Bracketology, NBA Brawls, and Texas WBB Survives a Scare

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
From Moody Center in Austin.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's the fourth Grane Texas Women taking on the number
eighteen Kentucky Wildcats. Carlton down to three to shoot, drives
in the paint, squares up, shoots and score.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
A great recognition by Justice. I think she thought she
was just a little bit out of her shooting range.
On the catch, krag In real tough take to the.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Bucket, swings it out to Jordan Lee. Lee Kin try
down the lane, goes reverse sign and scores off the
glass and pull down the long wards got to put
hands on it and.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Madison Booker pulls it out out for.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Jordan Lee sets her feet and nails with three pointer
still on the dribble. Harmin spinning down on the baseline,
fade away jumper, go Kentucky inbounds two one. That'll do
it for the first half and the log Words will
take their largest lead of the half into the locker
room a ten point spread at thirty eight to twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Walkwarts have it.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Here is Harmon scooting into the front court out to
Lee and open look for three and Jordan nails it.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Harmon on the left side cross court pass.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Justice Carlvin sets her feet for three. Good big night
for justice. Tonight she has seventeen and Texas is up
six fifty six fifty three minutes remaining in the ball game.
She went to lee back to Harmon now from Booker
in the left corner, bounce pass into the paint.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Cunningham turns with the right hand or Ed rattles it home.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
That'll work, you know, Conningham can knock down that little
jump hook with her her right hand. Again they didn't
send it double and she was just a nice soft shot.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Good bucket by the horn.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Off to Carvin once another three missed it off the rim,
rebounds hip loose and cutting him. Had it lost the
tie up, Longhorns will get it because of the hustle
that Madison Booker made a few moments ago. Look a
force a tie up. Kentucky will choose not to foul
and that's gonna do it. Long Warts will get the win.
This was a hard fought victory tonight as Texas was

(01:59):
up for team, had the league cut to one, but
they get to win. The final score Here to night
at Booty the Texas Long Horne sixty four the Kentucky
Wildcraft's fifty three. The number is forty and counting forty
consecutive home wins at Moody Center, and the Texas women

(02:20):
had to earn it last night against eighteenth rank Kentucky.
They got pushed there in the fourth quarter, but then
ended up winning the game. Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome to
the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred the
zone to hear on this Tuesday afternoon.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
My name is Craig.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Way, glad to have you with us, joined by the
producer Jay Kerrman. Texas women do move their overall record
of twenty three and two and they're eight and two
in Southeastern Conference play.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
They beat eighteenth rank Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
And the Longhorns currently are in a stretch where they
are going to play out of eight games, six against
ranked opponents. And after beating eighteenth rank Kentucky last night,
after beating fifth ranked LSU last Thursday, beating tenth ranked
Oklahoma the prior Sunday, and now the Longhorns will play

(03:10):
two more ranked opponents coming this weekend, starting Thursday night
in Nashville. And if you haven't seen what Vanderbilt looks
like this year, take a closer look. They're the new
number five now after LSU was beaten by Texas. So
the Loghorns are going to play their fifth game against
a top five ranked opponent this season when they play

(03:31):
Thursday night at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville. They're three to
one so far against top five opponents. The only loss
was in Columbia South Carolina to current number two ranks
South Carolina. Of course, they've already beaten the game Cocks once
this season out in Las Vegas, and they beat UCLA,
who only has one loss.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
This season, that's to Texas.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
And of course they got the win last Thursday night
against LSU. So now they're going to play another top
five ranked team that will be Vanderbilt. And again, in
case you didn't see what they're up to, last night,
they handled Oklahoma. In fact, they were up by twenty
six in the first half, settled for sixteen point victory.

(04:12):
They had two guards, of course, led by michaeleb. Blake's
the all conference election score over thirty points last night,
and that's the first time Vanderbilt's done that since two
thousand and one. So this is gonna be a tough,
tough game and a tough stretch for the long runs
that will see them play three games in seven days,
all against ranked opponents. So we're going to hear from

(04:35):
Vick Schaeffer in a moment the producers, Jay Carman, how
you doing on this Tuesday afternoon?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh, not too bad, Craig.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
I certainly had fun putting that montage together. We were
talking yesterday about Kentucky, right, and the challenge that would
be for the Texas women's team. I think we knew
what Clara Strack could do, but Kentucky's guards and the
way that they kind of threw some wrenches into Texas's
game plan. I thought that was pretty interesting to watch
last night and fun to watch the way Texas responded

(05:05):
closing that game out with a kick after things got dicey.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, that's what they had to do because the long
Words built a fourteen point lead in the first half,
and or excuse me, they led by ten at the half.
After Kentucky had hit four to threes in the first
half from Asia Boom three in the second quarter two
on back to back sequences, Vick Schaeffer called time out.

(05:28):
There was seven h seven to go in the first
half and the game was tied at twenty eight. Kentucky
did not score the rest of the first half. Texas
finished the first half on in ten oh run, so
they were up by ten at the half. Hit a
three to start the third quarter from Jordan lead they
went up thirteen forty one to twenty eight, and then
Kentucky med a huge push, came back and by the

(05:51):
fourth quarter pulled within a point at forty nine forty eight.
At one point, actually when it was forty nine forty
six and Texas missed a shot, Wow came down. Asia Boone,
who had already hit four threes, had a clean look
at a three from in the right corner where she'd
hit earlier, but it went off three.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
It would have tied the score it missed.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Texas ended up adding and then after missing the missing
the Wildcats got a couple of free throws and they
cut it to one at forty nine forty eight, and
Vic Shafer used another time out. In fact that at
that point he was down to one time out, and
I said to Kathy Artiston on the broadcast, I can't
remember the last time Vick was down to one time out,

(06:31):
and then I remembered it was the South Carolina game
in Columbia when they were making their push down the
stretch to stand in the ball game. But Texas then responded.
They outscored Kentucky fifteen to five to close out the game.
From when it was forty nine forty eight, they outscored
him fifteen to five to win sixty four to fifty three.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
So, as I.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Mentioned now, the Longhorns will be playing in Nashville on
Thursday against Vanderbilt. Justice Carlton big Night for the long
one seventeen points. She scored twelve of her seventeen in
the first quarter. They also got some other key contributions.
Jordan Lee scored thirteen. And it was good because on

(07:11):
a night when they were really doubling Madison Booker Hart
and she had a difficult night shooting was just one
of six from the floor. And the zone that Kentucky
used and they matched up out of it and caused
Texas problems as well. All of that added up to
why the Wildcats stayed in the basketball game.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Let's do you hear from Vick Shaeffer about all of this.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
Well, first, I just want to commend coach Brooks and
his staff and their team. I thought they were really
tough tonight. I thought those kids.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
Were unbelievably competitive.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
They finally are getting healthy and you know, they've had
a tough go and for them to come in here
and play like they did, really, I thought defensively in
that third quarter, they really gave us some problems and
we weren't very we weren't very disciplined, and uh but
I just I felt like, you know, I thought these

(08:08):
kids really were tough tonight and have a lot of
respect and admiration for him personally and his staff.

Speaker 7 (08:16):
And the job they do.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
And I thought the kids really played well. So I
know they didn't get to win, but they're gonna win
a bunch of games. And uh, you know, for us,
I think you can pretty much put it in one.
If it wasn't for Justice Carleton and I, we don't win.

Speaker 7 (08:30):
The game.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
Just wasn't our best night. I obviously didn't have my
team ready to play. Really disappointed in myself, you know,
just did a really poor job getting them ready, and uh,
you know, we didn't have a great shoot around today,
and it was it was.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
Evident in how we played tonight.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
But I mean it's you know, their kids, and it's
my job to have them ready to play and I
didn't have them ready, and you know, we didn't. We
didn't necessarily play very well at times, but you know,
we made enough plays tonight to win the game on
an ugly night. So they don't have a right on

(09:17):
the scorecard, right ugly parr And they won't write that
down tonight on the wind. So we'll give God to
glory for one number twenty eighty three maybe.

Speaker 7 (09:27):
And you know, but.

Speaker 5 (09:31):
Again, I thought Justice was really good offensively. She got
us off to a great start, and obviously the three
she makes in the fourth quarter was really big. And
so we've we've got to be better. I've got to
be better. I've got to do a better job getting
my team ready. But we just we were really really

(09:52):
poor on the execution end, and that's that's coaching.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
So with Carlton hitting a couple of big shots, include
being that three late in the game to give Texas
the six point lead, Shaffer was asked, does Justice.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Now have the green light to shoot threes?

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Well, I think she took them to night and I
wasn't hollering at her not to take them, So yeah,
she's you know, she's made some threes in her career,
in her short time, and I see, you know, I
see her working on them. You know, I see her
when she's shooting, working on them, and the kid can
can can make shots.

Speaker 7 (10:27):
I mean she's she's.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
You know, she's been on our machine and she listens
to the machine in the arc that she needs to
shoot with. So I don't, I don't, I don't know
that I have a red light on her for any
of them.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Craig, if you could see the looks that the players
at the podium gave to Vic Shaeffer when he was
asked about three point shooting, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Because that's not real high on his priority list. If
I can hit him, fine, he knows Jordan Lee can
knock him down. Obviously, Justice Carlton can hit him on occasion, you.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Know, Fandill shoots some on Thursday.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh yeah, they shoot a lot of them. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
The long Wards, also in holding Kentucky to twelve points
in the final quarter and closing out on that fifteen
to five run, also forced twenty three turnovers.

Speaker 7 (11:14):
That was big.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
There was one point early fourth quarter when Kentucky had
closed within a point that Texas had forced twenty turnovers
to sixteen committed by the long Horns. But Kentucky actually
had a sixteen to fifteen edge in the points off
the turnovers. That changed afterwards. The long Orangs were able
to turn that around with points down the stretch on that. So,

(11:38):
like I said, Texas twenty three and two or eight
and two in conference play heading into two big games
in the Volunteer State Thursday Night Memorial Gymnay'sium at Vanderbilt
Sunday afternoon at two o'clock as Texas will be in
action and we'll take on the Tennessee Volunteers.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
That will be Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
There was men's college basketball last night. I got home
in time to watch the second half of this. Did
you see any of the Kansas Arizona games?

Speaker 1 (12:09):
I did? I did it. It was fun, you know.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
The most impressive thing is that they did it without
Aaron Peterson is largely projected to be the number one
pick in the draft. Of course, my broadcast partner on
Long Horn Basketball men's basketball games is Eddie Orrin, who
in his regular day job works for the Brooklyn Nets
and Scouting, And I've asked him a couple of times

(12:34):
and he believes what a lot of other people believe
that Darren Peterson will probably be the number one pick
in the draft, but even in being the number one
pick in the draft, there's a lot of questions about
him because he's had a lot of absences from the
lineup injury, illness.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
It was flu like symptoms last night, so and it
came on late. There was no reporting on this until
right before the game.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
I thought Arizona in that game. I didn't think they
played poorly. I just think they found a team that
could stand up to them a little bit physically and
saw the officials letting them play quite a bit. I
think Vick Schaeffer will hint at that a little bit
later in his press conference. Sometimes in prime time you
don't want to see a free throw shooting contest, and
the Jayhawks, and playing without Peterson, had to lean on that.

(13:20):
They did a good job. I thought keeping Arizona out
of the paint, out of rhythm.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
It is interesting. Here's I always like all these unique nuggets.
Here's when Kansas became the first team in the past
twenty thirty seasons to beat the number one ranked team
in the country in the AP pole, to be an
AP number one team despite not having a twenty point
per game average score. Now, they got plenty of contributions

(13:47):
last night Floria Badunka had twenty three, Bryce and Tiller
at eighteen. Melvin Council had twenty three, but they don't
have a player who averages twenty per game. So first
time in thirty years that has happened. All right, coming up,
we'll have more on that. We'll hear more from Vic
Schaefer and more on that also coming up next. It

(14:10):
was a conversation we were unable to bring you last
week due to some technical difficulties. But Ross Chastain, the
NASCAR driver, was in town last week. We had a
visit with him, and with the NASCAR season opening this
week with the Daytona five hundred, we'll bring you the conversation.
There's a couple of things that he was referring to
last week, like the Clash race that happened in Winston Salem.

(14:35):
He finished ninth in that race, by the way, and
of course he was in town. He was working with
first responders. But his first NASCAR Point Series win came
at Circuit of the Americas. He won at CODA, so
we'll get his thoughts on that. Of course, that's at
the end of the month when they're here for the
NASCAR race at CODA. But of course it's the super

(14:57):
Bowl of racing. As they say, the first race of
the in NASCAR is the day two of five hundred,
so we'll get his thoughts on that coming up. We
have inconceivable this hour. We have a lot to get
to him. We'll continue right here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred, the zone where you can always listen to
us for free on the iHeartRadio app. While we all

(15:19):
love struck by the immortal Stevie ray Vaughn. This being
a Texan Tuesday, we always roll back with at least
one return cut in the four o'clock hour from the
King George Straight, in the three o'clock hour from the
iconic Willie Nelson, and here in the two o'clock hour

(15:39):
the immortal Stevie Rayvaughn.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
All Right, we're talking about Texas.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
There is going to be a race at the Circuit
of the America's coming up at the end of the
month for NASCAR Ross. Tastein was down here last week
was part of an initiative with first respect and going
through some training on that, and of course he is
a Cup Series driver who's won six races, who finished

(16:06):
ninth last week at the at the at the Clash,
which is kind of the preamble to the start of
the NASCAR season. We had a chance to visit with
him and there were a couple of comments since it
was last week about what was going on in Winston
Salem at the Clash. It was more directed at his
time down here in Texas at Coda Circuit of the

(16:27):
Americas as well as getting ready for the Daytona five hundred.
Our conversation with Ross Chastain please to be joined now
here on A thirteen hundred the Zone by Ross Chastein,
who is now in his fifth year driving the number
one Chevrolet for track house Racing, and maybe this greater
Austin area carries.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
A little more meaning.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
After all, Ross's first win came at Coda at the
Circuit of the Americas back some four years ago. Does
it seem like it's been four years since you won
that first one back in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
No, sir.

Speaker 9 (17:03):
When you say that, a lot of memories flashed back,
and a lot of yeah, there's a lot of thoughts
and memories come came flooding back.

Speaker 10 (17:10):
Into my head.

Speaker 9 (17:11):
So yeah, does not seem like that long ago. It
just seems like a few weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Let me get your thoughts on when the memories that
came flooding back of that first series win to win
there at CODA. What stood out to you most about
that experience of getting your first NASCAR Series win and
it being at CODA.

Speaker 9 (17:37):
Really the first thing is the fact that the year
before I came out here to a driving school, because
when they announced Coda was coming on the schedule for
the Cup Series in twenty one, I didn't know where
CODA was. I didn't know what the abbreviation stood for,
so I had to first google it and then look
up driving schools and find an instructor that would teach me.

(17:58):
The course i'd read online was twenty turns, and I
didn't I couldn't comprehend how I would learn twenty turns
and be competitive. So it lined up also to be
my first full time year in the Cup Series in
twenty twenty one, and to come back just a year later,
so I mean just a really thirteen months after my
driving class, so it was with the Skip Barbar Driving School.

(18:21):
Thirteen months later I won a Cup race here, which
was absolutely incredible.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
Well, the other thing that I think impressed so many
folks was you follow that up four weeks later by
winning at Talladega, and you talk about yend to the
Yang road course to super speedway on that, and then
I look at what you did at Martinsville and then
of course winning the Coca Cola six hundred last year
at Charlotte. I think it demonstrates, as much as anything else,

(18:46):
your versatility and the best drivers in the world have
that kind of versatility.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
But what is appealed to you.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
And has it evolved over time on if you can
a preference if there is, or whether it's road course,
short track, medium range, super speedway, is something emerged to
you more or has it even involved over time?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Which types of tracks you seem to prefer?

Speaker 9 (19:12):
No preference here, really just prefer the next one.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (19:17):
The road courses are something I didn't grow up doing,
so that was a challenge, as is dirt racing.

Speaker 10 (19:21):
It's not something I grew up doing.

Speaker 9 (19:23):
So those are two disciplines that I've had to learn
in NASCAR in front of everybody, and make my mistakes
on a big stage. Not when I was a kid
where I learned to race on a flat asphalt circle track,
so it was a relief, I will be honest. We
won those two races, like you said, back you go
back in time to Dakota and Talladega, and then we

(19:45):
didn't win again until the next summer, so over a
year later before we won again. And we won on
a standard I guess Nashville Super Speedways technically a mile
and a third or something under a mile and a half,
but it was your standard race track.

Speaker 10 (20:00):
For NASCAR, built for NASCAR.

Speaker 9 (20:02):
Off the throttle in the corners with banking, and then
back on the gas on the straightaway. So that was
a big deal to win there. Felt like we accomplished
a traditional NASCAR win.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, and and what you just described, but what comes
to mind for me, You know, attended a lot of
races at Texas Motor Speedway, and having grown up in
North Carolina, a big fan of Charlotte where you won
the Coca Cola six hundred, Darlington and those places in
South Carolina as well. Do you feel that that because

(20:36):
you have more races on the more standard tracks that
you talked about, that it is more of a comfortable
feeling and therefore involves quite a bit of mental and
muscle memory adjustment to when you play. When you're driving,
say on a shorter track like Martinsville, to say nothing
of what you're having to deal with on a road

(20:58):
course like a Coda.

Speaker 9 (21:01):
Yeah, the banked ovals, the banked tracks like Texas Motor
Speedway up in Fort Worth's, that's definitely what NASCAR was
built on. Now we've definitely diversified with a lot of
road courses around the country. But grew up, I grew up.
The muscle memory comes from twelve years old when I
first started racing, and that's where the first a little

(21:24):
bit of bank, only a couple of degrees, But I
did have some banking the very first time I ever raced.
And so to go to road courses where most corners
are flat, it feels very odd, feels like the car
is gonna flip over, honestly.

Speaker 10 (21:35):
So definitely just.

Speaker 9 (21:38):
Yeah, more comfortable with more banking, and have gotten more
comfortable with the really steep tracks your Bristol Dover, even Charlotte,
with the way the corners lay out at Charlotte Motor Speedway,
for like the Coca Cola six hundred, that's some of
the highest.

Speaker 10 (21:54):
Vertical loads we see.

Speaker 9 (21:55):
So when I go in the corner at all these
tracks all over the country, Charlotte pushes me down in
the bottom of the seat, heavier and harder than any
other track. Texas comes close, but it's got a lot
of the force going out the side of the car
where Charlotte's really straight down.

Speaker 10 (22:10):
So yeah, it's definitely. Uh, it's It's something that.

Speaker 9 (22:15):
The first time I drove at these high bank tracks
it was very.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
You know.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
The one other thing that comes to mind is is
that you have also been successful on the O'Reilly Autoparts circuit,
winning in Las Vegas and winning at Daytona in that
and uh and then obviously winning at Darlington there uh
in the UH Craftsman Truck Series as well in doing that.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Uh do you think that that that?

Speaker 9 (22:47):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (22:48):
First of all, do you still enjoy the relationship you
have with those circuits and and b that has it
also helped you develop as a driver by running on
those circuits as well as running on the cup to
research it.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
I still love it.

Speaker 9 (23:03):
They've Nascars recently for this coming year changed the rules
and I'll be able to run more races than I
have the last couple of years, so eight Crassmo Tark
races and ten o'railly races on Saturdays. And that's something
that when the rule came out, we already had my
schedule set and we had to basically flip the board
over and go back to the drawing board on what

(23:24):
races and adding races.

Speaker 10 (23:26):
So that's something that I truly enjoyed.

Speaker 9 (23:29):
I think I get something out of it from the
competition side, and that's of utmost importance. I want to
be fast on Sunday, and if I can race on
the same track on the same weekend, I think it helps,
and then I just have fun doing it. At its core,
I enjoyed driving. It's what I've decided to build my
career around. And yeah, we'll be in as many races

(23:50):
as we can, including the o'rally race on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Ed Coda excellent, excellent.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Now I got to ask you this because again, growing
up in the state of North Carolina, this is near
and dear to my heart, the.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Clash at Bowman Gray.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
I used to go see high school football games there
at Bowman Gray Stadium. But also, of course it's a
historic in terms of its presence in NASCAR in the
past in history, and then also North Wilkesboro with a
return there at North Wilkesboro and your thoughts on those
two races, the Clash and then also in North Wilkesboro

(24:26):
being back in the Cup circuit.

Speaker 9 (24:29):
Yeah, going back to North Wilkesboro, I'll touch on that
first for that, what it's been through the original pavement
and getting repaved and now Points race. We've seen that
come full circle from attracted a lot.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Of us drove by just not too many years.

Speaker 10 (24:48):
Ago and there were trees growing through the grandstands.

Speaker 9 (24:51):
You saw stuff online of people sneaking in just to
go see it because it was all closed up. And
now to race there for Points this year is going
to be really cool just to touch an historic track
and the way they built it. Definitely they don't build
them like that anymore. And then you go to the
Clash and my goodness, if we can catch some weather

(25:13):
some click weather will be okay. But yeah, definitely to
think about what the France family has done at that track.
You go back so many decades ago and in the
Frances were coming up to promote races up there and
our sports beginnings have Bowman Grays in its core, in

(25:33):
its base, like on the foundation of NASCAR, Bowman Gray
was a big part of it. So happy to be back,
Happy to be, you know, in the sport at a
time where we're continuing to move the schedule around it,
hit new places and take our sport really to the
backyards of a lot of fans that haven't seen us.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, and I get the feeling that you feel that's
really important now is you know, as popular worldwide and
internationally as as Naskar or in the series races are
the importance of continuing to grow the sport and to
put the footprint in places where it hasn't been at
least in a while.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
If ever, it's important to grow.

Speaker 9 (26:13):
We went all the way to Mexico City this year,
right first international points race in the sport, in the
same year that we went back to Bowm and Gray,
where our foundation is, and we go everywhere in between
coast and coast and look, with Ben Kennedy at the
helm of a lot of the logistics of our schedule
and the leadership group at NASCAR, where we're going to

(26:36):
go in the future, like in my career, where I'll
get to race a Cup car I have no idea,
and I think that's really exciting, no.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you about that
little race that starts everything coming up in a couple
of weeks when you're at Daytona, and the thoughts that
you have about getting this whole thing in the NASCAR
Cup Series rolling again by starting off as it always
does at Daytona, and the gravitas that that race brings

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to the circuit and to the sport overall.

Speaker 9 (27:09):
Yeah, I don't know how we ever line that up
to be such a big deal at the beginning, but
I'm here for it. As a Florida boy, I grew
up little under four hours away from Daytona is where
our family farm is over on the southwest side of
the state, and we grew up going to races over
there as fans. So to be back there as a
competitor now I understand from inside the car what it

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feels like to take the green flag in the Daytona
five hundred is a unique experience. Standing on the grid
pre races is something I hope I get to do
for a lot longer a long time in my career.
We'll see, but it's special and as a fan. I
felt it as a kid, and I still feel it today.
I'm thirty three years old and feel like every day

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I wake up is a dream, and then especially waking
up on that day.

Speaker 10 (27:57):
I will be honest, I do get the feeling.

Speaker 9 (28:00):
I've woken up on the morning of the Daytona five
hundred thinking I missed it.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
I thought I had overslept.

Speaker 9 (28:05):
I had the panic feeling, and I jumped up realized
it was six a m. And I went right back
to sleep. But Yeah, definitely the Daytona five hundred. Great
way to kick off our season with speed Week down
there and get the get the NASCAR season.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Rolling final question here before you ross heading back to
CODA getting ready for for the events here coming up?
What what stands out to you most about how important
it is to UH to perform well here? Since you've
already done it once and you've already won here, so
in every experience that you have going back, UH, what

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what stands out to you about the importance of driving
well and performing well and getting a good result at Coda.

Speaker 10 (28:53):
Well, Justin Martz, who owns track House.

Speaker 9 (28:57):
Has went out and done a really good job of
hiring me some teammates and they are really good at
road courses.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
So you want to talk about.

Speaker 9 (29:06):
Being a tough spot, try to be in the teammate
to shanevan Gisberg and Connor Zilich at road courses. It's
absolutely incredible, So tough, very challenging. But Shane leads a
lot of the driving our setups in the direction he
wants to go, and I am there to learn. He
was taught overseas or way across the world over in

(29:28):
New Zealand and raced a lot in Australia. He was
taught different things than any of us have learned here
in the States, so it's opened our eyes and nobody
has a more open notebook from him than Connor and
I and that's really been good. It's helped me get
up to speed more at these places. And the coda
that I raced on when we won, and the competition

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level that I raced on that day is not the same.
The Cup Series evolved so quickly we've if you put
that effort out there that one within twenty two, you'd
be in thirtieth place this coming year.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
So always got to be moving forward well. Ross We
appreciate you taking the time.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
I know it's an unbelievably hectic schedule for you, as
as it always is for you, I know, but we
wish you the best of luck. We welcome you back
here to the Austin area. Wish you the best of
luck at CODA and throughout the course of the upcoming
NASCAR Points Cup Series as well.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
I appreciate you taking the time, Ross, Thank you. Yeah,
thanks Greg.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
All right, that's Ross Jasting. We'll be back with more
here on thirteen under the Zone, second hour of the
program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Craig Way with you alongside of the producer Jay Kerr.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
I'm glad to have you with us here on this
Tuesday afternoon, coming off to Texas women's basketball win last
night over Kentucky. Three in a row of a rank opponents,
forty in a row at home, forty consecutive wins at
home at Moody Center.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
That's the longest streak in the nation right now now, and.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
The good results are going to be put to the
test when they go to the Volunteer State to play
Vanderbilt on Thursday night. Their number five in the country,
the new number five after Texas dispatched the prior number
five LSU last Thursday. Now they have to play another
number five. They'll play Vanderbilt and it will be the

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fifth game this season against a top five ranked opponent,
long warch of three and one in that area, which
ties for the most wins against top five opponents this season.
Last night they got another win of for a ranked opponent,
and they lead the nation in ranked wins this season,

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and they also have four wins of our top ten
ranked schools. So try to get another one of those
in the top ten category, of the top five category,
and in the ranked opponent category on Thursday night against Vanderbilt,
who tore up Oklahoma last night. And then on Sunday
they'll play at number twenty three Tennessee. So they've got
those two. Longhorn men have their midweek bye this week,

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and they'll be back in action on Saturday evening in Columbia,
Missouri at the Missouri Arena against the University of Missouri.
And we'll hear from Shawan Miller tomorrow on the program
as he drives toward that. A reminder also will bring
you Longhorn Weekly with Shawn Miller on Thursday night following

(32:33):
the Texas Women's game. So we'll have that this week's
edition of Longhorn Weekly that comes up on Thursday night,
So we'll have that.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
In a few minutes.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
We'll tell you what Texas, what impression Texas has made
on those who examined things from a bracketological perspective and perspective,
and we'll here we'll take a look at some of
the updated bracketology selections. Still Seattle basking in the glow

(33:07):
of the Super Bowl when and I don't know when
I didn't I didn't hear is the parade today or tomorrow?
Have you have you heard about when the Seahawks are
having their big whatever victory rally or parade in downtown Seattle.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Looks like the parades tomorrow, but the celebrations have have begun.
I think Sam Darnold was on some sort of what
he's already been to Disneyland.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah, and by the way, let me just say this,
there was a time when Disneyland or disney World, you know,
you would send the Super Bowl MVP and they are
Kenneth Walker, the third is going to Disneyland or has
already been by now, I don't know. But Sam Donald

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was including that we all just send both of you,
both of you guys get to go.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
That was a nice touch. I guess why stop there, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Right, send the whole team, right, So anyway that that
that's the case there, and so Sam Darnold is now
you know, I reached a level of celebrity coming off
the win that in fact, Donald was asked to reflect
on the win given the journey he has traversed.

Speaker 11 (34:21):
You know, for me, it's just and I said this,
you know in the Monday interviews that we did, but
like I've I've taken it day by day, you know,
throughout my entire career, and it's.

Speaker 7 (34:33):
Gotten me to this point.

Speaker 11 (34:34):
And you know, that's that's really all I can say
about that.

Speaker 6 (34:36):
But it's because of the guys in.

Speaker 11 (34:37):
The locker room, because of our coaching staff working their
butts off every single day, Like you know, that's why
we're all here, you know.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
We it almost felt like.

Speaker 11 (34:46):
We got to the NFC Championship then we won and
was like, oh, shoot, we're going to the super Bowl,
like that's it literally felt like it was just part
of the process. And you know, we did the same
thing today, you know, offense again, didn't. I feel like
we didn't play as good as we could have. I
certainly didn't play as good as I could have, but
our defense had her back, our special teams had here back,

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and we got the win.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
He did make note of the fact, and we were
talking about this, that they won with one offensive touchdown.
Who no, one offensive touchdown? That's what he had, one

(35:31):
offensive Touchdowny did he ever, in his wild as dreams
think that one offensive touchdown would be enough in this game?

Speaker 7 (35:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (35:39):
You know, I think, first of all, I mean, we
we got down there a few times. Jamie had a
great day. I think he kicked four field goals, so
it wasn't just you know, one touchdown. Obviously we'd like
to get in the end zone more. But yeah, I think,
you know, with our defense, the way that they've been playing,
my job is to take care of the football and
I knew that coming into the game, and you know

(36:01):
I did that, and you know, I took the open
guy when they were there, and you know, if I
had to take sacks, if I had to throw the
ball away, I.

Speaker 7 (36:08):
Was able to do it.

Speaker 11 (36:10):
But I just played that kind of game and I
feel like, you know, we ended up coming on being
on top.

Speaker 6 (36:15):
Because of it.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah, five field goals, by the way, for Jason Myers,
he said four. It was five, But it might have
been pretty easy to lose count of it given the
fact that they got steinmied so many times in New England,
and the Patriots defense kept him in the game by
doing that for a long while, even though their offense
was just completelyffeckless when it came to trying to move

(36:41):
the ball on the Seahawks. And then one more from
Darnold talked about Ernest Jones believing in him and the
impact of him and his teammates rallying around him.

Speaker 11 (36:52):
Yeah, it's unbelievable to have a guy like EJ in
her corner, you know. And I think he said it
middle of the season, but he had a you know,
a great quote, you know, defending me, especially after that
that game in LA where I didn't play my best football.
I had a few turnovers. But everyone, everyone in that
locker room believes in me. They've had my back from
the from the jump, and uh.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
I've everyone's back as well.

Speaker 7 (37:12):
You know.

Speaker 11 (37:12):
That's just kind of how we roll as a team.
And again, it's you know, the the journey and everything
that comes with it, and being able to win a
super Bowl. It hasn't hasn't really sunk in even just
saying it out loud kind of, you know, it's an
awesome moment that, you know, I was able to share
tonight with with a lot of my teammates and coaches.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah, that team bonding thing was also on the mind
of Jason Myers, who just happens to be the longest
tenured Seahawk, and he certainly contributed with his five field goals,
so he was asked to reflect on all of that.

Speaker 12 (37:49):
It's amazing, you know, you you never you always want
to be here, obviously, like you always dream about playing
the Super Bowl, and you know some of us took
a little bit longer to get there and and to
win it. But you know, just that locker room and
what we had all year was amazing. It was a
great experience, great relationships and uh yeah, I mean it's

(38:13):
just there's no words to express what what that team
is in there.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
He also set an NFL single season record for points
from a kicker.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
What does that mean to him?

Speaker 12 (38:24):
Yeah, I mean it doesn't I mean, even just winning
right now, it doesn't even feel real. But you know,
you hear those those numbers being thrown out there. It's just,
you know, we've had amazing defense, obviously, amazing special teams,
and offense just moved the ball so great all year.
So you know, as a specialist, you can't really force
force the game, right like, you get limited opportunities and
whenever your numbers, colleges go out there.

Speaker 7 (38:45):
And do your best.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, five field goals, did pretty well and hit his
extra points as well. Then there's linebacker Derek Hall. What
was the primary emotion he felt from this game?

Speaker 13 (38:56):
I I have to say, is man, this gratitude, you know,
just the gratitude, the love, and you know, just the
compassion you know I have for my teammates been in
this moment. You know, see what guys went through, Guys
coming back from injury, you know, guys fighting their butt off,
you know, not feeling well, but still have been able
to come into work every single Sunday and put in
the work for us to go out to be successful.

(39:18):
I think that would be the greatest you know, compassion
of love that I have.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
For this team.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
While running the risk of being a prisoner of the
moment in recency bias, it can be said that the
Seattle defense, if not the best ever in a single season,
it's certainly right up there. I mean those of us
are you know ogs. We think about the eighty five Bears,

(39:43):
they were incredible, the two thousand Baltimore Ravens, those were
a couple. There were some other ones, even the Cowboys
Doomsday defense when they won their first Super Bowl in
nineteen seventy one. The Cowboys were five and four at
a point in that season. Actually, no, that was nineteen

(40:04):
seventy They were five and four and then they won
games by like six to two, and then the five
to nothing in the playoffs, that sort of thing. But
also the Doomsday defense in seventy one was really really
tough down the stretch. So there have been all of
these other defenses that were really, really good, some would
say even record setting.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
You think about the no Names, the Purple People leaders.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
The problem with the Purple People leaders is they didn't
have offense when they had defense. In seventy and seventy one,
the Minnesota Vikings had two of the best defenses in
the NFL history.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Problem was he didn't have a quarterback.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
That's why it's the ultimate team game.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Do you know who the quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings
was in seventy and seventy one.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
It's talk about Joe Kapp.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
He'd already gone. That was part of the problem.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Cap was the quarterback of the sixty nineteen that won
the last NFL championship last year before the merger, and
then he and the Vikings got beat up by the
Chiefs in Super Bowl four. Cap left salary dispute. Wines
were one of the Boston Patriots one year before they
came to New England, and he was out of football
after one more year after. That was a It was

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a big mistake made on the part of Cap and
on the Vikings who refused to extend him coming off
the season he had.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
So can you.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Name me the quarterback of the seventy and seventy one
Vikings who led the NFL and defense.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
It's not going to be targeting.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Nope. He arrived the next year.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Did this quarterback play in a Super Bowl with a
different team? I'm assuming no, because did not.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
I don't have it.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Gary Quaso quo zz O, Gary quaso am.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
He'd been a career backup.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
He'd been a backup to Johnny ands with Baltimore and
then he was a backup.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
In what he was.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Actually, the Saints actually traded for him when they came
into the league in nineteen sixty seven.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
They thought he was going to be our guy known
for great quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Yeah, so he comes in, he gets hurt, does nothing.
Billy Kilmer establishes himself as the Saints quarterback and he
was there for forty years before George Allen picked him
up for Washington. So Gary Quaso winds up on the
Vikings roster as a backup, and that's all he really
was good to be in a backup. The Vikings had
home playoff games, and this was in the days before

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the best record in the NFL gave you divisional playoff
home sites. Nineteen seventy, they hosted the forty nine Ers
at home, lost to them. John Brody, who was I
think the NFL MVP that year in nineteen seventy, led
the forty nine Ers to win there and then Brody
in the forty nine Ers lost to the Cowboys in
the NFC Championship. And then the next year Cuasa was

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the quarterback and they also had Norm Snead on the
roster too. They picked him up from Philadelphia, and they
had Bob Lee, but they just couldn't get consistent quarterback play.
And the next year on the day, a lot of
folks forget about this game because it was the same
day that the Chiefs and Dolphins played their double overtime game.

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The year the Dolphins win the Super Bowl. But on
that same day, Christmas Day nineteen seventy one, the Vikings
were playing the Cowboys at home and they lost twenty
to twelve, and they just didn't really play them much.
In Staubach and Dwayne Thomas led the Cowboys to the
victory and they went on and they won the Super.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Bowl that year. So anyway, if all these.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Historically good defenses, and Derek calls asked, what does it
mean to be a part of a historically good defense, I.

Speaker 13 (43:37):
Think that's huge and I don't think that's something you
could take for granted. You know, the sad part about
it is after the night, who knows, you know, where
guys are gonna be. You know, hopefully we can keep
this thing together and keep this thing rolling. But man,
you can't take that for granted. It's a special group,
you know, a special group of guys who went out
and put their best with four hypy team to be successful.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Some very wise words from Derek Hall, because he knows
what's coming. He knows what's on the horizon for the Seas.
They got to pay a lot of guys if they're
gonna keep a lot of guys off this team.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
So so what's on the horizon for Houston in two years?

Speaker 1 (44:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Their window. You gotta make a dent next year. Yeah,
let's see how proactive they are about this. Uh, he
talked about being sad. You want to be sad. Sad's
on the other side for New England, Drake may his
faults in the game.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
It's hurt, no, no doubt, you know, it definitely hurts.
It's been a long ride.

Speaker 8 (44:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
They played better enough tonight.

Speaker 7 (44:31):
They deserved it with that game.

Speaker 14 (44:32):
And you know, speaking uh you know for the whole
team and uh, you know myself, just you know where
the journey has been for us. I love this team,
love those guys in the locker room, and.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
We'll leave it all on the field.

Speaker 14 (44:44):
And I know a lot of guys do that tonight
and just came up short, didn't play our best and
that's what happens.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, And what would he like to have back from
that game. I'd like to have back.

Speaker 14 (44:54):
I'd like to go back to the beginning and redo it.
But no, there's so many players that who can decide
and and change the game. I think, you know, what
of the nineteen seven or twenty two to seven and
you have to have the you know, fumble or whatever
and then returning for a touchdown. There's newest players in
the first half where I feel like I could have
made a better throw or make a better decision, and

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really just comes down to who makes the plays and
who doesn't.

Speaker 7 (45:20):
And they made plays to night. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
And then finally, this is your captain. Obvious question. Does
a defeat at this level in the final game that
you're motivate the team for next year?

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Yeah, that's what motivates. That's what we just talked about
in the locker room. That's what uh, that's what fuels.

Speaker 14 (45:34):
And I think that's the biggest thing about about life
is he gonna have times like this and.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
It's how you bounce back.

Speaker 14 (45:40):
And I think, you know, all those guys in that
locker room are gonna use this as fuel. And I
think you'll go to war with those guys anytime, any.

Speaker 7 (45:47):
Day, anywhere.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
Motivation to get back.

Speaker 14 (45:50):
Here and not have this feeling and have what they're
feeling out there.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah, tough loss, but the stand up guy Drake May
and feeling these questions and talking about that. Okay, we're
gonna shift to basketball and talk some men's basketball. The
collegiate variety here coming up. I'm thirteen under the zone
for years, the iconic Willy Nelson. This one is what

(46:15):
what's the name of this one?

Speaker 4 (46:16):
Uncloudy cloudy day, that's it? Yeah, Yeah, trying to manifest
it later this afternoon.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Yeah, hopefully that'll pop on.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
But it's it was cloudy this morning into this afternoon,
so hopefully it'll be an uncloudy day later. All right,
cloudy murkhy is the picture here in uh, not even
really totally mid February. It is, after all, just the

(46:45):
tenth of the month, so we're still one month. I
think we're five weeks away from selection Sunday for the
NCAA Basketball Tournament. That does not, however, preclude the racketologists
from updating everyone on what they think the field looks like.

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And we have fresh out of the oven bracketological prognostications.
We begin obviously with the holy man guru of all
of this, and that's Joe Lonardi who really invented the
term bracketology, wrote a book entitled Bracketology as well studies
it lives, It eats, it drinks, it breeds, it sleep.

(47:28):
He is by no means the only guy who is
into this science, but he was the pioneer of it.
So just to let you know where he's got it
right now, and this was released just at just this morning,
a little while ago this morning, despite last night's loss
in Lawrence, Kansas, he still has Arizona's the overall number

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one seed. It was, after all, just the wildcats first
loss of the season, and he's got them the number
one seed in the West Regional opening in Sandy a
Go facing Harvard and then the eight to nine matchup.
How about this, if this turned out to be so
the eight nine matchup, there would be Texas A and
M against SMU. That's in that it would pair up

(48:16):
if you know, whoever wins the two games here in
San Diego would pair up with the winner first and
sing around action in Portland, where the five seed Alabama
would play the twelve seed South Florida. The four Sea,
Gonzaga would play the thirteen seed Cow and he has
Gonzaga dropping one spot after their loss last week at Portland,
also on that West bracket, but starting in the pod

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in Tampa. Remember they did this several years ago and
it's turned out to be a really wise move that
you don't have to have everybody in two pods feeding
into one regional. It can be to balance the bracket.
They can do it anywhere. So that stands for four

(49:01):
teams playing in Tampa, but it would feed into the
West Regional in San Jose. Those four teams in Tampa,
according to Joe Lonardi, would be a six seed Clemson,
an eleven seed Miami, Ohio the last undefeated, last undefeated team,
and that's good enough for an eleven seed right now.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
Hey, to what you said, and I've heard others say
as well.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
If they don't win the MAC Tournament, they might not
get into the Big Dance.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
It's crazy. It's crazy. I mean, I understand it. The
MAC is a very weak league, yep.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
And I do think now at this point, I think
they'll probably run the table and win the regular season
and that might get them into the field of sixty eight.
Having a pristine, unblemish record regardless of what they do
in Cleveland at the MAC Tournament. But they never know, I.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Hate to say it. Team like the Longhorns. You want
them to slip up?

Speaker 2 (49:58):
Yeah, right, exactly. The other matchup in Tampa. I bought Florida.
If they're playing in Tampa, it'd be kind of tough
to meet them there. He has them as the three
seed playing the projected Big South Winter Winthrop would be
the fourteen seed.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
Yeah, that would be an outstanding draw for Florida.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
It would match up with the Pod in Oklahoma City, one.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Of the two pots in Oklahoma City.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
This would be the seventh seed Utahs State against the
ten seed USC and the two seeds he's got. Nebraska's
the two seed against Merrimac. You know where Merrimack is.
You're an East Coaster New Jersey truck. You got the
new part right. Hampshire Hampshire. Yeah, that was my second
gise No, mainly as a hockey school, but they've been

(50:44):
D one basketball I think three years now, and I'm
trying to remember the cover then in the America East Conference.
Maybe it is, so that would be the matchup there. Okay,
So that's That's how Lenardi has the West the South,
which would ultimately feed to the Sweet sixteen.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Yes, it's the Metro Atlantic, by the Metro.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
The NAA se the South would end up in Houston
at Toyota Center. Would have would begin in Philadelphia for
the one seed Yukon and then the winner of a
play in in Dayton between the sixteen seed Long Island,
whereas they say out there Lung Gailan and Bethune Cookman

(51:30):
the three seed the eight seed n SA State going
down on spot.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
They got hammered. Boy did they get smacked around last night?
Did you see that? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (51:38):
The Louisville. Louisville ran up the score. It's like one
twelve to seventy seven. Pat Kelsey doesn't care who he offends.

Speaker 7 (51:45):
No, he really doesn't.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
So anyway, n C State against Wisconsin would be the
eight nine matchup there also out of the South, but
beginning in Portland. He has the five seed being Tennessee
against the twelve seed Stephen F. Austin, the four seed
Virginia against the thirteen seed, the first of my four
Alma maters. You wouldn't see Wilmington. The Seahawks projected to
win the Coastal Athletic Association.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
The last time they made it, I picked them and
they lost badly.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Oh you picked them with well, it was last year
they won the Coastal Urmy in DC.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
I picked them the upset in the first round.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Yeah, not so much.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
It didn't go well for the Seahawks there, Okay, so
that's important. It would match up with a regional pod
in Buffalo, which would have the sixth seed BYU against
the winner of a playan a first four game and
date between the eleven seed San Diego State and the
Texas Longhorns.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
I'll tell you this though, looking at the bracket matrix,
which kind of has every team or every bracketologist rankings
on every team, yep, Texas is a little closer to
that ten line than the eleven line and the consensus.
So this is Linarady moving them back a little bit,
maybe compared to some of his peers.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
That's true. That's true. And I'll get to a couple
other spots where Texas's is projected. Coming up.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Also in that pod would be Purdue, a three seed
in Portland, State of fourteen, matching up with the Oklahoma
City Pod seven seed Iowa against the ten seed Saint Mary's,
the two seed Houston against the fifteen seed Navy, and
they would work their way back toward Houston. So if
the Cougar has won the two games there, they would

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be playing Sweet sixteen and Elite eight in their home town,
not on their home floor, the Fertida Center, but they
would be playing at the Toyota Center. And then on
the Midwest, which would play its filter its way into Chicago.
One seed Michigan against the winner of the play in

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Morgan State from the MEAC against New Jersey Institute of
Technology in JIT is a Northeast conference. Then for in
JIT I'm trying to remember, but they've got them ejecting.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
You know, they play in Newark, New Jersey.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
Oh that's yeah, that's the America East.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
That's the America East, Okay.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
Which I'm just used to penciling in.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Vermonaude absolutely or UNBC, right, yeah, Oh that was fun.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Uh. The eight nine matchup Auburn and UCF. They're in Tampa,
the five twelve of Saint John's in Belmont, the five
verses twelve, the four verses to thirteen is North Carolina
against Troy.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Saint John's North Carolina could be fun.

Speaker 7 (54:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Good in Philadelphia, six seed Arkansas against the winner of
the play in and dayting between two eleven seeds Miami
and New Mexico.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
Miami's got unc tonight, that's true.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
And the three C Michigan State against the fourteen seed
North Dakota State. They like their basketball of the Bison,
I know they're all about the football and theer's talk.
By the way of them joining the Mountain West is
a football only member going D one FBS finally considering
that as a football only member, I think.

Speaker 4 (54:53):
They went final with that. I think they're making they're
making the leader. I know there's negotiations on the way
I read yesterday. You know the interesting thing about this
North Dakota State team, Yeah, and I would follow this
a lot when I worked up there calling a lot
of high school basketball in the state. They really focused
their recruiting nationally. The other North Dakota schools really like

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to stay in state.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
Interesting, Okay, all right, So then.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
The winner of that pod would take on matchup with
the winner of the pod in Saint Louis between the
seven sea Kentucky ten seed UCLA, the two seed Iowa State,
the fifteen seed Austin p and then the East, which
winds up in Jake's hometown in Washington, d C.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
What do they call them that arena again though, Capital
one Arena? Yeah, all right, tons of renovations.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
It would set up well for Duke because they would
open in Greenville, South Carolina against the sixteen seed U T.
Martin the eight nine matchup there would be Villanova Indiana
in San Diego, five seed Vanderbilt against twelve seed Liberty,
four seed Texas Tech against the thirteen seed Hawaii. Then
in Greenville, six seed Louisville against the eleven seed Santa Clara.

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The three seed would be Kansas against the fourteen seed
East Tennessee State. Finally, the last pod that that one
in Greenville would match up with would be in Saint Louis,
where Saint Louis would get to play not on their
home floor, but in their hometown playing. Is that the
Enterprise Car Arena or it used to be called.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
That or something.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Yeah, I think it's the Enterprise Center, Yeah, where the
Saint Louis Blues play their hockey games.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
Say that part of the bracket would be the Mid
Major heaven right there, Saint Louis Santa Clara getting kind
of paired up.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Saint Louis would play Georgia in a seven to ten
matchup Illinois against Wright State. Okay, last four in Texas
is the top team in the last four, So that
goes to your matrix observation that they could be a
chance to play their way off of the play in
and get in on that last four byes would be
Georgia Saint Mary's, UCLA USC. If Texas wins that game

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in Athens on the twenty four, they would have two
wins over Georgia.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
You'd have to flip them.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Yeah, you would think the first four hour will be
Ohio State Missouri. That's why this is an important game
this Saturday in Colombia cal and Virginia Tech. And the
next we're out Oklahoma State VCU seat in the hall
in Tulsa. So that's how Lenardi has it there now
on CBS Sports where our friend Jerry Palm weighs in

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and does a good job with it as well.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
And we'll get Jerry on as we get closer in March.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
He has Texas off of that eleven seed playing line.
He's got him as a ten seed. Now Jerry just
lists the teams. That doesn't list the exact pods he
would have them in. But he's got him as the
ten seed in the East playing Villanova, who'd be in
the seven. And how about this, if they were to win,
according to Jerry Palm, it would be against the winner

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of a matchup between the fifteen seed Harvard and two
seed Kansas.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
Oh, I've thought.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
About that, as can you imagine if Texas played Kansas
in the NCAA tournament.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
I'll tell you towards the end of that series, which
is going to be tougher to continue. Now with the
teams in separate conferences, Texas won what five of the
last eight? Yeah, and the three losses those were at
Allen Field House when it was full. That's right, that's right,
because you had the twenty twenty one win with the
COVID crowd, right, still a great win.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
Routed Kansas Big twelve tournament win in front of a
partisan crowd in Kansas City, beat him.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
By twenty in that one. And then finally Joe Rechro,
who does the one for the athletics. So that's why
we look at the at the matrix overall, and what
he has he has Texas safely in the field, not
as a playan. He has him as an eleven seed,

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but already in the field, and not in Dayton. He
has him in Buffalo playing sixty BYUK Big Longhorn.

Speaker 4 (58:58):
Fans would travel well to Buffalo, probably not BYU fans
travel everywhere, Yeah, they do.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't mind calling it. I wouldn't mind
calling a game anywhere where Texas is playing, but Buffalo
would be one of those arenas. I kind of keep
a checklist of all the arenas that are NBA or
NHL where Texas has played, either in the regular season
or in the postseason, where I've been blessed enough to

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call games. The Capitol One Center in Washington. That was
a regular season game, what's it called now, TD Garden,
the one in Boston, the Yeah, the first round loss
there when I was working with Bill Shooning when they
lost to Purdue. Rick Barnes first year, Madison Square Garden.
Obviously Brooklyn, obviously they played multiple times there. Tampa for

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the women but not the men. New Orleans was it
Smoothie King Center, Yeah, NCAA tournament there was it Ball
Arena and used to be called the Pepsi Center in
TA tournament. There the one where the Suns play.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
Area.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Yeah, yeah, okay, that's where the women's Final four is
this year.

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
By the way, used to be Talking Stick something Talking.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Stick Resort Arena, and prior to that, it was the
US Airways Arena or as we called it, US scare Arena.

Speaker 4 (01:00:20):
I think that's the last time I went when it
was called US Airways Arena.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Texas got blown out by Gonzaga at the game I
did there once Portland Modus Center when Texas played in
the PK eighty. Let's see, I was trying to think
neither of the ones in l A or the new
one in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
H have you no?

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
No Salt Lake City in Utah's arena, but not the.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
What's it called now? It used to be the Delta Center.
It's called something else.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
I want to say, it's vibant something something, vivid, vivid
vivid arena.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Yeah, they have not played there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
They played at the United Center in Chicago against Stanford.
I did not do that game because Bill Sheening and
I were calling the Big Twelve Championship game in two
thousand and one.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
So our friend Chad Hastings did that game in Chicago, and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Then there's been some other games for Westwood One like
in Detroit, Pittsburgh, some other ones where I've done where
I've done called some games, but not involving the Long Warne,
but Buffalo is not one of those.

Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
Soot how about Allen Fieldhouse, Craig, your thoughts on that,
because last night after the game, I was looking for
some analysis and all I got was about ten more
minutes about how special the place was.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
It is, and I would say, having not called a
basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, this would be what
I think is the best home court environment. I mean,
they have sixteen three hundred there. They have twice as
many as what they have at Cameron. But Cameron is special,

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So it'd be cool to be able to call a
game from there, or the old Polester in Philadelphia. You
know that that would be fun as well. All right,
coming up, we're gonna hear from Vic Shaffer next when
we continue on thirteen under the Zone. Okay, what do
we got here with a Texas Tuesday?

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
Austin's Black pumas more than a love song?

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Maybe, I should have had you and nothing wrong with
black Pumas. Maybe in the four o'clock hour. In addition
to the King, you should hear from Ella Langley. Yes,
after all, we're gonna give away tickets, a pair of
tickets to see Ella Langley.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
She is from Alabama though. Oh she's in the band
Texas right. Her hit song is Choosing tex Choosing Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
She will be at Moody Center on Thursday, August thirteenth,
and you can win a pair of tickets. You can
be eligible in the in the drawing. You can be
in the drawing to win a pair of tickets to
see Ella Langley. By doing these things. You download the
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a red button with a white microphone. You tap that
and then you'll leave us a message with the keyword
you heard on this program. You can leave a message
up to thirty seconds to say I was hearing on
the Craigway Show. You're giving away tickets Hell of Langley.
Keyword is and today is Dan the Lion, Dan the Lion.

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Gotta believe that's in a song. Or an album or
something for her.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
Yeah, we'll hear that little later on.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Okay, all right, very good. So that's the key there,
Dan the life. Okay, let's hear from Vick Schaeffer. Yes,
Texas got pushed. They were leading by thirteen. The lead
was cut down to one. Kentucky never did take the
lead in the second half, but it got cut forty
nine to forty eight. And that's when he called time
out at that point. And what was the message he

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delivered to the team at that time, Well, we.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
Just need to stop turning the ball over and we
need today somebody need to step up and make a shot.
I really was disappointed in in our execution. I was
disappointed in our shots selection. We just, to me, we
had some people really trying to do some things outside
of their you know, their capability. There's certain people that

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need to take certain shots on our team, on certain
spots on the floor, and you know, at times tonight
we really got outside of ourselves and we just we weren't.
We didn't do things the right way. Again my fault.
I obviously didn't impart to them. I mean, they made
six threes in the first half. You know, we talked

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about gardening their three point shooters not coming off, and
you know eight standing out there wide open. I mean,
just playing horse with us, and you're gonna lose the
worst game with her. So again, our execution was really poor.
We had some really bad turnovers. I don't even think

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this turnover sheets right, but we just we made some
you know, we just weren't getting a ball on the
right spot on the floor, and then when we did,
we had some people turning down shots.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
So then Vick was asked that eternal end of the
Yang question. When you get a close win, sometimes it's
a sign of trouble. Sometimes it builds character and unity
and resilience and all that stuff. So how does this
close win help his team if it does with upcoming games, Well, i'll.

Speaker 7 (01:05:28):
Tell you after the I'll answer the second one first.

Speaker 5 (01:05:30):
I'll tell you how it helps us after we play
on Thursday at number five in the country and I
have to go against an offensive player like michaelab Blake.
So I'll have that answer for you Thursday night. It'll
be real playing in simple. In my mind, as far
as coach brookshere, I think he's a hell of a coach.

Speaker 7 (01:05:52):
He's won everywhere he's been. He obviously had a did
a great job at Virginia Tech.

Speaker 5 (01:05:58):
And how he's doing it Kentucky, and I just have
a tremendous amount of respect for him as a man
and as a coach. And I know his wife, you know,
being a cancer survivor. You know, I'm really happy for
her and happy for him and his family. So I
have nothing but respect and admiration for him. I know

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he does it the right way, and and so uh,
you know our our conversations.

Speaker 7 (01:06:27):
And again he's getting healthy. That's the biggest thing.

Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
He's had, you know, some injuries too, and the key's
been out and she's finally back. She played thirty minutes
tonight and had a little bit of foul trouble. But
again we had foul trouble too. I can't keep my
bigs out of foul trouble like you can count on it.
As the son's going down and it's coming up tomorrow.
My fives cannot stay out of foul trouble. And so

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I got a coach better and teach better. It's that's
all there is to it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
So we'll hear more from Miik Schaeffer coming up next
hour on those upcoming matchups there with Vanderbilt and Tennessee,
and we'll be back to wrap up hour number two.

Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
I'm thirteen under the Zone. Chalk up another win for
the Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
Women, forty in a row at home now for the Longhorns,
and now the competition continues to get tough and even
a little bit tougher. So here we are in the
third hour of the program here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen under the Zone. Craigway with you alongside the producer
Jay Carman. Glad to have you with us. Texas women
did defeat eighteenth rank Kentucky last night sixty four fifty three.

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They had a thirteen point lead early in the third
quarter for Kentucky. They were up forty one to twenty eight,
and then Kentucky went on a twenty to eight run
to cut it down to one point at forty nine
forty eight. In fact, it was at forty nine forty
six when Asia Brooks, who would hit, who had hit

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four three pointers, had an opportunity to tie, missed on
a three in the corner. But then they did come
back get two more points, pulled it within one, and
then Texas would close the game. Vic Shaffer called a
time out there early in that final quarter, and then
the Long Wrns closed the game on a fifteen to
five runs. So it's a tight win, but a win. Nevertheless,

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Long Wrne are twenty three and two. They're eight and
two in Southeastern Conference play, and Vick was asked for
his thoughts about winning consecutive game number forty at home.

Speaker 5 (01:08:30):
Well, obviously, we have a tremendous home home court, and
our fans are so special. You know, it really bothers
me that we played so poorly to night in front
of our fans. But again it's my responsibility and I
wear it. I obviously didn't have them ready to go.

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But I appreciate our fans, I know, you know, there's
so many things they can do in this community. It's
not cheap to come to a game, and so you know,
they've been a big part of our our forty game
win streak, no doubt about. I didn't think about it,
you know, think about some of the teams that we've beaten,
you know, when we when we during the streak. So

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I think Madison said the other night, the last time
we lost was to maybe Oklahoma or freshman year or so,
you know, for me, I wish my kids would really
embrace the the record and not want to be be
here when it gets broke.

Speaker 7 (01:09:29):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:09:31):
Uh, I know I don't want to be here when
it gets broke, but that's probably.

Speaker 7 (01:09:36):
Gonna happen, but uh maybe not.

Speaker 5 (01:09:38):
But uh, you know, I just I wish they would
really embody and embrace being at home and the pride
of playing at home and having a having the streak going,
because it's hard to do. And uh so you know, we'll,
like I said, we got way too many good teams
still to play, and uh, you know, we've navigated a

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pretty difficult schedules so far, so that it doesn't get
any easier, as we know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
One more comment that came from last night's game, and
then later on in the program. In this hour, we'll
hear Vic from a media zoom he did just a
little while ago, and we'll hear his thoughts on the
upcoming matchups at Vanderbilt and Tennessee.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
But one other thing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
Kentucky coach Kenny Brooks is a friend of Vick's and
last night's came in and I talked about it with
Vic Schaeffer in our pregame visit about how the game.
The last name was the University of Texas turned to
host the Pink Game, where fans are encouraged to wear pink.

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The players wore their home white uniforms, but they had
pink shoes or pink accents or pink shoe laces, and
that's obviously to continue the ongoing initiative to increase awareness
for breast cancer. And Vic Shaeffer talked about how Kenny
Brooks's wife is a cancer survivor, and many others he

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has known, including his mom, was a cancer survivor. So
the game didn't mean a lot and the two are closed,
that doesn't mean they aren't competitors and both really want
to win the game. After the game, Coach Brooks was
talking about the physical nature of the game. This is
not the first time somebody's brought up how physical Vic

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Shafer's teams can be. And what Coach Brooks referred to
was how Texas plays within the rules. He wanted to
make sure to make that clear they play within the
rules the way the rules are structured, allowing a lot
more physical play. His problem was with the rule and

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Vic Shafer goes into some detail explaining the nuances and
differences of the rule and how his team attacks and
plays defense. But within the guidelines of the framework of
the rules, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:12:00):
I don't think it benefits me. I got people in
foul trouble all over the score sheet, you.

Speaker 7 (01:12:04):
Know, So.

Speaker 15 (01:12:07):
I I think from my standpoint, I haven't really noticed it, Dann,
to be honest with you, I haven't really noticed a
shift in.

Speaker 4 (01:12:23):
That.

Speaker 7 (01:12:25):
But you know, again, it is a physical league. It's
you know, and I think.

Speaker 5 (01:12:29):
Again, I think, yeah, you have to know, when these
games are on national TV, nobody wants to watch free
throw contests, and so whether that conversation goes on or not,
I don't know, but we've all seen it. This year,
We've had some really physical games, especially at the five,

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and you know, it's one of the things that Justice
really you know, I've said many times, she's the most
physical high school kid I've ever seen, like she will
she will. It's almost like she dials in on your
breastplate and wants to go right through you and separate you,
and it plays to her advantage. I mean, she's she's

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a physical kid, and this league's physical.

Speaker 7 (01:13:17):
Though.

Speaker 5 (01:13:17):
I mean, I'll play by whatever the rules they are.
You tell me what they are. I mean, I can
remember back in fourteen, Danny, that's when they came out
with the no more arm bar, no more hand.

Speaker 7 (01:13:28):
Checking rule that if you touch them is going to
be a foul.

Speaker 5 (01:13:32):
Remember, and I remember my staff coming in at Missisippi
statele and oh my god, what are we going to
do and go, hey, we're going to coach better and
teach better. That's what we're gonna do. I am not
playing two three zone playing hope you miss defense.

Speaker 7 (01:13:46):
I'm not doing it. And so that's what we did.

Speaker 5 (01:13:49):
But you know what happened, Danny is a lot of
coaches started playing a lot of his own and those
coaches ain't here, no more not they're not in the game,
and it's just a cop out. Well, we can't play
this way, we can't play the way we used to play,
So let's just do this instead of owning it and saying, hey,

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we just got to coach better and teach better. So
that's kind of how I approached it.

Speaker 7 (01:14:15):
And so you know, I don't really.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
Yeah, I don't really notice it, but because again I
got people in foul trouble every night, it seems.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
Like, so there's vic Schafer's thoughts on that, and we're
going to hear from Vic little later on in the
program with him this hour discussing the upcoming work that
they have coming out of last night's when but we
got some other topics he get do, including in the NBA.
When we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
zone of the iHeartRadio app And.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
It's time to hit the Tom McKean.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
George strait, which of his gazillion number one hits his US.

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
Easy Come, Easy Go, because like he's just saying, sometimes
two people just don't get along.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
They don't. It just happens.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
And that happened in the NBA last night. You planned
it that way, didn't interest hip? Where I know you
a little bit better now you planned it that way?

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Okay, all right, well that makes sense. Here's the problem.

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
Sometimes I don't plan it and all those signs of meanings.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
Yeah, Hey, you know people ask me, uh, I get
to often ask you know whatever about certain calls that
I made over the years and games and things like that.
And I'm being completely honest here. I don't think about
it too much in retrospect afterwards. But I have learned

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over time that and this doesn't only or just or
or even primarily apply to me. When we are in
the roles that we are in as played by played broadcasters,
sometimes we become unintentional touchstones because someone will be listening

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to a big moment in a big game at a
very important time in their life that it has nothing
to do with the game that we're calling, but it
brings that memory to mine. I've learned that over time
when I've had a lot of people, you know, the
Vince Young run for the touchdown in the Rose Bawl
to Clinton National Championship, the long run baseball team winning

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the two national championship, to light the tower orange moment,
you know five when they want it again.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
I've had a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
I've had a lot of people over the years tell me,
you know, hey, I was I had a newborn son
who was crying and I was holding him trying to
give them right after Vince Young scored, he went to sleep,
or sometimes the opposite, you know, I cry woke up somebody.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
I always say, hey, is a RAM fan.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
In Super Bowl thirty four when Kurt Warner hits Isaac
Bruce with that seventy three yard touchdown pass.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
But I think two six to go in the game.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
I leaped out of the chair, you know, screaming really excitedly.
My then seven month old son, Jason was in one
of those little swingers, you know, mckennon's. He was sound
asleep and it woke him up and he was all upset.
And I tell people, up till that point, at seven months,
he had been just an ideal newborn and baby.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
It all changed after that.

Speaker 7 (01:17:32):
You know, with him.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
So anyway, the point of all of this is that
folks kind of remember where they were at the time
of a play by play moment, and I think it's
important for play by play guys to understand that and
to recognize that even if calling the game itself in

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the moment is something you release and let goh of time.
But it made me think about that when you were
talking about that. Okay, So, as a follow up about
people not getting along, last night, Detroit Pistons played the
Charlotte Hornets in Charlotte Charlotte din Hot. They won what

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eight in a row going into the game in a
row going in and it started off the Pistons Jalen
Durham was driving toward the basket with just over seven
minutes to go in the game and he got fouled
by Musa Diabate and Duran turned around to get face

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to face with Diabate and the two appeared to butt heads.
During then pushed Diabati in the face with an open
right hand. That started the confrontation lasted more than thirty
seconds and there was a brief police presence on the floor,
so it started with that. Then, while pistons for Tobias
Harra was holding the Abate back, the Abati threw a

(01:19:02):
punch at Duran, who walked away. Bridges that would have
been miles. Bridges then charged at Durhan. He threw a
left handed punch. During retaliated with a punch. The Abati
attempted to charge again at During He had to be
held back after that. In addition to that, Isaiah Stewart

(01:19:27):
charged off the bench to confront Bridges. He responded with
a prunch. The players then were tussling. At one point
Stuart got Bridges in a headlock and delivered several left
handed blows.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
To the head.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
He's given him noogies, you know, he's just really doing
on that. Duran called it an overly competitive.

Speaker 4 (01:19:48):
Games asked bridges if it was a noogie.

Speaker 1 (01:19:51):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
So then in addition to that, the head coaches had
to say what they he said said about it. Charles Lee,
the Hornets coach, was ejected in the fourth quarter after
he had to be restrained from going after an official
while arguing a call. So about all of this, let's
hear from the head coaches first. Charles Lee, the coach

(01:20:14):
of the Charlotte Hornets.

Speaker 7 (01:20:15):
And I have to go back and watch it again.

Speaker 8 (01:20:18):
Just look like, you know, a ton of physicality and
two guys kind of gotten in a heated conversation and
then it kind of spiraled from there.

Speaker 7 (01:20:26):
And for you to get ejected. What was the reason
for that?

Speaker 8 (01:20:30):
Yeah, I take ownership of it. I thought that we
were competing our tails off. I thought that it was
a very physical game. And you know, Grant's walking down
the paint and barely touched somebody and the guy fell
over and that's what we're going to call the foul.
So again, they have a hard they have a hard
job to have to make these calls. But I don't

(01:20:51):
think that that was like the consistency of what had
been called the rest of the game.

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
And what he was referring to was Grant Williams colliding
with Detroit's Paul Reid, and he said he barely touched
and the guy falls over. In other words, he's saying
it's a flop that went uncalled.

Speaker 7 (01:21:05):
JB.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Bickerstaff, the coach of the Pistons, said.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Hey, we and start this. Don't don't put it on us.

Speaker 5 (01:21:14):
Again.

Speaker 16 (01:21:14):
Our guys deal with a lot, right, But they're not
the ones that initiated. They're not the ones that crossed
the line tonight.

Speaker 7 (01:21:21):
Uh, it was clear, you know.

Speaker 16 (01:21:23):
Through frustration because of what JD was doing, that they
crossed the line. And I hate that it got as
ugly as it got. That's not something that you ever
want to see. But if a guy throws a punch
at you, you have a responsibility to protect yourself and
that's what happened tonight. You go back and watch the film.

(01:21:45):
They're the ones that initiated crossing the line and our
guy had to defend himself.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 4 (01:21:52):
Duran had a big role in initiating.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
There's gonna be suspensions coming out of us. I don't
think there's any doubt.

Speaker 4 (01:22:01):
About that, particularly for Isaiah Stewart.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
Yeah, no doubt coming in there, putting, putting the headlock and.

Speaker 4 (01:22:06):
The well and running off the bench, Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
Leaving the bench aariot coming in. That's that's big. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
Uh. Also, there was a game played last night between
the Lakers and the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder, and uh,
I don't think there was anybody any more really plain
spoken about the Lakers and what they're all about.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
Then what Lebron James had to say after the game.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
So somebody asked it that things like this start when
somebody asked a question.

Speaker 1 (01:22:50):
A reporter asked a question, and it isn't.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
It's not well falled out in the way the question
was answered or asked. Excuse me, So Lebron James is
not to blame for this. Sometimes, you know, in my
years of covering games, whether it's football, basketball, baseball, whatever
the game is, the reporter will ask a question and
the and the player will then jump him and be

(01:23:19):
kind of unfair about this. That was not the case
in here. A reporter was was trying to make a
comparison between the Thunder and the Lakers. You have the
exchange here, all right, this is this is the reporter
with Lebron and listen to what Lebron says in this
conversation with the reporter. That's that's the key thing here,

(01:23:39):
what Lebron is saying about the team he plays for
the Lakers. When when if someone were to try to
make a comparison with them in the Thunder.

Speaker 17 (01:23:54):
The best team in the order and there couldn't measure
the state when you play the mean where are you
seeing the gaps between like where they're at and the
things they do well consistently versus the kind of fulfilled
that you guys are trying to do together?

Speaker 7 (01:24:07):
Do you want me to compare us to them?

Speaker 9 (01:24:09):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:24:09):
I want to know where you think that this team
is on the psyche. That's a championship team right here.
We're not where. So I'm what are the biggest things
you think that are keeping this team right? You can't
sustain energy and effort forty eight minutes, and they can't.
That's why they won a championship.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Yeah, that's pretty plain spoken there, and and and.

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
That was the Thunder. Did to have Sga on the
floor last night?

Speaker 7 (01:24:39):
Did they?

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
They won without him?

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
Of course the Lakers didn't have Luka Doncic either. They're
five and five without Luca on the floor. So h
but I do agree that that is not the same thing.
They're not the same team.

Speaker 4 (01:24:56):
Jackson Hayes back from his suspension after shoving g Whiz.

Speaker 1 (01:24:59):
Yeah, yea yeah in twelve points. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
The Thunder got twenty three from Jalen Williams without SGA.

Speaker 7 (01:25:09):
So yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
So anyway, that's Lebron, I think in a nice way
saying the old Reggie Jackson line, you need to do
a better job of asking the question that you want
answered in order for me to give you the answer
you want, plain and simple.

Speaker 6 (01:25:32):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
Reggie Jackson followed up, this was a guy I worked with,
a krold who was asking him stuff and Reggie just
kind of jumped him and it wasn't even about anything.
But then Reggie wasn't having it, and he went on
to tell him to take his microphone as tape recorders,
glasses and everything else he is and show it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
Well, anyway, yeah, that's where he with it after that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:50):
But Lebron, I think in a nice way of saying,
you want me to compare it, you can't compare. We
can't sustain this for forty eight minutes, especially when they
don't have Luke on the floor. They're not going to
be able to do that in Kan sustained that. So anyway,
there's some thoughts from Lebron college basketball last night. Kansas

(01:26:10):
big win for the Jayhawks and they beat the number
one team. It was really interesting. They had not beaten
the number one team in Lawrence. I believe it was
since nineteen fifty three, I think it was and pre ap.

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
It wasn't even an Allen Field House. It was in
the old I think who called atorium.

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
Oh that's what it was. Yeah, not pre ap but pre.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Ari Allen Field House. And you can go wow, and
I did it first. But I think it's also important
to remember the reason for that is a lot of
times when they were playing highly ranked teams, it was
Kansas that was the higher ranked team.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
Kansas, it was the number one long.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Warts have gone in there a couple of times when
Kansas was the number one team in the country. So yeah,
it's kind of a reverse role reversal there. But Kansas
did a lot to help themselves and doing it without
Darren Peterson last night beating Arizona.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
I think Arizona is just fine. Here're going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
Difficult to beat and you know a lot of coaches
of teams who lose a game and the perfect season
is then disrupted then say, you know, maybe it's in retrospect,
might have been the best thing for us, because you
don't have that pressure carrying that unbeaten thing anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:27:30):
You can just kind of reconnoider and go back to work.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
And Tommy Lloyd, their head coach, did say to John
Shombi and fran Frischelo they were talking about on the telecast,
that he did not think that they would go undefeated.

Speaker 4 (01:27:44):
Well, Big twelve is a very very good league this year.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
Well, yeah, exactly, and they still have to go to Houston.

Speaker 4 (01:27:50):
Well, yeah, you can't let Kansas beat you twice because
they have Texas Tech BYU Houston and then Kansas and
Iowa State on the scheduled a round out February.

Speaker 7 (01:27:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Yeah, that's that's one tough league right now. All right,
we're gonna hear more from Vic Shaefer coming up when
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about this Texas women's basketball team. They're going to play
Vanderbilt on Thursday night. They are the number five team
in the country. The game will be at Memorial Gymnasium.
It's a road game for Texas, and Vanderbilt has some weapons,

(01:31:05):
most notably michaeleb Blake's on that, but they've got other
weapons as well. In fact, the SEC Players of the
Week were announced this morning for women's basketball and the

(01:31:28):
weekly honors. The Player of the Week is Joyce Edwards
of South Carolina. She had a couple of really big games.
They beat Tennessee and also beat Mississippi State and it's
actually co players the Week. Michaeleb Blake's is from Vanderbilt.
Back to back thirty point performances in three straight average

(01:31:52):
thirty five and a half points, five assists, three rebounds
and three steals to help them Vanderbilt go two to zero,
including lasts winn for Oklahoma. And the Freshman of the
Week is Aubrey Galvan, who had thirty points last night and.

Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
There hadn't been an SEC team to hold Blake's below
twenty yet.

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
Greg, Yeah, it's gonna be quite a challenge there for
the Long warns on that. So they beat tenth right
to Oklahoma one two eighty six. She hit ten to
fifteen shots Aubrey Galvan and the thirty points are the
most scored in an SEC game by a freshman this season,
and it's the second most points registered in a game

(01:32:35):
by an SEC freshman in twenty twenty five twenty twenty six.
So that's quite a backcourt the Long Wrnes are gonna
have to deal with. Well, let's hear from Vick Schaeffer
as Vic talks about, and this was from the media
zoom that happened just.

Speaker 1 (01:32:53):
A little while ago.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
Earlier we brought to some comments that were postgame from
last night where he talked about how they not a one,
the game had Justice Carlton not had her seventeen points,
and what they had to fight through and that they
won and beating a really good Kentucky team. Now they
get ready for this two game road swing. They play
in Nashville on Thursday and against Vanderbilt. They play in

(01:33:17):
Knoxville on Sunday against Tennessee Sunday afternoon. So Vick Shaver
was asked first of all his opening comments today from
this media zoom on his team coming off the win
over Kentucky and really and truly coming off three wins
over ranked opponents, three consecutive victories, having beaten Kentucky, having

(01:33:41):
beaten LSU, having beaten Oklahoma back to back to back,
now getting ready for Vanderbilt.

Speaker 5 (01:33:47):
Obviously had a really hard fought victory last night against
a very good Kentucky team. You go back and you
just have to realize, and again you don't probably in
the moment, but you have to realize that, you know,
our kids are coming off of two really big games,

(01:34:07):
emotional games to top ten teams, and.

Speaker 6 (01:34:11):
It doesn't matter what I think or.

Speaker 5 (01:34:17):
The fact that I've been doing it a long time
and can their kids and trying to get kids up
for a thirty one game schedule like we've played. There's
bound to be a night like last night where we're
just a little flat, and you know, you try to
guard against it, you try to coach against it, but

(01:34:39):
it happens. It's not uncharacteristic, and it's not that shocking
to me. We struggled in some areas, but one thing
we didn't struggle in y'all is we guarded.

Speaker 6 (01:34:51):
And you have to give our kids a lot of credit.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
They hunkered down and guarded after that first quarter and
really responded at a nine point second quarter. In fact,
they didn't score after I called time out in the
second quarter. I don't think they scored the rest of
the quarter, and then our kids did a really good
job I thought the rest of the way defending them.
So you know, all nights sometimes when you struggle offensively,

(01:35:18):
I think the great teams win.

Speaker 6 (01:35:20):
They win those they win those.

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
Knockdown dragouts, they win those grinded out games. And I
thought our kids did that last night. Again, it wasn't perfect.
Even the coach has to realize every night it's not
going to be perfect. You know, certainly was disappointed in
not creating any excuses for some things that happened. But again,
at the end of the day, I'm responsible for it.

(01:35:44):
I'll be accountable for it. Y'all heard me say this before.
You're either coaching it or allowing it. And so we're
we're we'll move on. We got the win, and uh,
now we've got to get ready to go to Vanderbilt,
who's obviously playing at an extremely high level. Hung one

(01:36:04):
hundred and two points on Oklahoma last night. Their two
guards were outstanding, as they've been most of the year.
We all know Blake's as a handful, but the little guard,
Aubrey Calvin's really playing well for them, playing with a
lot of confidence. They're going to be in their home gym,
which is unique place in and of itself to play,

(01:36:26):
and so we're going to have to really really have
great focus and great concentration both in our preparation and
when we go in there and play.

Speaker 6 (01:36:37):
I'm sure they'll have a great crowd.

Speaker 5 (01:36:40):
It's you know, number four, number five going at it.
It's a shame it's not on TV, but it's just
the nature of the Beasts sometimes. But we'll have to
go in there and play really well. Coach is doing
a great job with them. They've got, you know, really
good players, and so we're gonna have to We're gonna

(01:37:04):
have to be better than we were last night. But again,
I think last night it is just part of it.
You know, we had certain players that have been playing
well that didn't play well, and that's just part of youth.
It's part of an experience, it's part of growing. You know,
there's there's when you have a season and you have success.

(01:37:25):
I had a friend of mine send me this this morning,
and it's so true. It's you know, challenges are just
part of the journey. There's there's no accomplishment without struggle,
no triumph without tests and failures along the way. And
and that's so true in anything, whether you're starting up

(01:37:46):
a business or playing basketball. So you know, last night
was one was part of the struggle, and again we
got through it. I think you have to really step
back and realize on our not best night, we're in
All American had eight points. We still found a way
to win the ball game by double digits. By the way,

(01:38:07):
but you also have to give our All American credit
because she filled up the statuet in other areas.

Speaker 6 (01:38:13):
She six or six in the free throw line.

Speaker 5 (01:38:15):
She had three really big offensive rebounds, I think all
of them in the second half, all at critical times.
She had four assists.

Speaker 6 (01:38:25):
So you know, that's book.

Speaker 5 (01:38:27):
She just finds a way to help you win, maybe
on the night when she might be struggling with her
jump shot a little bit. And that's what all Americans do.
So I think that's a good sign as well. So
you know, we've got to play better, that's for sure.
And Thursday night it's gonna be a tremendous test.

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
We'll hear more from Vic Schafford tomorrow. Tomorrow is their
departure day for Vanderbilt, and with their class schedule, it's
not a fly up to Nashville play and then you
have an all off a couple of days and you
bust one hundred and eighty miles to Knoxville. No, they're
coming home after the game on Thursday. Then they're going
to fly back up on Saturday. It's a busy time,

(01:39:09):
all right. We'll be back to wrap up today's edition
of the program here on sports Radio AM thirteen, under
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