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Postgame Pod: Auburn falls to Texas A&M 90-88 · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  Hey, welcome on in everybody here to the
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  postgame pod at Auburn Undercover.
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  Nathan King joined by Patrick Bingham.
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  For the second straight game, we are in
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  the press room instead of out on the
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  court. Um, this time it's not too loud.
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  We just decided to do it here and it's
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  like 12:45 in the morning, so there's
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  nobody here anymore. Um, insane, insane
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  finish for Auburn in its SEC home
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  opener. That's two SEC games and two
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  times that Patrick has run out onto the
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  court at the end of regulation thinking
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  that Auburn had hit a game-winning
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  three. Last time I understand it was
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  your vantage point. I
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  >> it was the vantage point and it was the
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  fact well I was like standing behind the
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  bench and so I literally thought he hit
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  a three and they had won and I ran onto
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  the court and was like me to well you
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  can't see it but there's like a mic
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  right there to uh Kevin Overton and then
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  I look over my shoulder I'm like no one
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  else got up. I'm the only photo person
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  out here with the entire team. And then
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  I realized they'd only tied it. And then
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  obviously the rest of everything
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  happened.
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  >> And now this time you are a little bit
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  more absolved of blame because everybody
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  thought this game was over. Keshan
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  Murphy about a 36-footer. Great pass
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  from Elijah Freeman. 6 on the clock. If
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  I'm not mistaken, was 6 not what was on
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  the clock when Kevin Overton took that
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  shot? I think it was. I think it was 6.
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  >> Oh, it might have been.
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  >> Um, so insane gather for both of these
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  guys. Um, Keshan Murphy buries a
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  36-footer. Looks like Auburn has won the
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  game. You get a crazy range of emotions
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  in just over four minutes because they
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  show it again and it was almost like
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  confirmation or at least it looked like
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  you had a double celebration. Like they
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  went back to their bench and they showed
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  it on the video board again and Auburn
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  celebrated again because it looked like
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  on the video board that he got it off in
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  time.
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  >> Um, ends up being waved off by the
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  officials. I mean, just unreal finish.
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  So then Texas A&M celebrates.
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  Unbelievable game, Patrick. And
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  obviously, you know, there's a lot to
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  get into from what happened in this
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  game, but but obviously the end takes
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  the takes the foremost of our of our
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  focus here. Um, and Steven Pearl said,
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  look, you know, he was about 25 minutes
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  late to his press conference because
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  they're talking to the SEC league
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  office. Now, they're not going to
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  overturn the call, but he's looking for
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  quote clarity. John Cohen, we saw him
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  out there on the court with Pearl and a
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  bunch of other Auburn officials. That's
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  obviously the story after this one.
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  Patrick is
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  >> Yeah. Auburn feeling like they got
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  jobbed. Once again, that's obviously
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  what all Auburn fans.
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  >> It's almost like you could do two
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  postgame pods of like the ending and
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  then oh, the rest of the game that
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  happened, the other what's it uh 39
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  minutes and 59 seconds. But yeah, I I
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  mean they had staffers out there testing
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  like hours after still testing to make
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  sure like the buzzer was in line with
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  the time which was in sync with
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  everything else.
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  >> Crazy. Um, I mean ultimately it's I
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  guess in my opinion a judgment call. You
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  see very weird blurry angles of one
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  thing. You see other weird blurry angles
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  of another. You have to make a call in a
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  moment and they did uh to the dislike of
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  everyone in the building. Sure. Um,
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  yeah. I mean, just being down on the I
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  mean, I was me to you to Keshan Murphy
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  cuz I was ready to get the shot. And
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  yeah, it was just a bizarre range of the
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  double celebration, him running back
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  over to the fans and then the whole
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  ending. It just it Yeah. And it like it
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  it just kind of continues to be the
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  story for Auburn Athletics this calendar
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  or this like sports season of I mean I
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  hate to say the word but like being so
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  close having these bizarre calls
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  >> and it ending in that
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  >> this felt like if the Jackson Arnold
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  fumble was the last play of the game or
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  something like that, you know. Um
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  >> yeah, I mean look, Steven Pearl said
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  after the game he and I I thought he
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  handled this
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  >> about as well as he could have
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  afterwards. Um he said he said he told
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  the team after the game like look we we
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  can do one of two things. We can pout
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  about it or we can get back in here and
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  grind tomorrow. There are some more
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  words that he used that I won't that are
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  that are not safe for for children that
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  that Steve is a little bit
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  understandable after a game like this.
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  But yeah, you're right Patrick. I mean I
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  think the biggest gripe that Auburn fans
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  have with this cuz are there a bunch of
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  angles where you're like yeah it was on
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  his fingertips. Sure. But at the same
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  time it's again like a lot like the
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  Jackson Arnold one. I I'm completely
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  sympathetic to people who say,
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  >> "Well, you called it on the and again,
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  it's indisputable." The word and like I
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  have yet to see anything that says it's
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  indisputable cuz like you said, when you
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  zoom there, it's like it's so blurry and
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  and Keshan Murphy is a big dude. Like
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  how long are his fingertips? Like it's
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  it's really
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  >> man, there is just nothing there that
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  that makes you think anything concrete.
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  >> On top of all of that,
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  >> you had the situation that led to that.
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  So there was 2.6 6 seconds on the clock
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  and Texas&M had a good plan at the end.
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  They were going to intentionally miss
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  their uh they intentionally miss their
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  second free throw. Pop Isac was at the
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  foul line. Their plan was just miss it
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  because Auburn had no timeouts. You have
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  to get yourself get the rebound and
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  throw a full like impossible. 99.999%
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  chance of not going in.
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  >> Well, instead he accidentally didn't
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  touch rim. Yeah.
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  >> Which gives Auburn the inbound pass that
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  they actually had. Um, but both coaches
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  showed some concern and and and you
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  know, confusion over why that time was
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  taken off. Ste,
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  >> that was kind of my personal question
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  was how did we lose the time for a play
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  that should have happened that you were
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  saying? I didn't understand that.
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  >> Yeah, I guess my only thing would be
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  okay. Do you I think and again I this
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  they could have said this on the
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  broadcast. I didn't see anybody I didn't
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  see anybody say that it was actually
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  they ruled that it did touch the rim
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  >> and then I'm saying I'm saying that
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  would be the most logical thing to me is
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  saying it did touch the rim. It was an
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  inadvertent whistle. We have to take
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  that time off because you shouldn't have
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  had that time in the first place cuz the
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  game should be over sort of thing.
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  >> Bucky McMillan's perspective was
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  >> I mean he had it was the most blatant I
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  have never heard a coach say basically
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  that the refs gave a makeup call. like
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  he was sitting here and I think everyone
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  in the press room kind of looked around
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  like did he just say that because I
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  encourage you to I assume you put the
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  video on
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  >> Yeah. There's a Well, I mean the whole
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  press conference on YouTube, but the
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  short and on all of our social media.
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  >> Yeah. What and and Bucky McMillan said
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  he said I think the officials knew the
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  situation and that if it was close
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  talking about Murphy shot if it was
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  close it needed to go our way because of
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  what had just happened. I mean that it's
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  just unreal what unfolded.
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  >> That doesn't help our message board
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  conspiracy theorist.
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  >> No. I mean, just I I and I don't blame
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  people. So, just just an insane insane
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  finish. Um Steven Pearl's next press
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  conference is at 1:45 Central on
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  Thursday. That's usually not important
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  to anybody except for us except that he
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  said, "Look, we're going to talk with
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  the SEC, going to talk with John Cohen."
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  And and he was like, "I'm going to relay
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  you guys the information." Um yeah,
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  Patrick, I mean, it's going to be
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  another one of these another one of
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  these situations. Auburn has had to deal
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  with far too many of these, but at the
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  end of the day, like Stephen said, you
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  shouldn't have been in that situation in
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  the first place.
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  >> And that's kind of now I guess to
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  transition into the other 39 minutes and
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  59 seconds of the game. I that that's
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  kind of the thing is like you had a
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  16-point lead in the second half at home
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  and
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  >> ended up like going down by
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  >> 11
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  >> 11. And so it's like a total swing. I
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  mean, basically from I mean, just from
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  my vantage point, Byron Brown comes out,
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  everyone cheers, they introduce him,
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  whatever. I get that video, I run in
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  here to make the video, I come back out
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  and like Auburn's 10-point lead is gone.
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  I'm like, it's all heck is breaking
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  loose. Uh, what? Like they were there,
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  there was a point where they almost got
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  up 20 and then they in one crazy
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  transition, I mean, was it three
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  different baskets&m got on?
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  >> Yeah. So, so Texas A&M scored 15 points
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  off of turnovers in the second half.
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  Auburn had five turnovers for those
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  doing the math at home. Three points per
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  turnover. And that's what it was. It was
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  four three-pointers. That was just like
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  >> real threeon-one chaos. You just pop it
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  to a guy in the corner and then an and
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  one. And three of those happened in
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  sequence all on the opposite end. Um and
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  Steven Pearl said it after the game. He
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  was like, "How long does the turnover
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  take? Takes only one second to turn the
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  ball over." He was like, "We let three
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  seconds, those three turnovers change
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  the entire game. Change the entire rest
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  of the 40 minutes of basketball." Um,
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  Texas&M runs that pressure.
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  >> That's part of Bucky Ball is them
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  running that uh that fullcourt pressure.
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  Um, Auburn was able to break it pretty
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  well in the first half because they were
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  just pushing the ball down the floor.
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  Um, but that really threw them out of
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  sorts. And so, um, another just
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  heartbreaking finish for this team. The
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  turnovers obviously end up being what
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  what evaporates that 16-point lead in
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  the second half. Texas&M made, I
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  believe, eight three-pointers in the
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  second half. And so, that that that
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  obviously was the reason why they were
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  able to to make Auburn's lead disappear.
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  >> Yeah. I think in this game it was kind
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  of like we saw like the best and the
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  worst of Auburn in so many different
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  like waves and points like going into
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  the half it was some of the best we've
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  seen just at least in a while of just
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  like I think of I the biggest react well
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  there were a lot of big reactions from
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  Stephen tonight for obvious reasons but
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  like one of the biggest ones in the
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  first half was they had a possession and
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  they just kept passing it around and
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  ended up getting a foul call and he was
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  obviously really thrilled but it was
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  like you were just seeing it culminate
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  they build the big lead and then there's
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  just this massive like all the turnovers
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  happen the defense starts to fall&m
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  scores 50 points in the second half but
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  then again like we've seen they fought
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  all the way back they
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  >> did all the last second stuff and had a
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  chance to win and so it's just this like
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  crazy wave but at the end of the day
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  you're still 0 and2 in the SEC. I'm I'm
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  pulling up this Jason was texting me
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  some some stuff to put in the story
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  about it was a 31 to6 run for Texas&M
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  that took just over six minutes gave up
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  33 points in a 7minut stretch um
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  allowing five points per minute during
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  that stretch um overall I believe yeah
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  31 to six run was was the extended run
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  it took only 513 for Auburn's 16-point
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  lead to you lost a 16-point lead in just
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  over 5 minutes um and a lot of it again
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  was just that flurry of turnovers and so
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  um just an unreal just another a crazy
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  finish. Auburn would like to get back to
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  some normaly of course and uh and and
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  and avoid these types of heartbreaking
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  games but you know it's obviously Steven
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  Pearl's job and this team's job now to
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  to keep it together which they've done a
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  good job of he I mean he said it after
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  the game it's like they they've I mean
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  from Bruce retiring on it's just been so
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  much adversity for this team. This loss
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  hurts because you know Texas&M is kind
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  of where you are as well which is like a
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  on the fringe tournament team. Mhm.
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  >> You want to be able to beat those teams
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  at home. And so Auburn starts 0 and2 in
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  SC play first time since the co year
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  >> and now Arkansas comes to town on
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  Saturday. Really, really talented team
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  that John Kalipari has. Um they play
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  Miss on the road on on Wednesday. They
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  already defeated Tennessee over the
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  weekend. And so um that's a big one. You
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  got to try to get that game Patrick.
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  That would be that would be big for
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  Auburn's momentum.
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  >> It's like you can't start 0 and three,
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  but it's also like Arkansas is going to
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  be probably the best team of the three
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  that you're about to play. And so it's,
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  you know, and we talked at after the
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  Queens game of like if you gamed it out
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  these first two, it felt like a pretty
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  reasonable start. You just had some
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  really bizarre games, but how can you
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  continue to improve? And I, you know, I
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  I guess the thing that you could feel
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  better about after this is, you know,
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  for as much with football, we saw one
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  bad mistake happens and the whole thing
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  falls apart and that transcended over
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  weeks. You know, Stephen said, as you
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  alluded to that quote earlier of like,
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  okay, that sucks, but we have to move
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  on. Tomorrow is Arkansas. Like, it just
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  And so, I think that's the thing is that
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  you just have to
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  >> you got to keep going because we're only
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  in game two of the 18game SEC schedule.
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  >> Yeah. Crazy start for the uh for the
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  Tigers, but ultimately they are 0 and2.
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  Um I can't even remember. Patrick, I
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  can't remember what the final score was.
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  90 to 88. Um Auburn Falls to Texas A&M
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  tonight inside of Neville Arena. They
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  just can't kick that Texas A&M
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> curse either, man. With a with a new
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  coach, not only a new coach, a new coach
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  that that that walks onto the floor.
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  Like, is it a requirement of I was and
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  I'm not a Buzz Williams defender by any
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  means, but I think this was worse than
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  Buzz ever was. People always used to get
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  onto him.
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  >> Yeah. Well, nothing will beat for me uh
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  Jumbo being the 12th man on that Eugene
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  Assant.
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  >> Oh my gosh, I didn't even think about
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  the connection.
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  >> They just love to They just love to to
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  get in on the uh on the action. Um,
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  yeah, tough tough one tonight. Arkansas
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  5:00 p.m. Central time on Saturday back
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  here at Neville Arena for Patrick
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  Bingham. I am Nathan King. Be sure to
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  head over to auburn undercover.com.
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  There is, uh, a lot of stuff going on.
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  Lots of transfer stuff. We're covering
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  basketball. Um, we need to go get some
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  sleep. And so, uh, again, it's a tough
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  one for Auburn fans. Try to try to sleep
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  it off, guys. And, uh, and and like
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  Steven Pearl said, try to move on to
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  Saturday. And, uh, should be a good game
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  back here in Neville Arena. So, we'll
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  catch you guys over at auburnunder.com.