WRAT Sports 3.24.23

WRAT Sports 3.24.23

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00:00slash purpose all right dave sports what's going on man okay let's start with basketball where the

00:06knicks lost to the magic last night 111 to 106 that's the third loss in a row for the knicks

00:13and we we only have a little short time here left in the regular season we need to finish the season

00:18strong so that we're going into the playoffs with a shot to do some damage in the postseason

00:23the knicks still in fifth spot in the eastern conference at 42 and 33 but the heat are gaining

00:29the knicks need to finish the regular season much stronger than they're playing right now meanwhile

00:33the nets lost to the calves last night 116 to 114 the nets dropped to 39 and 34 they have fallen out of

00:40the top six in the east brooklyn uh now down to seventh place a half game behind miami 76ers were

00:48inactive they take on the warriors in golden state tonight sixers are 49 and 23 third in the east

00:55college basketball right now and march madness in full swing had some fantastic sweet 16 games last

01:02night including an overtime matchup uh one of the main stories from last night was that yukon which

01:08is coached by jersey city's danny hurley famous uh basketball player at saint anthony's in jersey city

01:14and then seton hall uh he is now the coach of yukon and they crushed arkansas to advance to the elite

01:2188 88 to 65 and it wasn't even that close all right so that's pretty awesome that danny hurley who

01:27was a jersey star as a player is now coaching yukon what looks like to great success other winners last

01:32night were kansas state florida atlantic and gonzaga tonight it's all about princeton yeah that's kind of

01:39interesting i'm loving this prince yeah man that's cool the tigers from jersey of course take on creighton

01:45this evening at nine o'clock princeton comes in as a number 15 seed only the second time a 15 seed has

01:52made it all the way to the elite eight and what's creighton and creighton is a six seed uh but uh listen

01:59we're pulling for the tigers uh once again a year after saint peter's uh stole everyone's heart here's

02:05another jersey school making waves in march madness hockey the rangers beat the hurricanes last night

02:10two to one the rangers igor shesterkin had 29 saves to pick up the win flyers got past the wild five to

02:16four the devils were inactive they faced the sabers this evening in buffalo baseball spring training the

02:23yankees and cardinals tied at one to one the mets and braves tied at two to two the phillies beat the

02:28tigers four to one and staying with baseball the yankees are number one on forbes's list of most

02:36valuable baseball franchises the yankees are officially worth seven point one billion dollars

02:44wow actually an 18 percent increase from last season so you want to find out how much 62 home

02:52runs does for you wow they already were worth like around you know whatever six point something billion

02:59last year and they went up almost 20 percent i have to imagine that this year the ticket prices are

03:04coming down to give everyone a little bit of a break right i think uh that would mean the ticket

03:09prices will continue i hear crickets crickets but i just think that's really interesting that you know

03:15to me that that is the aaron judge factor i mean that's why you pay them all that money because that is

03:20a lot of money that they made last year that is your quick look at sports