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Seg 5 - MBB Show w John Fanta Jan 3 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: A Sunday afternoon, Husky's returned to Gamble to tangle with
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  Speaker 1: their route forty four rivals. Providence College. Radio coverage begins
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  Speaker 1: with the Hardhault Group count down a Tip one thirty
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  Speaker 1: here along the Yukon Sports Network, Varsity Network app intavarsitynetwork
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  Speaker 1: dot com. We're joined now by John Fanna, Fox Sports.
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  Speaker 1: Big East Guy covers the conference on a regular daily basis. John,
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  Speaker 1: this has been an interesting year already. You know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Big East fans are kind of trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out who is the best team in his conference
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  Speaker 1: and if there are any more than say, three NCAA
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  Speaker 1: eligible teams. It's been a strange start, hasn't it for
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  Speaker 1: this conference?
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  Speaker 2: It has been Mike, it's crazy with you. Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 2: The conference has not met its expectations that it has
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  Speaker 2: every single year, which is to get at least half
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  Speaker 2: of its teams into the NCAA tournament, and you have
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  Speaker 2: to package results together in non conference. Now, this is
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  Speaker 2: where it's a credit to Connecticut because they know how
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  Speaker 2: to schedule, and they schedule an elite level and they're
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  Speaker 2: obviously undefeated on the mainland. But that's why you go
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  Speaker 2: to the Maule Invitational too, because you're going to challenge
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  Speaker 2: yourself and so if you win those games, obviously it
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  Speaker 2: furthers your resume. But by going out there and challenging yourself,
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  Speaker 2: you come back to the mainland and look what they
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  Speaker 2: did against Baylor, against Texas, against Gonzaga. They were ready
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  Speaker 2: for those teams. They showed how battle tests they were.
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  Speaker 2: Marquette the same way. You know, the teams that know
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  Speaker 2: how to schedule are the ones who I think have
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  Speaker 2: put themselves in a good to great spot, and you
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  Speaker 2: caught in Marquette are in great spots. The Golden Eagles
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  Speaker 2: you have to give an immense amount of credit to
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  Speaker 2: lose Tyler Kohlik and Olso the gadaro and be twelve
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  Speaker 2: and two right now. They want at Maryland. They beat Purdue,
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  Speaker 2: they've put together, beat Wisconsin, who had a terroristic start
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  Speaker 2: of the season, and Cam Jones right now is one
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  Speaker 2: of the best players in college back. So then it's
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  Speaker 2: Saint John's who hasn't put together the great win yet.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna have to do some more work in conference play.
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  Speaker 2: But after that, it is one big mystery in this league.
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  Speaker 2: Are there candidates? Sure? Creighton's won, they beat Kansas, They
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  Speaker 2: just beat Saint John's and Greg McDermott's so so steady.
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  Speaker 2: Villanova's won six of seven, you know, don't sleep on them.
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  Speaker 2: Eric Dixon's been terrific and Georgetown doesn't have some massively
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  Speaker 2: bad loss, but they better stack wins in conference to
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  Speaker 2: have even a chance. And it's it's nice to even
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  Speaker 2: be saying the name Georgetown when we're talking about this discussion,
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  Speaker 2: because it feels like it's been eon since we've said that.
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  Speaker 2: But the fact is, the Big East is not the
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  Speaker 2: level that it's used to being at in terms of
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  Speaker 2: depth of bids. There probably have to be some looks
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  Speaker 2: in the mirror, if you will, from some of these
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  Speaker 2: programs in the off season, But in the here and now,
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  Speaker 2: this is what it is, and Yukon is the king
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  Speaker 2: until somebody takes their crown. And the Huskies right now
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  Speaker 2: they sure look the part of a back to back
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  Speaker 2: reigning national champion, in a reigning Big East champion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the the Georgetown conversation is an interesting one because
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  Speaker 1: it coolly went there a couple of years ago with
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  Speaker 1: you know, Patrick Ewing couldn't get it done struggling there.
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  Speaker 1: They've won some games and I'm just gonna ask you
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  Speaker 1: this week is kind of important, isn't it to Georgetown
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  Speaker 1: of Villanova because they welcome Yukon to play the Huskies
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  Speaker 1: next week coming up. I think these are real barometer
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  Speaker 1: games for those two schools because if they were able
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  Speaker 1: to win and knock off Yukon, they kind of elevate
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  Speaker 1: their stature, and that's pretty important to do that early January.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Georgetown, next week they've got Marquette, Yukon, and then
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  Speaker 2: Saint John's, so that right there is the money stretch.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they go back to back to back, so
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  Speaker 2: you've got to you got to get at least one
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  Speaker 2: of those. I'm not saying all three, but you better
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  Speaker 2: find a way to move the needle in at least one.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right, like, that's just it with the Big
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  Speaker 2: East is you got a bunch of teams that are
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  Speaker 2: probably hovering around the bubble. So when they face Connecticut,
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  Speaker 2: as if Yukon has enough of a target on its back,
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  Speaker 2: they got the bigging target in the world. Like, you're
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  Speaker 2: always ready to play yu Kon and you can typically
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  Speaker 2: still beat you. But the other side of it is, now,
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  Speaker 2: not only do you want to beat them. You got
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  Speaker 2: to salvage your season in your NCAA tournament hopes, which
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  Speaker 2: is the name of the game for these programs, and
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  Speaker 2: so for Georgetown. It is an interesting story. Cooley in
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  Speaker 2: year two, you thought his team would make a leap.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you. I didn't have them being
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  Speaker 2: where they are right now with only a couple loss
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  Speaker 2: on the season and only taking two non conference losses.
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Sorber is writing the thicke of things as is
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  Speaker 2: one of the top freshmen and he and Liam McNeely
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  Speaker 2: are in that Big East Freshman of the Year race.
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  Speaker 2: Jayden Knapps, Malik mac the TCU transfer Micah Peevee was
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  Speaker 2: a money pick up for Ed Cooley.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, John fantas with us. We'll be back in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment. We can continue on the Yukon Men's Basketball
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