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College Ball Show: Recap Last Few Days! Preview Conference Tourney Games! Who Will Make Final 4? · The Rope A Dope Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 1: College basketball fans, Welcome back to the College Ball Show.
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  Speaker 1: He's Marshall, I'm Chris, and we're here to talk about
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  Speaker 1: of college basketball. Right hoops is in full motion. March fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five is the date, so that means, you
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  Speaker 1: know what that means, March madness, baby. And it all
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  Speaker 1: starts out with the Conference Attorneys, which we've already had
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  Speaker 1: some pretty dramatic endings, buzzer beaters, overtime, double overtime. Still
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  Speaker 1: don't know how a couple of those Texas baskets against
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  Speaker 1: A and M how they got so wide open. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about it, we'll talk about everything. We'll kind of
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  Speaker 1: not going to go too deep in the recap from
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. We'll just kind of put a a nice
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  Speaker 1: boat on what happened this weekend and look at some
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  Speaker 1: of the early rounds, whether it's yesterday or the day
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  Speaker 1: before or going on right now. There's some good games
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  Speaker 1: going on as we speak in later tonight, as we
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  Speaker 1: get to the quarterfinals, the semifinals, in the finals, and
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  Speaker 1: then it's crazy to say, but next Monday, or I
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  Speaker 1: should say this coming Monday, we'll have the brackets in hand,
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  Speaker 1: preview and predicting the first two rounds of the tournament. Man,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into this. Let's get into this. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit about what happened to kind
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  Speaker 1: of wrap up the regular season and then these early
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  Speaker 1: rounds and whatnot. Let's go ahead and bring in the
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  Speaker 1: co host Marshall. Marshall, how are you doing? Which is
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  Speaker 1: kind of a dumb question because it's it's mid March
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  Speaker 1: and we're always doing pretty good at mid March.
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  Speaker 2: So my girlfriend started working from home and I got
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  Speaker 2: her a monitor.
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  Speaker 1: of time out? Your what.
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  Speaker 3: Fiance?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks you?
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  Speaker 2: I got you you guys, buddy started working from home
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  Speaker 2: that I got her a monitor so she could do
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  Speaker 2: work in my house because she needs two screens, and
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  Speaker 2: so of course this week what I do.
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  Speaker 3: And she's like, oh, we're gonna use my monitor. I'm like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: of course. And she's like oh why, She's like why
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  Speaker 3: you have two TVs your living room?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, so, what's what's your point? So clearly everyone
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  Speaker 2: thinks that's a little bit crazy. But hey, you got
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  Speaker 2: yeah YouTube TV. I got ESPN Plus, like I I
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  Speaker 2: got all the channels available pop you know, because they've
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  Speaker 2: got Peacock games from Big East. Like, dude, this is
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  Speaker 2: the best time of the year. Our school Wi Fi
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  Speaker 2: isn't blocking ESPN Plus anymore. Like, I'm just watching all
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  Speaker 2: the basketball I can, brothers. So it's been a it's
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  Speaker 2: it's been a good day. Uh, spring break is this
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  Speaker 2: next week's Obviously that's the best week to have spring
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  Speaker 2: break off as a as a basketball fan. So yeah, hey,
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  Speaker 2: ready to talk about a lot of basketball. We Today's
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  Speaker 2: have been a great day. But I literally this is
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  Speaker 2: gonna be my one opening point and it's no.
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  Speaker 3: Question for you, just my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that this potential tournament field we have
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  Speaker 2: this year, Chris could be the best one since we've
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  Speaker 2: had since uh since COVID shutdown because I remember when
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  Speaker 2: we did that podcast that yeah never was Yes, just
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  Speaker 2: because of the potential teams we had, of the match
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  Speaker 2: we looked at. And I was telling my dad last night,
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  Speaker 2: I do think that there's only maybe seven or eight
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  Speaker 2: teams that can win a title this year, but the
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  Speaker 2: amount tams are true, but I think the amount of
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  Speaker 2: Tier two good teams this year is like fifteen to
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  Speaker 2: twenty deep. So my main chat and my point two
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  Speaker 2: and my dad was, is the fact that I think
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  Speaker 2: that this opening Saturday Sunday is going to be better
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  Speaker 2: than usual because I just think that that that level
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  Speaker 2: of B teams this year in the country is a
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  Speaker 2: huge level that is better than normal. And I think
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  Speaker 2: part of that's just with basketball itself out and IL
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  Speaker 2: money in the conferences and everything laying out. But I
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  Speaker 2: think the opening weekend, especially Saturday Sunday, is going to
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  Speaker 2: be better than usual. And I think this is going
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  Speaker 2: to be one of the more fun turnts we've seen
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  Speaker 2: in a long time.
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  Speaker 3: And I hope I'm right on that.
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  Speaker 1: And you're saying Saturday Sunday meaning those eight to.
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  Speaker 3: Nine matchups, yeah, yeah, just get it out at first.
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  Speaker 1: Things that some of those teams can make a make
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  Speaker 1: some motion, and that is something that you you have
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  Speaker 1: mentioned in the last handful of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: It just seems like those B level teams there's more
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  Speaker 3: of it than usual.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And just for a possible example, Cooper Flag second round,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for Duke. Yeah, we don't know who they're
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  Speaker 1: going to play, but could that be something where they're like, damn,
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  Speaker 1: we have to play Cooper Flag, you know, because we
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  Speaker 1: gotta get by this team. Yeah. I think you're right
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  Speaker 1: about that. And yeah, I always think about that that year. Man,
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  Speaker 1: it just god, we were so I mean, obviously you
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  Speaker 1: never know what would happen, but yeah, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those that we never get back. Basically, everybody
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  Speaker 1: else got to finish their season, correct, I mean, no
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  Speaker 1: other league didn't get to Everybody else got to finish
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  Speaker 1: their season. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Bubble, the NBA bubble, who can forget that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they did it like a what a sixty
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  Speaker 1: day or something like that, Baseball sixty games or whatever
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  Speaker 1: it was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and NHL did a bubble thing well they played
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  Speaker 2: emptas Yeah yeah, right, So.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean every everybody got to finish like that,
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  Speaker 1: except then then that that was pretty crazy. I suppose, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, other college sports didn't get to finish that
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  Speaker 1: year of course, like baseball and stuff like that, or
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  Speaker 1: did they. I don't think baseball did right, no so
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  Speaker 1: meaning callups. But you're right, that is something that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I look about think about once in a while. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was reminded by a listener that last week on
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  Speaker 1: the show, you did not add to your final four
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  Speaker 1: list as you said you were going to.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I got it, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Did you want to get that out of the way
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  Speaker 1: or because because in years past, just to explain for
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  Speaker 1: those who haven't listened, he's always had these. He's had
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  Speaker 1: his one right away. Then I think he has three
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  Speaker 1: or four of them almost every year that he he
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  Speaker 1: he'll say him in late January sometimes, and he's learned
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  Speaker 1: his lesson over the years. That's that's what we do.
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  Speaker 1: We learn a bunch of lessons. And you know, however,
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  Speaker 1: this year, I think two weeks ago we said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta add some you gotta at least add one
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  Speaker 1: more because you did do one right, you didn't want Yeah, I've.
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  Speaker 3: Put I've put Duke on the list.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, because it was a win win scenario for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if they make you have a second entry, sir,
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  Speaker 2: Actually I'm gonna I'm gonna give you two.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 2: And these are teams that just watch them play, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I just think they have the ability.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: First, I'm gonna add Florida.
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  Speaker 2: I think, man, because a you you have, you've beat
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  Speaker 2: you beat Bama and you won an Auburn like.
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  Speaker 3: I think that team has. The way they passed the ball,
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  Speaker 3: They've really impressed me some of that Florida. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: also gonna add uh b Yu. Uh. I think if
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  Speaker 3: they can't get the right matchups, that team is very athletic.
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  Speaker 2: Now again, it's hard to compare last year because I
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's so much charge whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But last year I fell over that team just because
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  Speaker 3: they played the ball really well. Then they got knocked
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  Speaker 3: around one.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think now they could get knocked around one again.
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  Speaker 2: But watch them play Iowa State today. Man, that is
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  Speaker 2: a very just like team.
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  Speaker 3: They can shoot. I know a lot this kid, but.
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  Speaker 2: They just they've been on a heater. I feel, Chris
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  Speaker 2: for about the past two months. But I don't think
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  Speaker 2: they're slowing down. So add Florida, who I'm really high
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  Speaker 2: on I probably will better them to win the tournament
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  Speaker 2: once that brat comes out, because I think that team
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  Speaker 2: has potential or not.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they just had the kid to just do it.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll throw a wild card at a BYU.
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  Speaker 1: I like that, and that is usually something that you
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  Speaker 1: do as well, usually do bring a wild card. So
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  Speaker 1: that that's I like that. That's really good.
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  Speaker 2: And the kick the kick to the balls was when
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  Speaker 2: I did it two years ago. I picked the team
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was created who like in mid January
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  Speaker 2: was hot, but then they finished here in a downfall.
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  Speaker 2: And so of my fourteens I picked that year, they
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  Speaker 2: played each other on like.
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  Speaker 3: The opening weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, well, son of a bitch, how can
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  Speaker 2: I make a final four pick if two will play
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  Speaker 2: each other on the first Saturday of the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what you get for picking him in Janie.
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  Speaker 3: You know that that was a Hubling experience. Brother, are
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  Speaker 3: very hopefully experienced.
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  Speaker 1: I remember, I believe you picked Florida Atlantic two ones,
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  Speaker 1: didn't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that that
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  Speaker 2: would be last probably last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when they had that, yeah, last year, yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: probably was. They got knocked down the opening weekend too.
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  Speaker 1: But they you know, but it they looked a part
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  Speaker 1: of that of what you're saying, that outside thing and
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  Speaker 1: byu those corner threes that they lead lead the whole
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  Speaker 1: nation in like you put in the corner. It's basically
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  Speaker 1: in the whop.
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  Speaker 3: That that That game was so much fun to watch.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's one of the best games I've
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  Speaker 3: seen in a long time.
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  Speaker 2: It just yea, and you can say defense, but dude,
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  Speaker 2: when you have teams they shoot the three ball that well,
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  Speaker 2: even if the defense, you know, you're not gonna have
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  Speaker 2: lockdown defenders in college basketball if you can hit the
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  Speaker 2: threes like that shift they said a conference record today.
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  Speaker 2: I think they hit twenty eight threes in that game
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  Speaker 2: like that. That was just that's that's why you love
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  Speaker 2: this time of the year. But also, as we know,
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: most teams Chris can't hit fourteen threes of the game
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  Speaker 2: effectively without like shooting the ball like fifty five times.
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  Speaker 3: You know that. That Yeah, so b Y in Florida, Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, I'm not a Gator fan, but that team you beat,
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  Speaker 2: you want an Auburn maybe the way of the year
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  Speaker 2: you beat Bama this past week, and you just got
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  Speaker 2: guys that can.
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  Speaker 3: You just got a full team.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, and maybe I'll have a team next week
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  Speaker 2: when we do our bracket.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe. All right, real quick, Bama at the buzzer, n
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  Speaker 1: ot at Auburn. Hell of a way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Duke took care of business in the second half against
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  Speaker 1: their rival. Houston, got a nice win over Baylor. Your
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  Speaker 1: squad Florida destroyed Old Miss and a couple other ones
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  Speaker 1: we'll mention as well. Penn State upsetting at Wisconsin. That
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  Speaker 1: one really surprised me. That that one really shocked me.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe that one. And then we actually talked
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  Speaker 1: about it before we hit record. You know, Saint John's
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  Speaker 1: not needing the win Marquette definitely. I've been on this Marquette.
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, they're gonna will they finish strong? Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: not finishing strong. But to get that win in overtime
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  Speaker 1: at Marquette just really tells me a lot about this squad.
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  Speaker 1: You had it in the bag, you didn't need it.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, you have a conference tournament where you
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  Speaker 1: may play it. You know, you could have played them again,
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  Speaker 1: maybe depending on how everyone finished or whatever, But that
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  Speaker 1: was really impressive because everything kind of points to I mean,
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: look at Auburn. They lost the lot, they had it
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  Speaker 1: in the bag, they already won the conference, and they
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  Speaker 1: lost the last two. Now I like the It sounds funny,
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  Speaker 1: but I do like the way they lost. I'll say
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  Speaker 1: that they didn't they weren't. They were. They came to win,
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  Speaker 1: you know, no doubt about it, but that those are
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  Speaker 1: some of the games that really stood out to me
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  Speaker 1: from that Saturday and then Sunday Michigan State similar scenario
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  Speaker 1: where they got it in the bag, but meanwhile they're
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: getting pissed off because someone's walking on Sparty, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, or standing on Sparty.
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  Speaker 2: I should say, yeah, you know, like, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: what are the odds that Michigan was involved in Just
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: a lot of field antics this year, whether it's college
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  Speaker 2: football or college basketball.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously the alt coups a little bit better for the
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  Speaker 3: football team and the basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: But to kind of follow your trade of thought, Saint
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: Drona's hey, hats off to Sparty, Like, dude, this team
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  Speaker 2: you finished on a freaking heater. I remember we did
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  Speaker 2: a podcast couple weeks We're like Okay, well, if they
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: finished the year you know strong, Well, shit, this is
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  Speaker 2: how they finished the year after losing to Indiana, who
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: had a resurgence temporarily.
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  Speaker 3: After they said that coach is gotta quit.
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  Speaker 2: You won it Illinois, who just dropped one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: six points on Iowa. You beat Perdue, who is right thirteenth.
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  Speaker 2: You won it Michigan hand only, you had a Budger
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  Speaker 2: beater at Maryland.
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  Speaker 3: You won versus Wisconsin, you won at Iowa. You beat
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  Speaker 3: Michigan again. Dude, you finished the year seven wins in
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  Speaker 3: a row.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and you had to go on the road,
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  Speaker 2: you had to play You played the best teams in
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  Speaker 2: your conference. So the fact that you beat Illinois, Perdue, Michigan, Maryland,
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin in a row, Holy shit. And then you go
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  Speaker 2: to Iowa, who can always be a tricky team because
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: they scored the ball. Well, they're not as good as usual,
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  Speaker 2: but still and you.
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  Speaker 3: Don't have a single slip up like that tells me that, hey,
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: this is one of the best fright teams we've seen
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  Speaker 3: a long time. Now, can they win the title? Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: It is a crapshoot, But this team's legit because how
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: many teams in basketball go and phase three of your
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  Speaker 2: divisional rate teams all within the top Oh shit, you
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  Speaker 2: won four games in a row verse thirteen to twelve,
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  Speaker 2: sixteen to eleven. There's probably only a handful of teams.
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  Speaker 3: Of the country, Chris. They can do that. So HAPs
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  Speaker 3: off this party. Even if you lose your first round
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  Speaker 3: of the big Ted, who gives a shit, like, dude,
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  Speaker 3: this team is going to be making a deep broath,
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  Speaker 3: is oh? I believe?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's interesting because you know, we know they're
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  Speaker 1: going to rebound both sides of the of the of
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  Speaker 1: the court, right. We know that they're they like to
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  Speaker 1: play kind of tackle football ish type basketball. They always have, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but they the pace is up this year. They are
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  Speaker 1: you know, they they go deep. They don't have maybe
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  Speaker 1: the top of the line players, we're the top two
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  Speaker 1: or three man. That dude's a fourth pick, that dude's
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: a you know, twelve picker. You know, so they don't
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  Speaker 1: have that, but they do go pretty deep. They're shooting
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  Speaker 1: ism has come around a little bit. They got a
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  Speaker 1: couple guys that can knock down some threes, but that
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  Speaker 1: is something along with a couple other teams in this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, top tier teams in the nation that you
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  Speaker 1: can point to, Saint John's obviously being one of them. Now,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, they they're Their top shooter is Richardson, who,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, has developed this year as a freshman
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  Speaker 1: and he's really opened up his game overall, shooting thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine percent. They do have another forty percent shooter. They
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: have a guy that barely plays that can shoot forty percent.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, they're they're they're kind of in between.
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  Speaker 1: But when you look at their field goal percentage, a
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  Speaker 1: fifty two, a fifty, a sixty three, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: basically like a sixty a sixty like. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know it. They they're damn good. I think because of
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Io's track record and tournament obviously most people venture that
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: they could go to the final four. Sure can they
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: actually win the championship? And I'd have to say, you know,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: maybe in two weeks I'll eat my words, But I
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: kind of I just they are deep. They are deep,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: and they bring you know, I'm biased to Holman because
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: he's from Minneapolis, but they do bring guys out the
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: bench that you know, one or two of them can
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: can close the game. They'll be the closer, not necessarily
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: hitting the shop or say all of them, but you
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: know they'll close in the lineup. So they are deep
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and they have a spread scoring, no doubt about it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: They got one, two, three, four, or five, six, seven
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: guys that are seven points and above. They don't have
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: that front line guy you could says and home in
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: and richardson those three guards though they're guard heavy and
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: they have solid bigs. But I just don't think that
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: they'll win the chip or you know, because you can
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: say that about all of the whole field except one, right, Like,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna win the chip. Well, only
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: one person's gonna win the chip, but like, I think
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: they're just short of that Marshall. I think they can
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: get to the final four, but I just don't seeing
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: them tearing down the nets as much as I'd love
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: to see it.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: So they're like a B plus plus team in your mind.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah they can give you A games, A plus games,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: but yeah, A minus B plus. I think as a
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: whole theer A minus probably. I just I don't think
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: they got the dudes. You know, but hey, guard, if
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: your top three scorers are guards in the Atturney maybe
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I'll shut up. You know.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and again it's hard. It's hard to win
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: six to roer. Uh Uh do you think I would
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: say just off the track record of the games I
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: listened up, I think that just shows your your team
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: has the mental psyche to do it, just because it's
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: hard to win four games ro O versus your top
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: tier teams and most teams, I you know, Bamba an't
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: going to feed through their stretch.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: And I'm not saying I'm.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Not comparing what the stretches of quite now, but in fairness,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: the four teams I listened were all raked. Okay, were
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: they quite as good as bad as pots now, but
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: they're still raked. So I just think any team that
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: can do that shows me you have the mental psyche
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: to do the same thing as the tournament. So I
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: do think they have the capabilities of doing it, maybe
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: a little.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Bit higher than you.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: But also, I mean, when the last time a Big
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: ten team won the tournament, you know, it's been it's
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: been a little while since then it has one. Yeah,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: so that is something realistically to look at as well
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: when you're when you're talking tournament.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah, And I guess the odds are gonna start
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: to come more the other way at some point, right,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: because any given year, it's like, damn, you know, they've
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: they've made plenty of final fours, They've had a couple
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: of runner up teams the Big ten, but they haven't
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: cut the nets down since the Flintstones.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Well, hey, maybe it's maybe it takes a Flintstone kid
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: to do it. That could be it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: And by the way, speaking of b YU ten in
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: a row, now, like you said, and you know, there's
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: positives and negatives in the new era wherein we all
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: know that. I do think that as a fan straight
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: up overall, not individually because hey, I'm from a It's
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: funny because in football, the Minnesota Goverers are good to
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: go on their NLI considering what they are, right, it's
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: it's above average, it's not top ten, But the last
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: two years they didn't lose a player to it. Now
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the basketball who they just fired their coach of four years,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: it hasn't been good. So I can look at it
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: from the perspective of we've you know, Ben Johnson did
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: not only recruit well, but develop well. And I just
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: got done watching the A and M game and there's
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: a big on that team that's from Minnesota, and he
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: was our big lot, you know, last year, so I
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: can I'm talking about the overall sport, not just being
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: biased towards my team, and I think there's far more positives,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: especially when we get into this thing for the next
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: couple of years when some rule changes and whatnot. But
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: BYU wouldn't have happened without the NLI stuff, and they
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: have a very strong football program, but what they're doing
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: in basketball these last two years is very impressive and
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I just don't see it happening without NLI. And they
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: now have a monster recruit coming in next year, and
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: it's it's different recruits generally anyway, are are different because
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: you can as a true freshman in basketball, you can
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: set the world on fire, you know.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: True.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I just wanted to add that with the b
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: YU thing, yes, that that there's a lot more positive
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: than negatives. And they're a damn good team.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll get I haven't watched them quite as much,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: you know, as they're at the track record that Sparty does.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: But if you watch them play in the last month
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: and a half, again, they it's not the SEC but
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: they've got through a good galltlet two of a lot
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: of good teams, a big, big twelve and they've done
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: their fair share.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: So again, and if you can shoot the three ball
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: as good as they wanted the country, that gives you
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: a chance game.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Now, are they maybe as physical as Oborned or have
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the the depth of like Sparty's guard?
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Who Yeah, every team you get handpicked, are they is
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: toughest Saint.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: D But if the three balls dropping and you can't
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: cover the threes, hey good luck because that man, dude,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: that was again if you watch that game last night
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: year today at work, I was let my kids study.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: That was a truthfully fun game to watch because I
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: would say it's pretty much the same kind of team
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: as the BYU. So yeah, uh, I will say one
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: thing about b YU makes a little bit different is
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: and nowadays this has become more of a thing too, Chris.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: But they have a lot of guys who are older
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: because they'd like go on their missions. So to add
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: on to your point, like you're also getting kind of
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: more mature experienced players too, because a lot of times
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: those BYU kids go like on a two year mission
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: then they get to play basketball. So when the regular
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: kid in college basketball might be anywhere from eighteen to
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: twenty two. Down days, maybe by us like twenty two,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: maybe push them twenty four. So if that's very college
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: hockey vibes, yeah, yes, great call, Yeah perfect.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Anything else from the weekend though, Uh no, no, no,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: all right. So Gonzaga beat Saint Mary's in the West
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: West Coast Conference Attorney Final. That was Tuesday. Notre Dame
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: got by Pitt barely. Shocker here Colorado TCU. I mean
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: that was a shocker. I didn't see that one coming. Today.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: There was a variety of good games the last two games.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I should say Wednesday. I can't forget Wednesday. There there
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: was some really good games.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Ah.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: You talked about Arkansas before we hit record, how they
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: damned near lost in South Carolina, turned around and lost today.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: And it's funny because coach cal actually said, well, you know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the we don't really care about the this tournament. We
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: care about the big one, he said. So it's like,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: all right, that's cool. I don't know if you're in
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the same scenario. But then Colorado followed that puppy up
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: with another win over the West Virginia. I think they're
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: trying to make a run. I think they're trying to
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: make a run all the way, but I don't think
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. Another one. You know, Texas beat Vanny.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't see that one coming. Vandy's a pretty good squad. Texas.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: They've had some ups and downs, but that one really
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: stood out to me as far as from yesterday that
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: that really stood out. The USC Rutters game is really good.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I went that was that that was double overtime, Yes, yep,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and the Trojans came out of that one. Oklahoma and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Georgia those are some teams with if you look at
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: their record, they do have some good wins. So that
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: was an important game really considering where it was in
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the tournament. Kansas just in overtime barely got by Central Florida.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: That that was kind of I was.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Also surprised that s m U Syracuse is down this year,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: but they dominated the SMU by twenty points. That one,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: that one kind of stood out.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: To me.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: And then today obviously we've had some very interesting games already.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Like I was saying earlier, I don't that Texas, uh, Texas,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Texas A and M game at the like to go
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to the second overtime. I think it was this Texas
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Center is just wide open under the hoop. I just
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. I was just kind of even shocked. Oregon,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: who is now ranked again. They they got a dub
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: over Indiana. Maybe they're on their second wind of the season.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Marquette barely got by Xavier. That may have done it
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: for Xavier. Kind of rambling here, but Old Miss in Arkansas,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: we just mentioned them. Old Miss hit the shot, and
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the dudes like it's ballgame, and there was like one
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: or two seconds left, one point four or something like that.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I said, well, hold on, dude, it's not ballgame. But
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: he was right. It turned out to be ballgame. And
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I saw good old Marshall Henderson on the sidelines going
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: nuts for those who know that program. But you know,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Marquette was down fifty three to thirty nine. They end
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: up coming back and getting that dub because Marquette is
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you know, even though I've been trying to will them
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: a little bit, they haven't responded. I will give credit
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to Ryan Conwell though, do put up thirty eight points
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: on thirteen to eighteen shooting, so you know, shots out
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to him. But yeah, just kind of going over some
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: of the action that I've been enjoyed or maybe seen
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the last six minutes of or whatever.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: You know, So one thing to add on to it
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: that I'll go on with what you said. One thing
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I had been loved watching this past a few days
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: where I've been stuck at home just enjoying life. Uh,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: fiance pride is like that too much, but hey, it's
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: time this time of the year.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Is Hey.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: When you watch the smaller, smaller conference tournaments, the fact
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: they get to have the home teams get the home crowd,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: doe that school shit.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Like I realized a.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Lot of these smaller schools probably can't go toe to
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: toe with Sparty Auburn, Duke, whoever. But when you have
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: a home crowd that is cheering it for a team
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: to make it to the March Madness and obviously in
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: a way team trying to ruin their dreams, dude, those
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: are fun games to watch, like the uh just the
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: American one of the spot Saints what was it, Saint
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Francis was Finally, when you have these like teams that
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: are just winning to go to March Madness on their
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: home court, and these James maybe say like twenty five
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: hundred three thousand people.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: That's fun. So if you're like, dude, I don't know
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: who the hell these teams are, like, who cares?
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Like, dude, put it on because you were literally seeing
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the best of the best for these small schools. But
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: there's there's no there's no nil money, there's no players
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: taking time off like these are dudes who like not
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: been you know ever, They're never gonna go to like
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: a top tier school, but it doesn't mean they can't
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: play some.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Ball, you know. So, Uh, those were a lot of
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: fun to watch. Obviously, now all the big boys are playing.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I've already said it today, but at that Iowa say
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: BYU game was fun instead of record for the most
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: point most three players ever made a in the Big
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Twelve Conference from maybe they conference tournament games.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: In general, the SEC has been crazy. I sadly was
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: at softball practice. I was checking my phone for that
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: A and m uh Texas game.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Uh, the one before with coach call As you said, dude, Arkansas,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: they're they're hot and cold.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: I think they're in the tournament for sure. But if
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: you if you've been on Calipari, it's.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Fifty to fifty because that team has won a lot
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: of big games finished the year, and they also had
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: a couple of hickup losses. Uh for Carolina, my boys,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I'll be very quick. They did win today, people thought
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: that was when they had to have. They played Duke tomorrow.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I think if they win that they're probably in, even
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: though I don't know if they need to be, but
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: they should be in. If they beat Duke without Cooper flying,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I would hope Carolina could do that. But this team
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: has been a little shaky this year, and for the
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Big East, Hey, Saint John's, there was no coming out flat.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Listening to a couple of different podcasts and people talking
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: this week, they're like, oh, you know, like a lot
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: of times these big conference tournaments, like the Big Ten,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Big twelve, SEC, Big East, Hey, sometimes the one or
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: two seeds take take their foot off the gas. Well,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Saint John's whooped it up on Uh.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: See it haul was it? Uh? Why am I trying
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: to blake? Yeah, Saint John's.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: But they took care of business today, So I do
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: think there's something to be said for sometimes if if
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: you're a top seed, you know, hey, like Cal said, Hey,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: we just got to get to the tournament. So if
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: you are a one or two senior comorin Shermany, you lose,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Like hell, if Sparty loses, can they still go to
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: the final four?
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: For sure? But Saint John's did not come out flat.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: They came out guns blazing.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: So oh and to your last part here you mentioned
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: how Pitt lost in the ACC tournament.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Did you see that call? Chris?
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what'd you think? I do? It?
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Like? I felt bad for Pitt, like you're you know again,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: they were on the out out bubble looking in. But
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: that's how your season ends when a guy's And what
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: killed me was there was like point nine tenths of
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: a second left.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: This player for Notre Dame put up a shot and
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: he missed it. And he didn't even think he got fouled.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: In a sport nowadays, an NBA college where you see
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: guys complain about everything, whether they get fouled or not
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: or commit a foul, this dude didn't even make it
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: an he didn't He didn't notice anything in the world because.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: He wasn't fouled.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: So to see a ref kind of steal the moment
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: and knock out pit with point that seconds left out
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: with stuff, that game should have been an overtime. Yeah,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: but that's part of college basketball. You have refs who
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: are no one's perfect. But yeah, that was a tough
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: one just because there really wasn't a foul at all.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: And so for a season I like that when you
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: were a potential bubble team, that one's got to sting a.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Little bit of your pit.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: So that that was a horrible call, and hopefully that's
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: the worst one we see all all for the rest
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: of the tournament, because it's just it happens. There will
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: be bad calls, but that one was top of the
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: list for me, So that was unfortunate.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, you know how we we've we've mentioned
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: how we've talked a lot about the tournament, the the
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: conference tournaments and what they mean to different folks and whatnot.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: And you know, obviously you're in agreements with Florida and me.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're going to the final four for sure.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I got to see where they what they got to
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: go through. But clearly Florida and Tennessee has finished strong,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: especially Florida. But now that Auburn lost two in a row, right,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: we know they had a three game lead they had
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: in the bag, and also as I mentioned, they didn't
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: come out with no energy. Shit, they lost one at
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a buzzer in overtime, so it was at home. It's stings.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: They've lost two in a row. If they lose, you know,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: let's say they win a game then lose, then they've
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: lost three out of the last four. You know, last
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: week or the week before, we weren't really saying Auburn
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. Well now after losing, let's say
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: three out of four, right, h Does it all of
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: a sudden matter a little bit? They've lost two in
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: a row, does it now? Do they want to win
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the sec or at least get on the good foot
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: and make it to the finals. Do you think that
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: really in the end means something? I don't know.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Is it one of those like you kind of like
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: want to just like get back like on the right
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: foot kind of deal a little bit?
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: But yeah, but not you know the fact that they played,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: you know, they played strong in these games. So I
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: don't know, there's something to me now all of a sudden.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I feel like it would help them if they if
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: they win it. But they they played the toughest schedule,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: They they performed the best against the toughest schedule, they
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: have the best wins. Yeah so, and their losses are
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: all really good. You know, So, I don't know what
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: are your thoughts. Do you think in the end, it's
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: still kind of where we were at a week or
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: two ago talking about them.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, I still think they'll be the favor to
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: win it all in Vegas. I don't think battle change
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: I when.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I've watched him play, I've been impressed that they have
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: so many different guards. I know, every time I watched
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: him play, their big man Broom has tough games. But
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: every time I don't watch him play, he's like twenty
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: five and twelve.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: So if you're player of the year behind flag, tell
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: me to turn the TV off.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: But every time I watched him play, he struggles. He
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: plays bad. So I don't know. I guess I have
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: a Jakes on him I was unaware of.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's up there for Player of the Year.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, oh yeah. His numbers are insane. I
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: just never see that side.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: If I've only watched five Ouburn games, take clear, they'd
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: be really bad. So they have the talent obviously there.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: They have like three to four guards are all very talented.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: You got a big that could be player of the
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: year or maybe he's the favorite player of the year.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: So so you don't you don't think they need to
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: win the SEC now.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Even if you lose your first game, that could be
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: just one of those like huge like okay, like reset buttons.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I do think when a game of SEC would help. Now,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: obviously they're not gonna pull up Virginia. I don't see
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: them losing round one because that team is too good.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: But around two, round three, round four, you know, maybe
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: there is like, hey, we're grooving, you know, just a
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: team like a BYU or a Sparti where you kind
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: of come in hot.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: There's something to be set. But to counterpoint this, we've.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Also seen teams who come be super hot have a
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: great conference tournament and then you waste all your energy. So, hey, god,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: we finished the year, we finished the regular season hot,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: what our conference tournament and shit we.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Got bounced out second round.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, maybe the take was empty. Maybe you know,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: like there's so many different ways you can combat this. Chris, Yeah,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: but I do I like to say whether whatever the
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: SEC result is for Aubert and I still think they're
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: gonna make it to the second weekend of the tournament,
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: you would assume, uh, but there's somebody said.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Forgetting your mojo back right and going to the tournament
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: with your right foot forward and playing some good ball,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: because momentum is the thing.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: But this team, i'll so had a team fight on
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: the plane this year and they had to land it
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: and divert the playing aircraft due to like a brawl
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: and the plane. But then they would have won that
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: game the next day of Verse Duke. So you know
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: who knows, like this team made us built a little
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: bit differently mentally. Uh, but they're still very talented. But
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: you didn't they lose to Duke or well, okay, you're right,
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Oh sorry, but I know they had they had a play,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: they had the game after their play they okay, oh sorry, yeah,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: the game after their But I'm.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Pretty sure they.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Won their game after they had their mid air fighting.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: So I will say this, I think they should win
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: their first game just to get the flow back. If
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: they lose a tight game the second second game, no
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: big deal. But go on into the tournament three and
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: their first game ain't gonna be shipped anyway more likely,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: and if it is, they're in trouble we'll see what
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: their their their matchup would be in the second round.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: But I think they gotta beat Old Miss. I really,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not saying they can't win the championship.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: They gotta beat Old Miss or they won't win the championship.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: That's that sentence sounds stupid, but I do think. I
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: don't know. I just think that now that they've lost two,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: do they really want to lose three in a row?
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Now, Baallea and Kentucky of late,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: let's tighten this up a little bit too. In some
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: of these segments, Bailey and Kentucky of late, we know
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: they can score. I mean, this is like crazy, some
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: of these scores. But of late, they have found a
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: defensive threat. I don't know how you put it, because
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: both of them are good at defense per se, especially Kentucky.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: But they found something here and if they can summon that,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: if they keep that, the sky's the limit, especially for Bama.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: And I just don't know Kentucky. I'd be more worried
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: about defensively, but I have it's something to take note of.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: We talked about how Florida and Tennessee finished really well,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: especially Florida, Bama, Kentucky. Man, if they can keep this
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: defense they've been showing more of that could get them
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: pretty deep too, especially Bama.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I do think we're saying this year earlier that Kentucky
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: was struggled on defense. I do think on a given night,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: their athletic abilities goes. They won the country and they
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: did play better defense versus their highly ranked teams. So
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: that's something you said for that that BYU coach came
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: overs had a great job there, And I'm with you.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: For Bama, Hey, this has been their mL Like.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: If you guys can play a little bit of defense,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: you can cut down the nets. Because they can score
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: one hundred on almost anyone this year. So if they
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: can play a little bit of defense, yeah, like hell,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: that'd be a great game to watch. Maybe that could
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: be like an Elite eight Sweet sixteen matchup this year
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: of Bama and uh Kentucky Austin. The Seeds might not
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: blood played the Sweet sixteen, but yeah, I think both
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: those teams have the pieces to make deep runs. And
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: if you play a little bit of defense offensively, not
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: any teams in the land can match you at all.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: So I agree with those statements. And uh yeah, we'll see.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: And if you're if you're Bama, like you're, you know,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: what is your standard?
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: May you know? It maybe is the final four? Like you're,
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: you have loaded team, so they'll be curious.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: They had a damn good game too, uh in against
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Auburn in that he was all over the place. Speaking
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: of the ACC there was that stat floating around that
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: they literally had no rank versus ranked matchups this whole year.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: I heard it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: What's that?
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: That that first time since the nineteen sixties, And.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I haven't done the research, but I heard that got
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: de bunks. But but the thing is, either way, if
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: it's just one ranked versus rank, that really ain't shit anyway.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: So it's kind of interesting now that you'd assume Cooper
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Flag's not gonna play the rest of the tournament, which
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: the coach was saying, Well, the MRI on his ankle
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: came back negative, and we're just it has a little swelling.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: We're gonna see how he feels, how the trainer feels.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: The broadcast team that they had, I guess you could
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: say the booth they were debating it. I just don't
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: think it's a debate whatsoever. In fact, my mind went
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: right to the second round at halftime next week, you know, like, okay,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: so how close is the game? And there's no active
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: roster thing, so you just like there isn't pros so
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: you you literally would just put him in if you
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: need him. I wouldn't even play him next week if
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I if I could, if I could get away with it,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: because it happened on a Thursday, right, so that would
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: give you at least two weeks, maybe two weeks in
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: a day if you got a Friday game in the
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: sweet sixteen. So I don't even know why they're even
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: discussing it, especially if there's some swelling. There was serious
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: enough they're gonna go get an MRI. So yeah, me,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I mean the wheelchair thing is overplayed because they were
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: just having him keep off it. I didn't think that
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: was a big deal, but that one shook me. I
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: was like, what are you even talking about? There's no
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: way he should play, And I would try to get
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: two weeks out of it if I could. But with
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: that said, it really for me as intrigued to this
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: tournament because if Duke can still win it, it shows
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: their death want a little bit anyway, And then true
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: since we didn't get you know, these matchups during the year.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: We finally get to see him play. So I think
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: it kind of adds interest to this ACC tournament.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am, I am really curious in speed ACC tournament.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Louisville just had a walk off win, so that was
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: kind of a fun game. They were down pretty big
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: in the second half that came back to win. Now
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: you get SMU versus Clemson, so I'm I'm really curious
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: to watch that game because again, Clemson had the win
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: versus Duke they had and SMUs kind of just had
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: a whole hum year due to the fact that they
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: see's been down quite a bit. But hey, a win
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: versus Clemson could be a huge piece for them. I
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: don't know where they are in the bubble talk. I
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: think they're pretty far back. But hey, if you're if
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: you're SMU, hey you knock off Clemson, maybe take on
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Carolina If they beat Duke and ELISEI might sneak in
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: the back door. So and for Duke, yes, this one
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: of those games where hey, today when those both those
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: guys got hurt because Brown just located his shoulder too,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: I guess he did it for the second time. This year,
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: so he's out as well, or he had to go
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: to the they took him the hospital. So it's one
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: of those.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Things where you you kind of want to see who
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: the rest of your players are. Obviously, playing without flag
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: was probably a huge adjustment, but they came out a
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: halftime Duke put out of ten o run. They won
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: the game by eight.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you did bet Georgia Tech, hey, hell they
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: were Tory point dogs.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: That was easy. No sweater for that bet, So good
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: for those people. But yeah, yeah, I'm with you. We
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: talked about for the show.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: There's no reason that you should play if you're ankles swelling.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: You need to rest up until they need you at
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: the worst point, because once you rolled again then you're
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: probably done for the tournament, or it could be ligament
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: damage or you know, something bad could happen, so it's
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: not worth risking.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: I don't even know why they were debating it. I
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: know that we live in this debate. We have this
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: politics stuff spread into sports now, as far as screaming
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: at each other for just a topic that doesn't even
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: need debated. There's no reason to.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: Debate this this dog, I agree.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Are you about to say something?
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, I was just gonna say, and hey, Louisville, like
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: I know you've been You've had a good year all year,
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: but your wins versus the top, like I think versus the.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Top twenty five was like one and six or zero
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: and seven. They just beat Stafford on a walkoff shot.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: So this Louisville team, great story and you did win,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: but man, you you sweep by Stanford, who's not known
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: for basketball this year, so uh, the ACC man definitely
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: not the year that they're.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Used to having. Uh, but shit, hope hopefully it gets
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: better this year.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: And hey, if you're Carolina, did you best not lose
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: to a freaking Cooper flagless team because that would be
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: I'll be next show is about the bracket, but it'll
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: be a quick little ramp. If we lose to a
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Duke team three times in a row without their start,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: that would piss me off.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: So another reason after you folks that work tomorrow, Chris
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: let be watching Carolina Duke.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: And Duke's won nine in a row, Louisville has won
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: ten in a row. They are one in four against
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: ranked teams, and then Clemson's won eight in a row
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: and they've only faced two ranked teams. They are two
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: and zero. But that's kind of kind of interesting there.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I do have a question talking about the Big Ten.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Like obviously we already talked about the number one team there, Wisconsin.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Kind of a weird little ending for them a little bit.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: But Michigan obviously, you know, really struggled down a stretch,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: lost three in a row, like you said, fade, fad fade.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: But Maryland, right, they're they're they've won a couple of
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: three in a row. Now looking at it there four
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: and four against you know, ranked teams, I do feel
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: like they can make the Sweet sixteen potentially. I got
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: to see where they're they're at obviously, but have they
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: made enough of a run to actually possibly make the
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Elite eight or even I guess you could say Final four.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: But is it really just Michigan that could do it,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: or does a team like Maryland or Wisconsin have a
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: chance to get to the Elite eight or Final four.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: The only way I see if Michigan gets by their
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: first team right and then the quick turnaround and they
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: don't have bigs, that's the only way I think they
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: can get to the Sweet sixteen. We've obviously talked about
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: those two bigs damn good. They just they're not crazy
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: good though to where you can just depend on them
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: even like when you know, speaking of crazy good, you know,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Purdue had that for the last couple of years, but
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: they still had other pieces that got them as far
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: as they did. Can them Maryland make the Elite Eight,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: make the Final four potentially? Or is it just a
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: nice little run and the Big ten's pretty solid? But
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: you know it's not all that because Produce kind of
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: fall falling on the waist side of late two. You know,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: they ended up finished.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: Tied with you know, and yes, so with Wisconsin, man,
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: I you know, I talked about this year, but they
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: had kind of a higher flowing, more scoring offensive team.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: They kind of finished the year ont of downhill funk,
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: which again is it's not the end of the world.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe they've reset it, but not the way you want
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: season and per se, So I think that the hype
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: there stocking the Badgers.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Would be lower than it is right now. And for Maryland.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, so I have another hot take and not quite
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: as cold as Michigan's take is. But the thing that
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: scares about them, Chris is they're only five deep, Like
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: legit when they when they played their last big game, Uh,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: they literally had no bench points.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: So not if they only have five players, they don't
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: have a bench at all.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: They're yeah, they're they're bench players. Didn't score in one
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: of their last like big games to finish the year.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: So when he got only five, that scares me a bit.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: And the other part about it scares the me because
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: I've watched them late. They want me some money, but
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: their offense and moments just gonna be really stagnant, like
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: that game when they played when they played Michigan and
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Michigan State. Both games, it's just like sometimes I think offensively.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: It's like what are you doing?
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Like they have the skills, they have a big da
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: a guard, but I've seen they have too many like
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: three to four minute droughts where they just looked lost
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: on offense, lost to the wrong word.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: But they look like to just be in a bit
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: of a funk. And I don't think you can afford
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: to have that if you want to make a deep run.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: So A, I think their offense isn't smooth enough to me,
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: and B what if you do get in foul trouble,
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: then what is your plan?
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: I will say? Obviously if you've.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Been basically played all five all year. Those guys are
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: smart and they don't get in foul trouble. But you know,
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: reps can be different.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: Some reps.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: You know, Defen's how you call the games. But uh,
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: I just think their lack of depth, which the coaches, Hey, that's.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: What he's got. They call them like the Crab five
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: because I guess that's been a Maryland takes a long time.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: But they have the Crab five.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got the Crab five, But I just think
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: they'll have enough depth. And their offense to me, isn't
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: smooth enough to make a deep keep run.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: That's fair. Yeah, I don't think they're gonna make the
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: lead eight or anything. I think Sweet sixteen's probably top out.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: And like I said, with Michigan, I do think I
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: bet against him day one.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we know you've been fading him for about
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: two weeks. But I do think there's a scenario. I
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: don't like the way they close. Maybe they'll wake up
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: here a little bit, but sure, but just that winning
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: the first even if they won by a couple of points,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: and then they literally take on a team that doesn't
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: have bigs that well the quick turnaround could catch him,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: you know, the opponent. So but I wouldn't have faith
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: unless it was like some kind of crazy upset in
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: their sweets. Six team matchup was like, you know, some
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: kind of random seed that doesn't have bigs or I
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: don't know, you know, a lot of things have to
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: go right basically, just the way I'm explaining it, and
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: that's generally not how that goes unless you are, like,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: you know, a team like a Cinderella or whatever. Texas
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Tech did get by Baylor, that just went final. Colorado's
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: dream of winning it all a lot. You know, Hey,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: they gave they gave Houston a battle, though they didn't
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: lose by double digits, getting that it was Butler, that
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Saint John's beat. YEP, Wisconsin win, Oregon win. I think
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: we talked about that. Illinois put up a bunch of points.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting. Illinois was looking good early then
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: they were just starting to lose and then they just
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: got round by Duke. But they turned around. Gotta win
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: over Michigan, gotta win over Due. Yes, you could say
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: those teams weren't going the right direction, but it's still
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: kind of an interesting one to me. That team, and
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: you know, here we are in the quarters tomorrow, Illinois
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: and Maryland. Interesting now the trilogy between Marquette and Saint
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: John's is tomorrow at the same time, that's on Fox.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: I think that's a really interesting matchup. North Carolina Duke.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: We mentioned that especially Duke is a seven and a
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: half point favorite right now, Yu yep b yu Houston.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: That's a that's a six o'clock game tomorrow. Really looking
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: forward to that. Texas Tennessee, we'll see. You know, Texas
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: has been scrappy, but I think this is probably the
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: end of the line. Wisconsin Ukola is a great matchup.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: That's a good one. Oregon Michigan State, well, you know, quarterfinals. Hey,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Oregon is a pretty good opponent. There's some there's some
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: interesting matchups tomorrow and later tonight. Obviously, we still have
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: some good, good matchups at SMU Clemson and Oklahoma Kentucky
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: I think are gonna be oh in Kansas and Arizona
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: literally just played, literally just played, and Arizona's a three
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: and a half point favorite. Tip off in about ten
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: to fifteen minutes.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: Is Carolina that bad?
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Or do you think that Vegas line tells you they
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: think Cooper Fly is gonna play tomorrow.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: Like I know that Carolina they were not as good.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: What do you think they got? I think they were
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: just when.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Carolina played Duke in Carolina this past Saturday, I think
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: they were a ten point favorite. So you're taking off
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: two and a half points, but it's at a neutral site.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Would I would think that'd be a little bit lower
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: like that? Just that, so you two and a half
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: points is worth like no home court. I don't know
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: that just that, And I know I'm sound crazy is this?
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: But maybe that's basically say, dude, Cooper Flag might play,
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: Like I thought that'd be closer to three to four points,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: because Caroline's not garbage this year, Like they're not great
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: by the means at all, but they I think they're
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: lost by twelve.
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: I don't huh. That's I want to make me shave
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: my head a little brother. I guess we'll see. Yeah,
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: you and I both think he shouldn't play for various reasons.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: But that line, yeah, it high.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: It's one or the other, the other being that they
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: don't they think North Carolina kind of sucks.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which is in there we're having?
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: I did ask the question being that they're one and
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: eleven against quad ones. Is this a quad one and
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: a half or is it a full quad one? Because
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: I think without Cooper flag and then old the other dude,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: this might be a quad one and a half. So
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: even if they get the dub, I don't know, it
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: may be like one ten in one if that makes
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: sense to you, or one eleven in one.
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: I should say, so it's kind of like a draw
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: because they're not. Yeah, that's a that's a good question though,
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: and it's just I don't know, man, that's ridiculous if
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: he plays. But hey, you know, I'm a part time
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: media member.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: What the fuck do I know? Boise stayed in Mexico.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: That's a New Mexico. I should say. That's a good
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't know Mexico had a club.
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: That's a good.
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: War.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, they're in now. We we let them in
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: now because of the terrors. Bois stayed in New Mexico.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: That's a damn good matchup tomorrow night as well. Yes
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: for the hardcorees out there, So yeah, I'm looking forward
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: to it.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: It should be a good way to close any other
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: items that I know. You have one more thing you
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: want to talk about. And I will say for the record, guys,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: he let me know about it. He let he gave
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: me a pre warning.
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: Now I will also add that I I gave him
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: all my seven topics, so he didn't.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Just naturally do that, you know, But he did let
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: me know about a question or a thought that he had.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: But you can, you can finish up any other thoughts
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: you had before we get in to the uh to
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: the question that you had, but I thought was a
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: it's a good topic to debate.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: My only other thing I want to go over was
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: how debatable could be or what kind of game we
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: could see with BYU and Houston. So I did a
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: little homework simply because on Google and saw that would
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: be why you played Houston this year? Houston kicked the
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: ship out of him eighty six to fifty five.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: So it's only healthy.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: How I don't may BYU sick that we got a
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: little but how first of all, how did Houston.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: Forty six points and hold on?
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: They can score this year a little bit better and
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: they're like they got shooters this year.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: You're right, Uh, I just I think that that game
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: should be fun tomorrow. Now again, I think Houston's all
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: those teams that they've shown. With Calvin Sampson, they're not
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: gonna take the tournament off. I think he's one of
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: those guys that wants to go and win it, and
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: with the way his boys are built, I don't think
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: that would sell them down.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: For the March Madness Tournament.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: But I think with the way BYU played, I would
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: assume they won't lose by twenty nine again or thirty one.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: But I'm shit, that just wow. But that game is
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: a four and a half points for tomorrow. That should
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: be a fun one to watch. Uh.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: If it's not a thirty point blowout, damn that that
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: really that shook me a bit. But Houston, Hey, they're
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: they're they're legit this year. I just didn't Oh okay,
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: I thought I miss read four and a half. It's
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: actually a seven and a half point spread for Houston.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: So that's respect. But that should be a fun game,
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: kind of contrasting styles. BYU is gonna be jack up
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Cord three. Houston's gonna be nowt good offense and they're
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: gonna want to try to make you work a lot
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: on a deeper So that should be a fun matchup.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: Maybe kind of give you a vision, Chris, of how
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: you feel those teams will do in the tournament. Because
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: one thing is, you know you always talk about boxing,
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: you know, styles fights, that's and like you said, always
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: comes down to the draw, like, y what you could
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: you could be Maybe Florida is the best team in
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: the tournament this year, but if they played teams were
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: the complete opposite, Like there's always that something to be
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: said for like the style you play, because hell, a
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago when Oral Roberts went to the tournament, they.
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: Were a really fast, high temple team.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: That Ohio State team was really good, but that was
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: the wrong team for Ohio State to play it in
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: a fifteen seed beat a two seed. So every year
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: you always get those you know, well, god, there they're
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: a half court team versus a fast paced team.
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: That's a bad matchup.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't mean you're not as good as
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: a team, but for your seed, like you earned it.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the matchups in this it's so big for that.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: So again, if BYU draws.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: Teams in the tournament who love to run the court, dude,
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: good luck being them. If you're a will.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Say just a little follow up on that game. We
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: talked about Houston BYU, that eighty six to fifty five
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: thrashing BYU. Shot from the field thirty seven and a half.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Not a good percentage. They were eight of twenty four.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Very mediocre from the three, right they have especially yeah, yep,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: and Houston shot forty nine percent from the field, and
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: they hit sixteen of their thirty four threes, so they
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: hit forty forty seven, sorry, forty seven percent, so literally
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: doubled them up on three point shots, which obviously when
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: you miss a lot, right, thirty seven rebounds to twenty four,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: so fair. That kind of sums that up. So it
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: came down the threes. Now, I should have looked at
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: the box score and see if anybody missed time or whatever,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: but that is something that it may have been. They
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: were just shooting the lights out. I guess I don't know,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: because you're right, that was a that was an ass weapon,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: So but nonetheless, while that sound the same time as
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: Caroline Duke, that is great basketball in all night who rock?
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: So to my debate topic before we see out here today,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: UH heard on from ESPN people of Scott Van Pelt
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: talking about with Joel had already and it already said
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: about pretty much how he's heard over the years that
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: the committee basically barring some like you know, Cinderella teams
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: or some bubble teams, that the committee basically has their
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: brackets filled out by Friday night.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: So a couple ways that took that first kind.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe so going in knowing who are the teams that
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: are in the semis in finals of the conference tournaments, Yeah,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: just to clarify that so they know who's in there.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: So if there is some ndarrellas that are making the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: semis or the finals, they know about them, but they
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: basically in a sense have them filled out Friday late
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Friday night.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And so my counter to this would be.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: It is kind of a disservice to teams who are
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: gonna win maybe the Big twelve, Big East SEC, because
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: maybe win your conference tournament should bump you up on
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: the seed line.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: Like it's kind of a slap in the face to
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: whoever does win the SEC. Beatal tournaments here for sure,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: and health end the Big ten.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: Those are three great conferences if you already have for example,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: Michigan State, Edged State or Tennessee edge Stand.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: Or Houston or Texas Tech. Like why why?
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: I just I don't like that idea, because if a
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: team like Texas Tech or a team like Maryland or
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: Tennessee does win their conference tournament, I think that should
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: move them up a seed. But if, hey, if the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: if the books are closed Friday night, Like, what what
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: service does that do to the teams who are making
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: that extra push or winning that upset game or maybe
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: losing a bad one. I just I would like to
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: have the mindset of my head that the committee obviously
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have roughly where people are, but Saturday should matter,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: because if it doesn't matter to the committee, it's kind
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: of a disservice to the kids to bust their asses
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: and play great basketball and not get rewarded for what
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: is supposed to be some of the more fun games
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: of the year.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: What are your thoughts of that, Chris?
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: Just to add contexts, I guess they do announce a
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: handful of like a month or something like that. Three weeks.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: They do put up the top sixteen, all the four seeds,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: the top four seeds, I should say, Okay, not that
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: that means anything, but they do show their hands a
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: little bit. And I've never I've kind of noticed some
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: movement based off the bracket all when a team makes
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: a push to the finals that shouldn't be that that
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: are like maybe like an eleven seed or something, and
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: they improve it a little bit. But it's something that
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: I haven't tracked at all, and who knows how long
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: they've been doing this or if that's always been the case.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Obviously there's more with with the you know, with technically
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: more teams, you know, not a lot more, but there
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: are more teams because they play those Monday and Tuesday
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: games or Tuesday Wednesday games. So yeah, I mean, it's
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: hard to have an opinion on it unless I went
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: back and tracked Okay, where were they in the bracketology
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: and that you mean to tell me they made to
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: the finals and they didn't move up a seat and
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I do if that's the case,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: and it's only a team that it gets them off
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: the bubble, if they made the semis their conference in
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: a loaded like the SEC, or if like if old
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: Miss got to the finals right now, right, they'd have
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: to be some damn good teams. I've seen some movement
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: when it came to that they didn't even have to
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: necessarily win the finals. But I haven't tracked it so
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: that that'll be kind of interesting to see if there isn't.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: There's really no way you can track it, obviously because
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: we don't know the actual field. But brah, you know,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: like Leonardo is pretty freaking good, so he doesn't miss much,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: so that's why he may not get the exact stuff right.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: But as far as just in so, yeah, I do
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: think that there is something to be said about that
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: in a negative light, but I also could see it
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: really comes down to how much movement there actually is.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: Because I agree with you, it does kind of put
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: like a really like how finalized are they are? They
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: literally only gonna tweak it because they have to because
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: someone made it, and that knocks everybody down. Yeah, it's
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: something to think about. But let's make sure we look
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: at the on the bubble, you know, right now, the
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: last bracketology last four buys Arkansas, Van de Utah State,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: West Virginia, last four in San Diego State, Xavia, North Carolina, Texas.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: First four out Indiana, Ohio State, Boise State, Colorado State,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: next four out Dayton. You see Irvine, Wake Forest and Nova.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: So let's see, let's keep an eye on it and
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: see sure if we did see a boost or yeah,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: they literally didn't do shit even though this team did
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: you know, went that far or whatever. I like that. Yeah, okay,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: because that's a good question. Yeah, it would be kind
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: of a bummer if you made the semis in a
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: deep conference and you didn't get minorly awarded for it. Yeah.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe going from an eight seed to a seventh seed,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: which is a big deal because he gets to avoid
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: the one you know, stuff like that which would matter.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: And obviously you're never getting like you said, no, you're
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: not going to be in the conference room because we
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: don't get that privilege. But it would be kind of
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: a disservice to I think anyways, do that.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: In the flip side, too, is a team like Auburn
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: who's had the craziest schedule and the way Bama had
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: to close their last seven games. Ultimately, I don't think
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: they should be overly judged in this tournament either, you know.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: True. Yeah.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: So one other quick thing is just it listened to
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: Scott Vanapel. You said he made all his own rule
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: up this year for the for college basket. If a
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: player does the the little circle figure like, we need
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: to review any care of you.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: It should be a tech because you know, it's kind
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: of thing Chris weher like you see the college kids
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: point the rep the little circle of the air thing.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's in the pros.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: It's way more to the pros. Is so bad, I know, Yes,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: the pros has become awful.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: They could touch the thing and they're like, no, dude, no, no,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: you know it's like their will to win is like, dude,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: just calm down, buddy. You know you touched it.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: We can see you touched it. Dude, I know, I know,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: Ah.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: It is funny, It's it's tough. You can. You can
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: tell that the coaches have now made that adjustment though
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: they're like, dude, I'm not even looking at your way. Dude,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: you lie about it.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: You probably got some players you trust more than others
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: for sure, exactly.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you say that in practice, dude, just stop,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: you know, all right, And that is a good call.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: And this will be the last one of the year.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: First of all, hey, great pick last week. Chris Loyola,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: Mary Loyol and Maryland beat Lee High.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: On the year. Now again, is this crafty crappy. We're
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: getting to the point where it's hard.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: To have that.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: But this is a bad game. This is the game
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: you played tomorrow, the last.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: I forgot we had one.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: I gotta throw this in.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, hey, I got I already got out of all
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: the sights and all that.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: I will do a nice little slow preview. Okay, I'll
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: give you a second.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: Year conference slow tell the conference.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: It's the Swacked Swack tomorrow at one o'clock.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: So we're we're going to the Southwestern Athletic Conference, the
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: Swack as they call it. Uh, this isn't College Park,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: not Maryland, College Park, Georgia. Uh, Grambling tomorrow, yep, tomorrow,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: one o'clock. Grambling was twelve and twenty one on the year,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: but they're in the seventies.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: Baby, there they they Gramby boys went out without a fight.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: They want to be at Linardi's bored. Grambling is playing
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: Alabama State. Alabama State's team name is the Hornets, So
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: the Alabama State Hornets are playing Grambling tomorrow, Chris Vegas. Actually,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: this should be a good one. The points spread is
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: Alabama State's minus three and a half over under of
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: one thirty one.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: Again, then there's no ticket price list. I think if
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: you go to the game and you wear teams cards,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: you get a door for free. So Grambling versus Alabama
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: State again, it's already gotten down as a winning year
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: because we're four to one.
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  Speaker 3: Now hopefully make it five to one. This should be
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: a great game tomorrow at the same time.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: And mind you, Wisconsin is playing so's Memphis and Wisha
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: Tassos Aubert Old Miss. But if you get bored and
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: you want to throw on Gramley to Alabama State at
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: the ESPN plus field free, what is your guys say
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: this game?
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  Speaker 1: Brother, I ain't kind of man that you threw this
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: extra one at me, but you know we'll do it.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: So it was a tail of two halfs the last
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: time they met, just just two games ago. Oh wow,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: I kind of an it. Yeah. So Gramlin had the
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: lead twenty four to twenty two. They went into the
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: locker room, felt pretty good about themselves, right, but they
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: got a shack They did obviously a little too good
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: about themselves because uh, Alabama State thirty seven to twenty
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: three in the second half.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: Jesus care.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just took care of no problems whatsoever. Okay, Now
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: in that game, they both hit five threes, but Grahamlin
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: State only only took fourteen, whereas Alabama State took twenty three,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: so that that was a huge, huge thing there. Points
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: out turnovers was a big one twenty to eight. So Grammlin,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: you know, they were at home too, They were at home.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: Grandma's stayed at home. And I don't know this one's
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: good they are. They do kind of line up with
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: the crappy crafty pick of the week though, because sixty
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: six point nine is what points per game is what
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: Grambling scores. They give up sixty seven point eight, so
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: that qualifies and Albama State the seventies folks, yep, and
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: and usually it's even you know, a couple points less
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: on defense but or more on defense. But whereas you know,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: Albama State seventy three point eight they score, they only
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: give up seventy two point nine, so they do have
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: a little ledge there. But based off what I saw,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: it's funny because they have like their last five, they
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: have three head to heads where you can see it's
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: kind of interesting that they that you pick this one.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Grambling State just because I know more
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: about the program from a football perspective, and the head coach,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna let this one slide out
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: of it, and then they're gonna they're gonna be the
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: team in the second half that puts it away. So
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: I got Grambling State to pull the upset, my friend.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: So you got a team that finished seventh in the
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: snow Ship, ninth in the Slack, eighth going to the
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: championship game. Will Gramley go to march madness? We wait
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: and see, folks, wait and see. All right, this will
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: be the last one of the year, though, because after
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: next week there's no more crappy teams left.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Let's go, Oh, you'll find some kind of N I
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: T bullshit or something.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: Now, it's not the n I T, it's the the
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: what is it, the the c the CVB. Yeah, there
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: will be a CEV. There could be a CVB pick
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: this year. The tournament below the N I T.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Isn't the Is that the one where it's big ten,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: big twelve and sec or whatever?
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: Uh? No, this is that's the The CVB is really
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: like the like the freaking like rule.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, then you're just kind of, yeah, pulling teams out, Yeah,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: pulling teams out nowhere.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah all right, but hey, next next show, Hey, bracket talk,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: let's go again.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: I think this is gonna be an amazing tournament this year.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: I say we have lots of fun, fun teams to
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: make the tournament. Uh, it's gonna be a blast. Auburn's
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: obviously gonna be the favorite.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 3: Obviously.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: If you're a Duke fan, you hope Cooper flags ready
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: to go, and everyone else, hey, Chip churn a chance,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: you never know. The boys are out tonight. Enjoy the
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: rest of all this great college basketball will be back.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: Fill our brackets out soon.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: Have a good night, piece,