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March Madness First Weekend Recap & Sweet 16 Preview · Height Differential

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  Give it. To me, start us with the theme
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  song. All right, we're rolling.
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  You ready? Yeah.
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  Four straight days of hoops. The best weekend of the year is
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  over. We got plenty to recap, plenty
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  to look forward to coming up on Thursday and Friday with the
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  Sweet 16. It is the height differential.
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  I am the 410 Nick that is the 66 new.
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  Did you get your hoops fixing? I'm exhausted.
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  I'm exhausted. Well, is that because of the
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  hoops watching or is that because of other extracurricular
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  activities? I mean, it's all, is it not a
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  combination of everything. I mean, you've got 30, what, 32
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  games in the first two days, then add another 16.
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  So I mean, we're at foot, 4048 games in four days, something
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  like that. Pretty.
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  Math. So math, math and.
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  Then you add a lot, I mean, it's Wednesday with the play
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  insurance and you had all the women's games that we've been
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  watching because been watching those two.
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  Yeah, I mean, yeah, you ain't kidding.
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  I mean, oh, it's it's the best four days on the sports
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  calendar. But then when Monday rolls
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  around, you just feel, you feel a little, you feel a little a
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  little weary, a little tired. So now you got 2-3 days to
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  regroup and let's get ready for Thursday.
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  Well, I don't know about how weary.
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  Like the tournament just straight turns the women's.
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  The women's tournament on Monday keeps you going.
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  There's games all day, starting off with Louisville this
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  afternoon, holding on to beat Alabama 69 to 68.
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  They won't do anything easy, but they're marching on to their
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  13th Sweet 16 under head coach Jeff Wall.
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  So congratulations to the Cards. Was fun to be there.
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  Atmosphere was good for a noon game.
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  It was great. Kudos to Carnation.
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  You didn't said noon. Noon on a Monday to get almost
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  6000 fans out there today. So yeah.
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  So tournament towards turn towards women's, but we'll recap
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  the four days of the men's tournament here.
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  But like you said on on Thursday, you get that CBS theme
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  song fight. You watch the end of Price is
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  Right because you can't wait for the for the coverage of the
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  basketball tournament to start as soon as Drew Carey.
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  It was better when it was Bob Barker, but now Drew Carey.
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  When he ends it tells you to get your pet spayed or neutered.
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  You know that theme songs are not the.
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  Hit, you're already juiced. You're already juiced.
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  You're you're down sitting in front of the TV and you find
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  yourself yelling at Susie and George of how much they overbid
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  on the on the showcase showdown. Like, no, you idiot, that's too
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  high. And then we roll right into the
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  games. So yeah, you're right.
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  You, you can't beat it. And it's, I mean, I don't know
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  how many years it's now been where they've had it on four
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  different TV's where you can find every game, but it is the
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  greatest thing ever. And yeah, my eyes are tired from
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  watching Hoops. And we also watched, technically
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  we started on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week too,
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  because, I mean, the playing games were were all right.
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  They were all right. They were the Miami, OH game, I
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  guess. Do we need to start off with
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  that before we get into the actual bracket?
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  It's been almost a week since that went down.
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  You will remind me, Ohio hater. Yeah.
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  They took care of Smoo. I it might be more the fact that
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  Smoo is just not very good and shouldn't have been in the
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  tournament. But if you're if you're arguing
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  who was going to get in? I think it was clear cut that
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  Miami Ohio deserved to get in over smoo and it was fun for
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  them to get the national stage. They had deserved that for what
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  they did this season. And I know it didn't turn out
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  their way against Tennessee, but the just to have that one night.
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  I, I think it was cool for, for the RedHawks and Miami, OH.
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  It was fine. I mean, did they end up base?
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  Did they end up deserving to be in the tournament?
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  I guess so. I mean, they they aren't hit by
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  beating. They beat that.
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  They finally beat a Power Four team in SMU who did not look
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  very good on Wednesday night last week.
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  But kudos to Miami. Their offense.
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  I was very, very impressed with the way they run their offense.
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  A lot of backdoor action. They shot the shot the ball
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  really well. They were they were by far the
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  better team. I'm over that ACACCSMU team that
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  got it got gotten up the playing game.
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  So kudos to Miami. They they they did deserve to
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  get into that playing game. They proved themselves and then
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  they got housed by the 1st actual good team they played.
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  Well, in, I mean, Tennessee is just a physical team.
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  They're athletic. They're just not a great match
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  up for them and was not a close game and but we've talked a lot
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  of Miami, OH on here. I feel like it was they was
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  worth their due to to kind of give.
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  Them. Their.
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  Flowers their flowers for for showing up against SMU and but
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  now I guess just kind of get into the tournament.
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  We can go region by region because there's been so many
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  games. We don't need to go into every
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  single game. But if if you look at the east
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  region and this region is went almost completely chalk and I
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  got every game right on my bracket.
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  I got. You, I don't know if you got it
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  right because the what you said on the air last week, that was
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  changed the next day. I don't know when I could post
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  shorts because you're changing your mind constantly.
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  Did you get it? Did you get everyone right in
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  the East region? I got 7 out of 8 correct.
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  I missed that Ohio State TCU game which was a great opening
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  game for the first game of the tournament.
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  An outstanding game, TCU getting a bucket late and then forcing
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  Ohio State, you know, to to not get off a a good look at the
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  end, forcing them to 1/2 court heave.
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  That wasn't even close. So great game to start it off.
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  But yeah, I got 7 out of eight. That was the one I missed.
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  And you know that that you talk about the ending there and it's
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  one thing I want to get into during this part is talking
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  about fouling at the end of games and in the game
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  situations. And Ohio State had to go to the
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  lake, to the court. They had almost 5 seconds up.
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  It was like 4 1/2 something like that.
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  They don't get the ball running downhill.
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  They don't even get to half court, like just play defense.
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  And obviously the way the Ohio State, what they drew up is not
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  what they actually were able to execute and do it the way they
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  wanted to. But they caught the ball not
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  going downhill because of that, got a a terrible shot off.
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  And I don't know, everybody just keeps talking about in all these
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  late game situations after you see what happens that they would
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  foul. To me that is an instance to
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  show you why you should not foul.
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  Just start. Well that one was a 2 point
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  game, right? Yeah.
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  I mean, unless you're no, but I'm.
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  Just saying like just guard. Just guard No, I agree, but
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  unless you're Todd Golden, you're not fouling up to and put
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  giving them a chance to tie the game.
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  We'll get into that. We'll get into that later, but
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  no east region. Like you said, it was all
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  chalked. I think probably the the game of
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  the first round there was probably, I'm going to guess, I
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  mean for me it was that Louisville South Florida game
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  and you know, we obviously have a lot of interest in Louisville
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  being the local team here. They played really well.
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  I don't know about 3035 minutes of that game and kind of started
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  turning it over a lot and ended up with, I don't know, was it 22
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  turnovers or something? Maybe something something high
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  like that it. Was ugly.
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  It was it was not great, but you know, they held on.
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  They did what they needed to do Isaac Mcneely was on fire good
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  for the cars first tournament win since 2017.
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  So it was something that that that we needed.
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  Louisville needed, PK needed the fan base needed a lot of people
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  didn't have Louisville winning this game.
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  If you listen to all the national quote UN quote experts,
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  everybody was picking South Florida as the trendy upset and
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  Louisville shut that down. So it was good, good winning in
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  round one for the cards. Well, it's almost a good sign, I
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  think, when all the experts are not picking your team.
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  And you're right, not a single person on national media picked
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  Louisville to win this game. And because of that, Louisville
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  goes on to win. They did played Michigan State,
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  hung in there was in striking distance.
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  You kind of hoping like the under 4, they were a little
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  closer. But late in the game it really
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  was never a doubt it. I don't know really, really what
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  to say about the game on on Saturday.
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  I think Michigan State's probably just a better team.
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  They played Michigan State played better.
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  I mean the cards they were in strike you said in striking
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  distance most of the way it was even that five to seven point
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  range like they'd cut it to five and you know, just hoping for
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  that stop and they couldn't get it and they go back to seven it
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  go back to 9 then they cut it back to five.
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  But they could never they had the ball one time and I think
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  midway until late in the second-half where they had the
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  ball down 3. They did finally get a stop and
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  then they missed A3 pointer and that was the closest that they
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  that they got the rest of the way.
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  But I don't know. That Khalifa, that Khalifa look
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  in the corner, if that would have, it was kind of a rush
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  shot. Like that was where they were
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  down three, they had a chance to tie it.
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  If that falls, maybe it's a little different, but.
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  Yeah, this could say was the better team, don't get me wrong.
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  The officiating little questionable, perhaps a lot of
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  flopping on the Michigan State side and a Flagrant 1 foul that
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  I don't know how you call that when the man missed the ball by
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  about an inch and just hit an arm.
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  But it's what it is. It's fine.
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  Yeah, would have been fun to see what that run would have looked
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  like with Michael Brown. I mean, they're going to be a
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  lot better press offense with him on the floor.
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  That's a big reason why they struggled against the press.
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  It's because he's not in there. Just unfortunate the way all
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  that went down. And I don't know, we're likely
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  to not see Michael Brown in a Louisville uniform again, So.
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  But. Now that to me that was the game
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  of the first round, the. Game of the first round.
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  I think you're wrong. I think it was Duke Siena, like
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  who who expected Sienna to hang in there.
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  Played five guys almost the entire game, not using their
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  bench one time hanging in there. And they just, they just ran out
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  of gas. And you you listen to Malik
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  Brown at halftime, he's very honest and says, you know what,
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  we just kind of thought this was going to be a cupcake game and
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  we were overlooking them and that's why they're hanging in
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  there. In the end, Duke just kind of
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  wore them down and ended up winning by 6.
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  But the fact that Sienna had a chance to to win at the under 4,
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  I don't think anybody's expecting that.
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  And, and now you've seen two coaches that lose in the first
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  round. Jerry McNamara leaves Sienna to
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  go to Syracuse and Brian Hudson leaves South Florida to go to
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  Providence, which I think is a really good get for the Friars.
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  Yeah, I mean, yeah, he had his his choice between Providence
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  and Syracuse or staying in South Florida and he obviously went
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  the province route, which left McNamara going back to Syracuse.
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  And, you know, we've talked about former players going back
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  and and coaching their alma mater's and a lot of times how
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  that can or may or may not work. And a lot of times it doesn't
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  work. But McNamara did a great job
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  with Sienna. Hope he, you know, plays more
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  than five guys at Syracuse. But you know, it'll be
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  interesting to see what he can do up there.
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  And then the second round, the the game of, of Sunday was Saint
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  John's and Kansas. St.
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  John's leads almost the entire way, looks like they're going to
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  cruise. And then all of a sudden Darren
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  Peterson and and Kansas kind of starts to make some threes
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  making, making a run at it, get some big offensive rebounds and
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  Saint John's ends up with the ball with with less than 10
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  seconds. What about 6 seconds left
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  because they had used 3 fouls to give?
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  Which they thought we'll talk about fouling later.
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  I thought that they did an excellent job of using those
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  fouls to give and then you just let them go right by you there
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  at the end of the game. But when we you know, when you
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  have all those fouls to give, like they they made them run the
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  clock down. They what they took off at least
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  1314. Seconds they got it down to 6.
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  I believe that was what they impounded it on that last play.
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  My thing is like I get it with the what do?
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  Is that not right? I think it was less than that.
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  I thought it was down to like 3. It wasn't that it wasn't that it
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  wasn't that short. Look that up, it was I'm.
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  I thought it was done to like 3 seconds.
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  But here's my thing with it, you've got fouls to give.
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  I'm not going to go to six to where if I get a checking foul,
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  I'm sending them to the line and and that's what you risk there
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  is what it not is putting them to the line when it's not a
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  shooting foul. So if I can get, if I can use
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  that 5th foul, I would do it. But Dylan Darling, who hadn't
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  scored the entire game, and we talked about him on the spot,
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  how he really didn't do a lot the the first couple of months
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  for St. John's and told Pitino that he
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  wanted the ball. He wanted to get downhill.
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  And when he turned the corner there, there was nobody, nobody
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  underneath protecting the paint. He went to his right, even
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  though he's a lefty and and was able to finish the play and get
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  the two points to get St. John's the victory.
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  Did you? What'd you find out there?
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  3 seconds foul on Flory Badungo with three seconds left.
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  And when they're started fouling, their first foul was
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  with 13 seconds left. So they, they, they made them
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  waste 10 seconds, 10 seconds. So you get it down to three.
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  They're inbounding it from half court basically.
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  Like you feel pretty good. And then you just let the guy
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  just straight get to the rim. Like I don't know how you allow
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  that. To happen.
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  It wasn't that there was also like there was just straight
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  dude clear sailing once he got past his guy, there's nobody
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  there for hell defense. Nobody.
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  Yeah. Nobody there and look, I he's
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  going his wrong hand like he's a lefty.
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  He talked about that post game and is able to finish that with
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  his off hand. So crudo to him.
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  He's the first player ever to hit a a shot at the buzzer that
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  hadn't scored previously in the NCAA tournament, which is which
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  is the man's asking for the ball what he hadn't scored.
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  That's kind of cool. Yeah, and and Pitino is like.
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  He talked about it. He talked about it, yeah.
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  And what was your stat? You said?
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  Rick Pitino, the third coach. So Rick Pitino now is the third
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  coach in college basketball history to reach a Final Four or
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  reach a Sweet 16 in five different decades.
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  He did with 80 with Providence, 90 with Kentucky, 1000 and 2010
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  with Louisville, and now 2020 with St.
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  John's. There are two other coaches to
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  do it. One coach has done it 6 times.
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  Do you know who those two coaches are?
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  Both of those coaches did it with the same school.
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  Mike Shashefsky's got to be. KK did it 5 and also did it in
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  five decades. And somebody else did it in six.
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  Somebody did it in six. Roy Williams done it in six.
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  No. No, not around Logan.
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  Bob Knight, 6th decade. He's got a new coach.
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  Jim Behi. That is it.
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  Wow, yeah, that makes sense. And look, this is another reason
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  why I don't think John Shire gets the credit that he
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  deserves. Is like, look what Syracuse?
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  Is you love, you love John Shire.
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  I just think it like, I don't think he gives.
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  I think we all just assumed that Duke is just always going to be
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  Duke because they didn't skip a beat.
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  And we've seen so many of these programs when they lose their
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  head coaches have such a tough time getting back to the level
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  that they were and now Syracuse is going to.
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  Jerry McNamara has had 0 success whatsoever What since Bayham has
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  retired. Yeah.
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  And I don't know, I just, we just assumed that it was going
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  to happen. And I'm not a, you know, I'm not
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  a Duke fan. I do not cheer for Duke.
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  Yeah. It's the fact that he is.
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  Impressive. No, I agree with.
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  You they have not skipped a beat at all.
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  I mean, look what North Carolina's going through right
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  now. Hubert Davis might not have a
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  job next year. I think it makes sense.
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  Like I, I don't know, he maybe deserves one more year, but I
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  think it's definitely something that you would look at.
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  You can't lose that game that they lost to VCU.
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  And last year you barely get in and I don't know, But so now
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  you've got Duke and St. John's, Michigan State and U
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  Conn, Shire, Pitino, Izzo, Hurley.
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  Quite a quite a group. Quite a group on the bottom of
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  the bracket in the South. I got some games wrong in this
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  one and I think a lot of other people did too.
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  Honestly, first round, I only missed one in the first round on
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  that one, and that was the Texas A&M game.
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  But. Yeah, I missed that one too.
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  Just watching that game. I'm like, you're an idiot.
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  I mean, it was mostly chalk except for what?
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  Well, IO was a nine, but VCU was an 11.
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  All nines won and I picked all nines so.
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  What else did you Did you miss another one in that first round?
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  No, just just just say no. This the the game obviously of
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  the first round in in in the South was the VCU coming back
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  from 19 down against North Carolina.
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  North Carolina was just killing them inside to and that's how
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  they built their lead and they went away from it.
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  They went away from it and Terry till got hot.
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  Nick Smith made some some big plays.
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  They ended up getting it overtime and dude, that overtime
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  was a dogfight. Neither team, neither team could
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  score. I think they went the first 2
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  1/2 minutes without a without a point in that overtime, Terrence
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  Hill finally does hit a three and VCU ends up escaping.
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  I'll forget regulation. They they had a chance to win
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  and then turn the ball over and then North Carolina almost
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  scores going the other way to end it.
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  And then we go to overtime. And but yeah, then that's why
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  Hubert Davis is on the hot seat. You had a 19 point lead to AVCU
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  team that it was one of the hotter teams in the country.
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  They they coming out I think winning 19 to 20 into the
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  tournament. Other than that, really in the
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  first round, there really wasn't.
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  No, I want anything really exciting.
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  It was Randy Bennett's last game at Saint Mary's, as he is now
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  the next head coach of the Arizona State.
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  A lot of teams losing in the first round, having losing their
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  head coaches, coaches to go other places.
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  Yeah. And then the second round in the
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  South Illinois pull just kind of puts it on VCU.
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  Houston does the same to Texas A&M, but the other two about as
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  about as good as games as you're going to see in.
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  This game. And we can start with with the
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  Vanderbilt Nebraska game. Aller Tanner was just incredible
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  again. And we had already seen the the
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  bucket by OA on Thursday to start the tournament.
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  And dude, it looked like he he had did the same that thing from
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  from. I don't know how it didn't go
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  in. I don't understand how that
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  thing didn't go. You look at like this still
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  frame of it and it's halfway in the hoop and kick back out good
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  for Nebraska, like, you know, coming into this tournament, no
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  wins in their over 100 year basketball history, no wins in
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  the NCAA tournament. And they'd absolutely destroy
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  Troy in the first round and then beat a very, very good
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  Vanderbilt team in the second round.
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  And Nebraska had struggled coming into this tournament a
• 19:38
  little bit. You know, they, they, they, the
• 19:41
  way that they started out the year so hot and winning all
• 19:43
  those games in a row to start it.
• 19:44
  And then I guess they're coming in, coming into the NCAA
• 19:46
  tournament, they they dropped a couple.
• 19:50
  Well, yeah, I mean, you don't you don't get to 20 and O
• 19:54
  without being a really good basketball team here.
• 19:57
  Here's my thing. I I think Vanderbilt, I talked
• 20:00
  about this last week was was under seeded.
• 20:02
  I don't I don't think these two teams should have met this
• 20:04
  early, but but two really good basketball teams and.
• 20:09
  You're right. It's the first time obviously,
• 20:11
  that Nebraska's ever been to the Sweet 16 when when you've never
• 20:14
  won a tournament game. That's going to be the case now
• 20:18
  because you've got Iowa upsetting Florida.
• 20:22
  Now you get a chance to to play an Iowa team that you've split
• 20:26
  with. And we'll get into more of that
• 20:28
  later in the show, but a chance to win another one for the for
• 20:31
  the Cornhuskers. Yeah, I mean, guess I'm not Sue.
• 20:36
  Who do you know who won the regular season matchup?
• 20:39
  They split. Oh, you said they split.
• 20:41
  Yeah. So one of them in overtime,
• 20:43
  looks like. Yeah, Recently on March 8th,
• 20:46
  Nebraska got the win in the. I guess that was the right
• 20:50
  before the Big 10 tournament. So the last game of the season.
• 20:54
  Yeah, it's going to be a good game.
• 20:56
  I don't know. I got that one's a toss up for
• 20:57
  me. I don't know which way, which
• 20:59
  way you can go. I don't know.
• 21:01
  Well, you better figure it out because you're going to be
• 21:02
  picking who who wins here in a little.
• 21:04
  Bit I'm going to ride the Nebraska train.
• 21:06
  We'll ride the Nebraska train. We'll stay on it.
• 21:09
  We'll do it for Field and and the rest of the Nebraska fans
• 21:13
  out there. But the biggest shocker of would
• 21:17
  you say the biggest shocker of this tournament so far is Iowa
• 21:21
  upsetting Florida? Yeah.
• 21:24
  They led the majority of the game, but then Florida fought
• 21:28
  back, got a four point lead. Look like, you know, they kind
• 21:31
  of were just going to national title.
• 21:35
  Defenders are usually hard to knock off.
• 21:37
  Now I've got some numbers here that so say otherwise, but they
• 21:41
  got the lead up 4. But Iowa did not blink And you
• 21:45
  know, they're they're down to they're late and run that starts
• 21:51
  gets the ball gets downhill where they're kind of chasing
• 21:54
  him and then they they find Fogaros.
• 21:57
  Fogaros, however you say his name for the three in the corner
• 22:01
  to go up two or to go up 1. Yeah.
• 22:04
  And then Florida calls time out, goes the length of the field,
• 22:07
  but length of the court and Lee gets underneath, Really has a
• 22:13
  bounce back there in traffic. That he got caught didn't.
• 22:15
  Get through and and Florida go or Iowa goes on to win the they
• 22:22
  are in the last two 2017. They are the EU Conn team in 24
• 22:34
  which was was defending their title, is the only team that has
• 22:38
  got back to the Sweet 16 the next year.
• 22:41
  And of course that UConn team went on to win the whole thing
• 22:44
  last year. UConn lost in the second round
• 22:46
  defending their title and then Kansas and lost in the second
• 22:51
  round, Baylor in the second round, Virginia in the first
• 22:53
  round, Nova in the second round, Carolina in the second round and
• 22:56
  Nova again in the second round dating back to 17.
• 22:59
  So other than that one time where Yukon broke through, it
• 23:03
  has been tough sledding for for national title defenders.
• 23:05
  That's kind of a wild stat when you think about it, you know?
• 23:08
  Yeah, like that's, that's crazy. But after the game or did you?
• 23:16
  Do you have something else? Like I I I'm just like we talked
• 23:20
  about how good of a game it was and, you know, and how good of a
• 23:24
  team Florida, you had Florida as your number two pick, I think in
• 23:26
  our draft, right? Yeah, like how well they've been
• 23:30
  playing minus that Vanderbilt game.
• 23:31
  And, you know, Iowa jumped on them early.
• 23:33
  And once Florida took that lead in the second-half, they had the
• 23:37
  crowd behind them. They're playing in Tampa.
• 23:39
  It's a pro Gator crowd. I just expected Florida to just
• 23:41
  run with it and, and and won this game, you know, kind of
• 23:44
  pulling away, but in that 8 to 10 point range.
• 23:46
  But I would just kept battling and battling and battling.
• 23:50
  I mean those. Dude and here's the thing too.
• 23:51
  Like Bennett, starch was over 9 from free in this game.
• 23:55
  Yeah. And he's their best player and
• 23:58
  and the fact that I was able to overcome that and and beat a
• 24:02
  Florida team like Chinulu didn't score and only had one field
• 24:08
  goal attempt and one rebound. They took him completely out of
• 24:11
  the game. Condon and Hawk still combined
• 24:14
  for 40 points. You're not going to stop their
• 24:16
  back, their front court completely.
• 24:18
  But yeah, you're right. Like once they got up four and.
• 24:23
  Florida. 'S got it rolling like the fact
• 24:26
  that Iowa was able to take that punch and kind of come back and
• 24:29
  figure out a way to win late. It is impressive and I think
• 24:33
  it's they won by 50 against A&M in in the game before preview
• 24:38
  A&M and it's the most somebody's beat somebody and and then the
• 24:42
  next game get knocked off I think in NCA history.
• 24:45
  So that's. Why actually saw that It's
• 24:47
  happened twice. Kansas.
• 24:50
  Kansas would also be previewed by over 50.
• 24:53
  Came back and lost in the next round.
• 24:54
  Yeah. But, and look, dude, Ben Ben
• 24:59
  McCollum is. Win some game, the dude.
• 25:02
  The dude can just coach and he is now what he is now 35 and
• 25:11
  eight in in NCAA tournament plays.
• 25:14
  And that does include D2 tournaments, obviously.
• 25:19
  But I mean last year he won a game with with Drake.
• 25:22
  He's now three and one in D1 and 32 and seven in D2.
• 25:30
  I think he's proved that this dude just knows how to coach and
• 25:33
  knows how to win games when it's tourney time.
• 25:35
  He obviously did that with Northwest Missouri State and D2
• 25:38
  level and now he's doing it doing it with Iowa and I don't
• 25:43
  know it's I never would have picked this game.
• 25:45
  I obviously, and I don't think many other people did, but good,
• 25:50
  good on Iowa 10 and 10 and the Big 10, and they're going to the
• 25:54
  Sweet 16. That's that's crazy.
• 25:59
  So but I do what you I talked about it a little bit, the whole
• 26:03
  Fallon thing and Iowa has the ball down to and like this is
• 26:12
  not something that even crossed my mind, but they allow starts
• 26:16
  to get it and he's going downhill.
• 26:19
  Like that's the thing. That's.
• 26:20
  The first problem, like that's the first problem, is you let
• 26:23
  him not only catch the ball going with a full head of steam,
• 26:26
  but you let him get behind you right off the bat.
• 26:29
  You're you're, you're being. Chased, you're already chasing
• 26:32
  it like after two dribbles like that was the main the main
• 26:35
  problem. Right.
• 26:36
  It, it, to me it's just execute defense.
• 26:38
  And Todd Golden in his post game press conference is talking
• 26:43
  about how they wanted to fight and what, what, what are we
• 26:51
  doing? Like, what are we doing?
• 26:53
  Like you're up to, you're going to send to the line and look, I,
• 26:58
  you're, I get it. This prevents you, I guess, from
• 27:00
  being able to lose in regulation for the most part.
• 27:04
  I mean, there's still a chance they make the first one, miss
• 27:06
  the second one, get offensive rebound and put and tip it back
• 27:08
  in and you can lose that way. There are other ways you can
• 27:11
  still lose. I just don't understand all this
• 27:14
  fouling talk and I you're, it's like, I don't know, like I get
• 27:19
  it and I still debate it. When you're up three, I think
• 27:21
  there are times you can do it, but I think sometimes when
• 27:25
  they're fouled with 910 seconds left and you're extending the
• 27:27
  game like that, I it doesn't make sense.
• 27:29
  To him he he's completely wrong in this situation like you you
• 27:32
  made the free throw to go up two with eight seconds left.
• 27:35
  Why do you need to pressure full court?
• 27:38
  You don't there's 88 seconds is plenty of time.
• 27:41
  Drop back a little bit because otherwise didn't when you
• 27:44
  pressure full court, look what happened.
• 27:45
  You got beat right down the court.
• 27:47
  Play half court defense and just prevent them from shooting a
• 27:49
  three and you don't lose. You don't need to pressure the
• 27:52
  ball with eight seconds if there.
• 27:54
  Was. 3 seconds or something. Maybe 3 seconds, but 8 seconds
• 27:59
  just play defence, play half court D, pick them up at half
• 28:01
  court and guard the three-point line instead.
• 28:03
  You let them get behind you, they hit a wide open three,
• 28:06
  you're not out. The most outrageous thing I've
• 28:09
  ever heard is to put a guy at the line to where he has two
• 28:14
  wide open free throws. Like there's like there's no
• 28:17
  defence on that. Yeah, like, I mean, no, I'm not,
• 28:21
  I'm not putting the potential game time points at the free
• 28:23
  throw line. I'm picking up at half court and
• 28:26
  I'm defending the three and then you.
• 28:29
  Buy like, obviously they didn't do that and do you buy that that
• 28:33
  was actually their strategy? Like is there's no way he's just
• 28:36
  making that up in post game. Was there, I mean, there was,
• 28:42
  was there a timeout timeout? Was there a timeout call after
• 28:45
  he made the free throw? There was, yeah, there was a
• 28:49
  timeout. So maybe, maybe it was maybe he
• 28:51
  had time in that timeout. He told his guys that I who were
• 28:55
  you fouling in that situation? I was going to get the ball to
• 28:59
  it was starts. You're not fouling starts.
• 29:01
  They I think the. You're going to foul off the.
• 29:04
  Ball when it gets out of starts hands foul.
• 29:06
  Right, so you're going to foul 50.
• 29:07
  We have 50 feet away from the ball by just grabbing somebody's
• 29:09
  jersey. And and then you walk them to
• 29:11
  the line. What how many like and look how
• 29:17
  many late game situations, even in half court, have we seen
• 29:21
  teams just get off terrible shots because they don't execute
• 29:25
  and the other team just plays defense?
• 29:27
  Yes, Like in those situations we're not even mentioning
• 29:31
  fouling because they guarded and they get off the worst shot like
• 29:36
  tie games in the half court where they don't need a three
• 29:39
  and they're shooting desperation threes because they don't
• 29:42
  execute offense. Yes, and this is exactly what
• 29:45
  should have happened in this situation.
• 29:47
  Up to you don't pick up full court.
• 29:49
  You don't need to. You don't need to do it with
• 29:51
  eight seconds left. I I, I mean, Golden's obviously
• 29:55
  a good I. Don't even think you need token
• 29:57
  pressure, just you don't even need token pressure.
• 29:59
  Have everybody on the other end of the court.
• 30:01
  Yes. Or maybe just have one guy
• 30:03
  waiting for the guy that gets the ball to kind of slow him up
• 30:05
  a little bit, but he where he's in front of him.
• 30:07
  Yes, just one thing that couldn't happen.
• 30:10
  Happened, man. That you're staying in front and
• 30:11
  you're not letting them get behind you.
• 30:13
  It was basically it turned into being a fast break off an
• 30:16
  inbounds play. It was a fast break.
• 30:18
  Well and dude, how much that corner 3IN transition is going
• 30:23
  back every. Time.
• 30:25
  Every time. And to be honest, you got the
• 30:28
  ball in a really good spot. Like if I'm Lee, I'm I think you
• 30:32
  just shoot that, try to draw a foul you didn't have or put it
• 30:35
  up on the rim to where your front core guys can can maybe
• 30:39
  try to put it back because they had time to do that.
• 30:42
  He I think maybe he wanted, I don't know, I don't know what
• 30:45
  his thought process. He got caught and then just the
• 30:48
  guy and I mean, I don't know who was FAD Was he passing it to
• 30:50
  Condon? But no other than even like he
• 30:51
  was expecting it balls to dry. There's too much traffic in
• 30:54
  there. You just got to shoot that ball.
• 30:57
  But well. Going over to the to the West,
• 31:07
  the, the High Point Wisconsin game obviously was, yeah, the
• 31:12
  game of the first round there just a, a back and forth game.
• 31:19
  The high high point is proven that they, you know, we're we're
• 31:24
  going to talk about as the Cinderella as and IO killed
• 31:27
  Cinderella. But high point and I've talked
• 31:29
  about how much money they have. They they've got some money to
• 31:32
  spend, but I think they've proven that, I mean, very easily
• 31:37
  could have beaten Arkansas to get to the Sweet 16.
• 31:39
  So if you're going to say that Cinderella is dead, I, I think
• 31:42
  high point is like, look, dude, we're, we're hanging on.
• 31:44
  We're right there. Yeah, no, I mean, we, we talked
• 31:48
  about this as being a potential, you know, one of the trendy
• 31:51
  upset picks with the way the high point could score the ball
• 31:53
  and they were they the are they the one of the top offensive
• 31:57
  teams in the country or not? The top offensive team in the
• 31:59
  country, They can score points and they certainly put up 83 on
• 32:02
  Wisconsin and hung, like you said, hung really tough with
• 32:04
  Arkansas. But yeah, that was a tough one.
• 32:08
  I had, I had Wisconsin going another round.
• 32:11
  So that was a that was a a bummer loss on that one.
• 32:15
  I mean, that's what that's what it's all about.
• 32:16
  You sacrificed the bracket for for stuff like that.
• 32:20
  But the the what? The crazy thing was that it was
• 32:25
  Chase Johnston that actually got free.
• 32:28
  On that. Transition layout, yeah, and.
• 32:31
  We talked about him last week. And what dude just does not
• 32:35
  shoot twos at all? Oh, for four.
• 32:38
  Yeah, does not shoot twos, but then is the one that gets free.
• 32:41
  And dude, it was a Pretty Little finger roll too.
• 32:45
  I'm like, just put that thing in.
• 32:47
  Don't, don't risk that finger row.
• 32:49
  But and then Nick Boyd and Blackwell were both really good
• 32:53
  in that game too. Just didn't get a lot of help
• 32:57
  really. But look that we you got to
• 33:01
  every single year, we've got the 12 out of 12 that beats A5, I
• 33:04
  feel like. And it's just do you pick the
• 33:07
  right one? Because we talked, we both
• 33:10
  talked about how this is going to be a tough game for
• 33:13
  Wisconsin, but neither one of us had the cojones to to go against
• 33:16
  them. No, I picked the wrong.
• 33:18
  So I picked the 12-5 but I picked the wrong 12/5.
• 33:21
  Yeah, in the second round, Arkansas does pull away from
• 33:29
  high point late, and then Texas wins their third straight game
• 33:35
  to to get to the Sweet 16. Beaten a Gonzaga team that I
• 33:38
  thought was right for an upset. I just had the wrong team
• 33:42
  beating them. Thought AJ Dibonso would get a
• 33:46
  little more help than he got in that first round game at the
• 33:50
  BYU. Just looked awful.
• 33:52
  Yeah. And then we Purdue dude, we, we
• 33:56
  had counted them out and Trey Kaufman ran in these first two
• 34:03
  games is looking as good as he's looked all year.
• 34:08
  Yes, Purdue seems to be, you know, living up to the, the
• 34:11
  preseason high, but they were, they were preseason #1 start the
• 34:14
  year, you know, dropped several games along the way.
• 34:17
  And now they're, they're, they're rounding into form at
• 34:20
  the right time. You know, they're, they're, they
• 34:22
  look good. They look like the team that
• 34:23
  everybody expected them to look like.
• 34:27
  And then in the last region, Midwest, I think we got to talk
• 34:31
  a little bit about that first round Kentucky game against
• 34:35
  Santa Clara. Santa Clara gets the three-point
• 34:38
  bucket with. I mean just it was the last 11
• 34:42
  seconds. Well, OAOA ties the game with 11
• 34:45
  on the on the the layups. Less than 10 I think when it
• 34:48
  went in. Yeah.
• 34:49
  And then and then they go the other way.
• 34:51
  They get the three from the wing with 2.4.
• 34:55
  They tried to call timeout. Herb said.
• 34:56
  That's trying to call timeout. They don't give it to him.
• 34:59
  A lot of the Santa Clara guys are not even.
• 35:02
  Playing against their back turn to the play.
• 35:04
  Almost and then OA, who it wasn't exactly 1/2 court shot he
• 35:10
  was a little bit in. Front of the half.
• 35:11
  Court line banks it in, sends it to OT and and it.
• 35:15
  Wasn't like it wasn't contested. I I thought Santa Clara minus
• 35:18
  the two dudes that were celebrating the rest of them I
• 35:20
  thought played actually decent defense on him.
• 35:22
  There was a hand on his face and.
• 35:24
  You also let him get to that. You also let him get to that
• 35:27
  spot in 2.4 seconds. Also you, you didn't turn.
• 35:30
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the.
• 35:32
  Problem so you can contest the shot.
• 35:34
  I mean, he makes that shot. What do you think?
• 35:37
  One out of every 20, maybe even less than that.
• 35:41
  I I would say no, I think it's inside the half court line and
• 35:47
  they, they shoot these shots every day in practice.
• 35:49
  Yeah, I, I think maybe one for 20 is, is about right.
• 35:53
  I wouldn't go any lower than that.
• 35:57
  And. But I'm still not fouling.
• 35:59
  We go back to the fouling thing. I'm not fouling here either.
• 36:01
  When you're up three with less than there's three seconds left,
• 36:05
  just stop the ball. What to do is stop the ball
• 36:07
  beginning to half court. First off, I wouldn't call time
• 36:11
  out, but if I see my guys celebrating and they're not
• 36:15
  ready, then I understand why you're wanting to call time out.
• 36:17
  Did Kentucky not have any? Did Kentucky?
• 36:19
  Have any time outs? OK.
• 36:20
  OK. And is that Mark?
• 36:21
  Polk, I don't want to allow them to set up a play, so I agree.
• 36:27
  If you are just composed, which is hard to do, I get it.
• 36:30
  You just hit a game winner. Yeah, with what you think is a
• 36:33
  game winner with 2.4, you're going to, you're naturally going
• 36:37
  to celebrate, but if you just calmly defend, you win the game.
• 36:42
  Yeah. Because they're always not going
• 36:44
  to get that close to the rim. He's not going to get across the
• 36:48
  half court line. No.
• 36:50
  So I understand why Herb Sundeck was trying to call time out
• 36:52
  because his guys were out of position celebrating.
• 36:55
  Ideally I wouldn't want to call time out, just play it out and
• 36:59
  guard. But in no world am I fouling on
• 37:04
  purpose and walking them 90 feet to the free throw line with no
• 37:11
  time coming off the clock and giving them an opportunity to
• 37:16
  make the first one, miss the second one and get an offensive
• 37:20
  rebound. I think Scott's more likely.
• 37:22
  I think it's more likely in in the scenario that what just and
• 37:26
  what happened and what played out.
• 37:27
  It's more likely that if you had fouled them and he makes the 1st
• 37:31
  misses the second they get a put back then away making that
• 37:34
  miracle 3 point shot. Like I I would put the odds of
• 37:39
  the make the first miss the 2nd put back higher than the shot
• 37:43
  that he made. You're also giving them a chance
• 37:45
  like it's a miracle heave. A miracle heave.
• 37:50
  Yeah. And it should have been tougher
• 37:51
  than it was. And it was still.
• 37:52
  Tough. Yeah, it was.
• 37:54
  It was still tough, yeah. And this is like, we can revisit
• 37:59
  all this stuff after it happens and then be like, I'm going to
• 38:02
  foul. But if always shot hits the top
• 38:05
  of the backboard and banks back to midcourt because it's not
• 38:09
  even close, then we're not even discussing this.
• 38:13
  It's revisionist history. It's the fact that it went in
• 38:17
  and now you're like, I would have foul, I would have foul.
• 38:20
  There are times when when I would foul that was just not one
• 38:23
  of them. And the times that I would foul
• 38:24
  is if you're up 3, they've got the ball already in the half
• 38:27
  court and there's 5 or 6 seconds left, something like that, I
• 38:32
  don't know. That's the very minimum of what,
• 38:34
  the clock, I think 5 seconds, yeah.
• 38:36
  Because I've seen it happen where they're foul with 910 and
• 38:40
  then they make both and you come back down and now there's still
• 38:43
  7 seconds left. Yeah, no, that's two and you're
• 38:45
  up one. And then if you miss one of two,
• 38:48
  now all of a sudden they've got the ball down too with six
• 38:51
  seconds to go and you've brought it into the place and you're
• 38:53
  losing the game. The ball has to be in the half
• 38:55
  court and there's I think it's got to be around the 55 second
• 38:59
  mark and there's a time. We've just gotten out of control
• 39:02
  with this foul, foul, foul, late game situation like and it's
• 39:08
  just easy to do. There's a time to do it.
• 39:10
  There is. There is, but there also are not
• 39:13
  times to do it, and we're talking about foul when there's
• 39:16
  not time to do it way too often right now.
• 39:18
  I would agree with that. And the Kentucky game and the
• 39:22
  Florida game are two games where you're not going to foul.
• 39:28
  And I get it, they both lost. But it that's not why they lost
• 39:33
  play defense. Agree.
• 39:36
  Don't let starts get behind you and find a wide open guy in the
• 39:39
  corner. That's the worst one.
• 39:41
  Don't run down the court celebrating that you sit at 3
• 39:43
  and not defend. Yeah.
• 39:52
  Second round games Michigan just what we didn't even talk about
• 39:55
  Saint Louis, Georgia didn't even show up.
• 39:57
  So Mike White I don't even know if they knew that they played in
• 40:00
  the first round. Alabama just makes a million
• 40:04
  threes on Texas Tech puts as. A butt whooping.
• 40:09
  Puts them to bed really quick. The Tennessee, Virginia game was
• 40:13
  a really good game. Yeah.
• 40:20
  I this is one that I I did pick correctly.
• 40:25
  What's that? Tennessee, Virginia, Yeah.
• 40:28
  I mean, it was a good game. I mean, it was A1 possession
• 40:30
  game with, what, a minute left? And there was a review.
• 40:34
  I think the ball went off Virginia, which gave it back to
• 40:36
  Tennessee. And yeah, but I mean, Virginia
• 40:38
  was chasing most of that game and just could never really
• 40:43
  catch up. And they were down 5 at the
• 40:45
  half, lose by 7. And they've Tennessee's now been
• 40:49
  to four straight Sweet 16. So is Alabama 2 football schools
• 40:53
  that have been to to four straight Sweet Sixteens.
• 40:57
  Jacoby Gillespie is just good dude.
• 40:59
  Very good. And then they ducky jumped out
• 41:03
  early on Iowa State and next thing you know, they're down 30.
• 41:09
  Yeah, I was. They didn't shoot the ball very
• 41:11
  well in the first half, dug themselves a hole.
• 41:13
  They were down 12, I believe early on and, you know, clawed
• 41:17
  and fought and finally took a lead on with the buzzer beater 3
• 41:21
  at the end of the first half to go out by 1.
• 41:24
  And then when they came out of the second-half, they were just
• 41:26
  lights out on fire, turning Kentucky over left and right.
• 41:31
  Kentucky. Just, well, even the first half
• 41:34
  they're just turning the ball over left and right.
• 41:35
  We're lucky to be down 1, right? The fact that, like you said,
• 41:38
  Iowa State wasn't hitting threes, so it was kind of
• 41:41
  twofold. If you're Kentucky, you're like,
• 41:43
  oh, we're only down one way. I didn't feel like we played
• 41:45
  great, had way too many turnovers.
• 41:47
  But if you're Iowa State, you're like, these shots are going to
• 41:48
  start falling and we're going to start pulling away.
• 41:50
  I mean, what was this that can Kentucky?
• 41:52
  Had the 20 many turnovers, did they end up with 20 turnovers
• 41:57
  most in it? Was that most in the NCAA
• 41:58
  tournament game? I think I've seen, whereas what
• 42:00
  I saw in their history, yeah, something like that.
• 42:04
  I mean, I was just. They can play defense.
• 42:06
  They're they're good and Manchilovich is not going.
• 42:09
  To miss, he's going to hit. He's going to hit 3 or 4 threes.
• 42:12
  He's going to happen. He's the best shooter in the
• 42:13
  country and they've got other guys lips.
• 42:16
  He's going to hit some threes, he's going to.
• 42:17
  He started really getting to paint and finding guys on the
• 42:20
  perimeter. Like if these two played 10
• 42:24
  times, I think Iowa State beats Kentucky by 27 times.
• 42:29
  I just think they're 20 points better.
• 42:31
  This Kentucky team was not fun to watch all year.
• 42:34
  They were hard to watch. They weren't very good.
• 42:37
  If you don't have a take away, wow are they terrible.
• 42:43
  Like Aberdeen was, was. Good the last 1020 games, but
• 42:47
  overall this there's just. There was no way that they were
• 42:52
  going. To be Kentucky and and get to
• 42:53
  the to the to the Sweet 16. Ow this is a stat on Kentucky.
• 43:02
  They have not. Been the Elite 8 for six
• 43:04
  straight. Seasons that's 21 to 26.
• 43:06
  That is the longest streak in in Kentucky history, which is
• 43:11
  pretty remarkable, honestly. The fact that preview their
• 43:15
  longest previous streak was 86 to 91.
• 43:18
  And that was the Eddie Sutton kind of going the beginning of
• 43:22
  the Pitino era when they're going through probation.
• 43:25
  We had an error. Toby Gillespie was O six, O 9
• 43:29
  was four. Yeah, they're in their longest
• 43:32
  streak ever without being in to Elite 8.
• 43:35
  I mean, that fan base isn't going to put up with.
• 43:37
  That either like, I mean, that's probably the most passionate
• 43:40
  basketball fan base in the country and yeah, that's, that's
• 43:43
  not going to fly in Lexington. Yeah, they they last year they
• 43:47
  were. 3C got to the Sweet 16. I think that helps Pope a little
• 43:51
  bit. I doesn't help Kentucky's fans,
• 43:56
  the view of the future of this program right now.
• 43:57
  I don't know if it does that. I think they're all pretty down
• 44:00
  on on Pope like this roster was just poorly constructed and you
• 44:07
  had one point guard, he got hurt and then after that you didn't
• 44:10
  really have a back up plan and it was pretty obvious.
• 44:14
  And I don't know, I there's like, yeah, people wanting fired
• 44:19
  right now. You you can't fire him after two
• 44:21
  years when he's when he's won three tournament games and got
• 44:24
  to Sweet 16 in his first year. Yeah, we're not, not doing.
• 44:27
  But if if they struggle next year to.
• 44:30
  To where they're struggling to even get in the tournament they
• 44:32
  don't have a recruit right now. If if they struggle to even get
• 44:35
  in the tournament, then maybe you look at it.
• 44:38
  But dude, I was, I was out watching games with a bunch of
• 44:41
  Big Blue fans and let's just say the.
• 44:44
  Vibes how was give me? Yeah, give me, give me the
• 44:46
  vibes. How?
• 44:47
  How were the vibes of? Joe I mean, it was a nice.
• 44:49
  Day 85° sunny. You know, I'm sure that the the
• 44:54
  people were sitting outside on the patio watching the games.
• 44:57
  The the drinks were flowing and I'm first 10 minutes of the
• 45:00
  game, I'm sure the vibes were high.
• 45:02
  Yeah, they were. And they died pretty.
• 45:04
  Quickly at halftime, dive vibes were still OK because you're
• 45:08
  only down one. But I'm also thinking, like I
• 45:11
  said, I would say it hadn't hit any shots and they're still up
• 45:15
  one, but were there any? I will also.
• 45:18
  I will. Also say this.
• 45:20
  It is both annoying and entertaining to listen to people
• 45:25
  drinking beers watching games on the patio that clearly only
• 45:29
  watch basketball in March. And their opinions on the game
• 45:35
  and. Specifically, their opinions on
• 45:38
  the officiating. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 45:43
  I mean, it's because it's always against their team.
• 45:47
  Maybe the fact is your team's just.
• 45:50
  They weren't very good. Were any turn around shots
• 45:52
  consumed? Yeah, they.
• 45:55
  Did some. You're still doing the.
• 45:57
  Irish car bombs, dude. It's still March.
• 46:01
  Did not. Did not.
• 46:02
  Work. I stayed.
• 46:03
  Away from that. Smart man, I stayed away.
• 46:06
  From that so. We're now to the Sweet 16.
• 46:10
  The Big 10, six teams in the in the Sweet 16 with Michigan,
• 46:15
  Purdue, Michigan State, Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa.
• 46:18
  The SEC is second with four Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee,
• 46:21
  Texas, The Big 12 with three Arizona, Houston, Iowa State.
• 46:25
  The Big East gets to UConn and Saint John's.
• 46:27
  And then the lone ACC team in the Sweet 16 is Duke.
• 46:35
  They are 0 Cinderellis because there's no way in the world that
• 46:42
  you count 11 C Texas as a Cinderella when they have more
• 46:45
  money than pretty much any program that is out there.
• 46:50
  Is. This is now the second straight
• 46:52
  year where this has been the case.
• 46:54
  Last year we had all four ones get to the final four.
• 46:56
  That will not be the case this year.
• 46:59
  But Neil, I ask you before we get into these sweet sixteens
• 47:01
  matchups, is Cinderella dead and is Nil the culprit for killing
• 47:09
  her? No, I'm going to say that's not
• 47:12
  dead. I'm, I'm, I'm going.
• 47:14
  To sell that argument, I'm going to say that it's not dead
• 47:17
  because you still had, I mean you, you still have, we talked
• 47:21
  about the high points like as a 12 seed.
• 47:25
  High point they. Have money.
• 47:27
  So maybe this does kind of make your argument, but I guess a
• 47:30
  school like high Point goes out and beats the Wisconsin team.
• 47:33
  They hung right there with Arkansas.
• 47:35
  They easily, I mean, they were right.
• 47:36
  They could have won that game. I think you're going to you're
• 47:39
  going to have another double digit seed get to the Sweet 16
• 47:43
  and Elite 8IN the in the yeah, let's say in the near future, if
• 47:46
  it's not next year, you're like, it's going to be it'll be it'll
• 47:48
  be soon. I'm going to say that maybe the
• 47:53
  transfer portal is more of a factor of killing NIL or killing
• 47:57
  Cinderella's than NIL money. Because as soon as any of these
• 48:01
  dudes are any good, they're gone.
• 48:03
  Like they're gone immediately. So you're not going to have that
• 48:07
  30 point per game. Score at high point or that. 30
• 48:09
  point per game score. That's a senior at Troy or Akron
• 48:13
  or, you know, whatever. Like, like these guys are going
• 48:15
  to leave as soon as they're, they show any glimpse of, of
• 48:18
  being good, they're going to be gone because they're going to,
• 48:21
  you know, because they can't. Because they can transfer in one
• 48:23
  year they're. Going to be, they're going to
• 48:24
  leave because there's money, but the transfer portal is is.
• 48:28
  Allowing them is what's really. Allowing them to leave.
• 48:30
  And that's what I mean that to me, that's what's killing it
• 48:32
  more than than the actual money. It's a combination.
• 48:37
  And. Am I going to come out and say
• 48:40
  that Cinderella is dead? No.
• 48:42
  But is it tougher? Yes.
• 48:44
  Yeah. Being somebody who worked at
• 48:47
  Morehead State and sees first hand the resources that they
• 48:51
  have and I was there before in IO and before the transfer
• 48:55
  portal and you're. Already you're already up
• 48:58
  against. It then and now just the
• 49:00
  discrepancy is even higher and you're right like the problem is
• 49:05
  if you get a kid that's freshman all OVC, there's a good chance
• 49:11
  that he's. Going to be playing for power.
• 49:12
  Five the next year or Power Four and like the schools like High
• 49:17
  Point because they have money can put some money behind that
• 49:20
  and try to keep their guys they still.
• 49:24
  They still can't spend. They can't.
• 49:26
  They can't keep up with the big guys, but they can at least.
• 49:28
  Give a number that might make them stay if they're comfortable
• 49:30
  being there and they want to stay there.
• 49:32
  They got to have loyalty to the program.
• 49:33
  There has to be a part of it because they're not going to get
• 49:35
  what they can get somewhere else.
• 49:38
  But there there are some mid majors that have some money that
• 49:41
  they can throw behind it to be like, look, we can't give you
• 49:44
  what Michigan or Kentucky is going to give you, but we can
• 49:47
  give you this and you can. And you make your decision.
• 49:50
  And there's going to be some kids that decide to stay.
• 49:54
  But it's just it used to be. That the power.
• 49:59
  Fours had this much of advantage and now it's just it's increased
• 50:03
  more. It hasn't.
• 50:04
  It's increased more and and going back to.
• 50:06
  Your point on like the Morehead, the Morehead state and be like
• 50:08
  Cinderella, like back in the day before NIL and before you know
• 50:12
  you could transfer without sitting out like the Kenneth
• 50:15
  Farid's of like Morehead state. Back then, he would have left
• 50:17
  even if NIL wasn't a thing, if he was getting paid no more
• 50:20
  money to go to Duke or Carolina, as he wasn't.
• 50:23
  Moore had said he still would have left if he had the
• 50:25
  opportunity to just go play right away.
• 50:27
  Because you know you're going to want you.
• 50:28
  You'd rather play in the ACC, You'd rather play on the big
• 50:31
  stage. And you're on ESPN every night
• 50:32
  and you're like, that's going to help your draft stop.
• 50:35
  Like guys would leave even if NIO wasn't a thing because they
• 50:38
  can leave without penalty of sitting out 100%.
• 50:41
  And you saw it first hand. I mean, Kenneth Reid was there
• 50:43
  four years and then Janaya Broom comes in and is all of you see,
• 50:47
  as a freshman does come back for a sophomore year, but there's no
• 50:50
  way that he's coming back for his junior year and and he finds
• 50:54
  his way to Auburn. And that's just you got to
• 50:57
  constantly refill your roster because you've just got the guys
• 51:02
  that are successful are likely going to leave.
• 51:04
  And you almost it's like if I got this freshman, I kind of
• 51:08
  want to hide him a little bit, you know, but so.
• 51:12
  Everybody doesn't see him. And like, you can't really do
• 51:14
  that and be successful. So I is it dead?
• 51:19
  No, it's just it's so much tougher.
• 51:23
  Do will we get to where we're seeing VCU's in Florida
• 51:26
  Atlantic's and Loyola's get to the Final Four?
• 51:29
  Again, it can be tough. I don't know about that.
• 51:33
  Now do. I think they can get to the next
• 51:34
  week, yes. And I think High Point proves
• 51:38
  that yes, I I think VCU. Was a good enough team.
• 51:41
  To get to the second weekend if they didn't run into an Illinois
• 51:44
  team and if Nick Smith didn't get hurt with with one minute
• 51:47
  into that game and where he didn't come back in but do.
• 51:52
  You I I don't. I don't.
• 51:53
  Know if we'll ever see it in the Final Four again.
• 51:56
  It'll be tough. I must.
• 51:58
  Never say never, but it is going to be tough.
• 51:59
  But that's not Cinderella. Cinderella doesn't have.
• 52:02
  To get to the final four, to be a Cinderella.
• 52:04
  No Cinderella. Saint Peters.
• 52:06
  Was a Cinderella they. Got to the Elite 8.
• 52:08
  And even if even if Saint Peters.
• 52:13
  Even if Saint Peters loses their second round game, that's still
• 52:15
  with that's still a Cinderella story.
• 52:17
  Beating a A2. Beaten or 15.
• 52:19
  Beating A2. Well let's see your point.
• 52:21
  You almost saw a Sienna team. Beat Duke and Duke.
• 52:25
  Was the best team in the. Country for most of the year and
• 52:27
  they still might be, you know, So it I, I, it's not dead.
• 52:31
  It it's harder, but I don't think it's dead.
• 52:37
  I agree. So before we get into the
• 52:41
  matchups, we did this little draft what, 2 weeks before the
• 52:45
  tournament? Yep, the draft.
• 52:48
  Went you, Duke, me, Michigan, me.
• 52:50
  Florida you UConn you Arizona me Houston me Illinois you Sparty
• 52:55
  use Gonzaga me Iowa State Who is in.
• 52:59
  Better position. You've lost one team with
• 53:03
  Gonzaga. I've lost one team with Florida.
• 53:07
  We're both guaranteed to lose one team in the next round
• 53:09
  because. We play each other.
• 53:11
  I've got and I've. Got Michigan State.
• 53:14
  Playing UConn and you've got. Houston and Illinois, so we're
• 53:18
  definitely going guaranteed to lose 1 in the next round.
• 53:24
  I'll be honest, I I don't know if Illinois defends.
• 53:28
  Enough, I think. Four of my five teams that.
• 53:32
  Are alive, can win it all. I look at yours.
• 53:37
  I think 2 can win it all. I think Duke and Zone.
• 53:39
  I don't think Yukon can win it all right now I'm I don't think
• 53:44
  Sparty can win it all. Well, the Duke and Yukon are
• 53:46
  also in the same. Region.
• 53:47
  So one of them can't win it. Well, I mean, I mean, it's like
• 53:52
  I hear. I see your point, yes.
• 53:56
  Do you agree? Based on the.
• 53:59
  Remaining teams based on the remaining.
• 54:01
  Teams, we both lost one, we're both going to lose another 1.
• 54:05
  I think, I don't want to admit it, but your your remaining
• 54:10
  teams I think are a little bit better than mine.
• 54:12
  I do have Michigan winning the title over Houston in the
• 54:15
  championship game. So both of those are on your
• 54:17
  roster well. And here's The funny thing I
• 54:21
  mean. Last last we got I had.
• 54:23
  What Michigan over Duke in the rematch?
• 54:26
  You'll change your mind in two days anyway, so it.
• 54:28
  Doesn't matter like all this. All this is irrelevant.
• 54:31
  You got to go to the paper to figure out what his real picks
• 54:34
  are, people. I mean you, you, you dive in a
• 54:37
  little. More on the matchups and then
• 54:38
  you know, after thinking about it, what you do is you prepare
• 54:41
  for the show. Wednesday you prepare.
• 54:43
  For the show and be prepared when you go on.
• 54:45
  Air, I didn't have ready to go. You pick the The pairings were
• 54:49
  announced on Sunday. Night and we went right into the
• 54:50
  thing on Monday. I I finally that's an all day.
• 54:54
  It's one. All day.
• 54:55
  I had to work. We had to.
• 54:56
  Get but here. Here is the.
• 54:57
  Funny thing. You picked Michigan to win it
• 55:00
  all, which is on my. Team.
• 55:01
  I picked Arizona to win it all, which is on your team.
• 55:04
  The crazy thing is that Arizona was the 5th selection in our
• 55:09
  draft just two weeks before the tournament.
• 55:12
  That is crazy and. I.
• 55:15
  Would have picked them at 3, but I decided to go Florida just
• 55:19
  because they were playing so well.
• 55:20
  That was a tough decision for me.
• 55:22
  And then you went UConn over Arizona at 4:00, but you ended
• 55:24
  up getting them at 5:00? Well, I had back-to-back picks
• 55:27
  and yeah. I could have taken Arizona.
• 55:33
  I don't know, I I like your team.
• 55:35
  Currently a little bit more than mine, but it's not over.
• 55:38
  Not over yet. All right, getting into.
• 55:42
  This week. Duke St.
• 55:44
  Johns, MI State U Conn. What you got?
• 55:51
  Well. After the Sienna game, I was a
• 55:53
  little bit down. Make sure you do a disclaimer
• 55:55
  that you didn't. Know we were going to have to
• 55:57
  pick these games and that you'll change your mind in two days.
• 56:00
  No, I'm not changing my mind yet.
• 56:01
  I'm not changing my mind on this.
• 56:03
  I mean, I was a little bit down on Duke after the performance
• 56:05
  against Sienna, but they bounced back.
• 56:09
  It took him a while to pull away from TCU, but they did and they
• 56:13
  absolutely hammered him in the last 10 minutes so they look
• 56:16
  like Duke again. Finally, I'm picking Duke.
• 56:19
  Give me the Duke Blue Devils over St.
• 56:21
  John's and this stays consistent with your bracket it.
• 56:24
  Does. And then?
• 56:27
  I picked St. John's in my bracket and and I'm
• 56:29
  sticking with that Pitino. 'S going to make them play the
• 56:34
  game his. Way and I think Zooby can match
• 56:39
  with with Cameron Boozer down low.
• 56:40
  I think they that's going to be a match up.
• 56:42
  That's going to be a match up, right?
• 56:43
  There, I think they are going to, absolutely.
• 56:47
  Just try to pressure Kaden Boozer.
• 56:51
  All game. And and to see if he can handle
• 56:54
  that pressure, I think St. John's.
• 56:59
  Is just the way they're playing. Right now, they've got
• 57:01
  confidence after hitting that game winner.
• 57:04
  They're they're, they're going to try to dominate the paint.
• 57:07
  They're going to try to create turnovers.
• 57:10
  Duke turned. It over a lot against TCUI.
• 57:12
  Know it didn't. Matter because they they, they
• 57:14
  really, that game wasn't close, but they had 17 giveaways in
• 57:17
  that game. And something like that is going
• 57:20
  to make Rick Pitino's eyes kind of light up.
• 57:23
  And look, like I said last week, you got to take chances in your
• 57:26
  bracket. You got to pick some upsets.
• 57:28
  I think this is an opportunity for one.
• 57:30
  And I'm rolling. It's it's an opportunity for
• 57:32
  one. Yeah, I mean.
• 57:33
  This this would would get you a huge boost if you can if you
• 57:37
  pull this one off so I don't know if.
• 57:42
  Edge 4 can set a foul trouble. It could be a game of who?
• 57:45
  Who's in foul trouble early? Edge 4 gets Boozer in foul
• 57:48
  trouble. Advantage of Saint John's if it
• 57:51
  goes the other way, and that's for us to sit on the bench for
• 57:53
  most of the first half. Advantage Duke.
• 57:57
  Well, and dude. If and if Saint John.
• 57:59
  Shoots the three ball, but Bryce Hopkins said six threes like you
• 58:02
  did last week against Kansas, they don't.
• 58:05
  They normally don't shoot it very.
• 58:06
  Well, they're not a very good shooting team, are they?
• 58:08
  Shot 30 threes against. Kansas, I think there was.
• 58:11
  If their season high was as close to it, I wouldn't expect
• 58:16
  them to shoot that many on and Duke can defend each one of the
• 58:19
  better defensive. Teams in the contract, Duke can
• 58:21
  get after it on the defensive end, Yeah, and they want to
• 58:25
  slow. They want.
• 58:25
  To slow it down, limit your. Possessions.
• 58:27
  That was a big reason why they beat Michigan.
• 58:30
  They held Michigan to like 6062 possessions, which is one of the
• 58:33
  lowest amount of possessions that Michigan's had this year.
• 58:37
  They're going to try to do the same game thing against Saint
• 58:40
  John, St. John's.
• 58:43
  Doesn't normally get limited. In possessions like that, I.
• 58:48
  This is one of the obvious. There are all these games are
• 58:50
  going to be great, but I'm really looking forward to that
• 58:52
  game on Friday night. Michigan State, UConn.
• 58:58
  I believe you were rolling UConn originally.
• 59:02
  You were rolling Michigan State. OK, yeah, might have been
• 59:05
  rolling UConn originally. But in in the official bracket I
• 59:08
  can't keep up. I've got Michigan State and.
• 59:12
  I'm going to keep. So I'm going to stay with that
• 59:13
  pick in Michigan State with fears and Carr.
• 59:17
  Carr can play like he did against Louisville then.
• 59:19
  I mean, he was just a man amongst boys.
• 59:21
  I mean, he was unbelievable on Saturday.
• 59:24
  But we'll we'll go Michigan State, we'll keep it consistent.
• 59:29
  Yeah, I I went UConn. I'm I'm.
• 59:30
  Still going to go UConn. It was good to see Silas Emery
• 59:32
  back in the lineup after sitting out there first round matchup.
• 59:38
  UConn has not. Been shooting the ball well
• 59:40
  from. Deep.
• 59:41
  I think they're going to have to do that to to beat Michigan
• 59:43
  State. It's going to be the the Cooper
• 59:48
  territory match. Up down low, I think is going to
• 59:50
  be really important. I mean, Michigan State just
• 59:53
  wants to make this game ugly, right, and turn it into a
• 59:58
  slugfest and, and that's what Tom Izo's teams always try to
• 1:00:02
  do. But I I think it'll all come
• 1:00:05
  down to can you limit fears? Can you keep him getting in the
• 1:00:09
  paint to create opportunities for others and?
• 1:00:14
  Michigan State's going to just pack that pack that defense and
• 1:00:18
  make your shit over top of it. And UConn has not been doing a
• 1:00:22
  great job of shooting threes, but I think maybe they'll get
• 1:00:24
  that done on on Friday and and get get the win over over
• 1:00:29
  Sparty. But God, like the fight, like I
• 1:00:35
  know we already mentioned it, but just those four coaches and
• 1:00:37
  we've been talking about it forever, but this, this looks
• 1:00:40
  like it could be a Final Four. Oh yeah, those four teams right
• 1:00:44
  there. Absolutely.
• 1:00:46
  Then in in. The South, you've got Iowa.
• 1:00:48
  Nebraska, Illinois Houston 3 Big 10 teams Iowa Nebraska have
• 1:00:55
  already played twice this year. They split Iowa one at home 57
• 1:00:59
  to 52 and just what? That's a absolute rock fight.
• 1:01:04
  And then Nebraska. That's when Holy Burg slapped
• 1:01:06
  the the kids. Phone when?
• 1:01:07
  That was a yeah phone slapping incident.
• 1:01:10
  And then Nebraska returned the favor of winning at home. 84 to
• 1:01:13
  75 and overtime who you got in game #3 go on with the let's go
• 1:01:20
  with the Nebraska. Cornhuskers keep riding, keep
• 1:01:23
  riding that, that train, that momentum.
• 1:01:26
  Big win over Ban. They look actually, they look
• 1:01:28
  really good against Vanderbilt. I mean, I know Iowa look good
• 1:01:31
  against Florida and the way Florida was playing too, but
• 1:01:34
  give me, give me the Nebraska Cornhuskers to pull that one
• 1:01:37
  out. I'm going to Nebraska too.
• 1:01:39
  They were one of. The hottest teams in the
• 1:01:41
  country, you starting off 20 and O and I think they're kind of
• 1:01:45
  getting in that groove again. Bennett starts will be the best
• 1:01:47
  player in the court. But I just think overall
• 1:01:50
  Nebraska has a better team. But like we still have to
• 1:01:54
  remember that Iowa was 10 and 10 in Big 10 play and to me that
• 1:01:58
  matters. They turn it over a lot, but you
• 1:02:02
  look at how good the Big 10 is. With the amount of teams they've
• 1:02:04
  got still alive, I mean 10 and 10, the Big 10 isn't as bad as
• 1:02:08
  it sounds. No, you're right.
• 1:02:10
  And and I think that's a fairpoint.
• 1:02:12
  In both of the matchups, Iowa has really struggled turning the
• 1:02:17
  ball over against Nebraska's defense.
• 1:02:20
  They turn it over 20% of the time in game, 126% of the time
• 1:02:23
  in Game 2. I think they'll do that again.
• 1:02:26
  And and that's why I give the nod to Nebraska this next game,
• 1:02:31
  Houston. Illinois.
• 1:02:35
  Like. Everybody talks about thinks.
• 1:02:37
  About Houston is just such a good defensive team.
• 1:02:39
  Illinois, a lot of their metrics say they are the best offensive
• 1:02:43
  team in the country. When you're got a team that's of
• 1:02:47
  the caliber defense like Houston and the offense like Illinois,
• 1:02:51
  who do you take in that one tough?
• 1:02:55
  One I'm going with the offense of.
• 1:02:57
  Houston in this one, they just seem like they're playing.
• 1:03:02
  Some one of some of their best. Basketball of the year, like
• 1:03:05
  they like that game against Arizona in the conference, in
• 1:03:10
  the conference tournament was it was a great one.
• 1:03:12
  I think they're they're they're playing probably they're one of
• 1:03:16
  the best 3 four teams left in the tournament.
• 1:03:19
  And I don't think Illinois is that Illinois is good.
• 1:03:22
  I just don't think that they're great on the level that Houston
• 1:03:25
  is right now. Jimmy Houston, I mean, they're
• 1:03:27
  favored by 3 1/2, so it's going to be a close game, but I'm
• 1:03:30
  going to Houston. I'm going to Houston too, and.
• 1:03:34
  Like both these teams are great rebounding teams as well.
• 1:03:38
  I just think that Houston's got a chip on their shoulder get as
• 1:03:42
  close as they did last year. I I think their defense is going
• 1:03:45
  to keep them in the game. Illinois is going to have.
• 1:03:49
  To shoot it well, Keaton. Waggler is going to have to get.
• 1:03:52
  He's going to have to find ways to get in, get into the lane and
• 1:03:55
  create for Jake Davis and those other guys to, to make some
• 1:04:00
  threes. But I, Kingston Fleming's dude
• 1:04:04
  and Emmanuel Starp and Yuzon, like, I, I'm leaning that way.
• 1:04:08
  I, I, I can't go against Calvin Sampson here.
• 1:04:10
  I do think Illinois is really, really good.
• 1:04:13
  But I, I got to lead Houston. Yeah, and Houston's coming off.
• 1:04:16
  I mean, they've got the. Experience of of making it all
• 1:04:19
  the way to the to the to the end last year.
• 1:04:22
  They're also playing at home. And they are.
• 1:04:25
  Playing at home, that. I think that's also a huge
• 1:04:27
  factor that they can't be overlooked.
• 1:04:29
  Yes, moving to the. Other side, you've got Arizona,
• 1:04:33
  Arkansas. Texas.
• 1:04:34
  Purdue. Arizona.
• 1:04:37
  Arkansas, there's a lot. Of pros, there's a lot of pros
• 1:04:41
  in this game, a lot of pros on that one.
• 1:04:43
  I'm going to. Arizona, even though I really do
• 1:04:46
  like Arkansas, Arkansas's playing their best basketball
• 1:04:48
  this season. I mean, a Cuff is just a star,
• 1:04:51
  absolute star. And if Brazil's knocking down
• 1:04:54
  the threes and, and he's playing the way he's been playing, this
• 1:04:57
  could be right for the upset. But Arizona's been just
• 1:05:01
  consistently good all season. They've beaten tremendous teams
• 1:05:04
  along the way. What they've lost what, twice?
• 1:05:07
  Give me, give me the Wildcats. I think if you match these
• 1:05:10
  teams. Talent for talent, it's very
• 1:05:13
  close, but I think at some point Arkansas, who really is only
• 1:05:19
  going 60, I think it has to catch up with them.
• 1:05:25
  And I think when you're playing a team who right now I think is
• 1:05:28
  playing better than anybody else in the country, I think this is
• 1:05:30
  the game where it catches up with you.
• 1:05:33
  Arkansas struggles tremendously in in transition defense and
• 1:05:38
  that's something that Arizona I think is going to take advantage
• 1:05:41
  of. Now, if a cuff goes up and has
• 1:05:44
  3540, could Arkansas pull this game out?
• 1:05:49
  Absolutely, 100% and he's going to get help like you talked
• 1:05:52
  about it. Brazil's been good.
• 1:05:54
  I think Ewan is is AX factor in in this game.
• 1:05:57
  Billy Richmond is the all SEC defender.
• 1:06:00
  But I mean, then on the other side, you've got you've got
• 1:06:04
  Jayden Bradley and Bradenbury's and Co Pete like it's there's a
• 1:06:10
  reason why I picked Arizona. To win at all.
• 1:06:13
  And there's a lot of teams that are left in the Sweet 16 that I
• 1:06:15
  would pick Arkansas to beat, and they're just matched up against
• 1:06:18
  one that I don't think they're going to be.
• 1:06:21
  Now, like I said, a cuff could go off for 45 and figure out a
• 1:06:24
  way to win it by himself. It's it's possible?
• 1:06:28
  I I look at the. Purdue, Texas match up I think.
• 1:06:30
  It's a bad match up for Texas and I think I don't think it's
• 1:06:34
  going to be close either. I mean, especially the way.
• 1:06:36
  That Purdue's playing if Kaufman ran and Rayden Smith and
• 1:06:39
  Fletcher lawyer and they're if they're going to keep playing
• 1:06:42
  the way that they've been playing, this isn't going to be
• 1:06:44
  close game. I think Texas, they, they barely
• 1:06:47
  escaped in that playing game. They played a bad BYU team in my
• 1:06:52
  opinion, and then a Gonzaga team that I thought was underrated
• 1:06:55
  and they turned out to be overrated.
• 1:06:57
  I know they were banged up. They're missing their best
• 1:06:58
  players like that, best player I.
• 1:07:00
  Understand but. I think it comes to an end for
• 1:07:03
  Texas, and I think it comes to an end double digits here.
• 1:07:06
  Here's what Here's all I'm going to say about this game.
• 1:07:08
  And This is why Texas barely got in the tournament.
• 1:07:11
  Texas ranks 334 nationally against top five competition
• 1:07:17
  defensively. So yeah, that's going to come
• 1:07:22
  back. That good and the way that
• 1:07:24
  Purdue is just playing offensively and dude, Braden
• 1:07:26
  Smith has not shot the ball well in the first two rounds, I think
• 1:07:30
  he's going to shoot a lot better moving forward.
• 1:07:32
  Yeah, didn't even make a three in his last game.
• 1:07:34
  Give me Purdue. All day going double digits.
• 1:07:39
  I think the six. And a half is what I see on here
• 1:07:41
  right now. Yeah, I would take him to cover,
• 1:07:43
  yeah. I think that that's probably
• 1:07:45
  accurate. Then we get to.
• 1:07:50
  The Midwest. Michigan.
• 1:07:52
  Alabama, Tennessee, Iowa State, Who you got?
• 1:07:59
  I mean if. Alabama wants to play that,
• 1:08:01
  shoot the ball and. Play the way that they did the
• 1:08:02
  other day, then they're going to give Michigan a game.
• 1:08:04
  But Yaxel Lindenburg is just a absolute monster.
• 1:08:10
  Donald, he's the he's the, he's the best player to me in the
• 1:08:13
  country, even better than Boozer.
• 1:08:15
  So give me Michigan to win this game.
• 1:08:18
  But I think this is going to be, it's me closer than I think most
• 1:08:23
  people would expect, but give me Michigan.
• 1:08:25
  I I don't know how Alabama guards Michigan.
• 1:08:27
  And I don't know how they rebound, but if they shoot it,
• 1:08:30
  they just shoot it. They're going to try to
• 1:08:32
  outscore. Just got to try to outscore.
• 1:08:35
  That's the only thing that they can do.
• 1:08:37
  They physicality wise they cannot stand toe for toe with
• 1:08:41
  with Michigan and Alabama has struggled against teams that out
• 1:08:45
  physical them like Arizona and Florida.
• 1:08:49
  They get they. They got out rebounded by.
• 1:08:52
  What 11? Plus they get out rebounded
• 1:08:56
  Purdue out rebounded Alabama by 24.
• 1:09:00
  I think Michigan will try to do the same.
• 1:09:02
  Now look, if Alabama goes off and hits 19 threes like they get
• 1:09:05
  against Texas Tech, then yeah, they've got a.
• 1:09:08
  Chance, but I don't see that happening.
• 1:09:10
  In in back-to-back games. I mean, that's how Wisconsin
• 1:09:12
  beat Michigan early. In the season was by just
• 1:09:15
  getting hot from three in South score.
• 1:09:16
  You're going to have to outscore them like this game is going to
• 1:09:19
  have to be in the 80s nineties for Alabama to have a chance.
• 1:09:24
  Probably in the 90s. Yeah.
• 1:09:26
  First, they they've got at least at 15.
• 1:09:28
  Threes I think to even be in the game and they had 19 yesterday.
• 1:09:33
  So will they continue that? I mean, file on is one of the
• 1:09:36
  best players in in this less than this tournament.
• 1:09:39
  So not like you don't have dudes.
• 1:09:42
  It's just Michigan has more dudes and they're bigger and
• 1:09:44
  they're stronger and they'll guard and they'll rebound and
• 1:09:47
  Alabama doesn't want to do any of those things.
• 1:09:52
  And then the last one, Tennessee, Iowa State, I this
• 1:10:00
  this could be another tough one. I'm leaning Iowa State because
• 1:10:03
  that's who I have in my bracket. I'm sticking with my bracket.
• 1:10:06
  Who you got? Yeah, I'm going to go Iowa State
• 1:10:09
  as well. I was impressed with the way
• 1:10:11
  that they defended against Kentucky, and we all know that
• 1:10:14
  they can. They can shoot the ball.
• 1:10:18
  I mean, yeah. I mean their their best player.
• 1:10:20
  Went down against Tennessee State on Friday, but they could
• 1:10:26
  bounce back in and didn't show. I mean, a lot of signs of that
• 1:10:29
  affecting them against Kentucky. So I think they'll be fine.
• 1:10:32
  Give me Iowa State, dude. I just think this Iowa State
• 1:10:36
  team is. They've been ready for this.
• 1:10:39
  They've. Got a lot of the guys.
• 1:10:40
  That were there last year, Tay Tayman, Lipsey's been there all
• 1:10:43
  four years. He's from that area, He's
• 1:10:45
  motivated. But that match up, Lipsey and
• 1:10:47
  Gillespie is going to be awesome.
• 1:10:49
  And then the Nadem Ayment and Milan Monsilovic.
• 1:10:53
  Milan Monsilovic. Like if if you're playing video
• 1:10:56
  games and just banging threes, dude, how fun would that be just
• 1:10:59
  to constantly hit threes with him and yell his name at your
• 1:11:02
  buddy when you're just shredding him.
• 1:11:04
  We all know Carl would do that on March.
• 1:11:06
  Madness. Would be awesome Here's the one
• 1:11:10
  thing that maybe could lean into Iowa State's favor is the fact
• 1:11:14
  that Tennessee is the best offensive rebounding team in the
• 1:11:18
  country. And in all of Ohio State's
• 1:11:21
  losses, their their defense has given up a 31 percent or higher
• 1:11:26
  offensive rebound rate which could keep Tennessee in the
• 1:11:29
  game. I, I just think that this, this
• 1:11:32
  Iowa State's prime for this moment and we'll, we'll get past
• 1:11:35
  the Tennessee team that has the talent but has been up and down
• 1:11:39
  all year and they had an up weekend last weekend.
• 1:11:43
  I expect them to take a little downturn this week.
• 1:11:46
  It's especially against an Iowa State team that I think is ready
• 1:11:48
  for the moment. Has there been an update on the
• 1:11:50
  Joshua, Joshua? Jefferson, is he out, Out?
• 1:11:53
  He's not. He's not going to play.
• 1:11:55
  I don't. I think there's very small
• 1:11:56
  chance it. Didn't look good.
• 1:12:01
  I mean, he wasn't even. Putting any weight on it.
• 1:12:03
  He's in a boot and yeah, I'm at. Yeah, no, I still think that
• 1:12:07
  they can win with it. I mean, he's our best player.
• 1:12:10
  It's it does suck, but yeah. I think, I think they can still
• 1:12:13
  win this game. I don't know if they can get
• 1:12:14
  past Michigan without him. I mean, they just beat a
• 1:12:16
  Kentucky team that beat. Tennessee twice.
• 1:12:20
  Well. What did I just say about
• 1:12:21
  Tennessee? But they're up and down.
• 1:12:26
  Like, you just don't know what you're going to get.
• 1:12:27
  And you're like, oh, they turn the corner and.
• 1:12:30
  Then they blow a 10 point. Lead and lose late, late.
• 1:12:32
  That's just what they do, and Rick Barnes has got these four
• 1:12:37
  straight sweet sixteens, but they've never been to the Final
• 1:12:39
  Four and they ain't getting past.
• 1:12:42
  Iowa State and and Michigan. To get there.
• 1:12:45
  This is the same thing here for their first Final Four, not the
• 1:12:48
  year. Some of those we.
• 1:12:53
  Looking back at the first weekend, CBS Sports did a.
• 1:12:59
  Like all first weekend. Team they had a cuff on their
• 1:13:03
  Tyler Tanner. Dude was just a beast for
• 1:13:06
  Nebraska, 27 points in that are breaking loss and had 26 against
• 1:13:11
  McNeese and then almost made that.
• 1:13:13
  What would you call that? Not a three quarter court shot a
• 1:13:16
  little bit closer than that. Between the three quarter and a
• 1:13:18
  half court, it was about three, yeah, three quarter.
• 1:13:21
  Court shot, right? It was, yeah, between the free
• 1:13:25
  throw line. It was, Yeah, it was between the
• 1:13:27
  free throw line and half court. They got Rob Martin.
• 1:13:31
  At high point. On here, take away Kentucky and
• 1:13:36
  then Caravan at UConn, and then the second team was fierce, tame
• 1:13:40
  and Lipsy. Kobe Gillespie, Glendon Bourg.
• 1:13:44
  I don't know, Just kind of. Cool to to.
• 1:13:47
  See who they had as as as the as the rulers of the first weekend.
• 1:13:54
  What? What game are you looking
• 1:13:56
  forward to the most this week? This week, it's got to be the
• 1:14:03
  Duke St. John's.
• 1:14:04
  Game, I think with Pitino and and Shire, we talked about it
• 1:14:12
  we've. We've already gone over.
• 1:14:13
  I still have Duke, but don't doubt Rick Pitino in March, man.
• 1:14:17
  He's he's, he's done it. Before and.
• 1:14:21
  He's on his way to doing it again, and you know you went.
• 1:14:25
  You went, Rick, I'll. Go Cal.
• 1:14:26
  And I'm really looking forward to the Arizona, Arkansas game.
• 1:14:30
  This this game has more pros than than any other game that's
• 1:14:34
  left in this tournament. And I don't think Arkansas is
• 1:14:38
  going to win, but just watching that many pros go at it, it is
• 1:14:43
  it should be fun, but Kentucky and Louisville not in it, but
• 1:14:48
  Rick, Rick and Cal are. So it's just I'm putting
• 1:14:52
  Illinois Houston as my honourable mention.
• 1:14:54
  Yeah, well, in a. Lot of like Michigan State, U
• 1:14:57
  Conn like that one's all right. It's.
• 1:15:02
  Going to be fun this weekend. And then you're off to.
• 1:15:06
  Fort Worth to follow the women's team.
• 1:15:08
  Yeah, got confirmation that. We leave on Wednesday.
• 1:15:11
  We have didn't really talk much about the cards game today, but
• 1:15:15
  Louisville's still on it. Sweet 16.
• 1:15:17
  Another one for Jeff Walls and and and our women, you know,
• 1:15:21
  fantastic performances all around from Elif Istanbulugu.
• 1:15:26
  Taj Roberts was on her game today and you know, same with
• 1:15:30
  Laura. Ziegler So those 3 stepped.
• 1:15:32
  Up big time today when Amari Berry didn't have her best game
• 1:15:35
  and McKinley Randolph is just an absolute beast now she's the
• 1:15:39
  last five games she's got, every game was automatic, just one
• 1:15:42
  point away from. Another double double today.
• 1:15:44
  She's had like 3 or 4 in the last five games, so she's
• 1:15:47
  absolutely just a phenomenal player and it's going to be
• 1:15:51
  tough against Michigan. Michigan women, absolutely.
• 1:15:54
  I forgot who they. Played yesterday.
• 1:15:55
  But they just beat tar out of them.
• 1:15:57
  NC State beat them by like 30. So it's not going to be, I mean,
• 1:16:01
  nothing's easy now. Like this is where you get into
• 1:16:03
  the the ones and the twos. Like women's basketball is
• 1:16:05
  usually all chalk minus big win for Virginia today at Iowa,
• 1:16:09
  knocking the Hawkeyes out as a two seed.
• 1:16:12
  But this is where you got to come with your A game.
• 1:16:15
  There's no there's, I mean, it's, it's time to play.
• 1:16:18
  Well, another Notre Dame, another ACC.
• 1:16:20
  Team with an upset winning at Ohio State 6 / 3 yeah 6 / 3 I
• 1:16:24
  mean. When you've got Hannah Hidalgo
• 1:16:26
  on your team, it looks like it might happen today at the Yum
• 1:16:28
  Center. So you don't take anything for
• 1:16:31
  granted, do you? All you're trying to do is move
• 1:16:33
  on and play that next game. But when you got Hannah Hidalgo
• 1:16:35
  on your team, there's. Not very many upsets you can
• 1:16:38
  call when when Notre Dame rolls to town.
• 1:16:39
  Well, they probably shouldn't be a six seed.
• 1:16:41
  They they. Played theirself to a six seed
• 1:16:43
  but they probably should have been struggled, yeah.
• 1:16:47
  But no good on the cards that like I said at the beginning.
• 1:16:49
  Of the show 13th Sweet 16 and Coach Walls is 19 years when
• 1:16:56
  they had not. Been to a sweet?
• 1:16:57
  16 prior to him, to him coming there, just just impressive
• 1:17:03
  stuff. And you you talked about
• 1:17:05
  McKinley Randolph when they couldn't hit any free throws at
• 1:17:08
  all, she calmly knocked down too.
• 1:17:09
  They kind of settled the ship a little bit and then you I know
• 1:17:14
  Amari Berry did not have her best stuff today, but she had
• 1:17:18
  two clutch ones couple. Times this year, she hasn't been
• 1:17:21
  able to. Hit like free throws, and she
• 1:17:24
  did that today. And without those two, Yeah.
• 1:17:28
  And then a big shot. Reyna Scott.
• 1:17:29
  I think was like her only two points of the game was that
• 1:17:32
  floater to put us up six with under a minute left.
• 1:17:35
  So that was another big moment for her.
• 1:17:39
  Yeah, no. Great atmosphere, great time.
• 1:17:42
  Looking forward to to going down to Texas.
• 1:17:45
  Hey, give me walls with a couple.
• 1:17:46
  Days to prepare, yeah, got till Saturday, so he's got.
• 1:17:51
  He's got a couple, he's got more than a couple.
• 1:17:53
  Go look, Go look at their record in Sweet 16 games.
• 1:17:56
  It's pretty good, pretty good. It's pretty good, but.
• 1:17:59
  Another local team. If we want to talk about the
• 1:18:00
  Kentucky. Women one point win today.
• 1:18:04
  At West. Virginia the five seed over the
• 1:18:06
  four Sweet 16 for Kenny. Brooks at Kentucky and the first
• 1:18:10
  time Kentucky. 'S been the Sweet 16 I think
• 1:18:12
  that I saw since 201617 somewhere around there.
• 1:18:18
  Kenny Brooks A. Great coach.
• 1:18:19
  They will also be in Fort Worth, TX.
• 1:18:21
  They're in the same bracket as Louisville or same region as
• 1:18:24
  Louisville. So Kentucky's got Texas.
• 1:18:26
  Louisville's got Michigan. We'll see what happens.
• 1:18:31
  Go go ahead and knock off the Longhorns.
• 1:18:33
  They're. There, Kenny.
• 1:18:34
  Yeah, we got a little cats cards to go to the final.
• 1:18:36
  Four. That'd be some fun.
• 1:18:38
  Be a lot of fun, but like. If you haven't watched the
• 1:18:42
  women's tournament. Watch it like it's.
• 1:18:47
  It's just as fun to. Watch it as the men's.
• 1:18:50
  Like, I like, I love the fact that Monday it's just all
• 1:18:53
  women's basketball. I like how they stagger.
• 1:18:55
  They stagger the games throughout the day.
• 1:18:57
  I think the men should do a better job of staggering their
• 1:19:00
  games on Saturday and Sunday where they've got the two games
• 1:19:03
  solo and then all of a sudden you've got three games at a
• 1:19:05
  time. Like do a better job of
• 1:19:08
  staggering your game, start them at 12.
• 1:19:10
  And look, I get the women's having an advantage of it
• 1:19:12
  because all eight of their games are in different sites.
• 1:19:15
  So it makes it easier. It does make it easier, but.
• 1:19:19
  They still could do a better. Job of staggering games and not
• 1:19:22
  having two standalones at the 12:00 in the 230 windows.
• 1:19:27
  But that's I'm. Really nitpicking because.
• 1:19:29
  It's but like if you're a basketball.
• 1:19:32
  Fan, you know, if you would, if you tuned in today to women's
• 1:19:35
  basketball, there were multiple like Louisville wins by 1
• 1:19:37
  Kentucky wins by 1, double overtime Virginia upsets Iowa.
• 1:19:42
  And then you know, you've got like you said, you got Notre
• 1:19:44
  Dame that that upset Ohio State. That was a good game.
• 1:19:47
  I mean, just 4 good games right off the bat before you even eat
• 1:19:50
  dinner. So it is, it's, it's a quality
• 1:19:54
  product like it do what we got to do something about the
• 1:19:57
  monitor. The end.
• 1:20:00
  The end of that UVA. Well, the.
• 1:20:02
  Kentucky game as well the. Kentucky game How to review?
• 1:20:05
  After review after, it's brutal. It's brutal.
• 1:20:08
  And you want to get it right though, but you but look.
• 1:20:12
  Quit not calling. Fouls on the actual play and
• 1:20:17
  then running the next play and then go into the monitor and it
• 1:20:20
  wasn't even a foul. But now it's a flagrant.
• 1:20:25
  I don't like, can like it does. That makes no sense.
• 1:20:29
  It makes you didn't even stop. Action you you played on.
• 1:20:32
  It makes no sense. You obviously didn't think it
• 1:20:35
  was a. Foul and now.
• 1:20:36
  You go to the monitor and you can't just call it a foul.
• 1:20:39
  So it's either a flagrant or nothing.
• 1:20:41
  But how is it a flagrant when you didn't even call it a foul
• 1:20:43
  to begin with? Now I get it if.
• 1:20:46
  It's an elbow like. It I don't maybe I really I
• 1:20:49
  don't even get that either, but it happened twice.
• 1:20:54
  It down the stretch in. That UVAI, again like Iowa, are.
• 1:20:58
  You, the ARA, had the. Ball and didn't score.
• 1:21:01
  They went to the the monitor to look at the rebound previously
• 1:21:05
  and then put Iowa on the line for two and gave them the ball.
• 1:21:08
  Like what are we doing? What?
• 1:21:10
  Are. What are we doing?
• 1:21:14
  UConn continues to roll. Get a shout out to the.
• 1:21:18
  Huskies, they continue. To roll as the best team in
• 1:21:20
  women's basketball game they won by 50.
• 1:21:22
  I mean, it's just they're, they're good, they're good.
• 1:21:29
  Nil 37. Consecutive sweet sixteens
• 1:21:38
  Before we get off, let me confirm that. 3232 So I was off
• 1:21:46
  by 5. 32. Consecutive Sweet Sixteens and
• 1:21:49
  what they've missed one Final four and they've been to. 17 and
• 1:21:52
  18 Final Fours they've been to. 17 and 18 Final Fours.
• 1:21:55
  That's just that's just stupid. It's it's the final three.
• 1:22:00
  Like we, we should change the. Banners We.
• 1:22:02
  Should change the banners at the KFC Yum Center.
• 1:22:05
  It should be the final three because Yukon is.
• 1:22:08
  And look, I can't say that that's my line.
• 1:22:11
  I stole that line from the head coach of the Cards.
• 1:22:17
  It comes up with some good lines from time to time.
• 1:22:19
  No excited dude, just give me a chance to get to.
• 1:22:21
  Michigan like this is you're at this point now where just roll
• 1:22:24
  them out there, see what happens.
• 1:22:26
  And it was good to see Taj get some confidence today.
• 1:22:28
  Hopefully that carries over. Love, love the way.
• 1:22:32
  Laura was just. Egg egging her team on, egging
• 1:22:34
  the crowd on. He was, he was great.
• 1:22:37
  Max been awesome. Omari Omari will show up.
• 1:22:42
  Let's, let's, let's see what happens.
• 1:22:44
  Let's get to another Lead 8. And then let's just watch Hoops
• 1:22:50
  again, all. Next weekend, here we go.
• 1:22:54
  So who? Is your did your final four
• 1:22:56
  change? Since last time before we get
• 1:22:58
  off just to confirm so everybody knows who your picks are since
• 1:23:02
  you change them every three days.
• 1:23:03
  No, the final four did not change my.
• 1:23:06
  Final game changed by one team. I always had Michigan but the
• 1:23:10
  the Duke Houston. Duke Houston.
• 1:23:12
  Arizona, Michigan. So your 3.
• 1:23:15
  Your 3 ones and A2. Yeah, and last week I said
• 1:23:18
  Michigan gets. Duke in the championship game,
• 1:23:20
  they win, they Well, this has now changed.
• 1:23:22
  It has changed. We.
• 1:23:23
  We. We got Houston.
• 1:23:24
  Now we, we, we dug in the weeds, we dug down in the weeds and we,
• 1:23:30
  we pulled out a Houston well, mine did not change mine.
• 1:23:35
  Did not change. We we still got Houston beating
• 1:23:38
  St. John's and Arizona beat Michigan
• 1:23:41
  and Arizona beating Houston to win the whole Dang thing.
• 1:23:43
  We got me, yeah. Michigan over Houston so.
• 1:23:51
  I'm my bracket is. 95 percentile.
• 1:23:58
  And in my survivor league, where?
• 1:24:01
  You got to survive in advance and pick a different team every
• 1:24:04
  day. We're in second place right now.
• 1:24:06
  We pick VCU in the first round to get 11 points to kind of give
• 1:24:11
  us a head. Start We rode with Tennessee.
• 1:24:12
  Yesterday, so trying to figure out who I'm going to roll with.
• 1:24:18
  Thursday and Friday we'll have both of your teams alive or.
• 1:24:23
  One team Gonzaga screwed. Me and.
• 1:24:25
  See, the, the, the thing about this is you want to pick
• 1:24:27
  somebody you think's going to win this week, but probably not
• 1:24:29
  the next week, because you don't want to have to pick them again.
• 1:24:32
  And I just, I thought Gonzaga could beat Texas.
• 1:24:39
  I did too, and they screwed me, yeah.
• 1:24:41
  I did too. But happy March, everybody.
• 1:24:46
  We do not have a. What would Joe do this week?
• 1:24:49
  Because he did send. I texted.
• 1:24:52
  I texted. Him right before the.
• 1:24:53
  Show we have gone. He did send one the show.
• 1:24:56
  'S gone long. We can do a quick one if you
• 1:24:58
  want. Do you want to just go with this
• 1:25:00
  one off the? Top.
• 1:25:01
  Yeah. What's 1?
• 1:25:03
  The one. He sent Yeah, why not?
• 1:25:07
  You can never leave the. State of Kentucky again or, or
• 1:25:12
  the state that you live in if you don't live again.
• 1:25:14
  Right. Or only friends with people?
• 1:25:16
  You met post college, family excluded.
• 1:25:19
  Well, what does that mean? That means only.
• 1:25:23
  Yeah, that means you'll only. Be friends with people you met
• 1:25:25
  post college, like all your childhood friends you can't be
• 1:25:27
  friends with anymore if you want to leave the state.
• 1:25:31
  Oh, that means no Carl for you. That's.
• 1:25:34
  About it though. I mean.
• 1:25:37
  Everybody I hang out with now is basically post college.
• 1:25:41
  Give me the give me the post college, the just being.
• 1:25:45
  Trapped in the state of Kentucky for the rest of.
• 1:25:47
  Your life just sounds. That would be awful.
• 1:25:49
  You can't go on vacation. You can't go on vacation you.
• 1:25:52
  Can't do anything. You can't travel for anything.
• 1:25:56
  This is This is a tough beating for.
• 1:25:58
  Carl, bro, it's like my best friend since I was a junior in
• 1:26:02
  high school. I'll tell him you said what's up
• 1:26:04
  from time to time. I I mean, I don't know.
• 1:26:06
  You can still hang out with him, Carl.
• 1:26:07
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:26:08
  You can just kind of be the in between.
• 1:26:11
  Yeah, I, I. Think that I do not want to be.
• 1:26:14
  Stuck in the state of Kentucky for the rest of my life.
• 1:26:15
  What are you supposed to tell your kids?
• 1:26:18
  Vacation we're going to. Mammoth Cave Every.
• 1:26:20
  Summer now. Oh, and you go to Fort What
• 1:26:24
  museum? And go to the Florence Freedom
• 1:26:27
  game. Can you go to Reds or bagels
• 1:26:30
  game? Go to dinosaur world.
• 1:26:31
  No, you can't even go. To bagels games.
• 1:26:33
  Anymore. No.
• 1:26:34
  We're going to have to figure out a way to buy the team.
• 1:26:36
  To bring them across the river, get him, promise him a new
• 1:26:39
  stadium and across the river that'd be.
• 1:26:42
  The only way to yeah, sorry. For anybody that I, anybody
• 1:26:45
  that. I knew before the end of
• 1:26:48
  college, but you're out. Yeah.
• 1:26:51
  Sorry, Carl. Yeah, that's about it.
• 1:26:53
  Sorry. Sorry, Carl.
• 1:26:54
  I guess you, yeah. Is that it?
• 1:26:58
  Is he the only one? That I mean.
• 1:27:02
  For the most part that I still really hang out with.
• 1:27:04
  There's other guys that I guess I talked to, but and to be fair,
• 1:27:08
  call never goes out anymore anyways.
• 1:27:09
  So he just so that's another easy that's.
• 1:27:17
  Another rather easy. What would?
• 1:27:18
  Y'all do. The other one that he talked
• 1:27:20
  about is you get 1 condiment so. You can only use one condiment
• 1:27:23
  for the rest of your life. What would you pick?
• 1:27:26
  And I'm not a huge. I'm not.
• 1:27:28
  A huge condiment. Guy like I know some people are
• 1:27:31
  just put ranch on everything. I don't.
• 1:27:34
  I'm not a big ranch guy. Not either.
• 1:27:36
  Like on my hot. Dogs.
• 1:27:37
  My hamburgers, My Turkey. Sandwiches.
• 1:27:39
  I like to put mustard on it. It's pretty versatile.
• 1:27:42
  That sounds like a really boring selection to go yellow mustard.
• 1:27:48
  I'm going to. Go ketchup.
• 1:27:51
  I'm not putting ketchup all, but you can't put ketchup on a
• 1:27:53
  Turkey sandwich. I don't put anything.
• 1:27:55
  On a ham sandwich, I don't. Put anything on my sandwiches.
• 1:27:57
  Anyway, so I'm good there. Seems dry.
• 1:28:00
  I'm a dry. Sandwich I'm a dry sandwich guy.
• 1:28:04
  What do you put? What do you?
• 1:28:05
  Put on your hot dog. Do you put ketchup on hot?
• 1:28:06
  Dog straight ketchup. Ketchup.
• 1:28:09
  Ketchup on burgers, ketchup on hot dogs.
• 1:28:11
  I mean, I'm a BBQ sauce on chicken fingers and stuff, but
• 1:28:14
  you know what ketchup can do? Ketchup's fine on fried chicken
• 1:28:17
  or it's lame. It's it's so bland on that.
• 1:28:19
  Though like ketchup is like for fries, you get to pick one.
• 1:28:24
  Nick, you get to pick one. I know, I'm trying to figure out
• 1:28:27
  what it is. Like for fries, ketchup is
• 1:28:29
  perfect. I would miss ketchup when eating
• 1:28:32
  fries. I don't want to dip it in
• 1:28:34
  mustard. I could ditch her fries in
• 1:28:38
  mustard. Who does honey mustard I.
• 1:28:41
  Don't want to I don't I. Don't want to do that.
• 1:28:43
  She's a honey mustard person, so.
• 1:28:45
  I I guess, I guess. I'm still going mustard just
• 1:28:48
  because it's more versatile. It's also there's no calories in
• 1:28:51
  mustard that's good for you. There's no sugar like it's a
• 1:28:58
  it's a healthy condiment. But when I'm eating my fries, I
• 1:29:02
  think. That's when I would.
• 1:29:03
  And then, oh, do I get to have the hot mustard at McDonald's
• 1:29:07
  with if I go mustard? Nope.
• 1:29:10
  Nope. So you do you only get.
• 1:29:13
  One brand mustard or just one type type.
• 1:29:15
  You'll get that. Like mustard doesn't mean yellow
• 1:29:17
  mustard. Honey mustard, hot mustard, grey
• 1:29:20
  Poupon and some great. That would be over there.
• 1:29:23
  That would be the move. If you could do that, I could do
• 1:29:25
  that. No, you don't get that.
• 1:29:27
  You don't get that. You get one type of mustard I
• 1:29:30
  didn't forget about for salads. That would.
• 1:29:36
  I would never be able to eat a salad again.
• 1:29:38
  Well, I guess you're going to be a soup guy from now on.
• 1:29:43
  The soup Soup du jour. I love salads.
• 1:29:47
  But I'm not going to pick blue. Cheese as my condiment you could
• 1:29:51
  put. Mustard on a salad.
• 1:29:54
  Honey mustard. Yeah, so.
• 1:29:55
  Was that the kind of mustard you're going?
• 1:29:57
  To go with I don't want honey mustard on my hot dogs.
• 1:30:01
  You plain hot you. Got to eat a dry hot dog day.
• 1:30:03
  I do eat a lot. Awesome this is.
• 1:30:05
  This is tougher, not hot. Like what do you put on your
• 1:30:09
  salads? You going to put ketchup?
• 1:30:10
  On them bro I don't eat salad. Are you talking?
• 1:30:14
  How you those are for? Rabbit.
• 1:30:15
  I don't eat rabbit food. That's that's.
• 1:30:17
  Those are for for rabbits in the backyard.
• 1:30:19
  God, you're right. We, we got to quit this.
• 1:30:21
  We're up. To an hour and a half we.
• 1:30:25
  Got we got it. We got in this madness.
• 1:30:28
  Go go, go to the kitchen and make you a salad.
• 1:30:31
  But I'm not doing that. I'm I'm not eating what's
• 1:30:35
  already what, 10:30 I will. I will not be eating a salad at
• 1:30:38
  10:30 at night, but before we end.
• 1:30:41
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• 1:31:02
  Happy March Madness to everybody.
• 1:31:03
  We'll be back here, I guess, hopefully next.
• 1:31:08
  I don't know. It depends on when the women's
• 1:31:09
  games are scheduled. We do not want to be back on
• 1:31:11
  here next Monday, I promise. You that we are Saturday,
• 1:31:14
  Monday. We will be here at Sunday next
• 1:31:16
  week. Next Monday we are hopefully
• 1:31:18
  playing in an Elite 8. We didn't even get in the fact
• 1:31:23
  that it's baseball starts. This week, happy happy opening
• 1:31:25
  day Reds Opening Day on Thursday.
• 1:31:28
  The entire pitching Staffs hurt. Doesn't matter.
• 1:31:31
  Both the Atlanta Braves and Reds.
• 1:31:33
  The entire pitching Staffs are already hurt, but that's enough.
• 1:31:37
  We got to get out of here for the 66 deal.
• 1:31:40
  I am the 410. Nick, we appreciate you
• 1:31:41
  listening. We will talk to you at some
• 1:31:43
  point next week. Give it to.
• 1:31:47
  Me Hey, you going to be down there in the Red Hat you're.
• 1:31:51
  Going to be on the field with your with your oven Mitt.
• 1:31:55
  You got the oven Mitt on? Yeah, no way, dude.
• 1:32:00
  I'm doing the whole season, dude.
• 1:32:01
  You're. Going to be down.
• 1:32:02
  There in this big ass Red Hat and.
• 1:32:03
  A big orange oven Mitt just waving your arms around.
• 1:32:07
  I'm going to hate. Nobody's going to be able to see
• 1:32:08
  you. I know that's a problem.
• 1:32:10
  I mean like. What he's like, he's like at the
• 1:32:13
  other. End of the field you're like oh
• 1:32:15
  there he is. Well dude, I might get fired
• 1:32:16
  after the first game for that.