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Welcome in everybody. It is time for three guys before the game. Thanks
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so very much for being with us. It's time to preview a couple of
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big ball games at the coliseum, Baylor Bears and the Mountaineers Saturday evening,
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six o'clock. And before that, WVU women in a showdown with the Sooners
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of Oklah. Hoomer. That's a one o'clock game coming up at the coliseum.
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Why is it a showdown? Oklahoma is in first place and West Virginia
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you're right there, tied for second third right now, sharing it three league
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losses. Here we go. Man, gonna be good. Thanks so very
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So anyway, that worked out hell of a story. We we'll have that
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out in a video form coming up in the next oh month ish. So
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but that was a really heck of a story. Anyway, thanks for being
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with us. It's time for the Baylor preview. Baseball season opens as well.
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Actually we're recording Friday morning and season opens today, first of four,
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West Virginia against the Hatters of Stetson. Yes, this is always an interesting
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time of the year because you just don't know right you're getting ready. And
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but Randy Maze, we had him on our sports line this week and he
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said, this was the most preseason outdoor practice they've ever had. He said,
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like, they haven't even they didn't even go inside, right like twice?
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Man twice? Yeah, twice, something like that. Yeah, they'd
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been outside a bunch, including a night scrimmage here at class Friday. He
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said, yeah, what are you drinking there? You got a game day
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grin, Yeah, game day grind. Hold on, what are you drinking
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out of us? Did you take a candle out of there and put your
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coffee in that calls that I have never seen that. That's not even a
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mason jar. Well, it's a baby Mason Judge junior varsity mason jar.
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It's a jam Seriously, it's like those little ones you put a candle in.
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It's a jelly jar. You put jelly in this. You can't just
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do a cup like everybody else. This is how I drink my coffee in
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the morning. I've got two. You drink it like that every day?
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Yeah, at home, out of the candle holder. Yeah, well,
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it's not a candle holder. It's a jam jar. I like it because
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there's a lot of glass to it. It blows the heat out quicker and
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it gets your back to the original flavor. There's a lot of things going
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on where your lip goes. There's a lot of ridges there. Well,
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that's good. It's security. You can lock in loose lips, sink ships.
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Look at the if you could. That is a beautiful hue of coffee.
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It's not that dark chocolate brown. Game day grind is a light roast
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and it is selling it off. Literally, can't keep it on the shelves.
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So good. You can put it on top of candle wax and it's
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still good. Apparently it's really tasty. You blow the heat out and then
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it really gets to that taste. Rusty did a great job. My first
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I've seen is something like that. Oh yeah, that's right, drink it.
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I've seen the big Mason jars. I have this, and then there's
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the same circumference, only this tall. It's a taller one. People in
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the people in the canning industry will know what I'm talking about it. But
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I got the taller one of those two. Okay, now he sidetracked me
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with your weird candle holder there. What was that talking about baseball? Yeah?
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Wells being speaking of baseball, another another Mountaineer Baseball notes. Major League
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Baseball reported yesterday catchers and pitchers reported to spring training. Yeah, Alet Manoa
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looks good. Man. He hopped on the mound for his first throwing session,
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right, he was popping. It looks good. He's ready for a
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big bounce back season. Where last year you already knew at this time when
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he went out there, they're going, like Manoa's velocities down, Yeah,
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something was up. So now he's bringing it. He's like Randy said,
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he does this. Yeah, he looked good, and again he's and he's
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great. You can go find some of his quotes. He's just so blunt
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and on us. And he said, you got my ask last year.
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I'm back. I'm ready for a bounce back paraphrasing. But it's fun to
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see him. That was one note. Speaking of former Mountaineer stars. Do
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you see Joe Mizzoula's numbers? Here is the NBA takes its all star break
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fastest to one hundred, fourth fastest to one hundred wins, and holds the
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best winning percentage in NBA history right now. Fantasicat of Phil Jackson fil coach
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a few more games, I realize, but Joe's number one and winning percentage
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right now awesome, pretty good for those two, and so much pressure that
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they've got to win the Spring. Well, he's he's got, I mean,
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best record in the NBA right now. So he's clearly the prohibitive favorite
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in the East. But there is a lot of pressure sitting on him,
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but there has been since he took over. That's the double edged sword of
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that. The good is he walked into a really good team. The challenge
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is he walked into a really good team with a lot of pressure. The
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question for them is going to be as you get into the playoffs, can
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Christaps Porzingis be healthy and stay healthy because that's an all time NBA lineup.
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You look at some of their metrics. They have the best five man rotation
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efficiency wise of any lineup in NBA history when he plays. But he's just
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dinged up a lot. Dude, seven to four tend to get injured a
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lot, So keep an eye on that in the second half. So yeah,
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but one last night, like, what's what's he have to do?
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He absolutely has to get to the finals, and like, if you lose
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in the finals, it probably has to be in the seventh game on the
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last second shot, otherwise are going to go like bad year. Yeah,
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get into the finals would be big. It'd be nice. They could just
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win the dang thing. But how about just for one second, let's talk
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mountaineers in the NBA and just stay in the Eastern Conference from it. So
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there's Missoula, Mike Gansey and the Calves. Are they having a first half?
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How about Deuce with the Knicks. The Knicks are really good too.
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Those those are probably three best teams in the East because Milwaukee's absolutely imploding.
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All right, So if you're not into the NBA, but you'd like to
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watch a little bit of NBA. You get a lot of mountaineer influence,
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especially in the Eastern conferences here. Yeah, that's great, absolutely great.
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All right, so we got that Covich and the golfers by the way down
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in Gainesville. Yes, the University of Florida has a turnament. Florida is
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the defending national champion West Virginia in its first outing of the spring, they're
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in Tucson, Arizona. You know, even noticed like golf like those dudes,
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though you don't have to make like what we do consider like some some
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questionable road trips. It's not like, hey, they opened up the season
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and they were at like Olean, New York playing at the Saint Bonnie nine.
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They go to Son, Hawaii, right Matt at GASCAR. They're at
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Gainesville this week. So the nice way they had their second lowest total It
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was a fifty four hole in school history in Tucson. So also have the
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best gear of any team. They do a nice job. Yeah, so
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they were maybe so much to tell Sean that we're recipients, we will we'll
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wear gear. He apparently done that. I mean, I've complimented on the
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gear like nineteen straight years. Can't get any yeah tight type of care.
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All right, where you want to you want to start off with, uh,
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let's do Baylor first. They head out of the massive Oklahoma West Virginia
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women's game. So we'll start off since Hoppy isn't here with Hoppy's obvious observations,
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I'll give you a ton of these obvious observations. I mean the fact
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that they have six players averaging double figures. I haven't seen that this year,
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nor can I recall seeing it. I mean, sure's I'm sure we've
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played teams in the past that have had it. But it's a it's a
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rarity. It's like it's as rare as Kerchieval being on this program. That's
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how rare you see six guys that are averaging double figures. But they do,
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and their leading dude is the guy that comes off the bench because they're
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all clumped together in point totals. But anyway, that was that was my
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one thing that when you say it's okay, who do you have to stop?
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Well, who do you have to stop? You got to stop them
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all? Langston Love missed the last Game's got an eye injury. Don't know
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if he'll be good to go or not for tomorrow, but he's one of
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those guys. He's averaging thirteen points, but they go thirteen twelve, twelve,
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twelve, eleven, eleven. Holy heck, that's a handful to guard.
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Huh. Well, and one of those guys is another freshman potential lottery
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pick in Jacoby Walker. He's outstanding. You'll get an up close look at
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him. Jalen Bridges is having a great year, leads them, and the
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Ken Palm offensive rating has the best offensive rating of anybody on that team.
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So, yeah, you've hit it. By the way, Jalen hitting forty
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three percent from three, which is a theme for this Baylor team. Lead
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the country in three point percentage, lead the country in three point percentage.
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Great. That's what you're gonna notice first is their offense is just elite,
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and that's nothing new for them. It's been elite for a long time.
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But start with those three pointers number one nationally and field goal percentage from three.
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There's five three point zones. When I look at those those heat maps
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where teams shoot from corner zones, two corners, two wings in the top
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of the three point circle, that'd be the five. Yeah, Baylor shoots
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better than forty one percent from four of those five zones. Wow, believe
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it or not. The only one they don't is straight up. They really
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tail off on that straight up top of the key thirty seven percent from there,
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so they shoot it. No wonder they're number one in the country.
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Okay, go ahead, all right. Back to Baylor number one nationally three
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point field goal percentage. If I said that, yeah, if I said
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they can shoot the three, got to go their five zones. I don't
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shoot it from straightaway really well, but forty one percent in each of the
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other four zones. I found this interesting. So I need your focus here.
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Don't spend too much time on hold your water. I need your focus
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here. They're fifth overall in Ken Palm's offense efficiency metrics, so very good
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overall, not just shooting threes. They have the eleventh best offense if you
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base that on points per possession, eleventh best in the nation, one point,
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just over one point per possession. Here's what got me though, So
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they score on forty seven percent of their possessions, right, and that's eleventh
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best nationally. M. West Virginia is two hundred and eighty ninth in that
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same category. So it's the eleventh best offense points per possession against West Virginia's
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two under eighty ninth. That's a giant, massive gap. But here here's
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what caught me, Okay, because that's a giant gap. Eleven and two
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eighty nine, Baylor scores on forty seven percent of its possessions. Crazy,
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so West Virginia probably at two eighty nine scores on about six percent of its
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possessions. Is what that should say. It's not the case forty one percent
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of its possessions. So that's a gap of what is at two hundred and
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seventy eight places, and it's only six percent difference in how often you're scoring
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scremely fine line really shows you the fine line there. I said one point
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oh three one point zero three points per possession for Baylor West Virginia point eighty
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seven, and it creates that big gap in the standing. So that shows
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you how thin the margin is each night when you take the four. When
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you watch Baylor. The reason they're so good offensively, and we talk about
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this as it relates to West Virginia more than the opponent, is how are
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you scoring points? Right? If you make shots, you're going to be
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in the game. Well, Baylor makes a lot of shots. What do
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they do if they're not making shots? Elite offensive rebounding We've said that about
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six times in this conference. They get eighteen percent of their points on second
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chance points, so almost one in five points for them come off second chance
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points. They don't miss often when they do, they're an elite offensive rebounding
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team twentieth in the country and offensive rebounding rate. Oh, by the way,
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they also get to the free throw line. They're twenty ninth in the
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country and free throw rate. So what makes them so difficult They make shots.
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When they don't make shots, they get their offensive rebound, and when
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they're not making shots, you're fouling them and putting on their line, So
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they're scoring from all three different ways they can do that. They also like
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to get to the rim and are very good when doing so, seventy percent
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field goal percentage on shots at the rim. Now, given what we've seen
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from West Virginia's defense at times, that's a concern because you're going to heavily
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focus on them on the three point line to try and chase them off.
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But they also don't mind getting to the basket, So keep an eye on
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that. Baylor has six losses on the season. There's only two team teams
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that have beaten them in those six games have beaten Baylor why while scoring less
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than seventy five points, So chances are you're going to have to score to
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beat these guys. You're not going to grind them down with defense. The
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positives for West Virginia here's a good one. They don't force a ton of
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turnovers. Just one hundred and eleventh nationally in turnover percentage. Now that's challenge
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for West Virginia. That's certainly a positive number based on West Virginia yacking it
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nineteen and fifteen on the last two games. Yeah, So that was what
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I was just saying there. That's the challenge for West Virginia. Can they
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actually take advantage of a team that shouldn't force a ton Can they cut those
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down? Here's what concerns you though. They don't force a ton of them,
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but they convert what they do force into points, averaging sixteen points per
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game off of turnovers, So you got to keep track of that. Teams
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also shoot it pretty well against Baylor. This isn't the same defensive team we've
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seen from them in the last few years that you can shoot sixty five percent
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at the rim, or teams have shot rim forty six percent in the paint.
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So again, if you're West Virginia, don't just settle for threes.
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Try and get the ball to the rim if you can. Teams have had
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success. Here's one for you. You want to niche it down a little
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bit, Tony, Sure, teams have had more success being right handed against
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Baylor. Excuse me, right handed forty one percent from two outside the paint
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on the right side of the floor. There's a big gap between right side
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and left side against Baylor. So keep an eye on that. West Virginia
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gets right. Well, let me ask me some shots. Let me ask
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you this. Where has West Virginia had success? What's West Virginia shoot from
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the right side of the floor? Is that a we'll give you that here,
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man, you had that. Let's call it a pause. He took
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a pit stop for those of you the camera cut away. He took a
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big gulp of coffee, and then he went back in. Okay, what
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do you got in Now, let's go into some keys here, keys to
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victory. So here's the thing. The three point shot and Baylor's ability to
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make it concerns you. As we've seen before, you get hot from three,
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those games could turn ugly in a hurry. But what else do you
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get potentially with threes? Tony long rebounds well and some variants. Yeah,
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right, if you if you live by the three, oftentimes you die by
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the three. So this is one of those games where you're gonna make them
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come into your building and try and shoot it pretty well. They're number one
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in the country, as I mentioned, but teams are shooting just thirty three
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percent from three in the coliseum this season. In West Virginia wins this season,
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the opponent is shooting just thirty two percent from three. So watch that
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percentage. In Baylor wins, they shoot forty five percent from three. In
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West Virginia's wins, the opponents are at thirty two percent. So that's a
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big gap. That tells you what's going to happen. Baylor away games,
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they're shooting just thirty one percent from three. Wait second, that's a special
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stat right there. Hang on second, that deserves a that deserves a did
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you say it again? Baylor away games they're shooting just thirty one percent from
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three. There's that variance there, you go, that's what you're watching tomorrow.
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Now. If they're gonna miss, you better get on the on the
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boards and keep them off the offensive glass. So there's some things here.
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There's a path to victory. But West Virginia is gonna have to do things
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differently than it's been doing. It has got to rebound because you don't want
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to a BYU situation. That's a similar scouting report. Right BYU came excuse
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me, came in here, struggle to make three. But what they do
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get rebounds, kicked it out and hit a bunch of threes on their second
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chance point. So you've got to be prepared for that. If you're West
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Virginia, you've got to defend the pick and roll. Baylor loves to use
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this. Twenty percent of the time on their offensive sets. They use the
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pick and roll just to the ball handler, so that's what they like to
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do most frequently. Add in another six percent of their sets they use the
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role man. So one in four offensive possessions they're gonna try and pick and
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roll. Yeah, third nationally in points per possession. When they give it
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to the role man. They don't do it a lot, but when they
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do, you've got to be ready for that. If you're West Virginia talking
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to Josh Eiler about their defense. So for years, Scott Drew was a
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zone guy, and it kind of begins as a one to one three where
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the two guards the one and the one are in tandem. In other words,
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they're behind each other, and then they separate, and then he went
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man. When he had the personnel, he said, okay, fine,
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I don't need to do that. I'm gonna go man. Well, this
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year he's playing the zone again and the wings are big. Jalen bridges long
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out on a wing. So how does West Virginia have success navigating through that?
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Where's the soft spot in that zone where you have to get the ball?
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So look for West Virginia to go with the two guard front and try
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to have someone enter the ball to the file line area two. Kirk carrisa.
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If kerk Cariisa can hit the ball in the foul line area, then
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he can have a pretty good chance of initiating some positive offense. If you
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can't get that ball to the middle of that foul line area to have him
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start that offense, you're probably going to struggle, which means you're going to
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be dilly daly and out on the wings and out on the perimeter, and
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it becomes a problem West Virginia's spots. So you asked me about right handed
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versus left handed West Virginia from two hasn't necessarily been great from either right or
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left, but right inside the lane, right at the free throw line where
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you're talking about, they're going to Station Presa the right half of that.
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West Virginia's shooting forty five percent from there. So you put one of your
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good shooters there and now you force Baylor to do what They either collapse on
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him to get the ball out of his hands, which he kicks, but
23:45
then someone's got to make shots. Look for the left side to make shots.
23:48
Left wing is West Virginia's best spot around those three spots at the top
23:53
of the key. They're shooting thirty eight percent from three from there, and
23:56
then left corner forty one percent from three. So if you're looking where West
24:00
Virginia can make shots, enter into the middle. Krisa can hit that shot
24:03
right from there too. If you don't collapse on him, that should be
24:06
a shot. There's a there's a way to attack that zone. Let's talk
24:11
jump shots for a second. Baylor is one of the best teams in the
24:15
country on guarded jump shots. Now, West Virginia has been leaving a ton
24:18
of shooters open, but Baylor's been hitting them when they've been guarded thirty six
24:23
percent from three on guarded catch and shoots. So they just make they just
24:26
make threes. Every stat you can come up with, every zone, guard
24:30
on guard, they make threes except on the road. Here's a super weird
24:34
stat I stumbled upon. I don't know that it means anything. It's super
24:37
weird. I like super weird. It's weird. So every Baylor loss,
24:41
six of them, Yeah, they have either had exactly nine or twelve points
24:48
on unguarded catch and shoot jumpers, not six, not fifteen, nine or
24:56
twelve in every one of those losses, a significantly lower number in their average,
25:00
significantly lower, but just weird that it landed right on nine or twelve.
25:03
There's no other variance on that. Again, I don't know that it
25:04
means anything. That's not weirder than that's not weirder than West Virginia's steat in
25:08
the last two games of shooting exactly fifty percent from the field in the first
25:12
half and going into the locker room down by double figures. I'll take that
25:15
one. I'll take that go. You talk about weird, Okay, now,
25:19
let's do this. This is a new feature on the program. Huh
25:22
new feature you're unbelievable. I mean, you just continue to as Conley CPA
25:27
group and they're getting their money. So I went in and tried to dissect
25:33
for both teams the biggest differences in wins and losses. I gave you a
25:37
little drip there of Baylor. What it shoots away from home? Thirty one?
25:41
Yeah, thirty one from three away from home. Now, let's look
25:44
at the difference between them in wins or losses. And this probably won't surprise
25:48
you. But what things do you have to look for for Baylor? Again,
25:52
no surprise, we said it right at the top. It's going to
25:53
be the variance on their three point shot forty five percent from three and wins
26:00
twenty one percent from three in losses, so pretty simple. Are they making
26:03
shots from three? In particular? Turnovers for Baylor points off turnovers in wins
26:11
they get seventeen per game on average, in losses just twelve, So are
26:17
they missing shots? And can you protect the ball their own turnovers fourteen percent
26:22
turnover rate in wins, nineteen percent turnover rate in losses. So probably not
26:27
a surprise. Do you make shots and protect the ball. That's Baylor's secret
26:30
sauce for West Virginia biggest factors and wins or losses free throw attempt rate.
26:37
You've heard me talk about this now for years, but every show we talk
26:40
about this. West Virginia's free throw attempt rate, which is your number of
26:44
free throw attempts divided by your field goal attempts. In wins, it's at
26:48
a forty five percent rate. You get to the line a lot. In
26:52
losses, it's just thirty three percent. So can West Virginia get to the
26:56
line on Baylor? It's one way they score points. Now, this next
26:59
stat's really interesting. Three point field goal percentage is a big difference in wins
27:03
and losses for West Virginia. Forty percent from three and wins, thirty percent
27:08
from three and losses. Okay, no surprise, make threes gonna be in
27:12
better shape, right, But here's what here's what got me. The more
27:17
West Virginia shoots the three and relies on the three, or what have we
27:19
been talking about for three weeks? Settling for threes, it generally doesn't end
27:25
well. West Virginia's three point attempt rate thirty three percent in wins, thirty
27:30
nine percent in losses. So if they fall in love with just taking the
27:33
shot coming off a screen and taking a three instead of putting it on the
27:37
deck. Generally, that does not go well. So there's a key to
27:41
the game. Your numbers basically underscore what you what you perceive, and what
27:48
you think. However, I mean this is not to discredit your numbers by
27:51
any stretch. Because you came in strong with that that they're shooting thirty one
27:53
percent from three on the road and in losses. Here's another variable that you're
28:00
not going to be sure about. So Jalen Jalen Bridges comes back, right,
28:04
it'll be the last time he plays here at the coliseum, and he's
28:08
had a he's had a he's a really great career. He really truly has
28:11
here and there, and you just don't know what you're going to get.
28:17
History says, you just don't know where you're gonna get when you have either
28:21
an in state player who went to another school initially or a player who comes
28:25
back to the coliseum. I don't have stats on this, but normally it's
28:32
an extreme. Normally it's either they go below their average or they exceed their
28:38
averages. There normally isn't a middle, Like right now, he's averaging twelve
28:42
and five in league play. You just got to make sure if you're West
28:48
Virginia that doesn't become twenty two and seven. That's going to be a key
28:56
in the game as well, because he's a he's a key part of this.
28:59
But at the same time, they do have six players that are averaging
29:02
double figures. He's done a nice job of broadening his game too, from
29:07
he used to be just a spot up, three points shooter. He really
29:10
does a lot for them, gets five rebounds a game, can pass the
29:12
ball a steal per game, so he kind of does a lot for them.
29:15
You're right, he's at a He's had a really nice career, really
29:18
nice, Yeah, really nice career. So and again, this is the
29:22
only regular season encounter between these two teams unless you were to see them in
29:29
in Kansas City. Meanwhile, back at the Ranch, it was that was
29:33
very good, maybe your most comprehensive spreads on stats of the season. Now,
29:40
you've had a couple of good ones, I mean, and that's hard
29:41
to get to that level, but you've had a couple of good ones.
29:44
You think that was the most comprehensive pretty good? I mean, if you
29:47
just listened there and you took notes as a as a fan, and then
29:52
watch the game or listen to the game tomorrow. You'll be able to be
29:56
like the smartest guy in the room and see what's coming on. Like one
30:02
three guys listener who last week was watching the wrong game while it was being
30:04
played. I don't necessarily know if if that gentleman would probably be tuned into
30:10
these numbers at that level, but I would think the majority of our listeners
30:12
would be. I give them credit for staying with the game, deciding to
30:19
watch was a game that Mountainers will win. He was into it. Hey
30:22
listen to that, fella. If that happens again Saturday and you're watching West
30:26
Virginia and Baylor, you'll notice that there are different players on the West Virginia
30:32
team because that will be last year's game. Just just an FYI, just
30:37
an FYI, women's basketball Big one. You know what, I spent a
30:42
ton of time on Wednesday night doing got caught, Got caught. I was
30:51
gonna I got home, I was gonna do work, and I was gonna
30:53
work on charts and stuff like that. And sitting there and and Iowa State
31:00
was playing Kansas State women's basketball. Good game, Good game, Oh,
31:06
my goodness. You talk about a game. It was superb. It was
31:15
superb, double overtime chess match, back and forth. Basically, man came
31:22
down to a chippy at the end. Yeah. Yeah, you had two
31:26
bigs for each team. I mean, old school post up, get the
31:32
ball on the block, gonna put it over my right shoulder, hook shot.
31:36
Kansas State's really good. Well, they were number two in the country.
31:38
I understand, I understand they're really good. They're really good. But
31:42
that was a game. But anyway, I didn't do any work that night
31:45
because a dog on thing went double overtime. I looked at clock, said,
31:48
okay, now I'm out and I'm not doing anything. Iowa State won,
31:51
then they did. They did. Two really good coaches, two really
31:56
good teams. Well, you can say the same thing about the game coming
31:59
up Saturday. Two really good coaches, two really good teams. Eighteen and
32:02
six Oklahoma taking on twenty one and three West Virginia twelve and one are the
32:07
Sooners in league play in West Virginia ten and three. It's interesting the defensive
32:13
rating there for Oklahoma is really so. When I look at the stuff that
32:16
I use, there's green for good, red for not so good. It's
32:21
almost all green for both of these teams all the way over. The couple
32:23
points of red that pop up. One of them is Oklahoma's free throw attempt
32:28
rate. They don't get to the free throw line a whole lot West Virginia
32:31
does. So watch that game. Within the game, does West Virginia get
32:35
a favorable whistle? And that's always important given the defensive style that West Virginia
32:38
plays, right, they're going to be flying around, They're going to be
32:40
swatting at the ball, swiping at the ball. Want it to be a
32:44
little bit physical. Let some pushing go on. Let those traps get a
32:46
little physical. So keep an eye on the officiating style coming up Saturday.
32:51
But West Virginia generally gets to the line a whole lot more than its opponents
32:54
do the flip side. The other thing to watch offensive rebounding. Oklahoma missus
33:00
shots. They're pretty good on the offensive glass thirty three percent offensive rebound rates,
33:05
so they rebound one third of their misses. That's not West Virginia's strong
33:08
suit, as we know. The other part to watch on this both teams
33:15
are gonna push it and run if they can. West Virginia gets about sixteen
33:20
points a game off its fast break, Oklahoma just over thirteen. So both
33:23
those teams are going to want to push are going to want to push pace
33:28
a little bit. What about threes? Yeah, threes, So we know
33:31
West Virginia likes the about nineteen attempts per game on average. Oklahoma shoots a
33:37
ton of threes. That's part of why they don't get the line a lot
33:38
twenty six per game for Oklahoma from three, man, I hope they put
33:45
a ton of people in there. One o'clock start, one o'clock start,
33:52
one o'clock start. It'll be great. Well you got Oklahoma's heat heat map
33:58
shooting. Yeah, it's like all red shoot it well from three, shoot
34:04
it well, they get to the rim, get to the rim a ton.
34:07
They shoot it well at the rim, sixty five percent at the rim.
34:09
So this would be a fun one. So let me ask you a
34:12
question. We don't play Oklahoma men again, right right? So do you
34:21
We had a situation there in Norman when they played the Country Roads Taunt.
34:28
Do you do you maybe try to is there? Can you swing it over?
34:32
Even though that was men's and women's Can you can you get any revenge
34:37
retaliation? Can you do something there. I don't know, do you need
34:43
to just asking? I mean your building, you're gonna pop Country Roads on
34:46
you win that game? Well, I mean maybe you do something else.
34:49
Maybe you get one of their songs thanks for coming? I mean, what
34:52
is what's there? What do they do? They play that fight song over
34:53
and over and over and over. Yeah, maybe you do something like that.
34:58
All right, I just turn up Country Roads, pipe it into their
35:00
locker room and say thanks for coming. Now, you know you can't play
35:06
music when the game's going on. At Iowa, coach man, she got
35:08
mad. The other weeks A Blueter got mad at Nebraska. What's her name,
35:12
Blueter? Yeah, and she was a little hot. So she's a
35:15
former Drake. She had was a coach at Drake. First, Oklahoma's coach
35:21
just came from Drake. Well, Drake basketball connection there for you. Uh
35:23
huh, Okay, she was a little hot. Speaking of Iowa basketball,
35:29
that was a fun you like women's basket, I was fun. Last night
35:31
in Carver Hawk Arena, Caitlin Clark breaks the all time NCAA scoring record.
35:37
She went into the game needing eight points, so you figure she's probably gonna
35:42
want to get it fairly early. Did you have on your Bengo card that
35:45
she was going to get the first eight three for three including the record breaking
35:50
shot, was perfect, right on brand for her from the logo left side.
35:52
In transition, just bank to three started out with eight, put up
35:57
twenty three in the first quarter, very nearly broke her own record for most
36:00
points in a quarter. So she went all time NCAA scoring mark check,
36:05
most points ever in Carverhawk I arena check, career high check and almost had
36:09
a record for career points. Just An absolutely had fourteen assists. Yeah,
36:15
she did. Just an absolute baller. And we oftentimes talk about great players.
36:22
The great players want the ball when the pressure is on, when the
36:25
game is on the line, and then there are a lot that will shy
36:29
away from that, but the great ones say, give me the flippin' ball.
36:36
So last night is you cut your heart out when exactly and then and
36:39
then the great ones just go like, give it to me. So last
36:43
night what she did was Jordan esque. Yes, in the sense that you
36:45
say, Michael Jordan, Hey Michael, you need eight, Okay, here,
36:49
give me the ball, and I'm just gonna fire one from West des
36:52
Moines to get the wretches. Where she's from, Well, yeah, from
36:55
the Aldal. Did she go to Valley High School where you went? She
36:59
did not go where I went. I must have had some nil deals before
37:01
Ania deal. She went to a private school there in west and woy Okay
37:06
so much sure, house man, maybe the dad don't know how I got
37:07
there, but maybe Yeah. But in all seriousness, the great ones say
37:12
I got it, give it to me, that to her to me.
37:15
Besides everything else that she does, that's the part I love the most,
37:20
Like exactly, come here, she's you talk about red light, red light
37:23
guys, red light girls, She's red light comes on. So I've told
37:28
this story before. I had a friend that played for the Bulls with Michael
37:30
Jordan during the second so of his three of his two three consecutive championships,
37:37
played during the second title of the first set of three, if that makes
37:39
sense, and he talked about traveling with them truly was like being with the
37:45
Beatles or being a rock star. Wherever they would show up, just hordes
37:51
of people around their bus, in the hotel lobby, everywhere they went with
37:53
Jordan and they and then he just always said Jordan was just so nonplussed by
37:57
it. It wasn't it wasn't an issue, never got freaked out, never
38:00
got short with people. It just just went about his business. That's my
38:04
perception of Clark. It's chaos wherever she's gone. He used a graphic the
38:07
other night on the show of the attendance at all the different games she's been
38:12
to Columbus, Rutgers, Marylanders. I mean years and decades where they haven't
38:17
had attendance like they've had when Iowa has played there, and she just doesn't
38:22
change expression. It was absolute pandemonium last night, just unfazed. I know,
38:27
count, we need eight. Gonna give me the ball three times?
38:29
I'll have the eight. Yeah, she's a case study U in sports performance.
38:32
Remarkable, she's a case study. Yes, she should come back next
38:37
year. It's a really interesting decise. He's got to come back. I
38:39
don't think she does. You don't know why, because she's done what she's
38:43
done. But she can't make enough money in the WN more if she comes
38:46
back to Iowa. I know there's no doubt, so why wouldn't you don
38:50
She very well might stay there. Can't make that money anywhere. Crazy.
38:54
That's what's interesting about Nil and quite frankly, she deserves those dollars. She
39:00
has changed, she's filling the house, she's changed the sports, not just
39:04
for the University of Iowa. But yes, she absolutely should get that money.
39:07
Selam made a great point. Her and Angel Reese right, maybe the
39:12
two best known college basketball players man's or women's. Well, there's no question.
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In this year and listen, Reese has missed some games. She hasn't
39:22
had the same kind of year that she did at the end of last year.
39:23
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39:28
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don't follow it real close. But what do they do? They stop the
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Yeah, probably won't get them there. It wouldn't be the first anyway.
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Rest to keep making our coffee, please, Yeah, So here we
45:35
go. We have several texts. Last show, someone came in. Someone
45:40
came in and wrote us a text that said they incorrectly watched the West Virginia
45:49
Texas game last Saturday, not knowing that the game they actually were watching was
45:53
from earlier this year, when West Virginia beat them in Morgantown. So this
46:00
person watches the game and doesn't know until later that night that the game actually
46:07
was in Austin and what he was watching was January and he didn't and he
46:14
tells his dad, hey, great game today, West Virginia one is dead.
46:16
SOA what he is? What are you? Simple? So I suspended
46:21
him when he I said, I'm going to issue a three game suspension.
46:23
You're not able to you're no longer able to watch three guys or I'm saying
46:29
to watch the Mountaineers for three games. Brad chastised me and said it was
46:34
too strong. Now, you the listener, how's your say, Tony?
46:40
I agree on the three games or more suspension. Hard to believe a Mountaineer
46:44
fan doesn't know the details of our beloved Mountaineers. Next one, Nick from
46:50
Madison checks in regarding the three game suspension for listener not knowing the game was
46:54
a replay of the Texas game in Morgantown instead of the live game in Austin.
46:59
This has been so miserable that it is likely better for your mental health
47:02
to have checked out a bit and be much more of a casual fan.
47:06
Right now, Texter, I'd like to officially sentence Tony to his three game
47:13
suspension for chastising the guy for not knowing he was watching the old game.
47:17
You're being charged with thinking any of us Mountaineer fans are going to give any
47:22
of those Texans any more money just to watch their own network. Not happening.
47:25
But in your defense, yes, the fans should have known the World
47:30
champs were playing in Austin. Yeah, came back on that, Texter.
47:37
We had two big wins this year, Kansas and Texas. If you and
47:42
your friend didn't know we already beat Texas at home, the suspension needs to
47:45
be extended to one year minimum. The friend also gets the suspension. Behavior
47:51
is completely unacceptable and unbecoming of a mountaineer. Deserves to be haunted by the
47:55
Mothman. Signed by Jay and Greenbrook County, Texter. Very supportive group of
48:02
listeners today. I like these guys, Texter. In reference to Scopes's three
48:07
game suspension on the listener, the fact that the listener admitted fault to the
48:12
level one violation and played by the rules is grounds for more than a three
48:15
game suspension due to the impermissible benefit of watching the Mountaineers win a game already
48:21
played. Nine game suspension sounds about right now. If instead he had denied,
48:28
denied, denied, and fought the accusations, lied about the whole thing,
48:31
and of course admitted that he was indeed a Kansas fan, not a
48:36
Mountaineer fan. Only then should he be found not guilty. Appeal denied.
48:43
That was from Devin and Goshen. He's not road exit sure. Texter Jeff
48:47
from Sandyville. Three game suspension might be a little harsh, but his grandpa
48:52
would say that boy doesn't know the difference between tall timber and brush. It's
48:59
a tough I love these guys, I did, and if there were any
49:02
that that's what they were, I didn't like. Just put all the bad
49:07
ones out there. That's what they want. People have spoken. Hello a
49:14
couple of guys. This is Joe Mock. I really enjoyed having our men's
49:17
and women's teams here in Texas several days ago. A highlight getting to spend
49:22
time with Coach Kellogg. I'm even more impressed with him now than before.
49:27
He's a keeper. Following our women's convincing win over TCU while wearing my bright
49:31
yellow WVU shirt, I was about to depart from Scholmeyer Arena when I walked
49:37
past about a dozen guys doing cleanup and putting some boxes away. I turned
49:43
around and yelled, hey guys, Then with a big grin, I added
49:46
thanks for having us. One responded with yeah, and thanks for kicking our
49:52
ass. When a rare opportunity like this presents itself, you have to take
49:55
advantage of it. Now, let's beat the ladies Sooners on Saturday. So
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Joe got a tawn in. Thanks for having us, one of the best
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texter. Hey, two guys and sometimes hoppy. What about a Saint Patrick's
50:13
Day popcorn? Hmmm? Or a month away? Plus? What could you
50:23
do with green popcorn? You don't want popcorn that's minty because that's not savory.
50:30
That'd be a hard one. What would you do green flavor? Really
50:35
can't? Can you? You're not gonna do basil, spinach, broccoli,
50:42
asparagus, reagano, regano, green ken be when it's when it's still in
50:50
its full form before it dries out. Ben in Wilmington, North Carolina,
50:57
Tony you talking about cutting up a receis ratbbit with a reciprocating saw, followed
51:01
by Brad saying yeah, just like dissecting frogs in school had me giggling to
51:06
myself for good five minutes. I couldn't help but imagine a young brad and
51:09
science class using power tools to dissect small animals under the direction of his teacher,
51:15
mister Dahmer. Come on, Ben, didn't everybody dissect frogs in school?
51:19
Now? What do you have? You rob it? What do we
51:20
have here? What's this you have? We get a couple things? Well
51:22
I can see that one. Okay, what road it up with? Three?
51:24
When are we going to get a Recie sponsorship on this show? We
51:27
have done more to dry business to resis. Two things go ahead. This
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one says saw these in Costco this week, thought of you guys. I
51:36
checked on Amazon, but surprisingly the bag cost more than two times the Costco
51:42
price. You can share with Tony and Hoppy you guys top drawer and provide
51:45
us with some comic relief. All the best, Signed by Charlie from Midlothian
51:50
also known as Buddy Holly, as Tony gave me that moniker from my Stonewall
51:54
Jackson basketball picture and the paper as the free throw leader at that time in
51:59
the old Cavs. See thank you. These are Rec's dipped animal crackers.
52:05
If you've never had those, by the size animal crackers covered in peanut butter
52:08
candy and dipped in milk chocolate. Those are good. I've had those before.
52:13
Oh yeah, yeah, those are those are really good. Thank you,
52:15
Charlie. We will eat those. That bag will come open soon.
52:17
Now this this was on the last show. We had a texture text in
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and show us a picture of these, the rece's cupcakes, and I said,
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I have not seen those. Where are you people shopping? I have
52:29
not seen any of this stuff. Kyle and Morgantown was nice enough to have
52:31
that sent to the house he was at. He was at the text game,
52:37
had these sent over. Yeah, Kyle's got really long arms. Yeah,
52:42
he's told him that before. Broad shoulders and long arms. Well,
52:47
Kyle is nice enough to provide those now. He left it to my discretion
52:52
whether I share those or not. I said, absolutely not going to share.
52:54
We'll take them both. Re see cupcakes, here's my cancerned with these.
53:00
So my dad owned a grocery store. We sold Hostess, So I
53:06
had Hostess chocolate cupcakes, Hostess snowballs. Remember snowballs. We had snowballs and
53:12
I didn't like snowpoose. We had everything right and I would just crush them,
53:15
walk around the store like a guy like going out for the last supper.
53:17
Here's what you didn't have any inventory on that. You just reached in
53:21
and grab whatever you wanted. No, we were cash business. We were
53:24
cash business. We didn't do much inventory. So if you wanted a big
53:29
sleever at end of that had the big sleeves back, then you just reached
53:32
in and grabbed one, non stop. Even the candy and stuff. You
53:36
could make a many sandwiches you want non stop. The only time my dad
53:38
would ever to poppy, just grab one. I'm not exaggerating. When I
53:44
was a teenager, I would drink this is I mean, it makes me
53:46
go, like right now, I drank four to five pops a day.
53:51
Just walk around to drink glass bottles back in that day, class bottles.
53:53
Yeah sure, yeah, glass botts. But here's what concerns me now as
53:58
a reformed bad eater. These things they're in this package. They're cupcakes.
54:04
They're cupcakes. Yes, it says best if used by March twenty five.
54:07
Yeah, there might stay around for will some preservators in there. They probably
54:10
are good for you. There might be a few elements in here that yeah,
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well any thanks Charlie and Kyle h for this week's Reese's Contributions Texter.
54:23
Recently, at a birthday party, my sister in law was discussing her gluten
54:28
free diet. She explained that Reese's peanut butter cups are gluten free, but
54:34
the seasonal shaped items are not. So if you are on a gluten free
54:37
journey, no Receis eggs, Hearts, Turkey legs, or Sanda boots for
54:43
you. Also, I vote to uphold the suspension of the confused WVU fan
54:49
who watched the stale basketball game. This is big Boy college basketball, not
54:53
enter Merrill's brother signed by Steven and eleanor Dan Hawkins. Line there Steven Wilden
55:00
Texter game. Oh oh, this is Vinnie, Professor Vinnie. You know
55:06
he was texting so much. I said, Vinnie on sabbatical. He said,
55:08
no, I'm not on sabbatical. He's a professor in Illinois. I
55:12
said, if you're not on sabbatical, like, what are you doing.
55:15
You're texting a lot. Why don't you make it a valuable text? Send
55:17
us something? You know what he does? He teaches gamification? Yeah right,
55:22
yeah, and which is like so really super basic explanation, like any
55:27
kind of a game card that you might get at like a business. Heye.
55:30
For example, gamification would be the Gomart rewards card. You use the
55:36
card, you build up rewards points. You get these rewards points and you
55:38
can save on fuel, you can save on your food. That's the gamification
55:43
type of a thing. That's what he does. So I said, give
55:45
us some dog gone ideas for three guys, right, So he sent me
55:51
like a bunch and here was one of them. Game number one idea team
55:55
Brad versus Team Hoppy versus Team Tony. To participate, listeners, viewers will
56:00
need to purchase a shirt on episode eight hundred dot com pledging their allegiance or
56:07
support to either Brett, Hopy or Tony. The shirts will have printed on
56:09
them which team they support. Then at the next Food Pavilion tailgate, you'll
56:15
ask the individuals to wear their shirts. You can count the number of individuals
56:20
wearing which team the team or the number of individuals wearing the most of that
56:23
team shirts. Brett Hopier Tony win a prize, and that individual wins bragging
56:29
rights. This generates money through T shirt sales. Primarily, there's a lot
56:35
going on there was Professor Vinnie, I think you're giving us too much credit
56:39
that we need simple like is it green or red? It's green? You
56:46
win? And when you say that, is that how you do it?
56:49
Brett? It needs to be simple. Yeah, you're O. I appreciate
56:52
the thought. Yeah, Texter from Willie g and elkview next year's Valentine's Day
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Watch for Deer. There's been a lot of people that have spoken at that
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restaurant, Hardenings, through the years. A big, big stop on the
57:16
tour, big stop. They bring those guys down there. They passed the
57:20
hat once, you know, they passed the hat around. Hey, here's
57:24
for coming down and speaking. I think some guys walk out of there like
57:28
sixty two sixty three thousand dollars give or take for a night and change text
57:34
her. I think you'd remember my daughter Casey. She worked for the Mac
57:40
along with her future husband, John Matsko. They got married, took a
57:44
job with Arkansas at their foundation. They had these two little beauties, Isla
57:50
and Sailor, who are being raised as Mountaineer fans look at those cuts.
57:54
Well, John has accepted a position with the University of Cincinnata. Heard that,
58:00
So that cut eleven hours off that drive down to Arkansas. Thought you'd
58:02
like to know of another West Virginia connection. Yeah, we know John.
58:06
So he's at Cincinnata now raising money. I worked with both John and Casey.
58:10
Yeah, they we're here now. His dad, longtime NFL assistant coach
58:15
defensive line sure coach Texter. During Bread's Brads spreads on stats, it almost
58:24
sounds like he's saying, n guarded shots. I can't unhear it. Did
58:30
this become a fencing podcast? On guard shots? Is that a fencing You
58:35
were a big fencer at one time? Thank you? Yeah. I think
58:37
he's saying on guard just teasing, of course. Anyway, at this point
58:42
of the season, I'm thinking that what do they gotta lose If there's a
58:44
fencing club on campus, bring him in. Run some fencing drills. Can't
58:47
hurt nothing. Signed by Steve not cal and thank you for bringing up my
58:52
fencing elite won the class championship. Sure, how did I do it?
58:59
What was my move? Roupodope ropid dope, The dude, wasn't there a
59:04
dispute on your grade in that class? Though? Uh huh, yeah,
59:07
I almost kept you from graduating close, So I transferred. When I went
59:13
in the portal that was a pass fail class. Now, that was at
59:16
the juco you were at. It was not a junior college. It's considered
59:20
by many to be the hidden Harvard of New York State SUNNI at Geneseo.
59:25
That's where you took the fencing class, not at the esteemed Syracuse. So
59:31
so at Syracuse when they brought me in there my last year or my last
59:35
semester my last year, said you got to le issue here, so what's
59:37
the issue? Well, once I win, did they bring you in?
59:38
How late in the semester? Was this late had already started? Second semester
59:43
had already started. They said, we're showing one hundred and nineteen hours here,
59:46
not one twenty. And I went like, excuse me? They said,
59:53
yeah, this past fail. You gotta have a number, you have
59:55
a grade. So this is pre cell phone and everything. I got frantically
1:00:00
go like, I can't stay here anymore. I have to go. I
1:00:02
got work to do. I got to get to West Virginia and start my
1:00:06
life. And so they said, well, if you call I've told this
1:00:08
story before. If you called the school and get the professor. This guy's
1:00:13
name was Fred Bright. First you knew that. Yeah, And I said,
1:00:17
they need to know what letter grade I would have got. Obviously,
1:00:21
he said, hey, I won the championship. He remembers you. Then,
1:00:24
well, sure not many six' four fencers out there. That rope
1:00:29
They used a rope it up to win the league dead. So he said
1:00:31
nah again, So that was one twenty. That's all he had to do.
1:00:34
He just had to say, hey, I would have been an a.
1:00:36
That's it. Yeah, that was the process. Hell, it was
1:00:37
a fencing class. Texter. I wanted to check in regard the three guy
1:00:45
suspension. Tony levied on Mike and Martinsburg. I think this suspension is totally
1:00:49
warranted. As a matter of fact, I think he went a little light
1:00:51
on the sentence. In addition to his three game suspension, he should be
1:00:54
barred from attending any Mountaineer game for an entire year, as well as having
1:00:59
to go to They're a Pit or a Marshall game, his choice, wearing
1:01:01
that school's colors. Maybe then he will take his fandom more serious. I
1:01:07
think that type of punishment is warranted for his total and blatant violation of fandom.
1:01:14
Signed by p one Z in Delaware. Last one here, Gary from
1:01:19
Beckley Goes. I can say my TC fan meter just pegged listening to Tony's
1:01:24
reference to a Jake break from Hanky's to a Jake break. Three guys has
1:01:30
it all? That could be a shirt, That could be it, That
1:01:34
could be a new shirt. Hanky's to Jake break. We got you,
1:01:38
We got you all right, very good. So Baylor Oklahoma doubleheader, we'll
1:01:49
talk some baseball as well. By the time we record on Monday, the
1:01:52
Mountaineers will have played three of their first four and UCF next week Tuesday,
1:02:00
Tuesday, Tuesday tilt. Be nice to get those guys back, wouldn't it.
1:02:05
Ohm. They just beat us around. Oh them punched us, kicked
1:02:08
sand in our face. Be nice to get that one. Would be nice
1:02:13
to get that one. Be nice to get any of them. Nice to
1:02:15
have a little three point variants Saturday with those Bears coming in here. Yeah,
1:02:19
I hope they do shoot that thirty one. Maybe twenty eight or twenty
1:02:22
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