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This is I on the Ball with
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afternoon everybody to Eye on the Ball. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Jigginsauce got

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a guy? What the hell is
your name? I don't even know what

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is my name? Do you have
to sing them today? No, let's

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not sing. We'll screw there.
Is your birthday? How old are you

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about? Forty twenty three? Twenty
three? Oh? Man, you're too

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old for the NFL, because that's
why they don't want to That's why they

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don't want to draft Michael Pennix because
he's twenty four years old. Twenty three.

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Man, Oh the things I didn't
do with twenty three twenty three?

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Were you married? You got it, Jimmy, I got to come came

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here. I was twenty three when
I first arrived in duc. Yeah,

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skinny little kid, hoping to Michael
Jordan. Well, and then you'll sell

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them this is all funny, you
share. I'll be here three years and

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then go to a bigger market right
exactly then, but it's it's a great

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place to live, you raise kids, and and why why you cover one

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of the best programs in the country
basketball wise specifically, and then football we'll

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see, but welcome everybody to a
great show. We think on Monday,

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a lot of hoops today, right, a lot of hoops, a lot

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of hoops. Michael De Corsi from
The Sporting News put out a call in

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this morning that, uh, you
know, Steve's on one side of it.

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I'm on the other talking about not
having a lot of trust in Arizona

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or just you know, having some
with Arizona as with purdueing some others based

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on their recent history. And so
we thought would give him a call,

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and he's going to join us at
uh at uh at the in the first

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segment, our first hour, and
we'll just talk to him, you know

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what he thinks. And he explained
to it pretty well. But I think

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we've got some more questions about why
he's why he suggested and I get it,

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I mean I understand, yeah,
I mean, I understand why you

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have trust iss I'm just saying that
what I you know, I'm starting to

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see and what I think I saw
on Saturday certainly was if that team that

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played on Saturday can win a National
champions Well you've heard this that you were

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at the game, maybe so,
so you hear this all the time.

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Okay, they play, they play
out of their minds. I played very

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well. This is well, and
I'm sure you heard this about ten times.

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If they play like this, no
one's gonna beat them. And then

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okay, conversely, if they don't
play like this, right, if they

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play one game not like that,
I'm not wishing they're not winning the next.

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So it's as easy as that.
No, not as easy as that.

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Well, yeah, it's the team
that does that six times in a

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row. Sure, right, sure, and and and look, you know

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again, let's not forget that.
You know, Arizona went into the went

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into the NCAA Tournament ninety seven on
two game losing streak. Right, they've

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just been swept. So Stanford in
the Bay Area went in on two game

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losing streak and put together well even
their first game, they don't be around

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game wasn't a great game, but
after that they played really well. I

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swear to whomever I need to swear
to that first game is when they won

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the title. Yea. They were
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think it was just like four minutes, and then mc miles in Jason Terry

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saved them. And then of course
the the Kansas game and then the overtime

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games, the time game. So
they just I mean, they obliterated North

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Carolina in the in the final four. Okay, so you use as an

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example, let's go to ninety eight. They're playing right along, kicking the

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crop out of everybody, and then
boom and boom they laid an egg and

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then what egg? And they were
bounced by by a team that took advantage

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of Utah saw them and said,
let's come on, guys, I mean

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yeah, and you can lead it
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You look at that that twenty eleven
team, and Duke goes into the sweet

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sixteen, the number one seed.
Everybody thought they were your natural champion.

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Kyrie Irving's their point guard. Arizona
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and and and beats them and beat
a handley that day. So it's it's

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again, it's matchups. It's you
know, where's your head when you get

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into get into the situation, and
and that's how that's how you figured out

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and some team we keep saying it, I keep saying it, some team

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is going to get hot and win
it. Sure, sure, just like

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last year. I mean last year, nobody going in. I don't know

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who thought Yukon was the national champion. No, no, we'll see,

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we'll see. Uh. So we
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then in the second hour more poops. I found a dude who who talks

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to bracketology, does his own bracket
has pretty good with it, pretty consistent.

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I know this because he was with
Camp Bob Kemp on his show and

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I think, oh, maybe we
can get him on. And he's he's

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fine. He's on the East coast. What's it called. He's got a

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bracketwag dot com. His name is
Shall Shelby Mass. He's like anything like

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that. He's another guy that Melkyle. But he but he's the you know,

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he's the official bracketologist for us A
Today. So he's got some he's

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got some cred. So he's not
you know, he's not just a guy

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who came up with a bracket website
and and we and we called him.

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He actually, you know, his
his bracket is what USA Today uses,

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so so will you know, he's
got some knowledge and so we'll talk to

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him and cool and you can go
to his website bracketwag dot com. Today

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he had Arizona on the two line
too, but he's got him as the

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top two seed. They're they're teetering
right there. They are the four or

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five six right in that line because
of North Carolina Tennis, North Carolina and

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Tennessee. You know, I watched
North Carolina the other night, and you

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know the Tennessee Saturday, they look
pretty, they look good, damn good.

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Yeah, you know I watched Auburn. Auburn looked really good and and

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so you know it's there's a there's
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you get once you get pass I
think even you might even start to say

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that, you know, Houston barely
won the other night. You might even

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start to say they're showing a little
bit of a well. Once you get

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past u Kond of Purdue, there
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I don't know if if you have
shows like this, you know,

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all the respective sites that you just
said that they have trust issues too with

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their teams teams, because we don't
know what they know about their team.

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I think we do about you know, with the trust issues we know w

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Purdue because because we've seen them fade, we've seen them fade. They flamed

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out the last two years. Well
with Zach just what some showing Purdue was

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thinking Arizona the same thing. Yeah, you don't say it's the same.

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It's the same resume. Arizona doesn't
have Zach ed right, which is you

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know, how did fairly Dickinson handle
him last year? How did he do

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that? It's we saw what he
did against Arizona. He was unstoppable,

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you know. And then the guards, well you got to make sure that

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somebody else doesn't beat you, and
their guards beat Arizona, and then that's

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how we found out that they needed
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right, And the officiating whenever you
play for due is always going to be

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really important. If your BIG's getting
foul trouble the earliest possible time they can,

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you're gonna be in it for a
long while, right, And it

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depends on what they're gonna call.
Like in the game on Saturday with with

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with Arizona Umar, right, the
guy's backing into him. Umar is just

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you know, shoving him and shoving
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times, they called him a couple
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okay, how do you decide whether
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or not? Right? Because I
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mean, Umar was putting forearms in
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call it a couple of times,
then a couple of times he didn't get

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a call, and I didn't understand
what what makes you make the call?

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Yeah? Well that was a great
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in Oregon. And guess what here
we are with two final regular season games,

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right, Arizona must win both to
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title maybe well Washington, Washington States, that have to be Washington, well

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at home? Right, Yeah,
I mean yeah, you never know,

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you never know, but still then
you never know. I still think that

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guy's day's game for Arizona's gonna be
a tougher one. Email got guys,

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they've be like guys, they don't
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The question is, right, have
they quit? Are they mailing it in?

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They're not going to n Cuba Tournament
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even think they want to play in
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be over with. Yeah, but
remember this is a team that had Arizona

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pretty bad in the first well.
And and the thing is, if you're

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if you're a player at u C
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your body whatsoever, and Arizona's coming
to town with a chance to win the

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PAC twelf Tournament PAC twelve Championship,
You're gonna You're gonna give it all you

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have. The question is will that
overtake whatever other feelings they have about their

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season? Are they gonna come out
ready to player they come out and say

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screw it, I just want I
just want this to be over. But

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if Pauli is never attended, well
attended, this is the game that they

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show up waiting for. Yeah,
this is Arizona brings up the stars in

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La and a lot of U A
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Saturday, who knows with the with
the lebron and o'bronni and and and get

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to give and said so and look
forward to all that. The women's team,

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the women's team, Oh we did
we talked about No Friday, was

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it Friday, Saturday? Thursday,
the Thursday night they got beat, it

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was a game they should have won. And then then Saturday you could just

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know it was the clock struck twelve
for those guys. That was you know,

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I mean Ucla went out to what
a thirteen to nothing lead, and

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Arizona was just never never had a
chance. Uh. They looked they looked

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fatigued. Yeah, they looked I'm
not gonna say uninspired. They just look

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like, this is a bad This
is the last place I kind of want

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to be right now, because you
know, it's been such a grind for

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them. It's kind of like,
okay, let's let this happen. Their

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seed is locked in for the packed
off tournament. Not that I think anybody

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was thinking about that. They wanted
to beat Ucla, but it was like,

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okay, let's just get past this
and you know, take a break,

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get into the into the packed off
tournament and and go from there.

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And I think that's what that's what
they did. But they were just they

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never had a chance. So they
played adomobile. They played Wednesday night,

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right the first night, and then
if they win there, they have a

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chance at USC one more time.
They played Wednesday night at seven against Washington.

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Yeah. Yeah, so maybe win
a couple of their maybe they get

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in into the tournament. But we'll
see what happens with him. Anything else,

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a lot of state championships. Maybe
we start talking to kids or high

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school or high school coaches. This
week, Yeah, tomorrow. I think

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I think we're gonna get Mike Bibby. So that'll be fun. I'd be

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fun. He saw that middle last
week. I want to see how he

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thinks he would have fit in here. I think I think Bibby with this

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team, Uh, that's all they
need, you know what, all they

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need? You just got, you
just got. You gave goosebumps to a

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bunch of Arizona fans just now because
kind of really he would be the guy

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that kind of that's what they need
that is missing. Like, so we'll

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talk to him, I'm hoping tomorrow. I spoke to him over the weekend.

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So anything else Now. I watched
a lot of college basketball this week.

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It was it's like, you know, I had some stuff to do

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on Saturday, but it was around
the house, so I just put games

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on all day long. Did you
watch the Ziggs? I did not watch

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that. It looked good by that
time. By that time, I was

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kind of I was kind of done. I watched late. It was like

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yeah, because I mean I started
watching, you know, I watched,

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uh, watched that Creighton game,
a bunch of that Creighton game. They're

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good and uh. And that was
on Saturday. But then I had the

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I had the I had the Arizona
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came back and watched some more basketball
for that. I watched a bunch of

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basketball yesterday. I was watching Nebraska
and Nebraska. Who did Nebraska play?

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I watched Nebraska Rutgers Steve they need
the Nebraska's Nebraska is a surprisingly good in

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a weird way. Yeah, uh
so, so a lot of basketball.

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It's march mane. I watched Stanford
Colorado last night. I saw that horrible.

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They're horrible. I watched that game
and it was one of those games

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too where I thought, watching two
teams do really bad things, you know,

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you go, how is either team
going to win this game? And

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then Tristan de Silva went off in
the second half and then he had like

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five or six three pointers in the
second half of Colorado, and then they

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blew them out. And then I
thought I got today. I came and

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I thought, how the hell it's
Stanford bed Arizona. I don't care where.

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I don't care if it was in
two the coaches backyard. Scanford's not

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a beating Arizona two times in a
row. Just so, I think you

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hit the nail on the head with
the word can. I wrote about it

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two weeks ago, a week ago
with Washington State matchups. If they find

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a team that plays slow, methodical, has a big man and a nice

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guard, Arizona is that's sir,
Kryptonite. It's been the cryptite forever.

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Slow them down, and guess what
happens in March. Teams start to slow

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down, they pay some stims because
you got six attempts at that apple,

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well, you know, six bytes
and if you miss the bite, your

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teeth get lodged in there, you
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I think it's gonna be a fun
tournament, you know again, and thinking

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about last year, you know when
all these teams came out of nowhere,

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don't know that it's gonna be like
that, because I think I think the

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teams that are sitting there at the
top right now one are aware, right

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that they should be, that they
have to be at their best every single

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game. You know that that a
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Diego State or an fau or or
Miami Florida, they're lurking out there.

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Yeah, well, you've been to
enough or tournaments. All sounds good.

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Instance, it sounds good. It
doesn't work that way because you go into

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the gym and there's this feeling like
like we watched last year. I think

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Virginia lost. You saw Purdue La
lose, and you're thinking, okay,

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Arizona saw that another ready, right, you see that that's not gonna happen

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to us, and then it happens
to them. You know who among Arizona

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fans is not thinking about the fact
or is thinking about the fact that,

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you know, assume Arizona is the
number one seed, even if they're a

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number two seed, that they're going
to the Huntsman Center at Utah where they

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lost to Santa Claira Santa Clara,
So Claire. That has not been a

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kind place to Arizona. You know, that's where they lost in the sweet

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sixteen to Kansas, anythink right?
Uh? Oh no, I mean not

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in the lead eight that Kansas game
in the Jason Gardner So you would you

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were good? You went. I
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Ataheim was that year. It was
St. Clara though has been another common

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place. It was Wisconsin. They
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second round there. Yeah, oh
that's what it was, right yep.

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So back in two thousand as the
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seed. Yeah, so we'll see
Salt Lake. Be carever what you wish

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for. So let's go and get
to morrow. Let's take our break.

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Mike of course he'll be joining us
from the Sporting News and uh yeah,

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if you got if you got five
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column that you can you can search
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and he wrote a column that pretty
much involved Arizona. So, uh,

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evaluation today. Steve Rivera and Jacin
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Hey, welcome back to I on
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I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jakin Zaws. Now on the phone. We have

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Mike de Corsi from the Sporty News, longtime writer from the Sporty News.

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How you doing, Michael, I
am doing well, Steve, how are

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you. I'm doing fine as well, but I have reservations just like you.

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I read your calling today about the
Arizona basketball team, and they give

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me the hebgb's two. I didn't
use the word hebgb's, but I like

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it. Well, you did use
trust I have. I've been talking about

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trust with this team. I don't
know whether to believe in him or not.

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I think that compositionally there's a lot
there. Yea. They have great

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size with follow and obviously a dynamic
score in Caleb Love. And I've liked

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Tylan Boswell's talent from the first time
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and wondered at times last year if
they might not have had more success in

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March if he were given more of
the ball. And I know that he's

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been a little inconsistent at times this
year, but I still do trust his

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talent. I believe in it.
But you know, everybody's got to grow

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as a player at their own pace. You know, Michael, we all

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know what happened last year with Princeton, and then you know they were a

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number one seed lost in Sweet sixteen. But does any of this trust they'll

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go even beyond that, you know, the Loud Olson years, the Sean

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Miller years, you know that that
Arizona is just a team that has a

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reputation of you know, not meeting
expectations in the tournament. Well, for

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me, it doesn't work like that
at all, because I that's not my

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you know, my job isn't to
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that. I don't worry about that. I mean, like for Purdue,

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I mean, what they've done recently
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team that are trying to fight through
that are members of the team that lost

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to Fairley Dickinson last year or that
lost to Saint Peter's the year before,

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So that matters. But what happened
under Sean Miller, which honestly they I

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mean, they were one shot away
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I don't think it was that bad. And of course lut won it and

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was probably one shot the way from
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and did make the final four on
multiple other occasions. So I don't

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think of Arizona as an underachieving program. No, I don't buy that.

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So you talk about boswell, what
other things concern you, or do other

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things concern you? Well, you
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know, from like I said,
from a compositional standpoint, I don't look

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at them and say they don't have
this. I don't look at them as

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a team that is lacking in a
specific area where you would need in order

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to win a championship. Or they've
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They've got guys who are significant talents. Do they have a first round pick.

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I'm not sure whether that's true or
not. That may be where ultimately,

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you know, they may not be
quite talented enough, even though they

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have really very good college players.
You know, they have terrific college players.

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Catle Loves averaging nearly twenty points a
game. We know what Umar can

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do, Keishaw Johnson is contributing so
much. So they may not have quite

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enough talent to win at all.
I think that's something that still could be

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determined. But from a standpoint of
roster and the way they play, they

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have the ingredients. They shoot the
basketball really well. They're seventeenth in the

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country in three point percentage, and
that's obviously an important component. Now,

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you've always had to have somebody who
can break down a defense. If you

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don't have that, you can't win
at all. It's just not possible.

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Because you get into the NCAA tournament, especially the deeper rounds, and opponents

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have you so well scouted. They
spend days, they don't eat, but

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they don't sleep, and they just
watch every out of tape and they have

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you so picked apart, and they
do their best to communicate that to the

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players. And what ends up happening
is that somewhere in the game and this

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was true with Mike and Miles back
in ninety seven, you just got somebody

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that's going to go make a play
they can't stop. And that's what you

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have to have. And so I
think Arizona has that. That's I like

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a lot of the things about this
team, but they keep giving us reasons

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to wonder, and the Washington State
home game to an extent, especially the

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way it closed, even more so
going to Stanford and losing, going to

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Oregon State and losing. The best
teams don't often do that. You're right,

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yeah, And you made the point
that you know when you add up

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the losses and the net rankings of
their losses, that you know the Arizona's

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got worse losses than most. I
mean, I watched Stanford against Colorado last

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night and they were so bad,
and I'm like, how did theirsonant to

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ever lose to the to this team? You know? And I guess that's

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that's a part of it. Do
we tend to lean towards we think more

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of the worst possible scenario as opposed
to thinking of the best possible scenario?

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Because the team that I saw on
Saturday against against Oregon looked like a team

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that could win the national championship.
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I think that the reason you concern
yourself with the worst scenario is that it

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only takes one of those, right, And that's that's like if it was

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a series, you'd look at the
best because the best is ultimately gonna win

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out, like if it was a
seven game series, like in the NBA,

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the best is ultimately gonna almost always
going to win out. And and

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so that's not true in the NCAA
tournament. If you throw one of those

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games out there, it hits you
in the face, as it did a

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year ago against Princeton. And I
think that's that's the concern. I think

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the team two years ago that lost
in the Sweet sixteen. I mean you

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saw much they struggled even in the
TCU game in the second round, So

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they were more beatable than these past
two teams have been. So to speak,

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this team in particular, there's a
lot to like about it. I

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don't want anybody to get me wrong
about this. I mean, I think

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when you have a shot blocker,
and you have a creative guard who can

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take the ball to the lane,
and you have excellent three point shooting and

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you defend, which they do,
then you have a lot of what you

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need to do well in the tournament. But you have to find that level

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of consistency well. And let's go
there to the guy who guides them in

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Tymy Lloyd. You know, third
year has won a lot of games,

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but as you pointed out, and
lost in the sweet sixteen, lost in

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the first round. Now he still
has stuff to prove. Yeah, I

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think until you do it, it's
always a question, and usually the best

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coaches do it, even if it
starts slowly, even if there are times

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when you say that's not matching the
seed in the early stages. Ultimately the

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better coaches do that, and I
think that will happen for Tommy. It's

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just a question of when that time
arrives. Does it arrive this year?

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Probably, but not definitely. Until
it happens, it's I don't question him

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as a coach. Goodness, this
is the third consecutive year he's produced a

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championship level team. I don't question
him as a coach at all. But

412
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there is the question of getting it
done in that tournament is different than than

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performing on a week to week basis, as he has excelled three consecutive years.

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Now that's a different deal. And
like I said, I don't have

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any doubt that at some point he's
going to cross over that river. But

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it's just a question of when that
happens. Do you do you have any

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ideas on teams that Arizona needs to
watch for. And I'm talking more in

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the early rounds, not necessarily the
first round, because that's just a crapshoot.

419
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You know, somebody shows up and
beats you. You're you're not going

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to get beat in the first round. But that's not going to happen to

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this team. A second round.
I'm not worried about that at all.

422
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Right, a second round team or
a sweet sixteen team, the kind of

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matchup that they would really want to
avoid. I think it might be somebody

424
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that that pressures the basketball because although
I like Kyland's talent, I'm the one

425
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thing I don't know that yet I'm
in love with is his ball handling ability.

426
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I think he's I think he's a
really good I think he's got very

427
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good vision, and he's certainly a
fine shooter. But I'm not one hundred

428
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percent sold on him in terms of
like if he were playing in the Big

429
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Ten and they had to play Penn
State, which is a pressure oriented team.

430
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It's the first team that comes to
my mind because I work at the

431
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Big Ten Network and I see it
every week, and so that I'm not

432
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saying that Penn State would beat them. I'm just saying a team that plays

433
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in that vein, and I don't
know, I mean, how many other

434
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teams in the tournament will do that
at I don't know how many teams that

435
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are in the tournament that do that
will wind up in Arizona's neighborhood. So

436
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I think it's hard to say for
sure, but I think that, you

437
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know what, I think that one
of the teams they need to look out

438
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for would be Gonzaga, because Gonzaga
is probably you know, there's a shot

439
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that they would be in the West. I mean because either Kenzaga or Saint

440
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:26.480
Mary's is probably going to get put
in the West because of preference. And

441
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I think the team that earns that
will be the one that prevails in the

442
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in the West Coast Tournament next week. And so they're good enough to bother

443
00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:44.559
to bother Arizona. They've got size, they've got a terrific point guard in

444
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:48.920
them, hard, they've got guys
who can make shots now, and they

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have some confidence after really not having
much for the first half of the year.

446
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And that's a team that right now
I have as a seven. If

447
00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:00.319
Arizona were to fall to it too, that would be a problem. It

448
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.880
wouldn't be a problem if Arizona.
If Arizona's a one, they won't see

449
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:10.599
Gonzaga until the regional final because if
if I'm wrong, I may be wrong

450
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that Gonzaga is a seven, but
I don't think they'll be in an eight

451
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nine game. I don't think they
put a team with Gonzaga's metrics and an

452
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ability in an eight to nine game, and dare them to be the number

453
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one seed. I just can't That's
that's not the way you protect. The

454
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number one seeds are there to be
protected. That's why you make them number

455
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one seeds. And why why you
would put a team that's in the high

456
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teams in the in the net and
ken palm and that has Gonzaga's level of

457
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:41.279
ability in an eight to nine game. I just can't buy that. Well,

458
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.559
you sure stirred the juices with two
song people. They've been waiting for

459
00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:49.319
a Gonzaga game. They cannot get
what they wished for here exact. Let's

460
00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:52.599
go through the rest of the So
we got about four minutes about the rest

461
00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:56.440
of the league. Are we going
to see what we saw last year with

462
00:30:56.599 --> 00:31:00.319
so many people, so many teams
from out of the blue planes well and

463
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.680
get into the final four. I
don't think it'll be like that because I

464
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because I really believe in Yukon and
Purdue to an extent at least to make

465
00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:15.359
the final four. I really believe
in Yukon a lot. Houston is going

466
00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:18.440
to be hard for whoever plays them. And as I said, I think

467
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.319
I trust Arizona less than the three
I just mentioned, but way more than

468
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most of the other teams. I
think that we'll see some of those teams

469
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:29.519
get there. I mean last year
that basically all the one cleared out and

470
00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:33.480
went home, uh and left at
the Yukon and San Diego State and the

471
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:38.680
rest. I think we'll see some
measure of teams that are in the protected

472
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seed category one, two, three, four. I'll be surprised that there's

473
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too much in the way of intrusion
on that top group. Who would be

474
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.440
who would we be surprised. Let's
say, look, you know you're purdueing

475
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:57.319
in Yukon aside that pitched them aside. But after that, which team would

476
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:02.640
would you be surprised to see flame
out? Early? Wow? I would

477
00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:07.759
be surprised the Houston flame out.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Houston losing

478
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:14.519
to Sweet sixteen level because I worry
about the way they're composed offensively. A

479
00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:19.519
lot of people look past how teams
are built and just look to results.

480
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But this is a team that is
first of all, they're really aggressive on

481
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:28.119
defense. That a good team,
not every good team, but some good

482
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:31.200
teams can turn that to their advantage. If they break the traps, they

483
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:37.839
can make it happen for themselves and
then the second thing is that Houston's offense

484
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comes primarily from their guards, and
I can't remember a team that's won a

485
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:51.440
national championship by featuring two small guards
who are their primary offensive options. Jamal

486
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:54.599
Sheded and LJ. Cryer are fantastic, and I would take one of them

487
00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:58.039
on my team every day of the
week, but I'm not sure that I

488
00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:01.200
want two of them. I don't
know that that's the best combination to win

489
00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:07.640
a championship. So that's the team
I could see losing when we get to

490
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.559
playing. Let's just say Creighton's in
their region, I could see Creighton taking

491
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:15.720
them out. Well, well,
yeah, there's a lot of those teams.

492
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Outside of like Jay said, there's
the four you know, four or

493
00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:22.440
five Maybes or kind of definite maybees. The rest of it's who knows,

494
00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:27.559
the Creightons, the Iowa States,
the Kansas if they get lucky. There's

495
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:30.839
so many of those two. Absolutely, I mean, Kansas on its best

496
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.000
day, when they can hide the
fact that they're still basically a five man

497
00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:37.640
team, can I mean, they
have played with everybody in the country,

498
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.640
and when they've been a little limited
either by one of the players being absent,

499
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:46.839
has happened with Kevin mccullor recently,
or somebody doing a great defensive job

500
00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:52.599
on someone like Dickinson, which happened
over the weekend against Baylor. Then all

501
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:55.039
of a sudden, they don't I
mean, they need all five guys to

502
00:33:55.160 --> 00:34:00.400
go, because first of all,
they don't have anybody behind them. Second

503
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:02.799
of all, they can't convince Dewan
Harris he's allowed to shoot. I mean,

504
00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:06.960
they just can't get him to do
it. I mean, he's a

505
00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:10.280
very capable shooter, but he won't
do it. And as long as that's

506
00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:15.880
the case, it limits them even
more than they already are. Well,

507
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:19.280
Mike, we appreciate your time.
We'll probably see you somewhere along the road.

508
00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:22.480
If not of the road, we'll
see you in Phoenix. I would

509
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:23.760
love that. I will look forward
to it very much. Steve, it's

510
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:27.559
great to talk to you. Thank
you. Mike de Corsi appreciate you.

511
00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:31.239
Thanks much, Mike, thanks very
much from the Sporting News Mike de Corci.

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Be sure to read him. If
you can't find him, just google

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Mike de Corsi for the Sporting News. I really liked when you saw this

514
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column this morning. You pointed out
to me I liked because you don't reuse

515
00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:45.599
the word trust that you've been using, and you use it in the first

516
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:51.119
first sentence exactly. I wanted to
ask him which team, not Houston,

517
00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:54.719
U can't, Purdue Tennessee or Arizona, what he picked to definitely get into

518
00:34:54.760 --> 00:35:01.159
the final Yeah, and that way
bracket I've already got used to ending at

519
00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:05.639
the sweet sixteenth. I got that
from you, O good confromation. Right,

520
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all right, let's take our break
or we'd come back. We'll take

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the Donkey game that we're gonna happen. We are. I have no time

567
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for that. You ever play that? Yeah? Do it right? You

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know what it is in elementary school? You know what it is? Yeah?

569
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Yeah. Did you do your homework
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Actually. On the way over here, I was listening some some hot stuff,

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some some last dance. Money.
You're hard for the money, then

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make it the bad. Oh you
got bad, girls, you got a

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call, but you got it?
Okay, good. Hi, you're on

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the air and on the ball.
Hey you guys, this is Dave.

575
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:49.400
How how are you guys? Are
doing, Gave fine, How are you

576
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:53.960
doing today? I'm doing pretty good. Can we talk about Arizona's dominating women

577
00:38:54.119 --> 00:39:01.159
against Oregon? Yes, so I
think that was a complete game in regards

578
00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:07.360
to all Arizona players. Oregon didn't
have a chance to come back or make

579
00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:13.119
a run into the game. And
I'm just very happy that we don't need

580
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:16.679
that. We're not going to play
them up in Eugene or our games or

581
00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:24.840
or in twos because we finally owned
them in basketball, so they should stick

582
00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:30.320
to football. So anyway, Wow, gay Well again, what you said

583
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:34.079
a complete win? What did you
like about it the most? I mean

584
00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:42.159
what what? What made it complete
for you? Island Boswell has score nineteen

585
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:50.760
points on the usual Kushat Johnston,
Caleb loves Pela Lawson, Omar Bollo and

586
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:57.599
and the and the Arizona's bench.
So so far, so good. They

587
00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:04.880
need to uh continue. They needed
to take care of business in LA and

588
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:09.199
then next week the Pactful Tournament.
They need to dominate that as well.

589
00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:15.360
Let me ask you one last year, this pathetic Human Sequel Matter conference,

590
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So let me ask you one quick
question, Gabe, I'm sure you fill

591
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out the brackets. No, it's
bad. It's bad. Juju Okay,

592
00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:27.800
Okay, I was gonna say if
you did or you I'm sure you did

593
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that. How many times you picked
Arizona to win it all? But if

594
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:34.719
you don't do it, never mind
the question. I don't do it because

595
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:39.119
he's another thing. If any dumb
ass politician picked Arizona to win them all,

596
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:45.519
then they should go to hell because
that's gonna get Arizona because Joe Biden

597
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:50.239
did that last year and gets what
they lost. You a bunch of dumbass

598
00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:54.400
nerds. Okay, I wish you
would tell us how you fearly feel.

599
00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:59.559
But Gabe, thanks for calling us. Always spear down Arizona, go cap.

600
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:04.280
I'm glad you keep the finger on
the pulse of that cuss button.

601
00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:09.559
Have I have a couple of times
I was eyeing it. Hey, that

602
00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:13.280
was a good week too. Imagine
if it would have been a bad week.

603
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:15.960
I know, I know, yeah, yeah, they yeah, they

604
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:24.920
crushed it this week. They still
find the work matter Hutter Conference conference,

605
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:30.280
the Mountain West? How do you? How are you asking about the Mountain

606
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:32.960
West this year? I know we're
talking. They're very good internally, but

607
00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:37.480
who knows how they're gonna be I
mean they got they're saying six six Mountain

608
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:39.920
West teams and you know in the
tournament, but how good is their best

609
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:43.159
team? I only bring it up
because some of me and my friends were

610
00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:45.719
watching these Mountain West games and we're
watching these PAC twelve games and we're like,

611
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:47.719
the Mountain West is better than the
PAC twelve. Oh yeah, I

612
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:51.719
believe, no question. The thing
is how good are they? Yeah?

613
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:53.599
And as and as we moved to
the other conferences, all the Pack twelve

614
00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:57.400
teams move out, Like are these
Mountain West teams just gonna scoop up all

615
00:41:57.480 --> 00:42:00.400
the I guess remains of all the
gruits that are gonna be you know,

616
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.480
well, they're still going to be
who they are. They're the Mountain West

617
00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:07.960
and the PAC twelve, the Washington
States and the Oregon States are gonna probably

618
00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:12.800
end up in them. But in
basketball and and there are aberrations. This

619
00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:15.719
is one of those years on one
offs. This could be that one off.

620
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:20.199
But they are improving, and who
knows if the recruits don't want to

621
00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:22.360
go to East to go play,
like you know, the Arizona's the world

622
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:27.000
staying in the Mountain region that I
was going to stay in the Mountain region,

623
00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.320
but they've always kind of scrapped.
New Mexico's kind of always scrapped,

624
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:34.400
but it hasn't been good enough.
Uh, you know those teams Nevada under

625
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.719
Alfred on the collar. Hey you're
on the air and I on the ball.

626
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:42.000
Hey guys, hey, you know
we haven't heard anything about New Mexico

627
00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:47.159
this year with Steve Rivera on the
show. You have He's buried that story,

628
00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:51.880
hasn't he. I didn't even realize
that who's their coach? It's a

629
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:54.360
Patino Son. Yeah, Patino Son. You know I'm not in a lobo,

630
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:57.679
right, you know I'm not a
Lobo. I'm gonna know that.

631
00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:00.079
I said, Yeah, you're in
New Mexico state team. Those I don't

632
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:04.679
know who they are. But Jay
still thinks that they draw well, they

633
00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:07.159
have been drawn a big crowd and
it's the toughest place to buy. When

634
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:12.280
I think in New Mexico basketball,
think of Norm Mellenberger and Grandpa Munster that's

635
00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:17.440
in nineteen seventy three. Wow,
Well, they've been good, that's for

636
00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:22.559
sure. Right now. The way
I'm looking at Arizona in the Big Twelve,

637
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.280
I'd say that Arizona would be in
contention this year to win the Big

638
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:29.480
twelve. But right now I put
him fourth place, you know, Houston,

639
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:34.760
Baylor, Iowa State, then Arizona. But in contention to win it

640
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:37.280
all, you know, that's what
it looks like. You didn't even mention

641
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:40.920
Kansas, who could win it Kansas, Kansas running fifth or sixth something like

642
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:45.119
that. This year. Oh that's
crazy too because there's a lot of a

643
00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:49.599
lot of really good teams. And
then final word, I found out there

644
00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:54.079
will be no Big twelve network and
they couldn't pull it off. And with

645
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:59.599
the Sooners leaving the conference, there
was nobody with the technological knowledge to pull

646
00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:02.639
it off. So there'll be no
big pro network. Yeah, you're actually

647
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:07.440
game you know, the the uh, non revenue sports and games like that

648
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:10.239
that you see on the Pac twelve
networks. They'll catch those on ESPN Plus.

649
00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:15.280
Yeah, that's what they said.
I don't know that you can get

650
00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:19.199
them all because there's one there's so
many teams, so you're you're not going

651
00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:20.559
to get all of them, but
you get some, you know, you

652
00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:22.440
get some of the stuff. Some
of the you know, soft softball I'm

653
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:25.639
sure will be a big, a
big thing on ESPN Plus. Uh,

654
00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:30.559
some baseball as well. Oh,
by the way, Sooners lost their first

655
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:36.719
softball game. I saw that one
straight the softball game they came back to

656
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:38.559
they came back to Tyan and then
they lost it, which was crazy.

657
00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:43.239
But Richard, you know what this
all this does is piss them off and

658
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:46.800
they'll go on another seventy one.
We hope, so we hope. So

659
00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:50.639
we got to do something to pay
for our new forty six million dollars softball

660
00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:53.519
stadium. Just give that money back
from the nil or the yeah, the

661
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:58.519
nil, Well we have a small
nil though we could draw from Steve,

662
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:09.360
we have you Oklahoma's thanks for colling
like sends me know. He's a good

663
00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:15.400
boy from the from Oklahomas. Yes, I'm I'm kind of perusing the bracket,

664
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:20.039
the men's basketball bracket and the standing. So the way it sits right

665
00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:24.599
now, Arizona would play either would
play the winner of Washington Arizona State in

666
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:28.960
the first round, which I'm gonna
try like either one of them. Well,

667
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:30.599
I'm not gonna like any of it
because you want because I'm that Arizona

668
00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:34.559
fan that thinks you can lose to
anybody. That will be the late game,

669
00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:37.079
right would be that that would be
the first game Thursday noon. Yeah,

670
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:42.880
the number one seed plays Thursday at
noon. Arizona is a two seed.

671
00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:51.679
Arizona is a two seed. They're
talking the winner of cal Stanford and

672
00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:54.119
that would be at six. Okay, that would be So I'm pulling for

673
00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:58.800
the twelve o'clock games, so I
can I could do something Thursday night in

674
00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:04.800
Vegas. Yeah. Reminding everybody that
daylight savings time starts before the tournament this

675
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:09.440
year, so game times on the
bracket are at the same time in Tucson,

676
00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:13.800
right because it happens this weekend.
Yeah, it happens this weekend.

677
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:16.280
No, it happens a Sunday before, right, right, Yeah, this

678
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:21.760
coming weekends. This Sunday is the
Sunday before the tournament. Festival books,

679
00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:24.920
it's we're all week off. Everything's
been yeah everything. Yeah. So so

680
00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:29.079
uh if you see if you see
a bracket, those game times are also

681
00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:32.400
Tucson times. Yeah, so you've
got the championship game earlier than before.

682
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:37.079
It's that's sixth this year on Fox
on Sunday on Saturday on Saturday. It

683
00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:39.360
gives you more trouble to go out
and or chance to go out and get

684
00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:42.679
in trouble. What we used to
do and we might still do it.

685
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:45.000
Is we leave right after the game, right and then even come straight home,

686
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:47.760
get home about three or four in
the morning. That's the extra hour.

687
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.119
There's that. And then the Friday
games are at five and seven thirty,

688
00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:55.960
which is an hour earlier than before, which is this is the long

689
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:00.599
way of saying, that's why we
we can't do our show there on Friday

690
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:02.400
because of all these game times,
right right, So next week we're gonna

691
00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:07.159
be probably be dark Tuesday Day on
Monday will be our last show of the

692
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:12.119
week. Next week we'll come back
and wrap it up and then depending on

693
00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:15.920
how Arizona goes that that's compaending on
whether we have even have shows and because

694
00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:21.480
Steve will be on the road with
you with the basketball nice SNI March is

695
00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:23.760
a busy time, Yeah, busy
time. Again, we're not we're not

696
00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:27.760
radio hosts that that's all we do. We we have other stuff. So

697
00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:31.360
we'll make a determination on that.
But yeah, next week, a show

698
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:35.400
on Monday, and then we're off
the rest of the week because we're all

699
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:38.320
we're all working at the at the
Packwall Tournament, the final version of the

700
00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:40.679
pac TBE Tournament as what you know. I got a little I got a

701
00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:44.679
little misty eyed. On on Saturday, at the end of the game we

702
00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:47.360
did last I put I put a
little something on social We I always do

703
00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:52.519
it the last game with my thirty
fourth year at the table doing stats.

704
00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:57.159
But it was the last PAC twelve
home game ever, uh for Arizona.

705
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:00.119
You know, I think back to
all those teams that you know, we've

706
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:04.480
done visiting teams that came through,
and the next year it's you know,

707
00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:07.559
it's Kansas and Houston and Baylor and
all these other teams. Kevin, consume

708
00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:14.440
your favor right down this day,
Call and call Jay's doctor. Hard doctor.

709
00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:17.760
He does have one. His doctor
said there was not one to be

710
00:48:17.880 --> 00:48:22.239
found exactly. I did, man, I got a little, I got

711
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:23.119
a little misty, and you know, we all kind of you know,

712
00:48:23.960 --> 00:48:27.559
shook hands and knuckled and stuff like. You know, it's been a long

713
00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:30.760
run for us, and then coming
up the packed off tournament, last one,

714
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:32.480
it will be like, you know, I don't imagine even if even

715
00:48:32.519 --> 00:48:36.280
if they moved the big tent of
the Big twelve tournament to Vegas the time

716
00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:38.800
or two they've got a crew.
So we're done our work. Is done

717
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:43.679
after this tournament. So I'm sure
I'll getting misty eyed one more time at

718
00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:47.440
the at the trophy presentation for the
packed off. If we're there on Saturday,

719
00:48:47.679 --> 00:48:50.679
I will be there. Oh that's
right, you will be there.

720
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:53.039
Okay, I'm there no matter what. You know. I thought, you

721
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:57.320
know, I was going back through
the through the through the tournaments. This

722
00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:02.480
is the twelfth there eleven tournament.
I thought Arizonas won five, but I

723
00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:06.400
thought they'd won more five. Okay, yeah, it seems like they would

724
00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:08.559
have won. They won five of
the eleven, but I thought they'd win

725
00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:12.800
more. I thought they'd win like
at least two more in Vegas, Vegas,

726
00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:15.519
justin Veague. Yeah, because well
you know what, because they won

727
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:17.880
a lot prior to that. But
yeah, they won five. You know,

728
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:22.360
I just remember there being six times
that we hated being there sat because

729
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:27.480
Arizona was gone. The crowds definitely
didn't work the same. Right. Then

730
00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:29.719
there was the one There was one
year that they lost in the They lost

731
00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:32.079
in the first round. That was
a horrible way that was. That was

732
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:37.440
so I'll tell you that was nobody
there. It was terrible. I'll tell

733
00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:39.400
you that we can It was the
Luke Walton, Jason Gardner. Year when

734
00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:44.880
Jason Gardner forgot his uniform and and
people were saying, okay, what wasn't

735
00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:47.400
that brilliant? Wasn't that brilliant Arizona
which was kind of horbling, and now

736
00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:50.599
it's the number one team in the
country at the time, we're number one

737
00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:52.280
seat in the country, and he
forgot his uniform and they said, what

738
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:55.840
a brilliant move by lout because now
he don't have to play two more games,

739
00:49:55.920 --> 00:49:59.800
get him rested for the week after. And of course that was not

740
00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:02.920
the case. But you know people
who have these theories, but you know,

741
00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:07.239
I it's just it's been a great
run. I'll tell you what I

742
00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:10.639
don't know about you. Everybody that
I that I talked to you that is

743
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:15.320
any semblance of a basketball fan is
going to the turn Oh yeah yeah,

744
00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:16.880
if not even to get a ticket, just to go and see. I

745
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:20.199
mean even people who you know,
you know, the people have been saying,

746
00:50:20.199 --> 00:50:21.760
Okay, i'll go next year,
I'll go next year, I'll go

747
00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:22.559
next year. They didn't go.
They didn't go. They didn't go.

748
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:28.599
Oh I got your car, it's
gonna be like last one out turn out.

749
00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:30.400
The life so so this is my
complaint. I'll see if you feel

750
00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:34.440
the same way. I loved it
at the MGM. I loved it at

751
00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:37.360
the MGM. It was cozy,
it was fun, everybody lived in the

752
00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:44.159
most game action. It was crazy. And not that the T mobile is

753
00:50:44.360 --> 00:50:47.079
isn't any better, but it's except
that the amateur is not the same,

754
00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:51.880
right because because you're you never had
to leave the building, and you saw

755
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:53.519
everybody, and you saw everybody.
You come out of that, you come

756
00:50:53.519 --> 00:50:58.400
out of the arena, which would
spill into the lob, into the casino,

757
00:50:59.079 --> 00:51:01.719
and every bar was jammed with Arizona
fans. They have all kinds of

758
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:06.679
fans, but mostly Arizona fans,
and you ran in you saw everybody.

759
00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:07.880
The way it's kind of spread out. Now, you know, some people

760
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:12.480
go parking different places. There's you
know, you got that one bar and

761
00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:15.320
grill and I still don't remember the
name of it, but next door is

762
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:19.280
right there. You know that that
fills up. But it's not that part

763
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:22.639
of it is not the same.
I will say the venue is the arena

764
00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:24.760
is really cool? Yeah, yeah, no question. Well it's MGM and

765
00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:28.840
then the New York New York,
and uh, people go across the street

766
00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:32.440
to the MGM grand Yeah, so
they scattered. They to me New York,

767
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:37.000
New York that one of the nights
after the Arizona would win you going

768
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:39.320
to New York York the dance club, And that to me reminded me of

769
00:51:39.400 --> 00:51:45.079
the Ten Commandments when Moses came down
with the tablets. It was really pissed.

770
00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:51.679
That's how it wasn't with Arizona fans
just whooping to the It was debauchery

771
00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:57.639
and at those things. And again
I mean at the MGM Grant. Look,

772
00:51:57.679 --> 00:52:00.440
I don't do this. I stopped
doing this long time. But at

773
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:02.760
three four o'clock in the morning and
I'm like, I'm looking at my watch,

774
00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:07.480
I'm going, what the hell am
I doing? Go to bed man?

775
00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:10.119
Yeah, okay, okay, man, are you gonna see something?

776
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.159
I was gonna ask him about the
sports bar. Yeah, well it's there,

777
00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:19.039
plenty of those packed, everything packed. I'm still I'm looking very much

778
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:20.920
forward to it. This is gonna
be a lot of fun. It canna

779
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:22.119
be again a little heart wrenching,
you know, once we get there,

780
00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:24.880
knowing that this is the last time
we're doing this, gotta go out on

781
00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:30.440
a bank a blast. It's been
okay, alrighty man, let's take our

782
00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:31.920
break. We're gonna come back.
We still have right, we still have

783
00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:37.480
Shelby Masks coming up. Uh.
He's a bracket guy for USA today,

784
00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:40.480
among others. We'll talk some some
bracket stuff. You can yell at him

785
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:44.280
if he's got since he's got Arizona
on the two line right now. And

786
00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:46.039
then we'll take your calls and we'll
ast have breakings here at the top of

787
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:49.000
the hour with birthday Kevin. We'll
be right back