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Speaker 3: Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and with me today is
Speaker 3: Dave Silver. It was a strange opening. Didn't really say anything,
Speaker 3: but we're here, and I hope we're on it. Nobody
Speaker 3: didn't say.
Speaker 2: Hey, blah blah blah, no eye in.
Speaker 3: The ball, blah, good morning, you're a good afternoon, whatever
Speaker 3: you're at. You're in Hawaii, you're here, Good afternoon, three o'clock. Hey,
Speaker 3: a lot of things going on today. Man scores good games,
Speaker 3: the last minute beats Sehn, Miller lost.
Speaker 2: We'll see if he gets into the tournament.
Speaker 3: Projections by Lunardi, which of course you could believe or
Speaker 3: not believe. It's when Man's interpretation of the events. You
Speaker 3: had them play in Arizona, possibly them in North Carolina
Speaker 3: in Arizona in the play in game for in the
Speaker 3: playing game, yeah, they would play each other, see yeah,
Speaker 3: and then possibly that was eighteen hours ago. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: that was not an hour ago, so things changed right,
Speaker 3: North Carolina beat its opponent's Xavier lost.
Speaker 2: It's so we'll see what happened. Yeah, so many things
Speaker 2: kind of you know, kind of get shuffled around here
Speaker 2: in these last final days of the season before the
Speaker 2: NCAA tournament. But yeah, you're right as far as basketball goes,
Speaker 2: you can sit around all day and watch watch game
Speaker 2: after game and tournament after tournaments. Some games are great.
Speaker 2: Some games are blowouts. I mean the Duke situation today,
Speaker 2: they win, but they lose the best player in the
Speaker 2: country and Cooper Flag with that. That ankle injury that
Speaker 2: really hit bad. I did it. I did watch it.
Speaker 2: It was it was bad. I mean they said he
Speaker 2: went up for a rebound and kind of came straight
Speaker 2: down him and the ankle twisted.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often, or maybe it doesn't.
Speaker 3: We just don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this was pretty obvious. I mean he went
Speaker 2: down and didn't get up for you know, a minute
Speaker 2: or so, and they took him out in a wheelchair
Speaker 2: and then he wound up coming back and sat.
Speaker 3: On the So the report that there was nothing broken,
Speaker 3: that's good. That the chance of film playing tomorrow are
Speaker 3: not good. But but yeah, so we'll see down the road.
Speaker 2: What's the point really, I mean, what does Duke need
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well they're one of the number ones, considering from
Speaker 3: number one overall seats they're number two.
Speaker 2: What's the difference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, if you're one, two or three or whatever,
Speaker 3: if you as long as your top one in the
Speaker 3: top four, that they're fine and it will be obviously,
Speaker 3: so many great games David Loss Sean Miller, like two
Speaker 3: b YU. I think that was an upset over Iowa State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that was a good game. That was
Speaker 2: you look at their their overall records even now now
Speaker 2: that the games are over and they're almost identical. It
Speaker 2: was a really close game. I mean I was again,
Speaker 2: if you were watching it this morning, kind of side
Speaker 2: by side with the Duke game. They're both, you know,
Speaker 2: fun to watch, and we've seen those two teams. I
Speaker 2: was taking b YU you know what, like within the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks easily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm playing, Well, you're one of the hottest teams
Speaker 3: in the country right at least in the in the
Speaker 3: league for sure, definitely, and one of the one of
Speaker 3: the hottest in the West. If you want to consider
Speaker 3: the West of the whatever, right, you know, west of
Speaker 3: the Rockies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would think that they're gonna, you know,
Speaker 2: it'd probably be what you know, five six.
Speaker 3: Seed there and there's teams that you don't want to play.
Speaker 3: They could be one of them. Yes, what about Saint John's, right,
Speaker 3: they have not played yet. I don't think they played.
Speaker 3: They beat Butler by twenty oh, they did by nineteen
Speaker 3: actually twenty one.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, Patino's got to working there kind
Speaker 2: of out of nowhere. Honestly, Where where was Saint John's
Speaker 2: two three years ago? Well?
Speaker 3: That's the funny thing is I think that he's in
Speaker 3: my opinion and whatever that's worth. Bet mean, he's the
Speaker 3: best college coach in the country right now. The thing
Speaker 3: about it, and people are saying exactly what you said,
Speaker 3: where's this team coming from? Apparently they paid the team
Speaker 3: five million dollars.
Speaker 2: There you go. You know, do you follow horse racing?
Speaker 2: Not like you, but okay a little bit.
Speaker 3: So I was kind of, you know, thinking about this
Speaker 3: last night. I don't know why I came into mind,
Speaker 3: but I follow racing. They have for a long time,
Speaker 3: and some of the better horses, if not the best
Speaker 3: best horses are the ones that you know obviously playing
Speaker 3: the running, the breeders, in the in the Kentucky Derby,
Speaker 3: all the big races, right, those are bought for half
Speaker 3: a million to two three four million dollars. Guess what
Speaker 3: basketball has turned into horse racing. You're paying premium prices
Speaker 3: for the best players, and the people who can't afford
Speaker 3: those horses where they pay millions at the sale are
Speaker 3: going to be shut out. And Arizona has its lump
Speaker 3: of lump of bag right for whatever millions because I'm
Speaker 3: sure it has to be in the millions, But can
Speaker 3: it compete with these people that they have to compete
Speaker 3: with at this elite level.
Speaker 2: Well, they're going to have to. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: you know they're paying Caleb Love quite a bit of
Speaker 2: money and he's going to be gone. So there's that
Speaker 2: money there maybe to keep and then to keep to
Speaker 2: keep the next group or whoever is it is Carter
Speaker 2: Brian going to stick around or you know who knows?
Speaker 3: Let me ask you, because I'll consider you an expert
Speaker 3: in this because you were in the business for a while,
Speaker 3: how difficult is it to convince X, Y and Z
Speaker 3: people with money who get involved emotionally or otherwise whatever
Speaker 3: word you want to use to pay their former school
Speaker 3: handsomely to succeed. And you did it non athletically. Is
Speaker 3: it you think it's easier athletically.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean I guess only because you
Speaker 2: can really see it almost instantly in action, as opposed
Speaker 2: to being the scholarship money or something like that where
Speaker 2: you're not quite sure what that student is going to
Speaker 2: turn out. He may discover a cure for cancer, you know,
Speaker 2: because you got him into school, but that may be
Speaker 2: in fifty years or like a wing or like a
Speaker 2: wing to the University of Yeah, I mean, athletics is
Speaker 2: a different, different animal when it comes to giving.
Speaker 3: But I'm sure you talk to those people, those people
Speaker 3: that are hustling money for the U of Atholt how
Speaker 3: difficult it is.
Speaker 2: They might they must it must be tough. Well, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, a lot of what they're doing is there's
Speaker 2: buying access to the arenas and buying access to the
Speaker 2: football stadiums and getting good seats, maybe getting invited do
Speaker 2: road trips things like that based on what they get.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's some incentive to giving, but in terms
Speaker 2: of the nil that's kind of something that I never
Speaker 2: really had to deal with. Yeah, honestly, and I'm not
Speaker 2: quite sure how they approach donors, like, Okay, do you
Speaker 2: have a bucket of donors who are just going to
Speaker 2: give to athletics and they're going to get to you know,
Speaker 2: make sure this football stadium gets improved, or they going
Speaker 2: to give to money here to pay the basketball team. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a whole I mean, it might be two different things,
Speaker 2: and you know you kind of have to just check
Speaker 2: on who's giving and why they're giving.
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, it's a crazy time.
Speaker 3: And we talked a little about it yesterday with one
Speaker 3: of our author guys, Russ Bradberg. But the situation in
Speaker 3: terms of Nil and the way things are today. He
Speaker 3: wrote that book started ten years ago and then kind
Speaker 3: of how it turned into this book where we're in today.
Speaker 3: It was more academics than it was athletics, but it
Speaker 3: kind of combined the two. And that's it too. Do
Speaker 3: you think do you think.
Speaker 4: I won't even go there.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, trying to blend athletics and
Speaker 3: academics because that's always been a touchy subject.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, I mean just about if you're talking with alumni.
Speaker 2: You know, Number one, they probably graduated in something and
Speaker 2: they weren't athletes. Chances are and they're going to want
Speaker 2: to support that. That might be the number one thing
Speaker 2: they care about. Hey, you know, I became a great businessman.
Speaker 2: I'd like to you know, support the business college. You know, Oh, athletics, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll give you some. But then other people maybe have
Speaker 2: a great passion for athletics and they want to give
Speaker 2: to that. It really is up to the donor, right,
Speaker 2: and it's the job of the development officer to find
Speaker 2: out what they're really interested in and what the needs are.
Speaker 3: It's funny I read a story not too long ago,
Speaker 3: and I've probably botched the numbers. But every school, every
Speaker 3: school like Arizona who's had some success in basketball, at
Speaker 3: least specific to basketball, it's it's tough to get those
Speaker 3: people who have been successful and have made a lot
Speaker 3: of money to give back.
Speaker 2: You know, Richard did it.
Speaker 3: Richard did it many years ago, and it's already been
Speaker 3: many years ago, right, But it's the and I know
Speaker 3: Steve does, Puick does, and people that we we know, right,
Speaker 3: and some people just don't want to be known that
Speaker 3: they've done this, which more power to them. But you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, it's I'm sure they don't. They
Speaker 3: haven't given back. Not that this place started their career,
Speaker 3: but it kind of started their career.
Speaker 2: Oh it did. Yeah. I mean people do give anonymously
Speaker 2: for sure. And I was talking to some people recently
Speaker 2: just about you know what, they're still in their twenties
Speaker 2: and thirties. Yeah, you know, even though they're making you know,
Speaker 2: maybe hundreds of millions of dollars, they're not even thinking
Speaker 2: about that just yet. I mean, maybe they're you know,
Speaker 2: have a family, or maybe they're just just trying to
Speaker 2: die that much wife. I mean, I'm talking pro athletes
Speaker 2: ros after they've left here. Okay, you know they may
Speaker 2: not you know, don't go ask them, you know, to
Speaker 2: give a gigantic gift that there in their thirties. Wait
Speaker 2: till they're in their fifties. Yeah, and they've really accumulated money,
Speaker 2: and that money, you know, work trans you know, works
Speaker 2: for them. Yeah. So that's kind of how how it
Speaker 2: plays out. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, and those who do do it or care, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, And they'll they'll do it on
Speaker 3: their own.
Speaker 2: Well, look at the guy that owns the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 2: You know, he's a huge booster at Michigan State. He
Speaker 2: played there. You know, then he goes off and you know,
Speaker 2: becomes a multi zillionaire in the real in the mortgage business. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, but he's and he's still pretty young. He's
Speaker 2: probably not even fifty. But that's a rare example of
Speaker 2: somebody who's doing something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, you've had you've had that here a time or
Speaker 3: two with certain people, you know, I mean the big
Speaker 3: the big guys, the Modenos and the uh those guys
Speaker 3: just need to come back. And everybody's still kind of waiting.
Speaker 3: What's going to happen if these guys come back and
Speaker 3: there's a few of them. Oh yeah, so we we'll see.
Speaker 3: Did you ever have to pursue him? Probably not, because.
Speaker 2: He's more more athletics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you get to pick your spots, right,
Speaker 3: we have to stay out.
Speaker 2: Of the way now, really, I mean, you know, you
Speaker 2: don't want to have a one hundred people talking to
Speaker 2: the same personal and you don't want to have like
Speaker 2: two right, you know, a coach and an athletic director
Speaker 2: you know, maybe meet the players things like that, so
Speaker 2: you don't we kind of have to stay away from
Speaker 2: That's how it works. Even in academics, you know, they
Speaker 2: don't need five people talking to one donor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, well, we have a pretty good show today,
Speaker 3: I think my hope. So yeah, let me see here
Speaker 3: we're gonna have let me just try to get the
Speaker 3: proper name of we're gonna have the Gonzales kid, the
Speaker 3: best player on the team by points and stuff, with
Speaker 3: the number one team in the country, a Pima College
Speaker 3: con j I think it is you are you watching it?
Speaker 2: I'm looking at Cohen. It's Jay.
Speaker 3: It's Jay's the last I have to go and see
Speaker 3: my thing. Gonzales. Yeah, and he's got th he he's
Speaker 3: averaging maybe at least nineteen points a game. So they're
Speaker 3: headed to the big dance for themselves tomorrow. PEMA is
Speaker 3: the number one seed in the whole entire tournament, number
Speaker 3: one in the country throughout thirty one in zero I
Speaker 3: think if not venerable. Yeah, yeah, so we'll talk to him,
Speaker 3: and then we're gonna talk to you guys.
Speaker 2: O'Brien, Yeah, Keith O'Brien again. The Tu Song Festival books
Speaker 2: just a couple of days away now, so I'm part
Speaker 2: of one of the committees there, and Keith O'Brien has
Speaker 2: written a book about Pete Rose called Charlie, and we'll
Speaker 2: have him in the second hour. He's back east getting
Speaker 2: set to come out here to the warm desert where
Speaker 2: it's supposed to be at maybe a little wet over
Speaker 2: the weekend, but hopefully not too bad. So we're looking
Speaker 2: forward to hearing from him. Longtime writer author, now he
Speaker 2: has written a handful of books and so this is
Speaker 2: his latest called Charlie Hustle, and it's interesting and came
Speaker 2: out and since then Pete Rose has passed away, so
Speaker 2: that'll be some good interesting things to talk about with him.
Speaker 2: He had a chance to work on that book for
Speaker 2: a long time. I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, that'll be a lot of fun for me.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I followed it Pete Rose alone time.
Speaker 3: When I was a childhood he role of mine, and
Speaker 3: then as I got older, I just kind of stopped
Speaker 3: being a follow over heroes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I don't know if people do remember this,
Speaker 2: but back mid eighties he came out here when Dave
Speaker 2: Sitting used to put together these alumni games and he
Speaker 2: would bring in a guest manager and Rose was still playing,
Speaker 2: and he might have been managing at that point too.
Speaker 2: But he came and he was out there sandset field,
Speaker 2: you know, taking taking hacks, and that's pretty Yeah. He
Speaker 2: was pretty good Winny, Yeah he was. He was really
Speaker 2: good to everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Busy day, busy weekend, but yeah, try to squeeze in
Speaker 2: some basketball around there, with of course the game tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll talk about tonight's the game as well. We'll
Speaker 3: talk about when we're not talking to a guest, we'll
Speaker 3: talk a lot about it. I didn't realize that there
Speaker 3: were three and a half point favorite. I was surprised
Speaker 3: about that too. Who did they not see the game
Speaker 3: on Saturday or well, they saw last night's game. It
Speaker 3: was like, holy crap, It's like they don't want to
Speaker 3: win this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was amazing.
Speaker 3: Uh but you know, every style, every style and every
Speaker 3: frustration happens and Florida Central Florida played out of their mind.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Every time they went down there three didn't they lose
Speaker 2: to them by like fifty Yeah, it was got destroyed
Speaker 2: by them. During the season. I want to say it's
Speaker 2: time and strict.
Speaker 4: That's why you know, I think I went pop up
Speaker 4: with this history.
Speaker 3: I think Arizona's gonna win because it's tough to beat
Speaker 3: a team twice in the year and twice in a week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think they have any thing set up to
Speaker 2: defend Dickinson differently than they did, They're gonna have to.
Speaker 3: They're going to have to write he had a pretty
Speaker 3: good game last night, not like no, no, he's had
Speaker 3: a career high.
Speaker 4: Thirty three that day.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: The VSAR is gonna have to watch his fouls and
Speaker 3: defend him better if I guess he was part time
Speaker 3: on him, right, yeah, part time, And so we'll see,
Speaker 3: we'll see.
Speaker 2: That court is very strange. It's tough to watch games
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 3: You did you have you noticed the ball because the
Speaker 3: ball has been in play for three years now. I
Speaker 3: think that's the ball that they're using for the tournament,
Speaker 3: and it's a different ball they've had in the regular season.
Speaker 2: It bounces more.
Speaker 3: I noticed this two years ago, three years ago whatever
Speaker 3: they brought it in and it was just strange. And
Speaker 3: then last year Timmy about it up where it's kind
Speaker 3: of a different ball. If you notice there's a lot
Speaker 3: of loose balls more than normal because it bounces different.
Speaker 3: And the bounces off the rims are higher, and it's
Speaker 3: just weird because it's a sponsored ball from somebody. If
Speaker 3: you kind of google google it in the time out
Speaker 3: here and we'll see where we go.
Speaker 2: That's gonna go.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go to a break, go to commercial and
Speaker 3: go get ahold of Cohen J. Is that how you
Speaker 3: pronounced it? We'll have to ask no, I asked. I asked,
Speaker 3: I asked Raymond, who set this up?
Speaker 2: Cohen J.
Speaker 3: So we'll get a hold of am see what the
Speaker 3: success of pema or how this has all happened.
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Speaker 13: This is High on the Ball with.
Speaker 1: Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Why on the Ball Here Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave silver I
Speaker 3: on Ifhon. We have Coen j from Pima Men's basketball.
Speaker 2: Beja. How are you?
Speaker 15: I'm doing good? How are you?
Speaker 3: We're doing fine. Congrat on your great season. But now
Speaker 3: comes the important part.
Speaker 15: Right, yeah, thank you so much, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: So, what's the what's the sense of the team going?
Speaker 3: Does they think they get on the road tomorrow right?
Speaker 15: Yeah, tomorrow morning? I uh, Brian early.
Speaker 3: What's the what's the mood of the team.
Speaker 15: Everyone's just ready to get to Dan Villen. We're all
Speaker 15: ready to compete.
Speaker 2: Do you know anything about the competition you might face?
Speaker 2: I know, obviously someone has to play first to get
Speaker 2: to your game, But you know, how are you guys,
Speaker 2: you know, preparing yourself as a team for something like this.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so we've already been watching film on the two
Speaker 15: teams that we might end up playing, because we have
Speaker 15: a buye since with the number one team. So yeah,
Speaker 15: we already have an idea of who we're playing. Definitely
Speaker 15: gonna be a lot better teams, a lot more physical,
Speaker 15: a lot more athletic.
Speaker 3: So you've been able to handle most of those teams, right,
Speaker 3: obviously going thirty two and zero. At what point, at
Speaker 3: what point in the season, if not before the season,
Speaker 3: did you feel that maybe you had something special?
Speaker 15: I think after our little December tournament we had for
Speaker 15: New Year's I think after that tournament, after going three
Speaker 15: and oh having some close games, we knew after those
Speaker 15: three games that we could do something, something amazing.
Speaker 3: I guess you're in your second year, is that correct?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you came from Gilbert Mosquite High School. What prompted
Speaker 3: you to come down here to play.
Speaker 15: In all honesty, I came down on a visit to
Speaker 15: Pima and I just really liked the school. I liked
Speaker 15: the vibe of the coaches, and it wasn't two songs
Speaker 15: not too far from home, so I knew I wanted
Speaker 15: to be a little bit away from home but not
Speaker 15: too far, so I knew it would be a great
Speaker 15: fit for me.
Speaker 2: What made what makes Brian Peabody? I mean, we all
Speaker 2: know we've seen him here at the high school level
Speaker 2: and obviously at the PEMA college level, have such great
Speaker 2: success as a player. What what are you taking from him?
Speaker 2: What are you learning from him?
Speaker 15: Yeah? Peabody is just a competitor. He just wants to win.
Speaker 15: And I mean we all know that as a team
Speaker 15: that Peabody loves to win. So I feel like everyone
Speaker 15: could see it the way he coaches, and I mean
Speaker 15: he's just been an amazing coach the last two years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's got quite a system he's got, don't
Speaker 2: Most of his assistant coaches have been with him, I know,
Speaker 2: for a long time too.
Speaker 3: And it's a contingent. It's like a huge group.
Speaker 15: Yeah yeah, yeah, So, uh, you come.
Speaker 3: Down, did you expect? And I don't have the stats
Speaker 3: in front of me. But I know, I think you're
Speaker 3: the leading scorer on the team. Did you expect this
Speaker 3: type of success for you? And you probably know the
Speaker 3: numbers off the top of your head.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean I wouldn't say I knew this was
Speaker 15: gonna happen, but I mean I always have high expectations
Speaker 15: for myself, So I mean I always wanted to just
Speaker 15: do the best I could and compete with whoever you
Speaker 15: know is ride by me on my team. So I mean, yeah,
Speaker 15: I definitely could see myself getting these accolades that I've gone.
Speaker 2: You thought you'd be the ACCAC Player of the Year, No,
Speaker 2: I knew I had a chance. Well here, it's great.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on that.
Speaker 15: Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Well here's the stats.
Speaker 3: Eighteen point four points a game, three point four rebounds,
Speaker 3: five point two sists, a two point one steals in
Speaker 3: twenty eight games and starts. So you're not just doing scoring,
Speaker 3: you're doing everything. Let me ask you how. You're not
Speaker 3: very tall, are you?
Speaker 15: No? I'm five to nine so for a basketball player.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: So did you get recruited anywhere else? Maybe possibly? And
Speaker 3: then or you just found this place or did how
Speaker 3: did you get here. Did you find you? Besides the visit?
Speaker 15: So I had a bunch of other junior college offers,
Speaker 15: but I did have a D two school offer, and
Speaker 15: I did go to on a visit there, but I
Speaker 15: just didn't really like it as much, and I didn't
Speaker 15: think it would be as good as a fit for
Speaker 15: me as as when I went on my visit for Tema.
Speaker 15: I thought it was a lot more better fit for me.
Speaker 3: And then a kid named Marley joined your team, And
Speaker 3: how did that change?
Speaker 4: How did that change things?
Speaker 15: I mean, knowing that he was giving me on our
Speaker 15: team this year, I knew we would have a lot
Speaker 15: better chance at going farther in the national tournament because,
Speaker 15: I mean, we know what he could bring to the table.
Speaker 15: So it definitely helps us for sure.
Speaker 2: Do you know much? I guess we sort of asked
Speaker 2: you about who you're gonna play, But overall, junior college
Speaker 2: basketball high quality. I mean, what can we expect to
Speaker 2: see out there in Danville, Illinois?
Speaker 15: Yeah, so we play a lot. We played pretty fast paced,
Speaker 15: so we average one hundred and six points as a team.
Speaker 15: We're leading the nation and scoring, so I mean you're
Speaker 15: going to see a lot of scoring. Obviously, Juco D
Speaker 15: one level. It's different, but I mean the competitiveness and
Speaker 15: the entertainment meant of the game is still there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't see any games. I wanted to go
Speaker 3: see you guys playing because you guys were like the
Speaker 3: You wouldn't have any reference to this, but the Loyol
Speaker 3: and Arimount from back in the day.
Speaker 2: Are you guys playing defense or just give you the ball,
Speaker 2: let's score?
Speaker 15: No, we we do both, so we score, but we
Speaker 15: also play defense because pebody talks about how he thinks
Speaker 15: we're the best defensive team he's ever had, and I
Speaker 15: just feel like we've focused a lot more on communication
Speaker 15: on defense and it's really helped us to bring our
Speaker 15: defense to the next level.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What are you thinking personally about next year? Do
Speaker 2: you have plans to still play someplace?
Speaker 15: Yeah? So, I have an offer to Iona University in Milcho,
Speaker 15: New York, and I went on a visit there and
Speaker 15: I really liked it. But I'm still waiting for after
Speaker 15: the national tournament to make my decision. I just want
Speaker 15: to focus on this season and then when season's over,
Speaker 15: I want to, you know, decide where I'm gonna end up.
Speaker 3: That's that's a great deal because they're they're known what
Speaker 3: rip Patino was just there?
Speaker 2: Ree right right? Not too long ago?
Speaker 15: Yeah, Jones it was two years ago.
Speaker 3: Momo Jones played there, not too long ago. So it's
Speaker 3: not a not a bad little get if you can
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 15: A great school.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but guess what, you're not close to home
Speaker 2: in New.
Speaker 15: York definitely not definitely a long way from home.
Speaker 4: You might even have to buy a jacket.
Speaker 2: Is that what this tournament?
Speaker 16: Will?
Speaker 2: This will? This tournament involve a lot of D one
Speaker 2: coaches doing some scouting and making some offers at this
Speaker 2: point like next week.
Speaker 15: Yeah. Yeah. So last year they're especially our first game,
Speaker 15: the whole left side of the bleachers, like the whole
Speaker 15: one side was full of coaches. So, I mean it's
Speaker 15: probably the most coaches I've seen in one gym. So
Speaker 15: there's a lot of recruitment going on in Dan Bill.
Speaker 3: How did last year's season affect this year's season? Because
Speaker 3: you guys were good last year too, just fell short.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how was it? How did that fuel you this year?
Speaker 15: Yeah? So, so we lost first round last year and
Speaker 15: we obviously don't want to do that again. Where I
Speaker 15: feel like we're coming in and with the better mindset.
Speaker 15: This year, we got you know, some more leadership that
Speaker 15: definitely goes a long way. And I mean we're definitely
Speaker 15: just a lot more confident this year.
Speaker 2: That's good. It's gonna be good. Just gonna to watch
Speaker 2: pimas you know. Obviously this is a rare fight air
Speaker 2: to be thirty two And oh, I mean, do you
Speaker 2: feel like there's some pressure? You're the number one team,
Speaker 2: everyone's gonna be abut to get you.
Speaker 15: Yeah. No, there definitely is a lot of pressure, especially
Speaker 15: on losing the first game of the season. But I
Speaker 15: feel like we feel like as a team where we've
Speaker 15: been overlooked, so we only have two guys that have
Speaker 15: one D one offer and being the number one team
Speaker 15: in the nation and being thirty two, and oh, we
Speaker 15: feel like all starters we all should have offers. So
Speaker 15: I feel like we still have a little bit of
Speaker 15: chip on our shoulder even though we're number one in
Speaker 15: the country. We just feel like there's more we can do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's it? We talked about your offense and your defense.
Speaker 3: What's the kind of the secret sauce of the team
Speaker 3: shares the ball? Well, just what is it?
Speaker 15: Yeah, No, it's definitely. We share the ball really well.
Speaker 15: You know, sometimes we start games off slow because we
Speaker 15: kind of try to, you know, get our offense going individually.
Speaker 15: But we know, like whenever we're moving the ball, getting
Speaker 15: each other open, that's when teams can't stop us. That's
Speaker 15: when teams have a hard time trying to you know,
Speaker 15: guard us as a team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got some stats here raised sending me some stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, you guys hit forty pretty much, forty eight
Speaker 3: percent of your field goals, they're almost forty percent of
Speaker 3: your three pointers and eighty three percent of your free throws.
Speaker 2: So this might be one of the better shooting teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah around.
Speaker 15: Yeah, we can shoot the ball pretty well.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, if you're scoring one hundred and some points,
Speaker 2: that's success.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Quick basketball, What are the games are? What are they
Speaker 2: forty minutes? Yeah, they're forty minutes?
Speaker 15: Yeah, twenty minute half?
Speaker 2: Yeah that's did you flee productive?
Speaker 3: Did you guys get a scare or two this year?
Speaker 15: Yeah? So in that New Year's tournament I was talking
Speaker 15: about earlier, we won on a buzzer beater. Maxi Marley
Speaker 15: hit a buzzer beater three to win game. It was
Speaker 15: tied ninety ninety two. So we end up winning ninety
Speaker 15: five ninety two. But that game was close, and then
Speaker 15: we've had a few other conference games that are a
Speaker 15: little closer too, But I'm in our wind margins like
Speaker 15: thirty plus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, a lot one hundred and six
Speaker 2: is one thirteen's, you know, one O two one eleven's.
Speaker 2: So you're putting up the numbers. That's for sure, is.
Speaker 3: That the team that played close to the ninety five
Speaker 3: ninety two are they of the tournament as well?
Speaker 15: They so they're at the next JUCO level. So we're
Speaker 15: D two JUCO and their D one j.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's that was another thing. I have a hard
Speaker 3: time distinguishing between the two. But uh, D one is
Speaker 3: for bigger schools, right.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so D one so they pay for everything, like
Speaker 15: they pay for housing. They just have more money.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And then D two's, uh, well, you beat a D
Speaker 3: one and they're they're doing well. I'm sure they're doing
Speaker 3: pretty well.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, we beat we beat three D one Central
Speaker 15: Dawson and Salt Lake.
Speaker 2: Ninety five ninety two games Dawson.
Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, not that you want to figure out how
Speaker 3: you would play that D one because you have work
Speaker 3: to do with the D two, right are those are
Speaker 3: those games in different areas the D ones?
Speaker 15: So we we fortunately got to play those games at home.
Speaker 3: No no, no to us? No no, no, you're going to Danville?
Speaker 3: Or are they going somewhere else for that tournament? Where's that?
Speaker 15: Oh my fault? Yeah? So they go to Hutching Toutch College,
Speaker 15: which is in Kansas.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, okay, okay, no, great, great? Great?
Speaker 3: Anybody else? Who who are like your favorite teammates? Who
Speaker 3: who kind of you? Probably everybody that you kind of
Speaker 3: vibe off of it, because when you're scoring one hundred
Speaker 3: and some points, you guys probably know where the other
Speaker 3: guy is going to be at all times.
Speaker 15: Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean I would just say just
Speaker 15: the whole starring five Max, Marley, West Ball Gabled him
Speaker 15: and Coda Benson just all saw four of them. We've
Speaker 15: done a really good job, you know, getting the game
Speaker 15: started and just playing together and sharing the ball. No
Speaker 15: one's been like too selfish. We know we need each other,
Speaker 15: so I mean it's been it's just been awesome playing
Speaker 15: with them this year.
Speaker 2: It's it's amazing that these teams kind of do come
Speaker 2: together like this when you I mean just looking at
Speaker 2: the rosters and where everybody's coming from. I mean literally
Speaker 2: from all over Arizona, the Bay Area, Utah. You didn't
Speaker 2: grow up together, and that's all and it's all meshed,
Speaker 2: which is kind of a testament to coach Peabody, I guess,
Speaker 2: and and the players, you know, buying into what the
Speaker 2: coach wants to do. I would I would assume, right.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you, since you played for Peabody
Speaker 3: last year, and Peabody, we know Peabody very well, like
Speaker 3: Dave said, for all these years, did he did he?
Speaker 3: Is he the same coach you saw last year? Because
Speaker 3: you were pretty good last year? But now you guys
Speaker 3: were thirty two?
Speaker 2: And oh did he? Does he get on you more?
Speaker 4: Does he give you more leeway?
Speaker 2: How was he he?
Speaker 15: He definitely gets on us still, especially if the games
Speaker 15: are closer than he thinks they should. But I mean
Speaker 15: you could tell he's a lot more relaxed, a little
Speaker 15: more chill, just because you know we're obviously we're thirty two. No,
Speaker 15: but I mean he still gets on us whenever he
Speaker 15: thinks he needs to. You know, he doesn't really change
Speaker 15: his personality that much when he's around us. He always
Speaker 15: kind of just stays the same. That's just how he is.
Speaker 15: But yeah, he definitely lets us know. He definitely lets
Speaker 15: us hear it when we need to.
Speaker 2: You have his respect or yeah, you respect your coach,
Speaker 2: I would assume. And you know, yeah, again, like Steve
Speaker 2: and I have been around around here for a long time,
Speaker 2: We've we've watched his career, so we know the numbers
Speaker 2: and the success. So this is this is great for
Speaker 2: him to have. Enjoy him. You get another thing to
Speaker 2: accomplish for him. He's one of the all time greats
Speaker 2: here in Tucson.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you, because you're averaging plush to
Speaker 3: eighteen nineteen points a game, what's been your high and
Speaker 3: what's been your low?
Speaker 15: So my high this year was against Glendale Community College.
Speaker 15: I had thirty six that game.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 15: It should have been a little bit more h And
Speaker 15: then my low I think was eleven. I'm not sure.
Speaker 15: I don't really remember that game as much. I'm play
Speaker 15: for my lower.
Speaker 3: We never remember the defeats, right or the bad games.
Speaker 3: You must did you not shoot it well or you
Speaker 3: were not needed to shoot it.
Speaker 15: Well, no, I yeah, I definitely just didn't shoot the
Speaker 15: ball as well. Yeah, okay, but my team, my team,
Speaker 15: you know, still was able to take care of business
Speaker 15: get us.
Speaker 17: To win, sure, you know.
Speaker 2: And you guys share the gym with the women's team
Speaker 2: there too, and they're also off to a tournament. So
Speaker 2: what's happened like to have really both programs having good
Speaker 2: seasons again?
Speaker 15: Yeah, no, it's really cool to have both teams be
Speaker 15: able to go and experience, you know, our national tournaments
Speaker 15: and I mean you could just tell there's a little
Speaker 15: bit more of a buzz around campus and you know,
Speaker 15: kind of just intus on about it. Yeah, it's really.
Speaker 4: Cool, very cool. Have you gone back home since?
Speaker 3: I'm sure you have, like Christmas and stuff, even even
Speaker 3: now where people I don't know if they recognize you
Speaker 3: being because you you're just a normal dude playing basketball,
Speaker 3: But have you gotten stuff back at home?
Speaker 2: I'm sure your parents are proud and all that.
Speaker 15: Yeah. Yeah, definitely, friends, family, everyone, you know then text
Speaker 15: me congratulating me on the season and all the accomplishments.
Speaker 15: So yeah, I've definitely been chilling the love from back home.
Speaker 2: Yet, how many games would you have to play. I
Speaker 2: haven't looked at the brackets or anything. What would the
Speaker 2: schedule look like if you win that first game?
Speaker 15: Say, yeah, so we would play Tuesday, and then we
Speaker 15: have Wednesday Thursday off, I'm pretty sure, and then we
Speaker 15: play against Friday and then Sunday Monday. I think, so
Speaker 15: it's four games total, So I think it's so. I
Speaker 15: think it's every other day my fault. So I think
Speaker 15: it's Tuesday, Wednesday off, Thursday, Friday off, and a Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Did you play with any of the guys that's on
Speaker 3: your team now, you know, with AAU ball or whatever.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you knew. Probably all the guys too, is
Speaker 4: from your past.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so actually played with Brig Wolf, he comes off
Speaker 15: the bench.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 15: We we started playing club basketball since like fourth grade,
Speaker 15: and we actually played it all the way up until
Speaker 15: senior year high school. So me and him played club
Speaker 15: all throughout. Yeah, you know, junior high and high school.
Speaker 3: Okay, and you probably played against a lot of the
Speaker 3: guys that are our teammates, right because of the high
Speaker 3: school situation.
Speaker 15: Yeah, a few of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, David were good. I think we're good. That's great.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on a great season. It's been fun to kind
Speaker 2: of watch from the sidelines here pimas you know, they've
Speaker 2: had programs for a long time, but this is, you know,
Speaker 2: specially great year.
Speaker 15: All right, Yeah, thank you so much, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Thank you, mister. Good luck to you guys. Wait to
Speaker 3: talk to you guys again after the tournament.
Speaker 15: Yep, thank you you will.
Speaker 4: That's cool.
Speaker 2: Cool, yeah, very good. And not too many teams and
Speaker 2: anything can say that they have a record like that.
Speaker 3: No, not at all, just like but here it's happening here, right.
Speaker 3: We followed Pima soccer and no day, Well it's one
Speaker 3: a couple of national titles and you're taking in Tucson. Well,
Speaker 3: we understand. We still stand soccer here right right. Basketball,
Speaker 3: we know Arizona basketball, and bless his heart, Peabody has
Speaker 3: been very successful, but not to this degree, right, I.
Speaker 2: Mean he's got seven hundred career wins over that now,
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Speaker 2: or five more games, come back and we'll have a
Speaker 2: parade for you, right right.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the aces and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to on the ball here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, and with me today
Speaker 3: is Dave Silver. You got about to twelve minutes, thirteen minutes,
Speaker 3: if you'd like to call us five two zero for one,
Speaker 3: six seventy four forty. We'll talk about the game today
Speaker 3: just in about what three hours, a little more than
Speaker 3: three hours, little less three hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, six thirty two so on times supposedly so after
Speaker 2: the Baylor Texas Tech game, which is that should be
Speaker 2: a good game, the first game of the evening session.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they should be a good game. I'm I'm not
Speaker 3: missing this. I'm not missing this. I can't.
Speaker 2: I missed the one in twenty eleven. I've been to
Speaker 2: most all of them.
Speaker 3: A postseason No, I'm okay with Kansas, and then you
Speaker 3: guys got to get it on the road tomorrow, I
Speaker 3: mean next week right away and go wherever they go, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, if they you know, who knows what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But certainly they could lose tonight and then there won't
Speaker 2: be a game till next next Thursday or Friday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the week off.
Speaker 3: A lot of people, however, Dave, are lamenting Vegas yeah,
Speaker 3: because everyone would be in Vegas today.
Speaker 2: Well, you know everyone, it's it just happened. It just
Speaker 2: ended last year, so a lot of people were just
Speaker 2: there last year at this exact time. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: Then so you're seeing pictures, you know, all over the place. Oh,
Speaker 2: this was us celebrating. Have you seen those? Yeah?
Speaker 3: People, I just got people tell me, I wish, I
Speaker 3: wish are you in Kansas City?
Speaker 2: I wish I was in Vegas. I just saw pictures
Speaker 2: of barbecue and other stuff that Kansas City is known for.
Speaker 2: Some good shots of that on the broadcast today, so
Speaker 2: I'm sure fans are doing it. And then there was
Speaker 2: again I don't know if you're on Facebook, but there
Speaker 2: was some stuff with Arizona fans there. The Arizona alumni
Speaker 2: had a little gathering yesterday. I thought I saw Desiree
Speaker 2: was there. So, you know, I don't know how many
Speaker 2: numbers were talking about.
Speaker 4: I think there's not a whole lot.
Speaker 2: Can't be more. I'm gonna guess not many. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But in fact, one of the one of my friends
Speaker 3: who was a fan, she goes to a lot of
Speaker 3: these things, and she was going to go. She was
Speaker 3: excited to go, and then realize none of her friends
Speaker 3: were going to go, and friends and friends were going
Speaker 3: to go because it's a big deal. And the flights
Speaker 3: from here back a few months ago were like seven
Speaker 3: hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Right, So yeah, I mean when it depends on the
Speaker 2: geography and where they're going to be. But I remember
Speaker 2: again in the job I had at the U of A,
Speaker 2: if you were talking to some people in Washington, d c.
Speaker 2: And that Arizona's going to play in New York, they
Speaker 2: would go. They would go. They'd make the road trip.
Speaker 2: It wasn't too terrible for a drive. Right, Hey, are
Speaker 2: welcome to Eye on the Ball. You're on the air.
Speaker 2: Who's this.
Speaker 11: Richard?
Speaker 15: See how you doing?
Speaker 4: Richard? How are you give me something?
Speaker 15: Hey?
Speaker 16: I want to say. You know, there's a philosophy some
Speaker 16: people have that losing early in the tournament might be
Speaker 16: a good idea in the big coch tournament to get
Speaker 16: rested up for the NCAA tournament. Now I don't believe that,
Speaker 16: And I'll tell you who else doesn't believe that, and
Speaker 16: that's Kelden Sampson at Houston. He will be there to
Speaker 16: win the tournament and get a number.
Speaker 17: One seed in the NCAA tournament because he's a great,
Speaker 17: great coach, and he will.
Speaker 16: Win the tournament, this big coach tournament.
Speaker 15: Up in Kansas City, like he did in Oklahoma.
Speaker 16: He won three big twelves in a row two thousand
Speaker 16: to two.
Speaker 15: Thousand and three at that time. One time he did
Speaker 15: lose in the first.
Speaker 17: Round and then after that he went to the leit
Speaker 17: eight in the final four.
Speaker 16: But he is going. He is a great coach. Everybody,
Speaker 16: every coach there should be watching him. He's passing Bill
Speaker 16: South in Kansas right now, no question about it.
Speaker 17: He's a national contender.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 16: But he's a players coach, and.
Speaker 15: His coaches give everything.
Speaker 17: His players played very hard for him. Yeah, very hard.
Speaker 17: So that's what I wanted to say.
Speaker 15: That's very you know, if you're.
Speaker 3: Huh, that's very apparent that they play hard for him
Speaker 3: everywhere he's been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking for you to the next game. Their
Speaker 2: next game against b Yu and b Yu has been
Speaker 2: on quite a role as we saw, you know, in
Speaker 2: the last two or three weeks, So that could be
Speaker 2: a good one.
Speaker 3: I do think that this style, I think the style play. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's why I think Houston will handle this. You think
Speaker 3: stuff Richard Richard, Are you my Richard from from Albuquerque?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 4: Okay, I guess there's another Richard from I've.
Speaker 16: Been laying low because I'm a Sooner and we had
Speaker 16: a really bad football season so.
Speaker 2: Well and basketball is he going to survive?
Speaker 17: Well?
Speaker 16: We but now of a sudden we're we we've wore
Speaker 16: him back up. We won our last three, We've got
Speaker 16: twenty wins, and we're playing.
Speaker 15: At Kentucky tonight.
Speaker 16: I think we made our way.
Speaker 2: Into the tournament.
Speaker 16: Uh, we really went downhill, but now we're coming back.
Speaker 17: So I think it's the Sooners go get in the tournament.
Speaker 17: But I really I'm pull out for Houston this year
Speaker 17: big time. Yeah, just like Calvin Samson. I just think
Speaker 17: he's got a great.
Speaker 2: Coach, a great team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks Richard, as always right, appreciate it, Good luck
Speaker 3: guys all.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Richard Richard sends me notes all the time and emails
Speaker 3: you know what about this?
Speaker 2: What about that? Is this the same guy? It's the
Speaker 2: same guy that, yeah, that emails me all the time. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean Oklahoma. He said, Yeah, twenty wins, but like
Speaker 2: six and twelve in the SEC. I know they're gonna
Speaker 2: have to win. Right, one of the tournaments.
Speaker 3: One of those non conference was against Arizona early, remember
Speaker 3: that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't remember, but you're right. Was that one
Speaker 2: of those games in the early the early game show
Speaker 2: that they lost? Is that in Bahamas? Could have been?
Speaker 2: Could have been? Yes? I think it was when they
Speaker 2: beat Lester West Virginia. Yeah, well, there's there was quite
Speaker 2: a game there in The SEC just ended with Texas
Speaker 2: beating Texas A and M ninety four eighty nine, two overtimes,
Speaker 2: high scoring. I'm sorry say that Texas be Texas A
Speaker 2: and M.
Speaker 3: After all, in double overtime, they had the lead the SEC,
Speaker 3: they're struggling to the coach is on the hot seat,
Speaker 3: and yeah, what's his name, del Conte will have some
Speaker 3: decisions to make. Yeah, he's got more money than God
Speaker 3: because it's just the way it is.
Speaker 2: In Texas, right, yeah, got oil money. Yeah. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, the SEC supposedly the best conference in the country.
Speaker 2: But who's left. Well, miss, he knocked off your buddy
Speaker 2: Calipari's team, right, yeah, I don't think he's going to
Speaker 2: get in. I really don't. They are twenty and thirteen
Speaker 2: and they're Caliparty eight. And ten in the SEC caliparty. Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The only way you justify it is because it's him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then you put of you get bounced in the
Speaker 3: first round. How else could you justify that?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: You know the Kentucky game still plus well that that
Speaker 2: league is just like the Big Twelve. There's teams waiting.
Speaker 2: There's four more teams that haven't played yet we're sitting there.
Speaker 2: They're going to play to more. The Tennessee is the
Speaker 2: world in Florida, and the Auburn. You know, that conference
Speaker 2: is loaded.
Speaker 3: The funny thing about it, you know we all love
Speaker 3: the tournament right against next week, but they were saying
Speaker 3: that if you put the best eight teams ten teams
Speaker 3: of the SEC, it's like watching the final four, going
Speaker 3: to the Final four for three straight days and watching
Speaker 3: some great basketball. And I wouldn't dismiss that for the
Speaker 3: Big Twelve. If you're gonna have Houston, b YU, now
Speaker 3: Kansas Arizona in your final four, that's the hell.
Speaker 2: Of a final four. Yeah, it is. I mean the SEC.
Speaker 2: You know, Auburn, Tennessee, Florida and Bama right there. You
Speaker 2: know two of those teams could be in the championships.
Speaker 3: And then that's not including the rest of the conferences
Speaker 3: out there. Who kind of sneak up at the last sing?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, who knows? The Zags played pretty well recently,
Speaker 3: they beat one of the better teams than Saint Mary's
Speaker 3: a couple of days ago.
Speaker 4: They could catch fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's gonna there. We know that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I mean it's we can talk about it for a
Speaker 2: week now, but you know next Thursday and Friday you'll
Speaker 2: be talking about the upsets of the day and five
Speaker 2: against twelve. Here's the funny thing. Are you watching them
Speaker 2: all the time?
Speaker 15: Right?
Speaker 3: And I explained a couple of days ago or maybe
Speaker 3: yesterday about going to Vegas and watching all the games
Speaker 3: and see down and watch them all for that Friday
Speaker 3: or that Thursday, enjoying it obviously, but then it was
Speaker 3: too much. It was like too much, these tickers coming
Speaker 3: through games all over the place.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: And now when we're at the games and you're you've
Speaker 3: been there a few times for the first round, right,
Speaker 3: You're you're working, you don't have time to watch the
Speaker 3: other games because you're watching yours, and then have one
Speaker 3: on another one maybe, but it's you don't.
Speaker 2: Get to watch all the games. No, not even close
Speaker 2: even any I remember, like you even just go into
Speaker 2: the press room, you know, and you're trying to do
Speaker 2: your stories. We're trying to edit our stories and the
Speaker 2: games on TV on the side, and you're like, you know,
Speaker 2: it is hard to concentrate as a reporter. But that's
Speaker 2: why it's kind of nice to be at home where
Speaker 2: you can enjoy. They watch them all and they do
Speaker 2: a great job of because you know, shuffling between each
Speaker 2: game and there's a little bit of a lag between
Speaker 2: each game, so you're pretty much all day long, from
Speaker 2: you know, nine o'clock in the morning until around nine
Speaker 2: o'clock at night. You'll be watching basketball on those first
Speaker 2: two days.
Speaker 3: First two days, then then against Saturday and then against Sunday,
Speaker 3: and then it starts all over again a week later.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you think Denver is a good chance for Arizona?
Speaker 3: Oh, if there are five, they're not going to Denver.
Speaker 3: There are four, they might go to Denver. There are five,
Speaker 3: they probably go to Seattle. I have to start leaving
Speaker 3: right now, start to drive. Probably going to drive to Denver.
Speaker 3: If they do get there Seattle, I don't know. Probably
Speaker 3: have to just make a nice minute, twelve hundred dollars
Speaker 3: plane ticket. Yeah, if I decide to goeah. I mean
Speaker 3: we talked about this other times.
Speaker 2: Where you know, Arizona is maybe they're not a blue blood,
Speaker 2: but I think especially in the West, they're a TV team, Oh,
Speaker 2: no question. You know that's sometimes going to maybe push
Speaker 2: them over the top and maybe give them a better chance.
Speaker 2: It didn't really help them too much in the Big
Speaker 2: twelve scheduling, as we also mentioned that playing at nine
Speaker 2: o'clock senior night, it wasn't wasn't the nicest thing in
Speaker 2: the world to do.
Speaker 3: I was part of the NCAA selection committee last year
Speaker 3: as a mock they had in Phoenix obviously the platle
Speaker 3: four right, yeah, and Magnottel who helps run that organization,
Speaker 3: and then they brought me into to help. There was
Speaker 3: like twelve of US reporters to give us a sense
Speaker 3: of how they go through things and proximity of locations
Speaker 3: right for Tucson of Denver's posture than Seattle, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 3: But things have to fall into place to make sure
Speaker 3: you have the counter or the tournament balance is there.
Speaker 3: And that's why I think that it could be still
Speaker 3: be Denver depends, it depends on what day. I didn't
Speaker 3: even know what day Denver is. I'm hoping it's on Friday,
Speaker 3: so I can come and do the show till Tuesday.
Speaker 3: But Seattle and but that's a I was going to
Speaker 3: drive to Portland maybe seven eight years ago when when
Speaker 3: they played in Portland, and now it was just too much.
Speaker 2: It was just too much.
Speaker 3: So I went anyway and the events to get to
Speaker 3: LA But you know, it's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's hard. But again, the games are March twenty and
Speaker 2: twenty two, and so that would be Thursday in Denver, Okay,
Speaker 2: So then that would mean I leave Wednesday night. Talk
Speaker 2: about alumni though, yeah, that's much closer. For We've got
Speaker 2: a lot of alumni in both Seattle and Denver, but
Speaker 2: a lot in Colorado. So that would be a good one.
Speaker 3: I could get there, and that's the sake of maybe
Speaker 3: possibly losing an airport. Airplane seat Frontier does fly there
Speaker 3: from here, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4: Not sure how many times a day.
Speaker 2: And I think Southwest does too to Denver. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I think straight, Yeah, because I have family in Denver,
Speaker 2: so we take that fine.
Speaker 3: Southwest or I was looking at that over the weekend
Speaker 3: at the golf course and and you know, maybe six
Speaker 3: hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: It's Yeah, the problem with that is that you're going
Speaker 2: to have to buy a ticket, you know, three days
Speaker 2: before you travel. Right, it's gonna skyrocket as opposed to maybe,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe I should have bought a ticket for.
Speaker 4: Denver, but that was just and that's just the chance.
Speaker 3: And then if they don't go there as well, I
Speaker 3: got to use that ticket sometime, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the regionals are what New Jersey, San Francisco, Atlanta,
Speaker 2: and Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if they don't go to Seattle or Denver, I'm
Speaker 3: watching it with you, Dave here, and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3: When Arizona played it, UH played against uh?
Speaker 13: Was it?
Speaker 2: Who was it? When they lost the first one?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 2: H which not state they play? Where was that game?
Speaker 2: Like somewhere in the East. I think that might have
Speaker 2: been the sweaty game. I think that had been the
Speaker 2: I think one of those games in twenty sixteen ish,
Speaker 2: one of those where it was like they had really
Speaker 2: had no hope and they didn't. They lost the first round. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the choices, I mean, they're the usual suspects you got.
Speaker 2: You could go to Lexington, Kentucky, go to Providence, Wichita, Cleveland, Denver, Milwaukee, Raleigh,
Speaker 2: New Jersey. I'm sorry that yeah. Yeah, New Jersey is
Speaker 2: with the regional and it was much better. Dave.
Speaker 3: One guess what, Either the TV station or the newspaper
Speaker 3: paid your way, everything paid for every.
Speaker 2: They didn't care. Well they did, I'm sure at the end.
Speaker 2: But you know, no, I'm running pretty lucky. I'm running
Speaker 2: on the Steve rivera corporation with no gun. Least you
Speaker 2: have a corporation. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, just me, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's take take a break. We can't blow through this
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Speaker 2: We're not going to have any breaking news, but we'll
Speaker 2: talk more about the game. Thanks everybody,