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Ay, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

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to Eye on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.

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It's not a tape voice outside partner
Jac and it's like not over the

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phone. We can hear you.
I could. I could just came to

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pick up my mail. I leave
tomorrow. I'm not sure it's a good

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thing. Leave me hanging here,
Steve, leaving me hanging here. These

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drives have been adventurous. How long
did it take to get to Sela City?

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Twelve hours almost of a minute,
twelve hours, twelve It ate my

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max maybe eight and a half if
I yea, that's just stopping go to

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the bathroom so much. Yeah,
well that's what kind of stopped. That's

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my max, stop and go.
It was okay, it was not bad

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weather. It was fantastic up there
until we left and started to snow.

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But it was skill cool. The
Arizona had come and gone, and we'll

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talk about that. Get your impressions
and my impressions of the games. We're

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gonna have a guest here who's there
covering kind of the West, I not

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kind of the West, the West, uh, and following Arizona and Gonzaga,

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so we'll get his impressions of that
and the little dynamic that there is.

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Chuck Colepaper cup Upper, a longtime
friend, longtime college basketball guy.

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So we'll talk to him. And
then you got I got Doug Tamerro.

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He's the uh, he's the media
relations guy for as U Athletics, their

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version of Matt inswer over here.
Doug's been doing it for about fifty or

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sixty years or so, but he's
also the media coordinator for the Final Four,

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and they're you know, uh,
you know I've mentioned I. You

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know, I'm volunteering at the Final
Force. We're starting to get emails from

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him, but all the things going
on, So I just thought would get

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him on and just talk about just
what it takes to run the media operation

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for an event like that. You
know, arguably, you know, it's

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up there with you know, this
Super Bowl and the World Series and and

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some of those events in terms of
what you got to do, particularly on

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the media side of it, So
we thought it'd be fun to talk about

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what he's going through right now because
he's probably working, you know, fourteen

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hour days and every day of the
week and it's already next weekend. But

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they do a great job. ASU
was hosted a Final four. For people

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who don't don't know that when when
when you're talking the n C double,

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a's where whatever city it's in,
it's being hosted by a school in that

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city. For instance, you were
in Salt Lake City, even though the

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even though the event wasn't at UH
at the at the Utah. At Utah's

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Jim, they were the host ace
he's the host of the Final four.

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They've hosted regionals. You go to
LA and it's usually it's pepper Dye because

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I know you sail in USC generally
don't do that, so it's near in

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LA, it's Pepperdine. When we
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in San Jose, it was actually
the PAC twelve that was the host,

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and they're allegedly hosting one next year
in Vegas. Last year was n LV,

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so that you usually see their school
logo on the court and you know

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who's hosting. Yeah, a site. Let's do a quick review from a

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Saturday's game. What do you think
you you at all? Both you guys

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Kevin's with us today. Did you
feel a little panicky at any point?

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Maybe when they were up by three
with a purfew minutes left, I would

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say, I would say when we
were up by three, and yeah,

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I just they could hit their threes
at any moment. They could start rating

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their threes. I knew that.
And their pace is another thing. I

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knew it would be a little bit
of an issue at times, but no,

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this whole tournament, I felt pretty
confident in the team so far.

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Yeah, there were some nerves around
our house. I was watching with my

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wife and and my two daughters,
and there was some nerves about that.

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But you know, it's like I
gather myself when the game is over and

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I realized they were never gonna lose
that game. You're a pretty good You're

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pretty good seismologist, right, I
mean we were all. But see,

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I'm an Arizona fan. I get
nervous if they're not up by twenty.

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I tweeted that, as anybody nervous
about this thing. Yeah, of course

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they're nervous. You know, if
they start to fin you know, if

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they're up between ten and twenty points
a whole game, I'm still nervous because

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I'm like, don't let it get
under ten, because then you're gonna blow

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it. Right. But they were
never gonna lose a game. They were

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in charge the whole time. In
the end, you know that they were

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when you look at how well they
played defensively. These guys couldn't make a

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three pointer and they were the best
three players were they weren't shooting, They

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weren't They weren't even getting three point
shots. Yeah, their best shooter didn't

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shoot enough. Yeah, yeah,
he didn't take enough shots up and the

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Holmes guy, very good player,
obviously, very lanky, and very good

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game. Arizona fits. I don't
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I'm singing, okay, and I
even put this is a you know,

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Cohona's time, and it was it
was they they found him, They found

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him. They were there. Uh
And you know, we hadn't seen Bradley

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play like he did, and he
was. He was outstanding and he had

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to be. He had to because
Boswell was not right. But Boswell didn't

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have didn't have a great game.
He didn't have a bad game. He

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just didn't play great. He didn't
you know, he didn't stick out in

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any way. And he didn't score, he didn't, you know, but

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he defended he you know, he
didn't hurt him, no, but he

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just didn't add anything. Well,
you saw this happen the week before with

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the organ They took out Love and
Boswell put in kJ and Brent Bradley and

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they did very well. In fact, they caught up. They made the

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game better and closed the gap with
that smaller lineup and it worked again on

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Saturday. Yeah, and as Tommy
said, it's important to have a team

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that can do that, right that
when that when somebody's not having yeah,

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you well, meeting there the expectations
that you have for them, that you

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got somebody who will come in and
will That's funny because uh, this is

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in November, December, January,
February, March, five months. He

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probably did that or whatever a few
months too late, because he would have

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never said that two months ago.
He was giving Boswell a lot of leeway,

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a lot of leeway until recently he
says, you know what I'm not

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saying saying what he's saying, but
in his mind. He's probably saying,

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Okay, I've given you enough and
you haven't done it. We gotta we

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gotta go. We gave you the
torch, and you're like, you're you're

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putting it out, So let's get
somebody which is perfect, right, and

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and you know, and look remember
this he did that with He did that

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with Kirk Gesa last year, right, So that's kind of who Tommy is,

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right, Yeah, yeah, it's
kind of that's kind of who he

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is. Loyal, loyal oil until
okay, now we can't do that anymore.

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So and it's good that you know
that he's going he's going to do

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that because he's gonna he's gonna go
with what works. And it was coming

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off of Boswell, very good game
on Thursday. So the good thing is

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and in fact I'll be doing a
story about the guards here in a couple

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of days. Uh that he has
four right, one's a shooter, right,

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and the other guys are defenders,
and he all different rules and they're

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all different kinds of players. Like
like kJ Lewis is a really defensive minded

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guy. I mean, he'll score
as me score, right, he can

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go in, he can go into
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other day. You know, Bradley
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defender, he's a good ball handler. Another guy he'll go into the I

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love when he goes into the lane
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always gonna make it every time.
Well, he gets into if he's in

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that lane, he needs to give
that ball. He's going, I joked

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with the other day. So he's
just downhill and he's headed to the beat.

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There was one the other day that
he clearly should have given up the

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ball and he didn't. You know, Boswell is a guy that I think

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he just kind of manages things.
He'll get he'll take the shot if it's

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open. A few times he'll take
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Then Caleb is Caleb. You know, he's the guy who's gonna go

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out there and hunt shot. And
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You're thinking, you know, that's
the guy we saw in November December,

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and then all of a sudden we
saw him from January February. The second

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half. Yeah, but you know, and then Key shot another key role.

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You know again all around a creevous
an incredible game. Yeah, you

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know, I mean I all season
long, I don't think I ever sensed

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that he was that much more let's
say, athletic or or quicker than Ballot,

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but he is. Yeah, he
moves his feet a lot better than

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than thanmar you know. Yeah,
he just gets into a little trouble.

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Again, he's not he's not as
he's not as physical with the ball in

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his hands as Umar. But from
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a much better job than anything Umar
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those guys are going to be in
dire need of help. Help, but

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you's going to need them this weekend
or Thursday because Clemson has a pretty good

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front court. Yeah, tall,
athletic, So we'll see how he plays

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well now. You know, I
was actually very impressed because again, they

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never they never showed any panic.
They just played. They were business like

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the whole time. I thought they
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Uh uh you know Pally did you
know Pally was Pali? He didn't do

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anything really stupid. He was perfect. And I had talked you, I'm

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not sure you saw my story.
Just how crucial is because of the Maya

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Cowitch stuff, right, and he
didn't know that, And I'm thinking I

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went too much to the games.
See this is exactly what I talked to

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you what the day before, how
crucial he is in crucial times because there's

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so he does so many things,
and look, no one thing sticks out

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unless see, you know, unless
see he'll have a high scoring game,

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which you had a couple of those, but no one thing sticks out as

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the best one of that on the
court. But there's so many things that

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you know, he's he's just he
just adds a lot to the overall let's

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call it the you know, the
big picture of what they do. Yeah,

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he hit a couple of big threes
that were just big three. Everybody,

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everybody, you can point to everybody, And I kind of mentioned that

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everybody had a role. All eight
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I don't know how you feel when
when Keyshot throws up a three, but

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you're thinking that's not a good show. Oh he made it made if it's

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from the corner or from the very
top three point line, I love it

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any all day. You hit two
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it goes to what Tommy said,
you know, in the press conference the

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day before he said, you know, now he feels like every time he's

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going to take that shot, he
thinks he's gonna make it. Yeah,

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yeah, give him that a bad
shot, give that confidence. Uh,

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there's be a lot of storylines in
the West. Guys, who's there?

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North Carolina? Carolina? Who where
did he play before? Played in North

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Carolina? The lead and then you
got Alabama. So if Arizona gets to

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the lead eight, there's a storyline
either way because they played Alabama earlier this

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year. So it's yeah, it
ought to be fun. It should be

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funny. It should be fun.
The only fun is in l A downtown.

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It's not fun place. It's so
you know, busy down tires.

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There's nowhere to be downtown. Yeah. So but it's gonna be okay,

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it's gonna be at the Crypto.
So I'm sure that there weren't a lot

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of u A fans this this weekend. It was probably more of the bus,

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not the bus, but the team
flight with their fans, and they'll

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be more a few. There will
be a ton of fans in the West

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in LA as they usually are.
So it should be a lot of fun

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for fans to visit the game or
to see the game on Thursday afternoon,

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four o'clock o'clock in the afternoon.
You're gonna do Uh, we're not.

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We won't have a show. No
one's gonna listen. I'm not. I

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don't want to listen to myself.
I want to watch a game. No,

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I think that's a smart move.
Yeah, I don't you know,

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No, I don't you know what
if you're an Arizona fan and you're listening

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to us while you're watching you that's
a bad way to watch a game,

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that's a bad way to watch a
game. So we'll we'll preampt the show

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on Thursday, but I'll be here
with either with you know, the the

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interns of me, or I'll get
some guests. George Mightas was great so

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last week he was here for three
days. But well, we'll get somebody

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and try and get some people who
can help us break the stuff down.

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So, with all the things going
on, looking at Arizona's a seven point

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favorite. Yeah some point favorites,
which is a big number for this kind

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of the big number. Let's talk
real quick about the women and we'll talk

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more about them later. Uh,
what a what a fantastic season it was?

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It was. It was odd at
times and very good at times.

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Uh, they gave it all that
all they kind of they should have won

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the game. They should have won
the game. Yeah, they should have

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won the game. And they didn't. They let it get it. It

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was theirs to win and they had
it. I don't know if they ran

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out of gas. Uh they did. They just didn't play well, very

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well down the stretch. They didn't
defend uh their their guard that scored all

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the points at the end. And
it was one of those things where I

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don't know if they couldn't defend her
because they were out of gas or they

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just they just didn't have an answer
for her, and they let and they

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got beat by one person. And
that was too bad. But uh,

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you know we did. Yeah,
we watched the whole game, and and

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it was I thought they had it
and they had a big lead, and

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then they let whittled down, whittled
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girl came in and just took it
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them and they got beatn Yeah,
maybe we get to maybe a week or

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so when she kind of decompresses from
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Okay, but because it showing the
whole year, it seeming we were thinking,

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what's going on, what's going on? And then she kind of comes

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through with seven people who were all
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you need, right, seven to
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did admirably well. Yeah, you
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the what fifth year in a row
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good for them. Go get some
go get some more players, just

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get some numbers and see what happens. I mean, it's unfortunately, I

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know, if you saw Greg Hanson's
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went elsewhere. It did really well. Maddy Connor averaged nineteen points a game.

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Riott Bondeley's playing for Colorado there and
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she had a big game, you
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I think that that's too bad that
those players did not stay because they

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all went somewhere else and did really
well, except for my Anagie, who's

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just not playing anywhere right now.
Right. So well, it's not to

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say that she didn't recruit very good
players. She did. They Yeah,

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they just definit it's gonna be a
fit, Okay, they're just they're just

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not playing here and that's too bad. All right, So let's go,

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let's take a break. We're gonna
be back. We're gonna have a Doug

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Tamara from as u As Media,
but he's doing the Final Four Media,

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So we'll kick it around in terms
of, you know, we can what

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can he can expect from guys like
Steve showing up and wanting everything right?

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Steve, everything right now? Is
that? Actually the thing that you guys

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are most worried about is is the
food the buffet? All right, We'll

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He's Jacob Self now on the phone. We have camera the Final four media

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media coordinator. How are you doing, Doug. I'm good, Steve Jay,

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how are you guys? We're doing
well. We kind of joined in

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to see if how that party is
going to start for us into ten days

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or whatever days. Well, uh, it's it's been well underway. We

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actually have a walk through tomorrow at
the stadium where we all walk around and

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see how it's changed from you know, football field to basketball court. The

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process starts, you know, the
media area of course, the media dining

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area, which is always very important, and uh, you know, look

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at the look at our space.
Look at how the space works. You

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know. One of the small things
about the set up in Glendale as opposed

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to most of the Final four is
where I've been, uh, there's not

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a lot of walking space or walking
distance between locker rooms and media rooms.

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So everybody will be happy with that. There's some facilities where, you know,

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we have to shuttle the players from
golf carts and golf carts from locker

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room to the media area, and
everything's within walking distance for everyone. So

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that's one of the small things about
Phoenix that people love. They love the

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three hour time difference, games tipping
earlier, and they love the sunshine.

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It's a little bit spread out in
some places, but you know, you

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can't have everything. So you guys, you did one of these just a

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few years ago. How much easier
or has it been easier this time around,

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knowing, you know what, knowing
the setup that you had, and

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were there a lot of areas that
you felt you needed to change or improve

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or anything like that. Well,
I tell you, I tell you one

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of the things is that was pre
COVID and this is post COVID. Now

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we're kind of almost back the full
you know, full COVID I mean,

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no one's wearing masks or anything.
But it is different because the whole NCAA

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Final four went through a whole process. There's a lot of cutting back.

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But now I think we're pretty much
back up to the regular thing. It

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does help to have hosted one there, but it was seven years ago and

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I can't remember yesterday. So tomorrow
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what goes into it, you know, what all happened. It's it's kind

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of crazy though I know Gonzaga and
I know North Carolina. We're here,

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but I struggled to remember the other
two teams until the other day. It

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was Oregon in South Carolina. I
had or I had Oregon, but I

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never would have come up with South
Carol. I remember Frank how big he

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was. Let me ask you,
Doug. I think, I think,

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and you can say I'm wrong.
Seventy two thousand last time about Yeah,

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yeah, it was a solid you
know, I forget the exact number is

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probably something I should remember and have
ready when somebody asked, But it was

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a round that amount. You know, I don't care who shows up,

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We're probably gonna have seventy two thousand. I mean obviously, if Arizona makes

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it, you know, you would
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and Kansas being out, you know, that's that's two teams that would obviously

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bring a lot of people. You
wonder if Yukon makes it, you know

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where all their people make it again? All the way from there, even

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though they played in it last year. North Carolina is really far. But

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you know San Diego State sitting there, you know that they're they're a drive

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away. Houston, obviously, I
think they would empty out their city to

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come here. But you know,
there's still some there's still some teams out

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there that probably would fill the place. So I think when it's all said

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and done, you'll have seventy some
thousand in there. Okay, what do

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you what do you hear mostly from
these whiny media people and what they want

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and what would make it, you
know, perfect for them. What are

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some of the things that they bring? I tell you what, They're no

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different than any other folks. They
like to eat, they like a good

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deal. It doesn't have to be
perfect, but you know, as long

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as it's available throughout different times.
Parking is really important. But what's really

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good is the media hotel is right
right close to the stadium, so we

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really we don't really need a parking
shuttle and most people are Uber and or

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using a ride share of some type
these days. They liked their access and

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last year was the first year where
the open locker rooms were actually back.

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Most feed ahead, so you know
those Thursday, Friday, Sunday days where

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the locker rooms are open and the
media can go in and interview the kids.

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It's pretty it works out pretty well. Those are the main things they

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like. You know, the NCAA
still has media on the floor. Some

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of the site lines aren't perfect.
Some of them are in the end zones

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because they created more seats for the
players' families on the sidelines. But there's

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you know, the media is still
on the floor and that's not the case

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in a lot of places. No, very true on sidelines and the end

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zones. If I get a call, yeah yeah, so what are what

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what's your biggest challenge right now?
Ten days eleven days into it left?

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Well, I think the biggest challenges
you don't know who's coming. I mean,

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you could have four schools that have
been here before been and I mean

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if North Carolina shows up, you
really don't have to tell them what to

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do. They were here two years
ago. It's their same staff. It's

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you know, although although we all
know in college basketball the players have changed,

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you know that the staff is here. It's when you get new teams

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who are a little bit overwhelmed with
how much there is to do. But

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I think they get overwhelmed when they
get here they realize how much help they

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have. I mean, I'm normally
on a committee of about eight of us

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sids that's at every Final four that
assists with the media relations and helping people

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get to places. I bounce off
that committee this year since some of the

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local media hosts and do more with
the volunteers. As Jay knows and the

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stat district, you shouldn't the quotes
and the notes and all that kind of

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stuff. But I think I think
the main thing is how you move forward

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is is Sunday night you kind of
look at who's coming and say, Okay,

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who's going to need some help more
than the others. If it's Yukon

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and it's North Carolina, you know
they're they're not going to need as much

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help. To be honest with you, Arizona would be pretty easy because they're

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driving. You know, when when
you don't have to worry about what time

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of flight lands and don't have to
charter to worry about the charter and all

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that, that would be easy.
But what's probably amazing to is when they

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get the media schedule and they realize
they are busy all day Thursday and Friday.

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That's a little bit overwhelming because we
do keep them busy. So so

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I know, you handle all the
you know, the meet you know,

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the newspapers and TV stations and stuff
they come radio stations. But who are

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you also responsible for doing doing every
putting everything together for CBS or is that

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a whole different like committee or so
our committee. There's a schedule that they

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follow, and you know, I
can tell you that the schedule has grown

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00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:06.279
every year. You know, it
used to be a couple interviews and then

408
00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:08.599
the press conference interview and then a
couple other things, and it's turned into

409
00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:12.839
this you know, car wash of
seven or eight different interviews and we get

410
00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:18.880
it all done on Thursday. But
Dance Ay Coordination Committee handles that there's about

411
00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.599
ad sids that are on site that
kind of shuffle players and coaches. The

412
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.880
other thing they do that day are
all those cool scoreboard shots where you see

413
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the guys screaming and you know they're
yelling into the thing and they're wearing their

414
00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:37.880
uniform. There's just so much going
on on Thursday behind the scenes. It's

415
00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:42.160
really overwhelming, but so much gets
done that by the time Friday hits,

416
00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:45.880
there's less to do. I like
to say Thursday there is a lot of

417
00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:51.599
behind the scenes media. Friday is
more of the media that people are open.

418
00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:55.559
So let me ask you a question
that you have to be honest with.

419
00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:57.759
It's like me asking Jay Jay are
you a good guy? And every

420
00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:00.359
year every time he says, yeah, I'm a good guy. I hear

421
00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:06.119
some debate about it. But okay, So when when you you were announced

422
00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:10.480
to be a Final four host and
then you're gonna host it, does it

423
00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:15.640
bring joy? God, here we
go again? You know what it's look

424
00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:19.799
after twenty twenty. I'm excited to
have a job, right, you know,

425
00:28:21.559 --> 00:28:26.079
I'll I'll never not embrace the fact
that I'm employed at the university working

426
00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:29.440
athletics because it could all be taken
away. It is a lot of work.

427
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:34.920
I will be exhausted and happy on
April ninth when it's over and there

428
00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:38.559
is a lot of work to do. Probably the biggest bummer is we have

429
00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:41.400
so much to do, you know
at Arizona State at this time of the

430
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:45.960
year, with hosting events and you
know, other sports and just just everything

431
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:48.920
that goes into our normal job that
for next week, I don't touch that.

432
00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:51.319
I mean, I don't touch spring
football. I don't, you know,

433
00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:55.119
you just have to stop. And
so that's kind of the only bummer.

434
00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:59.160
The other thing is, you know, it's not like we get a

435
00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:03.599
lot of benefits from it that are
tangible. Like you we get a lot

436
00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:04.759
of tickets to sell, you know, you'd like to think maybe we have

437
00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:08.079
five hundred tickets to give away or
to sell our seat. There's really not

438
00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:14.200
a lot of that. But but
it's it's still a wonderful thing to host.

439
00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:18.160
It's it's awesome for the city.
I know, anything that brings in

440
00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:22.839
business to our community to me is
a win win. And downtown is going

441
00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.839
to get the Kronkite School, for
example, is gonna get a lot of

442
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:30.119
foot traffic next week because people are
going to be in town and we'll go

443
00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:32.839
take a look at that. The
businesses, the bars, the restaurant,

444
00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:36.720
I mean, Glendelle doesn't have a
hockey team anymore, so this will be

445
00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:41.680
a busy place Saturday and Monday and
and also the off days, and you

446
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:47.319
know, I know they could use
that. Yeah, so I'm having worked

447
00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:49.559
the last one there, it seemed
to me like it was like, you

448
00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:52.880
know, this isn't the n C
double as first rodeo. I mean,

449
00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:55.000
they've done this so many times.
You know, they do it every year.

450
00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:57.440
Of course, a lot of different
things, but you know, I

451
00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:03.000
just got a sense that it's sort
of very formulaic. Would you call it

452
00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:07.480
that in terms of getting everything ready? Yeah, I think what's crazy is

453
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.599
the time zone thing is a real
change, because you know, the time

454
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:17.720
zone usually you're tipping games at nine
twenty and six twenty and here it's at

455
00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:22.680
three and six, and everybody loved
that. But everything gets pushed up three

456
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.000
hours, you know, the time
the media room opens, the time you

457
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:30.960
start the press conferences on Friday and
Sat. Like, everything gets pushed up.

458
00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:37.680
And everybody's happy with that because the
earlier game times, but it does

459
00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:40.519
kind of change the difference of it. And plus half the people don't know

460
00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:42.920
where the same time as specific exactly
two hours, so that's a whole other

461
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:47.599
bit of confusion that we try to
clear up. But yeah, it is

462
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:49.960
kind of formulated. It is kind
of you know, lather, rents,

463
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:53.519
repeat, and that's why out of
the four teams, you do kind of

464
00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:57.519
hope that you get at least one
that's been here before. Yeah. Yeah,

465
00:30:57.559 --> 00:31:02.599
so for yourself, guessing that you've
been to probably more than twenty maybe

466
00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:06.400
twenty five if not more, and
this is the hosting capacity, but you

467
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:11.440
also work them when you're not doing
this. Yeah, it's so. In

468
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.079
two thousand and five, Bill Hancock
added me to an NCAA Coordination Committee,

469
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:18.640
which is the committee I'm usually on
where I was saying, how about eight

470
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:25.039
sid's kind of helped the process be
there. And I bounce off that committee

471
00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:27.519
this year to do the local media
stuff and you know, the volunteers and

472
00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:32.359
all that. But I started in
two thousand and five. I believe this

473
00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:37.240
is about my eighteenth Final four.
What's ironic is my first Final four.

474
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.160
I wasn't on the committee yet.
It was actually nineteen ninety two. I

475
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.680
was an intern at Cincinnati. We
made a miraculous run with Nick Van Excell

476
00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.759
and Bob Huggins. We ended up
in Minnesota, played the fab five.

477
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:55.440
I was traveling with a team and
what's ironic as we stayed for the championship

478
00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:59.400
game, and I watched a young
guy named Bobby Hurley win the most Upstanding

479
00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:02.759
Player. So that's kind of a
circle of life. Wow me in the

480
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:06.960
Final four. Seriously. Wow that. Yeah, that's a great memory.

481
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:08.599
That's that's awesome. Yeah, Bobby, Bobby. I told Bobby I was

482
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:12.200
at that game when he first got
the job. He's like really, And

483
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:14.480
I was like, yeah, I
was. I was there when you you

484
00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:16.519
know, did the five to five
thing, and I was there the whole

485
00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:22.279
time. And he said great.
He was like, wow, I think

486
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:29.559
you thought he was pretty old.
You were year before exactly exactly exactly.

487
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:32.880
Yeah. So okay, so you
well, I'm just listeners talking to Doug

488
00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:37.240
Tamroll. He's coordinating Final four media. Uh up and U up in Glendale

489
00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:42.279
and in a little over a week. So when do you hit the site

490
00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:45.359
and stay there, you know,
for the duration of you know, every

491
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.960
day, you know, when does
that become your office? Uh? So

492
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.079
what I'll do is I'll drive up
Monday and I'll hang around Monday and be

493
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:54.920
up there, drive home, but
Tuesday I will go there, check into

494
00:32:54.960 --> 00:33:00.279
the Glendale Resident Marriott whatever that is
right by the stadium, and I will

495
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.319
just make that my home for a
week. Hosting NCAA events, you have

496
00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:07.960
to be on site, you know. I spent forty two days at the

497
00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:12.400
NCAA Golf Championships, the last three
bays total because that was that's a longer

498
00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:15.079
event than the Tour de France,
and we hosted that to three straight years.

499
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:21.000
So I've been away from my home
base hosting NCAA Championships for the last

500
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:25.079
three years. Nice. Well,
guys all do a good jobs. So

501
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:28.960
what's on the menu? Well,
you know what, I don't know.

502
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:30.640
I'm going to find that out Tomorrow'll
probably get a refresher tomorrow. I know

503
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:35.720
they've they've made the late meals smarter
and just gone with pizza. Nobody nobody

504
00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:38.559
hates pizza, so safe as long
as you don't have to get a receipt

505
00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:46.240
for yeah, exactly exactly, Well, we hope you know. Uh.

506
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:50.720
I don't know if I'm allowed to
say this because a sun devil, but

507
00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:54.400
obviously Arizona would would certainly bring a
lot of people. And I've been the

508
00:33:54.440 --> 00:34:00.359
Final fours where it's somewhat dead and
I've been the final fours where there's a

509
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:04.559
there's a team nearby that brings a
lot of energy, and obviously a lot

510
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:07.519
of energy is always fun. Yeah, so we'll see I will see Doug,

511
00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:12.599
and I'm looking forward to getting up
there. Appreciate. I know Steve

512
00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:15.400
is too. He's he's yeah because
he's hungry. So we'll uh we'll be

513
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:19.880
up there and we'll look for you. Sounds good, gang and uhh,

514
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:23.039
we'll talk to you next week and
and Glendale and the City of Phoenix will

515
00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:28.880
all be right. Don't and don't
let'll ruin your day. I just I

516
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:32.320
just he handled all that fun stuff. I got the serious stuff. He's

517
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:37.679
got the fun stuff. Thanks.
I appreciate it. Take care, guys,

518
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:42.000
Take care good. Doug Temrill on
the issue. You know, he

519
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:44.599
does such a great job. You
know, he worked quite a while under

520
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.639
Mark Brand who it was under Mark
Brand that I started working with regionals up

521
00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:51.599
there, and just you know,
I just remember seeing Mark and he'd be

522
00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:54.280
walking around and he he had like
a notebook that was but would you say

523
00:34:54.320 --> 00:35:00.159
that is about yeah, you know
thick. He had this notebook that he's

524
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:01.880
lugging all over the place. But
they probably should get say, there's a

525
00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:05.760
lot of work that goes into this. And then and Doug, you know,

526
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:07.960
he's picked up the picked up the
torch and done a great job over

527
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:10.960
there to do all that. I
haven't looked at ticket prices. I think

528
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.679
the last some time someone said seven
fifty eight hundred dollars a ticket. That

529
00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:19.480
was two three weeks ago. If
Arizona wins a game where two, yeah,

530
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:21.960
you might want to double that at
least. And so I'll check that

531
00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:23.639
out during the break and we'll Seeah, we'll come back with that. All

532
00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:27.400
right, we'll be back. Well, we'd love to take your calls.

533
00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:31.360
We'll talk some more basketball with the
Arizona The spring practice starts. It starts

534
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:35.119
tomorrow. We had justin spears on
last Friday, so we can talk a

535
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:36.960
little bit about that if you want
to. So we'll be right back.

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on the ball on Fox Sports fourteenth. Hey, welcome back to win in

574
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about Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve. He's Jay. If we

575
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have Kevin with us today, we
have fourteen minutes. If we want to

576
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call five through zero, four one, six, seventy four, forty,

577
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:34.480
we'd love to hear from you talk
about the basketball team. What do you

578
00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:38.039
think? Were you at all concerned, scared, whatever? Whatever? We

579
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:43.719
were talking Earlier, I didn't see
as many pain in the next on the

580
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:47.440
internet, maybe because I didn't look, maybe I missed it. But now

581
00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:51.000
I see a lot of people.
But there's still some people saying, well,

582
00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:52.760
they've got to win one more to
prove it to me. How many

583
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:55.679
big games do you have to win
to be to be a big game winner.

584
00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:59.760
That's fine, and I think probably
that's helped by the fact that they're

585
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:02.440
playing. Ain't Clemson instead of Baylor. You know, I think I think

586
00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:07.639
the fans would probably be more afraid
of Baylor. And now that's Clemson saying

587
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:10.159
what they're sixty, you should be
even though they beat Bailey, even though

588
00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:14.239
they beat Baylor. Of course,
so we'll don't see it that way.

589
00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.639
No, of fans don't see much
in any way except as long as you're

590
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:21.360
winning. As long as you're winning. But you know, you look at

591
00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:24.039
the paths Steve, and it's it's
it's a pretty good path for We said

592
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:28.119
this before the tournament started. It
was perfect. Let me ask you something

593
00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:30.280
because I know somebody posted something and
I kind of disagreed with him. A

594
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:36.679
guy said, I guess said on
Facebook. Okay, so so here here's

595
00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:40.559
the path they play in Utah.
They go to LA and fans will be

596
00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:44.880
at both places to go to LA
and then the perfect that the Phoenix is

597
00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:47.599
more people or fans will be there. And I'm thinking that's not a guarantee.

598
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:52.440
No, that's not and it's proven
not to be a guarantee because people

599
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:54.760
from anywhere can get tickets. Sure, you know, should there be you

600
00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:57.920
know, should there be some a
bunch of you of a fans like you

601
00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.559
remember the twenty fifth two thousand and
five, you know, the Illinois game.

602
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:04.639
That place was loaded with Illinois for
sure in Arizona and you know,

603
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.480
and there were a lot of Arizona
fans when they beat Duke at the pond

604
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:09.960
in Well, let me let me
go one another way. You were there

605
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:15.159
in two thousand and three, No, ninety eight, ninety Let's go to

606
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:17.079
ninety eight two thousand and three when
they have the best team and they lost

607
00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:21.280
to Kansas. Right, They've been
to LA a number of times, right,

608
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:23.079
right, and it has doesn't didn't
guarantee anything. Yes, well you

609
00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:27.000
got a few more fans, of
course, but other fans, fans of

610
00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:30.480
other teams, they get they tickets
are especially now, I mean I was

611
00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:36.039
just looking on you know, or
before you had to get in that lottery

612
00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.079
to get Final four tickets and if
you didn't get it, you didn't get

613
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:40.599
tickets. Now, tickets, you
know, they're all on the market and

614
00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:44.960
you can get tickets to these games
if you want to go, you can

615
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:49.719
go. And if you're from Connecticut
or North Carolina or wherever, you know,

616
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.760
because of because a game is in
your region or your area doesn't guarantee

617
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:55.239
that it's going to be a home
game for us. Even if it is,

618
00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:00.440
it doesn't prove anything. I'll gue
you Vegas, Vegas, in Vegas.

619
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:04.599
A number of times with these games, Arizona overwhelms the sticks, right

620
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:08.840
and what happened or not much?
Beat them up much? Yeah? No,

621
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:12.199
yeah, no, I mean,
yes, it's nice to have.

622
00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:15.239
Yes, I was just gonna say
that, it's nice that, you know,

623
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:16.760
you come on to the court and
there you get a big cheer.

624
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:20.000
There's a lot of people rooting for
you in the U of eight, chance

625
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:22.599
and the whole bit. But the
other fans are there too, and and

626
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:27.559
and tickets get spread spread out a
whole lot more than than they used to.

627
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:31.199
So and you think, just common
sense would think, oh, they've

628
00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:34.440
got more fans, are gonna get
cheered, there's gonna be a lot of

629
00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:37.719
cheers. Blah blah blah. Let
me tell you something. Arizona had twenty

630
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:40.960
percent of the fans in Utah,
Salt Lake City of them. Because underdogs

631
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:45.920
are overwhelming fans from the crowd,
especially in those first two Arizona was against

632
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:51.079
it on the court and in the
stands. If you were in solid if

633
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:54.119
you were at that game in Salt
Lake City and you were not an Arizona

634
00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:57.719
fan. You were chairing for the
other team. It happens all the time,

635
00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:00.400
I did it. I mean,
yeah, well, set that Sanford

636
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:05.920
and Kansas is States for that late
nineteen What a fantastic game. And ninety

637
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:08.239
percent of them were pulled for Sanford. That was a fantastic game. And

638
00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:10.960
you can't do anything about it,
no, because they love an underdog.

639
00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:15.360
Yeah no, yeah, it's yeah
there. I mean I don't even think

640
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:19.079
you'd call it a home court advantage. Yes, you've got you got a

641
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.079
lot of your fans there, but
it's not to the level where you would

642
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:27.920
call any site like that a home
court advantage for anybody. I mean,

643
00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:34.000
think about the the ninety seven Kansas
Kansas game. Right, once Arizona starts

644
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.119
beating Kansas, the whole place was
for Arizona, sure, right, because

645
00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:39.599
Kansas was you know, Kansas was
the big beast in the in the tournament.

646
00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:42.800
Sure, And that's the way it
happens. And it'll be like that

647
00:42:43.119 --> 00:42:46.079
on Saturday. You know, Arizona
will have its fans there, but everybody

648
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:50.159
who's not an Arizona fan is going
to be rooting for Clemson. So many

649
00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:52.480
times LA has been the kiss of
death for Arizona. All right, just

650
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:55.519
stay in fact ninety four, it
wasn't when they got to the final four

651
00:42:55.679 --> 00:42:59.760
with the Kolid and Damon while they
came out of LA and came out of

652
00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:01.719
LA. I remember the week after. I'll remind you what happened after the

653
00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:08.039
week after LA, Loot went off
on the media, primarily Greg and about

654
00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:12.760
I know more about basketball and this
little pinky than oh that one. That's

655
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:15.440
because you got to the final four. Yeah, after all these years of

656
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:19.159
in the final four, and that
was that weekend. Jim, Jim Livengood

657
00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:22.840
had just become a d uh soon
after he had already been to a final

658
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:28.599
four. What was of being the
first time because they lost to the year

659
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:30.719
and you said the year before that? Yeah, so he that was his

660
00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:35.639
ammunition. Yeah, well he was
like that in in in eighty eight,

661
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:37.920
that in Seattle, yeh, because
he had the ammunition. Yeah, you

662
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:40.760
know, after after they beat the
North Carolina he said the same thing.

663
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:44.760
Yeah, because of the UTEP thing
the year before, right, God,

664
00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:47.519
god, you know they put up
they put up a great graphic. I

665
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:50.920
saw do you see that graphic?
Yeah? I told my daughter that I

666
00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:52.239
said, I covered that game.
She goes what I said, the game

667
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:58.320
eighty seven the last time a team
filed out their filed out four starters in

668
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:00.239
one game. Remember that. I
didn't know. I didn't remember that.

669
00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:05.960
All I remember was Tim Hardaway hitting
every freaking shot that second. It was

670
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:08.519
a one point game, right,
Yeah, hitting every shot imaginable in that

671
00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:13.000
game, and Arizona went blank in
the in the second half run in the

672
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:15.599
overtime. I think though, that
I believe, And I was talking to

673
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:21.800
somebody, even Chuck about the basketball
gods and YadA YadA, where eighty seven

674
00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:23.920
had to happen because Steve was not
playing. Yeah, and then you had

675
00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:27.840
this magical year of eighty eight.
Yeah, does that make sense? Because

676
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:30.280
he had he played you, Pubby
would not have happened. But it was

677
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:32.840
that. It was after that.
Luke got mad at me after that game.

678
00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:36.760
He's always mad. I know,
he's mad at me a bunch of

679
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:38.599
times, but he got on that
one at the press conference. Because that

680
00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:43.679
year, I think, I think
that was eighty seven, when they lost

681
00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:49.119
here in the first round to Utah. That year, they blew double digit

682
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:52.599
second half point spread something like seven
or eight times. It happens, yeah,

683
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:57.000
seven or eight times, and they
did it in that game. And

684
00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:00.880
that was my first question, Oh
you know, oh that's on you time

685
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:04.679
and place. Man. That was
he made his you know, he made

686
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:07.000
his opening remarks, and that was
I said, look, you know,

687
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.599
you know this has been a problem
all year long, something like that.

688
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.199
I may have even used the number
this is the X number of time you

689
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:17.400
guys have had a double digit lead
in the second half. You know,

690
00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:22.239
can you pinpoint you know why that
happened all year long? Instead of answering,

691
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:24.440
the question goes, well, you
saw all those games. You tell

692
00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:30.719
me. There was a little bit
of a back and forth on that,

693
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:37.039
and after the game, an Iowa
reporter TV reporter comes up to me and

694
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:39.360
says, you know, I wouldn't
resign if I were you. I'm like,

695
00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:46.400
resign from what? Well, you
gotta fight with Luke? And he

696
00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:50.519
thought I he thought I did something
to Lute and that that would cause me

697
00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:52.239
to have to resign my job as
a sports right. Well, I won't

698
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:57.360
even say a TV reporter or Iowa
guy or what it was pretty funny,

699
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:01.679
Yeah, what it happens, and
we'll see what happens now. I but

700
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:05.880
you have to like where they are. You have to like very very much

701
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:09.800
so, I mean so, and
historically they do well in sweet sixteen.

702
00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:15.000
Historically they do well really well in
the in the second round. The one

703
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:16.480
thing that I very I noticed very
much so, and I wrote this in

704
00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:21.719
my column after the first game.
There was a very big collective side of

705
00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:25.920
relief. Oh he he When he
mentioned it in his first opening statement,

706
00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:30.599
you're thinking it was there, Yeah, it was there. It was huge.

707
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:34.880
The whole town. You could tell
just went yeah, yeah, the

708
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.880
whole town. I don't think they
do that. They do that in Spokane.

709
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:39.760
They want eight or nine straight in
the first round. It's like,

710
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:44.920
okay, this is what we do. But Arizona has this this thing that

711
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:51.079
there's been such such high profile flots, personal first off flots. You know

712
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.679
a fourteen thirteen or fourteen and two
fifteen. Yeah, no, I get

713
00:46:55.679 --> 00:47:00.079
it, I get it. I
wrote about most of them. I wasn't

714
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:02.639
concerned that they were gonna lose,
and it's not my place to be concerned,

715
00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:07.239
but I was thinking, if this
happens again, what do we Right,

716
00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:09.519
let's take this call. Hi,
you're on the air, and Hine

717
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:14.519
on the ball. Hey guy,
this is Rick Vic? What's up?

718
00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:20.599
Vic? Hey, So I gotta
fight with you guys. I don't think

719
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:27.960
we'd have bad luck in la.
It's only Anaheim. What is not l

720
00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:32.719
A? Okay, this is okay, Okay, I'm on the Atkins die.

721
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:38.400
Should I be on? Hey,
it's not it's not the same.

722
00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:45.119
It's like seen in Phoenix and Tucson. Brother, Okay, we'll go there.

723
00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:51.000
And I was there at the sports
reading when we beat Ford to go

724
00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:53.000
to the final four, Damon and
them. So al A has been okay

725
00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:55.079
for us. We're gonna be fine. I don't know about that. I

726
00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:58.760
don't think about it. So they've
lost a number of times in Anaheim,

727
00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:04.079
right, yes, but not in
l A. I was well Crypto Gardener,

728
00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:07.559
the gardener team. We lost to
Kansas, uh the ninety eighteen,

729
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:13.760
we lost to uh Utah, to
Utah, but not in l A.

730
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:17.239
We've been okay, I'm gonna look, you know, I'm with you.

731
00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:22.440
I hear you. You know they
had find pictures, flights, pick your

732
00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:28.840
battles. Now. Look he makes
it. It's a good point. And

733
00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:31.119
it is the pond. It has
been the pond that's been that's been the

734
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:37.199
death. Yes, yes, I'm
not even run and this one I got

735
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:40.440
to ask you and I could be
wrong, Jay, you know. Then

736
00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:45.239
we beat Clemson in North Carolina and
eighty eight back to back to go to

737
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:49.239
the final four. Uh. They
beat uh no in the eighty eight.

738
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:53.920
Eighty eight final four was in the
Sweet sixteen was in Seattle. They started

739
00:48:53.920 --> 00:49:00.320
in LA. They were at poly
Pavilion. They beat Cornell, then Seaton

740
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:05.679
Hall, Seaton Hall. I was
there for those, Yeah, Seaton Hall,

741
00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:08.960
Clem with a Campbell win. No, that was eighty nine, but

742
00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:14.840
that was up in Boise. That
was Vegas. They lost to Vegas in

743
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:19.800
Denver. But the first the first
round was in Boise that year, and

744
00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:24.559
and that same year and that same
year Arizona hosted here, but they weren't

745
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:29.599
allowing teams to play at their site
anymore, so Arizona went up to Boise

746
00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:32.519
and that's where they beat Clemson.
Uh. And then then that Sweet sixteen

747
00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:38.320
was in Denver and they lost to
UNLV in Denver. Okay, that's right,

748
00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:45.519
that's right. Victory. We'll see
about La. We're gonna be okay,

749
00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:50.440
We're gonna be okay. I got
a real good feeling. Remember his

750
00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:52.320
last words. Okay, because I'm
gonna get the text from him in the

751
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:57.039
first five minutes, because he does
this to me all the time, giving

752
00:49:57.119 --> 00:50:01.239
up. I'm gonna go watch smoke, watch guns gun smoke, because that's

753
00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:06.280
just go too my line. Do
you pick you? I line? No,

754
00:50:06.440 --> 00:50:09.840
you're not lying. I love that. It gives me good luck because

755
00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:15.960
Matt Dylan never not the fight it
and Arizona won't lose. Yeah. How

756
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:17.679
many guys did Matt Dylan kill and
you never had to go to jail for

757
00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:22.159
that? All right, thanks Vic, We appreciate it. Care guy.

758
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:25.679
Yeah, he picks up a point. If Anaheim is not l a okay,

759
00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:30.039
it's not. Okay, Well,
Artie Marino thinks it is because the

760
00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:34.039
Angels play in Anaheim, but they're
the Los Angeles Angels, so I don't

761
00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:36.639
know. Maybe it's going the other
way, but I can't it. You

762
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:40.239
know, they haven't had inside.
There's a bigger difference between Anaheim and Phoenix

763
00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:45.039
than I mean Anaheim in la than
two Soon and Phoenix, because the whole

764
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:49.039
thing is filled in between Anaheim and
Laure And some people see that that's Southern

765
00:50:49.079 --> 00:50:51.760
Californa. It's all one big jack
and it takes if it's raining. It

766
00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:53.039
takes about an hour and a half. Well, it takes less time to

767
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:57.360
get from here to Phoenix than does
to get from Anaheim to let's say,

768
00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:01.719
from Dodger Stadium to to the A
Stadium. Okay, you can. You

769
00:51:01.719 --> 00:51:05.360
can hold on to anything you want
to hold on. What you do,

770
00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:07.599
Steve, you do it this time
of year. You look for any any

771
00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:12.239
little thing. You know. I
you know again, I I I really

772
00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:15.760
liked the defense that Arizona was playing
in the in that first half. They

773
00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:20.199
weren't getting any shots off, and
it was and it was awesome to see.

774
00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:23.119
Bruce and I were sitting next to
each other on Saturday and we looked

775
00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:28.239
to each other and Bruce says,
this is probably the best defense in the

776
00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:30.559
first half they've ever had, ever
played that this year, this season.

777
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.039
They got into them, they were
facing them, they were on top of

778
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:37.760
them. Uh. And then that
dude hit a long he hit a hit

779
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:39.280
a killer blove three. Yeah,
he hit that long three. And then

780
00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:43.719
pale standing there in front of it, let him shoot another one. I'm

781
00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:47.480
like, well, you saw him
make one just a few minutes ago from

782
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:51.760
there. Why were you not up
on him? I was yelling at him,

783
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:55.679
and he was their shooter, your
guy, bray, we didn't get

784
00:51:55.679 --> 00:52:00.360
a take enough shots, didn't didn't
he didn't get off almost sent on the

785
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:04.000
year he should be shooting him.
Well, they didn't let him get shots

786
00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:06.920
off. So there's that. And
they and they held up in the in

787
00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:09.280
the final minutes of the free throw
line, which was was admirable. Okay,

788
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:13.000
all right, let's take our break. Uh, there's a score here,

789
00:52:13.159 --> 00:52:16.079
Yukon thirty nine, Syracuse twenty eight
at the half in the women's tournament.

790
00:52:16.119 --> 00:52:19.719
That's where Arizona would been playing if
they'd have hung on and beat Syracuse.

791
00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:22.239
But they didn't, so they're not
all right, let's take our break.

792
00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:24.440
We'll be back. What's your name, Kevin? Kevin will be here

793
00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:25.079
with breaking news.