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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno 2-24 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Cafe or a Manchester for the final live edition of
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  Speaker 1: the Women's Basketball Coaches Show. Great audience here once again,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for coming out here to listen to Geno tuck
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  Speaker 1: yukon women's basketball. Gino's Gino, by the way, is our
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  Speaker 1: applause meter, you know at the end when you know
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  Speaker 1: we do the applause like you know for the game
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  Speaker 1: shows and stuff. That's that's his job. So we're down
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  Speaker 1: a five two games left, that's it. I mean January,
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  Speaker 1: when you get to January, it flies and no, no
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  Speaker 1: different this year.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's it. That's it. I mean, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: start in October and you know you're you're anxious for
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  Speaker 2: the season to start, and all of a sudden, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you get back from Christmas and it's it's January first,
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  Speaker 2: and the games are all bunched in together. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you play so many of them in a row, and
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  Speaker 2: you just get lost in the in the in the
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  Speaker 2: travel and the rhythm of you know, brack this practice
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  Speaker 2: game they all practice practice game day. Often you just
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  Speaker 2: get caught up in it. And next thing you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can wake up and it's March. First thing, you're
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  Speaker 2: playing your last regular season game and that's that's how
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  Speaker 2: fast it goes. And uh, I think the older you get,
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  Speaker 2: the faster it goes.
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  Speaker 1: It does.
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  Speaker 2: Has a lot of people in here shaking their head. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: uh huh, absolutely yeah, flies by, you know what I say. Wait,
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  Speaker 2: weeks are nowadays and right months or now weeks and
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  Speaker 2: for sure weeks are now years.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday was just I mean, we're used to it being
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  Speaker 1: on the road with the rock stars known as your team,
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  Speaker 1: with social media and everything. Saturday in Ankle field House
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  Speaker 1: was just amazing. They sell out Ankle ninety one hundred
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  Speaker 1: tons of pagebackers jerseys in there, three or four sections
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  Speaker 1: with Ashland Shade's friends and family, her first ever game
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  Speaker 1: playing at hanklefield House, which is amazing. She told us
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  Speaker 1: that in the postgame show. But it was just a
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  Speaker 1: great atmosphere. And then afterwards, I mean, kids hanging around
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  Speaker 1: wanting to get a picture with Page or at least
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  Speaker 1: get a picture of Page. It was a wild scene Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: It was, and we've seen that in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: places this year. I heard the stories of fans are
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  Speaker 1: in the trees in Chicago outside between the the Marriott
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  Speaker 1: and the arena, and just went just wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: a glimpse. It's wild.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It is, And a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: schools in our league are not really accustomed to any
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  Speaker 2: of that stuff, so we've had to this year we
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  Speaker 2: bring a security person with us because you know, the
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  Speaker 2: fans just have access to the court. They they always
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  Speaker 2: know what hotel you're staying at, so they're always waiting
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  Speaker 2: for you went outside the hotel. Especially autograph people that
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  Speaker 2: you know want everybody's autographs so they can sell it
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  Speaker 2: on eBay or wherever the heck they put them, and
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  Speaker 2: then they're waiting for you when you get to the arena,
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  Speaker 2: and then you're waiting for you when you come out
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  Speaker 2: of the game. And this year has been especially crazy
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  Speaker 2: because you know, I don't know if you knew this,
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  Speaker 2: but this is how it works in their world. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's this there's this company that is a basketball kind
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  Speaker 2: of sort of basketball company and they do a lot
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  Speaker 2: with kids, middle school kids, like kids from maybe eight, nine,
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  Speaker 2: ten to you know, thirteen, fourteen year olds. So they
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  Speaker 2: they have this huge following and on TikTok they put
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  Speaker 2: out out all this content to the world. But the
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  Speaker 2: world is nine year olds to fourteen year olds, so
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  Speaker 2: every nine year old to fourteen year old gets fifteen
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  Speaker 2: things a day on page or anyone else that makes
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  Speaker 2: a lot of news. And and this is how this
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  Speaker 2: is how they all know where she is and where
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  Speaker 2: she's going to be. And that's the craziness. And they
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  Speaker 2: wear their hair like her and all that. It really
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  Speaker 2: is like a one of those you know, Taylor Swift phenomenons.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know what tickets are going for
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night and what they're going for on Sunday, but
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  Speaker 2: I know it's a lot more than what they cost
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  Speaker 2: at the ticket office, you know. And that's great for them,
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  Speaker 2: great for the kids, and great for Butler because there's
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  Speaker 2: nine thousand people at the game and there. They haven't
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  Speaker 2: gotten nine thousand total the last five years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had forty one hundred for Indiana, but that's it.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, most of those people were Indiana fans probably,
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  Speaker 2: you know, So for them to get a big crowd
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  Speaker 2: and maybe a bunch of people come back and become
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  Speaker 2: Butler basketball fans, and they'll be there next time next
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  Speaker 2: year when we go out there.
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  Speaker 1: Austin's got a pretty decent group of kids. He's worked
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  Speaker 1: his tail off.
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  Speaker 2: The Yeah, you know, two of their best players were hurt,
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  Speaker 2: right and they didn't play, so that you know, they
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  Speaker 2: it's not like they have like he told me. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we were talking before the game, you know, and he said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he said, I was talking to my wife. He said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one got kick at just the big kid
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  Speaker 2: hurt her hurt her ankle or something the day before,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the game before and he said, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to play against the winning his program in history.
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  Speaker 2: And they've got nine McDonald's All Americans. And I've got kids
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  Speaker 2: that eat at McDonald's.
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  Speaker 1: I will say this, He's got a lot of kids
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  Speaker 1: that were Indiana All Stars. He goes in state, and
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  Speaker 1: that's an obviously testament to you. Getting ash and Kelly Ferris,
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  Speaker 1: who apparently was there with her parents. Yeah, yeah, she
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  Speaker 1: had her team went to overtime. She was late coming
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  Speaker 1: to the game because I did text her. I saw
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  Speaker 1: her mom.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But then after that, yeah, speaking of players on the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll ask one more question and then we'll get
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  Speaker 1: into the bulk of the last three games. What a
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  Speaker 1: joy it was to see Carolina on the floor Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the first time this year. The last warm
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  Speaker 1: up before tip she was out there and I went, hmm,
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  Speaker 1: never haven't seen that yet this year. And then with
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  Speaker 1: two plus minutes to go, here she comes into the
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  Speaker 1: game for the first time. What a testament to this
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  Speaker 1: young lady and what she's put in. And I know
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  Speaker 1: you've raved about her as a teammate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, some kids, you know, they would just kind
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  Speaker 2: of put it, put it away and say I'm done,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I don't have anything else, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and me to want to keep doing this without any
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  Speaker 2: guaranteed that I'm ever going to be able to play.
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  Speaker 2: So just to all the credit to her that she
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  Speaker 2: would come to practice every day and do all the
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  Speaker 2: things that she needed to do with no assurances and
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  Speaker 2: no guarantees that it would ever totally work out. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, when she found out, I think she had
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  Speaker 2: a series of tests, uh, and last week was the
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  Speaker 2: last in a series, and you know, and she said,
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  Speaker 2: if I passed these tests, I'm gonna I'm gonna want
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  Speaker 2: to play. What do you think? I said, It's not
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  Speaker 2: for me to say, you know, that's completely up to you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so she decided. You know, so I looked
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  Speaker 2: over at one point, I said, you want to play?
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  Speaker 2: And she jumped off the bench, you know, and so
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  Speaker 2: she got her two minutes and we'll see what happens
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  Speaker 2: going forward.
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  Speaker 1: What is the headband that she wears that patted a
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  Speaker 1: little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably just uh like uh, you know, what
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  Speaker 2: do you call it? Pacifier? You know, she just has
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  Speaker 2: it because she's warning now for so long that practice
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  Speaker 2: that she probably can't play without it. You know. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's like her little security blanket.
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  Speaker 1: Understood.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know whether it does anything to help her.
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  Speaker 1: Or out, but I mean I can give her my
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  Speaker 1: four three umpires mask and a skull cap.
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  Speaker 2: That would help you, Yeah, yeah, that is that might help.
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  Speaker 1: That might have a life savor, yeah, or at least
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  Speaker 1: for me. And I know getting getting hit in the
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  Speaker 1: face few times. My wife is here. She knows concussions
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  Speaker 1: are no fun, especially getting file tips right.
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  Speaker 2: In the mask.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what happens with Empires. You take your risks.
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  Speaker 1: That's anything else in life. All right, we'll come back.
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  Speaker 1: We will get into the last three games. Of all
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  Speaker 1: three games on the road, and of course one of
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  Speaker 1: those was was the signature one of the season. We're
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  Speaker 1: live at Cafe or at Manchester. The final live edition
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  Speaker 1: of the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show on Learfield. Stay
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  Speaker 1: with us, We'll be right back.