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Speaker 2: I've been good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the
Speaker 2: Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: In with me today is Dave? How did you get it?
Speaker 3: I don't they let me in today for some reason?
Speaker 3: Where you bid just standing outside the door waiting for
Speaker 3: someone to let me in.
Speaker 2: You didn't even have a song. Yeah, we'll work for nothing,
Speaker 2: that's it. Still you were for food, Come on, that's true.
Speaker 2: You were for you and Cody Coby's the one that
Speaker 2: works for credits and me I'm just here. I'm just
Speaker 2: here with the face for radio. Yeah. So here we
Speaker 2: are Thursday to Gay, two days closer to the Houston game,
Speaker 2: two days remove the debucle.
Speaker 3: And we're trying not to think about the past. We're
Speaker 3: trying to think about the future. I guess because but
Speaker 3: I haven't had the pass to talk to you. Although
Speaker 3: I'm going to bore the listeners because we talked about
Speaker 3: the past the last couple of days, at least yesterday. Uh,
Speaker 3: just real quick, would you think we'll take a quick
Speaker 3: breeze over your thoughts on the game against Kansas State. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, obviously the shooting was was just awful.
Speaker 3: I don't even help to describe it.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 3: It was tough to watch as a fan, frustrating. They
Speaker 3: had so many chances to kind of put the team,
Speaker 3: put the game away with a few more makes you know,
Speaker 3: it's one of those like House Arizona season going to
Speaker 3: end type games. You think like, oh, here we go,
Speaker 3: it's going to be you know, going two for twenty
Speaker 3: or whatever they were from outside, and you know, they
Speaker 3: just it was. It was frustrating, it was, but by
Speaker 3: the same token, and you're also thinking, well, it's been
Speaker 3: a good run. Yeah, it's still February. There's still time
Speaker 3: to you know, hopefully avoid those types of games, and
Speaker 3: there's still some more big ones coming. I mean, you
Speaker 3: can't get any bigger than the game coming up, and
Speaker 3: right you know, they'll be at home, they'll have a
Speaker 3: little bit of a chance to kind of rectify that
Speaker 3: that problem and hopefully Kayla will you know, regain his
Speaker 3: touch in McHale and you know, all will be forgotten.
Speaker 3: What does that sound for about optimistic that's good.
Speaker 2: They give me some odds to both you and Kobe
Speaker 2: who doesn't play. But Kobe uh and new Dave, what
Speaker 2: are the chods that Cobe that the Caleb will find
Speaker 2: his shot.
Speaker 5: I think he'll find a shot because he's a microwave
Speaker 5: as we call him. So he had an off game
Speaker 5: last game, so hopefully it gets hot today. I think
Speaker 5: he's been playing better at home than on the road.
Speaker 5: I could be wrong about that though. Okay, so you're
Speaker 5: thinking it's a good chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Man, Houston plays that tough defense too. They're gonna
Speaker 3: be They're gonna be in his face and I mean
Speaker 3: he's a marked man. They know that. They if you know,
Speaker 3: he makes what a couple of those from the other day,
Speaker 3: they win that game. So they were I'm sure they were,
Speaker 3: you know, targeting him and making sure that he did
Speaker 3: not get too many wide open looks.
Speaker 2: But they but they did get wide open looks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was the thing. They were a lot of them.
Speaker 2: It wasn't Kansas State's defense. They just missed. Same for Arizona.
Speaker 2: Arizona defense wasn't what we had seen in the past,
Speaker 2: in the recent past. Yeah, right, they were just missing
Speaker 2: shots too. I said yesterday jokingly, but serious, their guy
Speaker 2: Alkins or Atkins, there were thirty whatever, the big dude.
Speaker 2: I said, I hadn't seen the guy. I said, they
Speaker 2: would have killed Arizona had he hit some shots. I'm
Speaker 2: taking here's this guy that's keeping Arizona in the game
Speaker 2: because he could hit shots. And I said, I haven't
Speaker 2: seen a kuyd that shoot that bad.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well kill him, you know. And you were
Speaker 3: talking about the defense too, because I think maybe teams
Speaker 3: are kind of starting to figure out that little press
Speaker 3: of the Wildcats, you know, rolled out like three or
Speaker 3: four weeks ago that was really effective. But this last
Speaker 3: game it looked like they maybe have you know, eased up.
Speaker 2: And the thing is they moved him a little bit
Speaker 2: in half court again. And Arizona we all know, is
Speaker 2: that's the crypto. Yeah, and guess what happens in the tournament.
Speaker 2: Teams keeps go in the fifties, sixties. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 2: Arizona's a big, big problem.
Speaker 3: Well, that's what teams need to do against Arizona, because
Speaker 3: I know that yea, you know, the Arizona his advantages
Speaker 3: when they get up into the eighties, pretty much gonna
Speaker 3: win those games. Although I don't know if you guys
Speaker 3: caught any of that ASU game last night.
Speaker 2: It was fantastic, one hundreds. It was fantastic. It was
Speaker 2: like good horrible basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually turned it on, like going into the
Speaker 3: second overtime, like what is going on? It's still on.
Speaker 3: It was like a Morden three to one oh three.
Speaker 2: Did you watch the Houston Kansas game at ye? So
Speaker 2: there's no way Houston should have won the game.
Speaker 3: There was no way.
Speaker 2: They were dead in regulations, dead and overtime and they
Speaker 2: eventually won the game. It was like Houdini showed up
Speaker 2: and as you should have never lost that game, first
Speaker 2: regular season regular you know, regular play, overtime and double overtime,
Speaker 2: and they still lost.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just the way.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you see you have season like that he's having
Speaker 2: this season.
Speaker 3: And yeah, all eyes are on him, and it's interesting
Speaker 3: to see how things finished for him because it's been
Speaker 3: a rough I don't know, last few weeks.
Speaker 2: So you missed, I watched it.
Speaker 3: I watched a lot of it.
Speaker 2: Because I was just interested in they were playing really
Speaker 2: well comparatively so and he's not as he wasn't yesterday.
Speaker 2: He wasn't animated. He wasn't going crazy. He was in
Speaker 2: his black you know, quarters zip or whatever, and he
Speaker 2: looked fine. It was like he was not Maybe and
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe he doesn't I don't want them
Speaker 2: all the time. Maybe it is just for Arizona where
Speaker 2: he kind of goes.
Speaker 3: But yeah, maybe he's kind of resolved the fact that
Speaker 3: this could be the end too. And that's it. Checking
Speaker 3: in with his big brother, that's it, Dave.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's probably because I'm sure that that
Speaker 2: he's been told, you know, come a tone of down
Speaker 2: and guess what dig this next month off because because
Speaker 2: it may not be another month.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's not who knows. I mean, he's
Speaker 3: had chances. He got to tournament kind of, you know
Speaker 3: with some of these playing games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, we'll see what happens with them. They
Speaker 2: play obviously March fourth, Tuesday. I think it is here
Speaker 2: in Michale. That should be fun with him coming down. Uh,
Speaker 2: and then we have Saturday's game. You read it. You
Speaker 2: just pointed something out to me that I hadn't seen yet.
Speaker 2: A story on Kelvin Sampson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a good piece on on on Samson
Speaker 3: on I guess it's SI dot Com the Houston and
Speaker 3: it was, you know, very He's very complimentary of the
Speaker 3: u of A and his time, especially in his you know,
Speaker 3: his time with Washington State when he would come down here,
Speaker 3: he you know, had a good relationship with Loot and
Speaker 3: he really enjoyed Bobby and just enjoyed he under you know,
Speaker 3: he was, you know, just watching this Wildcat program blossom
Speaker 3: those years too. I mean they were getting good and
Speaker 3: they were good, and then they really got good during
Speaker 3: his time. And I don't did he ever beat him?
Speaker 3: And they didn't.
Speaker 2: They have a crazy streak. It was like thirty nine
Speaker 2: forty in a row. In fact, I talked to a
Speaker 2: mathematician and desk him, how does that happen? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: he said, he gave me some weird numbers, like he doesn't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you have to win a game in there somewhere. And
Speaker 2: he's had a couple wins, right, didn't he? When he
Speaker 2: was at Oklahoma, didn't they knock off the Wildcats? I
Speaker 2: can't remember if they played back. I don't really, I
Speaker 2: don't know that. Maybe it wasn't maybe it wasn't him,
Speaker 2: but he had a you know here, Dave, you know,
Speaker 2: here's this guy who didn't have a lot of success
Speaker 2: against Arizona. And I said this before we started the show,
Speaker 2: that in my mind, and we try to get try
Speaker 2: to get him on Yes three and today, but he
Speaker 2: can't because they're practicing the time we were on the air,
Speaker 2: so he couldn't it. But I was telling you that,
Speaker 2: in my mind, he's probably the most popular ex former
Speaker 2: opponent coach in my time here because you know, he's
Speaker 2: kind of part of the Native American I think he's
Speaker 2: got some Native American and and and people here. He
Speaker 2: was likable, you know, he's likable, you know, and he
Speaker 2: brought a bad Washington State team and you're in the
Speaker 2: Pac twelve tournament at ten tournament at the time. People
Speaker 2: kind of embraced him and cheered him.
Speaker 3: He had a good personality too, you know, when he
Speaker 3: would talk to media and talk on TV. You know, again,
Speaker 3: he was he was well mannered. I don't know how
Speaker 3: to put it. You know, he was just you just
Speaker 3: didn't you know, you didn't dislike him like you do
Speaker 3: other coaches who just maybe have that's a sneer to
Speaker 3: themselves or a personality exactly. He's the opposite of Henry
Speaker 3: Bibby or just about every other coach in that period.
Speaker 3: I mean, there are some great classic coaches at the beginning,
Speaker 3: and then he was kind of you know, as Loot
Speaker 3: was coming in. You know, there was the old school
Speaker 3: guys Marv Harshman and Ralph Miller and George Traveling. He
Speaker 3: was kind of did he replaced Rattling. He was kind
Speaker 3: of in period, you know a little bit after Raveling.
Speaker 3: But there was that whole generation that lou was kind
Speaker 3: of part of. And then this next generation came in
Speaker 3: and he was you know, they would always finish in
Speaker 3: you know, fourth or they've never finished any higher. They'd
Speaker 3: always kind of be blocked by Arizona, you set, Washing
Speaker 3: Washing State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, and they and they were never Yeah. And
Speaker 2: it's a place, like I've said before, like Mexico, Mexico State,
Speaker 2: all out of states where you go and you better
Speaker 2: hope you do really well. You're gonna get fired. It's
Speaker 2: a place to get fired. But you get your feet wet,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe you find magic in the ball and you go.
Speaker 3: And he did.
Speaker 2: He was successful enough to get out of there to
Speaker 2: go to Oklahoma and then later Indiana. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 2: get a little trouble.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but you know, and then he kind of
Speaker 3: kind of remited. It was hidden away in Houston for
Speaker 3: a few years. Well, he was the NBA. He went
Speaker 3: to the Rockets year with the Ruggets, but even when
Speaker 3: he got to college was kind of like, oh, he's
Speaker 3: the next thing, you know. You know, they're in the
Speaker 3: top five, you know, beating up people.
Speaker 2: And then Arizona, you know, face them two three years
Speaker 2: ago and got roughed up and guess what's going to
Speaker 2: happen again Saturday. His same style hasn't changed. Yeah, it's rough,
Speaker 2: and you were talking about the defense. I delibit possessions.
Speaker 2: They'd like to play it slower, they'd like to be physical,
Speaker 2: and we'll see if Arizona can find that out again
Speaker 2: and find themselves again.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean it's going to be one of those marquee
Speaker 3: games we've had, you know, the Duke Games in the
Speaker 3: Iowa States and things like that, and this is going
Speaker 3: to be right up there with that national TV again,
Speaker 3: you know, middle of the day on a Saturday.
Speaker 2: Yet beat that. We got about five six minutes. Let
Speaker 2: me tell you the sequence here. We have Steve Quis,
Speaker 2: former Arizona sportscaster.
Speaker 3: I guess he was a guy.
Speaker 2: He was at nine or thirteen, thirteen thirteen in your
Speaker 2: time here. He's in San Diego now doing college sports
Speaker 2: for various ESPN and some of those guys. He'll be
Speaker 2: on at three seventeen, and then we're going to have
Speaker 2: Javier Morales from All Sports Tucson talking about the local
Speaker 2: playoffs going on today or this week, and the rest
Speaker 2: of the weeks were soccer in those type of sports
Speaker 2: and basketball boys and girls. So we'll get to that
Speaker 2: was it gonna talk about with with Kelvin. So we
Speaker 2: ended up in Houston, YadA, YadA. Uh, the same same guy,
Speaker 2: same player, Uh, same players, and they should have gone
Speaker 2: to the final four last year. They did two years,
Speaker 2: but their main guy got hurt. You remember, he got.
Speaker 3: Right in that Sweet guard, Sweet sixteen or the Elite.
Speaker 2: Eight, one of those as I picked him to win,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking they're done, they're done, and he was fantastic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they got beat So.
Speaker 2: But there was something else I was gonna say, So
Speaker 2: we'll see, we'll see what he says on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good. It really shows just the great depth
Speaker 3: of the Big twelve. I think we all kind of
Speaker 3: knew that coming in. You know, you look down the
Speaker 3: line and there's teams, you know, even like you know,
Speaker 3: b YU, teams that really haven't had great seasons, but
Speaker 3: they're like twelve in the conference. It's just hard to
Speaker 3: believe sometimes that you know, the U of A has
Speaker 3: kind of jumped over everybody and kind of you know,
Speaker 3: sitting pretty good at number two at this point.
Speaker 2: So you were here a little bit longer than me.
Speaker 2: You got about eighty three is out here in eighty seven.
Speaker 2: What are the big games you remember that you know
Speaker 2: it came through here other than teams not named Duke.
Speaker 2: You know, Duke came here a couple of times, and
Speaker 2: those were the marquee games. But the games that you
Speaker 2: know had some buzz to them.
Speaker 3: Boy, Yeah, when you're trying to think of some of
Speaker 3: the moments, I mean, when Shawn Elliott broke the Pac
Speaker 3: twelve Pac ten scoring record, that was a big game.
Speaker 3: UCLA was here when they win Arizona loss to cal
Speaker 3: with the Jason Kidd Laman Murray shot, that was a
Speaker 3: big game. The best thing that was going for a
Speaker 3: number of years, probably ten years, was that Fiesta Bowl Classic. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we had right around New Year's in between Christmas and
Speaker 3: New year I was brought in. You know nowadays that
Speaker 3: would never happen, but you bring in, you know, three
Speaker 3: teams that were in the top twenty usually yeah, and
Speaker 3: one of those teams was going to lose twice and
Speaker 3: they were That's kind of what kind of killed it
Speaker 3: is it that I don't want to come to Deuson
Speaker 3: to lose to Well, I.
Speaker 2: Guess Sean played in it right, maybe a time or two,
Speaker 2: I think because Lut's final one of his final times
Speaker 2: was Roz replaced him. Remember they played Mississippi State. I
Speaker 2: want to say Bobby was very ill at the time
Speaker 2: and he left the team for a little bit and
Speaker 2: they lost. The only game they ever lost in the
Speaker 2: tournament was Roz's game.
Speaker 3: I wanted to say. One of the greatest was the
Speaker 3: year that was a duke Florida Michigan State. I mean yeah,
Speaker 3: it was like I remember I went to the banquet
Speaker 3: and it was hilarious because there was like Judd Heath
Speaker 3: coach who was he was you know, he was Magic
Speaker 3: Johnson's college coach and he was just you know, your
Speaker 3: perfect speaker, and that kind of a crowd and then
Speaker 3: Norm Sloan was the coach at Florida who used to
Speaker 3: wear these crazy like Bobby Knight check her jackets. He
Speaker 3: was there, and I think it was coach k Maybe
Speaker 3: I'm wrong. People who were there might want to chime
Speaker 3: in on that one, but it was one of those classics.
Speaker 3: I can't believe these teams are all and they all
Speaker 3: stay at Vintana Canyon and so it was one of
Speaker 3: those great Christmas tournaments that it doesn't happen anymore.
Speaker 2: I remember because we'd go we have the media, they
Speaker 2: would allow the media there, Yeah, for the party, kind
Speaker 2: of like you know, in between the media sessions and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we go up. I mean, those are those
Speaker 3: are great moments. Obviously, there were so many, you know,
Speaker 3: the Duke games that were here that were just kind
Speaker 3: of one off the UNLV games here. Remember when he
Speaker 3: because at Kagun. We had some you know, we had
Speaker 3: the ABC games where Vital was here and yeah, Tarcany
Speaker 3: and I mean it was just a great, unbelievable atmosphere was.
Speaker 2: I don't remember though, those those games. I know I
Speaker 2: went up to the Vegas game in eighty nine, eighty nine,
Speaker 2: and then they later lost to them in eighty nine.
Speaker 3: I think it was the chance. It might have been
Speaker 3: eighty seven or eighty eight season. Maybe maybe January non
Speaker 3: conference game or December non conference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at the end of the end of the stuff,
Speaker 2: you know, they had the North Carolina game. Loots one
Speaker 2: of his last hurrahs and it was a bad, bad
Speaker 2: one of his first worst games here ever. Marcus Williams
Speaker 2: was playing at the time. Chase I think was here,
Speaker 2: but Michigan State came through a defending champ I think,
Speaker 2: and Yukon came through here. Kansas came through some of
Speaker 2: those Syracuse Syracuse.
Speaker 3: Remember, and you know they always had that reck mutation
Speaker 3: of losing that game right after right before before Christmas,
Speaker 3: they were in takeoff. They lose that December twenty third game.
Speaker 2: All well, your year, did you what you want with me?
Speaker 2: When I had friends Officilla on, I don't know. So
Speaker 2: he talked about he says, I said, you're the one
Speaker 2: of the guys that beat well, one of the few
Speaker 2: guys that beat loud at home. He says, yeah, we
Speaker 2: figured that we can go in. That team was already
Speaker 2: delivered to get the hell out of town. And it was.
Speaker 3: It was one of those games. Well, yeah, the students
Speaker 3: were out there and it was always it was usually
Speaker 3: a pretty good matchup. I mean, that was the game
Speaker 3: where gosh, get me give me my almanac out here.
Speaker 3: It was the Providence game where the kids scored forty something.
Speaker 2: Oh you were talking about East Tennis.
Speaker 3: No, no, it was the December game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Anyway, they had those moments. I remember Syracuse came in
Speaker 3: because Beheim was here, Jim Calhoun with Yukon I think
Speaker 3: was around that time of the calendar, you know, and
Speaker 3: they were great, you know, made for TV moments.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, that's and that's what made Tucson and
Speaker 2: so because and look great because they didn't shy away
Speaker 2: from that stuff. Oh no, that was the best tim
Speaker 2: He's in that same category. Now let's let's go. Let's
Speaker 2: play them and then be twelve brings them to you. Well,
Speaker 2: plus he's and they just set something up with dude. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's gonna be Duke.
Speaker 3: UCA.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Okay, we gotta go. We're gonna get a
Speaker 2: hold of Steve Quiz on the other side.
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Speaker 1: Tucson Sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I in the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty today.
Speaker 3: My guest host is Dave.
Speaker 2: Silver and one of his former competitors friends buddies, is
Speaker 2: on the other side, Steve Quist out of San Diego,
Speaker 2: waiting at what five eleven?
Speaker 10: Sure, I'll go with that. How about six?
Speaker 3: Oh you were by the same size? No wait to sing? Ever, mind?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 10: Got intern too? I was Dave's intern for a while.
Speaker 2: Oh really, what'd you learn?
Speaker 3: Tell me?
Speaker 10: I'm where I'm at today because of the day.
Speaker 2: The last time we were on, somebody called him and
Speaker 2: he was like, put him in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: I remembered Hall of Fame. We were telling you you
Speaker 2: were somebody we went to go visit you guys at
Speaker 2: the station and you were great to me. Remember I
Speaker 2: read it on this ende.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm very proud of I'm very proud of my interns.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're at the top of the list. But
Speaker 3: there were a number of guys and women that that
Speaker 3: went on. There's one of my you know, there's we
Speaker 3: had this woman near the end of my time there
Speaker 3: that was, uh, it's just in sports and just hanging out.
Speaker 3: She was an athlete and things like that. And she
Speaker 3: wound up going to Denver becoming a big time weather person.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, I got to look up her name again.
Speaker 3: I can remember her so well. I think she might
Speaker 3: be in d C. I mean, she's moved up into
Speaker 3: some major market territory and she was my little old
Speaker 3: sports intern back in the day. So it's fun to have.
Speaker 3: That's awesome, cool, cool.
Speaker 2: What are you up to?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 10: I am sitting at a hotel in driving hurricane rainstorm
Speaker 10: in southern California, getting ready tonight to call at eight
Speaker 10: o'clock here, which is a late game Big West battle.
Speaker 10: You see Santa Barbara and you see Irvine on ESPN
Speaker 10: US it's got done.
Speaker 2: Yeah is the who's the coach of Santa Barbara? Is
Speaker 2: it Pastornax still or not?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Joe, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: It's pretty intense. I was just over at there shoot
Speaker 10: around in practice. So well, he got a couple of
Speaker 10: guys on their staff too that are Arizona guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well he is a Sean Miller, a protege.
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, he's he was very intense this morning, so yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 10: he's got a fairly decent team.
Speaker 2: So well, he was prety good coach. I mean, they
Speaker 2: play and respect him a lot, so they play hard
Speaker 2: for him. He's done well since he left Arizona.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he doesn't have a losing season yet. And I
Speaker 10: think maybe this is year five, and I know four
Speaker 10: of the five have been twenty or more wins. Yeah,
Speaker 10: you know, go to the NCAA Tournament a couple of
Speaker 10: years ago with a twenty seven win team, which was
Speaker 10: the most Santa Barbara's ever had in one season.
Speaker 2: Right, right, right, right, So what are your thoughts on
Speaker 2: on your on the season so far. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: how many games you've done, but you have probably a
Speaker 2: gauge of the West coast stuff.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I probably don't. Almost thirty right now, and you know,
Speaker 10: out west, I think the four best teams right now,
Speaker 10: in no particular order, but would be Arizona, New Mexico,
Speaker 10: Saint Mary's and you see San Diego. If you can
Speaker 10: believe that, really those four I think, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Stevel Diego, Steve no, no.
Speaker 10: No, no, no no, he's University of San Diego, the
Speaker 10: Catholic school and there last time I checked, they were
Speaker 10: four and twenty two.
Speaker 2: Wait a second, he is, So he's struggling. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so yeah, thank you.
Speaker 10: So you're Division one eligible. You see San Diego?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, I didn't. I didn't. I thought that
Speaker 2: was one and the same.
Speaker 10: But no, no, no, this is the Big West.
Speaker 3: They're in the Big West. Who's the coach, a guy named.
Speaker 10: Eric ol And he's been there through the Division two
Speaker 10: era when they were like thirty and two. Every year.
Speaker 10: He's a young guy, and I don't know if we'll
Speaker 10: be able to keep him this year in the Big West,
Speaker 10: but after this year. But he's he's really good. He's
Speaker 10: got a good staff, and they got really good players.
Speaker 10: You guys would appreciate it. They're winning that they're twenty
Speaker 10: and four. There are are their net rankings like forty eight,
Speaker 10: and they've got six Division two transfers. I mean, it's
Speaker 10: the most remarkable thing I've ever seen. And three of
Speaker 10: those six guys lead the nation in a category, so
Speaker 10: whether it's steals, getting the free throw line, or making
Speaker 10: three so it's it's remarkable how good they've been.
Speaker 3: So so they could get to the tournament. They'll be
Speaker 3: one of those like twelve seeds that will give somebody,
Speaker 3: you know, head maybe if they can are they.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and yeah, we were it's funny you say that.
Speaker 10: We were doing the game on ESPNU on Saturday night.
Speaker 10: We had Lenardi, you know, we were talking Lonardi and
Speaker 10: it was twelve seed and then I pulled up Lonardi
Speaker 10: five and the five seeds were Arizona, Cla, Memphis, and Michigan.
Speaker 10: So like, oh, yeah, they could beat any one of
Speaker 10: any one of those teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, it's funny. You mentioned New Mexico. And you get
Speaker 2: to see a lot of games because that's what you do, obviously,
Speaker 2: and they come to you, yeah, or you go to them.
Speaker 2: But a lot of people who watch college basketball, they
Speaker 2: just have their eyes on the team. They watch, right.
Speaker 2: People who watch Arizona watch Arizona. They don't, Hey, we're playing.
Speaker 2: We're good enough to get to the Final four because
Speaker 2: the way we're playing, not realizing there's other people driving Lamborghinis.
Speaker 10: Yeah no, I mean, and New Mexico's wan.
Speaker 3: Of them, and they look at Auburn.
Speaker 2: And I said before before before you say that, I
Speaker 2: say that because I was reading some threads and you
Speaker 2: probably know Jeff Grammar. He covers New Mexico and and people,
Speaker 2: the fans there go bonkers and they love basketball, but
Speaker 2: they think they invented it, and they're twenty one and four,
Speaker 2: twenty and four whatever, and this is their year. Okay,
Speaker 2: two years ago or last year was your year. And
Speaker 2: then you lose the first round of Clemson you know, simberdown, simmerdown.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it's a I mean yeah, it's a crapshoot.
Speaker 10: And I remember last year because they were at that
Speaker 10: same regional.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I.
Speaker 10: Remember thinking, oh, yeah, this is this team's gonna win
Speaker 10: and uh and they didn't. But you know, they're a
Speaker 10: year older, and they got Donovan Dan who you know,
Speaker 10: seems to be one of the like an All American
Speaker 10: point guard who I covered in high school Planet Centennial
Speaker 10: alongside you know Boswell and Jared McCain and those guys,
Speaker 10: and he might have been the best of all of them,
Speaker 10: but he was just a little undersized. So he goes
Speaker 10: to New Mexico and with Patino coming in that Rabbit
Speaker 10: fan base, and they also lost a couple of guys,
Speaker 10: like I think they lost Navii burn and another big
Speaker 10: guy in the portal top Yeah, and they just yeah,
Speaker 10: exactly top of you're right, and they just they just
Speaker 10: kind of rebuild. So every time I go into tow
Speaker 10: a Mexico game. It reminds me of McHale Center in
Speaker 10: you know, nineteen ninety one or ninety two, in the
Speaker 10: or even late eighties when I started at the University
Speaker 10: of Arizona. It's got that vibe and I always smiled
Speaker 10: big time because I you know, it's like going back
Speaker 10: in the way back regime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the people that go to the game still
Speaker 2: have the same hairstyle.
Speaker 4: Well they are.
Speaker 10: They are a little bit nuts there. Yeah, they'll get
Speaker 10: on you quite a bit. The only place that the
Speaker 10: yell at the announcer, but you know, it is what
Speaker 10: it is.
Speaker 3: That's where where Luke would never go back because he
Speaker 3: thought he got cheated out of a call at the
Speaker 3: end of it was.
Speaker 7: Call.
Speaker 2: He never went back when the guy around before.
Speaker 3: That's right, yeah, hey what about Yeah?
Speaker 10: Mouse Stubing was the like an Angels coach. As you
Speaker 10: do a.
Speaker 3: Lot of high school games out in southern California, give
Speaker 3: us some names of people maybe we want to keep
Speaker 3: an eye on, or who the U of A Is
Speaker 3: looking at. Obviously Tommy, Well so, the.
Speaker 10: Guy I've seen in the last two years is the
Speaker 10: Brandon Burry's or Braiden Burgy. I think it's Braidon Bury's.
Speaker 10: He's a five star guy that I know. This time
Speaker 10: last year, right as the playoffs started, Uh, Tommy Lloyd
Speaker 10: took a private plane out of Tucson and went and
Speaker 10: flew and watched his game and then turned around and
Speaker 10: flew back. He's a really good guard and he was
Speaker 10: playing in that championship game last year opposite Harvard Westley.
Speaker 10: Harvard Westlake has Nick Hamenya, who was in the mix
Speaker 10: to go to Arizona but wound up signing with Duke.
Speaker 10: And I remember earlier this year when I did a
Speaker 10: couple of those ESPN Plus games for for Arizona, especially
Speaker 10: leading up to like Old Dominion, I know Tommy said
Speaker 10: that Nick probably won't come because of us signing, that
Speaker 10: the kid out of New Hampshire that's got Aerostatti or
Speaker 10: whatever that his name, probably Nick wouldn't come because of that,
Speaker 10: and he and he didn't. But he's pretty good. But
Speaker 10: Burry's is the one I think Arizona would if they
Speaker 10: could find a way to get him, and last check
Speaker 10: he was not committed. He's probably one of the one
Speaker 10: of the best.
Speaker 2: Ones out here right now, did you have a chance
Speaker 2: for how you have a chance to see Gilbert's son.
Speaker 10: You know what the funny thing is, I did. He
Speaker 10: was going up against a UC San Diego recruit who's
Speaker 10: actually out of Prescott up there in I don't know
Speaker 10: if it's Shadow mount I don't thin it's Shadow Mountain.
Speaker 10: It might be Prescott High School. But there's a kid
Speaker 10: named Uriah Tendant who was a McDonald's All American nominee.
Speaker 10: He didn't make the team, obviously, but he signed with Arizona,
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, with UC San Diego, and over the Christmas
Speaker 10: break he scored in overtime fifty four points, and then
Speaker 10: Arenas's kid scored fifty six points and the UCSD guys
Speaker 10: team one out of Arizona at one of those tournaments.
Speaker 10: I think it was the Damien Tournament as a matter
Speaker 10: of fact, which is, you know, a huge, huge tournament
Speaker 10: over over Christmas break. So that was kind of cool
Speaker 10: to see. But from what I've seen, I mean, like
Speaker 10: Arenas is he's the one and done. I mean he's
Speaker 10: already he'd already scored twenty a night in the G
Speaker 10: League for goodness out. Yeah, so he'll play one year,
Speaker 10: He's going to USC and then he'll be out and.
Speaker 2: If yeah, if preferred him either be quiet Gilbert or
Speaker 2: go to class.
Speaker 10: Maybe that's right, Yeah, yeah right, but yeah, he's really good.
Speaker 10: And then I so hopefully hopefully Arizona can get Burriyes,
Speaker 10: for the Wildcap fans out there listening, yeah, I think
Speaker 10: he's a stud.
Speaker 2: They're in for a couple. I think he's one. And
Speaker 2: the kid from Phoenix to pay Out or whatever his
Speaker 2: name is, the big Yeah, yeah, Pete, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Who.
Speaker 10: As a matter of fact, I saw him. It was
Speaker 10: weird I was doing when I was doing the volleyball
Speaker 10: for Arizona ESPN. Plus he was there along with Bryce
Speaker 10: James and they were there on the recruiting trip. It
Speaker 10: was the night that Duke was in town and I
Speaker 10: was I don't know if I want to shoot around
Speaker 10: or if we had just volleyball practice or something, but
Speaker 10: I bumped into Bryce James and I was like, oh,
Speaker 10: you're you're here for. What are you here for? And
Speaker 10: they were like, yeah, recruiting visit. And then I saw
Speaker 10: him in co Opete later that night. I think there
Speaker 10: was unofficial visits, but yeah, we s they landed one
Speaker 10: of the two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see what happens with that? So what's on
Speaker 2: your schedule tonight? Are you going to be doing anything postseason?
Speaker 2: I don't know yet.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's kind of early, so I don't know. I
Speaker 10: usually have the high school tournament, which bumps up against
Speaker 10: the first week at the NCAA tournament. I actually liked
Speaker 10: taking that rather than actually, I'm sorry, it doesn't bump
Speaker 10: up with the first round of the NCAA tournament. Bumps
Speaker 10: up with the like all the you know when the
Speaker 10: Pac twelve Tournament was the Big twelve tournament.
Speaker 3: It's that kind of that kind of week.
Speaker 10: So I actually liked doing that because that's like eight
Speaker 10: games in one week. It's a pretty big payday. And
Speaker 10: I mean all those kids are going someplace else. I
Speaker 10: mean I mentioned all of them a moment ago, so
Speaker 10: it's it's kind of fun. And that was, you know,
Speaker 10: years ago, I did Aaron, you know, Aaron Gordon, Stanley Johnson,
Speaker 10: and you know, almost everybody who's come out of California's
Speaker 10: played in those championship games, and it's it's pretty cool
Speaker 10: to look back and see, you know, all those guys.
Speaker 2: What was your last year here covering in Arizona.
Speaker 10: Covering Arizona was two thousand. Just oh really, I left, yeah,
Speaker 10: two thousand, two thousand. I left in August of two thousand.
Speaker 10: So we're just getting off the Holiday Bowl win, and
Speaker 10: just prior to it would have been going into the
Speaker 10: basketball season in two thousand and one where they played
Speaker 10: Duke is the championship. Yeah, yeah, okay, Richard Williams and
Speaker 10: or Jefferson and yeah.
Speaker 2: So I was asking Dave and because you know we've
Speaker 2: been here, he was at eighty three, I was eighty seven.
Speaker 2: Some of the bigger games that came through McHale because
Speaker 2: Sata he is a big one with Houston. What do
Speaker 2: you remember about those big games? Which ones?
Speaker 3: I mean Duke?
Speaker 10: I mean you know that that first one the first
Speaker 10: time around, right with Christian Laitner that Arizona wound up winning.
Speaker 10: I got a nice picture of me with Dick by Town,
Speaker 10: who knew we work together for twelve years, although I've
Speaker 10: never I've never met the guy in twelve years working
Speaker 10: for ESPN now, But I love that game. And then
Speaker 10: you know, every single battle against UCLA was huge.
Speaker 2: You know what we didn't talk about was the shack.
Speaker 2: The shack came down.
Speaker 3: Here during the Shack year.
Speaker 10: Yes I was, but you know what I was doing.
Speaker 10: I was working with Brian Jefferies on nine tea and
Speaker 10: I was doing baseball. We were up playing uh Arizona
Speaker 10: State when Shaq came in, So I was doing the
Speaker 10: game on nine forty while Brian was back doing the
Speaker 10: basketball game. So I didn't get a chance to see.
Speaker 3: That year like the Shack Sean Sucks battles McHale And
Speaker 3: the next year they went to l s U and
Speaker 3: got destroyed.
Speaker 2: Thought it might have been reversed or one of those
Speaker 2: it was like reversed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they got killed.
Speaker 2: That was I mentioned this a couple of days ago
Speaker 2: when when Rooks played really well against them, played kind
Speaker 2: of I'll played him and Rooks went to him.
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter. I'm still in the number.
Speaker 7: One that I was.
Speaker 10: Actually the one that stands out I was doing pre
Speaker 10: and postgame show for I think I had just graduated,
Speaker 10: was the one where Fisher brought the Fab five in,
Speaker 10: Oh the four four clid Reeves you know, yeah, and
Speaker 10: clid Reeves had like forty yeah he had forty three.
Speaker 3: I think forty two four three.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean that one, that one stood out, But
Speaker 10: I mean I was on the road along with Dave
Speaker 10: the entire all six games of the ninety seven National
Speaker 10: Championship Game. Yeah, so just thinking, oh my god, are
Speaker 10: we're going to win this one? And yeah, somehow, somehow
Speaker 10: Charleston and South Alabama.
Speaker 2: And yeah, to shut down to Birmingham because of you guys.
Speaker 3: You TV's first and only time have ever been to Birmingham?
Speaker 3: Oh have you been there other times?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 10: So my son, you know, who's a Navy pilots, he's
Speaker 10: training in Pensacola, So he always zips up to uh
Speaker 10: Birmingham Airport and back down. That's kind of where they
Speaker 10: come out of when they go out of Pensacola. They
Speaker 10: go up that route and touch and do touch and
Speaker 10: goes and come back. So so I've been there to
Speaker 10: watch him a couple of times.
Speaker 2: So you are you finally done with Tucson? You know,
Speaker 2: your your all, your money came here and you lived.
Speaker 3: Here, and I'm so far about it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, if anybody wants to call and get me back
Speaker 10: down there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, my real estate, yeah you sold your house right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and your kids are gone. My kids came to school here.
Speaker 10: Gone, parents are still up there, and so I'll be
Speaker 10: back quite a bit. So yeah, okay, I have an
Speaker 10: offer to do softball in a couple of weeks, but
Speaker 10: I couldn't. I couldn't make it work because I've got
Speaker 10: a couple of ESPN games. So yeah, I wish I could.
Speaker 3: My number if they wanted to somebody else.
Speaker 2: Dave Silver, Yeah, I find that guy. He's also the radio.
Speaker 2: You get a whole bit of I will pay you.
Speaker 3: Could be your backup.
Speaker 10: There you go any time man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well, well mister Quis will see you soon. Maybe, yes,
Speaker 2: I hope. So are you going to be Are you
Speaker 2: gonna be in Vegas for any of the postseason tournaments?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 10: I think I think that's when the state tournament is.
Speaker 3: Well that's what you said, That's what you said.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, but I'll be uh, I'll be.
Speaker 3: I will be watching.
Speaker 10: Unless I get a sign one. Maybe I'll get a
Speaker 10: sign one by If I get a sign one, it
Speaker 10: will be like the WCC or or actually had an
Speaker 10: offer to do WCC, but I actually have another couple
Speaker 10: of games I want to do, including an NBA game,
Speaker 10: so I had to turn it down.
Speaker 2: By the way, said you follow So Lavin's not doing well.
Speaker 3: It's a success.
Speaker 10: Get paid a lot of money, brother paid a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well the success of the you see San Diego,
Speaker 2: is that going to hurt him?
Speaker 3: If they can do it, why not him? Yeah?
Speaker 10: I mean yeah, I mean he's in like his third year.
Speaker 10: He's making I think like nine to seventy five, but
Speaker 10: and his AD is gone, so it's a new athletic
Speaker 10: director the guy who hired him. But I don't I mean,
Speaker 10: you know, those those programs sometimes can't afford to buy
Speaker 10: guys out, So yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I mean, he he hasn't done well in any one
Speaker 10: of the three years yet, and and quite frankly, they're
Speaker 10: not even really on the radar. I mean, every time
Speaker 10: I come back home after doing a UCSD game, like
Speaker 10: the top two stories are always Aztecs and UCSD, and
Speaker 10: and they don't even really give the score for USD anymore, right,
Speaker 10: which is kind of sad. So well, I hope he's
Speaker 10: a nice guy.
Speaker 3: We couple times I really like him. Four and twenty two.
Speaker 3: That's that's yuah.
Speaker 2: He was a frequent guest of mind when he was
Speaker 2: not coaching, uh, because he came from the loot Camp's
Speaker 2: a really good guy.
Speaker 10: Like you said, no he is. I mean he's as
Speaker 10: nice as like.
Speaker 3: He invited me to the Fox.
Speaker 10: Duties a couple of times we did some WCC games together.
Speaker 10: I really root for him, but it's if that's a
Speaker 10: hard place, you know, and and I'd like to see
Speaker 10: him at least make it through until Gonzag exits, right,
Speaker 10: and then it'll be you know, then it'll be just
Speaker 10: them against Saint Mary's and you have a chance to
Speaker 10: finish in the top three. You know, most of the
Speaker 10: time they've been battling. When Byu was in there, it
Speaker 10: was really hard to crack the top, you know, four
Speaker 10: or five, especially with the emergence of like San Francisco,
Speaker 10: who's another really good bubble team as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, Steve, stay out of trouble, have fun tonight, all
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Ravera on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
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Speaker 2: He Welcome back to I the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave Silver. That
Speaker 2: was a little fun going back with Steve Quiz. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we had some good years together. He was always kind
Speaker 2: of around as a young young guy. And then like
Speaker 2: he talked about, you know, interning with us at Channel nine,
Speaker 2: and then he went off to uh KOLD and eventually
Speaker 2: to San Diego, and he's he's just he's had a
Speaker 2: lot of fun experiences I think in his career. You know,
Speaker 2: he's probably he worked at one of the local stations
Speaker 2: in San Diego as well as a he's the weekend guy.
Speaker 2: But he was one of the one of the main
Speaker 2: anchors in sports there and then he branched off into
Speaker 2: the padres and did some pre game and postgame show.
Speaker 3: So it's he's doing the G League now, doing them
Speaker 3: some G League games which yeah, played like an ocean
Speaker 3: side or some places or some some team plays in
Speaker 3: in between San Diego and La s Yeah, and that's
Speaker 3: where he lives.
Speaker 2: Doing really well. So was he the backup to McCabe
Speaker 2: at the time. Who's thirteen guy?
Speaker 3: He was not for he was he was after.
Speaker 2: McCabe, Tom Leander, he was with McCabe, Yeah, and then Tom.
Speaker 2: There's been so many at thirteen. There's been a lot
Speaker 2: of people, Yeah, especially during that time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were we I mean we went through a few,
Speaker 3: you know, weekend people over over the years and and
Speaker 3: I'm trying to just remember exactly where he fit into that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, he was always found work. He
Speaker 3: was and he's really good, he's really talented, he's got
Speaker 3: he's got his you know, his son he was you know,
Speaker 3: talked about his son there briefly, who graduated from the
Speaker 3: U of A. I want to say, maybe three or
Speaker 3: four years ago, went into the Navy. He's going to
Speaker 3: be a pilot. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I think when he put a picture
Speaker 2: of his son when he was like two or three,
Speaker 2: he looked exactly like yeah, like his dad. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was like mini me, like lo exactly. You know, at
Speaker 2: two years old, he looked like he was thirty. Now
Speaker 2: he's I mean, he's a you know that the pilot mustache.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's great. It's great to see he was.
Speaker 3: The college I worked for when I was wrapping things up,
Speaker 3: was College of Social Behavioral Sciences, which had his son's
Speaker 3: major I believe was a college of Again in our college,
Speaker 3: it was the political science major. Yeah, so its School
Speaker 3: of Governments and Public Policy. Oh, that's what my son
Speaker 3: got a ju in. Yeah, what the hell do you
Speaker 3: do with that? After that?
Speaker 2: What did he do with my son? My son or
Speaker 2: his son?
Speaker 3: My son?
Speaker 2: My son with a Rutgers and he got a degree,
Speaker 2: and he was learning Mandarin. So he went to China
Speaker 2: and during then COVID hit and changed the world. So
Speaker 2: now he's a communications major at the Oh no, he's
Speaker 2: in communications at the University of Maryland.
Speaker 3: So nice.
Speaker 2: It writes much better than me, which they take me good.
Speaker 2: That's not easy, too hard to do. So so he's
Speaker 2: doing okay, Uh yeah, anybody want to call, Let's get
Speaker 2: a call from you. Five to two oh four, one sixty.
Speaker 2: Any thoughts or lingering thoughts about the game on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: We're already two days removed. But what about the game
Speaker 2: on Saturday day? It's an early game noon? Uh see
Speaker 2: what's uh? What's happening then? Should be rocking?
Speaker 3: Are you going?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Probably not, but we'll see. Sometimes things change on Friday.
Speaker 11: You never know.
Speaker 2: Kobe, I think you've been on the hunt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as of now, no, but I'm so looking if
Speaker 3: the prices draw, so.
Speaker 2: What are they still at your ninety dollars price?
Speaker 3: I think so?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because that's a cheap compared to what we're
Speaker 2: out there. That's a doable tick. Yeah yeah, maybe not
Speaker 2: for a college kid, but yeah, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: because there's there, I.
Speaker 3: Don't con seit. No, the noseble, just like the Duke
Speaker 3: game was a yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so some of the other ones, like mid Section
Speaker 2: or two going for two grand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it should be a good one though, I mean,
Speaker 3: obviously it's the middle of the day. It doesn't doesn't
Speaker 3: ruin your day. No, you're done it two thirty and
Speaker 3: I'm not sure the weather's gonna be great. I think
Speaker 3: it's supposed to rain tomorrow or Saturday a little or
Speaker 3: more a lot, I don't know. Yeah, it's softball readjusted
Speaker 3: their schedule. They had the tournament at home this weekend,
Speaker 3: and they do things, you know, in anticipation of raindom
Speaker 3: maybe tomorrow. I think they moved up things up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then baseball starts right, but they're on the road
Speaker 3: today fall plays in Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so here you go with the full fledge of
Speaker 2: rosters and schedules and yeah, you know, as we finish
Speaker 2: what's today, the fourteenth, thirteenth, In a month, they're going
Speaker 2: to be playing in the Big twelve tournament and then
Speaker 2: a week later they're gonna be kind of getting ready
Speaker 2: for the NCAA tournament. Because you have the.
Speaker 3: Book the Pistovals, the Pisto fal Books books is right
Speaker 3: around the same time, and I think it's the Big
Speaker 3: twelve tournament. Yeah, same, I think is it the same
Speaker 3: weekend or before, Well, it's the weekend of the fifteenth
Speaker 3: and sixteenth.
Speaker 2: Oh, then you're right, you're right. Okay, so come to
Speaker 2: the book festival. Yeah, watch the tape the game, record
Speaker 2: the game now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had some really good sports authors coming to
Speaker 3: I'm not going to name them now, but there's there's
Speaker 3: some good sports things. There's some great I'm talking about
Speaker 3: it because I'm a volunteer, but there's some great authors coming.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll try to get a few.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I know I got one coming into.
Speaker 3: Let's go. We got a call.
Speaker 2: Hello, who's this? Hey?
Speaker 16: This is old guy John, a streamer trying to keep
Speaker 16: up with all the platforms. I'm trying to find out.
Speaker 10: The Big twelve tournament.
Speaker 16: It's not on CBS.
Speaker 4: Do you know what?
Speaker 10: Is it on ESPN Plus?
Speaker 3: Is it on ESPN?
Speaker 2: It'll probably be on all those I think that the
Speaker 2: finals would be on CBS. I'm sure that's Saturday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you won't have an issue, did you? Did you end
Speaker 2: up buying the ESPN Plus?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 16: I bought the ESPN Plus and then you know, I'm
Speaker 16: trying to figure should I get rid of it because
Speaker 16: are they going to be used for the tournament.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't don't do that until April. If you need
Speaker 2: to get rid of it and then come back with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that at all, just in case.
Speaker 10: It's a lot to keep up with.
Speaker 2: No, I know, I'm well aware of it.
Speaker 10: Take the platforms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me ask you something, because I hear all
Speaker 2: these things on the Internet saying, no, the service sucks,
Speaker 2: and there's the stopping and the you know, the internet stuff.
Speaker 2: I experienced that on Tuesday. It wasn't that bad. It
Speaker 2: wasn't enough to complain about it. But I did experience it.
Speaker 2: Have you experienced it?
Speaker 16: But yeah, well, uh, you know, the games get cut
Speaker 16: off because you're watching another game. I bought sling for
Speaker 16: three months for ninety nine dollars to go to ESPN,
Speaker 16: and uh, you know, they have another game and then
Speaker 16: I don't have the news or whatever, so you miss,
Speaker 16: you know, a quarter of the game. Is that what
Speaker 16: you're talking about?
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm talking about when it's streaming, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's sometimes it's comes salts.
Speaker 3: Every once in a while you'll get a little bit.
Speaker 2: It's not bad.
Speaker 16: I haven't had I haven't had a problem like.
Speaker 10: We did last year.
Speaker 2: Well that's good, that's good.
Speaker 3: It was worth you know, but.
Speaker 16: You know, maybe it's me just being an old guy.
Speaker 10: But I know what I know, and I but but
Speaker 10: with all the streaming, it's a challenge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just keep just keep your eyes open and the
Speaker 3: newspaper stories, Tucson dot Com and you know, all sports.
Speaker 3: So we'll be talking about the games.
Speaker 16: Then I did look up CBS and none of it
Speaker 16: says it's going to be on CBS.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll, we'll though, we'll check it out for you.
Speaker 2: I know you listened quite frequently. We'll talk about it
Speaker 2: or you can give us a call next week and
Speaker 2: we'll figure it out. Right, even though you know, thanks
Speaker 2: for listening. Is always you hadn't heard from you.
Speaker 3: In a while.
Speaker 16: Yeah, well I'm there, I'm listening.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, thank you.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it all starts, I mean everybody goes, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: sixteen teams go. So it all starts on Tuesday, March eleventh,
Speaker 3: with four games. The next day has four games, and
Speaker 3: the next it's like there's a lot of games, a
Speaker 3: lot of basketball.
Speaker 2: So everyone will probably won't play until Thursday.
Speaker 3: Number one, two and three seeds won't play until Thursday.
Speaker 3: Correct one and three? Four?
Speaker 2: I'm so okay, Yeah, yeah, so I think they'll finish
Speaker 2: in the top four obviously, won't you think, Yeah, the
Speaker 2: top four, and then we'll see what happens after that.
Speaker 3: And then there's two games for Friday, the semi finals,
Speaker 3: and then the finals on Saturday on March fifteenth, and
Speaker 3: then you get the book Festival and on the sixteenth
Speaker 3: as well. Anyway, that's kind of that's kind of what
Speaker 3: you're looking at for.
Speaker 2: So I thought the book Festival, you know, I want
Speaker 2: you to thinking that when we had Steve on that
Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind going to Vegas because you know, obviously
Speaker 2: that's where the games would have been had they stayed
Speaker 2: in the Pac twelve and going to watching all these games,
Speaker 2: you know, instead of the NCAA tournament, watching the Big
Speaker 2: twelve and all the other turnmers. Because the Whack has
Speaker 2: their or the Mountain West has their tournament out there,
Speaker 2: there's still other tournaments going on, correct, So go.
Speaker 3: To Vegas and just still watch some more. The Mountain
Speaker 3: doesn't mount Wait is there a Mountain West anymore? I'm trying. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: So I think like the San Diego States and New
Speaker 3: Mexico's and Boise's and Boise States.
Speaker 2: And then the West w ccs are out there. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, you don't want the lament that the PAC
Speaker 2: twelve is out. You still go to Vegas that fun.
Speaker 2: It just won't be uh McHale North. The butchery won't happen, right,
Speaker 2: and the butcher ain't going to Kansas City.
Speaker 3: Kansas City. That's too bad. I'm going to Kansas City
Speaker 3: as a baseball fan in May.
Speaker 2: Oh to see some You might give me some five
Speaker 2: dollars knockoff Big twelve shirts. Then you know the teams
Speaker 2: that got beat need to say you can you give
Speaker 2: me an Irish State s yep coming around the corner.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, it gets a great city and obviously the
Speaker 3: history of basketball there is huge. But you know it's
Speaker 3: a journey for u of a fans if they're you
Speaker 3: know they real diary. Did you go to the Final four?
Speaker 3: Final four and eighty eight?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 2: I was there and see how much the game has changed? Yeah,
Speaker 2: because it was at Kansas City. It wasn't at a
Speaker 2: big arena. It wasn't it was it Kemper Arena. It
Speaker 2: was a smallish, you know arena. It was the fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 2: I want to say the I remember the tournaments. I
Speaker 2: remember the logo yeah, it was a big circle. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we gotta we gotta wrap it up already. What are
Speaker 2: you doing to us over there? Yeah, you're right, you
Speaker 2: can go.
Speaker 7: We can go.
Speaker 2: Let's go about another minute because we can we I
Speaker 2: think we got four minutes of the buffer and blubblah okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: you give me the sign. I think already. Nocau goes
Speaker 2: by quick on Good Shows. Yeah, but that's eighty eight, right,
Speaker 2: and then the ninety four Uh, they went to Charlotte
Speaker 2: and did you go.
Speaker 3: It was also when it Ana Wash was a horness
Speaker 3: player eighteen twenty thousand. Yeah, it was the Bill Clinton
Speaker 3: experience where he was there and it took us, you know,
Speaker 3: two hours to get our get ourselves checked in.
Speaker 2: I remember that too, right, and then.
Speaker 3: Because Arkansas was there and Duke Florida, yep, Duke of Florida.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, let's go down there. Senor Kobe, thanks for
Speaker 2: keeping an eye on it, and we'll come back and
Speaker 2: get some breaking news, right and get more calls maybe, yep,