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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Basketball Crown The Kings (Episode 709) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: And away we go. Hi everybody, and welcome in. It's
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  Speaker 1: time for episode number seven hundred and nine of three
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  Speaker 1: Guys Before the Game. The title of the show WVU
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  Speaker 1: Basketball Crown the Kings. The boys are back from Vegas
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  Speaker 1: and we are assembled and we will break it all down.
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  Speaker 1: Basketball season now officially over on both the men and
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  Speaker 1: the women's side. Spring football practice continues. That only has
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  Speaker 1: eleven days left, so that's going by incredibly fast. Mountaineer baseballers, well,
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  Speaker 1: they're right into the midst of their season. Talk about
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  Speaker 1: that they've got the thundering Herd of Marshall in Morgantown
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow as we record on a Tuesday. We've got all
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  Speaker 1: of that and oh, I don't know, two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: nine pages of ten actual Healing had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: contributions there, the textual healing.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about a high and low on the base on
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  Speaker 2: the baseball series, Yeah, I mean two of baseball incredible.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, you guys, you were going so long.
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  Speaker 2: Usually I thought you had a residency.
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  Speaker 1: Close and Dion, Yeah, we're like, we're in residence.
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  Speaker 2: Tony and Brad will be in residence in Las Vegas
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  Speaker 2: for the next three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Long trip, good trip, great trip.
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  Speaker 3: Vegas was good to us.
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  Speaker 2: Vegas was very Crown was good to you know, the
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  Speaker 2: crown was this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to yeah, don't use your obvious observations.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, stop myself.
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  Speaker 1: In case you don't know yet, West Virginia won the
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  Speaker 1: crown was crown, the crown. This this just in. West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia won the crown. There's a lot of pieces to it.
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  Speaker 1: And as we recorded to the seventh day of April,
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  Speaker 1: which meet, which means the transfer portal is open.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing's happened until green light is open.
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  Speaker 1: So here we go. Now all conversations can be legal.
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  Speaker 1: The two point seven million conversations that have been happening
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  Speaker 1: throughout the course of the season over the last year.
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  Speaker 1: Now they become official, and visits being planned. Visits will
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  Speaker 1: be here and probably will have a good portion of
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  Speaker 1: the West Virginia roster done in three weeks, not all
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  Speaker 1: of it. It'll be a month before the roster's done,
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  Speaker 1: but it'll be in the next two weeks to three
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  Speaker 1: weeks it'll be filled up. And it's just what a world, man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a it's a revolving door. And
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  Speaker 1: this comes to an end, you immediately start building the
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  Speaker 1: roster again, and some of the guys, the newcomers, the
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  Speaker 1: names that perhaps you haven't even heard yet, will be
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  Speaker 1: here in five weeks, about the middle of maze when
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  Speaker 1: they started to trickle in here for good, not for visits. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: here for good last year and then June they'll be
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  Speaker 1: on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: I thought President Trump issued in executive order and change
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  Speaker 2: all that.
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  Speaker 1: It's huge because on Friday of last week you talk
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  Speaker 1: about guys spinning around, all of those coaches that were
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas. They're going like, wait a second, wait, well
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  Speaker 1: we'll wait. There's a potential here for a fifth year
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  Speaker 1: of eligibility for some of those guys. If it happens,
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  Speaker 1: that could impact West Virginia. Don't have any idea where
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  Speaker 1: this is going to go. The executive order, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: does not make it happen. It will be challenged. But
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  Speaker 1: you could have just on the West Virginia roster, a
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  Speaker 1: Brennan Laurreent could have a fifth year a trace and
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  Speaker 1: Eaglestaff could have a fifth year. Now whether that happens
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  Speaker 1: or not remains to be seen. But these coaches they
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  Speaker 1: need to know, like yesterday because they've got money to spend,
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  Speaker 1: and if they're going to spend their money, like I
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  Speaker 1: want some guys to stay and some guys I gotta keep, well,
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  Speaker 1: that'll also take me away from taking these two guys
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  Speaker 1: I've got coming in. So you talk about and you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to start.
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  Speaker 3: There in West Virginia's case, if that's the case, you'd
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  Speaker 3: like to start there and build around that. But just
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  Speaker 3: because he issued that order does not make it true.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of steps to get there. But here's
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  Speaker 3: the problem hop is that he says that, then everybody
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  Speaker 3: goes into questioning. But there's nowhere you can go for
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  Speaker 3: a definitive answer. In the old days, a coach would say,
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  Speaker 3: I'll go to my compliance office. All right, you do that.
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  Speaker 3: Now the compliance office says, I don't know. I'll go
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  Speaker 3: to the conference office and get clarification. They do that.
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  Speaker 3: Now they go to the conference office. The conference office
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  Speaker 3: is going to say, I don't know. We don't know either.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go to the NCAA and get it figured out.
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  Speaker 3: Now you go to the nca to get figured out,
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  Speaker 3: and they say, I don't know. That just came out
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  Speaker 3: the other day. We don't know what that is. He
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  Speaker 3: just said that I don't make it.
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  Speaker 2: That Well, yeah, great point.
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  Speaker 3: So there's no definitive answer, there's.
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  Speaker 2: No defendive answers. So two things about that. One is
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  Speaker 2: it is it is certainly legally questionable that the President
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  Speaker 2: of United State's conditioning executive order as to how long
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  Speaker 2: a student can be eligible, number one. But the second
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  Speaker 2: thing is rad to your point. So if you're a school,
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  Speaker 2: just do what you think, do what you want to do,
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  Speaker 2: and apology later and say, well, we don't know what
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  Speaker 2: the rules were, so we were doing this in the
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  Speaker 2: best interest of the student athlete and apologize.
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  Speaker 3: Later correct, which I like. And you know, I'm on
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  Speaker 3: board with that. I may even said that directly to
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  Speaker 3: people that matter on this trip. The challenge you get
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  Speaker 3: into that, though, is Okay, let's say you do that,
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  Speaker 3: and you do a deal with Brennan Laurient, and you
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  Speaker 3: put the money forth, and then somewhere along the line
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  Speaker 3: it comes back that it is not allowed that you
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  Speaker 3: do that. And I know there hasn't been a not
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  Speaker 3: a lot of not allowed. There haven't been a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those. But if one does, and you've tied up
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  Speaker 3: a significant portion of your dollars and a roster spot
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  Speaker 3: to somebody that's a really valuable player, and that becomes
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  Speaker 3: a hole or it's not able to be used, then
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  Speaker 3: you've got a potential issue.
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  Speaker 2: He's got thoughts that sound brand new, but the things
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  Speaker 2: we already knew. We got a sitting bomb ready, heaven knows.
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  Speaker 1: He's been looking forward to this since the two of
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  Speaker 1: us were with the team in Vegas, and he's been
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  Speaker 1: back here. He's been jones and to get some thoughts
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  Speaker 1: off of his chest.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, I've watched all three games. Listen to you, guys,
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  Speaker 2: all three games. Great job by you guys. You know
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  Speaker 2: whether I thought about this nice night? Whether in sports
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  Speaker 2: or life, there is this question of whether you meet
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  Speaker 2: the moment. And it could be at work, it could
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  Speaker 2: be in your personal relationship, it could be in sports.
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  Speaker 2: But Brad, there are moments that come up and how
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  Speaker 2: are you going to meet that? Are you going to
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  Speaker 2: meet the challenge or are you going to back away?
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  Speaker 2: Are you not going to perform? Or are you going
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  Speaker 2: to use the skills that you've learned. Are you going
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  Speaker 2: to use your coaching and guidance? Are you going to
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  Speaker 2: use your what you have within to meet the moment.
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  Speaker 2: In this WU basketball team, you know, struggling some at
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  Speaker 2: the end, went out there and in every in every
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  Speaker 2: way imaginable, met the moment, right, agree, play.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Sorry, we've got to turn the ring around.
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  Speaker 2: That's podcast. Just keep going, Okay, played their best basketball,
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  Speaker 2: played their best three game stretch of the season in
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  Speaker 2: this tournament, I would argue. So I think that obviously
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  Speaker 2: the team and the coaching staff can take great pride
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  Speaker 2: in that, and Mountaineer Nation can take great pride in
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  Speaker 2: that they end the season with a three game winning streak,
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  Speaker 2: one of the few teams in the country that end
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  Speaker 2: their season with a win only three. Right, that's first.
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  Speaker 2: Second of all, As I said before you guys left,
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  Speaker 2: I thought the opportunities were better in this tournament than
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  Speaker 2: if you got if you got a mismatch in the
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  Speaker 2: NCAA tournament. This ended up being better for WVU for
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  Speaker 2: a couple of reasons. One is, you met comparable teams,
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  Speaker 2: and you won three games, and you got by the way,
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  Speaker 2: you got three hundred thousand dollars, by the way, three
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars. So when I asked, when I asked Coach
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  Speaker 2: Hodge about the money on this program. He said, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure they're quite aware of the money. And
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  Speaker 2: then he goes in the locker room, he's showing money,
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  Speaker 2: He's shown cash, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So that was huge.
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  Speaker 2: He got three hundred thousand dollars for those players. WVU.
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  Speaker 2: Along with that, WVU got national attention, excellent national attention
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  Speaker 2: because this was a Fox event, right, so at first
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  Speaker 2: you're on FS one, then you're on Fox the main channel,
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  Speaker 2: and they blew it out. I mean they had pregames,
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  Speaker 2: they had post games, their production values, as you talked
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  Speaker 2: about in Minutego Tony, the production values were very high
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  Speaker 2: for this game, pregame, having that post game, and if
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  Speaker 2: you looked at the Fox Sports website, it was all
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  Speaker 2: over it. They had highlights, they had interviews, they had stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So you got more national attention in that game than
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  Speaker 2: you would have gotten in the NCAA tournament unless you
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  Speaker 2: had pulled a major upset. I would argue the viewership.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen the viewership numbers yet. I was searching
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  Speaker 2: for that this morning, but if you look at last year,
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  Speaker 2: the Crown viewership outperformed the unit and I t has
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  Speaker 2: become is it happening?
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  Speaker 1: It happened after the West Virginia game that night I played.
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  Speaker 1: It was Tulser against Auburn's.
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  Speaker 2: So your you've I think, and I think it proves
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  Speaker 2: that there is a market for events like this. Have
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  Speaker 2: one in the have one in the at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the season, have one during the season, have one
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  Speaker 2: postseason where you invite teams and you pay what and
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  Speaker 2: you pay in I own money. I mean, you know why.
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  Speaker 1: Not players ERA does that in November.
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  Speaker 3: Ye, West Virginia in one of these back in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Get a million home court in November. You get a
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  Speaker 1: million hoppy in November, just for playing, just for playing,
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  Speaker 1: for playing.
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  Speaker 2: So the micro of all that is that was a
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  Speaker 2: of course, winning was the biggest. It was a great event.
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  Speaker 2: And and the games were positioned. West Virginia games were
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  Speaker 2: position you were not in direct competition with n CUAA games.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they said, that's why the tournaments put together
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  Speaker 1: that way.
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  Speaker 2: So it was there. So you want to watch another
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  Speaker 2: three hours of pre game for the n CUBA terment like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: here's a game, yeah live basketball. Yeah, here's a and
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  Speaker 2: here's a good game. And I would argue that the
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  Speaker 2: games that West Virginia played. If you just and this
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  Speaker 2: is I know, hypothetical, you subtract out the the uh uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the stakes and the games themselves were more entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: In the semifinals and the finals n C DOUBA Tournament.
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  Speaker 3: This field produced some good games. It wasn't just the Westford,
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  Speaker 3: India games. There was you know, Colorado and Oklahoma. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: went to overtime as well. This Fox got lucky on
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  Speaker 3: this field. It produced some really entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: Basketball, whereas the semifinals of the n C DOUBLEA were blowouts.
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  Speaker 2: Like okay, and I turned the game off last night.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was boring in the first round. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: But again I was so caught up in West Virginia's performance. Now,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of notes about the games, and and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to get too much into Harry A couple.
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  Speaker 1: Says that he's gonna he's gonna hit you with an adjusted
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  Speaker 1: offensive ratios.
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  Speaker 2: Now, no, I just didn't make a couple of obvious
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  Speaker 2: observations the Stanford game on or Huff hitting those three
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  Speaker 2: feet throws. And I remember when we talked to him
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  Speaker 2: at the Hunting and Fishing Show, we said, do you
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  Speaker 2: want the ball? He wants the ball, got the ball
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  Speaker 2: and he made those free throws.
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  Speaker 3: That was just like, oh before I was just gonna
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  Speaker 3: say before he made the free throws of that was
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  Speaker 3: just a high IQ play that Geeler from Stanford reached
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  Speaker 3: his hand in there, which I don't know why he
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  Speaker 3: was doing that. Again, the whole debate do you foul
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  Speaker 3: when you're up three or not? The reason you don't
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  Speaker 3: it's it's fifty to fifty. The reason you don't is
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  Speaker 3: exactly what happened. Geler reaches to try and foul, thinking
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  Speaker 3: he's going to get it on the floor, but he
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  Speaker 3: went too late and as soon as Honor felt that
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  Speaker 3: arm come across, he ripped up through him. There's obvious contact.
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  Speaker 3: It was the call. You had to call the foul
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  Speaker 3: and you put yourself in peril.
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  Speaker 2: Not according to the Stanford analyst who was on the Fox,
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  Speaker 2: he was upset, But that doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Just because he was on Fox doesn't mean he's right.
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  Speaker 3: Guess what he was wrong?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, Brad one or the point about that game,
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  Speaker 2: and you talked about that a lot in your analysis
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  Speaker 2: in the second half. I mean, O Corey is a dude, right,
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  Speaker 2: He's a player and there was a personal friend of mine. First,
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  Speaker 2: do you talk to him?
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  Speaker 3: The elevator with him every day, just like they were buddies.
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  Speaker 3: Are you want to go get some coffee, Come on
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  Speaker 3: down bough.
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  Speaker 1: We bonded. We bonded. I get in the elevator or
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  Speaker 1: the first day we get there, look at him. He
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  Speaker 1: looks at me and he goes, you coach, and I
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  Speaker 1: said no. He goes and I go, I know who
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  Speaker 1: you are, and he goes. I feel bad for a
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  Speaker 1: mirror because he was a middle school played a middle
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  Speaker 1: school basketball against Amir Jenkins of West Virginia. And he goes, man,
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  Speaker 1: that's terrible about the as we talked. And then the
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  Speaker 1: next day I get out on the elevator. There's my
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  Speaker 1: boy again and I said, it's up, man, how are
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  Speaker 1: we doing today? He goes, good, you guys going to
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  Speaker 1: practice and now we're just basic guys. Yeah, just we
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  Speaker 1: were just guys. I tell you what, he's a dude.
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  Speaker 1: You shake that young man's hand, it's a bear claw.
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  Speaker 1: He is thick. That's how he gets to the basket.
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  Speaker 1: He takes all that contact. He's going to be an
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  Speaker 1: NBA guy. Now, he's going to be a multi millionaire
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  Speaker 1: here very very soon and he might stay. It's maybe there.
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  Speaker 1: Really they might come up with they might come up
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  Speaker 1: with some change.
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  Speaker 2: They should because there was a stretch there, about a
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  Speaker 2: ten minute stretch. He was unstoppable, couldn't stop. But you
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  Speaker 2: pointed out, Brad, this was a great call by coach
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  Speaker 2: Hodge and by you to note where West Virginia started
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  Speaker 2: that double team as series. As soon as he got
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  Speaker 2: across the line, and what do he do?
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  Speaker 3: Gave the ball up, just gave it up, and they
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  Speaker 3: did not have any other offensive options. And we talked
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  Speaker 3: about Geeler going into the game. A really talented three
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  Speaker 3: point shooter event Stanford four years but an underrated part
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  Speaker 3: of Honor Huff's journey to the MVP of the Crown Tournament.
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  Speaker 3: The highlights were yesterday the scoring, the defensive job he
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  Speaker 3: did on Geeler. Geler couldn't get any shots off, made
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  Speaker 3: two threes, one of them was a hail Mary from
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  Speaker 3: the corner early and so once a Cory started giving
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  Speaker 3: it up, that was ballgame. We'll get into it. But
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  Speaker 3: master class throughout this tournament by Ross Hodge coaching. There
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  Speaker 3: were some phenomenal offense and defensive adjustments X and O wise.
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  Speaker 2: Every time that a Corey came across mid work and
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  Speaker 2: saw the double two and passed it, I went, wow,
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  Speaker 2: that was the disease. So it was that was That
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  Speaker 2: was brilliant Creighton game. DJ Thomas just was great. It
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  Speaker 2: was just a player nine of fourteen, two of five
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  Speaker 2: from three point twenty points in twenty one minutes. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: points in twenty one minutes, Oklahoma. I took great pleasure
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  Speaker 2: in that, didn't you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean just but I forgot something and it'll come
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  Speaker 1: up in textual hill. But you go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what goes around, so what goes around comes around,
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  Speaker 2: but go ahead on our huff. Played all but one
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  Speaker 2: minute of that game, played forty four minutes, scored thirty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Should have played forty six out of forty five.
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  Speaker 2: Nine of nineteen, shooting eight of fifteen from three to
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  Speaker 2: twelve of twelve free throw line. Again obvious observations. Four assists.
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  Speaker 2: He was just like he was just it was in
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  Speaker 2: he was in a zone. He was in his zone.
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  Speaker 2: Chance more was big in that. He had a great tournament. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: great tournament. The notes and I let it go wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Really happy for Trey Eagle Staff who in those first
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  Speaker 2: two games we saw Trey Eagle Staff right average seventeen
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  Speaker 2: points was nailing it from three was huge in those games.
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  Speaker 2: And also this Whult and Brad, you like this does
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  Speaker 2: not show up in the stat line, but you guys
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  Speaker 2: drew attention to it appropriately in all the games. I
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  Speaker 2: think the unsung hero of this tournament was Harlan obi Oha.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: His defense was spectacular and even if you didn't see
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: it at the time, you saw it when he was
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: out what happened and when he was in how the
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: game win. And I don't know what the plus minus
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: was and maybe I have numbers on that. I just
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: thought he had doesn't show up in stat line. I thought, Brad,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: he had a fantastic tournament. As you heard me say
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: all throughout the broadcast, it was.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: It was the difference in the game honor scoring you
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: had to have without Harlan obi Ohi's effort, and I'll
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: give some numbers to it, you don't win that event.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: And listen, if you listen to this show and you
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: watch this show, you know how valuable he is to
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: that defense. And some of his stat lines were not
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: going to wow you all year. But He's he as
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: a primary reason why this defense was a top twenty
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: national defense all year and it just helped you to
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: a Crown championship.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: And that play Tony where he dives into the seats,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: poor seats, but that was you saw that and you
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: just were you just fired up right, and his teammates
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: are running over there to it. I mean, those kind
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: of plays inspire, They inspire. So bottom line, this was
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: an entertaining, impactful memorable into his season, worthy of the
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: pride that you should have in this team. And I
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: hope it established his coach Hodge's baseline for building for
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the future.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Well said, thank you. I think it did. I think
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: it will. I think it will going forward. And as
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I said, and I can't overemphasize this, this is this
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: is never a basketball season has now become a door.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: So this team played its first scrimmage game in the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: middle of October. October sixteenth, they played Maryland. It's April seven.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: As we record again, visits are coming this weekend. Roster
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: starts to be put together. You'll hear the names. May
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: they start to trickle. June they start to practice. It
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: doesn't end June July August school starts again in August,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: and off you go, and you're gonna be playing again.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: You're gonna be in Vegas in seven months, player for
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the player's era with a whole new team.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Wow. So but this team I think will be a
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: prisoner of the moment. I think this team will have
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: a special place.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer Fancill always love this team as they should. It
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: should Yeah, as they should, they should, and they do
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and they do. They love this team, They truly do.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Those that followed this team, they knew that it wasn't
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: going to be the most talented team that West Virginia's
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: ever put on the floor. But as far as likability
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: and as far as determination and desire and resilience and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: refusal to lose, how many times did they come back?
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I got counted up. It might be four or five.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: They came back from double digit deficits and games to win.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: That's incredibly hard to do, and they did it, and
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: then they did it in their final game, and the
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: way that.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: They did it just I mean, you're seven l with
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: what three three to go?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah? And yes, yeah, well and Stanford, I mean we
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: were watching it last nine on the plane. You were
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: down six with a minute four to go, DJ made
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: a layup down six with one oh four, cut it
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: to four, down six with so in essence, at one
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: o five on the clock in that game, you're down
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: six and found a way to come back.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Just remarkable. And you've heard Tony and I say this
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: all year, And I know sometimes people think you're just
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: clicheing and you're just saying this. This group of guys,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: there wasn't one single never mind day. There wasn't a
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: moment when this group didn't walk in with its head up,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: say hello and greet you, have a conversation with you,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: didn't matter what the situation had been. All the ups
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: and downs that you go through as a fan, and
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: these guys do personally internally, they never outwardly slouched, pouted,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: had a bad moment, not one hobby, not one. That's
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: not an exaggeration, Tony, right, that is not an exaggeration.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: And I've said this before. I was around these guys
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: nearly daily since June, and not one single moment of
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: a bad day or someone just walked off the court
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: without coming over to say hello to you. That matters.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: That character shows up. So that's not just Willy nilly
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: happenstance that you came from behind five times double digits,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: it's because that's how that group went off the floor.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: They did it on the floor. When they got behind.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: They didn't come over and hang their collective heads or
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: individual heads. They just kept playing. They just kept playing.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: They just kept playing. And that turned in to how
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: many of those comeback wins. And listen, guys, when we
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: say the town, when you talk about the talent level
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: of this team, there might not beat some top five
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: NBA picks, there might not be first round picks. There's
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: a lot of guys that grew into their role and
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: understood what they were supposed to do. There is some
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: talented basketball players out there that I thought dragged this
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: whole entire program to what ended up being a very
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: very successful You're one under Ross Hodge and this staff.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Given the tumultuous nature of the last four years, I
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: think it was a really good seam. You want to
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: be in the nca tournament. Short of that, this was
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: a very very successful year one.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: And by the way, do we talk about when somebody
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: talks about all this Bowl game doesn't matter, this tournament
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter, not in the insa. Have you ever seen
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: at the end of a game the winning team not
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: be absolutely thrilled, which West Virginia was, and they.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Should have been sure they had fun.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Man, Well, so you'll agree with this, and I said
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: this on the last episode. The standard disclaimer, you want
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: to be in the nca tournament. You are playing to
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: get in the NCAA tournament. Everybody in the program understands
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: you wanted to be in the NCAA tournament. Absent of
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: that what I said going into this, some of my
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: best memories around WU sports have been around some of
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: these NIT trips and wins. When you won the NIT,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: when you went to Rental Colisseum and knocked off NC State,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: when you watched Antonio Daniels, who was a top five
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: pick coming to the coliseum. There is some good basketball
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: that can be played in non NCAA tournament. And when
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: you're in that cocoon and you're out there and you're
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: part of that group, and you're in that cocoon as
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: these players were, that's all that mattered. Guys. It didn't
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: matter what had happened before. It didn't matter what happened
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: against Utah or at Kansas State. They were in that moment,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: winning and advancing on and that's that's fun. Those guys
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: had a blast in Las Vegas.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: It did. They earned it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: They aren't needing the moment. That's meeting the moment.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And tremendous praise to the coaching staff because that refusal
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: to lose attitude was instilled by this staff again from
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the very beginning when they got onto the floor in June.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: This is how we practice, this is how we play,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: this is what we do, and they instilled that in
• 22:47
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got a few numbers. We're not going through
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: every game and all of that that. We could sit
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: here for four hours and numbers where are stounding? I
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: tried to pick out some highlights.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: So you're going to do spreads on stats.
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  Speaker 3: I said, yeah, okay, we might as well do that.
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  Speaker 3: Sign checks for numbers. We'll just go right to the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Why not, let's go to the numbers. Stats is brought
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  Speaker 1: Conley's CPA. You're the client, they're the walker next to you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: They can do all of that.
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  Speaker 2: Visit Condley CPA. Can you go for a walk with
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  Speaker 2: the president of the university?
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  Speaker 3: We did.
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  Speaker 1: We had the great fortune President Benson came in for
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: which game? Is he there for?
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: First game?
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Second?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Name? Which game was the second game? I thought second?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I don't remember first or second game. Anyway, he came in,
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  Speaker 1: he was he was there the next morning, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. But he said, hey, you guys walk
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in the morning. Yeah, we're walking.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: You want to go?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, I'm in. I said, okay, boom. He
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  Speaker 1: was there front and center.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we will get into it. But I had a classic,
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  Speaker 3: always a West Virginia connection during our walks.
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  Speaker 2: Well really, we'll get into.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Okay, always hoppy.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: We talk about that. So how you doing this?
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Just gonna kind of meander through it, all right, we'll
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: just kind of jump in some offense, some defense. One
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: of the big numbers that jumped out to me, West
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Virginia's defense was locked in in this category points off
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: turnovers in the Crown over the three games, fifty six
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: to twenty four advantage plus thirty two points over three
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: games in points off turnover twenty six to eleven against
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: OHIOU Oklahoma owe you twenty six to eleven plus fifteen.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: You had eleven live ball turnovers against Oklahoma. Turn that
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: into one point seventy three points per possession against Creighton,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: one point seven points per possession off each live ball
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: turnover against Stanford one point eight points per possession, very
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: nearly a literal basket off of every live turnover you got.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: You think that matters in games? Yeah, it mattered. You
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: really did a job on OU defensively. That was a
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: top two twenty team. In offense. I mean, that was
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: a very very good offensive team. And West Virginia had
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: its moments, especially early and late, which I'll get into,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: when it closed off OU's ability to score that in
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: between area they were cooking, and you saw why they
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: were a top twenty offense. But you cut that down.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Let's look at some of the offense because I thought, again, well,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: i'll get into it coming up about what I thought
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Ross Hodge did throughout this tournament in terms of what
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: was tremendous from an X and O standpoint, the three
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: point shooting. Most made threes in a game came yesterday
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: or came Sunday against Oklahoma, fifteen.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Of them, good time.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: The second most threes you made in a game all
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: year came against Creighton the day before. You banged home
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: twenty seven threes.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: In the last two games, and just two in that
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: first game, right, they struggled and we were talking before
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the game, We're on our walk, and we said, man,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: why can't we just have one of those performerss just once?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Like when they scrimmaged Maryland and dropped how many they well, sixteen.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Sixteen from Honor and Trey. Honor had ten, Trey had
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: six in that game.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: All we want is like, why can't we have one
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: of those? Well?
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: They did, did, Yeah they did? They got it.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: You shot twenty seven of sixty three from three forty
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: three percent over the final two games to make a difference. Now.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I'll get into this a little more coming up, but
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: this further highlighted just exactly how good this Big twelve is.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I think that sometimes is forgotten when you're in the
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: throes of the grind and there's a difference between a
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: good defensive team and top five, after top five, and
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: then a top ten and oh you get a break
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: because they're only thirty second in defensive efficiency. It changes.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I think we forget how good that league is going
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: through it. Right, we just say, okay play in Arizona time, Okay,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: you play Iowa State tonight. Now you're coming back with Cincinnati,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: who's not an NCAA tournament team, but twelfth nationally in
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: defensive efficiency. I think we forget that and take it
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: for granted. And you get outside of that against what
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: is still a couple of really good teams, and now, oh,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: look at this. You're scoring in the eighties. Imagine that
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: the offense is clicking, you're getting open shots. Yeah, you're
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: still running good stuff. It's just not the seven best
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: defenses in America that you're playing against week in and
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: week out.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I'll get into some of that.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: You're now eight and two, or you finished the season
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: eight and two on the season when making ten or
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: more threes, that was the benchmark. Your two losses, both
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: in overtime Ohio State and Oklahoma State were the only
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: two times you lost when making ten, So you were
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: very nearly undefeated when getting that ten plus three mark.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Second most points scored off on guarded catch and shoots
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: in a game this season, and it was the most
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: against a high major team in on guarded threes. The
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: ball movement was outstanding, the drive and kick tremendous, and
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: the ability to slide into your spots. You've got an
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: offense that was clicking on all cylinders. You had six
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: games this season once Big twelve Play began, excuse me
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: with double digit on go yarded catching shoots only six
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: from the time Big twelve Play started all the way
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: through Sunday. You got them in back to back games
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: in this tournament. So again, your ability to operate efficiently
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: and against some defenses that weren't five of the six
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: best defenses in America that came through. Your sixth best
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: offensive efficiency performance came against OU this season. The five
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: teams that put up a better number were all NCAA
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Tournament teams against OU. I'm saying so that was the best.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: That was the six best offensive performance against the Sooners.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: The five others that were ahead of Sunday's performance all
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: made the NCAA Tournament. That's what elite company you were
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: in offensively against them on Sunday. That was the most
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: threes made against the Sooners all season and the third
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: best shooting percentage from three. So a lot of people
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: want to say how good the SEC is, and it is.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: It's a very good league West Forrdinia. You just put
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: up one of the better offensive performances that that group
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: see that saw and they were in one of the
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: very best leagues in America. One of the things you
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: always point to, or we point two, is out of
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: timeouts or after timeout performance. I do think that's a
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: good indication of what you can draw up offensively. I've
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: said it all year up. If I've said it once,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: I've said it one hundred times on the show. West
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Virginia one of the nation's leaders in scoring in efficiency,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: points per possession coming after a timeout against Oklahoma. Second
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: most points after a timeout in a game all season
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: you had twenty one. You outscored them twenty one to
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: nine after timeouts, the third most all season, third most
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: points all season after timeouts Stanford game put up twenty
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: in that game. Again, you had a few extra opportunities
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: because there's more timeouts because those games go overtime, but
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: you had a decided advantage in those games coming out
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: of timeouts. Again, backing up what we said, when ross
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: goes into a timeout, you don't score every time, but
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: very rarely do you get a bad shot. You come
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: out of there with something that was on display in
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: these two games. Fourteen games this season with double digit
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: points out of a pick and roll fourteen times all
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: season out of how many games thirty five.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Uh twenty one and fourteen, yes.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Fourteen times you have double digit points out of a
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: pick and roll. Three of those came in this tournament.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I think that was working hot. So the other part
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: of this is, and you always need to remember this,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: I think you get into games against unfamiliar opponents and
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: they don't know your stuff. When you're going through that
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: big twelve grind teams, I mean, they know they've scouted you,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: they've watched you. There's a body of work and they
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: see you and scouting you can go. You can click
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: ahead a couple games with your folks, right, you can
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: do advanced scouting. In a tournament. It's harder to do
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: that because you don't know who you're gonna play, right,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: So you get in these situations. This is why coaches
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: often say tony defense travels because the defensive game plan
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: going against these guys was about the same every game.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: There weren't There wasn't time to make a bunch of
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: tweaks and get it to the guys to digest and
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: practice it. There just wasn't, So what did you have
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: to do. You had to fall back on your principles
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: from the season, and you talked about personnel and how
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: you were going to match up against different individuals, but
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: your base systems had to stay in place. Westford Inni's
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: base systems, as we talked about all year. You didn't
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: win as many games you wanted, but the base systems
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: were pretty solid, especially defensively. You didn't make a lot
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: of changes. You tweaked to bring that double team at
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: the end, but you did what you did and it
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: was really good over these three games. That was the
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: only stretch all season where you had three straight games
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: with double digit points off pick and roll. So you
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: were dealing and a lot of that was on our
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: shot making, but Jasper Floyd was huge again, Trey was
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: big out of the pick and roll, so that was
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: clicking offensively. Here's the other thing that really improved as
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: the season went on. You had double digit points off
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: cuts to the basket one time in the first nine
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Big twelve games. You then did it nine times over
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: the next twelve games. So you started to adjust to
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: what the defenses were doing to you. People understood what
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: they were doing offensively. The back down dribbled down started
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: working with guys cutting to the basket. You had a
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: big one yesterday when Jasper cut diagonally and caught the
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: ball in the middle of the lane, then turned and
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: kicked it out for a b low three. That stuff
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: was really working over the final twelve games, as these
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: guys started to understand their offensive rotations and what the
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: defense was taking away and how you slide to counteract that.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: This thing was really going by the end of the
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: year offensively, and you saw that hoppy the Harlan o
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Boha line. Let's talk about that for a minute, because
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: I said it a thousand times on Sunday. He was
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: terrific all year defensively and was such a big part
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: of that group being so good defensively on the season.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: But I thought in this tournament he took it to
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: a new level. Against Oklahoma in particular, guys he was scoring,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: he was throwing a shutout for the first five minutes
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: he was in the game. Oklahoma did not score a
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: single point in the first five minutes when Harlan was
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: in that game. That's why Westfordindia jumped out to a
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: big lead. Then foul trouble plagued him the rest of
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: the half and then to the start of the second half.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: He came back in with four fouls at the seven
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: oh six mark of that game, much like he did
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: down at Central Florida. He then played the rest of
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: the game, finals seven oh six of the second half,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: the five minutes of overtime, and that was a massive difference.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: The first five minutes of the game when they didn't score,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: he was plus seventeen on the plus minus. The last
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: twelve minutes of the game, when he was on the
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: floor with four foulsand and did not get a fifth
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: and stayed in the game, he was plus eighteen. My
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: man finishes plus thirty five and a plus minus in
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: a game that was close all game and win into overtime.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: That's almost impossible to do. And plus minus isn't the
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: end all, be all stat, but it does, I think
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: at times show you a value of a player on
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: the floor. Harlan Obioha's value in Sunday's game in particular
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: was massive, and it was just a continuing trend throughout
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: the year. And I know it's hard, especially if you're
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: listening you can't see what he does defensively and how
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: he does it, but how the gist of it is
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: when teams run pick and rolls, which are so many
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: teams bread and butter offense. And that guard comes around
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: the top screen and we say Harlan shows. That means
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: he jumps in front of that ball handler and has
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: to stop penetration. So you've got a big dude out
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: there that shows and it stops penetration. But then he
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: also has to be nimble enough to drop and prevent
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: the lob over top or the pass to the role man.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: He does that about as well as any big you're
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: going to find. And some of that's got great feet, right.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: He is athlete Jimmy Bell. He can move and he's athletic.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: You saw him on the perimeter yesterday one on one
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: on the perimeter at times. But his ability to show
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: and recover is the anchor of that Ross Hodge defense.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: So your next guy in that replaces him. That's the
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: skill set you're looking for. That is a massive weapon
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: defensively for this group in particular, and he played it
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: perfectly on subsolutely.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Always nice to have a redwood tree in the middle
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: of your defense. God, they can move, just a massive
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: presence and he impacts and he did.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: By the way, where did where did warrients start on
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: that dunk? Did he start about half court on them?
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: He was inside the he was, he was above the
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: restricted circle, so a step in from the foul line, Yeah, he.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Was, he was.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: He tomahawked that baby in there.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: He made about just let's now we we're kind of
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: off the stature. We can just riff on some of
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: these guys and just what they meant to this program.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: How about how about chance more and the role he
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: played and down the stretch the final whatever ten twelve games,
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: he was just invaluable and in the tournament he went
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: to a new level.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: You don't win him. You don't win that game against Oklahoma.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: How many plays in the second half did he make
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: by getting that ball on the left side wing and penetrating.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Dude can finish, yeh, I mean he can.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Obviously the free throw shooting, he would love to do
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: that a little bit better. But he totally took control
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: of that game in the second half when they needed
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: him badly. He kept them in that game, He kept
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: them within striking distance because of that.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: A Bill two straight double doubles. His work on the
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: glass was unbelievable, and I thought one of the underrated
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: plays of yesterday's game. He clears one off the glass
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: there late knew he had almost the entire two teams
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: behind him and took off down the floor, threw the
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: pass in the corner that Honor got to stick the three.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: That was a massive play. Chance was tremendous. And again
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: you got the offense like this thing ebbs and flows,
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: and you figure out what you have personnel wise, and
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: it was working yesterday. You had shooters that were going
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: or Sunday. I keep saying, yesterday, you overload the one
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: side hob and you've got shooters over there, and then
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: you swing it to chance more. Their help defense is
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: pulled over. They've got to respect the shooters and it
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: creates a one on one there. Oklahoma had no answer.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: He just kept driving them and driving them and either
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: finishing or getting fouled, and they couldn't bring a help
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: side defender over to get the ball out of his hand.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: That is offensive scheming. That's not random. That's coaches recognizing
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: what they have, fitting into the skill set and just
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: out scheming the other team.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: And Ross calls that the gravitational pull of Honor Huff
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: because of his ability he gravitationally pulls defenders toward him
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: and then they just exploit the advantage. But what you're
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: always trying to get a numerical advantage on one side
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: of the floor, and that's what he did. Even when
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: he wasn't scoring, Honor was attracting their defense, which opened
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: up that side, which allowed him to go ahead and
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: do his work.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: He wasn't the only one. Trey's the same way. Sure
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: as those pictures we did that one day showed you
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Trey was near the top of every team scotting a port.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: You can't leave him open, especially in this tournament. So
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma knew exactly where he was at all times. So
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: you can put two guys on the floor that have
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: that defense pulled up to them, and especially Honor. Honor
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: was drawing two and three guys at a time that
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: was creating those driving lanes. Brendon Laurian's another guy. What
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: did he finish thirteen or fourteen consecutive games of double figures.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a dude, man. If if Trump's executive
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: order were to come through, and you told me yet
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Brendon Laurian for another year, that dude's got his best
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: basketball ahead of him. He's going to play a long time,
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: and that's an NBA type of skill set, body athleticism.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: And if it's not the NBA someday, that's overseas. For
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: as long as he wants, he's gonna make a lot
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: of money.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: What was your Oklahoma story? He said he had something
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: about Oklahoma.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll get into it in textual healing. Oh okay, yeah,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: someone remind I forgot about it. But someone, our good
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: buddy Joe Mock, who has the mind and memory of
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: an elephant, reminded me on some karma there.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Let's keep going individually. Can't forget Jasper Floyd and Ulstoll
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Tracon Well, Jasper, what a steady influence he was all year.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Ross I talked about this on the show last summer,
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: before we'd even played, Ross said to me standing in
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: a hallway outside of his office, I trust Jasper Floyd
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: as a player, maybe more than any I've ever had.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: That continued all year. And how about the intestinal fortitude
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: of that dude in Sunday's game, hadn't made a shot
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: all game, and he not only took Bate, not only
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: took him, stuck him and got you the win. Finishes
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: six assists, no turnover, and he just ran this team
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: like you wanted him to. You were not going to
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: speed him up, you were not going to get him
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: to do dumb stuff. He just did what he does
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: and was a key part of this group all year.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Last two games in the tournament he was ten assists,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: zero turnovers. For the tournament, he was eleven and one
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: eleven assistant, one turnover.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and to your point, guys, trace and we talked
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: about this at the end of the season. Ross finally
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: talked about it publicly too. What he dealt with with
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: a toe injury late in this season really remarkable that
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: he played as much as he did down the stretch.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: I thought Sunday you saw the effects of that a
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: little bit after two games that started to catch up.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: But those two games. You don't win that Stanford game
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: without him. He carried you in the second half there
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: offensively and kept you in close enough shouting distance that
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: you could steal that game late. He was tremendous, and
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: he became, as I've said all year, a much better
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: basketball player than when he arrived. His rebounding in his
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: defense light years ahead. That guy will have opportunities to
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: play at the professional level for a long time as well.
• 41:55
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  Speaker 1: one in. Hey, guys, I'm on a cruise ship. Didn't
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: get to see the Stanford game, so I sent a
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: message to the ship's hotel manager to see if they
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: would put the game on in one of these ship's bars.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Well he did better than that. Tim from Fairfield Glade
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: to Tennessee. Look how they hooked him out of it?
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah they they do well. What the hotel manager did,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: hopy is that he got the uh got got the
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: game on the television and we had image of the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: We have an image picture of the crew. I guess
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I'll have to just describe what it was. It was.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: He was at the bar, had a massive television at
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: the bar, and they had the Mountaineer game on for
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: him on the cruise ship.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Well done, yeah, full service.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Sorry about that, Tim, we didn't get your picture on there.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: John from Oklahoma City a honor joins the two thousand
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: point career scoring club. Does he go in our all
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: time scoring list or Tennessee Chattanooger's. The answer is the
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: only points he'll be accredited for, credited for at West
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Virginia are the ones he scored for West Virginia. That's
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: how that works.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Real click, real click.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: There. First of all, there's Tim.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: Oh geez, they did put it on the big boy too.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean it wasn't. He wasn't jacking around.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: They didn't go get it like on an.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: iPad that's not a little tiny one, but above.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: The bar there's Casey Jacobson, the Stanford guy who was
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: all bombed out that they didn't they called the foul
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: late against Donnor Huff. Thank you very much.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Case He should out a bunch of camerangles there. I'm
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: surprised why he was questioning that foul call is pretty
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: clear real quick. I saw this tweet this morning. Did
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: you see this from Corey Blonzi Bloonzi Sorry if I'm
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: pronouncing that wrong. He got the stat from stadthead, but
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: this is pretty remarkable. Only six Division one men's basketball
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: players have played five plus career games in April. To
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: say that again, only six guys have played five or
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: more career games in April in the history of college basketball. Really,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: that's what he says.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: You think somebody from Duke would have done that?
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Well, there was.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Alex Caravan Yukon went five and one, grand Hill from
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: Duke went four and one, Latner from Duke went three
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: and two, Antonio Lang from Duke went three and two,
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Brian Davis from Duke went three and two. So there
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: were some Duke players there, as Ye alluded to, but
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: only one of them was perfect in April. That would
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: be the aforementioned honor Huff who finishes his collegiate basketball
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: career five and oh in the month of April and
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: a top that list of all time April winners in
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: college past.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: How about that.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: That's neat Ross had a good vibe. When we got
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: to Vegas. We check into the hotel and they say, Okay,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: here's your team meeting room. So this is where you meet,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: this is where you eat. Basically, it's where you live
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: when you're not in your room and you're in the hotel,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: and he goes, this is the exact same room we
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: were in when we won the n I. Really that
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: the year the n I T was in Vegas, he
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: was the exact same room. So now Ross is, uh,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: he's Vegas boy too. So he just won three. He's
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: five and o two in Vegas. He's five and oh
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: in his last five games in Vegas.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: Shared that meeting room with the Los Angeles Lakers who
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: are there every year for the summer league room. Yeah,
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: and Lebron sat in the same chair for breakfast.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: That's it. That's a good room. Reserve that room this fall.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Texter I texted earlier this season and when my
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: wife and I were watching the mountaineers in our pergola
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: in January. Weather is better now watching the crowd at
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: the outdoor bar on an eighty five degree day. Let's
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: go mountaineers. There's their hangout, that's their backyard. Got a
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: big thanks te yard. Yeah, that's he said. They got
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: a pergola. Very nice. They got a little cabana. Excellent
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: question for you guys. How was the team treated in Vegas?
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I assume they were treated to a show and some
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: nice restaurants. Can you give us a glimpse into their
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: extra curricular activities? No show, no nice restaurants. They were
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: on their own. If it wasn't a team meal and
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: they had their off time, they were able to do
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: whatever it was that they wanted to do. We were
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: on the strip so they could go mule around and fortunately,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: no issue, no issues, no arrests, no subpoenas or citations.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Everything was good with this group.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: They did a couple of them. Did go to a
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: nice restaurant a couple of nights?
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did. Across the y, Yeah they did. They
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: found a nice restaurants.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: Oh really, ye are they gonna afford to They're just yes.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: They can, Yes they can. Hey three guys, First time Texter,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: longtime listener, compelled to share this story. Family and I
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: visit Minnesota, Key Florida each spring, eat breakfast at a
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: place and while we were there last year, had a
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: w T shirt on. Guy comes up to us as
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: we're in West Virginia. I said, Wheeling, He said, point pleasant,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: talked about the hiring of Rich Rode the trust of
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Ren Baker in our athletic department. Fast forward this year,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: same place at the beach comber waitress comes up, tables
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: sit next year, they're from Mineral Counting. Why wouldn't I
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: actually worked with their former principal at Kaiser High School
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: in Brook County. Now I had just knew, I had
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: to know. I had to share that with you, guys.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Side note, Ross Hodge and Company needed to do everything
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: possible to retain DJ Thomas pat from Wheeling. Let me
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: tell you West Virginia story. So we walked each day
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: down to the bagel shop about two almost three.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: Miles terrific bagels, donuts as well.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Seagulls bagel Mania. Seagulls bagel Mania is the name of it.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: It's world famous. Down the strip down at the end
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: of the strip, right before the convention center. Okay, right
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: for there across from Resorts World. So we're walking out
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Sunday morning, Saturday morning, whatever it was, Saturday.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Night, that's the win.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Of course, had some WV gear on. We're walking out,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: and the guy that's valet parking says.
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: Let's go on theirs by the way. Yes, he was
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: valet parking at a bagel shop.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, they have valet parks. Yes.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: So the guy, as Tony says, screams, let's go out
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: in here. So we have course turn and go back
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: and go over to talk.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: So I said, dude, what do you know about West Virginia.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: He goes, Man, I'm there all the time. I said,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: excuse me, says yeah, I go there all the time,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: that cart. And he goes, I am a Federal Mine
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Safety and Health inspector. And I said really. He goes,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: I'm in Beckley and Beaver all the time.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Beaver, Beaver, Beaver.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: I said, so, I said, so, like, and you're down there,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: what do you eat? He goes go to Gomart all
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: the time for my coffee, and he goes and I
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: love Tutor's biscuits there, and I swear that's what he
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: led with so, hey, Jake, put that picture that one.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I sent me a dude with the red pull over
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: on Ambrose Ambro. Well, his name is Ambrose Murray. He's
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: there is.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: There is, that's our guy.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: That's our guy.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: And in what's at the valet stand at the begel shop?
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: There hop valet at the begel shop.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: So here's how it works. The valet at the bagel shop.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: You can go in and park for free. They'll valet
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: your car, but you have to show him a receipt
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: on your way out. If you don't show him a
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: receipt from bagel mania at the parking, sixty dollars.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: So he's our guy. Don't forget how much was the bagel?
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: How much was a begel and coffee there was?
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: There was three of us, so two coffees plus his
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: frou food little drink that he would get and two
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: bagels was thirty thirty dollars. No, it's not horrible worse,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: I mean not horrific.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: But they had they had elite donuts on the other.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a donut.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: Oh well, sure, celebratory donut each week each day.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Hey, befriend of the girl there, and she said she's
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: pushing the donuts because she's on commission. There's those really
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: super fancy donuts. And he said, listen, if we win,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: we'll be back tomorrow.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: For a celebratory donut.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: And she was.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: We walked in. She goes, I was watching the game. Congratulations,
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: I knew.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: You'd be back.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Kept our word just banged on. Good job bang one
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: of those dont really good, so excellent. So our guy
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: in Vegas goes to Gomart, Why wouldn't you get that
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Gomart app immediately begin saving on your food and your
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: full feel. I didn't ask. I did not ask.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: How does he do both?
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: He travels just back and forth, so it's not there
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: every day. Sometimes when he's in town. He Valet's Ambrose Murray.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: Also he probably I didn't ask him what he got
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: at Tutors, but chances are it was the super Breakfast.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: When you think he probably get yeah, I mean that
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: thing is absolutely loaded out. That Super Breakfast got everything
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: that you need. Your choice of eggs, you get that
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: with a side of gravy for dipping your biscuit. It's
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: the Super Breakfast classic spread. Next time you go into Tutors,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: you get a back. You can get a biscuit there's
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: no problem with that. But if you want that unbelievable
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: super breakfast, try it out. Tutors. Everyone in Las Vegas
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: eats a Tutors pretty much, uh, Texter. In game text
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: from my wife, who does not think that you're idiots,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: She commented, you guys are getting all of your pent
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: up frustration about bad calls out of the system today.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: You're letting them have it. Thanks for having us. May
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: have referred to an officiating decision or two during the
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: course of the game on Sunday. Really which ones what
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Honnor got pinned on the sideline? The dude absolutely cross
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: just comes across and tomahawks him across the arm. The
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: ball goes out of bounds off of Honor, so they
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: rule it first. They rule it first, West Virginia ball.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: He misses that call. It was Oklahoma ball, but he
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: misses the foul that forced the ball to go out
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: of bounds. So I may have.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, you were a little bit.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: May may have. I mean, just get the call right
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: when you're standing in front of it. Guess what you're
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: getting paid to to get the call right, Texter. Thanks
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: for having us, Texter. Here's one for you next season.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Over under twenty eight and a half combined wins for
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: men's basketball and football, twenty eight and a half combined
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: wins for men's basketball and football next year, if it.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Was over, that's that's a good number. I think I
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: think I'd go over.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: That's a great number.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: That a good number. I think I might just go
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: over on that.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Brad John from Oklahoma City in game text. This team
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: is killing me, but winning this game is one of
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: the best thing that's happened since we joined the league.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Beating the Sooners, for those of us who live here,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: is gold. I won't forget this for a long time.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Texter Grayson checking in from the Kaiser Metroplex to celebrate
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the West Virginia Mountaineers Crown World's championship. Hang the banner, Texter,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: what's that? Brad always says, Oh yeah, it's hang the banner.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Congrats to Ross and Crue rallying to win the Crown.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Let's use this momentum from the end of the season
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: to get into the Big Dance next year. Big things
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: ahead for this program. Let's go Mountaineers. Texter Lewis and Louisbourg.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: I can't find the plus minus on Harlan Obioha had
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: to be the best. Yeah, plus thirty five Texter Boys.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Great work in Sin City. Well done. Do you hang
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: a banner for winning the crown?
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Absolutely wouldn't you.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think you hang a band That's what I
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: think you do. You put the trophy in the practice facility.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: They got a big, huge trophy thing. I think you
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe you don't hang a banner inside the coliseum. I
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: think you put it somewhere. You put a little something
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: somewhere in the practice facility. I would build something that
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: has like when you win the Puerto Rican shootout, when
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: you win the Camcon deal. I'd put a little something
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: there for season tournaments that aren't NCAA for in it.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: That'd be my guess. I don't know what they're gonna do.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: Texter inaugural year of attorney, first season under Ross Hodge.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: You beat an ACC team, a big East team, and
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: an SEC team to win it all and did it
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: in dramatic fashion. Hard not to respect that run. Honestly,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: one of the more enjoyable West Virginia teams in a while, tough,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: likable group that we'll talk about for years to come
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: with what's coming in next season. It looks to be
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: the start of great things. What do you guys think,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: hang the banner? I say yes, our buddy Rick Shure
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: he wants are up right great? Then Devin and Goshen
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: the Gohoshen Road exit, which is very popular hashtag hang
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: the banner. That's it, that's the text, Texter. As we
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: watched coach Ross Hodgens players received the championship crown in Vegas,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: I couldn't help but think back to the Big Twelve
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: Conference season and some rough spots when fans were criticizing
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: their coach and calling him too nice, saying he's simply
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: too nice of a guy to win at this level,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: and comparing him to Neil Brown, who was also deemed
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: to be too nice. It is absolutely gratifying to see
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: success and good things come to good people like our
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: coach Ross Hodgens players. Chalk one up for the good
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: guys sent with Mountaineer Pride Lindbergh from Lucato and.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Did a great job creating culture this year, man, and
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: a lot of that has to come from your player's
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: character too, But it was driven by this staff. Everything
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: we described about the players earlier, hop it was this
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: staff They never looked at you weird, They never hung
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: their heads after a loss, never got short. They were tremendous.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: That starts with them.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I'd say this about Ross being a nice guy. He
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: is a nice guy. He is a nice guy. But
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: when it comes time to play and when it comes
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: down to practice and what and what they're doing, he'll
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: cut your throat.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he gets after it.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: He's the angelic assassin. I mean, what you see publicly
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: and then what you see when it comes time to
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: like what he wants. And that's how that's why were
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: they were number eleven in the nation and scoring defense.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: This will not be the most athletic team that Ross
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Hodge will have at West Virginia. There will be teams
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: that will be more athletic than this. That defense will
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: get even better than this. And they finished eleventh of
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: the nation giving up sixty five points per game in
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: the top conference in the country. So this nice narrative,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: someone missed the boat on that one. He is he's
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: a nice guy.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: He's a great guy. That's such a misnomer to put.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: You do not get to those positions without being ultra
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: competitive and ready to absolutely just kick somebody right square
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: in the stomach if you have to. I mean, that's
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: a that's a lazy moniker. That that's sports. I'm not
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: saying this texture that's sports people put on as a criticism.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: That's just you can't get to this level without without
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: having what he's what.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: He's not doing. What he's not doing is mfing everybody
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: in sight.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Precisely that. I think sometimes people put the ability to
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: hurl mfs and that that makes you tough. That's actually
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: the proof is in what's the result, And the result
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: is they were tough. They were tough, and the numbers
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: prove that out over the course of thirty five games
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: and you're eleventh in the country and there's three hundred
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: and sixty plus teams at play.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, if he was too nice of a guy, they
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have been able to do that three game stretch
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: like they did. If he was too mean of a guy,
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: the team would have quit. He knows what he's he
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: knows what he's doing. He knows what he's doing.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Texter, guys, I'll be honest, I forgot about the CBC,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: but I'm sure glad I tuned in for all three games.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Tony saying that this was the best group of guys
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: he's been around in forty two years. Says it all
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: not the most talented and golden blue, but all heart
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: and no quit true mountaineers. I'm going to miss this group.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Text Brett, thanks for bringing the games to life for us.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: You guys were really the best, especially when you let
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: us know some of the bad ref's calls, and they
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: truly are. This is a good one. Matt and Tulser, Oklahoma,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: ps Tony. I got to be the mystery reader from
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: my son's first grade class. I read them a literary masterpiece.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: At least we know these Oklahoma kids learned something very
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: important on that day. There is that's Matt and Tulser
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: with his son, and he's got my book there about
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: West Virginia. He read that there in Oklahoma. That's nice,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: very good. Got another book coming out here in the
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: next hopefully six eight weeks published author called my friend Hoppy.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: It's a story of a bunny rabbit. Now it's not.
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: It's a sad story.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Don't read the end. Texter obviously honors three point shooting
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: and saying, do you guys think we will ever see
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: a player at West Virginia? Make eight threes in the
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: game three times in the same season.
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: Crazy.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: I'd love it. I don't know if we will, but
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: I'd love it.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: So he finishes his his season as the single season
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: leader in made three point field.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Franklin Young had that.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Frank Frank Young, you won't see you may and I'm
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: maybe in our lifetimes and me in your lifetimes, you'll
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: see another great three point shooter. But I'm not sure
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: you'll see in in this generation another player with that
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: kind of range. Yet the shot off that quickly he is,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: it's increasing. It's like a blink of an eye.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: I've said, hop, I've been doing this long time at
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: three different Division one institutions around some basketball Hall of famers.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: That's as good of a tough shot maker as I've
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: ever been around.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he can just get it off in every situation.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: He was, he was electric. I'm thrilled he chose to
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: come to West virgin He was he was fun to
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: watch it. Guys, we have this debate all the time
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: as we're into portal season. Here, that's two guys that
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: put up two of the better seasons in West Virginia
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: basketball history. You only got him for a year, But
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: what you have small did last year, and what Honor
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: Huff did this year remarkable, remarkable in just one year.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: In the Golden Blue t dub from Barbersville, dare we
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: mention the Mountaineer men's team with the likes of the
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: NC State Wolfpack of eighty three Cardiac Pack led by
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: four seniors who had played a total of one hundred
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: and thirty one hundred and twenty four, one hundred and
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: thirteen games for the same program West Virginia entire roster
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: one year, thirty five games. That's all they played together,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: David versus Goliath and the NCAA eighty three championship. And
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: in this day, the age of no rules and billionaire donors,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: the number of Goliaths are growing every year, many of
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: them in the Big twelve. Truly, the common thread is
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: the head coach, unapologetically and enthusiastically believes in their team,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: never stops coaching them to be better on and off
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: the court. As Jimmy V said, don't give up, don't
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: ever give up Mountaineer Nation, and witnessed it all this
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: year with this team. The giant fell Easter Sunday twenty
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: twenty six. Finally obvious observation, listen to this hobby. May
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: we never forget one of the great days in mountaineer history.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: Thirty of November twenty twenty two, Baker officially announced as
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: vice president director of Athletics for WVU. Appreciate you, fellas
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: and all the things you do. Let's go. I would
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: say this, wren is considered one of the great A
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: D's in the Country's great and great to have. But
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this after going to meals with them
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: here a couple of times on this last trip questionable,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: questionable food, questionable food order.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: Excuse me, well, the food snob saying that that's not questionable.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: It was very popular, it was outstanding. What do you
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: of all the great decisions Wren's has made. His ordering
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: at Italian restaurants sits at the very top of his
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: best decisions. Really in my opinion, well in my opinion,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: Well here he puts his opinion out like that. It's
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: everybody's opinion, it's his opinion. It's his opinion.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: So we're we're in the We're in the it's envoys,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: that's what it is. Envoy Sinatra's at the Envoy. Very
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: food food wins, Encore win hotel property. So we're at
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: the Sinatra's restaurant there and Ren sits down. He says, yeah,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: I wonder if you could do this for me, And
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: immediately we got a professional waiter. I mean, this is
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: this is Oh boy, what's coming here? Can you make
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: my chicken palm without red sauce? Can you put alfredoil
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: palm with Alfredo sauce on top of it? And I just, hey, Jake,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: can you show some of those pictures of what that
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: thing looks like. So it's the it's the veal palm
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: with the white albino sauce on top of that, and
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: that's Wren's go to order. So it became known as
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: the Renfredo. I've dubbed it as the ren Fredo. And
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: the guy looked at him kind of like a dog,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: you know, when you talk to him and they tilt
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: their head sideways, like when you talk to a dog
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: and the dog goes like this. And I said, oh boy,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: here we come. Here comes the blowback. And the guy said, yeah,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: we can do it, but there will be an up charge.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, you can.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: The guy that looked at Wren, I think if he
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: could have got away with kicking us out of the restaurant.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: He would have The waiter was didn't hide his disgust
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: and said, I don't know that we can do that.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: I've got to ask should say that.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did say.
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  Speaker 3: To Wren's credit, he's been in very a lot of
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: high level negotiations. Just stares right back at the guy
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: and just says, okay, go ask. Guy leaves and Skippy
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: over here going, hey, not gonna get it. You're not
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: gonna get it, like he like, he starts giggling. Wren
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: doesn't move, just says he'll approve it. Guy comes back out,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: just crestfallen.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: The waiter.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: Crestfallen says, yeah, we can do that, and so then
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: I gave it the great make it too, bring it
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: wonderful decision by Wren. The next time we were out today,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: I was other places. Was another restaurant, a wonderful restaurant.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: This one Wader's name was Tony. Wren says this one
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: was chicken palm, not veal palm. Says we're gonna chicken parm.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: Would like that with Alfredo sauce Renfredo. Skippo again gets
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: all giddy because he thinks the waiter is gonna go off.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: This waiter doesn't even flinch. He says, well, yes, sir,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: we can do that. They'll be a four dollar up charge.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: Ren said, well that would be fine. That would be fine.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: So I jump in said make that two. Another person
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: with us said make that three. It was all almost
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: all the way around.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: It's wonderful.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: Upset Skippy over there. By that night he was okay,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: just come to accept it. That was just part of
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: the deal. Ren Fredo, Renfredo. So if you can text
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: us in like, have you ever does that? Tryone else,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: order Renfredo. I want ren Lnston. I want to know
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: is Renfredo popular among other people. We'll tell you what it's.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: Sinatra's in the wind. If you go, you'll be okay.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: Now we've cleared the way.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: Ren has cleared the way for it. I just did
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: a chat GPT search on that and asks can you
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: get can you get veal palmesan?
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: No?
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: Feel Yeah?
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: Check a farm chicken parmer reveal part.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Here's the answer. Sounds like you're going for a classic
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: comfort dish.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: It's comforting, all right, deal.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: With Alfredo sauce. Here's a simple recipe.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks you.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: It was excellent. And glad you enjoyed it because sometimes
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: I know Alfred, I'm sure there was.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: Do we have a picture of that we got? I
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: sent him pictures anyway. Jake in Trouble Texter, Good morning, gentlemen.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: I just want to comment on how absolutely enjoyable to
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: play by playing the game broadcast were during the title game.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: If you listen to the outside media they have people
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: believe this tournament didn't matter and the team didn't matter.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: But sports are supposed to be fun. Last night was
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: absolutely fun and unbelievable performance by our young man. I'm
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: just thankful I was able to listen to you guys
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: call it. I could hear it in your voice. Is
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: how enjoyable it was and how proud it was, and
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: it was a truly special night. And as Tony said
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: in all of his years, might be the most enjoyable
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: group of young men. I have to believe he's correct.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks for bringing it to our nation, to Talamo, George,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: it was awesome to listen to Matt the Delta mechanic. Texter.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Matt uh great game to be
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: a mountaineer. Gary and Elkins, you guys have the innate
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: ability to capture West Virginia's heart and emotions. Listening to
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: the national media circus leaves me with nothing more than
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: angst and discussed saying West Virginia shouldn't be in the
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: title game, but rather Stanford. Well, no respect to us.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Disrespect to Stanford when they should have had more points
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: than us at the end of the game. I believe
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: that's how it works. You keep score great championship. Yes,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: we let a few games get away this year. I
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: really enjoyed watching these young men at Peel represented West
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Virginia the state. Well.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: Wish them nothing but success in the future. By the way,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: one note on that Stanford game. I know you needed
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: to come back late there, as we outlined, you led
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: for thirty three minutes of the game. The rightful team,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: Hoppy in my opinion, got to the finished sign with
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: the win. Just okay, eliminate that narrative. The program note,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: program note, program note. If you're listening today Mountaineer baseball game,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: We're supposed to be an event today. Who we are?
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: West Virginia Marshall supposed to be played today, but they
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: moved the game to Wednesday, April eighth one to do
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: our BW three event at the University Town Center Wednesday,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: April eight from four until five thirty. Will be there
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: as we record tomorrow, but April eight also not today,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: games off. They postponed the game. You knew that, so.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: Wednesday, Wednesday, April eighth, Wednesday, April eight, Buffalo wild Wings.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: Listen like I text you things. You don't look at
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: the text. I texted you that yesterday when the game
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: got postponed. I can't help you. I can't help you.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Let me see, let me see real quick.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Can we revisit Renfredo for just a second?
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead, can we there? It is hoppy? Look
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: at it.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: There's renfral It's very good, it's very delicious.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: It's nice. We didn't have to don't have to eat.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: That's always my point to him, that's always my point.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: Nobody said, and get one for Tony.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: He got his own dish.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: What did you get? Well? Wren called it.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: Seafood porridge.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Seafood porridge is what he called it. Hey, Jake, do
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: you have the one picture? He may not have those
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: pictures that those pictures may not have gone. I forget about.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: Don't wory about it, don'try about anyway, that was Renfreid.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: I got a got a fish soup, red sauce, fish soup.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: And then when I was handing the plate back after
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: I was done eating it, the the the food attendant.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: I may have gotten a little loose with the plate.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Some of that red sauce may have fallen, may have
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: banged off the floor and bounced up and got one
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: of Wren's clean sneakers.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised there's anything left on the plate.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: It was a big Some of the porridge kept calling
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: it porridge. It was it was, it was.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 4: It was a red sauce. And the porridge is too hot.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 4: The porridge is too cold. Some of that porridge on
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: my shoe. Wren sent me a picture.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, picture of you guys. Oh it was good. Hey
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: with Chris Wallace one night?
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: Oh did you he was there?
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah? He had a great dessert. Was that was that dessert?
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: He had a sombrero, the chocolate supper, Dora Fedora. That
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: was good. Just put it right onto his plate, didn't
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: even order it. Hey. This coming Friday, WV Women's Volleyball
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: is doing a special free clinic to sixth graders and
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: younger at Parkersburg South High School. That's this coming Friday,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: and they're going to have the clinic at five until
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: six o'clock. And then after that wv's women's volleyball team
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: will scrimmage Ohio University.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: That's April tenth, Friday, April tenth.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: It's a free clinic sixth grade and under great opportunity
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: for younger ones to learn from the Mountaineer players. And
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: then they're going to do it in Wheeling later this
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: spring against the highest state. They'll scrimmage your highest state
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: and we'll get you that information in details as that
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: comes of a But this Friday, April ten at Parkersburg
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: South High School?
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: When did you text me again?
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: Happy?
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: Keep moving?
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: Tired of it?
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: I think it's communication denial. But by the way, just
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: stop shutting your phone off when you go to bed.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: I mean people communicate after you go to bed. Hi, guys,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: Randy from State College. As a Mountaineer fan, I'm always
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: excited to have a reason to celebrate. It would come
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: in from a text from Groover to me.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: You and Groover.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Groover sent it to us. He said, can we do
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: it Wednesday? I said, Brad and I are both in
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: and you never responded apparently, well, Groover send so many texts.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, I like Texas tay something. You'd be nowhere
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: without Groover. Don't ever forget it taking shots at homeless Dave.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: As a Mountaineer fan, I'm always excited to have a
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: reason to celebrate, and as you know, there haven't been
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of reasons over the last several years. But
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: boy did that come through at the CBC comeback Stanford.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: Amazing gritty, demeanor, heart contributions several different players had to
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: be one of the best comebacks of all time. Finals
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: up fifteen, down twelve. Weaker teams would have packed it.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: Not these guys. Somehow they get to the game in overtime,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: fall back by six, no quit got some stops, critical shots.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: As I've been saying all year, Ross Hodge can coach,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: but he also can recruit players with pride and character.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: Things are looking up for the Mountaineer men's team and
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: that makes me happy.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: Tony.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: I said it the other day you mentioned the portal
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: is open. The best portal pick up so far is
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: that Ross Hodge is returning for another.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: Year, first time in four years. West Virginia will have
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: the same Usually you change year.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: It's a new concept. You can go ahead and keep
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: the same basketball coach for the second year. Hop Well
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: that's a new concept, unusual. So starting the portal in
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: a good shaw you.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: Change every year.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, we could have started a help
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: that must be just every year, get new coach. Is
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: that what happens?
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: We could have started a hell of a rumor and
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: go like, you know what, I don't want to say this,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: but Ross did not fly back with the team, didn't
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: fly back with the thing.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, let's start tracking planes.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: His daughter, His daughter got an award. She's a graduating
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: senior back in Dallas today and so she got a
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: big award. So he wanted to go there and be
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: sure he was there for the assembly for him.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: Did the team come all come back?
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Everyone almost everyone, one player because it was closer
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: to home. Just popping out there then coming back. But
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: his school's done already anyway. Uh, we had like the
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: three guys, they're already done academic. They're already done academically,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: they've already got their degrees, so they're done done. Weren't
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: yet done? Hey, Tony Brad Hoppy wondering if the Ross
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: Hodge showed the team Bill Stewart's leave No Doubt speech
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: before an earlier great win against Oklahoma. Discuss among yourselves,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: Bob and the toenails of the Foothills. I actually showed
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: Ross during breakfast one morning, said you ever see Stu's
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: Leave No Doubt? And he goes, no, I hadn't seen it.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: So we showed the coaches there that were sitting at
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: breakfast and they went, oh, well that's good. Yeah, that's good.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: It is good. Texter have watched a lot of basketball
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: saw game. Don't know about you guys, but I think
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: the officiating in the Crown was the best we've had
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: all years. Kudo to the Zebras. Obviously the long rest beneficial.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: Now out of the portal, regroup for next year, how
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: about them ears. Actually, West Virginia did well at the
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: foul line throughout the tournament. Yes, I thought there were
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: some miscalls, but that's gonna happen.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: So I've been kind of debating whe enough to bring
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: this up. That's a stunner, the foul on honor at
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: the end of the Stanford game. Okay, so I watched
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: this several times. I'm sure you guys did, and of
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: course Stanford was saying, no, he fouled him before, and
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: then there was the foul on the three point shot.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Your take on that, if Geeler was attempting to foul
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: him earlier, he didn't do it well enough?
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: Agree?
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: Is that what it did?
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: Okay, what he did if he put his hand out
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: there was happening all game at a much higher degree.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: That to me, that's not he needed.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: You wanted to foul him before he got in the
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: active shooting. Then you go wrap it and you make
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: a demonstrative play. That was not what he did. Yeah,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: didn't mean jump on top.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: I've watched out a bunch and then there's no doubt
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: he came across him. But to say that he tried
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: to foul earlier and it wasn't called that, I disagree
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: with that analysis.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: I just do just curious.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: Luke writes, what an exciting time completely sums up the
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: identity of this year's team. So happy for this team,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: staff and the fan base. Strong end of the season
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: and what hopes to be a long and successful stint
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: for Ross. As always, Thanks for all you guys do.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: Let's go Mountaineers. Luke rights in there Jake or JD
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: from the Southern coal fields. That was some sweet revenge
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: after Oklahoma played Country Roads during our final trip to
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: Norman before they left for the SEC. Let's go Mountaineers.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: Love the show, So that's what I was talking about.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: I forgot that until I saw that they played Country
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: Roads when they beat us the last time we went
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: to Norman out of nowhere, and I remember that night.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: I was there and I was going like, seriously, you're
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: gonna bring us this and so, yeah, that was a
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: good one. What goes around as they say, yeah, good Texter.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: Been a great month of basketball, from watching the ladies
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: host NCAA at the Hope Coliseum to watching the men's
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: team try not to give me a heart attack with
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: those OT games in Vegas. Congratulations to the men winning
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: the crowd. Special congratulations to Marshall's winning team on winning
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: women's team on winning the w n I t the
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: future of basketball very bright in the state. Moving forward
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: onto baseball now, let's go sign Elite won Jennings So.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: Baseball tough start the first game of against UCF and
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: then that second game, which was going on at the
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: same time that you guys were doing a game and
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: then West Virginia comes from what eight down? Seven?
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: Incredible, comeback ten two?
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it comes back and in the ninth gets a
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: walk off.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Hey, Jake, if you got any pictures that
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: we haven't used, just kind of montage them and we'll
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: look and if you don't my bag there, oh yeah,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: there were. There's the bagel shop, so that seagulls, bagel
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: mania and the president of the university who was a
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: delight to be with for the five plus mile walk
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: that we had. So we'd start with a we'd start
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: with coffee at our hotel. Then we'd walk the two
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: three miles down to the bagel World. We'd get another
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: coffee there and some stuff, and then we'd head back.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: Hop over my left shoulder to the right part of
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: the screen. You the donut chops cut off, but it's
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: right over on that side.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: And the other guy on the left who you may
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: not recognize, he is kind of like the unknown man.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: That's that's Ben Murray, who used name you probably hear
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: more than you've ever seen. He's the sport administrator for
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: both football and basketball, and he was with us there
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: on those walks.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: Play hurt.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: He walked, he was hurting. Has he's got he's got
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: some issues. It's tougher that there's Johnny West, former mountaineer.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: He was at the game. Delightful to see Johnny and
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: his daughter, five year old McKenna, who is golfing now.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: And she.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: She's won two tournaments already. Wait wait wait wait wait,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: she's five and she's won two tournaments against seven and
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: eight years old. And then the third tournament she played
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: and she finished second.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: And she's five. Yes, is she hitting off the men's
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: teas or where is she hitt in the front prop
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: of the back to East? I don't know.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: But what was wild? Is she one day she had
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: to go, she missed because she had you shoed a
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: golf lesson right golf they live Johnny lives in Vegas.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: Oh they do. It was a natural like on and
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  Speaker 2: you I'm sure saw it there or maybe you didn't
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  Speaker 2: see it, but on the Fox made a big deal
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  Speaker 2: out of it because the first game Johnny was there
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  Speaker 2: with his wife, Michelle Wee, professed former professional golfer, and
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  Speaker 2: their daughter and she went to Stanford. She's got the
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  Speaker 2: Stanford camp and Johnny's got the throwback West Virginia swag
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  Speaker 2: on and so it was a great storyline.
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  Speaker 1: A better one than that, got a better one.
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  Speaker 3: Kenna had Grandpa Jerry's jersey on twelve month. Kind of
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  Speaker 3: went to the grandpas side of things there with Jerry's jersey.
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  Speaker 1: But a better one than that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, is that.
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  Speaker 1: The only other time West Virginia played Stanford was nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine. West Virginia was number two in the country,
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  Speaker 1: played Stanford in the LA Classic at the LA Coliseum.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry goes for twenty seven points and twenty one rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: twenty one rebounds. Virginia beats Stanford, and that's the only
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  Speaker 1: other time they had played. Now go from fifty nine,
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  Speaker 1: which is forty one to fifty one sixty one. Sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven years later, West Virginia and Stanford meet for just
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  Speaker 1: the second time. Johnny is there on court side with
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  Speaker 1: his wife, a Stanford grad, and his daughter wearing a
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  Speaker 1: Jerry West jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That that's a lot of stuff there.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of dots. That's a good that's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of connecting dots. I like that a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So, Jay Jake, that's it for the picture. So we're done. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: very good Uh, what are we doing? It's Tuesday. It's Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: next week.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what do you think, Let's just see what happens here.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's just see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna start doing interviews. We're gonna start booking interviews.
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  Speaker 3: We're efforting on an interview. Oh yeah, early, we'll keep
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  Speaker 3: Chill out here? We just hit the music.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be a dandy. Just hit the music, it'll be
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  Speaker 3: We're a long way from you being able to say that,
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  Speaker 1: Reported here, it's going to have an interview and it's
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