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Let's get out to the hotline. Welcome in. Cougar Sports

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Insider representing KSEL dot com. We got d Sean Walker.

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Speaker 3: What's up, Sean Walker, Ben, It's always a pleasure to

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be alive on a Friday night in Salt Lake City,

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counting a little bit of my own seampunk I.

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Speaker 4: Know' that means absolutely loving to you. But that was

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a nod for Brent Farron for the rest of the

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crew over it at ESPN the fan because.

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Speaker 1: If you know, you know, yes, indeed, it's a beautiful

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the Hey, we got moisture, man, I'm grateful. It is colder,

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but we got a ton of moisture, which is great

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for our high deserts. I'm feeling grateful right now. Despite

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the BYU basketball team not meaning expectations this year. Sean

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Lunardi Joe Leonardi now projecting BYU as a seven seed.

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Speaker 3: Have we fallen so far?

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Speaker 1: We were talking three seed, we were talking two seed,

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we were talking maybe even a one seed not too

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long ago, maybe six weeks ago. Now seven seed and

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may be worse if BYU loses the Texas Tech and

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loses in the Big twelve tournament. Where do you stand

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with this hoops team?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of like the current state of the

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Utah winter when it rains, its tour is when it does,

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and it's nice and sunny, and we think we're getting

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a lay with a early screen, and then all of

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a sudden, see a little bit of that moisture. You

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see a little bit of that trickle, some of those

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snowflaer snowflayers maybe, and all of a sudden, you've got

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a downpour on your hands. I mean you, a basketball

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is going through a downpour at the moment. It's a spiral,

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it's a tail spin. It's uh, you know, they've they've

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lost uh four of their last five, and it it

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doesn't feel very good I think for Kugar Nation right now, Like, yes,

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A J. DeVonta is awesome. Rob Ryder's had his moments,

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but uh and I think it like because it's evens

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starting to come alive a little bit during this streak,

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which is certainly a little bit of a silver lining

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to see from a freshman. But uh, this this is

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a team that is you want to talk about meeting

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expectations or playing in the best best basketball at the

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right time, I'm not sure if this team is playing

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against that basketball as the calendar turns into March, not

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just results wise, but just because of the way they're playing.

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The defense is playing like the one hundred and ninety

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something best team in the country during this run. Granted,

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bar tournament dot Com. The offense just slits a little bit. Now,

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it's still better, it's still tough fifty offense, but it's

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slipped a little bit, and that's kind of natural with

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the absence of Virtie Honders. This is a team that, Yeah,

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ago that this would be anything less than a six

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seed in the NCAA Tournament, I would have said, you're crazy.

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probably the ceiling, and I think, justine likely this team

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could find itself in an eight nine game come that

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opening week in of BINGCAA tournament.

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Speaker 1: Sean is, uh, do you feel like what can give

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BYU fans hope? Is there what's kind of a silver

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lining in all this that is maybe helping this Cougar

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fan base have hoped that BYU basketball can get into

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the NCAA Tournament and actually win at least one game

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and not be a one in with so much hype

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Speaker 4: I mean, you mean hope other than the fact that

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weeks away. Hey, I'm just saying, what's the what's what's sitting?

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Speaker 1: Maybe they want maybe they want to be put out

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of their misery and just move on to springball. Maybe

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Speaker 3: I don't think they do, though.

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Speaker 4: There's an old yellow reference in there somewhere, but I'm

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not going to go there because that's probably a little

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bit too much even for this program been. But no,

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linings on this, Like Dja Debonte is still as advertised,

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and I've seen a lot of patterns as day day

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online because of the state of the program. But he

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has still been at least arguably the best player on

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the Big twelve, one of the best players in the

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country so far so far, one of the best of

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the best freshman class in years, decades, twenty plus years.

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I think at least he's he has still been as advertised.

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fan base needs to really favor and share is what

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ad the Boxer brings to this team, because come June,

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he's going to be the first or the second big

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in the NBA draft. And a a wise woman once

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said that you're gonna miss me when I'm gone, and

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other guys that has stepped up during the shoot. I

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think an Alexi Costage. Alexi Costache is a freshman. He's

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had his moments, I think, during the year, but those

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moments were very human far between. During this run of

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four losses in the last five games, I think it's

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been He's now back to back to back to three

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string games with double digit points. He's shooting the three

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ball really well. He's the hype of kitchen shooter that

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plays really well with a guy like a J. And

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if you're going to get superstars to pro both five

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star talent to provo, I think you want guys like

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him to surround him, Guys who don't necessarily the amount

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of ball a tone, but are really good just off

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of that catch spot of three point shooters that sort

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of a thing, and I think like those into the

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guy that is there are guys that are looking to

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earn themselves minutes and a spot on next year's loster

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at YU and I think that lift probably starts with

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a Leski in a lot of ways, just in terms

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of what they can bring not only for this year's team,

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but for next year's teams. And again, I hate them

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moving on too much to acture because this is still

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a team that is going to the NAA Tournament. Despite

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all of its folks, guys, BYU is not a program.

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missing the NC DOUBLEA tournaments. You know, they still got

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six plad one wins. They still got a couple of

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wins over top twenty five teams that went over Clemson

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right now, and the non conference is aging extremely well

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right now for b YU. I mean there is a

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there are a lot of positive positives on this team's resume.

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There's no reason to believe that they shouldn't be involved

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in the NCUBLEA tournament. And once that ball of tips,

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if anybody's good, we all know how to manage the

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march worth So like, yes, there are some issues, Yes,

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there are some things in me deb fakes, especially defensively,

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but I think there a lot of them. Are some

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first world problems, and maybe some of those first world

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problems can get fakes come March, or at the very

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least you think or something out for next season and

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you kind of live and learn and progress for another day.

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Speaker 1: By us issues. Let me give you a stab coaches

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or players, main storylines that you've been keeping an eye on,

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that you've been intrigued by.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm loving the development of bear Bagmyer. I know

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it's a little bit looking through to go to the quarterback,

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but this is a kid that we just bring to

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talk to him the other day and just a little

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bit we've been able to watch him, very very very

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little bit. We've been able to watch him from where

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he's been around the around the weight room in the

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off season, we see at some basketball games. We've talked

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to him now a couple of times in interviews. I

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am amazed that this kid is only a sophomore. The

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sky really is the ceiling. I think for bark Bachmeier,

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I think he's developing exceptionally well. He was one of

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football last year. I think PFF might have had him

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number one among freshman quarterbacks, number one or number two

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last year among freshman quarterbacks. I think he needs to

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take another step forward in order for BYU to truly

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go where do they want to go? And there's really

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only one place that they can go, coming in second

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in the Big twelve a year ago. But I think

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he's absolutely capable of taking that next step up. Like

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he just he looks more polished, He looks like he's

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connecting very well with his receivers a little bit in springball.

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He looks like he's ready to take that next step.

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give him the next step in his quarterback development. I

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early on. It's it's super early in springball. Springball, you know,

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is worth the paper you write on it again at

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the time. But I really love in the development that

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I'm seeing out a bear bock Buyer on that in

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that practice facility right now?

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Speaker 1: Do you have favorites to step up in that wide

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receiver room right now? Have you have you looked at

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your projected wide receiver depth chart and rotation yet? I

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know it's early, but who are your early odds on

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favorites to become bear Bachmeyer, favorites to uh to slean

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Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody we've talked to in the program has talked

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about Jojo Phillips kind of the next step in his

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development and his evolution is to maybe it sounds like

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they maybe want him in a a maybe even a

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wide receiver one type role with the Parker sinkin departure

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now as well. So I'm keeping an eye on Jojo Phillips.

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I think Codey Hagen has truly the top end burner

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speed to fill that role. Uh. But I really like

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but some of the new past catchers in general. We

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saw what Cars and Ryan could do at the tight

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end spot. It sort of hasta make make tight ends

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and I think Walker Lions could be the next step

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in that for the Cougars as well. Rogers Celiapanga has

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also shown some really nice things in his brief time

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coming back home to play for b YU uh and

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then uh Uh. Kyler Casper the organ cancer I think

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has shown very well in limited time limited reps. He's

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still figuring figuring things out, getting in all the culture

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of the playbook and that kind of thing. But I

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that you you are kind of starting to see why

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but they you know, they saw some needs. They went

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and were very targeted with some of their needs. And

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guys to come in and play right away and potentially

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not even play some big minutes right away.

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Speaker 1: Final thing I got for you, Sean before I let

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you go, appreciate you hopping on for a little Cougar

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beat broant to you by Central Garage Utah, Central Garageutah

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dot com. How about them Lady Kougs and League Kamard

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year one guy. You look the men's team, you know,

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maybe not meeting the expectation, not meeting quota, but I

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feel like right now by women's is maybe meeting the quota.

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They could possibly maybe hopefully fingers crossed, maybe they can

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get into the NCAA tournament with a run in the

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Big twelve tournament. Maybe they got to They gotta win

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out right now. The ball that they're playing. Man, there

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are many analysts out there that are covering the Big

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twelve tournament saying BYU basketball is an NBA tournament team

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the way they're playing right now. Give us your feedback

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on that. Are they in your opinion? And how far

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do you think they get into Big twel tournament. They

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got a big game coming up next with TCU, maybe

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the best team in the Big twelve.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're playing the Bress basketball of the year right now,

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which is pretty amazing because dating back to probably the

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worst loss of the season at home to Cincinnati, they're

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on a five game winning streak since then that It

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was two wins over Utah, another win over another bubble

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team in Colorado. They're one of sixteen teams right now

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on the NCAA Women's Tournament bubble. According to ESPN dot

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com Charlie cream He Charlie listed them in the first

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or in the next four out. Excuse me, so just

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outside of the first four out when it comes to

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the ESPN bracketology of the group that was rated ahead

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of them, BYU had played they had y had played

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them eight times and we're seven and one against that group.

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They were seven and two against teams the other sixteen

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teams that were on the bubble that they've played against,

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so they're they're really good against double bubble teams. They're

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they're still technically winless in Quad one, which I think

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is their biggest knock against them. A top twenty five

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win on whatever Texas Tech has an aged super well

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or super favorably and even less favorably after a Texas

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in the Big twelve tournament, so that that's probably their

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biggest knock against them. But you talk about a team

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that's playing as best basketball come March, that team checks

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the boxes. You talk about a team that has legitimate

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star power, they definitely have that in Delaty Gift. And

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you talk about a team that that doesn't have a

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a through the back to bring back and breaking series

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of losses. I think this team does have that. I

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would expect them fully in the conversation this selection Sunday

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to be in that NCAA tournament field. If they're not there,

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if they happen to not make it, you know they're

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they're probably a play in tournament, a play in game

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team at this point for the n C Double A

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field and if they if they find themselves just off

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of that side of the bubble, I think this is

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the top four team to the WB I t which

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guarantees them home court advantage until those those semi finals

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in the Number two tournament postseason tournament. And women's basketball,

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which if you had told me that at the start

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of the year under a first year head coach and

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the first time I coached in Lee Tamard, I think

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any by you said probably should have and would have

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taken it.

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Speaker 1: Sean, best way to support you what you do, how

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, at Kissel dot com, Cansel dot com,

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As the ninemus of March Shift and over does.

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Speaker 1: Let's go Sean Walker, Ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much, Sean,

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appreciate you hopping off.

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Speaker 3: For a Little cougar Beat.

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Speaker 4: Thank guys, boom.

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