November 4, 2025 • 17 mins
As he prepares for the call of Texas men's basketball season opener against Duke in Charlotte, Craig Way joins the program to share his thoughts on the team and matchup ahead.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Will be the case again here tonight, as Craig Way
(00:03):
joins us now from his home state. And Craig, I
know it's been a little bit of a hectic turnaround
here for you over the last thirty or so hours.
We're glad you made it after some travel delays.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well yeah, and I've gotten to the point now, but
doing this long enough to where it's almost unusual if
you don't have a travel delay, you know, So it
worked out. It wouldn't do bad. It was just a
travel a lay this morning getting out of Austin, and
you know, I was told by the folks are the airline.
Well you know there's some you know, some ground stoppages
(00:39):
and other places that are causing a trickle down as
a result of you know, the government shut down and
all that stuff. So you just, you know, do the
best you can try to get there. So I got
here in time and raced straight over to the Spectrum
Center to watch the team practice again and get ready
for tonight's batch up.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well, and I know it's been a you know, a
bit of a headache for some folks with the government shutdowns.
You might have come away lucky to just have a
little delayed today. You spend some time watching this team
practice earlier in the week, and now you'll you'll head
over there and do it again today. What's what stood
out to you so far? And getting to watch Sean
Miller work with this group up close.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
The teaching, I think as much as anything, Jake, I
think we all know and understand that when coach Miller
came in, there were players who were graduating, there were
players who would be leaving the program, and there would
be players he would have to bring into the program.
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All of that has happened, and this is going to
be a growing process for a time. And I think
a lot more basketball fans understand this, and I know
this is gonna this will be a process. I'm not
saying this team is going to you know, slop and
follow on the space round, saying this is going to
be a process, and probably given the fact that they're
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playing the six ranked team in the country in their backyard,
so to speak. Duke is about uh you know. The
Duke campus is about two and a half hours from here,
and Charlotte is a big historically Duke alumni fan base.
Most of the major cities are for North Carolina and
Duke and NC State certainly, and maybe to a lesser extent,
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Wake Forest, but especially Duke Carolina and NC State, Charlotte,
Greensborough Courts, the Raleigh Dorm, Chapel Hill area, those are
you know, those are big alumni fan base centers, and
Charlotte being the largest city in the state certainly as
it's shared Duke fan So this building tonight, it's an
NBA arena, the home of the Charlotte Hornets in the NBA,
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will probably be I heard somebody say about ninety six
percent bathed in Duke Blue tonight, but they're kind of
expecting they know that. And this is all about what
Sean is trying to do in getting these guys to
learn the system that he wants to run, to be
(03:10):
up tempo, to play really good defense, but just you know,
to be really good smart basketball players too, to be
able to run the things that they want to run
and be able to defend the way he wants them
to defend and run the offense, execute the offense. So
there's a lot of ramp up in terms of the
education for what he wants to do with this program
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with this specific group.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, and I know he was asked about that too,
not just you know, is it your vision or is
it what this team's best suited to do, but also
how has Sean Miller's kind of style evolved from going
a decade ago at Arizona, where his teams were big
and dominated the paint, to now what his teams look
like at Xavier, who played quickly and aren't afraid to
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put up thirty three.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, and that was the first incarnation of the programs
he had Xavier the first time around before he went
to Arizona, and and then the second time around as
you pointed out, and we'll kind of see a mixture
of that. There will be guys who have made their
name over the past couple of years, uh, playing for
(04:24):
Rodney Terry, like Kendall Weaver and Jordan Pope. I think
those guys will be in there. Tremon and Mark obviously
if he his issue, his biggest issue has been staying healthy. Uh.
So you have those three guys. But Sean has brought
in Daylon Swain from his Xavier team, and they he
was he was a problem in that you know, first
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four playing game in Dayton when the long Wrens fellow
Xavier last March. He comes in off averaging eleven points,
five and a half boards per game. He'll want to
get the ball up and down the floor. So Simeon
Wiltcher as a junior transfer guard from Seeing John's Camden
Heidi is a guy that I've been impressed with as well,
a swingman from Purdue who can shoot the basketball. And
(05:09):
I'm curious to see how Lacina Treori, you know, adapts
to everything. He's a grad transfer coming in with Sean
Miller from Zagre, but didn't play last year due to
knee injury. So we'll see. But I know he's very
very high on me, and he's looked good in practice.
And there's another guy I'm curious to see, and a
lot of this has to do with his roadback from injury,
(05:30):
and that's Modus Fokatitis, who transferred him from Florida Atlantic.
He's a native of Lithuania. He's a seven footer and
he's a guy who can run the floor. He can
kind of, you know, rin the rim, run a little bit,
and he averaged ten points, five and a half boards
per game last year at fau very athletic around the basket,
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so he was he was pretty impressive to see him
and another guy. There's a couple other guys who I
think might be able to really help and impact this
team on down the road. One is Declan Duru, who
is a junior transporter where he's a junior, I mean,
he's actually a freshman coming in. He's Declan Dura junior.
(06:12):
He's he's a freshman from Munich, Germany, but he played
in the real Madrid Academy in Spain. Uh say, he's
a guy that also had you know, overcomes some injury.
And then the other guy is Nick Cody, sophomore forty.
Came in a couple of years ago, red shirted and
then played his freshman there at Texas last year from Carrollton,
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and he's put on some weight and seems to his
basketball IQ is really elevated a little bit. So, I
mean there's a there's a number of guys who I
think that they're they're you know, excited to see how
they handle the moment and how they can step up
in the moment to play.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, and it's a big moment to start the season.
I know Sean Miller was kind of joking with the
media out you know, sometimes wakes up and thinks, well,
why the heck are we playing Duke? Of course he
didn't inherit that or he didn't pick that game. He
inherited that schedule and taking over this Texas job. Texas
has never beaten Duke in three matchups of course last time.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
One of their more notable matchups was that second round
tournament game back in Greensboro in two thousand and eight.
On Shire, the current head coach of the Blue Devils,
was one of several clutch Duke players in that game.
Were you on the call for that game, Craig, and
what do you remember about it?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I was, indeed, and remember it? Well, don't remember now?
You know the old graybeard here, Jay, come to start
my twenty fifth season in the play by play chair
tonight for a long more bet fact, Eddy Orn and
I started our twenty fifth season together as a team
and coach Warn of course, the former long run assistant
(07:51):
coach under both Bob Weltlike and Tom Penders and so
EO and I'll start our twenty fifth season together tonight.
The thing I remember about that game in two thousand
and eight is that that was a two thousand. I
believe that was two thousand and nine. Two thousand and eight,
they got to the Elite eight and uh and lost
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in the Elite eight to Memphis, who had Derreck Rose
down in Houston at NRG Stadium. In two thousand and nine,
they'd gone into Greensboro. I was pretty excited about it
was kind of it was kind of almost like my
homecoming thing for me because that's my hometown. And I
was walking into that arena going okay. I saw Ringling Brothers,
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Barnum and Bailey circus in here. I saw Holiday on Ice.
I saw Bob Hope do a thing in there, my
first ever rock concert. I was kind of ashamed of
ad minute now, but I kind of laughed at it.
And I was David Caffidy and and I graduated high
school in this building. I remember thinking I was walking
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across the stage there, but so it was a little
bit of it was the first time I'd been back
in that building. I had been the one Carolina Hurricanes
hockey game, but it was it was the first time
I did back in that building in about six or
seven years, and only the second time I've been inclusive
of my high school graduation, So it was pretty cool.
I remember going in there. But the game, Texas played
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Duke off their feet and it came down in the
waiting moments of the game. Damian James had a baseline
jumper open and would have given them the lead in
the final minute, and it rimmed out and then and
then the long runs had the foul. I think Duke
ended up winning by five, but it was a it
was a really good ballgame. Texas had beaten a Tubby
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Smith coached Minnesota team in the first round before dropping
that game in the second round to Duke, So you know,
it's interesting. The log Wrns had played the Blue Devils
five times, never in Austin, never in Durham when they
played Duke in non conference games, and I'm not counting
the NCAA tournament game, so four other times they played
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him in non conference games, but every time he's been
on the neutral floor. Rick Barnes, when he was coaching,
tried to get Mike Krzyzewski to agree to home and
home on several occasions, and Coach k wouldn't have it.
He didn't, he didn't want to do that. So unlike
North Carolina, where Texas has played North Carolina in Chapel
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Hill in Austin in Greensboro. In Arlington, it was the
first ever college basketball game played at Jerry World. They're
at the ATNT Stadium. So they played in a lot
of different places as well as in the NCAA Tournament.
They placed each other in Denver in the NCAA Tournament.
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But they had but they they only have played Duke
on quote unquote neutral floors, and that was three times
in the metropolitan New York area. They played him in
the Meadowlands on the day that Vince Young was disappointed
by not winning the High It's Been Trophy back in
two thousand and five. Everybody remember that. I remember doing
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that game and then going over, you know, the Heisman
celebration or the Heisman presentation was that night, and that's
when Reggie Bush won the heismand that was in two
thousand and five. A lot of long worn fans remember
that as the black Jersey game because they came out
of those alternate black jerseys at Nike Wanton Noire and
they just got carved up, and folks wanted to blame
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it on the jerseys. Don't blame it on the jerseys,
blaming on JJ Reddick. He just bombed ou I think
he had forty points in the game, and so he
had a huge game producing that, and then they played
him at Madison Square Garden. They played him a couple
of competitive games and they got blown out a couple
of games, one competitive game, I think two games that
were blown out. But they've never played them anywhere but
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a quote unquote neutral And I say quote unquote because
as I mentioned, Duke has a huge alumni fan They
here and they obviously they would for the NCAA tournament
game Greensport, but even in the metropolitan New York a
lot of Duke fans showed up in the game of
the Old Metalands Arena, and the two games stay based
in Madison Square Garden. So this is a test of
a different sort tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And I'm glad you brought up Rick Barnes a couple
of minutes ago because his team Tennessee Volunteers, they hosted
Duke and a televised exhibition last week and the Blue
Devils came back from down to the first half won
that game, that exhibition game. You know, based off that,
What did you take away? What kind of challenges will
will this twenty twenty five version of Duke seem to
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present for Texas tonight as you preview the matchup, well,
you start with Cameron Boozer.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I mean, he's he's tremendous. And the other thing that
surprised me is in an exhibition game, he played thirty
nine minutes in that exhibition But trying to find an
answer for him, he's six y nine in about two
sixty and is just he's just powerful around the basket.
And they've got some returning guys with Isaiah Evans and
Caleb Foster, but it revolves around Boozer and his brother Kayden,
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So the twins are pretty exciting. But but Cam Boozer
is the one to watch. And that's why when Sean
Miller was asked last week on the Media Zone, who
do you who you're going to put on them? And
he said, you can't say any one person because he said,
we're gonna have to try a lot of different things
with him. You know, I'm sure they'll double him. Uh,
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you know, we may see him play his own against him. Uh,
you know, he's going to be the biggest problem. But
Duke can get the ball up and down the floor
extremely well coached by John Shire. So yeah, that's That's
what they're going to have to deal with. It's interesting
you mentioned Tennessee as I mentioned Eddie or in my
broadcast partner. He his day job is he's a scout
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for the Brooklyn Nets. And so he was in Knoxville
last night to watch Tennessee open it season under Rick
barnes uh in their matchup with Mercer. So he got
a chance to do that and then he drove. He
drove down from Knoxville to Charlotte today. So a lot
of excitement about getting this basketball season off to starting
even their luck. I said it could be some growing
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pains for a bit and some and some learning processes
a little bit for the Longhorns, but I think fans
are going to really like down the road. Certainly what
Sean Miller does with his basketball team.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I think that's spot on. But hey, your basketball season,
at least for the games that count start started last
night before I let you go. What did you take
away from the women's game last night? And they're big
victory over the University of Incarnate Word, did you see
what you expected to?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Pretty much? They're they're a veteran group and you know,
you come off of thirty five and four season and
go to the final four, win a coach championship in
the SEC, have an All American, the SEC Player of
the Year returning for her junior year. It's gonna it's
gonna be fun to watch Madison Booker. It's going to
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be fun to watch her team mates, and that includes
obviously Rory Harmon is back for her final year. She
got her red medical red shirted year from two seasons
ago from the injury, so she's back for a fifth year.
And then in addition to that, just seeing the other
players who are will be a Jordan Lee, just a
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sophomore scratching the surface of her game, and she scored
twenty one points last night. They're gonna be They're gonna
be a lot of fun to watch. I think brit
Cunningham in the middle as a post player has a
lot to do that you know, as long as she
can stay out of foul difficulty, that will be important.
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And Tayo Sidberry is another player who comes in. And
then you've got the McDonald's All American, the freshman Aliah
Crump who had a nice debut last night. So it's
a team that's deep, it's experienced and they're gonna be dangerous.
They're definitely gonna be a factor and one of the
teams to beat in the sec.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, we'll hear from sound bites, some soundbites from them
a little later on. Hey, you're right by Cam Parker's
old stomping grounds. He got any good recommendations things on
the menu for today? And you're short Stinton Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
He already went and saw his buddies and he hung
out with them last night. He's all business today we
at the arena. We spent a good deal of time
by the time I landed and got on the ground
and Eddie picking up at the airport, and then we
got into town and went to the arena and got
everything technically hooked up and watched watch the shoot around
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the practice to get ready for this, and got some
other homework things I'll do with regard to that before
we head over to the arena. So looking forward to it.
Should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, very exciting time of year. Tell Eddie and Cam.
I said hello and Craig, best of luck for the
call tonight the start of another men's basketball season.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Thanks and thanks for sitting in today, Jake appreciate that
and have some fun.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Thanks Craig. All Right, that's Craig Way, nice enough to
call in from Charlotte, where the Texas Longhorns tip off
their season tonight. You can hear that call from Craigway
and Eddie Orn together for their twenty fifth season in
the booth, and that is at seven o'clock on AM
thirteen hundred zone and ninety eight to one KVET, Austin's
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country station.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
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Will be the case again here tonight, as Craig Way
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joins us now from his home state. And Craig, I
know it's been a little bit of a hectic turnaround
here for you over the last thirty or so hours.
We're glad you made it after some travel delays.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well yeah, and I've gotten to the point now, but
doing this long enough to where it's almost unusual if
you don't have a travel delay, you know, So it
worked out. It wouldn't do bad. It was just a
travel a lay this morning getting out of Austin, and
you know, I was told by the folks are the airline.
Well you know there's some you know, some ground stoppages
(00:39):
and other places that are causing a trickle down as
a result of you know, the government shut down and
all that stuff. So you just, you know, do the
best you can try to get there. So I got
here in time and raced straight over to the Spectrum
Center to watch the team practice again and get ready
for tonight's batch up.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well, and I know it's been a you know, a
bit of a headache for some folks with the government shutdowns.
You might have come away lucky to just have a
little delayed today. You spend some time watching this team
practice earlier in the week, and now you'll you'll head
over there and do it again today. What's what stood
out to you so far? And getting to watch Sean
Miller work with this group up close.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
The teaching, I think as much as anything, Jake, I
think we all know and understand that when coach Miller
came in, there were players who were graduating, there were
players who would be leaving the program, and there would
be players he would have to bring into the program.
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All of that has happened, and this is going to
be a growing process for a time. And I think
a lot more basketball fans understand this, and I know
this is gonna this will be a process. I'm not
saying this team is going to you know, slop and
follow on the space round, saying this is going to
be a process, and probably given the fact that they're
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playing the six ranked team in the country in their backyard,
so to speak. Duke is about uh you know. The
Duke campus is about two and a half hours from here,
and Charlotte is a big historically Duke alumni fan base.
Most of the major cities are for North Carolina and
Duke and NC State certainly, and maybe to a lesser extent,
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Wake Forest, but especially Duke Carolina and NC State, Charlotte,
Greensborough Courts, the Raleigh Dorm, Chapel Hill area, those are
you know, those are big alumni fan base centers, and
Charlotte being the largest city in the state certainly as
it's shared Duke fan So this building tonight, it's an
NBA arena, the home of the Charlotte Hornets in the NBA,
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will probably be I heard somebody say about ninety six
percent bathed in Duke Blue tonight, but they're kind of
expecting they know that. And this is all about what
Sean is trying to do in getting these guys to
learn the system that he wants to run, to be
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up tempo, to play really good defense, but just you know,
to be really good smart basketball players too, to be
able to run the things that they want to run
and be able to defend the way he wants them
to defend and run the offense, execute the offense. So
there's a lot of ramp up in terms of the
education for what he wants to do with this program
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with this specific group.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, and I know he was asked about that too,
not just you know, is it your vision or is
it what this team's best suited to do, but also
how has Sean Miller's kind of style evolved from going
a decade ago at Arizona, where his teams were big
and dominated the paint, to now what his teams look
like at Xavier, who played quickly and aren't afraid to
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put up thirty three.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, and that was the first incarnation of the programs
he had Xavier the first time around before he went
to Arizona, and and then the second time around as
you pointed out, and we'll kind of see a mixture
of that. There will be guys who have made their
name over the past couple of years, uh, playing for
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Rodney Terry, like Kendall Weaver and Jordan Pope. I think
those guys will be in there. Tremon and Mark obviously
if he his issue, his biggest issue has been staying healthy. Uh.
So you have those three guys. But Sean has brought
in Daylon Swain from his Xavier team, and they he
was he was a problem in that you know, first
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four playing game in Dayton when the long Wrens fellow
Xavier last March. He comes in off averaging eleven points,
five and a half boards per game. He'll want to
get the ball up and down the floor. So Simeon
Wiltcher as a junior transfer guard from Seeing John's Camden
Heidi is a guy that I've been impressed with as well,
a swingman from Purdue who can shoot the basketball. And
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I'm curious to see how Lacina Treori, you know, adapts
to everything. He's a grad transfer coming in with Sean
Miller from Zagre, but didn't play last year due to
knee injury. So we'll see. But I know he's very
very high on me, and he's looked good in practice.
And there's another guy I'm curious to see, and a
lot of this has to do with his roadback from injury,
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and that's Modus Fokatitis, who transferred him from Florida Atlantic.
He's a native of Lithuania. He's a seven footer and
he's a guy who can run the floor. He can
kind of, you know, rin the rim, run a little bit,
and he averaged ten points, five and a half boards
per game last year at fau very athletic around the basket,
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so he was he was pretty impressive to see him
and another guy. There's a couple other guys who I
think might be able to really help and impact this
team on down the road. One is Declan Duru, who
is a junior transporter where he's a junior, I mean,
he's actually a freshman coming in. He's Declan Dura junior.
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He's he's a freshman from Munich, Germany, but he played
in the real Madrid Academy in Spain. Uh say, he's
a guy that also had you know, overcomes some injury.
And then the other guy is Nick Cody, sophomore forty.
Came in a couple of years ago, red shirted and
then played his freshman there at Texas last year from Carrollton,
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and he's put on some weight and seems to his
basketball IQ is really elevated a little bit. So, I
mean there's a there's a number of guys who I
think that they're they're you know, excited to see how
they handle the moment and how they can step up
in the moment to play.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, and it's a big moment to start the season.
I know Sean Miller was kind of joking with the
media out you know, sometimes wakes up and thinks, well,
why the heck are we playing Duke? Of course he
didn't inherit that or he didn't pick that game. He
inherited that schedule and taking over this Texas job. Texas
has never beaten Duke in three matchups of course last time.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
One of their more notable matchups was that second round
tournament game back in Greensboro in two thousand and eight.
On Shire, the current head coach of the Blue Devils,
was one of several clutch Duke players in that game.
Were you on the call for that game, Craig, and
what do you remember about it?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I was, indeed, and remember it? Well, don't remember now?
You know the old graybeard here, Jay, come to start
my twenty fifth season in the play by play chair
tonight for a long more bet fact, Eddy Orn and
I started our twenty fifth season together as a team
and coach Warn of course, the former long run assistant
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coach under both Bob Weltlike and Tom Penders and so
EO and I'll start our twenty fifth season together tonight.
The thing I remember about that game in two thousand
and eight is that that was a two thousand. I
believe that was two thousand and nine. Two thousand and eight,
they got to the Elite eight and uh and lost
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in the Elite eight to Memphis, who had Derreck Rose
down in Houston at NRG Stadium. In two thousand and nine,
they'd gone into Greensboro. I was pretty excited about it
was kind of it was kind of almost like my
homecoming thing for me because that's my hometown. And I
was walking into that arena going okay. I saw Ringling Brothers,
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Barnum and Bailey circus in here. I saw Holiday on Ice.
I saw Bob Hope do a thing in there, my
first ever rock concert. I was kind of ashamed of
ad minute now, but I kind of laughed at it.
And I was David Caffidy and and I graduated high
school in this building. I remember thinking I was walking
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across the stage there, but so it was a little
bit of it was the first time I'd been back
in that building. I had been the one Carolina Hurricanes
hockey game, but it was it was the first time
I did back in that building in about six or
seven years, and only the second time I've been inclusive
of my high school graduation, So it was pretty cool.
I remember going in there. But the game, Texas played
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Duke off their feet and it came down in the
waiting moments of the game. Damian James had a baseline
jumper open and would have given them the lead in
the final minute, and it rimmed out and then and
then the long runs had the foul. I think Duke
ended up winning by five, but it was a it
was a really good ballgame. Texas had beaten a Tubby
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Smith coached Minnesota team in the first round before dropping
that game in the second round to Duke, So you know,
it's interesting. The log Wrns had played the Blue Devils
five times, never in Austin, never in Durham when they
played Duke in non conference games, and I'm not counting
the NCAA tournament game, so four other times they played
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him in non conference games, but every time he's been
on the neutral floor. Rick Barnes, when he was coaching,
tried to get Mike Krzyzewski to agree to home and
home on several occasions, and Coach k wouldn't have it.
He didn't, he didn't want to do that. So unlike
North Carolina, where Texas has played North Carolina in Chapel
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Hill in Austin in Greensboro. In Arlington, it was the
first ever college basketball game played at Jerry World. They're
at the ATNT Stadium. So they played in a lot
of different places as well as in the NCAA Tournament.
They placed each other in Denver in the NCAA Tournament.
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But they had but they they only have played Duke
on quote unquote neutral floors, and that was three times
in the metropolitan New York area. They played him in
the Meadowlands on the day that Vince Young was disappointed
by not winning the High It's Been Trophy back in
two thousand and five. Everybody remember that. I remember doing
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that game and then going over, you know, the Heisman
celebration or the Heisman presentation was that night, and that's
when Reggie Bush won the heismand that was in two
thousand and five. A lot of long worn fans remember
that as the black Jersey game because they came out
of those alternate black jerseys at Nike Wanton Noire and
they just got carved up, and folks wanted to blame
(11:24):
it on the jerseys. Don't blame it on the jerseys,
blaming on JJ Reddick. He just bombed ou I think
he had forty points in the game, and so he
had a huge game producing that, and then they played
him at Madison Square Garden. They played him a couple
of competitive games and they got blown out a couple
of games, one competitive game, I think two games that
were blown out. But they've never played them anywhere but
(11:48):
a quote unquote neutral And I say quote unquote because
as I mentioned, Duke has a huge alumni fan They
here and they obviously they would for the NCAA tournament
game Greensport, but even in the metropolitan New York a
lot of Duke fans showed up in the game of
the Old Metalands Arena, and the two games stay based
in Madison Square Garden. So this is a test of
a different sort tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And I'm glad you brought up Rick Barnes a couple
of minutes ago because his team Tennessee Volunteers, they hosted
Duke and a televised exhibition last week and the Blue
Devils came back from down to the first half won
that game, that exhibition game. You know, based off that,
What did you take away? What kind of challenges will
will this twenty twenty five version of Duke seem to
(12:31):
present for Texas tonight as you preview the matchup, well,
you start with Cameron Boozer.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I mean, he's he's tremendous. And the other thing that
surprised me is in an exhibition game, he played thirty
nine minutes in that exhibition But trying to find an
answer for him, he's six y nine in about two
sixty and is just he's just powerful around the basket.
And they've got some returning guys with Isaiah Evans and
Caleb Foster, but it revolves around Boozer and his brother Kayden,
(13:03):
So the twins are pretty exciting. But but Cam Boozer
is the one to watch. And that's why when Sean
Miller was asked last week on the Media Zone, who
do you who you're going to put on them? And
he said, you can't say any one person because he said,
we're gonna have to try a lot of different things
with him. You know, I'm sure they'll double him. Uh,
(13:24):
you know, we may see him play his own against him. Uh,
you know, he's going to be the biggest problem. But
Duke can get the ball up and down the floor
extremely well coached by John Shire. So yeah, that's That's
what they're going to have to deal with. It's interesting
you mentioned Tennessee as I mentioned Eddie or in my
broadcast partner. He his day job is he's a scout
(13:46):
for the Brooklyn Nets. And so he was in Knoxville
last night to watch Tennessee open it season under Rick
barnes uh in their matchup with Mercer. So he got
a chance to do that and then he drove. He
drove down from Knoxville to Charlotte today. So a lot
of excitement about getting this basketball season off to starting
even their luck. I said it could be some growing
(14:08):
pains for a bit and some and some learning processes
a little bit for the Longhorns, but I think fans
are going to really like down the road. Certainly what
Sean Miller does with his basketball team.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I think that's spot on. But hey, your basketball season,
at least for the games that count start started last
night before I let you go. What did you take
away from the women's game last night? And they're big
victory over the University of Incarnate Word, did you see
what you expected to?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Pretty much? They're they're a veteran group and you know,
you come off of thirty five and four season and
go to the final four, win a coach championship in
the SEC, have an All American, the SEC Player of
the Year returning for her junior year. It's gonna it's
gonna be fun to watch Madison Booker. It's going to
(14:57):
be fun to watch her team mates, and that includes
obviously Rory Harmon is back for her final year. She
got her red medical red shirted year from two seasons
ago from the injury, so she's back for a fifth year.
And then in addition to that, just seeing the other
players who are will be a Jordan Lee, just a
(15:18):
sophomore scratching the surface of her game, and she scored
twenty one points last night. They're gonna be They're gonna
be a lot of fun to watch. I think brit
Cunningham in the middle as a post player has a
lot to do that you know, as long as she
can stay out of foul difficulty, that will be important.
(15:39):
And Tayo Sidberry is another player who comes in. And
then you've got the McDonald's All American, the freshman Aliah
Crump who had a nice debut last night. So it's
a team that's deep, it's experienced and they're gonna be dangerous.
They're definitely gonna be a factor and one of the
teams to beat in the sec.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, we'll hear from sound bites, some soundbites from them
a little later on. Hey, you're right by Cam Parker's
old stomping grounds. He got any good recommendations things on
the menu for today? And you're short Stinton Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
He already went and saw his buddies and he hung
out with them last night. He's all business today we
at the arena. We spent a good deal of time
by the time I landed and got on the ground
and Eddie picking up at the airport, and then we
got into town and went to the arena and got
everything technically hooked up and watched watch the shoot around
(16:36):
the practice to get ready for this, and got some
other homework things I'll do with regard to that before
we head over to the arena. So looking forward to it.
Should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, very exciting time of year. Tell Eddie and Cam.
I said hello and Craig, best of luck for the
call tonight the start of another men's basketball season.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Thanks and thanks for sitting in today, Jake appreciate that
and have some fun.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Thanks Craig. All Right, that's Craig Way, nice enough to
call in from Charlotte, where the Texas Longhorns tip off
their season tonight. You can hear that call from Craigway
and Eddie Orn together for their twenty fifth season in
the booth, and that is at seven o'clock on AM
thirteen hundred zone and ninety eight to one KVET, Austin's
(17:22):
country station.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
All Right, the.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
NFL trade deadline was a busy one and now things
have officially closed up. It's done for business, and we've
had a lot of moving parts to tell you about,
including some sound from Jerry Jones, a well, always a
major character in his own story, but a major character
in the NFL trade deadline story of this twenty twenty
five season. That's next as the program rolls on here
(17:47):
on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred zone and on the
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