April 1, 2023 • 33 mins
Jason and Mike discuss the Iowa Hawkeyes women's team advancing to the National Championship and the arrival of the new star in basketball, Caitlin Clark.
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tire buying should be. Um, you take a look at
social media right now and the biggest most trending topics
in the world. Mookie bets his home run, Well, okay,
Muki Elbets did hit a home run. But you have
Caitlyn Clark Iowa and she is her are that's top
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three trend And then you get to WWE Hall of fame, Yeah,
Bobby Lashly and everything else. Yeah, yeah, this is Caitlyn
Clark in the last week. This is how amazing her
rises forty one points. Tonight, Iowa beat South Carolina seventy seven,
seventy three. They go on to the national championship on
Sunday against Kim Mulki and LSU. And it's just it's
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I love when when there's some players just have a
moment and that moment sucks up so much oxygen there's
not room for anything else until the moment's over. And
Caitlyn Clark has been having that moment for the last
week since her forty one point triple double. It is
Caitlyn Clark. It's Caitlyn Clark's world, and she's the biggest
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star in college basketball, men or women. There's nobody but
be bigger in the men's game, Nobody bigger in all
of college basketball than Caitlyn Clark. You could have, you
could have people have incredible games this weekend in the
Final four. Not gonna match Caitlyn Clark. Not gonna match
what she does. And the one person show that she
is beating a previously undefeated team in South Carolina, who
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is the best team in college basketball. She scored or
assisted on every point Iowa scored in the fourth quarter
to win this game, and her presence on the court
we talked about a few minutes ago, like watching an
NBA Finals game when Jordan is on the floor or Kobe,
where you know where the ball's gonna go, you know
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who everything is going through, you know the one player.
Everybody on the court is watching, and it feels like
there's only one person on the court and it's her.
That's that's the impact, that that's what that's where she
is right now, and she is the biggest story on
the planet and it's just going to continue all weekend long,
and it is really something to watch. I'll tell you. Yeah,
just over the last few weeks, you've seen just the buzz.
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And this is when college football, or i'm sorry, college
football goes away, the NFL goes away. Post Super Bowl,
we start paying more attention to the men's side of
the bracket. And then there's stories that cut through South
Carolina winning forty two games in a row and route
to this battle tonight. The Behemoths, they were an eleven
point favorite, gave you the betting line before plus three
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seventy five is where it's coming in. And you've watched
South Carolina man handle team after team, But what have
we watched in the men's game forever? Whatever we do
our bracketology, right, you want veteran guard play and all
of those kind of things cohesiveness, but you also if
you have that star that can take over, you always
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had that puncher's chance, and they had no answer for tonight, right,
she was just playing on an incompletely different level. For
Dawn Staley will being curious to hear in post game,
why how you know what was the feeling and circumstance
whereby they didn't change defensively offensively credit the front line
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of Iowa to take care of business and clean up
after offensive rebounds to where those possessions came away with nothing.
They didn't fall all of it. But Caitlin Clark, I mean,
it's just one of those stories that transcends. We've had
these go back to Hold's claw. Don Staley herself as
a player all those years ago cut through because she
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was so great now on the coaching side. So for
Caitlin Clark, this is one where Iowa comes through because
I know usually the butt of jokes for the failures
of Fran McCaffrey not getting out of the first weekend
or Iowa football playing really well until they don't. Caitlin
Clark has that state on her back right now. Well
that's that's why I disagree with you on Clark versus
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the others, because we've seen other great superstar players in
college basketball. Right. I'm not saying we've seen groofs great
great players and you mentioned Shmika hold Claw. There's so
many of them. But now in twenty twenty three, in
the age of social media, in the age where finally
we've gotten a point where women succeeding in sports is
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not met with a oh, it's the women's game, you know,
like that's because that's what it was for the longest time. Yeah,
that's great, but now it's Hey, Caitlyn Clark, Like I said,
Caitlyn Clark's the biggest superstar in the world. Right, Well,
but part of right, but but yeah, you add the
social media and changes, doesn't mean that there weren't a
lot of people that felt that about Hold's Claw and
everybody else, just they weren't going to talking about it
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on sports radio and TV. You're the women that actually
have been watching and paying attention all the time, Uh,
have their voices heard more frequently? But now but now
you have that, Now you have the fact that because
of of and look, and you had women go through
a lot of a lot of crap to get to
this point where, hey, we want women's sports to be
taken on on par with men and and and and
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here we are tonight talking about that is that it was.
It was hard for a long time, and there was
a lot of conduits and and people that came before
Caitlin Clark. There was, Hey, we're putting Nancy Lieberman was
the first big superstar college basketball player I remember watching playing.
That was in the late seventies, early eighties. And and
you're all the way here now with okay, we have
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seen it enough, and now we see a big superstar
player in this moment where the women's game has elevated
itself to being alongside the men's game, and seeing her
as a star, being a guard, someone who gets the
ball in her hand all the time, and all the
games are on national television and everybody is watching, more
people watching this than some other men's games. It's that
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moment where it's all come together for her and that
that's why her impact is going to be wind up
being a bigger impact than than other players. We watched
that players like Jackie Styles have run the NCAA tournament
for women and Ruth Riley and you know, but it's
just it's different for her in this moment that no
other player has had a moment quite like she's having
right now. Where when when you see what's going on
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on your television, you know there's any any anywhere from
ten to thousand people on your screen because you're seeing
Cudle doesn't matter. Caitlyn Clark is the only one. Yeah,
you take nothing away from her greatness. Yeah, don't take
anything away from her greatness. It's just you know, time
play circumstance right where you have the convergence, as you said,
the impetus, the push people adding more. I mean a
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lot of laws, right and discussions in that, but you
add nil, you add businesses getting on board, so they're
promoting their athletes in the state of Iowa. I mean
what else you got? You got Iowa basketball, men and
women's got Iowa football, and then some of their other
Iowa wrestling, right, That's what you know, in Iowa, and
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then you have a cool corn field that people go
and sometimes ghosts, people will come Ray, people will come
to watch Caitlin Clark play basketball. Ray exactly mean you
don't want to have a catch or you know, we
were going to invite him, but we all hated this
son of them anyway. So for Caitlin Clark, it's it's
the capturing of a moment. We've watched it through the decades, right,
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we know the Bobby Riggs and Billy Jean King movie
that had Emma Stone, the Great Emma Stone in there
and Steve Carrell, uh and go all the way down?
Can this tennis player can Venus or Serena Williams? Can
they beat And we've done those comparisons forever, so tonight
a lot of the chatter is given her upbringing and
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the fact that she was playing and dominating boys leagues.
You know, now it's how would she ferry in college?
And those are great conversations to have as we do
more of the I guess genderless sports amongst amongst youth, right,
that is that is definitely happening. Uh So we have
those debates and discussions and you can like it or
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not but it's it's it's a fun place and space
for right. The women's US national soccer team and their
successes through the years bringing a lot of eyeballs to things.
So Caitlin Clark the next extension of that, and she's
got a little bit of smartass and badass to her too.
That helps. That's what's fun, you know what I mean.
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The John Cena you can't see me, shut up, You're
down fifteen today. I'm gonna guard it now. I'm not
really go ahead take that shot. All of those things
add up to, while you're not a villain, if you're
a fan of the opposing team, that's one of the
classic Yeah. I mean, you've got them. We all have them.
The player that was on our rival team that you hated,
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and then all of a sudden, even if they played
at the end of their career, for a cup of
coffee with you, you loved him. For me, I got
to experience titles with the two guys that stood out most,
Aj Brazinski when he was with Minnesota. You watched all
the little gamesmanship and nonsense he did, and then he
became a White Sox legend. Likewise, Dennis Rodman beating the
hell out of Michael order to take it every cheap shot.
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He could became a member of the Bulls. He's one
of my favorite people I've ever met. So there, How
did that sound? How did the final call sound of
Iowa and Caitlin Clark headed to the National championship game?
Here you go, Tom Moore than an Indian APIs changes
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gets hit, the ballers loose, and it's alive. It's alive. Yes, yes, yes,
it's a live It's alive. It's live all right now
here it is. Here's the final call. Iowa go to
the National title game, trying to get into Caitlin Clark.
She's double teams looking into Clark, drives along the base.
Hawk She's gonna tribble off the Clark. That's over. Ilways
done it. The Iowa Hawk guys half stunned South Carolina.
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Caitlin Clark, the great Caitlin Clark leeds Iowa. Who one upset?
And the Hawk guys we'll play for a national championship.
There it is. There's your call, Ryan Radkey Westwood one. Uh,
that's how it sounded. Rossburg, you got an insane stat
on Caitlin Clark. What you got for yeah, you guys
sitting down. Yes I am actually yes, I hope most
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people on IOWA sitting down for this one too. Okay,
go ahead, What do you got. Caitlyn Clark has scored
more points in postseason play two hundred and thirty five
than Iowa football scored all season long two and she's
only had like five games exactly. That is absolutely insane.
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Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. Uh, look it's it's
amazing her. Yes, she is. Look she is. Look there's
two hundred and sixty thousand people are tweeting she is her.
She is her. And here's what I what I don't
get because Mike, you brought up, um, you brought up
the biggest thing with this game that I still can't understand.
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And you know I told you a few minutes ago
that watching Caitlyn Clark was like kind of like watching
Kobe when he scored eighty one on against the Raptors
or Jordan the finals game. There's a lot more to
why Caitlin Clark looked like Kobe in his eighty one
point game that we have to get to coming up next,
because this, if Caitlyn Clark is that there's a reason
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why Caitlyn Clark was able to have this kind of game,
and we're gonna dress that coming up next. Keep it
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I'm a big fat one as we are breaking down
an unbelievable college basketball game. Caitlyn Clark, biggest basketball star
on the plant, even the bigger starlin Jaylen Brunson. Right now,
Mike Harman, go and that really pains you to say that. Now,
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I'm fine with that because this story is just so
much fun, are you kidding? Four point underdogs and a
monster game forty one eight assists, six rebounds, does everything
for Iowa as they beat previously unbeaten South Carolina, who
was thirty six and oh shut up, seventy seven, seventy three.
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It's Iowa and Baylor. Sorry, Iowa and LSU. I Kim
Monkey back at LSU and you talk about I mean,
just for a second before you get into the big
thing about this game. There's a huge thing about this
game we got talking about. It's got a lot to
do with Kobe Bryant. But you talk everybody loves Caitlin
Clark and how much is Kim mulky embrace being the villain?
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Alge basketball out like a WWE super star. She out
with that frilly hold on and everybody's laughing about It's like, oh,
she looks like Amy Saidaris and this I'm like, okay, yeah, fine,
But she's dressed up like she's ready to fight. It
looks like it's gonna be like, man, it's like she's
coming out like Macho Man on Sunday with the pomp
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and circumstances. He's gonna be all glittery and she's gonna
adds to get her tongue out of the audience like
Macho Man used to do. I mean, this is look
as much as I said, this should be a national
championship game with Iowa and South Carolina. With South Carolina
having this season. Don Stanley, no, really, you're you are
seeing a convergence of the two biggest personalities in women's
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college basketball, because it's been about Kim Mulki, who has
been very controversial, and look, I still can never forgive
her for not standing up for Brittany Grinder when she
was imprisoned in Russia. I mean, come on, there's certain
thing when you're talking about one of your players who
is in prison in Russia. Come on, you could have
some kind of support for it. I know that's something
that that that was like the final straw for a
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lot of people. She's been always been very pull That's
something I go, she's one of your players. You were
in her home recruiting her. I mean, come on, I mean,
this is this is not basketball. This is not hey,
you know she went to play for another team and
she's swinging a l this is this is she's in
a Russian prison and she still would would and wouldn't
say hey, let's try to do something so that So
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that's something that's always got me with her. But still
she's been polarizing. She's going to be cast as the
villain and it's Caitlin Clark and really you are getting
the two biggest personalities in women's college basketball. I don't
know that we'll see as great as this game was,
as many people watch this game, I'll tell you I
got a feeling Sunday most watch women's college basketball game ever.
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I got a feeling that's what that's what Sunday is
going to be. Well, you've got the heroes set up,
and again, we talked a lot about the growth of
women's sports. We've we've owed to the ratings of what
Clark in Iowa have been able to bring to bear
over the course of the tournament, and a lot of
other teams as well, but certainly a focus when you've
got a player of Clark's caliber and you can start saying, well,
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it's it's outrated a full league's efforts in prime time,
better than any NBA game. And again, I know it's fractured.
Marketplay is now and what's shown, what's not local blackouts, streaming,
what are you watching on TikTok and highlight videos, et cetera.
I understand all of that. The numbers are still there.
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We still have to mean something and talk about the
positivity and growth the women's game and what Caitlin Clark
has meant and captivating in dominant fashion like. This is
a game that if you look at the box score,
the offensive rebounds stat for me is just curious and
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obviously a lot of loved for the front line. But
this is everything, man, this is this is a watershed
moment for for the the entire women's game as he
going to this next level. Michael mulvihill reports on TV
and everything he goes. So I always got to play
Finland on Sunday now very nice. I think thought it
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was pretty good. Yeah, I want to make sure to
give him credit for that one. Yeah, and you think
at the end if they win, someone's gonna superimpose the
Alan Michael's call and they're gonna be able to make
it sound like it's it's for the it's for Iowa.
I don't know, can he wear cool looking code like
he's Gorilla mon Soon and come out there and do
a special appearance. Now, let's get into something from this
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game that really, I mean, look, this game is is
just it's owning the moment right now. Iowa's win over
South Carolina, Caitlyn Clark owns a moment and her forty
one points. Now South Carolina was undefeated coming in and
you mentioned a couple of things a few minutes ago,
and one hundred percent, why did South Carolina lose this game?
Why did Iowa win? To get away from Caitlyn Clark
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for a second, Right, South Carolina couldn't get anything from
three point range? Right, They were awful from three, four
for twenty. There was the one play early in the
game when Caitlyn Clark just dismissed one of the South
Carolina players, You're not going to shoot from three, so
I'm not even gonna come out there and guard you.
They were able to suck down into the post and
make it impossible for South Carolina get the ball down
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low and score and go on runs. So offensively, I
get it. I get what happened because South Carolina couldn't
make any threes and I was able to bring everybody
down around the basket, and South Carolina couldn't get there
for buckets. Right, So I completely get that. I get
why I was able to do that. South Carolina struggled.
What I do not get And this is like I said,
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watching Caitlyn Clark play her presence on the court everything,
and I said, it's kind of like watching Kobe Bryant's
eighty one point game in that there's one person on
the floor and you're watching him, and you're watching greatness
in the moment gets bigger and bigger and more people
are turning on their televisions and watching it and watching
and watching it. But it does have a big thing
here in that. I don't know what Don Staley was
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thinking because watching this game, they're still single guarding Caitlyn
Clark all the way through, and I'm like, Okay, well,
maybe in the fourth quarter it's gonna be different. They're
gonna maybe they feel like, hey, link Clark is exhausted,
they're gonna double guard. They're gonna they're gonna be able
to roll some cover. No, they still allowed her one
on one, single coverage. She could pass the ball out,
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get the ball back. And I don't get it. And
it's why Kobe scored eighty one points because Sam Mitchell,
who look his career is defined by the eighty one
points Kobe got why because he wouldn't he wouldn't double
cover Kobe, right. Jalen Rose, who played on the Raptors
in that game, had that big statement a few years ago,
and they look back at it and said, I went
to the coach during the third quarter, going, hey, maybe
we want to bring another guy out there, maybe somebody
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else wants it. You want to put somebody else on him,
coach and said up Morris Peterson because clearly he's having difficulty.
And Sam Mitchell still kept single guarding Kobe the entire game.
Yeah right, So he took it personally, Yeah right, exactly,
And so that's why Kobe gets eighty one. They didn't
do anything to try to let's stop him from getting
the basketball's let's make somebody else make a shot. There
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was none of that, and there was none of that
in this game. And I can't understand. Don Steele is
one of the best coaches in college basketball, maybe the
best right now. She's got a couple of national championships.
She's turned South Carolina into a huge national power, and
maybe is right now as the pre eminent program in
college basketball. Because Yukon's kind of on the Wayne and
Tennessee's been on the Wayne for a little bit. I
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don't understand how there were no adjustments, and I don't
get it. I don't get how there was no we're
gonna change things up because we're not taking control of
this game. We're not. We got to do something to
stop them from scoring. And she scored half their points.
She scored half their points, like forty one out of
the seventy seven points and they didn't do anything. Still,
in the last three minutes of the game, it's she's
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got the ball one one of the top of the key.
You've seen her hit the fadeaways, You've seen her hit
shots from the logo. She hit a shot from the
logo in the third quarter in this game, when the
one time South Carolina took the lead, Caitlin Clark scored
eight points in a row, and I'm like, how do
you not do this? You're one of the best coach.
And I watched Don Staley on the sideline and it
looked like mentally both Don Staley and South Carolina were
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completely out of it, like they couldn't understand how this
was happening, and they were just going through the motions
and going through slow because every look on Don Stanley's
face was pained, like she didn't understand why things were
happening the way they are, and things just got away,
and it was one of those times where you need
a moment to go, hey, let's figure something out here
because we're kind of just watching this happen. And I
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watched South Carolina with no composure, not get not getting
anything close to Hey, we can go on a little
bit of a run here because we are the best
team in college basketball. And Don Stanley continued to just
allow Caitlyn Clark to control the basketball to get to
the I mean the fact that she got to the
free throw line four times in the final minute. You
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put two people on her, you put two girls on her,
and say, somebody else is gonna have to catch this
ball and we're gonna foul them, right you may you
make them try to make a tic tac toe type
play when nobody else on this team is used to
handling the basketball in the final minute of a Final
four game, and still Caitlyn Clark gets the basketball. I
don't get it. I don't. I don't get anything Don
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Staley did in the second half, especially in the fourth
quarter of this game. I really don't. It surprises me.
And it's just it's just like Sam Mitchell in the
Kobe game. Yeah, watching this unfolded, its particularly the second
half as you're you're waiting for those adjustments. Right, we
always talk halftime adjustments, whether it's eating orange slices and
taking a deep breath and getting back out on the field,
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as Peyton Manning would have you believe, or whether you
draw something up and change up your coverages. Somewhere in between,
the truth lies. We kept waiting for some type of
stop on Caitlin Clark, some sort of shift as to
how to do it now, Don Staley, and she may
be right. They allowed the bodies to fly at each
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other all night long, right, not a lot of falls called,
not a lot of fall shots. And with all those
offensive boards and everything else, Yeah, there might have been
something there to where, hey, you should have been on
the line more, you should have been in fall trouble,
should have been stretching rotation, you know what. That's not
what happened, which means you've got to adjust to the
game that is being played. And they had a hell
a run, right, three straight final fours, back to back
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conference championships, all of these great things, a forty two
game winning streak, but in this isolated moment, didn't have
an answer. Right, that was the I dare you do
score as many points as you need you to beat us?
And she did, and she did, and she got the
ball and they never had to give it up, never
had to put somebody else on the free throw line.
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It's kind of the exultation of what Caitlin Clark's become
because you know, this is your superstar turn on a
whole other level. You watched during the regular season, momentum
started to build the early part of the tournament. Tonight's
your true star turn on a whole other level. Eleven
point underdogs. You put up forty one to vanquish what
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has become a dominant program, Boston and Cook and all
these players that will go to the w NBA and
b Stars for your to come. Caitlyn Clark just transcended
all of it. Twitter at how about a Fresca Mike
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and I have obviously we're doing the show. I haven't
seen a lot of what Don Staley has said following
the game, but I really want to know what were
you don't were you thinking allowing Caitlyn Clark to continue
to take shot after shot without trying to roll defenses
at her and I get her frustration. Right, I get
that Dawn Staley was fright because you talked about a
big part of the game. Dawn Staley. One thing I
know after the games, she said she was upset. She
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thought a lot more foul should be called, the whish
should be blown a little bit more. Okay, But you
can't just keep waiting for the whistle and thinking, oh,
they're taking it away from us, right, you can't. You
can't get caught watching the game. And I think that's
what happened at Dawn Staley. And you see it a lot,
and I see it a lot with coaches, and once
a while, look at a couple of times it's happened
to me and I recognize that. One I'm coaching soccer, softball, something,
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and I realized, Hey, you know what, Oh man, I've
just been watching this game here for a few minutes.
I gotta I gotta get. It's hard because you get
wrapped up in what's happening on the floor and you
got to realize you can't just watch, you gotta coach it.
And I think that's what happened to Don Stanley. You
get frustrated with the referees, so it's in your head
that you want the next call. You're looking for the
next call. You're looking for the instead of hey, instead
of waiting for the next call. How about something a
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little bit different. And it's like it I feel like
she got caught watching the game because I didn't see
anything different. I mean, when you're looking at least in
the inbounds plays in the final minute, when you know
the ball's gotta go to Caitlyn Clark, right, you know
she's got to get it. It wasn't even that difficult
for Caitlyn Clark to get the ball. It's not like
she had to she had to run through four players.
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It was I'm gonna run over, take a step back,
and you're give me the ball, and you gotta foul me.
It's got to be much more difficult to let her
get the ball than that. You got to have something planned,
you know, coming off these inbounds going we're gonna do
this and not let her get the ball. And still
she got the ball pretty easy. I mean, I guarantee
you Don Staley is going to look back at this
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game and say, that's the one game in my what
the end of her career whenever it's going to be
she's gonna say that's the one game I wish I
had back. I wish I had that game back because
I lost what was going on in it, and I
helped allow a superstar player to have a superstar game.
Now superstars are gonna play great like it's not like, oh,
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I don't I can't believe we didn't shut down, Michael Jordan.
I can't wait because people are gonna make plays. You know,
the superstars are gonna make plays, but you gotta make
a little hard for it. You know, you can't just
challenge them and say, I dare you to beat us.
Caitlin Clark's gonna do it. Set a forty point triple
double in the last game. I dare you to beat us.
Well guess what she did? All right, you won that. No,
it's got you gotta get. You don't get the best
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to seven who you don't get a chance to adjust
and come back for game two to one night. You've
got to adjust on the fly. And they've got a
lot of talented players. And you could see the heartbreak,
confusion and just what happened kind of vibe there coming
out of the South Carolina players as they finished because
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for some of them. They know that's the end of
the college run. Others have to make their decisions a
right to Leah Boston has that decision, and Don Staley saying, hey,
she's gotta go, You gotta go. She's ready, go go
do this thing. Succeed, proceed right, suc That's it. Yeah,
I mean you look, it's gonna take a while for
this one to wear off for them. This was their
their their squad that had just run rough shot over everybody,
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and then suddenly you run up against what is now
becoming the legend of Caitlyn Clark. She was just out
coach Jason tonight Man. She was out coached by Caitlyn
Clark because it was just hey, you just get the
ball and go okay, you just you just do it. Yeah,
she was the second best coach tonight Give me the ball.
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all kind of night celebrating the Final four, celebrating Caitlin
Clark in Ohio and that huge win over South Carolina.
So let's help everybody out by continuing on with that
momentum and play no your final four teams. Let's go.
It's the magic John. That's no, your final four. No,
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your final four teams. Uh. Here's the thing. The answer
to every question I give you is one of the
teams in the Final four. You should know this about
the teams. You could take this knowledge with you as
you go the rest of the weekends. And women's are
just men's. This is just men's Okay. To Saint Bonaventure, Jacksonville,
New Mexico State. Yeah yeah, yeah, ye all that yeah,
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playing myself, Mike Harmon, Steve de Sager, Justin Frostburg, Alex Tisher.
Are you ready? Oh, let's get it on, dude, I
got the last two right, of course, I'm ready. What
school's campus contains? The Museum of Puppetry. You see him,
you see him, you see him of puppetry, pulling the strings.
The Museum of Puppetry kind of New England, I'll say, Connecticut. Okay,
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why is puppetry New England. Well, why I was starting
to think about Fred Rogers right, being a kind of Pennsylvania.
So yeah, I'll go with Steve. Don't worry, we'll have
him back by eight. I'm going state San Diego, all right,
San Diego ins, San Diego ins. You know what this is?
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Definitely Miami. M Yeah, there's a lot of puppets in Florida.
The museum did that. Man has a family for student
fire friendly here. The mu Museum of Puppetry is at
the University of Connecticut, a puppetry Museum of Puppetry Poland.
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Due to economic difficulty, this school had to have classes
held at a nearby hotel in its early days as
a university, didn't have room on campus, didn't have buildings
that Hey, we're gonna have classes in a hotel, So
you went to college at a hotel. Miami went to
this school. Fau Miami. He votes Miami twice. I'm saying
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good twice. Now he's it's not a Chicago school. You
can't vote twice. No, people think Miami is a big school.
That campus is tiny. Good. So, because I am the
college basketball insider for everybody out there, Fau was Florida
Atlantic and I'm gonna go with that too, did you
It's Atlantic not Atlantic? At bought by a flat You
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were in a hotel in the earth early days at
this university. If you went to the University of Miami. Wow, Frostburg, Frostburg.
Now speaking of early days, Don Brewer, better known as
the drummer of Grand Funk Railroad and Chris Carrera, the
lead singer of Dashboard Confessional our alumni of what school?
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Oh I saw this the other day? These are all
Grand Funk Railroads. It was yeah, Wow, it is Florida
Atlantic University. I started to put together a game for
the Sunday show. So it stated in the back of
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the brain. Actress Marion Ross attended which final four school
you should go last? Then if you know it, go last.
She got a BA in drama from this school. She
graduated everything. Um, what the hell, I'll go Yukon missus
c Happy Days. Yeah, Yes, that's her. Yes, San Diego Okay, Frostburg. Yeah,
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the Whales, No sit on it. Marion Ross, along with
actress rock Hill Welch It's correct, went to San was
on TV on Channel eight in San Diego in the
early days and I saw Marion Ross in a production
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at San Diego State once she came back as an alum.
Did he ever punch her? In the Baby Maker? Goo Star?
You Sai? You saw Marion Ross like live on stage
A row this after? Wow? That's I mean, wow, Steve,
nice job, my friend, Thank you, good night. All right,
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So we got we got one. I saw Mary and Ross.
I win the day. Then I asked the route we
went out of the date. It was awesome. Scream next
to the basketball arena. Actually, hey, what's Tom Bosley really
like to work with? So you could tell me that
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tire buying should be. Um, you take a look at
social media right now and the biggest most trending topics
in the world. Mookie bets his home run, Well, okay,
Muki Elbets did hit a home run. But you have
Caitlyn Clark Iowa and she is her are that's top
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three trend And then you get to WWE Hall of fame, Yeah,
Bobby Lashly and everything else. Yeah, yeah, this is Caitlyn
Clark in the last week. This is how amazing her
rises forty one points. Tonight, Iowa beat South Carolina seventy seven,
seventy three. They go on to the national championship on
Sunday against Kim Mulki and LSU. And it's just it's
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I love when when there's some players just have a
moment and that moment sucks up so much oxygen there's
not room for anything else until the moment's over. And
Caitlyn Clark has been having that moment for the last
week since her forty one point triple double. It is
Caitlyn Clark. It's Caitlyn Clark's world, and she's the biggest
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star in college basketball, men or women. There's nobody but
be bigger in the men's game, Nobody bigger in all
of college basketball than Caitlyn Clark. You could have, you
could have people have incredible games this weekend in the
Final four. Not gonna match Caitlyn Clark. Not gonna match
what she does. And the one person show that she
is beating a previously undefeated team in South Carolina, who
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is the best team in college basketball. She scored or
assisted on every point Iowa scored in the fourth quarter
to win this game, and her presence on the court
we talked about a few minutes ago, like watching an
NBA Finals game when Jordan is on the floor or Kobe,
where you know where the ball's gonna go, you know
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who everything is going through, you know the one player.
Everybody on the court is watching, and it feels like
there's only one person on the court and it's her.
That's that's the impact, that that's what that's where she
is right now, and she is the biggest story on
the planet and it's just going to continue all weekend long,
and it is really something to watch. I'll tell you. Yeah,
just over the last few weeks, you've seen just the buzz.
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And this is when college football, or i'm sorry, college
football goes away, the NFL goes away. Post Super Bowl,
we start paying more attention to the men's side of
the bracket. And then there's stories that cut through South
Carolina winning forty two games in a row and route
to this battle tonight. The Behemoths, they were an eleven
point favorite, gave you the betting line before plus three
(03:25):
seventy five is where it's coming in. And you've watched
South Carolina man handle team after team, But what have
we watched in the men's game forever? Whatever we do
our bracketology, right, you want veteran guard play and all
of those kind of things cohesiveness, but you also if
you have that star that can take over, you always
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had that puncher's chance, and they had no answer for tonight, right,
she was just playing on an incompletely different level. For
Dawn Staley will being curious to hear in post game,
why how you know what was the feeling and circumstance
whereby they didn't change defensively offensively credit the front line
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of Iowa to take care of business and clean up
after offensive rebounds to where those possessions came away with nothing.
They didn't fall all of it. But Caitlin Clark, I mean,
it's just one of those stories that transcends. We've had
these go back to Hold's claw. Don Staley herself as
a player all those years ago cut through because she
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was so great now on the coaching side. So for
Caitlin Clark, this is one where Iowa comes through because
I know usually the butt of jokes for the failures
of Fran McCaffrey not getting out of the first weekend
or Iowa football playing really well until they don't. Caitlin
Clark has that state on her back right now. Well
that's that's why I disagree with you on Clark versus
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the others, because we've seen other great superstar players in
college basketball. Right. I'm not saying we've seen groofs great
great players and you mentioned Shmika hold Claw. There's so
many of them. But now in twenty twenty three, in
the age of social media, in the age where finally
we've gotten a point where women succeeding in sports is
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not met with a oh, it's the women's game, you know,
like that's because that's what it was for the longest time. Yeah,
that's great, but now it's Hey, Caitlyn Clark, Like I said,
Caitlyn Clark's the biggest superstar in the world. Right, Well,
but part of right, but but yeah, you add the
social media and changes, doesn't mean that there weren't a
lot of people that felt that about Hold's Claw and
everybody else, just they weren't going to talking about it
(05:36):
on sports radio and TV. You're the women that actually
have been watching and paying attention all the time, Uh,
have their voices heard more frequently? But now but now
you have that, Now you have the fact that because
of of and look, and you had women go through
a lot of a lot of crap to get to
this point where, hey, we want women's sports to be
taken on on par with men and and and and
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here we are tonight talking about that is that it was.
It was hard for a long time, and there was
a lot of conduits and and people that came before
Caitlin Clark. There was, Hey, we're putting Nancy Lieberman was
the first big superstar college basketball player I remember watching playing.
That was in the late seventies, early eighties. And and
you're all the way here now with okay, we have
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seen it enough, and now we see a big superstar
player in this moment where the women's game has elevated
itself to being alongside the men's game, and seeing her
as a star, being a guard, someone who gets the
ball in her hand all the time, and all the
games are on national television and everybody is watching, more
people watching this than some other men's games. It's that
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moment where it's all come together for her and that
that's why her impact is going to be wind up
being a bigger impact than than other players. We watched
that players like Jackie Styles have run the NCAA tournament
for women and Ruth Riley and you know, but it's
just it's different for her in this moment that no
other player has had a moment quite like she's having
right now. Where when when you see what's going on
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on your television, you know there's any any anywhere from
ten to thousand people on your screen because you're seeing
Cudle doesn't matter. Caitlyn Clark is the only one. Yeah,
you take nothing away from her greatness. Yeah, don't take
anything away from her greatness. It's just you know, time
play circumstance right where you have the convergence, as you said,
the impetus, the push people adding more. I mean a
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lot of laws, right and discussions in that, but you
add nil, you add businesses getting on board, so they're
promoting their athletes in the state of Iowa. I mean
what else you got? You got Iowa basketball, men and
women's got Iowa football, and then some of their other
Iowa wrestling, right, That's what you know, in Iowa, and
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then you have a cool corn field that people go
and sometimes ghosts, people will come Ray, people will come
to watch Caitlin Clark play basketball. Ray exactly mean you
don't want to have a catch or you know, we
were going to invite him, but we all hated this
son of them anyway. So for Caitlin Clark, it's it's
the capturing of a moment. We've watched it through the decades, right,
(08:12):
we know the Bobby Riggs and Billy Jean King movie
that had Emma Stone, the Great Emma Stone in there
and Steve Carrell, uh and go all the way down?
Can this tennis player can Venus or Serena Williams? Can
they beat And we've done those comparisons forever, so tonight
a lot of the chatter is given her upbringing and
(08:32):
the fact that she was playing and dominating boys leagues.
You know, now it's how would she ferry in college?
And those are great conversations to have as we do
more of the I guess genderless sports amongst amongst youth, right,
that is that is definitely happening. Uh So we have
those debates and discussions and you can like it or
(08:55):
not but it's it's it's a fun place and space
for right. The women's US national soccer team and their
successes through the years bringing a lot of eyeballs to things.
So Caitlin Clark the next extension of that, and she's
got a little bit of smartass and badass to her too.
That helps. That's what's fun, you know what I mean.
(09:17):
The John Cena you can't see me, shut up, You're
down fifteen today. I'm gonna guard it now. I'm not
really go ahead take that shot. All of those things
add up to, while you're not a villain, if you're
a fan of the opposing team, that's one of the
classic Yeah. I mean, you've got them. We all have them.
The player that was on our rival team that you hated,
(09:40):
and then all of a sudden, even if they played
at the end of their career, for a cup of
coffee with you, you loved him. For me, I got
to experience titles with the two guys that stood out most,
Aj Brazinski when he was with Minnesota. You watched all
the little gamesmanship and nonsense he did, and then he
became a White Sox legend. Likewise, Dennis Rodman beating the
hell out of Michael order to take it every cheap shot.
(10:01):
He could became a member of the Bulls. He's one
of my favorite people I've ever met. So there, How
did that sound? How did the final call sound of
Iowa and Caitlin Clark headed to the National championship game?
Here you go, Tom Moore than an Indian APIs changes
(10:22):
gets hit, the ballers loose, and it's alive. It's alive. Yes, yes, yes,
it's a live It's alive. It's live all right now
here it is. Here's the final call. Iowa go to
the National title game, trying to get into Caitlin Clark.
She's double teams looking into Clark, drives along the base.
Hawk She's gonna tribble off the Clark. That's over. Ilways
done it. The Iowa Hawk guys half stunned South Carolina.
(10:44):
Caitlin Clark, the great Caitlin Clark leeds Iowa. Who one upset?
And the Hawk guys we'll play for a national championship.
There it is. There's your call, Ryan Radkey Westwood one. Uh,
that's how it sounded. Rossburg, you got an insane stat
on Caitlin Clark. What you got for yeah, you guys
sitting down. Yes I am actually yes, I hope most
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people on IOWA sitting down for this one too. Okay,
go ahead, What do you got. Caitlyn Clark has scored
more points in postseason play two hundred and thirty five
than Iowa football scored all season long two and she's
only had like five games exactly. That is absolutely insane.
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Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. Uh, look it's it's
amazing her. Yes, she is. Look she is. Look there's
two hundred and sixty thousand people are tweeting she is her.
She is her. And here's what I what I don't
get because Mike, you brought up, um, you brought up
the biggest thing with this game that I still can't understand.
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And you know I told you a few minutes ago
that watching Caitlyn Clark was like kind of like watching
Kobe when he scored eighty one on against the Raptors
or Jordan the finals game. There's a lot more to
why Caitlin Clark looked like Kobe in his eighty one
point game that we have to get to coming up next,
because this, if Caitlyn Clark is that there's a reason
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why Caitlyn Clark was able to have this kind of game,
and we're gonna dress that coming up next. Keep it
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Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmen And
now they're banging each other. It's a live drop Friday throw.
I'm a big fat one as we are breaking down
an unbelievable college basketball game. Caitlyn Clark, biggest basketball star
on the plant, even the bigger starlin Jaylen Brunson. Right now,
Mike Harman, go and that really pains you to say that. Now,
(13:01):
I'm fine with that because this story is just so
much fun, are you kidding? Four point underdogs and a
monster game forty one eight assists, six rebounds, does everything
for Iowa as they beat previously unbeaten South Carolina, who
was thirty six and oh shut up, seventy seven, seventy three.
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It's Iowa and Baylor. Sorry, Iowa and LSU. I Kim
Monkey back at LSU and you talk about I mean,
just for a second before you get into the big
thing about this game. There's a huge thing about this
game we got talking about. It's got a lot to
do with Kobe Bryant. But you talk everybody loves Caitlin
Clark and how much is Kim mulky embrace being the villain?
(13:43):
Alge basketball out like a WWE super star. She out
with that frilly hold on and everybody's laughing about It's like, oh,
she looks like Amy Saidaris and this I'm like, okay, yeah, fine,
But she's dressed up like she's ready to fight. It
looks like it's gonna be like, man, it's like she's
coming out like Macho Man on Sunday with the pomp
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and circumstances. He's gonna be all glittery and she's gonna
adds to get her tongue out of the audience like
Macho Man used to do. I mean, this is look
as much as I said, this should be a national
championship game with Iowa and South Carolina. With South Carolina
having this season. Don Stanley, no, really, you're you are
seeing a convergence of the two biggest personalities in women's
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college basketball, because it's been about Kim Mulki, who has
been very controversial, and look, I still can never forgive
her for not standing up for Brittany Grinder when she
was imprisoned in Russia. I mean, come on, there's certain
thing when you're talking about one of your players who
is in prison in Russia. Come on, you could have
some kind of support for it. I know that's something
that that that was like the final straw for a
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lot of people. She's been always been very pull That's
something I go, she's one of your players. You were
in her home recruiting her. I mean, come on, I mean,
this is this is not basketball. This is not hey,
you know she went to play for another team and
she's swinging a l this is this is she's in
a Russian prison and she still would would and wouldn't
say hey, let's try to do something so that So
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that's something that's always got me with her. But still
she's been polarizing. She's going to be cast as the
villain and it's Caitlin Clark and really you are getting
the two biggest personalities in women's college basketball. I don't
know that we'll see as great as this game was,
as many people watch this game, I'll tell you I
got a feeling Sunday most watch women's college basketball game ever.
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I got a feeling that's what that's what Sunday is
going to be. Well, you've got the heroes set up,
and again, we talked a lot about the growth of
women's sports. We've we've owed to the ratings of what
Clark in Iowa have been able to bring to bear
over the course of the tournament, and a lot of
other teams as well, but certainly a focus when you've
got a player of Clark's caliber and you can start saying, well,
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it's it's outrated a full league's efforts in prime time,
better than any NBA game. And again, I know it's fractured.
Marketplay is now and what's shown, what's not local blackouts, streaming,
what are you watching on TikTok and highlight videos, et cetera.
I understand all of that. The numbers are still there.
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We still have to mean something and talk about the
positivity and growth the women's game and what Caitlin Clark
has meant and captivating in dominant fashion like. This is
a game that if you look at the box score,
the offensive rebounds stat for me is just curious and
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obviously a lot of loved for the front line. But
this is everything, man, this is this is a watershed
moment for for the the entire women's game as he
going to this next level. Michael mulvihill reports on TV
and everything he goes. So I always got to play
Finland on Sunday now very nice. I think thought it
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was pretty good. Yeah, I want to make sure to
give him credit for that one. Yeah, and you think
at the end if they win, someone's gonna superimpose the
Alan Michael's call and they're gonna be able to make
it sound like it's it's for the it's for Iowa.
I don't know, can he wear cool looking code like
he's Gorilla mon Soon and come out there and do
a special appearance. Now, let's get into something from this
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game that really, I mean, look, this game is is
just it's owning the moment right now. Iowa's win over
South Carolina, Caitlyn Clark owns a moment and her forty
one points. Now South Carolina was undefeated coming in and
you mentioned a couple of things a few minutes ago,
and one hundred percent, why did South Carolina lose this game?
Why did Iowa win? To get away from Caitlyn Clark
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for a second, Right, South Carolina couldn't get anything from
three point range? Right, They were awful from three, four
for twenty. There was the one play early in the
game when Caitlyn Clark just dismissed one of the South
Carolina players, You're not going to shoot from three, so
I'm not even gonna come out there and guard you.
They were able to suck down into the post and
make it impossible for South Carolina get the ball down
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low and score and go on runs. So offensively, I
get it. I get what happened because South Carolina couldn't
make any threes and I was able to bring everybody
down around the basket, and South Carolina couldn't get there
for buckets. Right, So I completely get that. I get
why I was able to do that. South Carolina struggled.
What I do not get And this is like I said,
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watching Caitlyn Clark play her presence on the court everything,
and I said, it's kind of like watching Kobe Bryant's
eighty one point game in that there's one person on
the floor and you're watching him, and you're watching greatness
in the moment gets bigger and bigger and more people
are turning on their televisions and watching it and watching
and watching it. But it does have a big thing
here in that. I don't know what Don Staley was
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thinking because watching this game, they're still single guarding Caitlyn
Clark all the way through, and I'm like, Okay, well,
maybe in the fourth quarter it's gonna be different. They're
gonna maybe they feel like, hey, link Clark is exhausted,
they're gonna double guard. They're gonna they're gonna be able
to roll some cover. No, they still allowed her one
on one, single coverage. She could pass the ball out,
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get the ball back. And I don't get it. And
it's why Kobe scored eighty one points because Sam Mitchell,
who look his career is defined by the eighty one
points Kobe got why because he wouldn't he wouldn't double
cover Kobe, right. Jalen Rose, who played on the Raptors
in that game, had that big statement a few years ago,
and they look back at it and said, I went
to the coach during the third quarter, going, hey, maybe
we want to bring another guy out there, maybe somebody
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else wants it. You want to put somebody else on him,
coach and said up Morris Peterson because clearly he's having difficulty.
And Sam Mitchell still kept single guarding Kobe the entire game.
Yeah right, So he took it personally, Yeah right, exactly,
And so that's why Kobe gets eighty one. They didn't
do anything to try to let's stop him from getting
the basketball's let's make somebody else make a shot. There
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was none of that, and there was none of that
in this game. And I can't understand. Don Steele is
one of the best coaches in college basketball, maybe the
best right now. She's got a couple of national championships.
She's turned South Carolina into a huge national power, and
maybe is right now as the pre eminent program in
college basketball. Because Yukon's kind of on the Wayne and
Tennessee's been on the Wayne for a little bit. I
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don't understand how there were no adjustments, and I don't
get it. I don't get how there was no we're
gonna change things up because we're not taking control of
this game. We're not. We got to do something to
stop them from scoring. And she scored half their points.
She scored half their points, like forty one out of
the seventy seven points and they didn't do anything. Still,
in the last three minutes of the game, it's she's
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got the ball one one of the top of the key.
You've seen her hit the fadeaways, You've seen her hit
shots from the logo. She hit a shot from the
logo in the third quarter in this game, when the
one time South Carolina took the lead, Caitlin Clark scored
eight points in a row, and I'm like, how do
you not do this? You're one of the best coach.
And I watched Don Staley on the sideline and it
looked like mentally both Don Staley and South Carolina were
(20:58):
completely out of it, like they couldn't understand how this
was happening, and they were just going through the motions
and going through slow because every look on Don Stanley's
face was pained, like she didn't understand why things were
happening the way they are, and things just got away,
and it was one of those times where you need
a moment to go, hey, let's figure something out here
because we're kind of just watching this happen. And I
(21:20):
watched South Carolina with no composure, not get not getting
anything close to Hey, we can go on a little
bit of a run here because we are the best
team in college basketball. And Don Stanley continued to just
allow Caitlyn Clark to control the basketball to get to
the I mean the fact that she got to the
free throw line four times in the final minute. You
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put two people on her, you put two girls on her,
and say, somebody else is gonna have to catch this
ball and we're gonna foul them, right you may you
make them try to make a tic tac toe type
play when nobody else on this team is used to
handling the basketball in the final minute of a Final
four game, and still Caitlyn Clark gets the basketball. I
don't get it. I don't. I don't get anything Don
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Staley did in the second half, especially in the fourth
quarter of this game. I really don't. It surprises me.
And it's just it's just like Sam Mitchell in the
Kobe game. Yeah, watching this unfolded, its particularly the second
half as you're you're waiting for those adjustments. Right, we
always talk halftime adjustments, whether it's eating orange slices and
taking a deep breath and getting back out on the field,
(22:23):
as Peyton Manning would have you believe, or whether you
draw something up and change up your coverages. Somewhere in between,
the truth lies. We kept waiting for some type of
stop on Caitlin Clark, some sort of shift as to
how to do it now, Don Staley, and she may
be right. They allowed the bodies to fly at each
(22:46):
other all night long, right, not a lot of falls called,
not a lot of fall shots. And with all those
offensive boards and everything else, Yeah, there might have been
something there to where, hey, you should have been on
the line more, you should have been in fall trouble,
should have been stretching rotation, you know what. That's not
what happened, which means you've got to adjust to the
game that is being played. And they had a hell
a run, right, three straight final fours, back to back
(23:09):
conference championships, all of these great things, a forty two
game winning streak, but in this isolated moment, didn't have
an answer. Right, that was the I dare you do
score as many points as you need you to beat us?
And she did, and she did, and she got the
ball and they never had to give it up, never
had to put somebody else on the free throw line.
(23:30):
It's kind of the exultation of what Caitlin Clark's become
because you know, this is your superstar turn on a
whole other level. You watched during the regular season, momentum
started to build the early part of the tournament. Tonight's
your true star turn on a whole other level. Eleven
point underdogs. You put up forty one to vanquish what
(23:51):
has become a dominant program, Boston and Cook and all
these players that will go to the w NBA and
b Stars for your to come. Caitlyn Clark just transcended
all of it. Twitter at how about a Fresca Mike
gets Swollen Dome The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. I'm real, I'm looking forward to seeing
(24:12):
and I have obviously we're doing the show. I haven't
seen a lot of what Don Staley has said following
the game, but I really want to know what were
you don't were you thinking allowing Caitlyn Clark to continue
to take shot after shot without trying to roll defenses
at her and I get her frustration. Right, I get
that Dawn Staley was fright because you talked about a
big part of the game. Dawn Staley. One thing I
know after the games, she said she was upset. She
(24:33):
thought a lot more foul should be called, the whish
should be blown a little bit more. Okay, But you
can't just keep waiting for the whistle and thinking, oh,
they're taking it away from us, right, you can't. You
can't get caught watching the game. And I think that's
what happened at Dawn Staley. And you see it a lot,
and I see it a lot with coaches, and once
a while, look at a couple of times it's happened
to me and I recognize that. One I'm coaching soccer, softball, something,
(24:54):
and I realized, Hey, you know what, Oh man, I've
just been watching this game here for a few minutes.
I gotta I gotta get. It's hard because you get
wrapped up in what's happening on the floor and you
got to realize you can't just watch, you gotta coach it.
And I think that's what happened to Don Stanley. You
get frustrated with the referees, so it's in your head
that you want the next call. You're looking for the
next call. You're looking for the instead of hey, instead
of waiting for the next call. How about something a
(25:17):
little bit different. And it's like it I feel like
she got caught watching the game because I didn't see
anything different. I mean, when you're looking at least in
the inbounds plays in the final minute, when you know
the ball's gotta go to Caitlyn Clark, right, you know
she's got to get it. It wasn't even that difficult
for Caitlyn Clark to get the ball. It's not like
she had to she had to run through four players.
(25:37):
It was I'm gonna run over, take a step back,
and you're give me the ball, and you gotta foul me.
It's got to be much more difficult to let her
get the ball than that. You got to have something planned,
you know, coming off these inbounds going we're gonna do
this and not let her get the ball. And still
she got the ball pretty easy. I mean, I guarantee
you Don Staley is going to look back at this
(25:57):
game and say, that's the one game in my what
the end of her career whenever it's going to be
she's gonna say that's the one game I wish I
had back. I wish I had that game back because
I lost what was going on in it, and I
helped allow a superstar player to have a superstar game.
Now superstars are gonna play great like it's not like, oh,
(26:18):
I don't I can't believe we didn't shut down, Michael Jordan.
I can't wait because people are gonna make plays. You know,
the superstars are gonna make plays, but you gotta make
a little hard for it. You know, you can't just
challenge them and say, I dare you to beat us.
Caitlin Clark's gonna do it. Set a forty point triple
double in the last game. I dare you to beat us.
Well guess what she did? All right, you won that. No,
it's got you gotta get. You don't get the best
(26:39):
to seven who you don't get a chance to adjust
and come back for game two to one night. You've
got to adjust on the fly. And they've got a
lot of talented players. And you could see the heartbreak,
confusion and just what happened kind of vibe there coming
out of the South Carolina players as they finished because
(26:59):
for some of them. They know that's the end of
the college run. Others have to make their decisions a
right to Leah Boston has that decision, and Don Staley saying, hey,
she's gotta go, You gotta go. She's ready, go go
do this thing. Succeed, proceed right, suc That's it. Yeah,
I mean you look, it's gonna take a while for
this one to wear off for them. This was their
their their squad that had just run rough shot over everybody,
(27:22):
and then suddenly you run up against what is now
becoming the legend of Caitlyn Clark. She was just out
coach Jason tonight Man. She was out coached by Caitlyn
Clark because it was just hey, you just get the
ball and go okay, you just you just do it. Yeah,
she was the second best coach tonight Give me the ball.
(27:44):
Good strategy. Be sure to catch live editions of The
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Damn Son, Where'd you find this? What's going on? Magic Mountain?
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Jason Smith Show and My best Friend Mike, Hey, we've
(28:08):
all kind of night celebrating the Final four, celebrating Caitlin
Clark in Ohio and that huge win over South Carolina.
So let's help everybody out by continuing on with that
momentum and play no your final four teams. Let's go.
It's the magic John. That's no, your final four. No,
(28:32):
your final four teams. Uh. Here's the thing. The answer
to every question I give you is one of the
teams in the Final four. You should know this about
the teams. You could take this knowledge with you as
you go the rest of the weekends. And women's are
just men's. This is just men's Okay. To Saint Bonaventure, Jacksonville,
New Mexico State. Yeah yeah, yeah, ye all that yeah,
(28:55):
playing myself, Mike Harmon, Steve de Sager, Justin Frostburg, Alex Tisher.
Are you ready? Oh, let's get it on, dude, I
got the last two right, of course, I'm ready. What
school's campus contains? The Museum of Puppetry. You see him,
you see him, you see him of puppetry, pulling the strings.
The Museum of Puppetry kind of New England, I'll say, Connecticut. Okay,
(29:20):
why is puppetry New England. Well, why I was starting
to think about Fred Rogers right, being a kind of Pennsylvania.
So yeah, I'll go with Steve. Don't worry, we'll have
him back by eight. I'm going state San Diego, all right,
San Diego ins, San Diego ins. You know what this is?
(29:42):
Definitely Miami. M Yeah, there's a lot of puppets in Florida.
The museum did that. Man has a family for student
fire friendly here. The mu Museum of Puppetry is at
the University of Connecticut, a puppetry Museum of Puppetry Poland.
(30:13):
Due to economic difficulty, this school had to have classes
held at a nearby hotel in its early days as
a university, didn't have room on campus, didn't have buildings
that Hey, we're gonna have classes in a hotel, So
you went to college at a hotel. Miami went to
this school. Fau Miami. He votes Miami twice. I'm saying
(30:36):
good twice. Now he's it's not a Chicago school. You
can't vote twice. No, people think Miami is a big school.
That campus is tiny. Good. So, because I am the
college basketball insider for everybody out there, Fau was Florida
Atlantic and I'm gonna go with that too, did you
It's Atlantic not Atlantic? At bought by a flat You
(30:58):
were in a hotel in the earth early days at
this university. If you went to the University of Miami. Wow, Frostburg, Frostburg.
Now speaking of early days, Don Brewer, better known as
the drummer of Grand Funk Railroad and Chris Carrera, the
lead singer of Dashboard Confessional our alumni of what school?
(31:23):
Oh I saw this the other day? These are all
Grand Funk Railroads. It was yeah, Wow, it is Florida
Atlantic University. I started to put together a game for
the Sunday show. So it stated in the back of
(31:43):
the brain. Actress Marion Ross attended which final four school
you should go last? Then if you know it, go last.
She got a BA in drama from this school. She
graduated everything. Um, what the hell, I'll go Yukon missus
c Happy Days. Yeah, Yes, that's her. Yes, San Diego Okay, Frostburg. Yeah,
(32:16):
the Whales, No sit on it. Marion Ross, along with
actress rock Hill Welch It's correct, went to San was
on TV on Channel eight in San Diego in the
early days and I saw Marion Ross in a production
(32:36):
at San Diego State once she came back as an alum.
Did he ever punch her? In the Baby Maker? Goo Star?
You Sai? You saw Marion Ross like live on stage
A row this after? Wow? That's I mean, wow, Steve,
nice job, my friend, Thank you, good night. All right,
(32:58):
So we got we got one. I saw Mary and Ross.
I win the day. Then I asked the route we
went out of the date. It was awesome. Scream next
to the basketball arena. Actually, hey, what's Tom Bosley really
like to work with? So you could tell me that
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