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Episode 22: You Belong With Me (At the Robins Center) · Spiders Sound Off

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Hello everybody. Welcome back to Spider Sound,
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OP. This is Tom and this is.
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Porter. And we are here to record a
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preview episode of some weekend games.
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Also talk about our game during the week.
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I don't know about you, Porter, but I'm feeling 22.
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This is our 22nd episode. It is Taylor Swift weekend in
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the Robin Center. There's a lot to talk about now.
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I've been travelling for work, so I miss both games.
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So we're going to really lean on Porter's expertise.
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Porter, you went to the Robin Center.
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You kind of lived in the Robin Center this week.
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I did. How was your experience?
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Man it's a good time to be a spider fan. 2 great results out
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of the Robin center. First, let me start with the
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ladies game if I could, because that was the earlier 1.
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So Temple yeah, I'll start with the Robertson experience.
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I I made the decision and that was a decision actually to go
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where I probably shouldn't have gone.
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And that is to and that is to try out the BBQ sandwich after
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your rather tepid review of its quality.
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And I got to tell you, they have not improved it, Tom, they have
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not improved it. It's not that the BBQ itself is
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bad. It's actually fine for arena
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BBQ, although it's not, you know, one of your premium
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barbecues in in town like AZZQ, but it's the bun.
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The bun is just not thick enough to sustain that BBQ that you're
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putting on it. You need a, you need a thicker,
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more like a brioche bun. Hold up or else it's just going
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to completely liquefy at the bottom, which is what happened
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to my BBQ sandwich flavour. Good bun, not good.
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So I agree with you, it's a in the C range at best.
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It's got. Kind of mushy.
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It got kind of mushy. My I had two friends join me at
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the Robin Center for the ladies game.
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One I'll call a train who had the hot dog and gave it four
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stars out of five. Yeah, he actually enjoyed the
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hot dog. And then of course, the
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legendary D Hall drove two hours and 15 minutes through DC
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traffic to come down to watch, you know, the Maggie Dugan show
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in the Robbins Center, and then drove an hour and 45 minutes
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back after the game. So I give him mad props for the
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fan of the game 'cause he he crushed it to come out and see
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that. Is that his?
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First women's basketball game, I guess, since, you know, he can
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remember. He came last year.
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He did come on. Yeah, OK, great, he said a
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couple times last year So but he was he was excited to be there.
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He didn't get any food. He did not get any food, but we
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both enjoyed a Falcon smash. The Falcon is back.
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And it was let me of props to the to the Robin center to the
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program for getting craft beer at the ladies game.
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That was fantastic. So thank you for that guys.
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That was great. More people than just you and
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your buddies got beer. Do you see some other beers out
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there? Well, actually your wife was
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there. She had a beer too, so that's
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nice. We get sales, so they keep it.
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I had a friend that I know that was with me and I bought him a
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beer. So yeah, there was more people
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than just the two of us getting beers or the three of us getting
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beers. So yeah, there was some beers.
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Nice. Yeah, for sure.
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But let me talk for a second about the game itself.
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And I'm going to turn Sirius on our audience for just a second,
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so. We need some music for this We.
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Probably should have had if we were doing audio only you'd have
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some music here, but this is video so well, I can.
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Add it later. I'll tell you this, what I saw
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at the Robin Center against Temple was one of the greatest
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single game performances by a player that I've seen in my 30
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years as a Spider fan. Maggie Dugan had 31 points, 14
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rebounds, 9 assists, 5. Five of those 9 assists were
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three pointers, which means she was either she either scored or
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created 54 of our 72 points at 75% of our scoring flowed
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through Maggie Dugan. Just an insane performance.
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Now I'm going to give you a couple numbers.
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The first number is 1212 is the number of times we get to see
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Maggie play in the Robin Center again.
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That's it. 12 more games and she's done as a spider.
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There are some Henrico games, but just talk about the Robin
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Center. 12 more games. Give me another.
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Another attendant. Another #1233.
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That was the attendance that was announced. 12133 people.
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That is not nearly good enough for what we put on the floor.
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And I know the folks who are listening to this podcast are
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going because they're they're the loyal, they're the deep
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spider fans that we have. But 12133 people for a player of
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this caliber and a team of this caliber is just not enough
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folks. I will a.
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Side note, I saw a tweet that said it was talking about
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women's basketball and it used numbers like that, and it said
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Fordham's men's team is averaging under 800 per game.
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Oh wow. Yeah, that's not good.
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That's not good. I'm going to give you a couple
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more things, more numbers. I'm going to give you a couple
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more things to think about, guys.
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So Della Don was the greatest player to play at the University
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of Delaware's, great WNBA player.
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Caitlin Clark was the greatest player to play at Iowa, great
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NBA player. They're Maggie Nugan is not
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those guys. She's not of that caliber, I
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don't think Maybe she'll get there one day.
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She's not right now, but she is the greatest Richmond women's
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spider basketball player of all time.
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I'm I'm ready to her anoint her of that.
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And I and I give respect to Pam Bryant because that would be the
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logical, you know, person you would argue with me over.
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You know, they both have two NCAA tournaments under their
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belt. You know, Maggie wanted game.
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I'm I'm assuming that Maggie stays healthy this year when I
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say that, but if she stays healthy, there's just no
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question she's going to go down as the greatest.
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I do want to push you on the other side like I I-1.
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Like, can Maggie stop teasing us with this triple double?
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Like, how many times has she come close to the triple double?
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She's she's teasing us with that.
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It's coming. Yeah, but I saw another stat.
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So if you look at rebounds, assists and points, top 20 in
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women's basketball, she's the only player in all three
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categories. You just stole my Thunder.
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Who gave you to put that out? Somebody put that out before I
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said it. Yeah, yeah, you weren't the
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first I. Actually did some research.
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Yeah, she's she's in the top 20 in all three categories, the
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only player in the country to be to be in the top. 20 and I'm not
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saying she's going to be the best.
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You know, if if you want to talk to Caitlin Clark as you know,
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maybe when her career is over, is she one of the greatest
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women's players ever? Like I'm not putting Mag in that
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category but like she has taken her game to a whole nother level
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than it was. Last year.
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Incredible. And that's not like, hey, now
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she's like even a better A10 player.
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Like, I think she's one of the top ten players in the country.
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So what can you, the fan who listens to this podcast, do?
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Take a friend to the game. Just tell somebody about it.
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Get them out there. I, I had a couple of people join
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me. This, this trip or this, this
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time around, expose some people to just how good this product
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is. Man, I'm telling you, you don't
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have to be a women's college basketball fan to love what's
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going on. You just have to be a basketball
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fan. It's some of the best basketball
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you'll see and you'll absolutely love it.
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And I think if you're trying to like, you know, if you've
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invited your friends and you're like, what else can I do to
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promote Spider basketball? Like you can fund us to go to
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Cancun next. Week.
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Oh wow. Yeah, we're still looking for a
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couple business sponsors, maybe to sponsor an episode or two.
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It doesn't. Have to be a business.
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Doesn't have to be a business. That's true, individuals.
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Sell out to anybody. Individuals, we will, we will,
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we will promote your product. You know, you know, you know, we
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like the Falcon smash. So we'll, we'll put the same
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effort in on your product. So tell me about the Temple game
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some I mean so yeah, I know you were a little nervous when we
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recorded last time like Temple's having a good season.
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Yeah, they're they're program on on the rise I.
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Did put on the message board, in the ladies message board, 'cause
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there's a separate one for women's out there that that we
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would win 80 to 67. So I was pretty close actually.
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I think we won by 15. I said 13.
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I just felt like, you know, we had the depth in the homecourt
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advantage. We were going to, we were going
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to win that game. It was closer than I thought it
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would be. Actually.
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In the third quarter, Temple was scratching and clawing.
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They got back to one point. That's the same way they played
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George Mason When they won. I felt really nervous actually.
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I was worried that we might actually not come away with a
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win. Well, we live that Georgetown
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game last year, right? That was a as we that we just
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couldn't get away. Couldn't put them away.
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And then, you know, Kayla Turner, she's first team all
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American Conference. Their guard is was just
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unstoppable. I mean, we had a hard time, you
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know, slowing her down and, and the second-half the coach made a
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move that I, I, I didn't know how it would go, but it actually
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turned out to be brilliant, which is he put Rayne Wright on
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her and Rayne Wright's a lot taller than their five, five
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star guard. And I didn't think she was going
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to be quick enough to keep up. But you know what, She fought
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through the screens better than everybody else who was trying to
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cover her and she her length at the perimeter made it harder for
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her to get off that 3 point shot and.
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I think it's the shoes. The shoes.
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That they were, I mean, they were moving so fast, you could
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wear like a yellow blur on the on the court, on the court.
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But was Rain Wright's best game? I mean, you know, to young kids
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who are looking to get into college basketball and play, I
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mean, there's two ways you could be a really star offensive
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player, but you can also play unbelievable lockdown defense.
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And I think Rayne Wright showed us that she could be an
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unbelievable lockdown defender for us long.
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Term. The one thing I liked on some of
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the highlights in in the stats is that our center combined had
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10 rebounds. OK, so not a lot of points, but
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I think if the if, if our center combination can do 10 rebounds a
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game, like that's all we need with the offensive firepower we
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have. Elsewhere, I think coach
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complimented him in the post game too, talked about the what
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he was getting out of the five. And I guess 3 played because we
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had both both transfers. Yeah, that's right, Skylar
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played some. Skylar played some, yeah.
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So that was great. Yeah.
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It was overall a great game. It was the Maggie Dugan show.
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She took over in the in the third quarter and never we never
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looked back. And it was just fun to fun to be
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there and, and and see that and knowing that I I got 12 more
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games to watch it. I am.
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I was just I was just really excited and it was it was a
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fantastic, fantastic game for Maggie.
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I can't say enough good things about her.
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And and it's not to say that the other ladies didn't play well.
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We the team played well around her, but it really was her her
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shining game so far this. Year, Yeah.
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Well, congratulations to the team.
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They had a really tough schedule to start in terms of lots of
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games, not a lot of rest. They now get a little bit of a
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break next game Sunday. I don't.
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Know if you're gonna call Navy A?
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Break well I I mean a break and get in days they have a they are
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they have a 2 with the Tuesday game and then a Sunday game.
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That's the most a bye week so they get some time to rest their
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bodies, which they need. You did the Gardner Webb scout,
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I did the Navy scout. So hold on until.
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We get to that, Yeah. I don't mean Navy's a break by
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any means. It's just more of they've got
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some time. They haven't had any time to
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really rest and what we've seen is a starting five that's
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putting up lots of minutes. So they they, they need the rest
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and Maggie is always getting beat up and fouled a lot so.
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We're going to need to give her we're going to need the Taylor
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Swift crowd to to help keep these ladies riding high going
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into the Thanksgiving Day break cuz this is a good team.
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We're. Playing OK, so Tuesday game and
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then you get to go back Wednesday, Back Wednesday.
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BMI, the men's team, Yeah. How'd that go?
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Most complete performance out of our men yet.
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I mean, it was a dominating performance from opening tip
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till the closing whistle. We we were better at every
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position than VMI and it showed. And it's the kind of win that
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you expect a team that we would want to be getting better to put
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up against a team like VMI. And it's not to say that we're,
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you know, I'm not calling anything like we're the greatest
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yet we've played, you know, 4 bad teams were four and O.
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But I will say this, what happened against VMI gives me
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hope that the team is actually getting better and better and
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we're stacking wins as we talked about in an earlier episode.
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And I think the team appears to be buying into this win first
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mentality, even if it means playing less minutes because
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man, we played twelve. I think 12 people double digit
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minutes or something like that. No, 10 people.
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No, no, 12 people, double digit minutes.
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We had 12 people score in the game.
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Yeah, Congrats to Kirby Mooney with.
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His first bucket. First basket.
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And Will Harper's first basket, too.
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Harper had a couple threes. I saw he did.
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Yeah, he looked, he looked good. So we had 50 points from the
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bench. We shot 50% from three.
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That was one of my questions for Coach Mooney after the game.
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In the post game press conference, I asked him if you
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know, you know, he's a really good, he's had teams that are
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really good 3 point shooters. This team so far through 3 grams
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had not shot the three well and all of a sudden we go 50% from
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BMI. Was the result positive to be
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expected regression from a team that's probably a pretty good 3
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point shooting team? I mean, is that is that?
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And he said, and he said, I hope so.
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Yeah, I know it's hard because I think last year we heard similar
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things of, hey, we're a good shooting team, It just hasn't
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shown up yet and then it never showed up.
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So it's good that the team got you know, and and you could
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credit VMI. I was joking in my head, like
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seeing Mooney, I'm sure he would never do this, but in the press
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conference do like the two small side because VMI wasn't a very
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big team. They weren't.
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So it it gives you more chances for three, but it's good to see
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our team. I think that's.
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Shooting night, I think I said we needed twenty points, 20
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rebounds from the five. Well, I mean, you know, Walls
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and Beagle were well on their way, but I mean, even Ruma Glue
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was a a dominant 5 compared to the interior VMI.
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So it's like we had a, we had a really good night out of the
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five. I was looking at just that and
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looking back on the season, so I think walls of my memory is
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correct. Has four threes through four
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games, so he's below his 50 pace.
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Remember, he said he was going to get 50.
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Threes, he only played 17 minutes.
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He was plus 25 actually in 17 minutes.
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So I'd listen to the VMI post game press conference.
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He just said Richmond kicked our butt.
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He said they switched everything off, every screen they switched
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and it's like we weren't prepared for that.
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And so we played a lot of one-on-one ball and dominating.
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And coach Boykin or Boykin, Now, how do you pronounce that?
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I think Mooney said Boykin, but I thought it was Boykin.
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Anyway, he had the scout. I asked Mooney that, too.
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And so congratulations to him for putting together, you know,
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a great prep session to help these guys do what they did.
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It was a it was a dominating performance.
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Can I give you a few advanced stats that are kind of fun?
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Before you do that, you're giving me some grace here,
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Porter, because what you haven't told people is that I wasn't
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there and I gave my seats to two VMI fans.
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I was. I debated because, you know.
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They behave. I decided to not give you a lot
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of grief about it. I did tell Rob who sat sits
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behind us that I was like how does how does Tom sell the seats
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or give the seats away to the opposing squad?
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It's a buddy of mine and his kid kind of.
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I appreciated someone got to use those seats and I just need to
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get that parking there. They were very nice people and
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I'm happy that they got a chance to to see the the game.
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I'm not sure it was the result they were hoping for, but it was
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a good game and. OK, advanced stats.
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What do you? So Aidan Argebrite's top 20 in
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the nation and fouls drawn per 40 minutes.
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And if you watch him play, he is a master.
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If you come into contact with Aidan Argebrite, he's going to
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snap that head back and let the referee know it.
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It's fantastic. He's he does what you should do
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when you're hit. It's fantastic when that
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person's on your team. Yes, I love it.
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I just absolutely love it. Mike Walls is top 20 in
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offensive rebound percentage. That is a trickier stat to
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explain, but I'll just say it this way.
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Offensive rebounding percentage is the percentage of possible
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offensive rebounds a player gets and computed, as you know, has
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to do with the player, the percent of minutes played versus
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the opportunities they have. So Congrats to him.
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And then Beagle would be among the leaders in offensive rating
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in the country if overall offensive rating.
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So these are all stats are all according to Ken Palm if he
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played 40% of the minutes, but she hasn't yet because nobody's
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really playing 40% of the minutes for the Spiders, so.
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Now you did on my behalf do a student count.
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We'll be at about 7576. 7576 was the rough number.
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I took a couple pictures for you.
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I was trying to, it's hard from where we sit to see who's behind
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the basket on the lower level, but it looked right.
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The ladies were also there at the game, sitting in their
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normal area on the opposite side of where the students sit.
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Happy to see that. And so just the team supporting
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each other. That's that's great to see.
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Well good couple wins that Spiders are undefeated in the
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Robin Center this year which is nice.
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Well hopefully that lasts for a while.
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We do have some games this weekend.
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You ready to talk about the games this?
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Weekend. Why don't you?
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Why don't you go first? OK, so we got the men's have the
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Gardner Webb running Bulldogs on on Saturday at 7:00 PM.
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It's a North Carolina team from North Carolina.
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Can Bulldogs really run? They don't.
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Really. And it's run in.
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It's run in. There's like an apostrophe.
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Running, running, running, running.
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OK, got you. Stop there.
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You know, I've talked about this Bardovic ranking, so I like
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using that. So if you go through their
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season so far, they're O and five, they're ranked 362.
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Yeah. I'm sorry, I'm not laughing at
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you. I'm laughing with you.
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Yeah. So let's first.
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For comparison, how many teams are there in Division One?
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Not many more than that. Let me let me look that up while
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you're saying. OK, so they're all in five, but
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they have four games with Division One and one with
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division two before I get to that. 360-5365.
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South, They've played a hard schedule, so they're tested.
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They got whooped at Minnesota, they got whooped at Clemson,
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they got whooped at DePaul. But those are all top 100 teams.
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Sounds like they're. Tested at getting whooped.
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And then they had a a tighter game, but they lost at Elon.
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Elon's not, I think they're 260. OK.
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But you know, they've been playing on the road.
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They had one home game that they lost to Division 2 N Greenville.
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The powerful N Greenville squad. Yeah.
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So they have not been great. Now trying to like give them
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some credit. So they had 11 new players this
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year. So they are they have a whole
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new team, kind of two returners that do contribute, but 11 new
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players there. If you look at their stats, they
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are allowing 93 points per game and they're scoring 69 per game.
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I mean, obviously they've they're losing, so you expect a
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deficit, but their defense is their problem.
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They can't stop people. So I was just looking at him,
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616-264-6769. It's the starting lineup.
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That's not terrible. Yeah, better than BMI actually.
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So they've got a bunch of transfers.
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Jacob Hogwarth from Iona or Hoggarth.
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I say Hogwarth. Hogwart.
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He's he's not. He's not.
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From Hogwart came from the hog. Company, he's he's 69, he's
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going to be a big, big body inside.
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They do have a couple other big bodies inside.
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So I think they won't look like a 362 team when we size them up,
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let's say for the jump. I I suspect they'll look like
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that later. They do have a an interesting
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freshman who was red shirt. It was a Alabama recruit was red
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shirted his freshman year and then transferred.
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But he was like a really a top high school player.
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You don't get to Alabama without being a top high school player.
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So he's he's a kid named Sims. He plays I think off the bench,
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but again, they're he, the coach is trying to build a new team.
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That's going to take time. Maybe when they get to their
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conference, they'll have been well tested and be ready for the
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for who they're playing in conference, but they are not
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very good. So this is a game that should be
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very similar to the VMI game where everyone's playing on our
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team, you know, 10 to 15 minutes.
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We're scoring lots of points similar to the VMI game.
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It should be an entertaining game because of the point
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scoring is fun and I hope you didn't drink all the Falcon
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Smash on Wednesday. So.
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There's other. Ways to enjoy the game.
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But did hit a crumble cookie on Wednesday by the way, which is a
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nice little add in to have that at the game.
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But yeah, so this is a game that should hopefully wrap up this
19:29
five and O streak before the team goes on their Thanksgiving
19:33
trip to Florida. But we shouldn't see much
19:37
running by the Bulldogs. Yeah, Kenpom has them slightly
19:41
higher at 343 out of 365, a little bit, a little bit better,
19:45
but not enough to say that they're going to threaten the
19:47
Spiders, the mighty Spiders in the Robin center.
19:50
I mean, like I said, we we got to keep stacking wins, but we
19:52
got to keep stacking wins convincingly like we did against
19:54
VMI. And if we keep doing that, by
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the way, our Kenpom came up big time after that win.
19:58
So he now has his one O 5 up from 1:19.
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So that's those are the, the efficiency numbers improve when
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you have a dominating win like you did against VMI and that and
20:08
that improves the net, which improves your chances for a net
20:10
large. So let's keep that rolling.
20:12
And so that Saturday night and then Sunday during the day, the
20:15
women host Navy. Yes, there's a Taylor Swift
20:19
Appreciation Day or something like that.
20:21
Let's hope that brings up the crowd because Navy is not going
20:24
to be a pushover in the year of the brutal schedule.
20:27
For the ladies, it continues. Navy's picked as the preseason
20:31
Patriot Conference favorite. They are four and O.
20:35
They beat Florida. Florida's pretty good.
20:37
They're ranked one O 7. And the ladies are Navy ladies
20:40
in Bartovic, Bartorvic, I think it is, and Zenai Barnett, gay.
20:47
I'm not sure if that's how you pronounce it, but that is the
20:49
player that you got to worry about.
20:50
She's the preseason player of the year.
20:53
In the Patriot. They actually do a preseason
20:54
player of the year and she's done nothing but look like she's
20:57
the best player in that conference through four games.
20:59
Look this up but I'm betting their pre season teams have 5 on
21:04
each. I didn't looked up the whole
21:05
Patriot awards, but I just was quickly doing some scout on on
21:09
Navy for our listeners. They're coming off a win against
21:12
Ryder, they beat Florida. As I mentioned, Gay went for 23
21:15
points and 10 rebounds against Ryder and 22 eight versus
21:18
Florida 22. .2 She's a. 58 guard.
21:22
They also have two other players, Almeida and Misuch, who
21:25
had good games versus Florida. They are one of the top teams in
21:28
the country at 3 point defense. So they actually prevent teams
21:31
from putting in the three, which is one of our strengths.
21:33
So that'll be interesting to watch.
21:35
And they feature A6 four center from Richmond, VA named Kate
21:39
Sampson, who went to the Saint Gertrude, who is a quality
21:43
player who got hurt last year. She played 24 minutes against
21:46
Florida, grabbed 7 rebounds. So welcome back to the RVA,
21:49
Kate. But it's going to be a good
21:51
game. This is not a game that's going
21:53
to be, you know, a 30 point blowout.
21:55
Maybe it's a good team and it's going to take the fans showing
21:58
up on Sunday to help us win this game.
22:01
So kind of leaking a little bit of what we got coming up, but we
22:06
are going to do something a little different this Sunday.
22:08
This one will be coming out on Friday, but then we've got these
22:11
games this weekend to talk about in our Monday release and we are
22:16
going to attempt to record at the Robin Center after the game.
22:23
So hopefully we're able to, you know, maybe talk to a coach,
22:26
talk to some players or if anything, just talk to
22:28
ourselves. But it'll be in the Robin Center
22:31
following the Navy game. And while we're doing that, you
22:34
can be I think on the court they're going to be doing like,
22:36
you know, get your Taylor Swift bracelet put together.
22:39
I think the players will be out there socializing with the fans,
22:43
probably signing a lots of autographs.
22:45
So I think Taylor Swift night. I don't.
22:48
I don't. My daughter probably has a
22:50
Taylor Swift T-shirt somewhere at home.
22:52
She's in college now. Are you wearing it?
22:53
Maybe if I can find one I may just put one on I love.
22:56
It. I love that.
22:58
Because you know it, it's going to feel like a perfect night to
23:01
dress up like hipsters. Yeah, that that would be cool.
23:03
I would love to see you in that. And can I real quickly put a
23:06
plug in for the University of Richmond's graduation rate for
23:09
athletes? We just got this yesterday.
23:11
Yeah, there's some other news going on.
23:12
Yeah, let's wrap up with that. Spider's Place top 10 nationally
23:15
in graduation success rate. So congratulations.
23:18
I mean, getting prepared for life is a hallmark of the 90.
23:23
8%, yeah. So it's well above the national
23:26
averages. So Congrats to the whole
23:28
athletic department for that. Well, let's also, I mean, you
23:31
can compare it to other things too.
23:33
The host of this podcast of 100% graduation rate.
23:36
We do. We are 100% graduated from the
23:38
University of Richmond and I would say we're doing our best
23:42
to to try to help University of Richmond sustain its excellence
23:46
in athletics. Hey, one other piece of news I
23:48
want to wrap up with that, maybe it's old news, but the A10
23:50
commissioner announced her retirement after this season saw
23:54
that Bernadette Mcglade, who's been the commissioner for almost
23:58
20 years, this will be her last season.
24:02
So congratulations to her on her retirement.
24:04
That also means we're going to have a new commissioner coming
24:07
in sometime. I'm guessing they'll try to
24:10
announce it this spring. You're.
24:11
Telling me I need to look for a new podcast partner.
24:13
Well, I think, are you going for it?
24:14
Are you? Going for it we should do Co
24:16
commissioners. I mean, wow, I hadn't thought of
24:18
that. I mean, they are, you know, it's
24:21
something that, you know, the A10 is, is has been a solid
24:24
conference. 18 years is a long time.
24:26
There's been a lot of change. There's been a bunch of teams
24:29
brought in. There's only so much you can do
24:31
to keep the teams in that want to advance to a bigger league.
24:34
So there's a probably a lot of what she's been able to do is
24:37
make sure this conference has just stayed around with, you
24:41
know, 12 plus teams without changing the name from the
24:44
Atlantic 10. But I do think some new blood
24:47
will be great. We'll kind of see where the
24:48
conference goes as you get a new commissioner in and our new Co
24:51
commissioners maybe with some new ideas.
24:54
Yeah, thanks to Bernadette. I mean, the basketball league, I
24:56
think this year feels like we're we're a little bit on the
24:58
comeback trail. I mean, we're not, we're not
25:00
there yet where we have three or four teams looking like at large
25:03
contenders for the NCA blade. But we have a an average
25:06
conference rating that's much higher than last year.
25:07
So I think the quality from one to the end of the conference is
25:11
better than it's been in a few years.
25:12
So that's good. Yeah, so big games this weekend,
25:15
Taylor Swift night or Taylor Swift day on Sunday against
25:20
Navy? Do you have a little Taylor
25:22
Swift song to send this off into the?
25:25
I am not going to sing any Taylor Swift, but I've I've used
25:28
a couple lines in this podcast for those Taylor Swift fans
25:30
looking for Easter eggs. Oh, I love it.
25:33
So anyway, until next time, thank you for joining.
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This is Tom. This is Porter.
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And this is spider sounding off. See ya soothe.
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Your soul, although at. Times.
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They may lose control.