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3 Guys Before The Game - Kansas Dusted In The Wind (Episode 523) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, and hoping that you're staying
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  warm as this cold spell finally is going to be departing the state of West
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  Virginia. It's been single digit cold, but later this week ninety seven degrees
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  and sunshine unconfirmed somewhere in the world, Welcome in. This is episode number
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  five hundred and I don't know twenty something. I think it's twenty two five
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  twenty two title. I do know Kansas Dusted in the wind. All you
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  are is dusted in the wind. Yeah, for those of you that are
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  value beyond the numbers. Thanks so very much for being with us. Great
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  to have all three guys in Hoppy going back and forth between Morgantown and Charleston
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  for the legislative session. You're going again this week. I'll be going tomorrow.
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  You're having a good session so far? Oh I enjoy it? Yeah?
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  Yeah, good? Interesting should absolutely did she had a side trip?
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  Excuse me, a side trip? You did? Yes, well, get
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  a fruitful side trip. I mean these listeners are three guys. It's unbelievable.
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  They they invite and we come. That's basically when it comes into several
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  shows. Back during Textual Healing, we had a gentleman who works at the
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  for the Charleston Fire Department. Step it was a Steven Stephen. What is
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  that engine two? That's a station two, Station two, Station two on
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  Virginia Street. Yeah, if you ever ever in townhop you might want to
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  stop by. So the old boys stopped by you. You had yourself a
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  nice visit, had a great visit, came with some treats, had the
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  new popcorn that you invented, thank you, and had a had a big
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  bag of coffee beans. Do you guys pour any of that? Yeah?
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  You made it? They ground it right there, and three guys blend right.
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  It was oh yeah, yeah, three guys, very good mountain.
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  We had a I don't know if you of it. I think we have
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  to picked out a wonderful visit with Chief Marks Tricklin. Oh you're going to
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  go right into this. Yeah, okay, yeah, So let's let's show
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  some hoppies Hoppy's day at the fire station. Look at that, huh friends
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  to my right, that's that's Steve, that's Steve, Steve Strickland, Steve
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  Settle So Steve Settle, Mark Strickland, J. D. Haley, Steve
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  Martin, Chad. I think it's assoc s O. I see East Chad
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  and Adam Dreham so were I think you just named more guys than are in
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  the picture. Anyway, go ahead, Well anyway, the great guys had
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  a wonderful visit. And you know, seriously, I mean we joke around
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  a lot. They're doing they're doing the people's work. I mean we're out
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  fighting fires, yes, answering E M S calls. There was one individual
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  there who had saved personally saved a life of an individual that day, not
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  that day, but but had had received an accolade for that. That's me
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  with Steve dogs. Yeah, that's with Steve's wife and daughter and their dog
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  happen to be there too, so that the fire station dog. I thought
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  those were Dalmatians and no, I think that was the settles Settles dog.
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  But a wonderful visit and just appreciate the work they're doing. Look at that.
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  You had you some coffee. We enjoyed some three guys coffee on your
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  station two cup. Yeah, hey, wait with you. I got my
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  station two cup right here, so you brought you brought it back with it.
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  And now let me ask you this. I asked you, now,
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  would you go down? Did they have a fire pole? Is this like
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  a fancy fire station that doesn't have the old school pirates? No? No,
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  I thought like, oh do station still had the firepole? They have
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  a fire pole, and they have from the time that. Did they show
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  it to you? Oh yeah yeah. In fact, I got to use
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  the fire pole if you want to. You want to see that. They
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  let me slide down the pole, pretend I was a fireman there. Now
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  he gave you some lessons there, yeah, tell me how to do it
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  all right? Yeah yeah yeah yeah wrapped yeah in there? Yeah yeah?
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  Really that pretty well? Yeah, well it was the left arm. You
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  secure yourself, you wrap your leg around ther and here's another angle. Another
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  angle. This is from this is from two camera show two camera shot.
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  Yeah, one down here. Huh that's pretty good length there. You're at
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  your advanced age. I mean that is something else. They they are prepared
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  so that when the call comes in, they expect to be in the truck
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  and on the move in sixty seconds. That's awesome. Yeah, well,
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  thank you very much, guys. We hope that you enjoy the coffee.
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  Had a wonderful visit. And yeah, hey, speaking of that popcorn,
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  awesome. This is the last week you can order it and still get it
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  for Valentine's Day, Saturday of this week, which will be twenty seventh.
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  By the way, last week was National Popcorn Day. Missed it right?
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  Yeah? And a Mountaineer Popcorn uh named the best small popcorn company in America?
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  Is that right? I'm working on confirmation, but at this point,
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  at this point, our Valentines is available at Valentine's Popcorn that we made special.
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  Love that, by the way, I said, And everybody had tastes
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  it. Yeah, pretty good. But okay, what you got to order
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  this week in order to have it by Valentine's Day, correct, get it
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  before Saturday? Yeah, it's really good. All right, So let's jump
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  in. You went to the game on you were there Saturday, I was
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  okay, very good. West Virginia knocks off the Kansas Jayhawks. Wow,
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  huh, wow, it's right. I mean, while West Virginia now seven
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  and five all time at home against the against the Kansases, I mean Jayhawks
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  has been having their way with the world champions. They had won six in
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  a row, and they had beaten West Virginia three times in each of the
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  last two seasons. Because we've run into them in the conference tournament, so
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  they have been dealing on West Virginia. And on Saturday, WVU prevails in
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  one of those games that at leaves memories, memories for long time Outaineer fans,
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  medium sized, brount near fans, and the youngsters, like the youngsters
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  that were in the crowd, like they'll remember that game. That'll keep them
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  coming back for years. Twelve thousand and two, eight on hand, just
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  an unbelievable effort by West Virginia. I mean, West Virginia's averaging sixty eight
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  a game going into this one at fifty one at halftime, and you're locked
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  at fifty one, an nbaesque score, and we're gonna break it all apart.
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  Why did it happen? How did it happen? As West Virginia now
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  gets ready to do a couple of things, getting ready to play two on
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  the road, and and I think, I'm this is so big. I
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  think I'm gonna use the three guys stinger. I'm just gonna go with it.
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  Well, it looks as though Jesse Edwards's braces off, X rays have
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  been taken. He went back to practice, and the nights of UCF may
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  be the first Big twelve Conference game for Jesse. Well, they got some
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  size. We're gonna preview them in man, it wouldn't be a bad time
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  to get a seven footer back UCF. If you take a look at the
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  rescue, got thirteen guys all over seven eight close when you're in the ballpark
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  there right around, yeah, right around. The big team. They are
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  a real big team. Let's talk Kansas first, though, Oh yeah,
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  we are go ahead, hop I'll give you the opening, okay, yeah,
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  because I have I forget what I said, hoppies obvious observations. H
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  First of all, I mean, obviously, great win. Props to the
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  crowd because it was a very very cold day. A team that has a
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  losing record, crowd comes in, Brad makes a difference. They won.
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  They were very loud. Yeah. Number two, if you can beat Kansas
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  at home, that tells, That tells this team, and that tells the
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  fans. You can beat anybody at home. Okay, road a different story,
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  but that to me was an equalizer. Now anybody at home, you
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  say, hey, you got a shot, I mean, yeah, I
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  got a legitimate shot. Number three is just guys playing, I mean some
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  nick and battle and bred. If you shoot fifty two percent from two,
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  if you shoot fifty seven percent from three, if you shoot eighty four percent
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  from the free throw on, if you get eleven more rebounds than the other
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  team, what do you think will happen? Make shots? You win?
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  Make shots. Yeah. And West Virginia played, obviously, Brad their best
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  game of the year. They did. And so let's dive in here.
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  There's a bunch of different areas we'll attack, including the individual performances. You
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  named a couple, there were a lot, and Tony we said on Thursday,
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  one of the things, at some point you've just got to line up
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  and beat the guy across from you, and West Virginia did. That was
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  a I'll say this guy's That was a high level basketball game. That wasn't
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  a fluky hoosier situation for West Virginia all they're struggling and beat the big bad
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  That was like wes Virnia lined up and there were big stretches where West Virginia
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  was just the better team. I'll get into some of that where they lined
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  up and it was a lead elite coaching strategy and adjustments coupled with unbelievable execution.
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  That was just a fun game to watch, you know what? That
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  that kind of reminded me of You ever see those crazy things on oh maybe
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  sometimes you see it on YouTube. Those guys get across from each each other
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  at a small table and one guy just hauls off and hits a guy right
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  in the face and he slaps him, and then the other guy slaps him
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  and they just stay there and they keep slapping. That's what that game really
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  was. It was It was just from the opening tip like I'll punch you,
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  you punch me. I'll punch you, you punch me. Guess what
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  I'm not going away, I'm keep punching you, You're gonna keep punching me.
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  And that's what it was. It was back and forth, was and
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  also making plays at key times. How about key rebounds late in that game?
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  How about key free throws late well? And that's and that's where the
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  West Virginia side impressed me so much. Is that, given the way the
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  season has gone for WVU, playing against that program, in that particular team,
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  when Kansas made its couple pushes right, there was that stretch Tony where
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  they had a Western he had a couple turnovers and they had those live ball
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  run out layouts, and that's what Kansas does. We talked about that Thursday.
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  You can't allow that, and Western was pretty good at that. But
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  Kansas did that a few times and you thought, uh oh, here's the
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  moment, and Western you just stood right back up and said, okay,
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  fine, we'll come back the other way and punch you right in the face.
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  So I give a lot of credit not just for the execution, but
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  the toughness that West Virginia showed to stay in there and handle those punches and
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  deliver their own right back to them. Yes, And I think, what
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  does that do that speaks to this coaching staff because if this season, which
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  has been the most unusual season, to put it in one way, if
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  this team was unstable at this point, if it was fragmented, if it
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  was fracturing, if it was dysfunctional at this point, as soon as Kansas
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  would have stepped on the gas and that momentum meter would have swung toward Kansas,
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  you would have had a dissolve. But instead what you saw was they
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  came together. They're strong. That's you know, a lot of times people
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  talk about the coaching aspect, that's the coaching you're doing all that before this
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  game ever starts to make sure when it gets hot, that you guys are
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  able to get through. And so I give this staff a tremendous amount of
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  credit for keeping these guys together. And I'm gonna get to the staff here
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  in a minute, because in the second half, in particular, there was
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  a literally an elite job of identifying what the matchups are, very nbas identifying
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  what the matchups were, identifying what Kansas was not doing well against you,
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  And I love when this happens. You just kept saying, you know what,
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  you can't stop. I guess what we're going to do this time down
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  the floid run it. Hey you didn't stop. I guess what we're doing
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  this time. We're running again. Hey you didn't stop. It Again,
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  we're coming right at you. That was awesome. That's a fastball pitcher that's
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  throwing one hundred and one and you can't see it and you just keep throwing
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  it right by you. We'll get into that in a minute. Let's dive
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  into some of the particulars here. We'll kind of look back at some of
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  the keys we talked about Thursday and how did you do in those situations,
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  and then move forward with some things that popped up. So is just like
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  validation of your spread zones. There were some confirmation no just played so well.
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  It was some of the keys that we said yes, came through,
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  but some of those just didn't, didn't turn into a factor. Let's start
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  first. We said steals in transition buckets for them, Kansas is a key
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  piece. You have to limit it. They had their moments. They got
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  fourteen points off turnovers and you were minus seven in that category. Okay,
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  that was doable. That wasn't getting crushed in that area. And there were
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  a couple particular runs where they went on. But again, as we said,
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  you answered it. We said, you've got to limit the shots at
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  the rim and contain the paint points. Thirty eight percent of Kansas's shots are
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  at the rim this game, thirty five percent of them. And there were
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  moments where you saw Hunter Dickinson inside Tony and you you alluded to it as
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  an adult playing nerf ball against your kids. It looked like that couple when
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  he gets it deep that he had a layup where he did not jump.
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  I know I'm not exaggerating that he did not come, his feet did not
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  leave the floor, and he just put it in. He was a load
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  down there at times. He's a big dude. Dude. They didn't go
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  to him late, did they. Well, credit credit West Virginia, and
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  I'll get to it's a piece of Pat Sumnick's unbelievable day. But he came
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  back into that game with four fouls with five minutes to go and didn't back
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  off a ton and Tony. We thought maybe Pat would have to come back
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  in and could he be as aggressive as he was earlier in the game,
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  because you figure they see a guy with four foules that had been that much
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  of a factor with a big guy against him, feed at feet of Hitt
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  and Pat just went in and literally sat on the guy, just sat on
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  the guy and made it difficult to get the ball in there. So credit
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  some of that to Sumnick. Late, all right, let's keep going.
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  Said it said you had to find points. That was my biggest concern for
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  West Virginia. Kansas doesn't normally put you on the free throw line, they
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  don't normally give up offensive rebounds, and they're very good defensively, especially at
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  two point field goal percentage for the opponent. West Virginia A excuse me.
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  In every one of those categories, they ended up plus seven attempts at the
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  line and plus seven points. Some of that was the fouls late, but
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  you guys alluded to it. Down that stretch, West Virginia not only got
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  the free throws, but converted the free throws to hang on in that game.
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  Nine out of ten free throws inside the last forty seconds. Yeah,
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  how about that one? Yeah, that's how about that? So that it
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  accounted for some of the difference, but that was critical to getting that win
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  on one of the misses. The big rest the reasons since He had two
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  big offensive rebounds late, which is the next category. They don't normally give
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  those up. West Virginia wins that statistic nine to five on offensive rebounds.
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  That turned into plus five second chance points. You do those two things against
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  Kansas, you're feeling pretty good. Third part, we said you've got to
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  hit guarded shots if you're West Virginia. That was one of the keys against
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  against Texas, they were guarding you Western. It wasn't getting open looks,
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  but you made the shots. West Virginia had its second most points from spot
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  up jumpers this season. UMass was the first. Remember how blistering hot West
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  Virginia was in that game. This was the second most. Here's the stat
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  you're looking for, because I know you're about to ask, so i'll just
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  give it to you. Thanks. Fifteen guarded catch and shoot jumpers against Kansas.
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  They took West Virginia attempted only five on guarded So you talk about sometimes
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  you've just got to make shots when they're all over you. You got twenty
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  one points out of those fifteen shots. That comes out to one point four
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  points per shot, which is very very good. Made shots made guarded shots.
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  They played good defense. You hit shots on them. Threes were obviously
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  a massive key season high with twelve, but I thought even more than just
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  the sheer number of them, Let's call out a couple of individual performances here.
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  Kerkcreas are early hitting those I thought really established the tone and gave West
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  Virginia some confidence, like, Okay, we're here to stay, We're in
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  this game, we're making shots today, We're going to be around. So
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  they ended up slowing him down throughout the game, but his ability to start
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  was wrong. I don't go to you here and that it's early in the
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  morning air, we got things going on. I mean, can I get
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  your cigarette or something? All good? So kerk creates are very good.
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  How about Seth Wilson coming off the bench. You'd been waiting to see him
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  turn it loose from three? He comes in and gives you, I mean
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  he have three three three was outstanding and they were all big about this.
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  So that was like handing the baton Hoppy. Yeah, Kerr comes out hits
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  three early and the crowds into it West Virgin's And that's page one of the
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  manual for the upset right, start hot early and get that crowd into it.
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  West Virginia did Kerr took that baton and handed it to Seth Wilson.
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  Seth Wilson in the previous seventy one minutes on the floor before Saturday, previous
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  seventy one minutes had only taken four three point shots. In his last seventy
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  one minutes, he gets fifteen. On Saturday, he takes three and he
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  makes all three of them. But I mean, that's what Seth has to
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  do. I mean, that's everyone has to do their thing. His thing
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  is let the ball go, let her fly. And I think you also
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  saw in the course of that game, is this is such a momentum in
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  rhythm and a confidence game. When someone hits one, then someone hits one,
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  and it just feeds on itself. And you had when you start counting
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  it down, how many guys hit threes? One, two, three,
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  four, five, Six different guys hit a three and Tony just And of
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  course some of this is the fact that you have players who've come on the
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  team that weren't there but earlier in the year when you were doing the first
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  ten games, so like who's gonna come off the bench, who's gonna go
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  in there? And you outscored them in bench points twenty one to fourteen in
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  that game. So guys, contrue, everybody contributed. Yeah, I'm gonna
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  get to the bench in a minute, because I thought that was especially important
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  in this one both ways, West Virginia's side in Kansas site. So we'll
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  talk about the hitter in a second. So it was threes were especially crucial
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  to this game. You're not winning that game without having a really good effort
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  from three. But here, here's what I want to hit on for a
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  minute. This, this is what impressed me the most the second half.
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  It was West Virginia's ability to identify mismatches and then attack those of mismatches and
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  what we're talking about Western He put Hunter Dickinson in pick and roll situations in
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  the second half, time after time, after every possession and absolutely destroyed Kansas
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  with the pick and roll. That was a season high by far for the
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  pick and roll roller, the pick and roll man fourteen points off of that
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  particular position. So, pick and roll, what are you gonna do,
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  Kansas? Who you gonna take? You want to stop the ball handler,
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  You're not going to guard the man, the pick and roll man, And
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  a lot of that was Sumnick. Right, Sumnick was absolutely lights out in
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  this particular game. So the previous six games, West Virginia had fifteen combined
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  points from the roll man, they had fourteen against Kansas. You talk about
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  identifying something that was working and just riding that thing. Western need did a
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  great job with that. By the same token, I'm sorry, go ahead,
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  I'm just saying, by the same token, the pick and roll was
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  not working for Kansas in the second if they weren't getting the ball to Dickinson.
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  Yeah, and that pick and roll is going to become even bigger for
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  West Virginia with Jesse Edwards's return. That's what he does, correct, He
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  is a roller extraordinaire. And I'm very excited to see what this crease Edward's
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  pick and roll looks like, because when they were playing together in practice before
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  the season, they said that thing looks at times it's a whow. So
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  I want to see that. Well, let's not sleep on Pat Sumnick's staying
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  in that role. He's now third in the Big twelve in points per possession.
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  Is the pick and roll man. Let me say that again. Pat
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  Sumnick, who was struggling to get minutes early has now elevated himself to third
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  and the big twelve in points per possession. The job that guy has done
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  since Ohio State and the improvement and the confidence is absolutely astounding. He's been
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  awesome. He hoppy, He wasn't good Saturday. No, he awesome against
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  a guy that's going to be a first team All American. Pat's given away
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  what's six inches to him, lined up and outplayed the kid on Saturday.
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  The one thing that will never go away for the rest of Pat Sumnick's life
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  will be you know, I once lined up against Hunter Dickinson, outscored him
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  and out rebounded. Pat went twenty and six, Dickinson went nineteen and five
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  and was head to head and a lot of those and still came out on
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  top. All right, let me keep going on pick and roll? Is
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  this spreads on stats? O? Ra? Should I like play that music
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  yet? Well, I'm already kind of heavily into it. Well, I've
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  got more, so I missed the music. I don't know. We'll do
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  more. That's okay. I got all kinds stuff. We'll come back.
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  You see, you have stuff will go spreads on sets? All right?
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  You also got double figure points from the ball handler in this game in the
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  pick and roll, so you were eating them up with the ball handler and
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  the role guy. It just absolutely dominated him, which was something to watch.
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  All Right, let's call out another performance here because I thought this was
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  impactful and speaks to all of the great performances you got. Noah Fara Khan
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  impacted a game about as much as you can for a guy that didn't make
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  a field goal. Correct, did not have a field goal? Correct,
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  that's cool. Correct? Six assists, one turnover, and guys, he
• 21:56
  gives you a couple things and you saw it. You saw it on Saturday.
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  He is basically at this point unguardable in a one on one situation.
• 22:03
  There's yet to be a guy that can stay in front of him. He
• 22:06
  is unbelievable at that And so you put him in the pick and roll situation
• 22:10
  and they had to make a choice, how do we stop him? Do
• 22:12
  we do we stop him or let him go all the way to the basket
• 22:15
  or can he drop it off? Six assists in that game against one turnover,
• 22:19
  a lot of those in the pick and roll situation. Massive impact for
• 22:22
  a guy that did not hit field goal. Yeah, and he did that
• 22:26
  oftentimes against Dwan Harris, who is the reigning Big twelve Defensive Player of the
• 22:30
  Year. And we you know, we saw it right from the start of
• 22:34
  the game because teams have been doubling Crisa and they've been doubling ray Kwan Battle,
• 22:41
  and some teams have to do that. Okay, Kansas like, that's
• 22:45
  not their mo They don't double. They just go like, here's our five
• 22:51
  and we're going to switch everything one through four and doesn't matter. We don't
• 22:55
  care about what the matchup is. Your guy can't get by our guy.
• 22:56
  First, first couple plays the game. Within the first two Raekwon Battle gets
• 23:03
  the ball. Kevin mccullor, a veteran player who's got a chance, got
• 23:07
  a chance to play any aba. Raekwon gets the ball and just blew by
• 23:11
  him and we went like, okay, so you got something here, and
• 23:17
  then they just fed off of it. It took them a while to adjust
• 23:19
  to him. They tried to go one on one with him and put multiple
• 23:22
  guys on Raykwon and he was taking everybody. There wasn't a single guy that
• 23:26
  could stop him. Then in the second half, they went to that switching
• 23:29
  everything along the perimeter, which was a great move by Bill self, obviously
• 23:32
  Hall of Fame coach. Great move because then it was difficult for him to
• 23:34
  get traction. But that's when the pick and roll then became so valuable.
• 23:37
  So it was a great punch CounterPunch situation right there is Okay, you're gonna
• 23:41
  switch everything and take that away. Then here's what we're gonna do to counter
• 23:45
  that, you know, and that was an important part of this game,
• 23:47
  Tony. We talked about lineups on Thursday when they went with Johnny Furfey into
• 23:52
  their starting lineup, a six to nine kid from Australia. Is you created
• 23:55
  some challenges there from a West Virginia lineup perspective, size wise, because you
• 24:00
  play Farakhn increase it together. That's a smaller lineup going against them, which
• 24:04
  is a very big lineup. Your smaller lineup paid dividends, Tony, because
• 24:07
  they had to make the decision this is what you want hop in those extreme
• 24:11
  mismatches, which one of you is going to impose your will, and West
• 24:15
  Virginia did a better job. I thought of making Kansas decide, Okay,
• 24:19
  we've got two point guards. You've got a great defensive point guard in Dewan
• 24:23
  Harris. Which one do you want to guard? Oh you want to guard
• 24:26
  kurk Creese. Okay, no, take the ball, go eat him up
• 24:29
  on pick and roll. Oh you want to guard narrow Ferakhon Kurb makes them
• 24:32
  threes early. So I thought West Virginia took advantage of that size disparity and
• 24:37
  the small lineup actually paid dividends. All right, one more thing and we'll
• 24:40
  move on to the next thing. I thought this was interesting. And would
• 24:45
  you have said this a couple months ago what Hoppy gave you that sat on
• 24:48
  the bench points, would you have thought West Virginia's bench would be the key
• 24:52
  to the victory. No, that's one deficiency that Kansas has. They are
• 24:56
  really good one through five. Their starting lineup now with furfy and there is
• 25:00
  a legit, but they are not as deep as the normal Kansas team.
• 25:04
  Let's look at some lineups and frequency of lineups from Saturday. KAU's most frequent
• 25:08
  lineup, it's starting lineup had forty eight possessions together in that game. Their
• 25:14
  next most frequent lineup had seven possessions together. So you got their starters and
• 25:19
  basically had it all game. And when those starters are pieces of that starting
• 25:23
  lineup went out, including Dickinson. What West Virginia, We're going right at
• 25:27
  you. We're going right at you now in the first half, so that
• 25:30
  was massive. West Virginia's most frequent lineup, on the other hand, had
• 25:34
  twenty two possessions together. West Virginia had six other lineups with at least five
• 25:41
  possessions. So West Virginia just kept rolling different combinations out there with guys that
• 25:47
  wanted to work. This was fascinating. The most effective Kobe Kerr, Seth
• 25:56
  Quinn Slazynski and Pat Sumnik, when that lineup was in there to get it,
• 26:00
  did not miss a shot, made four to three pointers, and scored
• 26:04
  more points in those seven possessions they were in together than any other lineup,
• 26:08
  And I think what that showed me, And again you just wouldn't have said
• 26:12
  this a month ago. The depth for West Virginia helped them win that game.
• 26:18
  There were multiple individuals, and we've named them most of them here.
• 26:21
  Kobe Johnson right there. Kobe Johnson gave you good minutes. When Slaznski came
• 26:26
  in played well, had that huge offensive rebound off the miss free throw.
• 26:29
  So there were every guy that got in that game, gave you really impactful,
• 26:33
  high energy moments and minutes, and the bench was one of the key
• 26:36
  reasons you won that game. Well, speaking of that, here's three guys
• 26:38
  that came off the bench. They all finished in the plus minus category in
• 26:42
  the high plus. Here we go Slaznsky team best plus eighteen, Noah ferrikn
• 26:48
  team high plus eighteen, Seth Wilson team high plus fourteen. So exactly right.
• 26:53
  If you would have done a blind study and not tell you which team
• 26:57
  had the numbers, if I would have said to you, in this game,
• 27:00
  kay, after Saturday's game's over turnovers, one team will have fourteen points
• 27:07
  off of them, another will have seven points. In the paint, one
• 27:08
  team will have forty four, the other team will have twenty six. Fast
• 27:12
  break points. One team will have sixteen, the other team will have eight.
• 27:15
  And the bench scoring, you're gonna lose by seven. You'd go like,
• 27:18
  well, Kansas is gonna win because you know what those numbers are.
• 27:21
  Those were the numbers in West Virginia. Still found a way to win.
• 27:23
  And that's why I said earlier. This wasn't Hoosiers. You didn't have some
• 27:27
  fluky upset here. Kansas played a pretty good basketball game, can't. I
• 27:30
  mean that you just lined up to tone beat them. You did, and
• 27:34
  that's there's no denying that. Here's the question going forward. Question. No,
• 27:41
  here's the question is that is this the new normal? Or is this
• 27:44
  an aberration because you had a lot of guys playing at an elite level?
• 27:48
  So is this the new normal? Or again it's it's it's one time.
• 27:52
  I know we've been building toward that. You want to be building toward it.
• 27:56
  Yeah, the answer, yes, here's the answer, great answer,
• 27:57
  somewhere in the middle. Yeah, it's so here what do I always say?
• 28:00
  You're not going to shoot? But what do I always say? You
• 28:04
  can't pick a performance up and move it forward automatically, So you're searching for
• 28:07
  consistency, which is the hardest thing in college sports. Look at this league.
• 28:11
  Some of this is this league. Kansas goes on the road, loses
• 28:15
  here, right, they lose to UCF. I mean this this league is
• 28:18
  a beast. So you know, you can't assume you're going to pick this
• 28:21
  up and move it forward. What you can assume is that I think it's
• 28:25
  another indication of what a lot of people, us included, have been saying
• 28:27
  You give these guys a chance to play together for a certain amount of time
• 28:33
  and you start to figure it out. You can't just throw guys in and
• 28:37
  expect the results right away and change roles. Figuring out what noaf fair Khn
• 28:41
  had to do to help you get a win on Saturday was the result of
• 28:45
  him having played now five or six games. Knowing how we said that.
• 28:48
  You put Kerr Crease and Noa fair Cohn in a lineup together, that takes
• 28:52
  a minute. They're both ball dominant point guards. How do those guys play
• 28:56
  together? How does Kerr learn to play without the basketball? How does Farakhon
• 29:00
  learn to play without the basketball? And how do you mix that in with
• 29:03
  a guy in Pat Sumnick who wasn't getting touches early in the season. I
• 29:06
  thought this was a result and maybe it doesn't happen again the rest of the
• 29:08
  season. You don't know that, but I thought this was a result of
• 29:11
  seeing these guys together and the coaching staff being able to react to that,
• 29:17
  saying, okay, here's what we have. We have a defensive struggling against
• 29:19
  our pick and roll. We have two guys that are very good handling it
• 29:22
  in the pick and roll. Including one that they can't stay in front of.
• 29:25
  Let's do this. You couldn't do that four games ago because you hadn't
• 29:29
  seen you got to know. You don't know until you don't know. And
• 29:30
  now there's going to be another Oh, by the way, now you're going
• 29:33
  to add an elite pro back in in Jesse Edwards to this lineup. So
• 29:37
  how does that work? What does that do to Pat Sumnick's role? Right?
• 29:42
  How does Pat play? Are you going to be able to play Pat
• 29:45
  and Jesse together at times? You think? Are you going to be able
• 29:48
  to play a big back line of a cook, Jesse and Pat at times
• 29:52
  if you want? Probably not all together very often because you need some boat
• 29:55
  strength. But you're now your rotations have just changed again, so you can't
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  and assume anything moving forward. But I think it also shows when you put
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  All right, let's do these numbers. West Virginia UCF second ever meeting
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  between the two schools Tuesday in Orlando, first ever encounter as Big Twelve Conference
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  mates. Johnny Dawkins in his eighth season as the head coach of ucf're pretty
• 32:31
  good, man, They're pretty good. They've got, like West Virginia,
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  they've got to win over Texas. Like West Virginia, they've got to win
• 32:37
  over Kansas. Isn't that crazy? Would you have said that when the schedule
• 32:39
  came out? Yeah? No, you just now you just don't. We
• 32:45
  keep saying that, But my god, yeah, I said, Johnny Dawkins
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  eighth season. He also is at Stanford for eight do you remember how good
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  he was. I loved watching him. He was one of my favorite players
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  growing up. He was awesome. So he's the Natesmith Award winner, two
• 33:00
  time consensus All American. Uh, just one of the great all time college
• 33:06
  basketball players ever true ever at lefty move Boce. He was bouncy, could
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  shoot it from d C, from d C, playing Catholic schools in DC,
• 33:15
  and then had a nice career in the league. I didn't look this
• 33:19
  up. He got like his career. I got all jacked up because of
• 33:22
  desert fever. Right, Oh, I don't remember that. I'm looking at
• 33:25
  you. I remember him. I remember him way more as a college player.
• 33:30
  Yeah. I loved watching him in college. Yeah, elite. All
• 33:34
  right, you ready dive into UCF here? Yeah, go ahead. So
• 33:37
  that's what that's what I was going to lead with those two really good conference
• 33:39
  wins, same as westerning into Texas and Kansas. Here's what you don't know
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  about UCF. Though their non conference they weren't tested a whole lot. Their
• 33:49
  best non conference win was one hundred and twelve twelfth ranked Charlotte going by Ken
• 33:53
  Palm rankings. Here now listen to this one, hoppy Yes, six of
• 33:57
  their nine non conference wins are over teams that average two seventy six. There's
• 34:01
  only three hundred and sixty two teams their wins average number two seventy six.
• 34:07
  But they've turned around and beat two good teams in conference play. So interesting
• 34:10
  kind of schedule there. Here's what they do. They're defensively oriented, another
• 34:15
  really good defense, eighth nationally in adjusted defensive efficiency. To give you some
• 34:20
  perspective on that. Kansas came into this game eleventh. Now Western towards them,
• 34:23
  but now you're back on the road, this will be a challenge.
• 34:25
  What's their number eighth nationally defensive efficiency, fifteenth in opponent turnover percentage. Got
• 34:31
  to take care of the ball. They're third nationally in block percentage. With
• 34:36
  that good size. They struggle offensively though, two hundred and eighty ninth in
• 34:42
  effective field goal percentage, two hundred and forty third in turnover percentage, and
• 34:46
  they're one of the worst three point shooting teams in the country, a bottom
• 34:50
  sixty five team. Very good on the offensive glass though, so you're gonna
• 34:54
  have to rebound against them and defensive rebounding keep them off the offense glass.
• 35:00
  You know, guys that would have been a massive concern a month ago,
• 35:04
  but Tony really since the second half of that Ohio State game, Westernina's work
• 35:07
  on the boards has been tremendous. Yes, they have turned that part of
• 35:10
  it around, made it an emphasis. They have guys performing. There's been
• 35:15
  a guard. Here's been the key in my mind. First of all,
• 35:16
  Pat's been very good on the glass, but they've had a guard in every
• 35:21
  game that is stepped up. Sometimes it's been Noah faa con Sometimes Creases got
• 35:24
  on there with four or five. Rayquon Battle got you nine again the other
• 35:28
  day he's at a ten rebound game. They're getting a better effort from more
• 35:30
  people now in the glass. You think Ray Kwan is a stealth rebounder,
• 35:35
  like he just comes out of nowhere to get his yeah, like some guys.
• 35:37
  You can see him boxing out, jumping up straight and bringing the ball
• 35:42
  down two hands in the air. Like Ray Kwan is kind of like he's
• 35:45
  like Batman. He just like he's there, just comes across lane. Gotta
• 35:50
  reba. How about the block yet? And he was real close to he
• 35:52
  was real close to a couple of highlight defensive places. He got called for
• 35:55
  a foul on Yeah, either here or there. All right, here's here's
• 35:59
  one to watch. You want to sneaky, sneaky key to the game.
• 36:00
  Hope, who gets to the line more? U c F is number two
• 36:06
  in the Big Twelve conference in conference play in free throw rate? You know
• 36:09
  who's number one? You see if Mountaineers u c F two. I'm sorry,
• 36:14
  wait a second time time out? Thirty second coaches time out. You're
• 36:19
  saying West Virginia gets to the foul line more than any other Big twelve team
• 36:22
  in Big Twelve play. Yeah, yes, Well wait a second. The
• 36:24
  officials are against West Virginia. All the calls go against West Virginia. West
• 36:29
  Virginia never gets any calls. Well, no, it's another year where they're
• 36:31
  getting a lot of calls getting the line. They got a good call Saturday.
• 36:34
  There something must be up here. Wasn't get a good call. The
• 36:37
  officials are just doing a fine job. Hoppy bill self about that? Well,
• 36:44
  they talk about getting a break. You want to know who got a
• 36:45
  break on that particular play. So if that's any other coach in this league,
• 36:51
  that's a technical foul, and it might be two technical fouls. Yeah,
• 36:53
  so you can you can say West Virginia got a break on Kirk Criesy
• 36:57
  even though he got mud three different times. The old ball coach there for
• 37:00
  the Jayhawks should have at himself. A couple you could have got rung up.
• 37:05
  He's got a lot of equity in his accounty. He does anybody else
• 37:08
  that might be a They did not want to They did not want to end
• 37:13
  the game that way. He didn't. The officials did not want to end
• 37:15
  you that way. Decided it. So we can cancel those who got a
• 37:19
  call out right there. All right, here's the other thing on them.
• 37:22
  With that great size, they're going to be really tough to get to the
• 37:23
  rim on Opponents are only shooting fifty five percent at the rim. The national
• 37:29
  average is sixty two percent, So difficult when you get in there, they're
• 37:32
  going to force you to make some threes. But here's what I want you
• 37:35
  to watch, hopey ready, In addition to the free throws, let's watch
• 37:37
  this. West Virginia should finally get some unguarded looks from three. Huh,
• 37:44
  they haven't got many. I've told you just before. West Virginia leads the
• 37:46
  league by a significant amount in percentage of catch and shoot jumpers that are guarded
• 37:52
  almost seven out of ten shots for West Virginia on catch and shoot jumpers.
• 37:55
  Hop when you pass it, catch it, shoot it, almost seventy percent
• 37:59
  of them are guarded. Western's just not getting a lot of open looks.
• 38:01
  But UCF gives up the fourth most unguarded field goal attempts in the Big twelve.
• 38:08
  So, Brad, when you get an open shot, what do you
• 38:10
  have to do? You have to make it. And here's what has been
• 38:14
  a key to UCF success earlier. They're giving up the fourth most on guarded,
• 38:19
  but teams are eleventh in scoring percentage on those open jumpers. This might
• 38:24
  be a nice time for a little regression for that number. At some point,
• 38:29
  you keep giving teams open shots and someone's gonna hit them on you can
• 38:32
  West Virginia pick up it's nice shooting performance and move it forward here. So
• 38:37
  let's say if those trends stay up, what I'm saying is you're going to
• 38:39
  get more open looks than you have. Teams are not hitting those at a
• 38:44
  high rate against UCF. But when they're open, that's not because of the
• 38:46
  defense, that's as you're just not making shots. This would be a nice
• 38:50
  game to make some threes, get those open looks, take advantage of it,
• 38:52
  get to the line, you make, you walk out with a win.
• 38:55
  They've been handled in different ways. Miami ran them into submission, just
• 39:01
  fast, break up and on the suit got them. That probably doesn't apply
• 39:05
  to West Virginia. They're not going to run a lot. They're gonna pick
• 39:07
  their spots. Ole miss used the pick and roll ball handler Kansas State and
• 39:12
  BYU. They did make shots and what they do wait to stay damn near
• 39:16
  killed them right they got there. They were some teams that got open looks
• 39:20
  and punished them with it. And then Houston's a whole different animal. They
• 39:22
  just flat smothered them this week. Now they pick and roll them to death,
• 39:27
  Absolutely pick and roll them to death. But offensively, they saw that
• 39:30
  they just couldn't do anything. Houston just ate them up on the defensive end.
• 39:32
  So Houston pick and roll is elite, very good league. Yeah,
• 39:37
  yeah, I saw I saw that first hand. That was like a wow.
• 39:42
  Yeah, So that theo's your keys. If you can get to the
• 39:45
  free throw line, great, If you can get into their bigs and they're
• 39:47
  calling fouls not just letting them get block shots, that's a key. But
• 39:51
  I think if you're looking for one key in this one, this is another
• 39:53
  make shots game, because I think you're going to get some open looks.
• 39:57
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  It was history a story copy. Go ahead, play music. If you
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  said there mentioned and there we'll come. We'll come back to. Well this
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  mention them. Now. So the WV women's team last week did something against
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  Houston that had never been done before and women's program history, and that is
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  they pitched a shutout, did not allow Houston to score a single point in
• 42:37
  the opening half. Credible zero hops opening I'm sorry, I said half excuse
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  me, opening quarter and we haven't had the quarter system. How many years
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  is this now? Five or five? So anyway, West Virginia does it
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  Saturday, go out to Cinson. Nata lined up and shut Cincinnati out again
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  in the first quarter. Did it again? Never been done in women's basketball
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  history in back to back games? Yeah, it is never been done in
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• 43:22
  Oh, Mark Kellogg, he just pitched himself too. Shut up about that.
• 43:25
  Unbelievable. That is because that's because when you do it once, you
• 43:30
  go, that's had a good day. It's not only historic, it's fluky.
• 43:34
  Yeah, you do it because one doesn't make a trend. Now you
• 43:37
  do it twice, you go yeah. Wow. Games. So listen,
• 43:43
  Saturday, your Cincinnati you're just going. Fastball was on and the curveball was
• 43:46
  working. So Saturday, chances are they don't pitch a shutout against Iowa State
• 43:51
  in the first quarter. However, I strongly encourage all Mountaineer fans the men
• 43:57
  are away at Stillwater, go to the women's game. If you haven't seen
• 44:00
  him yet, packed that place out. I don't know what it is sitting
• 44:05
  with me on the Sidowa State game, but that bummed me out because I
• 44:07
  guess because I invested energy and I watched the last one. West Virginia's up
• 44:10
  nineteen in the third quarter at Iowa State and they lose the game. Just
• 44:14
  needed a shot or two, just needed are So here is the revenge opportunity
• 44:19
  for the world champion Mountaineers Saturday afternoon, KYLEI see him check it out,
• 44:29
  throwing shutouts, shutouts. Can the new coach Mark Kellock and he coach,
• 44:37
  Uh yeah, yes, he said that it's his system defense and it was
• 44:40
  his system shutting up people. He's also as he will, as he will
• 44:45
  tell you and has told us on these shows. He's got some good talent
• 44:47
  too. All right, he's got some players playing. He might have a
• 44:52
  hang of this thing. Three guys before the game. Textual healing is brought
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  to us by episode eight hundred dot com, where you can buy all of
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  our merchandise, the award winning coffee, the award winning popcorn, National Popcorn
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  Day. You got to get your Valentine order in by Saturday to have it
• 45:08
  by Valentines Day, and uh just doing great things with that. Also we'll
• 45:15
  get into this untextual healing. But had some spotty some some some sporadic spottings
• 45:23
  of Kerchievel and various places. How do you find it? It's it's like
• 45:29
  gold now you can't find it. Well, I was sitting over there at
• 45:32
  Kegler. I was sitting over there at I was over at Kegler doing the
• 45:37
  talk show with Josh the other day and Mike in the front row says,
• 45:39
  hey, he goes, this is this kerchievel is really good. I looked
• 45:43
  at him like he had four heads. I said, what do you mean?
• 45:45
  He I go, that's they got it. Yeah, they had it
• 45:46
  on draft. So I don't know. It's kind of like they find it
• 45:50
  like al Capone's grave. Every once in a while, they just find a
• 45:52
  little bit of it. From the text line Jeremy and Cooper's town. That's
• 46:00
  where the world the Baseball Hall of Fames located. I think I was the
• 46:04
  West Virginia connection this fine evening. I was in town all week for a
• 46:08
  convention in Charleston, West Virginia. My flight back to Albany got canceled.
• 46:15
  I booked a room at the Courtyard on the River. Told myself, if
• 46:19
  we were tied or leading at half against Kansas, I'm going to Adelphi on
• 46:22
  Capitol Street to watch second half play. Well, we're tied, so I
• 46:27
  ran over there, half freezing cold snow to watch with people I didn't exactly
• 46:31
  know. Long story short, I'm giving high five, hugging and singing country
• 46:37
  roads with all my friends after another great win. My question, who wants
• 46:42
  to play this team? Right now. That's a good story, that's fun.
• 46:45
  That's a great mountaineer memory. Who Dak gonna beat them mountaineers this year?
• 46:49
  Hobby? Howdy, three guys, this is an important text here.
• 46:54
  This is our buddy Joe Mock and Leander Texas. Remember I showed you my
• 46:58
  picture with him last year. He's basically he said, I love the win
• 47:00
  over Kansas and the back to back first quarter shutouts by our women. Great
• 47:05
  stuff. I want to provide an update now on the situation where the Sooners
• 47:08
  played Country Roads off of their PA system after they'd beaten us handily on the
• 47:14
  court. I have a friend who is the executive associate athletics director at Oklahoma.
• 47:21
  What kind of athletic director? She's the executive associate athletic director. In
• 47:27
  fact, I sat with her for part of our game last Wednesday in Norman,
• 47:30
  so he's sitting with her. I've always found her to be an extremely
• 47:34
  high quality individual. After watching Thursday's podcast, I emailed her a link to
• 47:39
  the episode and told her the time stamp where she could listen to the Texter's
• 47:45
  comments on the matter. And Tony's response, well, this probably takes me
• 47:50
  out of getting invited to joke Astiglion's Christmas party next year probably. I want
• 47:54
  to share her response. After thanking me for sending the link to her,
• 48:00
  she wrote, quote, I actually talked to my staff after the game and
• 48:07
  said that was a poor call. We are good sports and that didn't show
• 48:10
  that. I apologize that happen. It's not indicative of how we treat our
• 48:15
  guests. We are all sorry. Please pass that along end quote so they
• 48:22
  know they messed up. Honestly, I will not miss the Longhorns when they
• 48:24
  are gone from the Big twelve. They make themselves easy to hate. I
• 48:28
  will miss the Sooners, though signed by Joe will even nice to get an
• 48:31
  apology. Yeah, I mean, like I said on the show, I
• 48:35
  knew it was someone, someone on a lower level, a junior level,
• 48:38
  that screwed up. It wasn't Castiglion or the executive or the double executive associate
• 48:44
  ad in charge of deputy athletic directors, in charge of associated athletic directors in
• 48:50
  charge of the assistant athletic director. What wouldn't have bothered me? Play Philip
• 48:54
  from Philippi had to share a quick story sweet Caroline ton of Pitt after the
• 48:59
  Yeah, that's true, mister Howe yes, which I loved. Mister how
• 49:05
  Yeah, Sunshine's gonna get nervous about three. Nervous can leave. But let's
• 49:09
  try to wrap out a few of these weeks. Philip from Philip, he
• 49:13
  had to share a quick story listening to the math Equation episode. My wife
• 49:15
  was listening with me and heard your pronunciations of Ohia, Oklahoma, and Cincinnati,
• 49:22
  and she said that they sound like you. Don't worry. I gave
• 49:24
  you all the credit. Then she didn't call you clowns, but she called
• 49:30
  you something worse. I just smiled. When did you When did you come?
• 49:32
  Where did Ahiah come from? I mean, I know the others.
• 49:36
  Where did Ahiah begin? J? Jacob says Ohiah? Well really yeah?
• 49:40
  J Jacobs heard somebody say Ahiah. Yeah, I think I have. I
• 49:44
  just wondered where it came from. Though Jacobs would always go yeah, we
• 49:46
  gotta go Hi, but other people do say it. Yeah. How do
• 49:53
  you say how do you say the state where Reno is located in Las Vegas?
• 50:00
  How do you say that? Well, it's going to be a Nevada
• 50:04
  or a Nevada. Probably it's probably Nevada, isn't it. That's that they're
• 50:09
  pretty sensitive about it. They yes, gotta get it right. Yeah,
• 50:15
  good for them. Hi, guys, listen, when you know Visa in
• 50:19
  the league, you're gonna want to know that we're home at home, or
• 50:22
  just when the University of Nevada's in the League thirteen Basketball League High two guys
• 50:28
  took a shot, you hoppy the transister. Transistor radio is why I love
• 50:31
  baseball. Growing up Saint Aubus in the sixties, never missed a Red's game
• 50:36
  on my radio when they played on the West Coast. I go to bed
• 50:37
  listening invariably fall asleep. Radio is our connection with West Virginia sports. We
• 50:42
  would listen to the game as a family. My favorite wv basketball radio memory
• 50:45
  nineteen seventy and six. West Virginia had Moe Robinson, Tony Robertson, Bill
• 50:51
  Roberson, and Tommy roberts all on the floor at the same time. You
• 50:54
  can imagine the call. I know it's been a long note. But one
• 50:58
  other radio highlight. Ilarren Baker High School championship game was injured early but came
• 51:02
  back out to lead his team to a win. Nothing like listening to an
• 51:07
  artist paint a picture of a game on the radio. Yeah, radio can
• 51:12
  stay with you. John from Oklahoma City Scopes and part timer as Spreads will
• 51:16
  want no part of this. My dad passed away and we are home for
• 51:21
  the funeral in Ravenswood this week, but I could not pass up getting my
• 51:24
  picture made with the Mothman statue. Solid addition to your Ohio Rivers show plan
• 51:31
  to stop in Point Pleasant and pay homage and then finish off the stop with
• 51:36
  a scoop or two of ice cream. Awesome. I have Mothman ice cream
• 51:40
  there. Awesome. That's awesome. Sorry about the passing your dad though,
• 51:44
  absolutely thank you. John Oball is well and condolences Texter. Hello, guys,
• 51:51
  I'm out shoveling the snow after a most recent snow listening to the recent
• 51:55
  episode when I tell you I dove into the giant snow pile I had because
• 52:00
  I thought someone had let animals loose from hovad or zoo, But here it
• 52:04
  was just Tony using his best elephant impression. Thanks for the surprise. Stephen
• 52:09
  from Morgantown, then Elephant last show, did you It's not been bad guys.
• 52:19
  On my way to the Kansas game, I took the best country road
• 52:21
  in all of West Virginia in Bridgeport to pick up a friend. What can
• 52:24
  you guys not do? Nate in the Canal Valley? So three guys,
• 52:31
  three guys drive there in somewhere in West Virginia Bridgeport area. I guess that's
• 52:37
  that's not real. It is real, is it? Yeah? Is that
• 52:39
  right? Yeah? It is? Yeah. They should probably they should.
• 52:45
  They should be a sponsor of the show. Buddy in Hampton, Virginia,
• 52:50
  Three guys. I've noticed that we do well in the first half of the
• 52:53
  men's basketball games, and then in the second half, our opponents changed their
• 52:58
  strategy and they beat us by double digit scores. I used to think it
• 53:01
  was because of our short roster, but I do not believe that this is
• 53:06
  the case. Josh does not change his strategy. I think he should because
• 53:10
  the opposition has changed theirs. What do you guys think? So, I'm
• 53:15
  Buddy in Hampton, Virginia. I don't think that was the case. I
• 53:20
  was opposite of that, Buddy. I'd have to say your text didn't age
• 53:25
  well as they say. State Fair, West Virginia announcing concert lineup for this
• 53:31
  summer. It's a good one. According to the State Fair. Charles Wesley
• 53:36
  Godwin former guest here on. Three guys will take the main stage on Sunday,
• 53:40
  August eleventh, ninety ninth State Fair, and Neil says, already got
• 53:46
  our tickets. Pass the word. They're going to be a sellout. I
• 53:49
  love his music. Thank you all for turning us on to this great West
• 53:52
  Virginia talent. Texter guys, Big Tony from Daniels, you can sum up
• 54:00
  the Kansas game in one word, teamwork. Congratulations the entire program for continuing
• 54:05
  to battle. I'm impressed and proud of their effort. Tony, I'll never
• 54:08
  get tired of you saying it's a great day to be a mountaineer Texter.
• 54:13
  Craig and Craigsville. I listened to my favorite two guys game and watched it
• 54:16
  on ESPN Plus so I could see my favorite two guys during the telecast.
• 54:20
  Damn, you two were looking sharp. If I looking Phil can dress YouTube
• 54:25
  like that. Wonder what he could do for me. It was striped the
• 54:30
  announcer day stripe the announcers who has stripe? The stadium day, Yeah,
• 54:35
  we want to participate the stripe. The stadium did not, the Colosseum did
• 54:38
  not. Was not efforted well, but to stripe. The announcers went perfectly
• 54:45
  a gold and a blue. Well done worked out, Texter standing, I'm
• 54:51
  sorry. Sitting in the stands after the Kansas game, how exciting is it
• 54:54
  to watch Pat Sumnik get more confidence as a player? Mister Mawson p one
• 55:01
  Jason and Tulsa. What a game. Most exciting game I've seen, probably
• 55:05
  since the triple ot game against TCU where Jordan mccab almost had a triple double.
• 55:10
  So much hope for the future. Considering as shown via the graphic during
• 55:14
  the game, West Virginia has played US precisely zero games without its full roster.
• 55:17
  I love how the recent games have been called to even Oklahoma they let
• 55:22
  him play. As Tony knows, I work with mega construction projects for a
• 55:27
  living and routinely have to report on various metrics for where we are versus where
• 55:30
  we're supposed to be. Lately, when asked to give a report during my
• 55:34
  meetings, I've started to say, well, let's take a look at the
• 55:37
  numbers. Well, let's just go right to the numbers and all that too
• 55:40
  familiar cadence, And everyone looks at me like I'm on drugs, But I
• 55:45
  don't care. When the report is that we're behind, and the top brass
• 55:47
  asks what we're doing to get back on track. I have an efficient and
• 55:52
  adequate reply of efforting. When asked what I meant by that, I informed
• 55:55
  that if you have to ask, you wouldn't get it. I feel my
• 55:59
  time on this project might be short lived, but I'll see you guys in
• 56:01
  Stillwater on the twenty seventh regardless. Yeah, see that's how you use efforting.
• 56:07
  Yeah, where are we on effing efforting? Well? Yeah, for
• 56:10
  it is. He continues and says, I hope Jay Jacobs is enjoying his
• 56:15
  retirement. Shout out to Steven Tornado for that amazingly detailed report on the pronunciation
• 56:22
  of Jent in Raleigh County. Let's go mountaineers. Love the show. Ps.
• 56:25
  There's no Wayriquan battle is six' five thinks he's a little bit bigger
• 56:30
  than that. Or maybe he thinks he's smaller than that. I don't know.
• 56:32
  What do you think? No? He says, only only six five?
• 56:35
  Yeah, Chris and Nashville, what a great win against Kansas. I
• 56:38
  think this team will be in and end up being a what if situation similar
• 56:44
  to what we had in twenty twenty when the NCAA tournament got canceled. Also,
• 56:49
  we need to keep this going, so now for the analytics portion of
• 56:52
  the show. We made shots and rebound a great win. Brad and Tony,
• 56:55
  you look sharp as well. Brad. Could hear? Could did you
• 57:00
  hear the conversations between the referees? I saw you trying to snoop in on
• 57:02
  the referees when they came to the table. I was efforting. Could hear
• 57:07
  a little, not a whole lot, believe it? Or not as close
• 57:08
  as that was? Yeah, Well, they like to talk quietly. Periopolis
• 57:15
  Phil wrote that, hey, three guys, I was listening to the Houston
• 57:17
  UCF game on serious until the WVU game started, and I think there were
• 57:22
  more baskets scored in the first four minutes that I listened to, you guys,
• 57:27
  roughly from the eleven minute mark, than they were in the whole first
• 57:30
  half by Houston and UCF. Except it wasn't planned. It was about as
• 57:32
  exciting as Duke versus UNC games when they used to use the motion four corners
• 57:37
  offense when halftime scores were twelve to ten were common. Yeah, Frank writs
• 57:43
  in Houston locked it up, Yeah, on UCF did it? Yeah,
• 57:46
  oh, seven baskets. The Guard scored seven baskets in forty minutes. Excuse
• 57:52
  me, they scored seven baskets and forty minutes. It's seven field goals the
• 57:57
  whole game. Who was coachingt Mark kellog Hey, Frank, thank you very
• 58:01
  much for your comments, And let me just also say this. At times,
• 58:04
  I'll tell you this, not all the texts get read, and some
• 58:07
  of the text get edited. Not edited, that's not the right word.
• 58:15
  Let me get to what I'm saying. There were a lot of texts here
• 58:19
  this week after the game talking about Brad doing the broadcast, and a lot
• 58:25
  of nice things were said, So thank you very much than not using them,
• 58:30
  because that decision, as far as what's going to happen in the future
• 58:35
  hasn't been made, and I don't think it would be fair for us to
• 58:38
  just continue to ramp that up or beloviate on that or politic on that.
• 58:45
  So just thank you all very much. Texter. This Kroger versus the Kroger's
• 58:51
  argument is going on too long. The name is Kroger other than when preceded
• 58:58
  by the When it comes the Kroger's end of discussions, so he says,
• 59:01
  if you put the article the in front of it, the Krogers, But
• 59:05
  if it's just I'm going to Kroger, then that's what he says. Ended
• 59:10
  he's just being funny. Yeah, Texter p one listener ted from Fort Mill,
• 59:16
  South Carolina. After a roller coaster season like the men's basketball team has
• 59:21
  had, there's only one thing that would have made today's victory any better.
• 59:25
  Ren Baker should have hung the banner at halftime hashtag htb PS. My dad
• 59:31
  and I have spent two lifetimes as huge dou WV fans, and we each
• 59:36
  live in different states, but your show allows us to continue sharing the love
• 59:39
  for all things West Virginia. My dad was born and raised in Fairmount.
• 59:44
  As a kid, snuck into Stansbury to see Jerry West play. Later graduated
• 59:47
  from the DOUBLEVU Engineering School. He got a job, raised a family of
• 59:52
  West Virginia fans in Pittsburgh. Now lives in Woodbridge, Virginia, near my
• 59:55
  sister. As an eighty two year old who survived to stroke just a couple
• 1:00:00
  of years ago, he remains a proud native West Virginian loyal Three Guys listeners.
• 1:00:05
  So when he goes to physical therapy. He faithfully hoppy take a look
• 1:00:07
  at the board, wears his efforting T shirt and share his West Virginia stories
• 1:00:12
  with his personal trainer, who is from Elkins. Of course he is,
• 1:00:15
  as you commonly say, just goes to show you always a West Virginia connection.
• 1:00:21
  They got their h TV share hanged the damn banner. I love it.
• 1:00:24
  Yeah, anybody asked coach self to bring that banner with him X out
• 1:00:30
  and you know, you know what they don't. They don't hang those banners
• 1:00:34
  there. They don't hang conference tournament banners. They wouldn't have meant in room,
• 1:00:37
  right, I asked. I said, hey, take a picture of
• 1:00:40
  that banner because I wanted to get effects similar And they go like, actually,
• 1:00:43
  we just put the year up next to the thing that says tournament champion.
• 1:00:50
  Yeah. Well, hey, three guys. Question for the Senator.
• 1:00:53
  More than anything, but a little background, especially the great win over Kansas.
• 1:00:58
  My parents, John and Leonora Alashuck first just season tickets to Mountaineer basketball
• 1:01:04
  in nineteen eighty five when I was there but a mere freshman. They set
• 1:01:07
  three rows down from the concourse center corps across the students. They never left
• 1:01:12
  a game early but my mother had the rule of eighty. She would get
• 1:01:16
  up and use the restroom when either team scored eighty points, saying that the
• 1:01:21
  first team to eighty always wins. To this day, our family will exchange
• 1:01:23
  texts when the Mountaineers hit eighty first, proclaiming the game over based on mom's
• 1:01:29
  rule of eighty without looking it up. How prophetic would you say? The
• 1:01:32
  rule of eighty really is signed by Bobby oh and defiance a high on via
• 1:01:37
  Weirton. She's probably on that. That probably does happen. What's West Virginia's
• 1:01:40
  one loss record all time when scoring eighty or more points? We could probably
• 1:01:45
  find that, but it's one hundred percent of getting into the bathroom one time.
• 1:01:49
  She ended that by saying he ended that by saying hashtag hang the banner
• 1:01:54
  logan in Greenborough County's past weekend. Great definition of efforting. Watch the NFL
• 1:01:59
  Playoffs listening to the radio during the game. During dinner, my dad and
• 1:02:00
  I listened to the very end, excited about the game, Excited listening to
• 1:02:05
  the NFC playoff green Bay, San Francisco. I surprised Pitt beat Duke.
• 1:02:08
  I wish the playoff game and the Duke Pitt game would have ended in a
• 1:02:12
  tie. I hate all four of those teams, but at the end of
• 1:02:14
  the day, World Champs got the upset and made it a great night to
• 1:02:16
  be a Mountaineer. Playoff football good good? Yeah, really Chiefs Bills last
• 1:02:22
  night was good for the Bills. Kicker, I did, I felt,
• 1:02:25
  I was really. I mean, I don't have the Steelers aren't in,
• 1:02:29
  but I was really hoping for a Detroit Buffalo Super Bowl. Josh Allen's got
• 1:02:34
  to complete that pass before the kick, though, and it's a touchdown in
• 1:02:37
  the Bills. Yes, yes, he does. Yeah. Hey, two
• 1:02:40
  guys, question when Jesse returns, if you're the coach, would you continue
• 1:02:45
  to ride pat bringing Jesse off the bench? Second question with Kevin mccullor took
• 1:02:50
  two charges as a secondary defender. What happened to the rule change this year
• 1:02:53
  on secondary defenders. If that rule was followed, both would be blocks.
• 1:02:57
  Yeah, good question. Jesse, when he's ready to go, will not
• 1:03:00
  come off the bench. Will not come off the bench, texter. Hey,
• 1:03:06
  three guys, how about that effort and ability to finish off the Kansas
• 1:03:12
  game. Tremendous texter. I've attached a picture of a handkerchief from another iconic
• 1:03:20
  West Virginia show, Mountain Stage. Perhaps call their people up and efforts some
• 1:03:23
  hopper chiffs. Thank you guys for the great show. Charlie from Harrison.
• 1:03:28
  There this hotfey. That's Mountain Stages. That's a nice one. Mountain Stage
• 1:03:30
  has got its own hanky. How come we can't have our own hanka?
• 1:03:34
  Really real quick to get your back my guy Greg, was that the game.
• 1:03:37
  Talked to Greg before the game. Yeah, I had to use his
• 1:03:39
  hanky while we were talking. Did he yeah, see he came in handy.
• 1:03:44
  He just blow one out into there. Yeah, put it back in
• 1:03:45
  his pocket. Did he have a lot of moisture in or was it a
• 1:03:47
  dry turned away? Didn't want part of it, showed him when the bathroom
• 1:03:54
  was right over there. Could have got a tissue. Didn't need to use
• 1:03:58
  the hanky and put it back in. So you don't know if it was
• 1:04:01
  a big blow or just a clean pop. Don't know, didn't care,
• 1:04:03
  didn't inquire. Sounded like a coal barge coming down the road. Stop.
• 1:04:10
  Hey, three guys, probably too. Since Hoppy's hanging out at the Capitol,
• 1:04:14
  the question is for scopes. The bread Man mister san Marzano, What
• 1:04:17
  the heck explains the amazing transformation with Pat Sumnick. He goes from third string
• 1:04:21
  center last season to stud I mean twenty points against Ku several consecutive strong performances
• 1:04:29
  in the past month. Was it Wheedi's was it his time? Did he
• 1:04:31
  get a better position coach? Has he discovered a new sports vitamin? Or
• 1:04:35
  is it something psychological? Tony, you're the evangelist of sports psychology for college
• 1:04:42
  athletes. Go find out what was said or learned or practiced. That's the
• 1:04:45
  story we all want to need and we want to hear. Your loyal listener
• 1:04:49
  lind Berg from So I'm gonna say this wrong? Is it Lucto? I
• 1:04:55
  don't know that. Lindberg from So you could go Lucato. I'm thinking that's
• 1:04:59
  lu Cato. There's Max Locatt, although oh, I think would modify the
• 1:05:02
  A right. Two vowels go walking. The first one does the talking,
• 1:05:11
  But it was West Virginia. Two bwls right together, though E I are
• 1:05:16
  you and sometimes but you know how we do. Sometimes in westbreats probably Lucado
• 1:05:21
  Lucadosis, or the area some Native American name we Bastard is us. Right,
• 1:05:31
  Hey, three guys, Jared, and by the way, as far
• 1:05:35
  as Pat, something that goes I will So here's a deal. Like Pat
• 1:05:40
  has never lacked for confidence. I talked about this several shows ago. I
• 1:05:43
  mean, he was just analysis paralysis early in the season. I think he's
• 1:05:46
  just he's falling. He's just sticking his face in the fan. He's he
• 1:05:50
  never will back down from anything. He's a tough guy. That's what you
• 1:05:53
  need to be. That's a different level of confidence that comes. You can
• 1:05:57
  be confident you're producing like he's producing in act, actual big games against really
• 1:06:00
  good teams. That changes your level of confidence. Yeah. I think he's
• 1:06:04
  always felt he's ready for this level. We was playing with it. He's
• 1:06:06
  playing great. Hey, three guys, Jared and Martinsburg. My girl.
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  For Christmas, my girlfriend got me tickets for the Kansas game with apprehension.
• 1:06:15
  I told her that I appreciated. I was excited to go back to Morgantown.
• 1:06:17
  We probably shouldn't go to that game expecting to win, regardless, I
• 1:06:21
  was excited to finally get a chance to try the fabled kerchievel until I heard
• 1:06:26
  it was discontinued. So it is with great relief that we got to see
• 1:06:30
  a huge win, a court storm, and I found some kerchievel when we
• 1:06:33
  stopped at the Gucci Kroger way out of town. I got to see,
• 1:06:38
  Yeah, my old haunts had a fantastic time and reminded how much I love
• 1:06:44
  Morgantown. Next time can't come soon enough. So apparently they did like a
• 1:06:50
  clandestine shipment of your beer without us knowing. So apparently it popped out.
• 1:06:56
  What awesome? Not like a crocus. It's it's like the No, it's
• 1:07:02
  like this the uh, like the moth man. No, what comes out
• 1:07:06
  every six locusts? It's like thea like cicadas? You know, Like what
• 1:07:13
  year is it? Is it a big brood year? Is it the year
• 1:07:16
  that it's just a few come up? I mean, what is this a
• 1:07:19
  year for the kertchavel to come out? It's the year? Hey, three
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  guys and two short he one dad from Apothecary. I can't help but wonder
• 1:07:30
  what this team's record would be if the roster would have been at full strength
• 1:07:33
  from the start. I know this is a fool's errand but Tony sort of
• 1:07:38
  opened up the door last episode. The question of the day if West Virginia
• 1:07:41
  goes nine to nine in league, which he says is a real possibility with
• 1:07:45
  Edwards back, that would give us a fourteen and seventeen overall record, five
• 1:07:48
  hundred in conference. Do you get an NCAA tournament? Bit problem is we
• 1:07:53
  have a nun We have a no good non conference wins. But we went
• 1:07:57
  last year nineteen and fourteen and seven than eleven. One game at a time,
• 1:08:02
  Wind Tuesday, Yeah, Texter. During the Ohio State game, I
• 1:08:06
  was incredibly frustrated with Pat Sumnick in the first half. I even popped off
• 1:08:12
  in a group text and said Pat Sumnick belongs in the Mountain East Conference,
• 1:08:15
  not the Big Twelve. I also said if I was a coach, Sumnick
• 1:08:18
  would never see the floor. Well, it's good that I'm just an irrational
• 1:08:24
  fan, self aware. Ever since my idiotic remarks, Pat is pretty much
• 1:08:28
  bald. What do you think changed for Pat? It's very rare to see
• 1:08:31
  a player get so better so quickly. Was this something that the coach has
• 1:08:35
  always sawt in him? Hoppy? I finished my losing season last week.
• 1:08:41
  Great book. Sumnick's transformation is quite similar to Pat Conroy's. Thanks for that
• 1:08:46
  book. Recommendation by the way saying, signed by Matt in Tulser, Oklahoma.
• 1:08:51
  One of the great sports books of all time. Someone during your absence
• 1:08:56
  on our last episode asked what the name of the book was. We shared
• 1:08:59
  it with them, so you get royalty movie, soccer coaches selling beer,
• 1:09:05
  visiting fire at fire stations, saving kids, voluntary volunteering at fires, running
• 1:09:11
  on fire truck. Guys. It's been a busy wintry weekend with the winter
• 1:09:14
  storm forecast. Of course, we ended up going to labor and delivery Friday
• 1:09:18
  morning during the storm. Of course, this young lady wanted me to tell
• 1:09:23
  you hang the banner. Awesome and upset when and welcoming a new Mountaineer fan
• 1:09:29
  have turned around a gloomy winter weekend. It's good to see Coach Island and
• 1:09:31
  the guys getting into a groove. Looking forward to seeing what we can do
• 1:09:34
  the rest of the season. Signed by Ben and Lizzie Kate from Hurricane Congratulation.
• 1:09:41
  Congratulations, Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome Texter High three guys.
• 1:09:46
  If a committee could say the regular season in totality weighed less than the most
• 1:09:51
  recent injury report to keep Florida State from CFB. Could another committee use the
• 1:09:57
  same logic the opposite direction to let a high pot high hypothetical hypothetical I get
• 1:10:03
  I read for a living carry hypothecary hypothetical eighteen and seventeen West Virginia in the
• 1:10:09
  tournament, as signed by Sean out on the Washington Coast. You know I'm
• 1:10:13
  with Brad. I mean you, you're coming off the best performance of the
• 1:10:15
  season. See if you can see if you can now try to split some
• 1:10:19
  games on the road, get home games and enjoy what's going on. This
• 1:10:24
  is fun, really is fun, Yeah, really fun, but tough week
• 1:10:27
  here against against teams that you should feel like you can go in and get
• 1:10:30
  wins. But you haven't performed on the road yet. So go on the
• 1:10:31
  road here and try and keep it going. Textor I have listened to every
• 1:10:38
  episode, every episode of your podcast. Every day I stumble onto something that
• 1:10:43
  comes up on your podcast and I realize how much you show you have influenced
• 1:10:46
  my life. Dangerous, he said, I was at he said, He
• 1:10:50
  writes, I was at Aldie today in Chily, New York, and look
• 1:10:56
  forward to look what I found on the shelf. It looks like someone has
• 1:11:00
  stole Tony's idea, Look Cupids Crunch. Also, you guys spend considerable time
• 1:11:05
  talking about Big twelve time zones and TV schedules. I'm on the wvsports dot
• 1:11:12
  com site a little while ago Sunday before the Bills game, and look what
• 1:11:15
  I found for West Virginia and Oklahoma State. Is it a one pm or
• 1:11:19
  a two pm? Sure would be nice to have time zones used on the
• 1:11:23
  WV side. I have no idea who manages the site, but Tony could
• 1:11:27
  maybe get them to use the time zone. So, actually, that's right.
• 1:11:32
  The game's at two Saturday, but the pregame starts at one, so
• 1:11:39
  that's when that actually broadcast will begin at one o'clock. But I know there's
• 1:11:43
  another slide that shows two o'clock, and that two o'clock is when the game
• 1:11:47
  actually starts. Signed by my man Joe, and he says, yeah,
• 1:12:00
  anyway, I know Chili, New York, do you? Yeah? I
• 1:12:02
  know Chili spelled like Chili. It's spelled like Chili. It's pronounced chi li.
• 1:12:08
  So to our discussion on the email from skip right, he yes,
• 1:12:11
  our girls basket our girls basketball team in high school, our girls basketball team
• 1:12:15
  in high school made it to big rounds, sectional rounds, and then in
• 1:12:19
  New York State, when you make it to sections, that's like a big
• 1:12:21
  deal. Went to Chili, played a game in Horseheads, New York.
• 1:12:26
  Horseheads, New York, lined up, ran gates Chili right off the floor.
• 1:12:30
  Te Mahar went crazy, Tony, I'm exiting the building. Okay,
• 1:12:33
  we only have two left, but that's fine. Thank you very much for
• 1:12:35
  your participation, Thanks for having me, Thanks for coming. Hey, you're
• 1:12:41
  gonna you'll miss Thursday again, right, yeah, Well, be good at
• 1:12:44
  the capitol. Be nice to the lawmakers. Check on house bill three guys
• 1:12:48
  before the game, gentlemen, I'll bring it out to the front of the
• 1:12:54
  floor. A house bill, three guys before the game. You've seen ahead
• 1:13:00
  anyway, Chuck and Lumberport. The coaches, players and students let the basketball
• 1:13:04
  team at West Virginia know they have not left them. No one, including
• 1:13:08
  some of the fans, thought we could go through these games in January and
• 1:13:11
  win until Edwards came back. What a group of coaches and players trusting the
• 1:13:15
  game plan, somemnik awesome surprise, what confidence he has obtained. Let's go
• 1:13:19
  Mountaineers. And lastly, last text of the show Professor Vinnie just wanted to
• 1:13:27
  offer my opinion. It's not necessarily a bad thing that kerchev Al is moving
• 1:13:30
  to a more seasonal offering than year round. It helps Chesnut Brewing maybe offer
• 1:13:34
  some different beers and help their brand. Innovation is the name in the game
• 1:13:39
  in craft beer. That's cool. Capitalism is the name of the game.
• 1:13:44
  On three guys. Before the game. As you've seen, we touch a
• 1:13:48
  product, it explodes iPhone. That was us. All right, so kerch
• 1:13:59
  of A, I guess we have to leave now. We'll get wrapping up.
• 1:14:01
  He's getting nervous. He's gonna be standing over your shoulder. Want in
• 1:14:03
  the studio here in about two seconds. So we're taping in the morning Monday,
• 1:14:06
  because I've got to go to Florida. We'll go see I'm going to
• 1:14:11
  Orlando, go to see Goofy, Dizzy Dinky Snoopy Sleepy. Uh. Anyway,
• 1:14:21
  Mountney, I can't wait to watch this UCF thing. Now. See
• 1:14:25
  if the big man in the middle's back. See what this looks like.
• 1:14:29
  Love to have him back. Yeah, it'd be really really nice, really
• 1:14:30
  really really really it really does give you some lineup flexibility there. Well,
• 1:14:35
  think about this man so the game is gonna be what on the twenty third
• 1:14:38
  of January? Can you believe that twenty third of January. It's the first
• 1:14:42
  time you've got your roster. Pretty amazing, remarkable, amazing, all right,
• 1:14:47
  wouldn't mind Seth Wilson hitting a few threes Tuesday as well, like he
• 1:14:50
  did. Good to see him back. We had six last game. Let's
• 1:14:54
  you guys can all participate free, free access, go ahead, hit him
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  so pretty stand We're just gonna go Thursday and preview Stillwater. Yeah, we'll
• 1:15:02
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