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Kelley Ford on Houston's Chances and the Big 12 vs SEC in March Madness · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  A Kelly Ford segment two on a Tuesday, Lines dot Com also k Ford
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  Ratings. Kelly, I know you guys punching out basketball, football. Football'll
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  be back before you know it on the lines. Yeah, absolutely so.
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  Over at the lines dot Com, all sorts of college basketball content being put
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  out there right now. The NBA, you know, as they're getting close
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  to the All Star Game coming up right here in Indianapolis. Trade deadline later
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  this week, but right now, all eyes are on the super Bowl,
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  of course, Jake, all sorts of content over at the lines dot Com
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  gets you set with all your sports handicapping and all those sports and more.
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  Let's get to the super Bowl before we do one college basketball question, Kate,
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  and we'll get more of this next week. K Ford Ratings two three
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  twenty four update Houston one perdue to Arizona three, yukon four, Tennessee five.
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  You know, you get a team like Houston who has been in the
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  mix over the last several years, made a Final four, been right there
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  in the Elite eight, They've been right there. Do they have what it
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  takes to make the whole run and do the whole thing this year? I
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  do, Jake think that Houston has what it takes to win a national championship.
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  People always talk about, well, they haven't done it, so they
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  can't do it. It's not that you can't do it, it's just that
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  they haven't done it yet, at least under this current regime here in recent
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  years, they're as talented as any team in the country. They're playing a
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  Big Twelve schedule this year instead of an American Athletic Conference schedule, so they're
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  going to be more battle tested. The question will be will that battle testing
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  over the course of what's the gauntlet in the Big Twelve, will that wear
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  them down to the point where they are not able to sustain a run in
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  March. I don't believe it will, but I certainly believe that next year's
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  Houston team will be positioned, if dot for this year's team to be positioned
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  well to make a run in the March as they get more used to that
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  weekend, week out grind of the Big Twelve, which by my numbers and
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  by really every metric out there is the best and deepest conference in college basketball.
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  They're going to put upwards of nine teams in the tournament. But Jake,
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  your listeners will be happy to know the SEC they're right there. While
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  they might not be able to match the Big twelve pound per pound at the
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  top test team, I think that the SEC is going to get just as
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  many teams in the tournament at least as things stand right now, than the
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  Big twelve. They could be getting a to ninet teams and themselves, including
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  full miss and miss to be stated. Kelly Forward on your Radio Talking College
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  Sports Tuesday edition of the program. We'll have all this one later on this
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