December 11, 2025 • 7 mins
Rick Broering of Musketeer Report and NKU radio broadcasts joined us to discuss what Tre Carroll's statue at the Cintas Center will look like, the vastly-improved Musketeers, and a Norse collapse in Fort Wayne.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On Wednesdays, we chat with our friend Rick Browing from
Musketeer Report dot Com and the NKU radio broadcast. The
Nurse beat the Bearcats last night, the Brescia Bearcats ninety
two to fifty three. NKU was on the road on
Saturday for a tilt against Bellermint. Meanwhile, Xavier as the
(00:20):
school erects the Trey Carroll Statue outside the Cintas Center.
The Musketeers have one more non conference game against Missouri
State before beginning league play against Creighton a week from tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Rick is with us. How's it going.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well. I just want to tell you. I can't say
how fun it was to hang out with you at
the Crosstown shootout.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We had a really good time together. It was fun.
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I'm glad we got the chance for fellowship, a chance
to get caught up, chance to get to know each
other on a more personal level.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yes, so thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
That was the only part of the Crosstown shoot at
that I enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Understandably. So I think about the only way it could
have been more embarrassing for Wes Miller and we talked
about last week. He said that you felt like Wes,
Miller was kind of the central figure going into the shootout,
which I agreed with. I think the only way it
could have been more embarrassing for him was if Richard
Patino had gone up in Panston before the pregame panshitt.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Uh, what is the is the worst take you've ever
had in your podcast mine where I said Bobba Miller
was going to be the best player on the floor.
You know, here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
He wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He put up pretty good numbers.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I mean he had a double double, right, But like
the thing is, the shootout is about who makes the
plays when these games on the law as they're going
head up. Trey Carroll from Florida Atlantic, like Trey Carroll
just got the best of him. He didn't score in
the final seven minutes, and Trey Carroll made big shot
(01:53):
after big shot with the game on the line. And
yet you know that's really what the shootout is about.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It is, I thought, but the stories of the game
from a xavior perspective. Number one, Tray Carroll without saying right,
thirty points, he was awesome. If he makes his free throws,
it's an even bigger game.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
But to me.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It was just sort of the juxtaposition that Xavior team
and the Xavior team of the last couple of weeks
versus the Xavior team we watched play the first three games,
I think culminating with how badly they got beaten against
Santa Clara. The improvement over the last number of weeks
has been striking. Has has that rapid? Has that rapid
(02:30):
accelerated growth and improvement caused you to recalibrate your expectation
for this year's.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Team without question. I just got done talking about that
on the Musketear Report podcast, where you know, if you're
trying to do like the Vegas win total of they
always have that changing throughout the years as the team
goes on. It's like I had him at eleven to
start the season. I think you'd have to give him
a pretty significant bump all the way up into like
that fourteen or fifteen total wins range at this point
(02:57):
at least. The one thing that says out to me
about the West Virginia and Cincinnati wins are both of
those teams are ranked right around seventy.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Five in ken Pom.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Right now. There are five teams if you include Creighton
Crayton sixty eighth currently in keen POM. So if you
say they're pretty similar to that level of team, there
are five teams at that level or below right now
in the Big East. I mean ten games bigger where
they can finally go five and five or even have
(03:26):
a winning record six and four against those teams that
are similar to West Virginia and Cincinnati, two teams they
all beat. Then yeah, I mean the conference late looks
way different than we originally expected for the Musketeers when
we were thinking they're going to struggle to win a
couple of Big East games this season.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What has been the most striking or surprising thing about
the way they've played since that Santa Clara game.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, I think the most striking part is how Richard
Patina was so willing to flip his starting lineup, which
meant completely changing the way his team looked and operated.
Going from a lineup with big athletic front court and
shop blocker and Anthony Robinson at the center spot to
a team that's like a small ball approach and really
(04:10):
spacing the floor and utilizing its skill on the perimeter.
That has changed everything for this team. They are causing
real matchup problem, and not just for the old dominions
of the world, but we saw it against West Virginia.
I think we saw it even more for real against Cincinnati.
It's hard to guard two front court players who play
(04:30):
on the perimeter and have legitimate skill and passing and
shooting abilities. I think that's the biggest thing to me,
without question, is that switchover and style of play and
leaning more on their skill and their passing ability and
their ability to not turn the ball over while doing so.
That's really been so impressive to me.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Last Saturday, I was driving with my daughter and we're
in the car and we're going to Newport to go
visit Santa Claus. Santa Claus was in town, and as
taking my daughter to go see him, go and find out,
you know, for him what she wants for Christmas. And
we're listening to your call of Nku Versus Perdue fort Wayne,
and you sounded like you were having a blast. And
(05:11):
I think when we got to the to Newport on
the levee, I believe it was forty to twenty five
or forty to twenty seven. It was right before a halftime.
And we go and see Santa Claus and we have
a hot chocolate and I had a libation, and then
we get back in the car and you sounded like
you wanted to kill yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
They lose the game by two points. What happened?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Uh, yeah, you want to see a mood flip quickly.
That's that's about as quick as it can happen there.
NKU had a fantastic performance through twenty minutes of that game,
and then they let up a twenty zero run in
the second half there against Perdue Fort Wayne, where you know,
Darren Horne has been telling us throughout this they were
(05:50):
on a six game winning streak. He'd been telling us
after each game that's like, you know, yeah, happy to
get the wayn happy to play well in certain areas,
but we have to get better defensively. And we finally
saw what he was talking about in this road game
at Purdue Fort Wayne, where all of a sudden, the
shots didn't go in for them on the offensive end.
It got a little bit hard on that end. They
lost a little bit of confidence, and then they didn't
(06:10):
play the same way defensively. The energy was gone. They
weren't pressure on for Due Fort Wayne's perimeter players like
they have been and Prdue Fort Wayne has three guys
that can that can really score, and all of a
sudden it just became an avalanche effect on them in
the second half. Now, they still could have come up
with a road when there had they been able to
not fumble the ball away multiple times and have some
(06:33):
silly turnovers. It was just kind of an all system
failure there in the second half as they collapsed. But
either way, there's no doubt that the focus ever since
that that loss on Saturday a p Rdue Fort Wayne
has been fixing the defense and that's something that that
Darren Horn's been been trying to get across to this
group for weeks now.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
All Right, but you're okay, you sounded you sounded like
I felt on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, you know, it's just like you drive out there
at that three in them. I think I got to
the hotel around four am. You play that well in
the first half and it's like, Wow, this was really
worth it, and all of a sudden it slips, and
as it's flipping and they're losing, all that was going
on in my mind is and then I'm gonna watch
the Bengals do the same thing tomorrow and the Bills.
You get that feeling as a Cincinnati sportsman where you're like,
(07:17):
you know what's coming next MO, and it just it's
so defeating sometimes.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I at least had Saturday between the shootout and the
Bengals game, and Santa Claus brightened my mood until Josh
Allen picked up a first down on third and fifteen.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Rick, thank you as always, all right, Thanks Bo
On Wednesdays, we chat with our friend Rick Browing from
Musketeer Report dot Com and the NKU radio broadcast. The
Nurse beat the Bearcats last night, the Brescia Bearcats ninety
two to fifty three. NKU was on the road on
Saturday for a tilt against Bellermint. Meanwhile, Xavier as the
(00:20):
school erects the Trey Carroll Statue outside the Cintas Center.
The Musketeers have one more non conference game against Missouri
State before beginning league play against Creighton a week from tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Rick is with us. How's it going.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well. I just want to tell you. I can't say
how fun it was to hang out with you at
the Crosstown shootout.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We had a really good time together. It was fun.
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I'm glad we got the chance for fellowship, a chance
to get caught up, chance to get to know each
other on a more personal level.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yes, so thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
That was the only part of the Crosstown shoot at
that I enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Understandably. So I think about the only way it could
have been more embarrassing for Wes Miller and we talked
about last week. He said that you felt like Wes,
Miller was kind of the central figure going into the shootout,
which I agreed with. I think the only way it
could have been more embarrassing for him was if Richard
Patino had gone up in Panston before the pregame panshitt.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Uh, what is the is the worst take you've ever
had in your podcast mine where I said Bobba Miller
was going to be the best player on the floor.
You know, here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
He wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He put up pretty good numbers.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I mean he had a double double, right, But like
the thing is, the shootout is about who makes the
plays when these games on the law as they're going
head up. Trey Carroll from Florida Atlantic, like Trey Carroll
just got the best of him. He didn't score in
the final seven minutes, and Trey Carroll made big shot
(01:53):
after big shot with the game on the line. And
yet you know that's really what the shootout is about.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It is, I thought, but the stories of the game
from a xavior perspective. Number one, Tray Carroll without saying right,
thirty points, he was awesome. If he makes his free throws,
it's an even bigger game.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
But to me.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It was just sort of the juxtaposition that Xavior team
and the Xavior team of the last couple of weeks
versus the Xavior team we watched play the first three games,
I think culminating with how badly they got beaten against
Santa Clara. The improvement over the last number of weeks
has been striking. Has has that rapid? Has that rapid
(02:30):
accelerated growth and improvement caused you to recalibrate your expectation
for this year's.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Team without question. I just got done talking about that
on the Musketear Report podcast, where you know, if you're
trying to do like the Vegas win total of they
always have that changing throughout the years as the team
goes on. It's like I had him at eleven to
start the season. I think you'd have to give him
a pretty significant bump all the way up into like
that fourteen or fifteen total wins range at this point
(02:57):
at least. The one thing that says out to me
about the West Virginia and Cincinnati wins are both of
those teams are ranked right around seventy.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Five in ken Pom.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Right now. There are five teams if you include Creighton
Crayton sixty eighth currently in keen POM. So if you
say they're pretty similar to that level of team, there
are five teams at that level or below right now
in the Big East. I mean ten games bigger where
they can finally go five and five or even have
(03:26):
a winning record six and four against those teams that
are similar to West Virginia and Cincinnati, two teams they
all beat. Then yeah, I mean the conference late looks
way different than we originally expected for the Musketeers when
we were thinking they're going to struggle to win a
couple of Big East games this season.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What has been the most striking or surprising thing about
the way they've played since that Santa Clara game.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, I think the most striking part is how Richard
Patina was so willing to flip his starting lineup, which
meant completely changing the way his team looked and operated.
Going from a lineup with big athletic front court and
shop blocker and Anthony Robinson at the center spot to
a team that's like a small ball approach and really
(04:10):
spacing the floor and utilizing its skill on the perimeter.
That has changed everything for this team. They are causing
real matchup problem, and not just for the old dominions
of the world, but we saw it against West Virginia.
I think we saw it even more for real against Cincinnati.
It's hard to guard two front court players who play
(04:30):
on the perimeter and have legitimate skill and passing and
shooting abilities. I think that's the biggest thing to me,
without question, is that switchover and style of play and
leaning more on their skill and their passing ability and
their ability to not turn the ball over while doing so.
That's really been so impressive to me.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Last Saturday, I was driving with my daughter and we're
in the car and we're going to Newport to go
visit Santa Claus. Santa Claus was in town, and as
taking my daughter to go see him, go and find out,
you know, for him what she wants for Christmas. And
we're listening to your call of Nku Versus Perdue fort Wayne,
and you sounded like you were having a blast. And
(05:11):
I think when we got to the to Newport on
the levee, I believe it was forty to twenty five
or forty to twenty seven. It was right before a halftime.
And we go and see Santa Claus and we have
a hot chocolate and I had a libation, and then
we get back in the car and you sounded like
you wanted to kill yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
They lose the game by two points. What happened?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Uh, yeah, you want to see a mood flip quickly.
That's that's about as quick as it can happen there.
NKU had a fantastic performance through twenty minutes of that game,
and then they let up a twenty zero run in
the second half there against Perdue Fort Wayne, where you know,
Darren Horne has been telling us throughout this they were
(05:50):
on a six game winning streak. He'd been telling us
after each game that's like, you know, yeah, happy to
get the wayn happy to play well in certain areas,
but we have to get better defensively. And we finally
saw what he was talking about in this road game
at Purdue Fort Wayne, where all of a sudden, the
shots didn't go in for them on the offensive end.
It got a little bit hard on that end. They
lost a little bit of confidence, and then they didn't
(06:10):
play the same way defensively. The energy was gone. They
weren't pressure on for Due Fort Wayne's perimeter players like
they have been and Prdue Fort Wayne has three guys
that can that can really score, and all of a
sudden it just became an avalanche effect on them in
the second half. Now, they still could have come up
with a road when there had they been able to
not fumble the ball away multiple times and have some
(06:33):
silly turnovers. It was just kind of an all system
failure there in the second half as they collapsed. But
either way, there's no doubt that the focus ever since
that that loss on Saturday a p Rdue Fort Wayne
has been fixing the defense and that's something that that
Darren Horn's been been trying to get across to this
group for weeks now.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
All Right, but you're okay, you sounded you sounded like
I felt on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, you know, it's just like you drive out there
at that three in them. I think I got to
the hotel around four am. You play that well in
the first half and it's like, Wow, this was really
worth it, and all of a sudden it slips, and
as it's flipping and they're losing, all that was going
on in my mind is and then I'm gonna watch
the Bengals do the same thing tomorrow and the Bills.
You get that feeling as a Cincinnati sportsman where you're like,
(07:17):
you know what's coming next MO, and it just it's
so defeating sometimes.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I at least had Saturday between the shootout and the
Bengals game, and Santa Claus brightened my mood until Josh
Allen picked up a first down on third and fifteen.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Rick, thank you as always, all right, Thanks Bo
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