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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Basketball_ Kansas Recap & Houston Preview (Episode 689) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: It is a showtime in the big City.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, welcome in. It's time for Three Guys Before
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  Speaker 2: the Game Episode number six, eight, nine, six, and eighty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Those reviews and preview.
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  Speaker 2: Shows West Virginia and Kansas from this past weekend, looking
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  Speaker 2: ahead to Tuesday Night's tilt between the Mountaineers and the
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  Speaker 2: on stats coming up. Will break down these games. What
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  Speaker 2: a weekend, right, my goodness, Virginia. The two basketballers knock
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  Speaker 2: off nationally ranked teams, West Virginia over number twenty two
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  Speaker 2: Kansas eighty six to seventy five. And then yesterday the
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  Speaker 2: fighting Mark Kellogg's go up to Ames, Iowa and took
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  Speaker 2: on number eleven Iowa State double digited them, lined up
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  Speaker 2: eighty three seventy. You know what they did, They walked
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  Speaker 2: right across the middle of the floor after the game
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  Speaker 2: was over, on the way to the bus. What they say,
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  Speaker 2: but thanks for having us see you eighty three seventy.
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  Speaker 3: Mimi was outstanding. Jordan Harrison put up a stat line
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  Speaker 3: shut up. They just shot that line up.
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  Speaker 1: They just they don't care whether they're home or away.
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  Speaker 3: They just went.
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  Speaker 1: They just win road games too. It doesn't matter where
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  Speaker 1: do you want to play? Go play.
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  Speaker 2: They shot sixty percent from the field in the in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarters, they shot fifty five percent in the half.
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  Speaker 2: They shot fifty one for the game, and they turned.
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  Speaker 3: Over Iowa State in one of those quarters, might have
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  Speaker 3: been the third. Nine turnovers in the order.
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  Speaker 2: They had twenty five. They forced twenty five turnovers, and
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  Speaker 2: they scored the the Iowa Staters thirty to seventeen, thirty
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  Speaker 2: to seventeen, Yeah, thirty to seventeen, a thirteen point difference
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  Speaker 2: in turnovers, and that was the margin of victory. Thirteen point.
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  Speaker 3: Big runs were a theme this weekend for the basketball team.
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  Speaker 3: On that one, and then of course westfordin and Kansas,
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  Speaker 3: which you're gonna get to. That was a big run.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, huge, twenty two to two, and that's what it was,
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  Speaker 2: twenty two to sixteen, sixteen, oh and a twenty two
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  Speaker 2: to two run over the Kansases. So yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 2: good deal. However, not to cast any clouds here.
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  Speaker 3: Job, however, don't say yeah, can we enjoy it for
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  Speaker 3: a minute?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah we will. The gauntlet continues, though, because West Virginia
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  Speaker 2: now takes on the Houston Cougars Tuesday night, and as
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  Speaker 2: of right now, the rankings haven't come out because it's
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the night when we're recording, but it's
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  Speaker 2: They were number seven last week, so they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be you know, they just got one loss, and they
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  Speaker 2: what they do.
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  Speaker 1: They just they went to bayl or just went to Wait,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't treat them nicely.
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  Speaker 3: Nod rather be Texas Tech earlier in the week too.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, they're good. They're good.
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  Speaker 2: They're good again, we'll get to that preview. They're really
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  Speaker 2: they're really super enjoy Kansas for a minute.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean let's talk about being Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's here's one thing you never forget.
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  Speaker 2: You never forget a nice victory like that over a
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  Speaker 2: nationally ranked team on your home floor. But for me,
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  Speaker 2: I'll always remember that game West Virginia over Kansas, not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily for what went on on the court, but the
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  Speaker 2: fact that Hoppy was there first game he had been
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  Speaker 2: to since UNLV like and that was that eighty one
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  Speaker 2: eighty two? What year was that? What was seriously? I
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  Speaker 2: think when was the last time you were there?
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  Speaker 3: The last time I was there? Adrian Dantley?
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  Speaker 2: Your knowledge?
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  Speaker 3: When was the last time you were there for a
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  Speaker 3: men's game? Good Adrian Dantley reference?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, I don't remember twenty five years maybe
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  Speaker 1: seriously for a men's game. Yeah, maybe maybe, No, No,
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  Speaker 1: that's not right. Maybe it's been so long ago, I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: You remember how Adrian Danty used to rub the ball
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  Speaker 2: when he shot a free throw? Brad did you know?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I remember West Virginia beat him, beating Notre
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  Speaker 3: Dame with a lot of Adrian Dantley.
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  Speaker 2: He put his hand, his hand over the ball, he bounced,
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  Speaker 2: bounced back thene he'd rub his hand over it like
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  Speaker 2: that and then put shut up.
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  Speaker 3: He was a popular card played for the Buffalo Braves.
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  Speaker 2: Of course you knew that. Other Yeah, of course you
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  Speaker 2: knew that. So Hoppy was at the game, and we'll talk. Well,
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  Speaker 2: hell show the picture right now. So we had three
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  Speaker 2: guys at the gate, and there's Hoppy. Wait, say that's
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  Speaker 2: not one of the three guys, that's the fourth guy.
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  Speaker 2: The fourth guy, President Michael Benson. Uh was there and
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  Speaker 2: there we are with the President. That was prior to
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  Speaker 2: tip off. That was before the action started. What was
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  Speaker 2: There's three guys at the game with the president, which
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  Speaker 2: is good company.
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  Speaker 3: So here's go ahead, No, you tell the stories.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the story is that President Benson is a loyal
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  Speaker 1: three guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listener, he gets on that orange cycle, he does
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  Speaker 2: that cycle workout over there. Orange theory.
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  Speaker 3: Is that what they called, that's what that's called.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I was on the I was on the phone
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  Speaker 1: this week. I was actually doing some work or something,
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  Speaker 1: and I see on their President Benson's calling me. This
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  Speaker 1: was a couple of days ago. Why wouldn't he Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So I took the call and he said I was
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  Speaker 1: listening to three guys and heard something about that you
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  Speaker 1: haven't been to a game or don't get a good
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  Speaker 1: seat whatever it was. He says, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: come and sit with me at the game Saturday, Brad,
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  Speaker 1: And I said, well, of course, mister President, I'd be
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  Speaker 1: happy to come. And he got me some tickets and
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  Speaker 1: got a ticket.
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  Speaker 2: Got me some tickets. Here's the reality.
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  Speaker 3: Of it.
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  Speaker 2: What he the reality. Let's put it into context, brag.
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  Speaker 2: Can we put it in the context. He heard you
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  Speaker 2: whining on the show about wanting to sit.
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  Speaker 3: Be more accurate behind.
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  Speaker 1: That's actually that's what it was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, behind us in the front row, and I said
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  Speaker 2: I don't have access to those. He happens to have
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  Speaker 2: access to those. So that's why he called you and said,
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  Speaker 2: since Tony can't help you out, you can use one
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  Speaker 2: of my seats, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So it was Tony's seat, that's one of yours, it's
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  Speaker 1: one of his seats.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps that's what we told you.
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  Speaker 3: We don't. We don't have tickets behind the bench. We
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  Speaker 3: do not. Now the president of the university does now
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  Speaker 3: downtown does they have some access to that?
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  Speaker 2: We do?
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  Speaker 3: Keep saying that we don't have those.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you think.
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  Speaker 3: He heard you complaining on the show that you didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to just go and sit in a scene like
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  Speaker 3: everybody else, that you had to be behind.
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  Speaker 1: Us, and the president took care of that. So I
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  Speaker 1: sat with the President right behind for front row and
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  Speaker 1: had a wonderful time.
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  Speaker 2: Well here's the next question to that. Yeah, did you
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  Speaker 2: watch the game? Because I had several reports like all
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  Speaker 2: they are, all they're doing is talking. They're not watching
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, we watched the entire game. And President Benson,
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  Speaker 1: who played basketball, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Sure he played there. He played at a place called
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  Speaker 2: Oxford and b why you know he was up there?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I told you? Who's the big dude
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  Speaker 2: and who's the congress guy? That what there's a congression.
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  Speaker 2: There's a big congressman that was at Oxford when he
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  Speaker 2: was there. Oh, I don't know, tell you, I'll figure
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  Speaker 2: it out. So no, Corey, Corey first named Corey. Who's
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: the big Booker? Corey Booker.
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  Speaker 3: He was there at Oxford when Benson was there. This
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  Speaker 3: from the resident political guy. I'll just come up with
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  Speaker 3: the political folks. Well, the political pundit over here doesn't
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  Speaker 3: know who you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I don't follow it. No, I mean we talked, but
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  Speaker 1: we watched the game intently. I mean it's a very
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  Speaker 1: very knowledgeable basketball fan and it was great fun. And
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  Speaker 1: we were I mean we're talking to and maybe during
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  Speaker 1: a break we talk or a play would happen and
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  Speaker 1: we would discuss that. Theread life happens, and we knew.
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  Speaker 3: President Benson was watching I think he was really asking
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  Speaker 3: if you were paying attention. No, President bention was watching.
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  Speaker 3: We know that he was.
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  Speaker 1: You were, Oh, absolutely, but I tell you it was
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  Speaker 1: It was great fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Happy's obvious observations are coming up in just a
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  Speaker 2: second textual healing as well.
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  Speaker 1: And thank you, mister President for the infight.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, well, you picked a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be a strange that we'd like to see you,
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: and they picked a good one to come to before
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  Speaker 2: another twenty five years goes by. We'd love to see
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  Speaker 2: you back in there.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the coach Hodge afterward. Yeah, I saw he
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  Speaker 1: came over Dans but and he said, hey, you're a
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I said I was. I didn't get a
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  Speaker 3: chance to.
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, as President, I said, coach, I think
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  Speaker 3: May have a bit of a lucky charm.
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  Speaker 1: I'm brand new, but the things we already knew.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, baby, hit it. I cannot wait to see
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  Speaker 2: the obvious things you're gonna come away with after being
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  Speaker 2: in the arena.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's basketball. Games at the coliseum are fun. Sorry,
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  Speaker 3: didn't mean to jump the obvious observation. You go right ahead,
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  Speaker 3: seats a lot of people. There was a lot of
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  Speaker 3: gold in there.
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  Speaker 1: They used three officials during the game. You know what,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know you couldn't get into
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  Speaker 1: ten thirty. I got there like I was all anxious
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  Speaker 1: and nervous. I got there ten o'clock, just standing around,
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  Speaker 1: just visiting with people, it was like the first peep
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  Speaker 1: person in the parking lot. You're like a greeter. That
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  Speaker 1: was You're like a greeter. Good, great, Okay, Tony's you
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  Speaker 1: like to say, it's a great day to be a
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  Speaker 1: mountaineer wherever you may be. That was a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Just a just a just a great day in West Virginia, Brad.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, they just own Kansas here.
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  Speaker 3: Have Kansas has a lot of problems in this building.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Bill's nice to say, Bill self just likes
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  Speaker 1: out in highs. When he asked it, it's wild.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's it's the building in the in the
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  Speaker 3: league where he has the most trouble and it's not
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  Speaker 3: particularly close.
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  Speaker 1: Props to the crowd, I mean, just a great crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Students went back Monday today, but students were there. Great crowd,
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  Speaker 1: great at great atmosphere. Crowd made a difference down the
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  Speaker 1: stretch in the crowd, any difference, Brad. I know you'll
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  Speaker 1: point out key plays and key players for me, like
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  Speaker 1: be low and honor. My player of the game was
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Harlan Obioha. I just thought that he had the best
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  Speaker 1: game since pit I mean he's had double double ten
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  Speaker 1: and ten and down in the second half particularly, he
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  Speaker 1: just was playing with so much passion, getting big rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: getting buckets.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he was a difference maker. He was an
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  Speaker 3: outstanding You could tell that game meant meant, yeah, a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more to him. He was ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia had issues with turnovers in the first ten minutes,
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  Speaker 1: had five, but only had for the rest of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Cleaned it up.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty amazing. Turned up all over four times the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Free throws struggled early, but then made free throws down a.
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  Speaker 2: Stretch fourteen to eighteen in the second half, seventy eight
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  Speaker 2: percent in the second half, seventy two percent for the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, there was a point in the second half. Early
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, I thought I was getting worried.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't think Mountainer Nation was. And maybe you guys two
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas extended the lead to what seven or eight?
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  Speaker 1: Was it at one point? Wasn't nine? Was it eight? Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: And West Virginia went on that sixteen oh run. You said,
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  Speaker 1: twenty two to two. Is that what it was? But
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  Speaker 1: a sixteen oh run against Kansas? Sixteen oh, that's unheard of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were up hopped to your point, they were
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  Speaker 2: up eight with fourteen fifty five to go. At fifty
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  Speaker 2: nine fifty one, they were up eight again with eight
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  Speaker 2: thirty six to go. No, that's the other side of it.
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  Speaker 2: Were West Virginia had gone on a runt, so the
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  Speaker 2: visitors were up their last time that they had that
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  Speaker 2: chunk lead fourteen fifty five to go, they're up fifty
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  Speaker 2: nine to fifty one.
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  Speaker 1: And that goes back to what coach Hodge talked about
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  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati game. That is finished strong, which they obviously
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  Speaker 1: obviously did.
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  Speaker 3: Brad.
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  Speaker 1: I think we talked about this. Maybe at some point
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  Speaker 1: I'll let you would talk more about this. But you
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  Speaker 1: hear people grousing when West Virginia uses the shot clock offensively,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it shot clock's winding down. But we
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  Speaker 1: know that that's his offense, and you were trying to
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  Speaker 1: get a good shot and you're trying to slow down
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  Speaker 1: the game and you're trying to get the defense to
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  Speaker 1: make mistakes. Did did that strategy of using the shot clock?
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  Speaker 1: How did that help you in the last couple of minutes?
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  Speaker 3: One need of the game, one need the game? And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'll get into that a little bit more. But that worked.
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  Speaker 3: It was perfect game plan with perfect execution. That's what happens.
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  Speaker 1: So in a lot of teams when they try to
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  Speaker 1: slow it down, when they're not used to slowing down,
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  Speaker 1: what happens. They do it, they can't do it. Coach
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  Speaker 1: Hodd said, after Cincinnati got to win the home games,
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  Speaker 1: won a couple home games, good job. Now you have
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  Speaker 1: to go to the Houston Cougars and we you know
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  Speaker 1: you got Brad. You'll break that down. They shot seventy
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  Speaker 1: four shots against the Baylor Bears, seventy four thirty nine
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  Speaker 1: to three pointers. They missed a ton, but they shot
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine three point shots. And then again, Brad, I'll
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: be interested in your analysis because you say, well, which
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: who's their guy? Well, they had five guys and double
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: figures in that game, and that's because they got guys.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: We talked about the WVU women, they're rolling football. According
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: to CBS Sports, WVU had the most portal departures of
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: any school at forty six houseome. Ever, don't panic, only four.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Only four of those started at least six games, So
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of players in the portal. But you did
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: not get decimated by the portal gree Yes.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: I would also love to know the number of forty six.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: From that number, how many were encouraged to depart? I
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: would think that number would be well over over half,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: well over half, Yeah, I would agree, I would agree.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, And finally, yeah, on this day, I like to
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: do a little bit of this on this day, January twelfth,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: when it's a live show, people are listening. Nineteen fifty eight,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: NCAA added the two point conversion in college football.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Would you like to know how often the two point
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: conversion is successful? Yeah, it's about which I want to.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Guess two point conversion. It's a little it's it's not
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: above fifty, No, forty two.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I was gonna yeah, it's just like forty eight and
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four is like forty eight percent. Yeah, there's
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: about half, about half the different game two point conversion.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: There you go, the anniversary anniversary nineteen fifty eight. And finally, finally,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: on this day. In nineteen ninety two, Troy State defeated
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: DeVry Hoyas two hundred and fifty eight to one forty nine.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: College basketball huh fifteen n CAA records were broken. They
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: asked how did that happen? Because the coach of troy
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: and by the way, Devrye was an inn Ai school.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: The coach of Troy Don Mastrie, employed the strategy Brad
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Coach Hodge would not like this of trying to steal
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: on every play and if they didn't get the steal,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: they just let the other team score. And the final
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: score was two fifty eight to one forty nine on
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: this day in nineteen ninety two. So that strategicy was
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: not employed by other coaches, so it didn't Dot said
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: a Trie didn't catch on, did not catch on.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: We're also getting ready for the sixty sixth anniversary later
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: this month January twenty sixth of Burnsville High School's Danny Heater.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Oh Yeah, scoring one hundred and thirty five points as
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Burnsville knocked off Widen January twenty sixth, nineteen sixty It's
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: a record that still stands, will never be broke. Forty
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: six points in one quarter, fifty three field goals, twenty
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: nine free throws, all before the three point line. That
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: anniversary is coming up. Hoppy, good job, as.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: You think with something thoughts from Hobby's point of view,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: he was on it. This segment has been watched intently
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: with the presidents.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, some of those. Some of those are from the president.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Some of those Zobbi's observations. Yeahs smooth, that's the play.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: By the way, he's into it.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: What do you mean he's in there.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I mean he's watching, he's up, he's cheer, he's yeah,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: he gets it. Oh, he gets it completely. He's a
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: way into it, yes, big time. Yeah, he follows and
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: he's he's multitask. I mean he's watching the game intently.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: He's talking to people, he's texting people. I mean he's
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: got about bright he's got about three things going at once.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: There's a guy to be president. He makes me tired.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I mean every time I look around, some way, somewhere's moving.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: You know who's you know who's absent his wrent.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: What do you mean he says he can't watch.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: He's a mess.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: He's got a seat right beside you guys.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah's ass and the seats absent the whole game.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I asked, where were you?
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: It's almost ceremonial comes down. He said, he's there for
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: a few minutes and then he's watch.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: He has all these little different places that he goes to,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: goes to his office, goes in the locker room, goes
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: in the team room, watches the team room. Won't come
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: here for minutes. Left, he goes down here. Then he
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: swings back around as a fellow.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Nervous nelly during games when I worked there, I watched
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: many games on TV inside my office while the game's
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: going on right out there up in the ages. I
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: get it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: By the way, you're tight. You're tight man during the game. Yeah,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: why would you say that, Well, because he's reacting. I mean,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: you're just it was one call. You'll probably talk about
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: that call where you just were like, like you're gonna
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: explode it the top of your.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Hand off Brad, still trying to learn that proper decorum.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: He should probably lean toward me, listen and see what
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I do during the course of games.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: And that's exactly when you killed that official. During that
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I didn't say anything, the one he's talking about, I
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: didn't say anything.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I just turned.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I shouldn't say. I didn't say a word because he's
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: on the air just crushing the guys. I didn't need
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: to say anything. How about for decorum. He's over there
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: just killing him.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: That was the file that the ball the kid lost
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: the ball. That just went up out of his hands.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: And I would have that was can I lead with
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: an obvious obvious observation is this spreads on stats? Just
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: talking for a minute, my obvious observation, this is pretty wild.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: You've you've now beaten Kansas three consecutive years, three different coaches,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: and basically three entirely different lineups.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: That's a really good point in all seriousness.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think about that. For a team that
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: won this league twelve consecutive times, it was an unbelievable
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: record run for them. Three years, three different coaches, three
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: entirely different lineups. And then, if you want to go
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: one step further, it's been a big in each of
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: those three that's really been the star. Now Saturday there
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: were multiple stars, and we'll get to all of those,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: but Harlan from Saturday had an unbelievable game, Eduardo Andre
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: at Allen Fieldhouse was a difference maker, and then Pat
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Sumnik had the game of his life here three years ago. Right,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: those are three bigs, three wins, three different coaches, three
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: entirely different lineups.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Hello, it's not our wild, it's not our job to
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: figure out Kansas. But there's like something like they were
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: the absolute you couldn't sniff them right. As he said,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: they won twelve conference championships in a row, which I
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: don't think will ever be done again in a major conference.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I don't think that'll ever happen again. That was unbelievab Like,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: So here's the question, like, what's up? What's up? I
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: mean there you could tell the Peterson thing is not
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: going well because of his in and out taking himself
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: out like that is not that is not conducive to
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I think the chemistry that you need to win these
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: kind of games. I mean, when it gets real, you
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: got to have everyone, as PJ. Fleck would say, rowing
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: the boat and it's there's something in there. I'm gonna
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: find them to be an extremely interesting study as the
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: season goes on, to see what they end up doing,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: see what Peterson ends up becoming.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: As we said, there's still some talent there.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: You got to play well. That's not one where you
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: can go in there and chuck it around and do
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: anything and that. And that's what I think the story
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: of this was coming out of that game that West
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Virginia played extremely well throughout the whole game, put up
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: eighty six guys, put up eighty six on a team
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: that came into the game has the number eleventh ranked
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: defensive team in the Ken Palm ratings, one of the
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: best three point defenses in the country. West Virginia dropped
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: double digit thre's on him. Again. I'll get into all
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: those numbers, but I just thought, credit to WVU and
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: again another year of transition and they turn around and
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: get the third straight win over Kansas. Really that really
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: struck me.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: You know what was fun being again things you see
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: when you're there and having the vantage point which I did,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: is that West Virginia was up on ten to nine
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: in the last thirty seconds, brand and West Virginia nobody
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: stepped in to take the ball out, and coach Hodge
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: called a time out and brought the young man over
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and had a well, had a candid discussion with him.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Here's what was happening there. Jasper was pulling a nice
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: veteran move and taking his time and getting to the inbounds,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: making sure everybody got set and knew what they were doing.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: So he was not going to be told when he
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: needed to start. He was going to decide when to
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: start it. But in a different in a point of
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: emphasis this. Officials are supposed to get the game going
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: quicker and not allowed for that stuff. The official not
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: only threw the ball over to the empty spot where
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Jasper was going to go. Jazz had his back to
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: the baseline where he was about to step in and
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: was directing some traffic, taking his time, intentionally slowing that down.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: The official not only threw the ball in, started his
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: count and was al was at two and going on
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: to three. West Virginia would have got a violation. Ross
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: recognized it and called the time out there, But Jasper
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: was trying to that That was intentional. That wasn't like,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: what are we doing?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Jasper was intentionally trying to slow it down and get
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: everybody set. Take your time there.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: To get hit on a ten count questionable ten count?
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Too quick, too quick, too quick quick. Yeah, it didn't
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: affect the gain. Yeah, okay, we can do we can
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: do stats stuff you want.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: You want to just spreads on stats. Okay, spreads on stats.
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  Speaker 3: Let's begin as you just mentioned what we talked about Friday.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Let's look at how some of those keys turned out.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: And we'll start with what we thought was the biggest
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: key in the game, and it was it certainly turned
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: out to be a big one. I thought, what would
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Kansas get from Darren Peterson, the talented projected by some
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: to be the number one pick in the NBA Draft
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: guard that Kansas has. I thought, guys first and foremost
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: as advertised when you see him live in terms of
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: a player and a skill set and the size and
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: how smooth and his ability to get shots when he
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: wants shots. Guys, there was a period of time in
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: the first half where it was just like, my god,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: this dude is really really good. Showed his talent in
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: the first half, just really did whatever he wanted. Tony
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: into the first half, we were saying on air, Peterson's
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: going to get the last shot. Comes Peterson comes down.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Everybody knew he's getting last shot, knocks the last shot in.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: But but but the second half was different, and a
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: lot of that was Jasper Floyd individually and teams second darily,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: but Jasper was exceptional on defense in the second half.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: On him as the primary defender, you forced Peterson into
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: one of six from the field, one of four from
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: three in the second half. He just could not get
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: it going. And then late his hamstring must have been
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: acting up or cramps. I didn't hear afterwards what it was,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: but he needed out of that game. Came out of
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: that game late right as onnor Huff was hitting the
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: three over him and that changed. He came back in
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: for just a little bit of a run after that,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: but was not available for Kansas after that. West Virginia
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: took advantage and got the win. So going in we
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: thought that was the biggest key. Was he going to
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: be a guy that put up forty on you or
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: could you get him to come in and out of
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: that lineup. He did late in that game, and I
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: thought that was a factor.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I think we need to underscore that even more. Just think, now,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: this guy's going to be a draft pick, whether he's one, two, three, four,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: whatever it is next summer. But in the second half,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: you held him to one for six, one for six
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: and one for four from three. He scored seven points
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: in the half.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: That, right there is everything you need to know. Most
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: of the strategy against him. Really all you can do
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: is you've just got to make it difficult on him,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: make him hit tough shots over you, and he did
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: in the first half. But in the second half he
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: didn't make those tough shots. He wasn't able to convert.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: And again that's a team effort. You're not guarding a
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: guy with one guy, but Jasper was the primary defender
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: and just made it absolutely difficult. I mean, you've heard
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: me talk oop for a long time about I think
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Jasper is one of the best on ball defenders in
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: this league, and I thought he really should it again
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: on Saturday. Yes, absolutely, let's keep going. Let's talk about
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: the three point shooting we have thought earlier in the season, Antony,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: we watched these guys a lot through the summer, and
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I felt like this was going to be a good
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: shooting team. There's multiple guys that can make shots, and
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: it came along slowly early in the season, but it's
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: starting to pick up in terms of your three point shooting.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: That's now five of the last six games with double
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: digit threes. Three of those opponents were in the top
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: eleven nationally in defensive efficiency, two of them were top
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: five three point defensive efficiency teams, and you're finding a
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: way to hit double digit threes. Four of those five
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: opponents that you've hit double digit threes against were Power
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: four teams, So you're not just stacking stats against sub
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: three hundred ranked teams here. So West Virginia's shooting continues
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: to be an important part of this, and you're starting
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: to get some consistency across multiple guys again. That's led
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: by Honor and we'll get into some of his numbers.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: It's led by him. When he's making shots, it opens
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: everything else up. But this team has been making threes
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: over the last few games. Six of the young men
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: scored threes on Saturday correct against Kansas six of six
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: from the top of the key, three, three of five
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: from the right wing three. So that's nine of eleven
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: from three just from those two spots. You're blistering from
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: the top and from that right side key.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: You know, to see in person how quickly Anorhoff gets
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: off the shot.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: See you see what we've been saying. It's unreal, isn't it.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: It's almost like you get like you missed it. Yeah,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: you're watching it and still feel like you missed it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: It's right, good, I'm glad you caught that because it's
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: it is.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: It's amazing. He's not just We've had some great shooters
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: come through here, and he's certainly in that conversation, but
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: the the elite tough shot making that he hits has
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: to be at the top of the list in history here.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: It's unreal. He just doesn't get very many easy look,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: it's because of his size, He's had to do that
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like, uh, you know, you evolve right
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: to survive, and he's had to evolve into getting rid
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: of that ball super quick. Otherwise he knows.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: It's fun, right, he knows it's coming back. Were you
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: able to watch him off the ball some too? Oh yeah, yeah,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: So do you see why I called him Taevon Austin
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: in the basketball court the stop and the start and
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: the side step and all of the defenders on him
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: and he jumps to the side and he's off him.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Now can he play slot? I've talked to him about that.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: I think he'd be a great slots, pretty good in
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: corner too. He'd be probably a little small.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: For one sixty five and I stay in the basketball court.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Play slot, Yeah, he'd be unguardable. We talked after the
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: ISCU game the Iowa State game that I thought the
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: plan was really good going into that, and you executed
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: it to the standpoint that you got a lot of
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: shots offensively, you just didn't make them. But the way
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: they attacked that Iowa State defense I thought was excellent.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: And I thought, then you come back against Cincinnati. Listen,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati is struggling mightily. That's a really good defensive team
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: that was hard to get shots against them, but you
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: executed and got the win. It felt like there were
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: some signs that this offense was starting to come together,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: and I thought against Kansas, you did. You put it
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: together with double digit threes, you scored inside, you got
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: eighty six points against again, the eleventh ranked defensive efficiency
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: team in the country. I thought it was an excellent
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: game in terms of how you attacked them defensively, and
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: I'll get into some of that here coming up in
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: just a minute. And then the execution by the guys
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: in terms of making shots. And oh, by the way,
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: this is an easier game when you make shots, isn't it.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: It is West Virginia. We also talked on Friday about
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: slowing their transition, and West Virginia didn't do a great
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: job of that. During the game. Twenty five percent of
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: their shots came via fast break that's above their season average.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: But and I thought this was a big butt. You
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: did limit them in the second half to fast break points.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: They only had five of them five fast break points
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: in the second half, and part of that was hope.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: You mentioned those fewer turnovers in the second half where
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: you only had two in the entire second half, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: you made shots, so you weren't giving them those live
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: ball runouts where they're extremely good at the steal and
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: then it's going the other way and it's up fast.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: We had fourteen in the first half.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Correct, and then you had you were making shots so
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: you could get back on defense, and that obviously limits transition.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: So that got better throughout the game, but it was
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: a problem certainly early. You also ate them up inside
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: one point three points per possession on post ups. And
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I've said this many times. If you average one point
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: one points per possession, you probably will lead the country.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: At least that's what led the country last year overall.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: So for context, the West Virginia is one point three
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: on post ups. And this wasn't just the bigs inside
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: We saw below have some success. Harlan got some inside buckets,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: But how about Jasper and I think top that was
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: your point that people grouse when they do that and
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: the shots not converted. Okay, get it, but that's part
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: of what you're doing. And Tony, we mentioned it on
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: the broadcast. West Virginia did a great job of being
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: very NBA esque on Saturday. And by that, hopy, I
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: mean they identified specific matchups that they wanted to exploit,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: and when they got it, either just on the straight
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: matchup or off a switch everybody knew boom rotate out
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: of that, give it to the guy with the ball
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: clear the side, and we're going right at this guy.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: To the point Kansas had to remove one of their defenders.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: And again Bill Seltz, a Hall of Famer, he saw
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: it as quickly as we did two straight baskets. They
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: had to get their defender McDowell out of the game.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: El Marco Jackson was another guy they were targeting early,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: and every time he got matched up, Jasper took him,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: backed him right down on the post and that becomes
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: twofold one, which you said earlier. You're working clocks, so
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: you're limiting Kansas's possessions, and then two, if you can finish,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: that's even better. And three times Jasper took him to
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: the basket when they tried to leave single coverage on
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: him and finished. He was also waiting for a dropdown, right,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: That's why he's dribbling and looking trying to see what
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: the defense is going to do. Where's your advantage if
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: you don't come dig down on him. He's going to
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: the hoop, which he did. But then he also when
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: they dig down and drop down, what's he do? Kicks
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: a knock out boom, knock it in. So I thought
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: that was outstanding. That's the most points off post ups
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: for West Virginia since copp And State in early December. Well,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: most field goal attempts off post ups this season and
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: the second best points per possession this season from the
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: pick and roll roll man. So you really did a
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: good job. And if you go back to the last
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: couple of years, that's what Pat Sumnik and Noah Farakhon
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: did two years ago. Eduardo Andre had success last year.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Those were both against Hunter Dickinson, though this was a
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: different kind of matchup because of be Doomeda's ability to
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: block shots. But West Virginia ate them up inside in
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: a matchup all day, whether that was a guard or
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: a big So I thought that was important. Let's talk
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: catch and shoots for a second. And if you listen
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: regularly to this show, you've heard me talk about the
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: big gap that exists between how few unguarded catch and
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: shoot jumpers West Virginia gives up versus how many that
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: teams make against them, and I keep saying regression has
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: got to come. Those numbers are too far off. Well,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: maybe we got some. Kansas had eight guarded catch and
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: shoots out of twenty three total catch and shoot jumpers.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: That's below their season average. They usually get more than eight.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: They only got eight. But they only got three points
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: off those eight jumpers.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: There were possible twenty four.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: There we go. Now we're getting somewhere hoppy. That's the
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: way it should look. They tied a season low in
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: points off those shots, and by far a season low
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: in points per possession off those shots. So finally those
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: numbers matched up. West Virginia didn't give them very many
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: open looks, and when they did, they missed a lot
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: of them. So that was a big key. I know,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: we giggle and laugh all the time about you. You
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: have to make shots, right whenever you let's key the game.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Gotta make shots. There's a reason that is such an
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: important line. And here's why this game illustrated. Why West
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Virginia scored it's most points excuse me of the season
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: on guarded catch and shoots, most points off guarded catch
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: and shoots, best points per possession on guarded catch and
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: shoots this season, and a lot of that was honor.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: You talk about an elite tough shot maker, it's there.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, at one at the top of the key
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: late where you got the four point play opportunity.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Big right over Peterson. West Virginia also got good shots
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: against what had statistically been an elite defense. Twenty total
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: catch and shoot jumpers. Ten of them were guarded, ten
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: were unguarded, so they got some looks as well. The
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: offense was working after timeouts. Let's bring this up because
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: I mentioned it nearly every broadcast. Ross is really good
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: coming out of ten timeouts. West Virginia is top one
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: percent nationally in points per possession out of a timeout.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: So you ask, can you draw up offense? Can you
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: draw up sets coming out of timeouts? West Virginia so
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: far in the season top one percent in points per possession.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: This has taken a step in Big twelve play, even
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: though you face two of the top six defenses and
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: a third that was number eleven in the country. So
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: you've seen West Virginia score a bunch of its points
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: coming out of those timeouts and get great looks. I
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: also thought Ross's excuse me. Game plan was really good.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: In a couple of other areas, Honor being used as
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: a ball handler more because what you're trying to do,
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: hop is find ways that you can't just faceguard him
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: and take him out of games. You let him come
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: get the ball at the top, and now you've got
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: a situation with him, what are you gonna do. Honor
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: has twenty points as the pick and roll ball handler
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: in the last two games alone. He had thirty total
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: points in those sets in the previous fourteen games. So
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: you're seeing that evolve, right that teams have tape on you,
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: they see what you're trying to do, you counter punch
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: with them. Ross has done that with Honor in particular. Also,
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: we saw Honor We talked about this after the pit game.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Honor's ability to screen. You know, he'll go stand in
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: there and put a screen on people. And against Pitt
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: it happened a lot down inside the lane, like down
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: in that traffic. He would cross the lane, set a
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: screen and it was freeing up Harlan. That's why part
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: of why Harlan had such a big game against Pitt.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: So Ross continues to use Honor as a screener there
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: were multiple times when he did that and then and
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: then can pop back.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: The reason you do.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: That is because you have to make a decision, Hop,
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: what are you doing defensively? If you try and jump
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: with him with two guys, it leaves a lane open.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: I think that was what happened on the below dunk
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: that one time they both jumped to Honor on the
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: top and Below took it right down the lane because
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: there was no defender. And if you or if you
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: stay on that and block the lane, hop what happens.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: He generally gets a look popping and rolling out of
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: the screen. So that's been impressive. By the way, he
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: got rebound. He got rebounds. But we'll get into the
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: final un feno. They've also been using Trey in more
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: pick and roll actions in the last few games, and
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: I'll come back to Trey's performance because I thought it
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: was notable and really important. So offensive game plan was
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: really good and the guys executed it, and you had
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: you had to be good offensively because you weren't creating
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: live ball turnovers from Kansas. You only had two of
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: them in the whole game, so you needed your offense
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: to be efficient in this game, and it did come through.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: All right, let's finish up here with some individual performances.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: You guys already mentioned Harlan I don't need to add
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: to that. I thought he was outstanding. It was clear
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: the kid from Hoxeya, Kansas wanted to play against Ku
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: and he was ready to go. And it wasn't just
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: the stat line. It was his physicality in there. There
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: were a couple plays that won't show up on the
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: stat sheet that he didn't get a rebound, but he
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: tapped it out, or he was just in the area
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: and being physical, and.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Just his passion like yeah, that's yeah, I mean he
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: was he was really really into it.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: The question he begs the question, it has to be
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: replicated every single game going forward. If you're going to
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: do anything this season, if you're going to win games
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: in this league, that has to be the norm, not
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: the exception. And it shows that it's there, well, then
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: go do it.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about Jasper for a second. I mentioned his
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: defense on Peterson. I'll get to some numbers in just
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: a second. His backdowns offensively we talked about. It was
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: four to four from the field, including that big three.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Just a tremendous game. From Jasper. Here's the numbers. Peterson
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: had zero points out of the pick and roll. He
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: had twelve earlier in the week against TCU, had zero
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: against West Virginia, only the second game this season when
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: he hasn't scored out of the pick and roll. Talk
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: about doing a good job defensively. He had zero unguarded
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: catching shoot attempts.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Wow, zero they were there.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: All eight were guarded. Only game all season with zero
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: on guarded catching shoots. Jasper also played se seventeen minutes
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: excuse me, jeez in the second half in big foul
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: trouble and didn't foul out, picked up his third foul.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: So he had those two in the first three minutes
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: of the first half and had to sit basically the
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: whole first half. So credit to Amir Jenkins for coming
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: in and giving you great first half minutes there why
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: jass was on the bench second half. Picks up his
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: third foul at the nineteen twenty five mark. So here
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: he is fifty seconds into the second half and he's
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: got three, stayed out there, played the bulk of the
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: second half, did not get his fourth until three point
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: fifty eight on the clock, didn't foul out, while guarding
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: what might be the number one pick in the NBA draft.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: So I can't say enough about what Jasper Floyd did
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: to you. How about Brendan Laurient, He was outstanding as well,
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: and it was another one of those baton games. Brennan
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: was the scorer in the first half, right outstanding when
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: he have sixteen in the first half. Then he handed
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: the baton off to Honor in the second half who
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: took the scoring. But below was outstanding as the roller,
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: and he was a guy that Ross identified for the game.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: If there was going to be somebody that needed a
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: big game, it was going to have to be be Low.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: He was outstanding. Eight points as the pick and roll roller.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: He did that on four field goal attempt so he
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: was perfect like he was up against Ohio State. He
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: had eight points off catch and shoot jumpers, which is
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: really good, So be Low outstanding, Honor four more threes
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: in the game. He had ten for the week, and
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Hoppy he mentioned the rebounds. Seven more rebounds for the
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: smallest guy on the floor. That gives him fifteen for
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: the week. And then he was nine to ten from
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: the free throw line. Many in the second half when
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: you were icing the game.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: You know what, he gets a lot of those. It's
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: just it's not because he's out jumping somebody. It's just
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: the ball comes out at a weird place and outside
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: of the bigs.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: And he said, so quick, just grabs the ball. Mentioned
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: he was an elite tough shot maker. That's his eighth
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: game out of sixteen total. This is honor eighth game
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: out of sixteen where he scored where he scored more
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: points on guarded catch and shoot. Jump where he got
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: his points on catch and shoot, jumper, excuse me, zero
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: of them came on unguarded. Zero points on guarded catch
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: and shoots, because he's rarely unguarded, and he's number two
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: in the nation and made three point field goals, number
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: one in the power for and he rarely gets an
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: unguarded catch and shoot. Talk about Trey real quick here.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: I thought that the numbers didn't show up like you
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: won't look at his stat line and go Trey played
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: his best game of the year, Tony, I thought demeanor
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: wise and aggressiveness offensively. There were some times when he
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: took it like you could tell he just said, I
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: don't care who we're playing, give me the ball. I'm
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: ready to go and went to the lane, tough, initiated
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: the contact, finished the drive over them. I thought he
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: was I thought he was really good. He hit two
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: massive threes for you, back to back. Yeah, he hit
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: two massive threes, and he played the entire twenty minutes
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: of the second half. But I just thought, demeanor, if
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: you were watching tray closely, the way he was aggressive
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: and the way he initiated contact, say on the offensive end,
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: I thought that was a really good game for treye.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: Eagle staff call.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: The notes on him. He's had two or more three
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: pointers in five of the last six games, and from
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: three point range in the last four games, he's shooting
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: forty one percent. He's made ten to threes in the
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: last four games.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: So he's coming, correct, coming, all right, that's a lot
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: for Kansas, I realized. But I just thought there was
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: a lot of things to point out, some numbers there
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: that really to me illustrate the job you did on
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Darren Peterson, how effective your offense was, how good multiple
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: players were, And that's that's what it's going to take
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: for this team. Honors got to make threes. That's first
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: and foremost, because it releases the pressure defensively and frees
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: up other guys. So he did that again. The rest
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: of the team stepped up. Just an outstanding performance.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Coming up, we'll preview the Houston Cougars right now. Let's
• 44:50
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  Speaker 2: in to the Houston Cougars. This will be a one
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  Speaker 3: The U of H was hoping this would be a
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: year after they appeared in that National championship game last
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: year and came within a possession of winning the whole thing.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: They were loaded, as we talked last year and have
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: been for a number of number of times, number of years.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: I thought, maybe they take a step back copy they
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: lost two starters they were having to start to true freshmen, like, Okay,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: just come back to the pack a little bit. You're
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: probably going to be in the hunt for a Big
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: twelve title, but hey, going there and maybe maybe take
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: a step back.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Well maybe maybe not.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: The two true freshmen they've added are pretty good. They're
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: both right now projected inside the top twelve NBA picks
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: coming up in the draft. Point Guard Kingston Flemings is
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: currently sixth best draft draft prospect courtesy of ESPN, and
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: he is outstanding top eight percent of players nationally and
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: offensive rating top two percent of players in assist rate nationally.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: And Ken Palm has a metric Guys that he uses
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: to list game MVPs statistically who came out of the
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  Speaker 3: game as the MVP does it for each game. The
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: leader nationally every player in the country is available for
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: this award. Every player Kingston Flemings is number one, is
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: a true freshman eleven game MVP. He's a dog for Houston.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: He's right now sitting in the number nine spot on
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Ken Palm's Player of the Year standings. That again comes statistically,
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: but he's number nine in the top ten, which by
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: the way, the Big twelve has four players in that
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: top ten nationally Player of the Year. But Flemings is unreal.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: He took over against Texas Tech. He was their go
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: to guy late. Now we can get into Emmanuel Sharp
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: and how good he is and what a sharp shooter
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: he is, and how devastating he can be when they
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: kick out. But Kingston Flemings, guys is a dude, and
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: Jazz and company are going to have their hands full
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: against him. The other true freshman's a big christinek twelfth
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: best prospect right now by ESPN for the NBA Draft.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: He is twenty second nationally out of twenty three hundred players.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: He's number twenty two in defensive rebounding rate. So he
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: and Jojo Tugler inside you can see why it's tough
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: to rebound against them.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Way when they got two first round projected first rounders.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: First rounders, two top elevens, and they're the freshmen. They're
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: not even their returning guy that are so good as
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: their freshmen Donald's All American five stars. They're dudes. What
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: was I just saying? Oh Senac on the offensive glass,
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: he's a top twenty percent player in offensive rebound of
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: percentage and block percentage. Houston comes in tenth longest winning
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: streak in the country. Only loss is to Tennessee back
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: on November fifteenth. Stop me if you've heard this before.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: This will be another top ten defense. West Virginia is
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: facing their number six in defensive efficiency, so that'd be
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: the second time in a week you're playing the number
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: six team defensively, and that's not even the best defensive
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: team you've played in the last ten days. Ioas State
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: was number three, number five in turnovers are the Kugs,
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: So this isn't all caps. In my notes, you must
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: handle the double screen or the double team coming off
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: high ball screens. And last year we talked about it
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: a ton. West Virginia struggled at Houston in this category.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: Down there. In that game, Houston averaged nearly two points
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: per possession off live ball turnovers. So basically, if you're
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: going to turn it over when they jump the ball
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: screen at the top or on the side. It was
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: like last year there just handing them a basket every
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: time they did that, literally getting two points per possession.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Plus they are awesome at that part of the game.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: One hundredth percentile nationally in points per possession off live
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: ball turnovers. So if you want to key limit turnovers,
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: handle the ball screen or the double teams coming off
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: the ball screens, they're ninetieth percentile in frequency of getting
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: those live ball turnovers. So not only do they get them,
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: they convert as I just said they did last year
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: to West Virginia. They're shooting fifty two percent from three
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: off live ball turnovers. That's in the ninety ninth percentile.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: So that's also part of why they're so devastating. We
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: saw Crier and Sharp do that to us last year
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: time and time again. Teams are shooting only thirty one
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: percent from three against them on unguarded catching shoots. So
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: I keep talking about how teams shoot. It's close to
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: fifty eighty percent against West Virginia in on guarded catch
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: and shoots only thirty one percent against Houston. Offensively, this
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: is where they've changed and part of what allowed them,
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: I think, to get to the National Championship game. Their
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: offense has come a long way in the last couple
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: of years, so they're elite defensively, but now they score
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: twenty seventh in offensive efficiency. They don't turn it over
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: munch fifth nationally in turnover percentage. This is interesting. They
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: don't shoot it at the rim very often. They're the
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: one team in the league that shoots the fewest rim
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: attempts in the Big Twelve. Cincinnati and West Virginia are
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: two and three in that category. But when they go
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: to the rim, they're really effective with those bigs eighty
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: three percent field goal percentage on shots at the rim.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: They've only missed eleven shots at the rim all season
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: in sixteen games. I don't shoot a ton. They've missed
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: eleven at the rim.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Because they know season. They know if they miss they
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: got to go back to the bench and Calvin's going
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: to be waiting for him.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: That's unreal. Eighty three percent field goal percentage the three
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: in the national average is sixty two per no just
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: twenty percent of their shots, but they are they are
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: a beast when they get it inside and they shoot
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: it extremely well from outside.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're more, but that's basically they're a machine. The
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: way he's built that program, it's just uh and there's interesting.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Ross takes a lot from Calvin Sampson. I mean, that's
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: the that's the team, and that's the coach defensively that
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: those guys have tried to mirror. And if you look
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: at it over the last several years, those North Texas
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: teams in Houston, they're right there in that same top
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: five family defensively nationally scoring average, scoring average, and so yeah,
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: this still I mean, on paper, this is supposed to
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: be a rock fight, but to your point, they have
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: really improved their offense when they went and got like LJ. Cryer,
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: who now is back and forth in the NBA with
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Golden State as a shooter. But now Flemings is just
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: another add on. They got a cook in there. Man.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: They just have an absolute template and he he's old school,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: like there's no players asking out on his team, because
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: they'd ask out, it would be like that would be
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: the last time he would ever be on the team.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: They play hard, edge, really physical and if you're not
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: ready for it the two the year that we had
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: Josh Eilert as the coach. We went in there and
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Kerkkrisa could not get the ball over mid court West Virginia.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: West Virginia was starting its offense inside the center jump circle. Yes,
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: that's how far they pushed away. West Virginia couldn't do anything.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: And if you're not physical and tough with these dudes,
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: they will throw you all over the floor.
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: And I thought that this is going to be ridiculous
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: to say, but I thought, I really thought they lost L. J. Cryer,
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: who was a Mountaineer killer. We did his stats a
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: lot of games against. I think Baylor just crushed us
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: for years. I get him out of there. I think
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: they're better with Flemings because Crier Cryer was such It's
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: a deadly shooter, so they had he and sharp like
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: you left them open for a second. They were banging
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: it on you. But Fleming cannot only shoot it from three.
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: He's at forty percent from three. His ability to put
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: it on the deck and get byue to the basket,
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: I think gives them a whole other dimension. I mean,
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: now they can just set just give him the ball
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: and say go make something happen, and if you close
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: him out now Sharp's still sitting out there shooting forty
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: percent from three. And I think they've upgraded. I had
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: never thought I would say they would upgrade from an
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: LJ crier at the guard. I think they have with Flemings.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: And they've also upgraded their facility. And even though when
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: you go in there in football it's embarrassing. Their attendance
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: in football is embarrassing, but in basketball they're bought in,
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: really and they've got that revamped Hoffheinz Pavilion is now
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: the Fertita Center, and it's really nice and they do
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: a lot of pro things in there during the course
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: of the game. It's got a vibe, it's got a
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: bounce to it. It's a super hard, underrated, hard place
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: to play in the conference. People talk about Allen Field
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: House to talk about Hilton costume. Houston is underrated because
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: right now they are cooking and rolling.
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: Tough to play in there too, because they're su damn good.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, part of it.
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, here's how good they are. Hoppy just mentioned almost
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: their entire starting lineup. Had not mentioned Milos Uzen yet,
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: who was a preseason Big twelve first email conference. Yeah,
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: might be the best point curd the league.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, saw him for two seasons at Oklahoma.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: So you got your work that out for you. This,
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: as we said, this league is unrelenting, just absolutely unrelenting.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: So here comes another one. But you go down there,
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: you take your shot. See what you got, go make
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: some shots hot. Yeah, there we go handle the double team.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: That's the key.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: Once again doublev women victorious as well. Over the weekend
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: we mentioned the numbers, but as Brad said, you know
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: Mark Kellogg they have Obviously, Audie Crooks is just an
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: unbelievable player. Sh had twenty two yesterday, eight of nine
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: from the field, one of one from three to five
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: of five at the foul line, had ten rebounds and
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: was able to play thirty three minutes. And that's big
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: on the offensive line. But Mark Kellogg has been packing
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: and recruiting and building specifically for Crooks and back in
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: the day Kansas State's big lee. And so he had
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: girls yesterday that just attacked inside. And I hadn't looked
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: at this number yet, but I want to see this. Yeah,
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: how about this? Paints in the point points in the paint, YEP,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: paints in the point painting the point go ahead, forty
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: four for West Virginia, twenty for Iowa State. That's where
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Iowa State makes it's living. They make their killing in
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: the lane in West Virginia out scores them in paint
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: points forty four to twenty. Brad mentioned earlier Mimi Wheeler
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: went really big twenty five points ten of eighteen from
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: the field. Jordan Harrison, who is going to be so
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: badly missed.
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: In the years to go down that step line?
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she went nineteen points seven of seventeen from the field,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: three of six from three, two of two at the
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: file line, had five rebounds, eight assists.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: And deals steals.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: What's the show? I don't know how many steels the
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: chef doesn't show on the line? Hang on, Uh the
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: lot steals she had? Oh my gosh, it's seven, thank you,
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: it's seven steals.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a massive, massive line.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: That's a good set.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: One thirty points off turnovers for West Virginia. They forced
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: Iowa stayed into twenty five turnovers. And again, I know
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: that's what you do, but that was a top fifteen
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: team in Iowa State, all playing on its own floor,
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: and you absolutely flummox them in that game.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: They win. Got another massive game coming up here Wednesday.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Last week it was undefeated Texas Tech. Now it's the TCUs.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Got the TCUs coming in here and that'll be an
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: ultimate challenge. So if you have the opportunity on Wednesday night,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: go out to a Hope Coliseum. A hobby was at
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: the men's game. I think you do. I mean you
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: need to go to a women's game.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: I need to go. I'll probably be watching or listening
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: to the State of State, but I want to go
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: to a game. So and I think homeless has tickets.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he right on good basket. Yeah, right in the basket.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: So he needs to listen to the State of the
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: State Bred. There's no way you could tape that. And
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: then when he gets home, spend the time to listen
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: to it because you need to watch it live. Well,
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: I'm just pointed out three guys before the game is
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: brought to us by gomart I mentioned remember this day,
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: January twenty nine.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: It's coming up here quickly. That's the day for Vinyl
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Value Days. It will designate a product on that day
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: that will take the price back to the nineteen seventies.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: What do you think it'll be? I guess you should
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: see something of.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: A big brand, a big brand item, not like well known,
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: a well known item. It'll be a well known item.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: I mean like a slim gym or well known. It'll
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: be a well known item. I mean there are chip manufacturers,
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: there are soda manufacturers.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: That probably and you'll get involved yet that might come
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: along later.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: Not sure, but January twenty nine, so get the gomart app.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: Make sure you have the app so you can go
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: in there on that day and take advantage of vinyl
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: value days. And they'll do that each month. They'll have
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: one day in the month where okay, here you go
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: vinyl value days, going there and cast that bad boy
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: in I like that. I went to postal Gomart on Saturday.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, post the plaza. Gomar put a customer service in there.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Nice kid, great, they great. Pick what you get? A
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: couple of bags of ice? Yeah, a couple of bags ice?
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: Very nice, very nice.
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: They got your kind of cornericket while you're in there,
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, they get you like, do you how do
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: you play it? There's seven pound bags of ice and
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: then there's the jumbo twenty two's, so you kind of
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: got like, which way do you want to do seven
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: not quite enough twenty two. So I just got two
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: sevens made of fourteen. You could never have enough.
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: To me.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Ice is an unappreciated luxury.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: What do you mean by that?
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: You you got triple points too when you dinged in
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: that ice. It was Saturday, you went Saturday, right, yeah, yeah,
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: it's triple points.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: You can never have enough ice. Go with the big bag.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: It's not that expensive and again underappreciated luxury. A lot
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: of countries are hard to get ice.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: True, well yeah, right, they don't use ice like we
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: use ice. And so when Americans go over there and
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: they go, I want ice in my drink, they look
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: at you like, well.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: You go like you're in England and ask for can
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: I get some water? And like they bring you a
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: small glass half full of tap water?
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah they use it. It's different.
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: It is different. We're more water so very yeah, we're
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: very hydrated.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe the most hydrated country in America, I would think.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, we carry carry these cans around. Gets can
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: they get me bigger?
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Just now you see like small people like young women
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: with giant things.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: They're like too gallon, might be too hydrated. I don't know,
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: I have to look into that three guys before the
• 59:41
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• 59:48
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• 59:57
  Speaker 2: I've got three guys stuff on today. You want to
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: take a look. I love the new logo, Hoppies. You
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: got the new logo. I got the new logo on
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: because it's like so more subtle. It's identifiable, but not
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: idea is exactly right now.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: So, by the way, may have a new item dropping
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: very soon. Really, yeah, I.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Need I need a new Uh so, I need a
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: new here it's morning, very good.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: I didn't have any new item coming soon.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: I'll have more details.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: I have not had any coffee yet. Uh oh none,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah I have.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: So let's move this thing along.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. All right, So first off, let's give
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: you a reminder. Coming up on twenty four of January,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: it's the Baseball leadoff Dinner. Head coach Steve Sabins and
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: the baseball community every year get together and celebrate the
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: start of the season. The tickets are on sale right now.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: January twenty four is the date, and you can go
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: to wv sports dot com slash Leadoff Dinner for information
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: about the event. Coach Sabans has had the young fellas
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: out there on the diamond with shovels in their hand,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: not with bats or balls or gloves, and they just
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: took the snow off, took the snow off the field
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: so they could get some practice in because we're about
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: a month away from the start of the season. Seriously,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: I know it starts in February. I love it, and
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: so they're out there. So if you'd love we'd love
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: to have you at the Baseball Leadoff Dinner.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: We'll talk more about it coming up too. But baseball
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: continues to have great momentum, not just because of the winds,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: but that performance center over there. That new deal that
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: Golden Blue Enterprises just did is potentially transformative for the program.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: It is really good. We'll get there's not time now,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: we'll get more into that later, but they have just
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: inked that deal with the biometrics and the performance center
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: that is really really fascinating to dive into.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Texter. For some reason, I knew where you were headed
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: my father in law rest his soul. Like many of us,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: loved to eat. He was from Lincoln County and he
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: was always talking about cat Had biscuits. Pointed that out, So, yeah,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: Tutor's Biscuits, I told you earlier. We got a heck
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: of a deal. From now until February twenty eight, they've
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: got these Sunrise specials of Tutors five dollars one five
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: dollar bill. You get your choice of a Ron or
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: a Merry B biscuit, choice of a twelve ounce coffee
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: or a twenty ounceized tea, and an order of Hash rounds.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: Think about that for five bucks you get all that?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: What the heck can you get for five bucks? All day?
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: You get a biscuit, a Ron or a Mary B
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: twelve ounce coffee, twenty ounce iized tea that's your drink,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: and the hash Browns, which are Hash Rounds. So take
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: a look. And Tutors wants to let you know. They're
• 1:02:44
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• 1:02:50
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• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: with the Tutors sunrise special. I could tell you right now,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: oh you could kill one, it'd be a two deer,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: it be there would be two two deers biscuits. Good morning.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: After watching Indiana destroy Oregon, it gives me hope. I
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: know they've got deep pockets and all. But they're doing
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: all of this with great player evaluations along with players
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: who want to be there, and they're bought in Arizona
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: with zero five star players have only played eight four
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: stars this season. They've proven you can still win today.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: But everything has to go right anyway. Let's hope we
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: catch lightning in a bottle. But first let's send the
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: Jayhawks home with an out. With the half of it
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: got done there. The watching that India.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you're watching college games and it's a
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: blowout and go, okay, whatever I had, I couldn't look
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: away because I thought Indiana was so good.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, was just it was.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: It was compelling, how brad even though it was what
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: how good they were? How well they're playing right now? Lenwell,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: we'll get into this three guys photo. I took an
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: old mountaineer field while I was a student. It was
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: a fire Frank Signetti banner. He goes to iup, becomes
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: a legend. There's a sign right there. Bobby Bowden rockets
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  Speaker 1: Florida State to a championship. Rich Rod doesn't take the
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  Speaker 1: Alabama job, Saban does, becomes a legend. West Virginia wipes
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  Speaker 1: out Clemson the Orange Dabbo hires Venerables after they go
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  Speaker 1: on their run. Rocko helps Matt Campbell to Penn State.
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia connection is probably more so put that back
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  Speaker 1: up there, if you would, the banner, So you got
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  Speaker 1: a fire Frank Signetti banner there. People for whatever reason
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  Speaker 1: are bringing up with great regularity, why didn't West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: go after Kurt Signetti as their coach? And I think
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  Speaker 1: the answer to the question is do you see that banner?
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  Speaker 1: That is Kurt Signetti's memory of West Virginia that his
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  Speaker 1: dad was fired at WVU while battling cancer after having
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  Speaker 1: been given his last rights. So like for people to
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  Speaker 1: think that, like Kurt Signetti on his list of here
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  Speaker 1: here's things that I want to do coach at West Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: like get real man.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, real quick textra mentioned Penn State. I've got an
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  Speaker 3: early question, Okay, I'm just interested to see how this
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  Speaker 3: will play out. See what you guys think. Will Penn
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  Speaker 3: State be ranked and Penn State's going to be ranked
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  Speaker 3: in the top fifteen next year preseason? Will that be
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  Speaker 3: because they have Iowa State's entire team or because of
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  Speaker 3: the brand name Penn State? Because I'm told nationally the
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  Speaker 3: national guys tell us Big twelve only deserves one team
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  Speaker 3: in if that, But what what will get Penn State
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  Speaker 3: ranked next year? Having all those Iowa State players? It's
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  Speaker 3: not just Rocko, It's basically every starter from Iowa State
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  Speaker 3: is now at Penn State. So is it the Iowa
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  Speaker 3: State the Big twelve players that Penn State has, or
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  Speaker 3: will be it the brand that gets them ranked? Hoppy
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  Speaker 3: which is one of those they will get Penn State's
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  Speaker 3: preseason rankings. It is inevitably coming.
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  Speaker 1: I see the sarcasm dripping from your comments, and I understand.
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  Speaker 1: I understand. You know what, the preseason rankings are just
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  Speaker 1: things that people can talk about. You know, look look
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  Speaker 1: at the preseason rankings and look at the national championship game.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what I think, I think, yes, but
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  Speaker 3: I do think that there's a little more. There's a
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  Speaker 3: little more to it now and that it clouds your
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  Speaker 3: vision of where teams if they start out in that
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  Speaker 3: or too low, well they can't really be one of
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  Speaker 3: the six best teams, can they because they've started solo.
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  Speaker 3: So I do think it carries some weight unfortunately, and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how would you know?
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  Speaker 3: But I just that one has just struck me as
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  Speaker 3: I continue to see all this portal news out there
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  Speaker 3: and listen, West Radians having a great portal. It seems
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  Speaker 3: on paper, right they have addressed some needs, added some
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  Speaker 3: guys that have produced. You think they have taken a
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  Speaker 3: step forward there in the talent side of things. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm watching all these Iowa State guys to Penn State,
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  Speaker 3: to Penn State, to Penn State, and all we hear about,
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  Speaker 3: oh the Big Ten, the Big Ten. That's a Big
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: twelve team in essence playing in the in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 3: So which is it that's going to lead that good
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  Speaker 3: pointe on whether it's just the name Penn State or
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  Speaker 3: if it's all those Iowa State guys that get them right.
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  Speaker 1: I will keep an eye on that.
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  Speaker 2: Randy and Missouri City, Texas. I'm going to the Houston
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: game Tuesday. The only way I stay for the whole
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: game is if Hodge gets up out of his catcher's
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: crouch and puts his foot up in officials butt when
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: the mugging starts. If he doesn't, the mugging will continue
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: the entire game, and we will be the team with
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: the most files at the end of the game. Randy
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: seems to have that figure. You know Randy, don't you. Brad, Well,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: you're gonna meet him when he comes over here on
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: tomorrow night. He's the guy that printed those T shirts.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: Remember I had those Kansas smear T shirts. Yeah, that's him.
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  Speaker 1: There's it was. I got such a joy out of
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  Speaker 1: it where I was sitting at that game, because you
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: can see if you if you choose, you can just
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch Hodge here for yeah, just watch him
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  Speaker 1: for like a minute and see what happens. Or watch
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  Speaker 1: and it's a great way to watch a game.
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  Speaker 2: Well, keep butting up to the president. You'll get those
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  Speaker 2: seats more often.
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  Speaker 1: You can't. You can tell what I'm doing right now.
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  Speaker 2: Wood County Wilbur Wrights, Brad's postgame spot on Total Key
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  Speaker 2: Eagle staff, Jasper and Laurent staying clean with files in
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  Speaker 2: the second half. We were lucky to attend the game
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: in person. Another glaring factor was how little interest there
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: seemed to be by Kansas to crash the boards. Let's
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: hope they bow up against everyone else, so this one
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: becomes a key for the team's resume. Wood County Wilbur
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: probably not his real name, Darres three gentlemen. I gotta
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: be honest. I was a little nervous when Dewan Harris,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: DeVante Graham, and Perry Ellis were listed as questionable in
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: the pregame for Kansas. Luckily they couldn't make the trip today.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: That helped West Virginia in a massive way. Seriously, though,
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  Speaker 2: Hodge out coached self in the second half and the
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  Speaker 2: men listened. Huge win for the program. Let's keep this
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: momentum and give Houston a problem. There's Devin and goshen
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: uh Texter, catch you up on holiday episodes. While driving
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: home from the Kansas victory, Tony's neighbor wasn't the only
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: one struggling with the O in the word joy in
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: their Christmas decorations. Take a look there, Hoppy, there's another
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: O that went down in the word Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: For whatever reason, the wind must take the letter O.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Some kind of a thing thermal cloud that goes through
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: the middle of the SB knocks it down because my
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: neighbor had the same situation. The O goes down, Jay
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: and the wire just sitting there laughing at it. It's up,
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  Speaker 1: Oh get up? Oh, kind of like a sheep when
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  Speaker 1: it goes down, can't get up. Maybe the J and
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  Speaker 1: they had something to do with it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man big hole in the O. Uh Texter.
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  Speaker 2: Last month in Atlanta Delta Airlines for training. First morning,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: our instructor talking about his ohigh est state Buckeyes, big fan,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: ask me where I'm from. I say, I'm a diehard
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: mountaineer from Charleston. Five minutes later, one of my new
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: classmates comes up, introduces he was an active duty F
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: fifteen pilot for the Air Force. Said his name was
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: and then his family was from of course Wheeling growing up.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: Still a die hard mountaineer. Awesome guy. We talked about
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: mountaineers and flying all week. He even brought an old
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: sweatshirt to dinner. We show that picture there he is,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: there's the two guys just talking mountaineer fifteen.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: There he got just talking airplanes and mountaineers.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: He says, hard to believe all of the people that
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: come through that campus. I had another die hard mountaineer
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: in my class, always a West Virginia connection. Let's keep
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: that MOMENTU roly, let's go mountaineers. I'd like to talk
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: to F fifteen pilot. Yeah, like, what's that like? Right,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: Gale and Martinsburg. Here's a situation. Might have to get
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: this on the episode eight hundred. I think someone could
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: find out if Harlan Obioha has hair bands that match
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: each of his different team uniforms. If he doesn't, maybe
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: fine looking Phil could effort some for him.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: Love the show, I think I think they do always match.
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  Speaker 2: They matched. So what's he got? St got rubber bands
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: in his head? No, just like headbands. Oh, she's talking
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: about that. I thought it was put like a rubber
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: band around that.
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  Speaker 3: I'll keep it. I'll note that I'll know two quick
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: things for you before you go here. Hop he likes
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: Big Jay journalism.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Big Jay journalism guy. Yeah.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: So just to confirm we had multiple textures, tell us
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: the pal Mountain Goat Simon was up there and we
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: saw a picture. Can't necessarily confirm that picture was taken
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: on that date that it was reacent might have been
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: back to but our guy Joe Bricata, though, as he
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: was out traveling the state, made sure to reach out
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: to me earlier in the week. He saw it with
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: his own two eyes. So that gives us another another
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: source on top of the great textures.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: Mon Alive confirmed confirms, So we we did have two
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: sources now, yeah.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: I think we got three now. But just that's as
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: good as gospel of So thank you to the Morgan family.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: You know, Rachel, that's the additional mountaineer. Right then Tim
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: and Seawan came down before the game dropped some treats off.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: Oh for your birthday.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they were for everybody. They were for all of us.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know that I shared, but they were for everybody.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: The peanut butter balls made by Rachel's grandma, Sue of Louisbourg. Oh, Sue,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: he was down there in Louisbourg, John, and tell you something.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday to bread. Yeah, fifty five on Saturday, same
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: day as the Kansas win.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: Sixty five on Saturday. That was great.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's fifty good good thirty fifth birthday. Thank you guys.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: But anyway, thanks to the Morgans. Those things were awesome.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, too bad.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: I don't eat sugar processed sugar.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: You guys are getting at me about that fruit.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: I think you might have cheated a little bit on Saturday.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: I think you might have.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I'll tell you what. If you're gonna cheat,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: you should cheat with those peanut butter balls.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: Pretty good. I had a couple of pretty good. They
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  Speaker 2: were good special thanks to producer Jake. So we're back
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: Thursday to recap Houston preview Colorado. All right, let's do it.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: Colorado's coming on the road for two. They do Sincy
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  Speaker 2: and then here correct, So they're gonna doom doom Sincy,
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  Speaker 2: then here Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: We'll catch them and they won't know where they are,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: I hope.
• 1:13:01
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