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December 12, 2025 11 mins
Lance talks College Hoops with Paul Fritschner. They discuss Xavier, UC, Kentucky as well as a brief convo on Red Panda.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Six, nineteen seven hundred wilwr Nol Carrier Sports doc presented
by Kelsey Chevalley. A Lance Canlister Musketeers coming to any
bottom of the yard, Joe and Byron. We'll set it up.
Let's talk some college basketball, serve up some weekend hoops conversation.
A big fan of our first guest a college basketball broadcaster,
A versatile multitasker. He calls games, he watches games, he

(00:28):
talks games. He's the host of the wildly popular The
Rebound Rundown podcast. That must mean we're talking to Paul Frichner.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
How are you, Lance?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I appreciate you having me on. Yeah, getting ready for
some hoops here at ten thoughts tonight and busy weekend
all around around the Try State.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
So I appreciate you having me on.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
You've got a good catching up. Let's start with the Musketeers.
A lot of emotion and energy spent in winning the
shootout is the case all the time. It's always interesting
to see how the teams react and recover for that
next game. Xavier can't afford a letdown certainly tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, no doubt about it. Zebra.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Over their last twenty two home games, following the Crosstown shootout,
when you follow up the shootout with a home game.
Xavier's nineteen and three in their last twenty two, so
they handle it pretty well coming out of winning a
game like that. But yeah, week off, it was finals
week this week for Xavier. So you got to get
back to the drawing board and think to yourself, if
you want to accomplish some things this season, right if

(01:28):
you if you have larger goals this year to try
and pick up some significant wins, and Richard Patino in
year one at Xavier, you can't afford to drop a
game like tonight where you're almost a twenty point favorite.
This is a game for Xavier where Missouri State is
gonna try and muck it up. They draw a ton
of fouls, they commit a ton of fouls, they're fine
to go to the free throw line and Xavier on

(01:50):
their end. You know, it's changed so much. They changed
the starting lineup of about a month ago. Now it's
worked to perfection. They were points away from beating Georgia
down in Charleston. Now they've ripped off four or five
straight wins. Trying to lead into this game tonight with
a win and close out the non conference season on
a high note before Big East play starts on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, you mentioned the lineup change, and I think for
people who look and saw what happened at Santa Claire
and wondered the path Zager might be on, that was
truly a defining at least early on in turning point
of the season, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I mean they ended up losing that game by nineteen,
but look, it was a thirty point game with less
than two and a half minutes left. That could have
easily been way worse than it was. And they got
back to the drawing board in between that Monday and
Friday when they went to play Iowa, and they made
some significant changes. You know, they went to Alright at
the point, Yovan Malischevich at the five. And what that

(02:45):
does is it gives you a more potent offensive lineup.
You might give a little bit up defensively with some size,
but it gives you something offensively and it's worked great.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
They lost by nineteen to Iowa, but it was a
different kind of nineteen point loss. They were kind of
in that game for a little bit until it got
out of hand. And now They've been able to ride
that wave over the last few games.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
You know, heading into tonight.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
So they beat Cincinnati, they beat West Virginia, they have
some by game wins in there as well, and you
know Creighton coming to town on Wednesday. That'll be a statement
tone setter to start Big East play.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
You see his first game since the shootout tomorrow at Atlanta.
They take on Georgia. The Bearcats non conference resume doesn't
have much on it. It's got damage in the Eastern
Michigan game. How important is the opportunity in terms of
tournament resume, If that's the ultimate goal for the Bearcats,
it is vitally important.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Lance you go to Georgia to play this game down
in Atlanta. Technically it's a neutral site game, but look,
you're playing this game in Atlanta, it's basically an away game,
and you play Clemson as well, and so you figure
if you're Cincinnati, you pretty much have to get those
two wins leading into Big Twelve play.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
There's a very easy.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Argument you could make at the Big Twelve is the
strongest conference in the country right now. You probably say
the Big Tens just a step above, but the Big
Twelve is looking fantastic this year, and so there will
be plenty of opportunities for Cincinnati within conference play to
build your resume, but maybe don't put yourself in such
a hole to where you have to do that in
Big Twelve play, because it's going to be so tough

(04:17):
night in and night out. If you can get the
Georgia game against a really good Georgia team that so
far only has the one loss, and the one loss
is to Clemson in Charleston, and then you go and
you play Clemson as well.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
If you can get those two games and you finish.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
The non conference season with three losses, the Eastern Michigan
loss is what's really going to be holding Cincinnati back.
I mean, the loss is Xavier, it's not a killer.
The loss of Loiso definitely not a killer. Losll is
a national title contender. The lost of Eastern Michigan you
have to you have to really right the ship, and

(04:50):
you can do that. You can start by doing that
with beating Georgia and Clemson here to close the non
conference Paul.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Fritchender checking in top level of hoops from the rebound
Rundown Kentucky Welcome's Eye, you to RUP one very cool
to have that rivalry back on too. Are Kentucky's issues fixable, Paul,
or are they terminal in terms of hopes of a
deep run in March.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, I really don't know if this Kentucky team is
fixable right now, Lance, because they have a lot of
talent and sure, you know Jalen Lowe, Jacon Quaintan's they
dealt with injuries this season, no doubt, but they don't
have a high major win yet. And Indiana's coming. Like
you said, I think you're spot on.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
I love that this game is being played.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
I love that Kentucky and Indiana are playing, you know,
at Rupp Arena. It's not a neutral site game. It's
Indiana going on the road to rup But Kentucky playing
simply doesn't have enough shooting on this roster. Their offensive
issues have been terrible. They just have not looked like
a cohesive unit and so because of.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
That, they've looked out of sorts.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
They haven't gotten great effort out of the guys they've
needed good effort from, and they've looked, you know, at
times very good, but at times they looked really really bad.
And you know, I think there is a lack of
shooting on this team, that's going to hold it back.
And you know, Low and Quaintance not playing is certainly
gonna hinder their possibilities this season as well.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Maybe flying under the raid Army they shouldn't be. Travis
Steels RedHawks are ten and Oh they're at Eastern Kentucky
and Paul, you know that in watching them, the efficiency
of that Miami offense is really something to watch, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, it is. They're a really really fun team. Evan Ipsorrow,
the point guard, went to Coming and Catholic, a local product.
They're a really fun team. The other night, you know,
it was a bit of a heart attack type game
for Miami.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
They were up sixteen or eighteen.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
With about six and a half minutes left and then
that game ended up going to overtime, but they gritted
it out. Suitor, who was the preseason player of the
year in the MAC, he filed out and they were
still able to grit that went out. Really nice win
at Asheville. Miami's in the midst of a four game
a road trip right now, four game road series before
they come back home, and hey, they're.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Nine to zero.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
They go to ten and Oh tomorrow night. If they
go to ten and oh, they will match their best
start in program history. They've started ten and oh twice Lance,
but it was back in nineteen eighteen and nineteen forty four,
so it's been a long time. They haven't played the
most challenging schedule. But you know, I had Travis Steele
on the Rebound rundown this summer and he said, look,
it's not because of the lack of trying. I've been

(07:29):
trying to schedule a lot of these games, but these
high major schools aren't incentivized to play the you know,
one to one fifty type team that might end up
beating you, And so that the high major schools want
to beat up on the smaller teams, which is understandable
because that's how the net all works out right now.
But in Miami, they've won, the games are in front
of them. That's all you can do, and right now

(07:50):
they're undefeated.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
All right, let's get to the really important question. During
the shootout, you partnered with Red Panda to toss the
balls to her. It was a flawless execution on both ends.
Where would that currently rank on lifetime accomplishments of Paul Fritcher.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
It's number one lance and there's no doubt about it.
I've been watching Red Panda since I was a little kid.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
I love it. I've been going again.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I mean, I'm telling you, she is the best. She's
the nicest person in the world. I'd met her once
before a halftime show, but I hadn't been able to
throw the bulls. And the marketing team came to me
about a month ago and said, hey, for the Crossdown shootout,
she's going to be here at halftime, can you throw
the bulls? And I said it'd be the greatest honor
of my life, and and it was fantastic. She's the
nicest lady ever. I'm glad to see she's back after

(08:33):
she broke her wrist last year, and she puts on
a heck of a show, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
No doubt, fantastic. All Right, tell everybody who has not
checked it out, and they certainly should tell them about
The Rebound Rundown and how they can get involved and
listen to it.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, the Rebound Rundown. It's available on every major podcast platform.
It's an audio based show, but there are video components
to it as well, so you can subscribe to the
Rebound Rundown on YouTube. The interviews get posted there, some
film breakdown, some you know, cinematic recaps. We've been at Cincinnati,
will be at Dayton on Tuesday for the Florida State game.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
We go to Cincinnati where Xavier.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
We're all over the place here covering college basketball locally, Miami, NKU.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
All of that. So check it out the Rebound Rundown.
Appreciate all of you subscribing and listening. I love it.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
It is so well done, so informative, and I really
appreciate you making time tonight to enjoy the hoops tonight
in this weekend.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
All right, absolutely, you two land come a good weekend.
All right you too.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
There you go, Paul Fritcher, check it in the Rebound Rundown.
I love the rundown. Xavier and Missouri State coming up.
Musketeers and Bears. They've met one previous time. That was
the twenty nineteen twenty twenty season, sentas fifty nine to
fifty six to the final Tyreek Jones at fifteen. In
that game. Paul Scruggs had fourteen in that game. Xavier

(09:51):
leads the Big East and they are fourth in the
entire country and assist the turnover ratio, meaning they dish
the assist and they don't turn it over much to
assist over to assist to every ratio of just over
two in that category. Savior at last check was an
eighteen and a half point favorite, still at this moment

(10:13):
eighteen and a half point favorite, total of one forty
eight and a half in that one. One last note
before Joe and Byron, if you're considering the deck the
Halls tomorrow at the Red's Hall of Fame in Museum
noon to three. First fifty guest get a limited edition
Hall of Fame giveaway item. Kids are admitted free. Adults
receive half price admission if they are wearing a holiday

(10:34):
themed apparel, a sweater, a Santa hat, you name it.
Red's mascots will be there for photo ops. My guys,
the eighteen sixty nine Red stockings there for photo ops.
Tell them I said hey. Kids' activities including a station
to write letters to Santa and holiday coloring, and don't
forget the meet and greet. Tucker Barnhardt and JJ Hoop

(10:57):
on the scene from one to two. I wish I
had more tonight. I don't, but I'm excited to check
out what the Musketeers do. Joe and Byron will set
it up next. This has been RNL Carrier Sports Talk,
presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred ww

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