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Podcast Appearances
And, of course, number one is Duke when we faced Arkansas on Thanksgiving night.
That was on CBS.
But yeah, to be going up against network TV, and if you think about how much people watch this game, the game before it, which was on ABC, was Arizona and Houston.
That drew like 3.5 million viewers or something like that.
So we on ESPN, it's still a cable network, but it's basically the network adjacent at this point in our lives.
For us to pull more numbers on ESPN than they were able to pull on network, on ABC, is...
shows how much people were interested in this game.
And also just, again, what a great day of college basketball it was for everybody.
And to Duke Blue Planet's credit, right, they're the best in the game at this.
They have done this on a couple of occasions, a peek inside the locker room at halftime.
If you go back to even preseason, Jason, you remember against Tennessee, they kind of showed Cam Boozer, which had not
played a regular season game yet kind of saying hey guys we got this we're we're down but like we're beating ourselves let's let's push it let's let's get the tempo up let's let's believe in each other right it was a freshman at that point kind of leading the packet at that point we kind of commented okay Kim is not just going to lead this team in all the stat stuff he wants to be a leader on this team which is great to see
You saw the Louisville game where we were down at halftime and John Shire comes in and kind of has that motivational speech of telling them what they need to do to get back into the game.
We saw a little bit of that.
This was different, Jason, in the sense that you just mentioned it in a way.
You have Slim, who's a sophomore.
You have Dame, who's a freshman.
You have Malik, who's a senior.
No egos, everyone helping each other, no yelling at each other, no one asserting dominance over another saying you're messing up.