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March Madness 1st Round Bets with Alan Boston & Krackman! | 2026 NCAA Tournament Preview · WiseKracks

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, Bill Krachenberger over here with Alan Boston doing
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  Speaker 1: our show live at the West Gate. Thanks for them
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  Speaker 1: to uh letting us film here and giving them some
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  Speaker 1: good press too. And reduced juice. You know who else
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  Speaker 1: has reduced juice on games? So one on nine juice
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  Speaker 1: on their games.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of one one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's no one else really good. They'll go
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  Speaker 1: to one on five on on prime Time, two on
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  Speaker 1: NFL games Monday, Thursday and Sunday, one on five juice
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  Speaker 1: on OLL their games the other games. So guys, all right,
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  Speaker 1: Alan Boston's here and we have a big crowd here.
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  Speaker 1: That's that showed up. Alan was right, we're gonna break
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  Speaker 1: down a big crowd. I think it is got twenty people.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would have bet over really well, there's no Richie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we' supposed to be at Richie Bachelary. He's a
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  Speaker 1: nose show again he always does.
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  Speaker 4: We're mad at least it wasn't a flight to New York, right,
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  Speaker 4: that was.
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  Speaker 3: A bad one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So start we're gonna go right in with the
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  Speaker 1: with the the playing games here Howard and Marilyn Baltimore County.
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  Speaker 3: What do you have on that. When would you make
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  Speaker 3: that game.
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  Speaker 4: My turn?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I made Howard. The game's gotten bombed. Uh. It opened
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  Speaker 4: uh Baltimore count like two two and a half or something. However,
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  Speaker 4: Howard won now, so it's nothing but I I uh
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  Speaker 4: if I had a key on on one thing. Howard
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  Speaker 4: went to Drexel and led wire to wire up at Drexel,
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  Speaker 4: and then the next game went into UNC Wilmington and
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  Speaker 4: and won there too. Uh in a low scoring game,
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  Speaker 4: which bodes well for a tournament environment against a team
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  Speaker 4: that got red hot at the end of the year
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  Speaker 4: Baltimore County. But there's no way Baltimore County could could
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  Speaker 4: come closer to winning in Drexel or winning in Wilmington.
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  Speaker 4: And if and Howard, who also got better at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the year, plays anything like that, then this
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  Speaker 4: actually might be an easy one. So I definitely like Howard.
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  Speaker 4: But the game's been been bet where it's probably not
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  Speaker 4: worth it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you wouldn't recommend it best that minus one
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  Speaker 1: or now Okay, next one, NC State Texas looks like
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  Speaker 1: NC State's now one one.
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  Speaker 3: And a half.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah again, this gut that's the right way. However, I
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  Speaker 4: will say this, they played earlier in the year. I'm
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  Speaker 4: doing this in memory, by the way, so if I
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  Speaker 4: screw up, I apologize. They played earlier in the year
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  Speaker 4: in a tournament and NC State was a one and
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  Speaker 4: a half point favorite and lost one two ninety seven,
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  Speaker 4: which is kind of irrelevant for this. However, Texas hit
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  Speaker 4: sixteen out of thirty two threes in that game and
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  Speaker 4: that's not repeatable. So whatever SC State screwed up that game,
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  Speaker 4: they kind of played a matchup zone NC State and
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  Speaker 4: Texas actually found a way to dissect it, which is weird.
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  Speaker 4: I would expect that NC State will make the necessary tweaks,
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  Speaker 4: and although they ended the year imploding, they really had
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  Speaker 4: zero good games to end the year, that means nothing
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  Speaker 4: because it's a new lease on life the NCAA tournament,
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  Speaker 4: so I think gets he's it's gonna beat him. I
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  Speaker 4: don't have much respect for Texas, and I think NSC
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  Speaker 4: State's best game is far superior to Texas's best game,
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  Speaker 4: So the NC State or nobody. Okay, my line is
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  Speaker 4: sc State one and a half, by the way, but
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  Speaker 4: it kind of feels like it could be higher.
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  Speaker 1: Going to tomorrow's games here Lehigh and Prairie view A
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  Speaker 1: and m Lehigh opened up three.
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  Speaker 3: They're still about three three.
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  Speaker 4: And a half, so Lee High early and so I'm
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  Speaker 4: commenting on non conference games because conference and non conference
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  Speaker 4: are a whole different world. Conference is what matters most
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  Speaker 4: for most of these teams, but when you're in the
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  Speaker 4: NCAA tournament, you're playing non conference teams. So I try
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  Speaker 4: to hone in on what they did in a non
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  Speaker 4: conference which sometimes is irrelevant because early in the year,
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  Speaker 4: with most of these teams having a lot of new players,
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  Speaker 4: the coach can't put his system at the place. So
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  Speaker 4: we High early in the year played a tournament I
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  Speaker 4: believe in Vegas. They took Santa Barbara to the wire
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  Speaker 4: and then they beat Texas State, both very very very
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  Speaker 4: good efforts. The coaches doctor Brett Reid, He's been there
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  Speaker 4: a long time. He had a great point guard. They
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  Speaker 4: beat Duke one of ye at that point guard who
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  Speaker 4: ended up in the NBA, whose name escapes me, but
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  Speaker 4: good program, who's fallen on hard times lately and doesn't
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  Speaker 4: figure to get any better because the world's changed and
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  Speaker 4: the haves have it and the have nots have no chance.
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  Speaker 4: And we won't get into that because We've been enough time,
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  Speaker 4: but I get into it enough during the year. Purview
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  Speaker 4: great coach, one of the best. He's also been there
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  Speaker 4: a long time ten or eleven years Byron Smith. Fantastic
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  Speaker 4: coach whose team got way way better again at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the year. Early in the year they played
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  Speaker 4: North Texas, really tough at North Texas, and they had
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  Speaker 4: one other good game, Oh Tennessee Martin on are neutral.
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  Speaker 4: They almost beat them, which is a very very good
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  Speaker 4: game relatively speaking to what they're playing. Tennis See, Martin's
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  Speaker 4: way better than Lehigh. So I'm believing Prairieview is big
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  Speaker 4: improvement at the end of the year. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: legit because the coach is so good and I think
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  Speaker 4: they're a great bet. I think they should be favored.
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  Speaker 4: So I would definitely go with Praiview. Plus three and
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  Speaker 4: a half was in Houston, by the way, in case
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  Speaker 4: you wondering where the hell they are, the guy from
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  Speaker 4: Texas would.
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  Speaker 3: Know that, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Next one, SMU opened up nine over Miami, Ohio down
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  Speaker 1: to seven six and a half in a couple spots.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so so yeah, they bet this the right way.
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  Speaker 4: Like SMU is not very good, their best win was
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  Speaker 4: probably beating Texa A and M in overtime, and they
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  Speaker 4: were four down with fifteen seconds ago in that game.
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  Speaker 4: So other than that, they their wins were in good situations,
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  Speaker 4: and in fact they were life and death with Florida State.
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  Speaker 2: With Virginia Tech.
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  Speaker 4: They lost to NC State in the game they had
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  Speaker 4: to have. So there's nothing on their resume that says
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  Speaker 4: they're any good at all. Miami Oh, yeah, they played
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  Speaker 4: shit all year, but they they for the last fifteen
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  Speaker 4: games of the year when they were undefeated, they got
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  Speaker 4: everyone's best shot. So Miamio, in spite of not playing anybody,
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  Speaker 4: they got everyone's best shot the last fifteen games. Aaron
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  Speaker 4: beat them all. They're a very very good team. They
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  Speaker 4: overcame the loss of their point guard early in the year.
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  Speaker 4: They're one of the teams that actually maintained a lot
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  Speaker 4: of players, which you see the result when when some
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  Speaker 4: good coaches can hold on to some players and have
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  Speaker 4: some continuity within this system, you don't have to reteach
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  Speaker 4: the system to guys coming from all over the planet.
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  Speaker 4: So one would have expected Miami O maybe to fizzle
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  Speaker 4: out as the year went on, because they started with
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  Speaker 4: that edge of having players back and having some system
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  Speaker 4: in place.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not what happened at all.
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  Speaker 4: They kept playing to a very high level, and this
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  Speaker 4: story is amazing, and they're a legit good team. They're
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  Speaker 4: not great, they don't belong in the tournament technically, but
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  Speaker 4: if they left them out, there would have been World
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  Speaker 4: War three. And I only make the game four, So
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  Speaker 4: even at the Bangdal price of seven, i'd be on Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, someone just asked me something I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: saving for the end. But it's regarding in the prayer view.
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  Speaker 1: So he said that you have Prairie View favorite someone.
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  Speaker 3: In the audience.
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  Speaker 2: I have half a point favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so four points a four point swing, that's what
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  Speaker 1: he's saying. That that would be a bigger bet for you.
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  Speaker 4: Technically, Yes, if it was one in as strain and
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  Speaker 4: after you're winning on two and three, so it's a
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  Speaker 4: it's a really big bet.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for the question.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and but but I also have to have some
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  Speaker 4: confidence in the number I make, and I don't really
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  Speaker 4: track Lehigh and Piriview a heck of a lot. I wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't involved in having to put up numbers on
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  Speaker 4: them all year, but I still track them pretty well,
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  Speaker 4: and I still know the teams.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty well, And yeah, I umbelieving.
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  Speaker 4: Prairie views late season rush as meaning they got better.
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  Speaker 4: He basically only uses six guys. And sometimes when you
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  Speaker 4: narrow it and just go with what you got and
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  Speaker 4: and they find some sort of rhythm and the coach
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  Speaker 4: is fantastic, then then then I'm believing all their all
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  Speaker 4: the good games they played at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be that way.
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  Speaker 4: Some of these teams finished the year great and then
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  Speaker 4: bomb out in the first round of the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: But with this coach, with with with.
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  Speaker 4: The way this went down where one of the best
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  Speaker 4: players came back from injury and he doesn't even play
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  Speaker 4: him that much, one would think that this team got
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  Speaker 4: legitimately better. And like I said, they hung with Tennessee
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  Speaker 4: Martin and almost won in North Texas who lay over
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  Speaker 4: Lee High. So I think I think this one's gonna Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's gonna win. So the answer is, but yes, technically,
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  Speaker 4: when I have it a half and it's three and
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  Speaker 4: a half, it's an all inner. But I don't have
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  Speaker 4: a lot of confidence in a number because I'm not
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  Speaker 4: all in tracking these teams every day.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, let's go with through the big Thursday
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  Speaker 1: games start out with Louisville minus four and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Five.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, there's four and.
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  Speaker 1: A half and five and a half on the screen, so, uh,
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  Speaker 1: pick your you know, if you have to have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of sports books, if you're here at super Book,
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  Speaker 1: you have five and a half. If you have MGM,
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  Speaker 1: it's four and a half. So Louisville South Florida hoping
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  Speaker 1: up six.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of a tricky game. If the game was
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  Speaker 4: played two months ago, Louisville would have been a ten
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  Speaker 4: point favorite. Uh. But Louisville, a lot of their wins
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  Speaker 4: are now appear little flawed. They beat Indiana, who ended
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  Speaker 4: up being just not very good. Kentucky. That Kentucky win
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  Speaker 4: doesn't look as good. And again I'm doing this. Remember
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  Speaker 4: he's so sorry. They had one other game that that
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  Speaker 4: that didn't age well. House that South Florida. The other hand,
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  Speaker 4: early in the year they were terrible. But the hosts
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  Speaker 4: the Coast is Bryan Hodge that he's very very good.
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  Speaker 4: His Arkansas state teams got better as the year went on.
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  Speaker 4: He's a Natoates guy, so he knows what he's doing.
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  Speaker 4: And even even though I can't stand Natoates as a
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  Speaker 4: with his decisions that he made, he knows what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: And this guy knows what he's doing.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, one could argue they beat up on a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of crap in the in the American Athletic Conference. However, uh,
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  Speaker 4: they had just beaten Wichita in Wichita. And when a
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  Speaker 4: team goes into another team's home for it, even in
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  Speaker 4: a conference tournament, the team that lost at home for
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  Speaker 4: typically plays with more of an edge. And South Florida
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  Speaker 4: still overcame that and one rather easily, now, which the
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  Speaker 4: state's no great team, but they're pretty good. So South
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  Speaker 4: Florida did nothing wrong in the entire last two months
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  Speaker 4: of the year, and and it's hard to it's hard
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  Speaker 4: to not give them a lot of credit for what
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  Speaker 4: they did. And if you give them all the credit
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  Speaker 4: in the world, then this game could be as low
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  Speaker 4: as like two. I'm not doing that because maybe they're
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  Speaker 4: just good at beating teams that they're better than. And
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  Speaker 4: and maybe when they step up in class, they're they're
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  Speaker 4: in a world of trouble. But they stepped up in
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  Speaker 4: class earlier year they got killed by uh, I forget
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  Speaker 4: Virginia Comwalt. Maybe yeah, I think it was Virginia Comwealt
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  Speaker 4: that ran them out of the gym. Yeah, their early
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  Speaker 4: season results weren't that good, but the latest season results
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  Speaker 4: were amazing. And Louisville is probably a tad overrated. Their
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  Speaker 4: point guard Brown missed the conference tournament. He's probably not
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  Speaker 4: gonna be one hundred percent. Uh So I put the
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  Speaker 4: line about three and a half, and I would definitely
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  Speaker 4: lean to uh to South Florida, but not a lot
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  Speaker 4: of alacrity. Not with much alacrity. I misused the word
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  Speaker 4: alacrity cheerful willingness. That's what Electary means. He got misused
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  Speaker 4: in a Star Trek episode. Really pissed me off. Spocked
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  Speaker 4: told Captain Kirk with alacrity, captain, and it doesn't mean fast,
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  Speaker 4: it means with a cheerful willingness.
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  Speaker 3: So all right, this game hasn't there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, mister English major year, this game.
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  Speaker 1: Hasn't went anywhere. Michigan State opened sixteen.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes teams don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, still sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: You have to write a bet over North Dakota State.
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  Speaker 4: My number is thirteen, and I think that's a rock
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  Speaker 4: solid number. North Dakota State Dave Richmond. I have been
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  Speaker 4: a fan of his, but his team's again they get
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  Speaker 4: better as a year going on every year. They what
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  Speaker 4: did they do? Oh oh yeah, so they played early
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  Speaker 4: in the year again, I'm going back to the non conference.
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  Speaker 4: They played a tournament where a took Arkansas State to
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  Speaker 4: the wire on the road, a very very very good effort.
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  Speaker 4: And they played Calravine to it standstill on a neutral court,
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  Speaker 4: an amazing effort. Both very good teams. So they're legit
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  Speaker 4: good now. Michigan State obviously is in a different class,
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  Speaker 4: but they weren't supposed to be that good this year.
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  Speaker 4: And once again Izzo has made.
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  Speaker 2: The whole better than the sum of the parts.
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  Speaker 4: But they're not athletically going to overwhelm North Dakota State.
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  Speaker 4: And because of that, clearly the guy's doing something right
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  Speaker 4: at North Dakota State. And if they can hang with
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  Speaker 4: Irvine on a neutralol, and if they can take Arkansas
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  Speaker 4: Take to the wire on the road, they could certainly
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  Speaker 4: hang with Michigan State on a neutral court. And I
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  Speaker 4: would be taking sixteen for something not a big bet
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  Speaker 4: because these these double digit favorites, the points aren't as valuable,
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  Speaker 4: like a game from two to three is the same
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  Speaker 4: as a game from thirteen to fifteen. Probably the one
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  Speaker 4: point gap there is probably comparable to a two point
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  Speaker 4: gap there. If that doesn't make sense, we'll explain it later.
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  Speaker 1: But plus sixteen and a half minus z nine right here, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this would be the place to better. Someone asked something
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  Speaker 1: earlier about that, Sega, this game, would this be considered
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  Speaker 1: a North Dakota State plus nine and a half minus
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  Speaker 1: so five?
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  Speaker 3: First half? Would you mess with the first half? Year?
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  Speaker 3: First half?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes and we said in the past we're good bets
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  Speaker 1: on certain games.
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  Speaker 2: On this particular one.
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  Speaker 4: Nah, probably okay, Yeah, the underdog usually can hang and
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  Speaker 4: sometimes they crack because Michigan State is very physical and
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  Speaker 4: and and the problem with the nil world is is
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  Speaker 4: the mid majors. You know, one team's playing a million
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  Speaker 4: for a player and he's paying one hundred thousand, like
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  Speaker 4: you know, who's getting the better player. And someone made
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  Speaker 4: a comment when when they walk on to court the
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  Speaker 4: mid major versus the the elite, you can see the differences,
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  Speaker 4: like the men against the boys. And last year, these
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  Speaker 4: these North Dakota State types, which I'll talk about a
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  Speaker 4: little bit later did not do well, and and and
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  Speaker 4: in the years for years and years and years. These
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  Speaker 4: are the type of games that win. But last year, no,
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  Speaker 4: they got I was terrible the first roule.
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  Speaker 3: Last year.
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  Speaker 4: I wish you should know going in that I sucked.
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  Speaker 3: But you've run the gamut many years too.
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  Speaker 4: Though, So there's some So some of these dogs are
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  Speaker 4: fraught with danger. That's what I'm saying. I wouldn't go
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  Speaker 4: crazy on some of these dogs. But yeah, the plus
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  Speaker 4: nine and a half first half makes some sense because
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  Speaker 4: because it's the men against the boys, as the game
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  Speaker 4: wears on, the men will wear the boys down. At
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  Speaker 4: some point, your kid grows up and he's bigger and
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  Speaker 4: stronger than you, but in this instance, that ain't happening.
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  Speaker 4: They're already grown up and they're already bigger and stronger,
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  Speaker 4: and bigger and stronger wears out the smaller team.
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  Speaker 2: So that could happen here.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, the question is relevant, and maybe plus nine
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  Speaker 4: and a half is a better way to go. I
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  Speaker 4: will say this that to counter that somewhat, And maybe
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  Speaker 4: this spread isn't high enough. Unlike during the year where
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  Speaker 4: net ranking points matter, which is completely moronic. Like everything else,
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  Speaker 4: the NCAA does. Everything's rigged for the big boys. They
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  Speaker 4: use net ranking, so they're encouraging teams to run up scores,
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  Speaker 4: which is completely fucking ridiculous. Sorry Westgate during the SA tourner.
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  Speaker 4: But you just have to win, and there should be
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  Speaker 4: sentiment sent him to get your bench in the game.
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  Speaker 4: God forbid to get an injury. You play a double
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  Speaker 4: overtime game, we have to go to a bench. So
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  Speaker 4: it would be smart, which Matt Painter did. By the way,
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  Speaker 4: against UCLA, he got a big early lead, it looked.
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  Speaker 2: Like they were gonna win.
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  Speaker 4: Usually had had two starters now out and it worked.
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  Speaker 4: He had a much fresher team because of that. Well,
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  Speaker 4: they're playing on Saturday. It'll be a tougher opponent of
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  Speaker 4: Michigan State. So in theory, it would be smart for
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  Speaker 4: him to use his bench a little bit more here.
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  Speaker 4: And Izzo is not one to run up scores, so
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  Speaker 4: there could be some backdoor. Big Maybe sixteen isn't high enough,
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  Speaker 4: but anyway, next, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Georgia Saint Louis minus two to two and.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: A half, let's come down a little bit.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Yep, it was three and a half for a minute.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: Saint Louis completely fell apart the last month of the
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: year completely. They would have been minimum three a month ago. Favorite. However,
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: the level they were playing out was unsustainable. They were
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: playing more rating that they couldn't possibly continue to play
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: to and things always seek stasis, right, So Saint Louis
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: crashing at the end of the year almost was expected.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: There was also the minor issue of Robbie Villa, who's
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: their best player, having planted fash itis, So what helps
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: planet fashed itis? Rest, little injection, little rest. So they're
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: getting knocked out and that that tournament probably helps them
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: more than hurts them. They got knocked out in the
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: second round the so that one extra day could help
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: them quite a bit. Here, there's also the fact that
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Georgia isn't very good. All their wins came in great
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: situations to beat Alabim.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Malhome in a blame duck game, but early in either
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: their life and.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Death with Georgia Tech, which is just disgusting. Yeah, they
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: have zero good wins, so I actually could see their
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: rating being lower, whereas Saint Louis when they were at
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: their best, they went into Virginia and won the game,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: and that happens like once every two years. So not
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: only do I think say it was a better team,
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: but Mike White is a moron and Josh Shurtz is terrific.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: So it's a total coaching mismatch. And I think this
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: game is bot a line stealing. So Saint Louis plus
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: two all.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: In plus two minus zho nine here plus two and
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: a half minus oh five.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: Plus two and a half is better than plus two
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: minus z nine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, plus two and
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: a half minus fifteen plus two minus nine.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Plus two and a half minus fifteen.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just c and o plus two a half minus fifteen
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: is better. And if you can buy a three minus
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: a quarter, you're stealing, which you can't because Chris has
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: lost their minds.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Chris is a disgusting book. Off Shore comes up with
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the lines first. Usually they didn't. This year, Duke opened
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: up twenty seven and a half, got bet up to
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: twenty nine and a half, back down to twenty eight
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: and a half over Sienna.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: So Duke had two starters out during the conference tournament
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: and probably should have dumped in the first round. You
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: can't risk another injury when you're already shorthanded. They're getting
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: their starting center back, but the point guard will be
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: back at some point during the tournament, so they down
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: a starter, they're a thirty point favorite, so to speak.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: And again point made before and is even more relevant here.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: There's no incentive to run the score up, and as
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: much as Shier did that during the year, which I
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: think is revolting, there's no reason to do it in
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: this game. You have to win and move on and
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: try to win the whole tournament, so he should be
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: using his bench here frequently. On top of that, my
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: number is only around twenty four in this game, so
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: the line is too high. There's no reason for Duke
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: to run up the score. He absolutely should be using
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: his bench, given that he's already down a starter, and
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: the guy that's coming back probably won't be one hundred
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: percent if and when he comes back. So definitely Sienna here.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Plus Sienna plays low games, so they should be able
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to control tempo here and keep the score down. So Sienna,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: but not big because if Duke one by fifty, I
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: wouldn't be shocked like they lay over this team. But
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: the line's too high, and this reason is why it
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: shouldn't get out of control.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: So maybe another opportunity for plus sixteen and a half.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I would go to the game game more than first half. Okay,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: for reason.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: This is why it's more relevant that the back door's there,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: because he really really should have his reserves in and
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Shires a smart guy. I think he's smart. He was
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: called the Jewish Michael Jordans so I because he was
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: such a cerebral play guard. That was his nickname.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Ohio State TCU.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Who's got three?
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Chris has plus plus plus three? Nice minus sixteen.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: All right, so Ohio States. Ohio State got red hot
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: during the late end of the year, but again they
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: were playing many apathetic teams and even in the conference tournament,
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Michigan didn't give two shits about the tournament and they
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: hung with them. They played well the next round in
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: a round they lost too, but they were never that
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: good in the year.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: There they were.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: They lost to West Virginia and in overtime on a
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: neutral West Virginia stunk. That was one of the non
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: conference games. They were down pretty big to North Carolina
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: and ended up losing by one. I don't think they're
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: very good TCU. On the other hand, I didn't think
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: they'd been very good this year, and they started off struggling,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: I think with Lamar or one of these Southland teams.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: But here comes Michigan into town and they almost beat Michigan.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Now how good does that look?
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: But even better is later on when they played Florida
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Wisconsin back to back and beating them both on neutrals.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Beating Florida, who I think is the best team in
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: the country on a neutral. Now you got something. So
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: TCU's best game is is elite. They should have won
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: in Kansas. They pissed the game away. They had like
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: an eight point leading a minute to go and pissed
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: it away. They almost wanted BYU. So clearly, when this
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: team plays their best game, it could be very, very strong.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Jamie Dixon is way better than Deeblers or coach. And
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: if you can ever get three in this game, you
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: are completely stealing. So TCU plus three all in and
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: if you can't get three, by it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Guys.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Just to let you know, there are some sportsbooks that
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: charge you ten ten juice. Unfortunately they don't do it here,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: but they charged fifteen here.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: South Point.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Don't pay fifteen cents south Point.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: You can go from two and a half to three
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: minus a dollar twenty.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: That's just one off the top of my head.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Local guys normally that and if you have Chris or
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: bookmaker there plus three minus sixteen. Next one is North
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Carolina minus two and a half over VCU.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I made the game too.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: I really have no opinion at all, except any chance
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: you have to bet against Hubert Davis is probably what
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: you should do, So I would go VCU and nobody.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, here's Allen's old school, University of penn Illinois twenty
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: four and a half over Pennsylvania.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Penn a surprise entry into the stupid IVY League
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Tournamenthi shouldn't, but I mean the IVY League kept it
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: real for a long time. This is no nil money.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: You can't grad transfer, it's all pure. However, when big
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: money creeped in, even they couldn't help themselves, and so
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: the Ivy's used to play on Friday Saturday only. The
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: reason they did that is to minimize lost class time,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: because when they use the word student athlete in IVY
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: League school, they actually it actually mattered, unlike the rest
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: of these places, which panned at all that bullshit, like
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: we care about.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: The student athlete. Uh no, you don't.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: UCLA wouldn't be in the Big Ten conference if he
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: cared about the student athlete. They would care about money.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: But even the ivy's crashed and no longer it's not
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: always Friday Saturday.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: And then they come up with the IVY League tournament.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: They would take the top four teams, but it's still
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: four teams too many. Like you played during the year,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: that's what should matter, especially in the IVYS. So they've
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: they've sold out to They wanted to get some notoriety,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: so they put there. They're on ESPN now and there's
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: a little more interest than IVY schools. But if you're
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: not paying, you're not getting them to come there. It's
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: very rare. You get a smart athletic kid who cares
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: about education, who'd want to go to Princeton to't want
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: to go to Penn. So I hate the IVY League tournament.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: And what happened this year is the best team got
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: knocked out. Yale laid over Penn and James Jones, who
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: was normally excellent, completely lost his mind power where Ethan Roberts,
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Pen's best player, was out for the tournament. He's the
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: eliting scorer, he's the glue to the team, so that
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: left TJ.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Power was the next five star recruit.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Played Virginia and Duke sat on the bench and found
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: his level at Penn. But he's the guy who gotta
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: stop the elaiting scorer is out. Who's they're gonna go
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: to Power? Stop him, double them, get the ball out
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: of his hands. Make someone else beat you. Jones didn't
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: do that, shocking even better up six late in the game,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: he allowed him to hit two three pointers.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: No, dude, you're up three.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: You have to go the light to the court. You foul,
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: you foul you can You're one hundred to one dog
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: to miss a foul shot. The first missed, the second
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: on purpose, get the rebound and score. It's about one
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: hundred and one. Someone ran simulations on it. That's what
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: it came to. So I'd rather gamble one hundred and
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: one shot than someone making some tough three. So he
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: didn't follow like most of the morons don't do, and
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: they lost in overtime deservedly. So the IVY has a
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: poor representative. Yale would have been about eleven seed, maybe
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: even a ten. They were very very good this year,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: so instead we have some very mediocre Pen team in
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: there who's gonna get blown out by Illinois? And the
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: line is slightly high, however, and I do think Roberts's.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Back for Pen.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: It was a concussion, which should be good by now.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: The issue here is Illinois had a fifteen point lead
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: in the Big Ten Tournament against Wisconsin and went to sleep,
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: and I suspect with the coach went crazy.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: At the end of the game.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: If they get fifteen ahead of Pen, they won't be
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: going to sleep. They'll try to run it up a
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: little bit. So I'm leaving it alone.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: The line's too high, but I'm not betting Pen.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: All right, Let's go over to Vanderbilt opened up eleven
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and a half. Still about eleven and a half over McNeese.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: This line's too high, however. McNeese is very good. They
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: they played a tournament mid season. Early season.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: They beat.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Middle Tennessee, Murray State, and George Washington. I remembered, see
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: I haven't got to mention yet. Uh three impressive wins
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: like George Wathingon's legit. Murray State was playing lights out
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: back then, and middles are tough out, very good coach,
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: very tricky to prepare for, and they handle them all
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: with these So this team's legit. Struggling to win a
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: R one island's a little dicey, but getting blown out
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: at Michigan, which they also did, is no big deal.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Everyone did at that time. That's when Michigan was on
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: a rampage. So McNee is a legit good team and
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: watching him on on the south Land Conference tournament, they're
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: very very athletic and defend very very well.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Legit good team.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, Bandy should be a three seed and there are
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: five seed only because they want to take McNees out.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: They some of the seedings are wrong, so I can
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: screw the mid major. That's my conspiracy theory thing that
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: I'm right about. It's not because I'm just right. And
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: if you watch Vandy play Florida in the SC Tournament,
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: you saw one of the better games played by anybody
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: this year, just blot a line unbeatable. They also had
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: other momentsary in a year where they were just impossible
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: to beat Vanderbilt. So this is a team that could
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: go a very very long way. And even though the
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: line is slightly high, Vandy's a game is there, which
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: it don't have to be. Then it could get ugly.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: But mcneee's misseeded and got a bad draw, which is
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: always the case with mid major. So I would lean
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: to mcneie, but not with much fervor.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go over to Nebraska minus thirteen over
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Troy thirteen and a half.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Here, Nebraska is another one, lights out the whole year
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: and then fizzled out.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: The second half. Now why did that happen?
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I can guess which I'll do here, which all handicapping
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: is is guessing for me anyway. I don't use computers.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: I use what's left in my brain, which isn't much.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: It seems like the second time around that Nebraska was
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: scouted better and they made no adjustments to counter what
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: teams were doing to stop them, so their once elite
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: offense went to shit. Also, their best player mass the
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: most valuable player is playing with an injury, which I
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: read in a forum, which was good to know. So
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: the combination of those two things stopped there. They were
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: going up like this, power rating wise, and then it
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: came like that.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: So where are they Are they up here? No? Are
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: they down here?
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: No?
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Definitely not, probably still closer to the top. However, the
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Troy coach Scott Cross is fantastic, just a terrific coach.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: They'll be totally healthy for this game.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: The problem with Troy, and again this goes back to
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: last year, is they were in a similar situation last
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: year against Kentucky in the first round and the game
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: was over early. They were never in the game. Now again,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: is that just an anomaly or is it because this
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: nil thing has just made it? You know, so the
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: talent gap is too big, maybe some combination of both.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: That being said, I only have this game nine. I
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: think Nebraska is wildly overrated. I don't think the coach
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: is very good. Unlike most in my industry, they think
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: he's a genius. I don't give that. So I think
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Cross will have them very well prepared for this game.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: And in spite of last year's budgeting in the first
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: round and the struggles against.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Well, let's stop that Troy.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Early in the year now in history, they went to
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: San Diego State and I think they wanted triple overtime,
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: and then played USC two days later and took them
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: to overtime. So they battled some very very good teams
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: and that differenstet Santeo State and Nebraska isn't that much.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: San Diego State should have been in a tournament. So
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Troy plus thirteen is a good bet, not a great bet.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I would make it a great bet except they got
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: killed last year in a very similar situation.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Only thirteen and a half. Right here, guys, minus nine is.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: The place to benet and you get the penny bonus.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Saint Mary's opened up two and a half up to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: three and a half over Texas A and M.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Saint Mary's probably my favorite team in the tournament. Randy
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Bennett genius has a little to work with out there.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: It makes it work every year. Just fantastic coach. His
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: team started off a little rockie this year. That was
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: another Vanderbilt impressive game. Vanderbilt destroyed Saint Mary's like no
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: one does that to Saint Mary's. Also, they lost on
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: a sort of neutral court against Boise, not to go
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: to loss either.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: But as the year went on they got really good.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: They beat Gonzaga.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: The second half of the Gonzaga game was probably the
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: best half of basketball I've ever seen a team play.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: They played a boner line perfect half of basketball. Extremely
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: well coached. Now Bucky McMillan, the coach of A and
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: m is. He's from Samford. He plays his unique style
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: of all kinds of presses and get up as many
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: three point shots as you can, and that works well
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: in mid major mid major them, but when you move
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: up to the elite.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Levels, that stuff does not work as well. Now.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: They had flashes of brilliance this year where they went
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: to Alabama and could have won the game, and a
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: couple of games surrounding that russo very good, but they
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: busted out at the end of the year and they
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: lost SMU on neutral court.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Earlier in the year.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: And if you're doing that, you're you're gonna be in
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: trouble against Saint Mary's. The line's right, So I'm passing
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: the game, but I kind of think Saint Mary's gets them.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I'm hoping they do, but I wouldn't bet it.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, Houston twenty three, twenty three and a half, even
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: twenty fours over Idaho.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Great story. Idaho ran played amazing to win the.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Big Sky.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Randy's Country. But if you don't have athletes to match Houston,
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: you're in trouble. And they're in a lot of trouble here,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: especially given that Houston played like shit in the Conference
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: centerment final against Arizona. They have a poke room here.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, poker.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Uh, so I think it's a I think it's a
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: blow up, but I'm leaving it alone.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Wisconsin high Point. This game
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: actually was about twelve eleven and a half now down
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: to ten. Uh, there is a ten and a half
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: on the screen, ten and a half minus fifteen.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: There's nine and a half's also.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I figured I drink create them live.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Uh, creative people ask someone asked about that.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: They asked about them a lot. Yeah, we've covered creative all.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Right, creatives will cover it on this channel. No, I
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: don't work for I don't work for a creative company.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: So Wisconsin's been amazing lately. They wanted Michigan like that
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: was it. That was the time Michigan lost at home.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: They played myriad of good games, one after another after another,
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: and then without the starting center, they played amazing in
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: the Big ten tournament, and they really don't have a backup.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: They went a little small ball and it worked, and
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: they're playing some big seal teams, so obviously they're gonna
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: kill them, right, I don't know.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: High Point last year should have beaten.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Purdue, ironically another Big Ten team, but the refs completely
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: screwed them, and I had no bet in the game,
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: so I was watching it objectively. So I'll say that
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: fact that that High Point got screwed last year. The
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: problem is High Point had elite rim protection.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Last year.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: They had some guy with a double name who's of
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: course moved on to some power school because they always do.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: In their early season games weren't that good. They lost
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: to Appalachian State A under control, they lost to Southern
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Illinois at home. They got blown out at UAB, so
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: this team is not quite up to last year's standards. However,
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: I don't think Wisconsin, even though they played all the
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: good games, it's Wisconsin, and their ceiling cannot be that high.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: The athletes aren't good enough for them to play to
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: the level they played to, So I think they're gonna
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: come down a little bit and I don't think. I
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: still think High Point has it in them to play
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: a pretty high level game. So my number.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Fifty five dollars Plumber Tournament.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: Can they hear us? Can he hear us over that? Oh? Yeah, okay,
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know how this works.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Good.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: So even though high Point played all those shit games
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: against not such good competition in Wisconsin's beating the best
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: teams in the country. I still think the line's too high,
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: and I would go with the high point.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: All right, Arkansas fifteen fifteen and a half over Hawaii.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: So once again, as predicted by me, they screwed John
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: cal Parry over they played Sunday and now they have
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: to play Thursday. And not only are they playing Thursday,
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: but also they had a chance to put them in
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma City and they put them in Oregon. So he's
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: got a long travel on short rest which does not
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: work well, and he's not a very good coach. And
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: GOODOA at Hawaii is excellent. Uh, the line is slightly high,
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: and they did win the SEC tournament, which should make
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: this a tricky game for them.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: To play as a big favorite.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: So I have a very strongly into Hawaii, maybe even
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: some sort of bet on Hawaii.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Plus fifteen and a half bet MGM Gonzaga twenty over Kennesaw.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Gonzaga should be a two seed, so then misseeded big surprise, Uh,
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: not a batchup. Kannsau wants Kinnasaw plays fast, Gonzaga plays
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: fast and wants to play fast and this could get ugly.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: So I think the line's right, but I'd only bet
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: the favorite.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: But I'm not no bet Okay, let's go to Friday
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Friday's games.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Texas Tech eight over Akron.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: They went up to eight. Yeah, I made the game six,
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: but I again as another team that really struggled against
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: better competition. They went to Purdue, they were never in
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: the game. They lost to Yale on a neutral. Yale
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: is a good team, but you they're not Texas Tech level.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And I'm not a Croachy fan. The coach there.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Texas Tech overcame the loss of maybe the best player
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: in the country, JT Toppin uh and and still played
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: at at a at a really high level. Uh. My
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: number in the game is only six. I hope they're
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: having a good conversation here. My number in the game
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: is only six. Uh, but I don't I don't have
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: much pezas for betting Acron. So just maybe a very
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: small lean.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, Alabama solid eleven and a half over Hofstra here.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so all the line came down because one of
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: the Alabama players got caught with like X number of
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: pounds of pot. I think it might have been two,
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: which I think is smart. Like, I think he's being
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: very enterprising. Right, you get this on al money, let's
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: try to turn it into something, so we'll deal weed.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Uh just not good when you get caught.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: So he screwed up by getting caught, but dealing weed,
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: I mean that's a good way to make a living.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: Uh So Natos, who try to grab some player out
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: of the G League, I'm surprised he's not petitioning to
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: let the kid play.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Wait, this is until proven guilty.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Who cares? We had a couple pounds a week on you,
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: like he should be able to play in the game.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: I'm sure NATO's is saying that, although maybe he's not
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: even stupid enough to say that. Yes, I despise him
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: for trying to pull a guy to the G League
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: and claims he belongs in college. Yeah, I want to
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: go to Alabama to get an education.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: He needed a big man to help his team, and
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: he went and plucked one, and then the courts, thank god,
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: stepped in and said.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: No, this is not how it works.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: That being said, Natos's system has been has been in
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: place there, and he has many bodies and this guy's
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: a good player that they lost, but he has a
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: lot of bodies that to replace this guy. And it's
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: more about the system. He doesn't have the most talented
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: team on the planet, and when he is better athletically
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: than the other the team which he is against Hofstra,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: his style can create ate a lot of blowouts. And
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: even though this line is right, and even though they're
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: down the best player, I think being down one of
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: the good players may help them here. It may motivate
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: them to say, all right, you know, let's go, let's
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: get them where you know. They They were life and
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: death with Robert Morris in the first round last year,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: and life and death with my owner.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Several years ago.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: So they've had struggles in the first round and Hoffs
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: was coming in playing the best.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Ball that they played all year.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: And props to the coach, but this feels like a
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: matchup that Alabama is gonna like, and I think Alabama's
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: gonna blow him out. I also think the line's right,
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: So don't think I'm in love with this, but my
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: instincts saying Alabama gets them, So I'll go with that
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: and maybe a small bet on Alabama.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, this line Iowa minus two at State two.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: There's a two and a half at circle, Iowa two
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: and a half or two over Clemson.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: My line's Iowa are half and both coaches are fantastic.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: Clemson kind of fizzled out late in the year and
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: was it because they got you know, was it because
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: they just got overrated to start the year or not?
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: And I don't think so.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Brad Burnell is great and his team kind of plays
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: at his level all the time. Ben McCallum and Iowa
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: fantastic coach, Like, he's got like a D two point
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: guard who's turned into a pro prospect. He's got another
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: D two guy who's he makes it work. He's just brilliant.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: So this is really a matchup of two very elite coaches.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to Clemson's leading BYU by twenty five
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: at the guard early in the year and point to
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: that as.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Very relevant for this matchup.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: If they can do that and play that well, then
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: I think that level here against a very not very
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: athletic Iowa team would give them.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: A slight edge.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: My line is Iowa a half, so it's it's no
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: big deal, but I I would have a small bet
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: on Clemson plus two and bigger plus three minus twenty
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: two or something.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, UCLA six five and a half or six
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: over Central.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: So here's the team that doesn't belong in the tournament,
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Central Florida. Like just absurd, Like so Auburn, who didn't
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: she likes to.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: So announce things.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Does she speak? Fifty five dollars?
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: Do you think there's a tournament? Anyone want to add
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: it to the poker tournament? It's over there, Uh, fifty
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: five dollars, we should all enter.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: She'd be happy. Auburn should have been in the tournament.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: By the way, but not because Bruce pro was was
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: was making some speech for his kid that was just stupid,
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: like yeah, your son, of course.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: You're gonna want him in. Like just shut up, man, Like.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: No one wants to hear you. And he's wrong about
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: miami O, Like miami O doesn't belong.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: In the tournament.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: But as mentioned before, you know they were thirty one
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: and oh they're in. Like what's the point of doing anything.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: If a team goes undefeated, they're in. And Auburn had
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: a million chances to win games that they could have
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: won it in and win him. So yeah, see you later.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: Steve Perley did a terrible job. Anyway, how did it
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: end up on Auburn? Oh, they'd be five and a
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: half over Central Florida on a neutral. San Diego State
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: would be five and a half over Central Florida on
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: a neutral. So that's how bad they the committee did
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: by putting this team in. This team stinks. Ucla finally
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: got healthy and Cronan is fantastic and Donovan Dent, his
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: point guard, was a turnover machine at New Mexico. He
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: played out of control all the time, which Richard Bettino
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: don't care about, but Cronin does.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: And it took about two months for Cronin.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: To get this kid to be a point guard and
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: not some flashy athlete.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: And once that happened and they.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: Got sky back, Ucla flipped the switch and became a
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: very high level team. And they completely lay over Central Florida. Yes,
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: they had two starters out for the conference cermmer, but
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: they both could have laid including Donovan Dent. Uh billdo
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: is the other one. He'll be back and they're gonna
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: kill Central Florida.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: So Ucla minus six five and a half, minus O
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: nine five.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: And a half, minus oh nine and if you can
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: buy five even better. All in they are not losing
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: to Central Florida.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: So you wouldn't say money line, though you could say
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: bet them.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: I would say anything you want to do.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's a good, good, good bet for you.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Then so I have it. So it's not as so
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: it's well, I'm finished. It's not as far off as uh,
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: it's not as far off as the purview game, which
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: is further off. But I have a lot more confidence
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: that are bright about this number, if that makes sense. Okay,
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: So I I am pretty sure eight and a half
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: is the right number, and I'm pretty sure that is
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: gonna kill him, all right. Johnny Dawkins is the moron too,
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: So this is that all the coach k guys and morons.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: No East Coast travel time concerns.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: It's Friday, so they have time. No, they'll schedule right.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: But good point, Yeah, that is a big deal. They
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: screwzeally all the time. They gave him. They gave him
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: a bad seat, and they gave me a good first
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: round draw, but not a good second round draw, which
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: we're getting to next. But good point. Yeah, the West
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: Coast east on thing. So San Diego State last year.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: The part I liked them in the player around last year.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: What I blew was they played a late game on
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: a Saturday night and had to play in Dayton on Tuesday.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: So very very good point the three hour gap. But
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: they'll get they'll they'll allow for it because they're playing
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: on Friday.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: All right, good question.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: This game there's Circa has minus twenty and South Point
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: has minus twenty one. And so this Spinnacle Connecticut over Furman.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Well, Furman coach is amazing.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: I was on him every game in the Southern Conference tournament,
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: which some people were happy about. Uh, but I think
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: Yukon is a threat to win the whole thing. As
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: bad as they looked against Saint John's. That'll probably help
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: him because Saint John's took Caravan out of the game
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: and and knew not howowed and didn't allow him to
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: get to his spots. But Hurly as an elite coaching staff,
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: and they'll adjust for that. And yeah, I don't again
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: the one, the one the line's accurate, I don't like it.
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: And Hurley doesn't try to run scores up so as
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: that too, So I just leave it alone, all right.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Virginia minus eighteen of a Right State.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: My line is thirteen and a half and I think
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: it's about right. Right State. Uh not a great team
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: and nothing on their resume to suggests that they can
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: even hang with Virginia, but they have a lot of depth.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: They overcame a bunch of injuries.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: They're all playing now, and having a lot of depth
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: is important in this thing because one of these these
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: uh mid majors, when they put six or ten in,
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: they're just so overmatched that the game gets away from them.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: That is not the case with Right State, and when
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: dealing with an eighteen point underdog, that's massively important. Virginia
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: had a home run year, but they played to a
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: level that that that they've really never even come to,
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: even under Tony Bennett.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: So they have only one place to go but down.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: I think thirteen and a half is a very very
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: good line, and I think Right State is a very
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: very good bet. Again, the back door is very feasible
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: here because there's no point in not putting subs in
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: as as soon as you can, but I don't think
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: you'll date it. I think Right State is a good
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: chance to hang.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Caesars bet MGM eighteen and a half and also a
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Pinnacle eighteen and a half. All right, let's get to
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: the next one, Miami, Florida two and a half over Missouri.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: I made Miami too, I think. I think the lines
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: bang on.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: I have no.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Nothing to offer, Okay, that's okay, Purdue up to twenty
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: five and a half, even at twenty six on the screen.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: I think the money for Purdue is because clean plays
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: hyper fast, and when you're dealing with twenty point favorites,
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: h hyper fast, hyper fast could get you in trouble. However,
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: Purdue just won the Big Ten tournament, and after you
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: win the Big Ten tournament, beating the number one team
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: in the country and your twenty five point favorite, it
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: could be very, very tricky to be hyper.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Motivated for it.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: So although there's a lot of money for Purdue, I
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: don't agree with it, and I would definitely lean to
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: Queens because I don't think Purdue is gonna have a
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: lot of pizaze for this game, even though it's the
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: NCAA tournament. They just beat the number one team in
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: the country. There's no way they'll they'll maintain that level.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: And Queen's is all in and nothing to lose. The
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: back doors there.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: All right Kentucky three three and a half over Santa Clara.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: I made it?
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: What did I make it?
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: I have?
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: I made it two one and a.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Half or two? Wow?
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: What did I make it? I didn't make it this high.
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: I had to make it one and a half.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I think I wrote down the wrong line.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: It's good to check this. Where is it? I can't
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: read my writing? Oh here it is, No, it is
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: that's wrong. Game two two three and a half.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Stillouldn't play it, though, would you close?
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: I could see one and a half Kentucky like I
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: was debating whether I've raded ninety seven or ninety seven
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: a half.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: So I've been bouncing around.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: They're a little healthier now, and I have a lot
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: of respect for Mark Pope. They spent twenty two million
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: on their team, by the way, which is you know,
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: when you struggle to eat every day, it's good to
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: hear that the team can spend twenty two million on
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: a college basketball team and two of them got hurt,
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: so ha ha. They're not happy down there with Mark Pope,
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: but he's a very good coach. However, the Santa Clair
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: coach is amazing. Herb Sendek on the all time greats
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: and I actually give him a slight age in this
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: game coaching wise.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: And I think.
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: His defense is really good, really well prepared, and Pope
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: runs very very good offense. Usually this team has struggled
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: the run offense. They don't really have a point guard.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: And the more I talk about this, the more I
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: kind of think Santa Clair has a good chance to
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: beat this team.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would.
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: I would lean to UH Santa Clara at three and
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: a half and maybe even bet something on them. Okay, yeah,
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: it feels like they're gonna match up well with the
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: Kentucky all right, Yeah, yeah, Sendeck's really good.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Iowa State pretty solid twenty five over Tennessee State.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: When you don't have athletes, you don't want to screw
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: with Iowa State. They're just savages on defense, and and
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: and and Tennessee State had enough NIOL money in the
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: Ohio Valley to win the league. But no one smiths
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: a duke guy, and I'm not high on duke coaches,
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: and a big duck to Iowa State tends to get
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: blown out because he just he just turns turns you
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: over so easily and willingly, and yeah, pass all.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Right, four more games guys uh Saint John's ten and
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: a half eleven over Northern Iowa.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: So Saint John's the five seed, which they shouldn't be.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: They should be three or four. But the reason they
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: are similar to the Louisville seeding against South Florida is
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: they're playing in mid major. It was dangerous, and my
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: contention is the committee looks for ways to just group
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: mid majors and get them out of the tournament asap,
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: so they stick them in the eight nine bracket where
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: they have to play a one seed next. Well, they
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: put them against the misseeded team when they're not good
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: enough to be a eight or nine. So that's what's
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: happened here is both Saint John's and Louisville got screwed
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: in the seat. Vanderbilt it was too actually just three
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: of them, Vanderbilt, Louisville, and Saint John's all got seated
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: too low, meaning too high a number, so.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: They can take out a mid major.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: Northern Iowa, one of the best coaches in the country
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: against Patino's team just won the Big East, so they're
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: coming in off of high which is not good. I
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: like to bet against teams who win their conference tournament.
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: And Northern Iowa is elite defensively and Saint John's. The
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: hole in their armor is they lacked three point shooting
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: and Northern Iowa. If Northern Iowa does not turn it
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: over and then they don't turn it over much. But
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: of course they haven't faced anything what St. John's is
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: going to do to him. They have a very good
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: chance to hang in this game. The problem is is
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: they may just turn roll a lot because Saint John's
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: press is something they haven't seen all year and it's very.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Very difficult to prepare for.
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: However, Northern Iowa's defense is fantastic, even though they lack athletes.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: That five moving is one.
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: It's very Brad Stevens esque, where everyone knows what it's
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: supposed to be on the court and they very rarely
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: make a mistake. So Saint John's lack of three point
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: shooting is going to knock him out of this tournament
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: at some point, And it may not knock him out
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: of this game, but.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: It may allow Northern Iowa to hang.
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: I think the line is absolutely right, so I'm passing,
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: but I can see Northern Iowa hanging.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: I can assume getting born out too.
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: By the way, so.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Pass Kansas fourteen and a half over cal Baptist.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Year. Yeah, Kansas ain't that good. This is not something
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: eleak Kansas team. I don't think Bill Self's any kind
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: of great coach. Rick Krou's teams are very very good defensively.
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: The Kansas kid Peterson, you know, he hasn't in his
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: nil contract that he can take himself out of the
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: game if he wants. I'm serious. So I work for you,
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: and we're construction. My handworks. I don't feel like putting
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: a brick down. See you you're paying me anyway. That's
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: what the world's come to. They are all a bunch
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: of pussies and my leg hurts. Well, we'll play through it,
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: due dude, Like no, uh, I think this line is
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: slightly high, and I think that the game is gonna
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: play kind of low, and and I think cal Baptist
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: is a very good chance to hang in there. This
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: is not a good version of Kansas, like not close
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: and better versions of Kansas have have have struggled in
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: the first round because Bill self is usually out coached,
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: so cal Baptist and nobody has small bet.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go on. Arizona thirty one over Long Island.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: And I won't do the Mark Lindsay reference again.
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great job by h Strickland at Long Island.
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: These guys keep talking to Gon to lose my mind.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Uh Goody wants about right, So pass.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: Pass on that.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, last one, Utah State two over Villainova.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Utah State got screwed.
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: It should be like a five seed and there are nine,
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: and it basically very difficult. He seed going over I
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: guess hates about right for them seven or eight.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: I should write out all.
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: The seeds and see who got screwed the most. But
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: then the second round match is not fair. Utah State,
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: though I watched them play, they are fantastic. The coach
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: is amazing, he's a Huggins disciple, and Villanova overachieved this
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: year with a not overly talented team. I made the
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: line Utah State two and a half. But if you
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: toss Eate ran him out of the gym, it wouldn't
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: surprise me because I don't think.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: Villanova was that good.
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: I think Willard did a fantastic job. But the line's correct,
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: but it'd only be on Utah State.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: We have a request for anything in the NI T
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: either today or tomorrow anything.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: One of the lines.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: I know, I don't know if you did the work
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: on a plane or not.
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: George Mason three and a half, while no, they're Yale
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: minus four and a half, minus five four and a
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: half at primary whatever the hell that is Pinnacle now?
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: Oh and benmgm south Point. Yeah, so Yale minus four
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: and a half. Okay, but these minds moved a shit
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: ton that that was plus nine this morning.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm no longer betting that.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Because your friend of Davidson was dying, that's down to
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: six South down gets alved.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I lean that way.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: Complete coaching mismatch, and I'm not so sure how how
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: motivated Auburn will be, although they took a vote, and
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: they voted they want to play. But the South Alabama
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: coach is fantastic. Uh.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: He plays a.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Really myriad of Tricky's own defenses, which are impossible to
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: prepare for on short notice. Never minded Steve Probe preparing
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: for it, who clearly is not up to stuff here.
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: So I could see maybe even a little money line
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: South Alabama. I could see them. If Auburn don't show
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: up making it their life miserable, they will make their
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: life miserable. As long as they're not too athlete, they
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: should be able to hang there. So yes, South Alabama
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: plus eighteen and also, uh Calarvine is a complete coaching mismatch.
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: Also Russell Turner one of the best of the country
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: against the n l V coach who uh will Will
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: is average at best. So Calravine minus one and a half.
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: That's what I like in on Wednesday. That's tonight.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Let's see what's tomorrow.
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they haven't banks out yet, so let's seho we
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: can find here. I like Utah Valley minus who I
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: don't love it California minus five. That one I like
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: a lot is four and a half at South Point
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: and Caesar's California.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Big California over Illinois Chicago tomorrow night, guys.
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: Right then I lean to Colorado State maybe Colorado State
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: small and Utah Valley medium and you got it all right?
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: We can do questions BALLI Hi, my name is Mike Zay.
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: I'm from Dallas. Thanks for coming. I'm from Dallas.
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: Dallas, Yes, sir, Yes sir, Dallas, Yes sir, Big big
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: fan slash resorts.
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: Just close, just close. It's literally about like he's making
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: ladies on the matchbooks. Yeah, my buddy went to I
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: went to Dallas to visit a friend and he took
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: me to a restaurant with the cut off the tie.
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: Yes, the trail does steakhouse, fantastic place trail And I
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: went to a pool turner down there too, So that's
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: what I know about Dallas.
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: Good luck. So yeah, center. Yeah.
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: My first question is when you talk about like for example,
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: cal Baptist, you know your number is correct, You know
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: all that you ever consider betting first half on these
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: like big dogs for tournaments and just.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: First half, especially with dogs.
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: But because number one, you get a true result. The
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: team the game's on five with twenty seconds ago during
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: the season, it could end ten follow make them both
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: missed three point of.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: Fallow, make them both.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: And if the game's on five with twenty seconds ago
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: in the first half, it's one possession no matter who
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: has the ball, holy for the last shot. So the
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: game's gonna end five or seven. So you don't take
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: bad beats when you bet the first half as off.
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: And of course the nominalties happened. That's one reason I
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: at first halfs. Number two is superior coaching can allow
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: a team to hang with the West athletic team for
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: a half and sometimes for two thirds of the game,
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: but at some point they usually crash and the athleticism
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: takes over and then you just get run out.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: So yes, there's two reasons to bet first halves that
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: are both relevant.
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: And I've never done it because back in the day
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: when I was betting more than most, a lot more
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: than most.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: You couldn't get down enough on it.
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: And I've never went evaluated. You know what, first halves
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: might be better than others, but certainly for the reasons
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: afore mentioned, first halves are probably better than whole games,
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: especially with dogs. So I never considered it, but it's
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: right to thank you.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: You're very welcome.
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: One more question for you, sir.
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: I'm on Texas AMALM, so I'm gonna ask this question
• 55:58
  Speaker 5: one more time. I know I love Randy Bennett, probably
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: one of the best coach to find formed players to
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: create a program. Do you think Saint Mary will have
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: a little trouble with bucket ball at the beginning, because
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: you know, I look at the comp Santa Clara, who
• 56:17
  Speaker 5: they play three times, lost twice two out of three
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: times to Santa Clara. As the kind of comp to
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: Texas Am do you think.
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: Like.
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: Just because that little frant tic pace. But I also
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: know Randy Bennett is very hard. You know, Gonzaga tried
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: to speed up, you know hard for good teams even
• 56:35
  Speaker 5: to speed up you know, Saint Mary.
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: They're very good at not turning it over St. Mary's.
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: And yeah, because Bucky ball is so different and they've
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: never seen it before, it's probably.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: A little tricky. So good point, but.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: Bennett's so good, like so so good that I think
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: he'll solve it. And sadly, I do like Bucky mcgeownie's great.
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: You wish it was interviews as presh because he's great.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: He seems like a really good dude. He seems genuine,
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: unlike most of the bullshitters that are in this industry.
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: I think he knows what he's doing. I'm just not
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: sure his style works well for them to be elite.
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: So I agree with you one d percent of me,
• 57:19
  Speaker 5: But thank you.
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: You mentioned a couple of weeks back that you don't
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: always change your power ratings. I can't hear the power ratings.
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: How often do you adjust them? And in the you
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: mentioned a couple of weeks ago you don't do it
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: too often because you said it and whatever it is,
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: you're going with it well. In the in the book
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: The Odds, the author says that you adjusted him all
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: the time.
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an ongoing adjustment. However, So you start off
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: with ex players with X talent, and I'm guessing at
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: a rating to start the year, especially now with there
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: all new players. Back in the day, when there was
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: you know, eight or nine players coming back for every team,
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: figuring out a power rating wasn't as difficult. But now
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: with the nil are as kind of a guess. So
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: at the beginning, I'm more apt because I am guessing
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: to change ratings fairly often. At some point, if I
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: think I know how good a team is, I'm just
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: gonna stick with that rating because the team's not changing
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: barring some injury. And even though they're gonna play too
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: much higher than that rating and much lower that rating,
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: that's called being human. You have your good days and
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: bad the rating still stays the same. This is on
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: average how well they're gonna play, and I'm less apt
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: to change it as the year goes on, And if
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: I get comfortable with the team's rating, I'm sticking with it.
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: I don't care what happens. So yes, at the beginning,
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: it's changed a lot, so Chad, Chad said it because
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: it is ever changing, and I could change the team's
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: rating at the end of the year. I knocked Saint
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: Louis at the end of the year because they completely imploded.
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: I knocked and he stayed at the end of the
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: year because I had him overrated. So there are moments
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: when I'm going to change it because I make mistakes.
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: I'm and I make a lot of them. I'm human.
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: That's why I'm trying to battle these sophisticated computer programs
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: and proudly I can still beat it. So and this
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: isn't me bragging. This is just fact. Like I didn't
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: earn money as a model, that's for sure. Uh so.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: But but good point, Yeah, Chad, Chad. Technically it's always changing.
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: But if I don't know how good a team is
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: twenty games in, I probably should be doing something else
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: for a living.
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: May Yeah.
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: And but once I once I know how good a
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: team is, I'm going with it.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Allen, Hi, I'm Calvin from Philly. Calvin, Calvin, know my pleasure, sir.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: That's right, Brothers, listen, you're one of the first people
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: here to uh on the podcast acknowledge the NIL money
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: did the impact that has had in the betting. I'm
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: starting to notice, like last year, losing games that I
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have lost, and then when I go and see
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: the payroll, I go, oh, I didn't realize that this
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: made this much difference because I thought I thought, I
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: don't know, I'm just ignorant. I thought the money was
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: a little bit more evenly distributed. I didn't realize it's yeah,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Like I didn't realize the have still have in the head.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: So you know, one of the first people.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: So what are you doing to compensate for that when
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: you handicap?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: Like, are you going looking at I wish I had
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: went and looked at how much ANIL money there was
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: for each shame. That would have been a good way
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: to evaluate the teams to.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: Start the year.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: Right, the guys are getting paid more, unless you're really
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: fuck up, are probably better. Okay, So that was a
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: hole in my game, Like, I didn't know Wynden would
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: had a lot of ANIL money. Well, I don't even
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: know where it is. It's a Missouri No, it's not.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: I don't even know where it's either yeah, it's a
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: Missuri since Saint Thomas, Missouri, I think, But who the
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, they were just D two who knew they
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: had a lot of nil money. Tennessee State had the
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: most nil money in the league. They're in a tournament.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: Sienna had the most nil money in the NAAC. They're
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: in the tournament. And in fact, the NCAA allots more
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: nil money to the power schools. This is why it's corrupt.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: This is why it's a rigg game. That's why I've
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: known it's the rig game all these years. They've always
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: wanted three or four power conferences breakaway, and I've talked
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: about this ad nauseam on the podcast or won't go
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: there again. But yeah, the power schools are allotted more
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: money and they are allowed to play nil games where
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: they get paid. So not only do they get more
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: money to start the year, but also they get to
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: play games where they get paid more during the year.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: And the rest of it is all fundraising, and the
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: spirit of nil is cool. The spirit of nil is
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: all right. I live in Philly and there's a local
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: pizza joint that wants to be involved with Drexel. Let's
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: say so they pay a kit fifty thousand dollars to
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: be the face, you know, faces on a piece of
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: box and he's getting paid fifty grand for it. But
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: of course that's not what it is. It's let's see
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: who can buy the most players and buy a team
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: like twenty two million in Kentucky. Kentucky's got all the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: money down there, all that old school you know, Hillbilly's
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: got it all, all the old school farmers. Yeah, they
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: got all the money them in the moment. The moment's
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: got all the money too. That's why b Yu can
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: spend a trillion dollars on it. And that's how it is.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: It's a farce. But I didn't do anything to compensate
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: for it, So that was a whole in my game.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: But good point.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, Allen. So I want to talk props with you.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 7: Last year all four and ones made the Final four.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 7: This year, there's lines out there over under one and
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 7: a half ones to make the Final four to over
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 7: under two and a half number one seats to make
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: the Final four.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: What do you think of those?
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 7: Are more than two or more than three or excuse me,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 7: more than one and a half, more than.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: Sixty at bet MGM. Right now, I lay that one.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: I go over it was minus one and a quarter.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 7: Yesterday, Yeah, I think, yeah, over two and a half
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 7: is plus one ninety here draws, I would actually, so
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 7: are you thinking over?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: So?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: Who has Connecticut as a two seed?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: What do you want? What one seed has Connecticut as
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: a two in their bracket? Dukes in the number one
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: and the duke's won with the Connecticut bracket. And then
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: the other tricky two seed is uh Houston Houston ward
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: all right?
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 7: Over, so over one and a half. What about over
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 7: two and a half plus one ninety? Over two and
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 7: a half plus one night, I go over two and
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 7: a half two okay? And ultimately, who do you have
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 7: winning at all?
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Florida?
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 5: Okay, even though Florida playing might play.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: In Houston, they'll be Houston Houston's young and and they'll
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: be better next year if he hangs on to it.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: Kelvin Samps is.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: Very good at.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: But Florida Florida. I talked about this, I think on
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: the podcast, right yeah Florida, Yeah, yeah, I bet Florida
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: about a month ago to win it. And their guards
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  Speaker 4: have gotten more comfortable. They have an Ivy League guard
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  Speaker 4: IVY League not known for athleticism, but he's projected like
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  Speaker 4: second round draft pick. But he's only faced like IVY
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  Speaker 4: League competition. So it took a while for him to
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  Speaker 4: adjust to the new system he's playing in and to
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  Speaker 4: adjust to the athleticism that he's now facing nightly.
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  Speaker 2: And he's gotten comfortable with it.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, they have elite rim protection, they have an
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  Speaker 4: elite coach. Many of the players went through it last
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  Speaker 4: year and I just think they I think they'll do
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  Speaker 4: it again.
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  Speaker 1: The person who's asking the question next is on a
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  Speaker 1: big role himself in college basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Let's follow him, That's what I What did I tell you?
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  Speaker 3: I said, let's follow you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's twenty I don't know what I'm doing twenty
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  Speaker 1: in the last twenty three.
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  Speaker 8: All right, go ahead, nice, Alan has a going Tyson
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  Speaker 8: bet Sports, big fan of yours. I love watching the show,
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  Speaker 8: love watching you and crack every week. Tyson Tyson, Yeah, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I just got a question for you. I have Arkansas
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  Speaker 8: making a deep run in this tournament, and I just
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  Speaker 8: want to know your thoughts on Arkansas and what you
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  Speaker 8: think they're capable of doing.
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  Speaker 4: They're very capable. They've played some humongous, humongous. They took
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  Speaker 4: Duke to the wire basically on a neutral right, so
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  Speaker 4: they're certainly capable of it. But I love Cala Harry
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  Speaker 4: the person. I love the hes as straight shot that
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  Speaker 4: he tells the NCAA to fuck off, Like I love that,
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  Speaker 4: And they screwed him as a result by giving him
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  Speaker 4: short rest and shipping him the Oregon. But as a coach,
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  Speaker 4: he's not up to snuff. His ex's and o's aren't
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  Speaker 4: very good, and I think that will get him, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't look at their draw like they're gonna struggle
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  Speaker 4: in his first game a little bit. I think, don't
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  Speaker 4: get them. But but their best game is very dangerous.
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  Speaker 4: It's just they can't they just they're too far below
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  Speaker 4: the best teams and and his coaching can't overcome the fact.
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  Speaker 3: That they are okay.
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  Speaker 8: And then the other team, I like, making a kind
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  Speaker 8: of a run is VCU what's your thoughts on that?
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  Speaker 4: Who Oh, they're not nearly good enough and and they're
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  Speaker 4: and they're they almost pissed away the game. But in
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  Speaker 4: the conference the final, it was it was disgusting what
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  Speaker 4: they did.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're not nearly good enough.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, anyone else a question for Allen.
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  Speaker 5: I do want to I do want to take a
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  Speaker 5: moment here to thank crack for putting this on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: the people's the people's man.
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  Speaker 1: Uh try to, but we got to thank Allen for
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  Speaker 1: giving us his time each week.
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  Speaker 3: It's not easy.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's not easy, you know, Uh coming on every single week.
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  Speaker 3: He's trying to.
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  Speaker 1: We try to film on Thursdays because Friday's slower. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Allen's working doing the game, so it's tough. So I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate him coming on. Appreciate you people coming Alan.
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  Speaker 4: Allen does this in the hopes that if one person
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  Speaker 4: learns something or one person enjoys it, it's worth it.
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  Speaker 2: Allen gets paid nothing for this. Allen's up promoting himself.
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  Speaker 4: Ready, they appreciate it. So yeah, I'm flattered at some
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: of the comments and surprised.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I'm both surprised and flattered. So it's very very cool.
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  Speaker 4: And seriously, man, there's no such thing as a bad question,
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  Speaker 4: so anything you ask is fine.