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The only team in the state of Utah that's still

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bawling out is the the Lady Coops of Brigham Young University,

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led by League Kamard. They're balling out. They're in the

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championship game for the WBIT. They're gonna be taken on Columbia.

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Columbia is a team that has had a great season

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twenty four and eight on the year and BYU on

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a tear right now twenty six and eleven. But they

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have been winning at a high rate towards the end

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of the season, playing their best ball and into tournament play.

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the head coach for the BA women's basketball team with

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the most wins in his rookie season all time in

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BYU women's basketball history.

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Speaker 3: We've got Lee Kamard the bucket getter. What was not? Lee?

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Speaker 4: Hey? What's going on up?

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Speaker 3: Hey? Man?

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Speaker 2: It's still a great season. One more, baby, one more.

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How's it feel that it be in the post game scenario,

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post season tournament scenario like this? So you gotta have

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a lot of gratitude for the squad and what they've

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been able to accomplish this year.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's been such a special group to be a

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part of. And I just you know, for me, obviously

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I want to win, but I just want their hard

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work and urgency and just desire to get rewarded, you know,

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because they've done everything that they're supposed to and they

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approach it the right way and excited to go to

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go to have a great competition.

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Speaker 2: One last time, give us a little scouting report on Colombia.

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As I mentioned, they've they've won a lot of ball

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games this year, twenty four and eight. Their non conference,

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they did some work.

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Speaker 3: They beat Saint.

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Speaker 2: John's, Northakota State, col Wisconsin or So that's the postseason,

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excuse me. In the In the regular season, Butler, Ohio,

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they had wins against South Dakota State, Manhattan, Wagner, Seaton Hall.

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Is a nice victory for them. What do you see

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on film? Give us a little scattering report.

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Speaker 5: On Yeah, they you know, you watch these games in

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the postseason. It was such an interesting dynamic of being

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right on the bubble, which this team was as well,

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and then playing in this w B A t And

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it's amazing now, but the drop down of emotions that

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night when you're watching the selections show something that you

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have to overcome. And our team has done a great job,

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and they've done a great job, and you see some

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other teams that have played in this tournament and you

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can just tell, like, hey, they're ready for spring break.

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Monday against Kansas and preparing for Columbia, and now you

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can just tell watching them on film that they're not

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ready to be done either. And you know, there's a

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lot of similarities. They play really hard, they're tough, they

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share it really well. I feel like watching them, how

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connected they are as a team, is as good as

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Speaker 4: They got a.

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Speaker 5: Really good player that scores a lot of points. You know,

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twenty points are just over twenty points a game, and

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high quality team and they got a little bit more

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experience in this They got a few older players, and

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they've been, you know, a little bit further in postseason play.

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Speaker 6: Than we have of late.

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Speaker 2: You guys knocked off Kansas in order to get to

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the championship game earlier this season February fourth.

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Speaker 3: You lost by twenty one to Kansas. What changed? What happened?

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Speaker 5: You know, every team that we've lost to and got

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a second crack at this year, we've been successful. I

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think that speaks to the character of this group. But

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when we played them in early February, and that's not

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to knock the outcome of that game, we had about

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the flu going through our group, and our energy level

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was completely different that night to what it was Monday night.

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Speaker 4: Just oh, we're not going away.

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Speaker 5: You know. It was a very similar game to the

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February fourth game, and then we just had we just

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had a little bit more plays made, and the game

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was it was really close, but we were up nine

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with twenty nine seconds up, and it shouldn't have been as.

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Speaker 6: Close as it was.

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Speaker 5: But we found a way to just hold on at

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those are stressful moments right quarters alls through the roof.

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pretty dicey decision making. You're trying to scheme up things

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to they create low rist scenarios. But uh, explain kind

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of those final, those waning moments in situations like that,

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what you're trying to communicate to your team and how

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to how to calm them down and and not have

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's one of those things where I'm

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glad we're still playing and didn't have a duke moment in.

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Speaker 4: The nca tournament.

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Speaker 5: But but but our group, the group especially that was

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on the court at the end, there is so much

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that we're going to learn from those five possessions, even

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you know, at the very end. And all we had

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to do was get it in and get fouled, and

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we did it good. A couple of times we had

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we had a little apprehension of passing it in and

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a little apprehension of hey, is this where I'm supposed

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to go? Should I go get it?

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Speaker 6: You know?

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Speaker 5: And and so we talked a little bit about it,

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but I guarantee you the next time we get in

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that situation, those five, specifically, they'll be ready to go.

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Speaker 3: Lee Kamard, head coach BA women's basketball.

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Speaker 2: Here in your Utah ESPN Radio Network, you mentioned something

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I think is is really important. When you have a letdown, right,

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you're a bubble team and you feel like you got

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to you have a chance to get into the NCAA

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timber you don't make it, there can be a kind

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of an emotional, psychological, you know, physical impact and it's

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difficult to recover from that. How would you say this

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team like internally reacted to it?

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Speaker 3: Who led? How did you guys react as a coaching staff?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 2: What allowed you guys to get over that hump and

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get down, you know, get down to the right path

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so you could win in the postseason.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll tell you exactly what happened. At least in

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that moment we're watching the selection show came down to

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the last last ten seed game playing game, which was

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on a Thursday Saturday or Saturday Monday. So we're like, okay,

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this is us, and then it wasn't us, And then

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film room and I just said, all right, let's all

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take a minute, and it's his voice or how we're

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feeling right now, you know, and they shared their frustration, annoyed, upset,

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a few other choice words, you know, but frustration and

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was kind of the overall thing, and we just talked

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it in reality, like, hey, that's what it is. You know,

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we didn't do enough to put ourselves in that tournament.

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there's a chance that we're disappointed. And now we have

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this opportunity to prove you know, those that made that

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decision right.

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Speaker 6: I proved them wrong.

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Speaker 4: And it was an.

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Speaker 5: Interesting few days leading up.

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Speaker 6: To that.

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and M. Like the energy and the gym like physically

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just disappointment and frustration, and as you prepare for a

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tournament where you know, hey, we're going to play a game,

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that first game is so hard. So it added another

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dimension of we got to somehow somebody find a way

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to play and win this game. And I think good

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in this tournament, you know, And that's kind of been

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the case. And we got Alabama A and M on

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our court played great. You could tell they were excited

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to take a little bit of frustration out on somebody

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other than their teammates. And in each game they've just

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Speaker 6: The right way.

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Speaker 4: And even when we.

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Speaker 5: Were down last night, yeah, last night to Kansas, there

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was no there was no there's no it hasn't been doubt,

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you know, throughout this tournament with our group, and they

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played tremendously and you see the chemistry just tightening and

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getting better, and you see the confidence building even in

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just some of the little things that we do. Some

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of the younger players are just it's almost like I

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don't know exactly what you want, what we're supposed to

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be doing, what my teammates expecting me. It's just a

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confidence that is just running through this program right now.

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Speaker 2: I know you're focused on your squad, your team, your tournament,

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but have you guys been able to take in some

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of the NCAA Tournament, the Women's NCAA Tournament.

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Speaker 3: Any thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Look, TCU handed you guys a tough loss, but they

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got deep, they went I believe the lad eight, Like,

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is there some validation there seeing that, you know, how

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you competed into the Big twelve this year and what

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you could have maybe done in the NCAA tournament had

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you been given that opportunity.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I mean we've all been following it,

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both sides of it, man and men. On the women's side,

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it's been pretty clear all year. Hey, there's the four

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teams and then there's a gap, and then there's a

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lot more parody after that. I thought I thought TCU,

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Speaker 4: I think they just ran into the war.

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South Carolina or U c l A, they could have

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far as the metrics and just scores. You know what

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they're doing, so should be a great final four. We're

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watching that, but you know what, we're just kind of

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running our own little race over here and we're making

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Speaker 6: And this tournament's been great.

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Speaker 4: They they done a great.

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Speaker 5: Job of making the athletes feel important and the welcome

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party and some of the other things police escorts.

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Speaker 4: And everything like that.

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Speaker 5: But it's gonna it's been such a good thing for

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protocol of like, you know, your practice time, when you're eating,

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what has been the the the protocol since you guys

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got out to Wichita and you're away from your home

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court or at these big twelve courts that you have

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some familiarity with, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 5: Mean they the tournament kind of has pre selected times. Hey,

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this team who's playing in this game practices or shoot

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arounds this time. It's already kind of mapped out. We

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got together before.

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Speaker 4: And just kind of picked a.

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Speaker 5: Based on this shoot around time of this practice slot.

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Where do we want to eat, is it the hotel.

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Speaker 6: We want to go out? What do we want to

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do in our free time?

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Speaker 5: How long do we want to practice? What do we

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want to practice. You know, we got to the gym

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today and it sounded like it sounded like Columbia was

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having a knockdown, drag out type practice. And you know,

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we got after a pretty good today and had predetermined

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that we're going to practice hard in the event that

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we won on Monday in preparation for the championship game.

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And so all those things, and I've told you this before,

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but just those are some of the things.

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Speaker 4: That I am really.

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Speaker 5: Very thought thoughtful on and what I feel is best

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for our group in the moment. Kind of get a

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medical report after the game, and do we want to

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change anything based on what happened. We kind of had

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a small little ankle tweet before yesterday's game and in

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our shoot around, and so it's maybe want to tape

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or not tape and shoot around them all. So all

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those things factor in. But the main thing is this,

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the group still got that hunger with them and that

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desire to prepare.

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Speaker 6: The right way.

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Speaker 5: Had a great practice today, get some good fuel in tonight,

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and then yeah, get a pre game tomorrow and throw

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that thing up and get after it.

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Speaker 2: In this tournament, right, these games that you've played in

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thus far have you been surprised by anything or did

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you kind of know who your team was going to be.

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And they've they've become and met that standard of who

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they can be in this tournament.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they they've you know, they've kind of showed me.

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Speaker 4: Prior to the Big.

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in the three games leading up to that conference tournament,

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had this setback with TCU, and I would say the

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first quarter was just too much to overcome. But they

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kind of it started to all click down where I mean,

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we should approach this game and not really talk about

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anything specifically defensively, and they just kind of know what

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they're trying to do, what they're looking for, how they

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want to.

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Speaker 6: Do it, who's doing what and when.

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Speaker 5: And again, like I think that that chemistry is tangible

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right now within the group when you're in the in

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the in the battle, but also after it's been a great,

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great trip for the team as well. Uh and you know,

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just leave it at that.

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Speaker 2: Lee Kamart, head coach by women's Basketball, talking to his

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lady Cooks. Right now as they prepare for the w

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i T w B I T Championship game, it's going

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to be on UH on Wednesday five pm, I believe

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is tip off of am not mistaken. ESPN two is

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where you can check it out at. So make sure

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you're watching this game, Cougarnation. Make sure you're support this

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women's team.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Any thoughts Lee on the UH on the the most

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recent you know, you have media availability right before the

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championship game, before the semi finals as well. And uh,

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you mentioned how this tournament has been awesome. Uh, They've

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really made the ladies feel special and the teams feel special.

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What is that the media, uh support been like as well?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's there's been quite a lot of coverage.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: And when we did our press conference, I think a

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lot of the cougarnation has seen kind of some of

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those answers that have gone by a Sabbatha and and

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you know how we observe it, you know, type of

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thing that was packed, you know, and UH it was

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a local it was b y U, it was Kansas.

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It was also national media. You know, we're on ESPN

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two tomorrow. It's a second now, UH, national TV game.

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I think on the season we set a and then

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probably had something to do with Kansas being so close,

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but we set a second a semi final record attendance

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for the game yesterday, which I think speaks to a

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little bit to our program in Kansas.

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Speaker 6: And you know, it's it's been.

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Speaker 5: Well well put on. You know, it's it's a it's

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an ant a run tournament. It's the equivalent of the

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n I T on the men's site. Somebody already owns

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the rights to or the name of trademark of w

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n I T. So the NCAA came in and made

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it the w b I T and they select the teams,

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they run the whole thing.

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Speaker 6: It's very well done.

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Speaker 5: And I've been really impressed coming out to Wichita and

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their approach to it and the media coverage for it.

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Done more interviews probably than that i'd like to you know,

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or that that I've done for any any type of game.

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Speaker 4: Uh uh.

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Speaker 5: And you know it's funny Coach ros Coach Rose texting

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me money, he said, hey, good luck tonight, And I

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know you love all those interviews that you have to do,

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so but no, it's been good. The host people, people

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hosting us at the hotel, the hotel people, everything's been fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Well you're doing great work, man.

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Speaker 2: Really happy that you've had such a successful first season

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and many more to come. Final thing, just because I've

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been pinged about it, U B why you find how

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do you what role can you play? What role do

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you play in the mentorship of your team off the court,

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Because I have a lot of b A fans that

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they're hoping, praying that a power couple, you know, can

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can be created, you know for b y U athletics. Uh,

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you know posterity, you know what I mean. So they

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got their fingers crossed that somehow, some way, you know,

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a power couple can can come from your one of

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your one of your players, de lady give and one

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that's playing in the n b A. You know, do

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you ever consult like hey, like you got to be

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looking out for these things.

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Speaker 5: You know, I stay I stay out of people's apartments

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mostly if they're if I feel there's a need, uh

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just give them a charge to to be smart. You're

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very visible. Uh. People know who you are and they're

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they're watching you. You're you're making an impact on young

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lives that are watching you. But but I mean you

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talk about delaying specifically, she is, you know, as good

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as it gets, as far as her as a person

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and a character, and any anybody would be lucky, uh

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to you know, to be able to spend some time

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with her. She's just fantastic. But you know what, from

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top down, I would put our our our fifteen against

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anybody in the country as it pertains to to people

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and how they carry them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there are awesome people on and off the court,

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There's no doubt about it. Hey, you got yourself a

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wonderful you know, you create a power couple. You got

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some great prospects coming down the pipeline for BYU and Eve.

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I'm gonna be as good as Lee though anyone, and

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even going to be as good as the dad in

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this situation.

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Speaker 5: You know, a couple of wm probably could if they

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had a little more dog in them. You know, we'll

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wait to see. We'll wait to see if they have that.

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You know, the dad had that. He didn't have much else,

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but he did have a little fiery dog in him.

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Speaker 6: So we'll see.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: So your philosophy on this, because I've had many debates,

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is the dog developed or is it innate?

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Speaker 5: In your opinion, Well, I'm gonna turn that back on

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you before. What do you think Ben? You played the

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game at a high level.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, man, I think most of it's innate,

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and then you have these unique catalysts that brings out

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more of a dog, right, the adversities, the refining fire.

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But it has to be a part of your genome already.

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Like I remember, like losing a boys and girls club

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basketball game in the championship game when I was like,

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I was like ten, right, maybe it was the nine

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year old or something, they forced me left. I hadn't

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developed the left yet. I was really a good athlete,

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could dribble with the ride and all that stuffy They

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scouted me bro and they got me forced left.

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Speaker 3: I turned the ball over a few times.

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Speaker 2: And to that to this day, I mean I went

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home immediately after that game and I dribbled with my

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left hand, probably before fifteen hours straight. I don't even

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know if I slept worked on left handed layups never again.

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Speaker 3: So like that brought out that failure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted to fight, so I remember I got

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I fouled out that game.

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Speaker 3: I kicked the ball.

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Speaker 2: I tried to kick the ball at the ref and

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so like, I think there has to be catalysts though

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to really bring out the dog.

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Speaker 3: If everything is kind of soft throughout.

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Speaker 2: Even if you have a little bit of dog and

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things go easy, it doesn't bring out the dog. And

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so I think I think it's mostly genetic biochemistry, but

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then there has to be catalysts along the way to

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maximize the dog, you know, I know.

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Speaker 3: That's my thought.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I only have sons, Okay, I'll speak from from

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my boys. I think that until they really get some

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testatos room flowing through, you know, you can't really tell.

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They show signs of it when they're younger, sure, but

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but until until they you know, start to mature. Even

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if they don't have it prior to that, I think,

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you know, as they start to mature physically, that dog

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can get them there. Uh but but if, in my opinion,

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if you if you're you know, started to mature and

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you're kind of just a little passive and a little

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you know, just got a little puppy in you, you know,

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it's gonna be hard to really bring that dog out.

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You know, that competitive spirit of hey, when my back's

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against the wall, ready to go, you know, in a

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in a competitive showing right, you know that type of thing.

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So and yeah, so I'll be that No.

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Speaker 2: I think It's it's great insight because I have those

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conversations a lot because with dads, right, and like, hey,

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how can I get my son to be more competian?

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Like there's a little bit of both, right, there's a

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little bit of nature and nurture with it. Having three

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sons though, you know, I mean, I'm sure they get

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in some little fisticuffs, little little battles there that brings

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out some good competitive fire, competitive spirit within reasons.

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Speaker 3: So Lee, good luck in the championship game. Will be

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rooting me on.

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Speaker 2: We'll be watching, hopefully the the lady coops you're coaching up.

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Can can you know have a little bit of dog

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in this championship game just like you did back in

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the day.

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Speaker 5: I think they got more than I ever had. This

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is a tough group looking forward to tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for having me, Ben, they go.

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Speaker 2: That's Lee Kamart, head coach by women's basketball, getting his

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team prep getting ready for that Columbia game, the w

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b i T championship game tomorrow five okay on ESPN two.

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Make sure you watch that game and support them coogs

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as Lady cooks they're at out at Wichita, Kansas and

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Charles Cocharina, so check it out twenty six and eleven

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on the year the most wins in a rookie season

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for any DYU women's head coach. Shout out to Lee

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Kamard taking on Columbia twenty four and eight on the

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season that has some bucket getters themselves. We'll go to

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break guys, Please don't go anywhere more to get you

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Speaker 3: Latterday cents.

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Speaker 2: They got some tremendous suits, dress shirts, belts, shoes, bags,

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whatever it is that you need to thrust in your

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sickle with your mind and lay it up in store

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many blessings while also.

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Speaker 3: Looking good while you do it, look good, feel good.

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Go out there and do good