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Harold Bugg breaks down the SEC Basketball Touranment · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Harold Bug part of the Boom and Bug Show in the Great State of Alabama.
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  They're on on the noon show on the Great State of Alabama. Is
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  on your radio. Harold, Thank you so much, sir. How you
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  doing man? Jacob doing great? Thanks for asking how were you? Hey,
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  We're doing good. You know, it's a lot going on. I
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  think we have more going on this time of year than even football with kind
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  of the sports, you know, windows overlapping, and I wanted to get
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  to your take on several things. Let's start with the SEC basketball tournament.
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  You know, just kind of high level. Obviously, you guys do a
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  great job in the state of Alabama covering you know, Alabama and Auburn and
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  in the state of Alabama, but then also a broader reach there as well
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  inside the footprint of the Southeastern Conference. Bama is a three seed in this
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  tournament. They will not play for a couple of days. And then of
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  course, you know when you look down the bracket, Misissippi State LSU in
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  a first round game. Of course you got to play in games Missouri,
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  Georgia, Vanderbilt, and Arkansas. And then of course Auburn is a four
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  seed. And you know when you look at the work that Tennessee has done,
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  South Carolina's done, Kentucky is there. This should be a really fun
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  week of basket all. You know, if the regular season is a template
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  for this tournament, by tire beware because you know, all season long,
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  Jake, the book has been pretty simple as not if you play at home,
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  you win. You play on the road, you lose. What they're
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  gonna do now to neutral courts and going into it if you want to call
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  it that, anyone who's ever been to one of these things, I don't
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  know if anywhere Kentucky plays is a neutral court. As long as they win,
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  there's no dest in those seats. Tennessee. Basically that's home cooking Vanderbilt.
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  As we say down South, bless their hearts. I don't think that's
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  gonna be enough. But coming into it, I think one of the big
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  questions, Jake, is what worth the mindset of Tennessee. They clearly earned
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  the best team in the SEC and the regular season title, But how focused
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  are they going to be and how much guess do they want left in the
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  tank heading into the NCAA tournament to so to me, that's one of the
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  X factors amongst many there Haroll Bug on your radio. Make sure to check
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  their program out the Boom and Buck showing the Grace Stut of Alabama and of
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  course you can catch them on the Great State of Alabama header of the website
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  as well Tuesday edition of the program. Hell, when you look at this
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  tournament, Alabama three seed, Auburn four seed. Out of the two Bama
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  teams, which team do you like to make the bigger runs that you can
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  run here? You know, you start with brackets, you start with matchups,
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  yes, and you start with where the big mo is. And right
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  now, to give it the short answer, I think Auburn. And for
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  one thing, they don't have to play. Nobody has said for sure right
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  now, because let's face it, it's a Friday double by matchup. But
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  in all honesty, it's going to be Florida and Alabama doesn't match up well
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  because Alabama is a finesse team. Florida is their WWE and Alabama doesn't match
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  up well with that. And the other thing too, Auburn has more depth.
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  And you know, with Major League Baseball you look at rosters and the
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  teams that win the World Series more often not is the one with a deep
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  bullpen in Alabama, I should say Auburn has a long bench. They don't
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  have to worry about getting into foul trouble. They can stay fresh, and
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  let's face it, you gotta win three and three and you always want to
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  have somebody fresh hitting the floor. And Auburn's got that big advantage over Alabama
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  coming in. So I like to answer your question, probably Auburn