking the
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Speaker 3: biggest star of the sports show, Heatani back to his
24:08
Speaker 3: home market, Tokyo, Japan, and they're gonna fill out the
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Speaker 3: Tokyo Dome. They're gonna absolutely kill with the domestic media there.
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Speaker 3: I think I heard Jeff Passing from ESPN say that
24:18
Speaker 3: was twenty five million people watched the first two games
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Speaker 3: with the Cubs and Dodgers. Now the Dodgers won both games.
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Speaker 3: They're supremely talented, they're the favorite to win the whole thing.
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Speaker 3: But I was disrespected as a fan of the sport
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Speaker 3: because I'm having to wake up at five am to
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Speaker 3: try to watch Yotani play baseball. And that's not right
24:41
Speaker 3: for the local fans. That's not right for the domestic
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Speaker 3: American fan to have to wake up that early to
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Speaker 3: watch the sport. I understand soccer fans having to do it.
24:51
Speaker 3: Those games kickoff in Liverpool, the kickoff in you know, Madrid.
24:55
Speaker 3: For the international soccer fan in your life, they're waking
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Speaker 3: up early every Saturday morning to watch their games across
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Speaker 3: the pond. But those aren't American teams. You're watching Premier
25:08
Speaker 3: League soccer, You're watching Laaliga soccer. That's their sport, that's
25:13
Speaker 3: europe sport. You're waking up, you're coming to their house
25:16
Speaker 3: to watch their sport. We're sending America's pastime to Japan
25:21
Speaker 3: and making American fans wake up to watch Opening Day
25:24
Speaker 3: because you know, Opening Day for Major League Baseball is still
25:27
Speaker 3: a couple days away. Domestically, we don't have games for
25:31
Speaker 3: a couple more weeks. But for the standings. The LA
25:36
Speaker 3: Dodgers have two wins. It didn't feel right. I felt disrespected.
25:40
Speaker 3: And the other part about being disrespected is Mookie Betts's intestines.
25:45
Speaker 3: Because the Dodger shortstop Mookie Bets is still dealing with
25:48
Speaker 3: an illness, his return remains uncertain. Mookie missed the first
25:53
Speaker 3: two games of the regular season in the Tokyo Dome.
25:56
Speaker 3: Last week was set back to LA to continue to
25:59
Speaker 3: rec he didn't play in the exhibition game against the
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Speaker 3: A's or the Angels. I'm sorry, which is you know
26:05
Speaker 3: you're playing two regular season games and now the exhibition
26:08
Speaker 3: game you're not gonna play.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 3: BET's told reporters that he still hasn't been able to
26:12
Speaker 3: keep down solid food without vomiting for two weeks and
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Speaker 3: has lost fifteen pounds. He says, man, I feel great,
26:19
Speaker 3: BET's told reports in LA, like, my body feels great.
26:22
Speaker 4: I've been able to work out.
26:22
Speaker 3: I've been able to do plenty of everything else but eat,
26:25
Speaker 3: so the symptoms have kind of gone away. I just
26:27
Speaker 3: have to figure out how to get my stomach to
26:29
Speaker 3: calm down. I'm curious to know what has caused this issue.
26:34
Speaker 3: Now the perennial all Stars. So far, his blood work
26:37
Speaker 3: and other routine testing has been normal. Bets won't play
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Speaker 3: in the exhibition game today. He's still a long shot
26:43
Speaker 3: for a Thursday's game against the Detroit Tigers. That is
26:47
Speaker 3: their opening day in LA.
26:52
Speaker 4: Let's talk, Let's continue.
26:54
Speaker 3: Okay, so Bets, he's transitioning to shortstop full time now.
27:00
Speaker 3: He played most of his career in right field in
27:02
Speaker 3: second base. He also won that MVP award in Boston
27:06
Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen, so he's almost eight years removed now
27:11
Speaker 3: from winning that MVP for the Red Sox. I'm still
27:15
Speaker 3: upset that that trade happened in the first place. So
27:18
Speaker 3: we're still waiting for the NCUBLEA. When the NCAA gets
27:21
Speaker 3: with us, we can play some of that Vix Schaeffer audio.
27:24
Speaker 3: We also will have some gyms slosnaggle for you later
27:27
Speaker 3: and Craig Way will be joining us in the next
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Speaker 3: segment to talk baseball as well as recap this women's
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Speaker 3: basketball win. All that coming up on the Craigway Show
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Speaker 3: on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred.
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Speaker 5: The Zone Booker circling round Traffick thanks to forgot kind
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Speaker 5: of a turt Novitzky fade away with the leg up
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Speaker 5: in the air.
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Speaker 3: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred the zone and on the
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Speaker 3: phone line with us right now is the man on
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Speaker 3: the call.
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Speaker 4: It's Craig Way.
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Speaker 3: After a good win for the Texas women to move
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Speaker 3: on to the Sweet sixteen sixty five forty eight win
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Speaker 3: against Illinois. Craig, Hi you today, man, I'm good and.
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Speaker 2: I just got in the truck right before the break
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Speaker 2: and I heard all this aks you were having over disrespect.
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Speaker 2: So I've come to help you with some disrespect a
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Speaker 2: thing to kind of help you deal with the disrespect
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Speaker 2: angle a little bit here.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I appreciate you.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well let's start. Let's start with women's basketball. Longhorns.
28:27
Speaker 2: Of course, impressive enough playing theirs seed feed and you know,
28:33
Speaker 2: Big Shafer's been the coach here now five years, and
28:36
Speaker 2: now it's four times in five years he's had them
28:39
Speaker 2: in the Sweet sixteen. If they win the Sweet sixteen
28:42
Speaker 2: game on Saturday against Tennessee, it'll be four times in
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Speaker 2: the five years getting them into the Elite eight. Because
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Speaker 2: he had him in the Elite eight his first year
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one and second year twenty twenty two.
28:55
Speaker 2: They got knocked off by Louisville in the second round
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty three, but came back last year and
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Speaker 2: got to the Elite eight in twenty twenty four. So
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Speaker 2: if they win Saturday, it'll be back in the Elite
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Speaker 2: eight for the fourth time in five years. Then we'll
29:09
Speaker 2: try to crack into the Final four at that point,
29:13
Speaker 2: but that's on down the road. We know they'll play
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Speaker 2: Tennessee Saturday. It'll either be at noon or two point
29:18
Speaker 2: thirty that I think ESPN will probably make the announcement
29:21
Speaker 2: sometime later today. So there's that. Now, in hearing you
29:28
Speaker 2: outline it, you did a very good job outlining, but
29:30
Speaker 2: you also expressed this dismay at you know, not a
29:34
Speaker 2: lot of talk about Texas and even mentioning Notre Dame. Now,
29:39
Speaker 2: I understand the angst there in Texas, so it might
29:44
Speaker 2: harbor a feeling of disrespect if in the Notre Dame
29:48
Speaker 2: is drawing more attention. Imagine how the TCU people feel
29:51
Speaker 2: they're the number two seed and there hasn't been that
29:53
Speaker 2: much said about the horn Frogs and they're actually the
29:56
Speaker 2: two seeds, and they beat Notre Dame earlier this year
29:59
Speaker 2: down in the Cayman Island over the Thanksgiving holiday Notre Dame.
30:03
Speaker 2: Keep in mind, remember this sim being Texas this year.
30:06
Speaker 2: It's one of the three losses the Logmorts had was
30:09
Speaker 2: in the sec ACC Challenge back in December. They lost
30:14
Speaker 2: in overtime in South Bend. They were behind a lot
30:18
Speaker 2: of it and Rory Harmon made a big shot get
30:20
Speaker 2: it into overtime that they lost in overtime to Notre Dame.
30:24
Speaker 2: And Notre Dame, of course has a National Player of
30:27
Speaker 2: the Year candidate and Hannah Hidalgo, and so that what
30:32
Speaker 2: was a National Player of the Year candidate for Texas
30:34
Speaker 2: and Notre Dame is Notre Dame. And so there's gonna
30:37
Speaker 2: be some of that. I will tell you this, if
30:40
Speaker 2: there is any disrespect to be perceived, Vick Shaeffer would
30:44
Speaker 2: love that. He don't have any problem with that. He
30:46
Speaker 2: didn't mind this team being more of the hunted than
30:50
Speaker 2: you know, being being more of the hunter than the hunted.
30:53
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be tough games. The game would Tennessee
30:57
Speaker 2: is a rebattuer game the long Wards one in Austin
31:00
Speaker 2: back on January twenty three, but it went to the wire.
31:03
Speaker 2: What Wards won that one eighty to seventy six. So
31:05
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a tough game. And I think that
31:07
Speaker 2: Notre Dame TCU game will be a heck of a game.
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Speaker 2: And then whoever survives that if Texas wins on Saturday,
31:13
Speaker 2: they'll have to take out a really good team on
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Speaker 2: Monday night next Monday night in the regional final of
31:20
Speaker 2: the Elite Eight. So anyway, it's it's.
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Speaker 7: Gonna be a tough go, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 2: But they're glad to be back in the elitay.
31:27
Speaker 3: We talked about Texas hosting these two games cracking the
31:29
Speaker 3: movie Saturday, I said, this is huge. It's underrated playing
31:32
Speaker 3: in front of your home crowd. Did you see that today?
31:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'll tell you what you want to if
31:41
Speaker 2: just to take it one step further, if you do
31:43
Speaker 2: want to talk about the disrespect thing, it would be
31:46
Speaker 2: on the part of the NCAA. Well, not really the NCAA.
31:49
Speaker 2: It's more ESPN that Texas played the last game of
31:54
Speaker 2: the day on Saturday, Saturday night, and it game of
31:59
Speaker 2: the day on Monday, Monday afternoon game instead of Monday night.
32:03
Speaker 2: They didn't even get a full forty eight hours. But
32:06
Speaker 2: like bick Schafer said in the pregame. You don't worry
32:07
Speaker 2: about you can get a day off tomorrow and sleep tomorrow.
32:09
Speaker 2: You got to go and do what you gotta do.
32:12
Speaker 2: So as it stands, they went about up their business
32:16
Speaker 2: on less sleep and that was because of what ESPN
32:19
Speaker 2: was doing and wanting in terms of their television matchups there.
32:23
Speaker 2: So you know, they feel good about where they were
32:28
Speaker 2: and how they had to turn it around. They weren't
32:30
Speaker 2: real happy about having a play early in the afternoon,
32:34
Speaker 2: but they seized the moment. And part of the reason
32:37
Speaker 2: for not being happy about that, Andrews.
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Speaker 7: I think they thought they wouldn't have a sellout. Well,
32:42
Speaker 7: they didn't have a sellout, but it wasn't far from it.
32:43
Speaker 2: It was over nine thousand fans. They were very noisy,
32:46
Speaker 2: so they were very supportive. They had to sellout on
32:49
Speaker 2: Saturday night at more than nine thousand fans today, so
32:51
Speaker 2: it was a really good showing.
32:52
Speaker 3: Well, I hope those ratings for that seven pm South
32:55
Speaker 3: Dakota State and Yukon game tonight Craig really blow the
32:58
Speaker 3: roof off ESPN.
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Speaker 2: Well, ESPN, Disney ABC are usually only interested in putting
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Speaker 2: Yukon or USC or. When Iowa had Caitlyn Clark in
33:13
Speaker 2: the primetime window. So there you could maybe have a
33:16
Speaker 2: little bit of your disrespect angle going there because of
33:18
Speaker 2: what the networks are thinking is going to draw the
33:20
Speaker 2: best ratings solo Texas. All As always drawn really good rating,
33:27
Speaker 2: So you know, it's kind of weird, but that's okay,
33:29
Speaker 2: and you're right it okay South Dakota State against Yukon
33:33
Speaker 2: tonight in that nighttime affair.
33:35
Speaker 3: Let's pivot and talk about ratings. Let's talk about polls
33:39
Speaker 3: because Texas needs to move up in the polls. From baseball,
33:42
Speaker 3: it looks great against LSU this week in Craig, it was.
33:48
Speaker 2: And you know what the most impressive part about all
33:51
Speaker 2: that was is the resilience of this ball club bouncing
33:56
Speaker 2: back after an eight to two loss on Friday night.
33:59
Speaker 2: And I got to tell Andrew Friday night, LSU definitely
34:03
Speaker 2: looked like, if not the best team in the country,
34:05
Speaker 2: one of the best. They went in ranked number two.
34:07
Speaker 2: They hit the ball extremely hard, they pitched very well,
34:10
Speaker 2: and Texas just could not get going Friday night in
34:13
Speaker 2: LSU won eight to two, but Texas came back. They
34:16
Speaker 2: were even down five to two in the fourth inning.
34:19
Speaker 2: On Saturday and responded at a beginning, ended up getting
34:22
Speaker 2: the lead, fell behind again at seven to six, and
34:26
Speaker 2: then scored five unanswered runs to end the ball game.
34:28
Speaker 2: So there was the resilience of that on Saturday, and
34:32
Speaker 2: then yesterday going out and seizing the momentum early in
34:36
Speaker 2: the game. Ruber Ri Ojas did a tremendous job on
34:40
Speaker 2: the mound, giving them five and two thirds innings. He
34:43
Speaker 2: did a splendid job for them, and then the bullpen
34:46
Speaker 2: did the rest of it. So, yeah, that's a huge
34:48
Speaker 2: series win to take two out of three from the
34:51
Speaker 2: number two team in the country and to go to
34:53
Speaker 2: five and one in the SEC and in a four
34:55
Speaker 2: way tie for first with the likes of Tennessee, they
35:00
Speaker 2: Arkansas and who am I leaving out the other the
35:03
Speaker 2: other one that's in there. That's a four way tie.
35:06
Speaker 2: LS Well, no, LSU has two losses now, but they
35:09
Speaker 2: have they're in a four way tie for first place
35:14
Speaker 2: atop the SEC standing so very impressive what they've done
35:18
Speaker 2: to this point. Now. Jim Schlastega will say, he was
35:21
Speaker 2: saying it the other day, they've never been in to
35:24
Speaker 2: use his words, deeper waters in a conference, Texas hasn't
35:31
Speaker 2: than they are right now, But so far they're swimming
35:34
Speaker 2: pretty well with their head above water.
35:36
Speaker 3: The fourth team you're thinking of is Georgia five and
35:38
Speaker 3: one this season, Craig in the sec.
35:41
Speaker 2: George. By the way, George's sweeps Florida.
35:45
Speaker 7: Over the weekend in Gainesville and.
35:48
Speaker 2: Scores forty runs over the weekend. They scored eight runs
35:54
Speaker 2: in Saturday and fifteen yesterday, a free game series sweep
35:58
Speaker 2: of a ranked Florida team. They sweep them out, they
36:02
Speaker 2: score forty runs. Oh, by the way, the next home
36:05
Speaker 2: stand for.
36:05
Speaker 7: Text this guess who comes to.
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Speaker 2: Town Georgia, Georgia week after next.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it's gonna be it's gonna be steady.
36:13
Speaker 2: It's a challenge.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a challenge, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 3: All right, Craig, we're coming up against the top of
36:18
Speaker 3: the hour here. You're back tomorrow, right, yes.
36:21
Speaker 2: And the one thing I want to say, the disrespect
36:23
Speaker 2: thing about the Major League Baseball thing. Hey, look, let
36:27
Speaker 2: Japan have its moment.
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Speaker 4: In the sun too.
36:29
Speaker 2: It's a couple of games, you know, out of one
36:32
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two, A lot of people been there.
36:34
Speaker 2: One hundred and sixty two is too many to be
36:35
Speaker 2: played anyway. You know, they get their two games and.
36:38
Speaker 7: Then they come home. I didn't get to see any
36:40
Speaker 7: of it, and I'm about Japan, but you know, because.
36:42
Speaker 2: I needed my rest more. But but hey, it's okay.
36:46
Speaker 2: Let them have their two games. We'll be ready for
36:48
Speaker 2: the traditional opening day for the Dodgers on Thursday against
36:51
Speaker 2: the Tigers, and then of course the Astros and Rangers.
36:53
Speaker 7: Have their openers, so we all really.
36:55
Speaker 2: Get to dive in to MLB starting on Thursday.
36:59
Speaker 3: Well, I'm trying to do a little more Rodney Dangerfield
37:01
Speaker 3: for you here in the next hour, Craig.
37:03
Speaker 2: I like it. Okay, very good.
37:05
Speaker 4: Thank you, Craig. Craig Way.
37:06
Speaker 3: He will be back tomorrow talking to all things Longhorn.
37:10
Speaker 3: Will we come back Texas women finish up the win
37:13
Speaker 3: against Illinois. We'll hear from Vic Schaffering Company and Jimmish
37:16
Speaker 3: Lostnagel talks about a big win. All coming up next
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Speaker 3: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone.
37:22
Speaker 4: Sports Radio AM thirteen.
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Speaker 3: Hundred Zone Andrews and We'll sitting in for Craig this
37:26
Speaker 3: Monday afternoon. He will be back in the big chair
37:29
Speaker 3: again tomorrow. Texas women big win against number eight seed Illinois,
37:35
Speaker 3: the final score in that one sixty five forty eight
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Speaker 3: Horns win. Other games that went file this morning to
37:43
Speaker 3: number two seed at NC State beats seven seed in
37:46
Speaker 3: Michigan State eighty three to forty nine. Game happening currently
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Speaker 3: number three seed Oklahoma leading number sixteed Iowa at halftime
37:55
Speaker 3: thirty eight to twenty seven. But let's take you to
37:59
Speaker 3: the postgame press conference with Vic Shaffer and his team,
38:02
Speaker 3: a large contingent.
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Speaker 8: Of University of Texas student athletes and head coach Vic Shaffer.
38:07
Speaker 8: Sorry for shuffling things around a little bit, but we
38:10
Speaker 8: would like to we organize yet here.
38:12
Speaker 4: With Rory She's not here yet with this all right, Rory.
38:14
Speaker 8: Harmon will be joining us. But right now we've got
38:16
Speaker 8: coach Schaeffer with sophomore guard Madison Booker, senior guard shaf Holly,
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Speaker 8: junior guard Jack olenga win in Tonda. Very good, Bart,
38:24
Speaker 8: I've been practicing, Coach, I've been practicing.
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Speaker 2: Actually.
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Speaker 8: First of all, congratulations seriously on the victory today. Coach,
38:29
Speaker 8: if you could start with an opening statement, please.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, man, just giving God the glory for number thirty three.
38:37
Speaker 9: Serve an incredible lord. Heespleshed me with an incredible team.
38:40
Speaker 9: That team was really really focused today. I was really
38:43
Speaker 9: proud of their prep to have to play a really
38:48
Speaker 9: good Illinois team on one day prep after you know,
38:52
Speaker 9: we knew we didn't just have our best night the
38:55
Speaker 9: other night, but again a lot of that had to
38:56
Speaker 9: do with being off two weeks. But we don't ever
39:00
Speaker 9: try to sugarcoat things or make excuses around here. We're
39:02
Speaker 9: pretty accountable. But just really proud of our team. I
39:06
Speaker 9: thought they came out the first half and really established
39:09
Speaker 9: themselves and did what we wanted to do.
39:11
Speaker 6: We only had three turnovers.
39:13
Speaker 9: The reason I want Rory in here is because she
39:16
Speaker 9: runs our team, but she really set the tone today defensively.
39:19
Speaker 9: On one, we have so much respect for those guards
39:24
Speaker 9: at Illinois as well as Bostic inside, but we knew
39:28
Speaker 9: that we had to really get on one a little
39:30
Speaker 9: bit and try to establish ourselves defensively because we didn't
39:35
Speaker 9: do a very good job of that the other night.
39:37
Speaker 9: And Rory has done that her whole career. Again, I
39:40
Speaker 9: say it, I'll challenge anybody that wants to challenge me.
39:43
Speaker 9: You do what she does picking up ninety four feet
39:47
Speaker 9: in the press, running our offense. If that ain't the
39:50
Speaker 9: best defensive player in the year.
39:51
Speaker 6: I don't know who is.
39:53
Speaker 9: So she's somebody that we lean on for so much,
39:57
Speaker 9: and she wants to do so well, and so she's
40:01
Speaker 9: like me. She wears, you know, she's like me, She
40:04
Speaker 9: wears her feelings on her shoulders and and just takes
40:07
Speaker 9: so much responsibility. And so you're late. I've been praising
40:11
Speaker 9: you for eighteen minutes. But she just you know, there's
40:15
Speaker 9: no one like her. And again, it's why we've won
40:20
Speaker 9: like we've won here at Texas because it is started
40:23
Speaker 9: with her. And again just cause you're welcome to show
40:29
Speaker 9: me anybody else, because I don't think there is that person.
40:33
Speaker 9: And she creates so many issues. You know, that's seven
40:38
Speaker 9: assists today to turnovers, four steals and runs our team
40:42
Speaker 9: and so.
40:43
Speaker 6: Jock having a career day.
40:45
Speaker 9: You know, she's if she'll stay within herself and just
40:51
Speaker 9: do things that we know she's capable of doing, she
40:54
Speaker 9: can do that. And I thought tonight again, when I
40:58
Speaker 9: can play her, it opens up the playbook for me
41:00
Speaker 9: for some other players, mainly this one, and so the
41:04
Speaker 9: four guard lineup has helped us some, but tonight I
41:06
Speaker 9: thought when Jock came in, things really changed for us
41:10
Speaker 9: and Booker went on a little run. We got her
41:13
Speaker 9: some really good looks. I thought she was really good today.
41:15
Speaker 9: Obviously nine for eighteen with six rebounds. She too had
41:19
Speaker 9: two steals, had a breakaway layup off of a steel
41:22
Speaker 9: out tie and so you know, again I thought our
41:27
Speaker 9: team was locked in.
41:28
Speaker 6: They were focused.
41:30
Speaker 9: A little bittersweet today, Shay, it's her last game in
41:34
Speaker 9: the in Austin. Been here five years. You know, she
41:39
Speaker 9: and I have won a lot of games together. We've
41:42
Speaker 9: had a lot of good times.
41:44
Speaker 6: She doesn't have a bad day.
41:47
Speaker 9: Coach Conrad's in the back back there, and I know
41:49
Speaker 9: she appreciates like I do, those kids that come into
41:52
Speaker 9: the gym every day with a smile on their face.
41:55
Speaker 9: They're low maintenance, they go to class, they just take
42:00
Speaker 9: care of their business, and yet they bring something to
42:04
Speaker 9: the table and they work. And that's Shay Holly. She
42:08
Speaker 9: just all she's done has helped us win. And it
42:11
Speaker 9: doesn't matter and what capacity. She's just a winner. But
42:18
Speaker 9: she's a great teammate, She's a great longhorn. She's just
42:24
Speaker 9: somebody that you don't run into very often in your career.
42:28
Speaker 9: As far as when I say the attitude, the work
42:31
Speaker 9: ethic every day, no bad days, no frowns, no just
42:36
Speaker 9: everything about her. And you know you'll miss that when
42:38
Speaker 9: you're a coach. You miss those kids that come in
42:40
Speaker 9: every day and are like that. But I appreciate her.
42:44
Speaker 9: I know our team appreciates her. And she's really impacted
42:48
Speaker 9: the University of Texas women's basketball program.
42:52
Speaker 6: And again you have to give her credit.
42:55
Speaker 9: She's made herself into a Big twelve All Defense Team
43:00
Speaker 9: player and now an SEC player and a difference player.
43:06
Speaker 9: And so again, proud of our team. Onto the next one.
43:11
Speaker 9: I'm excited to take this group to Birmingham. This is
43:16
Speaker 9: one of my better teams, y'all, and that's why I
43:18
Speaker 9: want it so bad for him. We've got enough and
43:23
Speaker 9: so I'm excited to have a chance to go play again.
43:27
Speaker 4: Thanks coach, and we're going to.
43:28
Speaker 3: We're hearing from Vick Schaeffer and his team after a
43:31
Speaker 3: win against Illinois, moving on to Birmingham for the Sweet sixteen.
43:36
Speaker 8: Stay with questions here in the room unless I see
43:39
Speaker 8: anyone online that would like to ask a question, use
43:42
Speaker 8: the raise hand function online. First, we're going to start
43:44
Speaker 8: with Danny Davis, Austin American Statesman.
43:46
Speaker 10: Danny Rory's inspectus gave such a passioned defensive you, I'm
43:51
Speaker 10: kind of wondering did you enter this postseason at all
43:54
Speaker 10: with a chip on your shoulders since you weren't a
43:57
Speaker 10: finalist for Defensive Player of the Year only on I'll
44:00
Speaker 10: mention on the All American team, do you have anything
44:02
Speaker 10: to prove this this postseason?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm completely honored to be on that list with
44:08
Speaker 11: the players that are on there as well, because there's
44:10
Speaker 11: some great players and great defensive players, and it's great
44:13
Speaker 11: to see that people can see my effort on the
44:16
Speaker 11: defensive end. And but I take pride to defense, like
44:20
Speaker 11: that's just my thing, Like it's been like that forever,
44:23
Speaker 11: and coming to play for coach Shafer, who takes that
44:26
Speaker 11: same amount of pride, It's just it means a lot
44:28
Speaker 11: to me. And but I'm gonna keep playing. And it's
44:30
Speaker 11: it's not just me, it's also my teammates. We've joined
44:33
Speaker 11: together and we've been working a lot on our defense,
44:35
Speaker 11: and it was really great today And but no, I
44:39
Speaker 11: of course it seems like I want to just play
44:41
Speaker 11: so hard. Just knowing that I wasn't playing that tournament
44:44
Speaker 11: last year. It just means a lot to be playing again.
44:46
Speaker 8: So yeah, yes, please state your name and affiliation before
44:50
Speaker 8: your question.
44:51
Speaker 12: Some made the next hijack as coaches had a career
44:54
Speaker 12: day for you. How does it feel for you to
44:56
Speaker 12: like see a same ovation for you as get checked
44:58
Speaker 12: out of the court and the success and recognition you're
45:01
Speaker 12: getting today.
45:05
Speaker 13: I mentioned this the other day. Moody is an awesome environment.
45:09
Speaker 13: Y'all saw it today, But they've always been here and
45:11
Speaker 13: it's just awesome to always be around them and to
45:14
Speaker 13: play and have that home court advantage, and also to
45:17
Speaker 13: know that my family's they're supporting me in the crowd
45:20
Speaker 13: as well.
45:21
Speaker 4: So I'm just out there having fun.
45:25
Speaker 11: Sam Ferris from fansided, Maddie, you had four turnovers in
45:28
Speaker 11: the last game and you only had two tonight.
45:30
Speaker 6: What did you do over the last day and a
45:31
Speaker 6: havel to really lock in and make sure you're focused
45:33
Speaker 6: for today.
45:36
Speaker 4: I don't know, same thing.
45:37
Speaker 14: I just you know how to be smarter. I'm kind
45:40
Speaker 14: of mad I did get them to do those two
45:42
Speaker 14: turnovers in the fourth quarter in.
45:44
Speaker 6: Locker room, I was kind of fake crying and cloche
45:46
Speaker 6: for about it.
45:48
Speaker 14: But yeah, I mean I just think that today I
45:50
Speaker 14: made better decisions with the ball, just passed the ball
45:52
Speaker 14: to my teammates being more aware. I think I just
45:54
Speaker 14: seen the fourth quarter that got a little kind of
45:57
Speaker 14: come a little lazy with the passes and stuff like that.
45:59
Speaker 14: And hey, he's better than for tuneovers too. Right now,
46:03
Speaker 14: we will keep you know, getting it down.
46:07
Speaker 15: Yeah, Kirk Bowls from the Houston Chronicle. Jack, just seemed
46:11
Speaker 15: like your breakout moment. Do you feel that way? And
46:14
Speaker 15: are you scared now that your expectations that Coach Schaffer
46:18
Speaker 15: and your teammates have for you just really gone to
46:20
Speaker 15: the roof.
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Speaker 4: No, never been scared.
46:23
Speaker 13: I've been prepared for this moment since day one freshman year,
46:26
Speaker 13: preseason training. It's really just my teammates having the trust
46:31
Speaker 13: in me, and I'm having the trust in myself. Y'all
46:34
Speaker 13: just saw the most confident version of myself. And it's
46:36
Speaker 13: only up from here. This isn't the only game we have.
46:39
Speaker 13: We have Tennessee coming up, and I'm glad to make contributions.
46:43
Speaker 13: But I know, you know, every game is a different lineup,
46:47
Speaker 13: every day, every game is a different scout. So just
46:51
Speaker 13: ready for the next one. And no, I'm not scared.
46:53
Speaker 13: I'm quite excited.
46:54
Speaker 4: Actually, Thanks get here.
46:57
Speaker 6: You caught up all this life, Coach Schafer.
47:01
Speaker 8: Sorry, we've taken questions for the players only right now,
47:03
Speaker 8: and then we'll have coach once the players are dismissed.
47:05
Speaker 6: Thank you, ladies.
47:08
Speaker 16: Your coach got you ready in less than twenty four
47:10
Speaker 16: hours to get prepared. Talk about what it means to
47:14
Speaker 16: have somebody that get you prepared for the environment like
47:18
Speaker 16: this and you still come out.
47:20
Speaker 6: And play a top defensive game.
47:23
Speaker 17: Okay, sorry, yeah, I think we've all talked about it
47:27
Speaker 17: at some point. Like our staff is unreal the amount
47:31
Speaker 17: of time and energy and effort they put into our scouts,
47:34
Speaker 17: and not just our coaches, but our practice players as well.
47:38
Speaker 17: We have an eight am shoot around today and they're
47:40
Speaker 17: in our practice gym early going through Illinois sets and
47:43
Speaker 17: preparing for shoot around so they can help prepare us,
47:47
Speaker 17: which I don't think you get that everywhere, And we
47:49
Speaker 17: appreciate that so much because they do get us so ready,
47:52
Speaker 17: Like we feel so confident going into a game because
47:55
Speaker 17: we guarded every set against our guys, and if we're
47:59
Speaker 17: able to do it against that guard them, then we
48:02
Speaker 17: feel really good going into the game. But it's really
48:04
Speaker 17: special just the staff we have in the practice. Guys,
48:07
Speaker 17: they put a lot of time and we appreciate it
48:09
Speaker 17: a lot.
48:10
Speaker 3: We'll hear more from the Texas women's basketball program after
48:14
Speaker 3: a win today at the Moody Center against Illinois, that
48:19
Speaker 3: final sixty five to forty eight, Number one Texas moves
48:23
Speaker 3: on to the Sweet six team. We come back more
48:27
Speaker 3: from postgame from Vic Schaeffer and his team on Sports
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Speaker 3: Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
48:35
Speaker 3: The Zone. Andrew Zimmle filling in for Craig on this
48:38
Speaker 3: Monday afternoon. A big win for the Texas women sixty
48:42
Speaker 3: five to forty eight. Oh good against eleven seeded Illinois
48:46
Speaker 3: to send Texas to the Sweet sixteen. We take you
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Speaker 3: back to the Moody Center for postgame with Vic Shaeffer
48:54
Speaker 3: and his team.
48:55
Speaker 8: We have time for one final question for the student athletes,
48:58
Speaker 8: So Cedric Golden Austin American.
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Speaker 18: States fin Oh yeah, for Rory and for Shay what
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Speaker 18: Rory first? What was your plan on one? You know,
49:06
Speaker 18: she had a really good game the other night and
49:07
Speaker 18: you guys kept her in the wraps. And how exciting
49:09
Speaker 18: is it to be going to Birmingham where there's going
49:12
Speaker 18: to be some of the best guards, including yourselves, in
49:15
Speaker 18: the country in the same gym.
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Speaker 11: The The plan on number one was, you know, just
49:22
Speaker 11: suppressing them. They had six or seven I was like,
49:26
Speaker 11: what sex or seven players in their rotations they normally
49:29
Speaker 11: go through and so we were thinking, Okay, if we
49:31
Speaker 11: can wear them down a little bit, they may start
49:33
Speaker 11: making some mental absence and turning the ball over quite
49:36
Speaker 11: a bit. So she was able to do that. And
49:39
Speaker 11: you know, when you pressure the ball on the point guard,
49:41
Speaker 11: they're the ones that are kind of starting the offense,
49:43
Speaker 11: so they can't get into that offense. Then it kind
49:45
Speaker 11: of just messes up their offensive flow. And I think
49:48
Speaker 11: as a team that I was on the pressure in
49:50
Speaker 11: the ball and there's denials everywhere. We have her post
49:53
Speaker 11: players like one hundred percent perfectly hedging the ball, screens
49:56
Speaker 11: and three people in help.
49:58
Speaker 4: So it just was beautiful, beautiful defense today.
50:00
Speaker 11: So I'm just glad that it works out and we
50:02
Speaker 11: should translate that to the next game.
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Speaker 17: So yeah, yeah, it's really exciting going to Birmingham. I
50:10
Speaker 17: think all of us were watching the Tennessee Ohio State
50:12
Speaker 17: game last night. Obviously, Tennessee is very talented. They have
50:17
Speaker 17: a lot of people that they play different from this team,
50:20
Speaker 17: so you know it will be a different scout but we'll
50:22
Speaker 17: be ready for We'll be prepared for them too. But yeah,
50:25
Speaker 17: really exciting. It's gonna be a lot of good basketball.
50:27
Speaker 17: It's gonna be fun.
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Speaker 6: Ladies.
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Speaker 8: Can't thank you enough for your time this weekend. Congratulations
50:33
Speaker 8: again and best of luck in Birmingham.
50:34
Speaker 6: Thank you for joining us, Thank you much.
50:38
Speaker 8: As they exit the podium, just to remind you that
50:41
Speaker 8: the Texas locker room is open and at the same time,
50:43
Speaker 8: Illinois locker room is now open as well.
50:46
Speaker 4: To the media.
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Speaker 13: Team.
50:51
Speaker 4: I'm pretty.
50:57
Speaker 8: All right, we're gonna do take questions for uh for
50:59
Speaker 8: coach Schaeffer. First question back there, Please identify yourself in affiliation.
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Speaker 19: Please, Ryan Hopper, t SCB sports coach, looking ahead to
51:07
Speaker 19: this Tennessee matchup, having already played them this year. In
51:12
Speaker 19: form of your preparations for such a big game, Well.
51:16
Speaker 9: I mean, they're obviously playing really well at a high level,
51:18
Speaker 9: and they're a unique team with a you know, an
51:22
Speaker 9: unique strategy. So but you know, I feel like I've
51:28
Speaker 9: got the best point guard in the country, and I
51:32
Speaker 9: feel like Madison Booker is the second you know, she's
51:36
Speaker 9: one in one A. You know, when it comes to
51:38
Speaker 9: point guards, and I think you can throw Brie in there.
51:41
Speaker 9: I mean, those those three are the best in my mind,
51:45
Speaker 9: and you're going to have to handle the ball. You know,
51:47
Speaker 9: you're gonna have to handle the ball against them, and
51:49
Speaker 9: they're going to try to do their thing, and so.
51:53
Speaker 6: You know, I think we handled it pretty well here.
51:56
Speaker 9: I think we have a pretty good understanding of what
51:58
Speaker 9: they want to do and how they want to do it.
52:00
Speaker 9: They're a really good team, but you better have some
52:03
Speaker 9: guards when you go play against them. And man, I
52:05
Speaker 9: love my guards, like I'm not trading them for anybody.
52:09
Speaker 6: Again, with with Rory and.
52:11
Speaker 9: Madison, you've got one A and one aat at point
52:14
Speaker 9: and uh, you know, they they they just make really
52:18
Speaker 9: good decisions. And you know, I think we had a
52:22
Speaker 9: great plan here. We had a knockdown drag out with them,
52:25
Speaker 9: and so, uh, you know, I know our team will
52:29
Speaker 9: be confident and and so will I and uh, you know, again,
52:33
Speaker 9: a lot of respect for them. They've had a heck
52:35
Speaker 9: of a year and are playing really well. You go
52:37
Speaker 9: into Ohio State and beat them on their own floor,
52:40
Speaker 9: you got to respect that. It's hard to do. It's
52:42
Speaker 9: hard to go on somebody's home floor and win at
52:44
Speaker 9: this level. So will that to be ready to go?
52:48
Speaker 20: Josh Newman from lone StarLive dot com, Vick, you spoke
52:51
Speaker 20: with a lot of conviction that you believe that this
52:53
Speaker 20: team has enough, not that you didn't have enough with
52:56
Speaker 20: previous teams, but what is it about this team that
52:58
Speaker 20: you really feel this way going in to uh Birmingham.
53:02
Speaker 9: Well, I like the depth of my guards, and I
53:05
Speaker 9: love I love the size that I have inside. And
53:09
Speaker 9: you know, if we can get half of what we
53:13
Speaker 9: got from Jockalinga today at the four, we're just a
53:17
Speaker 9: different team. And so the playbook gets way bigger when
53:24
Speaker 9: I can play.
53:25
Speaker 6: Her justice at the four for everybody else.
53:28
Speaker 9: When I go to the fore guard line up, the
53:30
Speaker 9: playbook gets a little bit smaller. Now you might think, okay, well,
53:33
Speaker 9: what's that mean. I've seen your playbook. You know, it's
53:38
Speaker 9: a pretty big playbook, so it's not that small. But
53:41
Speaker 9: it does hinder me some and so I I just
53:45
Speaker 9: you know, when Leah went down, you know, we just
53:50
Speaker 9: we've really been we've just been hamming egging it, you know,
53:54
Speaker 9: so to speak. There and we found a way to
53:57
Speaker 9: win some games. And uh so I like this team
54:02
Speaker 9: because first it starts with your point guard. We obviously
54:06
Speaker 9: have an unbelievable All American and Madison Booker, I mean
54:09
Speaker 9: you saw it today.
54:10
Speaker 6: That is she is special.
54:14
Speaker 9: And then when you can go down there and have
54:16
Speaker 9: Taylor and Kai, not many people have that. So this
54:22
Speaker 9: is a team that I have a lot, a ton
54:25
Speaker 9: of confidence in and I just, you know, I want
54:28
Speaker 9: it so bad for him. I have to catch myself
54:31
Speaker 9: sometimes because I just I want them to be perfect
54:33
Speaker 9: and it an'tual happening.
54:37
Speaker 21: David Eckert, Austin American statesman, VI, what do you think
54:41
Speaker 21: went into turning them over twenty times today? I think
54:43
Speaker 21: they average twelve. I know you've been talking a lot
54:45
Speaker 21: about Rory, it's just team wide. What went into that number?
54:49
Speaker 6: You know?
54:50
Speaker 9: We they are really good at pick and roll, and
54:58
Speaker 9: I watched a lot of film on them and people
55:03
Speaker 9: that defended them, and we spent a ton of time
55:07
Speaker 9: yesterday defending their bread and butter, and I thought, I
55:11
Speaker 9: think we gave up one pick and roll, but it
55:12
Speaker 9: wasn't to a five player. That's it one time today
55:16
Speaker 9: and that's their bread and butter and so we felt
55:19
Speaker 9: like if we could take that away, we'd have a
55:22
Speaker 9: really good chance. And so I'm gonna tell you, Taylor
55:26
Speaker 9: Jones and Kyla were so good today, y'all in pick
55:31
Speaker 9: and roll defense. Way different than they've been maybe all year.
55:38
Speaker 9: But we really talked about it, and we really worked
55:42
Speaker 9: on it and made it a point of emphasis for them.
55:45
Speaker 9: But see, the key is not necessarily you got two
55:48
Speaker 9: people in that action, but you got three people in help,
55:53
Speaker 9: and you've got to get those three in the right place.
55:57
Speaker 9: We had the three in the right place all day,
56:00
Speaker 9: and so I think when you take took away their
56:04
Speaker 9: bread and butter, and then again Rory's out there, you know,
56:07
Speaker 9: bugging the crap out of one, and then our other
56:09
Speaker 9: guards are out there doing a nice job with ball pressure.
56:13
Speaker 9: Just it was just really hard for them to run
56:15
Speaker 9: their stuff, and they do. You know, Sean is a
56:17
Speaker 9: great coach. They do a nice job. They run a
56:19
Speaker 9: lot of really good stuff. But I thought we really
56:21
Speaker 9: did a good job of taking them out today.
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Speaker 3: Andrewszim will hanging out with you on The Craig Way
56:25
Speaker 3: Show a Monday edition. After the Texas Women beat number
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Speaker 3: eight Illinois to move on to the sweet sixteen sixty
56:34
Speaker 3: five to forty eight. Matison Booker leading the way for
56:37
Speaker 3: the long Horns this afternoon twenty points, nine of eighteen shooting,
56:42
Speaker 3: six rebounds and assist and two steals. Taylor Jones and
56:45
Speaker 3: double figures as well with twelve points, six of eleven shooting,
56:49
Speaker 3: five rebounds, a steal, and a block. Let's go back
56:52
Speaker 3: to Vick Schaeffer as he continues his postgame comments to.
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Speaker 6: Brown Horns twenty four.
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Speaker 9: Then, Vic, what does it say about your team that
57:03
Speaker 9: you're this successful and you're not getting much at all
57:07
Speaker 9: from the three point line? Well, again, I think we
57:13
Speaker 9: can make those. We only took five today. You know,
57:16
Speaker 9: they didn't really give us that many. And again it's
57:20
Speaker 9: a it's a lot bigger deal to y'all than it
57:23
Speaker 9: is to me. You know, we're you know, we're a
57:33
Speaker 9: really good basketball team. And you know, I take it.
57:37
Speaker 9: I take offence to the narrative, not in this room,
57:40
Speaker 9: but to the narrative that's out there. You know, we
57:44
Speaker 9: play a third game in fifteen hours at South Carolina,
57:48
Speaker 9: score forty five points, and all of a sudden, the
57:51
Speaker 9: narrative is everybody's worried about my offense, I don't think
57:57
Speaker 9: anybody was talking about somebody's offense yesterday and they only
58:01
Speaker 9: scored X amount of points.
58:03
Speaker 6: It's such an unfair narrative to my kids.
58:07
Speaker 9: Again, we don't make excuses, but this team's always gonna
58:11
Speaker 9: have a chance because they're going to guard. They're always
58:14
Speaker 9: going to guard, and so I like my offense. I
58:18
Speaker 9: think we got we shot the ball well today. We
58:21
Speaker 9: got some great looks. We missed a lot, you know,
58:23
Speaker 9: we missed a ton of good shots, and so we
58:27
Speaker 9: missed some layups, and so I think our kids are
58:33
Speaker 9: are doing a really good job. You want to complain
58:35
Speaker 9: today about my offense, you can blame the fourth quarter
58:37
Speaker 9: on me. I had them, I was pulling them back
58:40
Speaker 9: a little bit because I want them to work.
58:41
Speaker 6: The clock and when you're up twenty two or three.
58:44
Speaker 9: You know, I've always been that way, So you can
58:47
Speaker 9: blame the fourth quarter on me. But you know, it
58:51
Speaker 9: is what it is. I'm not too worried about it.
58:53
Speaker 9: I think we won thirty three games and it's worked
58:56
Speaker 9: pretty good.
58:58
Speaker 8: We have time for one more formal question being asked here,
59:01
Speaker 8: but I know coach Schaeffer and Jeremy will coordinate things
59:05
Speaker 8: off the podium if you have follow ups for coach
59:08
Speaker 8: with the last question will come from Cedric Golden from
59:10
Speaker 8: the Austin American Statesman.
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Speaker 6: Cedric So honored, Barb So honored. Last time victim. When
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Speaker 6: you said juckling and needs to play within herself, what
59:21
Speaker 6: exactly does that mean?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, just you know, not trying to. She can get
59:26
Speaker 9: in trouble trying to do too much sometimes. You know,
59:29
Speaker 9: just today she took other than the three balls she took,
59:33
Speaker 9: she took great shots. They were within the offense, She
59:36
Speaker 9: drove the ball, finished at the rim, she made her
59:38
Speaker 9: free throws, she had one turnover. I've seen her come
59:46
Speaker 9: in and touch it three times and have three turnovers.
59:48
Speaker 9: So that's growth. And so again, the kid's confident. Now
59:54
Speaker 9: you can sit here and look at her. The confidence
59:57
Speaker 9: is not her problem and and I love that about her.
1:00:01
Speaker 9: You know, you want kids that are fearless, and she qualifies.
1:00:06
Speaker 9: I just have to get her to pay attention sometimes
1:00:09
Speaker 9: to understand we have really good players on our team,
1:00:14
Speaker 9: and some of those players can get a better shot
1:00:16
Speaker 9: sometimes than the ones she might take. Or she just
1:00:19
Speaker 9: tries to. She's trying to do too much, and it's
1:00:24
Speaker 9: not a bad thing sometimes when you're trying to please
1:00:27
Speaker 9: or help somebody, but when she's just let the game
1:00:31
Speaker 9: come to her. I can't tell you how many times
1:00:34
Speaker 9: I heard Coach Blair say that let the game come
1:00:36
Speaker 9: to you. And if you'll just let the game come
1:00:39
Speaker 9: to you, sometimes this is what happens. You're seven for ten,
1:00:42
Speaker 9: you're nineteen points or five out of six at the line,
1:00:45
Speaker 9: I mean, and had one turnover. I mean, didn't hurt
1:00:48
Speaker 9: me on defense, you know, did not hurt us. So
1:00:51
Speaker 9: you know, the other night she came in and she
1:00:53
Speaker 9: struggled defensively, and so it's hard. You know, you're throwing
1:00:58
Speaker 9: a three player into a new position, and that's what
1:01:01
Speaker 9: we've had to do with her, and that's part of
1:01:04
Speaker 9: the ham and egging that I'm talking about. And she
1:01:07
Speaker 9: has really handled it fantastic.
1:01:10
Speaker 6: In my opinion.
1:01:11
Speaker 9: She's really been great, and so I'm proud of her,
1:01:15
Speaker 9: happy for her that she's able to play as well
1:01:16
Speaker 9: as she did tonight. Obviously, our crowd loves her and
1:01:20
Speaker 9: loved to see her play well.
1:01:22
Speaker 3: And Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. When we
1:01:26
Speaker 3: come back, we'll hear from Vic Shaeffer a little bit
1:01:28
Speaker 3: more and James. Los Angeles a baseball team wins big
1:01:31
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1:01:37
Speaker 3: Andrew Zimmol will sitting in with you this afternoon. You've
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Speaker 3: Blue Sky and on Instagram as well well. University of
1:01:51
Speaker 3: Texas baseball played against number two LSU and after tripping
1:01:56
Speaker 3: up on the Friday night game, came back one big
1:02:00
Speaker 3: on Saturday eleven to seven and then one on Sunday
1:02:04
Speaker 3: six to two. Head coach Jim Schloshtangle talking to us
1:02:08
Speaker 3: after that Sunday win about his program.
1:02:12
Speaker 22: Behind him and the Valantis just fills the strike up.
1:02:16
Speaker 6: It's what he does. So uh, he's just huge that.
1:02:19
Speaker 22: We only had to use two pitchers in that game,
1:02:20
Speaker 22: which sets us up hopefully for a little bit better
1:02:23
Speaker 22: set up on Tuesday night, which therefore sets us up
1:02:25
Speaker 22: for next weekend.
1:02:28
Speaker 2: Guy, you wanted to go with that.
1:02:30
Speaker 22: Yeah, wanted to go with Ruger just because we wanted
1:02:33
Speaker 22: to see it. We've been talking about it, starting him
1:02:36
Speaker 22: if needed. And the one thing you know is you're
1:02:39
Speaker 22: getting strikes, and you're getting multiple pitches for strikes, so
1:02:43
Speaker 22: versus you know, starting somebody out there and you're kind
1:02:44
Speaker 22: of hoping that they catch fire on that particular day.
1:02:47
Speaker 22: So I don't know if he did he walk anybody
1:02:51
Speaker 22: walk to one? Guy Atlantis walked one. We have to
1:02:53
Speaker 22: cut him for that. It's only that was his fourth
1:02:57
Speaker 22: of the year, I think third or fourth. But now
1:03:00
Speaker 22: it just strikes win, you know, especially on Sunday when uh,
1:03:04
Speaker 22: you know, it's just so tough to to uh keep
1:03:06
Speaker 22: keep keep great offenses down.
1:03:08
Speaker 2: Do I know it's a a long season, but you know,
1:03:10
Speaker 2: taking you out of first lesson how much does it
1:03:12
Speaker 2: serve as some measuring stick of around it for kind
1:03:14
Speaker 2: of you know, the team that you have.
1:03:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it does in the moment.
1:03:19
Speaker 22: But if you've been around the league long enough, you
1:03:22
Speaker 22: know you you you can't get over it.
1:03:24
Speaker 6: You can't get excited and you can't get down.
1:03:28
Speaker 22: I wanna say LSU was like three and twelve at
1:03:30
Speaker 22: one point last year and h and played all the
1:03:33
Speaker 22: way back and played into a regional and closed regional
1:03:35
Speaker 22: championship game. You know, Florida is oh and if they
1:03:39
Speaker 22: lost today, you know, they're an awesome team that just
1:03:41
Speaker 22: so happened to play Tennessee and Georgia to top four teams.
1:03:44
Speaker 6: So in this league, you know, you you take.
1:03:48
Speaker 22: The wins, that's for sure. The games are super hard
1:03:49
Speaker 22: to win. They're very very easy to lose. So I
1:03:52
Speaker 22: think it would be a majoring stick in the moment,
1:03:54
Speaker 22: but it's a long season. We have eight more of
1:03:55
Speaker 22: these things on the weekends, and they're all they're all
1:03:58
Speaker 22: super tough.
1:03:59
Speaker 15: It's amazing his first place though, what's that still being
1:04:02
Speaker 15: in first place?
1:04:03
Speaker 22: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean after going on the road
1:04:06
Speaker 22: to oh uh at at Mississippi State and then playing
1:04:09
Speaker 22: a great team like LSU at home. Yeah, we we'll
1:04:11
Speaker 22: take it.
1:04:12
Speaker 6: That's still an ideal as a.
1:04:16
Speaker 22: Well, I think one it makes it my deal as
1:04:18
Speaker 22: a relief pitcher is he he's those strikes, which you'd
1:04:20
Speaker 22: like out of every pitcher, those multiple pitches for strikes.
1:04:23
Speaker 6: He's unique.
1:04:26
Speaker 22: He can it's not just a one anything or even
1:04:29
Speaker 22: a one time through the order thing, because he's certainly
1:04:32
Speaker 22: has started written all over him.
1:04:34
Speaker 21: Uh.
1:04:34
Speaker 22: And we'd like to get to that point when our
1:04:36
Speaker 22: team's good enough right now. We need him to pitch
1:04:39
Speaker 22: in that particular role. But he just throws a ton
1:04:42
Speaker 22: of strikes with two D two or three different pitches.
1:04:44
Speaker 22: And it's a really slow heartbeat for a young player.
1:04:48
Speaker 22: I mean, it's he's just he's kind of the zen master.
1:04:51
Speaker 22: Him and Max together. I'm not sure what goes on
1:04:54
Speaker 22: when they meet. I just know that, uh, the door's closed.
1:04:58
Speaker 6: And and he pitches well, Max gets over pretty quick.
1:05:01
Speaker 2: Bit of me. I didn't even see.
1:05:02
Speaker 18: Him at them come out of the dugout to go
1:05:04
Speaker 18: to Max Winger.
1:05:06
Speaker 22: Uh, yeah, I don't know what he's doing in there,
1:05:09
Speaker 22: but he's he's doing an awesome job.
1:05:11
Speaker 2: You know.
1:05:11
Speaker 22: He just does a great job of giving guys weapons,
1:05:15
Speaker 22: making them unique.
1:05:16
Speaker 6: They don't. You know.
1:05:17
Speaker 22: It may not be the most traditional way to pitch,
1:05:20
Speaker 22: but it doesn't have to be just has to be successful.
1:05:23
Speaker 3: We'll listen to head coach Shoop Slas snangle after the
1:05:26
Speaker 3: Longhorns win their second SEC series of the year against
1:05:29
Speaker 3: number two ranked LSU six' to two On. Sunday was
1:05:33
Speaker 3: that Final let's hear more from head Coach Hump slawt.
1:05:35
Speaker 4: Snaggle why you.
1:05:36
Speaker 6: Said you wanted to see your team get off the.
1:05:38
Speaker 18: Mat so what did you think of their Responsible.
1:05:40
Speaker 22: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah obviously outstanding get off the mat
1:05:44
Speaker 22: come back. YESTERDAY i think the crowd had a lot
1:05:47
Speaker 22: to do with, that you. Know and that's What i'm
1:05:49
Speaker 22: saying is just the pus in my opening, statement just
1:05:52
Speaker 22: having the fans spur on the, team Like i've seen
1:05:55
Speaker 22: it happen some AT, Tcu i've seen it happen AT
1:05:57
Speaker 22: a AND.
1:05:57
Speaker 6: M i've seen it happen here from the from the other. Side.
1:06:01
Speaker 6: Uh but that's just those those are the real.
1:06:03
Speaker 22: Fans those are the ones that they can feel that
1:06:06
Speaker 22: the team needs some help and and they're, cheering they're
1:06:08
Speaker 22: getting things, going uh before something.
1:06:11
Speaker 6: Happens And i'll know you preached.
1:06:12
Speaker 9: The little things like On friday, NIGHT i.
1:06:14
Speaker 17: Think it's like six walk side just to how much
1:06:17
Speaker 17: of the series came down.
1:06:18
Speaker 6: To those normal.
1:06:19
Speaker 22: Details, yeah and two out, hitting you, Know uh we
1:06:21
Speaker 22: got Uh galvan's first hit with two, outs you, know
1:06:26
Speaker 22: the third base and made a heck of a play
1:06:28
Speaker 22: on On max's ball down in the third base. Line
1:06:31
Speaker 22: and when he came back in the, DUGOUT i, said
1:06:33
Speaker 22: you know that at bat is Gonna you're gonna have
1:06:35
Speaker 22: awesome at bats the rest of the day because he
1:06:37
Speaker 22: stayed on the, ball you, know and When max is
1:06:40
Speaker 22: not rolling, over but she's you, know trying not. To
1:06:42
Speaker 22: but when he stayed on the ball and hit that
1:06:44
Speaker 22: ball down the third base, LINE i grabbed him in
1:06:46
Speaker 22: the dugout.
1:06:47
Speaker 6: And, said just trust. That that's awesome and awesome at.
1:06:49
Speaker 22: Bat and then homer the next at, bat and then
1:06:52
Speaker 22: he stayed on another one that Carry out hit that,
1:06:55
Speaker 22: uh That's max hit that one that Carry out laid out.
1:06:58
Speaker 6: For that was a huge.
1:06:59
Speaker 22: Run so but, yeah he's the guys are doing. Awesome
1:07:03
Speaker 22: do you Enjoy maxi's home? Run you have a big
1:07:05
Speaker 22: fan of a big fan of. It when it goes
1:07:08
Speaker 22: between the polls and it doesn't bounce, first it's.
1:07:09
Speaker 6: Awesome it's a great play multiple.
1:07:12
Speaker 22: Points Sometimes i'll probably you, guys you, know panfing back every. Time, yeah, yeah,
1:07:19
Speaker 22: yeah we talk about. It you, know we talk about
1:07:20
Speaker 22: it all. Fall you, know it's part of who we.
1:07:22
Speaker 22: Are play to a, standard not a. Scoreboard get your
1:07:24
Speaker 22: eyes off the. Scoreboard just keep winning. PITCHES i know
1:07:27
Speaker 22: it sounds, coachy but you have, to especially in this.
1:07:29
Speaker 22: League you, know the guys Like Jared jones are, hitting
1:07:32
Speaker 22: or milam or Or. DICKINSON i, mean those guys can
1:07:35
Speaker 22: change the game with one swing in the, bat just
1:07:37
Speaker 22: Like max And, Jalen Ryland.
1:07:39
Speaker 6: Adrian you, know those guys can do the same.
1:07:41
Speaker 22: Thing so you can't ever feel good about you, know,
1:07:43
Speaker 22: four you need, five, five you need. Six if you
1:07:46
Speaker 22: if you're down by, three keep it at three because
1:07:48
Speaker 22: it can happen fast in this.
1:07:50
Speaker 3: Conference andrews And we'll hang out with you this. Afternoon
1:07:53
Speaker 3: when we come, back we'll wrap up The Craig Ways
1:07:56
Speaker 3: show on A, monday send you on the rest of.
1:07:59
Speaker 3: Year afternoon more coming up to Axon Sports RADIO am
1:08:01
Speaker 3: thirteen hundred The.
1:08:02
Speaker 4: Zone for the.
1:08:04
Speaker 5: Fourth time in his five seasons as head, Coach Vic
1:08:09
Speaker 5: schaeffer will take The texas women's basketball team to The
1:08:13
Speaker 5: sweet sixteen final score this afternoon here In, austin The
1:08:17
Speaker 5: Texas longborn sixty, five The Illinois FIGHTING alaini forty. Eight
1:08:23
Speaker 5: next Up, Birmingham, alabama and matchup number two with The
1:08:28
Speaker 5: Tennessee Lady. Balls As texas wins its thirty third game
1:08:33
Speaker 5: of the season to advance to The Sweet.
1:08:35
Speaker 3: Sixteen that Was craig wagh on the call as The
1:08:39
Speaker 3: texas women's basketball team advances to The sweet Sixteen Vick
1:08:43
Speaker 3: shaffer in, company they've done it again and listening To
1:08:47
Speaker 3: craig earlier in the, program he, Said, hey this is
1:08:51
Speaker 3: a team in The Lady balls that is really. Good
1:08:54
Speaker 3: this is not your run of the, mill you, Know
1:08:56
Speaker 3: sweet sixteen team when you're running in as a one.
1:08:59
Speaker 3: Seat this is going to be a team that's going
1:09:01
Speaker 3: to be very hungry after a, tough tight loss the
1:09:05
Speaker 3: last time these two teams. PLAYED i am very excited
1:09:09
Speaker 3: for this weekend's. Matchup this is going to be one
1:09:13
Speaker 3: of the better teams to circle the wagons on to
1:09:16
Speaker 3: another team to pay attention to as we get into
1:09:21
Speaker 3: deeper Into. March madis obviously all, right let's give you
1:09:24
Speaker 3: some scoreboard updates around women's. Basketball fourth quarter five minutes
1:09:28
Speaker 3: Left oklahoma very large lead against The Iowa Hawk, Ays
1:09:33
Speaker 3: number three Seed oklahoma leads Sixteed iowa eighty one to fifty.
1:09:38
Speaker 3: Two thirty left in the first, half and it's a.
1:09:41
Speaker 3: Dogfight number Five alabama leading number Four maryland thirty six
1:09:45
Speaker 3: to thirty. Five other games happening later this, EVENING espn
1:09:49
Speaker 3: did a good job.
1:09:49
Speaker 4: Of kind of stacking these.
1:09:51
Speaker 3: Games long horned fans wish that The longhorns maybe had
1:09:55
Speaker 3: a later tip ONLY i think thirty six hours of
1:09:58
Speaker 3: preparation before Taking illinois sixty To Florida state and number
1:10:02
Speaker 3: three SEEDED lsu that's in The region one out of A.
1:10:06
Speaker 3: Spokane that's five pm tip ON, ESPN espn. Two at six,
1:10:10
Speaker 3: Pm number sixteed To West virginia versus three seed In North.
1:10:13
Speaker 3: Carolina at seven pm in, Primetime number Two yukon takes
1:10:17
Speaker 3: on number Ten South Dakota, state and at nine pm,
1:10:20
Speaker 3: tonight one SEEDED usc takes on nine Seeded Mississippi state
1:10:25
Speaker 3: In region four. Action all teams trying to get to
1:10:28
Speaker 3: The suite sixteen as well to Join Texas. Now this
1:10:32
Speaker 3: is audio Via Cory Mosse Corey. Moss Shay, holly who's
1:10:39
Speaker 3: been with this team longer than any other, player who
1:10:42
Speaker 3: has played every game at The Movie, center played her
1:10:44
Speaker 3: final game at The Movie center this. Afternoon she got
1:10:48
Speaker 3: asked about her last.
1:10:49
Speaker 17: Game, YEAH i honestly think my mom's taking it the
1:10:53
Speaker 17: hardest sound of everyone harder than. Me she's definitely a
1:10:56
Speaker 17: little teary. Eyed WHEN i got up to the stands
1:10:58
Speaker 17: after the. Game but, YEAH i, MEAN i mean it's
1:11:01
Speaker 17: they come to every single, game which is so special
1:11:03
Speaker 17: and it means so much to. Me SO i know
1:11:05
Speaker 17: it's like that's kind of, there like get together, time
1:11:09
Speaker 17: like twice a, week you. Know so we're gonna have
1:11:11
Speaker 17: to find some different some different times to meet up after.
1:11:14
Speaker 17: This but definitely. SAD i know they'll miss it And
1:11:17
Speaker 17: i'll miss it.
1:11:17
Speaker 3: TOO a lot of games, left hopefully For Shay holly
1:11:22
Speaker 3: and company as they go to The sweet sixteen to
1:11:24
Speaker 3: take on The Lady. Bols that is gonna be a big, game.
1:11:28
Speaker 3: Obviously that Has The booker played very well in this afternoon's,
1:11:33
Speaker 3: matchup twenty points on six or nine of eighteen shooting,
1:11:36
Speaker 3: numbers but as a, team The longhorn struggled From downtown
1:11:40
Speaker 3: zero of, five And Mick shaefergant asked about them in
1:11:43
Speaker 3: his post game availability about the inability to shoot the,
1:11:47
Speaker 3: three and he was very dismissive of. It he was
1:11:49
Speaker 3: not nearly as worried about the three points shooting for
1:11:53
Speaker 3: this team as the outside media. Is AND i joked
1:11:57
Speaker 3: in our number two of the, program HOW i felt very, disrespected,
1:12:02
Speaker 3: honestly of the way that this team has been talked
1:12:05
Speaker 3: about and the way this team has been treated by
1:12:08
Speaker 3: the national, media AND i think he's starting.
1:12:10
Speaker 4: To feel a little bit of that disrespect as.
1:12:13
Speaker 3: Well is that possible to say that maybe he's not
1:12:16
Speaker 3: exactly thrilled with hearing about how his team is struggling to.
1:12:21
Speaker 3: SHOOT i think that that's. FAIR i would be upset
1:12:24
Speaker 3: too IF i had won thirty three games this season
1:12:28
Speaker 3: and nobody was giving me the respect to think about
1:12:31
Speaker 3: winning the national championship and he's gone. On Vic shaeffer
1:12:34
Speaker 3: has spoken at length about how this is one of
1:12:36
Speaker 3: his best teams on the, court one of his favorite
1:12:40
Speaker 3: teams off the, court WHICH i can get. BEHIND i
1:12:42
Speaker 3: respect That Texas baseball one On sunday BEATING lsu number
1:12:49
Speaker 3: two team in the country via or the. Polls, Previously
1:12:54
Speaker 3: texas was a top ten team as well coming into that,
1:12:57
Speaker 3: matchup and this is the first time what twenty, nineteen,
1:13:01
Speaker 3: yeah that they be the top two ranked. Team and
1:13:05
Speaker 3: the way that this team has been playing at home
1:13:07
Speaker 3: has been very special to. WATCH i went through their
1:13:10
Speaker 3: schedule coming Up Sam Houston state On tomorrow six. Thirty
1:13:15
Speaker 3: first pitch right here on the zone as, well As
1:13:18
Speaker 3: Texas state next week and Then georgia the following weekend as.
1:13:22
Speaker 3: Well so a lot of good games being played at The.
1:13:26
Speaker 3: Dish the big story coming into This monday as well
1:13:31
Speaker 3: with the women's team, winning was also the men's team
1:13:34
Speaker 3: getting their head. Coach and we're hearing that we should
1:13:36
Speaker 3: have a press conference sometime. Tomorrow and if you get,
1:13:40
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1:13:43
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1:13:47
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1:14:02
Speaker 3: course you'll hear it first right. Here, yeah so, Tomorrow
1:14:08
Speaker 3: craig way back on the. PROGRAM i Think i'm going
1:14:12
Speaker 3: to be off for at least a little. Bit we'll
1:14:14
Speaker 3: see how when the next Time i'm back behind the microphone.
1:14:18
Speaker 3: Is but, yeah a lot of stuff to be excited,
1:14:20
Speaker 3: about a lot of stuff to be very pumped up
1:14:24
Speaker 3: about with this women's team going forward into The sweet,
1:14:28
Speaker 3: sixteen with the men's team getting their head, coach As
1:14:32
Speaker 3: Sean miller HAS i guess according to reports sign on
1:14:35
Speaker 3: the dotted line now that he will be the next
1:14:37
Speaker 3: head coach of The texas men's basketball team after a
1:14:41
Speaker 3: very good career to this point. TOO i should mention
1:14:44
Speaker 3: that the team that he previously coached In xavier Beat
1:14:49
Speaker 3: texas of course in the first, four but also had
1:14:52
Speaker 3: a very good time At arizona as.
1:14:54
Speaker 4: Well so this is not the.
1:14:56
Speaker 3: Type of this is THE i should, say this is
1:14:59
Speaker 3: the type of higher the, fans of course across the
1:15:02
Speaker 3: forty acres are excited.
1:15:04
Speaker 4: About.
1:15:05
Speaker 3: Uh he also has connections to a TEAM usa as
1:15:08
Speaker 3: well At arizona in The big twelve three hundred and
1:15:13
Speaker 3: one oh, nine uh Or i'm, sorry three hundred and
1:15:17
Speaker 3: two and one oh. Nine while Coaching Arizona wildcats in
1:15:21
Speaker 3: The pac. Twelve has made THE ncaa tournament twice now
1:15:25
Speaker 3: With xavier in his previous stint or his last stent
1:15:29
Speaker 3: made it to THE ncaa tournament four times in his
1:15:32
Speaker 3: first stent stint At. Xavier so very, good very an accomplished.
1:15:37
Speaker 3: Coach a lot Of elite eight, appearances, obviously but eliti.
1:15:42
Speaker 3: Dates we're looking for final fours national. Championships cutting a
1:15:47
Speaker 3: lot of nets is my, point and that's gonna happen
1:15:50
Speaker 3: With Sean. Miller of, course press conference sometime in the
1:15:54
Speaker 3: next few. Days you'll hear it here on The. Zone
1:15:57
Speaker 3: until next, Time i'm Andrews. Zimmel thanks for letting me
1:15:59
Speaker 3: hang out with you This monday. Afternoon will send you
1:16:02
Speaker 3: on your way, today And craig will be back in
1:16:04
Speaker 3: the chair. Tomorrow until next, Time boys and, girls don't
1:16:07
Speaker 3: Forget i'm not.
1:16:08
Speaker 4: Wrong i'm just Early. Peace