WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:06.759 Streaming live on the iHeartRadio Act. This is I on the Ball with Steve 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:13.359 Rivera and Jacobzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Welcome back on the ball here 3 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:17.480 on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Jaconzalez here in the studio. Steve is 4 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:20.399 on the road, kind of in the middle of nowhere, in and out 5 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:26.039 of us arrange. He said he's out of gas to I worry about Steve 6 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.079 sometimes when he goes on the road. But we've been trying to get Amazing 7 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:32.960 to look over it, yeah, to talk about some stuff. But we're 8 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:35.039 gonna try and get him again in a little bit. But for now, 9 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:39.359 we've got breaking news with ten of lease. This is I on the Ball, 10 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:44.479 Breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, welcome to breaking 11 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:49.679 news on IE on the Ball. So yesterday Desiree read friends while the U 12 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:56.119 of A's new athletic director was nominated for Sports Business Journal's Athletic Director of the 13 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:00.759 Year. So I think that's pretty cool he took a new job. I 14 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:07.159 was kind of not expecting that. Well, it shows that she clearly did 15 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:11.079 a good job. Yeah, Well, and that Arizona did a good job 16 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:15.840 in going to get her right that you know, she was obviously been was 17 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:19.159 doing a great job at Missouri. So now she's Arizona's athletic director and you 18 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.879 hope that, you know, the quality of quality of work and the job 19 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:26.959 that she's done bodes well for what Arizona's got. Yeah, that's I feel 20 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:30.400 like that's really exciting for Arizona. That you know, there was, like 21 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.519 you I remember you're talking about maybe a month ago or so, the cloud 22 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.319 that was over Arizona for a while, right, and then it just kept 23 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:41.760 clearing up a little by little with Tommy Light's contract extension, the new ad 24 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:47.480 hire. You know, I forget all this Robin stuff and then this is 25 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:52.480 just like another thing that is good for the athletic department. And I feel 26 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:55.079 like I had a good time too. Yeah, no, it is. 27 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:59.400 And I mean Arizona's got a lot of work to do because there's just so 28 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:05.799 much went south for for a while there and now you're kind of trying to 29 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:09.439 right the ship again. We we kind of felt that when uh uh, 30 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:13.960 you know, you're coming out of the Kevin Sumlin era in football, they 31 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:17.879 brought in uh Jed Fish. I'm already forgetting his name right, but you 32 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:22.879 know right, you know, pretty early on you felt like things were going 33 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:27.120 well. Tommy Lloyd got hired at the same time Caitlin Lowe, uh, 34 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:30.840 Chip Hale, all these and you just felt like there was sunshine back on. 35 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:35.199 And then this financial thing comes up and it's cloudy again. Yeah, 36 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:39.120 super cloudy, raining. But now you know you got you got what you 37 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:46.360 what you think or you hope is a uh uh you know, some some 38 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:49.719 hope that they're going to get this fix and that Arizona's not going to be 39 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.560 in a mess for a very long time. Yeah, but that definitely bodes 40 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:59.719 well for Arizona Sports Businessjournal Athletic Director of the Year nomination. That's huge. 41 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:06.919 Yeah, good for her. MLB starts tonight at I should say this morning, 42 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:12.680 tomorrow morning at three am, the Dodgers versus the Padres in where was 43 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:17.080 it again, Korea? Yeah? No, the dog The Major League Baseball 44 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:22.520 season actually starts. Dodgers, My Dodgers, My Dodgers, your Dodgers. 45 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.240 All right, I have a two game set. Uh, they're the home 46 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:30.199 team one day, the visiting team the next day, but with uh with 47 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.439 the Padres, and then they come back they play the Freeway series with the 48 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:39.240 Angels and then the season kicks off for everybody a week from Thursday. Like, 49 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:42.919 there's a lot of pressure on the Dodgers right now. Did they just 50 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.879 spend a billion It wasn't it like one point billion dollars a couple of guys, 51 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:51.520 Yeah, on a a couple of guys in one off season. Yeah, 52 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:57.240 so now, I yeah, I mean it's a I think. Uh, 53 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:02.680 I'm excited. You know, they're the the uh uh what do you 54 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:06.639 call it? The odds makers. They've gotten one hundred four and a half 55 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:11.639 wins. It's a lot of wins, and I don't think anybody else I 56 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:15.960 think maybe I maybe the Braves are picked to win one hundred and two. 57 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:19.600 Other than that sense, nobody's picked to win one hundred one hundred games. 58 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:25.639 Well that's good. So I'm excited. I'm game to make it out there. 59 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:30.519 Yeah. Uh. I went to U a couple of games, uh 60 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:36.040 last season in the summer. Yeah, in the summertime. A game in 61 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.639 the summer. Oh, I didn't go last season, went the season before, 62 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.000 but when I saw him up at up in Phoenix for a regular season 63 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.879 game, then also went to that that playoff game. I tried to I 64 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.160 tried. I'm not trying to go see them at Dodger Stadium anywhere else. 65 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:55.040 Of course. Yeah, I grew up going to Dodgers Stadium. Staples Center 66 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:59.279 had some good teams growing up, you know, first time I went to 67 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.879 Dodgers Stadium six years old, I think I probably was like five too. 68 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:04.800 Yeah, I kind of remember going, like with my kindergarten class. For 69 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:08.759 some reason, I think we did like that, you know, one day, 70 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:13.399 all right, next up. So that's pretty much all we have for 71 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:17.519 breaking news, but I wanted I saw this article today from ESPN talking about 72 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:24.000 the biggest upsets in March Madness history. Now that we're you know, we're 73 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.720 on the March Mania subject. You know, we're talking about the NCAA Tournament, 74 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:31.079 March Media, March Madness. So there have only been two sixteen over 75 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:36.800 one upsets in the history last obviously one was last year Farley Dickinson beat Perdue, 76 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:45.040 right, that was the second one ever. And but Perdue, I 77 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:47.839 mean, Perdue was always a top seed. But they never I feel like 78 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:51.680 this happens to them, where they get upset early on, kind of like 79 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:57.759 you know our wildcats sometimes, well, you know, Arizona's got this reputation 80 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:04.240 that was devel up years ago. When you know loud Olsen and his teams 81 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:11.920 lost lost in the first round, you know, three times, three out 82 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:16.360 of four years in between there they went to a final four. But that 83 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:25.279 Santa Clair loss was something that Arizona fans will always remember. The East Tennessee 84 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:30.240 State lost the year before that, again a game that has always remember. 85 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.000 And then they lost after the year after the final four, they got beat 86 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:39.879 by Miami, Ohio. So you know it's your fans just remember that stuff. 87 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:46.240 They remember the first round losses almost more than they remember the final four. 88 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:53.600 Yeah. So the only other sixteen over one upset in history was UMBC. 89 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:58.199 So that's the University of Maryland Baltimore County was a sixteen C and beat 90 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:02.839 Virginia in twenty eighteen. And Virginia entered that tournament with the second best odds 91 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:08.560 to win the national championship with the loaded roster right and couldn't do it. 92 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:12.680 Couldn't even make it one game, which again you just never know it lost 93 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.480 by twenty Oh my god. It And for fans that feel like this is 94 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.480 unique to Arizona, that you lose in the in the first round, it's 95 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:23.319 not. It never has been, but people feel that way. I mean, 96 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:27.319 those were the only two ever. Sixteen over one we know that is 97 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.279 uncommon, very uncommon, but the fifteen over two is a little bit more 98 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:33.639 common. I don't know how many times it happened, but maybe like eight 99 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:38.519 times, six times. The top of this list was last year's lost to 100 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:45.079 Princeton. That was the top of the fifteen over two because only one Princeton 101 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:48.240 players scored in double figures, with only fifteen points. The you know, 102 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.680 the other rest of the seven of their eight players on their roster scored at 103 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:57.920 least six points. But Princeton only shop forty percent from the field and sixteen 104 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:05.000 percent from three while Arizona their offense just wasn't on. It was kind of 105 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:07.839 a low scoring game for Arizona. They only scored fifty five points compared to 106 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:13.720 Princeton's fifty nine and in the last five minutes Princeton went on a nine and 107 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.600 oh run. And that was that ball game. That was that. And 108 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:22.399 I remember leaving. I was in Barcelona at a Arizona sports bar. You 109 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:26.639 have a sports bar, that's such a thing. The owner went to u 110 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.879 of a wow, and we remember leaving like oh we got this and then 111 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:37.360 we lost. Yeah. No, I you know, fans hate it. 112 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:39.360 We hate it. Everybody hates it. You just you just deal with it. 113 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.440 I look, Long, Beach State, Princeton, whoever it is. 114 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.000 You just got to go out there and play your best game every time and 115 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:52.279 beat them. And if it was only that's yeah, if you just play 116 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:54.720 well, you'll take care of business. Arizona's got you know, it's got 117 00:08:54.759 --> 00:09:00.759 the talent, probably has the best talent on the floor arguably until the it'll 118 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:03.159 at the very minimum get to the Elite eight. You know, whether they 119 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:07.200 play Baylor or whoever, whoever, they've got the better team. They do 120 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:11.200 the questions do they have the better team that day? All about if ye 121 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:13.320 to say, if you play better? Who plays the best that day? 122 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.240 Right? Who plays the best that night? Right? The Wagner Howard game 123 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:24.879 is on. I'm trying to get a score. My my iPad is kind 124 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:28.279 of screwing up, but they're out of break so hopefully it'll come on with 125 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:35.480 Wagner is up. I would you know, I wouldn't even known who I 126 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:39.519 should take in this game, who to bet on? Who to think? 127 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:41.360 Might never heard of either of these? I've heard of both of them, 128 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:46.240 just not enough to do anything with with some of my money. So the 129 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:52.360 Wagner is sixteen and fifteen overall and Howard Bison is eighteen and sixteen. So 130 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:54.360 there you go pretty even. Yep, well that's why they they're both sixteen. 131 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:03.159 The winner. This is a sixteen seed that will end up play let's 132 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:11.440 see, they will play North Carolina and that will be on Thursday, and 133 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:16.120 then later on today after this game, you got Virginia and Colorado State. 134 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.879 Virginia again just happy to be there, Colorado State just happy to be there. 135 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.279 All these teams were you know, for last four in So that's the 136 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.720 second game later on today, and that is that's not for sixteen seeds. 137 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.320 Seed, that's a ten seed. That makes no sense to me. I 138 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.600 don't understand. Yah, you should have asked that. Yeah, well, 139 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:39.399 yeah, I guess, and I guess I understand that. You know, 140 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:45.039 what they were trying to do is not make just the sixteen seeds play their 141 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.879 way into the sixty fourteen bracket, like okay, we got two sixteen seed 142 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.159 seeds here to sixteen there, and then make some other teams that maybe aren't 143 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:58.159 sixteen seeds but maybe we're barely got in make them play well, why would 144 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.759 they be a ten seed? Though? I couldn't begin to tell you, 145 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:05.000 Yeah, couldn't begin to tell weird. That would have been another question that 146 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:09.000 Charles McClelland would have said, we got I need a half an hour to 147 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.639 explain that to you. Yeah, I hope you, I hope if you're 148 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:15.279 listening, you've got a chance to listen to our interview with Charles McLelland. 149 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.000 If you didn't, he's the head of the or the chair of the NCAA 150 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:26.120 Tournament Selection Committee. We'll uh uh put it. It'll be on the podcast. 151 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.639 We'll post that tonight. Look for it on on the iHeart website or 152 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:33.720 the iHeart app. Look for it on Spotify, look for an Apple Podcasts, 153 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:37.080 although I'll be sure to post it both on our Twitter, Twitter page 154 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.720 and Facebook page so it's easy for you to find and don't forget. Join 155 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:45.840 our bracket, uh sweet dinner somewhere. If you can beat me, yeah, 156 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.080 well yeah, you gotta beat. You gotta beat analyse, you gout. 157 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:50.639 You don't have to beat Steve Rye. But you can compare your bracket 158 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.679 to minus Steve's if that means anything to you at all. Look, if 159 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.080 you think we're experts, we're not. Yeah, don't don't think that. 160 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:01.440 Don't think that at all. You know about as much as we do on 161 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:05.639 all of this. I mean, did we see Arizona more often than you 162 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:09.519 did? Maybe because we went to all the home games? Right? You 163 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:15.360 know as much about Stetson as I do, so, which is pretty much 164 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:20.080 nothing. Yeah, nothing, I don't I have nothing on those guys. 165 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.480 Yeah. Coming up in a in a few minutes, Ryan Racky's going to 166 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.720 join us. Ryan the former UH radio guy here in Tucson. He's with 167 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:31.720 Westwood one Sports. He was on the call at the PAC twelfth Tournament, 168 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:37.519 the last PAC twelfth tournament in history, last week for Westwood one Sports. 169 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:39.960 And then he'll be UH. He'll be on the call in the in the 170 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:46.200 Spokane UH first and second rounds for Westwood one. And so we'll talk to 171 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:50.120 him about you know, some of the you got San Diego State up there, 172 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:54.279 you got Auburn up there, Grand Canyon College in the in the tournament, 173 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.120 Alabama up there. So he's got some teams that you know, our 174 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:01.960 of interest to to us here in ear and Tucson. So we'll talk to 175 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:05.360 him about that, about that bracket should be fun. Yeah, So how 176 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:09.879 did you feel about being at the last tournament Arizona. I was sad the 177 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.679 day I got there, you know, and we're only you know, we're 178 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.919 seeing the staff, right. I got there on Tuesday afternoon and the staff 179 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.240 they're in there, they're setting up, and there's there's a cloud. You 180 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:24.080 know, there's some sadness to to the end, sadness to the fact that 181 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.039 some of these people aren't going to have jobs now. The pac ten is 182 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.399 going to continue to exist because it's got Oregon State in Washington State and a 183 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.879 whole bunch of money, so they're still going to do things, but you 184 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:35.639 know, they're letting go a lot of the staff. You know, Ashley 185 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:41.279 Adamson said goodbye, you know, she the studio host us as Yogi Ros 186 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.720 did at the end of the football season. You know that it was a 187 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:48.600 real kind of a heartfelt little video that they did and posted on social media, 188 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.559 and it really gave you a sense of sadness that that this thing is 189 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:58.440 gone after all these after all these years. So, yeah, Tommy Lloyd 190 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.919 give any comment about it, He said, you know, I can't think 191 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:07.320 about that. Yeah, I mean, he said he was sad to see 192 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:09.799 it go, but I'm not thinking about this being the last tournament and us 193 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.399 trying to be the winners of the last tournament. We're just trying to win 194 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.080 a game. Yeah, and that was his approach. It sounds yeah, 195 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:18.960 no, it's exactly so, but it was good. All right, let's 196 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.399 go take our break. We're to come back. Ryan Rack, you from 197 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:24.240 most Wood one Sports, will be joining us and we'll pick his brain on 198 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:28.639 the Spokane UH subregional as well as his thoughts on the last backrof tournaments. 199 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:33.840 So stick around. The Window Depot is more than a windows store. The 200 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.879 Window Depot is a one soft warehouse with everything you need for your complete Homer 201 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.480 model. Shop the aisles of pre built cabinets in a variety of colors, 202 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:46.200 granite and courts, countertops, sinks, skylights and hardware. To complete your 203 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:50.159 project. Need a custom order, we can help. 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We've got them on the phone 269 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:30.359 a couple of times and dropped the call. So instead of Steve, we've 270 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.920 got Ryan Raky with us on the phone. Ryan in sell, it would 271 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:40.359 sell a reception area at his home getting ready to head out to Spokane for 272 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:44.200 the first and second rounds coming up this weekend. Ryan, Welcome to the 273 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:47.119 show. Well, Jay, how were you? We're good, We're good. 274 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:49.920 Uh, it was great to see you over the weekend in Vegas. 275 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:55.160 Let's go there for a minute, because you know you're you've been around here 276 00:19:55.519 --> 00:20:00.359 in this part of the country Pac twelve all these years. Kind grew up 277 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:03.240 in it like we did, you know, and Lease our intern here asked 278 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:07.559 me, you know, how did I feel at the tournament last year? 279 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:10.880 How did you feel at the tournament knowing from the time you walked in the 280 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:15.599 door that this was it for that tournament? Yeah, I mean, sad 281 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.480 is the word that comes to mind through the whole thing. Just sitting there 282 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:22.759 on Thursday and watching the quarterfinal games and looking around and just knowing that's the 283 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.359 last time we were going to be there for that. It just kind of 284 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:29.720 hit me and it really was sad. And then, you know, doing 285 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:32.480 the games on Friday and Saturday, obviously, well the games are going on, 286 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:34.799 you're very invested in that and focused on the job at hand. But 287 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:38.480 you know, when it was over, just you know, walking to dinner 288 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:41.240 and I was a PJ. Carlesmo, who I've worked with the last couple 289 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:44.440 of years, and you know, he lives in Seattle, he's been around 290 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:48.279 the PAC twelve forever. We were both just saying how sad it was that 291 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:52.440 that was the last time we were going to get to see that great league 292 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.799 that has existed for so long and has accomplished so many things and now is 293 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:00.079 just gone. It's tough to reconcile. Still, I don't know that it's 294 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:04.279 completely hit me yet. It might take until next March when we're not at 295 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:08.440 Femobile Arena for the PAC twelve tournament before it fully sets in. But just 296 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:11.480 really just really sad all the way around to see it go. I think 297 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:17.519 it was avoidable and unfortunately the wrong people were in charge and made some really 298 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:19.799 really poor decisions and as a result, this is where we're at. Yeah. 299 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:22.880 You know, I go to this breakfast club on Tuesday mornings and there's 300 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:27.160 a guy, you know, he's an older guy who played football. Let 301 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:30.480 him put this way. He played football at Oklahoma in a leather helmet, 302 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.079 so that'll just tell you. And I went up to him today and I 303 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:36.200 said, and we were talking about that, and I said, you know 304 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:38.599 what, this is all your fault. This is all Oklahoma's fault. You 305 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:41.559 guys did that and you started that. He said, no, no, 306 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:45.559 no, it was the USC and ucl I said, no, you started 307 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:48.160 that, and I kind of got up on him a little bit. But 308 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:51.519 that's kind of how I feel. Like somebody got a ball rolling and it 309 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:56.119 never stopped rolling until the whole thing was destroyed. And you know, you 310 00:21:56.200 --> 00:22:00.839 can maybe go all the way back to when there was rumors that the Pac 311 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:06.720 twelve was courting Oklahoma and Texas and when that didn't happen and the news leaked, 312 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:10.920 and then Oklahoma and Texas kind of used that to their advantage got a 313 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:12.640 better deal out of the Big Twelve, and then ultimately moved to the SEC. 314 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:18.039 There's probably a lot of different starting points we can look at, going 315 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:19.640 all the way back to the early days of the PAC twelve network and just 316 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:25.240 the terrible decisions that were made about how to market that and not get it 317 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:30.200 on the air so so few people can see it. There's so many different 318 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:33.079 things we could point to, but just really, when you think about it, 319 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:37.119 it's a lot of really really poor decisions made by who are otherwise very 320 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:40.759 smart people over the course of a long time, and I think led to 321 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:44.759 this. Yeah, so, as a tournament thought it was still a great 322 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:51.440 tournament, right unexpected Oregon comes out of nowhere takes down Arizona. Even after 323 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:53.400 they took down Arizona, I still thought Colorado was gonna was going to beat 324 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:59.480 them. But you know, and Fally Dante put on a show. I 325 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:03.920 compared the show he put onto what DeAndre Ayton did back in twenty eighteen, 326 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:07.680 who just dominated the tournament, and I felt like that, I felt like 327 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:11.559 I was seeing a replay of that. Yeah, Dante was unstoppable. And 328 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:15.200 you know, both those teams, Oregon and Colorado, suffered so many injuries 329 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:18.680 throughout the year that contributed to them being where they were seeing them at full 330 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.960 strength. You realize what those teams could have been had they stayed healthy. 331 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:26.799 But Dante was unbelievable. I mean, twelve for twelve in the championship game 332 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.400 and now his last two plus games against Colorado, he's hit the twenty six 333 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:34.799 of twenty six from the floor. That's crazy. I mean the show that 334 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:40.119 they put on and what he did specifically was fun to watch, and I 335 00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:42.000 think those are always fun. That's when conference tournaments are at their best. 336 00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:45.680 When you have somebody playing who needs the win to get in and knows if 337 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:48.519 they lose their going home, and they figure out a way to get it 338 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:52.000 done. That's when conference tournaments, I think hit their peak. And we 339 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:56.640 saw that with Organ on Saturday night. Yeah. So now you're headed to 340 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.400 Spokan some interesting stuff over there. You've got Auburn over there, You've got 341 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.319 San Diego State coming off their Final four appearance last year. For you know, 342 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:07.359 Arizona folks, you got Grand Canyon, Alabama, you got you got 343 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:10.640 some good you got some interesting games over there. Tell us a little bit 344 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:14.759 about your preview. You know what you expect to see over there in Spokane. 345 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:18.119 Well, I'm really looking forward to the Grand Canyon Saint Mary's games. 346 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:19.400 I think it's going to be a really good one. You know. Grand 347 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:22.799 Canyon played Gonzaga last year in the first round and lost. They get the 348 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:26.880 WCC championon this year in Saint Mary's. A Saint Mary's team that I really 349 00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:30.079 like but has been beat up, and I think you've already seen where some 350 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:34.119 people are maybe picking that as a frendy upset because Saint Mary's is not at 351 00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:38.319 their peak because they're really playing six guys right now. And credit to them, 352 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:41.519 they were able to hold off Gonzaga with only six guys and win the 353 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:45.920 WCC. Can they do it in the tournament? We'll find out. I 354 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:48.359 think that's going to be a real fun five to twelve matchup. You talked 355 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:52.279 about some of the other ones in Alabama and Charleston, both teams that chuck 356 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:55.480 threes like crazy and want to score a ton of points. They're going to 357 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:56.920 get up and down the floor, which could be fun. It's always fun 358 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:00.359 to see the Ivy League kids. I had Princeton last year, obviously not 359 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:03.440 just beating Arizona, but getting to the sweet sixteen. They get an Auburn 360 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:07.119 team that is really playing well, right now, they're hot, and then 361 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:11.519 you know San Diego State and UAB. San Diego State, to their credit, 362 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:12.839 makes a run to the Mountain West title game, but they've not been 363 00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:15.920 the same. You know, they were middle of the pack Mountain West team 364 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:21.079 this year made that run to the title game. They're in as a five 365 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:25.440 seed and now take on a UAB team that has some pretty good numbers. 366 00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:27.440 So I do think we have some pretty good matchups and I think it'll be 367 00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:30.640 fun. Whenever you get to the four thirteens and the five twelves, you 368 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:34.480 always have that upset potential. So that's what everybody loves about that first weekend 369 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:38.480 of the tournament. Yeah, so when you're doing you got obviously a lot 370 00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:41.839 of prep to do for this thing. But how much of the rest of 371 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:47.160 the tournament do you get to pay attention to what's going on? Are you 372 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:49.640 just zeroed in on what you've got to do. Yeah, I don't get 373 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:53.240 to see much of the rest. I'm really right now. Since the selection 374 00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:57.759 show ended on Sunday, it's pretty much been grinding on these eight teams, 375 00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:03.319 trying to get ready for eight teams on Friday. You know, I leave 376 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:04.799 first thing in the morning. So it's it's a lot of work. You 377 00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:07.720 know, when you normally spend a week or so getting ready for just one 378 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:11.119 game and two teams, and that you got eight to get ready for in 379 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:14.759 about two and a half days, it's a lot. So we spend most 380 00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:17.680 of the Thursday interviewing coaches and players and the teams we're gonna talk to. 381 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:21.079 So we'll see snippets here and there, we'll catch some highlights. Yeah, 382 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:22.799 maybe we'll go to dinner when we're done and get to see a little bit 383 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:26.680 of a game while we're eating, but not much. You're got to focus 384 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:30.480 on the teams that you've got and then the next weekend starts all over again, 385 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:33.440 just getting refocused on the next batchup teams. Okay, I have a 386 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:36.720 burning question because you know, you know, I listen to you on the 387 00:26:36.839 --> 00:26:41.240 radio and you're so you go, you're gotta get mad when I say flawless. 388 00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:45.519 Right, you mentioned you mentioned every guy that touches the ball, and 389 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:48.319 I you know, that's it. And I don't know if it's on purpose 390 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:52.720 or whatever, but when I'm listening to you, I feel like I'm I 391 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:56.440 feel like there's some Brian Jeffries back in there, and I know he's one, 392 00:26:56.519 --> 00:27:00.599 you know he's one of your mentors. How do you memory all the 393 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.400 names of all the guys so that you can call a game and without even 394 00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:07.880 thinking, know who's got the ball as it goes around, you know, 395 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:11.319 on offense or whatever. How the hell do you do that? Well, 396 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:14.000 first of all, thank you. Second of all, far from Paula's third. 397 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:17.799 Yes, Brian was a big influence on me. To answer your question, 398 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:21.119 you know, a lot of it is just watching a lot of games. 399 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:23.720 When I'm doing regular season games, I try to watch at least the 400 00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:27.960 last three games that the team has played and just kind of sit there and 401 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:32.119 get that repetition of seeing guys who's out there on the court. The combinations 402 00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:36.119 coaches use what guys look like in their uniforms. Sometimes it's a stupid tip 403 00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:37.799 off of you know, well that's the guy in long sleep, so that's 404 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.799 Smith, and you know Jones wears the bright orange sneakers. Just things that 405 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:45.440 can tip you off during the course of the game. So it's really just 406 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:48.319 a lot of study. It's what makes the first weekend of the tournament really 407 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:52.720 hard, because there's just no way you're going to get a chance to sit 408 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.440 down and watch, you know, the last three games of all eight teams 409 00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:57.720 you're about to see. You're lucky if you get to see one of their 410 00:27:57.799 --> 00:28:02.640 games. So it's just you know, going in and really it's it's doing 411 00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:06.200 the best you can, to be honest, just trying to commit as much 412 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:07.759 as you can the memory, try to watch some of the shoot around and 413 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:11.599 get an idea of what the main storylines are and go. Teams like Auburn 414 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:15.799 are tough. I mean they're gonna play twelve guys, so you you do 415 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:18.720 the best you can. Selfishly, I think we all kind of root for 416 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:22.400 those teams that play six guys because those are a little bit easier. But 417 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:25.319 you know, it is what it is and that it's a lot of fun. 418 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:26.759 So you just do the best you can over the prep time you have. 419 00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:30.079 Well, you know, for those of us who are you know, 420 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:33.119 in our cars or at work or whatever, and you get to listen to 421 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:34.880 them on the radio, you paint a really good picture. So I will 422 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:37.480 say that I love I love listening to you and you know the football you 423 00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:41.880 do and all that. It's just like I'm fascinated by how much work you 424 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:44.799 have to put into it and how it shows. But it's cool. So 425 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.240 let's talk a little bit about the rest of the rest of the tournament. 426 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.240 You know, so you got some complaining from Yukon that they got the toughest 427 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:56.359 bracket and they're the number one seed. You got Arizona and Long Beach State 428 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:03.480 and Tommy Lloyd and Monson are good friends. I look at the brackets and 429 00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:07.599 I feel like Purdue in terms of one through four seeds maybe has the easiest 430 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:11.680 road. Houston State and number one seed despite getting blown out by thirty points 431 00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:15.119 by Iowa State. There's some people who felt that Iowa State should have gotten 432 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:19.079 that number one seed. What have been some of your thoughts generally on the 433 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:23.119 bracket that came out. Well, I do think this year's committee had a 434 00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:27.400 very tough job because of all the big thieves that last weekend. That makes 435 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:32.799 it really tough. Teams take an automatic bid, somebody's got to come out, 436 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:37.759 and you know, you hear the complaining from Saint John's and Villanova and 437 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:41.640 whoever. It's okay. So if you put them in and take another team 438 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:44.799 out, there's going to be complaining from there as well. There's always going 439 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:48.680 to be a cut line and there's always going to be people that are left 440 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.160 out. I tend to look at it as, look, you had a 441 00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:55.519 whole season to play your way into this, right you had a conference tournament 442 00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:59.880 you could have won to make sure that you got in. So I kind 443 00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:04.000 of and over all of the who got snubbed and who didn't? I think 444 00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:07.319 right now we're at a place where, you know, the last team that 445 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.400 got in, there's probably eight ten other teams that look very much like that 446 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:14.759 team, and when they're left out, they don't like it. But if 447 00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:17.440 the other team had gotten left out, they wouldn't like it. Somebody's always 448 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:21.359 going to be unhappy. I do think Connecticut got a really tough draw as 449 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:25.400 the number one seed. It does seem like their bracket is pretty loaded now. 450 00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:27.039 They do get to play in Brooklyn and Boston, so they get to 451 00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:30.519 stay pretty close to home. But man, that's gonna be a tough road 452 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:33.240 for them. With people talking about Iowa State maybe being a one and instead 453 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.960 they end up as the lowest two. Was interesting. Illinois the three, 454 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:41.359 is probably playing as well as anybody we already mentioned. Auburn, who's the 455 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:44.839 four seed. They've been hot, just won the SEC tournament, So it 456 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:47.720 was not an easy road for Yukon, that's for sure. Are they a 457 00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:52.039 prohibit a favorite or is there or is there even one this year? You 458 00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:53.480 know, I think if you're gonna pick a favorite, you have to pick 459 00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:59.039 Yukon. But then obviously you go to the nobody's won back to back titles 460 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:04.079 since those teams in what six o seven? It just seems like the reigning 461 00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:07.559 champs stumbles somewhere along the way. I think Yukon's the best team. I 462 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.039 think they've been the best team all year. I think they found a way 463 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.000 to get better even as the season has has gone on, and even as 464 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.559 good as they were to start. So I think they are the best team. 465 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:21.319 Of course, as we know, that doesn't necessarily mean they're going to 466 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:23.200 win the whole thing. You saw your Zona last week and you saw him 467 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:26.960 lose to Oregon. They you know, had lost to USC last week, 468 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:32.240 and in the regular season, there's all this Princeton talk. What you know, 469 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:33.759 what you what did you see from Arizona? What do you think of 470 00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:37.880 Arizona? Honestly, Jay, it's the same thing I've seen all year. 471 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:41.440 It's an extremely talented team who seems to kind of play when they want to 472 00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.359 play, and when they want to play, they're really really good, and 473 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:52.319 at other times they just don't seem to be there completely. The inconsistency got 474 00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:55.200 them last year in that first round game against Princeton. I think it got 475 00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:57.519 them against USC on the last weekend of the regular season. I think it 476 00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:00.839 got them against the Oregon I mean, they were up fourteen that game, 477 00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:05.079 with a chance to absolutely put the Ducks away before the half and just couldn't 478 00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:07.400 do it. And then when Oregon made a run in the second half, 479 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:10.279 it kind of felt like Princeton from last year, where Arizona just had no 480 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:15.880 answers. Caleb Love obviously is struggling really badly. I would expect that he's 481 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:20.400 gonna rebound. I don't think he's gonna stay in this funk. But yeah, 482 00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:22.000 it's kind of the same thing I've seen from them all year, where 483 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:27.000 I think they're a really good team and if they play to their capabilities, 484 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.640 they can beat pretty much anybody. But you just wonder can they do it 485 00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:32.640 with consistency? That's the question. I don't know, can they do it 486 00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:37.720 four or five or six times? Right? Right? Okay, pick a 487 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:43.480 team not Yukon and not Arizona that you think, you know could win this 488 00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:45.920 thing, or should win this thing, or might win this thing. Well, 489 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:49.799 I'll say I know that Tennessee had some struggles down to stretch. But 490 00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.440 when you got a guy like Dalton connect who can go off at any minute 491 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.160 and gets you thirty or maybe even forty in a game, I think that 492 00:32:55.359 --> 00:33:00.440 makes a team like them dangerous. I know there are two seed We're not 493 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:02.519 going too far down the line here, but it's a team that I saw 494 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:06.240 in person towards the end of the regular season a game they didn't play all 495 00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:08.599 that well against Alabama on the road, but it's found a way to win. 496 00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:12.279 I like Rick Barnes. I know there's a thing. You know, 497 00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:15.319 Tennessee hasn't been to the Elite Eight since Bruce Pearl took him there, so 498 00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:17.599 talking about them getting to the Final four and winning it all might be a 499 00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:22.680 little bit of a stretch. But I like teams that have guys like that 500 00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:27.079 that can can carry the load this time of the year. And I think 501 00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:30.480 if you look at their bracket, you know Purdue is a very formidable team. 502 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:34.119 The questions about Purdue they're outside shooting have been really good all year, 503 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:36.640 kind of let them down a little bit in the Big Ten tournament. What 504 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:39.039 will it be like if they get into pressure games in the NCAA tournament. 505 00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:43.400 Can those guards step up around Zach Edy? And then you look at the 506 00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:45.680 rest of the bracket. You know, Creighton has been up and down as 507 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:47.799 a three. Kansas I think is really struggling right now as a four. 508 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:52.200 Gonzaga is not the same Gonzaga at five. That region seems like it's fairly 509 00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.079 open for a team like Tennessee to get to at least the Elite eight, 510 00:33:55.400 --> 00:34:00.119 and then you know, test themselves against a team like Purdue, right a 511 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:06.960 team you know this year's you know San Diego State, FAU Miami, somebody 512 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:09.519 out of nowhere that could come out and do this. I know a lot 513 00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:13.320 of people are saying, you know, McNee State, there are a twelve 514 00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:17.960 seed playing Gonzaga in the first round. Who you know who are some of 515 00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:22.480 those teams? But a great question. If I knew that, I probably 516 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:23.719 wouldn't be working in the games. I would just be sitting on the pile 517 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:27.880 of money that I've made over years in doing this. I don't know, 518 00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:30.920 honestly, it's a great question. Jay, I will tell you that I 519 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:35.599 saw Josh Passner say this on Sunday on ESPN, and I agree with him. 520 00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:37.400 I think once you get to a certain point, let's say to about 521 00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:42.320 I don't know, twelve to fifteen. I don't think there's a great separation 522 00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:46.639 between those teams and the teams that were like the last four in I think 523 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:50.920 there is a lot of parody. There's a lot of teams that do something 524 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:53.320 really well but then have massive laws. I mean, I'm gonna see a 525 00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:58.559 team in Alabama in our region. Alabama scores at the highest rate in the 526 00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:01.440 country. There's only five teams in the nation that defend worse than Alabama this 527 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:05.039 year. So what happens. Does Alabama go out and score one hundred and 528 00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.440 win or does Alabama give up one hundred and lose one hundred to ninety six. 529 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:09.760 I think there's a lot of those teams that you can look at and 530 00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:12.719 say, man, they do this, and they do this, and they 531 00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:15.880 do this, but they also have this and this and this, and I 532 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:17.159 think that goes all the way up to some of the highly seated teams. 533 00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:21.480 So I don't know, I think this could. I know we've said this 534 00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:22.880 a lot the last few years, but and we got a little bit of 535 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:25.559 the last year with San Diego State and FAU going to the final four. 536 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.840 This could be that total chaos tournament where you see all kinds of upsets. 537 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:34.800 Yeah, all right, all right, we appreciate the time again, enjoy 538 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:36.840 the tournament as much as you can. I know you've got a lot of 539 00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:38.440 work in front of you, but we do appreciate your time as we always 540 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:43.159 do. Love the insight, and go memorize some more of those names. 541 00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:45.119 All right, Jay, sounds good. Good to be with you, Safe 542 00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:50.559 travels. All right. That was Ryan Recki, who'll be calling the Spokane 543 00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:57.280 region for Westwood one Sports. Tucson. Guy has done a great job become 544 00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.280 a national announcer and we love having him on. He's a great and so 545 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:02.519 thanks for listening to that, and thanks for coming Ryan, and we're gonna 546 00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:05.840 go and take our last break. We're going to try and raise Steve on 547 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:07.639 the phone. Maybe he's hit some civilization, babe. It's been a two 548 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:13.039 hours in a while right now. Maybe he's got our story driving. He 549 00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:15.760 might be lost, so he could be well, he's with Brian Peterson, 550 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:19.519 so the chance of those two guys getting lost are actually pretty good, So 551 00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:22.199 stick around, well hopefully, well get him on and we'll close out this 552 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:23.599 show. Thanks for being here. We'll be right back. 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The A team apply online today at a teamsecurity dot Net. 595 00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:32.719 Streaming live on the iHeartRadio app. This is I on the Ball with 596 00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:38.920 Steve Ravera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen to fifteen. Welcome back TI 597 00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:43.119 on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Jay Gonzalez, your host 598 00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:47.320 for the day here with ANALYSTI our intern who's capably running the board here and 599 00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:50.800 trying to get a hold of Steve, who last we heard is in the 600 00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:53.719 middle of nowhere and somewhere in Utah and his way to Salt Lake City. 601 00:39:55.960 --> 00:40:00.199 We're going to try and raise him. But had a good conversation with with 602 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:05.039 Ryan Raky Away was a great guest. I love his insight. Uh you 603 00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:07.760 know, great radio voice. Yeah, you can tell right away right like 604 00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:13.559 I've heard that before. But you know, fascinating the work that he does. 605 00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:17.480 He does the NFL, He does a Sunday night game for the NFL 606 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:22.760 on Westwood One. He does you know, conference tournaments. He does college 607 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.760 basketball all through the year and now he's doing n C Double a's uh yeah, 608 00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:29.920 and he's in Spokane this coming is coming week, and you know a 609 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:31.679 lot of good stuff. So if you're out out and about and you want 610 00:40:31.719 --> 00:40:36.239 to listen to one of the games, you know, there's a lot of 611 00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:38.760 ways to listen to the broadcast of the games. If you're in your car, 612 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:43.840 whatever. If you've got Sirius XM and you've got a certain level of 613 00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:46.519 a subscription, you can get all of the n c Double A Tournament games. 614 00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:52.480 Or you know, if you're following a specific team, you on the 615 00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:54.960 Varsity app or whatever, and you can you can pick up their games. 616 00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:59.519 For instance, Arizona's on the Varsity app. That's where you get Brian Jeffries 617 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:05.559 or on twelve ninety, I'll have to be listening because on Thursday I'll be 618 00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:08.320 driving up to Phoenix and going out. Got a flight going uptown. All 619 00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:14.239 right, So but you know all NCAA tournament talk. We will be here 620 00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:19.159 again tomorrow working on some guests for tomorrow, the U of A bat You 621 00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:22.400 have a press conference at the at the Salt Lake City site is from eleven 622 00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:28.280 to eleven thirty and Rivera will be at that so we'll get his comments from 623 00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:30.480 him, and he'll be in Salt Lake City, so we'll obviously have some 624 00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:37.840 phone reception. Yeah, hopefully hopefully right is civilization. Yeah, so we'll 625 00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:40.480 get his thoughts on, you know, on the comments that we get from 626 00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:45.239 from Arizona at their press conference tomorrow morning. Yeah, I'll be exciting. 627 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.000 Yeah. So then then, as I mentioned, we're going to do the 628 00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:52.800 show on Friday, there's only games from eleven at eleven o'clock our time. 629 00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:57.199 Games should be over by about one o'clock or so. Steve's gonna do some 630 00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:00.320 writing, but he said he had come on and we'll have some reaction both 631 00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:04.960 of us on the game. Hopefully positive reaction. Right, all good, 632 00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:07.960 Arizona played great, right, what a collaborative effort from the team. He 633 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:12.199 will been to the press conference. I'll try and figure out what I think. 634 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:15.920 I think those can be picked up live stream somewhere, and so we'll 635 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:20.800 trying to cut up some Tommy Tommy Lloyd quotes from the from the game, 636 00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:25.199 a f postgame and then hoping that Arizona's playing, I'll get on Saturday. 637 00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:29.559 We'll have another show on Friday. Again, Steve will still be in Salt 638 00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:31.880 Lake City. We'll get him to come on and preview that game as well, 639 00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:37.039 assuming Arizona is still playing. So will he just come back whenever they 640 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:43.639 right, whenever they lose. You know, he was very unfortunate for him. 641 00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:46.000 Lat year. Drove all the way to Sacramento, was there less than 642 00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:50.800 twenty four hours, and drove back and I wasn't very happy. Yeah. 643 00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:53.920 So so you know, so we are planning to you know, to have 644 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:58.960 a show all week long, even though we know a lot of you might 645 00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:02.199 be watching the game, uh in the afternoon during our show. In fact, 646 00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:07.639 on Thursday, uh, the air Zona women play at four o'clock, 647 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:10.159 so they're gonna tip off during our show. So we'll you know, give 648 00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:13.639 you some updates. We're not supposed to do play by play, and we 649 00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:15.519 won't do play by play. I'm not gonna try and do play by play, 650 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:19.280 but we'll give you some updates on the air Zone. A women's game 651 00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:24.480 taking on Auburn in Storage, Connecticut at four o'clock, also on Thursday, 652 00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:30.400 with seven players, sevens the story of their season. Yeah yeah, but 653 00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:34.199 you know, give it up to them. I know, again we've said 654 00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:38.159 it before, there's fans out there who think that there's something bad going on 655 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:40.719 in the program because you know, players, you know, come and they 656 00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:45.920 go. But you know what gotta find a fit. You gotta have players 657 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:50.119 who want to do well you want them to do. Ada Barnes has proven 658 00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:53.519 to be a good coach. Is she hard to play for? Maybe? 659 00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:59.719 But maybe not maybe her. Maybe it's you know, the fits just wasn't 660 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:02.519 right for for the players who have come and gone. The seven she's got 661 00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:12.199 clearly have potential that have potential though right at Stanford. Yeah, so it'll 662 00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:15.039 be interesting to see. And you know, again, don't don't let Ada 663 00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:16.960 catch you saying that they're in a playing game. They are in the tournament. 664 00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:22.440 According it'll beat you butt. So but that that'll that'll be fun. 665 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:25.000 Would love to take your calls. Five two zero, four, one sixty. 666 00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:29.760 We're still trying to get Steve on On on the on the line. 667 00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:34.519 We'll see if we can we can raise him one last time here. I 668 00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:37.760 don't know if we will be able to, but uh, we'll give it. 669 00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:40.920 We'll give it a shot. He's he's headed up there with Brian Peterson, 670 00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:45.159 a frequent guest of the show. Is he writes for Easy Desert Swarm 671 00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:51.719 and uh he's there going up there to cover that stuff together. So we'll 672 00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:54.079 we'll we'll try and raise him as well. But Uh, you know, 673 00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:58.360 folks, it's it's time, right. We're a couple of days away. 674 00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:02.000 No more talking about and you know what you're gonna do, how you're going 675 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:06.119 to play. You know, the thing that you hear from everybody that's been 676 00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:09.360 following this team all year long is we hope that they get the consistency that 677 00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:15.880 they haven't been showing all year long. And so if they can do that, 678 00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:19.039 then you know, then everything will be all right because again they'll be 679 00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:22.440 the better team on the court most of the rest of the way out. 680 00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:25.760 Just do the job. That's all they gotta do. Just do the job. 681 00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:29.440 Do the work you're supposed to do. Capable. Maybe he's not here, 682 00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:30.559 we can talk about that. Maybe they can just pick up a little 683 00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:35.199 bit of momentum, have some fire going, and maybe it will take them. 684 00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:38.320 And I think that will be a big thing for any team that makes 685 00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:42.360 it for this tournament. You need to have momentum. Sorry, Steve, 686 00:45:43.480 --> 00:45:45.320 Well, you know, you never know what's going through you know, the 687 00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:50.559 players heads. You know, they're eighteen to twenty three or twenty four year 688 00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:52.599 olds. You know, if they fall behind early in the game, does 689 00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:57.639 that get into their head about you know, oh, God, you know, 690 00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:00.920 we're on our way to losing the game or whatever. You know, 691 00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:04.159 And in any game, you want to get off to a good start. 692 00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:09.119 And so that's what you're looking for from Arizona to get out there, you 693 00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:12.760 know, to be kind of blunt about it, you know, step on 694 00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:16.079 Long Beach State's neck and never let them think they have a chance to win 695 00:46:16.199 --> 00:46:20.920 the game. You do that, you take care of business. You know, 696 00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:23.199 you try, and you get you know, you have an easy win. 697 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:27.400 I do feel like Arizona kind of picks up some momentum when they have, 698 00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:30.039 you know, what should be an easy game and they because you know, 699 00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:35.559 we've seen them play easier teams and win by a lot a lot of 700 00:46:35.639 --> 00:46:38.159 points. And I feel like that gives them a lot of confidence. Yeah, 701 00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:43.480 and that's like kind of how they start their season sometimes and it gets 702 00:46:43.519 --> 00:46:45.000 them going right. And let's not ignore the fact that in the n C 703 00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:47.760 Double A tournament, you know, nerves get a little more. Yeah, 704 00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:51.519 there's a lot of pressure, get a little tight, you know, and 705 00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:54.880 the fear of losing becomes a deal that you have to deal with. And 706 00:46:55.199 --> 00:46:59.760 and Arizona, unfortunately, is in a situation we're coming off the coming off 707 00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:05.159 the uh, the uh Princeton game from last year, of course they're going 708 00:47:05.199 --> 00:47:07.039 to be thinking about it. Tommy Lloyd said that yesterday. In fact, 709 00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:09.239 you know what, let's play that clip. There's a clip up there. 710 00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:16.519 Uh it says last year right there on the Okay, let's let's put that 711 00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:20.280 on. And here what Tommy Lloyd had to say. We played this yesterday, 712 00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:22.559 but why don't you hear it again today? What he said about the 713 00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:25.239 Princeton factor. You know, for this team, well, last year was 714 00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:28.599 last year. I mean, we've never denied it. We've owned it, 715 00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:30.519 you know, I mean, it's part of our history, part of our 716 00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:32.360 legacy. And you know, when you're in a program like Arizona, you 717 00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:36.960 you you're gonna have great successes and you're also gonna have some things that look 718 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:40.000 like monumental failures. It's just it's just how it goes. And so you 719 00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:43.320 know, we've never avoided it. All year, we talk about it. 720 00:47:43.599 --> 00:47:46.119 We we openly acknowledge it in our program. We're not embarrassed about it. 721 00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:50.800 So you know, we're looking forward to another opportunity this year, and and 722 00:47:51.199 --> 00:47:53.519 this team's journey is different than last year's journey. So you know, we're 723 00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:59.480 excited to get out there and and and and play a play Thursday. And 724 00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:01.679 another thing that he was asked about, and this was his press conference from 725 00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:06.559 Sunday after the bracket was announced. You know, do you worry about your 726 00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:08.400 team, you know, your two seed playing a fifteen seed. Do you 727 00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:14.519 worry about your team looking ahead? Here's what he had to say. Well, 728 00:48:14.840 --> 00:48:16.519 we talked to him about it, and and I always believe, you 729 00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:19.559 know, if they're and it's hard. It's hard because there's a lot of 730 00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:23.719 outside noise, But if they're more attracted and captivated by the outside noise, 731 00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:28.840 maybe we're not doing a good enough job internally in our program on you know, 732 00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:31.480 bringing things back home. And and we're a program that takes a ton 733 00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:35.760 of pride in our culture. And you know, we know we're not perfect, 734 00:48:35.800 --> 00:48:37.679 but but we work on it on a daily base. And there's not 735 00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:39.800 a perfect culture in the world. But but I know ours is healthy and 736 00:48:39.880 --> 00:48:45.320 strong, and so I think our guys will be locked in all right. 737 00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:49.000 So you know, these are all the things that fans think about. And 738 00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:52.480 that's what we ask when you know, we go to a press conference like 739 00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:55.320 that, because that's our job, you know, bring the fan perspective and 740 00:48:55.400 --> 00:49:00.320 have Tommy answer questions that the fans have. And those are two of the 741 00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:06.079 questions. One are you thinking about Purdue? And two, you know, 742 00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:08.119 is there a chance of you're getting overconfident because you're a two seed. Do 743 00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:13.760 you think last year they were looking ahead and they were over confident, maybe 744 00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:15.719 not going in, but when they got that big lead, you know, 745 00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:19.039 then they start thinking, Okay, we got this. Then all of a 746 00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:22.199 sudden, here comes Princeton. They start making some shots and the next thing, 747 00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:23.199 you know, yeah, the next thing, you know, you lose 748 00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:27.960 the game. And that's how you lose. Because no matter what you say, 749 00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:31.920 every team in this tournament, from seed number one to seed number sixty 750 00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:37.519 eight is a good team. Every team they're a good basketball team. And 751 00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:42.599 that's you just have to face that. And and you know, you hate 752 00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:45.360 using the cliche any given day, but on any given day in college basketball, 753 00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:50.280 when you only got to beat somebody one time, anything can happen. 754 00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:54.719 And so yeah, and that's what makes this tournament great. And even in 755 00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:59.199 spite of the fact that these guys are talking about expanding the tournament again, 756 00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:02.320 I'm like, stop, there's nothing wrong with it. Just nothing wrong. 757 00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:07.239 This is the most perfect format. I feel like, yeah, just leave 758 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:08.599 this tournament to the you know, the way it is. I want to 759 00:50:08.599 --> 00:50:15.119 play one more clip because immediately after the after the loss to Oregon, they're 760 00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:17.039 they're starting to, you know, put some spin on a loss like this, 761 00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:22.159 and one of the one of them was, Okay, now you've lost. 762 00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:24.679 You got an extra day of preparation. How much is that day really 763 00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:29.119 going to help? Are you, you know, not happy about it, 764 00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:31.239 but kind of looking at the bright side of that. Here's what Tommy had 765 00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:35.719 to say about that. I'm being honest with I'm not doing it. I'm 766 00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:38.639 so much more well rested right now standing here than I was the last two 767 00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:42.039 years. You know, the last two years, you're you're coming here, 768 00:50:42.199 --> 00:50:45.039 you know, on adrenaline and fumes, and then you just try to, 769 00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:47.119 you know, rally back your energy. And I know other teams do it, 770 00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:51.079 but it's just not easy for anybody. So so to be able to 771 00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:53.519 have a full day to recover and and you know, and then then yesterday 772 00:50:53.880 --> 00:50:57.599 and then a day to relax today and and then kind of figure out what 773 00:50:57.639 --> 00:51:00.960 we're going and we'll build it as a normal week starting tomorrow. So you 774 00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:05.760 know that's sort of a bright side. Okay, so we lost, so 775 00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:07.519 let's let's use that. And it sounds like that, you know, that's 776 00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:09.440 where he said they were going to get back to it. If somebody asked 777 00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:14.480 me, if you're telling me on Friday night, somebody said, what would 778 00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:16.320 you do now with your team? I said, I'll let him take the 779 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:19.840 next two days off. Give them the two days off, you know, 780 00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:25.960 the extra day, the mental aspect, the mental regeneration you get from those 781 00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:30.159 guys situation from that one extra day. Look, there's no quincy, he 782 00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:32.440 said. Those last two years that he was talking about, they won the 783 00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:37.679 tournament. Those last years they played into Saturday night and then got the bracket 784 00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:40.719 on Sunday, and we're back to practicing on Monday. They had an extra 785 00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:45.000 day to kind of regenerate. You feel like, take a break. If 786 00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:46.880 you're Caleb b Love, go get some shots up, you know with out 787 00:51:46.920 --> 00:51:50.280 of a practice. You know the same thing with Kyle and Boswo. Maybe 788 00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:52.320 they did that, but even when they do that, to them, that's 789 00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:55.440 relaxing. That's what they do. It's like it's like me building a jigsaw 790 00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:59.039 puzzle. They go out and take shots. Yeah, you know, so 791 00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:02.519 you know, four other teams got the chance to relax and sure, sure, 792 00:52:02.960 --> 00:52:06.159 and you know, and look in Oregon is happy they got into the 793 00:52:06.199 --> 00:52:09.480 tournament by beating Arizona and then beating Colorado. They're excited to continue to be 794 00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:15.519 able to being able to continue to practice. So you know, it's ah, 795 00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:17.559 you just got to figure out how to handle things. I just feel 796 00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:22.239 like when you hear Tommy Lloyd, he take he handles everything so practically. 797 00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:27.360 Yeah, he's so practical. He's so pragmatic. Yeah, he doesn't like 798 00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:30.880 all these complex questions like oh what does this mean and what does this mean? 799 00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:34.199 He's like, I don't know. I just want our guys to play 800 00:52:34.280 --> 00:52:37.320 good basketball, possession of possession, share the ball. You know, he 801 00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:39.960 is very pragmatic. Yeah. It goes to what you know, when what 802 00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:45.280 we said about you know him, he didn't even give a second thought about 803 00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:46.960 this is the last back twelve tournam he said, I'm just trying to win 804 00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:50.280 a game. Yeah, he's so, he's very he just you know, 805 00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:54.320 he zeroed in and I think this he definitely does have his priorities for the 806 00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:58.239 team lined up. I think the right way. Yeah, I think too 807 00:52:58.360 --> 00:53:02.519 often fan are unhappy that he doesn't have the same priorities that they have, 808 00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:07.079 that he doesn't worry as much about losing as they do because he's got to 809 00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:10.280 think about the next game, whereas we keep thinking about the last game. 810 00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:15.440 Very calm. Yeah, he is all right. Hey, thanks everybody for 811 00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:19.079 being here. Podcasts will be up tonight, catch that interview with Charles mccleoll 812 00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:22.920 and, the Lection Committee chair, and we'll be back tomorrow with Steve from 813 00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:24.559 Salt Lake City, So be sure to come back, see you tomorrow.