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Kelley Ford breaks down strengths and weaknesses throughout college Basketball · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Kelly Ford on your radio segment number two. Go to k Ford Readings dot
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  com. Kelly, good stuff on basketball. Let's continued on it looks like,
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  you know Pac twelve projections and you know, we forget this or at
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  least I do you know, we saw the last of the Pac twelve and
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  football, and that's the last of the Pac twelve and basketball. We'll move
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  down that line as we continue through the sports season. Here in the sports
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  calendar, Arizona number one, the class of the class, so to speak,
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  sixty seven percent chance to win the entire tournament this week, Colorado just
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  eleven percent, Washington State, Oregon, Utah, and then of course you
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  get down into the rest of the field. This is it looks like,
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  at least you know today it's Arizona and everybody else. Yeah, absolutely,
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  Jaco and Arizona to me is a top five tolerated team. They have been
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  for much of the year testing themselves in the non conference, you know,
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  play some really good teams, and have been the best team in the Pac
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  twelve this year really throughout. So yeah, Arizona is the class sixty seven
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  percent chance to win. Like you said, I'm kind of personally pulling for
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  Washington State a little bit. They are the number two seed. My numbers
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  do like Colorado a little bit more than Washington State. But just because of
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  what's going on with Washington State and Oregon State and what's happening to them in
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  the landscape of college athletic as a whole, football and all sports, I
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  would certainly like to see them have some success here in the final year of
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  the Pac twelve as we know it, I know, you still got to
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  work through the Big Ten and the SEC just you know, at face value,
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  the SEC, I mean, you look at at the number, you
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  know, the seeds that have the buys so to speak, and it won't
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  be until Thursday before they play. You know, obviously you're talking about the
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  Tennessee's, the Kentucky's, you know, the Alabama's and the Auburns. Is
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  this as wide open of a field for the SEC as we've seen in some
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  time? Yeah, this is. And you just hit on the top four
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  teams that I have in the Power ratings, Jake, And really, to
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  me, there's kind of a top tier that has three teams. It's Tennessee,
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  Auburn, and Alabama. Between those three, I would honestly be pretty
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  surprised if one of them did not win the SEC. So yeah, it
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  is wide open in the sense that you don't have a dominant team. But
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  I do think those three teams that I just mentioned are the three that have
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  really separated themselves, with Kentucky, you know, being in that next group.
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  I put Florida in that next group from a power rating standpoint, even
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  Mississippi State, and I know right now they're in the last four byes,
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  So Bulldog fans aren't feeling assured that selection Sunday is gonna go. Well.
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  I think they've probably done enough to get in as things stand. But to
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  me, there's really a group of three at the top. But after that,
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  yes, there are certainly some capable teams who can win it all this
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  week here in the SEC. Let me ask you this last four in and
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  you know, again this is all speculation. You know, you look at
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  ESPN dot com and some of the others Colorado, Virginia, Saint John's,
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  Indiana State first for out, you know, the Texas A and M's New
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  Mexico, the world. I mean, how close are is it? I
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  mean, are any last four buys? Missippi State is in that TCU Seaton
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  Hall, Michigan State. You know, it's a cluster of teams. I
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  guess always that's looking to get into sixty eight team field that will be left
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  out. Yeah, it's always a cluster. The bubble, Jake is always
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  crazy, and we always on Selection Sunday see teams who maybe we didn't expect
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  we're going to be there. Last year, we actually didn't have any bid
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  sees throughout the conference championship week. We'll see if that crand continues this year.
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  That's certainly uncommon, but the bubble is known to strength at the end
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  of the season due to those biddies. We'll see how it all plays out.
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  You know, it's interesting about this, and we'll see this with college
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  football. We'll have you know, our own version of a college football bubble,
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  right, I mean, you know it won't be near as many teams,
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  but you're looking at two, three, four. I don't know that
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  anybody anticipates those teams on that football bubble making a run in the college football
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  playoff. A lot of the media will hype it that way, but basketball
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  it is real. I mean, you know, we could see a team
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  that just got in make a run to the elite eight, or just got
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  to make a run, you know, to the sweet sixteen, maybe them
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  to the final four. It's it's interesting how basketball have that that is so
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  much truer in basketball is what we will likely see and football, If that
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  makes sense, I completely agree, Jake. Yes, you are one hundred
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  percent correct. And I think it was even the first year of the first
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  four back in twenty eleven, VCU went from first four to Final four in
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  basketball. That is something that we can come to expect. Of course,
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  it's not normal. Doesn't happen, you know, every year or even every
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  couple of years, but it is possible because the nature of the sport of
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  basketball and the variance that we see game the game in basketball versus the variance
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  that we see in football, and also just the strength of teams when you
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  look at the strength of teams from one to the last team in and what's
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  going to be the expanded College of All playoff versus the strength of teams from
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  number one to the final at large bid, because remember that's what the first
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  four is for those final at largest. Of course, there's a couple of
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  sixteen games in there as well, but the bubble is for at largest that
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  difference and talent in basketball is significantly smaller than the difference in football. So
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  that's why you see these basketball teams who are seated at the ten eleven line
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  be able to make runs deep into the tournament. Again, they're not winning
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  it all either, though, but they are more likely to make a deep
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  run than I think the number ten eleven twelve seed will be in a twelve
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  team CFP. Certainly time will tell, but that to me is why we
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  see it in basketball and not football.