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Boomer & Gio

Sienna's Almost Upset, Pitino On Tonight's Opponent, Mendoza On Senga

20 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What happened in the Siena vs. Duke game?

0.031 - 4.599 Boomer Esiason

It was close, but in the end, Duke did survive a 16 seed.

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4.779 - 19.845 Noah Eagle

Coyle up ahead. Doty, pump fake, three ball, up, short, rebound, goes to Dom Asar, and that's going to do it. It was a major scare from the 16 seed Siena Saints, but the number one overall seed Duke is moving on in Greenville.

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19.825 - 41.297 Boomer Esiason

And that was Noah Eagle. Westwood won NCAA radio with the final seconds. The final score was 71-65. Siena just didn't have enough offense down the stretch after they really played great. for much of the day. Here was John Shire. So he was on the court with Tracy on CBS Post game, and he kind of knows, got away with one.

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41.537 - 57.713 Greg Gard

G-Mac, he out-coached me. They were more ready to play, and the readiness and the toughness by our guys, just to weather that storm in the second half, proud of them. You know, it's great to get this win. I think there's a lot that we can learn from moving forward.

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57.693 - 63.8 Boomer Esiason

Yeah, it's like survive in advance. For Jerry McNamara's team, boy, he knows they gave him all that they could handle.

64.08 - 78.257 Jerry McNamara

Yeah, I think the world and college basketball saw what I've been so grateful and thankful to be around all season. A group of kids that love each other, that compete at the highest level, play for each other.

78.277 - 83.863 Rick Pitino

A lot of rumblings about him to Syracuse potentially. Yeah, I was going to say, because Syracuse, they're in a mess situation right now.

83.884 - 85.265 Gio

Oh, it's too bad. Really?

85.545 - 93.527 Rick Pitino

Yeah. Sorry, guys. Yeah. Sorry. I would say yes. I would probably say that's where he's headed.

Chapter 2: How did Wisconsin get upset by High Point University?

95.672 - 119.485 Gio

Me? Yes, and I'm thinking about teams like Siena, some of these other smaller teams that are not getting these massive charter planes or whatever. So when I had that long delay, I was sitting there. On my plane was the Vassar College lacrosse team. Oh, yeah, yeah. So every flight gets canceled, right? Every hotel room within a mile. And you've got all these kids. Yeah.

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119.786 - 121.167 Boomer Esiason

And all the equipment and all the gear.

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121.227 - 129.217 Gio

Right. Has that ever happened to you in Rutgers where, like, a plane was canceled and you had to find, like, a gazillion hotel rooms and storage and all sorts of stuff?

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129.237 - 146.275 Boomer Esiason

No. Rutgers Charters, like all the other big schools. But we have had flights canceled, and we end up going right back to the hotel we were at. So at Minnesota, our flight got delayed numerous hours because of wind, and I don't think the rooms were available. They gave us a conference room to hang out in for six hours. That's about as bad as it's been.

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146.315 - 164.642 Boomer Esiason

And even if you remember, we had a noon game at Iowa a few years ago, noon on a Sunday during the NFL playoffs, and our flight got canceled. So we got on the bus thinking we were going to the airport at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and the bus was going back to the hotel. It was because the flight got canceled and pushed back to Monday.

164.682 - 166.526 Boomer Esiason

If you remember, I did it from the hotel room the next morning.

166.746 - 183.797 Gio

Yeah. So you have that hotel room maybe for an extra day just in case. Is that what they do? Well, in this case, the hotel was available. In Minnesota, it was not, which is why they gave us the conference room. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, this is a very dog logistics thing that's going on in my head, but I was thinking about those. Where the hell did they go?

Chapter 3: What insights did Rick Pitino share about Northern Iowa?

183.857 - 191.648 Gio

Yeah. I mean, thousands and thousands of people. And then their kids, their college kids, you can't spread them all over the state.

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191.668 - 202.965 Rick Pitino

I mean, with the college kids, though, they could make do with anything. I'm sure they sleep in the airports. That's what I'm saying. There's no way that Vassar La Crosse is going back to a hotel and spending another $15,000.

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203.926 - 204.928 Boomer Esiason

Which they don't have already.

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204.948 - 205.629 Rick Pitino

Yeah, exactly.

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205.749 - 205.909

Exactly.

205.889 - 206.33 Boomer Esiason

Yeah.

206.831 - 213.002 Rick Pitino

And all these programs fly commercial. If you are a college kid, you could basically fall asleep anywhere.

213.502 - 215.787 Gio

Yeah, true. I mean, it's not ideal for them.

215.947 - 223.58 Rick Pitino

Yeah, but especially if you're overnight in the airport, I mean, it's relatively quiet for the most part. Just find a corner area.

Chapter 4: What did Sal Licata reveal about his experience with Jerry Seinfeld?

255.777 - 285.054 Boomer Esiason

Meantime, Chase Johnston, how about this story? So he's on high point. These are his stats. Ready for this for the season. He is 69 for 143 shooting for the year. From three, he's 68 for 138. So he's only had the one two-point make actually happened in the game yesterday. Every field goal he had made was a three-pointer. Now, usually we play these clips and we laugh at the way they praise God.

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285.074 - 289.204 Boomer Esiason

Well, he is a graduate student going for a career in ministry. So this was his take afterwards.

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289.184 - 306.687 Unknown

It's amazing. First and foremost, I just want to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for giving me this platform that he's given me. It just felt amazing just to be with the guys. It's a special group that, like Flynn said, started on June 1st. It's a feeling that you can't put into words until you're in it, and I'm just so grateful to be here with these guys.

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306.667 - 325.047 Boomer Esiason

They can be grateful to play at least one more game as they do advance. Also from yesterday, VCU beat North Carolina in overtime 82-78, 34 for Terrence Hill. Rick Pitino and his St. John's Red Storm playing Northern Iowa tonight, 7-10 in San Diego. This is Pitino scouting that group.

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325.067 - 339.402 Unknown

Well, it's like Seton Hall with great offensive players. That's who you're playing. This team would be one of the premier teams in the Big East. 70% of their play is back defensively. The only blip in their schedule is when they had their power forward out and they lost four out of six.

339.582 - 348.933 Boomer Esiason

Now, I guess this is a team that they're comparing to Virginia, that style of play, where they're going to try and keep the numbers down and not allow St. John's to run.

349.033 - 355.28 Unknown

So what will the game be like? When you play against the Tony Bennett's and the Virginia's and you try to speed them up, it never works.

Chapter 5: How is Kodai Senga performing in spring training?

356.121 - 364.39 Unknown

This team, at the offensive end, May send five guys back on every possession. They totally take away your fast break.

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364.53 - 387.227 Boomer Esiason

And so they're going to have to adjust to that. And as he said, value every possession. So that game at 7-10. The late game will be UConn and Furman at 10. Also locally, it is Hofstra playing Alabama at 3-15. And LIU will kick it off for us around here at 1-30. as they take on a top-seeded Arizona. The Lakers beat the Heat 134-126, 60 for Luka Doncic, triple-double for LeBron James.

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387.848 - 403.165 Boomer Esiason

I said six straight wins for the Lakers. It's eight in a row, so you've got to win six to get to eight, so still true. But eight straight wins for the Lakers. We're playing great. Time now for something we like to call What the Hell Is That? I play a clip. You try and tell me what you think the clip might be. I don't have multiple choice. You've got to tell me what you think this clip is.

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403.205 - 411.999 Boomer Esiason

It's about 1.5 seconds. Here's the clip. Here's the clip. Who might that be? One more time.

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412.019 - 412.6 Rick Pitino

One more time.

414.563 - 420.691 Boomer Esiason

That sounds like Evan Roberts. That's a very good guess. Eddie, your thoughts on who this is? Eddie's not in there.

Chapter 6: What challenges do smaller college teams face during travel?

420.711 - 444.326 Boomer Esiason

So you got no guess? Okay. G? Tiki Barber. That's a very good guess. Boomer. Pete Hoffman. Pete Hoffman, another good guess. Eddie, any guess on who this might be? Put your headsets on as we pause and talk and discuss. Okay. Any idea who that is? No. Okay.

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446.589 - 447.79 Rick Pitino

Thanks for participating.

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448.03 - 467.974 Boomer Esiason

I would tell you he doesn't work here anymore. And his name is Sal Licata. Ah. So Sal, I guess, revealed on his podcast that he has befriended Jerry Seinfeld. Yes. And they took in a spring training game together. And this was Sal talking about sitting with Seinfeld last week. Those guys were sitting together.

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468.114 - 476.523 Sal Licata

And Jerry goes, we were just trying to figure out how the seats were going to work. Living a freaking Seinfeld episode.

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482.112 - 494.05 Boomer Esiason

That was kind of funny. And you tell me out of bounds or inbounds, there was an opportunity for him to go sit with Seinfeld. I'm sure front row right by home plate, but he was with his producer.

494.958 - 501.726 Sal Licata

And instead of him taking his producer, he did this. This needed to be a me thing, not a me and Bada Booms thing.

Chapter 7: What were the implications of the Lakers' recent winning streak?

502.387 - 513.421 Sal Licata

But at that point, I, without hesitation, told Bada Booms, sorry, buddy, I'm going to sit with Seinfeld. You good in the press box? Yeah, no, you absolutely have to do that.

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513.741 - 515.343 Boomer Esiason

Oh, yeah, I'm on this.

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515.363 - 515.804 Sal Licata

Absolutely.

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515.964 - 519.208 Boomer Esiason

Al is the producer on the show. You'd be okay with that. Yeah, you have to.

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519.228 - 519.748 Rick Pitino

Al, see you.

519.869 - 544.013 Boomer Esiason

Get out of here. I happen to agree. Just checking to see what you guys thought. So that was kind of funny. Speaking of baseball, you've got the Yankees playing the Orioles on WFAN 660 AM tonight at 630. Day game for the Mets who will face the Cardinals in Port St. Lucie at 130. Carlos Mendoza was asked, your favorite player, Kodai Senga. Oh, God. So how is he doing?

544.093 - 548.506 Boomer Esiason

Is he close to peak form as we are getting closer and closer to the start of the regular season?

548.687 - 561.136 Carlos Mendoza

I think he's close. Because again, watching him this early, throwing the ball the way he's been throwing the ball, I think that was something that we probably saw. you know, second, third week of April last year. It took him a while.

561.537 - 567.969 Boomer Esiason

Yeah, we know it takes him a while. Well, here was Senga through a translator. He wants to be healthy, wants to be productive this year.

Chapter 8: What updates were shared about the Mets and their players?

576.987 - 579.71 Rick Pitino

grind out there, and hopefully the results come.

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579.73 - 580.952 Boomer Esiason

He's going to grind this year.

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580.972 - 583.535 Rick Pitino

Did they play 30 games in spring training? How many games did they play?

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583.555 - 587.419 Boomer Esiason

Oh, they probably played 40. I mean, they start playing in the spring training. Maybe not that many.

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587.439 - 590.904 Rick Pitino

No, it wouldn't be that many. They started in February. They started in February right now.

591.284 - 592.525 Boomer Esiason

Is that it? Yeah.

592.545 - 613.929 Rick Pitino

That's actually surprising. Let me see. The Yankees have played 26. Now, this includes also the split squads and all this other stuff. This is what adds on to this 162 marathon game season. You've got this... Spring training that just drags on and on and on and on. I couldn't start it like two weeks later. Hey, look, let's play 14 games and let's go.

614.589 - 627.662 Gio

Yeah, listen, I'm with you. I mean, it's not going to change much unless in this new CBA that they negotiate, they knock down the amount of games. But unless you're knocking like 30 or 40 games off, it's not going to make a difference.

627.682 - 633.387 Boomer Esiason

Now, here was Nolan McClain. We know he started in the game against Venezuela. By the way, you saw the numbers for that. Yeah.

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