Zimmel Hour, Texas gears up for Missouri and Sweet 16 Preview

Texas Longhorn Women's Basketball gears up for the the Tennessee Lady Vols and Baseball travels to take on Missouri. Andrew Zimmel fills in for Craig Way and is joined by Craig from Birmingham, AL and Roger Wallace  and Keith moreland 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is going on a Friday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I hope you guys are doing well.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Andrewszilli'll hanging out with you for the next three hours
as Craig Way and company in Birmingham, Alabama, as the
Texas Longhorn women's basketball team gets ready to play the
Tennessee Lady Bowls tomorrow. It is a jam pack day
of college basketball. The Sweet sixteen up and running on
the men's and women's side of things. Tomorrow, we have

(00:28):
our trio of big games, of course, in the middle
sandwich between the two number three Notre Dame and number
two TCU and number three Oklahoma and number two Yukon
is the number one ranked Texas Longhorns versus number five
seeded Tennessee. A rematch of a game that you saw
in the regular season, and this time the stakes could

(00:48):
not be higher. Vick Schaeffer and his team spoke earlier
today for media availability. We'll get some of that audio.
Texas Baseball travels to Columbia, Missouri, as the Longhorn of
baseball team gets ready to start their run tonight, and
coach the Swatstone got asked an interesting question yesterday about
how do you get a team excited when you're playing

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a team like Missouri because oh and six in the conference.
You have so many great teams that are in the SEC,
Missouri not being one of them. Early in the season.
How do you get excited for those type of games?
How do you get up and get moving? Well, part
of the way that you can get up and get
moving is by listening to it right here on the
zone first pitches at six pm. Roger Wallace will be
on the call. We'll talk to Roger in the four

(01:32):
o'clock hour. But I was curious to kind of get
in the head of a head coach when it comes
to games like that, because baseball is the every single
day grind, right for a college baseball team in the SEC,
you got your midweek game and then you got to
go play an SEC a pony. You got your midweek
game and the SEC apon and it's very easy to

(01:53):
lose some of the early season luster. The long warns
haven't shown that yet. But this game against Missouri, this
weekend series against Missouri, you know you can drop two
of three if.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
You're not ready to go.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
And it looks like Jim Showschnegl and his team is
ready to go. We'll hear from him and his team later.
Coming up next in the next segment, at two seventeen,
Craig Way joins the program, talking all things Longhorns. Obviously
gives a preview of other women's basketball baseball. We probably
will talk a little softball with them. His Dodgers looked

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really good yesterday. So there's a lot going on on
the forty acres. There's a ton going on on a
Friday edition of The Craigway Show. And of course, because
nothing could ever be normal, news has to break right
before we come on air. That news being the Memphis
Grizzlies firing Taylor Jenkins. They're head coach, they're winning as coach.

(02:49):
It's weird. It's a strange firing. It doesn't make a
ton of sense. The Grizzlies currently are the five seed
in the Western Conference. Over their last ten games though
five and five, so as they limped towards the postseason
ownership front office, they decided to make a chain now.
The team believe the Jenkins had lost to the locker room.

(03:10):
According to ESPN's Sham Sharati, they lost the locker room
over the course of the season, and the change happening
now might mitigate how the Grizzlies finished the season. Now again,
there's like ten games left. This is a big move.
Right before the playoffs, the front office spoke longingly about him.
They said they were happy with everything he's done over

(03:32):
the past six seasons, that it's a very difficult decision,
all of these things being you know, the things that
you say when you fire your head coach the middle
of the season.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Jenkins, he's forty.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
He served as the Grizzlies head coach since that twenty
nineteen twenty twenty season. He's been with jab Moran since
he won the Rookie of the Year, three postseason appearances,
but only one playoff series win. Now, Taylor Jenkins by
being fired by the Grizzlies marks the third time in
history of the league that a team is left that
coach has left the team midseason after winning at least

(04:06):
forty games during the campaign. Those other two coaches Larry
Brown with the New Jersey Nets and Don Nelson in
the four to five season with the Dallas Mavericks.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Now again, this is.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
A really a big firing because you think about the
coaches that are on or in the job market potentially,
and Tayo Jenkins is a guy who has a lot
of connections to San Antonio where Greg Popvich is trying
to come back from his health scare earlier this season.
So you think to yourself, like, could this be one

(04:40):
of those connections. Could this be a guy that the
Spurs now are looking at as they might be looking
to replace their head coach or add somebody to the
bench to be the air apparent. Again, a lot of
moving parts, obviously, but the biggest news, of course Grizzlies,
a playoff team firing their head coach right before for
the playoffs. This is not something that we see every

(05:02):
single day. This is a strange firing obviously. Now there
probably is some more to the story, and of course,
as that story develops, we'll have it for you here
on a thirteen hundred zone. But it is a big
move by a team that is trying to make a
push for the push in the playoffs and try to

(05:24):
get an elusive title for the city of Memphis, Tennessee
all right, NCAA Action Last Night Final or the Sweet
six team And it was the game of the night,
an overtime loss by Arkansas two three seeded Texas Tech
eighty five to eighty three was the final score. The

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way that the Razorbacks lost that game, the way that
John Calipari lost that game, will go down in the
record books the history books of college sports as one
of the worst losses in the NCAA Tournament. Razorbacks led
sixty nine to fifty six. With under five minutes to go,
Red Raiders stormed back. Darian Williams had to go ahead

(06:08):
layup with five seconds remaining. Arkansas's final shot was no good.
There was enough time, though, for John caler Party to
call a timeout and drop a play for his team
with the season on the line. Instead, he took that
time out with him into the locker room and let
the final seconds play out. Now there's a course something
to be said for letting your guys figure it out,

(06:29):
letting you guys play. But this was the second time
under a month that Cali Party has made that type
of mistake.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
He raised eyebrows.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
In the SEC Tournament, Arkansas up by three over South Carolina,
he told Janelle Davis to miss a free throw in
a very odd sequence. Now the season online, he refused
to call a timeout. Razorback fans are not happy with
their head coach, even if that head coach is a
Hall of Famer. Now, KLi Parti spoke about his team
going dry, not being able to hit any shots down

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the stretch.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Why do you think you guys drive up a little
bit scoring in the last few minutes.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Well, we had we missed a shot and we kicked
it out and there was a new shot clock and
we shot.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
At three, which again.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
We had open shots, tried to drive and took tough shots.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
We had a couple of those.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
But to be honest with you, you know, I'll have
to think back, but we were trying to run things
to maybe drive the ball more.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
That's what we were doing.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
And when we did drive it, we looked pretty good.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, it's tough to lose a game like that.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Obviously, your season comes to an end if you're the Razorbacks.
But you go through the stats and you think that
was a game we should have won. You win the offensive,
rebounding battle, You win the rebounding battle in totality, you
shoot the lights out, you shoot well from the field,
and you go home anyway, And there's nobody to blame
in this spot except for the head coach. It's the

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head coach's job to be able to see the entire
floor of the entire chess board and make moves. The
Razorbacks had plenty of times yesterday that they could have
called the time out, they could have slowed things down,
and you would expect a national championship winning coach like
John Calipari to make the right calls there. But again

(08:20):
the Razorbacks go home empty handed in year number one
with Arkansas. Is it a successful season to make it
to the sweet sixteen? You know, some Razorback fans might
say yes, I had expectations for this team before the season.
They struggled in the SEC regular season, they struggled in
the SEC tournament at times, and now out in the

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Sweet sixteen. So Tennessee moves on to take on number
one seeded Florida later and again this will be a
big matchup. Obviously, Florida still picked as one of the
teams to advance far in the NCAA Men's Tournament. But
there's a lot of good games this coming weekend, and

(09:01):
you want to know if the raid Or of the
Red Raiders can take this win that they were able
to grab from the jaws of defeat and move on
to try and knock off another SEC powerhouse. All Right,
when we come back, Craig Way names on the show,
He's going to talk to us about all things Longhorns.
Give us an update on the Texas women's basketball team.
Is Aaron Birmingham for tomorrow's matchup against the Tennessee Lady Vols.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
All coming up next.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Craigway Show continues in a moment on sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred The Zone, Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The
Zone and from an undisclosed location watching a huge North
Carolina duke matchup, it is Craig Way. Craig How doing
this afternoon?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Man, Oh, I'll disclose it to you.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
I'm in Birmingham, Alabama, yet I was, but we're the
first game. Remember a reminder for people that these regions
for the women are different from the men in that
instead of having four sights East, Southwest, and Midwest for
the man, they two regionals at two sites. So there's

(10:03):
two in Spokane, Washington, and there's two here in Birmingham,
and one of the ones in Spokane starts tonight and
the first of the two here in Birmingham is underway
right now, and it's a rivalry, North Carolina and Duke,
who are ours rivals, but they've never met in the

(10:25):
NCAA Tournament in women's basketball before, and they split two
regular season meetings and North Carolina jumped to an eleven
nothing league in Duke has caught fire since and they're
up twenty four eighteen. They're getting to the late stage
of the first half. The winner of this game is
going to get the winner of the matchup between the
defending national champions South Carolina and Maryland. Now that's the

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first of the Birmingham regions. The winner of the region
overall and the Elite eight game would be on Monday,
or would be on Sunday, excuse me. The winner of
that game will meet in the Final four the winner
of the other Birmingham region that's the one the Longhorns
are in where TCU, the two seed, will play Notre
Dame the three seed, tomorrow at noon, and then the

(11:11):
Longhorns the number one seed, will play the number five
seed Tennessee in a rematch of the regular season game,
and that will be tomorrow afternoon at two thirty on
the Zone. So they've won two regionals at each site
and they're well attended. As a result of that, I.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Was going to ask all on the same gym. These
two weefferent regionals.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Craig Yeah, boats are at the Legacy Arena in downtown Birmingham.
They started this concept last year. Then they did it
in Portland and the long Orangs were up there in
Portland and Texas was in the Friday Sunday Portland Regional,
and then there was another one Saturday Monday. The Friday
Sunday was on where Texas lost to NC State in

(11:52):
the Elite eight, and the Friday the Saturday Monday was
one where Yukon beat USC.

Speaker 7 (12:00):
Last year.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
So last year folks got a chance to see Paige
Beckers against Juju Watkins and Yukon and USC are in
Spokane this year, but of course ju Ju being out
with the porn acl that ch used to stay the
other night and their second round win up for Mississippi State,
that won't happen, although I think both could wind up
playing each other in the Elite eate. I do think

(12:22):
that USC, even without Juju Watkins, will beat Kansas State,
and I think Yukon will beat Oklahoma, and it'll probably
be USC and Ukon meeting in the Elite Eight for
the second straight year.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
So yukonn right now a fifteen and a half point favorite,
USC only a one and a half point favorite against
Kansas State. Craig vick Schaefer, This is interesting. So he's
talked all season about how much he loves his team,
how this is one of the best teams he's coached.
Last year's team goes to an LEADI eight without Roy Harmon.
This year's team, do you feel like you've watched him

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enough to say like this is a national championship team.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
It's national championship caliber, certainly, and they earned that through
the year. The number one seed. That said, I think
the road this year is more difficult from this point forward.
Last year I thought the path had opened up pretty
much for them when NC State won in the regional
semifinal round and I thought, Okay, this looks a but

(13:21):
I underestimated NC said, I don't think Texas did, but
I think I certainly did. And they played great, and
they've got most of that team back, and they're in
the other spoketan region or NC State is there with
u C l A where the LSU is in that retail.
So that's that's going to be really interesting to see.

(13:42):
UCLA is playing old Miss tonight, who was tough. You know,
Texas had two hard fought wins of Role Miss this year,
one in the regular season in Oxford and then one
in the SEC tournament. Uh, they they're capable of giving
U c. L A a tough time, and UCLA is the
top seed there. But I do think the path is
tougher this year for Texas. First of all, they're playing

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a team in Tennessee that they only beat by four
points when they met two months ago, back in January.
And that was the game. I don't if you remember this, Andrew,
but that was the game where Tennessee was with Ale.
Its head coach Kim Caldwell was giving birth to her son,

(14:24):
and so she wasn't there for that, but she said,
and Vic said, and I think the players have said
they you know, they pretty much ran you know, her
longtime assistant ran ran the practice. So it was pretty
much like it looked if she.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
Had been there.

Speaker 6 (14:41):
But uh, they've been on a hot streak lately and
it's gonna be it's gonna be tough. They went into
Ohio State and really decisively beat the number four seed
Buckeyes on their own home four, so you've got that
and then if they win that. Uh. They haven't played
TTU this year, but TCU is really good. They've got
Hayley band Lift, the guard who transferred from Louisville to

(15:03):
LSU and then LSU to TCU, and she was the
guard for Louisville two years ago who led them for
that second round whenever Texas at Moody Center, the only
time since Shaefer has been the head coach in five
years that he didn't have a Texas team in the
Sweet sixteen, and they've won that contest. Well, she's an
outstanding guard, have a couple other really good guards, and

(15:26):
they have Sadonah Prince, the six eight post player from
Liberty Hill who was a Loghorn but never played for
Texas due to leg injury, wound up transferring to Oregon
and then ultimately to TCU. So having said all that,
I think Notre Dame is one of the hottest teams
in the country right now as well. And Notre Dame

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will play TCU in the first game at noon. Notre
Dame beat Texas in overtime back in December acc SEC Challenge.
But I think it's gonna be a terrific game. I
think both games are going to be really, really good games.
Duke has gone up eight on Carolina at the half
after trailing eleven and up and early. I think Duke's
probably gonna win that game. And I think South Carolina

(16:06):
is going to handle Maryland. I think the two games
here in Birmingham tomorrow could be that could be much better.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
As a matter of fact, well, I said this entire
slate of game tomorrow, Craig. It's back to back to
back with Texas, Yukon and everybody else playing. So you
talk about Tennessee not having their head coach last time
these two teams played, I think that that might play
a part. Do you feel like that could be the
decider and X factor coming into this matchup tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
Well, both sides are down playing it. Both sides are
saying it wouldn't that big a deal, you know, because
she had her longtime assistant coach running and I pretty
much ran. And remember it was a four point game.
It was the heck of a ball game. The key
to Tennessee is tempo and three point shooting. They love
to get it up and down before Texas doesn't mind

(16:52):
getting it up and down the floor, but they want
to put pressure on it. And also I should point
out that Tennessee will put pressure on you. Tennessee also
loves to shoot the three. They shoot thirty three percent
as a team beyond the arc. But they can get very,
very streaky. So that's that's gonna be something to watch.
I think Talaysia Cooper, the South Carolina transfer, their leading scorer,

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is somebody that she's in that kind of swing position,
much like Madison Booker is. For Texas, it's gonna be
a battle of tempo and for Texas they're trying to
control the glass, rebounding. They're second in the nation in
second chance points, so that those are things that they
if Texas has the game going its way, rebounding, controlling

(17:38):
the glass, and second chance points and I like the
long orange chances.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, you look at the last time these two teams played,
Tennessee had I think eight players in double figure minutes.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
Crag.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
They're a deep team too.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
Yeah, they are. I think both these teams are deep
and can run lots of lots of players in and out.
You know, the last couple of ball games Vic Safer
has had Jordan Lee start, but Jacquelina went in. Tomda
has given him some great minutes and production off the bench.
He had a career high nineteen points in the winn
Ofver Illinois. Obviously, Kyla Oldacre is going to rotate in

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at the post there with Taylor Jones. Brianna Preston is
able to spell Rory Harmon at the point, so they
go deep as well. And I think that, you know,
the depth on both sides will keep these teams fresh.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
So Juju Watkins goes down with an ACL injury, Craig,
I counted six. You might have counted more questions to
Rory Harmon about her ACL injury this past week.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
Yeah, and today in the press or that they they
you know, they took a different routes they asked Rory about.
I thought it was a really good question that a
reporter from USA Today asked her about how much of
it is mental and how much of his piscical, because
Vick Shaffer just got through talking about it being mainly mental,

(18:58):
and she said it's way more mental than it is physical.
She talked about this, she said, I'm still going through it.
When you she said, I'm still going through it, right
now you know you don't. It's always in the back
of your mind, even once the doctors clear you and
say you're good to go. Now, I having said all that,
you know, I'm I'm in on their close practices, And
so I got a chance to watch them this morning,

(19:19):
and Vick was very complimentary of how she still does
incredible things. He said, even earlier today, It's true just
watching her just zooming back and forth and the way
that she runs the offense, and then you know, she
sets it up for Madison Booker and Taylor Jones, you know,
and Shay Holly and everybody else to be in high

(19:41):
positions to score. So yeah, they asked her a lot
about it. She feels really bad about Juju Wacket's but
he said that she is determined that Juju wi a
to be able to do that. She is going to
come back better.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Tip off tomorrow between Texas and number five tennessee number
five see tennessee two thirty tip here on the zone.
So Craig to night, Texas goes to Missouri. I thought
you was lost. Now got a really good question yesterday
during his media availability about how do you get excited
for a team like Missouri who's owing six and conference play.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
I thought it was really insightful.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
I didn't hear it.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
What did he say.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Oh, he was saying, it's a faceless opponent. You got
to come in. Anybody in this league can beat anybody.
And I think that that's a really good way to
look at it.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yeah, and that's his philosophy about the SEC, because he
obviously has coached in the SEC when he was coaching
at Texas A and M, and he has preached that
mantra from the start, going to Starkville, playing LSU at home,
and now getting ready to go to Columbia. He's like,
it doesn't batter, it's SEC the old it just means more.
And uh, that's that's his look at it. It's just

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it's going to be difficult no matter especially on the road.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
In the SEC.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
And I know they just swept Mississippi State on the
road and Missouri hasn't won a conference game yet. Uh,
but it's it's still it's gonna be it's gonna be
a challenge for them.

Speaker 8 (20:58):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
This is this is kind of a hitter friendly ballpark.
And I think you'll hear that when you visit with
Roger Wallace. This afternoon, and I think Kate Keith Horland
maybe in the booth with him.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
At that time.

Speaker 6 (21:08):
Of course, Roger and Keith web the call all three
games on one of three point one FM this weekend
and he they will talk about how this can be
very hitter friendly if that wind is going. Like Keith
and I have done games that in the past when
Missouri was in the Big twelve, when the weather was
a gigantic crackt We've had tornado watches in there and
thunderstorms and high winds, and there's a there's a side,

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there's a you know how you see the distance signs
on the walls of ballparks at three hundred and eighty
five feet four hundred feet whatever, and it's kind of
a short porch down the line, down the right field line,
but beyond the right field fence, Andrew is Missouri's indoor
football practice facility. And it's beyond that fence and up

(21:54):
the wall of that practice facility. Big metal building is
a sign and it says four twenty. And I remember,
you know, when Texas had dust to Mayski when he
played Big Song power up the left handed hit her
in the early two thousands. He hit one onto the
roof of that thing, about a four hundred and forty
foot shot, and I'm telling you that's got Max Blue

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written all over it. If the wind blowing out and
they get him a ball out over the plate that
he can pull, he might land it on the roof
out there because he can crush it. But it is
a hitter friendly ballpark, so you got to keep the
ball down there.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
And I would be remiss not to mention that softball
plays at Starkville the Mississippi State matchup.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
It's gonna be a good one. This is the hottest
team in softball right now, Craig.

Speaker 7 (22:42):
Listen.

Speaker 6 (22:42):
I just took to get home safely, and all the
time from Starkville thinking about that men's basketball. Women's basketball
got stuck there overnight and had to come back the
next day.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
And then when.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
We were there with baseball, we almost didn't get out.
They were threatening to close the airport, saying we close
at nine o'clock. And remember Texas had to play double
heater on that Sunday. Well, they got over there and
got it done and got over there and got out
in time. So I'm just hoping Coach White's team can
get it done, wrap it up out of there and
get out of there with three wins and come home
all right on Sundays.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
He's on the call tomorrow, Craig Way, Texas and Tennessee
play in the Sweet sixteen in the Birmingham region. Craig,
thanks so much, man.

Speaker 7 (23:24):
Hey, Yeah, and just.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
We're reminding everybody obviously it's a switch this weeknd because
we have Round Rock Express Baseball on the zone starting
to night with their opener, so you know, Long Worn
Baseball throughout the weekend on one oh three point one FM,
Austin's eight station. You can listen on the apps. You
can connect to it to the iHeartRadio app obviously and
then the Texas Longhorns app and online at Texas Longhorns

(23:49):
dot com. And then of course the women's games will
be on the Zone tomorrow afternoon two fifteen, airtime two
thirty with the tip off, and if they advanced to
the lead eight, that would big Monday evening at six
and that would also be able to zone. So just
want to remind everybody.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Of that and if they match you, if they make
that matchup in the Elite eight, I will be talking
to you again about what they needed you to beat
either Notre Dame or TCU.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
I look forward to I hope that's the case.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
At Craig Wait, thanks so much.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
Man, all right, have a good one, Jim.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
All right when we come back.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Inconceivable on a Florida Man Friday, all coming up next
to the Craig Way Show, Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
The Zone. Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Is
it inconceivable for the six man from San Antonio to
fill in for Craig Way? Not entirely, Okay, seems pretty conceivable.
What is conceivable inconceivable is the amount of home runs

(24:42):
hit yesterday in Major League Baseball. And it started in
Game number one. Yankees offense got off to a quick
start against the Milwaukee Brewers after a home run from
leadoff batter Austin Wells, a solo shot in the bottom
of the first. It was a three hundred and forty
eight yard home run to right center field that short
porch at Yankee Stadium.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Wells became the.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
First catcher ever they hit a leadoff home run on
opening day. That's an over one hundred and fifty years
of professional baseball. He is the first leadoff home run
by a catcher, which is absolutely insane when you think
about it that way. He's the first player in Yankees
history with a leadoff home run an opening day. He

(25:28):
it's hard to imagine that, especially considering that they had
guys like Jeter and Ricky Henderson, and you know it
had to be had to be our guy, Austin Wells.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
All right, let's talk.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Florida man Friday, and it starts with a man that
looks like you would expect him to We'll put it
that way. A tatted of Florida man tried to assure
cops that there's quote nothing wrong with drugs after it
was discovered bags of meta I mean in his underpants

(26:01):
during his strip search last week. Thomas Carpenter, forty one,
was originally pulled over by deputies for suspected traffic violations
in March, but officers soon discovered evidence of drug use
inside his car with two children and an unidentified woman inside,
as well a recipe for disaster. Authorities found a bag
full of paraphernalia marijuana possibly methamfetamine in the car. While

(26:25):
officers tried to talk to the Carpenter, he struggled to
stay awake and apparently kept fading in and out of consciousness,
not exactly what you want to see behind the wheel
or operating a vehicle. His female pastor told deputies that
they had both smoked in the car shortly before they
were pulled over. Neither of the adults had a medical
marijuana cart at the time. However, the woman was let go,

(26:46):
but deputies arrested Carpenter and booked him at Punham County Jail,
where he appeared. Solomon his mugshot, which showed heavy face tattoos.
I can confirm those face tattoos include not one, not two,
but four separate writings over the left right eyebrow and

(27:09):
then underneath the lip. And then of course you gotta
love the hairline on a man that has a forehead tattoo,
because you would think forehead tattoo would scream, just shave
the rest of the head. Nope, got to keep that
receding hairline. Make sure everybody knows that you had hair
at one point. Okay, now, I've said to everybody who

(27:29):
would listen that you cannot argue with people on the internet.
It's very easy for talk show hosts, it's very easy
for podcast hosts, and even you you want to fight
with people on Facebook. I don't get it. I don't
understand what the point is. You're never gonna win. You're
not changing any hearts or minds on Facebook. Well, what's
started as an online argument between two childhood best friends

(27:51):
well took a violent turn when one of them pulled
out a gun and opened fire through the front door.
This happened in Florida. Charlotte County deputies arrested Kevin Johnson
in Inglewood after he allegedly shot his longtime friend over
a heated confrontation. According to the deputies, the altercation began
on Facebook when Johnson's childhood friend got an intense back

(28:13):
and forth. The conversation escalated and they decided to sell
the dispute in person. Both men agreed to me with weapons,
but the victim didn't come alone. He brought another person
with him. What happened left the neighborhood in shock. As
the two men knocked on Johnson's door, he opened fire
before taking off. A neighbors saw a loud bang, and

(28:34):
they were quoted saying, we live in a crazy world.
This You never know how people will react.

Speaker 6 (28:39):
Now.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
What's very disappointing in the story is they don't say
what the argument was over. It's very popular right now
to be arguing Jordan and Lebron. You know, that's an
argument that never gets old. I say facetiously, I want
to know what they were fighting about. Was it about
who rings the best LASAGNI? I need to know so.

(29:01):
And finally, the most Florida man story you can possibly
imagine has to take in the land where dreams are made.
We're talking about Epcot at disney World. Families in Walt
Disney World during last year's holiday season witness two twenty
five year olds getting arrested screaming at cast members. This
happened in Fort Lauderdale. They were arrested. Both pled not

(29:22):
guilty to criminal charges. Both men would potentially get their
cases dismissed. It took Orange County Sheriff's Office more than
three months to release the arrest. The reports say a
young a group of young people were in argument at
the France pavilion with a woman who was using a wheelchair,
which was unprompted which unclear how prompted the argument. They
got in a physical fight with the woman in the

(29:44):
wheelchair because he felt disrespected and wanted to confront her.
So this man is fighting a woman in a wheelchair
at Epcot. Not exactly what dreams are made of, all right,
Dad is going to do it for inconceivable on a
Florida Man Friday. What's most inconceivable that Austin Wells is

(30:06):
the first Yankee to have a leadoff home run as
a catcher, or that people are getting pulled over with
meth in their underwear. What's the most inconceivable thing in Florida?

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Nothing will surprise me or when we.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Come back, we will wrap up our number one of
The Craigway Show. Andrew zim will sitting in for Craig
on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
Welcome back to The Craigway Show and the Voice of
the Longhorns Craig Way. Follow Craig on social media at
Horn Voice sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. You
can follow me Andrew Zimmele at Andrew Underscore, Zimmele on Twitter,
Blue Sky, Instagram, wherever you get your content. Also make
sure you check out YouTube page Zimmele dot Tv. Trying

(31:00):
to put more content up there as well. In hour
number two, we're gonna hear about Dion Sanders Prime time.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
He spoke with Skip Bayless about the likelihood of him
actually coaching the Dallas Cowboys at any point in the
future or now, and also about his son, Shadoor Sanders,
and how he's okay with wherever his kid decides to
get or decides to get paid.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Speeding in paid.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Deon today sign a record extension with Colorado, And you
have to imagine this probably comes on the heels of
that conversation with Skip Bailess, Colorado Deon Sanders. Colorado and
Deon Sanders have agreed to a five year, seventy or
fifty four million dollar contract extension going all the way
through the twenty twenty nine season. It'll make him one

(31:50):
of the highest paid coaches in college football. He'll learn
another ten million dollars in twenty twenty six, eleven, and
twenty seven, eleven, and twenty eight and twelve in twenty
twenty nine. If Sanders does agree to get another coaching
job before the end of his contract, the buyout would
start at twelve million dollars, which is a lot of money.

(32:12):
Is it worth twelve million dollars or more to try
to buy him out?

Speaker 2 (32:17):
If you are Jerry Jones and company. Yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
News broke today that the Memphis Grizzlies decided to move
off of their head coach Taylor Jenkins, who's forty years old,
one of the winning this coaches in Memphis Grizzly history.
Forty four and twenty nine on the season. They are
currently the fifth seed in a jam packed Western Conference.
If you go through it, Lakers are forty four and
twenty nine, Memphis forty four and twenty nine, the LA

(32:44):
Clippers are forty one and thirty one. There is no
room separating the top two through eight seed in the
Western Conference. There's a seven game difference between the Houston Rockets,
the two seed, and the Minnesota Timberwolves, who are currently
in the play in as an eight seed.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
It is jam packed.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
It is a light very very tight, and you think
to yourself, why move off of a coach like Taylor Jenkins?
Memphis reason, we're still trying to fight it out.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Excuse me.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Earlier this season, oh man, Earlier this season, Jenkins passed
Lionel Hollins become the winning as coach in Grizzly's history.
He is a fifty four percent winning percentage As the
head coach, he turned around a franchise that when he
was hired the season before, was struggling. Since getting John

(33:47):
Moran and turning him into the rook of the year,
he's only had one season where he missed the playoffs
twenty seven and fifty five last year, but that was
because John Moran suspension an injury. Morant lot missed seventy
three games that season. And I've been a big truth
when it comes to Ja Morant's availability that of all

(34:10):
of the superstars in the league, the guys who get
the most grief, the Joel Embiads of the world, the
Paul george' of the world, the Qui Leonards of the world,
John Moran doesn't play a lot of games, if we're
being completely honest. He's a guy who plays the first
game of back to back, you know, miss a couple
of weeks, you always have to deal with the impending
suspensions that kind of are over your head. And when

(34:31):
you compare him to the other players at his position,
he's not somebody that if you're trying to win basketball games,
you want to have on your team. I've been a
guy who said before that if Jah Morant was available,
and all of a sudden he becomes on the trade market.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Would I want my favorite team to trade for him
at this point?

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Probably not if I was a team that wanted a
stability at that position, if I was a team that
wanted any sort of maturity at that position. Ja Morant'
just is not guy hasn't proved to be that guy.
And guards who are explosive tend to age very, very poorly.
You think about the Derrick Roses, the Russell Westbrooks, the

(35:12):
Al Averson's of the world, all explosive players, all struggled
to continue that athleticism later in their career. Guys like
Westbrook were able to find other roles. But even then
he found a role in Denver where he's kind of
to do everything Swiss army knife and in that role
only playing next to Nick like Jokic. Has it worked.
Other news coming out today, and I thought it was

(35:33):
interesting because everybody's going back and forth with the Stephen D.
Smith Lebron James thing that happened on ESPN. I don't
find it all that interesting. I don't find any new
ground to be broken there. It's two grown men arguing
with each other.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
On TV.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
It's not something that we haven't seen before. We've all
seen this game before. It feels more like WWE, more
like Real Housewives than it does anything that is really
pertinent and pertinent and doesn't add anything to the true
understanding of the sport of basketball.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
It doesn't. It doesn't do anything for any of us.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
But Brian wind Horse could have took a ton of
a ton of strays in this back and forth, and
he was on TV today, didn't talk about any of that,
kind of put it all to rest, didn't take any
shots back to Lebron. He came on TV to talk
about NBA and expansion and for people who are interested
in those games that the Spurs are playing in Austin,

(36:27):
people who are interesting in what's happening in Dallas where
they're gutting the team, could they potentially move Wydworth puts
a lot of that to rest. This was Brian windhrrise
earlier today.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
For the as the.

Speaker 9 (36:38):
Casual fan here is this is not putting NBA teams
in Europe. This would be creating a league that is
run by the NBA in Europe. For decades, the European
leagues have produced great players like Jokich and you know,
Don Chic. But it's a bit of underachieved economically and
underachieved with their fan bases. What the NBA sees is

(37:00):
they see an opportunity to potentially move into places like London,
to Paris, to Berlin and potentially create a league.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
But it's not a done deal. The owners have.

Speaker 9 (37:10):
Not signed off on it yet. But I will say
that when the NBA commissioner wants something to happen, and
very clearly he wants it to happen, it probably will happen. Also,
Adam Silver said today NBA expansion meaning Las Vegas and Seattle,
is still not on the table. It's something that they're
still pushing off. They're more focused on creating a league

(37:31):
in Europe right now than they are expanding in the NBA.
I still think we're going to expansion, but I think
you're going to see European expansion again with a different
league happening.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
First, which is so crazy.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
You think about Wick Grossbeck, who just sold the Boston
Celtics for six billion dollars. Everybody was under the impression
that you make a move like that because you want
to set the bar for how much NBA teams will
go for in the expansion era when you were trying
to add two teams to the league. If the league
is more interested in going overseas and building a European

(38:05):
NBA league, well that's a whole different story. That entails
a whole different set of challenges. How much does that
go for? Is the NBA trying to reach across the
pond corner winding horse? Yeah, all right, when we come back,
we'll talk Deon Sanders. Will also gear you up for
Texas and Tennessee tomorrow in the Sweet sixteen all coming

(38:25):
up next to the Craig Way Show Sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred zone team you have Texas and Tennessee. The
Lady Bols two thirty tip one oh three are correction.
The zone is where you can hear that one two
fifteen airtime two thirty tip right here on the zone.
Tomorrow noon tip three Notre Dame, number two seed TCU

(38:50):
that it will be the winner of that game will
play the winner of Tennessee and Texas, and then later
in the day it is a four to thirty tip
between number three Sea of Oklahoma, number two seeded Yukon.
If you're a women's basketball fan, Tomorrow is your nirvana.
Tomorrow is the best Sweet sixteen lineup maybe ever, because

(39:11):
the other part is five seeded Kansas State taking on
one seeded usc USC without Juju Watkins is a very
different team. It's a very different team. The Trojans are
only a one and a half point favorite. They would
have been a double digit favorite with Juju. Now they're
a one and a half point favorite. There's a world
where USC the number one overall seed or the number

(39:34):
four overall one seed. Fry day this fry yay, we'll
call it as we are excited for the weekend jam
packed women's basketball. In the Sweet sixteen. You have Texas
and Tennessee. The Lady Bowls two thirty tip one O
three are crashing. The zone is where you can hear

(39:55):
that one two fifteen air time two thirty tip right
here on the zone. Tomorrow new tip three Notre Dame
number two seed TCU that it will be the winner
of that game will play the winner of Tennessee and Texas.
And then later in the day it is a four
to thirty tip between number three seeded Oklahoma number two
seeded Yukon. If you're a women's basketball fan, tomorrow is

(40:19):
your nirvana. Tomorrow is the best Sweet sixteen lineup maybe ever,
because the other part is five seeded Kansas State taking
on one seeded USC. USC without Juju Watkins is a
very different team. It's a very different team. The Trojans
are only a one and a half point favorite. They

(40:41):
would have been a double digit favorite with Juju. Now
they're a one and a half point favorite. There's a
world where USC, the number one overall seed or the
number four overall one seed gets bounced in the Sweet sixteen. Now,
obviously it's going to be because of Juju's injury. Tears
of ACL aful over the sport off of for the Trojans.

(41:02):
Interesting for how this tournament continues to go because USC
was one of the teams that a lot of people
picked to win the whole thing, or at least win
that side of the bracket. Without Juju, things change. Tonight
one oh three to one will be your home for
Texas Baseball as the Round Rock Express begin their season
tonight as well. First pitch nine pm right here on

(41:22):
the Zone Texas Baseball six pm, one oh three one.
Roger Wallason, Keith Moreland on the call. We will visit
with them in our number two to talk Texas and Missouri.
But let's talk a little college football because Deon Sanders
Prime Time spoke with Skip Bayless. Now, this is coming
on the heels of conversations all off season, pretty much

(41:46):
since before the Alama Bowl was played, about what Dion
would do if he was going to be linked to
the Dallas Cowboy job, if he was going to take
the job to be the head coach of America's team.
The other side part of this, I'm gonna put a
quick side noil here. Skip Bayless is a history with
the Dallas Cowboys. If you're not familiar with it, it's

(42:08):
a fascinating one. Who's a b reporter covering the team
in the nineties. He's not exactly the biggest I don't
think Troy Aikman or Jerry Jones are the biggest fans
of Skip Bayless. But Dion decided to sit down and
talk to him, and Skip talked to Dion about the
likelihood and the possibility of potentially coaching the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 10 (42:28):
First, I didn't really think about it. After we conversated,
I said, Wow, like this.

Speaker 7 (42:36):
This has a possibility.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
Would I do it.

Speaker 10 (42:38):
And the only way I would have done it, skip
to be honest with you, is I knew guaranteed I
had an opportunity to coach my sons.

Speaker 7 (42:46):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 10 (42:48):
Because other than that, you know why, like why it
don't make sense to me. But if I have the
opportunity to continue coaching charlot ss your door, I would
have been astatic, you know, and Dallas is well, yeah,
that would have been awesome.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
All right, So let's read the tea leaves here. If
he had an opportunity to coach his sons, Shiloh probably
not an NFL player. Everybody's screaming nepotism out Lebron and Browny.
If Shiloh Sanders is ever playing NFL snaps and Deon's
the head coach, that is nepotism, That truly is depotism.
Shiloh Sanders does not need to be on an NFL field. Shador,

(43:24):
on the other hand, is a top five pick. So
that tells me that those conversations with Jerry Jones, however
real they were, however close to the finish line they
were to getting a prime time head coach in Dallas,
that tells me that the Cowboys were not willing to
move off of Dak Prescott and try to trade up

(43:45):
for Shador. Because if Jerry Jones came to Deon Sanders
and said we needed to be the head coach of
the Dallas Cowboys, and he said, all right, well, we
need to trade Dak Prescott bring in Shador. I want
him to be the starting quarterback. I have a sneaking
suspectdition that that would have happened, that we would be
talking today in late March about Primetime being the head coach,

(44:07):
and that the Cowboys have traded up, traded Dak Prescott
to the New York Giants or to the Cleveland Browns
to try to bring in Shador Sanders as their starting quarterback.
But because that didn't happen, and because the Cowboys are
not linked to Shador, and because outside of the rumors
that we had earlier this week that Dak Prescott was
heading to Cleveland on again that's rumors, We're in a

(44:32):
spot now where we can confirm that dm was not
going to be the head coach of Dallas Cowboys. That's
just how it goes. And is that for the best
for the organization. I would maybe argument, yeah, it's probably
a good idea that he's not coaching his kid at
the NFL level. It's probably a good idea that the

(44:52):
Dallas Cowboys try to run a professional organization instead of
continuing to be the side show for the NFL, A
proud organization that once had Tom Landry and you know
Roger Staubach now has turned into a clown show led
by a Carnival Barker and having Dion be in that

(45:16):
ring leader probably wouldn't be a good idea. But Shador,
let's talk about him, because we were at a point
earlier this week where there was rumors floating around after
interviewing with teams at the combine that he was very
dismissive that he thought that he was maybe bigger than

(45:37):
some of the organizations that were interviewing him, that it
wasn't going to work between Shador Sanders and some of
these teams. That because he comes from wealth, he does
not need that life changing money that some other quarterbacks
in this draft might be looking for, and he's carrying
himself in a way that some coaches and some organizations aren't.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
A fan of.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Dion spoke at length with Skip Bayless on his podcast
about Shador's interviewing and where he thinks he's going to go.

Speaker 5 (46:04):
First, I didn't really think about it after we.

Speaker 9 (46:09):
And he did.

Speaker 10 (46:11):
You know me, I'm gonna get to the bottom of it.
So I called it team because I tracked it down.
I knew it was and I called a head coach
and we had a candy conversation because it was good
for you, really cool, and he said, Prime, that never happened.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
He said, matter of fact, it.

Speaker 5 (46:23):
Was a great interview.

Speaker 10 (46:24):
We all walked out of there saying, dang, this kid
got it. I said, yeah, but this guy on your
staff lied and saying.

Speaker 7 (46:31):
It did so you need to check him.

Speaker 10 (46:33):
And he did. Shador's told me he talked to me
intently about all the visits he's had with all the teams,
so I know where his heart is.

Speaker 5 (46:40):
I know where he wants to go. If it's New York,
it's New York.

Speaker 10 (46:43):
If it's Tennessee, if it's Cleveland, if it's still the Raiders,
if it's New Orleans, if it's any of those teams
that are seeking a quarterback.

Speaker 5 (46:51):
I'm happy with it, man, because I know what he's
going to do to the organization. I know what he's
gonna do.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
I like the Deanna saying, hey, look I talk to him.
I talked to the coaches because it was rumored. Taught
me Shay had it, and a couple other sources had
it as well, that Chador was maybe a little dismissive.
Maybe he was coming and having a little bit of
ego to those conversations with the different teams. I'm glad
that Dion, who has a little bit of sway, a

(47:18):
little bit of power NFL Hall of Famer, can call
a coach and say.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (47:23):
You tell me you were side of the story, because
I imagine that if Shadar really was dismissive, that these
coaches would say, hey, had Dian he he was. He
was kind of a jerk, kind of a pretty boy. Here,
what are we doing? What are we going to do
about it? The other part too, He mentions the Giants first, again,
you're reading the Tea leaves, Okay, Abdull, Carter, him Woard.

(47:44):
Those two feel like their top two picks. Travis Hunter
is getting pushed further and further down. There's four players
in this draft who obviously are the four most talented,
most talked about players Abdull Carter, even if he's dealing
with a shoulder injury, even if he's dealing with a
stress factor, even though he didn't want to work out
as his pro day, he is a generational talent. This

(48:04):
is a guy that size for size, cout and for pound,
is going to get talked about like Miles Garrett, like
JJ Watt, like Nick Bosa, like some of the best
edge rushers over the last decade in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
He's that type of talent. He's that good of a prospect.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Travis Hunter obviously two way player, generational talent on the
wide receiver side of things. Could be a all pro
secondary guy if you want to put him at corner
of safety. Could be the next coming of a Deone
Sanders type player. And then, of course cam Ward and
Chador two quarterbacks, the highly touted quarterbacks, guys who have

(48:41):
won awards, who have played very well. Those guys are
going to be talked about. All So there's these four,
these four players, but the quarterback battle between Ward and
Chador has obviously gone to cam Ward. He has talked
about now is the number one overall pick to the
Tennessee Titans. So then you think Okay, do the Cleveland
Browns draft a quarterback or do they go after a

(49:02):
edge rusher.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
And then is the New York.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Giants, who right now have a quarterback room of Russell Wilson,
Jameis Winston, and possibly Shador Sanders. I like, of all
the places for him to land, I don't mind Chador
in New York. It doesn't make the greatest sense to me,

(49:26):
right but I'll take it. They got my lad neighbors,
they got a good running back room. I will put
Shador Sanders in New York before Cleveland. I would rather
have him in New York in the Big Apple. He's
dealt with the press, He's dealt with the paparazzi. He's
dealt with the spotlight. He was the man at Jackson State,
he was the man in Colorado, he was the man

(49:48):
at the NFL Combine. He is going to be the
man in New York. And he doesn't have to play
right away. He's got Jams and Russell Wilson to take
some snaps before him that he can learn behind the scenes.
I'm glad that the pendulum is shifting the way from
starting ricky quarterbacks immediately. Let's go back to having it
where they sit for a year they learn the NFL.
And also for shod Door Sanders, you probably love that

(50:10):
because after playing at Colorado with no offensive line and
running for your life all the time, you get a
year of just rehabilitation, recovery. I get to sit and
watch how the league works. Sign me up and finally
we'll pull out of justice. Shadar Sanders role model, his idol,
the guy he trains with and works out with, Tom Brady.
How ironic is it? The Tom Brady the only team

(50:31):
he couldn't beat in the Super Bowl consistently, the New
York Giants. He's protege. Chiduar Sanders goes plays there, kind
of a full circle moment, all right. When we come back.
Texas Baseball tonight, six pm. First pitch on one O
three one. Jim Slashnagel talk to the media before his
team heads over to Missouri to take on the Tigers.

(50:53):
We'll hear about it next right here on sports Radio
AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 8 (51:09):
It's the craig Way Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcast there.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Craig Way Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred the zone. Craig
will be on the call tomorrow two fifteen air time,
two thirty tip right here on the zone. As the
Texas Longhorns getting the Sweet sixteen against number five seeded
Tennessee Lady Bowls. That game again, two thirty tip right
here on the zone. Well tonight on one oh three one,
the Texas Longhorn baseball team takes on Missouri, a team

(51:39):
that's ozero to six in SEC Conference play. So it's
very difficult to get excited for games like that. It's
very difficult to travel out to Missouri and play a
team that is still looking for an SEC Conference win.
But if you ask Roam Slashnagle, you gotta take every
single one of these games with a grant of salt.
And it's important to win your Secret conference games in

(52:01):
the regular season get better seating in the postseason.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
So let's hear it.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
Jims last Age had media availability earlier this week. We'll
start with his opening statement.

Speaker 11 (52:11):
First of all, you know, certainly just I've never been
to Columbia, Missouri, so I think it's been I don't
think anybody on our team has been up there that
I know of, so that experience is I'm looking forward
to it. Heard great things about it, heard great things
about the town, the college town. I think it presents
its own unique set of challenges in terms of the

(52:34):
atmosphere relative to what we've played in the last two weeks.
Kerrick Jackson is a really good friend of mine, the
head coach up there, and he's doing an unbelievable job
at a place that has challenges in our league, you know,
just being just from a climate standpoint, Missouri has been
great coach in years past. Coach Jamison Tony Botello was

(52:55):
an assistant coach there, played there, did a great job
signing a lot of great players. So I have had
a chance to watch them on video yet, but I
know that. You know, they scored a bunch of runs
last week against Ole miss and they have three left
handed starters, which is at the end of the day,
left handed pitching really, you know, in this especially in
this league, gives you a chance to win. So you know,

(53:18):
this is a big challenge for us coming off what
we've come off the past week.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
To fight off against left handed pitcher Ian Laois, who's
own three was six eighteen era long horns will pitch.
Jared Spencer tonight two and one with a three thirteen ERA.
It's the first time these two teams have matt the
Tigers and Longhorns since twenty twelve the long Time Big
twelve four. They've faced off before, but it's over. It's
been over a decade now. This is one of the

(53:44):
best teams in baseball. In college baseball sixteen second week
long Wards have climbed the rankings. They move into four
different poles, highest number three in Baseball America, which is
my favorite pole. The long runs also are number five
and perfect Game and top twenty five in d win
Baseball as well as in the NCBWA. The Baseball writers

(54:07):
are American pol has them at number seven. Okay, we're
talking about it all day. It's how do you get
excited for games like this? And Schloston got asked, how
do you make sure your team is so locked in
even facing a team that's in the bottom of the
SEC standings.

Speaker 11 (54:23):
I think it just goes back to you play to
a standard, not a scoreboard. And you hear our players
say that. I know it sounds coachy, but it really
is true. And I was really proud of the way
our guys came out Tuesday night. I thought we played
I mean, we didn't play well, but I thought we
played hard against Utsa.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
I mean, you know, people think when if you lose,
if you lose the MIDWEK.

Speaker 11 (54:42):
Game, or you lose to someone who somebody else tells
you that you're supposed to be better than they just
don't know baseball, you know. I mean, it's opening day
in the big leagues and the winning this team is
going to lose fifty games for sure. If they lose
just fifty, that's an unbelievable season. The the best teams
lose sixty seventy games. So it's never about the best

(55:05):
Team's about the team that plays the best. And you
have to go play well and if you don't play well,
you're going to lose. And so so yeah, I trust
our team, trust our leadership group, and we'll be ready
to go.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
Whether we win or not or play well, I don't know,
but we'll be ready.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
See that's big is it's the standard is the standard.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
It's great that the Longhorns across the board men's women's
baseball football does not matter, are finally getting back to
that level of consistency.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
The standard is a standard. I think that's huge.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
I saw somebody the other day tweet that it's like
Mac and Augie are back on campus with sark and
slash nangle, And I tend to agree that when you
have coaches who have played at the highest level, coach
at the highest level and saw championships won, whether it
be them winning it or them as the opponent losing it,
I do think that that brings an extra level of

(55:57):
emphasis on the details. Think that brings an extra level
of emphasis on the things that matter most, which tends
to be pitching. And thank thankfully, the Long Words have
one of the best pitching coaches in college baseball, and
Max Wheer, what does he do to drive home to
this pitching staff to hit the zone?

Speaker 11 (56:19):
Simplicity just makes it really simple for him. You're throwing
your best pitch to the best with its best shape,
to a location.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
Everything has account.

Speaker 11 (56:30):
There isn't a time they throw a bullpen where you're
just not standing out there saying, oh, this is my
fastball or this is my slider. It's one, oh slider
middle right. And and it's no secret, I think, and
there's other people have caught on and are doing it
where we just throw pitches to the middle of the
play and to the point where you know you may

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give up some two hits or some you know which
is supposed to be some cardinals in baseball. But you know,
if you listen to Greg Maddocks, pitch is when you
have the hitter in the best scenario. And the more
pitches you throw, the more information they get. And so
that's why on the offensive side we like to see
pitches because the more pitches you see, the more information
you get, the better chance you have.

Speaker 4 (57:11):
But Max is really good.

Speaker 11 (57:13):
You can have all the sayings and processes you want.
It's not about what you know, it's about what you
can get the players to do. And he did that
in professional baseball all the way to the big leagues
with Seattle, and he did that for us at A
and M, and he's obviously doing it right now.

Speaker 4 (57:28):
So and you got to give a players credit.

Speaker 11 (57:30):
You know, they've not only bought in, but they're you know,
they've executed it to this point.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Yeah, that's big too, having the execution, having the guys
who can take that information, dissiminate that information right, to
understand it, to load it, to download it, and then
to do it. It's not easy to do. If it was,
everybody would be doing it. We'd have a bunch of
games that going to extra innings and the final scores
of these games are one nothing. That's not the case

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in college baseball. To have a young pitching staff the
Longhorns have, and to have it coach like coach Wieners,
who can get all those guys on the same page.
I know it's lame to talk about it, to give
a pitching coach this much credit, but I say every
single time I talk about this team, the vibe shift

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has been.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Enormous.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
If you weren't around this team last year, if you
didn't cover this team last year, if you didn't watch
this team last year, then you don't know what I'm
talking about. But I'm trying to convey to you that
this team last year, at this time, it was a
completely different story. It was a completely different story. It
was a completely different vibe with the pitching staff and

(58:38):
how guys felt about it. I go into every single
weekend now in the SEC feeling very confident in the
Longhorn pitching staff, and I cannot tell you the last
time that that has happened. I cannot tell you the
last time that I felt this good about a Friday
Saturday Sunday starting group. But speaking of Sunday, still a TBD.

(58:59):
Who will be the starting pitcher? Shash got asked about
Max Rubbs, who had a very good Sunday against LSU.
Do you have thoughts about potentially starting him?

Speaker 4 (59:09):
A million percent? I have thought about it.

Speaker 11 (59:11):
I mean, I would love to be able to write
it in pen and just leave it right there, and
maybe we get to a point in the season where
we can do that.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
I think a guy like Jason.

Speaker 11 (59:20):
Flores is capable of maybe jumping in that role where
Rudert and Max as a as a reliever, But right
now I don't think we're there yet in my mind.
So when we have a chance to win the games
and we'll use Ruger if we need to otherwise, hear Max,
both of them could start on Sundays.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
There's a lot of good pictures and you got to
kind of think about the mindset too, when it comes
to who's going to be that Sunday pitcher.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
When you have two.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
Guys who are locked in as your starters consistently and
Jared Spencer and Luke Harrison, When you have those guys
locked in essentially at your Friday Saturday to have the
ability on a Sunday to you who's a bunch of
different guys to piecemail it together?

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
And it's an important thing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
And also you have to think that this team in particular,
like I said, this is a very different baseball team
than years prior. This is a team that's trying to
win the SEC. This is the team that's trying to
win at Omaha. I want to know who can pitch
in what situations and if that means against Missouri, a
team that's zero to six in conference play, that I

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get to figure out who that Sunday starter is, and
do I figure out if I have a third starter
that I can throw come tournament time, come Omaha time.
I'm okay with that. I'm okay with figuring it out
against a team like Missouri versus trying to figure it
out next weekend against a team like Georgia. Okay, longtime
Longhorn fans know about Eathan Mendoza transferred to the forty

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Acres from Arizona State. Over his first twenty three games,
he's posting a four hundred and five to ten six
forty two slash line. He's averaging his ties eighth among
SEC players. He's tied for fourth with home runs this season.
He's on a fourteen game hitch streak. He's doing everything

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that you could ask. He's also hitting near the top
of the lineup or at the top of the lineup.
How good has he been in this order?

Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
A million percent? I've thought about it.

Speaker 11 (01:01:26):
I mean, I would love Yeah, he's he's been awesome.
He's butt into everything that we've asked him to do
since he came here. We had long, long conversations in
the fall about what his skill set was and how
I felt like in our offense, if he would trust it,
how he could go to a completely different level and

(01:01:46):
get stronger. The greatest skill he has on offense is
that when he swings, he hits the ball, which can
be a bad thing if you don't swing at the
right pitches.

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
And so he's taken to that.

Speaker 11 (01:01:59):
We made him take a strike off fall just to
learn how to see pitches and learn that he could
trust himself and with especially hitting with two strikes. And
so he's really he's taken that as a kind of
a badge of honor and really taking it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Next level Longhorns play the Missouri Tigers tonight from Columbia, Missouri,
six pm. First pitch on one O three one. Andrew
Zim will sitting in for Craig Way when we come back.
Vick Schaeffer spoke to the media today gearing you up
for the Sweet sixteen matchup tomorrow. Here right here on
the Zone, andrews Im will fill in for Craig on
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 8 (01:02:38):
We welcome back to the Craig Way Show and the
voice of the Longhorns. Craig Way. Follow Craig on social
media at Horn Boys.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
Of course, Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrews I
will hanging out with you this Friday afternoon, getting you
excited for the weekend Sweet sixteen action happening this week
and on the Zone as the Texas Long Worn women's
basketball team takes on the Lady Bols that is tomorrow
at two thirty airtime two fifteen, Craigway will be on

(01:03:11):
the call. Game happening actually just wrapped up. Number two
seeded Duke beats number three seeded North Carolina on the
women's side of things, forty seven to thirty eight. That
is the Birmingham region as well. Reagion two to be
specific later today and about thirty minutes, one seed in
South Carolina will take on four seeded Maryland, also in

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of course, the Birmingham region. So Vic Shaeffer spoke to
the media today, Actually, I want to one more thing
because Craig gives me grief because I'm doing a Rodney
Dangerfield impression and maybe I'm putting bulletin war material on
for Vic Shaeffer and his team. But every day there's
another article written about the women's basketball tournament, and every

(01:03:55):
day I find myself pulling the few hairs I have
left out because it seems like the Texas Longhorns just
go under the radar, and I don't understand why. I
Non Longhorn fans will look at me and say I'm crazy.
They'll be like, you are the number one team in America.
At one point, you are a one seed in the tournament.

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It does not matter that all of these different publications
are not writing about you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
But think about this.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Roy Harmon got asked at least I'm going to ballpark
it ten times in the last two days after the
Juju Watkins injury, where she tears her ACL again, superstar
player for USC. It's a tragedy what happened to her.
But Rory Harmon to here her ACL and was able
to come back from it. And there's a lot of
people asking her about her ACL injury now nationally, But

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there was no conversation about this at the beginning of
the season. It seems like like I went back and
looked and nobody was writing articles about this recovery process
or how she came back or anything else like that.
But because Juju, a player that everybody wants to talk about,
national league gets hurt. Now a Longhorn player gets pulled
into the conversation. And then I see this story today

(01:05:09):
from ESPN about ranking the twenty five best players left
in the Sweet sixteen. Okay, and I think to myself
that the Longhorns are the one seed and they are
a I think fifth place right now when you look
at sports books to win the whole thing, which is fine.
I'll take the fifth best odds going into the sweet sixteen.

(01:05:29):
I'm not super worried about that. But Massive Booker was
number six, the SEC player of the Year, didn't make
the top ten. When it comes to players left in
the tournament again, pulling my hair out a little confused
by that. I like Sarah Strang, who is number five
on this list. She's a freshman for Yukon. She is

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a very good player, and she plays next two page backers,
who announced today that she will be going into the
WNBA draft at the end of the season and she
will mostly be the number one overall pick.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
But how is it that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
There are no other Longhorns on the list? How is
it that there are twenty five of the best players
left in the NCAA tournament and there's only one Longhorn.
It doesn't It doesn't make a ton of sense to me.
And I said, our Prince is very good for TCU,
so very good post presence. She's played a bajillion years

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of college basketball at this point, due to injuries and
COVID red shirts and everything else like that. I just
think that Taylor Jones is pretty good too. And when
she played Tennessee the last time these two teams played,
she was a double double machine. I just again, the
disrespect is very, very loud when it comes to the
Texas long runs, and I don't understand why. Okay, we'll

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hear from Vick Shaffer, let's hear from him. Shaeffer started
off his introductory press conference talking about Tennessee and getting
us ready for tomorrow matchup.

Speaker 12 (01:07:01):
So just going into this game again, really honored to
be a part of the NCAA tournament. But even added
to that is the opportunity to be in a game
with another program like the University of Texas and Tennessee
that's so rich in tradition, the history of the game,

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happened so much in Knoxville and in Austin alike, and
I'm just honored to again have the opportunity to not
only be in the NCAA Tournament, but.

Speaker 5 (01:07:36):
To be involved in a game with them.

Speaker 12 (01:07:40):
Kim's done and coach Cabell's done an incredible job with
that team this year.

Speaker 5 (01:07:46):
They're really good.

Speaker 12 (01:07:48):
They could easily have won twelve or thirteen in our league.
We're in just about every game all year long. They've
had too great you know, one of two of their
better wins obviously against Connecticut and Ohio State last week.
You don't do that by accident, and uh she obviously

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is has brought a lot of attention to the game,
not only with their success but how they've done it,
and they've done it really, really well. And Uh it's
a credit to her and her staff and her players
because they they play extremely hard. They're tough, and so
we're gonna have to play really well uh tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:08:30):
Proud of my team.

Speaker 12 (01:08:31):
It's not easy to be thirty three and three coming
out of the Southeastern Conference to have played I guess,
the second best schedule behind South Carolina as far as
the net goes.

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
So I'm awfully proud of my group.

Speaker 12 (01:08:46):
But we're gonna have to obviously be ready to go
tomorrow and and take care of the ball. It'll be
a it'll be a guard or any game on one end,
and then when you get on the other, you've you've
got to have all five involved and play in really well.

Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
You got to take care of the ball.

Speaker 12 (01:09:02):
You got to realize they basically have five players at
average double figures, and so we'll have to be real
attentive to that and really focused. We obviously had a
knockdown drag out at our place earlier in the year.
We were kind of running on fumes that week. We
had already played Maryland on that Monday on Martin Luther
King Day. We had to come home and play them

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on Thursday. We were in the midst of a let's
see if I can remember Sunday, Thursday, Monday, Thursday Sunday
stretch and really had a tough game with them. Could
have gone either way. So I'm sure they're confident going
into the game rightfully. So I think our kids are
ready to go. And again, somebody that's been around and

(01:09:47):
seen a lot in the game, Coach Caldwell's done an
incredible job getting that thing turned around really quick, and
you have to give her and her kids a lot
of credit for that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
Andrews that will fill in for Craigway this Friday afternoon
when we come back, we'll hear more from Vic Schaeffer
and his team about how playing Tennessee earlier this season
will help them. On Saturday two Tip two fifteen airtime
on the Zone, Craigway will be on the call Sweet
sixteen basketball on kb or Kate on the Zone.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
When we come back.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
More of The Craigway Show as we continue to roll
on a Friday on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrews and We'll
hang out with you as we wrap up our number four,
Number four, our number two of the Craigway Show. You

(01:10:45):
can tell it's a Friday as we move along. So
we were hearing from a head coach Vick Schaeffer and
his team as a media availability earlier today as they
gear up for a game tomorrow in the Sweet sixteen. Now,
Vic Shaeffer got asked about does it help that you
played Tennessee before? You got to remember back that the

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Longhorns faced off against Tennessee earlier this season in January.
It was a four point game. It was a big
match against Tennessee at the Movie Center, and they played
him on a Thursday, coming off of a Monday matchup
against at the time number eight ranked Maryland. Texas got
the job done against Maryland in New Jersey. It was

(01:11:30):
eighty nine to fifty one that game. But Shaeffer talks
about how that win on Monday might have affected how
his team played the following Thursday.

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
For sure, it was, though it just seemed so long ago.
You know, it's.

Speaker 12 (01:11:48):
It's over, you know, a month and a half ago,
I think, And so it's been a while. Looks like
it was like on January twenty third or something like
that twenty first. So it's a long time ago, two
months ago. But I do think you know, when you
get in the NCAA tournament, you think, okay, man, thank goodness,
you get out of the SEC and you don't have

(01:12:08):
to go against you know, those people, because you have
so much respect and admiration for everybody in our league.
And then you know, these things happen. I mean, they
go into Ohio State and they thumped them. I mean
they played really good. These kids play so hard, so
it's this is what happens. And so you know, I'm

(01:12:30):
sure they'll have a great crowd. They're a little bit
closer to Knoxville here than we are at Austin.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
So had coach Vick Shaffer talking about the matchup between
Tennessee and Texas this weekend two thirty tip right here
on the zone now, Taylor Jones got asked, what do
you remember about the last time you played this team.

Speaker 13 (01:12:51):
I remember it was a very fast paced game. They
subbed a lot, and I think we got a lot
of O boards, That's what I remember. And I think
just always mentally having to be engaged because how many
subs that they have and just how fast the game

(01:13:12):
is you can't have any mental laps or they'll take
advantage of it. I think crashing the boards, I think
that we did a good job at getting rebounds and
keeping them off the boards. They're very they have height,
they're really athletic, and they get to the boards quite
a bit, and so making sure that we block them
out and doing our job getting to the rebounds is

(01:13:33):
for the posts especially, but for the guards and all
of us as a whole, breaking their press. They forty
minute in your face defense and defense and to the
last two practices we've done a really good job. I
think playing against our guys and learning to play at
our pace and not let them speed us up.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
Also, transition to will be key. But I'm confident.

Speaker 13 (01:13:58):
In our team that I'm excited for them for the rematch.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
So those are two things.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
The long word is need to do cut down the
turnovers and crash the boards. Those are big, big deciding
factors on how Saturday's game is going to go. Now
Shaffer got asked that coach Big Shaffer got asked about
having a team that is a little bit older and
that experience. What does that mean for your team and

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how having an older team might be able to help
you in the tournament.

Speaker 12 (01:14:32):
Yeah, you know, those kids, You're right, they've they've got
a lot of mileage, a lot of.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
Wins, you know.

Speaker 12 (01:14:39):
And again it's it's one of the things that for me,
I just you know, I want it so bad for
those kids.

Speaker 5 (01:14:46):
You want it so.

Speaker 12 (01:14:47):
Bad for for them, if you know this time of year,
it could be and so it's it's nice to have
a veteran group like that, you know on the floor
or they've been there. I think they're unphased, they're unflappable,
and so it's you know, again, tomorrow is going to

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be really important that we take care of the ball.
At that twelve turn them, I think only two of
them were directly result of the press. So we're gonna
take care of take care of the ball. And two
of those names you just mentioned are veteran guards.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
Now one of those veteran guards is Shaye Holly, who
got to asked a similar question about how being an
older team helps in this type of tournament.

Speaker 14 (01:15:31):
I think being older, you know, Taylor said this her
sixth year. This is my fifth year. You know, I
think it just gives you a certain level of confidence.
My dad always told me growing up, Like you get
confidence from your preparation. You know, when you don't do
the preparation, and that's when you get nervous and a
little stressed out. So when you do the prep, you
feel good in those moments. And I think we've had

(01:15:52):
a lot of prep obviously being older, and I think
it's just being in those moments before and knowing how
you handle it and how you can learn from maybe
moments you didn't handle it the way you wanted to
and just learning from that. And yeah, it just gives
you a certain level of like comfort, I think, and
pressure moments.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
And speaking of pressure, it's good to have a player
like Rory Harmon on your team. And Shaff spoke about
his relationship with his point guard.

Speaker 12 (01:16:20):
Yeah, you know, well I have to see my man
here is from I bet. I was on the school
playing a bunch, flying to Houston to see her play
when I was coaching there and recruiting her, and you
know she's somebody obviously that there were three really good
guards that came out that year, and you know, Raven

(01:16:43):
at South Carolina and Rory and I just you know,
we were in dire need of a great We knew
who we were graduating and all that, and obviously when
I got to Austin, Rory, being two and a half
hours from campus, he was my, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:17:01):
Our top priority.

Speaker 12 (01:17:02):
We had to try to hold on to Eleiah Moore,
who had already committed, and then we really had to
go get Rory.

Speaker 5 (01:17:08):
You know, when you're building a program, it starts with your.

Speaker 12 (01:17:11):
Point guard, and you know, that was the one I
felt like. Being two and a half hours from home,
you know, we had a great opportunity to get and
needed to get. And as you know, when you're at
the University of Texas, you try to close the borders
and close the walls and keep the good ones in
the state. And in my mind, she was one of

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the best in the country, if not the best.

Speaker 5 (01:17:33):
And so.

Speaker 12 (01:17:35):
You know, I knew Raven was closer to South Carolina,
and I knew they were recruiting her. I had been
to her games as well, but Rory was the one
in my mind.

Speaker 5 (01:17:44):
Once we got to Austin we had to really focus on.

Speaker 12 (01:17:46):
And boy, she's not disappointed a lick. I mean, you're
talking about a kid that scored almost thirteen hundred points
over seven hundred assists, the only player in the history
of our universe, in our storied history to do that,
and could potentially have another year to really separate herself,

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to be at a point where no one will ever
catch her again.

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
So Thiss Radio Am thirteen hundred The Zone Andrews Zim
We'll hanging out with you on a feel good Friday
edition of The Craigway Show as we gear you up
for a weekend jam packed with Longhorn action. That is

(01:18:31):
right Sweet sixteen for the women's basketball team tomorrow to
fifteen airtime twoint thirty tip on one oh three or
a correction on the zone. Right here, you can hear
that game tonight, first pitch, six pm. Keith Moreland and
Roger Wallace on the call as the UT baseball team
goes to Columbia, Missouri take on the Tigers. That game,

(01:18:53):
first pitch, six pm. That game is on one oh
three one Yesterday, Little Men's NCAA Sweet sixteen action. Number
one seed Florida beats number four seed Maryland eighty seven
to seventy one. Duke and Cooper Flagg. Boy did they perform?
Flag thirty points, six rebounds, seven assists. Caleb Love did

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everything he could to keep his Wildcats in it. They
fall to the one seed Duke Blue Devils one hundred
and ninety three. It was a good one between Alabama
and BYU one thirteen to eighty eight. In fact, if
the Crimson Tide did not score a single bucket inside
the three point arc, they still would have won. That

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is your stat of the day. And then Texas Tech
upsets Arkansas. Arkansas is a huge lead in the first half,
can't hold onto it, beats the Razorbacks eighty five, two
eighty three, and it was one of the worst losses
that I can remember from a kla Pari run team
since the last bad loss a Calipari run team has had.

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He seems like the type of coach now that at
Kentucky he had all of the talent in the world.
He had continued to put NBA players into the league
but never could cut down the nets. He won the
championship in twenty twelve with that Anthony Davis led team,
but it has been a while since they have been back.
Now he moves over to Arkansas and in year number one,

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very turbulent, very up and down. They had a lead
that couldn't hold onto the lead. Coli Party got asked
after the game during the press conference why his team
dried up.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
Why do you think you guys drive up a little
bit scoring in the last few minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
Well, we had we missed a shot and we kicked
it out and there was a new shot clock and
we shot.

Speaker 4 (01:20:43):
At three, which again.

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
We had open shots, tried to drive and took tough shots.

Speaker 5 (01:20:53):
We had a couple of those.

Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
But to be honest with you, you know, I'll have
to think back, but we were trying to run things
to maybe drive the ball more.

Speaker 4 (01:21:05):
That's what we were doing.

Speaker 3 (01:21:07):
And when we did drive it, we looked pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
Yeah, it looked really good. Could not finish.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
They led in almost every single statistical statistical category except
for the one that matters most, that final result, that
final box score. So now Florida and Texas Tech get
ready to face off in the Elite Eight. Other Elite
eight games happening as well tomorrow and today your slate

(01:21:33):
of games Old Miss and Michigan States. We heard tom
Izzo yesterday talking about that transfer portal. This is a
matchup between two of the best coaches in college basketball,
between Chris Beard and Tom Izzou. Kentucky and Tennessee a
matchup between two SEC schools, The number one seeded Auburn
Tigers take on five seeded Michigan, and then tonight the
nightcap nine pm tip off on TBS and True TV Houston,

(01:21:58):
the one seed versus the Produce boiler Makers, and we
get We're gearing closer and closer. I don't know how
many brackets are still left. I don't know if you
guys have completely shredded yours yet or not, but it
is it's getting pretty close to being complete mess. I
was making the point earlier today that if you picked
Chalk at this point, there's a lot of one seeds left.

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There's a lot of two seeds left in this Elite
eight coming up, and if you pick Chalk, your bracket
is probably safer than some of us who were picking
some upsets earlier in the tournament. Well, today was a
media availability for the Texas Longhorned Women as they gear
up for their Sweet sixteen matchup against the Lady Bowls.
Craig Way was there. He asked this question to Shay

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Holly and Taylor Jones.

Speaker 15 (01:22:43):
Craig Way, Longward Radio Network. This is mainly for Shay
and Taylor. I wanted to get your thoughts. So do
you get to this point where you know you have
a finite number of practices and games and stuff, like,
what does it roll through your mind? Like when you
go out on the practice I have, you know, just
spending more practices this, many more games as long worn.

Speaker 14 (01:23:03):
Yeah, it definitely does. I almost like I'll like go
into a practice not necessarily thinking about it, but at
some point I'll just be like, whoa, this is probably
like maybe one of my last times doing this or that.
And me and Taylor were talking about it last night
at dinner and she like counted in. I think we're
at like nine or ten days of like that's our max,
you know, if we go all the way, which is

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just like crazy to think about. You spend so much
time doing one thing and you love it, and so
you definitely think about it. And then you know, I've
said this before, like maybe it makes a drill you
don't like that much, not so bad anymore, you know,
like you just want to soak it all in and
enjoy every moment.

Speaker 13 (01:23:41):
Really, I didn't really think about it much until our
last game in Moody and then we had our potentially
last practice in Moody and I just think that that's
when it started to set in. And yesterday at dinner,
like Chase said, we just started talking about how close

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the end is, and it's it's crazy to think. I mean,
I've been going at it for my six year now,
so been in the game a while, in the college
basketball game, and so it's it's a new a new feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
Andrews Zim will in studio with you this afternoon as
we gear up for a matchup between two of the
best teams in the SEC, the Texas Longhorns and the
Tennessee Lady Bowls. That game tomorrow two fifteen. Pre game
two thirty tip on the zone. Bruce Pearl, the number
one seed Alburn Tigers. He spoke a little earlier. He

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spoke earlier today as as well.

Speaker 16 (01:24:42):
Because I was also on the nabcit committee for trying
to figure out when the best time to open the portal.
I'm glad that the portal has gone from forty five
days to the forty five thirty days because I think
thirty days is enough time for those guys to decide
where they want to stay, they like where they want
to go, and I think the reason for the timing
of doing it prior just after the Sweet sixteen is

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almost all the all the teams in the country except
sexIf sixteen teams, this season's over. And so if you're
a student, if you're a student athlete and you're at
another deviate and you're at another Visual one institution and
your season was over at the beginning of March, you're
supposed to have to wait three or four weeks until

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the Final Four is over before you can move on
with the rest of your life. So I think the
national Associated Basketball coaches kind of looked at it and said, Hey,
what what might be best for all the student athletes,
all the students. We decided to kind of do it
at this window. Yeah, it's a little inconvenient for sixteen teams,
but these other student athletes need to be able to

(01:25:48):
figure out what's going on for the rest of them.

Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
It's a little inconvenient. That's Bruce Pearl, the head coach
of the number one seed Auburn Tiger's talking about that
transfer portal, and it feels like a zag, an intentional
zag against Tom Izzo, who went on a eight minute
rant about the transfer portal and how it was ruining
College Athletics and ruining his team. I feel like there
is a little bit of malice in Bruce Pearls words

(01:26:12):
of wisdom. However, he does make a good case for
the opposition to it. I spoke at length yesterday about
how the transfer portal opening during the NCUBA tournament during
the postseason is just dumb.

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 1 (01:26:26):
Why would you allow players to move around while the
championship is still hanging in the balance. Just relax, There
will be time. There's a lot of time to move
after the tournament is done. But Bruce Pearl says, you
know what, there's thousands of athletes, there's hundreds of teams
who didn't make a postseason tournament, who aren't playing in

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the NCUBA tournament. So allow those players to move freely.
I will say this, though we talk about how there
aren't any upsets, people are blaming the transfer portal and nil.
I'll tell you what's going to cause a real upset
is some of these blue bloods who consistently make it
to the NCAA tournament who start losing players during the tournament.

(01:27:09):
That will be the end of this open window for
the transfer portal. I can promise you promise you that
that will be the end of a free movement of
players and everything else. Now, finally I said, we're gonna
talk a little baseball. Yesterday was Opening Day and there
was a lot of great calls. We talked earlier today

(01:27:30):
about Austin Wells, who let off the Yankees game with
a home run. Is the first Yankee to have a
leadoff home run in Opening Day. Right got him on
the board early. The Yankees ended up winning four to
two against the Brewers. We could listen to a little
bit of the Red Sox, who beat the Texas Rangers
five to yesterday and Opening Day. But I want to
play this San Francisco Giants at the Cincinnati Reds. This

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was the final out in a Red's loss.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
H Do I feel indeed to ball this game is over?

Speaker 11 (01:28:09):
Well, you might as well start out to season with
just a little bit of torture.

Speaker 1 (01:28:14):
Ah, yes, just a little bit of torture as the
Cincinnati Reds come maybe about ten feet short of walking
off the San Francisco Giants. Instead, what would have been
a home run ends up being a long fly ball.
We hope we don't see a lot of those tonight
in Columbia, Missouri, as the Texas Longhorns and Missouri Tigers

(01:28:35):
do battle on the Diamond first pitch six pm at
one o three one. Roger Wallace will be on the
call as well as Keith Morland. We will check in
with them next coming up on the Craigway Show on
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrew Zim will in studio hanging
out with you this Friday. And in Columbia, Missouri, it

(01:28:57):
is Roger Wallace who gears us up or the big
matchup tonight is the number one on one of the
best teams, I should say in college baseball. The Texas
long Horns get ready to take on Missouri and Roger.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
What's the weather like down there?

Speaker 7 (01:29:11):
Hey, Andrew?

Speaker 17 (01:29:12):
Alongside Keith Morland. Well, it's you know, I talked to
Jim Slasnagel. I said, you look at this schedule and
you see a trip to Columbia, Missouri in March, and
you could have a myriad of conditions, all in all
pretty good, except Keith.

Speaker 7 (01:29:26):
Seems like the wind.

Speaker 17 (01:29:27):
Just follows this club because it is howling and it
seems like it's going in several different directions.

Speaker 7 (01:29:31):
Yeah, you watched the Missoo take their pre game.

Speaker 18 (01:29:34):
They spend a lot of time on a machine hitting
fly balls and guys trying to figure out how to
catch them. It's swirling, it's going from a couple of
different directions, but it's in the excess of twenty five
miles an hour.

Speaker 17 (01:29:45):
Yeah, and Andrew, the fly ball things a real thing.
We've seen over and over this year where routine fly
balls just turn into adventures and nothing more than when
we were in Las Vegas together. But again, that's gonna
certainly be a factor here in in Columbia.

Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
I was going to say, you know, you schedule those
preseason games or those games that are non conference games
and you hope to learn something, Well, maybe you learn
how to play the wind.

Speaker 17 (01:30:09):
Right, Well, they they work on it, but it's it's
a real thing. And Uh, In fact, when we were
in in Vegas, Jim Schwassneingal spent more time with the
with the machine using pop ups and he did with uh,
you know, with hitting ground balls and.

Speaker 7 (01:30:23):
Stuff because it was it was such an issue.

Speaker 17 (01:30:25):
And you you you played your share of outfield. What's
it what's it like when you're dealing with conditions.

Speaker 18 (01:30:29):
Well, it changes moment moment to moments, so you've got
to make sure that you understand you're always looking to
see where the flags are doing, and it's going to
be a major factor. And the other part of that,
the last thing is sometimes it's it blows so hard
that it makes it very difficult for pitchers to get
their balance and and throw enough strikes and then all
of a sudden you throw in fly balls at fall in.

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I expect runs to be scored tonight. I guess that's
the best way to put it.

Speaker 17 (01:30:54):
Yeah, Andrew that that this is gonna be a night
where a pitcher can't hang their head if if ball
goes out of the ballpark. And uh, you know, we
saw it in that LSU game last Friday night. The
first batter of the game just hits a pop fly
home run. Uh and from there it seemed to is
that LC or was that UTSA, But it was just
the first batter of the game hits a pop fly.
It was UTSA because it was a Tuesday, and it

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seemed to really get Drew Rehrick's head and you just
got to be careful as a pitcher.

Speaker 18 (01:31:20):
Uh that you don't let that bother you. You know, one's
not gonna beat you tonight. That's what you're looking at.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
I was gonna say, and this is a good night
for the power hitters for Texas mac Falu. I mean
we might see like a team measure shot tonight. Well,
these guys are capable of it. Yeah, I would.

Speaker 17 (01:31:35):
I would venture to say the better chance for tape
measure would be a Galvaan or a gas Perino, because
if you get one up in the jet stream going
to left field, it may just go and go.

Speaker 18 (01:31:48):
Yeah, there's a workout surface, a grass surface for the
uh Missoo Missoo football team right outside the left field
area where the bullpen is for Missouri. But I can
tell you that we could see one go through that
goalpost tonight and that that that's about four hundred and
fifty feet.

Speaker 7 (01:32:06):
Away, Andrew.

Speaker 17 (01:32:06):
The other thing is this is the one park in
the SEC Jim Slowsni was not coached in. And there's
another factor here that's a little bit different. It's a
it's a bouncy turf infield, but it's a grass outfield.
So that's that's a little different than a lot of ballparks.
Obviously you see that in the Midwest in this part
of the country. I remember when I was in Wichita
that was the case, not only Wichita State, but also

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at the minor league park there in Wichita.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
Which is a good segue into the conversations we had
this week in Austin guys with like, Hey, what is
the plan for the warning track? What is the plan
for the turf in Texas? What'd you guys think about that?

Speaker 18 (01:32:42):
Well, I the one thing that's very difficult to to
everybody to needs to understand is the fact is that
it's it's very expensive, not necessarily to change over that
it's it's actually cheaper than putting new turf in to change.

Speaker 7 (01:32:56):
Over to grass.

Speaker 18 (01:32:57):
But the problem with it is, all of a sudden
you've got to have a full time staff year round
to maintain the surface and the playing surface and that
kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (01:33:06):
So it's quite an expensive long term.

Speaker 18 (01:33:09):
So you know, there's gonna be a lot of discussion,
I would think to figure out what they went want
to do. I always believe in playing baseball on grass,
but that's just my personal opinion.

Speaker 7 (01:33:19):
I have no I have no dog in the fight.

Speaker 17 (01:33:21):
Yeah, aesthetics aside Andrew, there's a practical part. And you're
playing baseball in February and in early March there, so
you want to you want the field that can get
you in position to play games as quick as possible,
certainly to be a big factor.

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
I couldn't agree more.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
And now Schlatsie can talk to yesterday during his media
availability about the arms that Missouri has. He's got some
pretty good arms in the stable tonight too well.

Speaker 17 (01:33:45):
Jared Spencer obviously is a guy tonight and that's why
we we said he can't hang his head if he
if he gives one up that that goes out of
the ballpark. Their guy is interesting Ian Losi because he's winless.

Speaker 7 (01:33:57):
In fact, he hasn't won in three years.

Speaker 17 (01:33:58):
But in my pregame interview I just recorded with wish Loss,
he said that, you know, this guy's a unique pitcher
and he talks a lot about that with pitchers and
how he wants pitchers that are unique, and he said
he's a guy that they've the style he pitches, they've
they've not seen they don't have on their team. And
he's put up some good numbers. But he does have
a high era. But you know, he's going to be
juiced up obviously to face this Texas team tonight.

Speaker 18 (01:34:21):
Well, I think there's two things in this guys that
you got to look at. Friday night guys in the
SEC have got to give you some link. It just
sets you up for the rest of the weekend. If
you can get your starter into the seventh on Friday Night,
then all of a sudden, you look at your book
pen pretty well set up for the rest of the
weekend regardless. So it falls on that Friday night guy

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to give you some link and keep you in the
ball game, give you an opportunity to win. And Spencer's
been good at that last week. I think that was
ultra important in the game against LSU. They did ended
up dropping the game, but he his link allowed Texas
to say their bullpen to use a Riojas and and
uh Balantis the way they did and come away with

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the series win.

Speaker 7 (01:35:07):
So got to get some depth out of your starter.

Speaker 1 (01:35:10):
See that's why I like listening to Keith Morling because
I learned something new and I'm gonna steal that for
the next time I talk about the Texas pitching staff.

Speaker 17 (01:35:17):
Yeah, no doubt, And obviously you know you don't know
what's gonna happen with the weather this weekend, so you
could be condensed so all of a sudden that that
puts a little bit more stress on the on the
staff if in fact they have to play too tomorrow
because of pending weather on on Sunday, So you just
never know what you're up against in a three game series.

Speaker 7 (01:35:37):
That means so much.

Speaker 1 (01:35:39):
So I was saying earlier that I think it's cool
that they can piece me all together a Sunday start
against a team in Missouri who's still looking for their
first conference win, but they kind of need to start
thinking about who will be that everyday Sunday starter.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
Am I wrong about that?

Speaker 6 (01:35:53):
Well?

Speaker 18 (01:35:53):
I think the first thing is that you're right. But
if it were me, I would say we already have
that guy. Riojas was outstanding on Sunday against LSU, if
you know. But the thing about it is you go
into a weekend and everybody's got to understand that your
first job is to win each game that you're playing.
So when you go in, you know you got Jared Spencer,

(01:36:15):
the only guy that I think that you would not
see tonight in case trying to win the game would
be Luke Harrison. And if you don't see either of
the guys, if Valentis Grubs are rojast tonight, then one
of those three would probably be the starter on Sunday.

Speaker 7 (01:36:32):
So that's the way you go about it. I think
you go.

Speaker 18 (01:36:34):
Into that first game, you got to win the first one,
and then go into the second game and play it
that way, and if you can win the series in
the second game, you use those guys as well, and
then when you get to Sunday you find out the
one guy of those three that you haven't used, and
in my opinion, that's the guy gets the ball on
Sunday trying to sweep the series.

Speaker 7 (01:36:53):
But you want to win the first one first and
go from there.

Speaker 17 (01:36:56):
Yeah, Andrew, I think we're so programmed to think, Okay,
here's the ROTA for the weekend and that's that. And
then you know, Schlass comes in and from the first
day we talked to him, whenever we asked about pitching plan,
his first response was want to win the game tonight.
Now he's not going to empty everybody, as Keith said,
He's not gonna throw Luke Harrison out there tonight, but
he'll throw Riojas if they have a chance to win it,

(01:37:17):
and he thinks that him coming in is their best option,
and then you figure out game three when you get
to game three. So that's just kind of the attitude,
and you see it a lot in college baseball.

Speaker 7 (01:37:28):
That's why you.

Speaker 17 (01:37:28):
See a lot of TBAs on a Sunday starter when
you look ahead to a weekend rotation.

Speaker 1 (01:37:33):
I feel like that's more and more common now too,
that we're moving away from the idea, Okay, we'll have
every of these guys locked in place.

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
I've been saying though, that this feels.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
Like a completely different vibe around the pitching staff compared
to last year. Do you guys agree?

Speaker 5 (01:37:47):
Well?

Speaker 7 (01:37:47):
I think I think last year.

Speaker 18 (01:37:50):
You really were searching all the way through the season
for even that number one guy, and it ended up
being Max Scrubbs. That ended up as you got into
conference play. That sort of gives you set the tone.
And then the other part of that, they were searching
most of the year last year to find that guy
on the back end here, and I think that we've
seen that we've got a guy for the back end.

(01:38:13):
If the last five ball games that were really really
close and needed somebody to close the door. It's it's
been Dylan to come into the game to do that.
So I think you found that one guy that fits
in that role. And uh, you know, I hate to
work backwards, but I think you work with a Friday
night starter and work from the back end of the
bullpen back because that wins each game.

Speaker 7 (01:38:32):
And then tomorrow you do the same thing.

Speaker 18 (01:38:34):
Well, we're going to start this guy, and we're gonna
work who's available from the back end back to you,
and you hope your starter gives you some length.

Speaker 17 (01:38:41):
Yeah, and Grubs is so valuable because he could come
in and the third and get you to the seventh
or eighth inn And you know he's that You hear
it all the time and you go, well, you know, duh,
you got to be a strike door. But we watched
enough baseball to know not all these guys are strike
throwers on a on a consistent basis. And for the
most part, Max Rubs has done that. Ruber Riojas, that
was his reputation as a strike thrower. We've seen him

(01:39:05):
kind of wear down a little bit after about three
or four innings at times, and then all of a sudden,
the strike thrower might lose a little something and get hit.
But again he's just trying to figure it out, Andrew,
and so far he's done a pretty nice job. When
you look at twenty and three through twenty three ball
games and with their schedule, we're we're not far from
the midway point because they don't have a full fifty

(01:39:26):
six game schedule.

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
I'm feeling good about this team.

Speaker 1 (01:39:28):
Roger Wallace and Keep Moreland on the call tonight on
one O three one, First pitches at six pm.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Guys, thanks so much, Thanks Andrew, see Andrew, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:39:39):
When we come back, we will hear more from Vic
Shaeffer and company as they year out for the Sweet sixteen,
and more news from around the forty acres. I'll come
in your way out next to the Craig Way Show,
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone, Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
AM thirteen hundred the Zone.

Speaker 1 (01:39:53):
We're making the flip to take Texas Baseball over to
one O three one, so that is where you will
be able to hear the Longhorn and tonight six pm
first pitch. Roger Walls and Keith Moreland on the call. Tomorrow,
doubleheader two nine in in games starting at two pm.
Wallace and Moreland will be on the call for that

(01:40:13):
one as well because of inclement weather happening Sunday in Columbia, Missouri.
So set your dials to it. Go on the free
iHeart radio app. Set the Zone as your number one
pregame or pre set as well as the UH as
well as one oh three one as number two. And
you know what, you hear those texts coming, Those are

(01:40:36):
the texts from everybody letting me know that is a
doubleheader against Missouri. So tomorrow two pm, Game two, forty
five minutes after game one, you can hear both games
on one OZHO three to one. Set your preset on
the free iHeartRadio app. All right, So we were hearing
from Vic Schaeffer and his team earlier in the hour,
and it will continue to hear from them as they

(01:40:57):
gear up for two thirty tip tomorrow two fifteen airtime
right here on the Zone as they get ready to
take on the five seeded Tennessee Lady Vaults. Now, Madison
Booker was the SEC Player of the Year. And even
if the ESPN pronosticators and the CBS beloiviators and the
Fox Sports gas bags do not respect the Texas Longhorn

(01:41:20):
women's basketball team. You know you're gonna get it for me. So,
Madison Booker was asked by the media today availability Roy
Harmon has spoken at length about everything she's learned from Booker.

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
What is Madison Booker learned from Roy Harmon? I would
say I learned to be a leader for this team.

Speaker 19 (01:41:39):
Just think just watching her at the first twelve games
of my freshman year before she went down, just you know,
watching how she led this team, watching how you know
she she she was like a I can't explain it,
but like she was like the head of this team,
and like whatever she did, like we were right behind her,

(01:42:02):
and like just like the energey she like put on defense,
like just like the little things like details. She's always
first line in practice everything, She's like the first one up.

Speaker 2 (01:42:11):
Just like that kind of leadership.

Speaker 19 (01:42:13):
And I think that this year I've kind of taken
more of that role too, just you know, being man
like going to I guess experience, just you know, starting
point guard, being like an elite eight, And I kind
of just took that with me this year, kind of
more of a leader, still kind of not the leader
I guess they want me to be. But but you know,

(01:42:36):
I'm still learning here and there.

Speaker 2 (01:42:39):
I'm still you know, learning here and there.

Speaker 19 (01:42:41):
But I think just that that one piece that people
don't see a lot, it's really what I learned, and
it's I'm actually I'm happy to learn from her.

Speaker 1 (01:42:51):
It's a lot to learn from Rory Harmon obviously, and
matter Booker has learned a ton going from the freshman
Big Twelve Player of the Year to now year number
two of Texas being the SEC player of the Year.
She got to ask the question, how do you feel
like you've grown over these past two seasons.

Speaker 19 (01:43:09):
I remember, I think last year we played West Virginia. Oh,
I think last year we played West Virginia, and I
remember we didn't have Rory. We didn't have Rory there
to break the press. You know, she's probably like the
one man press break whatever you want to call her,
but we didn't have her. I was the point guard.
And I remember I had non turnovers that game in

(01:43:29):
the press. Yeah, that was a great stat line, non turnovers,
not assists, and I think some more points, I'm gonna
have a triple double. But just learning from that moment,
just looking at my turnovers, I think I've kind of
learned patients. You know, you know, I don't go their speed,
go my speed. And for you know, tomorrow Tennessee, I

(01:43:51):
think it's gonna be the same thing. Patients like they're
gonna try to, you know, speak like speed you up,
but I'm gonna just go at my own pace. And
you know, I was just coming to them like a
new conference when Player of the Year is a blessing
for real, But I just think this year is more
of a retarding my back, more of a mental thing.

Speaker 2 (01:44:10):
I think.

Speaker 19 (01:44:11):
Also, I like that leaning my teammates a lot for that.
I think for that a lot because when my shooting,
like when I shot bad, they picked me up. You
got Kyla down there, Taylor Shay Hidden plus Streets Rory
like leaning our team, the freshmen, they're doing their thing.
I do find like other ways to kind of provide

(01:44:32):
to this team. But I really thank them for everything,
like all my my.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
Awards and stuff like that.

Speaker 19 (01:44:37):
It's really just come from them.

Speaker 1 (01:44:40):
Very grateful, very heartfelt, very Texas Madison Booker talking during
media availability. Andrewsim will fill in for Craig this afternoons.
We geary up for tomorrow Sweet sixteen matchup. Now because
of the injury that happened at Giugi Watkins, a lot
of the national media has now directed their attention towards
Roy Harmon. Now you heard it yesterday people asking her

(01:45:02):
questions about the ACL injury and has she talked to
Juji Watkins, what's the relationship? Like everything else today, she's
got similar questions about her ACL injury from last season.
But I thought this was a very interesting one. It
was the ACL recovery mentally versus physically, because we also
don't know how long it takes to get back on

(01:45:23):
the court after an ACL injury physically, but mentally, what
is that?

Speaker 17 (01:45:27):
Like?

Speaker 20 (01:45:28):
The physical is Honestly, when I look back, it's so easy.
I wouldn't say so easy, but like looking back like
it was, like, you know, it was a lot easier
because the mental comes after, like when you're clear, Like
you're clear and you're like, okay, I'm physically good, Like
they wouldn't release me if I wasn't physically good. But
it's not like you They help you with your mental
as much. It's as much as your physical. And so

(01:45:50):
when you get to playing and it's like the mental
now looking back, I'm still going through it it's not
something that kind of just like goes away like just
because you start playing again. Uh, it's definitely a lot harder,
And obviously I hate that for her, Like absolutely don't
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:08):
I'm very We're not even like that close.

Speaker 20 (01:46:11):
But like I've said before, like this is a basketball player,
the woman's basketball player, and we all stick together, and
I just wish she has the best recovery and just
so she knows that she's gonna come back better, faster, stronger.
Obviously it's gonna take a lot longer than any you know,
regular ankle injury, but she's gonna be a better player

(01:46:33):
than she was before.

Speaker 1 (01:46:34):
So now when you're on the sideline, obviously you're gonna
have a different view of the game. But when you're
on the sideline with an injury, that changes them things.
She was asked how your view of basketball as a
sport and then you know, as a life changed, Uh
after and working through your acial injury.

Speaker 20 (01:46:52):
If I'm being honest, I absolutely hated it right after
I got injured. Like I didn't want to see anything.
I didn't want to go to practice. You that was
just like a day after I you know, turn my aco.
But eventually you get out of your own funk and
you start being you stop being so selfish and into yourself,
And think about I was it was twelve games in,
Like I'm still on the team.

Speaker 2 (01:47:11):
I'm still a player on the team. I may not
just be playing, and.

Speaker 20 (01:47:15):
So they still had a whole season, like I still
have to be there. And then obviously I spend a
lot of time like just seeing a different perspective of
the game, like you said, and understand. I think those
moments like you got to look on the bright side
of some things, and I just thought like being able
to focus and learn the game of basketball from another

(01:47:36):
point of view because I'm so used to looking at
it from being on the court.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
But sometimes like.

Speaker 20 (01:47:41):
Coach might be right about what he says, you know
when he's busting you don't necessarily understand it, like if
you're in the game, but like when you're on the sidelines,
like you actually like okay okay. And I think it
helped a lot with just slowing the game down for
me coming into this year.

Speaker 2 (01:47:56):
I think I like learned a lot from.

Speaker 20 (01:47:58):
Madison from that point guard position. And obviously she could
say she learned a lot from me, but I learned
a lot from her because at that moment I was
what I was.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
We're just twelve game in. I'm not perfect.

Speaker 20 (01:48:10):
I still learned something from someone, and it doesn't have
to always be like someone older or more experienced, like
so I learned from Madison still.

Speaker 1 (01:48:17):
So yeah, super good for this University of Texas team
to grow together, and you can clearly see that is
in the works with a team that is now just
a couple of games away from cutting down the nets
for a national championship. That's a goal at least for
this team. All right, when we come back, we'll get
you ready for the weekend. Gear you up for a

(01:48:38):
big Sweet sixteen matchup baseball this weekend and everything else
happening in the wide world of sports, all coming up
to Max Andrews. I will fill in for Craig on
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone Sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred The Zone as we wrap up another.

Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
Edition of The Craig Way Show. Craig will be.

Speaker 1 (01:48:55):
Back on Wednesday of next week. I'll be filling in Tuesday,
Monday and Tuesday and then that as well. So you
got me three days next week where we will be
reacting to and preparing you for an elite matchup, potentially
with either Notre Dame or TCU