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Good afternoon, Welcome down the Ball here

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on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
your host for the day, Ja Gonzales.

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My partner in crime, Steve Rivera, is in Salt Lake City.

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He'll be reporting in a little later
in the show. Today he's out covering

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the game and now he gets to
stay for the weekend. I've got our

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our able guest host today, George
Midas from Showtime Cards was here yesterday.

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George, welcome, appreciate you being
here again. Thank you so much.

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I'm fired up today and sids back
from spring break. Yep. It'll be

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here today and tomorrow to run the
to run the show for us. So,

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is everybody breathing easy, everybody feel
a little better off the back?

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Yes? Yeah? Were you well
first? Yes, it was scary scary

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hmmm, I mean the last minute
or so, we kind of we broke

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it open. Yeah, we were
down and then we got up six points

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going into the Hofs. So before
that it was we were missing a lot

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of layups, you know, missing
that's in there. Yeah, right,

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that was a big deal. And
Tommy even said that, he said,

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look, all we gotta do is
finish. And uh, first of all,

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I'm watching it with my family,
my two daughters and my wife.

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Okay, they're nervous. They're nervous, my daughter. It's not going well.

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And I'm like it relaxed, you
know, here's how here's how I

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looked at it. Yes, you
know, were you thinking Princeton all over

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again and all that stuff. Of
course you are, of course, of

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course here because you're thinking, you
know, I think they got down what

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five in the first half. At
one point, you got like they couldn't

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make a shot. Caleb Love couldn't
make a shot. They were missing all

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those layups, the players, right, they were getting out rebounded. I

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mean you just thought, God,
you know, they're not gonna you know,

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they're not doing that now, come
on. And then, like you

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said, they had that little run
the end of the half they go into

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they go in, you know,
up by six, and I thought,

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ok, you know, my thinking
was, Okay, you didn't play very

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well. You know, you missed
a lot of opportunities long we stay played

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out of there, you know what, and you're still up six, you

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know, just come out in the
second half and and get off to a

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good start, take charge and win
the game. And that's exactly what they

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do. It's exactly what they did. I mean, were you nervous a

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little bit? But I don't know
why this year I felt work. Maybe

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it's just the edition of Loving that
kind of kept me a little better.

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But because last year I felt like
nobody, nobody wanted the ball, right.

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You know. It's funny because you
think about Caleb Love's game, and

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we'll be before I go on,
I'll mentioned Reggie Gary's going to join us,

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so he'll help us break this thing
down, and we'll see how he

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was watching the game, what he
was thinking. And then Matt Mulebach in

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the second hour. So we got
you a couple of great guests to break

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this thing down. You know,
guys who know and uh you know,

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and these guys played guard. The
guards very important for Arizona, you know,

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they always are in the NCAA tournament. Caleb Love did not have a

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good first half, you know,
his he couldn't make a shot, couldn't

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make it three. I think he
was one for seven from three at one

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point and he ended up three for
twelve. I mean, that's not a

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good shooting day for him at all, six for seventeen overall, but you

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know what, he scored eighteen points
out He had a double double basketball.

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Yeah, he had five assists,
no turnovers. You feel like he had

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a bad game, but he had
a bad shooting day, but he you

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know, he was important to what
they did. I mean that's how I

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saw basically. I think from last
year's team, this year, we have

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more players on this roster that can
distribute, that can do more, that

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can score like he sho It's more
of a balanced team. Yeah, he

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can score. He scored today.
He picked us up in big, big

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point. And then also we talked
about yesterday, Kylon was kind of the

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X factor and Kylon needed to be
there and he had a great game.

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He did played, He played really
well. Not I mean he was the

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leading scorer twenty points, eight of
nineteen, four of nine, three pointers,

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eight assists. I mean that that's
the game everybody's been waiting for Colin

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Boswell to have, right, Yes, And and that's kind of what's been

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and we've we've been saying and we've
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guys play like that, you know, Colin Boswell twenty, Caleb Love eighteen,

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they're really damn good. And and
they were and on the defense and

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the boards, Umar Umar was Umar
al right. I mean Davis Gavis didn't

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even really need to write Umar eleven
points, thirteen rebounds. You know,

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Pellet struggled a little bit. He
had some foul foul issues. He's he

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missed a bunch of of you know, point blank shot Reeves open, but

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he he didn't hurt the team.
You know, he still had he only

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he had one turnover, He had
five assists. You know, they only

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had nine turnovers in the game they
played. They can play better, but

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they played a kind of game that
they need to keep playing, right And

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if they keep playing these games like
this, they'll they'll keep moving in the

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tournament. And that I mean,
I'm not saying that everything's okay now because

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now they got to put another one
together, right, But I feel like

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they they did the things that going
in you thought those are the things that

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they got to do, and they
did them. You know, I mean,

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yeah, we're people nervous I'm sure. Let me look everybody that I've

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talked to about the game since that
first half. Oh god, you know,

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but they crushed them in the second
half. We won by twenty.

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Interesting story. Yesterday we talked about
the line. The line was twenty twenty

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and a half and a half twenty
and a half, and I was like,

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way over, it's going to be
twenty five, and the other innswered

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with Sammy, Sammy, he goes, no, no, that's taking the

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points. I slept on it.
I waited till today and I've you know,

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I had this. I was like, God, if it only comes

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down one point. It came down
to nineteen, and oh did I got

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in there at nineteen and a half. Then you and I covered. I

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still thought it was twenty and a
half, and they missed that bunny right

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at the end, the layup that
didn't go in. We were laughing at

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that because because I thought it was
still twenty and a half, I didn't

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know what had dropped to nineteen two
hours prior. Wow, we're good for

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you, man. I so we
both won. I mean, he picked

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under it and I stayed away from
it. I resisted the temptation I took

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some other games. I've had a
good day so far. I had a

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good night last night. I had
Colorado last night. I felt good about

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Colorado. I just took some of
the morning games because I knew I was

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going to get to get to watch
those, and you know, it would

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be here and I wouldn't be watching, you know, these games so much,

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and I'll go home and I'll maybe, you know, play a little

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bit tonight. But I'm off to
a good start and I'm having I'm having

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fun. No big upsets yet,
little upsets, uyu. Little upset to

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me. That was not an upset. No, that was not I had

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to caine and everything that I'm in. I'm you know, I've got a

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number of brackets. Yeah, I've
got to cane in everything that I'm in.

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And then there's a I feel like
there's so many games for the lower

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seed this year is actually favored in
Vegas, No, it is. I

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think there's a few of those in
this tournament. I mean, besides the

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top seeds. There's so much parody
out there. It is. Yeah,

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and so it's uh, it's it
was lucky. It was. It was

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a little bit of a nerve wrecking
morning. But as the game went on,

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you saw ires want to take charge. They were just better, you

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know, they were just better.
And I just thought at the end we

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all played them. Yeah, exactly. They they did what they needed to

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do and and they uh and they
did it. So anyway, so as

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mentioned, we're going to have a
regigiary coming in uh in a little bit.

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We'll we'll we'll pick his brain on
on what he thinks. Uh,

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he saw. You know, I
saw a lot of different things, you

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know, coming out of the half. Not that I'm any kind of a

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great analyst or anything, I thought, you know, I mean, I

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know they're making some three pointers and
stuff like that, but there's been a

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lot of empty possessions they you know, they their their guards and and their

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wing guys were missing balls, and
say get the ball into Ballow, get

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the ball into Keishad Johnson. And
that's what they did early built up a

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lead, and then they were able
to flow and and and just take whatever

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was there. I thought doing that
was really important for them. Yeah,

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I mean, they covered us with
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the ball outside of the first half, so we had to shoot those threes,

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but we had opportunities to go inside, and we missed some a lot

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of shots, right right. So
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you know, took care of business. Absolutely. I think that's really and

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that's really what you want to do. You know, if you didn't watch

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watch the game and you say,
oh, they won by twenty, you

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think it was easy, it wasn't. Really it was easy in the second

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half. I mean when they got
I think Keyshat dunked to put them up

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ten, and I thought, okay, they're up ten. That's a comfortable

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lead. But you know, still
got some work to do just extended from

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there, and they did, you
know, and I think what they led

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by twenty three or twenty five twenty
at one point, you know, and

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so all right, they did what
they needed to do. All right,

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We've got a great show. As
mentioned Reggie Geary coming up, Matt Mulebach

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in the second hour, Steve Rivera
is going to give us a call.

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We're going to talk to him and
the last segment so of this first hour,

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after we're done with Reggie, if
you want to call, we've got

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about five minutes to take a call
right now. Five two zero four one

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six seventy four forty you can give
us a call in the last segment after

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after Matt Mulebach would love to hear
your thoughts. How nervous were you?

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How confident were you? Uh?
Did you have the nineteen and a half

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or the twenty and a half?
Right? Uh? You know? Uh,

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and just how your how your bracket's
going. We've got I'm looking at

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our at our at our show bracket. We've got twenty eight entries in the

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bracket. So got uh even are
included in that twenty eight So there's twenty

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six people going after that great grand
prize of dinner with Steve and I Sol

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all right, So we'll keep track
of that as we go along. But

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uh, you know, this is
fun. It's always fun. I know

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Arizona fans getting nervous and it takes
a little of the fun on. But

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you know what, they got the
game over with early, Enjoy the rest

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of it's a great day. Joy
the rest of the day. And now

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you're rooting for all the good all
the good teams to lose and get the

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hell out of the way. So
but we have a time for Saturday's game.

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Yeah, No, the times will
come out after they get all the

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all the results to see who's who's
in, who's playing. I would imagine

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Saturday, I would bet in the
three o'clock range, being able to it's

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a West Coast game. Maybe you
know the three three point thirty six o'clock

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time slot, but you never know, a lot of it depends on who's

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playing who right if you got to
you know, if you've got a game

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where neither of the team is particularly
attractive, they might move him around.

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But watching the the got the games
on right here, Oregon is handing it

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to South Carolina right now, two
minutes left, they're up by thirteen.

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I liked what I saw again with
Oregon last week, and when maybe in

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Arizona that wasn't a fluke. They
were better that day. And Fally Dante,

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who we talked about yesterday, he's
you know, he's a beast right

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now. And and and Kuznard just
you know, Arizona couldn't handle him in

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any of the three games that they
had with them. Now there's only beat

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him two out of three, but
he scored a ton of points on Arizona

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and he's doing it again today against
South Carolina. So it looks like Oregon

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is about to move on an eleven
seed against them six eleven this year,

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I guess yeah. So far,
Yeah, that team is playing well,

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though there are moments. I'm in
a pool where you pick eight teams,

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doesn't matter what eight just pick eight
teams and you get points based on their

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seed. A buddy of mine just
text me he took and his eight teams.

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He took the four eleven seeds and
the four twelve seeds to see how

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to see how that comes out.
And he's he's doing pretty good right now

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and looking pretty good. So,
uh, it's all good. The women

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are going to come on at they
come on. I think they're on ESPN

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either on I think you get them
on the on the website. I don't

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know if you'll be able to see
him actually on ESPN, but they come

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on at four o'clock. So when
that comes on, we'll put it on

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in here and we'll give you updates
on that. But uh, they've got

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a first four game in stores Connecticut
against against yeah, so we'll see how

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that goes. Seven players, man, I know people say, well,

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you can play with seven players.
Yeah, but you play with seven players,

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but you have an eighth and the
ninth and the tenth. You know,

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the fall trouble. They said they
got nothing. A couple of years

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ago, we primarily the roster with
seven players. But like you said,

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they have three other players and give
them a few minutes if you get in

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foul trouble, if somebody's having a
bad game, somebody rolls an ankle,

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anyone of a number of things,
you know. I mean, I don't

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know which game it was. There
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USC game and the double overtime USC
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five players. That's they had five
players because two players had falled out,

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you know, and they hung with
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But they had five players for the
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the two overtimes. That's too thin. That's a little tooth thin. So

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anyways, it'll be interesting to see
how how a dea pulls her troops together.

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But you know, some of the
other games in North Carolina handled Wagner

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pretty easily, ninety to sixty two. Michigan State, who I just thought,

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is not any good. I haven't
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A nine seed up against Mississippi and
eight seed beat him by eighteen points.

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So what he does is he scheduled
a very tough schedule so they could

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be ready for this moment, right, Like you said, that's it,

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that's tom Is you know. Yeah, last year was I think it was

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very similar. They went on a
run, yep, and then b Yu

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got handled by Ducaine. I actually
watched a bunch of a bunch of Ducaine

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in the in the conference tournaments last
week, and so I picked him in

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everything that I had, and so
that was good. But like, but

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I told you guys off air,
I also had Mississippi State and everything that

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I had, so so that that
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all my bad, I don't like
I have any perfect And then and then

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Creighton handled Akrom pretty easily, seventy
seven to sixty covered a twelve and a

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half point line. That's going to
be an interesting game, yeah, Oregon,

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Yeah, create Oregon. That'll be
That'll be a war for sure.

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All Right, we're gonna take our
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Reggie Geary will be joining us.
We'll talk to him and see how he

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Steve Rivera and Jacnzalez. Fox Sports
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the Balling on Fox Sports fourteen fifty
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Rivera is in Salt Lake City.
He'll be reporting in in the next segment

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calling in. I've got George Mortis
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a guest host and sit on the
board and on the phone. Got Reggie

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Gary, a long time NCAA tournament
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for Arizona during the course of the
year. He's here in town, probably

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doing some real work, Reggie,
I guess, right, but obviously paying

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attention to the game. Yeah,
you know, it's always interesting time of

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year. You know, it's a
really exciting time. Obviously you're a college

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basketball fan or Arizona locket fan,
so trying to get some work in between

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games and scores is always difficult.
But you just love this time of year.

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So I you know, asking around
talking to folks. People were nervous

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in that first half. Arizona got
behind at one point, had you know,

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made a nine still a run at
the end of the half. Well,

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you know, what's going through your
mind? What did you think?

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What did you see in the first
half that was so different in the second

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half because it was two halves all
of a sudden, you know, they

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squeeze out a six point lead,
then they blow them out. Yeah.

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I mean I was like a lot
of like a lot of a lot of

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people here in Tussalo walkat fans where
those first fifteen minutes of the first half,

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I'm looking around saying, you know, this is a familiar feeling,

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and I don't I'm not enjoying this
because team not playing well, Temple being

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slowed, you know, Caleb Loff's
still not really finding his range, and

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so I could see why people were
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back just to get to you know, to tie that thirty five. A

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lot to do with Kylon Boswell and
his first half play. You know,

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he had four threes, He was
efficient, he was aggressive, and you

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know he kind of was kind of
keeping us in the game. We felt

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like, and I think we all
knew we were the better team. So

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to Steve then go on and finished
the quarter there with a six ozer run

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and then the second half, you
know, really to blow the game wide

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open. It was a sense of
relief for sure, but you know,

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there's still some questions. I think
we all have. It was great to

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get to win obviously, right.
Well, and let's say, you know,

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you you mentioned Caleb Love. He
you know, he struggled, and

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he struggled with a shot through the
whole game. You know, he did

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a lot of really good things.
You look at his line, you say,

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Okay, you know you got eighteen
points, you know, double double,

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eleven rebounds, five assists. You
didn't turn the ball over, but

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you didn't shoot the ball very well. As a guard in a situation like

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that where you know, Arizona needs
Caleb Love to you know, they need

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him to make baskets from the outside. But when you're in a game like

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that, you know, do you
consciously say if I'm not going to make

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my shot, I got to do
other stuff and you do other stuff.

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Yeah, there's definitely some of that. Yeah, you know, like I

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say, if you're not making shots, well we're saying do something else,

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make a play defensively, get a
loose ball, get to the free to

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line, do something else to affect
this game. But you know, in

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my mind, it was the perfect
game for Caleb Love in terms of there

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was a game early on he wasn't
needed, you know, thankful, thankfully

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for you know, Boswell's play,
but he got his rhythm back. He

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got to see the ball go through
the rim a few times, and that's

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all a guy like him needs,
you know, he there without question,

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he was in the shooting swamp for
the last three and a half games as

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not to shot the ball well,
not the same energy or body language.

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But when a player like him sees
it go through and he saw three or

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four three threes go through who you
know, that really can energize him.

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Where now he's bleeding in himself again, like okay, I'm back. Yeah,

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I thought he was big. And
then then kylein Boswall the game that

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he had. I mean, that's
those that's the game everybody's been waiting for

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him to have. He's obviously got
to do it again. But you know,

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talk about what you saw with Kylon
and you mentioned he was aggressive and

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he was doing things. Yeah,
no, he was aggressive. I thought.

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Obviously he got up to a hot
start and so that was able to

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kind of calm his nerves and he
was able to kind of you know,

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ease into the game and kind of
feel good about where he was at.

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You know, he was driving,
he had a beautiful lay up there.

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I think he actually had two in
the first half. That's something he doesn't

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do a lot of. And so
he was just in a really good place

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and and and that's where he need
him to be. I've said it on

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the radio number of times. When
when Kylin, you know, has more

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than ten points, I think Arizona's
now twenty one and one today, when

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he has twenty points a career high, they're won in zero. So when

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he's scoring and doing it efficiently or
effectively, you know, now Arizona really

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starts going to the next level.
Because we know Love and most Nights,

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you know, Pablo Larson, most
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Most Knights are going to do the
thing right right, So again you

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know they looking at they kind of
did all the things that we've all said

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all year long. You do all
these things in one game, you're going

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to win and you're if you're going
to do well. You know, as

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you mentioned Umar with another double double. Pale had his fifteen points. He

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didn't turn the ball over a bunch. I mean, you know, he

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was killing me in that game against
Oregon last week, you know with the

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I think he had four turnovers in
the first half. He only had one

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today the team had nine, nine
total, all those things you pulled them

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together. Arizone is really hard to
beat. You know, they really are.

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And that's the formula when when they
get balanced scoring and follow dominating everyone,

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you know, doing their thing,
that's when they're playing Arizona basketball.

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And you know, for us not
to see that in Vegas, not to

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see it the first fifteen minutes,
definitely a pause, but it's good to

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see that. You know, it's
the cat that we remember. We still

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have an opportunity here. We're going
to see it looks like a good and

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a BADA team. Potentially there's about
six minutes ago in that game, and

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and the bad is a good team. And so Longbe State was the perfect

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first round opponent. We're we're fair
by twenty honestly, you know, they

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were a surprise Big West champion,
so you know they weren't the quality of

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the Arizona team. So it's great
to get that win. But it's gonna

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get much tougher as we go forward. Right, So, Reggie, you

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talk about Kylon being the X factor
and when Caleb plays well, the two

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guards, I mean, there were
really tough to beat. Do you see

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any similarities when you were playing with
Damon Stodomeyer with with YouTube Guards on your

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final four run. Yeah, you
know, when I think of when I

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do think of when I reflect on
this team to compare it to teams in

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the past, I do think of
the ninety fourteen I when I look at

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00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:11.559
it, I still look at it
the three guards, because that's kind of

409
00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:15.039
when we made you know, famous
that year with the three guards, Damus

410
00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:18.440
stottr Meyer calibles than myself. I
look up a little bit. I see

411
00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:22.400
a little bit of that with this
group with Boswell Love and then Pela Larson

412
00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:26.079
or kind of slash kJ Lewis,
and I have these three guards, you

413
00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:30.079
know, even Jayden Bradley, and
so I go back to more of a

414
00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:33.039
three guard look than a two guard
look. But you know, Damous star

415
00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:36.000
of Mars, one of the greatest
players, and you have a history.

416
00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:38.880
You know, Boswell's a young point
guard hoping to get you know, somewhere

417
00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:45.559
near that level. Caleb Lovin and
Calibris great comparison, both big time scores,

418
00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:48.279
big bodyguards can get to the ram
beat it from three So I love

419
00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:52.160
that comparison. And then like Pelo
Larson kind of your you know, you're

420
00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:55.160
kind of your wild card where your
Swiss army knife, where he does a

421
00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:56.240
little bit of everything, and that
kind of was my thing as well.

422
00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:00.759
So I really do like this team. You know, I thought in that

423
00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:03.599
little bit of a struggle in the
first half, the key shot and his

424
00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.640
I don't know if you call it
his poison. He made a couple of

425
00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:11.880
three pointers, he grabbed some rebounds, got to he sort of I almost

426
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:14.720
felt like he was the key to
all of that. He sort of held

427
00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:18.200
it all together. I mean,
Kylin was doing well, but you know,

428
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:22.039
key shot was sort of I felt
like a steadying influence. He got

429
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:23.000
a couple of key rebounds. Like
I said, he made a couple of

430
00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:26.480
three pointers. He's gonna have he's
gonna have to be have that role.

431
00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:30.720
You know, they're kinding on him
as somebody who's had the experience got to

432
00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:34.480
the National Championship game. He's going
to need to do that this whole time

433
00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:38.559
in the NCAA tournament, No,
without question, And I think that's a

434
00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:41.799
great name that he's definitely a little
bit of unsung hero, maybe doesn't get

435
00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:45.039
as much praise as he should,
and he's been just a solid addition to

436
00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:48.839
the team. What the experience,
athleticism. You know, he's shooting that

437
00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:52.519
corner three now with more confidence over
the last three four weeks than we've ever

438
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:56.599
seen him do it. So his
timing couldn't be better. And like you

439
00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:00.240
say, he's kind of that glue
guy. And so yeah, was on

440
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:03.400
to continue to do what they're gonna
do and hopefully go on a deep run.

441
00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:06.359
They need their five starters to play, you know, at play well

442
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.680
every single time, and that happened
today. Yeah, I was joking with

443
00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:15.440
some friends that I've said, I
think Arizona fans are way more nervous about

444
00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:22.119
this game than Tommy Lloyd. He
looked so at easy yesterday in his press

445
00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:25.839
conference. He's kind of like,
I'm gonna let everybody worry about us getting

446
00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:27.400
in the final four. I just
would need to win this game tomorrow,

447
00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:32.559
and a coach has to have that
kind of settling effect. How was Loot

448
00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:34.960
as far as stuff like that goes, Look, let's remind I guess I

449
00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:38.200
shouldn't I will. Let's remind you
guys were coming off of first round lost

450
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:42.119
in the year that you went to
the Final four. What kind of how

451
00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:48.359
did he have to keep you guys
calm and keep you away from thinking about

452
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:53.759
that going into the ninety four tournament. Yeah, you know, I'm gonna

453
00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:57.240
say, Coach Olsen, that was
one of one of the things that I

454
00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:02.319
see. I do see a lot
of that and Tommy where you know,

455
00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:06.359
there's the easiness to them, where
there there's a likeness. You know,

456
00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:08.400
coach was always cool, his hair
always looked good, you know what I

457
00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:11.440
mean, there was never any panic
or doubt. And as you as you

458
00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:15.039
guys mentioned, a team takes on
the attitude of the coach. You know.

459
00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.000
So if your coach is jumping up
in the wild and complaining about calls,

460
00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:22.079
well guess what you're gonna be jumping
up and complaining about called. Your

461
00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:25.680
coach has an easiness like, hey, we're we we have sound fundamentals,

462
00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:27.839
We've worked hard to get to this
point. I'm confident and you and competent

463
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:32.079
in what we do. Then that
runs off in the team and you have

464
00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:36.920
that effect even in even in high
pressure moments. So we're fortunate that Tommy,

465
00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:41.440
he's very coach olson esque. And
I think the guys enjoyed and I

466
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:44.759
know our fans do. Okay,
So now they've got this game under their

467
00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.920
belt, you know, breathing a
little easier. The pressure is off about

468
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:51.599
oh, we got to win this
first game, and you know all the

469
00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:55.079
stuff about about Princeton last year.
You know what, what are the next

470
00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:57.559
couple of days like for these guys, Well, the next couple of hours

471
00:29:57.559 --> 00:30:02.480
they get to enjoy this, but
wondering about being a number two seed,

472
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:03.680
being areas on the basketball, They're
gonna have a target on their back when

473
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:07.319
they wake up in the morning,
when they know who they're going to play,

474
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:08.680
and it's way back to business,
you know who. You know,

475
00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:11.640
it looks like, you know,
Nevada is still up eleven here five minutes

476
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.000
ago. If they close it out, you know, your mind goes to

477
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:18.039
the Vada and you start thinking,
okay, you know this is a complete

478
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.160
business trip. So they can enjoy
this for a little bit and yeah,

479
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:26.000
you can breathe a sigh relief,
but you know, you know, it's

480
00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:27.119
still a long way to go,
and you gotta get ready for the next

481
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:32.240
opponent. What a practice is like, you know, the the between day,

482
00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:34.039
you know, how hard do you
think they'll practice or how hard did

483
00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:37.200
you guys practice? And what did
you practice, right, how much could

484
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:41.359
you learn about a team that you're
going to play in that short amount of

485
00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:45.960
time. Yeah, and I'm sure
in most staffs have done this. I'm

486
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.079
sure Tommy and I have has done
as well. You know, you're getting

487
00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:53.240
ready for Long Beach State, but
you have one coach working on Nevada,

488
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:56.400
you have the other coach working on
Dayton, and you're just kind of looking

489
00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:00.480
for something that not a lot.
Are gonna just put put things in during

490
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.640
the first week that you might see
for that second game, just so it's

491
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:07.599
not cold turkey. Just you know, the players might not even know you're

492
00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:10.440
doing it. You're just kind of
preparing them for a style of plays we

493
00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:15.960
potentially might see. And so tomorrow
will be, i say, a light

494
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:18.160
and medium day. You're gonna come
in, move around a little bit,

495
00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:23.000
you're gonna start walking through some plays. You're gonna do extensive video, both

496
00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:26.759
of you know. You'll do a
team one, you'll do position one.

497
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:30.720
We're you'll be looking at you know
guys you're gonna be going against. And

498
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.839
so it is a lot of preparation. You don't want to overwhelm the guys,

499
00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:37.119
but at the same time they know
it's a quick turnaround, and you

500
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.559
gotta be ready to go right right
were you? Were you a lot more

501
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.599
nervous, a little more nervous or
not any more nervous before tournament games and

502
00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.319
say, you know, a good
regular season game, you know, maybe

503
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:53.279
a meaningful regular season game. What
was the nerve factor there? Well,

504
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:57.079
I mean the adrenaline high, the
adrenalins high. You're going to have some

505
00:31:57.160 --> 00:32:00.759
nerve I thought obviously, I thought
nerve were good. I always played with

506
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:05.559
a sense of, uh, you
know, I don't want it. I

507
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:07.319
don't want to lose. I don't
want to get embarrassed. You know.

508
00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:09.079
I always play with that edge,
and that kind of was my feeling the

509
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:13.559
fire. But yeah, yeah,
you know, you're gonna be talking bad

510
00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:15.480
and everybody's gonna be kind of bouncing
off the wall because you want to get

511
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:20.400
to that next game. So everyone's
highten right now and they got which makes

512
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:22.759
this such a fun, fun part
of the year. You learn a lot

513
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:28.680
about yourself and the team. Yeah
yeah, so, uh, you're this

514
00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:31.480
team is just you know, if
this team keeps showing up, we think

515
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:35.559
they can go far. What you
know, what do they have to avoid

516
00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:40.440
on Saturday? Uh? Just it's
not being their own worst enemy. You

517
00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:44.559
know, like say, if you
know there's gonna be some tough patches,

518
00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:47.160
you know, during during this stretch
or during this run, and you know,

519
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:51.839
always a fallback on your defense,
you know, don't panic. Keep

520
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:53.519
that confidence that Tommy's instilled into you. Hey, we're a good team,

521
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:57.480
but we're only a good team when
we're doing X, Y and Z,

522
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.279
playing hard, playing together, you
know, playing focused and when it comes

523
00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:05.559
to that moment, just staying together. So you know, the staff's doing

524
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:07.599
great. This team has an opportunity
there. There's a talent there, but

525
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.599
they're gonna need to bring it every
night. All right, Hey, Reggie,

526
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:13.880
go back and get some work done
if you can. I know,

527
00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:19.000
it's it's really hard. I mean
I work from home and I'm trying to

528
00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:22.680
get some work done and it's really
really hard. So good, appreciate it.

529
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.000
Thanks for having me on, all
right, Appreciate you joining us.

530
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:29.359
So we'll catch you late. Thank
you. All right. That was Reggie

531
00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:32.720
Gary. Look, you know he
was a ninety three, ninety four,

532
00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:37.279
ninety five, ninety six, got
to a final four, had had the

533
00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:43.000
that other two versus fifteen loss with
Santa Clara you know, he's he's seen

534
00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:45.720
what we're looking at right now,
and he was he's a guard, you

535
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.039
know. I mean, he had
no good insight on Love and Boswell and

536
00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.240
what they did today. I thought, I thought that was really good,

537
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:55.160
really good perspective to see. And
you sometimes wonder, like what kind of

538
00:33:55.240 --> 00:34:00.880
pressure these players feel, right,
and I just I don't know. I

539
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:04.640
know, I've talked to Bollo and
he's like, just playing on McHale is

540
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:07.079
tremendous. Yeah, pressure, you
can only imagine these times. And in

541
00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:09.800
the end, they're kids, man, they are kids, and they're playing

542
00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:14.400
on this huge stage. It's crazy. Yeah. So, uh, Nevada

543
00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:16.559
is up by six with about four
minutes left on Dayton. Nevad is the

544
00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:20.920
ten seed, so they still got
a little ways to go on Dayton's still

545
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:22.000
in and so we'll see what happens
there. They're going to the under four

546
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:25.119
timeouts. So all right, we're
gonna be back. We're gonna get Steve

547
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:28.559
on the line, get his thoughts. He would have been at the Tommy

548
00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:31.079
press conference postgame press conference after the
game. We'll see what. Yeah,

549
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:34.639
maybe he'll tell us what he's gonna
write about for tomorrow. So or for

550
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.360
later today, So stick around.
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and on the phone. We've got
Steve Rivera, who's in Salt Lake City,

592
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was at the game today and fall
following up with the press conferences.

593
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So he'll he'll have a story coming
out on All Sports too, So on

594
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a little bit and a story And
to call um, Steve, what are

595
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:50.159
you doing? Yeah? I did. My game story was at the game

596
00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:52.320
at the end of the game.
My column has been up for about thirty

597
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:57.920
minutes. You guys are interrupting my
viewing of the next game. I guess

598
00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:02.360
this. I left with about five
minutes and it was it's about six points

599
00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:06.000
up now I think it's tied,
right, Davids come all the way back

600
00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:10.840
through up by one. So Steve, Steve Albert seem kind of collapsed here

601
00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:15.159
in the last few minutes. Yeah. Anyways, who would be a better

602
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:20.719
opponent for US? I don't think
the winnable one would be Nevada, okay,

603
00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:23.400
but but Dayton's you know, winnable
two. You guys have been here

604
00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:27.400
long enough. I think the first
one is always the tough one for Arizona,

605
00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:30.880
so you can get to that you're
gonna be okay with whomever they play.

606
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:35.199
That was kind of my column today. It was almost like you felt,

607
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:37.079
you felt that there was a lot
of tension in the air that they

608
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:40.880
didn't win this game, and in
fact, Tommy, I mean, in

609
00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:45.800
his opening statement talks about it how
how it was important to everybody, not

610
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:47.400
just the team, it was like
the family. And then how it affects

611
00:38:47.599 --> 00:38:52.719
everybody. Wow. Wow, so
tells you. You know, we had

612
00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:55.440
Reddie break it down for us.
You know what would he saw like everybody

613
00:38:55.480 --> 00:38:59.159
else, He was a little nervous
in that first half. You don't get

614
00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:00.440
nervous because you don't get a crap. I know that already, so I

615
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:04.519
can say that about you. But
you know, what are you thinking in

616
00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:07.039
the first half? Well, you
know what, You're correct, because I

617
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:12.519
don't give a crap. But I've
been through many of these enough before,

618
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:15.320
and I'm picking. What do I
have to sit through another one of these?

619
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:17.480
Because I've been through so many of
them. I'm ticking. What do

620
00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:21.679
you ask again? I mean,
the same questions all over again? How

621
00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:24.000
do you get over this? How
do you deal with this? But they

622
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:27.719
did well and they didn't have to
worry about it. The second half.

623
00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:31.719
They played as well as they probably
have most of the year, defensively and

624
00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:36.559
offensively, but that first half not
so much. Yeah, well exactly,

625
00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:38.400
And you know again, you know, we talked about the fact that Caleb

626
00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:43.639
love Well, he didn't shoot the
ball well, and then that's got to

627
00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:46.519
be a little worried. Some he
played well in everything else. He had

628
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:52.360
a double double, a bunch of
assists, no turnovers. I mean,

629
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:54.280
you look at his game and you
go, he didn't play well, But

630
00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:57.360
then you look at his line and
you said he had to have played well

631
00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:00.719
to to do what he did.
You know, he's already kind of beyond

632
00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:04.679
his label, right, and his
labels he's a shooter, score well,

633
00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:07.719
he hasn't done that in three of
the last four games, or maybe beyond

634
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:09.719
that four or five, or he's
not shooting the ball well, but he's

635
00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:13.639
doing other things. Today he had
eleven bounds. I think it was he

636
00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:16.360
helped with the offense. But there's
no question Arizona, if they're going to

637
00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:21.159
go deep into the tournament, he
needs to play better offensively. Well,

638
00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:22.559
he's got to be able to shoot. He can't. He can't stay in

639
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:25.719
the shooting funk. I think he
was six of seventeen or something like that.

640
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:30.559
Caleb Love can't be going six of
seventeen and expect, you know,

641
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:35.119
expect him to win these games.
Yeah, no question. The guy,

642
00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:38.800
the guy that they really relied on
was Kylon Klins this game for a peace

643
00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:44.719
of mind. He said he has
heard the background noise going on with him,

644
00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:46.559
but he just kind of has tuned
that out and now he just played.

645
00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:50.360
Well, Okay, that's one game. So now you have another game

646
00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:52.440
Saturday, another game, maybe Thursday, another game, so you got to

647
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:57.119
kind of every game is the season
here and we'll see how they handle it.

648
00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:00.360
Yeah, well, what did you
think about the way he played in

649
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:04.039
terms of did he I mean looking
at him and I don't know how close

650
00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:07.679
you are to the court, but
did he have a you know, a

651
00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:10.480
little swagger about him? Did he
look like he was about to have a

652
00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:14.480
good game. Yeah, he had
a presence. He had a presence.

653
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:16.800
Uh, he needed to have a
presence. In fact, I asked him,

654
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:19.440
how did it feelhen he hit the
first one? He says, it

655
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:22.159
felt good, gave him some confidence, and then he was able to hit

656
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:25.199
some more. But you know,
he's kind of stable to kind of I

657
00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:28.800
think when he hit his third one
or whatever it was, he pounded his

658
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:32.199
chest and like he like he like
he belonged. But everybody did, I

659
00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:35.920
mean, he said, the guy
that's kind of probably got unnoticed. This

660
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:38.480
a horbamo. If you remember he
had those three big blocks in the second

661
00:41:38.519 --> 00:41:42.039
half, and you're thinking, okay, this seven is kind of wrapped it

662
00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:45.000
up on the defensive end. Yeah. Yeah, well, and I mentioned

663
00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:47.559
Keishad Johnson, and because in the
first half he hit a couple of three

664
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:52.480
pointers, he was grabbing some rebounds, got some baskets. It seemed like

665
00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:57.559
he he sort of kind of steadied
the whole thing when it didn't look like

666
00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:00.840
it was going so well, yeah, you're right, no question, he

667
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:04.599
played well. He hit those three
corner three points in the corner, and

668
00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:07.159
they need him, they need him
up physically because he's, you know,

669
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:09.079
one of the more physical guys on
the team. But you know, then

670
00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:13.280
Pelle didn't play well in the first
half turned it on in the second.

671
00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:15.559
It was all about the second half, which you know, you wonder is

672
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:19.000
it gonna happen? You wonder is
it gonna happen? And then it happened

673
00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:22.639
in a blur and they scored sixteen
to zero run and then you kind of

674
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:24.519
said, Okay, they got this, they got this under control. So

675
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:27.719
what do you what do you what
are you saying in your column? What

676
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:30.639
are you talking about? What was? Well? My lead is about that

677
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:35.440
how kind of Tommy started the press
cover thing that this means a lot,

678
00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:37.440
you know, not just them to
the players, the families. Uh,

679
00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:40.480
and they and they feel it the
importance of getting through this first game.

680
00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:45.519
And come on, I've been there
for East Tennessee State, Santa Clara,

681
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:50.960
Miamuel, Ohio, all these first
round games and it's like, oh God,

682
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:52.119
what is going to happen again?
And what where do you go from

683
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:57.559
here? Especially a team or a
program like Arizona's there. They have a

684
00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:00.599
reputation of doing well. They also
have a part, but they still not

685
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:05.039
doing well and right now, last
year it's about not doing well. So

686
00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:07.079
so they kind of exercised that now
they can move on. What did the

687
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:10.760
locker room feel like? Uh?
Felt better. It was still kind of

688
00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:15.199
quiet, still kind of low key
business as usual. Uh. They put

689
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:20.440
Boswell and Glallo in the press room
with Tommy and the rest of the guys

690
00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:22.480
were there in the room. It
was kind of a sedated It was not

691
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:25.599
like a great, you know,
we won the world game here, but

692
00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:30.440
uh, it's a relief, let's
move on the palace that he wanted to

693
00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:35.360
play right away. I hear,
I hear that. Uh, you know,

694
00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:37.679
he looked like he was struggling early, you know, miss missing layups

695
00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:42.239
and uh and that type of stuff. But again then I looked at the

696
00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:45.760
line. The team had nine turnovers
total. He only had one. And

697
00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:50.079
you know that was the thing that
that I was really upset with him at

698
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:52.360
or again in the Oregon games.
He had four turnovers in the first half

699
00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:57.000
that game. But you know,
they took care of the ball today.

700
00:43:57.039 --> 00:44:00.280
It looked like, right, we
want but and ny could I who wouldn't

701
00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:04.079
think that? Because they played fast
and loose to the ball on both ends.

702
00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:07.480
In the mid court, they were
like a like a soccer team where

703
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:09.159
they couldn't get into the goal.
But they played you know from the twenties.

704
00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:13.039
They kept throwing the ball away.
That ball is a funky ball too.

705
00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:15.639
Used the same ball last year.
It seems like the bounce is more

706
00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:19.920
than a normal ball. But you
know, they won. The one thing,

707
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:23.400
the one thing that I thought was
very interesting is when they were playing

708
00:44:23.639 --> 00:44:27.639
close in the first half, You're
thinking, I'm not sure, I'm not

709
00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:30.679
sure this team has I mean,
that's resolved against Oregon last week. You're

710
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:35.480
thinking this might be the same team, and then they obviously turned it one

711
00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:37.719
well, and you know, the
thing that I did think in the first

712
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:42.079
half was that long we say it
was running up and down the court with

713
00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.039
Arizona, and I just you know, I said to my family, said,

714
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:47.679
if that's how they're gonna play,
they're gonna lose because Arizona is better

715
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:52.599
than them at that and that's that's
ultimately what happened. I mean, think

716
00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:55.840
about the teams that Arizona struggled with
plotting half court. You know, you

717
00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:59.880
have to play offense. If you're
going to try and run with Arizona,

718
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:04.480
you're more likely than not going to
lose. Yeah, no question. In

719
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:07.320
fact, they're thinking they paying the
zone, and you knew they were going

720
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:08.760
to play the zone, and they
couldn't play the zone the six and half

721
00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:12.960
because they had to catch up,
and that kind of played right into Arizona

722
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.679
fans, especially when you're hitting shots. Yeah. Yeah, So it looks

723
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:21.000
like Norton Nevada is about to lose, and they did. Wow. Dayton

724
00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:24.599
came back and beat him sixty three
to sixty. Wow. So there you

725
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:28.440
go. I picked I didn't.
I think I picked the Dayton because I

726
00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:31.559
don't believe in Alford. I just
don't. Yeah, I know to out

727
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:35.679
to believe in him. So low
it happened. Yep, Dayton came all

728
00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:38.800
the way back sixteen. I'm going
to sit to the press conference see what

729
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:43.000
Dayton says. But that's unbelievable because
they had a huge lead. They did,

730
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:45.639
they did, So how do you
see this matchup? Yeah? So

731
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:50.039
now, okay, so here we
go. It's physical and they're not a

732
00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:52.960
big S point team, so it's
gonna be another difficult kind of plotting type

733
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:57.000
of game with Arizona. They do
have athletes. They have pretty good athletes

734
00:45:57.039 --> 00:46:00.599
in fact, so it should be
a fun It will be just jointed for

735
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:02.360
a while for Arizona. But again, if thinking hits the shots, if

736
00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:07.320
fall, if if Caleb can come
in plenty finally get out of those funk,

737
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:10.960
I think they'll be okay. But
if the back court plays well,

738
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:14.880
we'll see what happens. Yeah,
you know, And it's funny because I

739
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:19.440
wouldn't think that Caleb would have any
nerve issues with any of this, you

740
00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:22.760
know. And and he he didn't
play great in in in in Vegas.

741
00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:27.159
You know, he didn't play he
didn't shoot great in Vegas. He didn't

742
00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:30.599
shoot well. Today, it can't
be nerves. Is there something? Just

743
00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:37.119
something? But remember who he is
a couple of years ago when he Carolin

744
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:39.599
or helped Carolyn gets to the front
four, he had a fantastic run at

745
00:46:39.639 --> 00:46:43.320
the final four. Uh and then
uh and then at the final four,

746
00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:46.039
he didn't have a great final four. So he's streaky like that. Most

747
00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:50.199
of the guys like him. Uh, he gets streaky. You know,

748
00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:53.239
they haven't. Everyone hasn't had a
shooter like him in a while. And

749
00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:58.559
who can shoot as many shots as
go to live the shooter? You know,

750
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:01.239
I can't remember. You don't like
New York Lee wasn't the speaky shooter.

751
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:05.400
You know? He was on?
He was on. So you just

752
00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:10.960
gotta thirty four games into you guys
got to get used to this. You

753
00:47:12.119 --> 00:47:19.519
do you do and the game,
the game game, Well, I know

754
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:23.360
everything was kind of puckered up for
this whole town today in their first half,

755
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:28.000
right Jeorge, I mean absolutely,
And if he's talking about you know,

756
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:31.239
the the families feel the pressure.
I mean, it all leads up

757
00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:35.559
to this moment and when we fall
behind, you can see the confidence and

758
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:37.880
the players were losing it a little
bit, and and it just kind of

759
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:42.079
gets scary there for a moment,
and uh, luckily we came back those

760
00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:45.159
last few minutes and took a six
point lead going into half and and kind

761
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:49.480
of we we gained momentum on that
and stayed with it. And like you

762
00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:52.960
said, Babo had excellent defense that
helped, and and obviously Kylon's like hey,

763
00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:57.960
uh X factor. If Caleb both
of them could put a game together,

764
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:02.119
absolutely we could be dominant. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, So the

765
00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:05.639
work of the day for me,
I didn't use it in the story,

766
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:13.199
is exactly your work. It was
puckered up for twenty minutes where I know,

767
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:15.320
I know Sid was, yeah,
a little bit. But I think

768
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.760
next game it will be interesting if
especially if Dayton satan those threes early,

769
00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:22.000
because this is Dayon's a team that
likes to shoot the three ball, so

770
00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:27.440
early on we'll be able to tell
if we'll see the old Arizona or the

771
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:30.920
Arizona we want to see. Yeah, exactly, exactly, No, you

772
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:35.639
know, look, I think more
than anything, folks are breathing easier because

773
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:37.559
they got the one game. They're
not out in the first round. Of

774
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:40.679
course, I mean they're going to
think you should beat Dayton, but Dayton's

775
00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:44.239
gonna be a harder game, and
so people will expect a harder game.

776
00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:47.320
And I think one of the things
that upsets folks is that you have a

777
00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:51.199
long beach state their fifteen seed.
They feel like you should come out and

778
00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:53.760
crush their skulls from the get go. But these teams are still pretty good,

779
00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:58.880
and they're still pretty good. It
doesn't work that way. You know

780
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:06.360
enough to know that you know you
have every game in the crind and and

781
00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:07.599
everybody. You know. The funny
thing about is all the teams go to

782
00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:10.360
it. Maybe not as much as
Arizona and maybe a couple of others.

783
00:49:10.679 --> 00:49:15.079
That first round is just like,
God, just get you the first one.

784
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:17.119
In the middle of the first half. North Carolina was tied with Wagner

785
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:22.400
right in the middle of the first
half. And and so it's not it's

786
00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:24.480
not easy no matter who you're playing. And that's just people just have to

787
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:29.000
deal with that, right right.
All right, See, we're gonna let

788
00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:32.440
you go, uh, you know, go on there. Everybody can follow

789
00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:37.320
your stuff on all Sports. Tucson
MC column was up and so my game

790
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:40.639
story, all right, so we'll
we'll take a look at that and then

791
00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:45.079
we'll get you on the on the
horn again tomorrow. Uh, and we'll

792
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:47.760
you know, we'll check out when
the press conferences and stuff are so,

793
00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:52.079
uh, but we'll we'll find you
tomorrow and uh, stay out of trouble.

794
00:49:52.119 --> 00:50:00.280
Okay, well something all right,
we'll talk to you tomorrow, all

795
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:02.440
right. Steve Rivera reporting from from
Salt Lake City. You know, I

796
00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:05.920
think you're gonna kind of get the
you know, the common theme. Right

797
00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:09.320
they play like this where they've got
all the pieces doing something and contributing like

798
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:14.000
that. They're hard to beat.
Yeah, I mean they either one of

799
00:50:14.039 --> 00:50:16.079
these teams I don't think could keep
up with Arizona, you know. So

800
00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:19.679
now it's state and then we'll see. And like I said, I think

801
00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:22.960
you know, if you're gonna play
Arizona's game, then they're gonna beat you,

802
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:23.679
right, all right, Well you
got to do is you got to

803
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:27.599
get them out of their game,
out of their element. I don't know

804
00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:30.159
where you know what Nevada does as
far as that goes, You know,

805
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:32.840
do they make you play half court
offense and all that kind of stuff.

806
00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:36.719
But if you're gonna try and play
Arizona's game, you're gonna lose by twenty

807
00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:39.800
like Long Beach State did today and
because Arizona's just got better players than you

808
00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:44.039
got. And even on it,
you know, they beat you by twenty

809
00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:47.280
on a day when Caleb Bluff couldn't
make a couldn't make a shot, right,

810
00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:51.400
Yeah, the first half, I
mean for Long Beach State, the

811
00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:54.239
zone seemed to work, and then
they couldn't play the zone second half and

812
00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:59.440
we broke it open. Yeah.
So yeah, you know, well,

813
00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:01.119
we'll have a couple of days to
figure out you know what what we're thinking.

814
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Excuse me, god, the hiccups
who were thinking about about Dayton nice

815
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comeback. They're probably they were probably
a little nervous as well, but you

816
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gotta be feeling good about the fact
that they were able to come back and

817
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win this game and take their shot
at Arizona. You know, I mean

818
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a lot of times something like that, even if you don't play well and

819
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then win the game. Let's go
back to ninety seven. Arizona played awful

820
00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:27.679
in its first round game against South
Alabama. They were a four seed.

821
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Uh uh and and and come back
and win that game and the rest is

822
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history. You know, they were
national champions. Almost forgot we were a

823
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four seed. Yeah, wow,
they were for They finished fifth in the

824
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Pac ten that year. Wow,
you know, it was Loot's worst finished

825
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in the Pac ten since since his
first year Arizona. And then they just

826
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got on the run. They won
that Kansas game and there was no stopping

827
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them after that. Uh, it
was it was crazy. I mean they

828
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had a tougher time with with Providence
in South Alabama than they had with Kansas,

829
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North Carolina or Kentucky. I mean, well a Kentucky game went to

830
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overtime, but still, you know, they had a tough time in the

831
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early in the early rounds. All
right, we're going to take our break.

832
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We're gonn come back. The Sids
loaded up with breaking news, right

833
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:16.920
said, I got lots of it, Okay, and then Matt Mulebach will

834
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join us. We'll get his take
on the game, see what he thought

835
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about what what he saw with Arizona
and uh, you know again and Matt

836
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was the guard, a point guard
on on four Arizona tournament teams. Uh,

837
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he was a backup point guard on
the eighty eighteen that went to the

838
00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:37.960
final four. Wee getting some of
his thoughts on his experience versus what he's

839
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seen here. So stick around.
Breaking news coming up right at the top

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of the hour,