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Has Ohio State Basketball Done Enough In The Transfer Portal? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: today we're gonna be taking in a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a twist. We're gonna be talking a little basketball. There's
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  Speaker 1: been a bunch of news and it's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: been like, Yeah, we need to do a show about basketball,
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  Speaker 1: because it's been a lot to talk about over the
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  Speaker 1: last week or so. As the Buckeyes have added a
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  Speaker 1: couple players to portal, several key players have announced their returning,
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  Speaker 1: which does constitute news these days. Something else that constitutes
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  Speaker 1: news when Tony Garterman Bucky Huddle dot com joins me
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  Speaker 1: Tony Welcome. The portal officially open for business on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: March twenty fourth, closes on Tuesday, April twenty second, So
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  Speaker 1: we are still just about halfway through the portal season,
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  Speaker 1: so nothing's like officially in stone yet, but it feels
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  Speaker 1: like we're started starting to get at least some sense
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  Speaker 1: for what the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six will
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  Speaker 1: have State men's basketball team might look like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think the key is that you're going
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  Speaker 2: to ideally and likely be returning your top three scorers
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  Speaker 2: and Bruce Torton, Devin Royal, and John Mobley, and then
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  Speaker 2: you add to that through the portal, through recruiting and
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  Speaker 2: through development, so there'll be, uh, there should be some
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  Speaker 2: familiar faces, and really the crux of the squad that
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  Speaker 2: Jake Deebler needed to bring back it looks like he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And that was certainly a team that had some
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  Speaker 1: questions and was certainly missing a few pieces last year.
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  Speaker 1: But the three guys you mentioned, Bruce Thornton, John Mobley
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  Speaker 1: and Devin Royal, those guys were three solid players for
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  Speaker 1: the buck Eyes all season long, and three guys where
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  Speaker 1: it was like, boy, if they just had a couple
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  Speaker 1: other complimentary pieces two those three, you potentially have a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good basketball team. Getting all three of those guys
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  Speaker 1: back I think very very important. I think there was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a concern that Bruce Thorton for
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  Speaker 1: his final year might be looking around a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but sounds like he's going to be back, and John
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  Speaker 1: Mobley coming back for his second year, and Devin Royal
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  Speaker 1: for his third year. You know, there are still plenty
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  Speaker 1: of pieces around them where there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a question mark, guys who have not announced they're coming back,
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  Speaker 1: who potentially could, but just the three of them, that
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  Speaker 1: just feels like a very solid foundation that then you're
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  Speaker 1: just looking to add a few pieces around those guys.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a pretty good startup a basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll take that back court that starting back court.
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  Speaker 2: And then Devin Royal is going to be one of
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  Speaker 2: the top front court players and the big ten can be.
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  Speaker 2: He can score inside, can score outside, is a rebounder
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  Speaker 2: as well, and the more minutes he gets the better. Now,
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  Speaker 2: can they do what they need to do defensively? I
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  Speaker 2: mean sometimes that's a question mark. But you'll take those
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  Speaker 2: three and then add to them. And if Shawn Stewart
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  Speaker 2: returns and he's a year better in the post, I
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  Speaker 2: think that's one of the things that they're missing they
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  Speaker 2: I think they expected more from Shawn Stewart Nearon Bradshaw
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  Speaker 2: last year than they got grabbing those two big guys
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  Speaker 2: out of the portal. Bratch how we know is off
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  Speaker 2: back into the portal Shawn Stewart. If he's back, he
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  Speaker 2: provides some defense and some rebounding. Can they get some
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  Speaker 2: scoring though, If they can get a scoring threat in
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  Speaker 2: the paint, and maybe we could talk about that here
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  Speaker 2: in a bit, that would then allow John Mobley and
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Thoorton not to have to force so much outside
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  Speaker 2: if they can get some open looks, more open looks,
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  Speaker 2: because when John Mobley gets an open look, he's.
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  Speaker 1: Very very good.
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  Speaker 2: When he has to create on his own and force
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  Speaker 2: some things, his percentage drops. And that's the same with
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  Speaker 2: any guard who is looking to score. So if they
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  Speaker 2: can get somebody that can score in the paint and
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  Speaker 2: bring the defense a little uh, pack it in a
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  Speaker 2: little bit closer so that they have some freedom of
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  Speaker 2: movement and freedom of shot selection, then maybe that will
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  Speaker 2: help everybody. But you know, and they did go to
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  Speaker 2: the portal for a big guy.
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  Speaker 1: They did, and that big guy is Christoph Tilley. He
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  Speaker 1: is definitely a big man. He is. He's not someone
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  Speaker 1: who's just gonna camp down in the paint though. He's
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  Speaker 1: someone who, you know, one of those guys who can
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  Speaker 1: just sort of shoot from even outside, which does a
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  Speaker 1: lot for you and potentially brings some different, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a different dynamic to the offense. But it also feels
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  Speaker 1: like it feels like that's a really good addition. But also,
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  Speaker 1: you know, John Stewart has neither announced that he's staying
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  Speaker 1: nor that he's going, so he's sort of in limbo
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  Speaker 1: right now, which I guess the default assumption is that
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  Speaker 1: you're staying, I guess, but you know, it's still you know,
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  Speaker 1: Christoph Tilly feels like he's a real the interesting addition
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  Speaker 1: to the team and probably brings a different dynamic than
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  Speaker 1: they had last year in terms of big men and
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  Speaker 1: what they can do scoring wise. But I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that he solves all of the issues down in the paint.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that. I think maybe offensively
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  Speaker 2: he's more of what Aaron Bradshaw thinks he is but
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  Speaker 2: isn't yet, you know, because he, like you said, the
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  Speaker 2: twelve and a half points a game last year, I
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  Speaker 2: would take one or two three as a game. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, he shot like thirty percent from three, so
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  Speaker 2: he's got range, he's got touch, But he's like a
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  Speaker 2: big European basketball player basically. And I think when you
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  Speaker 2: say that, a lot of people kind of have a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good understanding of what that means. It also means
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  Speaker 2: at seven foot two hundred and twenty five hundred and
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  Speaker 2: thirty pounds, only four point nine rebounds per game last
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  Speaker 2: years as a junior, and so you'd like to see
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  Speaker 2: that higher. And that's what what kind of scoring in
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  Speaker 2: the paint can he do? You know, He's, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: he's got some touch, but he's gonna get pushed around
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  Speaker 2: into big ten just like anybody and will there be
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  Speaker 2: any calls while that is happening. Probably not, So you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to learn to deal with that. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's coming over from Santa Clara West Coast Conference. That's
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  Speaker 2: that's a basketball conference, that's a legitimate play. So he's
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  Speaker 2: got some experience. He two years started there and so
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  Speaker 2: now he's gonna be able to We'll see what he
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  Speaker 2: can do. He was All Conference player, I believe this
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  Speaker 2: past year at Santa Clara. But I, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: do wonder does this solve what they're looking for in
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  Speaker 2: terms of low post scoring. I I don't know it's
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  Speaker 2: better than it was, though, I'll say.
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  Speaker 1: That yeah, it feels like a step forward, but not
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  Speaker 1: maybe potential potentially like solved problem completely. And you know
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  Speaker 1: that I think that's other. You know something you could
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  Speaker 1: say about the other guy they've brought into the portal,
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  Speaker 1: and that's Gabe Cups. He's a point guard originally from
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  Speaker 1: the state of Ohio, then went to play his first
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  Speaker 1: couple of years at Indiana, missed most of last year
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  Speaker 1: with a knee injury. So he's now in addition, and
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  Speaker 1: he's someone who you know, you're not adding Gabe Cup
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  Speaker 1: and thinking this is someone who's going to come in
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  Speaker 1: and be a starter. This is someone who's probably going
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  Speaker 1: to come in and be a little bit more of
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  Speaker 1: a complimentary player for them. But you're bringing in someone
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  Speaker 1: who then has a couple of years of Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: experience and is used to what it means to play
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  Speaker 1: in the Big Ten officiating at all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he could probably do. You know, Quest Glover
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  Speaker 2: played a lot of minutes once Michie Johnson left the team,
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  Speaker 2: so there are minutes to be had for a third guard.
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  Speaker 2: And they'll play three guards times and we'll see what
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  Speaker 2: happens with Tayson Chapman as well his future, but he
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  Speaker 2: does have that experience. It was interesting as a true
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  Speaker 2: freshman he averaged three point four rebounds per game, which
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  Speaker 2: is I just mentioned that Christophe Telly four point nine
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  Speaker 2: as a junior, so cups is you know, he's one
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  Speaker 2: of those scrappers, but he also he can shoot, he
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  Speaker 2: can get to the basket. He was I think he
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  Speaker 2: was mister basketball in Ohio or he and Malachi Brandon
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  Speaker 2: I think were maybe mixing it up there or at
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  Speaker 2: some point. But you know, he comes from a good
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  Speaker 2: program at Centerville and played quite a bit started I
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  Speaker 2: think twenty two games as a true freshman at Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: So this is somebody that has got experience and that's
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  Speaker 2: something that the buck guys are looking.
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  Speaker 1: For, all right. And I just did some quick googling
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  Speaker 1: while you were talking. Gabe Cups was in fact mister
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  Speaker 1: Basketball in Ohio. So there you go. You have a
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  Speaker 1: former Mister Basketball winner joining the Buck Eyes there. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they are also losing some key pieces. Micah Parrish was
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  Speaker 1: the only one of the top four scorers who is leaving.
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  Speaker 1: He graduated. They also, as you mentioned earlier, Aaron Braudshaw
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  Speaker 1: hits the portal, Meeting Johnson hits the portal, Aaron Mahafey
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  Speaker 1: hits the portal. Austin Parks hits the portal. So those
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  Speaker 1: are three big guys plus Michie Johnson who are all
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  Speaker 1: headed out the door. And then you have, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: some other guys who are kind of in the middle
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  Speaker 1: in terms of you know, are they are they are?
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  Speaker 1: What's the status of taste and Chapman guys like that,
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  Speaker 1: So you get that. But just you know, based on
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  Speaker 1: what we know right now about this team, what else
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  Speaker 1: do they need if they are going portal shopping and
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  Speaker 1: there's another couple of weeks that the portal's opened before
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  Speaker 1: you know that guys could potentially put their names in.
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  Speaker 1: And lord knows, there are plenty of people in the
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  Speaker 1: portal right now. It's up thousands, literally thousands of players
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  Speaker 1: in the portal right now. I think it was three
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  Speaker 1: times the number that had been in this time last year.
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  Speaker 1: So it is kind of going crazy in college basketball
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  Speaker 1: right now. But just position wise, I don't even need
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  Speaker 1: specific names, but just position wise, what's on the shopping
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  Speaker 1: list for the Buckeyes is they look to build out
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  Speaker 1: their roster for the upcoming season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think some of this is dependent on Sean Stewart.
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  Speaker 2: And I know, as as we're recording this, before you
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  Speaker 2: even get it uploaded, news will break, so it'll be
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  Speaker 2: we'll be contradicting whatever we've said here. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of the interesting things you lose Micah Parrish. That's
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  Speaker 2: thirteen fourteen points a game on that wing, and he
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  Speaker 2: came up big and some certain circumstances over the course
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  Speaker 2: of the season. And you know, I know Devin Royal
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  Speaker 2: is a Ford, but sometimes he's a stretch for he's
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  Speaker 2: a big three, whereas Parish could also play two. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think somebody in that mold of a mic comparison,
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  Speaker 2: maybe that's Colin White this year or next year, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as a sophomore and you know, he got a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of experiencing, is playing more more and more as
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  Speaker 2: the season went on, So maybe he can step in
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  Speaker 2: and do some of that. I know we're looking we've
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  Speaker 2: been talking about a big man, but you know, i'd
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  Speaker 2: say a scoring wing and if you can get somebody
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  Speaker 2: that can play in the paint. And the thing is,
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  Speaker 2: it's like looking for a left tackle in football in
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  Speaker 2: the portal, Like, well, if they could just get you know,
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  Speaker 2: a big that can score and you know, a guy
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  Speaker 2: on a wing that's tough to stop. But yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: everybody's plan, and there are plenty of schools out there,
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  Speaker 2: more schools out there that will pay for that in
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  Speaker 2: college basketball than there are in college football.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we will see how the Buckeyes wrap up that
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  Speaker 1: spring portal season in basketball, and we'll also be following
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  Speaker 1: what will probably be a lively spring portal session in
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  Speaker 1: football that'll start in just a week or so after
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes wrap up spring practice. The spring portal we
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  Speaker 1: know opens April twentieth. They're thereabouts, so there will be
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  Speaker 1: plenty of football talk, plenty of basketball talk, and much
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  Speaker 1: much more. Spring game coming up on Saturday for the
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  Speaker 1: buck Eyes for football, the White House visit on Monday
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  Speaker 1: following that, There's gonna be plenty to talk about there,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course all that portal drama and all
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  Speaker 1: that fun that's all coming up, plus potentially a very
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  Speaker 1: busy time in recruiting as well. I told you that
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  Speaker 1: there was yesterday show that there was a new commitment
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  Speaker 1: for the buck Eyes in football. Mark and Tony not
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  Speaker 1: took care of that one on Friday for you and
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeye Weekly Feed. Plenty more coming on the recruiting
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  Speaker 1: front as the buck guys are hosting a ton of
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  Speaker 1: visitors right now. Lots to talk about in recruiting, Lots
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  Speaker 1: to talk about with the team, lots to talk about
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  Speaker 1: in the transfer portal. You can talk about it all
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  Speaker 1: buckeyehuddle dot com. That'll do it for today. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: guys all for joining us. Great day. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: you tomorrow.