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Paul Kenyon took some time this morning to talk about Saturday's game between the Rams and the Pride at the Ryan Center. Click the play button below to hear Paul's comments, and see pictures of the two teams and their key players.

Here are some excerpts from Paul's comments:

How hard will it be to come back from a two-week break? "In this case, I think, a little bit more difficult than it usually is. Just because of the way the first part of the season ended. Obviously, that win at Syracuse was as good a win as the team has had in years. Everybody's flying high. They're 10-1, it hasn't been this good in 10 years at URI, and all the sudden they have to take two weeks off and go through exams. And -- I don't know about the players -- to me it seems even longer. It almost seems like we've finiished one season and the two-week delay seems more like a month, waiting and wanting to see if they can carry this on."

Is reaching the Top 25 a big deal for the players? Absolutely, positively. It certainly is. Jim Baron, being a coach and saying what 99 percent of the coaches would say, is trying to avoid all talk, dismissing it and saying, 'I don't really care.' But if you're anybody else associated with the program, from the players to the fans -- particularly a program like URI that strives for attention and has a very rabid core base of fans, but very much wants to expand that base -- being in the Top 25, with all the extra added attention that brings, would be a major accomplishment."

On Hofstra: "Hofstra as a team is very young. They're going to play three freshmen a lot of the game, and it's a team that URI should beat at this point. But having a guy like [national scoring leader Antoine] Agudio that can light it up makes them a dangerous team."

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