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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, the women's team, the women's tournament. I never
thought you. I thought Yukon was gonna win, or at
least had a good chance. And I thought I didn't
think they were gonna beat South Carolina at all. I
thought they had a chance against UCLA. They smoked UCLA
and then they did it again to South Carolina on Sunday.
(00:25):
Those two games were amazing performances by a team that
was playing amazing basketball. Paige Becker's was certainly a star,
but they had other stars with Azy Fudd and Sarah Strong.
And I don't know that I've ever seen a Yukon team,
(00:46):
and Yukon has been loaded for years, and from about
the late nineties to about twenty thirteen or fourteen, the
NCAA Tournament was basically the Yukon Invitational, but that was
some basketball played at a different level. And I don't
know I understand why people liked Katelin Clark. She's still
(01:10):
amazingly mesmerizing when it comes to the successes that she's had,
the fact that she was was going to break a
record that nobody ever thought was even remotely possible to
break with Pete Maravich, and to be the all time
leading scorer, but for both men and women, and to
follow her career, and especially in the heartland of America
(01:30):
where basketball is a religion. And fourteen million people watched
last year when it was on ABC, and I think
almost ten watched the year the year before when she
was matched up with Angel Reese and they only had
four million, just around four million for the championship game
on Sunday. But really that's not a terrible number. Now
(01:52):
it's pales in comparison. It's three times as much as
Caitlyn Clark got her almost four but Caitlyn Clark was
the app And it's kind of like if you had
an NBA Finals with Michael Jordan and then next to
you next year you had the Spurs and the Cavaliers,
or the Spurs and the Knicks, Michael Jordan was going
(02:13):
to give you better ratings. It's the same thing in
the NBA. I don't remember what last year's ratings were
for Boston and Dallas, but if it's Oklahoma City and
Cleveland this year, and I hope it is, the ratings
are aren't going to be nearly what it was the
year before. It's not the sport, it's about who's in
the sport and it doesn't matter. It's like professional golf.
(02:35):
When Tiger plays, the ratings are ten times stronger. When
Tiger wins, the ratings are twenty times stronger. But it's
always about the individual player that creates the viewership. And
Caitlin Clark was that polarizing, once in a lifetime player
that we are getting to see at the women's game.
(02:55):
But what she has done as completely solidified women's basket
ball because if you would have not had Caitlin Clark,
and I would have to go back and look year
to year about the ratings. But my guess is is
in nineteen ninety nine to two thousand and thirteen or fourteen,
that the ratings weren't a million. I remember doing the
(03:17):
morning show years ago on this station, and I think
Connecticut had won three in a row and it was
ESP Award time and the Connecticut had won like ninety
something games in a row to break UCLA's consecutive winning
streak on the men's side, and I one of the
awards for the SP's was the best team of that
(03:39):
year and Yukon was undefeated. They had been undefeated the
season before with basically the same players, and they lost
maybe one game the year before that with some of
the maybe they hadn't even lost in three years I
dont remember, but they'd won ninety something games, and they'd
won back to back to back national championships. And when
I brought up the idea that Yukon should be considered
(04:01):
as the team of the year, what are you talking about.
It's got to be the Lakers, or it's got to
be the football team that won that year, it's got
to be the baseball team. But if that happened now,
and I don't think it's possible for that to happen
now because of the parody in women's basketball, but if
Gino wins the next two, then the twenty twenty seven
team needs to be considered for Team of the Year
(04:22):
and would probably get more consideration. It just doesn't seem
to But I remember kind of I don't remember whether
Peter or Walter was doing the show with me at
the time, but whoever it was, was like, there's no
way you can vote for them. You got to vote
for the Lakers, or you got to vote for the Spurs,
or you got to vote for the Patriots. But women's
(04:43):
basketball has changed so much in the last few years
because of Caitlin Clark that they're now getting four million
people to watch on a Sunday afternoon where some of
the country was still in winter and some of the
country was still is now in spring, and there really
isn't a lot of sports activity that goes on this
time of the year. And we're waiting for the Masters.
(05:05):
We're waiting we have the men's NCAA tournament, and then
we have the NBA Playoffs starting in three weeks, and
that's when the TV viewership starts to go back up
a little bit. But don't discount the fact that what
Connecticut did and what the women's did was not a
good thing because four million people they had to beg
(05:25):
for that a few years ago, and now they're getting
it rather easily. And I would imagine if this team
continues to perform and those other and the players that
are coming back from Yukon start to trend, that we'll
get into a situation where it's even more than that
going forward.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well with the you know, when you're talking about you
don't know why Page Beckers maybe doesn't get the same
amount of recognition as Caitlin Clark did I think people.
I think what it is is people forgot about Page
Beckers because remember Page Beckers got hurt last year and
she was done for the season, so everybody was it
was Caitlin Clark, and then it was the the the
(06:03):
new young phenom that was Juju Watkins, and here was
Paige Becker's, you know, kind of the the third wheel,
and especially with it being at a university as prestigious
as as you bring up talking about with winning with
you know, Rima, and it's like, yeah, she's very good,
but she's also you know, with a team that is
(06:27):
very good, kind of like how Alabama quarterbacks are or
certain Alabama players are. Yeah, they look great on a
on a all stud team, but when they're surrounded by
just you know, regular people, they don't. They don't seem
as great as they are. But it was I loved
it because not only because the the Lady game Cocks
(06:50):
beat the Lady Longhorns, but I'm and I don't have
any disdain for don Staley. I think she's a fantastic coach.
Fantastic coach if she ever decided to take the next
step and go up and coaching the men. I think
that would be great.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You're gonna say, take the next step and coach at
ut Well, yeah, but that's how that's how my opic
you are about the Longhorn.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, but I I just I don't know why I
have a disdain a little bit more for South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I think maybe it's just it's just it's human nature.
When you win, you become you become polarizing. And the
more you win and the and the brashness that what
you do it with, you become both polarizing.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And maybe that's what it is. Maybe because I just,
and I hate to say it, I didn't pay attention
enough to the to the Lady the Lady Huskies with
Gino Ariema. They just didn't come off as always smug
or or brash the way the South Carolina game Cocks
ladies team has been the past few years. I even
(07:54):
compare it a little bit to Kim Moulkey's LSU Tigers.
You know, they they're saying here thinking because they won
one year with Angel Reese and defeated the giant that
was Caitlin Clark, that now that they're the eighty five
Bears and everybody should treat them like that.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, everything had one good year with one great with
a couple of great players and a better team than
Caitlyn Clark's IOWA team was uh and and but that
doesn't diminish what Caitlin Clark did. Here's the other thing
too that I want to bring up, when if some
if I were to walk in in a room and
say give me the top ten coaches of all time
in basketball, Just say give me the top ten basketball
(08:32):
coaches of all time. There'd be a lot of Pops.
There'd be a lot of Phil Jackson's. There'd be a
lot of Mike Crzevsky. There'd probably be some Bobby Knights
in the mix. There certainly would be John Wooden. But
what anybody mentioned Gino Arima, because if they're if they're
not mentioning him, they should. He's now won twelve championships
and he took that program. I mean, they didn't even
(08:53):
have a weight room, they didn't have a place to eat,
they had they had their practice gym was like the
rec center at the school. They had nothing. And he
and when I think he started there in the mid
eighties and he's been there close to forty years, and
he has been an amazing coach. And once they started
figuring out a way to get it done. Now it's
(09:15):
been as they're more popular than the Yukon men's teams.
Obviously by Hurley's been able to Dan Hurley's been able
to do more there. But we got to start giving
Geno rim a credit. And the way that he had
that team ready to absolutely blow out two teams in
a row, I thought was pretty amazing. All Right, we've
got another player that's told his head into the NBA
(09:37):
portal for next year going to go pro. We'll tell
you who made the Basketball Hall of Fame, and we're
gonna talk transfer portal and nil and a whole bunch
of other stuff. In the five o'clock hour, we're out
here at Chicken and Pickle. It's the Andy Everetts Show.
On the ticket
All right, the women's team, the women's tournament. I never
thought you. I thought Yukon was gonna win, or at
least had a good chance. And I thought I didn't
think they were gonna beat South Carolina at all. I
thought they had a chance against UCLA. They smoked UCLA
and then they did it again to South Carolina on Sunday.
(00:25):
Those two games were amazing performances by a team that
was playing amazing basketball. Paige Becker's was certainly a star,
but they had other stars with Azy Fudd and Sarah Strong.
And I don't know that I've ever seen a Yukon team,
(00:46):
and Yukon has been loaded for years, and from about
the late nineties to about twenty thirteen or fourteen, the
NCAA Tournament was basically the Yukon Invitational, but that was
some basketball played at a different level. And I don't
know I understand why people liked Katelin Clark. She's still
(01:10):
amazingly mesmerizing when it comes to the successes that she's had,
the fact that she was was going to break a
record that nobody ever thought was even remotely possible to
break with Pete Maravich, and to be the all time
leading scorer, but for both men and women, and to
follow her career, and especially in the heartland of America
(01:30):
where basketball is a religion. And fourteen million people watched
last year when it was on ABC, and I think
almost ten watched the year the year before when she
was matched up with Angel Reese and they only had
four million, just around four million for the championship game
on Sunday. But really that's not a terrible number. Now
(01:52):
it's pales in comparison. It's three times as much as
Caitlyn Clark got her almost four but Caitlyn Clark was
the app And it's kind of like if you had
an NBA Finals with Michael Jordan and then next to
you next year you had the Spurs and the Cavaliers,
or the Spurs and the Knicks, Michael Jordan was going
(02:13):
to give you better ratings. It's the same thing in
the NBA. I don't remember what last year's ratings were
for Boston and Dallas, but if it's Oklahoma City and
Cleveland this year, and I hope it is, the ratings
are aren't going to be nearly what it was the
year before. It's not the sport, it's about who's in
the sport and it doesn't matter. It's like professional golf.
(02:35):
When Tiger plays, the ratings are ten times stronger. When
Tiger wins, the ratings are twenty times stronger. But it's
always about the individual player that creates the viewership. And
Caitlin Clark was that polarizing, once in a lifetime player
that we are getting to see at the women's game.
(02:55):
But what she has done as completely solidified women's basket
ball because if you would have not had Caitlin Clark,
and I would have to go back and look year
to year about the ratings. But my guess is is
in nineteen ninety nine to two thousand and thirteen or fourteen,
that the ratings weren't a million. I remember doing the
(03:17):
morning show years ago on this station, and I think
Connecticut had won three in a row and it was
ESP Award time and the Connecticut had won like ninety
something games in a row to break UCLA's consecutive winning
streak on the men's side, and I one of the
awards for the SP's was the best team of that
(03:39):
year and Yukon was undefeated. They had been undefeated the
season before with basically the same players, and they lost
maybe one game the year before that with some of
the maybe they hadn't even lost in three years I
dont remember, but they'd won ninety something games, and they'd
won back to back to back national championships. And when
I brought up the idea that Yukon should be considered
(04:01):
as the team of the year, what are you talking about.
It's got to be the Lakers, or it's got to
be the football team that won that year, it's got
to be the baseball team. But if that happened now,
and I don't think it's possible for that to happen
now because of the parody in women's basketball, but if
Gino wins the next two, then the twenty twenty seven
team needs to be considered for Team of the Year
(04:22):
and would probably get more consideration. It just doesn't seem
to But I remember kind of I don't remember whether
Peter or Walter was doing the show with me at
the time, but whoever it was, was like, there's no
way you can vote for them. You got to vote
for the Lakers, or you got to vote for the Spurs,
or you got to vote for the Patriots. But women's
(04:43):
basketball has changed so much in the last few years
because of Caitlin Clark that they're now getting four million
people to watch on a Sunday afternoon where some of
the country was still in winter and some of the
country was still is now in spring, and there really
isn't a lot of sports activity that goes on this
time of the year. And we're waiting for the Masters.
(05:05):
We're waiting we have the men's NCAA tournament, and then
we have the NBA Playoffs starting in three weeks, and
that's when the TV viewership starts to go back up
a little bit. But don't discount the fact that what
Connecticut did and what the women's did was not a
good thing because four million people they had to beg
(05:25):
for that a few years ago, and now they're getting
it rather easily. And I would imagine if this team
continues to perform and those other and the players that
are coming back from Yukon start to trend, that we'll
get into a situation where it's even more than that
going forward.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well with the you know, when you're talking about you
don't know why Page Beckers maybe doesn't get the same
amount of recognition as Caitlin Clark did I think people.
I think what it is is people forgot about Page
Beckers because remember Page Beckers got hurt last year and
she was done for the season, so everybody was it
was Caitlin Clark, and then it was the the the
(06:03):
new young phenom that was Juju Watkins, and here was
Paige Becker's, you know, kind of the the third wheel,
and especially with it being at a university as prestigious
as as you bring up talking about with winning with
you know, Rima, and it's like, yeah, she's very good,
but she's also you know, with a team that is
(06:27):
very good, kind of like how Alabama quarterbacks are or
certain Alabama players are. Yeah, they look great on a
on a all stud team, but when they're surrounded by
just you know, regular people, they don't. They don't seem
as great as they are. But it was I loved
it because not only because the the Lady game Cocks
(06:50):
beat the Lady Longhorns, but I'm and I don't have
any disdain for don Staley. I think she's a fantastic coach.
Fantastic coach if she ever decided to take the next
step and go up and coaching the men. I think
that would be great.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You're gonna say, take the next step and coach at
ut Well, yeah, but that's how that's how my opic
you are about the Longhorn.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, but I I just I don't know why I
have a disdain a little bit more for South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I think maybe it's just it's just it's human nature.
When you win, you become you become polarizing. And the
more you win and the and the brashness that what
you do it with, you become both polarizing.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And maybe that's what it is. Maybe because I just,
and I hate to say it, I didn't pay attention
enough to the to the Lady the Lady Huskies with
Gino Ariema. They just didn't come off as always smug
or or brash the way the South Carolina game Cocks
ladies team has been the past few years. I even
(07:54):
compare it a little bit to Kim Moulkey's LSU Tigers.
You know, they they're saying here thinking because they won
one year with Angel Reese and defeated the giant that
was Caitlin Clark, that now that they're the eighty five
Bears and everybody should treat them like that.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, everything had one good year with one great with
a couple of great players and a better team than
Caitlyn Clark's IOWA team was uh and and but that
doesn't diminish what Caitlin Clark did. Here's the other thing
too that I want to bring up, when if some
if I were to walk in in a room and
say give me the top ten coaches of all time
in basketball, Just say give me the top ten basketball
(08:32):
coaches of all time. There'd be a lot of Pops.
There'd be a lot of Phil Jackson's. There'd be a
lot of Mike Crzevsky. There'd probably be some Bobby Knights
in the mix. There certainly would be John Wooden. But
what anybody mentioned Gino Arima, because if they're if they're
not mentioning him, they should. He's now won twelve championships
and he took that program. I mean, they didn't even
(08:53):
have a weight room, they didn't have a place to eat,
they had they had their practice gym was like the
rec center at the school. They had nothing. And he
and when I think he started there in the mid
eighties and he's been there close to forty years, and
he has been an amazing coach. And once they started
figuring out a way to get it done. Now it's
(09:15):
been as they're more popular than the Yukon men's teams.
Obviously by Hurley's been able to Dan Hurley's been able
to do more there. But we got to start giving
Geno rim a credit. And the way that he had
that team ready to absolutely blow out two teams in
a row, I thought was pretty amazing. All Right, we've
got another player that's told his head into the NBA
(09:37):
portal for next year going to go pro. We'll tell
you who made the Basketball Hall of Fame, and we're
gonna talk transfer portal and nil and a whole bunch
of other stuff. In the five o'clock hour, we're out
here at Chicken and Pickle. It's the Andy Everetts Show.
On the ticket
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