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College Ball Show: Preview and Predictions for Final Four & Title Game! Recap Sweet 16 & Elite 8! · The Rope A Dope Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 1: College basketball fans, Welcome back to the College Ball Show.
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  Speaker 1: He's Marshall, I'm Chris, and we're here to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the Final four. Obviously, we will start by recapping the
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  Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen and Elite eight games. It's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: I mean, plenty of great games, but as the weekend
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  Speaker 1: went on and once we got to Sunday, it did
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  Speaker 1: seem that they turned into more one sided games. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it would start close, but then the winners really separated themselves.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't had the cinderella stuff. Our biggest cinderella was
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  Speaker 1: what a ten seed and they should have moved on
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  Speaker 1: to the lead eight, but they dropped a game like
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  Speaker 1: I said that they should have won to Texas Tech,
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  Speaker 1: only for Texas seth to turn around and drop a
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  Speaker 1: game that they probably should have won. But we are here.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a long time since we've had all number
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  Speaker 1: one seeds, so I get like the upsets and the
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  Speaker 1: buzzer beaters and all the wild stuff that we've had
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  Speaker 1: in this tournament didn't really happen this year. However, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at a rematch between Auburn and Florida, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at Duke in Houston, where we were just
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  Speaker 1: talking before we hit record. We're starting to kind of
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  Speaker 1: lean Duke in Houston, whoever wins that game may win
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  Speaker 1: this chip. And you know, my buddy Marshall, their co host,
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  Speaker 1: it's not easy for him to say in that being
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  Speaker 1: a North Carolina fan, and he even thinks that might
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  Speaker 1: be the case. But that's why we play the games.
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  Speaker 1: And these are great matchups. Like I said, all number
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  Speaker 1: one seeds track, I get it. But at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, these are great FN matchups. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into that. We're gonna preview and predict all that
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and bring in my co hosts Marshall. Marshall,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing, sir. You know, this season has been
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  Speaker 1: a really fun season overall. As I mentioned, it kind
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  Speaker 1: of kind of seemed as the weekend went on that
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  Speaker 1: the games became less competitive. But in the end, whatever this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whatever this tournament produces, we're here now, and
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  Speaker 1: yes they're all four one seeds, but these are some
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  Speaker 1: great matchups.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, I will give myself
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  Speaker 2: some credit. Good afternoon, Chris, and I will say that
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  Speaker 2: at the start of the year, actually throughout the year,
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  Speaker 2: we had the chat that there was about seven or
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  Speaker 2: eight teams that I thought was like A level teams,
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  Speaker 2: and then I had about twenty B level teams. Now
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  Speaker 2: I did expect the tournament up until this point to
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  Speaker 2: be a little better because I thought that those B
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  Speaker 2: level teams would just produced more drama. And this wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the most captivating March madness. But the top tier teams,
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  Speaker 2: which we thought were the top tier throughout the year,
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  Speaker 2: they showed and look at it. Now we got a
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  Speaker 2: complete chot. I think only Vegas has a prop that
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  Speaker 2: is something like, if you add up all the final
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  Speaker 2: seeds to make the final four, will that number be
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  Speaker 2: over under like twelve and a half. It's probably something
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  Speaker 2: around there. Obviously, this year your number equals four. Now
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  Speaker 2: I do think this personally is nil. Part of this
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  Speaker 2: is the top dogs gonna be the top dogs nowadays.
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  Speaker 2: But I still do think that normally, even with the
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  Speaker 2: top teams becoming more of the top tier of the
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  Speaker 2: power conferences, there still will be some luck in basketball
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  Speaker 2: because that is part of the sport. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: this will be as chalk heavy next year, just because
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  Speaker 2: again sometimes he had three, sometimes make a free throw.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows, like things could have happened. Michigan had a
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  Speaker 2: deep run. They could have lost on a buzzer beater
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  Speaker 2: in round one, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So now it will be like this all the time,
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  Speaker 2: probably not quite this chock, but for this year, it's
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  Speaker 2: what it is. But the teams who are there deserve
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  Speaker 2: to be there. Whether you hate him or like the
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  Speaker 2: four teams left remaining, it'd be really hard to argue that,
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  Speaker 2: to say, hey, this team shouldn't be there, Like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: what you know, I hate Duke, but like you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, besides losing to Clemson, you know they they
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  Speaker 2: haven't has I think that's really lost in the new
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  Speaker 2: calendar years. So like you know, they they've had themselves
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  Speaker 2: to help run. So we're here now again. As you said, Chris,
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  Speaker 2: this past weekend could have been a little more enjoyable.
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  Speaker 2: My fiance is actually giving me a shit. She's like,
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  Speaker 2: you keep telling me we're gonna watch a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good games, and they really have been that good. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: normally it is. I don't know what to tell you. You
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  Speaker 2: are right, I have been giving you ps, but normally,
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  Speaker 2: like I say, hey, this match up blocks cat, She's like,
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  Speaker 2: you all watch something else? I'm like, uh, I'm running
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  Speaker 2: out of words, So I don't know what to say for.
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  Speaker 1: A twenty twenty like potential, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as I guess, COVID really did take away what
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  Speaker 2: was probably gonna be the best tournament we've had in
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  Speaker 2: this decade. So damn COVID. But hey, uh, I guess yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but we're here now. The the Ford Desserten teams were there.
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  Speaker 2: That top tier of teams didn't didn't choke. They've had
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  Speaker 2: their moments, I would say, really, besides, besides Duke, every
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  Speaker 2: one of these teams has really had almost one of
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  Speaker 2: those heart attack games. Not that I mean the Duke
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  Speaker 2: Arizona game was good, but it wasn't quite as.
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  Speaker 3: Dramatic as Houston Purdue or what for do Yeah, or
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  Speaker 3: and even Auburn An.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure those Auburn fans had hard tech yesterday when
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  Speaker 2: their boy broom had to walk out the port. Thankfully
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  Speaker 2: he's healthy. He came back and busted The three said
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  Speaker 2: our must be okay. But Duke is really the only
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  Speaker 2: team that's made their fans have a pretty easy run.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't had to grab your favorite bottle of whiskey
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  Speaker 2: or you swear words inappropriately. You know, Duke's had a
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  Speaker 2: pretty chill run, so everyone else though they've earned it.
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  Speaker 2: But man, all those other ones Heeds they had those
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  Speaker 2: moments were like, uh God, I guess is this where
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  Speaker 2: the turn's gonna end? Which? And that makes it fun? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we have chalk at least these teams have had some
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  Speaker 2: games where you had to enjoy. What was that Perdue
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  Speaker 2: Houston game for example?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. I like to call it the Tigus
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  Speaker 1: Enny moment in your Yes, you know, obviously Christian Latner,
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  Speaker 1: you know that came you know in the Semis in
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  Speaker 1: the final four against Kentucky, but or actually was that
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  Speaker 1: the regional region? Regional? Yeah, regional, But you know there's
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  Speaker 1: out generally speaking anyway, you tend to have one of
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  Speaker 1: those games that you just got away with. But you're right, Duke.
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  Speaker 1: You know, on paper, one thing that did hold was
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  Speaker 1: Duke had the least I don't want to say easy,
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  Speaker 1: but they had the least you know, difficult path and
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  Speaker 1: they kind of proved right. You know, Maryland got off
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  Speaker 1: to a decent start. We'll just jump in Thursday. Florida
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  Speaker 1: pretty much handled them, though, eighty seven to seventy one.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, Duke put up one hundred on Arizona
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  Speaker 1: Zona like stayed in the game, but like you said,
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  Speaker 1: it never really felt like they were going to win
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  Speaker 1: the game. I mean, Alabama on BYU it lived up
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  Speaker 1: to the floor wise, but like scoring wise, that was crazy, right,
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  Speaker 1: like one thirteen eighty eight, the total hit and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean good Gali sears like ten threes and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five of fifty one for forty nine percent. They
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  Speaker 1: set a record. Bama was going crazy in that game,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll talk about the next round. That just really
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  Speaker 1: shows you how good of a team Duke is. But
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  Speaker 1: I did think by you, you know, they had a
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  Speaker 1: great season obviously, as did Maryland end zone.
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  Speaker 4: It was it was kind of up and down, but
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  Speaker 4: they still had a damn good season to get this far.
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  Speaker 1: But man like, you can't really grit by you.
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  Speaker 4: Too much of that because you just ran into just
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  Speaker 4: some shit that just happened.
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  Speaker 1: Man Like, there's not much you can do about that.
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  Speaker 1: And then the best really the best, uh one of
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  Speaker 1: the best two games you mentioned it earlier with Houston
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  Speaker 1: and Purdue, but that Texas Tech Arkansas, that Texas Tech
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  Speaker 1: comeback you know that was special because you know, there
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  Speaker 1: was a stat and I just looked at it. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: five and oh when cal Perry is up by six
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  Speaker 1: or more points at half, and I just got lucky.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've been talking about it, you know how
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  Speaker 1: it's only happened once, and I think it was two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and eight where all one seeds happened since they
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  Speaker 1: expanded to sixty four. I guess, you know, sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: or more technically, but that stat popped up and I
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: randomly he's like, you know what, I've been hearing stuff
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  Speaker 1: that hasn't happened for a while. So I decided to
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  Speaker 1: just make a bet on it with my buddy because
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: it was like on the College Ball Show, both basketball
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  Speaker 1: and football, either myself or Marshall has brought these stats
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  Speaker 1: where you're like, wow, this hasn't happened a long time,
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  Speaker 1: or that's never happened, and at some point the back
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  Speaker 1: end of that increases your odds that it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: So I just said, screw it, let's do it. But
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine to fifty six, thirteen point lead before forty left,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you look at Davis what he did
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  Speaker 1: in that game and just the overall length that you know,
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas brought to be up like that with thirteen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: four forty left up thirteen, it looked like he was
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  Speaker 1: in the bank. And then you know, Arkansas missed some shots.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't hit another shot until one twenty eight. It
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  Speaker 1: was a three that still got him up seventy two
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  Speaker 1: to sixty six. You know, for Texas Tech to finally
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  Speaker 1: take the lead since like five to four or something
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  Speaker 1: like that in overtime was just crazy when they made
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  Speaker 1: that first bucket to get up seventy four to seventy two.
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  Speaker 1: What a great game though, And as much as you know,
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  Speaker 1: you feel for a team that you know is up
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  Speaker 1: double digits with you know, less than five minutes left,
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas had a great close to the year. It hurts
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  Speaker 1: from Texas Tech. And we'll talk about that in the
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  Speaker 1: next round here on Saturday. But that was by far
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  Speaker 1: the best game of that of that Thursday slate. Just
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  Speaker 1: just fun stuff, man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The one thing I really regret for betting purposes
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  Speaker 2: is I really should have bet that Florida would cover.
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  Speaker 2: And I say that because, hey, Maryland might have had
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  Speaker 2: the best starting five all year, but they only had five,
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  Speaker 2: so you see that Maryland was down two and a
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  Speaker 2: half and then they fell apart. I really kicked myself
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  Speaker 2: when I've been that because that's predictable, like Florida is
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  Speaker 2: a good team, but so is Maryland. But then to see, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you're down to a half and he it was second
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  Speaker 2: half by fourteen. You know, I was like, damn, I
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  Speaker 2: should have should have seen that one Coleman, because we predicted.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about Maryland quite a bit they had starting
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  Speaker 2: five to no bench. I was like, damn, I missed that.
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  Speaker 2: And uh tall the Duke fans who are still envious
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  Speaker 2: and jealous of Caleb Love, I'm happy to you pissed
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  Speaker 2: you off again because ESPN had the gusts to tweet this.
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  Speaker 2: ESPN tweeted the South that Duke avenges Caleb Love's defeating
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  Speaker 2: coach K's last game.
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  Speaker 1: And beating a different team that they were supposed to beat.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't ESPN tweet And coach doesn't coach anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So there's so much.
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  Speaker 1: Now media wise that's ridiculous, dude.
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  Speaker 2: So it just it makes you smile. As the Carolina
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  Speaker 2: f and you all still hate the fact that we
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  Speaker 2: knocked your got your guy out in the biggest game
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  Speaker 2: in our rivalry history. Like, even if Caroline never beats
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  Speaker 2: you for the next twenty years, we still got the
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  Speaker 2: final for one on you you know.
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  Speaker 1: A long time my friend. But yeah, that was bullshit.
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  Speaker 2: But how do you you can't avantage at Carolina win
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  Speaker 2: for Coach K when Caleb Love was playing for Arizona
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  Speaker 2: and Caleb Love was the high scoring player in the
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  Speaker 2: Duke Arizona game, So you didn't even have a bad game.
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  Speaker 2: But I digress, and then you know they now Duke.
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  Speaker 2: The Duke University had to send out an email because
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: there's there was a scene in the New White Lotus
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  Speaker 2: season on HBO where a guy was like having like
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: a dream about committe and suicide and he had Duke
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: code on. They're like, they we didn't give the permission
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  Speaker 2: to wear our university's hoodie and this portrays them bad way.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: It's like, man, Duke fans has always been plaining about something.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: I'll say that it's never easy to be a do fan.
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  Speaker 2: There's always something going on. But anyways, the funny part
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  Speaker 2: about that, Chris is the fact that I was laughing
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  Speaker 2: about Coach K and Caleb Love I love that man,
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  Speaker 2: but I can't really take shots to Cooper flag the
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: dude he's got just I hope I can't let my
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: friends know what I'm saying this, But the dude's got
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  Speaker 2: a nice, nice three point shot, I will say when
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  Speaker 2: he when he does decide to drive for the ring,
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  Speaker 2: he just you can tell he's kind of He has
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  Speaker 2: that fifth glass pick to his game. You know a
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: lot of guys in college who maybe you are like
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: good scores, don't have the physical part. He he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: go up soft. He's got He makes his lamps when
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: he tries to attack, and that uh uh uh gotta
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: duck got uh their their center is good. Ohukpuk. Sorry,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: I get that, Canimple and got it. I get the
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: man's confused, but canip I was actually I was making
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  Speaker 2: fun of the dude because I don't think he's that good
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  Speaker 2: for my basketball coach at at school. He's like, dude,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: you don't like that knicle and like Canimple, whoever he had, No,
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  Speaker 2: he ain't that good, you know, So I I've screwed
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  Speaker 2: up all the days. I don't care, but Duke has
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  Speaker 2: a good starting five. They they and he said they
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  Speaker 2: got a little depth to so they hey, Arizona, man,
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  Speaker 2: work for it. But now, as you said, to get
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  Speaker 2: to the point of coach cal Man. And actually when
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  Speaker 2: I speaking to my friend, his take was he thought
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  Speaker 2: that with a couple of times there when Arkansas could
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  Speaker 2: have won the game instead of drawn to play, kind
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: of like became that hero ball. Yeah, kind of like hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's say, hey, yeah, give the ball to
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Wagner and see you can get the job done. And
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: not that that doesn't work all the time either, because
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: there are times in college basketball or even pro basketball,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: say give your ball to your best player and let
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: him go. H Wagner had a little bit an off game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he only had thirteen points a day. Well
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  Speaker 2: John L. Davis had thirty and knocks at twenty. But
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  Speaker 2: that's one of those things where, hey, maybe in a
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  Speaker 2: different game, Wagner does it the game when he's shot,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But so, you know, do you drop a
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  Speaker 2: play because sometimes you when you drop plays in college basketball,
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  Speaker 2: then you know the defensive set and then they they
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  Speaker 2: have time to react. Sometimes it's better to let your
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: players just go give it a shot, you know. So
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  Speaker 2: you can always go back and forth on that but
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  Speaker 2: obviously for a razorback fan, uh fan, base man, that
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  Speaker 2: is a tough one. When you're up X amount of
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  Speaker 2: points with ten minutes to go or four minutes to go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you expect them to pull that one home
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  Speaker 2: and take it for a win. Uh. To give him credit, dude,
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  Speaker 2: you were one in five in conference and you almost
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  Speaker 2: made the Sweet sixteen. So the things you're looking up
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  Speaker 2: for Arkansas, you know, cal Party, he started off the
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: year a little bit sluggish. Like I said, he in
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  Speaker 2: his mind he had to get his guys in a
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  Speaker 2: different mental wavelength, and he did that and went further
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  Speaker 2: than most people expected they would for a team that
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: was one of the last like probably last ten in Uh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but you're right that that was you said. That was
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  Speaker 2: probably the definitely the the best game of the past
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  Speaker 2: four days, my friend, maybe the most entertaining. Though from
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: a over perspective, were just simply watching people, Chuck Man
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: and all a minute. I was wrong. I thought that
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: b Yu was gonna score a lot of points and
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: sold his ban, but I thought by it was just
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: a little more fundamental. H. Whether the fundamental or not,
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  Speaker 2: you do well when you shoot fifty one threes and
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  Speaker 2: you hit twenty five. Good luck being that team? Holy shit?
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  Speaker 2: What what attract me?
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  Speaker 1: Like, it doesn't matter if the NBA, if it's h
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  Speaker 1: Olympic basketball, you know whatever. Whenever that happens, you're done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think in the first minute of the game
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  Speaker 2: it was like three to zero. It's like for the
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  Speaker 2: first ninety seconds it was kind of slow, and after
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: that it was just you shoot three, you will shoot three.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: You get end one, we'll get end one. You make layup,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I'll make a layup. That was fun. That wasn't as
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: good of a game as Arkansas Texas Tech from a
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: pure standpoint, absolutely not. But if you just enjoy watching
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: guys just run up in bus threes, that was your
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: game to watch. I mean, the YU dropped eighty eight points,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: which is remarkable, and they had nowhere of a chance
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to win that game, and it's like they weren't trying,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Like BYU's defense. I'm not saying to lead, but it's
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: not like complete garbage and trash, Like they're not like
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: out of the top one hundred. But Bama was on
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: a heater that night. They scored fifty one the first half.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: They dropped the sixty two piece in the second half
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: of twenty five threes, so there.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Was lots of crazy. Man, you put up fifty one
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: in the first half. You're like, you know what, I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: think we're gonna go more thin, gret You're gonna do
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: a little bit more.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: But will we see Bama back here next year? Because
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: their coach is dipping out reports They says he does
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: like dealing with all the nil dramas. So Natos is
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: apparently going to be heading to Maryland because the nil
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: dramas bother him and dude's gonna say goodbye to tuscal Lousa.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: So will they change your style? Who might be the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: next coach in Bama? Who knows? But I did see
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: that tweet today gained by ESPN. They've they've let the
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: duke drama go from coach k But hey, that dude's
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: a hell of a coach. If you're Maryland and he
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: goes there, that's a great addition for a team that
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: had a good run. Maybe the Maryland's gonna be a
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: little more uptemple up beat. We'll see, but that dude's
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: for all we can tell. And Bamy, you did a
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: hell of a job there. So if you're a Maryland
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: fan base, you're bringing in a pretty good guy.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: That's crazy because first of all, we know Bama's a
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: football school, but lately basketball has been on the fire.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Of course, yes, and they bring in you know, athletic
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: department wise, obviously they bring it. Yeah, they have more overhead,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: but they bring in more money than Maryland.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Obviously Maryland should be a basketball school.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Really, but if you're in the Big Ten, you know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and you get that big ass you know payment, even
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: though I don't know if they get the full payment
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: because they were late in the game when it came
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to going to the Big Ten. They've been in it
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: for a while now, but I don't think they get
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the full payment. But either way, they better get their
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: NLI deals up to par than if they're bringing that
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: dude in. Because remember the former or what it sounds like,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the former coach. He's going to go to Nova, right, Yes, yes,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: he was talking about how they couldn't stay an extra
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: night because of money and how it was a little
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: short changed. And yeah, that kind of surprised me, man,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: But you're right, I mean, that's that's a great If
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to lose a coach, that just got
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: you to the sweet sixteen to get him. That's impressive, man.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: So that's because they were pretty mad at him speaking out.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I know the fans are pretty mad at that coach,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: but you know, it is what it is. I'm sure
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: there might you know. The thing is, if you're great
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: at Maryland, there's a chance that you're gonna go to
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: a bigger program too, you know. So we'll see, We'll
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: see how that goes. Friday night, Michigan in Auburn and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Old Michigan State, they both got up forty nine to
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: thirty eight I think it was, or maybe it's forty
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: eight thirty nine.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: They both got up in those games and they ended
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: up not winning those games.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Now, obviously, you know, either nine or eleven that's not
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: a death since, especially you know, with plenty of time left.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: But the way Michigan was playing through about thirty minutes
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: of that game, I was like, whoa, this is not
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the team that we saw down the stretch. But Auburn
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: got their shit together and ended up winning it comfortably,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: whereas you know, Michigan State Old miss that was like
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a street fight. I was talking to some and I
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: work with who, you know, big Michigan State guy, and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: he's like, man, that was a street fight, man. And
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: but the thing is, if you're going to get into
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: a street fight, Michigan State is not a team he
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: necessarily want to go to the alley with because you know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: they're known for taking it, you know, taking it out
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: in the alley. But seventy three to seventy got the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: job done. Tennessee from the start just swarm Kentucky. They
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: couldn't really do much to hold them to sixty five,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and then to put up the points they I was
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: very impressed with that. And then that Purdue Houston game. Man,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was looking like Purdue was gonna pull
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: away it really, I mean it looked like it. They
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: were up by ten, they were up by ten. He
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: that point guard for Purdue had so many assists. It
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: just it wasn't looking good though. I got to admit,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: you know, it was like, wow, this is not going
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: good for them. It was fifty six to forty six
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: with a little under eight to play with it. Uzan
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Uzan was going crazy with a with a little under
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: eight minutes left on a ten point lead. He was
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: six to nine from three and the rest of the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: team was two of eleven, so he was really doing,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you know, doing some damage there. But Purdue gotta give
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: him credit. Man, they stayed in that game that Braden Smith.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Hopefully he comes back. They put up that you know,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the when it comes to points, assist and rebounds only
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: him and John Moran. We have this stat on there.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, it looked like Houston was
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: gonna pull away in another credit per Due, you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: got it down, tied it up, and they were.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Hitting big shot after big shot, getting good shots as well.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: And then you know, the old Vet, the old wise
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: man Samson, you know, came up with a play and
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: they went to the big in the lane. The big
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: toss it right back and it's just like it was
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: a heads up play. But it's got to hurt to
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: give up what turned into basically a layup in the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: last second.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Man, I agree, well, I'll start there and then I'll
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: wrap around the other ones. I actually yeah, I think
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: you gotta rip on Brad Smith a little bit though,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: because people keep saying it's a great play. I don't.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think Houston expected Braiden Smith to leave the
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: inbounder because that's one thing. One of my my, my
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: old basketball coach, uh when I had a couple of
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: years ago. She's like, the crazy you always gott to
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: look for the inbounder. I'm I'm based on our bound players.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: They call him like blops. She's like, that's the player
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: people always forget about. And if you watch the replay,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Braiden Smith is guarding the inbounder and then he for
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: some reason like he does kind of like a double
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: thing and goes to like leave and goes to cover
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: a guy like on the opposite three point corner. So
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: and then there's it's it just opens up like Pandora's box.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: So it's like, I don't, yes, they made a good play,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: but like I think for the.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Play because he was open, not necessarily what they were
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: planning to do.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I really don't think Alvin Sampson drew it
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: up because you probably didn't think that Braden Smith would
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: leave him, especially with only like two point eight or
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: three point eight seconds left. It was kind of like,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: oh nope, shit, dude, he's opening the ball. You know.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: So that was just one of me one of those
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: just mental lapses because you can never you always you
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: never want to leave the inbound or open, and he
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: was wide open, and to his credit, he made the layup.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Because we've seen lots of shots for Pro Work College
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: where dudes sometimes when you're super wide open, it's easier.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Just kind of I know that obviously, you guys make
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: playups a thousand times every year in their life, but
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: you can you can chunk that one a little bit
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: because he was wide open. I will say the one
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: different thing about Houston this year Chris in the last
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: couple of years, and who knows, maybe they could have
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: won the title last year if Shed doesn't rolls ankle
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: and get hurt first duke, you never know, but man,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: they can actually shoot the three ball this year. I
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: feel that in the past couple of years because he's
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: had a good ass team. I think he has the
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: most wins in the past four years across the whole
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: country of D one basketball.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: He's has score in general, whether it's three or not.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: But you're right, all three guards can.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Shoot, like yeah, which they normally didn't have. They normally
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: they had one or two good guards, but the three
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: ball was kind of like, yeah, dude, a little bit
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: at Green Grind. I remember when I went to watch
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: him play at Memphis and AAC tournament a couple of years go.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: It was like, dude, big dogs against big dogs, like
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: going down low. It's kind of like it's it's a
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: bar fight, like you were saying earlier about Sparky. But
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: this year, Houston they can obviously, you know, banging down low.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: But dude, if you give them the open look, they
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: hit threes. And that's what makes them even more difficult
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: to guard because either physical beat it, are not going
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: to take a defensive series off and see they can
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: hit threes on you say, they really are a well
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: rounded teams. So that was a great comeback by Purdue
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: U just and then obviously they're last time they're that's
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: tough way to go out. But hey, if you're Houston,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: hey you just you're battle tested, right, Yeah, I'm sure
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: there are still a lot all those guys who were
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: on the team last year. It was just one of
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: those motivational things like I was telling my my softball
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: girls state, you know, because we lost our arrival this week.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I was like, you know, Vilage, the games got to
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: motivate you to focus, and you see they happen so
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: many times Chris in college basketball, where a team expected
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to be a national title contender who loses time in
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: a heartbreaking way the year prior goes on a deep run,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: whether it was like the Virginia thing, are for the
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: sixteen seed or the Purdue you know, or it could
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: even be Uson like they had to be just heartbroken
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: last year from that injury to sheet. So you know,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: for them to be in the final four of this year, now,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: it's not surprising. And sometimes it does take that h
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: so close. Yet, dude, Hey, every day tap the sign
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: of the locker and says we're gonna get We're gonna
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: get our asses back there, like we we got unfinished
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: business kind of mindset. And I usually think that could
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: have been a motivational factor for Houston all year was dude,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: we could have won it last year, didn't happen. Let's
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: do it this year, you know kind of thing. That's
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: the way that team's built. H Like you said, for Auburn,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: they took care of business again, much like the night
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: before in Florida. Hey, you were only up to one
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: and a half time against Michigan, but then the second
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: half you beat them by twelve. For Michigan, man, what
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: a weird year. You start off, to make sense, super hot,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: you go through a really cold funk where I bet
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: against you, they were in a huge downfall, and then
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: you win good games in the Big ten tournament and
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: then you and then you get hot again. Like so
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: it's like, what what was your team really like? You
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: were super hot, win close games, got cold, got hot again.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Great first year though for the coach.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you'd assume I don't know, I don't know
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: who's coming back or not. But if you got those
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: two bigs, then you get a little bit of guard
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: help with them. That could be a dangerous team.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And I'll for that eighteen to two run that killed them.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Uh started out as like maybe like an eight to
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: zero run and they got down by one, Auburn dead,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: but it turned into after a three and they got
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the lead fifty seven to fifty. It was an eighteen
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to two run.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Man, Jesus, those are yeah, And I will say, man,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I was really impressed without Kentucky played in the opening
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: weekend of the tournament because I thought their defense was
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: locked in. They were, they were sharing the ball pretty well.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: So for them to let Tennessee drop a forty three
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: piece sign, you get down fifteen early. Man like that
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: that just that box score threw me for a loop. Chris, Uh,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: But you know they say that, well, it's hard to
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: beat beat a team three teams, or it's hard to
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: beat a team three times for one year. But I
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: did hear on that Vegas vs. Channel that a team
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: who's got two to zero versus team trying to go
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: three zero still wins like sixty five percent of the time.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: So obviously, if you're good enough times you can beat
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: him three, you know. So it's not it, you know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: because that is one of those cliches. Well, they beat
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: us twice this year, but they can't beat a three times. Well,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: in theory, you know, you're probably the better team if
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: you won the first two matchups, you know. And I
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: think I think they said that sixty two or sixty
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: three percent of the time, the team that won the
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: first two wins the third one. From moneyline standpoint, but hey,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: it was Tennessee's day. They dropped forty three, they're up fifteen,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: and obviously, with the way Tennessee plays defense, if you're
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: down fifteen to them, you're probab not coming back. So
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: kind of a little bit of a rough way. But
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I'm sure Chris, if you you're a Kentucky fan, you
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: went a little deeper than you had with Cal in
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: the past couple of years anyways, So that'd be pretty
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: happy with Mark Pope. I think the guy seemed to
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: do a pretty good job there. Seems to be a
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: pretty likable guy. So if you're a Kentucky fan base,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I'm sure they always expect to say they want a
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: national title, but this was I think the furthest they've
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: been in five years, So that'd be probably pretty happy
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: that outcoming for Tennessee. Hey, it's also the furthest they've
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: made it in the past. Yeah, past half flur of
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: years two.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, legally, but yeah, no, yeah, I think you're right.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: We'll see. You know, Kentucky at times that has a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: little bit of the Ohio State football fan base going on,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you know where you're like, yeah, because it was a
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: decade like Cal Perry not only won a chip, but
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: he went to four four final fours in like nine years,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: you know, so that's pretty good, you know what I mean? Yeah,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: but I understand that, you know, you have high expectations
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and the difference is, you know, a house state just
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to relate it. They were losing to the national champion,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: you know, and they were going far and all that,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: rather than Kentucky had fallen off. It's funny because as
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: soon as Cali PARTI listened to the fan base into
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the media and be like, hey man, you gotta have
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: vets Bro then all of a sudden their teams didn't
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: do as good, you know, you know, at the end
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: of the season anyway, like in the tournament. Although during
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the season you thought, oh man, they do have veterans
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: now and there was like two different teams that you
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and I were really high on and and then but
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: yet they didn't go nearly as far, you know, and
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: they get beat early sometimes. So it is kind of funny.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: When he was doing it his way, they were going now.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Granted a lot of times besides that that year where
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: they won it, and then they had that under feeded
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: season until the end. A lot of those times they
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: got better as the year went on and they peaked
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: at the right time, whereas they peaked in those other
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the last five years. It seems like since basically what
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, I think they weren't peak. They were peaking
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: during the season and not at the right time. So yeah,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I think that, you know, he definitely gets how wild
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: it is there and how crazy their fan base is,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and you know, at times it could be crazy, like really, dude,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: but at times it's crazy good though, you know. So
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: he embraces that, knowing what he signed up for and
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you know, it is what it is moving a Saturday,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you know, coming off that display with Bama, he knew
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: they weren't going to make another twenty plus threes, but
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to do what they did and put up all those
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: points really throughout the years and really these last few years,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: they've been an offensive juggernaut. I mean that really puts
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: it in perspective of what Duke did to them. And
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: we saw Seers go off. He was having problems, you know.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: It was it was a domination to hold that offensive
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: juggernaut to sixty five points and to be like, yeah,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: we're still gonna put up eighty five though, and really
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the star player didn't have a crazy game, you know,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: that was that was really impressive to me. But obviously
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: here's another solid ass game, Texas Tech Florida. You know
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: that this was Florida had a little lead at half,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I think just by a few points. They started to
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: kind of looked like they were gonna start to put
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: some some points together early in that second half and
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: maybe stretch it to ten or whatever, but it just
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: they got open shots and all that, but they weren't
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: able to do it. And next thing, you know, Texas
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Tech takes over the lead and they're cruising like it
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: not cruising like they took you know, they were way up,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: but it was pretty much tied or close for quite
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: some time. And you know, to credit Florida, they hung
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: in there. I mean, it was let's see the ten
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: minute markets fifty nine to fifty five after a jumper
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: by Texas Tech, and they ended up stretching it to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: ten points. And when it was sixty seven to fifty
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: seven after a dunk, I was like, wow, dude, like
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and m man. Now, all of a sudden, you know,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Arkansas was looking like, Wow, maybe we're not as upset
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: as we thought we were, because this team, Holy crap,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: this team's going off. And they even got up seventy
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: three to sixty four, seventy five, sixty six, still matching
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: buckets with you know a little over three minutes to play,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: and then that was it. That Clayton Junior went off,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: was hitting big, big shots and they made their free
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: throws down the stretch. I mean, wow, I was I
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: was surprised, but that Walton Clayton junior man, Holy cow,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: he saved the day down the stretch. Uh.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Two things. One, this whole year I was talking about
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: teams I want to bet to win their region, and
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: the whole year I saw about Texas Tech. God, I'm
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: happy I didn't bet them to win their region. Is
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: I think they were like seven or eight to one.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I would have freaking slammed the shit out of something that.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: That would have been a rough last four minutes.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Yes. But Two, I did bet them live during the
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: game plus three and a half and literally just I
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: bet I made the bed halftime because I was like, seriously,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: like it would to kind of just be the better team.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: And I know they were down three, but I was like,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: you know, they're they're playing pretty good ball, and I
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: just Florida just to me, you know, I know they're down,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: but anyway, that should be a safe bet. I think
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: they're gonna hang in there. And they literally covered the
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: plus three and a half until about there were thirty
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: seconds to go, when that Clayton did his He got
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: a rebound and dribbled the ball backwards, which is about
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: as unconventional as you can get, really, and.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: He did that twice in the last three minutes.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: And he dribbled the ball. He was probably five ft
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: from the who dribbled to the three point line, turned
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: around and chucked up a shot, which is very hard
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: to do as well, and busted it. So yeah, that
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: was man. If you're a Texas Tech fan, just like
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Calipari had, it's up one to swallow. If you're a
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Red Raiders fan, you gotta be just as frustrated as
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Hawk's Nation was because that was the game. Y'all had one,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: you're up ten. But again, I'm pretty sure they missed
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: the front end of a one and one when they
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: were up six, and I think also up six again.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: But dude, he gotta make your free throws because of
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: course they missed those two front end of one in ones,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: which is hard to say in a sentence, and Florida
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: goes down his shots. So or whether it's eight to
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: six or six and four, whatever your lead was, if
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: you make one or two of those free throws, now
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: it becomes a three possession. Gameste have a two possession
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: game with the amount of time they had left, you
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: probably win that game. Uh But as we've said every year,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: you know college chock call what you want this year.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: That's one part that never lies. Teams that make their
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: free throw is gonna normally win the games. And if
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Texas Tech makes again, if they make two out of
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: four or even one out of four, they they probably
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: could have won, but they missed too many. Florida didn't.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: And uh hey, if you're Florida, you had a heart attack.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: With Yukon, you had a heart attack. To Texas Tech,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: you're hanging on there, you really are. You're making your
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: fan base sweat quite a bit. But you're final ways
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: to win games. Not the prettiest. But at this point, Chris,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I guess it really doesn't matter. And I've I've said
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: too much nice duke stuff lately. Uh but Bamabama got
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: shut down. I'll try to avoid using the word duke.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Uh hey, Bama for a team that scored a buck
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: thirteen the previous two nights ago, Yes, uh hey, and
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: they they did try to play their game. They did
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: in the first half, the first half half moments for
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: it was close, ye, but Duke hit a couple of
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: They hit a couple of shots going into half to
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: make it like a six point lead went to an
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: eleven or nine or whatever. They kind of had a
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: little bit of swagger going into halftime, which was nice
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: for them. Uh and Bamma just couldn't He just couldn
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: quite the rhythm going. But to Duke's credit, Uh, they're
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: a really good defense. God, I hate saying good stuff
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: about them, but I to you for the show. Cooper
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Flag is not the hateable guy like j. J. Riddick was,
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: or like Laighton or whoa Joe like or Kyle Singler.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: There's something normally like the best Duke players are kind
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: of villains. Cooper Flag like, he's kind of just goes
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: out there and plays basketball. Like I'm never gonna become
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: a Duke fan ever, but on my list of the
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Duke players that drive me crazy, he's pretty far down
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: the list because he kind of just stays to himself
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: and ain't taunting the crowds and talking masks. He just
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: kind of goes up there and plays basketball. So it's
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: kind of like Grant Hill, Yeah, yeah.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Hill, because he was one of those guys that wasn't
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: hated for being a duke player, and once he got
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: out of Duke, nobody even gave a shit about that.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: You know, yeah, yeah, so but hey, this team plays defense.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Because they did it, bamb would score more than sixty five,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: So halfs off to them. They put on a hell
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: of a show. And obviously they did their SKYT report. Dude,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: they dropped a buck thirteen. Oh we'll hold them sixty five? Like,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: wait what? And normally in college basketball you always score
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: in theory, you always score more points in the second
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: half in the first half. They scored twenty eight points
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: in the second half of that game with their season
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: on the line. So that's that. That is a nice
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: job done by that school. I will not name anymore
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: because I've said more nice stuff about them in the
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: past weeks. I've said in the last seven years of
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: this show, so I need to put myself in checksure.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say since the beginning of this show,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: even longer than seven years. Let's go to Sunday, and
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: it was kind of a little scrap going on with
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Michigan State at Auburn. Early not much happening, but by
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: the twelve minute mark, of that first half, Auburn went
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: on a twelve oher run in Michigan State, you know,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: kept it within like nine points. They were only shooting
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: twenty seven percent from the field compared to forty four
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: at half. Points in the paint was a big deal.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Bench points were a big deal, and Broom came through
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: twenty five points, fourteen boards, ten to thirteen shooting for
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: a big I think it was his third or fourth
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: double double. They are starting to look like the team
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: before the losing three out of four down the stretch.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: It was impressive. I liked what I saw it was.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, the two things that could have happened to
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: the big man though on that one fall where you saw,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: you know, what appeared to be a knee or something
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: where it or an ankle or whatever. It looked like
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: it may have hyper extended. And then the elbow too,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and it turned out to be the elbow kind of
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: hurt more. But that hyper extended on one.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: Play that could have really changed not just that game,
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: but the season moving forward.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Not to have you know, that caliber of player, but
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Auburn is starting to look That
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: was kind of their most complete effort. It kind of
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: got me thinking back to win. You know that before
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: that losing three out of four stretch where it looked
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: like resume wise, obviously you can't touch them, but for
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: so long they look it would look like them and
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Duke were starting to separate till the end of the season.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: But man, Michigan State battled, but they just didn't have
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: enough and he was just so productive, like just give
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: him the ball, whether he's going to pass it or
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: score it. It was solid. Man. They took care of
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: business and took out Izzo from a final four, which
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: you assume, you know, hate to say it, but this
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: might be his best chance.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: It's tough to say that because if you look at
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: the top four seeds, you could also say this is
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: probably the best four seeds we've had a long ass time.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: So maybe it wasn't his best opportunity. But I did
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: want to see Iso make it to another final four
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: before he hangs it up. But credit to Auburn for
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: that win.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. I was really impressed with the way
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: they played defense because watch him. Probably I don't know
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: about seven or eight sparty games the second half of
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: the season. Uh, they moved the ball really well. They
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: only get open threes. Like their offense, they got nothing
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: easy like they that Jace Peterson or Richardson Peterson, like
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: they just they penetrate well, they drive well, they kick well.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: They have kind of just like a well oil machine.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: They're kind of an unselfish team. But in the first half,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: like nothing came simple for them at all. Yeah, it
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: was like damn like Auburn, like your defenses, Wow, you
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: turned it up. And I know I've joked around this
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: year about how I think sometimes like Bruin is not
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: a good basketball player, because I did watch him play,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: like when he had like four games where he looked
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: pretty bad.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: But in the middle school layup, you were calling him.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Yep, yep, but hey, he shut me up.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: He uh, he was untouchable. It was like, it's not
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: like there's no bigs in the Big Ten, like, but dude,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: he was making Michigan State's bigs look bad. I will
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: make one note though, and speaking of my JV basketball girls,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: like the one thing I'll say about Aubyn and scared
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: me was, man, I don't think Bruce Pearl's got over
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: a press break because even in my years Chris the
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: coaching girls basketball, the one thing you tell your kids
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: not to do you're trying to break the press is
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: you don't want to like run to the corner or
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: run where they just like hand you the ball. Like
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: when Sparty press at the end, Auburn literally almost ran
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: to the ball or ran to the corner. And that
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: game was a twelve point game which got down to
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: four because when when Sparty did a full court press,
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Auburn was shook. I know they won.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not changing that good point, though you're right about that.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Their press break was bad. Like so again I'm not
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: saying I don't know. I don't know what Florida's gonna do,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: but if I'm Florida, I might watch a little bit
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: of film on that, because Auburn has great guards. That's
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: not deniable. But their press break was like, uh, dude,
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: you run over here, Okay, we go passing the ball.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Oh shit, I'm double uh. I mean they had like
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: three turnovers and they had two passes that should have turnovers,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: So you almost had five turnovers in the last two minutes.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: That is not good.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: And obviously, if Florida watch that, I'd be like, okay, dude,
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: like maybe if Florida gets down early or something.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: But I was just springing on him a couple of
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: times during the game.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And obviously I know Bruce Pearls a much.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Better coach than yeah, and they're gonna have five days
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: now too, but still, yeah.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: But that was definitely You're like, uh, they got to
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: work on that because that was scary. They almost tough
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: that game up. They were up too a little too big,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: but that was not what you're supposed to do to
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: against the press breaks. That kind of just made me
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: shake my head a little bit. And for Houston, Matt
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: so I did. I did bet Tennessee like plus twelve
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: and a half.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: So it more though because this you said plus twelve.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Twelve, twelve and a half, like fifteen minutes to go.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you. Because there's
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: so much Kentucky win. Dude. I was getting nervous being
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: that I picked Houston because Man, Tennessee looked good in
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: that game.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Well, and I'm so used to and even with Michigan
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: State Auburn, you know, even if you don't win, you
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: only have that comeback. Here's what really infin impressment of Houston. So, yeah,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: I Tennessee was down fourteen points in like fifteen minutes ago,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: and like, okay, you know, so I took Tennessee plus
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: twelve and a half. I was kinda surprising. Well, dude,
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: they're you know, Tennessee will for sure make a little
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: bit of a run just to keep it a little
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: bit closer, right, But.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: They cut into like nine or something that was nine.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: They missed a point blake layup, and then Houston just
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: came right back to them. But to give Houston credit there, dude,
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: they literally did not take a possession off. Every time
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Tennessee made a bucket, Houston came back to said screen,
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: we're gonna bust the three on you. And every time
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Tennessee did press and Houston had open three, they that
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: shit Like it it could have been easy for Houston to,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: you know, take the front of the gas a little bit,
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: kind of like did vers Purdue. But dude, you won
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: by nineteen. Like there was no wayte of possessions. They
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: did not miss an open three. Like this team is
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: on a war path. And I know, like I'm being
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: biased that I probably want them to be duke, and
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: I'm more of a Houston guy than he and the
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: team has left for Mami. But so many times in basketball,
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: it's easy to take your front the gas when you're
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: up nineteen and let let the team come back in
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: the game. They really didn't, and that's rare to see.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: So I just I really thought that was gonna be
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: a safe bet, and they won by nineteen. Instead, they're
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: up fourteen, they've finished by nineteen. So Kelvin Sampson's got
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: those boys focused. And like I said, they hit the
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: open threes. Tennessee did try to press, like Michigan stated Auburn,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: but when you double team a guy and you leave
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: a guy wide open for three, they had at least
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: four threes where it was a double team, let to
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: an open. Do the open dude did miss, So hats
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: off to them. That was a really good win, especial
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: like you said, Chris, after Tennessee looks so dominant against
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: the Cats.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: So dominant, I mean, I was like, Wow, this is
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: gonna be a hell of a matchup, man. I was.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I was, I was shaking in my boots a little bit,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: and I have I took a future when when Houston
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: was uh plus six fifteen to win the chip.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, so I was like, hold on now.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: But in that game, like they it was fifteen to four.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Like it was a slow start. By the eleven thirty mark,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: they had missed straight seven straight field goals, and it
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: was fifteen to four. And there was a moment near
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: the end of it that first half thirty four to
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: fifteen and at half thirty four to fifteen, I mean
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: thirty four to fifteen. We know Tennessee is not a
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: juggernaut when it comes to offense. And like you said,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Houston has improved their offense this year. Usually they are.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: That would have been like a twenty twenty something game there,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: and I mean the score not the year, but twenty
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: one percent from the field compared to forty two. And
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: you know, Houston wasn't even liking it up from three.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: There were only three of ten. I don't know what
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: they finished, but one of fifteen. First of all, you're
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: taking fifteen shots from three, which isn't great. I think
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: they took eighteen total in the game before seventeen, so
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: that that was crazy. And that was the largest deficit
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: they had been down for the whole season. The bench
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: was coming in. Yeah, the bench was coming in for
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Houston because you know, both their bigs got into little
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: fall problems. But that when you have solid biggs, one
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: that can score, and they're both good defensively. Obviously they
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: have the best defense. Them and Duke are the best defense.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: And I think you could throw Auburn in there too.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Florida's no slouch, but Houston's to me the best defensive team.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: But when you have three guards, it's starting to remind
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: me minorly of that Baylor team. And you know, Crier
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: was on that. L. J. Cryer was on that team
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: when they won the Chip three years ago, and I
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: remember saying they had like, what was it, six players
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: of thirty seven percent up from three or something like that.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: But when you have three guys that can shoot forty
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: two or forty three percent from the three, they can
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: fall in like it doesn't really matter which one goes off.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Because you saw the game before. Cryer had a horrible game.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah he had good assists, but overall he just couldn't
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: he couldn't knock him down. He hit a big shot
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: down the stretch of that game and Purdue, but he
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: had a rough game, and that was something else Man
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: and they didn't like to play that team, Marshall, that's
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: great at defense like Tennessee is too. To only have
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: they had their second turnover under ten minutes to play
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: in the game in their so it was like a
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: thirteen minute game stretch from their first turnover. I mean,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: talk about having guards, you know what I mean? Like that,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: that really that it seems like to me. I don't
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: want to jinx it, but it does seem like to
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: me that Houston is starting to peak at the right time.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: And that's saying something because I mean they lost what
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: that one game in overtime or double overtime the Texas Texas, yep,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: and then they just went nuts to rest the way
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: And yeah, that that really said something. So for the
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: first time, this is Evan Abrams on Twitter. For the
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  Speaker 1: first time in history. The Favorites went twelve to o
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  Speaker 1: in the Sweet sixteen and Elite eight, so well, the
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  Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen Sweet or Elite eight faves parlay would have
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  Speaker 1: been forty four to one odds if you you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you combine it all obviously with the parlay, but overall,
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  Speaker 1: Favorites have won fourteen straight tournament games outright and in
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  Speaker 1: the round of sixty four through Elite eight, the Dogs
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  Speaker 1: have won twelve total games. It's tied for the fewest
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  Speaker 1: ever since you know, seventy five or whenever they changed it.
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  Speaker 1: But here's something interesting about the Sweet sixteen Elite eight
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  Speaker 1: from David Warlock. The average scoring margin in the second
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  Speaker 1: round Sweet sixteen and Elite eight was ten points ten
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  Speaker 1: point four, which is the lowest since twenty twelve. It
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  Speaker 1: is the seventh lowest this century. So on one hand,
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  Speaker 1: you go, huh, it looks like they're all blowouts, But
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  Speaker 1: then we kind of forget about some of the blowouts
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  Speaker 1: we get, and a lot of that is those seeds,
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  Speaker 1: you know, those high seeds that just get off the court.
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  Speaker 4: Just randomly after they pulled off that the crazy Cinderella
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  Speaker 4: story type thing.
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  Speaker 1: But Sampson now Calvin Sampson last six tourneys, six Sweet
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  Speaker 1: sixteens in Elite eight and two final fours, Like I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like he's made Threeswich sixteens. That's how far they went,
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  Speaker 1: and then Elite eight now two final fours. But obviously
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  Speaker 1: if she'd I still think they'd have. I picked them
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  Speaker 1: last year, so I'm biased, but I still think they
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  Speaker 1: win last year. If they had you know, their their
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  Speaker 1: their number one player. But yeah, last year was that
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  Speaker 1: all number one seeds made it as we kind of
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  Speaker 1: progress to the preview in the final four in the
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  Speaker 1: in the final game Kansas, Memphis, UCLA and UNC two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and eight was the last time and only the
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  Speaker 1: second time since they expanded the tournament that we had
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  Speaker 1: all number one seeds.
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  Speaker 2: Man, So.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we got here. It hasn't been, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a top five tournament of all time or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: There's been some damn good games. We've gotten some buzzer beaters,
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  Speaker 1: but here we are man all one seeds, and like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I know it takes some of the fun
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  Speaker 1: out of it. But when you give all number one
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  Speaker 1: seeds five days to rest practice and you know in
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  Speaker 1: game plan, I have a hard time believing that we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have some kind of big blowout. For the last
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  Speaker 1: three games. Let's start with Auburn and Florida, which we know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we know this was in Auburn and Florida
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  Speaker 1: played one of their best you know, I think Auburn
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  Speaker 1: had won fourteen in a row and Florida jumped out
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  Speaker 1: on him. Crazy. Now, credit to Auburn for making it respectable.
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  Speaker 1: Even at half you're down by ten. But the problem
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  Speaker 1: was it was forty eight to thirty eight, down by ten,
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  Speaker 1: so you gave up forty eight points. And credit to
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  Speaker 1: Florida to keep the pressure going because they put up
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  Speaker 1: forty two in the second half. Auburn put up forty three. So,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, they made it respectable. But when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the box score you watched that game, it
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  Speaker 1: was the physicality. Uh, it was just the physical play
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  Speaker 1: of Florida and they're multiple bigs. Obviously, we know they
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  Speaker 1: got the guards and they're a deep, deep team. But Auburn,
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  Speaker 1: you know, plenty deep as well. But there isn't a
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  Speaker 1: huge difference, you know. I'd say the biggest difference was
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  Speaker 1: the three point a little bit seven to thirteen, but
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  Speaker 1: that's not crazy. Auburn shot forty three percent from the
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  Speaker 1: field to forty eight for Florida, so that that's a difference.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the free throws though, fourteen of twenty three
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  Speaker 1: for sixty one percent compared to fifteen and eighteen, so
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  Speaker 1: Auburn had more a sense but didn't have more makes.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna have to tighten up as well. But it
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  Speaker 1: just seemed like Florida had such a hot start. There
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  Speaker 1: was really nothing that that they could do to get
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  Speaker 1: back in that game. Like I said, they made it respectable,
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  Speaker 1: but that's all they did. Otherwise, Florida really handled them. Man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was probably what I would say was maybe
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  Speaker 2: the best win of the year. Yeah, because it was
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  Speaker 2: overall yeah, overall yeah. Yeah, because it's super hard to
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  Speaker 2: win on the road in college basketball, and Auburn had
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  Speaker 2: a loss of home game all year Flota when they
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  Speaker 2: were kind of waxed. I don't think that score ever
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  Speaker 2: got under seven points in the second half, which again
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  Speaker 2: is very impressive. So I do think that is worth considering.
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  Speaker 2: But just to kind of contradict myself, I do think
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  Speaker 2: that that is worth considering. But also I think that
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  Speaker 2: Auburt's been playing better basketball in the tournament. Uh, they've
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  Speaker 2: not had quite as many hiccups where Yukon easily could
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  Speaker 2: have beat Florida.
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  Speaker 1: But they had they had a legitimately the whole game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And also Florida this past weekend, it wasn't pretty
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  Speaker 2: like you know that they won, but it's like man
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  Speaker 2: if if if Walker, you know, if that dude doesn't
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  Speaker 2: his like crazy step back threes. It's like, ah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't I saw, I don't know, they're I just
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I Florida went there and beat him,
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  Speaker 2: so they're obviously they can do it again. But I
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  Speaker 2: just think Auburn's had more of a groove lately. So
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  Speaker 2: Vegas agrees with what happened in the regular season, though
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  Speaker 2: they're they're giving Florida the two and a half point
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  Speaker 2: favorite would obviously in basketball is not much cause that's
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  Speaker 2: a three pointer here or there. With the over ender
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  Speaker 2: of one sixty, it's SI expect to be kind of
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  Speaker 2: a higher scoring game, which would be fun. Uh, But
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take Auburn. I think they just have been
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  Speaker 2: playing better ball. I think they got the more experienced
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  Speaker 2: coach and I yeah, I'm just it's gonna be close,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm taking man, and if they lose, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: gonna be like, damn, I should We're with my gut
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  Speaker 2: earlier from the the way they won, But yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna take the Tigers. I just think that they've been
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  Speaker 2: playing a little bit better ball and the way Brew's playing, man,
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  Speaker 2: if he Florida's got a lot of bigs, but like
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  Speaker 2: they're they kind of I think they're more of almost
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  Speaker 2: like a running gun kind of up temple team. Someone's
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to answer to Broop because if he gets
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  Speaker 2: down low and he kind of attacks it like he
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  Speaker 2: did Verse, Sparty have to answer. And I will say
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  Speaker 2: if if Auburn does have Feedbrew the ball, he Auburn's
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  Speaker 2: got three point shooters as well. They got they got
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  Speaker 2: guys in launching from So if you're gonna cover your
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  Speaker 2: big you know he's gonna be able to kick it out.
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  Speaker 2: He needs to. I just I don't know. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just skinded. I'm not gonna beat myself anymore. But I'll
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  Speaker 2: take the Tigers just because I think their momentum is
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  Speaker 2: a little bit smoother of late Chris.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Auburn has played all of the Final four
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  Speaker 1: teams and I heard that today on a podcast and
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering, when was the last time, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was when like the Big East, the Big ten
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  Speaker 1: or or somebody had three out of the four in
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  Speaker 1: the Final four, whereas obviously we have two SEC teams
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  Speaker 1: and ACC team in a Big twelve. But they've played
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  Speaker 1: all three and they're one and two. Right, But I
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  Speaker 1: think you know the one was obviously the one loss
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  Speaker 1: was at home, and we just went over it. They
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  Speaker 1: lost to Duke. I believe it was at Duke if
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  Speaker 1: I remember correctly.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a motivation little standpoint where obviously the the
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  Speaker 1: other two are long or far away, and you can
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  Speaker 1: even make an argument that that that Florida lost. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's been quite a while now since that so and
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  Speaker 1: it's almost like going through that hump of losing three
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  Speaker 1: out of four. You know, we heard the stat that
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  Speaker 1: no other team has ever won a championship if they've
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  Speaker 1: finished the regular season losing three out of four, and
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  Speaker 1: that's something to be said. But I'm with you. Like
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  Speaker 1: Florida's deep. I thought Michigan State and Florida were the
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  Speaker 1: deepest teams, but Auburn's deep too, and they can bring
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  Speaker 1: it that way, and so.
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  Speaker 2: I'm right there with you.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that they've been they've kind of got
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  Speaker 1: their stuff together. And when you have like the motivational
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  Speaker 1: piece to say that you lost it, you know you
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  Speaker 1: lost this team, so you can improve. And I like
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  Speaker 1: those two bigs that they have for Florida, But I
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  Speaker 1: do think they're just kind of, like you said, running gum,
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  Speaker 1: but they're kind of defensive, rebound type guys. They don't
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  Speaker 1: bring a whole lot to the offensive side. They do
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  Speaker 1: here and there, but overall, I think that if Brooming
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  Speaker 1: Company can get them into fall problems because you know,
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  Speaker 1: two games ago, it looked like that one of the
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  Speaker 1: probably the best being was hurt with that ankle, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought, oh boy, if they're gonna lose him, that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be tough. But yeah, it looked pretty bad, but
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  Speaker 1: it was nice to see him come back in that
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  Speaker 1: game and overall finish the thing. And obviously we do
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  Speaker 1: have to, like speaking of big an injury, we got
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: to make sure that elbows okay, because sure it did
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  Speaker 1: look pretty bad and I'm sure he's gonna be sore,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, they they went right to the locker
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  Speaker 1: room and extra race Extra Rayce came back negative, so
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't really a full on hypertension. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: he has that shoulder from earlier where he partially dislocated it,
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  Speaker 1: so there is some worry there, but that's just that
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  Speaker 1: dude's been so rock solid. So I'm right there with you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick Auburn the fact that they went one
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  Speaker 1: and two against these three teams, but two of them
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  Speaker 1: were way early in the season. I think one was
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  Speaker 1: like the second game of the season. So I just
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  Speaker 1: think that, you know, the the more experienced coach, these players.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these players for Auburn are not from
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  Speaker 1: big schools. You know, they're from small schools. One dude's
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  Speaker 1: a Juco, one dude's of d two Like, I just
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  Speaker 1: think they've come together. They had the hardest schedule by
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say by a long shot, but they
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  Speaker 1: really did. We know, Bama down the stretch was nuts
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  Speaker 1: of the season, and I give respect, but Auburn overall
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  Speaker 1: played the best schedule in the best league. And so
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm gonna go with Auburn. I'll let
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  Speaker 1: you take over for Duke in Houston, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, I have said a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: about the school from German to Positive Life for the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of weeks, which I regret to say. And
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  Speaker 2: if this goes viral, I will deny it all the
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  Speaker 2: election ever happened. I'll pull a Republican thing, but I
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  Speaker 2: will say, man, I can't go against Houston. I'd like
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  Speaker 2: this team I think they are fun to watch. I
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  Speaker 2: just I gotta go with the Cougars. I do think
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  Speaker 2: that on paper, Duke probably has more NBA potential, but
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  Speaker 2: I do think that Houston is a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: of a just a slight edge of although I want
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  Speaker 2: to say, Chris, I think Houston is a better defensive team,
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  Speaker 2: but with what Duke just did against Bama, it's also
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  Speaker 2: hater glasses on his side. Can I really say Houston
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  Speaker 2: is a better defensive team when Duke just held Alabama
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  Speaker 2: to eight points?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Man? I think the tightened up their offense too,
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  Speaker 1: because you know early in the season, you know, Cooper
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  Speaker 1: in company that they they had. He actually faltered early
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  Speaker 1: in the season down the stretch and clutch games for
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  Speaker 1: the most part. But they've tightened up in every which
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  Speaker 1: way since then.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I man, Defensively, I think both these teams
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  Speaker 2: are eight plus. I'd give a slight atch to Houston.
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  Speaker 2: They just have a little more college basketball player experience. Yes, offensively,
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  Speaker 2: I do think Houston. I think Houston shoots the three
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  Speaker 2: ball better than Duke, but I do think there's a
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  Speaker 2: team offense. Duke's probably a little more well rounded offs
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  Speaker 2: with Cooper flag lead the way, I think this should
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  Speaker 2: be a great game. The only thing else I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: pick Houston for sure, I can't pick Duke. The only
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  Speaker 2: thing that does surprise me a little bit is Vegas,
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  Speaker 2: because Vegas has this at five and a half. I
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  Speaker 2: would have really thought Chris that this points for to
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  Speaker 2: be similar to Florida and Auburn, be like three year
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  Speaker 2: minds two and a half. But this tells and obviously
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  Speaker 2: analytics aarting not everything, but this tells me Vegas thinks
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  Speaker 2: this game is gonna be a bit more of a
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  Speaker 2: stretch that we don't know about Houston. Like, I just
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  Speaker 2: don't see what is it gonna take for this Houston
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  Speaker 2: team to get like knocked out and lose by six
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  Speaker 2: or say points. I don't see that happening. Could Duke
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  Speaker 2: winn for sure, but is it gonna be more than
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  Speaker 2: a two possession game? I don't see that happen, I think,
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  Speaker 2: and even if Houston was, I don't think Duke's gonna
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  Speaker 2: fall apart. I think this is one of those like
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  Speaker 2: last shot kind of wins the games. Let me take
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  Speaker 2: you soon, I'll definitely take them with the points. I
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  Speaker 2: just think this point spread is a bit high for
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  Speaker 2: the resume both these teams have unless they think maybe
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  Speaker 2: Duke's defense is too much for Houston. But man, Houston
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  Speaker 2: shoots the three ball really well, so this should be
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  Speaker 2: a badass fun game. I'll be sure in my ass
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  Speaker 2: off for Houston. I do think they find a way
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  Speaker 2: to pull it out. I do think there's a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a bit of motivation extra for last year. I
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  Speaker 2: think they definitely have the better coach in this game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, buyas a side. He's just more experienced. Mate.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see, of course, but Calvin Sampson's for sure has
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  Speaker 2: got the experience edge. His player's got a little more
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  Speaker 2: experienced uh veteraniss inside them. So I'll take the Cougars
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  Speaker 2: plus the five and a half and the money line.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they get the job done. But shiit the
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  Speaker 2: over unders one thirty six.
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  Speaker 1: And a half.
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  Speaker 2: That is low. That is super low. So man Vegas
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  Speaker 2: thinks this is gonna be just a nasty little six
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  Speaker 2: sixty seven, yes, sir, Yeah, so like.
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  Speaker 1: A big big ten challenge from the nineties.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, ah, man, I this this should be a fun one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy the second one too, so I can get
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  Speaker 2: a nice little nice little buzz going for this one. Man,
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  Speaker 2: But go Cougar's this should be a fun one, I think, man,
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  Speaker 2: I just think that guard play there there. Houston's guard
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  Speaker 2: plays elevated this year. I know she is gone, but
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  Speaker 2: they collectively, their guard plays really stepped up this year.
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  Speaker 2: So their ver slag. Man, that's gonna be a great
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  Speaker 2: matchup for basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all three guards like it brings something different to
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  Speaker 1: the table. And Crier is kind of more of the
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: point guard, but he can score and you know from three,
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  Speaker 1: he can get out the dribble. He does those runners
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  Speaker 1: in the lane like it just and they it just
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: they make everything difficult, man, they really do. And you know,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: we talked about how Florida had a difficult stretch, but
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: it's I can't remember the stat, but they had to
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: play the highest seats. You know, they had to play
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: the eight Gonzaga, which Gonzaga down the stretch of the
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: season played a lot better. They had to play the four,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: they had to play the two, and now they got
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: to play the one. So actually I saw this stat
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  Speaker 1: where it's like it usual, you know that usually doesn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: and so they I forgot how long it's been that's
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: my bad, but it's been a while since that's the
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: case where you had to play basically chock. So it
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: was debatable between who had the toughest one clearly how
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: it played out. Florida you know, clearly had a tough
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: run here, but you know that they did have to
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  Speaker 1: play the highest seats possible in their region. So the
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  Speaker 1: one thing about the improvement that Duke's made over the year,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: because they do have the young players, and there is
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: something to be said about those young players, like you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that this is usually when it catches up to
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: you and you know the length of Duke though that
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  Speaker 1: the only thing that is kind of messing with me
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: is the length that they're going to have an advantage
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  Speaker 1: on two of those three guards. I'd say at least Crier,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: but you know, Carr is a short guy anyway, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not like he usually doesn't have the length
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  Speaker 1: advantage per se and who's in you know, he probably
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  Speaker 1: I think he averages the most assist But like to
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  Speaker 1: your point though, you know a forty two from the
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: field from three Crier Sharp is forty one and a
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  Speaker 1: half and Huzan is forty four and a half. And
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  Speaker 1: they have, you know, a guy that shoots thirty five
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: and thirty six as well and a bench player that
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: doesn't really shoot him much. So I'm not gonna put
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: up his stat like it needs something. But and they
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: just gotta solid Biggs. But there is something about that
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  Speaker 1: three to four guards when you can bring in the
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: game man. You know, the length is gonna be tough.
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  Speaker 1: And the defense and offense combined with Duke has been phenomenal.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: I know, the Ken Palm thing. They've been the best
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: offense in the last whatever years, but they also were
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: the those offensive stats all they although they've played some
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: good teams so far. Uh in the tournament. They they
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: had a good non conference like they always do because
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: they're due. But they did put up all those analytics
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: in a down pretty much one of the lowest accs
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: we've seen, so I think that has to play into it.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: I am a little worried about that length, but I'm
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: with you. I'm gonna pick Houston to get it done.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: And I also agree with what you're saying about this
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  Speaker 1: thing is gonna be a grind all the way down
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  Speaker 1: to it, and it's just gonna be clutch play. Whether
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: it's clutch baskets, which I'm sure there'll be plenty, but
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: also free toes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you're right, and yeah, because I mean normally, just
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: to put in perspective, if you're at a huge gambler,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: like a normal pointspread for a college basketball game or
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: runers normally anywhere like one forty to one fifty, even
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: maybe like one thirty eight, but one thirty six is
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: super low, So that that's telling you, I think it's
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: gonna be like a sixty five to sixty eight or
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: that kind of scoring game, which is pretty low nowadays
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: for college sports or college basketball. Sorry, so hey, but
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: in five and a half, dude, you're man, that's I
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: can't wait. And like I said, it's the second one
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: of the night, so hopefully we'll see part of me.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of tempted to drive down there because you
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: can get in the door for three hundred bucks, but
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: I gotta feel in the hotel would be just as much,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: and that's kind of for our drive. I don't know,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: I might have to pull some straights. Who knows what's
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: gonna happen. I might I might have to go get
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: a Houston Couger T shirt and go go down there
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: and watch that game, my friend. But uh, to finish
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: our predictions since we did kind of what did you did?
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: You join me with Auburn? So yeah, we did. Yeah,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: we actually both have the same predictions, so we both
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: have Auburn versus Houston.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: Even though in my bracket I do have Florida, my
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: my last bracket where I can actually win money, I
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: do have Florida, but I'm going against it and for
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: the show randomly because I picked it, you know, clearly
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the tournament. So now that we're here,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: I do favor Auburn, and actually I had enough can
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: beat Houston too. By the way, early this year damn yeah.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: A lot. Yeah in my bracket eyed Houston beating Saint John's. Yeah,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: well so I got one. I got one out to
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: right hopefully potentially, I think that Houston has the guard
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: play to match uh Auburn. So I will pick the
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: Houston Cougars to raise a banner this year, cut down
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: a net whatever Jim Nant's quote you want to use
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: this time of the year. So that will take the
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: Houston Cougars to win against Bruce Pearl for a national championship.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that would be probably be a pretty low
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: scoring game as well. Anything with Houston's gonna be a
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: little bit of slower pace. But yeah, that'd be That'll
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: be a very funward watch Monday night. What is your
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: guts say if Auburn plays Houston, Well, Houston avenge their
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: lost rule, Auburn go too oh against the Cougars this year.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Well, you know they Auburn's won two against the final
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: four and this is the only win they got. Now
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: both of them are you know, well, the duke game
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: is tight, the other one wasn't really final story tricks you,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm with you. I'm gonna go Houston. I
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: think Francis, Tugler and Roberts, the fact that they got
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: three bigs in there along with the guards, I just
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: think they have enough to just contain. You're not gonna
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: you know, just just make them, you know, not shoot
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: like you know, ten of thirteen from the field, you know,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: like he did in this last game. Like, just make
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: them have to really work for it. And and the
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: thing about Auburn, which they've really locked in in the tournament,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: but the thing about Auburn is when when calls aren't
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: going their way, they do get a little distracted, especially
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: their two best players, and that could you know, I
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: could see if you could get them in the early
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: fall problems or maybe that elbow is not as good
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: as we think. I just it's hard to get away
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: from that veteran guard play. And they have enough bigs
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: to make it work. They have a scoring big, but
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: they also have three solid bigs that you can kind
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: of rotate in a sense. And then speaking of rotations,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: Houston's rotations are just crazy, man. I mean when you
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: see when they double up on a guard, it doesn't matter, man,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: they're gonna go. They're gonna the next guy's gonna find
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: the opening. Like they they rotate so well on defense,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: and they've been known for so long for defense, and
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: like you said, the fact that they could knock down shots,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: whereas before they leave those shooters open. If you're playing Houston,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: not all of them, but you know, a pair amount
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: of them because they didn't score that well. So you know,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: in Samson, man, he's you know, he's been at it
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: for a long long time. Hey, par last too, No
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: no disrespect there, but I'm with you. I'm gonna go
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: Houston cutting them down and hopefully my my future that
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: I put in you know, a few weeks ago that
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: plus six fifty uh paces off because you know, I
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: put it on my bookie because that was the best
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: odds I could get. And now, you know, for quite
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: some time now, they've been trying to, you know, offer
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: me more money just just to get their bet back,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: which I'm not doing obviously, but I could. I could
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: make like twenty eight dollars more than I put for
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: the bet now or thirty eight or something like that,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: but I'm not doing it. I'm not gonna I'm not
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: falling for it. I'm just gonna go for it because
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: it's not like I put a bunch. When you got
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: a plus six fifty, you don't got to put a
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: whole lot of money on it. But I'm gonna go
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: with the Houston Cougars, who's been knocking at the door,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: and I I truly believe they could have maybe won
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: it last year tough though against Yukon obviously that would
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: have been a tough one. But yeah, I'm gonna go
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: with the Cougars to win the chip.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: Then on that note, hey we should have two. Hopefully
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: I can make the proved by out say it right,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: this time, we should have two great basketball games to
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: watch Saturday and a great nightcap on Monday. Hey, and
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: we'll be back next week to wrap up was a
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: very very fun college basketball season. And then we get
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: an NBA Playoffs. I know, if you've listened to us
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: for college basketball, and this year first year listening to us,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: we do college football at college basketball. Then we do
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: an NBA Playoffs show.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: And yeah, there's a little break there, but we usually
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: our first episode is after the play in is established,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: and that's Saturday and Sunday. Usually everyone's played a game
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: by then, so we'll do it on a Monday with
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: one game played in every series. So there'll be a
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: little break, you know, but we'll be back on that
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: Monday because we don't like to break it all down
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: before the playing's not done. Sorry to cut you off.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: No, Hey, you're right, yeah, because and then and the playoffs, man,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: there's always some type of drama something's going on. And
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: this year, Hey, the West as usual is log in
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: from like four to ten as usual in the East. Hey,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: the Celtics stata one seat, So I'm cool with that,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: all right. On that note, I might I might make
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: myself down I might drive myself down to San Antonio.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: We'll see. That's where I got engaged. I got a
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: special place that that's the I love that seat, so
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: we'll see. We'll make it happ I'll give my Duke
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: Sucks T shirt and throw that on and drive down there.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: So until next week, the boys are out having a
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: good night peace