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Home of the Panthers Pre-Game · Tue Nov 22, 2022
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This week, Panther men's basketball.
In this particular instance, it's the second day of the Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City for the UNI Panthers who saw
University of San Francisco yesterday were joined by Bowen born ahead of today's game and Bowen thanks for being back with us as you and I Continues to work through the early season schedule these games here at the start of the season Really good preparation for where you want to be at the end of the year tournament basketball And so it's an exciting time and a chance to learn let me ask what kinds of things you expect to take from one of these
two game tournaments where you're playing a couple of times in two days and mimicking in some ways what might be the NCAA tournament or an NIT experience at the end of the year.
Yeah, a lot of these tournaments, they mimic some of the things that you're going to be dealing with at the end of the season.
And so I always think the biggest thing with some of these tournaments where you're playing and back to back games is always just the recovery and kind of how can you bounce back after had playing a game just the day before.
I think that's one of the biggest things is you're adjusting your recovery and your ability to flip from one opponent to the next within
24 hours you know sometimes under so yeah for this tournament it just gives you yeah good prep and especially against good teams it basically yeah mimics the things that you're going to do at the end of the year you know for conference tournaments and postseason tournaments and so it just gives you yeah good opportunity to prep for that.
What is the closest experience to this Kansas City trip is it
the Arch Madness event in St.
Louis?
Is it the NIT that the Panthers were in last year where you're playing non-conference opponents that you maybe don't know as well?
What's the easiest thing to draw from as you go into these games?
Yeah, I think the biggest or the closest is the Arch Madness.
just because it's more of the yeah back to back like with the n it there's a lot of time in between each game and so you don't know your opponent but you also now get more days to prep in between each game and so this is pretty similar to um what would arch madness be so even though you are playing a conference opponent it's still yeah because you don't know um you're basically you finish the game and that night you're basically
Picking and you're scouting now for the next game and so it'll be a similar process You know down here at the tournament and so you know just yeah like I mentioned before being able to now flip You know obviously it's not a conference opponent so you know even less about them, but still They're dealing also dealing with the same thing.
You know, they don't know who's gonna You know win the next game.
You don't know always know your opponent, but it's your ability yeah to
to kind of advance past the previous game, you know, win or lose, you know, whatever happens, you want to be able to, to be able to bounce back and end up with a win on the, on the last day.
We're talking to UNI Panther men's basketball, sophomore Bowen Boer and the Panthers at the Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City.
It's day two of this event.
It's just a four team tournament, not one of the really big eight team holiday tournaments.
So it's a quick turnaround for UNI and.
The most similar experience in terms of opponents that aren't familiar, or at least the last tournament experience that the Panthers would have had prior to this, would have been last spring's NIT.
You saw opponents in that event from the A-10, St.
Louis in the first game, then BYU in the second game just a couple of days later.
Talk about...
taking on those two teams in quick succession and maybe especially in the case of BYU having travel mixed in, not having a lot of chance to figure out who they were before you saw them on the court.
Yeah, it's definitely, yeah, a little bit different.
That's where it does differ from, you know, a conference tournament because you haven't played these teams before.
And so, yeah, it was definitely good to be able to just, that's also what makes it fun, you know, the unknown and being able to play teams, you know, on the fly.
And, you know, you want to be in these tournaments to play good teams.
And this is a really good four team tournament.
And so similar to last year where, you know, you're kind of playing
and you know any team that is now here is a really good team and so similar to this tournament you know whatever game you're playing in everybody's gonna be good so there's a little similarity to it there and yeah kind of using some of that experience from last year from the guys that were on that team will definitely help us
and let me
Get your thoughts too on playing on a neutral court, which is again different from the NIT where early games are on campus sites and you're going to have a home crowd either for you or against you.
Arch Madness is going to bring in a lot of fans.
Some of these games in these holiday tournaments, you know, may not have a tremendous crowd, may not have a crowd that has a predetermined rooting interest.
You're going to have some fans that show up and just kind of get into the game and pick a team as it starts.
Is the atmosphere a little odd compared to some of the other places and circumstances you'd be playing in?
Yeah, a little bit.
Playing on that neutral court, again, it's similar to Arch Madness where some of those first games, there's not a ton of people.
You don't have your whole student body there.
So it is a little bit different.
But that's also, again, kind of what makes it fun because it's almost just like you guys out there.
So there's some fans that are obviously here and that are obviously cheering you on.
but that's also kind of what makes it fun because it basically just feels like basketball and that's it you know and so that's one of the reasons that I like playing in these tournaments so much is because yeah you don't necessarily have to worry about you know the opposing fans and what factor are they gonna play into it you know how loud is the gym and so that's yeah kind of makes it you know fun and why I like playing in these tournaments just because it does create yeah good atmosphere just because it's two good teams really getting after each other.
We're talking with UNI Panthers sophomore men's basketball player Bowen Bourne.
It's day two of the Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City and Panthers taking on a couple of opponents in short succession after a long gap between their last game and yesterday.
Let me just ask again about something you mentioned right off the bat and that's about managing
the recovery process, what's top of mind for you and does it vary a little bit depending on other players who may have something that nags at them?
Is the routine a little different if you're in this situation or that situation coming into it?
Yeah, it's definitely different than what I typically do.
Usually I'm pretty wound up after games and this also plays into
you know the time that you're playing and so obviously yesterday we played at 11 and so it is a little bit different because the biggest thing for me is always sleep and sometimes when you're playing games at 7 o'clock or 8 o'clock sometimes it's really hard to go to sleep you know so sometimes I'm up you know till midnight or 12 30 just because I'm still wound up from the game and so this yeah
plays a little bit into it because when you obviously are playing earlier in the day, it's a little bit different.
So you're still able to get wound down and then still be able to get a good however many hours of sleep that you need.
And so I think that's one of the biggest factors is getting my sleep.
But then also working with our trainers, stretching, post-game stretching, doing everything that you can to feel as fresh as you can for the next day.
Let's talk about today's opponent.
We've gotten to that point We probably need to talk about Grand Canyon who the Panthers have seen relatively recently But at the same time it's a program that has a short division one history after just coming to the D1 level a few years ago What do you know about Grand Canyon a long way away?
But with that, you know a little bit of a UNI tie fairly recently
Yeah, I know that they got a really good team and again.
Yeah having to adjust super quick from the day before you know
scout trying to be ready for these guys and so yeah the biggest thing always on a on a second day is you know who's gonna bring the energy um you know having played a game the day before it always gets tough you know when your body feeling is feeling tired you know it's easy to to come juiced up when you're feeling good but um yeah trying to just come with energy um and always trying to yeah care about the same things you know we're always talking about effort communication in our competitive spirit and so yeah bringing those three things
especially on a day where you're playing back-to-back games and you're playing against a different opponent who is also a really good opponent so yeah trying to trying to calm out you know right away and be ready for whatever they're gonna throw at
us.
Well one of the best things about this
Thanksgiving week tournament is that everybody's going to be back in time for Thanksgiving.
Any Thanksgiving plans, Bowen?
I
know we have practice and I think we have a team dinner.
So I'll be hanging out with a lot of the guys.
You know, I think we do have a game relatively close afterwards.
But yeah, hanging out with the guys, spending time with the coaches and the staff.
You know, we always talk about it.
It's basically like our family because we spend so much time with each other.
So getting to spend some more time with the coaches
and the guys.
Bowen, thanks for being back with us and good luck on day two of the Hall of Fame Classic.
Yep, thank you very much.
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