Speaker 1: Hi, It's Colin Coward.
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Speaker 4: From Chicago to Prova.
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Speaker 5: You tell ESPN Radio Network, that's right, it's Ronald the
Three Man Weaver. Know who the producer is behind the
glass and ap Andrew Peterson with me as well. We
got a good one for you tonight, folks. Top twenty
five matchup number sixteen b Yu taking on the number
eight Houston.
Speaker 3: We got a little koog on coog action, man, b Yu.
Speaker 5: You love to see him in these top twenty five
matches because it's a great opportunity to get a top
twenty five win. Whenever you have a great opportunity to
bounce back, you want to do it on your home floor.
You want to write the ship, you want to do
it all the right way, the beautiful college confines of
the Marriott Center. Game's gonna be on ESPN. You got
John Boog Scambini and then you got Fran Fachello on
the call.
Speaker 3: You love Big Fran.
Speaker 5: He was taking pictures with Houston yesterday. Love Fran Forchelle.
I love hearing him call games. I'm and most of
them covering them, so I try to like make sure
I keep the broadcast in my ear so I can
rewind to look at plays too.
Speaker 3: But man, is it gonna be great?
Speaker 5: And look, if you're not an ESPN guy, you want
to listen to it on the radio, you can always
do it as well.
Speaker 3: Gregor Bella, Mark Durant are going to have.
Speaker 5: To call as well today as the twelfth All Time
Meeting between the programs in the Houston second trip to
the Mayor At Center as a member of the Big
twelve BYU guys is three and eight all time against
the Coogs in one to three with the record in Provo.
Last time that these two teams, excuse me met in Provo,
it was a great one.
Speaker 3: It was close.
Speaker 5: I think Trevin Neill had the chance to tie. The
game didn't go BYU's way, and that happens. That's okay.
But the last time bou face Houston, remember it was
a semi finals of the Big Toil Championship.
Speaker 3: Can we see a reoccurrence?
Speaker 5: Can BYU and Houston meet up again later in the
Big Toil Championship They lost seventy.
Speaker 3: Four to fifty four. And that coug team, as we know,
was the runner.
Speaker 5: Up in the National Championship. So just know this is
a very good basketball team in Houston. This is a
very good program coach by Kelvin Samson. Look, k Bucador
recovered a double double in that game that they lost
in the Big twelve semifinal. He had fourteen points twelve rebounds.
And then the guy who is the fourth leading scorer
who is out for the season Dawson Baker had eleven
points off the bench, knocking down to a BYU six reporters, Man, AP,
does that.
Speaker 3: One hurt you here?
Speaker 1: And that absolutely it does. It hurts my soul every
time Dawson Baker and realized that he cannot play this year. Nope,
because boy do we need him?
Speaker 5: Yeah, by you miss this dB for Shirton. But I
said this yesterday on the Cougar sports have been cruitive.
You missed it, Dawson Baker. And this is Pearl Brandon
Dunson was on the Kevin Young's show earlier. Shout out
to mhy movie. I need to find that sound clip
or get permission to go go cut it. I just
won't do that yet. I don't know if they posted
it to Twitter. I've been trying to find it. My
social media searching skills just might be bad.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 5: The point is Dawson Baker is eligible to come back
for a sixth season, and I was already declared of yesterday.
Speaker 3: AP.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure you were as well, right and Caleb
Lyance war two Dawson. This team meets Dawson Baker next year,
without question. They need someone that's been in the system.
Something that can happen. I know a lot of people
like Ron while you jump in the next season, well,
because this year you could use it, that you could
use him, you could use a secondary ball handler because
you have none, so AP. I'm looking forward to DB's
recovery and I think he'll take that sixth year.
Speaker 3: I really think he will AP.
Speaker 1: I think he certainly needs to consider it. And for
Buyu's sake, they yeah, for By, he doesn't need to.
It's not just that we need a secondary ball handler.
I'm sure that Kevin Young will look for guys in
the portal, but you need an experienced guy who can
knock down timely threes. And Austin Baker is that guy,
even coming off injury. He showed it before coming off injuries,
he was able to do that. So I have no
doubt that if he came back for a sixth year
of eligibility that he'd be able to do that again.
It's just it's really tough to to not have him
this year, and that has shown that has come back
to bite you many times and.
Speaker 5: Has come back to bite bite bite a many times.
But that's a that's the storylines is you've never you
haven't beat us. Shouldn't say ever, you haven't been Houston
yet since entering the conference. The only win over Houston
and Provo came on December fourth, nineteen sixty five. Wow,
it's a long time ago, so before my time, before
a peacetime. I think he might even be before my
parent's time.
Speaker 1: Was a one year old.
Speaker 3: Oh, pops, AP's dad Pops was one. Wow, it's a
long time.
Speaker 1: It is before my mom's.
Speaker 5: Time, before your mom's time. For God that they can't God,
it so loves the mom's Oh goodness, gracious, wow, Hey,
it's as you. Hopefully it doesn't get more ugly tonight,
but it might will give score predictions.
Speaker 3: In the last segment, b y u as.
Speaker 5: I said, returning to the Friendly Confines in the mayor
of at Senate Day, they're trying to snapped this three
game losing streak that they're on. It began, obviously with
number one Arizona back on January twenty six in Provo.
That was a thriller, right Ap, You probably thought they
were dead to rights, and then all of a sudden
they started chipping away eleven.
Speaker 3: I think you're down eleven with one O.
Speaker 5: Three or one o five left or something like that,
sixty five seconds left in the ballgame.
Speaker 3: Let's just go with that.
Speaker 5: And next thing, you know, they got a chance to
go win the game. And I'm like, wow, I said
this might happen, and I'm and we were supposed to
be a professional in press row.
Speaker 3: But we all stood up.
Speaker 5: I won't say who I was next to, but the
other guy next to HI wouldn't care, and that was
that was Drake Toll. Drake told Drake Toe was on
press row with us, and he looked at me. I
was like, all right, bro, I was like, if they
win this game, I was about to go crazy.
Speaker 1: No shot that Drake Toll was sitting down for that.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, wait what we were because it was
like it was a blog. Then the game started outing.
It's like I was like, and I started asking the
guy next to me SMETIA member and the guy to
my right. I won't say names because they haven't give
me approval, but I know Drake. I know, I know
Drake is all cool, and I'm like, did they can
come back? And we're like, ah, we'll see it. Then
it got to seven, it got the fives.
Speaker 3: Of this entry. Then when it got cut to When
it got cut.
Speaker 5: To one, I was like, we were we were like
this they when they called the offensive foul.
Speaker 3: That's when we like stuff. We like everybody grab each
other saying oh oh whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 5: I like started going back back back back, back back back.
I had to rewrite my story rewrite. I had to
switch things around. I was like, is this gonna be
women's soccer all over again? Is this gonna be taken
down North Carolina?
Speaker 3: Sure enough?
Speaker 5: Obviously they didn't have power to do what you know,
the women's soccer team did because they had to depth.
They had the seniors anyway, not trying to take shots.
I'm miss bringing up saying that they didn't.
Speaker 3: Get it done. But they had a chance though.
Speaker 5: And this is what's something that Jared Bledsoe pointed out,
and I'm gonna bring this up for tonight's game.
Speaker 3: Every possession matters.
Speaker 5: You better make sure that you don't turn the ball
over on inbounding plays because this is gonna press your
ninety four. I think they're gonna make sure they try
to slow aj down Rob everybody. Do you remember ap
what happened in that game late when Bay you got
a little laxadaisical when they were inbounding ball.
Speaker 3: You know what Arizona did and what did Arizona do?
They did what.
Speaker 5: They stole the ball and they laid it up right,
and that came back to haunt bou. Imagine if that
turns into a bucket, or let's just say they don't
get that point.
Speaker 3: Let's say it's a misshot at the end, they don't
get it right. Let's just take those two points off
the board.
Speaker 5: Let's say they don't get that shot BYU is actually
leading by is leading by one with the chance to
close it out, and then Arizona has to go all differently.
So do they just let Rob stand in the backcourt
and kill the clock? Then aj can maybe get loose.
Everything changes defensively, schematically. So I bring up that play
and I'm shot at to Jared because he said, Oh,
this is gonna come back and haunt you. And if
football turnovers late, haunt you. Turnovers in the second half
when Houston's pressing you and you got to inbound the ball,
and I'm talking about under like five minutes, definitely in
the last two if you don't execute your game plan,
that's gonna cost you big time.
Speaker 3: You won't be able to get it done, you know.
Oh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna add this. You can't start the game
turning the ball over either. I can't tell you how
many times. No, man, I'll be very clear. When I
get out of the studio after this preap show. I'm
up in South Lake, so I'm driving down listening to
the game, and I can't tell you how many times
I've heard Greg Rubal say four turnovers in the first
four minutes. Oh man, you can't start the game turning
the ball over either.
Speaker 3: Nope, you can't start the ball turning the game over.
You can't.
Speaker 5: You can't start the game turning the ball over. Just
it won't help you if you do that, it'll be crazy.
And Houston's it's a really they're a really good team, man,
they really are. Like I don't like when you have
to play against Houston. And the reason why I don't
like it is because it's gonna they make it ugly.
Speaker 3: Remember last year you play last year?
Speaker 5: Yeah, remember like that, Like they beat you twenty They
beat you by forty combined points. Last year they believe
out by twenty And obviously you had to take a
true road game and they do it to everybody in
the freight to center.
Speaker 3: But it's it's really tough. Now. The second game, in
the semi final game that they lost. I was at
the game. I was present for the Big twelve tournament.
It looked worse than.
Speaker 5: What it was and BYU, you just here's the crazy part.
They played better in that game. And a lot of
people say, Ron, No, they didn't. Just didn't score more
than fifty pop points. I disagree. They just couldn't buy
a bucket. And that's why Dawson Baker and that's they
got better looks and they just didn't fall.
Speaker 3: The first game was like all right, they had everything
locked up.
Speaker 5: In the second game and Kevin Young also played this
and I said this over Aaron, I took accountability for it, right,
and it was a little harsh, but it was also true.
But I think Kevin Young had a terrible game plan.
I think you said, all right, Wall, like they hit
how many threes against Iowa State the game before, Like
you had to believe that was gonna be on the
game plan and Houston Press Now they got better looks
even with that pressure. But Bo, you could never go
on a run Houston. I think that the most that
they kept the lead that was eleven and BYU never
could get it. I think the closest they got it
to I think it was eleven to thirteen and they
never could get it to that eight mark. And Cable
was phenomenal defensively, even had a couple blocks, and just
they never con turn. And that's what you're gonna have
to do tonight if you get down, because that's basketball, right,
it's a game of excuse me, stop runs, game of runs.
Houston's gonna make their run, but can you make yours?
Can you push and transition enough? And I definitely think
this team is going to come in with a different
type of motivation. I think they are gonna be motivated.
I think you're gonna see a lot more energy. They
are going to be great to start the game. I
really believe that. Ap I'm worried about, as they say
in football, of the middle eight, Right, what happens once
you get under ten minutes?
Speaker 3: How does that team start to look, because that's when
they started to struggle.
Speaker 5: Is that ten to ten minutes to that that five
or four minute mark.
Speaker 1: Well, I do want to give you a little bit
of pushback here on. I am actually more worried about
the beginning of the game than the middle of the
game because and here's my.
Speaker 5: Really beginning than the middle and at home yes, yes, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: This here's why the beginning of the games where by
has been getting beat most of the time. I understand
Oklahoma State was different. They got beat at the end
of the game, But the games where By's lost, it's
been the beginning of the game. And to me, the
way BYU's played tells me this about Kevin Young this
year is he has been an excellent in game coach.
He's been able to make adjustments get Bayu back into
the game. My worry has been the game plan to
start the games, because when you're coming out flat this consistently,
I don't think it's players as much as it's the
game plan to start games. And I just hope they've
got something to switch up the way they've been coming out,
because if they come out with a good game plan,
I think by you could hang around. And I think
that's honestly, like, if Byu is gonna win this game tonight,
I think it's because they had a good game plan.
To start the game, and they came out strong because
Kevin Young has been very good for the majority of
the games at getting his players to get right in
the middle of the game and towards the end.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was just texted by Caleb Lyonts.
Speaker 5: He said, if BAU has less than eight turnovers in
the first half, they will win this game. I appreciate
the hot take by ap. We will see, we will see.
Let's give you some updates. This is per Greg Rabel
and this is what he said. B A head coach
Kevin Young in his pregame chat on looking to stop
a three game slide against Houston. Team is on a
three game win streak. By the way, when you have adversity,
you have to address that adversity. Then you also have
to address how you're going to beat the team at hand.
That both of those things are true, and trying to
balance those two things is something we've talked about internally.
As a stab. Not gonna give you anything there. We've
got to pick it up. There's no getting around it.
Our defense has been a joke. Wow, harsh words from Ky.
We have got to love the honesty. This is what
everybody wants. Honesty we have to take the challenge a
little bit more defensively. It's execution, do what you're asked
to do. There you go, sounds like people aren't doing
what they're asked to do. For me, it's making sure
there's extreme, oh wow, clarity on what your job actually is,
so that there's no gray area. And I think things
are pretty clear about what you've been about, what we've
told our players. Ap your thoughts on that we've heard
ky be honest in the past, I've never heard that before.
Speaker 3: Straight honesty our defense is a joke. Then let's jump
down he was for me, it's making.
Speaker 5: Sure that it's extreme clarity on what your job actually
is and that there's no gray area.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts and takeaways of that.
Speaker 1: I think Kevin Young is just very aware. First off,
I like to say this, if you tend into Cougar
Sports with Benkril yesterday, you heard me rant about how
I love it when coaches and players are honest. We've
never had a problem with Kevin Young be honest or
ja when he was there pretty straight up about everything.
What that rant tells me is that Kevin Young has
heard all the complaints from Kugarnation he's very aware and
more than that, he I don't think it took the
complaints for him to know that, but I think he's
a he's willing to address what the fans are feeling
and be like, yeah, we're not playing to the standard
that we're that we set ourselves up for. And so
I think it's just Kevin Young is very big on
accountability because that's the only way that you can get better.
And that's what it took last year because he you
heard it several times. He said, straight up, people think
they can punk BYU. And he was very straight up
with his team and with the fans about that, and
that's what caused the change. And so I think that's
a very positive thing, even if it sounds harsh that
Kevin Young is out there and he knows what the
deal is and he's not going to sugarcoat it. He's
gonna get in there and fix it.
Speaker 5: Nope, they're not. Just so people know too. And relating
to scoring, Houston's number one scoring defense. They only give
up sixty one point they're four points. They're a very
very good team BYU, not bad top eight. They give
up seventy two point three. So we'll see if our
score predictions ligne up down. Offensive wise, though BYU is
a top four team, they average eighty five point eight
point excuse me, eighty five point five points per game,
and Houston is in the top ten. Houston only comes
in averaging seventy eight point nine. So we will see
and I want to bring this up because this is
gonna play a factor. Free throw percentage team percentage Houston
number one. They knocked down seventy eight percent of their
free throws BYU, also top four, they knocked down about
seventy four point eight round the seventy five mark. Opponent's
free throw percentage well BYU seventy and Houston is fifteenth
sixty eight. So we're gonna see the free throws, I
think is what it might come down to. And then
obviously we know what it is. Well turn overs Houston
assistant turnover ratio number one BYU eleventh. Wow, Houston really
does a very good job of taking care of the
basketball and the turnover margin I mean six point.
Speaker 3: Look Houston's number one. Like that.
Speaker 5: This team is good b YU eighth, not bad. But
this is gonna be a defense about it's gonna be
a great offense. Versus a great defense. I mean, what
you know, I forget the saying of what they say,
you know, a movable object, URSTU formidable something. It's gonna
be that who's gonna bite first? Will the defense give
up or will the offense be able to overload itself?
Speaker 3: But we will see before we go to break. I
do want to go ahead and people, you're.
Speaker 1: Just gonna add on to that. Like the scary thing
that you get from all of that is the ceiling
of Houston basketball is just as big as it was
last year. The thing about it is, though, that the
floor is lower than last year.
Speaker 3: That is what you hope.
Speaker 5: You're not wrong, you do hope the floor is lower.
I agree with that, So we will see what happens.
So before we go to break, though, give you one
more stat here. Team offensive rebounds. Houston, like I said,
is number one thirteen point five. At ba's number fifth
at twelve point five, not bad defensive team rebounds, and
Boa he's number third at twenty six point seven, and
then Houston comes in at number fifteenth at twenty three
point five. So by you, definitely, I think it has
to win their defensive boards and somehow try to get
some mo boards to be able to do that, and
I mean in the rebound and margin total rebounds to
BAU third Houston is there in the top ten as well.
Their number six. So before we go to break, let's
hear from Kelvin Sampson. Though he had a sound clip,
he discussed he caught up with the guy who I respect.
It's in the Big twelve. I had one on one
with AJ. He does stuff for the Big Twelve. It's
a chancellor. I really haven't. I've had opportunity to connect
with some people in passing, but Chancellor Johnson does a
phenomenal job. He's, you know, part of the Big twelve consensor.
He is a storyteller down there in Texas, Houston specifically.
I believe he's gonna be at this game too. I
have to double check that. But let's hear what Kelvin
Sampson had to say about BA. You had some my praise.
Speaker 6: Has grown out the best and b y U b y.
He has always been great. But I remember when Ladell
Anderson was the football coach and Jim was the quarterback's
name for the marriage.
Speaker 3: I remember Jim and Ham's.
Speaker 6: Quarterback Ty Depberg and were High Deptburgh and so d Y.
He has always been great. I remember watching Danny ms
Now we played them two years ago and they every
seat was packed. But I think Kevin, what Kevin has
done has brought, you know, brought.
Speaker 3: In the bush.
Speaker 6: Getting the Saunders kid back, who's one of the best
players in the nation, might be one of the most
underrated players in they I mean, how many six five
guards can drive and shoot it and rebound every seven
rebounds a game.
Speaker 3: And then we played against the right.
Speaker 6: Kids from Baylor a couple of times last year. He's
he's a lead point guard. So I think got a
lot to be excited about. And their their arena is
uh top nonst that at homeport advantage. Just when we
walked down and that I knew that would say a
great win for just cause of how tough it.
Speaker 1: Is to play that.
Speaker 5: There you go right there, look high praise. First of all,
he started with football. What drives the ship for Brian Santiago,
Uh he said, going back to today as a Todd Detmer.
Jim mcmahle, I love that. I love that he brought
that up with football. I mean he started there and
then obviously he goes to more modern day. That's for
the oldies, old people that are listening to the Uh,
excuse me, my apologies.
Speaker 3: My elders that are listening to the show. Don't want
to say that has a negative connotation the elder people.
Speaker 5: And and then he transitioned it to today. Kevin got
to de bansa kid. I mean, he's got aj Look
at that. I mean he got Saunders, who was the
I think, if not the most underrated, underrated guy. He's like,
how many six five guards can shoot it, drive it
and rebound it all three of those Like I don't
think people understand. That's why Richie's going to the NBA.
Richie can shoot the three at a high clip, he
can drive it the development of course of what the
staff has done, and he can rebound it. Got a
guy that's committed to playing defensive, grabbing offensive boards. Richie's
one of the top rebounds on this team behind KBA.
So that's where he's gonna get the proch from. And
that's what they have to do. Then, in order to
pull off a win, I was out eating because you know,
finally I was finally able to go out. The wife
wanted me to be able to go out with the
family and have a good meal. We try to new
Burger plays don't want to say it because they're how
to sponsor the show? Do need to maybe get the marketing?
And Guy Scott was taking care of us and I
was eating and I saw somebody with the BYU shirt
and you know, I was like, ah, by he was like, yeah,
go Coog's And I was like, you go into the
game tonight.
Speaker 3: He's like yeah.
Speaker 5: He's like, you think they you think they get it done.
He's like, ah, He's like, man, I'm hoping. He was
three game losing streak. He was it's got to be snapped.
But you got to think that the mayor out's a center,
a special place, and at some point Byu has to
put it together, right. Even if he's like I believe
in luck, He's like, luck has to fall on their side, right,
And I said, you never know. I said, each game
is an opportunity to prove yourself. And that's what tonight is.
Tonight is an opportunity for bo you to go out
there and dominate it is they can do that, and
you don't have to dominate for all forty minutes. You
could and then people might be like, Okay, well they
frauds land again.
Speaker 3: I mean if they're dominated Houston.
Speaker 5: But you go out there and you get a top
ten win, it puts you on the path where look,
a lot of you probably don't have your alignment steering
the correct way. Let go of your steerwell and see
if you're be a right or left right now b
where you're starting to swerve until the other lane really
really fast like rush hour.
Speaker 3: You know what a top ten win does you.
Speaker 5: It drifts you all the way back into your correct lane,
but you still have the power to go left to right.
It means that your your alignment's not fixed, but it
means that you have the power to fix it. So
we will see, we'll see. Let's get into a little
interview portion. We're gonna play a Joseph Duarte I caught
up with them. We caught up with them yesterday. We're
gonna replay that for you because there's some people who
haven't heard it. We're gonna his thoughts on what he
thinks this bou matchup will be Joseph Mills's Houston team
very well.
Speaker 3: He's seen by U upfront. He's gonna be Danna.
Speaker 5: Provo with us his first trip to Provo. We'll see
is this Houston team gonna be unfit? Gonna be phased
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before and welcome back in. We have Joseph Duarte, b
writer for the Houston Chronicle. Joseph, Thanks Joseph, thank you
for joining me today.
Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for having me on. Of course. Well, look,
I need you to break it down for me.
Speaker 5: This is a Houston team that I feel like hasn't
been talked about enough this year. But when I look
at them on paper, it's the same as always. Uh
do you have taxes at Kelvin Sampson.
Speaker 7: Yeah, pretty much, you know. Uh, you know, the two
offers are too ranked teams Tennessee and Texas Tech by
I believe a combined seven points. So uh, you know,
they I believe they began the year preseason two or three.
So I mean, you look, you look at what their
body of work is has been to date, and uh, yeah,
I don't. I don't think a lot of people so
far talking about them, but that's because there's a lot
of other good teams in the Big twelve alone that
people are talking about.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: But you know, the formula and the recipe is still there,
you know, Shelton Sampson stress is the rebounding, the taking
away turnovers and the uh and the defensive part, and
that's sort of has been what's kept them in games
this year. New cast of characters, but really same script
as Houston's had in the.
Speaker 3: Past, number seven team in the net.
Speaker 5: Right now, they're eight to one a conference play twenty
and two overall losses only coming in QUA one games.
Wanted a neutral site against Tennessee by three, and then,
like you mentioned, Texas Tech on the road in a
true road environment. I love this Houston team. I love
what I see on paper, the physicality. You said a
new cast. Who's a new cast that fan should be
aware of going into the Maryout Center tomorrow night.
Speaker 7: Well, it's the two freshman starters. The point guard Kingston Flemmings,
he's the one who on that special Saturday a couple
of weeks ago had for forty two forty three against
Texas Tech in that road loss. And then Chris Sanak,
who is the fourth spot. He'll he'll be the one
that probably butts heads with aj most of the game
on Saturday. And those are two of the five stars
that they brought in. They were two of the best
at their positions in the last recruiting cycle. They have
a third member that was a five Stars, Isaiah Harwell.
He's more of a bench player. But you know they've
got the the returners around them, Milos Susan, Emanuel Sharp,
Jojo Tugler. Those three were returners from the National Championship
Game team, but the two freshmen have carried their share
of the load this year, and this will be an
interesting environment for them because they haven't played in many
places that will be rocking as much as the Marriott
Center is on Saturday night.
Speaker 5: How do you expect, you know, for them to do
You just mentioned that they haven't, but I mean, Kingston
Fleming just dropped forty two to the night I think
AJ had dropped forty three Waggler from Illinois's freshman classes.
Speaker 3: Ridiculous.
Speaker 5: First of all, I'm excited to see where they all
go in the NBA Draft, But how do you expect
them to handle this pressure tomorrow?
Speaker 7: Well, Flemings is sort of you know, I was looking
at the stats. I believe he's averaging like twenty five
twenty six points against ranked teams this year.
Speaker 3: So me he.
Speaker 7: They both have been in in you know, on the
on the Nike circuit and all the the AAUS. I mean,
they played against a lot of the top talent before
they even got to college. And you know, the the
Auburn game, I think non conference one of the first
couple of weeks of the season they were it was
basically a road game because it was in Birmingham, not
too far from from Alburn's campus, and they both just
really took off.
Speaker 3: In that game.
Speaker 7: So Flemings has really stepped up a lot just through
the throughout the season. Sanak has been more of a
a work in progress. You know, he played five the
five in high school and he wanted to come in
and play the four. So you've got this bigger guy
who tends to have to go outside on the perimeter
and guard some of the the faster, quicker guards and
that's been a little bit of a a development for him.
But you know, both of them have have shown flashes
uh this year mostly you know, Flemings throughout it and
Senec the Sinata the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: I like sing that junior the six for eleven freshman
averaging nine and a half and grabbing just under eight
boards and under an assission and fifty from the field.
You said, he's probably gonna get the assignment to start
off on AJ. When you look at AJ on film,
what do you see and what is his coaching staff see?
That's the guy that seemed to slow down for b
Yu right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, and and and Kelvin Kelvin when he
when he looks at teams and he looks at the
complete body of work, and you know, he's he's real
complimentary of of of Richie Saunders, and he likes the
way that what he can do and how he can
beat you. And you know they're familiar with uh Rob
Wright from UH from his days at Baylor. And then
you look at AJ and and when Kelvin was recruiting
Snak and Flemings, you know, he would be at games
where he would get a chance to see AJ playing.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, he he doesn't prop up freshman as much
as some coaches do, but he knows the talent that's there.
We know, we asked him maybe uh, some of the
freshmen that he's coaching his career against that he's just
thought of being out of this world. He mentioned Gary Payton,
Jason Kidd, Paul Pierce, Carmelo, Anthony tj. Ford and then
he was like on AJ. You know, he said that
he was more of the scoring abilities, more like a Carmelo.
So that's that's pretty high praise from Kelvin. But you know,
they know it's it's more than just the banter that
they're gonna have to to go against, but it certainly
starts with him, because I mean, you look at this
BYU roster. I mean, they average almost ninety points a game,
and those three alone account for about sixty of them
on most nights. So it's it's a tough challenge. But
Houston's number two defensively and scoring allowed, so it should
be a fun one. I don't know, you know, Houston
showed the ability that they can score. I don't know
if that's the type of game they want to get into,
but things generally always start and usually finished with with
how they.
Speaker 3: Do on defense one hundred percent. You just brought it up.
Speaker 5: You said ninety points a game, and I'm sitting next
to two guys listening. They were shaking their head of
I don't think BYU scored ninety points tomorrow against this
this Houston team. This is a team that, look, I
need you to give me some insight from last year's team,
because you got still Emmanuel Sharp, my little Suzan. You
still got Joseph Tuggler, who were part of that great
team last year with LJ.
Speaker 3: Crime Man.
Speaker 5: It was beautiful watching you guys play basketball. Honestly, I know,
b what you suffered a couple of losses, but man,
I think the average mile was what five and a
half minutes by the team or something to waking up
at five am. I'm like, this team is gonna pick
you up ninety four feet for forty minutes and they're
not gonna be out of breath.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And then that's what they do. They just they
grind you. You know, you hear a lot on the
TV telecast that there's there's not many teams out there
that will outwork Houston. And it all starts with, you know,
the hustle plays. I mean that, you know, you could
count them up tomorrow. There's probably more than a dozen
plays where you're gonna see their guys just diving on
the floor, wrestling with you, just fighting for that that
extra inch if you gotta get your hand on the ball.
H And that's sort of what their DNA is. That's
that's how they beat you. And a lot of good
teams end up looking average when they when they go
in and I've seen teams that score ninety on average
score fifty against Houston or sixty, and you know, they
bring you down to another level. And as far as
last year, I mean, help them tell you this team
isn't as good as last year right now. I mean
last year when you look at what they had, the
differences in the front court, they had Juwan Roberts. He
was the sixth year guy, made a lot of big plays.
He was the winningest player in program history. He could
just you could run things through him and he could score.
They don't have that scoring consistency that they had last
year with him. They also lost a jvier of Francis
who he had like a seven to six wingspan. He
could be a disruptor, especially when he was on the
court with Tugler, who you know was the big twelve
defensive player of the year. So you had a bunch
of different things going. And then, by the way, you
had a really consistent probably one through three scoring. You know,
they lost l J. Cryer and he could light you
up on any minute from the three. They they've got
flashes of that flimmings and sharp as good a one
to two scoring punch that they've had. The third option
that has just kind of fluctuated this year. It's between
you Zan maybe Sanak, but it's really that's just not
where it is for them. So there's been games where
when they get into lolls and they get in these
lapses on offense that they have to really rely on
their defense to keep things close other otherwise, you know,
they you know, they're a couple times this year they've
fallen behind you know, ten or twelve points and had
to make up some grounds in the second half.
Speaker 5: You don't want to loose go down ten to twelve
points in the mayor out center on these places to
play in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: It's hard to play in the Big twelve in general.
Speaker 5: But if there's a team to get down and come back,
I believe it's Houston and Kelvin Sampson.
Speaker 3: This is a program that Look, he is a he's
a guy that can really do it.
Speaker 5: Look, he had a quote the other day, I'm gonna
watch you just shit some more light on it, you
know about hey or are We have a very poor
athletic department, you know, with in Island everything, and I
just speak thinks that speaks more to him and his
his his coaches, his recruiting and everything that you're still
able to get this high level talent win in a
high level play in the National Championship game and you
don't have the biggest, you know, nil budget.
Speaker 3: I actually love that.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm just appointed it took you ten and a
half minutes to get to that, to get to this question. Yeah,
that that's all the that's all the news that was
going down here. I actually, you know, talked to Kelby yesterday.
He clarified some things. I wrote that he basically gave
himself a technical foul for what he said, uh, because
because what happened. You know, he started to get into
the nil after the game. They have won the game,
by the way, and he's getting into nil and he says, look,
we're very poor. We were poor when I got here.
We're still poor. And you know, Houston, it's very well
known down here that Houston has been a heavily subsidized
athletic department for many, many years with support from the university.
And the latest NCAA financials came out and you know
they were they ran a deficit for the second year
in a row. So you got all that stuff and
you think that's where he was going with it, but
he actually meant to say, look, we like maybe a
Cincinnati or UCF or b Y, you haven't gotten the
full Big twelve share yet that's coming this spring. So
all those years, at least at Houston's case, where they
weren't in a power conference, they've lost out on hundreds
of millions of dollars. Baylor and TCU got those last
two spots of the Big twelve among the Texas schools,
and I'm sorry Baylor in Texas Tech and then TCU
later on. That's just money that Houston never had. That
if they would have had it, this could have been
a totally different story of where they are. So he
got into that and he was talking about nil you know,
they it's that they're in an al's just not where
a lot of schools are. They've invested in their roster,
you know, they've been able to get several five star
guys like Flemings and Sanaka. They have a couple of
other ones coming in next year, but it's nowhere near
you know, Kentucky and Duke and North Carolin Line and
all the other schools that are traditionally up at the top.
So yeah, I mean he he got a little bit
of a called into the principal's office, I guess, so
to speak, Uh, with those comments, but he kind of
just he was talking to it as a whole, mostly
about nil and just needing to somehow start bridging that
gap with the revenue distribution from the conference that's coming
here in the next few months.
Speaker 5: Thank you for shedding the light on that. Look, I
knew I was gonna ask the question.
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 5: I didn't be the first one. I just had to
get the game thing and then transition.
Speaker 7: You had to slow us into it. I get you exactly.
Speaker 5: I was going, like Houston, I wanted to, you know,
slow you down, and I wanted to speed you up,
you know, in.
Speaker 3: Transition a little bit the way I wont before. Then.
Speaker 5: H No, we're on the line with Joe Stuarte. He's
a beat writer for the Houston Chronicle. Here right now
here on ESPN, uh the fan. What way can be
why you win.
Speaker 3: This game tour on?
Speaker 5: Maybe from your perspective, and look, I'm not picking them.
And one I'm gonna tell you right now, I do
a basketball pre game show. This is one of the
teams they haven't beaten in the Big Twelve. I don't
know if it gets done tomorrow, just with how great
of a coach Kelvin Simpson is and right now BUYU struggling.
Man lost his last three games, four of his last five.
The defense is struggling. And I just think, you know,
you mentioned it. Even when Houston gets down, they find
a way to claw themselves back.
Speaker 7: I think, you know, there's maybe something from like the
Tech game. Tech Tech control the boards, and that's one thing.
You know, Houston in the past has been traditionally one
of the top rebounding teams in the country and in
fact and offensive rebounds. You know, they had been anywhere
from maybe third to tenth over the last few years
and I believe they're about twenty fifth right now. So
you know, they got killed on the board, especially the
offensive boards against Texas Tech. That's where some teams have
been able to gain some ground, so to speak. And
you know, if you have the home court like you
do at the Marriott Center, maybe you got to force
them into some stuff early. You got to get them
to maybe be some uncharacteristic turnovers. That kind of thing
is because they don't beat themselves and that and that's
what the discipline comes in with Kelvin teams. He uh,
you know, they they they match, they they scout and
then they do their matchups and they always find an
edge that if you have two or three guys, they
find a way to shut down one or two of them,
or at least take a couple of them out of
out of what their normal game plan would be, uh,
and how they do against other teams. So you know,
there there's it's certainly you know, there's there's a code
to crack to beat them. And I don't think many
schools have figured that out over the years, but certainly,
you know, the rebounded aspect has been a little bit
of a one uh through the you know, the first
you know, twenty two games or whatever it's been so far.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you do score predictions, uh, Joe,
but how do you see this one plan out?
Speaker 3: Could just be why you crack the code tomorrow.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think this is a high sixties, low
seventies game. I mean I think, uh, I don't see
this on a way at any point, you know, I
can see Houston by five or so four or five.
But you know, it's it's it's really uh. Yeah, the
the you hit it earlier in the show about just
being able to win on the road in conference and
I saw a great stat from the b YU Athletic
Department where you know, Houston's doing the two game road
swing to Utah, and only one school, Texas Tech, has
ever won both of their games on that swing. Everybody
else has either lost boats or split. So this is
a tough This is a tough next few days for them.
And then they get the uh the gauntlet of Iowa State,
Arizona and Kansas. Uh So uh, I can I can
see a split on this road game. I can see
them losing on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: But you know, they they're they're a little bit on
a on a roll right now, and I think they'll
they'll be prepared. I don't think it's gonna be The
environment is not going to to shell shock them. They
they they respect what Byu has Kelvin raids about the
crowd there. But you know they've been in some big
environments before.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the mayor At Center, although it's one of the
tougher places to play in the big twelven in the country.
Houston came in you know last year, the year before
they played in this. They are not going to be phased.
And that speaks to just the preparedness Kelvin has for
his team and I respect that that when they won
that seventy seven to seventy four, or maybe it was
seventy five, I can't remember, Trevornill had the opportunity to
tie and he missed a shot and they weren't phased
that game, and I was very impressed. And I've been
a big fan ever since by you and Houston been
in the conference. And I've seen this program play Kevin
Young twenty four and three at home in his two years,
and the two of the three losses come to ranked teams.
So that tells you how good this Big Twelve is.
I'll finish up on this one. I'll get you out
of here on this. Just your thoughts on the Big
Twelve Conference in this freshman class. You mentioned a golf
that you gotta play, Darren Peterson. Just your takeaways and
evaluations of it.
Speaker 7: Well, well, first, on the on the conference. You know
last year you thought I saw everything when Houston went
nineteen and one. I mean that was remarkable in itself,
and it showed by them getting to the championship game
at the final four. But you know this year you
look at Arizona and is there a team right now
that can beat them, and I think right now they're one.
Speaker 3: On the list.
Speaker 7: I don't even think there's a one, A, one B.
I think they're a clear number one. And then you've
got Houston and then the one that I don't think
many people are talking about Iowa State. You know, a
couple of weeks ago, when they lost those games, I thought, Okay, well,
maybe maybe there's some kings in the armor. But no,
I mean, they're just as much of a threat. Texas
Tech just doesn't go away. I mean, they just find
a way, and they've got probably one of the best
players in the country with j T. Topkins, and then
you got Byu. So to me, I think the league
is in Kansas. I mean, I got an eleven year
old who follows the rankings religiously. He's like, Dad, Kansas
wasn't even on the rate are a couple of weeks ago.
Now they're almost at the top ten. I'm like, that's
how quickly things could change. You know, Peterson we think
is healthy, we think he'll get through the rest of
the season. They'll play him. So you've got five or
six schools right there alone that not only you know,
will contend for the conference title. I think two of
them can can make the final four, maybe three of them.
You know the Big East City what back in the
late eighties at one time where they say three of
the four. Uh, you know, the Big Twelve could at
least get two in there, depending on how the regions
work out. So you know that's from a team standpoint.
And then you know we've talked about all the freshmen.
I'd hate to be the guy who has to pick
Freshman of the Year or the the awards there, because
I mean you could you could have them. You know,
a bunch of them are are going to be first teamers.
And then by the way, you know, you look at
the NBA mock drafts. You know, I think nine of
ten overall and the cross basketball college basketball are in
the lottery right now. The kind of the top ten
picks are all freshmen. And you got co O Pete
from Arizona. There's another. So I mean, this is a
wild year for the Big Twelve, not only from the
youth aspect, but the fact that you've got a really
top heavy group of teams that could all compete for
a national title.
Speaker 5: You're now wrong, great time to be a basketball fan.
Great time for our business to be beat writers, to
be radio talents and broadcasters and producers. This is a
wonderful time. I gotta let you go. You got other
responsibilities before I do. What's the best way we can
support you? What you do, your work and how you
do it?
Speaker 3: Just you know.
Speaker 7: I we're at Houston Chronicle dot com and I'm on Twitter.
Joseph Underscore Duarte d U A R T E. And
you know, look forward to my first trip to the
Marriott Center tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Look forward to seeing you down there, Joe. Safe travels.
We'll see in provo.
Speaker 7: Thank you appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, let's get into an ap.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get your score prediction first and pro it's
not not predictions. I guess your keys to the game,
and then I'll wrap up the caboose before we close it.
Speaker 1: Out well, Ron my keys to the game. It's really
tough because this Houston team is just so good. Yes,
but my keys to the game is gonna it's gonna
sound a little weird. I need the ball to move
because we see so much ISO ball with this BYU
team lately. Hm, I don't think you can play that
way against a team like Houston and be successful. I
think you need to move the ball, and I think
you need more shots from players outside to Big three.
And I say that not because I think that the
Big three are can't get it done. It's actually to
unlock the Big three because this Houston team can. They
can guard all three of them easily if they're the
only ones playing. Essentially, if they're the only ones taking shots,
it's not gonna be hard for Houston to defend the
Big three. A lot of teams can't, Houston can. So
I need players outside the big three to take shots
and make some and that unlocks and opens up Richie Saunders.
He'll be more open because you can't double him when
you've got other guys hitting big shots. And so that's
my key to the game. Do I think that's gonna happen?
I I just it's hard to change the identity of
your team on the fly like this, and isoball quite
frankly has been BYU's offensive identity, and so I think
that's gonna be really tough to do. I'm going to
pick Houston to win this game, probably, and I think
it'll be relatively close. I'm hoping so because the Marriott
Center is gonna work magic. I think the crowd's gonna
be able to keep this team in it for a while.
But I do think Houston's gonna win this game somewhere
around seventy seven to seventy.
Speaker 5: Hey, seventy seven to seventies and not a bad pick.
I mean me and Ape both aren't off. He's saying
seventy seven to seventy. I'm gonna go seventy five seventy,
so we're actually right on board. I think he used
to scores two less points. I also think they get
the dub. Look, I told you guys all this week,
people probably are thinking I'm eor now right. I think
I'm saying that right. I'm negative. I'm being honest, apim
like people probably think I am that way. Then I switched. No. Look,
you heard the debate yesterday with me on air with
Brad and Caleb. I BYU fans and people sometimes man,
after one win, they're like, oh, back on track of it.
It's like get way too natty baby exactly, and it's like, no, no,
Like when you do as someone in the business, you
try to be objective and you look at it down
in the middle. If they if they went to night,
it's their biggest one of the season. But did you
see the Baylor Ioways stay game. I watched that one earlier.
I don't know if you had a chance to corner man,
you see what I mean something like you gotta go down.
They're they're not like people look at that and they're
gonna be like, oh, well, by you should be Baylor.
They shall walking know. They shouldn't like are you serious?
Like they they might lose that basketball game. Like people,
this is why I forget. This is why we do this.
Like Scott Drew is a very good coach. He's won
a national championship, don't get it twisted. He's played against
b YU and yes he might not has half the number,
but it's tough to win on the road.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna I'm gonna push back in you a
little bit. I think you should win that game, but
it's far from from well.
Speaker 5: You get people back like that game guarantee wins to
and that's what they do well. People said to OKLA
was a guarantee, and I was like, I was like,
I don't think it's a guarantee, but I do think
they win.
Speaker 3: But that's how sometimes it's treated.
Speaker 5: I'm like this conference after seeing them lose to Oklahoma
State and sing like watching UCF be Texas second, still,
I mean criminal that they are right for crying out loud.
I'm not gonna get it that. But there's a lot
of good basketball teams that can beat you on the
road in your house, and that you can also lose
to on the road in their house. It's just it's tough,
and I think this is one of the games where
wins are hard to come by. But Kelvin Sampson is.
It's dep taxes and Kelvin Sampson for a reason. I
keep joking about them, but I'm also being serious this team.
I have not seen the college basketball team that's able
to get down eight, ten, twelve points like Houston and
then just exhaust you. They just they wear you down.
Man like they just they don't give up. I told
you guys last year, or when Malik Wilson he's going
for a ball out of bounds in the Big Teal Tournament,
diving and falling in the first world in a friend
for Shila and people, and I'm like, what is going on?
But that's who that team was, and that's why the
National Championship they were the runner ups. And yes they
aren't the offensive team that were last year. And Bau
has a chance, but I mean, this team really does
well on offensive rebound inside. Now you can't get him defensively,
means you have to clean your boards up. But that
means the what you have to do is Kiba has
to come out and set the tone. B Do has
to come in and be Do just can't. He can't
just rebound and blocks.
Speaker 1: He b Do needs to stop having this constrained statistic
where he has as many points as he does fouls.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a that's a good point. I didn't even
think about that. Well, and that's the thing, but then
you think about it. They didn't bring him in to
do bunnies, Okay, so it's like, well, then where those
points gonna come from? Then because they be if that's
not his role, let's talk about that, bringing him in
just to be a rim protector. Excuse me, burkere to
I apologize. What is then who's gonna make up for it?
That means the three ball has to be following. They
have to push and transition and even with him in
the back, like that's what it has to be. That
means you might have to play Hadeen Boop a little
bit more and he might have to take him more
than one three tonight.
Speaker 1: Well, and and that's why I'm saying when I gave
my keys to the game and that you need players
outside the big three to take and make big shots.
It can't just be three bench points. It can't. It
is it's it's it's a problem to happen. Is a
problem players outside the Big three scoring less than ten points. Yeah,
and I know there's several games where they score more
than that, but it feels like there's also several where
they have it and it's been a real problem. Yeah,
and I and I don't want to say this to
be down but it's just to point out the fact
that like By has got to change the way that
they're approaching the game if they want to correct the
slide they're on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta correct this louder your on ap brings
up a very good point.
Speaker 3: Look you don't. It's uh, it's like, what do they say,
what's the Incredibles thing? Not good?
Speaker 5: Bob not uh, not happy, Bob not happy, Bob not happy,
not happy. Look, it might be a lot of bofense
not happy and not happy that we're picking them. But
like I, it's gonna be tough. I'm picking picking the Koogs.
Not that, not the act, not that not the by
U Kog's. The Houston Cook Tonight is the twelfth all
time made between the two programs, and Houston's second trip
to the maryrit as a member of the Big twelve
bou three and eight all time, three and eight all
time against the Kougs. That's with two o's and a
one in three record in pro. I think that's gonna
turn into one and four. I really hope I am wrong.
But it's tough. It's tough, and it really is, and
I mean check us out. The Cougars are twenty four
and three at home under second coach, second year head
coach Kevin Young, two of three losses come to ranked teams.
Tonight is the ranked team we will see. I mean
they're gonna come after Jay. Look, I was talking to
some people yesterday. You heard it in the last secondent
one of the interviews that we had yesterday. They're gonna
hunt matchups. And I was talking to some people even
off record, you know, from Houston, and they're gonna hunt
Rob Right, I'm gonna tell you right now. They see
it on tape. It's not a secret. It isn't and
they're gonna go hunt it as they should. As they
should too. They should. Boy is gonna pretty much have
everybody else that he does he normally just to give
you a little injury report, So Brody, obviously it's gonna
stay out. kJ Perry's redshirt and its White's out, Nate Dawson, Xavier,
same people that have been out the last couple of days.
Everybody else will be available and will play. I think
you're gonna see the rotation get super deep tonight, super deep.
I think everybody could play, and if people gonna run
us to a nope, everybody can play. Because when you're
playing a team like Houston, everybody, I think needs to
be able to get minutes.
Speaker 3: Dominica, I think is gonna be valuable.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be multitudes hadem everybody, Kaba, Kevin Yann is
gonna use everybody's five fouls tonight, and this is gonna
be a very physical ball club. But I got seventy
five to seventy Houston. I think Houston is able to
you know, I don't think they dominate the glass board,
but I think they press Bau ninety four feet and
they just make it really tough for the Big Three,
and they slow one of them down to win this
ball game. But it'll be a goin. But I still
think they do enough to get out of there. And
Bau doesn't get his first one against Oklahoma, excuse me,
Houston in the Big twelve, and then they'll have to
travel down to Texas to bounce back against Baylor. That
will do it from us, They'll do it for Andrew Peterson.
For myself, I'm Ronald the three Man. We appreciate you
tuning in to the Cougar Basketball pre game show. Apologies
for not giving it to you on Wednesday for Oklahoma
State was a little bit under the weather, but I'm
back now finally at glad that I'm able to be
out of the house. I will be down at the game,
follow everything that I'm posting down there, at Critle, Benjamin
and at Ron, the three Man Weave all be in postgame,
all of it, and we'll catch you guys back next week.
Speaker 3: Next Tuesday.
Speaker 5: There won't be a pregame show unless we do it
earlier because by you would tip off against Baylor at five.
Speaker 3: Just to give you a little bit of an update.
It's weird timing. I know that's just the way it's
set up, So that's just what we'll have.
Speaker 5: But then we'll get caught back up with you Saturday
when BYU takes on Colorado Valentine's Day to those special
ones that have someone in their life, or even if
you want to celebrate yourself, you still can do that too.
And the retirement and Jimmer, we will definitely be doing
a Brucker basketball pre game show, but until then we'll
wish you farewell.
Speaker 3: Save travels to the game. Ap and myself