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The Dailey Recap - Creighton · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: And the fans begin to stand and applaud a head fakes.
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  Speaker 1: Galladay puts up one no good rebound tipped up by Arnold.
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  Speaker 1: She grabs it and that's it. Game set Big East
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  Speaker 1: Championship for you. Con seventy two fifty three of the
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  Speaker 1: final here at the Excel Center, as UCN for the
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  Speaker 1: fifth straight time since returning the league, win the outrights
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  Speaker 1: Big East Regular Season Championship.
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  Speaker 2: Back here at the Excel Center.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Daly has joined us court side for the daily
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  Speaker 1: recap and congratulations on another marathon win. You take the
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  Speaker 1: Marathon for the twenty fourth time in the Big East
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  Speaker 1: and the thirty first overall, and it never ever gets old.
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  Speaker 3: No, we have always put that as one of our goals.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can't go further, you your first goal
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  Speaker 3: is always regular season championship.
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  Speaker 4: And we did it and we pay, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And it's actually fitting that we played Creighton because they're
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  Speaker 3: the second best team in the league and they're difficult
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  Speaker 3: to play.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they're there.
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  Speaker 3: We did a really good job on them, and it
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  Speaker 3: still felt like the game was a lot closer than
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  Speaker 3: it was.
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  Speaker 5: And talk about that, like the game plan going in
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  Speaker 5: and how you executed it and the fact it was
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  Speaker 5: a slow start. But then what was it that ignited
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  Speaker 5: the role?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, our defense was good the entire game,
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  Speaker 3: and certainly in the first quarter it was, but we
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  Speaker 3: were playing a little chaotic on the offensive end, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that started when we were missing some shots
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  Speaker 3: that we would normally make. So I think that so
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  Speaker 3: in the first quarter we shot twenty six percent, but
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  Speaker 3: then we from a floor, second quarter sixty two, third
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  Speaker 3: quarter seventy three, and then we went backwards in the
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  Speaker 3: fourth quarter back to first the way we shot it
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  Speaker 3: in the first quarter. So but that I think we
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  Speaker 3: just were a little a little out of sort of
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  Speaker 3: little chaotic, trying it to want to make something happen
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  Speaker 3: in missing shots that we would normally make.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, Creighton has no answers for Sarah Strung at
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  Speaker 1: either end.
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  Speaker 2: She was fabulous tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I don't I and I hesitate to
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  Speaker 3: say this. I don't think it was one of her
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  Speaker 3: best games.
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  Speaker 2: A big picture you're talking here, right, Yeah, but then
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  Speaker 2: you look.
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  Speaker 3: At the number and you go, oh, yeah, but I
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  Speaker 3: guess expect.
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  Speaker 4: Those Well I think, right, she can do that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: she does.
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  Speaker 3: She makes you know, I think coach always says great
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  Speaker 3: players make the hard things look easy and and and
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  Speaker 3: the easy things I always look easier, and she certainly does.
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  Speaker 5: That, right, I get to say as much as you know,
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  Speaker 5: maybe if Turner was here there, but then then she
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  Speaker 5: comes up these steals or a block or closes out
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  Speaker 5: that three point line, and she has her own havoc
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  Speaker 5: to whether it's a guard or a post player. And
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  Speaker 5: maybe is that you often talk about too, Like with
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  Speaker 5: Paige n like to move without the ball. She seems
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  Speaker 5: to find herself open under that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was part of the issue, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when we were struggling on the offensive end, was the
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  Speaker 3: lack of movement on the offensive end. We were standing
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  Speaker 3: and you can't do that against the team like then
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  Speaker 3: they you know, they choose to to guard some people
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  Speaker 3: tighter than others, They switch a lot, and you have,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you you need to move to be able
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  Speaker 3: to take advantage of that of playing that way.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen steals in the game. Four of your players had
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  Speaker 1: three steals in the game, twenty one points off turnovers
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  Speaker 1: in the first half alone, And I think I got
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  Speaker 1: to give some credit. I mean, your defense on the
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  Speaker 1: press was good. Creighton had all sorts of issues getting
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  Speaker 1: the ball and bounds, and boy you made him pay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the pressure I thought really created some of the
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  Speaker 3: opportunities that we had, and just getting our hands on
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  Speaker 3: on on every loose ball and forcing some turnover. Some
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  Speaker 3: I think they helped us with on their own, but
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  Speaker 3: I think we forced them too.
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  Speaker 5: Can you talk then about, you know, capping it off,
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  Speaker 5: you get to have some confetti fall down.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I have to say that could be the saddest
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  Speaker 3: confetti I have ever seen. They didn't either they needed
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  Speaker 3: to move us closer to it, or they needed to
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  Speaker 3: move the confetti on to the court so that we could.
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  Speaker 4: They had more.
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  Speaker 2: Nearly They didn't listen, they didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Know, they didn't ask me. But you know, it's great
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  Speaker 3: for the players. Although typical yukon fession, we left the
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  Speaker 3: trophy at half court. We had to send Janna back
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  Speaker 3: to go get it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like not cutting down the heck.
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  Speaker 4: It's yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, And that's not that we don't appreciate it or
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  Speaker 3: that we don't put an emphasis on it, because we do.
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  Speaker 3: It's just that I think how we feel and how
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  Speaker 3: we know we've played and what we know we have
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  Speaker 3: to do next is probably more important than the hardware
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  Speaker 3: at this point.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let me get your thoughts on the retirements
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  Speaker 1: of number three, whose number eventually will be retired in
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  Speaker 1: gamble pavilion, no question.
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  Speaker 4: You know what what hasn't been said?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think all the all the comments that
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  Speaker 3: were said, you know, Gino especially, there's nobody like her.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think.
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  Speaker 3: I've never wanted to say, oh, who's the best player,
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  Speaker 3: but push comes to shove, I've always said it was
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  Speaker 3: Diana because of those two because are those two championships
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  Speaker 3: that she want. And it's not like she didn't have
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  Speaker 3: good players on the team with her, but the way
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  Speaker 3: she makes that she raises the level of everybody that
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  Speaker 3: she plays with and the way she makes them feel
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  Speaker 3: which allows them to continue to get better and win
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  Speaker 3: at every level she's ever played at. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: think that separates her. And some of that could be
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  Speaker 3: positionally because she has the ball in her hands, But
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what else she could say. You know,
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  Speaker 3: she's just she transcends the sports people. You know, she's
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  Speaker 3: the kind of person that you always want on your team.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to play against her because she is.
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  Speaker 2: A Thus we have Gina that we have Diana, and
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  Speaker 2: you don't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but just I mean even when you talk
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  Speaker 3: to you listen to some of the w NBA players,
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  Speaker 3: and I think Nefisa said, well stories, they wanted stories.
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  Speaker 3: She said, well, I have stories from when she was
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  Speaker 3: my teammate, and then I have stories when I play
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  Speaker 3: against her, because it's they're.
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  Speaker 4: Two totally different.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know that there's anybody that love playing
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  Speaker 3: the game more than Diana did. Was in the gym
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  Speaker 3: more than Diana, played with an edge but with an
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  Speaker 3: enthusiasm at the same time.
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  Speaker 4: And for her to say that, you know that was it.
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  Speaker 3: You just knew she wasn't going to be able to
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  Speaker 3: do what she wanted you to be prepared to be
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  Speaker 3: in the gym to do all that. So I'm happy
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  Speaker 3: for I think it's great. I'm surprised she even made
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  Speaker 3: the announcement. They probably made her right, because that's not
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  Speaker 3: really like her. But did you see the Whoopie Goldberg
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  Speaker 3: thing the interview.
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  Speaker 2: I heard they mispronounced her.
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  Speaker 3: Goldberg and when she sat down, she said, thanks for
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  Speaker 3: having me, and then she called her something like she
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  Speaker 3: called her single her Whoopie. She called her Whippie and
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  Speaker 3: then she said, I'm sorry, I mean Whoopy, So she
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  Speaker 3: got her name wrong because Whoopy Golber got Diana's last
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  Speaker 3: name wrong. But just you know, it's it's a great
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  Speaker 3: story really when you think about where her parents came
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  Speaker 3: from and where she grew up, and you know, just
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  Speaker 3: the whole thing. You couldn't have scripted it any better
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  Speaker 3: than what it was. And you know, I'm just glad she's.
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  Speaker 4: One of ours.
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  Speaker 2: Now on a senior day.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, that'll be Sunday, so that'll be another although you
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  Speaker 3: know it's Paige and Aubrey already had a senior day,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, like it's kind of Caitlyn will be
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  Speaker 3: her first ukon of senior day. So now, but this
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  Speaker 3: is it for double seniors.
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  Speaker 1: Now do we know for sure? Are there any more
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  Speaker 1: taking part that you know of? Is like Asier maybe
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  Speaker 1: Carolina or that is that?
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  Speaker 3: No, not well, not that I am aware of right now,
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  Speaker 3: but we're just you know, the thing is, it's because
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  Speaker 3: of the way the rules have gone, we're just not
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  Speaker 3: going to have two senior nights for it, like started
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  Speaker 3: with Torca and rise of an injury and so now
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  Speaker 3: kids that have eligibility can choose to have it. They
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  Speaker 3: could have it this year, they could have it next year.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't really mean anything for the following year. It
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  Speaker 3: just means this is the year they chose.
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  Speaker 4: To have it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we do know one thing Page will
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  Speaker 1: be in the Huskies of Honor comes Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, I think we should give a shout out
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  Speaker 5: to the crowds.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the crowd was great. That I have and I
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  Speaker 3: should not have been really paying that much attention. But
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  Speaker 3: the whole blue white thing, I have never heard them that.
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  Speaker 2: Loud before it was building.
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  Speaker 4: It was loud.
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  Speaker 3: So we really you know, I can't say enough about
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  Speaker 3: the crowds that we've had midweek, Thursdays, Wednesdays, weekends here
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  Speaker 3: at you know, at the XL or Gamble. It's just
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  Speaker 3: been a tremendous year, really exciting. Happy, you know for
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  Speaker 3: our players to be able to experience that, and happy
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  Speaker 3: for our fans to be able to experience this team
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  Speaker 3: this way. And we have one more opportunity to do
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  Speaker 3: that at Gamble, and that'll be Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Kudos are the fans.
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  Speaker 1: I think, with the exception of the Xavier Gaming you
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  Speaker 1: had over thirteen thousand for that, you've sold out every
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  Speaker 1: home game this year.
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  Speaker 4: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that again that we appreciate that, and we say
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  Speaker 3: thank you. And unless you're complaining about what we're running
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  Speaker 3: or who's playing or any of that stuff, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: less appreciative. But usually everyone is pretty nice, at least
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  Speaker 3: the ones I can hear.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, we'll see a Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Great, thank you,