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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Dec 17 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back with Dan Hurley on the Yukon Men's Basketball
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show. Let's talk a little bit about Xavier. They're
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  Speaker 1: coming up at the Excel Center of the Big East opener.
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  Speaker 1: You're defending two titles. The regular season was impressive last
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  Speaker 1: year eighteen and two, and then winning the tournament title
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  Speaker 1: at the Garden was special as well. This is just
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  Speaker 1: the first step. But how important is it getting off
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  Speaker 1: to the right start in this conference for Yukon.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it would be nice, you know, That's that wasn't
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  Speaker 2: you know, a luxury for us last year. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we we and it turned out all right, So you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's an opportunity. You're obviously excited to get the home opener,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with league play, so you know, it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: for us, we understand that you know, the toughness meter,
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  Speaker 2: the rebounding meter, the defensive meter, like doing the hard
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  Speaker 2: things well as well as having you know, an offense
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be efficient and hopefully explosive. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it is going to be the key to just being consistent.
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  Speaker 2: You know, over the course of three months in twenty
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  Speaker 2: you know bar fights, you know, and twenty Big East
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  Speaker 2: bar fights where you're going against some of the best
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  Speaker 2: coaches and you know, some of the best players and
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  Speaker 2: some of the best and toughest basketball environments to play in. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we understand that the magic dust is not
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  Speaker 2: just putting on a Yukon uniform. Just putting on a
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  Speaker 2: Yukon uniform is just kind of a cool experience because
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  Speaker 2: there's so much history, tradition and success in it. But
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  Speaker 2: that that's not there's no magic dust that we have here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the magic dust is the people. It's the
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  Speaker 2: players and their willingness to play great defense, to play
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  Speaker 2: as hard as humanly possible in a life or death
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  Speaker 2: type of manner, to be physical rebounders of the basketball,
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  Speaker 2: and to play offense for each other, and to execute.
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  Speaker 2: And you know that that's and to absorb all of
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  Speaker 2: the preparation that Luke and Kamani put in with these
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  Speaker 2: scouts and preparing us to go against these foes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Zach Fremantle will not be available. He's injured. Grad forward.
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  Speaker 1: Came from Jersey t Neck, New Jersey have been very
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  Speaker 1: tough on Yukon a couple of years ago, but he's
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  Speaker 1: been injured most of the last couple of years. But
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  Speaker 1: they have a guy, Ryan Conwell. I want to ask
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  Speaker 1: you about junior guard six ' four leads the team
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  Speaker 1: in steels. He's also forty six percent three point shooter.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's got talent. He's this is third school, went
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  Speaker 1: to Indiana State, most recently started at South Florida as
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  Speaker 1: a freshman. But he is a player on the rise,
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  Speaker 1: averaging sixteen a game. I know you've taken a look
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  Speaker 1: a little bit at him. Six ' four guy, he's
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  Speaker 1: really got some talent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, effortless scorer, lefty smooth, big time shooter, big time score.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're we're really going to have to lock in,
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  Speaker 2: uh you know, lock in on him. He's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's the type of guy that could just light you up.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, uh, you know, having just face battle,
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  Speaker 2: I think, uh, you know, having just dealt with an
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  Speaker 2: explosive score that we made some mistakes on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully here we can uh you know, we could rectify that,
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  Speaker 2: learn from that experience and uh and just uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: take away more things in this matchup. But that's easier
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  Speaker 2: said than done. He makes some very very hard shots,
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  Speaker 2: uh that even is able to trump really good defense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Caleb battle the other night at the Garden was
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  Speaker 1: he got on a heater there and he was tough
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  Speaker 1: to stop and you come was able to overcome it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh So the conference looking at some crazy things have
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  Speaker 1: been happening, Like Marquette, they won at Maryland, they beat Perdue,
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  Speaker 1: and then most recently I lost at Iowa Date and
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  Speaker 1: then lost to Dayton. And we know all about Dayton.
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  Speaker 1: They're pretty good Atlantic ten team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think any of the results have been uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, surprising. I think, uh the Maryland win was
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  Speaker 2: a great win on the road. You know, I think
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  Speaker 2: you'll do it home. You know, obviously, you know, Marquette
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  Speaker 2: is a it's a you know, it's a great program.
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  Speaker 2: It's a championship level program. We have tremendous respect for them,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know they're coming into the league play
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  Speaker 2: with a with a great you know, great net. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they've they've you know, they've done their part for the league.
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  Speaker 2: I think in the non conference in terms of you know,
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  Speaker 2: coming in with great numbers, which uh you know creates
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  Speaker 2: excitement for league play, but that also uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: coming in with a with a net of the net
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  Speaker 2: of nine is just it's great for the league in
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  Speaker 2: terms of more you know, more teams having an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to to to get to the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Georgetown won at Syracuse in their last game. That's
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  Speaker 1: always tough. Uh. They got Creighton at home on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Creighton's had some up and down results, but they did
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  Speaker 1: beat Kansas, So that's gonna be a good on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like, yeah, to see the Paul and and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know in Georgetown and and uh, you know, they've
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  Speaker 2: obviously made huge improvements and where they're at. I mean
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  Speaker 2: they've done a you know obviously there you know, Ed's
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  Speaker 2: building his program and and Chris is has done an
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  Speaker 2: amazing job as well as Ed has of uh A
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  Speaker 2: year two for Ed, year one for you know, for
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  Speaker 2: Chris Holtman, you know, really being strong in non conference play,
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  Speaker 2: like winning all the games. Uh, you know that they
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  Speaker 2: felt like they could win. And then even you know,
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  Speaker 2: Georgetown being able to go on the road and beat
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  Speaker 2: Syracuse there that was that was great for the league. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: it's great for Georgetown. The league is obviously, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it enhances the league with with a great Georgetown and
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  Speaker 2: you know Creighton just bad luck with uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: bad luck with with Pop Isaac's that just uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: that stinks for you know, for uh, you know, for
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  Speaker 2: coach mac and and and for their for their team.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, they still have one of the best players
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  Speaker 2: in the country. Uh, a tremendous guard in in uh
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  Speaker 2: In Ashworth and uh, you know, and some more firepower
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  Speaker 2: on the perimeter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Villanova had a little rough start, lost to Columbia,
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  Speaker 1: lost to Saint Joe's, but then knocked off Cincinnati, who
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  Speaker 1: was a top twenty five club. Cincinnati just beat Xavier recently.
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  Speaker 1: They also won against Temple. Looks like they've won three
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  Speaker 1: in a row. Like the Wildcats are starting to find
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  Speaker 1: themselves a little bit here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think the best thing you could you can see
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  Speaker 2: or say about people is, you know, how do they
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  Speaker 2: handle you know, adversity or how do you handle things?
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  Speaker 2: You know, uh when when when things aren't looking great?
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  Speaker 2: And I think, uh, you know, when from the start
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  Speaker 2: that that that Kyle and Villanova had, it would have
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  Speaker 2: been real easy for them, you know to uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to head into a tailspin, you know, and after some
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  Speaker 2: of those losses, but uh, he's shown a lot of
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  Speaker 2: He's shown his strength as a leader and their quality
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  Speaker 2: as a team. We face something very similar, uh in
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  Speaker 2: the early part of our season where uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people are down on you and and being very critical.
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  Speaker 2: And I think one of the best things, one of
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  Speaker 2: the coolest opportunities you can get in life is, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when when you're down and you're struggling and
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  Speaker 2: people are kicking you and and uh and uh and
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  Speaker 2: negative about you is showing how strong you are. And
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  Speaker 2: Villanova's done that with Kyle. Uh. Definitely the last conference.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and a quick note, you got Butler coming up
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend. We won't get into that, but they
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  Speaker 1: beat Northwestern earlier in the season and they have a
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  Speaker 1: Marquette game on Wednesday on the road, and then they
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  Speaker 1: lost to Wisconsin, who was a really good team. So
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  Speaker 1: Butler's another team that when you have to play them
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  Speaker 1: on the road, that's not going to be easy.
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  Speaker 2: Hinkle's a tough place. It's a fun place to go play,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the the historic nature of of of the
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  Speaker 2: field house there, and uh, you know, an opportunity. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: road games feel like they're worth you know, one and
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  Speaker 2: a half, so you know, I feel like they're winning
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  Speaker 2: on the road, especially in conference place. Conference play is
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  Speaker 2: not easy anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a great one, great win last year
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  Speaker 1: at Butler as a matter of fact. All right, coach,
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate it. Onto Xavier that's the home game, and
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  Speaker 1: then the Butler on the weekend. Will be with you
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  Speaker 1: all the way. Thank you, sir. We'll talk to you soon,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Mike, see you, Bob. All right. That's Dan
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  Speaker 1: Hurley back with Jalen Stewart as we continue on the
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  Speaker 1: Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show here on lear Field