Texas Women's Basketball hosts La Salle

Hour 3 of Tuesday's program begins with a look at the No. 6 Longhorns matchup gainst La Salle tonight.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Craig Way, joined by the producer Cameron Parker. We're with
you up till five o'clock. Don't forget Texas women's basketball
tonight at seven. You can hear that on one oh
three point one FM, Austin's eighty station, as Texas takes
on Lasal the Explorers. Did you when you just hear
the name Lassalle and hear LaSalle Explorers, do you grasp

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a particular imagery of who they were named for and
all that stuff?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
I do not?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Okay, all right, that's good. That's good because you start
with a clean slate. You see. Most people think that
Lassau University was named for the explorer, the French explorer
lasal Uh, and therefore the name being the Explorers. There

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was a Baltimore sports writer covering a Lassal football game
when they had football back in the eighteen thirty one
who alluded to Lesalles being named for the French explorer
Lessal not true. The school was named for Saint John

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Baptist de la Sal. Saint John Baptist de la Sal.
The irony is they were playing a team in Maryland
called Saint John's, not the Saint John's in New York
but they were playing football on that as the folks
at LASAL likes to say where the two events related.
Will never know for sure, but the LaSalle Explorers are

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in Philadelphia. They're not named for the French explorer LASAL.
It is a private, Catholic based institution. But the Long
Orange will take on a LASAL team that is six
and five their wins over Delaware. Writer Lee h, I
mean it's going to be area regional wins Loyola Chicago

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and they beat something called chestnut Hill. There was a
team called Chestnut Hill. The only chestnut Hill I'm aware
of is in Massachusetts where Boston College is, so I'm
not sure what that is. Their losses are to Maine, Drexel, Virginia, Temple,
and Penn, so we'll see. Meanwhile, the Longhorns will roll

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into the game at ten and one and looking to
get one more nice one before they get to the
final game before the Christmas break, when they play South
Dakota State. Now, they're going to get a good test
from South Dakota State and annual NCAA tournament participant and
Sweet sixteen party crasher and all that sort of stuff

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allowed that may not get quite as big a test
tonight from La Sala. They'll get on Sunday, but I
think they'll definitely get one on Sunday. Of course, the
Longhorn men will be in action on Thursday against the
Privateers of New Orleans, who apparently have one of the
logos that Cameron Parker admires more than any other in

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collegiate athletics. Is it right?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
That's right? And they also have one of them an
assistant coach who I admire more than any other assistant coach,
and that's because it's Jeffon Felix, the former Longhorn legend
and one of the most I think clutch bucket getters
in all of Texas basketball history. I always remember his
game win he shot against North Carolina at the Irwin Center.

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I think I was somewhere in North Carolina wearing burn orange,
cheering my foot off with my dad and loved Washington
play basketball for Texas during that time period. Excited to
have him back in Austin. I think Texas fans will
as well.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, he's a great dude. Javon phelicks had He made
some big shots. Other than that one. I can remember
a huge one he made at Kansas State when they
beat Kansas State and he had a big game against
Kansas State. I remember that, uh, and that was a

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game where he was going into it where where I
think he'd had like, for want of a better phrase,
kind of a groin injury. And I asked him how
he felt and said, all right, I said, so everything
is okay with a groin? He said well, and then
he said some blue and off color things about it.
He said, but I'll be ready to go and uh

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so and he went out and he played really really well.
I remember that Javan is a great guy, uh from
New Orleans and a chance to go back there.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
So yeah, we'll look.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
You know, it'll be it'll be good uh for Javon Phelips.
Hopefully they give him a good amount of that that
he'll be recognized and a Republic address I think, and
then given given some proper due on Thursday night for
that one. So h it'll be good to know that

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he's back in town. I won't actually be able to
be there to be that game. Roger will call that
game with Eddie Orn. I'll be in Arlington, as we
talked about earlier, I'm going to be up there for
the calling the UIL State football Championships for television. Six
of those. Obviously, I'll be back for the Texas Clemson
game on Saturday. I'm not doing the two six A
games on Saturday. But speaking of which, coming up in

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a few minutes, we're going to visit with Drew Sanders,
the head coach of the Vandergriff Vipers. Vandergriff has and
has had and he's the only coach the program's ever known.
He's been there since I think two thousand and three,
so he's the only coach the program has ever known.
And they've had a tradition for a long time winning,

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winning lots of games, winning a lot of district championships.
They've had some undefeated regular seasons, and they've had some
good playoff runs, getting into the quarterfinals, getting into the
semifinals once. They've only been to the state championship one
other time. That was two years ago. They lost to
a Desota team that Trey Wisner had a big game

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that afternoon for Desota, and there were several Longhorns who
are involved in that, John Tay Cook, who has now
since left the program entering the portal, but there were
several future Longhorns who were part of that program coming
up that were either seniors or juniors or sophomores and
Quin Travian Wisner and he wasn't going by Quintravian. We

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were told by Claude Mathis, the head coach that week
in the conference calls, that he preferred to go by Trey,
so we called him Trey the whole telecast. We've since
learned that Trey wants to honor his mom's wishes and

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go by quin Travian at least in first reference, and
so that's what we've we've tried to do here over
the past few weeks. We've done call him Quintravian and
then and then come back with Trey in a second reference,
but then call them Quintravian again. So just so we'll
have that. If you talked to Sart, he's of course
been used to him being Trey, so he has called

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him uh Trey. But anyway, Uh Vandergriff lost to Desta
that year two years ago, but they're back now. And
two years ago they were looked as a team that
probably should be there, but could they break through. They did.
This year's team was looked at as one that was good,

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but maybe not good enough to get first of all
through Region four, where a good Sybilo Steel team was
well they thumped them. And then certainly to go up
against a Summer Crank team Kelvin Banks alma mater by
the way, and coached by a lifetime Longhorning Kenny Harrison,
a team that got to the State eight finals before
losing to the Soda last year. That a team that

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was probably going to take them out. There were a
lot of people. I think the computer had Summer Creek
favored by ten points or projected to win by ten
A lot of people thought Summer Creak it was just
another step along the way, and they jumped to a
fourteen nothingly, then they were up ten points late in
the first half at twenty four to fourteen, and then
Vandergrift flipped the script and turned it around.