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A good Wednesday afternoon here at Fox Sports

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fourteen fifty. I'm Jacob Zalaz,
your host on I on the Ball Today.

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Steve is on the road, as
we mentioned yesterday, he's in Salt

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Lake City. You'll be reporting in
a little bit. But today we've got

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a guest host, George Midis from
a Showtime Cards, one of our great

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sponsors, a big sports fan,
and yeah, he's he's already thrown down

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the gauntlet on Arizona in their game
tomorrow. And Sammy, Sammy interned.

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Sammy's here to help us get through
this day. But you know we're here,

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George, thank you for being here. Appreciate it absolutely, Thank you

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so much. I always excited,
especially March madness, and it does make

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you mad, and it's exciting,
that's for sure. You know, the

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whole thing got off last night,
the two first four games. There's two

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more today. One of the Pac
twelve teams, Colorado's playing in it.

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But you know, we're talking about
Arizona. Tommy Lloyd had his press conference

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at the tournament after they're around their
open practice today, So we're going to

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play that in full here in just
a minute, but just kind of let

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you know what's going on. PJ
Brown is going to join us. She's

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in Connecticut with the women's basketball team. So we're going to talk to PJ.

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She's the writer for the Airzon Daily
Star covering women's basketball. We'll get

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her and some of her thoughts on
this team that's on the road with seven

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players. Man, oh wow wow, seven players, And so we'll get

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her thoughts on Arizona women taking on
Auburn tomorrow night, trying to get into

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the field of sixty four. And
then at four fifteen, we're gonna have

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Ben Boltch and you might know him. He's been on our show as the

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UCLA beat writer. He's a writer
for the La Times, but right now

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he's covering Long Beach State. Did
a story on Dan Monson and that whole

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story about him getting fired on Monday. They said, you know, we'll

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let you coach out the season.
His team goes on a run, when's

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the when's the conference tournament and now
they're in the NC Double A tournament and

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they're playing Arizona. That's just a
weird story of how that happens, but

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you know, yeah, it's crazy. So he had a story in the

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La Times today. So we're going
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the other the other kind of ironic
thing. There's Dan Monson, Tommy Lloyd

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and Mark Few who was also in
Salt Lake City with his team, are

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all really good friends. And you'll
hear from the press conference they all went

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to dinner last night. There's some
funny stuff coming out of that. But

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you know, instead of have you
hear us jabber, we're gonna go aha

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and play the full Tommy Lloyd press
conference from his NC DOUBLEA tournament presser today.

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Steve Rivera's there. You'll hear him
ask a couple of questions and so

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we'll play the whole thing and then
we'll talk about it after. So here

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he's Tommy Lloyd at Salt Lake City. Hey, joining us is a coach

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Lloyd uh Univers serious? I will
I will have him open open with the

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statement, then we'll open to the
questions for the media gathered coach all right,

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well, it's uh good to see
everybody, uh excited to be here,

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and uh, you know have lots
of great memories playing in Salt Lake

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and the NCAA tournament over the years, so uh, you know, here

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we go. Yeah, tell me, Steve Rober on All Sports twosun dot

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com. Was basketball never ever not
going to be in your in your future

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as a kid or whatever. Well, I think it always was, you

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know. I mean I I fell
in love with the game at a young

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age, and you know, to
be honest with you, I kind of

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fell in love with coaching at a
young age, you know. And and

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of course I call young guys.
I probably thought I was going to play

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in the NBA, and then you
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I wasn't close to good enough.
So uh, the coaching bug, you

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know, really hit me early.
And I had some I was just you

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know, like a lot of kids, they get into coaching. You know,

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you're you're really influenced about by your
coaches when you're younger. And and

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I had a lot of great coaches, you know, from from little league

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and youth basketball, and you know, grew up in a small town,

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so that made a real impact.
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basketball, me and coaching was something
that was probably always going to be be

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together. John Karn, associate press
coach Monson earlier talked about how you guys

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went out for Petza and I had
a nice time together. What what's what

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was it like being out with him, being able to catch up with him,

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and what kind of influences he had
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your coaching prayer. Well, you
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for coach Munson, you know,
because he you know, he'd kind of

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give me the opportunity. Then then
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was kind of you know, left
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Mark few inherited me. So you
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I mean, we have a ton
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know, he's somebody that you know, you're always gonna smile and laugh when

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you're with and you know, I
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you know he but he's handling it
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know, we just you know,
I think he's thankful for all all the

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opportunities he's had and the relationships he's
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I think we all know it can
be a tough business and there's another side

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to it, and uh, unfortunately
he's going through that right now. Coach

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had and Silly Arizona PBS, it's
nice to meet you. I wanted to

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ask about key Shod and the experience
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being in the National Championship game.
Was there any advice that he gave to

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any one of the players and maybe
even yourself or your coaching staff about getting

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to that point. Yeah, you
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we have a lot of guys have
their own experiences, you know, with

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a tournament. You know, me, Coach Rob, you know, obviously

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key Shod, Caleb, even Umar, you know, they've all been part

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of those runs. And you know, I mean Keyho he is. He

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has been very vocal, and I
think his message to the guys is,

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you know, you you don't ever
assume anything, and it's literally a one

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game at a time approach, and
you know, and you got to come

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out and you know, be willing
to lay it on the line in that

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one game. And and so that's
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I think is you know, simple, but it's beautiful because it's very true.

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Tommy steven veron All SPORTSDUS dot com. Do what do you talk or

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say to Caleb he's in the solutional
slump? Do you tell him to shoot

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yourself out of it? Just continue
to play what you play? What do

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you say to Well, you're a
great player and and you're you're fine,

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you know, I mean, he's
a player like him that you know is

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a is a score. You know
that they've had these stuff's happened to him

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before in their career, so they
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I mean, there's no guarantee that
he's going to play really well tomorrow,

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but you know, I wouldn't be
surprised if he did. And you

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know, I think he's in a
good way. He's had a good approach

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all week, and you know,
now just we need to get to noon

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tomorrow and and get out on the
court, and he needs us to let

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it rip. John Kerns share to
Press, you look at guys like Keishawan

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and Caleb who had those final four
runs in with their past teams, Well,

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what is that experience done for Arizona
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successful this season prepare for the postseason. I mean, how much is there

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like leadership mattered to you guys.
I mean it matters a ton, you

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know. I mean, I mean, first off, you know, they

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were significant contributors to teams that made
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tells you they're really good players.
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players to have great seasons. And
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I mean, my my only regret
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them one year because I've loved coaching
them and and they're both just awesome dudes.

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And I mean they're a joy to
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it every day, so they mean, so it's been a ton of ton

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of fun with them, and their
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to to our success awestin gets case
you TV and Spokane. You were talking

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about your relationship with Dan, How
what is it like when the world basketball

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brings you also together with Mark and
that relationship, well, I mean,

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I mean we're genuine friends. I
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know. I mean, I think
our friendships are before any professional relationships we

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have and you know, and then
that our wives, our friends, our

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kids, our best friends more like
cousins than than you know, friends.

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So I know, all our kids
really excited. They were all together last

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night, and so it's fun.
I mean, it brings a smile to

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our face because you know that that's
what our summers are like, you know,

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our summers, you know, everyone
at the lake together, hanging out

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and yeah, so it just comes
really easy for us to be around each

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other. And you know, yeah, I mean, I'm grateful for what

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those two have meant to me.
Tommy. Dan wanted us to let you

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know that he's going to run the
Princeton. He told me that fifty times.

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Who was your reaction because he's obviously
joking. Yeah, yeah, I

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mean, I just thought it would
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So you know, uh no,
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he you know, Dan's a veteran
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this opportunity he has, and I
have no doubt that his team's gonna come

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out, you know, ready to
play with a spirited effort tomorrow. Coach,

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you were there for so many years
at Gonzaga, making the run to

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the tournament every year, and now
you're a head coach kind of making a

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similar streak. Just do you have
a different appreciation for it now that you're

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a head coach or has your view
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I definitely have an appreciation for it. I mean, I don't know

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if it's different. I mean,
it's it's hard. I mean, I

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think what we do is hard,
you know, you know, and I

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know we're you know, open for
public scrutiny all that stuff. That's fine,

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but like these jobs are hard,
and they're hard on your family,

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you know, and you literally have
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that it's it's tough to get away
from. And and you know, I

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think one of the greatest gifts Coach
you ever gave me was, you know,

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he made me feel like an owner. You know, I didn't feel

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like just an assistant coach there.
I felt like, you know, I

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was in ownership with him of the
program. So so I felt, you

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know, the the importance of it, and you know, the agony of

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defeats and all that stuff, and
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and and now it's probably you know, magnified a little bit for me.

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So I definitely have an appreciation,
you know, for for what he's had

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to go through all those years when
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Yeah, it's it's it's not easy. It's definitely not easy. I

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mean it's awesome. I love every
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And I think, you know,
just being able to have this opportunity,

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you know, being my third year
as a head coach, you know,

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you're like, Wow, this guy's
done it for twenty five years and

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coach Munson's done it for twenty seven
years. It's a Yeah, it's I

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couldn't imagine. So hopefully, hopefully
I can get to that number someday.

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But yeah, it's a lot.
Jason cherwild kind authority coach. Obviously,

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we know what happened last year and
all that. How do you deal with

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maybe an increased pressure on the guys
because of that. There's no increased pressure.

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I mean, that's just I mean, that's you could fabricate, manufacture

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anything you want. We got a
forty minute basketball game tomorrow against another team

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that's a worthy opponent. You know, we got to come out and play.

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I mean, there's no you know, if we're distracted by what happened

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last year. Then you know,
then maybe we haven't done a good enough

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job focused on what we need to
do this year. Brian Peterson with Azy

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Desert's form. When you had Umar
Ballo at Gonzaga, you red shirtar in

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the first year, wasn't ready limited
role that second year gets into a couple

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of late minutes of an Ncy Deternament
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the potential of a fifth year?
Now he's a guy twelve out of thirteen

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double doubles. I mean no,
I mean I couldn't see. I couldn't

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see that. I couldn't see myself
being the head coach at Arizona. There's

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a lot of things, you know, when you go back to when we

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first had Umar at Gonzaga, and
yeah, I'm just really proud of him.

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I'm really proud of how far he's
come. I think those are the

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stories that need to be celebrated in
college basketball these days, because you know

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that that, to me, that's
the essence of what this sport has been

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about. You know, kids,
you know, transitioning from high school to

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becoming an adult, you know,
dealing with adversity, growing, having their

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own experiences and and Umar's you know, really stared those down and overcome a

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lot. I mean it there were
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last year at gonzag I mean,
he got a he got in a pretty

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tough spot. You know, he
wasn't wasn't wasn't a happy person. And

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you know, for for us to
get the opportunity to come down to Arizona,

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you knows, I think been really
impactful on his life, and I

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know he's been really impactful on my
life. And so I love where he's

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at, and you know, I'm
I'm grateful that he's a significant contributor to

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a really good Arizona team. Coach, this may be a silly question,

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no, no, but Dan was
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Uh A few? Does you're Ben
adamant? A lot of times we talked

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to you about how specialties in your
relationship with guys like you were and all

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that. Was there someone that that
taught you the importance of that relationships or

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is that something you kind of just
well, I mean it's probably a lot

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how you're raised, you know.
I mean I've always been a relationship person,

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you know, I've always enjoyed other
people's successes, you know. So

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I just you know, when when
I started coaching, you know, at

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Gonzaga, you know, I was
young, and and I could kind of

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still get out there with the guys
a little bit. And uh and and

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I just realized really early that,
you know, these relationships are really valuable

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for me, and they're really impactful
on the guys to have a coach that

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you know is willing to put their
arm around them and love them like a

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brother. So yeah, I mean, I think, you know, part

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of is just you know, basically
how you're wired with your personality. But

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more importantly, I you know,
you want these relationships to be authentic and

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organic. But you also want to
be intentional because you know what what I

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found, as you get busier in
life and your own kids get older,

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it's hard to manage a lot of
relationships, you know, And and so

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you have to be intentional with with
the effort and energy you put towards your

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players, because it's really important.
And I don't ever want to lose that

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or forget that. Okay, thank
you coaching, Thank you, good luck

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tomorrow, Thank you coach. A
lot of interesting stuff there and more from

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a standpoint of I feel like we
learned a lot about Tommy Lloyd the person

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right in all of that talking about
how you know, the relationship with Umar

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and just some of those things.
Absolutely, I mean in life. Like

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what it shows is in life and
in coaching and so forth, we are

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here. We're here to serve one
another, including a coach. He's here

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to serve his his team and the
teams eights are here to serve one another.

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They're friends and yeah, and you
know in the relationship, you know,

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I mean, he's he's got to
play Dan Monson tomorrow, right,

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relationships, that's the NANCAA tournament.
If he loses this game, people lose

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their minds. He went out and
had dinner with them, you know,

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we're friends and all that kind of
stuff. Yeah, I think it just

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shows Tommy's genuineness and ruthenticity, which
I think a lot of Wildcats fans who

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have been around and seen him since
the day got here, that that stood

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out in his first press conference in
his first season, to the lows of

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losing in NCAA tournament games and you
even you even see it then in that

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press conference, and that he truly
does care not only about the game,

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but about the guys that he coaches, which as a as a fan,

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I think is really cool and I
really like to hear how he just really

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simplifies things. Everybody around here is
thinking about Princeton from last year and what

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if they lose and this, and
then they're upset about the fact that they

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lost to Oregon and all this stuff, and he's just saying, you know

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what, guys, we just have
a game to play tomorrow and that's all

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we got to think about. Nationally, that's the talk they love to roast

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us and talking about how we're gonna
end it soon. First round, second

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round, that's not gonna happen.
We really to go out there tomorrow'll take

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our business. This friendship they're talking
about with months and it's wonderful, and

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the wives or you don't have this
friendship. It's wonderful, but it ends

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the minute they step on there,
exactly exactly, and that's what you see.

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All right, We're going to talk
some more about that. We're gonna

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get Steve, who's up in Salt
Lake City and you heard his questions on

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the press presser. We're gonna get
him in the third segment. But coming

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up, we've got PJ. Brown. We're gonna talk about some women's basketball,

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which we haven't had a chance to
talk much about. But they've got

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a game tomorrow. They're a quote
unquote play in game, but trying to

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get into the sixty fourteen bracket.
They've got Auburn at four o'clock. So

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it'll be coming on during our show
tomorrow, so we'll give you some updates

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on that. But stick around and
we'll have PJ. Brown for me theaters

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This is I on the Ball with Steve

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Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports
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I on the Ball. Welcome back to

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Time the Ball here on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. I'm your in studio host,

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Ja Gonzalez. My out of studio
host, Steve Rivera is in Salt

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Lake City, so we're gonna get
him over the phone. After we talked

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to PJ Brown from the airs on
The Daily Star, who joins us from

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Storage, Connecticut, where the women
are playing in a first four game tomorrow

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at four o'clock. They've got Auburn
coming up, with the winner taking on

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Syracuse. So Pj, how are
you well? I'm doing much better now

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than I was a few hours ago. I must say that. Well,

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okay, you got you can't leave
it, leave the listeners hanging in there.

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You got to explain what you mean
by that? Sure? Well,

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right, Now, if you were
to see me, you'd notice two things.

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One is I look like a prize
fighter who just finished eighteen rounds.

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And I look like an old time
sports writer named Bill Joss who had used

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to wear glasses and have tape on
his glasses all the time. So what

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happened was I tripped over a sidewalk
and my face broke my fall. Oh

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man, well, you told me
you spent some time in the emergency room.

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But I hope you're all okay.
No broken bones, right, no

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broken bones. But I must give
a couple people a shout out for their

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help. The paramedics at the Gamble
Pavilion were excellent. The paramedics and the

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ambulance as well as the hospital which
is two towns over. They were great.

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And I do want to give a
shout out to Arizona's President Bobby Robbins,

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Robert Robbins, and Arizona's team doctor. They checked me out when I

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actually came back and was there a
little bit for practice, and they give

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me the once over. And President
Robins gave me tips on how to sleep

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tonight, told me, yes,
I will have probably a mild concussion and

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I headaches tomorrow but we're all said
to go, we're here to watch the

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women play and that's it. And
the finger work so you can type up

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a nice story for for the readers, right, yeah, absolutely right,

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Well, sorry to hear about all
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you're being the trooper and uh,
you know it sounds like you're handling it's

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pretty well. So there's a game
to play tomorrow. Yeah, uh,

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you know, tell us a little
bit about you know, where things are

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right now. I'm presuming they've had
their press conference of already, so what

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uh, you know, what what's
uh, what's what's it looked like over

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there? Yeah, it's gonna be
it could be a really tough defensive knockout.

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Auburn is a team that sort of
place similar to Arizona in the way

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that they they focus on their defense. Excuse me, they also force uh

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tons of turnovers. The only differences
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and coach of Dia Barnes was saying
today that they do have to you know,

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stop them in the paint and make
sure that they don't get those rebounds

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and that those things might be key. She also mentioned that while they faced

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teams in the sec they face.
They played actually two pack twelve teams this

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year, cal who actually who beat
them in Washington State. But they still

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don't know, like they haven't seen
Arizona's defense. They haven't seen anything like

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that before, and that most likely
will play in their favor, the Wildcats

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favor. So, you know,
as we mentioned af Fair, probably one

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of the big stories of this team
has been how they've managed to get this

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far seven players, you know,
people you know coming and going, injuries,

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all that type of stuff. They've
been able to do this with seven

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players, nearly beat you know,
a number one seed USC two times.

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They made a very nice run.
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the durability and and and all that. But also you know, in the

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game like this, emotions are high, maybe you get a little tired,

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a little quicker. How is Ada
going to handle all of that? Well?

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I think two things. One,
they had a week little more than

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a week off right after the Pac
twelve tournament until they found out Sunday where

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they were going in Tuesday till they
came here to Stores Connecticut. That was

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great because any of those little nagging
injuries which everybody has at this time of

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year, regardless if you have fifteen
players or seven players, everybody has them.

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Now they get to rest up a
little bit. They took a couple

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days off before, they went through
some practice and got ready and then and

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all of that. I think that
helped them a lot. I also think,

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you know, it's a tournament and
they know, you know, you

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got to win to keep playing,
and they're ready for that. I think

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they are. I think mentally they're
ready. It falls into sort of their

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mentality on that big run where they
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the season. This team is like, throw whatever you want at us,

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and we'll take care of it.
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don't care that they're playing in this
first four playing or if they would have

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just solidly been in a first round
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going to go take care of business. That's how they they're thinking about it,

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right, And I just think that
they're ready to go out and play

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them around. That will be it. George Midas, my guest host today

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from Showtime Cards. As a question
for you, PJ. In my business

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records, you know play a big
part of what fluctuates the memorabilia on this

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this is a different type of record. Is this some kind of a tournament

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record for roster the lowest roster seven
players? I'm not sure because I know

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that Notre Dame won a championship with
eight players a few years ago. Yeah,

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so I think that teams have played
with eight. Well, check to

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see if there's been seven or what
the lowest is, But it's not really

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that to us. It might seem
like, what what's going on? But

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teams have won at all with eight
players. And that's and and also when

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you get down to the NCAA tournament, especially from the elite eight on,

418
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:27.319
you're only using seven players, sometimes
six. When you go back to the

419
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twenty twenty one run that the Wildcats
took a deal only you had seven players

420
00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:42.200
playing from I think it was maybe
second round or sweet sixteen on. So

421
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she just stuck with those seven.
And that's what coaches do in the tournament.

422
00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:51.680
They've got their their main folks and
they just run with them. Well,

423
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:53.640
and on top of only having seven, they're also very young. You

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know, some key players are freshmen. And now you've got Helena Playo.

425
00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:02.960
You know, the group veteran will
call her as well as as Mary Martinez

426
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:08.440
to the role that you think those
two the fifth year seniors, you know,

427
00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:11.240
have to play how you know,
I mean in a way of holding

428
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:17.000
this whole thing together and keeping everybody
grounded and not let the moment get too

429
00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:21.160
big for everybody. What are they
doing as far as that goes, well,

430
00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:23.119
you know, I think it's just
what they've done the whole time.

431
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:27.880
I mean, what we don't see
is that Helena is really the one who

432
00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:34.359
makes jokes and cracks them up and
is always laughing and joking around, which

433
00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:41.200
seems which we don't see because we
always see the more reserved Helena, right.

434
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:45.519
I think it's just the same leadership
they've been providing over the last month

435
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:52.039
or so really is. And they
know that these are the last games that

436
00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.359
they're wearing in an Arizona uniform,
and that means a lot to both of

437
00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:02.960
them. They both I talked to
them for our special story and even for

438
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:08.680
Senior Day. You know, this
is their second home, and especially for

439
00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:15.279
Helena, Dia is her second mom. She doesn't really want to leave.

440
00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:19.119
We saw how as Mary was on
the after the game, she was distraught.

441
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:25.359
She feels that Bett Shelby, the
assistant coach, is her second mom

442
00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:30.759
and Tucson's really taking her in as
one of their own. They don't want

443
00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:34.279
it to end. And I think
that they're going to pour everything into these

444
00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:41.279
games, this game and if they
have more. And also we heard Skyler

445
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:47.880
Jones talk recently about how they as
freshmen know that this is the end of

446
00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:52.640
the line for these seniors and they
they want to do it all for them.

447
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:59.400
So it's kind of a neat thing
where they all feel that there's a

448
00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:02.400
lot here. There's a lot,
there's a lot of things that they want

449
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:04.960
to do here, and they want
to play like they've played right. They

450
00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:10.680
play with heart and that's why they've
done what they've done over the past month

451
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:15.240
or so. That's it. It's
been heart carrying them and we'll see how

452
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:18.079
long it can carry them. The
ball is going to be in the hands

453
00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:19.920
of J. D. Williams and
Skyler Jones quite a bit. I know

454
00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:22.759
Helene is out there handling the ball
quite a bit as well. But you

455
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:26.200
know, two again, two true
freshmen, who are you know, going

456
00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:30.440
to be in the in the middle
of it. You know, have you

457
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:33.640
seen sort of a growth during this
time when there's been you know, they've

458
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.440
relied on them for so much.
What have you seen from them over the

459
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:42.440
last you know, several weeks.
Oh, absolutely, you know, at

460
00:31:42.440 --> 00:31:47.240
this point it's almost like they're not
freshmen. Remember this is the second season

461
00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:52.200
and they've played, so they played
more minutes. I think that three freshmen

462
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:57.079
combined than maybe any other freshman class
in the country. You know, there's

463
00:31:57.160 --> 00:32:00.720
a one like you were not talking
about, like Juju, there's a one

464
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:07.039
off Juju at USC or Hannah Hidalgo
at Notre Dame who start and they've played,

465
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:13.359
but like for three freshmen freshman class, so that's been pretty amazing.

466
00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:21.000
They've both grown tremendously. We've seen
that. We've seen how, you know,

467
00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:23.640
Jada really sort of takes control of
a game when she's out there.

468
00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:28.839
She really is a leader in a
lot of different ways. She hypes up

469
00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:34.079
her team. She she'll get a
charge or she'll do something and she's all

470
00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:39.640
she's going and everybody else sort of
feels that. And other parts of her

471
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:46.519
game. She's really starting to understand
the system better and playing within that system.

472
00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:51.640
Her shots are falling. We've seen
her take over that game at Stanford

473
00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:55.440
at the end, scored fourteen points
and win it for them. You look

474
00:32:55.480 --> 00:33:02.559
at Skyler Jones, she has gotten
more aggressive on the offensive end, driving

475
00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:07.799
to the hoop, knows when her
team needs layups or get to the line

476
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:14.400
or something like that. She's not
afraid to just do it, to just

477
00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:17.559
go and do it right. And
on the defensive end, she gets stealed

478
00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:25.039
and she's getting She's doing really smart
things with her length on the defensive end,

479
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:30.039
and we've seen that just grow over
the year because in the beginning she

480
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:34.559
wasn't doing those things, and now
she is. Same with Jada. You

481
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:40.000
even look at Brea. Brea in
that last game looked more like sort of

482
00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:45.319
we would expected her to look right. She didn't fall out, She took

483
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:52.119
the ball to the hoop really strong, she stood her position. She's really

484
00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:54.839
grown a lot as well. All
right, quick analysis, What do they

485
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:58.480
have to do. What's the most
important thing they either have to do or

486
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:02.519
not do tomorrow? I think two
things. I think one, they can't

487
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:07.000
follow right, they can't get in
foul trouble, which has been all season

488
00:34:07.159 --> 00:34:09.920
lately. They've cleaned that up.
And I think they just have to play

489
00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:14.760
their game. They play their game
where they're doing what they're supposed to do

490
00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:19.800
on defense and same on offense,
playing within the system, and I think

491
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:22.320
they'll be fine. That's what it
comes down to in these tournament games.

492
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:28.559
If you play your style and then
you do the one or two things to

493
00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:32.320
neutralize whatever the other team is thrown
at you, then you win. Yep,

494
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:37.519
all right, correct the PJ Brown
from theirs on the daily start look

495
00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:42.039
for her stuff covering the game tomorrow
and as long as there is only stays

496
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:45.519
in the tournament. PJ. Thanks
for your time and take care of yourself.

497
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:49.039
Man, watch out for those curves. I will you know what,

498
00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:52.920
I don't have that problem in two
cents. You have a nice sidewalks,

499
00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:54.599
say yeah, the curbs don't jump
up, and you'd like to be there,

500
00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:59.480
they don't. Thanks a whole bunch. Be well, sure, all

501
00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:02.719
right, PJ Brown from there on
daily start covering the women's team up up

502
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:10.760
in Connecticut. They've got a game
tomorrow four o'clock in the tournament playing let's

503
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:14.719
call her playing game, whatever you
want to call it. They're taking on

504
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:16.920
Auburn and then they've got Syracuse if
they win. So we'll see how that

505
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:21.159
goes for them. So let's take
our break, our buddy, Steve Rivera

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allegedly will be joining us after coming
up after the break, so we'll see

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if we can get him and Jordan
and Sammy and I will pick his brain

508
00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:30.840
on what he's seen up there in
Salt Lake City. So stick around.

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studio host, Steve Rivera's actually on
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We're going to talk to him here
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Man, we're all here. We've
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mixing it up. Yeah, so
Steve, you're there, but here the

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weather it's fantastic. The arenas a
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555
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lot of good stories out here.
Well, you know, we played Tommy's

556
00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:52.000
press conference and you know, you
let off the questions and you know,

557
00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:55.679
it seemed like there was a lot
of we learned a lot about Tommy as

558
00:38:55.679 --> 00:39:00.920
a person in this press conference,
talking about you know, your question about

559
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:04.760
how he you know, always thought
he would be in basketball, his you

560
00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.440
know, going out to dinner with
his friends, one of them who's going

561
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:10.000
to play in the Nancy Double A
tournament game tomorrow. Things of how he's

562
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:15.199
handled you know, all of the
stuff that's gone on. Just I mean,

563
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:19.039
did you feel like it was kind
of a lot about that and less

564
00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:22.760
about the game. Well, yeah, no question, because I remember that

565
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:27.320
Mark this year, iously got Monson's
year, and and tom and he's saying

566
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:31.119
three some of of guys who started
their careers that that it was my couple

567
00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:36.920
of middlefest today and now they're going
to face each other. But my story

568
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:39.920
formorrow. It's my column actually,
because I did sing on on Caleb Love

569
00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:44.880
earlier today, I called him to
because I've been sitting on history for a

570
00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:49.199
while. I talked today, I've
talked to a lot of a couple of

571
00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:52.960
players last week, talk to talk
to his family, talked to Lloyd's family.

572
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:57.119
So I kind of start to string
out that way and just how much

573
00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:00.760
how much basketball needs to And that's
why my questions were such as they were.

574
00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:05.480
Did do we did? I mean, did you learn a lot of

575
00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:07.079
things about him that maybe we didn't
already know? Because I feel like,

576
00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:13.119
on the one hand, we we
we know that he's a very kind of

577
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:16.159
a calm, even keel kind of
guy, but you know, we don't

578
00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:20.480
know a lot about him beyond that. Well what you know, what what

579
00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:22.760
are we learning about him? Well? The one thing that the player said

580
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:27.840
that I kind of didn't really know, but maybe since that he's very competitive,

581
00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:30.960
very competitive. He wants to win
just as much as the players do.

582
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:36.760
He's a feisty guy and he loves
to come eat. I guess when

583
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:39.280
he was younger, he was his
parentship me that he's an older brother and

584
00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:42.960
his older brother is like three or
four years older than him, and then

585
00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:46.119
he's hang around his brother's frience and
he was like, he was like,

586
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:52.320
your think that could be better than
you. I could do this faster,

587
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:54.519
I could run faster, throw the
ball harder. Uh. And so he

588
00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:59.400
was kind of like the little pussy
kids hanging around the older kids. Interesting.

589
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:02.719
Interesting, Yeah, So I wonder
what what type of coach he really

590
00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:07.800
is. Is he a players coach
or is he that like just said,

591
00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:10.039
no, I think he's all that. One of the things that I didn't

592
00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:14.639
the story because it's already the most
twelve hundred words. Uh. The story

593
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:17.679
I want to put is that he
learned early when he was an assistant,

594
00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:22.280
you have to be you have to
be a fair coach because they want some

595
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:25.000
love to you know. You can't
be yelling at them all the time.

596
00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:30.880
And he was. He was still
young when he started twenty four, uh,

597
00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:35.079
and and helped them become players.
So he was out there playing with

598
00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:37.440
them. You still have that in
him, and he learned that that was

599
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:42.440
a big part of being a good
coach. The relationship to build with the

600
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:45.519
players. And we heard the answer
to that one question where he said,

601
00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:50.440
you know, the type of coach
he is is more about his upbringing and

602
00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:54.239
less about mentors and that type of
stuff. Right, But well, you

603
00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:58.920
know because you you know, I
believe that too, because if you're if

604
00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:02.840
you're have good parents and you just
know how to treat people fairly and honestly,

605
00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:07.320
that kind of comes naturally, doesn't
it. And I smiled when he

606
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:10.880
said that, because not do that, you just don't, because there's almost

607
00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:15.599
don't have egos or power trips.
But I mean, how many to my

608
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:19.679
knowledge at least he is. He's
not like that. Yeah, And I

609
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:23.440
feel like that type of coaching in
today's works much better. They'll play for

610
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:27.480
you harder, rather in the dictator
type of coach, you know, when

611
00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:30.599
you're just yelling to do this,
do you know where they actually you know,

612
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:31.880
they're they're gonna play for you and
they're going to go all out.

613
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:35.599
And he's that type of coach.
We're learning that. Yeah, No,

614
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:39.719
fortunate George Cube of madem Times.
Obviously, I'm sure he's done by the

615
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:45.519
shop. Absolutely Christians. To me, he's as Munson called him, he's

616
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:49.519
a guys guy. Yeah, yes, absolutely, I mean I know him

617
00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:52.559
personally and that's that's the type of
person he is, you know, And

618
00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:55.280
and I'm sure his players feel that
way and they play for him. Steve,

619
00:42:55.599 --> 00:43:00.079
Where do you think he sits in
terms of the sort of the coaching

620
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:04.360
hierarchy? You know what I mean? You know, uh, you got

621
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:08.360
guys that you know, everybody you
know is aware of, you know,

622
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:14.239
the the the tom Izzo's the uh
uh you know that you know that level

623
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:16.159
of guy. And then you know
Tommy's one of the you know, he's

624
00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:20.519
new on the scene even though he's
been in college basketball for one hundred years.

625
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:25.800
He's a third year coach. But
how is his profile either being raised

626
00:43:27.079 --> 00:43:29.960
or whatever? Uh? And how
is that? Where do you think he

627
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:34.000
kind of sits among the coaching hierarchy. That's a good question. And I

628
00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:37.599
think you you touched. He still
knew this is his thirty year. He

629
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:43.039
needs three years, three wins of
tying the all time best mark. Three

630
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:46.039
years you know, intro program,
so that has to happen. If he

631
00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:52.079
was crazy the final for the break
it. Actually he's not there yet,

632
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:54.920
you know, at the podium today, but still self you know a lot

633
00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:58.679
of people were in there just listening
to what he had to say. He's

634
00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:01.039
still self right. There's some other
coaches. Mark Muny did the same because

635
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:06.320
he's marked for a number of years. Tommy has a long way to go.

636
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:09.360
And in fact, I was sitting
next to somebody from You Connected You

637
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:14.320
and they said, you know,
Tommy, Tommy's been here from that.

638
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:17.079
But if he doesn't do it this
year at least out of this first round,

639
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:22.519
people are gonna wonder can he do
this job to get this team where

640
00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:25.639
he needs to go? And realistic
that's right, because what if they fail?

641
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:31.039
And you're thinking, what's up?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I

642
00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:35.320
mean should I assume that you also
sat in on the Dan Monson interview or

643
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:38.559
press conference. Was fantastic because I
did ask him a couple of questions,

644
00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:43.320
what what what? What are your
impressions of him and what he's going through?

645
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:46.800
I mean, holy crap, it's
funny because he's funnies. I mean,

646
00:44:47.679 --> 00:44:51.039
I don't even have to answer questions. He's on fire. I'm not

647
00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:55.880
free and asked too. That's true. He was. He was a stand

648
00:44:55.960 --> 00:45:00.280
up from it. The one thing
he said to Tommy the other night the

649
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:07.079
last night, I've been putting the
Princeton office. Yeah, we heard that

650
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:08.920
from the from the press and that
Tommy said, well, it's nice to

651
00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:12.360
see you're putting in some kind of
an offense. I thought that was pretty

652
00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:17.320
fun. Probably a relationship. And
we called they wouldn't like to be playing

653
00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:21.960
each other, but you know they
are. They are. And I think

654
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:24.719
I was sitting with another person too, we were talking about first games.

655
00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:29.440
I can't remember. It might have
been the Maryland game in nineteen ninety seven

656
00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:32.480
or four of those games in nineteen
eighty eight where they're such a big favorite.

657
00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:36.639
Do you remember at any time that
they were a twenty point favorite in

658
00:45:36.679 --> 00:45:44.440
the first round? Uh, nineteen
eighty eight? Who played? Now?

659
00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:47.880
They were? They played Cornell and
there I think I think I don't know

660
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:52.679
if they did at that time they
were doing a one, two, three

661
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:53.880
and four. You know, you
were either a one seed or two seat

662
00:45:53.960 --> 00:45:58.119
or whatever. But I think you
could have argued that Arizona was the number

663
00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:02.039
one seed in the in that tournament
that year. Uh. But but you

664
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:07.440
know, it's it's funny because I
feel like, you know, like I

665
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:10.079
said, we're learning all these things
about Tommy Lloyd. The person, and

666
00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:14.199
and it's kind of like people trying
to get to know him who really haven't

667
00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:15.760
had a chance to know him because, as you said, he hasn't been

668
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:20.920
around all that long. No,
in fact, I talked to him.

669
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:24.880
Well he's cool in the story.
Just how how you know he's been coaching

670
00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:30.360
on a better person? Yeah,
I've been hanging out with a little bit

671
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:36.039
from the Bugles and Fantasy cant because
he goes he's just a dude, but

672
00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:38.440
I mean, honestly, he's a
dude taking five billion dollars a year.

673
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:45.119
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all
right. So I also watched the the

674
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:49.079
players presser. It was very short, but you know, a lot of

675
00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:52.039
questions and Tommy was you know,
as was asked this question as well,

676
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:58.840
the Caleb Love uh Keisha Johnson factor
in terms of both those guys both getting

677
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:01.880
to the final four keyshat of the
championship game and how meaningful that is.

678
00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:05.519
I know, you don't think it
means all that much because we've had that

679
00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:07.760
conversation, but Tommy does, and
the player seemed to think that as well.

680
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:12.960
Yeah. Yeah, this other game, uh that they're they're here,

681
00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:15.320
they have experience in it. I
think there's much more to be said,

682
00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:19.480
you know, not to be said
too much of that. They even said,

683
00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:21.840
you know, no, not really, they just have experienced it.

684
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:24.079
The one thing I want to say, I haven't read this, do some

685
00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:29.280
notes. I think Caleb Love looks
good. Uh. He spoke to us

686
00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:32.960
for the first time since the the
poker table instant. He didn't get into

687
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:37.320
any details. He said he couldn't
really talk about it, but he's moved

688
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:42.079
on from it. He feels fine. Uh, he asked, uh uh,

689
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:45.039
Bruce Asten was not really you,
And he says, I couldn't really

690
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:46.519
say, you know, just to
confirm if it was in because the people

691
00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:53.480
thought maybe there was a They call
it a faith photo or whatever. But

692
00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:57.800
he's moved on. The One thing
that people don't know and I don't.

693
00:47:58.159 --> 00:48:01.400
I don't think Bruce knows. I've
sent to a note this morning. Apparently

694
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:07.039
his grandfather passed just recently, and
his and his aunt. He said,

695
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:09.159
So I got him by myself.
I went back to him and asked him,

696
00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:12.280
let me ask the personal question if
I can't. He said sure.

697
00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:15.360
I asked him, well, did
you just He said, yeah, I

698
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:16.880
my aunties as well, And I
said, how's that affecting you? As

699
00:48:16.920 --> 00:48:20.880
well, I missed him. I
love him, that's all he would tell

700
00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:23.239
me. Wow. Interesting, all
right, Steve, So it's core than

701
00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:27.320
just basketball, and then what do
we know until we asked? Right?

702
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:31.039
Right? Right? So Steve,
everyone's talking about how their experience is actually

703
00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:36.360
going to help us. Caleb one
final four key shot Championship game? Can

704
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:43.119
it actually hurt us? Like going
there two hockey and just feel like good?

705
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.239
Question? Question, You've been here
a long time and you've seen a

706
00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:49.360
number of the games right in the
tournament. And I again I said,

707
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:52.519
I'm not saying, well that,
but they've been through a number of the

708
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:55.679
games as well. Uh. This
is my thirtieth one. Uh and questions

709
00:48:55.719 --> 00:49:00.440
I can for the Arizona and I've
always thought that they lose the trumpet over

710
00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:04.840
confidence. They think they're you know, the hoop and they come and walk

711
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:07.880
in they're not lose, and just
what happens they lose. I don't think

712
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:14.480
that's the case with this team.
One for last year. They know they

713
00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:20.920
can't just do that any game.
They cannot play that way. It's a

714
00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:22.800
different game. Well, you know
you right, and you'd like to think

715
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:27.559
that, well, they want to
kind of forget it that maybe if you

716
00:49:27.639 --> 00:49:32.000
don't forget at all and play with
some urgency that they clearly didn't show uh

717
00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:36.599
in the second half against Oregon.
I try, you know, the more

718
00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:38.480
I've thought about the game, the
more I chalk it up. I chalk

719
00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:44.039
it up to urgencies that Oregon had
life or death urgency to that game.

720
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:46.599
They're not in the n CUAA tournament
if they don't win that game. Arizona

721
00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:50.719
was like, Okay, we're winning, but even if we don't win,

722
00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:53.360
it's no big deal. And I
think that I don't know, I could

723
00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:55.760
be over analyzing it, but I
feel like that that might have caught them

724
00:49:57.519 --> 00:50:00.440
in that game, because Oregon,
on top of having urgency, had good

725
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:07.039
enough players to beat them. And
then they did absolutely well. There,

726
00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:10.920
you guys hit it. Arizona first
here against Princeton. They came in and

727
00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:15.719
I thought they were probably uh,
they had what twelve thirteen and taking half

728
00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:22.800
of that one, that one brought
away confidence. And then that's the last

729
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:27.159
Arizona East. Unfortunately, guys,
guess what happened a lot this year and

730
00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.400
then it would go away, right, Yeah, well we'll see, we

731
00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:35.519
will see. Okay, Steve,
thanks a whole bunch, man, be

732
00:50:35.719 --> 00:50:37.119
safe. I know if you heard
about PJ. Brown, but she took

733
00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:42.320
a tumble and in the emergency room
in Connecticut. So try not to be

734
00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:47.960
tripping over curves or anything like that
right now. All right, man,

735
00:50:49.079 --> 00:50:52.880
be well and we'll talk to you. Definitely talk to you tomorrow after the

736
00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:57.920
game. Okay, thanks, thanks
about all right. That was Steve reporting

737
00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:00.960
in from Salt Lake City. Uh, they were. He was at the

738
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:05.719
press conferences today. Look for his
column on All Sports Tucson. He's working

739
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:07.880
on a piece on Tommy Lloyd.
It's kind of this is the time of

740
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:12.000
the year that you do the sort
of all encompassing uh you know, personality

741
00:51:12.079 --> 00:51:15.880
pieces on some of the key players
or coaches or whatever. So you'll get

742
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:19.800
that from Steve on All Sports Twocson
tomorrow. All right, Sammy, let's

743
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:22.440
let's let's get out here. Take
us to the break top of the hour.

744
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:25.199
We're going to be coming back breaking
news. There's some All America teams

745
00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:29.679
and stuff like that being announced today. So uh and it was the start

746
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:32.159
of Major League Baseball season for those
of you who don't know that. All

747
00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:34.960
right, we will be right back