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Texas WBB Gets Set for Final Four, Baseball Takes on UGA · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon on a Final Four Friday. Andrew Zimola hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with you on the Craig Way Show three hours
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  Speaker 1: as we gear up for Texas and South Carolina tonight.
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  Speaker 1: The Longhorns trying to make it back to the National
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  Speaker 1: Championship game. Vick Shaffer trying to get back to the
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  Speaker 1: National Championship game. And the job is not going to
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  Speaker 1: be an easy one. It's hard to beat a good
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  Speaker 1: team once, let alone twice, let alone three times. Right,
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  Speaker 1: this is the time you're facing off against a team
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  Speaker 1: in South Carolina for the fourth time this season. Vick
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  Speaker 1: Shaffer and his crew have their work cut out for them. Also,
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  Speaker 1: men's Final Four action begins this Saturday in San Antonio,
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  Speaker 1: Auburn and Florida at five pm tomorrow University of Houston
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  Speaker 1: and Duke at seven forty. But you know how these
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  Speaker 1: things run, it's going to be However, soon that first
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  Speaker 1: game wraps up, we will hear from Vic Schaffer and
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  Speaker 1: his team later in the hour. We also will hear
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  Speaker 1: from Craig Way in the four o'clock hour, as Craig
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  Speaker 1: is in Tampa Bay on the call tonight for the matchup.
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  Speaker 1: We will get the last previews between these two teams.
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  Speaker 1: Will get his thoughts'll after shoot around and what we
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  Speaker 1: can expect. I can tell you right now, the experts
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  Speaker 1: are not in the favor of the Long Cords. Every
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  Speaker 1: gas bag, every expert, quote unquote I have seen have
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  Speaker 1: been picking against Texas. So we'll get into some of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons why they might be doing that and what
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  Speaker 1: Texas needs to do to bounce back. We also have
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  Speaker 1: a new Coach of the Year and AP Player of
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  Speaker 1: the Year. Bruce Pearl and Rick Patino were named co
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  Speaker 1: Coach of the Year by the AP earlier today. Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Pearl turned around Auburn gets them into the final four.
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  Speaker 1: Rick Patino has gotten Saint John's back to to the
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  Speaker 1: dominating program that they are in the Big East.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the.
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  Speaker 1: First times, is the first time I think that they've
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  Speaker 1: split the Coach of the Year honors between two guys.
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  Speaker 1: Pearl and Patino each received twenty votes on the ballot
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  Speaker 1: from the national media. They got a share of the trophy,
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  Speaker 1: which is cool and I would say before before it
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  Speaker 1: was announced, I would have picked Patino for how he
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  Speaker 1: turned Saint John's back into the national conversation after the
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  Speaker 1: incredible run that they had in the Big East in
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  Speaker 1: the eighties and nineties to get it back to where
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  Speaker 1: it is now where many people were picking them to
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  Speaker 1: win the entire thing.
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  Speaker 2: You got even a lot of credit for that.
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  Speaker 1: Also, ap Player of the Year on the men's side
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  Speaker 1: of things, Cooper Flag. So you're gonna see the coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Year and the player of the Year tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: in the men's Final four. Of course, we also have
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  Speaker 1: Florida Man Friday to day for Inconceivable and the voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Spurs, Bill Shoning joining us in the three
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  Speaker 1: o'clock hour twelve seasons with Texas, twenty four seasons with
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  Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs. He has a big announcement as well.
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  Speaker 1: Sarkisian sat down with Chris Sims. We will hear some
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  Speaker 1: of that. He talked about the quarterbacks both in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL and still on the forty Acres. So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of course to get into. On today's program. It's a
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  Speaker 1: jam packed to the Gills Final four Friday on The
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  Speaker 1: Craig Way Show. So let's start with the men's Final four.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk with Kelvin Sampson, who got his Houston Cougars
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  Speaker 1: to this point after a thirty four and three regular season,
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  Speaker 1: after winning the Big Twelve regular season title and then
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  Speaker 1: the Big Twelve championship, rolling on through and now they
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  Speaker 1: face off against one of the best teams in the country,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most talented teams in the country, the
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  Speaker 1: Duke Blue Devils. Kelvin Samson was on The Herd earlier
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  Speaker 1: this week talking about how you prepare for a team
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  Speaker 1: like Duke.
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  Speaker 3: Really haven't watched Duke, but I have watched him enough
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  Speaker 3: over the course of the year. The first thing that
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  Speaker 3: jumps out to me is what a great job John
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  Speaker 3: did and putting his team together. You know, for example,
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  Speaker 3: bringing a kid like Scion James in to pair next
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  Speaker 3: to Cooper Flag and Knepo and the big kid inside
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  Speaker 3: because he's smart, he's tough, doesn't require a lot of shots.
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  Speaker 3: It's got a lot of winner in him.
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  Speaker 4: Cooper Flag was going to be the centerpiece.
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  Speaker 3: How they fit everybody around them as what's so impressive.
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  Speaker 3: How do you start to stop Cooper flagging?
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  Speaker 4: But that's kind of a silly question. You don't.
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  Speaker 3: But you have to be the best version of yourself.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we played in the Big Twelve the last
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  Speaker 3: two years and you know, whether it's Kansas or Iowa
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  Speaker 3: State or Texas Tech. There's a lot of really good teams,
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  Speaker 3: and all those teams had a best player.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll come up with something. Now, will it be
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  Speaker 4: good enough? I don't know. Maybe it will, maybe it won't.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, every team has
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  Speaker 3: to focus on what they do good and try to
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  Speaker 3: beat their best version themselves for that forty minutes. For
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  Speaker 3: that forty minutes, we have to be the best version
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  Speaker 3: of the Houston Cougar as we can be.
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  Speaker 1: So Juwan Roberts, a senior. A senior for the Houston Cougars,
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  Speaker 1: big deciding factor on who's going to end or how
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  Speaker 1: this game is going to end up. Houston does a
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  Speaker 1: great job defensively throwing different bodies at players in the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA tournament. Over the last two games, he's had four
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  Speaker 1: steals between Purdue and Tennessee. On the season, a ton
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  Speaker 1: of steals as well. He got asked, is Duke the
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  Speaker 1: most talented team that his Cougar team has faced this
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  Speaker 1: season on paper?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but when we've seen that a lot, and especially
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  Speaker 5: when we played against Auburn, Alabama, those teams, Texas Tech, Arizona,
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  Speaker 5: but now I feel like our defense is will get this.
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  Speaker 5: So on paper yet are pretty good, but I feel like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, once we come in with that defense mentality,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just gonna be a different ball game.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what Houston does, I think better than most
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  Speaker 1: teams in college basketball. In fact, that's what they do
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  Speaker 1: do better than most teams in college basketball, and that
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  Speaker 1: is defend. Now, John Shire was on the head coach
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  Speaker 1: of Duke. He was on the Scott Van Peltz Sports
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  Speaker 1: Center yesterday. He got asked about how do you prepare
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  Speaker 1: for a team like Houston when they can throw so
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  Speaker 1: many adjustments at you on the fly.
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  Speaker 6: Houston no offense to our scout team. We have a
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  Speaker 6: great scout team. It's not something you can replicate. And
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  Speaker 6: so it's a combination of understanding what could or could
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  Speaker 6: not be there. But then at the same time, you
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  Speaker 6: don't want to make them out to be the boogeyman.
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  Speaker 1: No, you need to focus on a team in Houston
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  Speaker 1: that can throw a lot of different looks at you.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Scheister went on to talk about his biggest concern
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to facing Houston.
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  Speaker 4: Well, a lot concerns me.
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  Speaker 6: I think you start with fact that they've had, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the core their team has been together for multiple years
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  Speaker 6: and so the experience they've had together, their connection is
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  Speaker 6: incredibly deep. But they're just a team that doesn't beat themselves.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you have to really beat them, and it
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  Speaker 6: starts with they make everything difficult for you on our offense.
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  Speaker 6: Our offense, their defense is legit. You know, when you
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  Speaker 6: see one two guys moving in a pick a roll
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  Speaker 6: defense together, another three are moving at the same exact time.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's incredibly impressive when you watch him play.
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  Speaker 6: And then they have a top ten offense in the country.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they have three guys that are shooting over
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  Speaker 6: forty from three. They polenge you in the offensive glass.
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  Speaker 6: They're just just they're They're a great team, and so
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  Speaker 6: a lot concerns me. I feel we're a great team too,
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  Speaker 6: and we're excited for the challenge, but a ton of
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  Speaker 6: respect for coach Sampson and what he's done, and then
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  Speaker 6: their team of how connected and how tough they are.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Sampson has built a big good at Houston that
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  Speaker 1: is now trying to get to the national championship for
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  Speaker 1: the first time since the eighties. With the phil Slamajama team.
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  Speaker 1: This is an argument between two different philosophies when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to college coaching as well. Duke is the school
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  Speaker 1: of one and Done's young players, in Houston's the school
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  Speaker 1: of Wiley Vets guys that have been in school three
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  Speaker 1: four years together. So it's going to, I think, going
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  Speaker 1: to change a lot of people's minds on how you
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  Speaker 1: build a program. Ironically, we've seen teams win with the
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  Speaker 1: one and done system. We saw Calipari do it at Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: We've seen other teams do it as well. But then
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  Speaker 1: you think about what Jay Wright did at Villanova, how
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  Speaker 1: he was able to build a program on guys who
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  Speaker 1: were there multiple year over year over year. I also, again,
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  Speaker 1: college basketball a little bit different, but college baseball is
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  Speaker 1: a similar spot where if you have a team of
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  Speaker 1: guys who have all been together for a long period
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  Speaker 1: of time, season overseason, who have gone through deep NCAA
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  Speaker 1: tournament maybe conference tournament runs, you see those teams have
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  Speaker 1: more success when they get to the final stages of
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  Speaker 1: whatever tournament they're playing in. Now, Bruce Pearl, who is
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  Speaker 1: not a spring chicken by any means, he talks about
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  Speaker 1: the difference in age between himself and Florida's head coach
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  Speaker 1: Todd Golden.
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  Speaker 7: You know, the only thing, the only way I look
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  Speaker 7: at it is Calvin and I have fewer chances to
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  Speaker 7: get where we are right now was John Shire and
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  Speaker 7: Todd Golden will be back here many more times. So
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  Speaker 7: Calvin and I have better take advantage of it this
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  Speaker 7: time because we're you know, we're we're clearly on the
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  Speaker 7: back nine. I'm not on the eighteenth hole yet, but
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  Speaker 7: we're getting closer. And so no, Todd and John don't
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  Speaker 7: give up anything and experience, They just they just give
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  Speaker 7: up a little bit. And they're not as they're not
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  Speaker 7: as much gray hair, and they may not have been
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  Speaker 7: beat down as much as Calvin and I have been
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  Speaker 7: over the years.
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  Speaker 1: And Bruce Pearl, the head coach of Auburn, the one
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  Speaker 1: seed basing off against one in Florida four one seeds
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  Speaker 1: in the college basketball Final Four in San Antonio for
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  Speaker 1: the men first time since two thousand and eight. The
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  Speaker 1: last time that happened, the games were also played in
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio. But Bruce Pearl makes a good point, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: him and Calvin Sampson, they might not get back to
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  Speaker 1: this point with their programs how do you build a
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  Speaker 1: program and sustain it and try to get to this point?
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  Speaker 1: So this is one more side thing, This is one
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  Speaker 1: more storyline to pay attention to as the men's Final
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  Speaker 1: four begins tomorrow five pm. Auburn and Florida seven p
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  Speaker 1: forty Houston and Duke. Do the old guys got it?
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  Speaker 1: Can we see a Bruce Pearl Calvin Sampson National Championship
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  Speaker 1: Alburn versus Houston? Or are we going to see the
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  Speaker 1: young guys in at Todd Golden's Florida Gators and John
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  Speaker 1: Sires Duke Blue Devils in the National Championship.
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  Speaker 2: Time will tell.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear more from coaches and players as the program
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  Speaker 1: rolls on. Coming up next will gear you up for
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  Speaker 1: tonight's Final four matchup on the women's side of things
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  Speaker 1: between Texas and South Carolina five forty five air time
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  Speaker 1: six pm, tip A ninety eight one cavet FM. That
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  Speaker 1: is where the game will be had. More coming up
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  Speaker 1: next on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone Andrew Zim will sitting
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  Speaker 1: in for Craig Way this Friday afternoon. Not four o'clock
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  Speaker 1: yet two eighteen as we continue to work our way
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  Speaker 1: through the workday together. I hope things are going good
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  Speaker 1: for you and yours as we gear up for Texas
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  Speaker 1: Women versus South Carolina tonight, five forty five air time,
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  Speaker 1: six pm tip on ninety eight one KVET FM.
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  Speaker 2: That is where you can hear the game.
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  Speaker 1: You can also listen on the free iHeartRadio app always free.
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  Speaker 1: You can make us your number one preset as well,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, not a bad way to listen to the game.
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  Speaker 2: Craigway will be on the call.
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  Speaker 1: He will join us in the four o'clock hour to
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  Speaker 1: talk Texas Women as well. So he's in Tampa Bay,
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  Speaker 1: he is courtside. We will hear from him and we'll
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  Speaker 1: have a good time doing it too. Okay, so let's
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  Speaker 1: we will continue here. We were gonna talk Texas Women.
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  Speaker 1: We're having a little bit of technical issues here. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see if we can get those things tuned back up.
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  Speaker 1: So Texas Women tonight taking on South Carolina is very
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  Speaker 1: formula for Texas beating South Carolina. Well, that's what it's
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  Speaker 1: looking like. So the experts around college basketball, on college
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  Speaker 1: women's basketball have been talking about this Longhorn team that
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  Speaker 1: we're able to beat the game Cocks earlier this season
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  Speaker 1: when the game was in in Austin, Texas. They snapped
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  Speaker 1: a fifty seven game SEC regular season winning streak. Now,
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina has shown vulnerabilities throughout the season.
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  Speaker 2: This game Cock.
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  Speaker 1: Team can get cold at times during the year. They've
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  Speaker 1: been known to go cold in the shooting side of things.
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  Speaker 1: An earlier loss, multiple players got into foul trouble as well.
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  Speaker 1: For South Carolina, Staley was forced to change the rotation
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  Speaker 1: of players.
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  Speaker 2: It got the team out of sink.
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  Speaker 1: Texas has a very formula formidable defense, number one of
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  Speaker 1: course being Rory Harmon on the defensive side of the
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  Speaker 1: ball making an impact.
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  Speaker 2: Now. The other thing is Madison Booker.
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  Speaker 1: Booker in the losses for Texas this season against South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina seventeen combined points on seven to thirty two shooting
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  Speaker 1: the time that the Longhorns won though seven of twenty
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  Speaker 1: two shooting not efficient, but it did get the job
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  Speaker 1: done for Texas. There are other players need to step
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  Speaker 1: up as well, which would go into Taylor Jones and
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  Speaker 1: the p and Kylo Oldacre as well. If the Longhorns
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  Speaker 1: want to win, it's gonna come down to the ability
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  Speaker 1: to have those players having a big night. If the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Longhorns can score anywhere between forty ish, forty five
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  Speaker 1: ish points and sixty ish points, they could win this game.
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  Speaker 1: The other big part South Carolina's re haul. She said
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  Speaker 1: that she's not concerned about Madison Booker, but she is
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  Speaker 1: the type of player who could make an impact on
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  Speaker 1: the defensive side of things. If she can stop Madison Booker,
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  Speaker 1: then the Longhorns could end up being in a spot
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  Speaker 1: that could get in a lot of trouble. That could
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  Speaker 1: be in a lot of trouble if a Booker is
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  Speaker 1: stopped by Brianna Hall or Bree Hall. I'm sorry that
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  Speaker 1: game tonight of course at five forty five airtime six pm.
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  Speaker 1: Tip for the Final four or it's a quick break,
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  Speaker 1: come back and talk more Texas in a minute on
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  Speaker 1: sports Radio AM thirteen hundred at the Zone.
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio AM.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen hundred Zone Andrews them we'll hanging out with you
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  Speaker 1: on a finally Friday, Final four edition of The Craigway Show.
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  Speaker 1: Want to thank you guys for hanging out with us.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit of technical issues things, but we're getting
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  Speaker 1: things going as we continue to work our way to
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  Speaker 1: the weekend together, we were talking Texas women's basketball and
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  Speaker 1: how the Texas Longhorns are playing in a Final four
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  Speaker 1: matchup tonight that has everybody on pins and needles. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Longhorns are two and one this season against South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: They're a team in the game Cocks who have done
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  Speaker 1: a good job of preventing Texas from doing what they
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  Speaker 1: want on the offensive side of the ball, and the
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  Speaker 1: games that the Longhorns have won this season, it's been
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  Speaker 1: on the shoulders of Madison Booker in her ability to
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  Speaker 1: have offensive production. Now, Texas, in the two losses that
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  Speaker 1: they had this season against South Carolina, Booker combined for
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  Speaker 1: about two seven of twenty four shooting and seventeen points,
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  Speaker 1: which is not what you would want for a Longhorn fan.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna go the way this game will go the
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  Speaker 1: way that Madison Booker goes. If the Longhorns are able
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  Speaker 1: to fire back and have impactful shooting from Booker, then
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  Speaker 1: they have a chance to win this game.
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  Speaker 2: We will hear.
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  Speaker 1: From the players and coaches here in a little bit
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  Speaker 1: as the Longhorns and their head coach Vic Schaeffer spoke
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  Speaker 1: to the media yesterday gearing us up for this one.
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  Speaker 1: The Longhorns have been in Tampa Bay for the better
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  Speaker 1: part of this week. They got there on Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 1: and part of the reason that they did that was
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  Speaker 1: because of the media availability.
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  Speaker 2: It's been really cool.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked to Craig Way yesterday about how the media
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  Speaker 1: in just general when it comes to covering the Women's
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  Speaker 1: Final Four has been really crazy. A lot of voices,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of questions that you might not have expected,
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  Speaker 1: including questions about which player is most like Vic Shaefer,
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  Speaker 1: which through I think some people for a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a loop. So we'll get you some of that
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  Speaker 1: audio here in a moment as the Longhorns and South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina game Cocks face off tonight, ninety eight to one.
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  Speaker 1: KVET FM is your home for women's basketball, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: have them tonight five forty five hour time, six pm.
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  Speaker 1: Tip as thirteen hundred the Zone is your home for
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  Speaker 1: a round. Rock Express and one O three one will
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  Speaker 1: be where Texas Baseball plays tonight. Now the baseball program
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  Speaker 1: playing a game against Georgia tonight, one of the best
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  Speaker 1: teams in the SEC.
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  Speaker 8: NOTO A ton I mean, I'm constantly thinking of.
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  Speaker 1: So let's hear from Vic Schaefer from yesterday's press conference,
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  Speaker 1: gearing up his thoughts on how impactful, how important it
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  Speaker 1: is for this team. Let's hear from him talking about
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  Speaker 1: the difference and how special it is to get to
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  Speaker 1: the Final four with this group.
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  Speaker 4: It's special.
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  Speaker 9: I mean five years ago when they hired me, it
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  Speaker 9: was really important to me that Chris Polonsky, Kathy Harston,
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  Speaker 9: and Jody Conrad.
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  Speaker 4: We're in on that. I wanted to.
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  Speaker 9: I wanted their blessing because I know what they've meant
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  Speaker 9: to Texas women's basketball. But I also know what they
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  Speaker 9: meant to.
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  Speaker 4: The game. Those are lifers.
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  Speaker 9: Those are people that have invested their entire life and
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  Speaker 9: careers into women's basketball. Like there's some young folks up
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  Speaker 9: here they don't understand I do.
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  Speaker 4: Like I get it.
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  Speaker 9: I've seen it firsthand. Is this is my life, and
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: I've seen it up close and in person. To know
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: the domination that coach Conrad had in the Southwest Conference days,
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: I'm embarrassed. I can't recall the number, but it's one
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: hundred and some odd, crazy number eighty something games of
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: consecutive conference victories. So I know the history and the
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: tradition at Texas and you know, like I said, that
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: banner hangs in there, that thirty four and oh national
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: championship banner hangs in my practice facility. The two thousand
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: and three, the last time they've been in an NCAA tournament.
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: It hangs in my practice facility. So it's a it's
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: a tremendous responsibility for me to be entrusted with the
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: keys to the program. But it's also why I wanted
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: the job, because my vision is their vision. And my
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: vision was to come into the office and remember I
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: took it during COVID, so it was jacked up bad.
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: But my vision was to come in after a game
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  Speaker 9: the next morning and have coffee and have Coach Conrad
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: come down from her office and talk about the game
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: with me. Like I embraced that those moments. And so
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: coach is around a lot, and I love that. I
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: love having her around, Like it means a lot to
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: me that she takes enough time out of her day
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: or you know where she is right now. I mean,
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: she's a hell of a golfer, and you know that
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: she would take that time to come by practice, hang out,
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  Speaker 9: be around Like I love that, Like that's my vision
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: when I took the job.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I wanted to be around her.
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: I wanted her to be around our program, and so
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: you know, she was there when we beat Baylor back
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  Speaker 9: in my second year, we beat them to win the
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: Big twelve championship tournament game.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Again, one of the reasons they probably hired me was to.
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: Catch up to them and be them and win a championship,
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: and we did that pretty quick. And then to now
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: be where we are now in the NCAA Final Four,
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  Speaker 9: I'm really you know again, I'm honored to be their coach,
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: but I'm really proud of what we've been able to
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: accomplish in a short period of time. It's been twenty
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: two years since they've been in the Final four. It
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: had been twenty two years since they won a conference championship,
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: and we won four.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: And five years.
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: So I have a great deal of respect and admiration
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: for those three because to me, they are Texas women's
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: basketball and I love being around them. They're just wonderful,
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: wonderful people.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred of the Zone. All right,
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• 21:48
  Speaker 1: inconceivable it's a Florida Man Friday.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to miss it.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the craziest stories from around the state coming
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  Speaker 1: up next on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred. The zone
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  Speaker 1: thirteen hundred. The zone is inconceivable that all of our
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  Speaker 1: talk Florida Man or Friday and we will start here. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you probably have, at some point or another taken
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: a test drive. I think all of us is one
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: point or another, have bought a new car, taken it
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  Speaker 1: on a little joy cruise. Well, this Florida man is
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: accused of stealing a cyber truck during a test drive
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  Speaker 1: and returning it to the dealership a couple days later.
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  Speaker 1: You would think that if you're going to make some
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  Speaker 1: sort of run on a cybertruck one hundred thousand dollars vehicle,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: that you probably wouldn't bring it back.
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  Speaker 2: Not the case.
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  Speaker 1: This Florida man is accused of stealing a cyber truck
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  Speaker 1: during a test drive last month. Then we're turning it
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to the dealership at a later date to retrieve his belongings.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Dexter Smith and allegedly
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  Speaker 1: went to the Tesla dealership in Tampa, Florida, on March
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  Speaker 1: twenty six to test drive a cyber truck cyber Beast.
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  Speaker 2: After meeting with the salesperson.
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  Speaker 1: According to the criminal affort, David Smith then got the
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  Speaker 1: sales associate or gave the sales associate his driver's license,
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  Speaker 1: which was confirmed to be his, and then signed a
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  Speaker 1: test drive agreement to return the truck to the dealership
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: within thirty minutes, which he did not do. The attempt
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: to reach Smith him through the number he wrote on
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the test drive agreement were unsuccessful. You got to come
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: up with a better way to do things, except, you know,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: calling the guy. The sales associate also emailed him demanding
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the return of the cyber truck. A different sales associate
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: used a geolocation tracking to locate the truck, told deputies
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: he drove into a home depot, parked, went inside the store.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: The affid David state, so did they hunt the man
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: down and appear? So he returned to the Tesla dealership
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday to achieve some of his items that he left.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: He was arrested at the business and while being searched up,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: he said they found five credit cards.
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  Speaker 2: With five different names.
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  Speaker 1: That he's charged with grand theft of more than one
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars and a unlawful an unlawful possession of
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: identic personal identification. But can you imagine you're you steal
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  Speaker 1: a one hundred thousand dollars truck and then you have
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: to go back to pick up what a credit card?
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  Speaker 1: Pick up your license? Come on, man, you gotta be
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: smarter than that. Dumb criminals.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Uh, let's hear this story of Florida man's visit to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Grand Slam Collaptibles to check out the sports memorabilia.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's hear this one.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Florida man is accused after falling asleep and a taco
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: bell drive through. He then woke up and hit a
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  Speaker 1: part card. This actually happened to a coworker of mine
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: one time. I think we were getting breakfast tacos for
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  Speaker 1: the morning show, and I think somebody ran into the
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  Speaker 1: back of her car.
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  Speaker 2: Tacoplink. Here's the story.
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  Speaker 1: A man was arrested after deputy say they found him
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  Speaker 1: under the influence of a controlled substance when he fell
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  Speaker 1: asleep in the drive through of a Taco Bell and
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: crashed into a parked car when he woke up. According
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to the County Sheriff's office, a concern citizen called nine
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: to one one Tuesday about the reckless driver. The caller
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: told deputies he followed the man to a Taco Bell,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: where the driver fell asleep in the drive through while
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: waiting for his order. After waking up and getting his food,
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  Speaker 1: deputy said the driver was later identified as a James
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Christopher Powell tried to leave the parking lot but struck
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: another parked vehicle. He was arrested for dy and driving
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: under the influence. But you know, we've all been there.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: After maybe a late night, you go to the bars,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: you bounce around a little bit, and then you decide
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: to go to a taco Bell for that late night snack.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta be careful.
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  Speaker 1: That's really what this story tells us is you have
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  Speaker 1: to be careful in those parking lots because you never
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: know what is going to happen. You got to keep
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: your head on a swivel. You don't want to end
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  Speaker 1: up getting rear ended from behind by a Florida man
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  Speaker 1: in his car.
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  Speaker 2: And a Taco Bell drive through.
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  Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, we will talk more
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: college basketball as the men's Final Four begins in San Antonio,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Florida and Alburn, Houston and Duke. Is it inconceivable that
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: we have an old man Final four? Or are the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: young guys gonna get it? Will Cooper Flagg, the future
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the NBA lead his team
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: to a title? Is it inconceivable for Auburn to get
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a national championship? Or Houston trying to get there first?
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  Speaker 1: All that happening next, as we wrap up our one
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  Speaker 1: of the Craigway Show on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
• 26:49
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• 26:54
  Speaker 1: is always exciting when Andreson Will fills in on the Zone,
• 27:00
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  Speaker 1: KVET FM. Texas women take on South Carolina. Craig Way
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: will be on the call. We'll have Craig on the
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: show in the four o'clock hour four seventeen, Craig joins
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the program to talk Texas women's basketball as well as
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Texas baseball. Happening tonight as the Longhorns take on one
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of the best teams in the SEC. That game played
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: on one oh three one, Austin's eighty station six to
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: fifteen air times six thirty first pitch as the Georgia
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Bulldogs come to town in a budding rival We talked
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: to Craig yesterday about it a little bit that you
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: have teams in the SEC now in Texas and Georgia
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: that are good in multiple sports, nationally recognized in multiple sports,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: which leads to an easy line in to have big
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: rivalries and hopefully fun ones for the fans. Those games
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: played this weekend at the Dish. Some of the best
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: baseball hopefully in the SEC played this weekend in Austin.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: All Right, So we have two coaches winning Coach of
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the Year, which kind of feels a little redundant, right,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: You don't want to have two coaches win the Coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Year. But in this case, I think we
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: have to make an exception in this season with what
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl did at Auburn and what Rick Patino did
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: at Saint John's, I think both those teams and both
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: those coaches deserve the accolade.
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  Speaker 10: Now.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl turned around in Auburn program that might be
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: having their best season maybe ever, and Rick Patino ushered
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: one of the fastest turnarounds in Division one basketball history.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: The success has led to the first tie in the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: fifty eight years of the Associated Press Coaches Coach of
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the Year Award. Now Pearl and Patino both received twenty
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: votes on Friday, that is ballot from the National Media
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Pale Panel. It Also receiving votes were Tom Izzo, Drake's
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Bell McCollum, You See, San Diego's Eric Olin pat Kesey
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: won got some awards. All coaches who were awarded, but
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Patino in his first season at Saint John's. It's the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: sixth time that Big East coach has won it now.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Shaka Smart won the award two years ago. Patino was
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  Speaker 1: hiring twenty twenty three the Red Storm at the time
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: mediocre at best. Saint John's hadn't been to the NCAA
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Tournament since twenty nineteen. They've been sporadic since the late nineties.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Patino led Saint John's to twenty wins in his first
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  Speaker 1: season and got them now into national providence. They won
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the regular season, going eighteen to two. They also took
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: home its first Big East title since the year two thousand,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: so over a quarter of a century. First time that
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Saint John's wins it, which makes a lot of sense
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: for him to win the Coach of the Year, but
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: he split the award with Bruce Pearl. The Tigers had
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: not been to the NCAA Tournament in over twenty years
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: since two thousand and three. Pearl got them back into
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the bracket in his fourth season. Alburn took a huge
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: leap the first trip to the Final four in twenty nineteen.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: They've been unstoppable this year. Pearl joins Cliff Ellis in
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the ninety nine season as the only Alburn coaches to
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: win the Coach of the Year award from men's basketball.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: He's the first SEC coach to win the award since
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Kyle Pari did it ten years ago. So yeah, it's
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: great national Coach of the year as well. With Rick
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Patina another the Player of the Year, this one comes
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: as no shock. It was Cooper Flagg, who was by
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: far the best freshman this season. He won the award
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: in his only season probably at the Universe. He is
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: by all means a child eighteen years old, just turn eighteen.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Successful season, he has set himself up to be the
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: number one overall pick in this year's NBA Draft. He's
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the fourth freshman to win the award in the sixty
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: four year history of the award. And it's weird to
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: say that the best American born player might be from
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the state of Maine, because you don't really think about
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Maine as a state that is producing a ton of
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: nationally recognized talent. But he is I think the first
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: player since I think he might be the first player
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: from the state of Maine. He has won the two
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: man race against auburns Johnny Broom. Both players were unanimous
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: First Team All Americans this season. There are only two
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: players to receive Player of the Year of votes. Flag
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: got forty one of the sixty one first players votes.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Now Flag joins Duke Sion Williamson, Anthony Davis, and of
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: course for Texas's Kevin Durant as freshman to win the award.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: The fun fact about those players Zion number one overall pick,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Anthony Davis number one overall pick Kevin Durant number two,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: So winning this award all but guarantees that Cooper Flagg
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: ends up being a top two pick in this year's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: NBA draft. Very very cool stuff. Duke plays this weekend
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: against Houston at seven point forty in the men's Final four,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and it'll be exciting Auburn and Florida five PM and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: SEC matchup in Houston and Duke the best team out
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: of the Big Ten or I'm sorry, the Big Twelve
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: and the best team out of the ACC matching up
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: in the final four. Now, Juan Roberts, who's a defensive
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: stoppers senior for the University of Houston, got asked about
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: this Duke team if this might be the best team
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: of his team the Cougars have seen this season.
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  Speaker 5: On paper, Yeah, but we've seen that a lot, and
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: especially when we played against Auburn, Alabama, those teams, Texas Tech, Arizona.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: But now I feel like our defense is what gets
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: its going. So on paper yet they're pretty good, but
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: I feel like, you know, mostly come in with that
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: defense mentality.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna be a different ball game.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: No, obviously, it's two of the best teams in college
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: basketball facing off against each other, but it is something
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: to be said for the Big Twelve, which last year
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I think most people considered one of the best basketball
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: conferences in the league, and the sport this year. However,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the way that Houston ran through the Big Twelve, I
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: think that that limited the way that people talked about
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: that conference, where As the SEC it was a dogfight
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: every single night between the best teams in the conference.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I wonder if because of that, because of the Alburns
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: and the Floridas and the Alabamas of the world, that
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Duke did very quickly dismantled. I wonder if because of
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: how competitive the top to the bottom of the SEC
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: was this year, then it gave some teams and gave
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the conference a little bit more of an edge. Whereas
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the Big Twelve is a very good basketball conference with
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Arizona with obviously Houston, with Texas Tech, but it doesn't
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: get that same recognition because of how quickly Calvin Sampson
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: and his team absolutely dismantled the conference. Now, again we
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: said at the beginning of the show, this is going
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: to be a battle between Houston and Duke of different
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: styles of building a team. We go through college football
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: all the time, the teams that build culture versus going
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: to the transfer portal. Now Duke doesn't necessarily go into
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the transfer portal, but they are a team that is
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: led by a guy who's going to be a one
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and done in Cooper Flagg, whereas Houston is led by
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: a core group of older talent. Which way do you
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: win in college basketball? The women's side of things, It's
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: pretty much been set.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Up from the start.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: If you have a core group of players who have
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: played together multiple tournaments year over year over year, those
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: teams tend to do better in the tournament. Whereas a
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: team like Houston who has gotten their scars going down
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the same type of path, can you build a program
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: to win year over year over year after struggling kind
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: of getting some of those playoff loss lumps, those tournament
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: lost lumps. Now, Houston has had plenty of those. We'll
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: see if they can get the job done against Duke
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: one and done's versus seniors. Who wins We will see
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, all right, when we come back. Texas baseball
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: play tonight against Georgia. Our man Mike carbar Harge is
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: on the call, as well as a David Salzman. That
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: will be happening on one O three one, Austin's eighty station.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: We'll talk baseball coming aback with a major announcement. Major
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: announcement twelve seasons with the University of Texas, twenty four
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: seasons with the San Antonio Spurs, and he will be
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the one that breaks the news to you if you
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: haven't heard already. Also, Steve Sarkejian joins the program or
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: does enjoy the program talk to Chris Sims Unbuttoned and
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: NBC Football podcast about quin viewers and Arch Manning, And
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I thought you did a very good job, an excellent
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: job of selling not only Arch and what he does
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: best when it comes to the Texas Longhorns and what
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: he does best when it comes to the way that
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: he's leading the program, but I think he did a
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: really good job of kind of giving us the intangibles
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: of what goes into that as well. So but we'll
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: start here Texas Baseball Tonight on one oh three one,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: our guy, Mike carbol Harges will be on the call
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: with David Salzman first pitch six fifteen, six thirty for
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Evertimes six fifteen, first pitch six thirty, one oh three
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: to one your home for Texas Baseball. But he spoke
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: yesterday at length to the media, gearing up for this weekend.
• 37:16
  Speaker 11: Looking forward to the weekend, excited to get back in
• 37:18
  Speaker 11: conference play and playing a great team this weekend, a
• 37:23
  Speaker 11: lot of power. Hopefully the rain will stay away for
• 37:26
  Speaker 11: the most part and have some big crowds and see
• 37:28
  Speaker 11: if we can't put together good weekend.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: And this Longhorns team is going to be one of
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the best. I think it's gonna this is a great
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: team that is one of the best in the SEC.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: But George has been really good too, continuing to rack
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: up wins in the Southeastern Conference. What makes this Georgia
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: team so good?
• 37:52
  Speaker 11: Coach super talented, very very very physical. When they swing,
• 37:58
  Speaker 11: they hit the ball. When they hit it, they hit
• 38:00
  Speaker 11: it super hard and super far, so not a lot
• 38:04
  Speaker 11: of the bunt game. You know, they'll steal some there's
• 38:06
  Speaker 11: some guys on their team. They'll steal some bases, but
• 38:09
  Speaker 11: they're literally built around power and which a lot of
• 38:14
  Speaker 11: our teams in this league are. But they're really really
• 38:17
  Speaker 11: good at it. And then, uh, you know they haven't
• 38:20
  Speaker 11: they're they're starting. Pitching hasn't been awesome, but they've the
• 38:24
  Speaker 11: bullpen has been amazing, and they've flipped some guys from
• 38:27
  Speaker 11: the bullpen into the rotation. Wes Johnson has been one
• 38:30
  Speaker 11: of the better pitching coaches in our not just college baseball,
• 38:33
  Speaker 11: but in our sport for a really long time. And
• 38:36
  Speaker 11: and so you know, you know they're gonna figure that
• 38:39
  Speaker 11: part out and in which they have and so so yeah,
• 38:43
  Speaker 11: it's a national championship contender. I think they're mony games,
• 38:48
  Speaker 11: you know, and we feel good about our team too.
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: And it's got to play with baseball.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of teams that are national championship contenders
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: in the SEC twenty nine to two on the season,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: eight and one in conference. These Georgia Bulldogs are ready
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: to play, and you wonder if the bark is worse
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: than the bite though for some of these wins that
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: they had this season. So over the past week, the
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Long Horns lost a tough one to the Texas State
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Bobcats at dishfalk Field, five three loss that saw a
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: lot of pitchers do a good job. Kate Bing pitched
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: really well six and one thirds innings. Could we see
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: any of those pitchers who performed on Tuesday night, Could
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: we see any of them in this weekend's matches.
• 39:36
  Speaker 11: I wouldn't imagine Bing would be much a part of it,
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: if at all. I think part of the reason he
• 39:41
  Speaker 11: was able to have success Tuesday is we took him
• 39:44
  Speaker 11: with us to Missouri, but we didn't have him on
• 39:45
  Speaker 11: the active roster, so he could throw a bullpen and
• 39:47
  Speaker 11: kind of prepare to be a staying routine to be
• 39:50
  Speaker 11: a starting pitcher.
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: So I don't imagine he would.
• 39:53
  Speaker 11: Be a part of it with this wait and see
• 39:55
  Speaker 11: before we announce a roster for tomorrow the game tomorrow,
• 39:58
  Speaker 11: Flores will certainly be available.
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: Those guys did a nice job on Tuesday.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: So do you have any idea what your pitching rotation
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: will look like? Now we've joked at not at length
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: about how you kind of have any idea.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Saturday your Friday and Saturday starters.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Sunday will always be a TBD because at that point
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: you need to decide if you're going to try to
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: win the series, where if you've already won the series,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: you want to give some guys some extra looks, some
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: extra mountain time. Do you have any idea what that
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: rotation will look like?
• 40:27
  Speaker 11: It'd be Sam, Spencer and Harrison and then TBA after that.
• 40:31
  Speaker 11: I'd love to be able to keep Ruby right where
• 40:33
  Speaker 11: he is, but I know we're trying to win championships
• 40:37
  Speaker 11: for sure, But at the same time, We're also trying
• 40:40
  Speaker 11: to get fifteen sixteen wins in this conference, which normally
• 40:44
  Speaker 11: puts you in a postseason. So with our injuries and
• 40:47
  Speaker 11: different things that have happened, you got to look at
• 40:50
  Speaker 11: things a little. You have to take everything into account
• 40:53
  Speaker 11: when you're trying to get to that win mark and
• 40:56
  Speaker 11: playing some of these teams that are super teams like
• 40:59
  Speaker 11: at Georgia.
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: So we'll just see how they go.
• 41:02
  Speaker 10: Game the game.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: You got to think back to two weeks ago when
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: LSU came to town in the long runs, lose Friday,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: then bounce back Saturday and Sunday and perform very very well,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: winning that first SEC through a series at dishpot Field
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: and their inaugural year in the conference.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: But you mentioned the injuries.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Now Max Belue injures his thumb out for a long
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: period of time. Might be out the season, could be
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: out the whole regular season, maybe some of the playoffs
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: where he could be back for the playoffs. In the
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: first full week without Max belou What are your plans
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: for left field in the offense, coach, I.
• 41:36
  Speaker 11: Think you probably saw it the other night, you know,
• 41:38
  Speaker 11: I mean, we don't have We got to wait and
• 41:40
  Speaker 11: see how Rodriguez feels he's kind of day to day.
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: Don't know if he'll be available this weekend.
• 41:45
  Speaker 11: I would think I'll have him on the roster just
• 41:48
  Speaker 11: because he can go do other things. He can play defense,
• 41:50
  Speaker 11: he could play the outfield, He could play third base
• 41:52
  Speaker 11: if he had to do it.
• 41:53
  Speaker 8: He could run bases.
• 41:55
  Speaker 11: But in terms of you know, Tommy will stay in
• 41:57
  Speaker 11: right field and then left field will just kind of
• 42:01
  Speaker 11: determine what the matchups are. I was really excited about
• 42:05
  Speaker 11: Gumbo or Jaden to Planted the other night. He you know,
• 42:09
  Speaker 11: if he can get on bass right and he's a
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: good bonner. He actually swung the bat really well against
• 42:15
  Speaker 11: our pitching in the fall, and he had a great
• 42:18
  Speaker 11: swing the other night in the night, ending off a
• 42:20
  Speaker 11: good pitcher. So that was encouraging because when he gets
• 42:23
  Speaker 11: on base, you know, then especially if him and Farmer
• 42:25
  Speaker 11: are back to bat, then you got guys that can
• 42:27
  Speaker 11: run and do some things on the bases. So certainly
• 42:30
  Speaker 11: got to find ways to score runs differently. You know,
• 42:34
  Speaker 11: I don't think anybody on our bench is going to
• 42:35
  Speaker 11: bring the dynamic power that and the extra base hit
• 42:39
  Speaker 11: stuff that Max brings, So we have to find a
• 42:42
  Speaker 11: way to play different kind offense in those spots.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: So Max Below a left handed batter and Adrian Rodriguez
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: was a left handed batter as well. Now Rodriguez might
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: be able to come back for this weekend series, but
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: how important is it to try to find another lefty
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: in this lineup?
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: I mean, I definitely overthink it to the point because
• 43:01
  Speaker 11: I and I really, uh our goal and hopefully you'll
• 43:05
  Speaker 11: look up here next year or the year after and
• 43:07
  Speaker 11: you'll have a team full of left and switch hand
• 43:09
  Speaker 11: and switch hitters and right handed hitters where we can
• 43:11
  Speaker 11: have really good balance and and make it tough on
• 43:13
  Speaker 11: the other team. But right now it is what it is.
• 43:17
  Speaker 11: Our rosters, our roster. So he can't really I can't remember.
• 43:21
  Speaker 11: I can't remember the last time I rode the lineup
• 43:23
  Speaker 11: and had like five six left right handed hitters in
• 43:25
  Speaker 11: a row. But that's where our team is, and so
• 43:29
  Speaker 11: you don't have a choice, you don't have a problem.
• 43:30
  Speaker 11: So uh, it is what it is. And you got
• 43:34
  Speaker 11: you know, Steward over there. Uh he had he put
• 43:37
  Speaker 11: he put together good at bats against Missouri both right
• 43:40
  Speaker 11: hand left handed pitchers. He stays on the balls, and
• 43:44
  Speaker 11: most left handed hitters that handle left handed pitching are
• 43:46
  Speaker 11: the ones that can stay on the baseball and don't
• 43:48
  Speaker 11: pull off the ball. He's not gonna run, you know,
• 43:51
  Speaker 11: run base as much, but uh, he can put together
• 43:54
  Speaker 11: good at bats and get on base. So I think
• 43:56
  Speaker 11: you could see him in there. Uh, we just don't
• 43:58
  Speaker 11: have that man. I mean the day took the job,
• 44:00
  Speaker 11: there was one left handed hitter in the entire program.
• 44:02
  Speaker 11: You know, it's Max, you know, so this summer, you
• 44:06
  Speaker 11: know that'll be That's a big That's always a big
• 44:08
  Speaker 11: focus for us in recruiting is to have balance in
• 44:12
  Speaker 11: that recruit in every recruiting class.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to go try to find guys who
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: can yeah obviously be switch hitters, but also bring power
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: and bring a different look when you are facing off
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: some against some of the best pitchers in college baseball. Finally,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: how much of a competitive advantage is it when your
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: first two series, two of your first three series, I
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: should say, are at home against two of the best teams.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: How big of a competitive advantage is it to face
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: off against LSU and Georgia at home?
• 44:40
  Speaker 11: I mean, it's always helpful to play in front of
• 44:41
  Speaker 11: your own fans. You know, this playing service is different
• 44:45
  Speaker 11: than most. I think anytime you're at home in the SEC,
• 44:50
  Speaker 11: it's you know, it's a good thing. But at the
• 44:54
  Speaker 11: end of the day, these teams are super talented. Georgia's
• 44:56
  Speaker 11: gone on the road. They swept a series at Florida,
• 44:58
  Speaker 11: I think, or one of a series at Florida. Great team,
• 45:01
  Speaker 11: great program, great players. So hopefully our fans will come
• 45:06
  Speaker 11: out and make it a great atmosphere. The problem is
• 45:10
  Speaker 11: that there's so many great atmospheres that, like when we
• 45:13
  Speaker 11: went to Starkville. Once you do that, you get used
• 45:15
  Speaker 11: to playing it and so it doesn't spook you, which
• 45:17
  Speaker 11: is why we need to get to fifteen wins. Because
• 45:19
  Speaker 11: once you get through this league and put yourself in
• 45:23
  Speaker 11: a postseason, even if you have to play a regional
• 45:25
  Speaker 11: on the road or a super regional on the road,
• 45:28
  Speaker 11: nothing speaks you because you've been through the best of
• 45:31
  Speaker 11: the best.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: The best of the best, one of the best teams
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: in college baseball coming to the dish tonight. You can
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: hear the game on one oh three one, Austin's eighty
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Station six to fifteen, ERA Time six thirty First Pitch
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Mike Harball, Harg and David saltzmen on the call as
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: well for that one. This is going to be a
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: great game. I'm excited for it. I can't wait to
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: hear it tonight. But it also got to keep an
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: eye on Texas women as they take on South Line
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: in the women's Final four five to forty five. Airtime
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: six pm tip on ninety eight one KVET FM. That's
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: where you can hear tonight's Final four matchup. Speaking of basketball,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Bill Shoning, the voice of the Spurs, coming on, talking
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: big news out of San Antonio. All coming up next
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone, Curry.
• 46:22
  Speaker 12: Weill pro shortings picked off for the twenty fifteen ten
• 46:26
  Speaker 12: five Time to into the XEL touchdown.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Cory Redding on to the fun court.
• 46:32
  Speaker 13: We'll drive it inside, mon all the way in left
• 46:34
  Speaker 13: test slam.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Wow mono let us high yojo do hoo doo he
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: yojo so well.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. And you know
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: this man for his twelve seasons with the Long Horns
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: and his twenty four seasons with the San Antonio Spurs.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: It's Bill Shoning and Bill, Today's a very special day.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: It's one of those days where we get to sing songs.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: And get off the cake and sing. He's a jolly
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: good fella. So congratulations you're on your announcement on retiring
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: after over two decades in San Antonio.
• 47:06
  Speaker 13: Bill, Yeah, over four decades on the air. I appreciate
• 47:09
  Speaker 13: that a great deal. And Andrew, thanks very much. It's been
• 47:12
  Speaker 13: an amazing day. The Spurs issue to press release this morning.
• 47:15
  Speaker 13: The San Antonio Express News did a story and I
• 47:17
  Speaker 13: posted it on Facebook, and I've been just inundated all
• 47:20
  Speaker 13: day long from really all over the country. I just
• 47:22
  Speaker 13: got a phone call from France, so it's really cool.
• 47:27
  Speaker 13: You know, going into the season, I had a feeling
• 47:29
  Speaker 13: that might be my last year. Is the last year
• 47:31
  Speaker 13: my contract. I wasn't sure if I wanted to keep going.
• 47:33
  Speaker 13: I feel great. I'm sixty six years old. I love
• 47:36
  Speaker 13: what I do. I have a passion for it. But
• 47:38
  Speaker 13: my wife's just retired and she's done a very good
• 47:40
  Speaker 13: job taking care of the finances. And we really like
• 47:44
  Speaker 13: to travel, you know, both of us, so we got
• 47:46
  Speaker 13: some traveling ahead.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 47:47
  Speaker 13: I've got a passion for music, so that'll be something
• 47:49
  Speaker 13: I'm sure i'll do. I want to help out young broadcasters.
• 47:52
  Speaker 13: I'm involved in a mentorship program with a national sports
• 47:55
  Speaker 13: media association out of Carolina. So I'm going to help
• 47:58
  Speaker 13: out some young college broadcasters with their rising play by
• 48:01
  Speaker 13: play careers. And I love to hike. You know, we're
• 48:04
  Speaker 13: gonna hit national parks this summer, so I got a
• 48:07
  Speaker 13: lot on my plate. And then I'm not going to
• 48:08
  Speaker 13: hang the mic up completely. Andrew. I think that you know,
• 48:11
  Speaker 13: I've really missed doing baseball and football. So I'm hoping
• 48:14
  Speaker 13: that I get a few opportunities just in fill in
• 48:16
  Speaker 13: filling opportunities here and there to do some work, not
• 48:18
  Speaker 13: a full time basis at all, but get back to
• 48:20
  Speaker 13: doing some football and baseball as well.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: First off, if you don't look at day over fifty five, Bill,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I just got to give you the credit there. Second,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that the thing that caught my attention, and
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: because I listened to you on the flagship WAI where
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: you can hear all the Spurs games you've heard Bill
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: for twenty years. But the thing that caught my attention
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: is giving back to the young guys, because as a
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: young broadcaster, I can tell you from experience, it's hard
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: to find guys who want to give their time. So
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: for you to say Hey, I'm going to spend a
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: little bit of time. I'm going to give it a
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: little bit back is huge. I think it's a it's
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: a real testament to the type of guy you are,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Bill Well.
• 48:53
  Speaker 13: I appreciate that, but you know, I started out in
• 48:55
  Speaker 13: small market radio, Andrew. I did not have anything handed
• 48:57
  Speaker 13: to me. You know, I had to pay some dues
• 48:59
  Speaker 13: in this business. That's okay, that's the way it works,
• 49:01
  Speaker 13: and everybody has to start at the bottom. And there
• 49:03
  Speaker 13: have been a lot of successful guys that started at
• 49:05
  Speaker 13: the bottom. And I just never forgot those ten years
• 49:07
  Speaker 13: that I kind of labored in small market radio. You know,
• 49:10
  Speaker 13: you hear the term now these days embrace the grind. Well,
• 49:12
  Speaker 13: it really was a grind because we were't making a
• 49:15
  Speaker 13: lot of money. I was doing news, spending records, doing
• 49:17
  Speaker 13: whatever I could to keep my play by play fix
• 49:19
  Speaker 13: even at Sam Houston State, and I had to cover
• 49:21
  Speaker 13: the prison system and do a lot of extra stuff.
• 49:22
  Speaker 13: So I always remember that that I had to work
• 49:25
  Speaker 13: my way up. And now I see guys that have
• 49:27
  Speaker 13: passion and I only take the time. I take time
• 49:30
  Speaker 13: out to try to help everybody. But I'll really try
• 49:32
  Speaker 13: to guide a guy if I see him really making
• 49:34
  Speaker 13: the effort and you know, paying his dues and you know,
• 49:38
  Speaker 13: embracing the grind as I always say. So, there's a
• 49:41
  Speaker 13: lot of young folks out there that want to get better.
• 49:43
  Speaker 13: And if I've got some ample time to help some
• 49:44
  Speaker 13: folks through this program that Dave Gorren set up with
• 49:47
  Speaker 13: National Sports Media Association, I'm going to do it.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: So you talked, You've been the voice long ward as
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: the voice of the Spurs, but before that, you were
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: the voice of what when you were in Sam Houston,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Sam Houston.
• 49:56
  Speaker 13: State for six years? Yeah, the Bearcats.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: You know, I was going to say it was because
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: I was watching a lot of press and a lot
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: of videos of Bill showing today it was the voice
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: of death when you were covering the.
• 50:08
  Speaker 13: That's yeah, okay, okay, the voice is Death.
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 50:12
  Speaker 13: Well, true story in nineteen eighty seven, and this is
• 50:14
  Speaker 13: in the book Story, Sports and Songs. There's a plug
• 50:17
  Speaker 13: for the book available right now. When I was gone,
• 50:19
  Speaker 13: operators are standing by no, but this is the true story.
• 50:22
  Speaker 13: In nineteen eighty seven, I got an award for my
• 50:24
  Speaker 13: news work with the Associated Press. I was named the
• 50:27
  Speaker 13: Correspondent of the Year. There was a lot going on
• 50:29
  Speaker 13: in the prisons back then, not just executions, but a
• 50:31
  Speaker 13: lot of violence, overcrowding, just a lot of stuff going on.
• 50:34
  Speaker 13: And because I was right there in the middle of
• 50:35
  Speaker 13: it and doing the news anyway there in Huntsville, I
• 50:38
  Speaker 13: was able to make a name for myself in the
• 50:40
  Speaker 13: news business because I was the correspondent for Texas AP
• 50:43
  Speaker 13: and for APM Washington as well. So they give me
• 50:45
  Speaker 13: an award, And at that banquet where I got the award,
• 50:48
  Speaker 13: I was introduced as the voice of death in Texas
• 50:51
  Speaker 13: for my extensive work covering the executions.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Now, you covered the Longhorns for over a decade, and
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: you have good stories with craig Way, I imagine, so
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: I figured it's his show. I want to I want
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: to hear some Craigway stories from Bill Shooning.
• 51:04
  Speaker 13: First of all, I'm very disappointed. And on the day
• 51:05
  Speaker 13: of my retirement announcement and I'm on the Craigway Show,
• 51:09
  Speaker 13: Craig Way is getting ready for what a final four games,
• 51:13
  Speaker 13: something that's not very important, of course, and good luck
• 51:16
  Speaker 13: to the Horns there in Tampa. I'm pulling for in
• 51:18
  Speaker 13: big time tonight. Even though Don Staley of course is
• 51:21
  Speaker 13: from my hometown of Philadelphia, the head coach of South Carolina.
• 51:24
  Speaker 13: But I've got my horns up. I'm pulling for the
• 51:26
  Speaker 13: horns tonight. So yeah, there are so many Craigway stories
• 51:29
  Speaker 13: I don't even know where to begin, so you know
• 51:32
  Speaker 13: you've heard them a lot. But my my favorite, I guess,
• 51:35
  Speaker 13: is the time that he overbooked himself on purpose in
• 51:38
  Speaker 13: Boise and Salt Lake did not get a flight, so
• 51:40
  Speaker 13: he had to drive back and forth between two NCAA
• 51:42
  Speaker 13: tournament sites and that's I want to say four hundred
• 51:46
  Speaker 13: miles or something like that. So it didn't bother Craig
• 51:49
  Speaker 13: to drive back and forth between games that I don't
• 51:52
  Speaker 13: know how many miles he drove that weekend, but I
• 51:53
  Speaker 13: want to say twelve hundred something like that. But he
• 51:56
  Speaker 13: invented binocular driving on that trip where he went north
• 51:59
  Speaker 13: of Salt Lake City where the Salt Flats are, it's
• 52:02
  Speaker 13: very flat, you can see for miles and miles. Well,
• 52:04
  Speaker 13: Craig would just put the rent car in about one
• 52:06
  Speaker 13: hundred and ten miles hour on cruise and get the
• 52:09
  Speaker 13: binoculars out and he could binocular drive so you can
• 52:11
  Speaker 13: see anybody coming for ten fifteen Miles.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I guess it sounds like one of the Florida Man
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: stories we do the binocular draw. That is something that
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: truly is an impressive story. All right, So what do
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: you remember from your time covering the Horns and being
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: the voice of Texas football?
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 52:26
  Speaker 13: My goodness. Well, Ricky Williams, I guess would be the
• 52:28
  Speaker 13: first thing, because he won the Heisman Trophy while I
• 52:30
  Speaker 13: was there, and I carried or I covered every carry
• 52:32
  Speaker 13: of his career, and he was such an impressive player
• 52:35
  Speaker 13: and I really enjoyed that a great deal. So football,
• 52:37
  Speaker 13: I guess my number one memory would be Ricky, and
• 52:39
  Speaker 13: also Major apple White. He was one of my favorite players.
• 52:41
  Speaker 13: In my last game as the voice of the Longhorns
• 52:44
  Speaker 13: at the Holiday Bowl when Major led that comeback against
• 52:47
  Speaker 13: Washington and passed for a school record well over four
• 52:49
  Speaker 13: hundred yard. I think it was four forty eighth that
• 52:51
  Speaker 13: night for Major apple White. So that was a really
• 52:53
  Speaker 13: good memory for me. Is my final game as the
• 52:56
  Speaker 13: Longhorn guy. Baseball, it was all about Brooks k. Schnik Man,
• 52:59
  Speaker 13: the best player I ever saw in college baseball. He
• 53:02
  Speaker 13: could do it all. He pitched with a linebacker mentality,
• 53:04
  Speaker 13: yet he would always go up there and hit about
• 53:06
  Speaker 13: three fifty. I'll never forget we played at A and
• 53:08
  Speaker 13: M one time, and Bruce Brooks used to have this
• 53:10
  Speaker 13: little butt waggle right when he came to the plate,
• 53:13
  Speaker 13: big left handed hitter, that picture of this guy right
• 53:15
  Speaker 13: six three two fifteen, could hit all fields and really
• 53:18
  Speaker 13: really had a lot of pop in his back. But
• 53:19
  Speaker 13: he would do a little wiggle when he got up
• 53:21
  Speaker 13: to the plate, and the Aggie fan started pulling dollars out, okay,
• 53:24
  Speaker 13: like they were going to tip him for his wiggle,
• 53:26
  Speaker 13: as if he was on stage somewhere sugars or something.
• 53:29
  Speaker 13: So anyway, but he turned that into respect because I
• 53:33
  Speaker 13: think the first pitch against A and M at Olsen Field,
• 53:35
  Speaker 13: he lined to double off the right center field wall,
• 53:37
  Speaker 13: and the next time up all the Aggie fans who
• 53:39
  Speaker 13: had dollars out earlier were now praising him and mock praise,
• 53:43
  Speaker 13: you know, for praise, and of course Brooks just wore
• 53:45
  Speaker 13: out A and M. I think he probably hit over
• 53:48
  Speaker 13: five hundred against them in his career.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: See and we're talking to Bill Showing on the day
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: of his semi retirement after twenty four years of being
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: the voice of the San Antonio Spurs bill.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: There's a ton of calls.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: I tried to go through all the archives that pulled
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: my favorite ones from you. The Ricky Williams call though,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: when he gets the record, that to me is like
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: when I think of Texas football in the ninth that
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: is the thing I think about.
• 54:10
  Speaker 13: Well, I appreciate that, the funny bad That's not my
• 54:12
  Speaker 13: favorite call. I think Craig's call as the analyst was
• 54:15
  Speaker 13: even better than my call because he got to wrapped
• 54:17
  Speaker 13: it up. I just got excited because we were anticipating
• 54:20
  Speaker 13: the record, but not on a sixty yard touchdown run
• 54:23
  Speaker 13: and not again against Txada and end. That was awesome.
• 54:25
  Speaker 13: One of my favorite memories, too, was the fourth and
• 54:27
  Speaker 13: inches call. That was the first Big felve championship game
• 54:31
  Speaker 13: in Saint Louis, And of course the Spurs were big
• 54:33
  Speaker 13: time or the Spurs. The long Horns were big time underdogs.
• 54:36
  Speaker 13: That's how long I've been doing the Spurs. I just
• 54:38
  Speaker 13: called Longhorns the Spurs. The long Horns are big time
• 54:40
  Speaker 13: underdogs that game, and I think twenty one point underdogs.
• 54:43
  Speaker 13: They won the ball game. But a very dusty call
• 54:45
  Speaker 13: on fourth and inches of his own twenty nine yard line,
• 54:47
  Speaker 13: John mcaviick rolling the dice, faking the handoff, James Brown
• 54:51
  Speaker 13: rolls who was left? They call it roll left, one
• 54:52
  Speaker 13: of the famous plays in Longhorn War, and Derrek Lewis
• 54:55
  Speaker 13: was wide open down the field for a sixty two
• 54:57
  Speaker 13: yard game that' set up Priest Holmes touchdown on the
• 54:59
  Speaker 13: next play.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Now you've called over two decades of Spurs basketball, Bill,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: I have a sneaking suspicion. I think I know your
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: favorite player in that time was. But I got to
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: ask who is it?
• 55:11
  Speaker 13: You think you well, Manus Gnobili. There's a number of
• 55:16
  Speaker 13: reasons why he's my favorite guy. And of course I
• 55:18
  Speaker 13: love all the guys, right, I mean, I love covering
• 55:20
  Speaker 13: all of them. But I got to call every game
• 55:22
  Speaker 13: of Manu's career, and I've never seen a guy play
• 55:25
  Speaker 13: with such passion a night in and night out. He
• 55:28
  Speaker 13: had a game one night where he couldn't hit a
• 55:30
  Speaker 13: shot at Oklahoma City, but he was the most valuable
• 55:32
  Speaker 13: player on the team. I think he went oh for nine,
• 55:34
  Speaker 13: but I think he had nine or twelve, nine or
• 55:36
  Speaker 13: ten assists, He had ten or twelve rebounds, four or
• 55:38
  Speaker 13: five steals, He saved three or four balls going out
• 55:41
  Speaker 13: of bounds. I mean that kind of an impact on
• 55:43
  Speaker 13: the game without a field goal. And that's the kind
• 55:44
  Speaker 13: of player man who was. So when he that midway
• 55:47
  Speaker 13: through his career, I told him, you're going to be
• 55:49
  Speaker 13: in the Hall of Fame, but I want to be
• 55:50
  Speaker 13: there in Springfield when you get inducted. And he goes, well,
• 55:53
  Speaker 13: I'm not so sure about that, I said, I am,
• 55:55
  Speaker 13: And sure enough, the night that he got inducted, I
• 55:57
  Speaker 13: was there. I was there for the press conference the
• 55:58
  Speaker 13: day before and he recognized me, you know, among the crowd.
• 56:02
  Speaker 13: And then I was doing an interview with Bill Walton
• 56:04
  Speaker 13: for a documentary, the Late Bill Walton Documentary that weekend
• 56:08
  Speaker 13: on the Spurs. I was interviewing him for that and
• 56:11
  Speaker 13: Manu interrupted the interview. He walked into the room. He's, oh,
• 56:14
  Speaker 13: it's Bill and Bill hey Manu, And of course Bill
• 56:16
  Speaker 13: Walton broke into his letter. He is from Mihia Blanco, Argentina,
• 56:19
  Speaker 13: Manusinobli tomorrow getting inducted due to the Basketball Hall team.
• 56:24
  Speaker 13: So it's a true great moment for me to be
• 56:26
  Speaker 13: there with Bill Walton and Manushinobli for for a little bit.
• 56:29
  Speaker 13: So yeah, so I've had a very blessed career to be,
• 56:31
  Speaker 13: you know, rubbing my elbows with people like this.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: And finally, it's like asking about your favorite child, your
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: favorite championship call, which one would it be?
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: You got four of them?
• 56:39
  Speaker 13: Well, twenty fourteen will always be my favorite season. The
• 56:43
  Speaker 13: way they dominated the Miami Heat in that final, and
• 56:46
  Speaker 13: also the fact that they came back to beat them
• 56:48
  Speaker 13: after the heartbreak the year before they beat the same
• 56:51
  Speaker 13: team and they drubbed them. I mean, they it was
• 56:53
  Speaker 13: a four games to one series, but I think the
• 56:56
  Speaker 13: average march in the victory was eighteen points. The Spurs
• 56:59
  Speaker 13: shot fifty four percent from the field of that series.
• 57:01
  Speaker 13: It was clinic. And this is against Lebron James, Dwayne Waiting,
• 57:05
  Speaker 13: Chris Bosh, and Ray Allen, So you know, I say
• 57:09
  Speaker 13: Lebron James. Of course, that was the special moment. Kawhi
• 57:13
  Speaker 13: Leonard playing defense against Lebron James.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Bill shoning after twenty four years, semi hanging up the headphones.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: We'll here again somewhere somepow. He will be on the call. Somewhere.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: He's on the call for the rest of the Spur season.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: They got some cool things planned out for him as well.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: He's gonna get his flowers. So pay attention to twelve
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: hundred wais where you can listen to the games in
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: the flagship on the free iHeart Radio app. Bill until
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: next time. I appreciate you, buddy, thanks so much, Thank you, Aver.
• 57:40
  Speaker 13: I'm sure we'll do it again.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: We will.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: We will, Bill Shoning all right when we come back.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: He talked about major Applewaite. Chris Simms sat next to
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkajian talk to Texas quarterbacks. We'll hear from him
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: next on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrews zimm I'll hanging
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: out with you on a four Friday. Texas women take
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: on South Carolina tonight five forty five airtime, six pm
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  Speaker 1: tip on ninety eight one caved FM. You can listen
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: to it on the free iHeartRadio app tonight as well.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: One oh three to one is your home or Texas
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Baseball as the long Horns start their weekend series against
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: the University of Georgia twenty nine to two on the
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: year the Bulldogs. Oh, we'll see if the bark is
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: worse than the bite sixty fifteen airtime six point thirty.
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  Speaker 1: First pitch on one oh three one, Mike Hardball Harge.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Our guy from the morning kickoff seven to nine right
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  Speaker 1: here on the zone is on the call as well.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Don't want to miss that.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: Let's talk Texas women tonight they take on South Carolina
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: team if they played three times this season now. In
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: the games that the Longhorns have won, it has been
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: thanks in part to the scoring output of Madison Booker.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: In the win that they had in Austin, Booker finished
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: with twenty points as well as grabbed a handful of
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: rebounds and then gave assists as well. In the two
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: losses against the game costs, including the one in the
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: SEC Championship game, seventeen combined points on seven to thirty
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: two shooting. It's gonna come down to Ken Madison Booker
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: get off of some of those screens. Can she find
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: ways to get open shots? And can the post players
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Taylor Jones and Kyla Oldacre both show up in the
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: paint tonight as well. Let's hear from Don Staley. She
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: spoke about Madison Booker, coach, what do you like most
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: about Booker's game?
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  Speaker 14: Just a bona fide scorer, not even the Bonafa sco.
• 59:44
  Speaker 14: She's a playmaker, like, she can score to basketball with
• 59:48
  Speaker 14: the best of them. She could play multiple positions, so
• 59:52
  Speaker 14: she's versatile. She could facilitate, you know, she's a really
• 59:57
  Speaker 14: great rebounder. I mean, she's you know, she's a difficult matchup,
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  Speaker 14: like you really have to you know, you have to
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 14: play her one and a half players, like you can't
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 14: just straight up play her because she has so so
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 14: much of a skill set that if you don't show
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 14: whoever's guarding her in this show, you know, close her
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 14: her space off. I mean, because she's able to rise
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 14: above She's a big guard that that could pretty much
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 14: get her shot off at any at any given time.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 14: And then you got to make her play defense. She's
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 14: a willing defender, but with how much she needs to
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 14: score for them, you got to make her play on
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 14: that other other side of the basketball so that that
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 14: pretty jump shot isn't as pretty and minute you know
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  Speaker 14: thirty as it is at minute five.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, the game plan for both of these teams will
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: be how well do you play on the defensive side
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: of the Can you dog the other team defensively enough
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: to upset their shot to upset their shot makers.
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  Speaker 15: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Booker got asked about playing uh South Carolina for
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: a fourth time and also the matchup with Ree Hall,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: who's a defensive specialist for South Carolina.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: She's been on the record talking about how in the
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: SEC Championship game that she woke up texting her parents.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop Madison Booker. What is it like
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: playing South Carolina for a fourth time and what are
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on their stopper Hall.
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  Speaker 4: She's a great defender.
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  Speaker 16: I mean it's kind of shocked she wasn't unliked like
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  Speaker 16: the like our comforts, like defensive team or anything like that.
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  Speaker 16: Long lean athletic. She definitely, you know, makes you think
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  Speaker 16: on the court as an officive player.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's a great player.
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  Speaker 10: I totally have a respect her.
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  Speaker 16: Definitely don't make me think great player.
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  Speaker 1: So Rory Harmon got asked a similar question about taking
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: on a familiar matchup the worth time that these two
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: teams are facing off, this one obviously meaning a little
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: bit more in the final four. What are what do
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: you think about facing such a familiar SEC opponent in
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: this final four?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, I feel like we do know them inside out
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 17: as much as they probably know us in side it out.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 17: So there's just saying that we've kind of been living
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 17: by since the tournament started. But once talent meets talent
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 17: and all that, it's basically it doesn't really matter anymore.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 17: It's about preparation and who's gonna step up on the
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 17: biggest stage that we are in right now and who's
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 17: gonna be the tougher team.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: So I love that that's been the quote pretty much
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: this entire month of March for the University of Texas Women,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: which talent meets talent, then it turns into preparation, then
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: it turns into hard work. And the Longhorns have been
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: one of the most prepared teams this season for the ability,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: thanks in part to the coaching staff and the assistant
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: coaches for Vic Schaffer of getting this team absolutely ready
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: that Rory Harmon would be, I think considered by many
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: a defensive stopper, a defensive specialist. She got to ask,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: do you prefer these high scoring games that you see
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: against teams that you know, high scoring games that the
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: long runs have been in, or do you rather have
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: defensive battles like you might have tonight against South Carolina.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah?
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  Speaker 17: I think depending on who we're playing, TCU in South
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 17: Carolina are two completely different teams. But during a TCU game, yeah,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 17: we knew they were probably they're as far as their offense, like,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 17: they're quite the efficient offense and one of the top
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 17: offenses in the nation. So we really did have to
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 17: hone in on defense and trying to keep the score
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 17: as low as possible and not like let it just
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 17: keep going up, because I think that's when we keep
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 17: teams our goal is like keeping them under sixty. And
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 17: then also apparently we just found it out a stat
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 17: earlier today. Don't see it all right, that's fine, but
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 17: just let's just say, like when we are playing the
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  Speaker 17: best defense and keeping the score pretty low, I think
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 17: we're at a better chance. But with South Carolina, I
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 17: think both of us are pretty similar in a way
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 17: where we both can play defense and we both have
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 17: weapons to score. So like kind of the name of
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 17: the game is, it's just like who's gonna win it
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 17: more on this biggest stage that we're at right now,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 17: and who's going to be tougher and bring the most energy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this one. I'm also looking forward
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: to asking Craig way when he joins us in the
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: four o'clock hour, four seventeen, Craig joins us from Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be on the call today. I'm curious what that
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: stat is. I'm gonna ask him, what is.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: That stat that was hush hush yesterday? And does he know?
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: Is he gonna keep it in bargoed until maybe the pregame.
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  Speaker 2: There's some questions about what stat.
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  Speaker 1: I have to imagine it has to probably indicate that
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: when the Longhorns are shooting the ball pretty well, they
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: end up winning more of these games. I have a
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: sneaking suspicion it's something like that. Now, finally, I want
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: to hear from Shay Holly, a veteran on this team,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: how difficult is it to face a team like South
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: Carolina that you've seen so many times already?
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I would say it's our fourth time playing them,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 15: but it's also their fourth time playing us. So it
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 15: goes both ways in the sense of, like, obviously, on
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 15: both sides, it's going to be a really well scouted game.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 15: We're gonna know, play calls, all that stuff. So it's
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 15: just really how you execute it. You can put in
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 15: different things, I'm sure they're doing that as well. But
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 15: at the end of the day, like Rory said, like
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 15: talent meets talent, it's who wants it more on that
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 15: given day. So we have to go out and be
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 15: ready for a tough and physical game and yeah, and
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 15: really just have the energy.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: We'll hear more from players and coaches as we gear
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: up for the final four tonight Texas and South Carolina.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: You can hear the game on KAVET FM ninety eight
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: one on the free iHeartRadio app.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: Greig What joins us Craig Way Show. Craig is in
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: He will join us here in about fifteen minutes to
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: talk Texas women's basketball as the Longhorned women get ready
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: to take on South Carolina. It's hard to beat a
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: good team twice. That's what they're gonna try to do.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: And this one means more, not only because it's a
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: matchup between two of the SEC's best in South Carolina
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: and Texas, but it's because this one the winner moves
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: on to the national championship. It takes on the winner
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: of Yukon and UCLA, So this will be an excellent
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: matchup tonight. Obviously, we have been watching these two teams
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: circle each other. We saw them when they played in
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Columbia earlier this season. We saw them when they played
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: at the Moody Center in February in the SEC championship
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: game in Greenville, South Carolina.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: And I go through it.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: I look at all of the pronosciaters, I look at
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: all of the guys who are giving takes on these teams,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: and it seems like the team that everybody is rooting
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: four almost is the Ellevil Empire.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: And I don't know why.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: I've just seen so many people rooting for a Yukon
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: team with pagebackers.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's because.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's because Yukon is the lowest seed throughout.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: College basketball's Final four.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: On the men's and women's side of things, there are
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: seven number one seeds of the eight teams remaining. Yukon,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: the team that won their first national championship thirty years
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: ago and never looked back, continue to just rack up
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: win after win after win, trophy after trophy after trophy.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: They are the two seed out of their region going
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: up against a UCLA. And maybe that's why this team
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: that has obviously been a juggernaut in college basketball, one
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: of the best dynasties in college sports. Ever, maybe that's
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: the reason everybody is rooting for these spunky underdogs in
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: the Yukon Huskies. We'll figure it out, Craig Wade joins
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: us later. You also might give us a little insight
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: on what that secret stat is that Vick Schaeffer and
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: Ry Harmon we're talking about yesterday during media availability. I'm
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: curious to find out what his thoughts are on that,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: And of course our final pregames are pre show thoughts
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: on what we can consider this matchups tonight to be.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: Because I have the matchup between Bree Haul for UC
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: or USC versus Madison Booker as my matchup tonight of
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: this two heavyweight fights, but the fight between these two
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: heavyweights that will be a deciding factor and who wins
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: it tonight or this weekend, I should say. Also in
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: the Almost City, the Men's Final four begins, Texas or
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: Houston representing the state of Texas. In the Men's Final
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: four versus Duke is the game that I have circled
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: as the winner of that one going up against the
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: champion out of the SEC It's going to be Auburn
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  Speaker 1: or Florida on the other side, of the bracket. That
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: game is I PM tomorrow seven point Houston versus Duke,
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  Speaker 1: and the winner of that game, I feel will be
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: the champion of college basketball. On the men's side of things, now,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: Calvin Sampson has done a great job of building a
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: program at Houston that rolled through the Big Twelve this year,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: that rolled through the NCAA tournament this year, and now
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: he faces a Duke squad led by the eventual number
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: one overall pick, Cooper Flag. What do you see out
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: of Duke? How do you prepare for John Shire's team?
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: He spoke to Colin Cowherd leading up to tomorrow's matchup.
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  Speaker 3: The first thing that jumps out to me is what
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  Speaker 3: a great job John did and putting his team together.
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  Speaker 4: You know, for.
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  Speaker 3: Example, brand a kid like Scion James and to pair
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: next to Cooper Flag and Kinnepo and the big kid
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: inside because he's smart, he's tough, doesn't require a lot
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: of shops. It's a lot of winner in him. Cooper
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  Speaker 3: Flag was going to be the centerpiece. How they fit
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: everybody around them is what's so impressive. How do you
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: start to stop Cooper flagging? But that's kind of a
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  Speaker 3: silly question. You don't, but you have to be the
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  Speaker 3: best version of yourself. You know, we played in the
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  Speaker 3: Big Twelve the last two years and you know, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's Kansas or Iowa State or Texas Tech, there's a
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: lot of really good teams and all those teams had
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: a best player. So we'll come up with something that
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  Speaker 3: will it be good enough?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe it will, maybe it won't.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, every team has
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  Speaker 3: to focus on what they do good and try to
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  Speaker 3: be their best version themselves for that forty minutes. For
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: that forty minutes, we have to be the best version
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  Speaker 3: of the Houston Cougar as we can be.
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  Speaker 1: Now, one of the best players on this Houston Cougar
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  Speaker 1: team is Juwan Roberts, who is a defensive stopper of
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: the Senior has been the player that his coach has
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: thrown at other team's best players. He's been the guy
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: that when it comes to hey, we need to stop,
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  Speaker 1: we need to find a way to limit a guy.
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  Speaker 1: This has been the guy that Houston has gone to.
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  Speaker 1: Roberts got ass is Duke the most talented team that
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: this Cougar's team has faced this year.
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  Speaker 5: On paper, yeah, but when we've seen that a lot,
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  Speaker 5: and especially when we played against Auburn, Alabama, those teams,
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  Speaker 5: Texas Tech, Arizona. But now I feel like our defense
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  Speaker 5: is what.
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  Speaker 10: Gets us going.
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  Speaker 5: So on paper yet are pretty good, but I feel like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, once you come in with that defense mentality,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just gonna be a different ball game now.
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  Speaker 1: John Shire, the head coach of Duke, has won a
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  Speaker 1: national championship with Duke. He's trying to be one of
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: the only coaches ever to lead his alma mater after
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: winning a title as a player and also as a coach,
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  Speaker 1: and Calvin Sampson talked yesterday at his media availability about
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: how you know he's a good coach when we don't
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  Speaker 1: even talk about the fact he's replacing the legendary coach
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  Speaker 1: k Anymore, that we just are like, hey, this is
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: now the coach of Duke basketball. This is the guy
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  Speaker 1: that is leading the program.
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  Speaker 2: He got asked.
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  Speaker 1: John Shire was asked about how do you prepare for
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: a team like Houston when they can throw so many
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  Speaker 1: players and so many adjustments against you.
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  Speaker 6: Houston no offense to our scout team. We have a
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  Speaker 6: great scout team. It's not something you can replicate and
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 6: so it's a combination of understanding what could or could
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  Speaker 6: not be there, but then at the same time, you
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  Speaker 6: don't want to make them out to be the boogeyman.
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  Speaker 1: No, you can't fear your opponent. You got to respect
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  Speaker 1: your opponent. You got to respect your opponent. You cannot
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: fear your opponent. You're gonna lose games like that. John
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: Shire was also on Scott Van Pelt's Sports Center last
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: night and he's talking about the biggest concerns when he
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: talks about this Cougar team.
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  Speaker 4: Well, a lot concerns me.
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  Speaker 6: I think you start with the fact that they've had
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 6: you know, the core of their team has been together
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 6: for multiple years and so the experience they've had together,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 6: their connection is incredibly deep. But they're just a team
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 6: that doesn't beat themselves. You know, you have to really
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 6: beat them. And it starts with they make everything difficult
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  Speaker 6: for you on our offense.
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  Speaker 4: Our offense, their defense is legit.
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  Speaker 6: You know, when you see one two guys moving in
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 6: a pick a roll defense together, another three are moving
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 6: at the same exact time. I mean, it's incredibly impressive
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 6: when you watch them play. And then they have a
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 6: top ten offense in the country. You know, they have
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 6: three guys that are shooting over forty from three. They
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 6: poulenge you in the offensive glass. They're just just they're
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 6: a great team, and so a lot concerns me. I
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  Speaker 6: feel we're a great team too, and we're excited for
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: the challenge, but a ton of respect for coach Sampson
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 6: and what he's done, and then their team of how
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  Speaker 6: connected and how tough they are.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is a Houston team that does everything really well.
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  Speaker 1: They don't do anything. There's no facet of the game
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  Speaker 1: that they don't do well. That was why they won
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: the Big Twelve as handily as they did, and that's
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: why they come intonight tomorrow's matchup as a team that
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are picking to not only beat Dupa,
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  Speaker 1: to win the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl on the other side of things, with an
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: Auburn team that was the number one overall scene overlooked
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but he's also similar to Sampson, an
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: older coach. He talks about the age difference between the
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: two old guys Sampson and Pearl versus the young guys.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: In Todd Golden's Florida Gators and John Shire's Duke Blue Devils.
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  Speaker 7: You know, the only thing, the only way I look
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 7: at it is Calvin and I have fewer chances to
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 7: get where we are right now was John Shire and
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 7: Todd Golden will be back here many more times. So
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 7: Calvin and I have better take advantage of it this
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 7: time because we're you know, we're clearly on the back nine.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 7: I'm not on the eighteenth hole yet, but we're getting closer.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 7: And so you know, Todd and John don't give up
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 7: anything in experience. They just they just give up a
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 7: little bit. And they're not They're not as much gray hair,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 7: and they may not have been beat down as much
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 7: as Calvin and I have been over the years.
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  Speaker 1: It's also a difference of philosophy when it comes to
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: team building. Whereas Auburn and Houston are built around seniors.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: It's a senior, older upper classmans driven team versus Florida
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  Speaker 1: and Duke, which have younger guys leading the way.
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  Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, we.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: Go to Tampa Bay, Craig Way on the call tonight
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: in the final four for the women, the Longhorns and
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: the game Cocks. Tonight, You're not going to miss it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to Craig as we gear up for the
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: matchup in the women's Final four. All coming up next
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  Speaker 1: on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: AM thirteen hundred The Zone. And we are about an
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: hour and thirty away from tip off between the Texas
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: women and South Carolina from Tampa Bay. It is Craig Way, Craig,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: what do we need to know? How much more excited
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: can we get here?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I'll tell you Andrew, it's it's I would say
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 12: it's pretty exciting times. I mean, folks are pretty pumped
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 12: up about this. You know, it's been kind of a
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 12: calm before the storm. Yesterday the teams had their practices
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 12: they're closed practices on the floor here and then they
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 12: were you know, se questioned back in their hotels. And
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 12: then this morning to very early afternoon all four teams
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 12: got a chance to come back in for one more
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 12: shoot around on the floor, to get an hour on
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 12: the floor.
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  Speaker 10: So they came back to go through all of that.
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  Speaker 12: And you know the interesting thing is not only and
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  Speaker 12: I think Walhorn fans are very very up on this,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 12: the fact that it's you know, Texas and South Carolina
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 12: meeting for the fourth time this year. They get that, uh,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 12: but you kind of UCLA also want a rematch, and
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 12: so there's gonna be, you know, something where there's gonna
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 12: be some some real familiarlady here, And I think it
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 12: makes it a little bit easier for the coaches to
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 12: do it.
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  Speaker 10: Like I said, it's kind of the devil, you know.
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  Speaker 12: But by the same token, you know, you have to
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 12: you have to prepare and make your adjustments. And in
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 12: the case of Texas, I think you have to make
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 12: even more adjustments because, after all, South Carolina won two
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 12: of the three matchups with Texas. Not only did they
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 12: win two of the three matchups, they won the most
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 12: recent one. So you make your adjustments off of that.
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  Speaker 12: There was one film session very earlier in the week.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 12: I think it was even Tuesday night when the team
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 12: first got here, when we were in the hotel and
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 12: they were going over some stuff and I'm sitting in
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 12: there watching him. Vic Schaeffer is showing him about the
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 12: rebounding and of course they got out rebounded by TCU
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 12: in the game. But then the other thing he said was,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 12: you know, think about it. In the last game with
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 12: South Carolina, he said, how they out rebounded us.
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  Speaker 10: He said, so, I'm telling you it's just.
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  Speaker 12: Gonna be more of the same if we don't do
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 12: a better job of rebounding. And he showed a lot
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  Speaker 12: of times in the game where Texas had the ball.
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  Speaker 10: This is the TCU.
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  Speaker 12: Game, had the ball in its hands coming off a
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 12: misshot by TCUM.
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  Speaker 10: For whatever reason, they didn't hold it.
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  Speaker 12: They dropped it or it got taken out of their
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 12: grasp or whatever, and he said, can't have that you
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 12: you know, you've got to you got to be able
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 12: to hold on to it when it comes to that.
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  Speaker 10: So you know, they were going over that things.
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  Speaker 12: But there's a lot of things obviously to deal with
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 12: when you're talking about this South Carolina team.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: Well what's ironic too, is we talked before the TCU game,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: Craig and I said like, hey, the front court will
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: be the deciding factor. And it feels like again tonight
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: it's going to be the front court the deciding factor.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I I do, you know, if only because they
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 12: can't allow a player like and I'm not denigrating her
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 12: at all.
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  Speaker 10: She's a fine basketball player.
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  Speaker 12: But Chloe Kitts is not the straw that stirs the
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 12: drink for South Carolina. That's my Lasia full Wiley or
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 12: taking a pow Powe or Raven Johnson or Ree Hall
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 12: or Sanaiah Fagan or Joyce Edwards I just named, or
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 12: even Tessa Johnson. I just named seven players ahead of Cloye. Now,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 12: Chloe Kitts averages ten and half points in eight rebounds
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 12: per game, so that's not shabby at all, but they
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 12: have allowed her.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 10: Here's my point.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 12: It's not that she's not capable of it and doesn't
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 12: do well in other games or something like that.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 10: It's just against Texas.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 12: In the two wins for South Carolina, she's been a
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 12: major factor both in the game in Columbia and in
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 12: the game in Greenville in the SEC Tournament final.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 10: She was a major factor in that game.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 12: And that's what the point is, is that she can't
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 12: be allowed to have a huge game because you know,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 12: between Pow Pow and Raven Johnson and full Wiley, they're
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 12: gonna get a lot of you know, they're gonna get
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 12: their points, so you have to limit the other players.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 12: You have to limit Sanaiah Fagan, you have to limit
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 12: Joyce Edwards. You know, the leading scores for South Carolina
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 12: come off the bench. Jeorse Edwards, the outstanding freshman, averages
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 12: thirteen points per game in Malaysia full whiley averages twelve.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 10: Points per game. They come off the bench and they're
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 10: the leading scores.
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  Speaker 12: That's why the game Cox did not have a first
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 12: team All American, That's why South Carolina did not have
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 12: a National Player of the Year finalists, because they're the
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 12: some of the parts, but there are really good, some
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 12: and very dangerous parts. And that's what Texas will have
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 12: to contend with.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say that's a tight fist for
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: the South Carolina game Cocks and Don Staley.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: This is a good whole team.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: And all right, So Craig Rehaul versus Madison Booker, are
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: we building this up to be this like championship fight?
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: If Madison struggles today, will Rehaul become like this is
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: the player of the tournament? What do you think about
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: this matchup?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I think it gained a little more legs because
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 12: after the game in Austin the Texas won, This stuff
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 12: kind of filtered out that that that Madison was saying
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 12: things like she can't guard me, she can't guard me.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 12: She she never said the words she can't guard me.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 12: She said, at times when I'm really going well, I
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 12: feel like no player can guard me.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 10: If I'm playing my game and I'm doing well.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 12: She didn't say pointedly Bree Hall can't guard me, but
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 12: because Bree Hall drew the defensive assignment on her.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 10: Then in the SEC.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 12: Championship, when Booker had a sluggish start and a slow
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 12: game and all that, all the South Carolina players were
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 12: kind of clowning her after the game and saying, oh,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 12: we can't guard you.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 10: Hump, you know that sort of thing.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 12: So that thing kind of gained its own legs about that.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 12: I made a comment to Madison the other night about
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 12: the whole thing, and what I was trying to go
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 12: with this at TCU was when you are in a
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 12: zone and you're really driving and they're not stopping you,
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 12: do you feel in the moment like they can't guard me.
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  Speaker 10: I'm gonn going.
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  Speaker 12: When I said that, she started laughing, like here we
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 12: go again, and I'm like I'm not I said, I'm
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 12: not talking about South Carolina.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 10: I'm just talking about.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 12: Within yourself and then you know, and then she went
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 12: on and answered the question.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 10: But it kind of gained it the legs.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 12: And in an event as big as this, where there's
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 12: so many reporters here and so many websites and so
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 12: many podcasts and so many other media covering the thing,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 12: in a deal like this, you're going to have people
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 12: looking for additional angles, other other things to discuss other
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 12: than just match up itself.
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  Speaker 2: So Rory Harmon is the defensive stopper.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: She got to asked yesterday about like, Hey, when you
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: were recruited here do you want? Did you expect to
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: play forty minutes of tight nosed defense the entire time?
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: She said, Hey, that's what I've been doing since high school.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: This is what I'm kind of used to doing. You
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: said at the beginning crag, we were talking about how
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: both these coaches have faced each other another times. The
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: fourth time they've seen each other, I can see this
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: turning into a defensive battle, and this being who is
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: going to play hard noe defense longer. If that happens,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be the long Horns because they have Roy Harmon.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 10: Well.
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  Speaker 12: A lower scoring game would definitely favorite Texas The game
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 12: they won at home against South Carolina was what.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 10: Was sixty six to sixty two.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 12: The game they lost was sixty seven to fifty in Columbia.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 12: The game they lost in Greenboble was sixty four to
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 12: forty five. They couldn't get their offense going on that
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 12: and South Carolina had enough offense to go with the
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 12: defense that was really clamping down on Texas. So they've
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 12: got to find some offense, for sure. But a game
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 12: that's played in the fifties to sixties, I think probably
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 12: what favorite Texas.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: So finally I want to ask, what are your expectations
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: for this game? Do you see what's the path for
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: the Longhorns to win outside of it just being a
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: low scoring game.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 10: Well, I'm going to tell you right now.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 12: The key, the big keys to me is the number
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 12: two two, as in quarter number two, as in the
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 12: second quarter. In both of the games for South Carolina
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 12: that they won, they dominated, absolutely dominated the second quarter
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 12: of the game.
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  Speaker 10: Texas was awful.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 12: I think they scored six points eight points the game
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  Speaker 12: in Colombia and didn't do much better in the set.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 12: They gave up a fifteen oh run in the second
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 12: quarter in the game in the Columbia and also had
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 12: another really dive I think it was thirteen unanswered. The
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 12: game in the SEC Championship in Greenville, they just in.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 10: The first quarter was closed. It was twelve to ten.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 12: But the second quarter they just got outmanned and outmatched
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 12: and didn't make shots, and South Carolina did and got
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 12: them in transition.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 10: So we may find out early again.
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  Speaker 12: If South Carolina has a real big first quarter or
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 12: second quarter like that, it could be another long night
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 12: for Texas. If they stand toe to toe with them
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 12: in the first half, then I like their chances. Then
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 12: they probably you go through the last couple of quarters
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  Speaker 12: and have a shot to win this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I don't want to give too much away here, Craig,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: but Roy Harmon almost said the stat that's the secret
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: stat for this team.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what it is? You know what she
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: was alluding to.
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  Speaker 12: Have no idea, but I can, but I can tell
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 12: you this. I mean, that's just something that they keeping themselves.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 12: But they have several different layers and tiers of stats,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 12: and it has usually has to do with rebounding, points
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 12: in the paint, and points off turnovers. Those all three
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 12: were real big factors in all three games. When Texas
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 12: won the game in Austin, they out rebound South Carolina,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 12: they outscored them in points in the paint, and they
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 12: got them to turn over the ball more and scored
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 12: off of turnovers more. So I would have a feeling
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 12: it's something like that, But you know, it could be
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 12: any number of different tiers of stats. But I would
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 12: say that that that you'll have something to do with
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 12: one or more of those elements.
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  Speaker 1: Texas and South Carolina tip off tonight ninety eight one
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  Speaker 1: four six pm tip. Craigway will be on the call. Craig,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: before I let you go here. Final four for the
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: men is in San Antonio. Are you caring or you
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: locked in who you got?
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  Speaker 10: I picked Duke at the start.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 12: I have three of my four picks still around, and
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 12: so I would say, you know, I'm gonna stick with Duke.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 12: But the game with Houston, I think, is going to
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 12: go a long way toward determining the national title. I
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 12: think if Houston wins, they've got a real good chance
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 12: to win the thing. Auburn has been the number one
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 12: overall seed and they've been number one for most of
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 12: the year. But it's funny, I know, you like to
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 12: look at those things with the fellows in the desert
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 12: in the way they play those odds and all that
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 12: kind of stuff, and they have like the lowest odds
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 12: to win it, you know, the longest odds to try
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 12: to win it. So it's it's kind of interesting to
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 12: see how that is, see how that's to be.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: So yeah, my degenerates, my degenerates have been talking about that.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: Craig all Right, Texas baseball tonight, also against Georgia.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: Quickly, what are your thoughts here?
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 12: If Jared Spencer has another good night on the mound
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 12: and then they dodged the thunderstorms around the Greater Austin
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 12: and Central Texas here they had a good shot to
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 12: win the opener tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Craig, have a great call tonight, my friend Texas and
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: This is gonna be a good one.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Jim all right, Texas in South Carolina tonight on
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: ninety eight one caved FM, five forty five hour times
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  Speaker 1: six pm. Tip Craig ways on the call, all right,
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  Speaker 1: when we come back more Men's Final four. Does Houston
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: have a chance to win the whole thing. We'll talk
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: about it next on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: Andrew Zimml filling in for Craig this afternoon as the
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: Texas women's basketball team fased off against South Carolina in
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: the Final four. Winner goes on to play a game
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: against either UCLA or Yukon, which could be very interested,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: very intriguing. But the Longhorns, they got their work cut
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: out for him. Last time these two teams played like
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: Craig said, it came down to a second quarter, a
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: twenty one to nine run that led a deficit too
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: large for Texas to overcome. Other news that came out today,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: former Cowboys backup quarterback got a new deal that would
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: be Trey Lance greed to an agreement a one year
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: deal where a six point two million with the La Chargers.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: Sources to old ESPN earlier today, Lance and Taylor Hinnicky
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: are now the backups for Justin Herbert.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: I was a big Trey Lance guy coming out of
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: North Dakota State, the number three overall pick in the
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one draft. He remains something of a mystery
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: after four seasons, which at the most important position on
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: the field, you kind of would like a sure thing,
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: and Trey Lance has never really been able to show
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: anybody what he is capable of. In twenty twenty three,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys acquired him for a fourth round pick and
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: last year's draft. Didn't play a snap in twenty twenty
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: three and only got some spot duty in twenty twenty four.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: You thought with the injury to Dak Prescott that Trey
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: Lance could have gotten some snaps. Last year, Cooper Rush
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: was the backup quarterback that got the NOD because of
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: that injury to Dak Prescott, so Lance never got any
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: playing time. At twenty four, he's younger than twenty twenty
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: four first round picks Bonnix and Michael Pennix, junior former
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: coach Mike McCarthy, and Lance just needs to Former coach
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said, Lance just needs to gain some experience.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: He's only played nineteen games in North Coastate before entering
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: the NFL, Which is a perfect segue into college basketball
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: because the two teams that are playing in the Final
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: four the two teams that most people have picked to
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: win the whole thing. Duke and Houston are two completely
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: different mindsets when it comes to the way that you
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: go about competing. Now, the one and Done has existed
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: in the NBA for about twenty years ish right, and
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: the idea behind it was, we're not gonna let guys
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: go straight from high school to the NBA. We won
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: him at least one season in college, with the hope
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: being that these guys would gain some experience, get an education,
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: and then go into the NBA. What it turned into
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: is essentially college turning into a nine month AAU circuit
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: for some of these guys before going to the NBA.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: And Duke, while they do have some older players on
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: their roster, they are led by eighteen year old AP
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: All American and Player of the Year Cooper flag. They
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: are a young team led by John Shier, a young
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: head coach. Now give him all the credit in the world.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: He's an experience head coach at this point. He's got
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: Duke to the Final Four. After doing it as a player,
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: he now does it as a coach.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: But this is a.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: Young Duke squad led by a young guy in Cooper Flagg,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes, is a young king of
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: the court. He's a very just turning eighteen years old.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: He's going to be the number one overall pick in
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: this year's NBA draft, but there's still a lot of
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: experience that he lacks, and for Duke, a program that
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: isn't for again all intensive purposes, rolled through the NCAA
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: tournament and beat a team in Alabama, a two seed
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: that a lot of people get picked to get to
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: the Final four. They rolled through them and beat him
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: by almost twenty points. So they haven't dealt with a
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: lot of adversity compared to what the Houston Cougars have
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: with Calvin Sampson and his squad. That team, an older,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: more wiley, more beat up, taking their lumps type of team,
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: comes into this Final four maybe feeling like they're a
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: little longer in the tooth and a little bit more experienced.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: John Shire spoke at his media availability yesterday about how
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: do you prepare for Houston, who can throw so many
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: different looks at you.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 6: Houston no offense to our scout team. We have a
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 6: great scout team. It's not something you can replicate, and
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 6: so it's a combination of understanding what could or could
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 6: not be there. But then at the same time, you
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 6: don't want to make them out to be the boogeyman.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: No, they can't be the boogeyman, but you got to give.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: Them some respect.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: And what this season has shown, at least to me,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: is that Houston a team that rolled through the Big Twelve,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: that looked like the best team in the conference. Almost
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: from the tip, they felt really good. Josh Shire was
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: on Scott Van Pelt's Sports Center and you talked about
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: the concerns the team like Houston gives you.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 4: Well, a lot concerns me.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 6: I think you start with the fact that they've had
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 6: the core of their team has been together for multiple
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 6: years and so the experience they've had together, their connection
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 6: is incredibly deep. But they're just a team that doesn't
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 6: beat themselves. You know, you have to really beat them.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 6: And it starts with they make everything difficult for you
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 6: on our offense.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 4: Our offense, their defense is legit.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 6: You know, when you see two guys moving in a
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 6: pick a roll defense together, another three are moving that
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 6: same exact time. I mean, it's incredibly impressive when you
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 6: watch him play. And then they have a top ten
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 6: offense in the country. You know, they have three guys
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 6: that are shooting over forty from three, they poulenge you
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 6: in the offensive glass. They're just just they're They're a
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 6: great team, and so a lot concerns me. I feel
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 6: we're a great team too, and we're excited for the challenge,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 6: but a ton of respect for coach Sampson and what
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 6: he's done, and then their team of how connected and
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 6: how tough they are.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: And one of those tough players is Juwan Roberts, who
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: played like a legitimate All American for most of the season.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: Between Midjanuary early February, he averaged almost seventy and seven
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: while playing almost thirty five minutes a game.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 13: Now.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: He suffered an ankle injury in early February and struggled
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: over the next thirteen games. He missed two games in
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: the Big twelve tournament with that ankle injury as well
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: in the last two games he struggled with foul trouble
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: on top of that. These are the things that the
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: Cougars have to clean up if they want to advance
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: past Duke and have a matchup with either Florida or Alburn,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: which is an interesting matchup to say the least. Alburn
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: and Florida two teams out of the sec who have
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: battled for supremacy in the conference. And again it's an
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: Auburn team led by again a relatively older group and
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: an older head coach in Bruce Pearl. They're one in
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: three down the stretch going into the NCAA tournament. A
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: lot of people were questioning how good they would be
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: come tournament time, and we heard when we talked to
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: Crag the guys out in Vegas aren't so high on
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: Alburn even though they're the number one overall seed. This
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: is the best final four according to Ken Palm ever
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: point blank period of the top ten Ken Pom scores.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: These four teams, these four to one seeds who are
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: playing in the final four in San Antonio, the first
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: time we've gotten four to one seeds since two thousand
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: and eight. This tournament and these games on Saturday will
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: be some of the best games of the season. If
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: it shakes out the way that we think it will.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: I'm beyond excited. I picked Duke to win the entire
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: thing at the beginning of March. I've since after listening
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: to Calvin Sampson all week, after listening to the way
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: that the Duke players have talked and really listening to
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: some of the smarter guys, and maybe it's just that
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: Texas biased. I'm leaning on the Cougars in tomorrow's matchup,
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: and then for Florida and Alburn, I think Bruce Pearl
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: has this team kicking at all on all cylinders.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: I'm going to Alburn.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: I'm going Houston over Auburn in the National Championship on Monday.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, we'll wrap up our
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: three and The Craigway Show and gear you up for
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: tonight's Final four matchup between Texas and South Carolina. All
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: coming up next on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrew Zimmel hanging
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: out with you. Wrapping up a Friday edition of The
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: Craigway Show. Craig will be back on Monday, Win Loser
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: draw joining the program, taking back over sitting in the
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: big chair. I'm glad that I was able to keep
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: the seat warm. Cameron Parker will be with him as well.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: Cameron calls Saturday's matchup as Texas and Georgia face off
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: in the SEC, the second home series for the Texas Longhorns.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: Talk about good games happening at the dish. First LSU
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: comes into town. Now Georgia comes into town. David Salizman
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: and Mike Hardball arch on the call tonight six fifteen airtime,
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: six thirty, first pitch on one oh three one, Austin's
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: eighty station. Check it out on the free iHeartRadio app
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: And while you're there, make that one of the presets
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: the zone should be your number one. Preset one O
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: three one should be your number two because that is
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: where Texas baseball will play for the rest of the season.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: And then ninety eight point one tonight is where you
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: can hear Texas women's basketball. Speaking of let's hear from
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: the head coach, Vick Schaeffer as they gear up for
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: what will be one of the best matchups of the season.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: This is the fourth time that these two teams have played.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: How important is it, coach, that you have experience in
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: the final four? How important is it that you are
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: been there before, You've done that to get to this
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: point and try to win this championship for Texas.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 9: You know, I told them the other night after we
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 9: won in Birmingham, we got on the airplane and before
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 9: we took off, because I knew they were going to
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 9: go to sleep, and we weren't going to land till
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 9: two fifteen.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 4: I said, we're.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 9: Going to land, You're going to go home, wash clothes,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 9: and we're getting right back on the airplane. I said,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 9: from that moment on, you will not have a minute
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 9: to yourself. I said, I realized you want to see
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 9: your families. They're going to be with you. But I'm
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 9: going to need y'all to really try to If you
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 9: get an hour, if you get two hours, you need
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 9: to have that time to yourself. You need to take
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 9: a nap, you need to refresh mentally.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 4: As well as physically.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 9: And you know you can visit with family when you're
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 9: done with spring semester. Not take wanting to take away
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 9: from any of that, because I know all my kids
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 9: of their families are here, and certainly I want them
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 9: to enjoy that. But you just get pulled from so
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 9: many areas, so many different directions, and I just want
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 9: them to you know, we had a tough regional.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, we had to play.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 9: Another team from the SEC in Tennessee is playing very
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 9: well and is a really good team.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 4: Had a knockdown drag out with them.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 9: Then we had to go up against TCU, who's a
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 9: conference champion. As Rory said, offensively, their efficiencies off the chart.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 9: Got a seventh year player on their team, a fifth
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 9: year player on their team. That's their two best players.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 9: So we knew we had a challenge there. And obviously
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 9: if you watch that game Monday night, you saw how
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 9: hard my kids played. So yeah, it's something that was
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 9: on my mind from as soon as it was over.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 9: And I had to tell my staff too, we have
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 9: to really try to lock in and really close the
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 9: doors and lock out the distractions if he will, and it's.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 4: Hard to do.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 9: And again for my kids, I want them to enjoy this.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 9: I mean, you guys don't know this. Every time they
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 9: walk in a room somewhere, there's something they're waiting for.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, tonight, what's waiting for them is the University of
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: South Carolina that they've faced off against three times this season.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: To lock in now, Texas beat South Carolina a couple
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: of years back. This couple months back, they snapped a
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: fifty seven game SEC regular season win streak. South Carolina
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: is vulnerable. In that loss in January, that loss in
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: I guess February, the Gamecocks went a cold, poor shot
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: selection turned the ball over in that earlier loss. Multiple
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: players got in defouled trouble as well, and Texas's defense
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: is as formidable as advertised. This is a great defensive team.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: Ry Harmon talked about when she got recruited what Vick
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: Schaefer's plan was for her. Did you know you were
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: going to be playing forty minutes of defense to night.
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  Speaker 17: I don't think he had to stress it to me,
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  Speaker 17: because I think he saw that I was already doing it.
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  Speaker 17: I've been playing defense for quite some time high school
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  Speaker 17: and leading up to this point. But that's the reason
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  Speaker 17: why I chose to come here, and we're part of
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  Speaker 17: the reason why I chose come Here's because he took
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  Speaker 17: that much pride in defense, and I was already showing
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  Speaker 17: that at a young age that I really did care
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  Speaker 17: about defense and I understood the fundamentals of defense. Obviously,
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  Speaker 17: I didn't know everything then, and I just completely just
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  Speaker 17: learned a whole new wave of defense here. But yeah,
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  Speaker 17: he didn't He didn't have to really like preach that
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  Speaker 17: to me, honestly, because he knew I hadn't.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, these players love their head coach and their head
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  Speaker 1: coach talks about how much he loves this team and
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  Speaker 1: these players. Ry Harmon got asked, but how bad they
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: want to win this final four game against South Carolina
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  Speaker 1: not only for themselves but for Vic Schaefer.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, obviously he's how many seven out of the eight
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  Speaker 17: years in lead eight, So I think getting to the
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  Speaker 17: tournament is one thing, and then you're getting to the
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  Speaker 17: lead eight and then now we're in the final four.
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  Speaker 17: But obviously he's been here before. That just means a lot,
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  Speaker 17: Like that's kind of why we come to Texas because
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  Speaker 17: he knows how to win, like he's quite legendary. And
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  Speaker 17: so when we look at these games coming up, and
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  Speaker 17: obviously we wanted for ourselves, but someone who like sacrifices
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  Speaker 17: like spending family time and sacrifices to sleep sometimes most times,
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  Speaker 17: and you know stuff like that, Like it's so hard
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  Speaker 17: for us to just.
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  Speaker 2: Not want to do it for him, Like we.
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  Speaker 17: Gotta not be so kind of tied up in ourselves
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  Speaker 17: and wanting the success for ourselves, but we have to
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  Speaker 17: show our respect and appreciation for him and of course
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  Speaker 17: the rest.
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  Speaker 1: Of URK, which is great. You gotta show respect to
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  Speaker 1: your head coach, gotta show respect to your opponent. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the big matchup tonight that will decide this game, At
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: least in my mind, the deciding matchup will be Rehaul
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  Speaker 1: versus Madison Booker.
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  Speaker 2: The winner of this.
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  Speaker 1: Matchup now, Texas is Madison Booker SEC player of the
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: year in the win against South Carolina this season, twenty
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: points on seven of twenty two shooting. It helped out
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: by Taylor Jones and Kyla Oldacre cleaning up the glass
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  Speaker 1: and playing good down low. But Bree Hall will be
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: the primary defender on Madison Booker tonight. What do you
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: think of Hall and what do you think of the
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: South Carolina team?
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  Speaker 4: She's a great defender.
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  Speaker 16: I mean, it's kind of shocked she wasn't on like
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  Speaker 16: the like the like our companies, like defensive team or
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  Speaker 16: anything like that. Long lean athletic. She definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 16: makes you think on the court as an officive player.
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  Speaker 16: Oh yeah, she's a great player. I totally have alma
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  Speaker 16: respect her. Definitely don't make me think, like I say,
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  Speaker 16: a great player.
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  Speaker 1: No bulletin board material here, Texas's Madison Booker making the
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  Speaker 1: smart decision, not giving them anything to gear up your
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: opponent any more than they're already geared up for this
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  Speaker 1: Final four matchup. Now Texas plays tonight kived FM ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight to one, Aritime five forty five six pm.
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  Speaker 10: Tip.
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  Speaker 1: Craig Way will be on the call from Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 1: I like the Longhorns of this one. On the other
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: side of the bracket, Yukon has been rolling. Give me
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: Yukon and Texas in the National Championship on Sunday. That's
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: what I'm pumped up for. That's what we're looking forward
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: to until next time. Creig will be back in the
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: chair on Monday. Cameron Parker will be with him as well.
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  Speaker 1: I will see you on the other side. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know when the next time we're gonna talk, but when
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: the next time we do talk, we'll talk Texas baseball
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: because they have a big matchup this weekend against Georgia
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  Speaker 1: six fifteen air time, six point thirty first pitch Hardball.
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  Speaker 1: Harge is on the call, Austin Dating station one oh
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  Speaker 1: three to one. We'll see you next time. Until next time,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Andrew Zimmel. I'm not wrong, I'm just early.
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  Speaker 10: Pete