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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Basketball- UCF Recap & B12 Preview (Episode 703) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome in everyone. It is time
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: for three guys before the game coming your way. We
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  Speaker 1: will recap the final game of the regular season for
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  Speaker 1: the world champion Mountaineers, the UCF game back on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and we look ahead now that we have a bracket
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  Speaker 1: for the upcoming Big twelve Conference Championship tournament. This is
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  Speaker 1: episode number seven hundred and three, and we are assembled
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  Speaker 1: it's early Sunday, more warning and we are ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Really enjoyed the time change that was that made it,
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  Speaker 1: that made it, that made it perfect. Okay, real quick.
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  Speaker 1: So Brad's been working the Mountaine East Conference tournament, and
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  Speaker 1: so he broadcast he televised the two semifinals in the
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  Speaker 1: men's game last night, and knew it was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit of a tight window. You got
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  Speaker 1: everything going on the time change, you probably didn't need
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  Speaker 1: you didn't need a double overtime in one of the
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  Speaker 1: semi finals.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 3: Not from a sleep perspective, but from an entertainment perspective,
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  Speaker 3: it was outstanding. Wes Liberty one oh five Glenville one
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  Speaker 3: hundred in that game, a three hour plus basketball game.
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  Speaker 3: There was just tremendous shot making. West Liberty hits a
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  Speaker 3: shot at the end of regulation to send it to overtime.
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  Speaker 3: Glenville hits a shot at the end of the first
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  Speaker 3: overtime to send it into second. Just a fantastic, fun
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  Speaker 3: basketball game up at West Bnanco Arena.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, very good. So since the last time we got together.
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  Speaker 1: The Mountaineers finish up the regular season with a victory
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  Speaker 1: over the Nights of uc So you end the season
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  Speaker 1: with a series sweep over UCF. So you end up
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  Speaker 1: sweeping UCF, you end up sweeping Cincinnati, and as a
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  Speaker 1: result of that, you're rolling along here and West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: becomes the seven seed in the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Picked eleven finish seven. Yes, we know they know, everyone
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  Speaker 1: knows they left some on the table they would love
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  Speaker 1: to have back. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, where they were picked
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  Speaker 1: and where they finished. To go five hundred in the
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  Speaker 1: league in year number one, I think it says a
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  Speaker 1: lot about this game.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, and we've talked about it here for a while.
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  Speaker 3: I think it says a lot about the staff, a
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  Speaker 3: lot about this group of players, just so resilient and
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  Speaker 3: able to hang in there. And what a big win
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  Speaker 3: and what just a wild deal. As you recap those standings,
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  Speaker 3: you're grouped in with UCF, Cincinnati and BYU. By the
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  Speaker 3: result of going five and zero against those three teams,
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  Speaker 3: you leap all of them into that seventh spot and
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  Speaker 3: you wind up with a buye in this tournament for
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  Speaker 3: the second straight year. And as we mentioned, given the
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  Speaker 3: struggles of this program and the really the six years
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  Speaker 3: prior to the last couple, I just think that's a
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  Speaker 3: remarkable job by this group in year one to reset
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  Speaker 3: the course of this program.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is remarkable, especially given the quality of
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  Speaker 4: this league. And you knew you weren't going to be
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  Speaker 4: in the in the top two, you weren't going to
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  Speaker 4: be in the top five or six.
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  Speaker 2: You want to top four or five, But could you
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  Speaker 2: be in that middle? Could you be in the upper middle.
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  Speaker 4: And when the season began, who knew and you saw
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  Speaker 4: what the projection was and everybody said, well, I know,
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  Speaker 4: what have you?
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  Speaker 1: And for a lot of.
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  Speaker 4: Reasons, I'll talk about that in obvious observations. I just
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  Speaker 4: thought it was in many ways and it won't you know.
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  Speaker 4: The weird thing it won't show this year is from
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  Speaker 4: now in the record, people won't look at this and
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  Speaker 4: go But for those who live through it and I
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  Speaker 4: think can appreciate what they saw and heard, they can
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  Speaker 4: say that was a pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Year in a lot of ways. I've said it before.
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  Speaker 1: I like this team. Yeah, no, I'll always like this team.
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  Speaker 1: What isn't going to be going down is the most successful,
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  Speaker 1: But I just always like this guys. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: we did a forty five minute show last yesterday, last
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  Speaker 1: yesterday at the West Virginia Outdoor Is It Hunting? Is
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  Speaker 1: what comes first?
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  Speaker 4: Hunting, fish hunting an outdoor show, Fishing hunting, an outdoor show.
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  Speaker 1: F ho fishing hunting an outdoor show. We did that
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  Speaker 1: and with Honor Huff and we will post the video
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  Speaker 1: of that on Metro News TV and on our YouTube
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  Speaker 1: page in the not too distant future. But we had
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  Speaker 1: a great conversation. Uh, well there's that. There's there's a picture, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: right there. So we just it was basically just four
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  Speaker 1: guys after a game. Yeah, we had Honor in there,
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  Speaker 1: and uh it was it was a good time. There
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  Speaker 1: was a gazillion people. Oh my gosh, you can't see
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  Speaker 1: it because of Screenswick, but it like a ginormous number
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  Speaker 1: of people there. And Honor is as good. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go on record, he's as good as we've ever had
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  Speaker 1: as far as answering questions and just giving you great insight.
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  Speaker 3: He was great, a fun way to bookend his mountaineer career.
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  Speaker 3: He joined us over the summer via zoom on three
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  Speaker 3: Guys Play the Game Right, and then he joined us
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  Speaker 3: on the in the live show to finish up and
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  Speaker 3: again Tenny iyaka your sentiments. This was a really easy
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  Speaker 3: group to be around with just a lot of great dudes.
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  Speaker 3: That I said it in the last show, Hoppy. They
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  Speaker 3: gave everything they had to this program, and options could
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  Speaker 3: have gone other places. They chose to be mountaineers, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that's I for one, I thank them for
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  Speaker 3: coming here.
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  Speaker 2: Provided a lot of fun this.
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  Speaker 4: Season, absolutely a lot of fun, and again we sort
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  Speaker 4: of talk like it's over.
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  Speaker 2: It's not over yet, but I mean because that last
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  Speaker 2: home game.
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  Speaker 4: But I think too that and I know, again I've
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  Speaker 4: said this before that if you're casually following and go, wow,
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  Speaker 4: how did they lose the case state? And that's that's
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  Speaker 4: a fair question criticism and you know, why couldn't this
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  Speaker 4: team make more shots? But in terms of what West
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  Speaker 4: Virginians are, and we are a people that are constantly struggling,
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  Speaker 4: we're struggling for identity, we're struggling for economic success, and
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  Speaker 4: we see ourselves as giving our all. This team was
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  Speaker 4: very representative of what it means to be a mountaineer,
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  Speaker 4: to overcome obstacles and to put your best foot forward
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  Speaker 4: every time. I thought they were very emblematic of what
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  Speaker 4: you expect from a mountaineer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you could make that, you can make that case.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. We'll get into the bracket here in just
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  Speaker 1: a second. But to give got to give a massive
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  Speaker 1: shout out. And if you're listening and it's still Sunday
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  Speaker 1: and it's not after five o'clock WV women in the
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  Speaker 1: championship game of the Big Twelve Conference tournament, Mark Kellogg
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  Speaker 1: and his crew he has now won twenty five games
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  Speaker 1: or more in each of his three seasons.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I mean, have you seen that
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  Speaker 1: graphic around there where he's in top five winning percentage
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  Speaker 1: of all Division I basketball coaches. Have you seen that
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  Speaker 1: The names that he's listed up there next to this
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  Speaker 1: dude is role Last yesterday it was an absolute rock fight.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, seventeen seventeen at the intermission, Brad five
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  Speaker 1: to four. The scoring in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 3: I'm aware, I've said it many times. I don't care
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  Speaker 3: how it looks. I don't care what style you're running.
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  Speaker 2: Win games. Did they win fifty one?
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  Speaker 1: Fifty?
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  Speaker 2: Sub fifty points? Don't care?
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  Speaker 1: Gia Cook. Jia Cook had missed her first five threes.
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  Speaker 1: She made the one that mattered. After Colorado had taken
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  Speaker 1: the lead in the final seconds, drains the top of
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  Speaker 1: the three, top of the circle three, and West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: then holds them and in emblematic form, Jordan Harrison comes
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  Speaker 1: in like a burglar in the dark of the night
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  Speaker 1: and swipes the ball away from the Colorado player who
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  Speaker 1: is starting to drive down the lane for a bucket
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  Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year. She ends up on the
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  Speaker 1: ground game's over. West Virginia wins at forty eight four
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  Speaker 1: forty seven, and now they played the TCUs coming up
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  Speaker 1: here this evening for the World's Championship. After the big
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  Speaker 1: twelve five o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought it was five o'clock, seven o'clock. That
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  Speaker 2: was a great pick by Harrison.
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  Speaker 3: Colorado player had no idea she was there, went into
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a spin, started to square up.
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  Speaker 3: Harrison pokes that thing out from behind. What a great
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  Speaker 3: player she was is and turned out to be from
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  Speaker 3: Mark Kellogg, who originally brought her to Steven F. Austin
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  Speaker 3: their first gig. I think she's a Hall of Famer. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: you would know, you're on the committee. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how she's not.
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  Speaker 1: I think she's a Hall of famer.
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  Speaker 2: I think he a Defensive Player of the Year year instantly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, JJ last year, she'll be a Hall of Famer
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  Speaker 1: and Jordan will be a Hall of Fame. They got
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  Speaker 1: two backcourt guy girls that are Hall of famers. She
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  Speaker 1: also had a play earlier in the game where she
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  Speaker 1: heard the play call from Colorado on an inbounds and
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  Speaker 1: she yelled at to Kellogg and said, here's what they're doing,
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  Speaker 1: and she stole the ball. Just pock, just pickpocket, see
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  Speaker 1: you later. She is so smart. She didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: do is she wants to be a coach? Does she
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  Speaker 1: want to coach? And I don't know she wants to coach? Man,
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  Speaker 1: it's like right there, gott ee, So we wish them
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  Speaker 1: the best. They've lost twice to TCU so far this season.
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  Speaker 1: Do they stole one from us up here on a
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  Speaker 1: buzzer beater? And now you get your chance?
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  Speaker 3: And then I'm sure the NCAA committee, because they're very
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  Speaker 3: clear and transparent in their process, I'm sure we'll know
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  Speaker 3: exactly why West Virginia then vaulted into the top sixteen
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  Speaker 3: for a buy there, because that'll absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Happen, right, No, right, five seed?
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  Speaker 1: Right you?
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  Speaker 3: And now you win the Big twelve, you're absolutely going
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  Speaker 3: to be a four seed. The nca would never not
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  Speaker 3: put the Big twelve champion as a team with an
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  Speaker 3: automatic buy that would never not happen.
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  Speaker 2: I would not count my chickens on that put them
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  Speaker 2: in all right, here we go games at Hope Coliseum.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the baseballers are I mean baseballers will
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  Speaker 1: just bite your fingernails all weekend. They lose the opener
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  Speaker 1: Friday to the Columbia. Yeah, to the Lions of Columbia.
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  Speaker 1: And then yesterday extra inning affair and it ends with
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: a walk off grand Salami. And now the Mountaineers and
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  Speaker 1: the Columbias will play the deciding game in this three
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  Speaker 1: game affair today.
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  Speaker 2: Who had the salami there?
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  Speaker 4: Brodie Kresser, Tres Dresser snapped it just like two outs
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  Speaker 4: in the tenth put it over to the furniture store
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  Speaker 4: line drive, see you later out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That was that's good. That was really good. All right.
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  Speaker 1: The bracket now set? Yeah, bracket now set. I'll just
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  Speaker 1: do it really quick. Then we'll get into Hoppies' obvious observations.
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  Speaker 1: But we've got four games on Tuesday, and these are
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  Speaker 1: the teams that are anywhere from nine to sixteen. I watch,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, I watched the Cincinnati TCU game. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's because West Virginia is not an NC Double A contention,
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  Speaker 1: but my gosh, do they absolutely just intoxicate you with
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  Speaker 1: the NC Double A tournament bad loss, good loss bracket?
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  Speaker 1: If they say it once, they say it seventy two
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  Speaker 1: times during the broadcast Cincinnati. Here you got that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: enough is it me?
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  Speaker 4: It's a nausea, that's I understand, Tony, and you're right,
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  Speaker 4: but that is the at this stage of the season.
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  Speaker 2: That is the storyline.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got relatively good memory. Give it to me twice.
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  Speaker 1: I've got it down for two hours. I know what
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  Speaker 1: the thing means. Don't need it every six seconds. I
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  Speaker 1: mean anyway, I digress. First game of the tournament on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Hurley received a technical file. Yesterday, Arizona State plays
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  Speaker 1: Baylor twelve thirteen, Cincinnata, Utah nine to sixteen BYU and
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  Speaker 1: Kansas State. That's the game that will feed West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: It'll either be the Cougars or the Wildcats.
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  Speaker 2: That could be a little tricky.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, ten seed is BYU. They beat the Texas Text
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  Speaker 1: last night at their place. Kind of a wild season
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  Speaker 1: for b YU fans, right, they were they were, they were,
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  Speaker 1: they were like they were high stepping early in the season.
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  Speaker 1: They stormed the court last night after a victory over
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  Speaker 1: j T. Top endless Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Tech and nine to nine in the league is not
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  Speaker 3: where they thought that roster would be when they were
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  Speaker 3: opening that check book there. I assume they still have
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  Speaker 3: a check, but they opened the check book.
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  Speaker 1: There unlimited cart.
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  Speaker 2: Another five star?
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  Speaker 1: Did I just think that was where?
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  Speaker 2: By the way, it would be.
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  Speaker 4: What I just I don't want to play be on
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  Speaker 4: you again, you know, I mean, like, couldn't they It
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  Speaker 4: would be better if you had another shot at.
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  Speaker 2: Like that?
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  Speaker 3: Get his money up front. I don't know that they've
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  Speaker 3: paid him for the postseason. He should just go ahead
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  Speaker 3: and declare.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's going to participate. That's fine.
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  Speaker 2: He said he's coming back, didn't he.
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  Speaker 1: The hell out of here?
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  Speaker 2: No kid me.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first pick in the draft.
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  Speaker 2: He said that in an interview. I might run it back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll run it back. You're gonna run it back.
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  Speaker 1: He might not go back to after the tournament's sober.
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  Speaker 3: You know it will if I'm gonna I shouldn't assume,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm going to assume. BYU gets by case State
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  Speaker 3: and advances on it will be an interesting matchup with
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  Speaker 3: him again because West Virginia absolutely did a fantastic job
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  Speaker 3: on him in media one held him to a season
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  Speaker 3: on one points in Big twelve plays.
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  Speaker 2: So you're gonna have to bring it. That will be
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  Speaker 2: an important be low chance more gaming.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna bring it. He's gonna bring it again. That's fine,
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  Speaker 1: let's go, let's go.
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  Speaker 4: I hope that I hope that he's thinking NBA by nowadays.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's not. They're going to try to grind this
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  Speaker 1: thing out. That's fine, that's fine. West Virginia will play
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  Speaker 1: its first game in the tournament seven o'clock Eastern on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night against either BYU or Kansas State. All right,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: we're doing things a little bit differently today. We don't
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  Speaker 1: have any production music for reasons beyond our control, and
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  Speaker 1: it's time now for Hoppies obvious observations. I'm not gonna sing.
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  Speaker 1: Brad's not gonna sing. What do you got? We've used
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  Speaker 1: them all already. That was everything everything, But that's been
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  Speaker 1: Hoppy's obvious observation.
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  Speaker 2: I do you have a couple?
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  Speaker 4: I was just really happy for the team and the
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  Speaker 4: fans at Hope Collie seem on Friday, Brad to end
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  Speaker 4: the regular season at home with a win over UCF,
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  Speaker 4: and how and how the game unfolded, I just thought
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  Speaker 4: it was with the families there, of the of the seniors,
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  Speaker 4: seniors honored, it was just a it was a meaningful
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  Speaker 4: way to end the regular season. Agree, loved it. It
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  Speaker 4: was really really good. And that's a lasting memory for
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  Speaker 4: those guys, right, And it would have been it would
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  Speaker 4: have been a bummer if they had lost the game.
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  Speaker 3: Thought Ross was was pretty eloquent in talking to us
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  Speaker 3: after the game about that, and he just said that's
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  Speaker 3: that's what he said that he was just happy for
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  Speaker 3: the players and the family that they were able to
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  Speaker 3: experience that get a win in front of all those
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  Speaker 3: fans and sing country Roads, and he said, whatever they
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  Speaker 3: go on to do the rest of their life, they
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  Speaker 3: will remember that moment in that building singing that song
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  Speaker 3: for the rest of their lives.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, which I thought was perfectly said.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, outstanding performances in that game. And you'll talk about
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  Speaker 4: this from a number of Mountaineers. Honor Huff twenty four
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  Speaker 4: points and Brad as you like to say, get the
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  Speaker 4: right guys to the free throw line.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't good?
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  Speaker 2: Did it matter?
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  Speaker 4: It mattered? Yeah, Honor ten of ten. You had those
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  Speaker 4: three pointers early in the game. West Virginia got that
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: early lead. Well, that was really important, I thought.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: And you shot eighty four percent from the free throw line.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: That was that was a good night, good night. And
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: it wasn't just honor.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: I mean Jasper and below were collective eight for.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Eight correct from the free throw line. Yeah, Chance more
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: two of three yeah.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and a good job Chance who sometimes struggles at
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: the free throw line. So West Virginia where the twenty
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: one of twenty five correct, Yeah, free throw line.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: That's a good night.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Again.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: They shot well from the field forty five percent to
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: thirty eight percent for UCF. Good defense by West Virginia, Brad,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: you hold UCF to twenty three points in the first half.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Great defense, not good great.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Excellent team basketball. Fourteen assists that ball game for West Virginia.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Six blocks, six blocks. So now you get ready for
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: the tournament. And you know, this basketball season is fun
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: because it starts started like last year sometime I don't know, August, September,
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: and then it kind of goes, goes, goes, and then
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: you have this Okay, we're coming to the end, and
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: then there's a restart.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: It's like spring hoppy, the rebirth of the season.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the weather's warm and there's a restart
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: to basketball season, and there's a lot of excitement because
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: the tournament and you know, West Virginia is not going
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: to be the ins tournament unless they they win the
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Big twelve Tournament. But they'll have postseason action. But just
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: if you're a basketball fan, you got a lot, a
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: lot of great basketball coming up here. Next couple of weeks,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: WU women we talked about now can they get a
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: win with against TCU who beat them twice in regular
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: season fifty one fifty and fifty nine fifty. We talked
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: about baseball. I'll give you a quick this day in
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: sports history.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: So this is the eighth when we record eight of March, eight.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Of March on this day, and this is has a
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Brad tie in on this day. In twenty ten, top
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: rank Connecticut Huskies set an NCAA women's record by winning
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: their seventy first straight game wow in a fifty nine
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: to forty four victory over number six Notre Dame in
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: the semifinals of the Big East Tournament. The next day,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: you colum March ninth, Yukon won the Big East Tournament
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: with a sixty to thirty two win over West Virginia.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Yukon went on to win another sixth straight and won
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: the Natty beat Stanford fifty three forty seven. They finished
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: their season twenty ten thirty nine to oh and that
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: was a Maya More led team. Now fifteen sixteen years later,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Brad Howe's Yukon how the Yukon women doing.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Probably pretty well.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: They're unblemished, aren't they hot?
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Unblemished and ranked number one in the country. Do you
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: know doing okay?
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Do you know?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Do you know doing a good job?
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Brad, here's your bo's his boy a career, that's his boy.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: So not to and again our focus into West Virginia.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I just thought that there was West Virginia time because
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: they beat West Virginia Biggies Tournament. And the fact that
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: how hard is it to keep it going tony for
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: that long and have that much success for that many.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Years, Well, to me, the most impressive thing is, I
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: mean he took quote unquote right, he took a little
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: bit of a teeny blip dip A little bit now
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: his dip much his dip. Ninety nine percent of all
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: every other school in the country would have taken his dip.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: But it looked as though the South Carolina faction had
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: like pushed him aside and said get out of here, man,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: like you're old school. You're not coming back. The fact
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that he was able to once again re elevate the thing.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Now he's looking down again. That to me is the ultimate.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: It's hard, it's hard to get it started, it's hard
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to stay as long as he did record setting and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: now again after a teeny little blip blop because he
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: had injuries, he comes back again. That's the ultimate, and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and to to in the.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: To to be at this point be undefeated, which also
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: speaks to Miami Ohio. I know there's a just like
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: debate we've had for six weeks about whether or not
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: the NANCAA tournament.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Of course they will be.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: But I mean, you know, Brad, you play the schedule, right,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: that's your schedule, and all you do is win all
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: the games. And that's really, really, really hard to do.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: I don't care what league you're into, what talent level
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: you have.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I went home and watched the end of the Miami
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Ohio game Friday. They were a wis that.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Close a couple They had a couple down the stretch
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: where they were whispered whiskers away. They had two last
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: second buzzer beaters there in the last couple of games.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: But Ohio had a shot to beat them. Yeah, dude,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: that Ohio has that we saw when we were in Cleveland,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: when West Virginia playto has date baller.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: It is pretty wild. This is not the place for
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: the discussion, but it is just wild. When you when
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: you talk about the choosing of the NCAA Tournament teams
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: and what should happen there. I mean that is a
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Miami team was zero quad one wins?
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Where does schedules matter? Where does the league you play in?
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I can see why people think there's a powerful bias.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: But if you're going to do it off the difficulty.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Of the schedule.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Now I'm one that believes Miami should get in. You're unefeated,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: put him in. I'm all for that, but it does
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: set up some of the inconsistencies in choosing this field.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: There'll be some others get in there that have one
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: in two quad one wins. You got West Virginia sitting
• 21:19
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• 21:23
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  Speaker 3: We thought going in that maybe West Virginia would get
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: some benefit stylistically from this matchup. UCF was coming on
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: that game against Oklahoma State when scored one hundred points.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: NBA All Star Game broke out. In that one, they
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: were just running up and down the floor. Defense was optional,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: and then you had to turn around and go the
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: completely opposite way and come into the coliseum and play
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: a team that was really going to guard you for
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: the entire time. I think that was a factor in
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: this game, holding them to sixty two points. Their second
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: lowest point total in Big twelve play. And it was
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: a game, guys, you just dominated throughout. You led for
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: thirty eight minutes and fifty eight seconds, so thirty nine
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: minutes of the game you led against UCF and did
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: a great job in sweeping a team that many think
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: are still in the NCAA tournament. All right, let's dive
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: into some numbers here. I thought, I'll come back to
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: the individual performance, so let's just go overall. West Virginia
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: in that game had fifteen points scored in the final
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: four seconds of the shot clock.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Wow. Oh, that's a good number.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Double figure points in two of the last three games
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: in the final four seconds of the shot clock. Those
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: are both wins. Here's another number I think you'll like.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: West Virginia is seven and one on the season when
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: it scores ten or more in the final four seconds
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: of the shot clock.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: So hoppy.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: We talk all the time about what Ross is trying
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: to do offensively, and part of that is be deliberate,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: limit possessions. Let your offense help your defense there and
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: limit some of these teams that want to go up
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: and down and score quickly. And if you can possess
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: the basketball and then be efficient and score late. Now
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: you're cooking, and I think that stat bat backs it up.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: When you're making your shots late in the clock. West
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Virginia turns out well at seven.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: And one, and Brad, what's it? How does it help
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: West Virginia win? They run clock and score. How does
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: that help your defense?
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: What gives you a chance to get set up? And
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: again it compresses the game. And I didn't have a
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: chance to go back in and look at time of possession,
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: but my guess is this was another big time a
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: possession game for West Virginia. And when they win that
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: the biggest gaps that we've mentioned when the five biggest
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: gaps are four and one in those games. On the season,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: pick and roll we talked about that was going to
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: be big going into the game. West Virginia was good
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: with it defensively, but how about offensively? Second most points
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: scored off the pick and roll since Cincinnati back on
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: January sixth, we thought that was coming. UCF gives up
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: a lot of points via.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: The pick and roll.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: That we saw in the first game down in u
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: See or down in Central Florida onnor Huff was big
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: had thirteen points just off pick and roll sets in
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: the first meeting, so you figured that would be really
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: really good and really impactful cuts to the basket. Double
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: digit points off of those in this game. Again, that's
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: the fourth time in the last five games. So again
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: some of that when you see West Virginia backing down
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: into the post and waiting for a second defender to come,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: what they're trying to do is create the mismatch or
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: the disadvantage for the defense, and when they do, someone
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: is like cutting in the lane or down the baseline.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: It worked again, double digit points off those sets. UCF
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: only six points off catch and shoot jumpers in this game,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: tied for the fewest amount of points in a game
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: all season off that set. They shot eleven total, only
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: four of them on guarded in this game. So a
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: really good job by westbrig Field.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: We finally got our regression.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Now not so much regressive.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: They just didn't Yeah, yes they didn't make a lot
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: of shots, but they also didn't get a lot of
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: overall shots as well. But yeah, you got a little
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: regression here in the last two games. Team just weren't
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: hitting the couple of open shots they got each game.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Talk about some individual performances. Harlan again did it again
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: down there. He was plus eighteen in the plus minus
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: category and didn't score a point. He was plus thirteen
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: in this game and only scored four thirty plus thirty
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: one in the two games for Harlan, And again, that's
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: part of why you're able to shut the pick and
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: roll off is because of his ability in the drop
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: coverage there in the middle of the lane. Did a
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: really nice job, especially defensively. How about our guy Honor.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: You mentioned him earlier twenty points or twenty four points
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: on the game, but I thought there was an impactful
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: moment with eleven forty four on the clock, Tony, and
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: we talked about it while it was happening. Honor was
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: fouled on a three point attempt and just like he
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: did down in Orlando, that got him unchained down in Orlando,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: and he took off from that moment when they fouled
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: him on a three down there. Hopy Today's or Friday's game,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: eleven forty four on the clock, filed on that three,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: including the three free throws he stepped up and made
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: right there. He went on to score ten points in
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: the next two minutes ballgame. If it wasn't already over,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: that was ballgame. Right there, He goes eighteen of eighteen
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: from the free throw line in the two meetings against UCF.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Get your best free throw shooter of the line. Your
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: team free throw percentage probably is reflective of a good
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: night at the line. West Virginia just overall offensively when
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: it's one of its better offensive performance performances of the year.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: They finished one point two points per possession. Again, I
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: said all the time, if you average one point one
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: for the whole season, you'll lead the country. They were
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: very good in that category. One of the reasons why
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: West Virginia very few turnovers in that game. That was
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: its lowest excuse me, turnover percentage in Big twelve.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Play seven of the whole game.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: It also helped counteract what was an odd stat and
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: you were.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Able to get out of there and win it because
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: you were.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: You were efficient offensively and good everywhere else defensively. You
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: gave up fifteen offensive rebounds to UCF. That's the second
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: best offensive rebounding percentage for an opponent in a WVU win.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: So playing with a little bit of fire right there,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: they were missing a bunch of shots, had had opportunities
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: for offensive rebounds, and they were getting them on the
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: flip side. Just five offensive rebounds for West Virginia. That's
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: the lowest offensive rebounding percentage in a win for the Mountaineers.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: So you were able to come that statistical anomaly there
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: and walk away with the victory. Also give special mentioned
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: credit to Emir Jenkins played almost twenty minutes nineteen minutes
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: fifty nine seconds in that game. He was incredibly valuable
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: because Jasper was foul trouble kind of all night. And
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: he's such an important part not just in running your
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: offense and settling your offense down, but guarding themis folks
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: and again, Jasper was terrific on folks. Amir came in
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: and did a fantastic job on him. Well, I'm sorry,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Amer played twenty three minutes, not twenty played twenty three minutes,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: made folks have a difficult night. Again, just six of
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: sixteen from the floor. So in both games against UCF,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: he handled folks at the point, which is really the
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: biggest reason why you're two zero against that team.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and a mirror exactly right. I thought at the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: same time that he was being very impactful in the game.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: He had two plays off of the dribble that were
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: wow and one time he literally spun themis folks around
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and I think that is really encouraging as far as
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: his game goes. But he is he is as explosive,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: explosive as a player as West Virginia has in the open.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Floor five rebounds, three assists, two steals, just one turnover. Again,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: just like Carlin, impacted the game significantly while only scoring
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: one point. I think there's another This isn't necessarily a
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: stats part of this, but as you look at games,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I think sometimes we forget to take into account. I
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: mean we talk about good wins, bad losses, and those
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: happen throughout the course of a season. Some of that's
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: predicated on matchups. It's not just an oh, it's not
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: just pick up and plug. Your performances in each week.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Your performance is fluctuate and change based on who you're playing.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: I think UCF's a really good matchup. This particular version
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: of UCF and West Virginia were really good matchups. Hoppying
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: and I think one of the reasons why they didn't
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: have an answer for honor Huff and that's that's a
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: big problem for the opponent for the guy that's at
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: the number one top slot in your scouting report. UCF's
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: guards aren't great defenders. In fact, West Virginia went after
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: him a couple of different times, so they don't have
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: a really good defender that can go on ball. So
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: UCF then is left trying to put a big on
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: on or six y nine Berks tries to match up,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: and Burks is a really talented basketball player start at Kentucky,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: but the match he does not want is Honor Huff
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: on the perimeter. I give him credit for taking it
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: on and trying it. That is not a matchup that's
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: gonna be advantageous for the night. So they just don't
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: have a great way to naturally match him. Where conversely,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: as we just said, West Virginia does it takes one
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: of the best on ball defenders in the league and
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: puts it on their point guard, who drives that bus
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: for them. When Folks goes, they are really tough out
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: as you've seen all season Jasper and a mirror on
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: him is a really good matchup.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they put stillwell for for a minute,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: on Honor as well. That's just like that's not gonna work.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: That's not gonna work.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Folks made one move who was second half baseline move
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: what it looked like he was cut off. Then he
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: started like he was gonna fake You're gonna go back
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: the other way. Then he returned to the baseline, spun,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: put the ball in me.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: He's got he got skills.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: That was he did a seven to twenty. He did
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Tasmanian devil on you just doubles. He did the same
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: thing in the first game. He kind of laid off
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: shot attempts in the first half. In both games. Second
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: half he goes like here I come, but they overall
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: they slowed him down.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's really good.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: I mean laid off shot attempts because he just wasn't
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: able to get clear looks. If I have my numbers right,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: he was thirteen to twenty nine in the two games.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, he just couldn't get He couldn't get shots.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: He likes to penetrate and get down the lane. And
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: that's where jasper first on ball hon Or filling the
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: window just doesn't allow it.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: They did.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: They did as good a job on Folks as any
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: team did all year, and they did it twice. That's
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: why you're two and zer against the Nights.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, as we said, a great way to end it
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: for the Mountaineers. And next week coming up here, I
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: guess that's this week now. The Mountaineers will travel Monday
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and practice Tuesday, practice Monday Tuesday, and then play on
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Wednesday in Kansas City again. That'll be a seven o'clock
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Eastern start. On that fabulous colorful floor.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: You see what happens when you make a free throw,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: the floor lights up. The Yeah, they're doing eat lights up.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: They're doing some stuff there when they take the top shot,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: looking down out of the floor, the light from the floor.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: If did you notice this, It illuminates the uniforms.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: It eliminates part of the floor as well more than
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: the other. It almost looks like they're it's a wild effect.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: It's a wild look. If you look at that there,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: their uniforms are like under lit, like they're they're being
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: lit from the floor. So it gives them a like
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: West Virginia was wearing that gold hit yesterday last night,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and like illuminated. It looks almost video game like. And
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: we've often said this is where sports are going more
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: and more video game like. They're doing some different things
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: with frame rates in games football mostly where you see
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: this like it's almost like a video game. Look, this
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: is the next evolution of that. But I do hear
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of complaining about the floor. Do you slipping? Yeah, oh, slipping,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: slipping on the floor. They're not They're not happy with it. Yeah,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: they're not happy with it. So they got to get players. Yeah,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: players are just kind.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Of like old players and old guys.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I don't I mean, I don't know about old people.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what that would you would
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: define as an old person talking about me, Oh, you probably,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know, And you probably couldn't go in fast
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: enough to slide.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not talking about sliding. I'm just talking about
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: I personally.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I like I like the colors and the looks, and
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I really do like that as long as it's like,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: as long as you can play on it, not slipping slide.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to see it. Yeah, I mean, listen,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: you slip on other floors too. Baylor had that pond
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: to open up under the basket last year.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that happened.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, Tobyo Connie is going down the
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: lane right in the middle of the basket. He's going
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: to bolt for a dunk, probably win the game, and
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, cheat lake appears underneath the basket.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Toby slips out from under.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't think that was a glass floor,
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: regular just traditional wood floor.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: No, you're you're you're straight on it, straight on it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Big old lake coppies almost the size of the whole lane.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: It was a good memory on your part. You were there, Hoppy,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I was there. Yeah, Connie went down the baseline.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Toby looked like he's behind the back of a little
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Wendel boat. There just water skiing through the lane.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: In fact, I had to keep moving up my seat
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: because of the water level.
• 35:04
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  Speaker 1: If you they just.
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• 36:38
  Speaker 3: They were final four seconds of the shot clock. Just
• 36:40
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• 36:41
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  Speaker 1: at Law. All right, moving ahead to further action. It
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: is tournament time, so West Virginia.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: No, I'm just listening.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: So I thought you had. I thought he was gonna
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: come at me the wisdom. Then he gave me. He
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: gave me like the pullback wisdom, like something you know.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Socrates once said, the IDEs of march will come, but
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: so will tournament play. Don't let the ball bounce the
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: other way. Very good. So, uh, a couple of things here.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: It's always fun. You don't know what what's going to happen.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: And it does look like in all likelihood it's going
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: to be West Virginia and B y you again, yes,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: b why you will bring a lot of people. They
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: always bring a lot of people. You had a great
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: home court advantage when you were here, and so difficult challenge.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think it's a challenge
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that either way, whether it's KSE State or BYU, I
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: think it's a challenge these West Virginia guys will like
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: because if it's k State, you've got the ultimate revenge,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: and if it's BYU, it is the Debonsa Robert Wright. Hey,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: let's slow. These guys are two of the better players
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: in the league. And right he went off. I didn't
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: have my glasses on when I looked at my phone,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: but I think he had twenty two or twenty three
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: in the second half.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Second half, I think so.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I think he went absolutely stupid in the second half,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: So it'll be fun.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Yesterday when we were talking to Honor huff and he
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: says he was surprised after the tip they.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Go down like, oh, de Bonce is guarding me and.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a switch. It wasn't that one that Devonsa.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I was also just taken aback by Honor yesterday when
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: he revealed what a shrewd businessman. Jasper Floyd Is he
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: basically tried to extort Honor. But that's extortion, isn't it.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: An Honor wanted, you know, negotiations. I think I got
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: to talk to Jasper. I think it may be extortion.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: So Honor wanted to wear number one.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Number three, number three.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: He wanted three. He wanted three, and Jasper it's also
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: his number. So Honor said, hey, listen, I'll pay you
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: to wear number, to wear the number, and Jasper's he real.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, real, He goes, what's the number, Jasper?
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: He said, Jasper, what's the number? Jasper started them off
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: to wear three at sixty thousand dollars.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: I think he said sixty thousand.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: He said sixty six, sixty he said sixty said sixty
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: what sixty?
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said sixty thousand, he said, dude, And Honor said, dollars.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: You gotta be you got to be absolutely out of
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: your mind. And we would we wouldn't let Honor reveal
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: what the eventual number was, but it was probably a
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: pretty good number of shekels for him to be able
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: to do that.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: No Honor could have come back and said, you can
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: have three for eighty. I mean he could have done that,
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: but anyway.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: It's kind of wild. It was all right, let's.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Uh said Jasper Asper can. He's going to have a
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: long career in whatever he chooses to do. Just wonderful guy.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: I know you got in some kind of sales situations
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: or you might want to hire him like asap. It
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: might be an agent. I think that was pretty well done. Yeah,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: I mean you're not going to ever get the number.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: If you don't ask, might as well start high. You
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: can always come down hard to go back up.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I think you that for years. Right, thank you one
• 40:19
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• 40:23
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• 41:44
  Speaker 1: was pretty wild, mister Jack Weimer wrote in from one
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: of your fans. WV class of nineteen fifty and five
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: lived in Sunnyside Ate. Some new food there called pizza
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: trudged the Fieldhouse on beach Hurst to watch Mark Workman
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  Speaker 1: and hot Rod Hunley Nice. I love your show, especially Hoppies.
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  Speaker 1: Obvious observation, thank you. Signed by mister Jack Weimer, San
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Thank you very much, Jack. We truly appreciate
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  Speaker 1: we also really truly enjoy Hoppies. Obvious observation obviously Texter, Hey, Tony.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: On my way to Kansas City for the tournament, could
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: you please remind us of your favorite barbecue restaurants. Thank you.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Signed by Doug Gill also known as Dougie Fresher from
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Merle's Inlet. So just a couple Joe's Barbecue, Slaps Barbecue,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: and I've got some friends, the Webster Brothers. They tell
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: me of this place called El c literally the two
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: letters LC. Talk to them Friday at the game, and
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: they said, go to El Sea. It's not fancy at all,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: but the food is superb and get the bean, get
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: the baked beans. They're raving about the baked beans. You know,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: the Webster.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Brothers sure to the all time greats.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, l C. I might try to go there too,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: but I'm definitely gonna do Joe's, probably gonna do Joe's
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: Really, so when you all go big when you go barbecue, Yeah,
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: how much emphasis do you put on sides because I
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: think that's key.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Oh huge, get them all, Oh really, get them all.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Bread. I'm a big sides guy, are you.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah? We get everything a lot. We just go in
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: and just go, like we go to slaps Joe. The
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: owners there, he knows us because of our relationship with
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Luke Darnell. We tell Joe, Joe, you order for us.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Oh so, Joe, you tell us what we're supposed to get,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: and then they just bring it in there, shovel it in.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: Is the barbecue out there better than rifkiffss is?
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: It's right there, right there? Okay, right there, same okay,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: same Uh. Then Doug Rope because he was at the
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: women's tournament, and then he sent me a picture of
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: his barbecue platter. He went to Joe's. There's a Joe's
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: barbecue platter right there.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Ice cold beer, some.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: French fries, ears on the side, got some stuff, got
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: a couple of different meats. Look, he's going a little
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: pork and he's going a little chicken there.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: He did a nice shout on that picture, positioning the
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: sauce there right there with the logo.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Also, it looks like he's got a connection three oh four.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Must have brought his own can of connection three four
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: probably poured it.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Why you wouldn't.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's looking forward to it, aren't you.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I love tournaments, love tournaments.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Right, I'm a big tournament guy too. Yeah, you'll check
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: out other games.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Oh you kidding me?
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: When we get the the getting the high, it's just awesome.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Like we're gonna go in they just kick our feet
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: up on Tuesdays just watch games.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Hello, boys, we're here, let's watch.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say we want to buy
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: more than the players.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we are more.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Friday guys, handle your business so we can go watch
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: games all day Tuesday.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Tuesday, I'll go in there, not a whole lot of
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: people in there, find a section, make sure no one's
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: sitting in front of me, put my feet on the
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: next chair in front of me, and just oh that's great.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: It's the best. It's the absolute best, because that's the
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: first time I can watch game games and not have
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: to you know, yeah, you watch games, but you don't
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: watch games when you're doing the game. It's not watching
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: the game, you're watching the ball. You can't see all
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: the other chicanery that goes on. Texter text Mark Kellogg's
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: staff tell them to have the players walk on some
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: spilled coca cola. The commissioner needs to rethink his floor
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: choices and get these games on ESPN, not Plus. Well,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: ESPN kind of busy this time of year. They only
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: have so many channels.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Is anybody else having trouble with streaming?
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't yesterday?
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Wait I did?
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Did you really was? It was wagging out on you.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: During the commercials?
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's this. People won't like this. People won't
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: like me saying this. But yesterday I went on to
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: ESPN Plus and it had I went under the category
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: of baseball because I wanted to watch WV baseball. There
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: were forty six baseball games on It's aid NCAA baseball
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: forty six games. And I know it's a pain in
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: the butt because it costs more, but my goodness, what
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: a luxury to have access. That's just so much like,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: there's forty six baseball. There's like so there is a time.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I know, trust me, I get the other side of it,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: but just to have the ability if you do want
• 46:33
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• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty wild.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: That is from the old, from the old, from the
• 46:39
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• 47:04
  Speaker 1: The Mountaineers are locked in to the well. He was
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: wrong here, he said eight seed anyway, seven seed nine,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: and I have finished ahead of two teams that will
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: likely be in the tournament, UCF and BYU, going three
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: to oh against them this season. Add the team just
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: ahead of us in the standings, bubble teams, Cincinnata, were
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: combined five and oh against those teams in the middle
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: of the standings. We log a loss against each of
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: the bottom four in the standings, Oak State, Baylor, K State, Utah,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Q Bratt. There are no cake walk games in this league.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: If we had gone three and one in those games,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: we would have finished in the top four in the
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: conference and easily locked an NCAA tournament spot as well
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: as a double by in the Big twelve Tournament. While
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: it is clear the Mountaineers exceeded expectations and we're on
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: a promising path with coach Hodge at the helm, we're
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: once again left contemplating what could have been.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: There's no question, there's no question.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: But isn't that sports contemplating what could have been?
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: Unless you win the World's championship, you're going to contemplate
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: what could have been? What happens in football, Hobey, if
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: you don't lose to a twenty eight point underdog and
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: pit we ever do what could have been?
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: There?
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: What about Press Virginia Tony if they don't do a
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: thirty seven minute review against Gonzagar thirty eight in that game?
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: What happens in that one? What happens if major doesn't
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  Speaker 3: get hurt in the fiestaval?
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  Speaker 1: I mean sports? Right?
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: It is your lot in life as a sports fan.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: Unless your team wins the whole thing, you're left contemplating
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: and though what could have been? Change changed from a well,
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: if you hadn't lost to k State, would probably in
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: the NCA tournament to bigger pay. That's every season.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: What if Pat White would have left the football team
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: the week is dad brought his baseball equipment up so
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: we could just forget football and go play baseball for
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: the Mountaineers. What if it was a weak ear.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: What if Ralph Frigin would have known what he was
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: doing and offered Steve Slayton that scholarship to kept it
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: in place.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: The other part of that equation is we tend, you
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: tend to look at the what if of the losses
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: or the vies or whatever.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: The other side of that is.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: And actually Honor Huff references yesterday in the interview where
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: he said, well, yeah, we you know, we lost a
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: couple of games. We you know, shouldn't have lost actually
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: won a couple of games.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe you just you totally forget, so you forget about
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the grand point.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: That's also human nature, right. Fan bases do that. That's
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: what you do. You always gravitate towards the ones that
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: got away, and you just assume the ones that you
• 49:23
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• 49:25
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• 49:26
  Speaker 4: When in reality you go, oh, gleam, I got that one,
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: Like get the heck out of here one.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: No, you make a super good point. What you just
• 49:35
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• 49:41
  Speaker 1: So like when you win a game and there's just
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: like this ungodly thing that the other team did, you
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: completely repress that in your.
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• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Exactly like if they missed a foul shot, or if
• 49:55
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• 49:58
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• 50:01
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  Speaker 1: three guys. Hoppy will probably mention this in his obvious observation,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: but the officiating of the UCF game was not only
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: historically badly went historically bad goodness, but mesmerizingly nonsensical. With
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: about seven forty to go in the first half, the
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: UCF guard dribbled across half court, turned around, threw a
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: pass to another UCF player who still had not crossed
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: half court. The player then dribbled over half court again.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: The game went on as if that was perfectly fine.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: That's when they lost all credibility to me. Admittedly, they
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: were calling the game poorly for both teams.
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: Hey, you got twenty five free throws, you made twenty one.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I thought, you know, we talk about regressing to the mean, Brad,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: I thought the official gate officiating regressed to the mean
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: in the second half. What so by that, I mean
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: this early If you remember, there were only eight files
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: I believe called in the first half, five against West Virginia,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: three against UCF. West Virginia had eighteen called against them
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: in the first four minutes. I mean facetious, but West
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Virginia had a bad, bad start with the whistle early
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: in the second half, and you went like.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: He got three and four minutes, Yes he did, he did,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: and you're.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Going and on or got another or a jasper got
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: another for you. But you know what happened after that,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: That whistle just kind of started going the other way.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Because if you watch this stuff closely, you got to
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: really watch it closely. And I don't know if you
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: can do it on TV because you don't necessarily know
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: exactly where the offic which official called it. But sometimes
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: one official sees another official make some calls that the
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: one official doesn't totally agree with, and he's going like,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: I can't believe you just did that. So when it
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: goes down to the other end, if there might be
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: something that you could call the official who just thinks
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: you just got the short end, repeat, he'll blow his
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: whistle a couple of times to get that thing a
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: little bit more towards center. Really, Oh, absolutely, and it
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: happened Friday.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Didn't what do you remember the instance.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: I remember instances where we got some calls after the
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: other side got their calls, and you went like the
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: things getting even, and then all of a sudden, lo
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: and behold you look up at the foul count. Look
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: what it is. It's even. It's seven seven, it's eight eight,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: it's nine to nine. How did you get there? How'd
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: you get that? Ultimately, that's what happens, so it evens
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: itself out.
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: There was I think, and I know that it's it's
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: a fair target.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Boy, I think it's really hard to.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Get it right, unbelievably hard.
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: There was you know, o Bijohan gets Obioha gets just
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: called for the screen right, and he did. You look
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: at it like he put his body into me, put
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: his hips into him. Then you go the other way
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: and twelve seconds later Bull does the exact same thing.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's no call.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: So it's I just.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: Think it's right. I mean, how do you on that screen?
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: I mean everybody's moving on the screen.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, here's the deal. If you just go
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: into every game, if you just go into every game,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: and it's hard to do, I'm gonna say this, and
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: I don't do it. Knowing this, players are going to
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: make mistakes, Coaches are going to make mistakes. You have
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: to remember officials are going to make a mistake, mistakes
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: during the course of the game. It's just impossible. The
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: game goes too fast for forty minutes, they're going to
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: miss some. So if you just put that into your equation,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: you can accept a few of them going okay. But
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: if it gets extreme, then you can kind of go
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: away second or having a bad day. Brad's getting ready
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: to go okay, here's my point to it. Here's my
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: point to this. Okay. One of the officials that worked
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: our game Friday night that tipped off at eight o'clock
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: and didn't end until after ten o'clock yesterday was in Waco,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Texas working at five o'clock Baylor game.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: How do you get there?
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, obviously he got there, but you cannot
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: tell me. I know he's not chartering. You cannot tell
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: me that there is not fatigue that is at a
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: high level. You can't run in twenty four hours at
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: certain ages and be as efficient as you could be.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: You're not at the top of your game. That's the thing.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: And the NFL got away with having full time officials.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: If the NFL doesn't have full time officials, it ain't
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: coming to college basketball anytime soon. These guys are independent contractors.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: They are going to grab as many games and as
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: many leagues as they possibly can. But I'm just saying this,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: it's very very You're putting yourself into a difficult situation
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: by having these guys work so many games, and mentally
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: and physically they just wear down.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: That's all, go ahead, Bred, You guys made some great points.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: It's a really hard job.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: It's a really hard job, and part of why the
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: travel has to be what it is because there's not
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: enough good officials.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: That's a problem, and I get it's the criticism, and
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: it's the behavior of players, coaches, and fans at the
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: lower levels even more than the power for level that
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: makes it difficult to get officials. And we hear it
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: all the time from our friends at high school athletic
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: associations across the country. They're having trouble getting officials.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: I know all of that. I'll give every disclaimer. I
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: have a lot of respect for all of the people
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: that do that, especially guys and women at the lower
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: levels where the money is not what it is at
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: this level. I totally totally understand that. But here's the thing, guys,
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: and you know I've been consistent about this. It's also
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: why I think it's fair to discuss that part of
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: the game, absolutely right. Coaches are losing jobs sometimes because
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: of officiating. Coaches get criticisms. Players are under more scrutiny
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: than ever because they're getting paid, and I'm okay with
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: that as well. That's part of what comes with that.
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: But these are also grown adults as well. These are
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: grown men and women too, and I think when they
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: don't do their job to the level that they should be,
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: there should be some questions about that. Then there should
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: be conversation around that, and frankly, they should answer some
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: questions about some calls during the game. Every other facet
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: of this operation has to address what has happened, except
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: that particular part of it, and it's inconsistent as all
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: get out, and there's sometimes agendas sneak in there at
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: times and dislikes and I get it, that's human nature,
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: so that's going to happen, but there's never any answers
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: given from an officiating crew. And I don't know that that's.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Fair or the way it should be.
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: But I do also think it's why when I think
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: they've missed something, I'm going to continue to say I
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: think they've missed something. It's part of the game, and
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: it does affect the outcome. And yes, we can say
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: you've got to play through it and you've got to
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: play on And while that's true, it doesn't mean they
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: should get a pass when calls are missed or their
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: rules are applied inconsistency or inconsistent. I think that's part
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: of it. It's got to be part of the discussion
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: and the analysis, recognizing it's very hard, and recognizing that
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: the way officials are treated at lower levels is affecting the.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Game and others.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: I understand all of that, and I don't condone any
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: of it, obviously, but I do think a rational discussion
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: of performance should be part of the discussions.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: I agree, and the NBA does a better job because
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: you can go with a pool reporter and they have to.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: They will release the final couple minutes of a game.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: The league will and say here's all the mistakes that
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: the officiating crew made, and you can ask, well, I
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: think college, hey, look we're doing injury reports now because
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: of gambling, we're going to do that, right, status updates
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: on the injury. We're doing that for gambling, you might
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: as well do the pool report as well for officiating.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: To your point, you know two games ago at home,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: two games ago at home, Yeah, there was an official.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: He came in. He was pissed before the game even started.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: He was pissed. He was in a pissed off move
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: before the game even started. And when the game started
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: there was a there was a timing violation. He came
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: to the table like yah. He came to the table
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: just like, are you freaking kidding me? So that started it,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: and then there was a couple more during the course
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: of the game, and I was just laughing inside myself,
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: knowing like here he comes again and just bummed out.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: Sometimes guys are just bummed out. You catch him on
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: the wrong night, They're tired, they're not happy. Whatever. Now
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: is exactly it's human nature, man. It's just like you
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: gotta be you gotta be careful on how you handle
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: all that stuff right. And if a coach starts barking
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: and the guy's in a bad mood to begin with,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: and it just it escalates. Yeah, it's all human play,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: all right. I think we've done enough.
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: Dam people screaming at you a lot. It's very very couldn't.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I wouldn't want to do it. I mean
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: I'll say that I could not do it.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: I'd burst into tears.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: You could not do it.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: I'd hand out.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: You'd be you want to start something, You'd be terrible,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: ringing people up every game.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: You would.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd be standing there.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Danny Hurley got blown up yesterday.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: I tell you, I give TV credit.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: It did a nice split box on that, Bobby getting
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: teed up and and Danny Danny getting teed up and
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: run like at the same time.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Like it was really good. It was. It was very
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: it was. It was very well done. All Right, we're out,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see what happens for the rest of
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: the week, depending on what West Virginia does in the
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: Big Twelve Conference tournament. Regardless regardless of what happens this week,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: there will be other tournament games for West Virginia. They
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: will be involved in a post season tournament in some form. Also,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: spring football started yesterday. The ballers were out there for
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: you will get together. Coach Rodriguez and Crewe. They're out there.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: We'll get into a little football here in the coming.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: As we make the transition, we'll get into foot. We
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  Speaker 1: got a month of football here before the spring.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: He's excited. You watch the press conference. He was fired up.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: I did. I thought he was really good.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: He was very good.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: He locked in. Yes, of course he's locked in, but
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: I mean he was locked in.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: I think I think he feels, well, we'll talk about this.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: I think he senses and knows that they're gonna be better.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: Now what that means, what that Brad translates into it.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: I think he looks around and goes, oh, okay, all right, okay,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: we a little better.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: I think he's saying himself, I got four and should
• 1:01:26
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• 1:01:30
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