December 26, 2024 • 10 mins
Mo talks UC Hoops with Chad Brendel, on ESPN 1530!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Four o'clock. This is ESPN fifteen thirty broadcasting from Buffalo
wild Wings Hardware station. Here till six o'clock. We've got
Bengals Broncos tickets to give away thanks to our friends
at bud Light. Our guy Chad Brendle's with us on
Thursdays Bearcat Journal dot com, and tomorrow you'll hear him hosting.
Since he three sixty filling in for two people at
(00:22):
once from noon to three tomorrow on ESPN fifteen thirty.
That's pretty good doing that. We get paid to fill
in for two people.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm gonna put it on the time sheet that way
and see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Let me know.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So I mean I have to talk to myself a
lot during the show.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, do that to myself almost every single day non
conference play is over, the Bearcats turn their attention to
a Monday night game against Kansas State the start of
Big Twelve play. What is UC's conference ceiling?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That's so hard to tell because we haven't had a
twenty game sample size in the Big twelve, so I
don't know what I think wins the league. To like
set you know what I mean, to set the bar
like in an eighteen game schedule, you think like fifteen
and three, fourteen and four, but you go out to
(01:19):
twenty and then you take away the bye weeks, so
you know, depth is going to be ultra important. I
think fifteen and if I had to guess, fifteen and
five probably wins the league. Just a rough assumption. With
how much it feels like there's a pretty good amount
of balance. I think this is at the high end,
(01:42):
maybe a thirteen to fourteen win Big twelve team if
everything you know, goes according to plan, if not eleven ten, eleven, twelve,
somewhere in there. So I think there's certainly one of
the you know, upper third portion of the league. I
(02:03):
think it would be a little disappointing if it was
any lower than that.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Should they be two and oh after the first two
Big twelve games?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Uh? They should beat Kansas State. Beating Kansas is uh
the home or away that is that is not an
easy task. So can they be two and oh? Yes?
Should they be? I think that's a little difficult to say.
You know, I think if you if you take it out,
(02:35):
I think you need to get to two and two
through the first four you know, Kansas State, Kansas, Baylor,
Arizona so flipp that they play Arizona in the conference.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
They play Arizona the first home game, and then Kansas
a week later. So Arizona has.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Bad my bad.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, so so yeah, that's what that's okay, I've done
the same thing. So so Arizona has kind of underachieved.
They've played, have five Q one losses, and so you know,
not everybody six and five is the same. But if
you look at the Big twelve right now, the teams
with the two teams with the worst non conference records
are the first two teams has played. So that's kind
(03:15):
of why I framed it that way, because then things
get a lot more difficult, starting with that third game
against Bailey.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, now that you say that, I think you would
like to absolutely be two and oh I think the
problem is again, like if you lose at home to
Arizona your first home game, all of a sudden, the
math to get to where you want to be starts
getting a little tough. You know that Kansas date team,
(03:41):
things have just not clicked for them, but they still
spent a boatload of money and have a talented roster.
They just haven't played well so far. You just don't
want to be the team that all of a sudden
that's where they figure it out, but they should beat them.
Arizona is still a very talented team. For whatever reason,
(04:01):
it hasn't clicked for them in some of those higher
level games. But I think fifth third Arena is going
to be uh, rather rockous for that event.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yes, I would agree. What was your main what was
your main takeaway from how UC played against Dayton?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I was really impressed. I mean, that is an excellent
Dayton offense. They did over the final eight to ten
minutes like start to find a rhythm, but for thirty
minutes Cincinnati suffocated them. And you know that now, I
think now we're starting to that team is rounding into
(04:41):
the form as the team we expected to start the season.
But then you you took out Dan Skillings from the
equation and they're not as good at Dan Skillings isn't
on the floor. And I think what they were able
to do over the large majority of that game is
(05:01):
very encouraging going forward because those are you know, things
you can control, you can defend, you can rebound, you
can hustle, you can you know, you can do the
things that they did against a really good Dayton offense
night in and night out. So I think that was
a good sign. I think the offense still needs a
(05:22):
little bit of work, working Dan back in and finding
a flow. They haven't looked totally in sync since he
came back, but you hope that's, you know, just a
continuation of their upside as they get in the conference play.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Is the work that needs to be done offensively simply
shooting or is there something else?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I think that's a lot of it. I mean, you know,
I think there is an adjustment that has to be
made to when you start going up a class in
the defenses that you're playing against because you play the
bye game, and I know people get frustrated with with
that portion of the schedule. And the reason is you
(06:07):
can get to where you want to get to with
the ball, or get the ball where you want it
pretty easily. In by games. You start playing high major opponents,
they started having, you know, better laying more athleticism, a
better defensive system and game plan. All of a sudden,
it's a lot harder, you know, to get your desired
(06:28):
look offensively. I think there's an adjustment that needs to
be made there. The one thing I do like Mo
that that does give me some hope. They drew fouls
at a much higher clip against both Dayton Man behavior
and they just weren't drawing fouls at all through the
first ten games of the non you know, eight games
(06:50):
of the non conference. So to see that starting to
come around, that gives you a little bit of hope
that you can grind out some poor shooting nights. But
you need to get Simosla Costs back on track. And
you know, I think the shooting will come around because
I think they've got enough guys that can shoot it
pretty well. But yeah, that part hasn't been where it
(07:14):
needs to be since Dan came back.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
There's there's a part of me that looks at the
non league schedule and goes, well, they played three true
road games, they played two Big E schools, They played
a very good team on a neutral floor, like that's
that's not bad. They played they they scheduled with intent,
and look, some of that stuff was built in the
NKU game, The Big East Big twelve game, I guess,
(07:38):
is effectively scheduled for you and and and yet you know,
from a metrics standpoint, it's not great. It's not their
fault that Georgia Tech isn't great. Maybe not their faulted
Xavier this season isn't great. How fair are the criticisms
of this year's You see non league schedule.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But they're fair enough. But look, there's gonna be six
or seven by games. If you want to make the
argument that they should play a little bit higher level
of a bye game, I'm not gonna snap back. The
only thing I would say is those games cost a
lot more money than the teams that they played, and
until that full revenue check from the Big Twelve kicks in, yeah,
(08:23):
you're gonna have to make some tougher decisions like that.
I maybe would have liked one more home and home
series or a better situation for the MT where they
went and played you know, two games, you get two
higher level opponents in a weekend, and I think that
would have, you know, jumped the numbers up substantially. It'll
(08:45):
be interesting to see next year. The NKU game is
off the books. They're not gonna have the the Georgia
Tech game on the books. So what does the MTE
look like? And then the Big East Big twelve Challenge
and so you're not gonna have that as well. I've
also heard my others there's some rumblings behind the scenes
(09:08):
that they're gonna go back to eighteen conference games from
twenty and if that happens, you've got thirteen non conference games,
and then you would need to beep it up a
little bit more. I don't worry about this year at
all because of those twenty Big twelve games, Like you've
got enough tough games coming. The strength of schedule is
(09:28):
gonna work itself out quick.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Good stuff has always enjoyed the show tomorrow man, thanks
so much.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
All right, thanks, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It's our guys, Chad Brendel Bearcat journal dot com. You
see is off until Monday night to open up Big
twelve play with the game against Kansas State in Manhattan.
We are here at Buffalo Wild Wings Harper Station for
two more hours. We've got some awesome Bengals swag thanks
to our friends at bud Light, and we've got tickets
to the game on Saturday we're giving away as well.
It's coming up on four o'clock on Malegger. This is
(09:59):
ESP fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Hey, if you reviewed
your home insurance policy, the average home insurance renewal get
this has increased twenty to fifty percent. My friends at
United Heartland Insurance in partnership with Auto Owners Insurance, have
saved customers thousands in premium costs. So if you're tired
(10:20):
of paying outrageous home premiums, don't wait until it's too late.
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fifty five, or go to uhis dot com and save
mo money since if you let the
Four o'clock. This is ESPN fifteen thirty broadcasting from Buffalo
wild Wings Hardware station. Here till six o'clock. We've got
Bengals Broncos tickets to give away thanks to our friends
at bud Light. Our guy Chad Brendle's with us on
Thursdays Bearcat Journal dot com, and tomorrow you'll hear him hosting.
Since he three sixty filling in for two people at
(00:22):
once from noon to three tomorrow on ESPN fifteen thirty.
That's pretty good doing that. We get paid to fill
in for two people.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm gonna put it on the time sheet that way
and see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Let me know.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So I mean I have to talk to myself a
lot during the show.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, do that to myself almost every single day non
conference play is over, the Bearcats turn their attention to
a Monday night game against Kansas State the start of
Big Twelve play. What is UC's conference ceiling?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That's so hard to tell because we haven't had a
twenty game sample size in the Big twelve, so I
don't know what I think wins the league. To like
set you know what I mean, to set the bar
like in an eighteen game schedule, you think like fifteen
and three, fourteen and four, but you go out to
(01:19):
twenty and then you take away the bye weeks, so
you know, depth is going to be ultra important. I
think fifteen and if I had to guess, fifteen and
five probably wins the league. Just a rough assumption. With
how much it feels like there's a pretty good amount
of balance. I think this is at the high end,
(01:42):
maybe a thirteen to fourteen win Big twelve team if
everything you know, goes according to plan, if not eleven ten, eleven, twelve,
somewhere in there. So I think there's certainly one of
the you know, upper third portion of the league. I
(02:03):
think it would be a little disappointing if it was
any lower than that.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Should they be two and oh after the first two
Big twelve games?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Uh? They should beat Kansas State. Beating Kansas is uh
the home or away that is that is not an
easy task. So can they be two and oh? Yes?
Should they be? I think that's a little difficult to say.
You know, I think if you if you take it out,
(02:35):
I think you need to get to two and two
through the first four you know, Kansas State, Kansas, Baylor,
Arizona so flipp that they play Arizona in the conference.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
They play Arizona the first home game, and then Kansas
a week later. So Arizona has.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Bad my bad.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, so so yeah, that's what that's okay, I've done
the same thing. So so Arizona has kind of underachieved.
They've played, have five Q one losses, and so you know,
not everybody six and five is the same. But if
you look at the Big twelve right now, the teams
with the two teams with the worst non conference records
are the first two teams has played. So that's kind
(03:15):
of why I framed it that way, because then things
get a lot more difficult, starting with that third game
against Bailey.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, now that you say that, I think you would
like to absolutely be two and oh I think the
problem is again, like if you lose at home to
Arizona your first home game, all of a sudden, the
math to get to where you want to be starts
getting a little tough. You know that Kansas date team,
(03:41):
things have just not clicked for them, but they still
spent a boatload of money and have a talented roster.
They just haven't played well so far. You just don't
want to be the team that all of a sudden
that's where they figure it out, but they should beat them.
Arizona is still a very talented team. For whatever reason,
(04:01):
it hasn't clicked for them in some of those higher
level games. But I think fifth third Arena is going
to be uh, rather rockous for that event.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yes, I would agree. What was your main what was
your main takeaway from how UC played against Dayton?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I was really impressed. I mean, that is an excellent
Dayton offense. They did over the final eight to ten
minutes like start to find a rhythm, but for thirty
minutes Cincinnati suffocated them. And you know that now, I
think now we're starting to that team is rounding into
(04:41):
the form as the team we expected to start the season.
But then you you took out Dan Skillings from the
equation and they're not as good at Dan Skillings isn't
on the floor. And I think what they were able
to do over the large majority of that game is
(05:01):
very encouraging going forward because those are you know, things
you can control, you can defend, you can rebound, you
can hustle, you can you know, you can do the
things that they did against a really good Dayton offense
night in and night out. So I think that was
a good sign. I think the offense still needs a
(05:22):
little bit of work, working Dan back in and finding
a flow. They haven't looked totally in sync since he
came back, but you hope that's, you know, just a
continuation of their upside as they get in the conference play.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Is the work that needs to be done offensively simply
shooting or is there something else?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I think that's a lot of it. I mean, you know,
I think there is an adjustment that has to be
made to when you start going up a class in
the defenses that you're playing against because you play the
bye game, and I know people get frustrated with with
that portion of the schedule. And the reason is you
(06:07):
can get to where you want to get to with
the ball, or get the ball where you want it
pretty easily. In by games. You start playing high major opponents,
they started having, you know, better laying more athleticism, a
better defensive system and game plan. All of a sudden,
it's a lot harder, you know, to get your desired
(06:28):
look offensively. I think there's an adjustment that needs to
be made there. The one thing I do like Mo
that that does give me some hope. They drew fouls
at a much higher clip against both Dayton Man behavior
and they just weren't drawing fouls at all through the
first ten games of the non you know, eight games
(06:50):
of the non conference. So to see that starting to
come around, that gives you a little bit of hope
that you can grind out some poor shooting nights. But
you need to get Simosla Costs back on track. And
you know, I think the shooting will come around because
I think they've got enough guys that can shoot it
pretty well. But yeah, that part hasn't been where it
(07:14):
needs to be since Dan came back.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
There's there's a part of me that looks at the
non league schedule and goes, well, they played three true
road games, they played two Big E schools, They played
a very good team on a neutral floor, like that's
that's not bad. They played they they scheduled with intent,
and look, some of that stuff was built in the
NKU game, The Big East Big twelve game, I guess,
(07:38):
is effectively scheduled for you and and and yet you know,
from a metrics standpoint, it's not great. It's not their
fault that Georgia Tech isn't great. Maybe not their faulted
Xavier this season isn't great. How fair are the criticisms
of this year's You see non league schedule.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But they're fair enough. But look, there's gonna be six
or seven by games. If you want to make the
argument that they should play a little bit higher level
of a bye game, I'm not gonna snap back. The
only thing I would say is those games cost a
lot more money than the teams that they played, and
until that full revenue check from the Big Twelve kicks in, yeah,
(08:23):
you're gonna have to make some tougher decisions like that.
I maybe would have liked one more home and home
series or a better situation for the MT where they
went and played you know, two games, you get two
higher level opponents in a weekend, and I think that
would have, you know, jumped the numbers up substantially. It'll
(08:45):
be interesting to see next year. The NKU game is
off the books. They're not gonna have the the Georgia
Tech game on the books. So what does the MTE
look like? And then the Big East Big twelve Challenge
and so you're not gonna have that as well. I've
also heard my others there's some rumblings behind the scenes
(09:08):
that they're gonna go back to eighteen conference games from
twenty and if that happens, you've got thirteen non conference games,
and then you would need to beep it up a
little bit more. I don't worry about this year at
all because of those twenty Big twelve games, Like you've
got enough tough games coming. The strength of schedule is
(09:28):
gonna work itself out quick.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Good stuff has always enjoyed the show tomorrow man, thanks
so much.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
All right, thanks, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It's our guys, Chad Brendel Bearcat journal dot com. You
see is off until Monday night to open up Big
twelve play with the game against Kansas State in Manhattan.
We are here at Buffalo Wild Wings Harper Station for
two more hours. We've got some awesome Bengals swag thanks
to our friends at bud Light, and we've got tickets
to the game on Saturday we're giving away as well.
It's coming up on four o'clock on Malegger. This is
(09:59):
ESP fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Hey, if you reviewed
your home insurance policy, the average home insurance renewal get
this has increased twenty to fifty percent. My friends at
United Heartland Insurance in partnership with Auto Owners Insurance, have
saved customers thousands in premium costs. So if you're tired
(10:20):
of paying outrageous home premiums, don't wait until it's too late.
Call United Heartland Insurance in partnership with Auto Owners Insurance
today at five one, three, eight, nine six fifty five
fifty five, or go to uhis dot com and save
mo money since if you let the
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