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Spider Dash, Spider Brews, Spiders Win · Spiders Sound Off

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Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Spider Sound
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Off. This is Tom.
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And this is Porter. We are back in our Henrico
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studios on a Sunday evening. We had two wins this weekend.
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It's a. Dual win weekend.
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Get us out of our the best. We had that O and three sad
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episode last week. Open Center showed up for both
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games. Yeah, this one will be a little
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more fun. We did, I might have mentioned
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earlier. By the way, these games.
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I, I think we, I did mention our last podcast, we were planning
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on having a guest today. The guest had to postpone.
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So we'll reschedule that and really can't blame him.
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So he's a, an assistant coach at a high school and that team made
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the playoffs. So they had to have a, a new
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practice scheduled for today. So they were practicing during
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our pod. So I told him to like, go get
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that team ready for the playoffs and we'll get him back later.
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Baby, just win. And when you're talking about
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someone who's been to two NCAA tournaments, like they know what
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they're doing, so you got to you got to give them.
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Are you dropping a hit? I don't know, maybe dropping a
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hit. But anyway, we'll reschedule
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that one later. We're working on some other
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guests too. We're not got nothing nailed
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down yet, but we'll, we'll definitely have some more guests
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between now and before we get to March Madness.
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But maybe we start this weekend with on Saturday morning there
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was a a race at University of Richmond.
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It was I. Heard you came in 3rd for.
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Your No, I didn't. Fourth.
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Yeah, let me tell that story. Yeah.
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So. But anyway, it's called the
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spider dash. I didn't even know it existed
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till this year. Thank you, Porter, for letting
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us know. OK, well, it's about.
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That's a 5K just running around campus.
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It was kind of a good day to run.
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It was like mid 40s, not too hot, not too cold.
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I'm an OK runner, but it's not a it's not like the Monument 10K.
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If anyone's run that here in Richmond, it's not.
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There's not a tons of people. Running it not a serious, not a
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competition. So and there's a lot of walkers.
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So, so I kind of, I ran the 5K like 26 minutes.
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It was OK time, nothing great. But I'm like, hey, in the 46 to
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55 aids group, like maybe I can get top three and get a
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certificate. I think that's what second and
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third get. I ended up in fourth.
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That's like, that's like the Olympics, man.
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You're like right there waiting for the war.
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Well, it's worse than. That you're you're runner up to
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win. Award.
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It's worse than that because third place was someone by the
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name of Jonathan Austin. OK, He's also known around town
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as Jonathan the Juggler. Jonathan the Juggler.
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He So what you're. Saying is, the juggler is.
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Fast he juggled while running. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Time out. The dude was juggling balls in
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the air. Legitimately read me by a minute
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and got a certificate. That's right, he took your
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certificate. So third place, Well, well.
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Basically embarrassing you with balls in the air, right?
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That's exactly right. Unbelievable.
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I I cannot juggle. I've never been interested in
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juggling. I'm still not interested in
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juggling but I but I do need to learn to run faster because this
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guy can juggle and beat me in a you're.
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On the you're on the advanced side of the 46 to 55 inch
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bracket, at least to see 46. No, he's 55.
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Wow. Oh.
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So he's going, so next year I don't have to go against.
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The juggle, the competition will be lessened is what you're
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saying? It's funny too, because he
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passed me. We graduate the juggler.
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Probably before I'm not it was like, you know, not everyone
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started the exact same time, but he I saw him run by me maybe at
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like the mile. Mark, was he running?
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Backwards and he no, but he was juggling and I Oh my God, that's
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cool. And now in hindsight, I should
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have like knocked one of his balls out and he would have to
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go chase it and then dude. And then maybe, I mean, he
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would. Have you know what this isn't?
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Nobody says you have to be nice to get a certificate you.
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Need that certificate. But anyway, the best part about
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the spider Dash is that when it ended your price to run, instead
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of giving you like a shirt which you're never going to wear, you
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got to eat in the dining hall. Oh, that's it.
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So I had a big, had a big. I haven't had brunch in the
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dining hall in a while. Richmond has an awesome dining
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hall folks an awesome dining. So anyway, so it's world class.
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Got to run, got to pig out in the dining hall.
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And then later that day was Spider Brews.
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And I unfortunately missed both because I had to run back to my
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hometown. Unfortunately I had a a really
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good friend's parent pass away so I had to go to a funeral.
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So I missed all of this good stuff.
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I did scream back and getting back in for the time for the
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second-half of the game, but we'll talk.
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About that later. So anyway, Spider Brews was
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Saturday. It was a great time.
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Saw some people who going to Spider Brews for the first time
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and and with it being senior weekend at both the men's game
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and the women's game, it did remind me of and kind of to
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honor one of the parents of our seniors, Mike Walls's dad, my
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wife, I think it was two years ago as Spider Brews.
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Remember seeing Mike Walls's dad go to one of the coolers where
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they had four different beers and say give me a little of each
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in the same glass. Nice, a Little Mix.
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And he took a sip and was like, oh that was bad.
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And then poured it out and I got another beer.
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But I I love that story. So on senior day, maybe it
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reminded me of when Mike Wallaces dad tried to do a a
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mishmash what we used to call in.
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He was wearing 21 at the game. Yeah, that's right.
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Well, I remember being a kid, we called out the suicide when you
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went to the soda fountain and got a little bit of each one and
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ended up with some Gray liquid. But anyway, Spider Brews was
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fun. I think.
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What Porter you did show up at half time roughly.
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Yes, we were. Down.
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We were down three. I say 5, you say we were down 3.
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So we started with me. And I'm guessing you noticed
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that I had plenty of spider brews.
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Yeah, I would say it was. You were very loquacious and
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very loud. And luckily we should way up at
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the top so only the people at the top can hear you.
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But I was clean. I think most most people in the
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arena probably did hear you in that game.
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There was 1 ref which I just. Got under your skin?
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Yeah, he was bad. The other two were fine.
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This one guy just kept. I don't, I can't even remember
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because I had too many bruises, but he was bad.
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So I was pretty much yelling at him the whole time, but also
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cheering a lot. That was like fun.
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Games a very good game. Tons of scoring, no defense.
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9994 I thought we'd get to 100. We lit it up.
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But we did have, well, I say a fan favorite or a non fan
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favorite to a guy who's a few rows behind us.
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Roma Glue had a couple of big threes.
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Yeah, that lifted our. Spirit actually was probably the
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difference in that second-half. Six rebounds, 2 huge threes and
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even though the analytics say he should not be the guy taking
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them when he hits it, we'll just throw the analytics out the
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window because we're we're fans 1st and and you know,
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statisticians and prognosticator second and he those, those two
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threes were huge difference maker in the game for us.
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So Congrats to AP for. That now it was a battle of two
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teams in the bottom 4 so. But the game was super
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entertaining, a lot of scoring. A huge crowd.
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I mean, it was a, it was a massive.
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Crowd. It was 5500.
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Well, that's a big crowd for a team that's, you know, bottom
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four in the A10. Still crowd.
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Probably 15 students. I didn't even bother counting.
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There were so little. Yeah, student, the student turn
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out hasn't been good. That's that's not been great.
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So. AJ and Will were over 20, so
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it's good to see kind of them. Argabright was 14, most in the
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first half. Actually had a huge first half
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to keep us in it. Nice little layup right before
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halftime. Yeah, Argabright looked great.
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I mean, so the offense was really clicking.
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Our defense was bad, just it was better than theirs, which which
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was good to see. Good enough, you know.
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The the team, we looked better this time without Beagle than we
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did last game. I think it's just either
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practicing more with that knowing that they're not going
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to have them off the bench so. It's nice to have AP to to give
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a another big Dick come in for walls that you know is a bit
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little taller than your 6465 centre right.
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So, you know, if they have, was it Martin on that team, Just
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Frank Martin? There's a big guy down.
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It's not Frank Martin. Mitchell, Frank Mitchell, yeah,
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Down low. I mean, that guy's a handful, so
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you've got to have somebody big on him.
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Yeah, and I like seeing, you know what?
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Obviously we'd love to have Beagle playing, but with Beagle
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out, we're seeing a lot more from Robinson.
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Daughtry was kind of He played some moments, had some moments.
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Play in the second-half we went right to the rim.
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We like to just see him continue to get a little more time, but
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you know, he's he's got to earn it.
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But anyway, big win we've got we're just talking early.
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We got three games left at Chicago.
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Who's really the bottom team in the league.
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That's going to be a win. That's a that's a it's a might
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be better me and then we end with Dayton at home and Dayton's
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OK, but they're not they're not the great Dayton team.
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This is an OK Dayton team. And then Duquesne, which is a
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similar level. They're both kind of 500, maybe
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a game over in the conference or fighting for that, those sort of
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spots. Now if you want to say, how do
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we make sure we're not in the bottom four?
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We have to win all. Three games, yeah, just to win
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all three. A2 out of three, maybe there's a
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chance, but we lose a lot of tiebreakers because we didn't
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beat many teams and we I mean we've got we beat all the bottom
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teams and they're not the ones we're going to be tying with
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yeah, I mean the. Teams that have six wins, like
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Rhode Island has the tiebreaker against this, GW has the
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tiebreaker against this. Our best chance would be us
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going at least two and one and Fordham losing their last three
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and both of us ending with seven wins.
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I think that's our best shot because Fordham has some tough
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games and we should be able to win two of our last three so.
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So we got a ways to go to figure that out, but it's likely we're
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in the bottom 4. But there's a chance we win
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these three games and heck, if we have a four-game winning
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streak, we'll be feeling a lot if you.
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Win the three games, you're going to be on the bottom 4,
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that's for sure. Yeah.
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But I mean, it's like, I mean, Dayton is, is is no pushover and
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Duquesne on the road is not going to be an easy game either.
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So it'll be tough. It'll be tough.
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But I mean, you know, the good news is, like we said earlier in
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the year, we have the ability to beat, I think any team won on on
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a given day. The problem is that we've shown
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no ability to stack wins against good teams.
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And so you're going to have to stack wins against good teams in
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the A10 tournament if you have any chance.
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And I haven't seen any, any signs that we can do that yet.
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Now, going back a day, it was Friday night, there was the big
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nationally televised A10 matchup of BCU St.
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Louis. Yeah.
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A little feisty. Ending well, yeah.
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So if anyone remembers, I think it was last year, there was a
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fight in the stands. I think it was like parents each
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team or fighting each other or something crazy.
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And then this is the good at Saint Louis this year.
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They already played in Richmond and Saint Louis won that game.
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So this was kind of a rematch in Saint Louis and BC, who had a
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big lead at half. BC looked like they were going
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to dominate this game, and then they got whooped by Saint Louis
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in the second-half and what was it?
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I don't know if you've seen that play, but they were basically
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dribbling out the clock and the guy dribbling out the clock kind
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of gave a little arm push to someone who got too close to
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him. And then he kept dribbling and
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then someone else came and stole the ball.
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He had a half court shot if I recall.
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No. Well, no.
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Well, he stole the ball and then Avila pushed him out of bounds.
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Yeah, OK. And then someone else came and
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pushed somebody else. A lot of pushing going on.
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I put on our Instagram page going back to a Providence game
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from a week ago and there was a big fight, like maybe these
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teams are trying to audition for the Big East and so they thought
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they had to get. Into a fight Fight Club.
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Because Big East like putting on fights, but that was pretty ugly
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moment. I think.
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I think we all agree that both teams should be banned from the
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a 10 tournament for that. That would actually be.
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But that's that's not what the Atlantic 10 decided.
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I think they find both schools and said like you're all we got,
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so you can just keep playing all your players.
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And but anyway, it's kind of funny to see that that Melee,
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you know, if we're not able to make a big run and upset some
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teams, those two are likely going to see each other in the
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final. Saint Louis is really good.
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I I mean, they're going to be a fine representative of from the
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A10 this year in the tournament. I want to see them beat some
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teams and and bring some prestige back to the A10.
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Like, I'd love to see them make a Sweet 16 year beyond run.
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Yeah, they'll be picked on a lot of brackets to win some games
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and they. Yeah.
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That would be nice, but they better keep their players on the
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bench and not, you know, running off the bench.
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I don't know did you see at the end of that game because there
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was like one point something seconds left.
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VCU had four players because that's all they had that were
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not ejected. OK, and Saint Louis had 6, so it
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was 5 on 4 for the last whatever second plus because the the
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melee happened on the other side of the court from the benches
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and all the benches kind of came out to the melee and there was
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still time left. So the all everyone on the VCU's
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bench got ejected and almost everybody from the same Who's
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the one I want to know who's the one person on the Saint Louis
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bench who sat there and didn't didn't get in the fight.
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So he didn't maybe he's an injured player, might have been
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hurt. You never know, right?
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But anyway, smart smart. For not getting involved though.
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So the men had a great win and then we went into today's game.
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Yes, big game. And the women were home against
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LaSalle, a team that had gotten hot.
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Started slow. First quarter wasn't pretty.
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Yeah, no, it was like we scored more than 9.
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So I was like, hey, we did score more than 9 in this first
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quarter, unlike the last couple of games, but.
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But the defense was not good, but in the first quarter, I
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should say. But we had kind of 1 kind of new
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kind of unsung hero kind of had played a little bit here and.
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There and you've been talking about it the last couple.
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I've never been. Talking about it, but Anisha
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Scott came in. Great, Scott, what happened?
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What happened? There, she just killed it and it
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actually reminds me I'm going to backtrack a bit at the spider
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dash we got like a bag of like stuff.
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You know, whatever you do races, you get a bag of stuff.
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Well, one of things we got was like this little, if you're
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watching it on video, it's a thing.
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And I realized, like for Anisha Scott, like, she's got the
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headband, right? Yeah.
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Should I rock the headband? Should.
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Rock the headband. Yeah, put that on.
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Yeah, I like that. I like that.
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In honor of Anisha, breakout performance is 20 points, 20, 20
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points. Last freshman scored 20 points
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in the game For our woman's program I believe was Maggie.
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Dude. I've heard January of 2023 by
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the way, 28 points against Saint Joe's in January of 2023 so.
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Maggie turned out all right. That's a pretty good company for
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a freshman, right, to be the, the, the first person after
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Maggie to do that. So we're, we're very excited and
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I think Rhode Island, who we play on Wednesday nights,
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probably rushing right now to the video room to try to work up
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a scout on Anisha Scott. Because I guarantee you Anisha
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was not on Lasalle's scout report.
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And it was if you watched how she took over that game in the
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second quarter, Coach, to his credit, saw the momentum in the
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spark left her in the entire second quarter, and then she
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played a ton in the second-half as well.
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Well, to his credit too, like he saw that spark in the last game.
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Yes, it's probably, you know, been watching film, kind of said
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like, wow, like, and I'm obviously putting words in his
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mouth. He may have said like, boy,
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maybe I should have used used her more in that game.
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Let me figure out how I get more action for her coming up and
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that we are in this kind of dull spot offensively.
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Brought her in probably at a similar time when he brought her
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in the last game. But he kind of let he let her
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go. And and if you didn't see it
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like she is a confident point guard, like there is nothing
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when she's when she's dribbling the ball, you think freshman
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like she dribbles with confidence.
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She's a good ball handler and she shot had two threes today.
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So she showed she can shoot from deep.
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Which is nice. We call we we said she's been
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very impressive offensively when she's been on the floor.
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I haven't been certain about the defense, but let me just give
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you this. She took multiple people to the
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rim repeatedly and scored in multiple ways.
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She was fouled a lot. She had some up and under.
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She had lay UPS. She had a bevy of moves around
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the rim, which given that she was the the smallest player on
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the Spider side, was very impressive.
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Secondly, you know, when they managed to cut it off, she
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showed a quick pivot and then flip out to the three-point
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shooter, which was, you know, exactly the Russell read and
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react system. So she played that part well.
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She took 2-3 pointers I think in the game or she hit 23 pointers
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and she was confident on on both of them.
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They looked really good. She showed a couple mid range
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jumpers. Now I'm not sure Roussel loves
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the mid range jumpers, but like she hit one of them.
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And again, when the confidence is, is looking like it was for
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her. Everything was working.
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The the ladies on the team mobbed her after the end of the
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game. The celebration was in full
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effect. I mean, they knew how special
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that performance was. 20 points out of Anisha Scott, just a
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really, really good format. She also kicked in three assists
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only had one turnover on the game.
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You know, put up her her her advanced stats for the game.
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We're we're off the charts. So I think you're going to see
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we've we've been thinking about the need for the 4th score to to
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be able to win the Atlantic 10 tournament.
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And you know, where we have the platoon at the five, which when
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it works, it works really, really well.
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We have Newell who can get to the rim, but you know, depending
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on whether or not her three-point shot is working or
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not kind of depends on whether she can be that 4th score.
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But like, but Scott in this game, I think scored so
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confidently. You actually now have probably
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two more games if your coach resell to figure out what you
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have going into the tournament. Could she be a difference maker
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in the A10 tournament? Or was it just that nobody had
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ever seen her and she just surprised everybody and took
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over a game? I mean, you know, now people
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know about her. You're going to see the scout,
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you know, come in on her. I'm not sure necessarily that a
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good scout's going to be able to stop her because like I said,
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she's got a multiple dimensions on her offensive game.
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But the thing that impressed me the most about her in that game,
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Tom, was just how good her defense was.
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She was in the right place. She was physical with her, with
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her player, I thought. She was a really good charge.
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Yeah, she was body and folks up. I mean, she just looked so good
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on on both sides of the ball. It's kind of a coming out party
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for Anisha Scott. She has announced herself to
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Spider fandom that I'm here and I'm not going to be ignored.
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And you know what? We are all paying attention now.
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So, yeah, so that second quarter, so we were down 21 to
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16 after the first. We outscored them in the second
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quarter 28 to 12, yes. And I at halftime, I think it
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was at halftime was what, or maybe it was a time out.
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Anisha had been on fire. She was coming to the sideline.
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Coach was like front in the line to give her like a like a little
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low 5. And he had this look on her
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face, on his face of like, it was like a mean look like, and
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not like I'm mad at you, but like, like, like you're playing
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so tough. I just so he gave this like
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tough look on his face of like man like that was awesome.
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You even said like on one of her moves on the far side of the
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court she just literally abused a player going to the rim.
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Maybe it was a went underneath the basket for a reverse layup
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and and Ally and the coach looked, it was one of the
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assistant coaches looked at each other and just shrugged and fist
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bumped each other like, yeah, that's that right.
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That's pretty impressive, so. Yeah.
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And So what if if you didn't see the game and this is like I
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think where we can see the opportunity.
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It's not that like now we have the big four, like we're not
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putting Anisha Scott is not there, but like her and Newell
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can now play together and give Ally a rest.
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Absolutely. Or or her and Ally can play
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together. Coach played her and Ally
19:14
together and that was. Pretty funny and give new and
19:16
give Newell a rest. I mean because Ali has played 40
19:19
minute games at times this year and we've just come off of all
19:23
these games in the rows. We know the conference
19:26
tournament is going to be multiple games in multiple days.
19:29
So at a minimum, even if Anisha Scott is not this big difference
19:33
maker in the tournament, if she can give Ali, you know, 33
19:38
minutes a game for the rest of the season and just have Ally
19:41
that much more fresh when we get to the A10 tournament, like
19:44
there's value there. Just.
19:46
It's just it's another weapon and I, you know, give herself
19:49
some time to kind of figure out what he's got with this because
19:51
it's I mean, for for one, how exciting are we now for next
19:54
year? Like, I mean, I was so worried
19:55
about losing so much, but you've seen moments out of Anisha
19:59
Scott, you know, Rain Wright and Porschetti can play, you've got
20:02
Ali back and you've got Alicia Newell.
20:05
I mean, you've got like 5 players now that I feel pretty
20:07
confident can can do some pretty good stuff for us next year.
20:10
Plus these great recruits coming in.
20:12
A couple other things about the game.
20:13
It was senior day, so the before the game, really nice gesture.
20:17
Our three of our seniors took flowers over to the LaSalle
20:20
seniors, presented them with flowers saying hey, it's last
20:22
time you beat the Robin Center. Congratulations.
20:24
I loved it because it was Maggie, Rachel and Sam.
20:27
So we sent over like our, you know, 2 future Hall of Famers
20:30
and said here, here's some flowers because that, that's
20:33
just an intimidation factor. And I and I love that.
20:35
By the way, you're wait a minute, they're disarming me
20:37
with how nice they are. And now I've got to go cover
20:39
her, right? So I love that gesture.
20:40
And then, you know, we announced all the seniors and there are
20:43
quite a few seniors on this team, you know, ending the
20:45
ceremony with with Rachel and Maggie and just to get to see
20:50
them with their parents and getting applauded and and
20:53
recognized. It was special, special moment,
20:55
special day. Big crowd today too.
20:56
It was great to see very good day today in the.
20:58
Robinson Well, a couple things just to add to that, which is
21:01
interesting. It's, you know, you only see
21:02
this in the women's games is that they at 1 of the time outs,
21:05
they recognize the three seniors who are on the like the practice
21:10
team. Yeah.
21:11
So they have they have undergrad male undergrads from the
21:15
university who volunteer and some of them are managers on the
21:18
men's team who kind of volunteer their time to go to the women's
21:22
practice to be another team that the women will practice against.
21:26
So I don't know if it's every practice, it probably isn't, but
21:28
every now and then they're kind of the scrimmage team.
21:31
And so they honored kind of three of those seniors.
21:34
Again, you don't you won't see that on the men's side.
21:37
And it was also great at the end where it's a kind of a gimmicky,
21:40
but it was worth it where the coach, you know, we're killing
21:43
these guys by 20 points at the moment.
21:46
He throws in, There's a time out, he throws in Rachel and
21:51
Maggie. And then even before the ball is
21:53
put in, he then Subs them out. Yeah.
21:56
So they each got the kind of the big the.
21:59
Big scene with Jada Green and yeah, it was.
22:01
Just, but it's also funny because like, that's like the
22:03
Saturday senior night. And then looking ahead, we have
22:06
another home game. We have the big home game of the
22:09
year on Wednesday. Huge.
22:11
Huge. Rhode Island doesn't get any
22:13
bigger than this. This is, I mean, I can't say
22:15
it's for at large, but like it, it is.
22:18
It is the game of the year in the A10.
22:20
Richmond, RI You know, battle for first place.
22:24
Well. It's a share of first place.
22:25
No it won't. Because we lost, remember, we
22:27
lost two in a row, so they got two.
22:28
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
22:29
So they have. They have one loss, We have
22:31
three. Yeah.
22:31
So this game probably doesn't mean a whole lot for the
22:33
standings. Maybe it helps George Mason.
22:35
I don't know how that tiebreaker would work, but it's most
22:39
important for our at large. Yeah.
22:41
If we won't have any chance of at large, we have to have this
22:43
Rhode Island win. And while we are hoping kind of
22:48
our loss in the A10 tournament last year kind of is a chip on
22:50
our shoulder and we can win the A10 tournament this year.
22:53
If we went to the final and lost to Rhode Island, maybe like
22:57
we'll still be around that 40 sort of net.
23:00
So we're going to be on the bubble.
23:01
We're. Still hanging around if we were
23:02
42 this morning in the net, I think the LaSalle shouldn't move
23:06
us in One Direction or the other too much.
23:08
Oh, I mean, look, you get, you say around 40 when your last
23:11
game after Rhode Island, you go in 25 and 6, you win your first
23:16
two, that's 27 and six and you somehow get beaten by Rhode
23:20
Island in the final. It would probably need to be
23:22
Rhode Island in the final that beat you because but let's say
23:25
that happens 27 and seven, you're 40 in the net after that
23:28
happens. I'd still put us at about a 25
23:31
to 40% chance of an at large. If you're sitting at 40 on 27
23:34
and seven. I'm not saying it's above 50,
23:36
but it will definitely be so much.
23:38
There's enough of a probability that they'll probably have to
23:40
have the party for the selection show.
23:42
Yeah, yeah. I would bet that we end up in
23:44
like the last four out bucket. Odds are you're still going to
23:47
be a lot, but I mean, nobody's saying we have a chance.
23:49
We're the only people right now saying we have a chance.
23:51
And that's only because the 40 in the net.
23:53
You're going to be compared against ACC schools that have
23:57
10/11/12 losses. You'll have 7 losses.
24:00
You know, that also will mean we have beaten Rhode Island this
24:03
next game and Saint Joe's, both quality teams.
24:05
And then you might get another quality win in that first or
24:08
second round of the 810 tournament.
24:09
So you know, you're going to get 3, maybe quad two wins along the
24:12
way. So you're going to have like
24:13
it's still possible. I'm going to say if if all of
24:16
that plays out 35 to 40. Percent.
24:18
You just don't. I mean, we've been there on the
24:20
men's side, like you just don't want to be no worse feeling.
24:22
You just want you don't want to be watching the other games and
24:24
be like, Oh no. We want to win the 8.
24:26
Ten. You don't want an upset in like
24:27
a smaller conference tournament 100.
24:29
Percent. Or in like, you know, the ACC,
24:32
you get an upset and you're like, well, they just took one
24:34
of our spots. I was, you know, so we, we
24:36
played Rhode Island back in December.
24:40
Season was a long time ago. We did.
24:42
We lost to them at Rhode Island, 73 to 61.
24:47
It's hard to remember, it's been so long.
24:48
Maggie had a great Maggie hit 26.
24:50
So it wasn't like this was, you know, a Maggie Dudd or anything
24:53
like that. They beat us with a good version
24:55
of Maggie just moved. The ball so well against us that
24:57
game, they were motivated. They passed it extremely well.
25:00
We weren't closing out on shooters.
25:01
I was sitting there writing. I wrote notes about that game we
25:03
covered in one of our episodes. I'm like, they just reminded of,
25:06
reminded me of us. They're just really efficient.
25:08
They they were up by they up first quarter.
25:10
This is, you know a bad first start start for us.
25:12
So we're down 18 to 13 in the 1st and we we've kind of seen
25:16
some bad starts lately. We had gone on a run where we
25:19
are just blowing people out in the first quarter, but we're
25:21
back to kind of where we were earlier in the year having
25:24
trouble starting. And then in the fourth, they
25:26
beat us by 12. They outscored us by 10 in the
25:28
4th. So we were right there going
25:31
into the 4th. We had a good third to cut it,
25:34
but we just couldn't handle them in the fourth quarter.
25:37
So we've got a it's a tough one. This isn't, this is a team
25:40
that's beaten us. Not many teams have and what we
25:44
got them at home on Wednesday, it's really the last home game.
25:47
Yeah, make sure you come out for that one, folks.
25:49
Come out to that game. Support these ladies.
25:51
This is. It's 6:00.
25:52
Special team got to be there for that one in person.
25:55
And it's on ESPN Plus for you out of town or so definitely
25:59
watch that. It's not our last game of the
26:01
year. I think we have.
26:03
Do we have one more after that? Game after that on the road I
26:05
think. Who do we?
26:07
Who do we play last? No, that's Rhode Island.
26:10
That's Saint Joe's, I think. I don't think we've played Saint
26:12
Joe's yet. They're a good team, so.
26:13
Yeah, Saint Joe's. Yeah, we and at Saint Joe's.
26:15
Which is another quad two games, so that's important.
26:17
Yeah, they're 19 and eight. Yeah.
26:19
The men have Chicago, Loyola Chicago, which was, you know,
26:24
the big NCA darling a few years ago and then moved to our
26:29
conference. And this was supposed to be like
26:31
their first really good year. They spent a bunch of money on
26:35
the portal, supposedly. Hasn't.
26:38
Hasn't been. Good.
26:38
Yeah, so. We've talked about them in a lot
26:40
earlier. Too, They've been a disaster.
26:43
Now the good thing and they haven't really.
26:44
I've been wrong with them because I thought they'd come
26:47
into the league and have a terrible year but upset a bunch
26:50
of good teams and just, you know, tear apart our resumes.
26:53
They've just been bad all around.
26:55
They haven't. I don't, I don't.
26:55
They've got some wins. Would they have two?
26:58
But you know they they have 3. Yeah, they've won a few, but not
27:04
many, no. But anyway, we will see.
27:09
I'm not counting on that game being an exciting one.
27:12
Hopefully we take care of business.
27:15
We will see if that's possible. I mean, we know when we're not
27:20
good, we can lose to anybody. And when we are good like we're,
27:25
we're, we can, we can beat anybody in this leagues.
27:28
This is a road trip to Chicago as well.
27:30
So we've got to do some travelling.
27:32
The weather is always kind of making that harder than it
27:35
should be right now. But anyway, so we got Chicago
27:39
midweek on the road. We've got the women at home
27:42
against Rhode Island. The last time to see Maggie
27:44
Dugan in the Robin Center. Same for Rachel and some of our
27:48
other seniors. So please come out.
27:50
Hopefully we see you on Wednesday, 6 O clock the Robin
27:53
Center. Let's get a big crowd to wrap up
27:56
the season in a positive note and then we'll be at the Henrico
27:59
Tournament. We got official media passes.
28:02
We are official. So we'll be at that tournament
28:07
up in Henrico, not in our Henrico studios.
28:10
We'll be at the Henrico tournament.
28:11
Big weekend. Do they steal that name from us,
28:13
you think? I don't think.
28:14
So I don't. I don't think so.
28:16
OK. Well, so that'll be fun.
28:17
So hopefully we see you at the women's game next week and then
28:21
see you at the Henrico Center, I guess a week and 1/2 after that.
28:26
Absolutely folks. Again, great.
28:27
Great game for the ladies, great game for the men this weekend. 2
28:30
and O over the weekend. Great way to finish and we will
28:33
see you guys. It'll be interesting to see if
28:35
we had any A10 players of the week.
28:36
Is 1 game enough for a freshman of the week performance?
28:39
We will find out tomorrow. We will see.
28:40
Today when this releases. Yeah, but until next time, this
28:43
is Tom. Hey, this is Porter, and this is
28:45
Spider's A little happier this time.
28:47
Sounding off. See you, man.
28:47
Spider. Sound off Spider.
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Sound off spider sound off spider sound.
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Off.