November 5, 2025 • 7 mins
Rick Broering of Musketeer Report on Xavier and NKU Hoops.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Any more details. It's ten away from four.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is ESPN fifteen thirty on Molegger College Basketball season
and during the college basketball season. On Wednesdays, our friend
Rick Buring joins US Musketeer Report dot Com and the
Color Analyst on NKU radio broadcast. We talked Xavier and
NKU basketball with Rick. The Musketeers open up the Richard
(00:23):
Patino Ero with a win over Marist on Monday. Darren
Horn's team knocked off u C Claremont in blowout fashion.
The Norse will take on Tennessee on Saturday. Meanwhile, the
Musketeers are getting set to take on Lemoyne, which is
a private Jesuit college in Syracuse, New York.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Rick is with us.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Now, Hi, Rick something, Well, I'm just sitting here doing
a sports talk radio show. What was the biggest positive
to come out of Xavier's win on Monday?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Well, that they won it, right, I mean, that was
very much in question. Now, they did build up a
twenty point lead early in the second half, and it
looked like they might cruise after a rocky start to
the game, but then they went in a long, extended
six plus minute drought, scored a basket that went through
another six plus minute drought on the offensive end, which
(01:16):
completely erased that twenty point lead that they had built up.
And I think you know what you asked for the
most positive part, and that was that they found a
way through all that adversity in those cold spells to
make the necessary plays at the end of the game,
make the free throws and win it. But I think
those droughts that we saw are probably the biggest concern
(01:37):
and something that we're going to be talking a lot
about this year.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah. I think if you went into the season thinking,
you know what, this is going to be a rough
year for the Musketeers, I'm not sure that Monday did
anything to make anybody not think that way.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, I think that's fair. And it went about as
expected based on the things we've been talking about with
this team in the preseason, and that's they don't have
a true go to leader on the offensive end. Now,
I think you saw a few guys Malik Messina, Moore,
Trey Carroll, and then off the bench a couple of
guys and Alright and Yovan Malishovich step up. But that's
(02:11):
also against Marit and Maris is a pretty good defensive unit.
Over the last few years, so I expect that'll continue
again this season. But it's a lower level than what
you're going to face throughout your non conference schedule and
into Big East play, So they're definitely going to have
to find some ways to manufacture more points and not
go through six plus minutes where they don't score.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I felt like they got to the ram and just
couldn't finish often.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
There was a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You know, that's part of it is guys being able
to finish better, maybe finished through physicality a little bit more.
But also I think part of it is just having
guys that are used to be in that role and
being go to scorers. I think you got a lot
of guys that are maybe more of a role player,
a three or four type of option in a good
(02:59):
Big East team. They're being asked to be ones or twos.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
On this team. Well, what can you tell me about Lemoyne.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well, it's a team that was the fourth worst defensive
team in the country last season. They're just in their
third year of Division One, they're still in their probationary period.
They're not eligible for the NBA Tournament.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
They were a Division two.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
School who made the jump but they were not very
good defensively last year, so in the portal this year,
they went out and they tried to get a little
bit more athletic, and I think they did that based
on watching their opener a few nights ago against the
non Division one opponent. They scored a bunch of points
in that game. They won by a bunch of points
in that game. I think it's going to be a
(03:40):
It could be a rough start again for Xavier as
they find their footing, but it's not going to be
nearly as good of a defense as they faced in Maris.
I think they should be able to get a little
more confidence going on the offensive end.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Do you know what I can tell you about Lemoyne?
What's that that the Dolphins?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No, I didn't know that Tom Browning pitched there before
he transferred to Tennessee Wesleyan.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I did not know that a big Tom brown and guy.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, he played college baseball Lamoynese College in Syracuse, New York.
What do we learn about NKU against UC Claremont.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well, it's always you take it with a grain of
salt when you're talking about a non Division one opponent.
But I liked what I saw from an offensive perspective.
I had been thinking throughout the preseason that this team
looks like it has a few more options that can
score than a lot of Darren Horne's teams have had
over the last few years, and that looked.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
To be the case in this game.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
They had multiple guys I think three or four starters
had multiple three pointers in this game, including cal Robinson
who made four of them and scored twenty two points.
And think they had six guys overall make a three pointer.
So that's the thing that would excite me the most
as an NKU fan. They tied the school record for
most points in a game, and just the number of
guys that contributed on the offensive end was impressive.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Do you think that the UC Claremont Cougars will have
a good season.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
My guess is yeah. They usually do pretty well in
their their level that they play at. They've got a
couple of shooters from what we saw in that exhibition,
but they didn't have the level of athleticism or size
match up with the Norse.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What's gonna happen when the Norse plays Tennessee good question.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I mean, kind of one of the exciting things. From
a mid major perspective about the new era of the
sport is I think everyone's on a little bit of unstable,
rocky footing when you start the year. They've got new teams,
they've got new pieces trying to fit in. They don't
feel like a well oiled machine. If you're facing them
in the second, third, or fourth game, you know, like
(05:36):
NKU is in this case. So hopefully you catch a
team that's maybe off guard a little bit and not
quite ready, and you give yourself a really good chance
on the road to win one. But hopefully also the
Norse can keep the three point shooting going, because that
was pretty impressive on opening night. If they can knock
down some threes, you'll definitely have a better chance.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
NK you and Tennessee on Saturday at three o'clock. Rick Brown,
color analyst. By the way, I did color because Terry
Nelson had a medical issue. I did color for the
UC game on Monday. Do you think that that will
at all impact your place in the area? College basketball
radio analyst, Power rankings.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well, it won't affect my place because I'll stay last
where I've been, But I do think it might shuffle
me down a spot, you know. I mean, if I
was like third before, I'm probably fourth now.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So thank you for that. I appreciate it. Well, I'm
a little bit more concerned about Byron quite frankly. I
don't know. We'll see, we'll see how they shake out
at the end of the week. I'm not sure. I'll
let Byron know you said that.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, please do. That'd be great. Rick, thank you as always,
and we'll talk next week.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
That's our guy, Rick Boring Musketeer Report dot com in
the color analyst. He's actually a good full time color analyst,
as you could tell on NKU Radio broadcast the Norse
on the road in Knoxville against Tennessee on Saturday. Meanwhile,
Xavier getting said to host Lemoyne tomorrow night, I do
like Richard Patino on Twitter at after the game on
(07:05):
Monday was giving out grades. He graded the performance of
the student section and then a grade for the offense,
with a small synopsis of how the Musketeers played offensively
and then a small synopsis of how they played defensively.
I hope that should be mandatory for all college excuse me,
all college basketball coaches. Years ago, Nebraska had a coach
(07:26):
by the name of Tim Miles who didn't really win
a lot there, but at halftime of Nebraska games he
would send a tweet. He would and might have done
it after the game, but you see played Nebraska twice
when he was a coach, and he would send a
halftime tweet.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So there should be some of that as well. There
you go.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Rick Burring Musketeer Report dot com Nick Caral says the
payroll is basically going to be the same.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
We have to get to that next. If you're fifty
five or
Any more details. It's ten away from four.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is ESPN fifteen thirty on Molegger College Basketball season
and during the college basketball season. On Wednesdays, our friend
Rick Buring joins US Musketeer Report dot Com and the
Color Analyst on NKU radio broadcast. We talked Xavier and
NKU basketball with Rick. The Musketeers open up the Richard
(00:23):
Patino Ero with a win over Marist on Monday. Darren
Horn's team knocked off u C Claremont in blowout fashion.
The Norse will take on Tennessee on Saturday. Meanwhile, the
Musketeers are getting set to take on Lemoyne, which is
a private Jesuit college in Syracuse, New York.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Rick is with us.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Now, Hi, Rick something, Well, I'm just sitting here doing
a sports talk radio show. What was the biggest positive
to come out of Xavier's win on Monday?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Well, that they won it, right, I mean, that was
very much in question. Now, they did build up a
twenty point lead early in the second half, and it
looked like they might cruise after a rocky start to
the game, but then they went in a long, extended
six plus minute drought, scored a basket that went through
another six plus minute drought on the offensive end, which
(01:16):
completely erased that twenty point lead that they had built up.
And I think you know what you asked for the
most positive part, and that was that they found a
way through all that adversity in those cold spells to
make the necessary plays at the end of the game,
make the free throws and win it. But I think
those droughts that we saw are probably the biggest concern
(01:37):
and something that we're going to be talking a lot
about this year.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah. I think if you went into the season thinking,
you know what, this is going to be a rough
year for the Musketeers, I'm not sure that Monday did
anything to make anybody not think that way.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, I think that's fair. And it went about as
expected based on the things we've been talking about with
this team in the preseason, and that's they don't have
a true go to leader on the offensive end. Now,
I think you saw a few guys Malik Messina, Moore,
Trey Carroll, and then off the bench a couple of
guys and Alright and Yovan Malishovich step up. But that's
(02:11):
also against Marit and Maris is a pretty good defensive unit.
Over the last few years, so I expect that'll continue
again this season. But it's a lower level than what
you're going to face throughout your non conference schedule and
into Big East play, So they're definitely going to have
to find some ways to manufacture more points and not
go through six plus minutes where they don't score.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I felt like they got to the ram and just
couldn't finish often.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
There was a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You know, that's part of it is guys being able
to finish better, maybe finished through physicality a little bit more.
But also I think part of it is just having
guys that are used to be in that role and
being go to scorers. I think you got a lot
of guys that are maybe more of a role player,
a three or four type of option in a good
(02:59):
Big East team. They're being asked to be ones or twos.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
On this team. Well, what can you tell me about Lemoyne.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well, it's a team that was the fourth worst defensive
team in the country last season. They're just in their
third year of Division One, they're still in their probationary period.
They're not eligible for the NBA Tournament.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
They were a Division two.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
School who made the jump but they were not very
good defensively last year, so in the portal this year,
they went out and they tried to get a little
bit more athletic, and I think they did that based
on watching their opener a few nights ago against the
non Division one opponent. They scored a bunch of points
in that game. They won by a bunch of points
in that game. I think it's going to be a
(03:40):
It could be a rough start again for Xavier as
they find their footing, but it's not going to be
nearly as good of a defense as they faced in Maris.
I think they should be able to get a little
more confidence going on the offensive end.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Do you know what I can tell you about Lemoyne?
What's that that the Dolphins?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No, I didn't know that Tom Browning pitched there before
he transferred to Tennessee Wesleyan.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I did not know that a big Tom brown and guy.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, he played college baseball Lamoynese College in Syracuse, New York.
What do we learn about NKU against UC Claremont.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well, it's always you take it with a grain of
salt when you're talking about a non Division one opponent.
But I liked what I saw from an offensive perspective.
I had been thinking throughout the preseason that this team
looks like it has a few more options that can
score than a lot of Darren Horne's teams have had
over the last few years, and that looked.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
To be the case in this game.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
They had multiple guys I think three or four starters
had multiple three pointers in this game, including cal Robinson
who made four of them and scored twenty two points.
And think they had six guys overall make a three pointer.
So that's the thing that would excite me the most
as an NKU fan. They tied the school record for
most points in a game, and just the number of
guys that contributed on the offensive end was impressive.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Do you think that the UC Claremont Cougars will have
a good season.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
My guess is yeah. They usually do pretty well in
their their level that they play at. They've got a
couple of shooters from what we saw in that exhibition,
but they didn't have the level of athleticism or size
match up with the Norse.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What's gonna happen when the Norse plays Tennessee good question.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I mean, kind of one of the exciting things. From
a mid major perspective about the new era of the
sport is I think everyone's on a little bit of unstable,
rocky footing when you start the year. They've got new teams,
they've got new pieces trying to fit in. They don't
feel like a well oiled machine. If you're facing them
in the second, third, or fourth game, you know, like
(05:36):
NKU is in this case. So hopefully you catch a
team that's maybe off guard a little bit and not
quite ready, and you give yourself a really good chance
on the road to win one. But hopefully also the
Norse can keep the three point shooting going, because that
was pretty impressive on opening night. If they can knock
down some threes, you'll definitely have a better chance.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
NK you and Tennessee on Saturday at three o'clock. Rick Brown,
color analyst. By the way, I did color because Terry
Nelson had a medical issue. I did color for the
UC game on Monday. Do you think that that will
at all impact your place in the area? College basketball
radio analyst, Power rankings.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well, it won't affect my place because I'll stay last
where I've been, But I do think it might shuffle
me down a spot, you know. I mean, if I
was like third before, I'm probably fourth now.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So thank you for that. I appreciate it. Well, I'm
a little bit more concerned about Byron quite frankly. I
don't know. We'll see, we'll see how they shake out
at the end of the week. I'm not sure. I'll
let Byron know you said that.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, please do. That'd be great. Rick, thank you as always,
and we'll talk next week.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
That's our guy, Rick Boring Musketeer Report dot com in
the color analyst. He's actually a good full time color analyst,
as you could tell on NKU Radio broadcast the Norse
on the road in Knoxville against Tennessee on Saturday. Meanwhile,
Xavier getting said to host Lemoyne tomorrow night, I do
like Richard Patino on Twitter at after the game on
(07:05):
Monday was giving out grades. He graded the performance of
the student section and then a grade for the offense,
with a small synopsis of how the Musketeers played offensively
and then a small synopsis of how they played defensively.
I hope that should be mandatory for all college excuse me,
all college basketball coaches. Years ago, Nebraska had a coach
(07:26):
by the name of Tim Miles who didn't really win
a lot there, but at halftime of Nebraska games he
would send a tweet. He would and might have done
it after the game, but you see played Nebraska twice
when he was a coach, and he would send a
halftime tweet.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So there should be some of that as well. There
you go.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Rick Burring Musketeer Report dot com Nick Caral says the
payroll is basically going to be the same.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
We have to get to that next. If you're fifty
five or
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