November 27, 2024 • 9 mins
Drew Westerheide live from the Maui Invitational talks Dayton Flyers Hoops.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's going to be in two places at once, and.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It ain't called up in thenetti brought to you in
part by modern office methods. On the official home of
the Bengals, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I can't wait to find out where Dan's gonna be.
He just said he's going to be on Bengals game plan.
But I've been working under the knowledge or the assumption
that he's going to be calling the game tonight. A
lot of intrigue, a lot of intrigue around here. All right,
we've been college basketball, have you. We're gonna go like
a lot of Bengal stuff coming up in the five
o'clock hour. It's twenty five after four o'clock. Drew wester
(00:35):
Heidi has worked here for over a year, I think
for a while. And Drew is a big, big ud
basketball fan man after my own heart. My alma mater
played great for most of the night against North Carolina
on Monday, had a twenty one point lead, lost, and
then last night stood toe to toe against a good,
physical Iowa State team lost, And so they have a
(00:58):
chance if they can beat you con tonight to go
down is maybe the greatest seventh place team ever in
the history of the Maui Invitational, or if they lose,
perhaps be the greatest eighth place team ever in the
history of the Maui Invitational.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Drew, it works for us.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
He's in Maui and he is auditioning to be our
UDI basketball correspondents. He's not working. I have suggested, Drew,
this is your audition. I have suggested that if you
do this, well, you know, since we're making you work,
you can like turn in the receipts for this trip.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well that's all right, mo. Just the chance to be
on the show to talk about the dating flyers is
good enough for me at the moment.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So I'm watching ud Twitter after the game last night,
and they were fighting with each other because you had
the folks who are like, look, they showed they belong
on the floor with Iowa State in North Carolina and
that's a really good sign. And then there were folks
who are like, look, man, you gotta win these games.
You only get so many opportunities like this. You can't
impress the committee by you know, kicking ass in the
(01:55):
A ten. You've got to get wins. Even if you
don't win both you gotta win one of them, especial
when they're there for the taking. Which camp would you
find yourself in?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I bind myself in the camp of you needed to
get one of them. Beating Iowa State would have been great.
I think that win would have ended up being better
than beating North Carolina, to be honest. So I reside
in the You know, they went so to so with
two very very good basketball teams, and they're going to
have another opportunity to do that again when they face
Yukon later on tonight. But with Dayton, they just need
(02:29):
those one or two resume building wins to give them
some comfort as they go into the Atlantic ten season, because,
like you said, the Atlantic ten season doesn't really pose
those kind of opportunities. They're not very plentiful, So finding
a way to win one of those games, and you know,
Dayton could go zero to three facing the number twelve,
the number four, and the number two ranked teams in
the country. So even if they don't get the job
(02:51):
done against Yukon today, there really isn't any shame in that,
especially if they play well. And look, look, I feel
better about this state basketball team today than I did
a couple of days ago before these games started. It
is just a little disheartening when you have two very
very good opportunities and you come up just shorts.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
So in late in the game against North Carolina, every
time I'm screaming at the TV to get a stop,
they couldn't. Was that a reflection of bad defense or
how good North Carolina is offensively?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I think it had a lot to do with how
North Carolina is offensively. They've got some really good guards.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
R J.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Davis was you know, he played like a first team
All American in the second half. He at thirty points.
Tremble was sensational as well, he finished with twenty seven.
It really did feel like North Carolina just kind of
took the game there. I didn't think Dayton played bad
in that second half. And it's not like Dayton was
up fourteen points with four minutes to go and then
(03:48):
just withered away and blew it. You know, North Carolina
just kind of slowly but surely kipped away at the lead,
chipped away at the lead, made some big shots, and
you know, Dayton is a toe on the line away
from going to over time.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
So and then in the game last night, they're down
nine with ten or eleven minutes to go, and I
thought they were gonna fold things up, and they don't,
and they come this close to winning it. I fear
tonight there's just gonna be nothing left in the tank
emotionally or physically.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Is that off base?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
No, it's not, because I was worried about that kind
of thing going into last night's game with Iowa State,
with like, man, you go toe to toe in North Carolina,
you lose, you come up short. How are the guys
gonna respond and turn around, you know, quick turnarounds and
play against a very very good Iowa State team? And
they answered the call, and you know, now they have
(04:37):
to turn around and do it again. I do wonder
how much they're going to have left in the tank
playing a very good Yukon team. And I do think
there there's two different Yukon teams we could see tonight.
We could see a very angry and upset and focused
Yukon team that just comes out and proves who they
are after two you know, lackluster days you're on the island,
(04:58):
or you know, are they just like just get us
out of here, let's get back to Connecticut and figure
things out and kind of sleep walk through a seven
o'clock now he time game against the Dayton Flyers. I
think I lean more towards the first option. I think
Dan Hurley's going to have these guys ready to play,
so Dayton's gonna have to come prepared. But we'll learn
even more about Dayton than we already have against this
(05:20):
game against the Husky.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I think it's an incredible juxtaposition, Drew, where on one
sideline you have this stoic, dignified gentleman in Anthony Grahant,
who handles himself with class and dignity, and on the
other team, you have a coach who acts like a
three year old uh and so I'm looking forward to
seeing that dichotomy play out tonight.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I am as well. You know, Dan Hurley cut his
teeth in the Atlantic ten before he went to Yukon,
so Dayton fans have been very familiar with him and
his antics throughout the years. So yeah, you're not gonna
find two more polar opposite coaches and how they coach
their basketball team than Anthony Grant and Dan Hurley. That's
for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Is now MAUI. Obviously a year ago this event got
moved to the to the the Big Island. If I'm
not mistaken, I got moved to a wah who because
of the hurricane just decimated Mali, and I was lucky
enough to go two years ago when when UC was there.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Is it back to normal? What is it? What's MAUI like.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
It feels about as normal as it can be as
it was like it was five years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Old.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Lahina is all closed off because of the fires, obviously,
but the weather is still really good. You can still
play a lot of golf and you can go catch
some college basketball at Lahina Civic Center, which is just
a great place to watch a game. I think there
are seventy five percent of the high school gyms in Cincinnati.
You are bigger than the Leahina Civic Center, and you're
getting these big time basketball games like Iowa State and Auburn,
(06:50):
you know, potential Final Fours style matchups. It's a unique event.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's my favorite.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Place in the world, and it really has been fun. Obviously,
a lot has been made about the fires here a couple.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Of years ago when they moved it out, and.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
You know a lot of then of strong merch and
things like that, and it has been very cool to
see the community.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
We are comes back.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I lost her for a second. Dree, you were you
were doing you were doing your you were doing so well.
And then the phone dropped and I thought that that
was yeah, and it was it was wildfires in Mali.
I think I misspoke. I'm I'm glad the event is
back in that gym. That is a really cool place.
So you sound like a Mali regularly, you like go
there for like a month at a time in vacation.
You got a you got a place out there. You
(07:36):
got to Malli all the time.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I would, I would if I could. This is my
second time out here. I was out here in twenty nineteen,
but it was my favorite, you know, my favorite place
in the world that I visited so far in my
twenty nine years on planet Earth. And hopefully this won't
be the last time I get out to the island.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Do you go to a lot of Dayton Road Games.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I try to get to some Date Road games every year.
I've been to a couple of the Atlantic ten gyms
to watch the Flyers play. I think Ducaine Do Arena
in Pittsburgh is nice. I've been to VCU and Saint Louis,
so those are the three that I've been to. I'm
going to try and angle to get the Saint Joes
(08:19):
this year.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
All right, very good, Well, I think you've done a
good job.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well, we'll consider whether or not you're going to be
our Daton correspondent, but I'm leaning yes at the moment.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Okay, Well, I appreciate the opportunity. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Very good.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
That's true, Wester Heidi And uh, he's out there in Mali.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
How do you think he did, Darren? I think we
should have one more. When you talk about in Bestwall,
I do too.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
And by the way, Drew's on X we didn't. I
didn't know this at Drew by d R E W
B Y from Mali.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And not a lot of.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
People will call you when they're on vacation and do
your radio show. So he gets he gets points for
doing that. I think Drew might be our Dayton guy.
I think Drew might be our r U D guy.
Do you have a jamar Chas and Joe Burrow audio? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yes, we did, all right, we'll hear it next on
ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You've been listening to Football in Theinetti on the official
home of the Bengals Cincinnatis Espn. Fifteen thirty
It's going to be in two places at once, and.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It ain't called up in thenetti brought to you in
part by modern office methods. On the official home of
the Bengals, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I can't wait to find out where Dan's gonna be.
He just said he's going to be on Bengals game plan.
But I've been working under the knowledge or the assumption
that he's going to be calling the game tonight. A
lot of intrigue, a lot of intrigue around here. All right,
we've been college basketball, have you. We're gonna go like
a lot of Bengal stuff coming up in the five
o'clock hour. It's twenty five after four o'clock. Drew wester
(00:35):
Heidi has worked here for over a year, I think
for a while. And Drew is a big, big ud
basketball fan man after my own heart. My alma mater
played great for most of the night against North Carolina
on Monday, had a twenty one point lead, lost, and
then last night stood toe to toe against a good,
physical Iowa State team lost, And so they have a
(00:58):
chance if they can beat you con tonight to go
down is maybe the greatest seventh place team ever in
the history of the Maui Invitational, or if they lose,
perhaps be the greatest eighth place team ever in the
history of the Maui Invitational.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Drew, it works for us.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
He's in Maui and he is auditioning to be our
UDI basketball correspondents. He's not working. I have suggested, Drew,
this is your audition. I have suggested that if you
do this, well, you know, since we're making you work,
you can like turn in the receipts for this trip.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well that's all right, mo. Just the chance to be
on the show to talk about the dating flyers is
good enough for me at the moment.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So I'm watching ud Twitter after the game last night,
and they were fighting with each other because you had
the folks who are like, look, they showed they belong
on the floor with Iowa State in North Carolina and
that's a really good sign. And then there were folks
who are like, look, man, you gotta win these games.
You only get so many opportunities like this. You can't
impress the committee by you know, kicking ass in the
(01:55):
A ten. You've got to get wins. Even if you
don't win both you gotta win one of them, especial
when they're there for the taking. Which camp would you
find yourself in?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I bind myself in the camp of you needed to
get one of them. Beating Iowa State would have been great.
I think that win would have ended up being better
than beating North Carolina, to be honest. So I reside
in the You know, they went so to so with
two very very good basketball teams, and they're going to
have another opportunity to do that again when they face
Yukon later on tonight. But with Dayton, they just need
(02:29):
those one or two resume building wins to give them
some comfort as they go into the Atlantic ten season, because,
like you said, the Atlantic ten season doesn't really pose
those kind of opportunities. They're not very plentiful, So finding
a way to win one of those games, and you know,
Dayton could go zero to three facing the number twelve,
the number four, and the number two ranked teams in
the country. So even if they don't get the job
(02:51):
done against Yukon today, there really isn't any shame in that,
especially if they play well. And look, look, I feel
better about this state basketball team today than I did
a couple of days ago before these games started. It
is just a little disheartening when you have two very
very good opportunities and you come up just shorts.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
So in late in the game against North Carolina, every
time I'm screaming at the TV to get a stop,
they couldn't. Was that a reflection of bad defense or
how good North Carolina is offensively?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I think it had a lot to do with how
North Carolina is offensively. They've got some really good guards.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
R J.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Davis was you know, he played like a first team
All American in the second half. He at thirty points.
Tremble was sensational as well, he finished with twenty seven.
It really did feel like North Carolina just kind of
took the game there. I didn't think Dayton played bad
in that second half. And it's not like Dayton was
up fourteen points with four minutes to go and then
(03:48):
just withered away and blew it. You know, North Carolina
just kind of slowly but surely kipped away at the lead,
chipped away at the lead, made some big shots, and
you know, Dayton is a toe on the line away
from going to over time.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
So and then in the game last night, they're down
nine with ten or eleven minutes to go, and I
thought they were gonna fold things up, and they don't,
and they come this close to winning it. I fear
tonight there's just gonna be nothing left in the tank
emotionally or physically.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Is that off base?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
No, it's not, because I was worried about that kind
of thing going into last night's game with Iowa State,
with like, man, you go toe to toe in North Carolina,
you lose, you come up short. How are the guys
gonna respond and turn around, you know, quick turnarounds and
play against a very very good Iowa State team? And
they answered the call, and you know, now they have
(04:37):
to turn around and do it again. I do wonder
how much they're going to have left in the tank
playing a very good Yukon team. And I do think
there there's two different Yukon teams we could see tonight.
We could see a very angry and upset and focused
Yukon team that just comes out and proves who they
are after two you know, lackluster days you're on the island,
(04:58):
or you know, are they just like just get us
out of here, let's get back to Connecticut and figure
things out and kind of sleep walk through a seven
o'clock now he time game against the Dayton Flyers. I
think I lean more towards the first option. I think
Dan Hurley's going to have these guys ready to play,
so Dayton's gonna have to come prepared. But we'll learn
even more about Dayton than we already have against this
(05:20):
game against the Husky.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I think it's an incredible juxtaposition, Drew, where on one
sideline you have this stoic, dignified gentleman in Anthony Grahant,
who handles himself with class and dignity, and on the
other team, you have a coach who acts like a
three year old uh and so I'm looking forward to
seeing that dichotomy play out tonight.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I am as well. You know, Dan Hurley cut his
teeth in the Atlantic ten before he went to Yukon,
so Dayton fans have been very familiar with him and
his antics throughout the years. So yeah, you're not gonna
find two more polar opposite coaches and how they coach
their basketball team than Anthony Grant and Dan Hurley. That's
for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Is now MAUI. Obviously a year ago this event got
moved to the to the the Big Island. If I'm
not mistaken, I got moved to a wah who because
of the hurricane just decimated Mali, and I was lucky
enough to go two years ago when when UC was there.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Is it back to normal? What is it? What's MAUI like.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
It feels about as normal as it can be as
it was like it was five years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Old.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Lahina is all closed off because of the fires, obviously,
but the weather is still really good. You can still
play a lot of golf and you can go catch
some college basketball at Lahina Civic Center, which is just
a great place to watch a game. I think there
are seventy five percent of the high school gyms in Cincinnati.
You are bigger than the Leahina Civic Center, and you're
getting these big time basketball games like Iowa State and Auburn,
(06:50):
you know, potential Final Fours style matchups. It's a unique event.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's my favorite.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Place in the world, and it really has been fun. Obviously,
a lot has been made about the fires here a couple.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Of years ago when they moved it out, and.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
You know a lot of then of strong merch and
things like that, and it has been very cool to
see the community.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
We are comes back.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I lost her for a second. Dree, you were you
were doing you were doing your you were doing so well.
And then the phone dropped and I thought that that
was yeah, and it was it was wildfires in Mali.
I think I misspoke. I'm I'm glad the event is
back in that gym. That is a really cool place.
So you sound like a Mali regularly, you like go
there for like a month at a time in vacation.
You got a you got a place out there. You
(07:36):
got to Malli all the time.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I would, I would if I could. This is my
second time out here. I was out here in twenty nineteen,
but it was my favorite, you know, my favorite place
in the world that I visited so far in my
twenty nine years on planet Earth. And hopefully this won't
be the last time I get out to the island.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Do you go to a lot of Dayton Road Games.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I try to get to some Date Road games every year.
I've been to a couple of the Atlantic ten gyms
to watch the Flyers play. I think Ducaine Do Arena
in Pittsburgh is nice. I've been to VCU and Saint Louis,
so those are the three that I've been to. I'm
going to try and angle to get the Saint Joes
(08:19):
this year.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
All right, very good, Well, I think you've done a
good job.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well, we'll consider whether or not you're going to be
our Daton correspondent, but I'm leaning yes at the moment.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Okay, Well, I appreciate the opportunity. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Very good.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
That's true, Wester Heidi And uh, he's out there in Mali.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
How do you think he did, Darren? I think we
should have one more. When you talk about in Bestwall,
I do too.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
And by the way, Drew's on X we didn't. I
didn't know this at Drew by d R E W
B Y from Mali.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And not a lot of.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
People will call you when they're on vacation and do
your radio show. So he gets he gets points for
doing that. I think Drew might be our Dayton guy.
I think Drew might be our r U D guy.
Do you have a jamar Chas and Joe Burrow audio? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yes, we did, all right, we'll hear it next on
ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You've been listening to Football in Theinetti on the official
home of the Bengals Cincinnatis Espn. Fifteen thirty
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