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Michigan Wins It All, Transfer Portal Surge & Masters Draft Picks · Height Differential

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  Give it to me. We back.
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  It's the height differential. That's the 66 deal.
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  I'm the 410. Nick, before we get into
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  recapping both Final Fours, remember, if you're watching
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  differential. However you listen to pods,
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  right? Leave it a review.
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  Follow us on social. The big tournaments are both
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  over. I've watched a lot of hoops over
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  the last three weeks. It's over on the men's side
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  after Saturday. Seeing what they did in Arizona
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  and then beaten UConn in a game that wasn't the style they
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  wanted to play, I think it's pretty obvious that the best
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  team won the national title. Yeah, I mean, miss, we've talked
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  about Michigan all year long and how they've been so dominant
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  and, you know, all those 30 plus point wins and some of those 30
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  plus point wins against really good teams, especially early in
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  the year. And they just proved all
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  tournament that, that they were still that team and they were
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  dominant, especially that Final four-game against Arizona where
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  they just beat the brakes off of Arizona and then into the
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  championship game where they, you know, they, they, it was, it
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  was back and forth early and then, and then Michigan kind of
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  took control late in the first half and, and never really
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  relinquished that control. They did it, but UConn also did.
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  I mean, they played the game the style they wanted to.
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  They just couldn't get shots to fall.
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  Despite that, they shot 31% of the game.
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  Despite that, they still had a chance with with under 2 minutes
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  to go. You know what it came down to?
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  The fact that they just couldn't make enough shots and they
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  killed. They killed Michigan on the
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  glass. They had 2122 offensive
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  rebounds, but they just, they started O 11 from three.
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  The left rim in the championship game, the left side, if you're
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  watching on TV, that rim was O for night for its 1st 19 from 3.
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  Michigan was O for eight in the first half and then UConn
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  started O for 11 in the second-half from three.
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  And I wanted to go back and try to find the numbers for Saturday
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  because I was actually talking to to James Breeding via text
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  and we were the the lead official.
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  He was used to be our our boss at the Louisville Bats.
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  Now as a professor at U of L, It was really cool seeing him do
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  the game. He was on TV a lot.
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  Yeah, go for things. But we talking to him and we
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  were talking about that left room, he said, yeah, it was like
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  that the whole tournament. So I'd like to figure out what
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  the numbers were on Saturday too on that left side because I
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  don't have. They're just a little tighter
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  than the right room. Like they just tighten the
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  screws a little too. Much Or it's just a coincidence?
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  Is it not level? Coincidence.
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  I mean, yeah, you talked about you missing shots, but I mean,
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  they, they all shot Michigan from 3 to 9, three pointers.
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  Michigan had two. Michigan was 2 of 15 from 313%.
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  I mean, each team was below 40% for the game.
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  So yeah, if Connecticut didn't make shots, but Michigan wasn't
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  making shots either. No, I mean combined they were 11
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  for 48 for 23%. I think it was overall
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  percentage wise, it was the second worst national
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  championship game we've seen. But I mean, despite all that,
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  it's 62 to 56 with just over 2 minutes to go.
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  And Terry, it's when Reed gets that still at the top of the
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  key, not the topic key, more closer to midcourt.
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  And he's can't really catch up with the ball, stumbles and
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  grabs it before he goes out of bounds, hands it back to solo
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  ball. He's got a chance to lay it in
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  to get that, to cut the lead to four.
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  And if they can get that lead to four, there where this is a team
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  that just never loses in the tournament.
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  They were 19 and O in games beyond the Sweet 16 since 2011.
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  If solo ball could finish that layup, that cuts it to 4.
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  Instead Michigan goes the other way in transition.
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  I think it was more as Johnson who almost lost it underneath
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  the rim, was fumbling it by his legs found got it to GAIL over
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  the corner who then found Trey McKinney who ball came flying
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  past him. He stepped back and knocked down
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  that three. That's a 5 point swing.
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  It goes to where Michigan or Uconn's got a chance to get it
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  to 4. Instead, McKinney hits a three
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  on the other end and really that was kind of curtains.
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  They they got a chance when they had back-to-back turnovers and
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  then Caravan had the chant came off that screen and had a chance
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  to shoot a three from about 3 or 4 feet beyond the arc and and
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  just left it short. That would have got it to one.
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  They had it back to four there. So I mean, it really is
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  incredible that UConn had a chance to win this game.
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  But I when you when you're a team as good as Michigan, you
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  can win games multiple ways and they did that.
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  This is they had 55 possessions in this game and they normally
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  want to be more closer to 6465. They had 75 in the win over
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  Arizona, which was one of the most of the season.
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  Credit to UConn for making Michigan play their way, but I
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  think more credit to Michigan for figuring out a way to win a
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  game where it really wasn't their style of play.
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  Yeah, like you said, they had chances it they definitely had
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  chances to to get back in this thing and and it just didn't
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  bounce their way. Michigan to me was the better
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  team. It they they were the better
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  team all year. This this was their
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  championship. Then they proved it.
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  But it meant when Caravan got that shot, when he left his
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  hands, there was a you thought it was going in because that's
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  what this team does. What happens?
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  Yeah, that's what I mean. Mullins.
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  Mullins had a good game. Mullins stepped up a game.
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  Nobody shot well. He had a lot of shots to get to
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  the points he had. I.
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  Mean What did he have? How many threes did Mullins
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  have? About four 3 or 4.
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  Yeah, but he took him. He was.
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  Mullins was three at 10 from 3. Caravan was three at 10 from 3.
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  Solo ball was three at 7:00. But the and honestly, the
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  Blanken 3 that ball had really kind of was the first one that
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  gave them a chance there at the end of the game.
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  They called time out after that and then got to steal.
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  And then you had the the play where it looked like it was
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  going to be well, what they call the top ball, where it looked
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  like maybe Trey McKinney Waltz. They were aren't talking about
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  that on whether he he. But look, dude, they don't call
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  walks anymore. Like do people even care about
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  your pivot foot? And and then after the caravan
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  missed where they go to the monitor, but out of desperation
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  on on the elbow. But here's another thing too,
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  and Michigan deserves a lot of credit for this.
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  They made 20 free throws in a row at one point, and we're 25
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  to 28 from the strike. And they made twenty in a row
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  until GAIL missed those two to get really give him a chance.
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  Made it. No, that's to get credit to
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  them. Michigan's a physical team.
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  They they got to the line and they made their 25 to 28.
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  They outscored Yukon. This is a big stat in the game.
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  They outscored Yukon by 13 from the free throw line.
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  I mean, you cut that in half and it's a tie game.
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  So I mean, that's, that's a big #25 of 28.
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  And Yukon was 12 of 16. So they shot 12 more and they
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  made 13 more. So that, you know, that's just
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  Miss Michigan B. That's their brain to
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  basketball. They're a physical team.
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  They got to the line and that helped them win it.
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  Yeah, and I talked about how they limited them to 55
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  possessions. Michigan had three losses this
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  year that lost to Duke in that game.
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  They were limited to 62 possessions, and that loss to
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  Purdue, they were limited to 63. So here they're limited to even
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  fewer possessions and figure out a way to win.
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  Now, if Yukon shoots a little better, maybe, maybe it's a
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  different story. Yeah, I I think the the
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  Michigan's defense deserves a lot of credit for that, too.
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  Absolutely, yeah. The game on Saturday, like we
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  had just talked about how this was going to be the game of the
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  century. Yeah, it was.
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  Not that. It was not that.
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  Dude, 5 minutes in and it's just, yeah, it's like they're
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  blocking every shot. They're just getting layups.
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  They're dunks. Like just put it on them.
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  They were up 77 to 47 with 1031 to go.
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  They were up 30 points in that. Against Arizona, team that's
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  lost twice all year and has been number one in the country for
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  the majority of the time. That, like I said last week,
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  could easily be undefeated. They could have won both those
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  games they've lost. They were right there and just a
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  nothing game. The the the game before that was
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  the Illinois made a run late, got it to four, thought maybe
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  they'd have a chance and then off the offensive rebound, which
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  whenever there's offensive rebound, it gets kicked out for
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  a three. I don't care how deep it is,
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  more than likely it's going in and Braylon Mullins, who hit the
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  the game winner in the game before, knocked a knock down a
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  big deep 3 to to extend that lead to seven.
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  But the games I don't know did. There was so much height for
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  this final four and clearly the Arizona, Michigan game did not
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  live up to the height. It was just a ass kicking.
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  And I mean really, both of the other two games got it to where
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  it was 4, but the the outcome was never really in doubt either
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  one. No, UConn controlled that game
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  against Illinois. I mean, they were up most of the
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  way. And I mean, they, I don't even
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  think they, they might have been up what, 10-11 at some point and
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  Illinois came calling back. But I mean, UConn controlled
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  that game. It was not.
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  And I mean, there was never a point where I was like, Illinois
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  is going to pull this off. Well, I I punched that money
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  line when it was they were down 14. 14.
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  So I was, I was feeling pretty good there for a second.
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  Should have cashed out. Didn't.
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  So I, I win nothing. But I, I'm just wanted a good
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  game. I just wanted a good game.
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  The I, I do want to talk about this, the halftime show.
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  Why are we waiting 50 minutes to play the second game?
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  Because we had to listen. Chainsmokers, Nick, we get The
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  Chainsmokers deep. You get to get them on.
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  There, I'm going to quote my dude Scott Van Pelt, who tweeted
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  this during halftime, who asked for this.
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  This is the first time they've done this right?
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  I I can't remember another time they've done this.
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  Well, I, I just don't understand.
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  I don't know who are they trying?
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  Who is this for? Who is this for?
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  Because you didn't sell it. There I I don't know, I don't
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  know. Because nobody's tuned in at
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  halftime. Just as a Chainsmokers fan and
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  only watching halftime the entire halftime.
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  There's one Chainsmoker fan that tuned in at least one.
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  What you're talking about in the world, I'm sure, I'm sure
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  there's multiple Chainsmokers fans.
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  They I think though, I think that they tuned in just for half
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  time. They didn't watch the game.
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  They're like The Chainsmokers. They didn't watch the game.
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  There's people that exist that didn't watch the game.
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  I'm. Going to say there's at least
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  one person that did that might be related to the chainsmoker.
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  What about the people at the at the at the venue, like at Lucas
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  Oil? Are they excited about this?
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  I don't know has has there been any kind of is anybody that was
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  there, have they come out and and voiced their opinions on it?
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  It looked awkward. It just looked awkward to me.
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  I don't know. It and look, it makes more sense
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  in venue than it does TV. But like the whole time I look
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  up the clock at one time and we're 40 minutes till tip and
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  I'm like what is happening? And I just don't understand.
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  Like, I think we're trying too hard sometimes.
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  Like the teams were warming up as the chain smokers were in
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  concert, right? I don't think so.
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  Well, they weren't even on the court.
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  I don't. Think they were out there?
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  No. OK.
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  Look, this is another thing too. Dusty May in the first half, as
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  far as I know, is one of the first head coaches to actually
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  be out there in media row like Scout.
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  And look, if he said that he wanted to soak it in and I get
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  that, and he wanted to see the other two teams in person and I
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  get that as well. It doesn't happen very often,
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  which is kind of surprising to me.
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  Normally they send their assistants out if they're going
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  to go out at all. But maybe he also was one of the
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  few people that knew that there's going to be a 50 minute
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  time in between games and I'll have plenty of time to talk to
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  my guys. Maybe hung around for the first
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  couple minutes of The Chainsmokers.
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  Is he a Chainsmoker fan? Dull.
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  Dusty. I mean, what's it?
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  Do you even know? A Chainsmoker song.
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  I do not, but maybe if I heard it I would know.
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  It yeah, I think, I think I can. Sit here and tell you the name
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  of the song. I couldn't either.
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  I couldn't either. And look, I'm still in a real
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  really good media guys. Scott Van Pelt, I'm still in
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  what he said to on this one. Nobody goes to a Chainsmokers
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  concert and in the middle of it expects to see a dunk contest or
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  a three-point contest out of nowhere.
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  And to me it's a perfect analogy because it makes no sense.
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  I mean, I guess they're trying, they're trying to be like the
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  Super Bowl and they're trying to go the Super Bowl route.
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  It's halftime of basically the final four and we're going to
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  have a concert. And I just don't think it landed
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  the way that they thought or hoped that it would.
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  You also are 50 minutes in between games and you've got
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  what's the old Saturday Live guy that pretends like he's James
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  Naismith on the commercials. He's out there for a segment on
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  on TBS. We didn't have the audio.
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  We didn't have the audio on because we were at the Manhattan
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  Project, but that's just he's on.
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  TV forever. That just looked awkward.
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  I don't know. Look, it's the best tournament
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  in the world and we're getting ready to screw it up by adding
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  more teams, but it doesn't mean it's perfect.
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  There's things we could change about it to make it a little
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  better. And waiting 50 minutes in
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  between games on Saturday when it's the most anticipated game
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  of the year is one of them. And I don't know, it just
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  resonated. And the fact that I just
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  remember looking up at that TV thinking that the game's going
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  to get ready to start and there's 40 minutes to go and I'm
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  just like, what is happening? Well, the chain smoke we're used
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  to. 2025 game's over. Get those teams out there, let
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  them warm up, and let's tip it in 2025 minutes.
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  The Chainsmokers concert provided a little more
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  entertainment than that game, too.
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  That that's. Are you sure about that?
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  Yeah, 30 point beat down. Not interesting.
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  Did you did you stay up to watch the 1 Shining moment?
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  No, did not. I was driving home from I was
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  driving home from Bones house at that time and I never, I never.
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  Been talking by the time 1 Shining Moment ran.
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  That never, I never did go back to look at it.
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  Because it didn't run to me. 1 shining moment to make.
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  I get it. It's it's it's, it's nostalgia
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  and it's part of the tournament and everybody looks forward to
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  it. I'm not that guy.
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  It doesn't mean anything to me unless my team wins a title.
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  Like what? I'm going to sit there and watch
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  it for like a 2 second clip of my favorite team that lost in
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  the second round. Like, don't care.
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  I don't remember. I don't remember if they showed
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  the cards. They might not even have been in
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  there. So to me, yeah, it doesn't even
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  really matter. But I I did stay up and watch
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  it. It's it's just kind of a
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  tradition, kind of puts a bow on the, on the whole tournament.
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  Listen listening to Luther sing 1 Shining Moment.
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  I mean, you can listen to Luther sing The Shining Moment anytime
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  that you want through Apple. Yeah, but it's different.
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  I know I can do that, but on on a random Wednesday in June, I'm
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  not going to start bumping 1 Shining Moment.
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  That doesn't make a lot of sense when you come over and have a
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  pool party, not putting 1 shining moment on the
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  loudspeaker when we're tailgating for the Bengals game,
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  I'm not putting 1 shining moment on.
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  There's very few moments where you listen to 1 shining moment
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  and that's that's the one or the main one.
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  No, it is the main one, but I don't know, doesn't mean that
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  it's not not that important. Like I said, unless my team wins
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  the title. Best moments of the tournament?
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  It's got to be the Mullen, the Mullen shot over Duke.
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  It's got to be the number one moment of the tournament to get
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  them to the Final Four and completing that comeback.
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  I mean, I think that's head and shoulders above any other
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  moment, but what do you think? Yeah, I mean that that is the
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  moment of the tournament. You you've also got high points
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  went over Wisconsin. Yeah, the Breton, Nebraska,
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  Vanderbilt game. I thought you were going to go
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  out the Miami RedHawks with their their win in the
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  tournament since you cried about getting them in the tournament
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  all year long. They found this game.
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  It was cool that they won a game, cool that they won a game.
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  I don't think, still don't think SMU is very good and deserved
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  probably not to be there either. But that's why we've talked
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  about this. This tournament does not need to
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  be expanded and it looks like it's going to happen.
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  Looks like it's going to be what, expanded by 12 more teams,
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  which is just ridiculous. The Kentucky game the the OA
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  shot in the first round was. Pretty those really the two only
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  two buzzer beaters, the OA shot and Mullins.
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  Is there another buzzer beater in that we're forgetting about?
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  The well, no, it wasn't a buzzer beater.
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  The Iowa game against Florida, it was right there, Yeah.
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  That was close that we had the the opening game of the
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  tournament, TCU, Ohio State was a shot with what couple seconds
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  left. I put this up there, the St.
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  John's layup, that's a buzzer beater layup over Kansas.
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  Probably that was but that. That was a buzzer beater, yeah.
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  Yep, and that game deserves to be on the list too.
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  That does deserve That was a great game, yes.
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  But you know, before we move on and we're going to talk a little
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  bit about the women's women's final 4/2 is, is there anything?
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  And I'm putting on the spot because I didn't tell you we
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  were going to ask this and I just kind of thought about it
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  over my head. But is there anything you change
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  about the tournament after watching it?
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  Like like kind of sticks out because I've and I can go first
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  because I've got a clear one. OK, I'll say I like nothing
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  comes to mind but. I I just think we can stagger
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  some of these games better, like the Sweet 16 where you could
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  stagger those four games better than we do.
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  So you want to put more game early instead of stack instead
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  of stacking them late. Well, right now you, the way
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  they do it, they tip it like 7:00 and 7:20.
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  So those games are pretty much on top of each other.
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  If you remember the second, the second game that started it was
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  Thursday or Friday. That game actually finished
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  before the first game. So the games are pretty closely,
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  there's a chance that they're ending at about the same time.
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  And so you want, what do you want?
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  Do you want like on that Thursday to have the first game
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  start at like 5? I think you could do 6789 then
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  like, and then you've got at least an hour in between like, I
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  want to watch the endings of all these games that I can't so.
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  And also like this, the Saturday, Sunday or the first
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  round where we've got one region that's all by itself, the 12 and
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  the and the 230 games. Why are we doing that every year
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  and then all the sudden we've got four games at the same time
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  in in that late week? Yeah, so you're talking about
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  that Saturday, Sunday, second round when there's eight games
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  instead of doing instead of doing, one at noon, one at 2:30
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  and then you've got six games that are stuffed into a four
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  hour window. You want double them up early.
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  Yeah, and I think the women did a really good job of that on the
• 20:39
  ESPN side of, of just kind of stacking them.
• 20:42
  And I, I get it, it's a little easier because in the first and
• 20:46
  second round on the women's side, you're playing at all, I
• 20:49
  mean, not all different venues, but you have a lot more venues.
• 20:52
  So the fact that you have fewer venues in the men's side makes
• 20:55
  it a little harder. But I think you can still
• 20:58
  stagger these games more. So we've got an opportunity to
• 21:00
  watch. And look, it's just because I
• 21:02
  want to watch more games and I want to be able to watch and,
• 21:06
  and look, I can have 3T VS I can have four TV's.
• 21:09
  But being focused solely on one game that's finishing, when you
• 21:16
  get like first round, you can't do that.
• 21:18
  Like it's, there's no way around it.
• 21:19
  And that's what makes it awesome that there's four games going on
• 21:22
  at one time. But once you get to the second
• 21:24
  round, I think they can do a better job of staggering these
• 21:26
  games and allowing you to watch more.
• 21:29
  Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean, is it a necessary
• 21:32
  change? No, but.
• 21:35
  I'm net thinking they did the best, it's the best event in
• 21:38
  sports and but still the best. Things can get better and
• 21:41
  instead we're going to make it worse.
• 21:43
  But can you think of anything else?
• 21:46
  Nothing like pops in my mind. I mean, it, it's a, it's a
• 21:49
  really good tournament. They, I think they do a good job
• 21:52
  with it. I mean, I we've talked about not
• 21:54
  expanding, You know, that's one thing I would not do, one thing
• 21:58
  I would not change. But other than that, no.
• 22:01
  I mean I like that they still do the four regions unlike the
• 22:04
  women that do the 2. That's just a that's a cost
• 22:08
  thing. It is a cost thing and yeah, and
• 22:12
  an attendance thing and whatever else, but.
• 22:14
  I mean, ideally your Final Four is not at a football venue, but
• 22:18
  it's never. You see some of the pictures of
• 22:20
  those seats? And it's it's bad for the fans,
• 22:23
  but they show up. But they pay the money to do it.
• 22:26
  Like they show up, they buy the ticket, they buy the ticket.
• 22:29
  Oh, and that's why it'll never change because they're filling
• 22:32
  those football stadiums and from the top you can't see anything.
• 22:37
  But I think the basketball, I don't know this for a fact, but
• 22:41
  from my eye test, I think the basketball's a little worse.
• 22:46
  Like it's just it's such a cavernous venue.
• 22:50
  It's just the your backdrop is just never ending, dude.
• 22:55
  That's another dusty Bay thing. Took them out to the to the big
• 22:58
  house, brought a goal in the big house and they're just shooting
• 23:01
  hoops in the big house. Like I give him credit for that.
• 23:05
  Yeah, I do too. But yeah, those are the and
• 23:08
  look, I know the second one's not going to change, but I I do
• 23:11
  wish that we could play it in basketball venues.
• 23:13
  But when you're getting 708090 thousand people, yeah, again,
• 23:17
  going backwards and Michigan before I got one more thing
• 23:23
  before we go, all 5 starters didn't start their career at
• 23:27
  Michigan. All transfers.
• 23:28
  How do you? Which they say, I mean, it is
• 23:31
  the first time in history that's happened.
• 23:32
  But you know, that's obviously going to be the case because
• 23:35
  transfers are way more prevalent now than they ever have been.
• 23:38
  But I mean, it just proves that, you know, if you have a bad
• 23:42
  year, like if your team didn't do well or didn't meet
• 23:45
  expectations this year, you can start over and win a title the
• 23:48
  very next year. You just got to bring in the
• 23:50
  right guys. So it gives you hope.
• 23:54
  Yeah. Could you hope it's just we'll
• 23:57
  see who? I mean, I would imagine kiddo
• 24:00
  comes back. McKinney.
• 24:02
  I would have imagined they both come back.
• 24:04
  You never know in this era what could happen.
• 24:07
  But it's just, it's where we are right now.
• 24:10
  Junior. You think Mara comes back?
• 24:11
  He's only a junior, right? I think after his performance in
• 24:15
  the Final four, I think. He gets drafted.
• 24:18
  Yeah, I think he's going to get drafted, but it's just it's just
• 24:24
  the area we're in. There's, I mean, there's some
• 24:29
  unfortunate things about it. Like you don't get to watch
• 24:35
  players go from freshman's to to seniors.
• 24:39
  I mean, everybody talks about how much Elliot Kudel struggled
• 24:41
  in his first year at North Carolina and how much he grew in
• 24:45
  his second year at UConn, right? Who's to say he doesn't do the
• 24:49
  same damn thing if he stays at UNC?
• 24:51
  Like we don't, we don't wait around to see like most
• 24:55
  freshman's when they become sophomores, become better
• 24:58
  players. That's usually how it works.
• 25:01
  And like we act like if he would have stayed at UNC, he would
• 25:04
  have not progressed and. It's all about coaching in some
• 25:10
  of those situations, too. Like, I don't know, to me, Dusty
• 25:13
  May probably a better developer of talent than maybe Hubert
• 25:17
  Davis was, but maybe it's the system.
• 25:20
  Maybe I mean the it's all about the system as well and how they
• 25:23
  use you. And I don't know, I think he he
• 25:27
  would have been fine at North Carolina, but you know, he goes
• 25:30
  to Michigan and gets his chance to shine and walks out with the
• 25:33
  most outstanding player of the entire tournament.
• 25:36
  Yeah, the, I mean, the axle getting hurt playing 14 minutes
• 25:42
  in in the game on Saturday and you don't know if he's going to
• 25:45
  play his deal with the ankle and a knee first half looks like
• 25:49
  he's barely getting all down. The court knows his interview
• 25:51
  with Tracy Wolfson. I feel awful.
• 25:55
  He's from AI, Don't know if I've ever heard the honesty in an
• 25:58
  interview like that. And he plays, still plays 3536
• 26:00
  minutes, gets goes for double figures.
• 26:03
  So good on him. But when he's not at full
• 26:05
  strength, you need somebody else to step up.
• 26:07
  And Kodo did that, Yes. And I thought McKinney was huge
• 26:11
  in moments too, man. Well, I guess that puts a bow on
• 26:13
  the 2026 men's tournament. On the women's side, you had for
• 26:19
  the second time, and not last year, but in the last couple I
• 26:23
  know it was 2018, you had all four number ones.
• 26:25
  Last year we had all more 4 number ones on the men's side.
• 26:30
  The second game, UCLA Beach, Texas, it's 20 to 17 at half and
• 26:38
  they end up winning 51 to 44. And I'll talk to you about this
• 26:42
  off off the show. There's a lot of positive
• 26:47
  momentum, medium for women's basketball.
• 26:50
  This tournament I don't feel like really helped it.
• 26:52
  Like the games were just not that great.
• 26:55
  Oh, especially. You got out of the first and
• 26:56
  second round. Oh, I was looking forward to
• 26:58
  this final four. I thought this final four was
• 27:00
  going to be absolutely outstanding.
• 27:02
  You know, these four teams that that made it all 1 seeds, we're
• 27:06
  head and shoulders better than everybody in in the country all
• 27:09
  year long. I thought it was going to be
• 27:10
  competitive. I thought it was going to be,
• 27:12
  you know, scoring up in the in the 70s and whatnot.
• 27:16
  Yeah, you get a 5144 Snooze Fest in that UCLA, Texas game. 40 to
• 27:21
  17 in half, like how many people are checking that to make sure
• 27:25
  that the tick like the the score bug is right?
• 27:28
  I mean, you got Madison Booker from Texas shooting 3 for 23 for
• 27:31
  the game. Like, God bless, 3 for 23.
• 27:36
  Rory Harmon, the stud guard from Texas, only scores eight points.
• 27:39
  She's 4 of 11 from the field. And it's just golly, yeah,
• 27:43
  that's that's just a bad. It's just it was bad.
• 27:46
  It was. Real bad.
• 27:47
  You got Gino earlier in the tournament complaining about how
• 27:51
  the shooting was so bad in these venues that aren't really
• 27:54
  basketball venues. Now.
• 27:55
  They're not playing football venues, but I think the venue in
• 27:58
  Fort Worth was a rodeo venue. So it's not really A basketball
• 28:02
  venue. They've got new basketball.
• 28:04
  So he's already complaining about that.
• 28:05
  They get to their 18th Final Four in the last 19 years.
• 28:08
  They're undefeated. They've their smallest margin of
• 28:11
  victory all year was three points against Michigan.
• 28:15
  Their second smallest margin of victory was 13 points against
• 28:18
  Louisville and their season opener, that was their second
• 28:21
  smallest win, 13 points. And you get the Don Staley, you
• 28:27
  get the Gino match up in the Final Four rematch of last
• 28:30
  year's national championship, where UConn really put it on him
• 28:34
  within Page Becker's finale. And dude, South Carolina just
• 28:40
  bullied UConn and their physicality would not allow him
• 28:45
  to get in their offense. Gino obviously was frustrated.
• 28:50
  You could tell that from his interview with Holly Rowe at the
• 28:53
  end of the at the end of the third quarter, didn't feel like
• 28:56
  they were South Carolina was getting fouls called for how
• 28:58
  physical they were being. UConn finishes with 48 points.
• 29:04
  Their lowest prior to that was 63, which was in the tournament
• 29:07
  as well against North Carolina. And then we get the post game
• 29:13
  handshake or whatever, whatever it was with with Gino and and
• 29:17
  Don Staley. And we still don't know exactly
• 29:22
  what was said, but we think it was something about the
• 29:24
  handshake at the beginning of the game where he was waiting
• 29:26
  for Don Stalin. Yeah, he was complaining about
• 29:30
  waiting to, like he was standing there waiting for and waiting
• 29:32
  for it, and it took her too long to come shake his hand pregame
• 29:35
  and how that was a breach of etiquette on her be on her part,
• 29:39
  which is just something really stupid to complain about if
• 29:42
  you're Gino, but. There's video of them shaky
• 29:48
  hands before the game. I don't know when it was.
• 29:51
  Look. In beating the games, a lot of
• 29:53
  times you have when there's 10:15 on the pregame clock, you
• 29:58
  see the coaches kind of meet up and and chat and then after line
• 30:02
  UPS they do it again. And I think this this is the one
• 30:06
  that he was talking about, didn't really happen after line
• 30:08
  UPS, but it's when you never lose, when you're undefeated,
• 30:16
  when you've been to 18 and 19 final fours and you finally lose
• 30:22
  a game and this is how you react.
• 30:23
  I don't care what you say. We win the class, we lose the
• 30:26
  class You we do it with dignity. Dude, you were I don't know what
• 30:31
  happened, but you lost your cool.
• 30:33
  And it was not a great look for Gino on on.
• 30:37
  The last two weeks has not been a good look for Gino.
• 30:39
  I mean him whining and complaining about basketball.
• 30:42
  With that. I'm not fine with that.
• 30:43
  No, like that's just like that's stupid and having to get up and
• 30:46
  go to a Prescott and all that. Like you whined and complained
• 30:49
  the week before. Then you whined and complained
• 30:51
  in your in your interview, in the in game interview with Holly
• 30:54
  about how if he talked to the officials the way that Don
• 30:58
  Staley was talking to officials, he'd be thrown out and how they
• 31:02
  ripped my players jersey, even though that was false.
• 31:04
  She ripped her own jersey and then.
• 31:06
  Another point, another great point.
• 31:08
  He never said that. Like he never acknowledged that.
• 31:13
  Like yes, but she ripped her old jersey.
• 31:16
  He never acknowledged that. Never did acknowledge that, no.
• 31:19
  And then yeah, then you go into the the post game handshake line
• 31:22
  where he wants to act like a a complete Jackass and completely
• 31:27
  uncalled for. You know, like your team got
• 31:29
  beat, you played like crap. It sucks your season came to an
• 31:32
  end. Nobody was expecting this.
• 31:34
  But just shake hands and go back to the locker and like be mad at
• 31:37
  your own team. Don't be mad at the other team.
• 31:40
  Do you? So obviously he's a male coach,
• 31:43
  Don says is a female coach, Three female officials in that
• 31:47
  game on Friday. I, there's a part of me in the
• 31:52
  back of my mind that is like that played a role in his
• 31:55
  frustration. And I'm not saying it's
• 31:58
  warranted because it's not the way he acted is not warranted.
• 32:02
  But I I think in the back of his mind that played a role and just
• 32:06
  being around the game, like, I'm not saying I can see it.
• 32:11
  Do you think it played a part in the in the way that the game was
• 32:13
  officiated? Like will they?
• 32:15
  I don't. Think it's impossible for it not
• 32:17
  to but. You think matchup of a male
• 32:20
  coach and like in a female coach, there should be at least
• 32:23
  one male official. No, I don't.
• 32:25
  I'm not saying that. OK.
• 32:26
  But I, I do think sometimes male coaches look at that.
• 32:31
  I mean, it's and the boss. The bottom line is you got you
• 32:37
  got bullied and you got your ass beat and you couldn't score a
• 32:40
  bucket and every time you made a run they answered and they were
• 32:44
  the better team by a lot and. Then after, after the
• 32:48
  altercation, while lip reading was going on, on what Don Staley
• 32:51
  was saying, it looked, it appeared to say that I'll kick,
• 32:54
  I'd kick Gino's ass, I'll beat. Gino's ass.
• 32:57
  I'll beat Gino's ass. Several times and dude, I'll
• 33:01
  give her credit, she ain't, I mean, she ain't all back down.
• 33:04
  And I, I think that's another part of this whole thing, too,
• 33:07
  is it's still UConn here maybe, but South Carolina is, is
• 33:12
  getting closer. As much of the Jackass as as
• 33:16
  much as a Jackass to Gina was. And how uncalled for that whole
• 33:19
  thing was. It spiced it up, man.
• 33:22
  It's it's it's the spiciness of a boring Final Four.
• 33:25
  People were talking about it. It adds another rivalry to this
• 33:28
  thing. So when I mean, these two teams
• 33:30
  play frequently, I mean, UConn plays all the top teams almost
• 33:33
  every single year. So these people.
• 33:35
  In the Final Four hit next year. Probably they're going to see
• 33:37
  each other probably next year. And this is good.
• 33:41
  I mean, it's it's bad for the game of what like though his
• 33:44
  look of it all. But it gets people talking.
• 33:47
  It's got there's buzz around it. So people are going to pay
• 33:49
  attention to this next year. Look, and he's not somebody to
• 33:52
  shy away from speaking his mind, and we've seen that his whole
• 33:55
  career. But the way he acted after the
• 33:58
  game on Friday was new. That's not something that we've
• 34:01
  seen before. It wasn't.
• 34:02
  And you do wonder, like you said, like this tournament, once
• 34:07
  you got to the Sweet 16 and beyond, there weren't a ton of
• 34:10
  great games. There wasn't a lot of great
• 34:12
  shooting. The product, unfortunately, was
• 34:15
  not as good as it could have been.
• 34:17
  And was there some strategy into what he's doing, potentially
• 34:24
  trying to add some controversy to get people talking about it?
• 34:30
  That's a stretch, but. I I think it is but.
• 34:34
  We'll see. I don't know, but I mean how
• 34:36
  many more years you think Gino's got left?
• 34:38
  He don't look like he's going anywhere.
• 34:40
  Don't look like it. But I just, it's really when you
• 34:48
  get to the title game and you hope it's going to be a good
• 34:51
  game, UCLA, South Carolina. And it's not the UCLA wins 79 to
• 34:59
  51. They're up 11 after one quarter,
• 35:01
  13 at the half and then they outscored you, South Carolina 25
• 35:05
  to 9 and the 3rd to put it away. UCL as first ever title, Corey
• 35:12
  Close's first ever title. Obviously they've got 6 seniors.
• 35:15
  Kiki Rice and Gabriella Hawkins were there all four years, which
• 35:18
  is it's something we've talked about you don't see very often
• 35:21
  anymore. So then they have that on
• 35:22
  national championship team is pretty cool.
• 35:25
  Lauren Betts has been was there three years after leaving
• 35:28
  Stanford and then Dugala, who comes off the bench has been
• 35:32
  there four since leaving Oregon. So they've got four players that
• 35:37
  have been there at least three years and lost one game all
• 35:41
  season. There's somebody that I thought
• 35:44
  do what 6 seniors, 6 seniors overall.
• 35:47
  They had two transfers that came in this year that were senior.
• 35:51
  But Hawkeye is in the final was just unbelievable and but good.
• 35:59
  Just they I've talked about them a little bit on the show because
• 36:04
  after coach Walls was talking about how ESPN can be lazy with
• 36:09
  the teams they cover. And it's how it's always UConn,
• 36:12
  it's always South Carolina, that UCLA probably deserved a little
• 36:16
  more coverage and they did it the hard way.
• 36:21
  I mean, it's Walls is right. I mean, they do deserve some
• 36:25
  more coverage. It's a little harder since
• 36:27
  they're a West Coast team and you know, their games aren't
• 36:29
  9:00 Eastern Time most of the time and you know, the East
• 36:32
  Coast doesn't really know much about them, but they deserve to
• 36:35
  be talking about Juju Watkins coverage last.
• 36:38
  Year at USC, That's true. That's true.
• 36:42
  They they you tell me Lauren Betts doesn't deserve the
• 36:45
  coverage. That Juju got last year
• 36:46
  absolutely deserves that. She didn't get it.
• 36:48
  She didn't get it. She didn't.
• 36:50
  She deserves it though. You're right.
• 36:52
  I mean, how many people were just figuring?
• 36:54
  Out who Gabrielle Hawkins is on Friday and and and Sunday Most
• 36:59
  of America. Most.
• 37:00
  Of America, I mean her got a brother.
• 37:03
  That also played for UCLA. That played in a title game.
• 37:07
  Yeah. Final Four.
• 37:08
  Yeah, they lost in the Final Four, but dudes putting up
• 37:13
  numbers for the Heat in the league.
• 37:16
  That's a story like we should be hearing this stuff.
• 37:19
  I agree. And that's why that's.
• 37:23
  Why? He's right.
• 37:24
  UCL. When I when I hear him talking
• 37:28
  at the end of the ACC tournament, I'm thinking UCLA.
• 37:31
  And UCLA did it the hard way. Congrats to their six seniors.
• 37:35
  Congrats to Corey. close. Good news for Corey.
• 37:38
  Close How the season's over. She can get a little sleep.
• 37:40
  She she seemed tired. She she was tired.
• 37:45
  She's very tired. Yeah.
• 37:50
  So you got a little work to do. To fill out that roster.
• 37:52
  Now she does She's. Got a lot of spots to.
• 37:55
  Fill, as does every other. Coach in America?
• 37:59
  Yep, it's portal. Season portal.
• 38:02
  Season Portal. Season and on the men.
• 38:04
  'S side, per Jeff Goodman. You said what?
• 38:06
  1800 players in the portal? Oh yeah, let's look at the stats
• 38:10
  here. This was.
• 38:12
  As of about an hour ago. 1850 Division One men's players have
• 38:18
  hit the portal and that is basically the percentage of
• 38:23
  scholarship players that have eligibility left.
• 38:25
  That's 49% of all scholarship players that still have
• 38:29
  eligibility remaining. 49% of the players are in the portal on
• 38:35
  the women's side. The numbers.
• 38:36
  I don't have the percentage, but on the women's side it's 1000,
• 38:39
  around 1000. It's it's more normal for you,
• 38:44
  all your players to go in the portal than for them not to I
• 38:48
  feel like at this point and also I don't if.
• 38:51
  I was a player, I'd do the same thing.
• 38:53
  I would see what my value is on the market and you just go back,
• 38:58
  just go back to this place you came from if you want to.
• 39:00
  And there are players that withdraw their names from the
• 39:02
  portal and go back to the school.
• 39:04
  That doesn't happen very often. It doesn't happen often, but
• 39:07
  it's an option. But I mean like it happened with
• 39:09
  Isaac Brown at U of L. Yeah, in football, but I feel
• 39:13
  like that was really rare. I mean, didn't OA do it for?
• 39:17
  Kentucky last year he tested the draft waters and was, but
• 39:20
  testing the draft waters and coming back, I think.
• 39:22
  Is different. I mean it's not the same.
• 39:24
  Maybe in the portal, not. In the portal, I don't know, but
• 39:28
  if if you're a kid and you're looking for, I mean it, it's all
• 39:32
  about the money now. So it's, you might as well get
• 39:34
  in the open market, have your agent feel it out, see what
• 39:36
  you're worth. And you know, if you don't like
• 39:38
  what you're hearing, then then just go back to the school you
• 39:40
  came from or have some damn loyalty.
• 39:42
  To your program, no back if you want to.
• 39:48
  Like it ain't always about chasing the damn.
• 39:50
  Dollar the grass ain't always greener like can we have some
• 39:54
  loyalty in college hoops? What's the Jeff Walsh quote?
• 39:57
  He always. Says yeah the fertilized with
• 40:02
  shit. Yeah, with bullshit.
• 40:06
  And he's right. Wait, he's 100% right.
• 40:08
  It's one of my. Favorite quotes of his I get.
• 40:12
  It I'm old school and it's not going to change until the rules
• 40:17
  change. No, it sucks for the fans, it
• 40:19
  sucks for the. Schools, it sucks for the fans,
• 40:22
  but kids are doing what they got to do.
• 40:25
  It's not changing. It's going to get worse,
• 40:26
  probably. I mean Nebraska dudes a starter
• 40:32
  Burke, but you to gel started all every game this year
• 40:38
  averaged 6 1/2 points 55.6 rebounds was it's his second
• 40:43
  year there Where did he start started at UCLA his first year
• 40:46
  so he's a junior after their great season they win their
• 40:51
  first ever NCAA tournament game they get to their Sweet 16 dudes
• 40:55
  getting attached to the camera commemorate the season 27 and
• 40:59
  eight yeah the next day deuces I'm going to the portal.
• 41:06
  Well, I mean, is that because? He wanted to go.
• 41:09
  To the port or did he have a? Or, or did he have a
• 41:12
  conversation with Fred Hoiberg? And Hoiberg was like, Hey,
• 41:14
  we're, we're looking at bringing in a guy at your position that
• 41:17
  maybe can give us more than what you gave us.
• 41:20
  And look and I I think. That's a fairpoint.
• 41:22
  It's not always on the player's side.
• 41:24
  I I think that is an absolute fairpoint.
• 41:26
  Give me his stats again. What'd you?
• 41:27
  Say he averaged 6:00 and 5:00. 6 1/2 Five and a half.
• 41:32
  As a starter. Maybe you're looking for a
• 41:33
  little? More than that.
• 41:34
  So Hoiberg maybe like we're going to bring in a guy that
• 41:38
  might help us A. Little more than six points and
• 41:40
  five. Rebounds and then he's might be
• 41:41
  like all right, coach, I respect that I'm going to go look for an
• 41:44
  opportunity where I can play start again so maybe that's I
• 41:48
  mean we don't know the story that to me that's very plausible
• 41:51
  No, I don't I don't know the. Story and maybe that is what
• 41:56
  happened, but it's still it's still weird you get a tattoo
• 42:02
  commemorate your season and then a day later you're like thanks
• 42:07
  thanks, but I'm going to be playing for somebody else next
• 42:10
  year well Kanai Ruse who's in the.
• 42:12
  Portal for Louisville, he's got that leg tattoo that's spells
• 42:15
  out CARDS and it has like all the different things for each
• 42:20
  letter of like the program standards and all that.
• 42:23
  Well, he's almost going to go get that covered up now.
• 42:25
  Well, you go play. Don't get your girlfriends that.
• 42:30
  Tatted on you because when you break up, what are you going to
• 42:33
  do? What are you going?
• 42:35
  To turn that guards in and out to you'll.
• 42:37
  Find another goal with the same names.
• 42:39
  What? You got to do.
• 42:40
  Yeah, that's easier said than. Done so at limits.
• 42:43
  Can I roost options next year? Ball statement.
• 42:48
  He can go to ball well, he's got to.
• 42:50
  Take the S off. If he goes to the state field,
• 42:52
  that's that's a lot easier to do.
• 42:53
  Than taking the whole tattoo off.
• 42:54
  Or he could try to go to the draft, to the.
• 42:56
  Arizona Cardinals or the Saint Louis Cardinals?
• 42:59
  Other than that, I don't know what he's going to do next year.
• 43:03
  Yeah. No, it's it's crazy.
• 43:06
  And and you had said they're. Looking to do something with to
• 43:10
  give you 5 years of eligibility if if you're yeah, the NCAA came
• 43:16
  out today I. Saw this today.
• 43:19
  They're proposing an eligibility rule change that I guess will be
• 43:21
  voted on in the near future that will take place and will go into
• 43:26
  effect in the fall of 2026. So starting this fall, basically
• 43:31
  five years of eligibility in five years.
• 43:33
  So five years from your 19th birthday or the year that you
• 43:36
  graduate high school, you have five years of eligibility.
• 43:39
  There are no more red shirts, no medical red shirts, no waivers,
• 43:44
  no nothing. It's you've got five years to to
• 43:46
  figure this out and you can play all five years.
• 43:48
  If you get hurt, you still have four more years.
• 43:52
  So kind of trying to delimit more, get to get this thing
• 43:55
  standardized and you know, it eliminates bringing back 26 year
• 43:59
  old G League players that have been out of college for five
• 44:02
  years and which is what we need. The rule to eliminate that is
• 44:05
  insane. I mean this this does
• 44:07
  officially. Eliminate that that portion of
• 44:09
  that. So I don't know they're just
• 44:12
  trying to make it more standardized and and you know
• 44:15
  you're not denying some guys here and improving some guys
• 44:17
  here and it's just all it's pretty clear cut.
• 44:20
  I'm I'm in favor of it. Well, I mean there's.
• 44:23
  Nothing to not be in favor. I don't know what it
• 44:25
  accomplishes. You're just giving guys an extra
• 44:28
  year. So usually you got.
• 44:29
  Four years or you play 4 years, you got to move on.
• 44:31
  Now you can play a total of you can play all five years.
• 44:34
  So seniors can now come back and that's fine it.
• 44:37
  Really kind of hurts it kind. Of hurts the freshman like the
• 44:40
  incoming. Freshman like they're going to
• 44:42
  limit opportunities of high school kids at this one.
• 44:44
  It's it's like coaches. Shouldn't be red shirting
• 44:47
  players for the last couple of years knowing that they can go
• 44:49
  wherever they want because I don't know the percentage, but I
• 44:54
  guarantee you the percentage of redshirted players and them
• 44:56
  leaving the program is damn high.
• 44:59
  And it to me that's all this kind of does.
• 45:02
  It says there's no point in redshirting because you ain't
• 45:04
  going to keep people from getting hurt.
• 45:05
  Like there's nothing you can do about that.
• 45:08
  I would like to see some kind of incentive to where you're
• 45:13
  rewarded for being somewhere for four years.
• 45:17
  If you're at the same school for four years, then you get a fifth
• 45:20
  year to give somebody an incentive to say somewhere I I
• 45:24
  would like to see what if your coach leaves?
• 45:26
  What if? Well, there's there's going to
• 45:29
  be. Stuff like that that allows you
• 45:30
  to leave, see, then you're just going back into the hole.
• 45:33
  I need to get a waiver. I need to get this for for this
• 45:36
  to happen, but then. But at least then you've got.
• 45:38
  Rules. At least with waivers, you've
• 45:41
  got some rules. We're seeing too many kids that
• 45:45
  are playing five years at 5 different schools.
• 45:50
  And why does that bother you? I don't know what good it does.
• 45:53
  Anybody. What good does that do anybody?
• 45:57
  What does it hurt that? That.
• 46:00
  Student athlete? Are they really even a student
• 46:02
  athlete? No, we know this man.
• 46:05
  Like we like, like, let's just, let's stop pretending like fans
• 46:07
  have loyalty to them. Let's stop play like pretending
• 46:10
  like this. Is the old days where student
• 46:12
  athletes are there? We're we're here for school.
• 46:14
  Like we're not here. Who's the the Ohio State
• 46:17
  quarterback That said, I'm not here to play school.
• 46:19
  These kids aren't here to play school.
• 46:20
  They're here to play ball. They're going to get paid and
• 46:22
  they're here to get, if you get a degree, that's that's a bonus.
• 46:25
  A lot of kids don't care about that because they're just trying
• 46:27
  to go play professionally, whether that's in the NFL, the
• 46:30
  NBA or overseas somewhere and get a contract in Turkey or
• 46:34
  Russia to play basketball. Like they're they're here to
• 46:37
  play ball and get that, get that pro contract.
• 46:41
  Yeah, I mean. I just, if you could have A1
• 46:45
  transfer rule and other than that you got to sit out and then
• 46:48
  you keep this five and five then that.
• 46:51
  Gives you incentive not to transfer.
• 46:53
  Because if you do transfer a second time, then you have to
• 46:54
  sit out a gear. I think that's a decent, that
• 46:57
  would be a decent addition to these rules to try to limit a
• 47:00
  little bit. Like I, I understand the other
• 47:03
  side of the argument. Coaches can leave whenever they
• 47:04
  want, no matter what their contract is.
• 47:06
  And that's true. But we're not seeing coaches
• 47:09
  coach five places in five years. And.
• 47:15
  Just. To bring some.
• 47:17
  Consistency to it I would I'm. I'm on your side on this.
• 47:21
  I would. I would, and I know that they're
• 47:23
  not. It's not all about school, but
• 47:26
  still a part of it. You could at least pretend that
• 47:29
  it matters. And when it's 5:00 and 5:00, I
• 47:33
  it doesn't benefit the student athlete, it doesn't benefit the
• 47:36
  fan base. The only way you're remembered
• 47:38
  is if you go and do something great that fifth year or your
• 47:43
  final year, because the other four places you left, no matter
• 47:46
  how good would you are hate you and will hate you forever for
• 47:50
  the most part. And so the only chance you have
• 47:53
  to be remembered at a school is having a fifth year or a senior
• 47:58
  year at your new program where you are great individually and
• 48:03
  you're great, your team has great success.
• 48:07
  And I don't know, just the system as they argued.
• 48:15
  For. Good 10 minutes on game day is I
• 48:18
  don't believe it's sustainable. It's too expensive.
• 48:22
  Like in the in the in the pro leagues, you spend money on
• 48:25
  players and you get revenue back.
• 48:28
  Yes. These donors.
• 48:30
  Aren't getting that revenue back that are paying for the the most
• 48:34
  of these players and well a lot of these.
• 48:38
  Universities are going and they're in debt already, just
• 48:41
  trying to to trying to keep up to get a competitive roster.
• 48:45
  Yeah. And.
• 48:45
  You're going to start seeing the smaller.
• 48:47
  Sports disappear because more money's going to have to go to
• 48:52
  football and the boat and primarily men's basketball, but
• 48:56
  women's basketball as well. And then you're going to start
• 48:58
  seeing other, other sports disappear.
• 49:01
  It's but I mean, I will say for the most part, the TV ratings
• 49:07
  are as good as they've ever been.
• 49:08
  The product is is great. But the problem is.
• 49:14
  And you know in in this is what's different from the pro
• 49:17
  leagues is the pro leagues you're under one TV contract,
• 49:20
  the revenue splits equal amongst all 32 teams, league teams.
• 49:24
  Same with baseball or ball or whatever.
• 49:27
  You know, when you've got the SEC and the Big 10 making double
• 49:30
  what the Big 12 and the ACC are making in Rev in in media rights
• 49:34
  revenue like then we start having an issue and the AC CS
• 49:38
  locked into their meteor rights till 2036 that they can't get
• 49:41
  out of. So they can't even renegotiate
• 49:43
  until then. So like the gap?
• 49:46
  The gap's too big. And that's why we've just saw.
• 49:49
  The Big 10 sweep men's basketball, women's basketball
• 49:52
  and football for the first time. It's been done since O 7 when
• 49:55
  the SEC in the. SEC and the Big 10 are going to
• 49:58
  fight this, but I would like to see a yeah, Division One,
• 50:04
  especially maybe the the Power 4, Power Five teams all under 1
• 50:07
  meteorites deal. Like they make a deal with ESPN
• 50:11
  and NBC and CBS, just like the NFL does with Fox and CBS and
• 50:14
  ESPN and Amazon and YouTube and whoever else.
• 50:17
  They're all under the same meteorites deal.
• 50:20
  Put these conferences under the same meteorites deal.
• 50:22
  Let's distribute this evenly and let's get this back to at least
• 50:25
  a little bit of, you know, we're some some of these teams have a
• 50:28
  chance and we're not in monstrous debt and you're not
• 50:32
  even talking about. The teams that aren't in Power
• 50:34
  4, so like you talk about separating them even more.
• 50:42
  It's just, I still love watching it, but there's a lot of issues
• 50:47
  with it. There is.
• 50:48
  It'll be interesting to see. Where it goes?
• 50:51
  I think there has. To be some.
• 50:53
  Changes. What those changes will be?
• 50:57
  Your your idea is not a terrible idea, but it's just the big 10
• 51:02
  and the SEC are never going to be like, OK, we'll do that.
• 51:06
  You're going to have to have. Some kind, I mean, it's not like
• 51:09
  Congress needs to get involved in sports, but like you're going
• 51:12
  to have to have some kind of Supreme Court rulings or
• 51:14
  Congress congressional, you know, something laws or whatever
• 51:19
  that come down to, to try to force these things through
• 51:21
  because these conferences aren't going to agree on anything.
• 51:26
  They're all looking out. There's just no.
• 51:29
  Rules to begin with, and this is the result.
• 51:35
  Look, there's a lot of things. The result ain't bad.
• 51:39
  There's, I mean the product's still.
• 51:41
  Good. It's just you're probably going
• 51:43
  to have. A different players aren't your
• 51:45
  team. Every year.
• 51:48
  Well, Michigan did it and they won a championship, so.
• 51:51
  And if you're a fan of your team, you know, and your guys
• 51:55
  are transferring out, you might get somebody better, you might
• 51:57
  end up winning a championship and guess what?
• 52:00
  You're going to be a static. You are.
• 52:03
  But if you also had Yaxel there for four years, it just add
• 52:07
  something. I mean, just fact.
• 52:11
  One year's better than none. Would especially if you bring on
• 52:14
  with you. Are you ready for Hello friends?
• 52:20
  But the the where's? The Where's the music?
• 52:24
  Can you do it do do? I thought maybe you just, I
• 52:27
  don't know how, maybe you could just hum it.
• 52:28
  Where's? This week.
• 52:29
  Where's Masters week? Quote my type on the sports.
• 52:32
  Calendar. Yeah.
• 52:35
  Where does? Where does masters week?
• 52:36
  Rank on your sports calendar. It's definitely behind.
• 52:42
  Well, I mean, it's kind of runs right into NCAA Tournament, but
• 52:46
  which is pretty, you know? Yeah.
• 52:49
  And that week of the 1st and second round NCAA tournament is
• 52:51
  the greatest week on the sports calendar.
• 52:54
  But it's up there. I mean, it's up there with Super
• 52:59
  Bowl. And if my team's in the Super
• 53:02
  Bowl, then I would probably would put that ahead of the
• 53:03
  Masters. But if my team's not in the
• 53:05
  Super Bowl, I'll probably your team's not in something.
• 53:09
  Yeah. I mean, it's up there.
• 53:10
  I mean, it's, it's, it's top. Top three for me.
• 53:12
  What about you? I might go.
• 53:15
  I might go too. And they're both tough.
• 53:19
  Right there, together now. Look, if you like the NFL
• 53:27
  playoffs as a whole, you know what?
• 53:30
  Maybe like I'm not just. Going to go Super Bowl, but NFL
• 53:34
  playoffs as a whole and March Madness and Masters.
• 53:41
  And then I mean you get 1 offs like the Ryder Cups and the
• 53:44
  Olympics, which I don't, they're not yearly events so I wouldn't
• 53:47
  really put them in this category, but it's it's up
• 53:51
  there. And yeah, before we start.
• 53:55
  Talking about the tournament, I think we might do.
• 53:57
  A quick little masters draft. The the food and beverage menu
• 54:04
  is one of the bigger. It's it's a staple of the
• 54:09
  master. So I'm going to give you.
• 54:12
  Always a classic. I'm going.
• 54:13
  To give you $12.00. I'm going to give you $12.00.
• 54:18
  And you can spend it on whatever you want, OK?
• 54:22
  Egg salad sandwich Pimento cheese sandwiches.
• 54:24
  They're $1.50 each, or you can get some BBQ or spice, a savoury
• 54:28
  tomato pie or a masters club for $3.
• 54:33
  What's it you can get a Crow's Nest beer for?
• 54:37
  Yeah, you're trying to get that. Is that a pizza?
• 54:40
  I put a tomato pie. Something So what they call
• 54:43
  pizza, I don't know. You can get.
• 54:47
  A crow's nest beer for. 6 bucks a domestic beer for 6 bucks.
• 54:51
  All the beer 6 bucks. You get apple slices for $1.50
• 54:57
  you can get cookies for 2 bucks You can get Georgia pecan
• 55:01
  caramel popcorn for 2 bucks. Georgia Peach Ice Cream Sandwich
• 55:06
  for three bucks. I know I just threw a lot of
• 55:07
  prices at you. Nope, I've already you could
• 55:09
  spend 12. Bucks what do you what do you
• 55:12
  buy I've. Already got it.
• 55:13
  First of all, I'm getting a beer.
• 55:14
  What? Was the domestic that's 6 bucks
• 55:18
  What was the other you just? Might go 2 crows.
• 55:20
  Nests and call it a day. No, all right.
• 55:22
  What's a crows nest? That's their specialty.
• 55:24
  Beer. All right.
• 55:26
  So I'm going specialty. Beer 6 bucks.
• 55:28
  I'm going $3 on my BBQ sandwich and I'm going $3 on my Peach Ice
• 55:32
  Cream Sandwich. That's about 12 bucks.
• 55:36
  That is my 12 bucks. I think that the the Georgia.
• 55:40
  Pecan caramel popcorn is calling my name.
• 55:43
  I'm also getting a crowd nest because there's no way I'm not
• 55:45
  getting a beer. Gotta get a beer.
• 55:47
  Yeah. So now I've spent 8 bucks so.
• 55:49
  Basically there's. Not a $4.00 item and there's
• 55:52
  also not a $1.00 item. Are you going to double up on
• 55:55
  like the egg salad and pimento? Cheese over there.
• 55:57
  I would never get an egg salad sandwich.
• 55:59
  I would eat a pimento. Cheese.
• 56:01
  Think I would have to do I want what else could I get though?
• 56:04
  I could get 1 so I have 4 bucks to spin why I could get I get a
• 56:09
  tomato cheese sandwich and then I could get like a bag of chips
• 56:16
  or something. So we're going.
• 56:19
  Beer, popcorn, Pimento. Cheese.
• 56:21
  Yeah, I go to a bag of chips for $1.50 and some BBQ ruffles.
• 56:24
  Or something over there, OK. OK, I gotta have that, that
• 56:30
  popcorn. So you're going to have to eat
• 56:32
  that Ice Cream Sandwich so fast and with the beer.
• 56:36
  You, you understand. I would eat.
• 56:37
  I would inhale. That Ice Cream Sandwich, a Peach
• 56:39
  Ice Cream Sandwich sounds fantastic.
• 56:41
  Was the was the BBQ sandwich a no brainer?
• 56:44
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 56:47
  Rory, did you see Rory's? Winning Masters dinner.
• 56:51
  I did take a look at it. It's been about a week since I
• 56:54
  saw it, so I've kind of forgotten what it was, but rock,
• 56:58
  you want to let it down? Rock shrimp.
• 57:00
  Tempura yellowfin tuna, carpaccio, Wagyu filet or seared
• 57:07
  salmon and then sticky toffee pudding.
• 57:12
  Would you rather have? That or Scotty's dinner.
• 57:14
  Last year, which was cheeseburger sliders, Texas
• 57:19
  style chili, cowboy rib eye or blackened red fish and then
• 57:24
  chocolate chip skillet cookie. Yeah, which one you're taking?
• 57:27
  Go ahead and give me Scotty's menu because I love.
• 57:30
  Texas style Chili's one of my top items of of all time.
• 57:33
  I love Texas now. Scotty's versus Jon ROMs. And
• 57:38
  I'm. I'm going to say that Jon ROM
• 57:40
  has very little chance. I don't even know how to
• 57:46
  pronounce it. Bosque.
• 57:47
  Basque. Is that Bosque?
• 57:50
  Yeah. I don't know what that is.
• 57:52
  Basque. Basque.
• 57:54
  I don't know, crab. Salad rib eye and then tapas E
• 58:00
  pixos. I think you're you're taking
• 58:02
  Scotty taking Scotty. Are you taking?
• 58:05
  Are you? Taking Scotty's over Rory's or
• 58:07
  do you love some no toffee pudding?
• 58:11
  No, I'm not a huge you know who would hate?
• 58:13
  You know, you know who would hate the?
• 58:14
  Dessert on Scotty's menu? Oh, maybe.
• 58:19
  Oh, maybe. It was you that hated it.
• 58:20
  Remember when? Matt Andrews was pushing the the
• 58:22
  skillet cookie on as it launched one day.
• 58:24
  No, I just didn't want a cookie for lunch.
• 58:27
  You hated it. You hate Scotty.
• 58:29
  Scheffler, I just want a cookie for lunch.
• 58:31
  You hate Scott Scheffler's. Deserve Matt Andrews would love
• 58:33
  it. And.
• 58:36
  Then so hideki a couple. Years ago was sushi miso glazed
• 58:41
  black cod Wagyu and it's Japanese Strawberry Shortcake.
• 58:45
  Are you still sticking with Scotty?
• 58:48
  All right then. So this.
• 58:49
  Is against Dustin. Johnson, who you know is
• 58:53
  probably going to be close to Scotty's lobster and corn
• 58:57
  fritters, Caesar salad, filet mignon or miso marinated sea
• 59:02
  bass. And then this is for dessert,
• 59:05
  Peach cobbler and apple pie cobbler.
• 59:10
  I'm still probably going Scotty's with.
• 59:11
  The Texas style chili because I do love that, but that's that's
• 59:14
  a good menu. What was it?
• 59:15
  What do you know what tigers 20/19 His last menu was.
• 59:18
  I don't have the last five. OK, I'd like to know.
• 59:20
  What tigers? I mean I.
• 59:22
  I wasn't planning on going back until.
• 59:24
  Tigers winning in 1997. His what he picked for dinner
• 59:29
  when he was a kid. He probably picked chicken
• 59:30
  Nuggets and macaroni. And cheese Dino Nuggets.
• 59:35
  And Mac and cheese back in the end.
• 59:37
  Just like 19 years old. Go back and look at it.
• 59:42
  Cotton candy they. The Today was the par 3.
• 59:48
  And. Last year, the star of the park.
• 59:51
  Huh. I said.
• 59:52
  I saw AJT started it off with a with.
• 59:54
  A an ace today. He was the first one.
• 59:56
  Yeah. Hole #2 I think there was four
• 59:58
  of them. Yeah, four saw Fleetwood had.
• 1:00:02
  One. I think Wyndham Crock had one.
• 1:00:05
  Them and Keegan were in the same group with Woodland and they.
• 1:00:07
  Both had an ace and then yeah, JT and I didn't see Fleetwood,
• 1:00:11
  but I guess you say he made one. Yeah.
• 1:00:14
  And then remember last year the. Start of the par 3 was Frankie
• 1:00:19
  Fleetwood. Is that his kid?
• 1:00:22
  Yeah, and he's. He's young, he's probably 6.
• 1:00:25
  Seven. Yeah, that's.
• 1:00:29
  Why you've done that? What 6-7?
• 1:00:32
  I didn't do it on purpose. Starting to wonder?
• 1:00:35
  No, I promise I didn't. But he couldn't get it.
• 1:00:37
  Over the the water on 9. But he said he's going to try
• 1:00:41
  his hardest. I'm going to try my hardest.
• 1:00:44
  So they interviewed him today and he's.
• 1:00:46
  Just like, yeah, I've been. Working on it, I was feeling
• 1:00:48
  pretty good on the range and there he's just like, I'm going
• 1:00:51
  to try my hardest. And they're like, yeah, we know
• 1:00:52
  you're going to try your hardest and still didn't put it there.
• 1:00:57
  Yeah, that's right. This one.
• 1:00:59
  Today look like it might have had the day he went a little
• 1:01:01
  right. So I still I still a little bit
• 1:01:03
  right. If he straightened it out, maybe
• 1:01:05
  he would have cleared it, but poor kid put it right back in
• 1:01:09
  the drink, pushed it a little later.
• 1:01:12
  Oh, and. Dude, I think next year it's
• 1:01:15
  it's a no brainer that that he's going to put it on the green,
• 1:01:20
  Yeah. All right, let's do quick little
• 1:01:25
  Masters draft. Just we'll do five players on
• 1:01:27
  each side. Snake draft out.
• 1:01:30
  Oh, I won the college basketball draft because I took Michigan.
• 1:01:36
  Even though you took Michigan in your bracket and I took Arizona
• 1:01:38
  in my bracket. In our draft, you had Arizona
• 1:01:40
  and I had Michigan. So I guess since you won, I mean
• 1:01:45
  since I won, I guess I'll let you pick whether you want to go
• 1:01:49
  first or second. If you go second, you get second
• 1:01:54
  and third and we'll snake it from there.
• 1:01:55
  From there on, I'll go second. Yes, Rs.
• 1:01:59
  Off of Scotty well. I mean, I look, he's not playing
• 1:02:04
  well, but there ain't. I mean, I'm taking.
• 1:02:07
  If you first pick, I've got to take Scotty.
• 1:02:09
  Would you would you have taken Scotty with the first pick?
• 1:02:12
  Yeah, probably. It's hard not to.
• 1:02:14
  Would you have taken Scotty with the first pick?
• 1:02:17
  I just think it'd be irresponsible not to.
• 1:02:19
  All right. Second and third give me. 2nd
• 1:02:24
  pick give me Bryson as my second pick.
• 1:02:29
  And my third pick. I know it's it might be too
• 1:02:32
  early, but give me Zander Shafley.
• 1:02:36
  Top five of the players and Valspar coming into this.
• 1:02:39
  Thing I mean, he's he's looks like.
• 1:02:42
  He's got his game back. He's finished inside the top ten
• 1:02:45
  and half of his 34 majors. So go ahead, give me give you
• 1:02:48
  Zander. I don't.
• 1:02:52
  Think he's going to win two in a row but.
• 1:02:54
  If he's still on the board, I got to take Rory and then for
• 1:02:58
  the last two years the winner of the Players has won the Masters.
• 1:03:01
  Scotty did it two years ago, Roy did it last year.
• 1:03:04
  Give me Cam Young, give me with my next pick.
• 1:03:08
  Give me Ludwig A Berg. And give me Tommy Fleetwood that
• 1:03:15
  was. Definitely going to be my pick,
• 1:03:16
  I mean. I did not take it.
• 1:03:18
  I I don't understand why Jon ROM is always so high.
• 1:03:22
  Right third on the CBS. I'm going to go Jay Rose.
• 1:03:25
  Is he playing well? I mean, he plays on going.
• 1:03:26
  To go Jay Rose. OK.
• 1:03:29
  Just because he came. So close last year.
• 1:03:32
  And I think it would be cool to see him win.
• 1:03:37
  And then this is going to be my last pick so.
• 1:03:40
  I'm going to go somebody that is kind of a little bit.
• 1:03:46
  Like not that high of a. Going to go, Akshay.
• 1:03:52
  I had two people that I was really trying to decide between
• 1:03:55
  right there, so. Do I have one more pic So you
• 1:03:59
  have or what? You have one.
• 1:04:03
  You have 1/2. You right now you have Scotty.
• 1:04:08
  No, you have Bryson, Zander, Ober Fleetwood.
• 1:04:11
  So you got one pick Nader. You're Bryson.
• 1:04:15
  You're Zander. You're.
• 1:04:16
  Ober and you're Fleetwood for the final pick, Are we going to
• 1:04:22
  leave? Jon ROM off.
• 1:04:24
  Are we going to leave Matt for Fitzpatrick off?
• 1:04:26
  Hideki, Min Wu, Patrick. Reed, Morikawa Spieth.
• 1:04:36
  Tepka got her up. Hovlin JCI could name the whole
• 1:04:44
  field. I mean, I'm.
• 1:04:48
  Not picking ROM ROM is the third.
• 1:04:52
  Who? Yeah, Rahm is.
• 1:04:55
  He's third. Choice.
• 1:04:57
  Yeah, are the odds Fitzpatrick's?
• 1:05:01
  Is he's in the. Discussion, I think Hideki's in
• 1:05:04
  discussion. He's won there before, but go
• 1:05:06
  ahead and just give me Chris Gadarov was my last pick.
• 1:05:12
  That's. That I'll be honest, that's who
• 1:05:15
  my. Akshay Pick was between will we
• 1:05:17
  see Scotty playback and he has the last couple weeks.
• 1:05:21
  I'm done. We're done.
• 1:05:22
  My team is Scotty Rory. Cam Young.
• 1:05:25
  J Rd. Nache, OK.
• 1:05:29
  Your team is Bryson Xander Ober. Fleetwood and got her up.
• 1:05:33
  I think we see Scotty play better.
• 1:05:36
  He just had his. Baby, maybe it takes a little
• 1:05:37
  bit of the stress off of him. I don't know.
• 1:05:40
  We'll we'll see. I I think.
• 1:05:43
  Cam Young is a guy I'm looking at right now.
• 1:05:45
  Xander, I think is a guy a lot of people were talking about
• 1:05:47
  that could play well, but it's the I I think there's something
• 1:05:51
  to the fact that the last two players winners have have won
• 1:05:53
  this tournament and that's why I wanted to make sure Cam Young
• 1:05:56
  was on my team. There you go.
• 1:05:58
  OK. You've been following this
• 1:06:02
  Artemis too. Yeah, who?
• 1:06:05
  I mean who? Has it?
• 1:06:06
  They're farther away from. Earth than they're farther away.
• 1:06:09
  From Earth than anybody's ever been.
• 1:06:12
  Yeah, like that's so cool. Like it's.
• 1:06:14
  Unbelievable that we can do something like this.
• 1:06:19
  They were on the. Dark Side of the Moon and.
• 1:06:21
  Lost where they couldn't have communication for I think it was
• 1:06:25
  close to an hour, 2 hours maybe This is what I just what makes
• 1:06:31
  me think about it like we're doing this now it's 2026.
• 1:06:34
  We have a lot of technology. We have Teslas that you can hit
• 1:06:37
  a button and they will drive for you.
• 1:06:39
  Yes. We did this in the 60s.
• 1:06:45
  Yes, we flew a. Rocket to the moon.
• 1:06:49
  In the 60s, yes. And like just.
• 1:06:53
  Seeing this. Now and then thinking about
• 1:06:55
  that, the fact that we did this 60 years ago where technology
• 1:07:00
  was nowhere near what it is now is just it's I mean, I hate that
• 1:07:04
  we I kind of hate that we. Stopped.
• 1:07:06
  But I mean, there were some some tragedies along the way that.
• 1:07:10
  I think kind of led in to. To the reasons that we stopped.
• 1:07:14
  But I mean, did you watch the launch last week?
• 1:07:18
  No, not live. No, Did you?
• 1:07:21
  I did. I did.
• 1:07:22
  I was watching launch and I'm not going.
• 1:07:24
  To lie I was a little nervous no because I mean like you think
• 1:07:28
  about Challenger and you think about the whatever that ship was
• 1:07:33
  in 2003 was it yeah 2003 that exploded so you're just like
• 1:07:38
  you're a little nervous when you see this because like 1 little
• 1:07:41
  minor thing could just blow this whole thing up like the
• 1:07:43
  slightest something comes loose and then kaboom.
• 1:07:50
  Glad it went off without a ditch.
• 1:07:51
  Yeah, like, like some of the images that are coming out from
• 1:07:54
  it all, like of the moon and of of Earth.
• 1:07:56
  And especially with like the kind of cameras and technology
• 1:07:59
  they have, like you mentioned, like some of these images are
• 1:08:02
  fascinating. Well, and dude.
• 1:08:06
  You talk about being nervous about the take off, which I get
• 1:08:09
  it, but for 10 days you're just floating in the middle of space.
• 1:08:16
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:08:17
  So like. Yeah, I get it that there's a.
• 1:08:20
  Sense of relief that the rocket took off, but God, there's got
• 1:08:25
  to be some uneasiness the entire time while you're just you're on
• 1:08:31
  the other side of the moon. Isn't this the easy part though?
• 1:08:34
  You're. Just kind of floating out there.
• 1:08:37
  There's not much from rocket thrusts going on and all that.
• 1:08:40
  Like, like this is the easy part right now, just floating around.
• 1:08:43
  You're talking about coming back.
• 1:08:44
  Is it going to be hard? That's going to be hard.
• 1:08:46
  Well, you're always I would. Believe while you're floating.
• 1:08:49
  In space, the comeback is probably in the back of your
• 1:08:52
  mind the whole time. You're just, I mean.
• 1:08:58
  How many miles are a wee way? Like 200.
• 1:09:02
  And something 1000. I don't even know I.
• 1:09:08
  Just think. I don't know.
• 1:09:10
  I'm not a. Don't know the exact number?
• 1:09:15
  Yeah, let's. Look at that here. 200 and.
• 1:09:19
  52,000 miles, Yeah, yeah, that's right.
• 1:09:22
  They're surpassing. The previous March set by the
• 1:09:24
  Apollo. 13 in 1970. I don't.
• 1:09:27
  To me, that's the remarkable part.
• 1:09:29
  We did this in 1970 and they actually got out and walked on
• 1:09:33
  it. Apollo 13.
• 1:09:36
  Didn't they wanted to until? That was the one where they
• 1:09:38
  scraped them back home because that was almost the do you not
• 1:09:42
  watch the movie, you know? You're not Apollo 13, guys.
• 1:09:45
  With Tom Hanks. Oh my God.
• 1:09:49
  So the they walked on the moon. Before that, right?
• 1:09:52
  Yeah, Let's see. What's those, Neil?
• 1:09:55
  Armstrong's I mean, I I do. A lot of research on hoops
• 1:09:58
  before. We do this pod very obviously do
• 1:10:01
  not know as much when it comes to flying.
• 1:10:06
  To the moon that was Apollo. 11. Then what year was that?
• 1:10:13
  Was that 1963? More than 60.
• 1:10:18
  Years ago. Sorry, 1969.
• 1:10:21
  OK. So a year before.
• 1:10:22
  So we were just there. Was a point in time where we
• 1:10:25
  were just going every year. Yeah, Oh yeah, they were.
• 1:10:28
  It was quite frequent. Well, I I think it's pretty cool
• 1:10:33
  and. The pictures that.
• 1:10:37
  They're getting are incredible. I mean, you and the route
• 1:10:42
  they're taking, it's just like a it's not like they just fly
• 1:10:45
  straight there. No, they circled the earth,
• 1:10:47
  what, two or three times? I think before they like they
• 1:10:50
  got slingshot it and like the. Math and everything that goes
• 1:10:55
  the calculation. But it's got to be just
• 1:10:58
  precisely on point. Well, and look, it's just.
• 1:11:03
  My former assistant, Matt Shavert at Morehead State, his
• 1:11:06
  son was a student at Morehead and he they have an aeronautics
• 1:11:10
  degree and he's working in NASA and he's like in the Control
• 1:11:15
  Center working this day. It's pretty good.
• 1:11:18
  Smart kid he's, I would say. He's he's a lot smarter than you
• 1:11:21
  and I. And getting paid a lot.
• 1:11:25
  More than you and I, yeah. But some people.
• 1:11:29
  Deserve to get paid. More and I would say he's
• 1:11:30
  probably 1 of yeah. But they they.
• 1:11:35
  Come home on Friday, yo, where they splash.
• 1:11:39
  Splash down where they splashing down at?
• 1:11:41
  I don't know. You're the expert some.
• 1:11:44
  Some ocean. So they're just land.
• 1:11:47
  In the ocean, Yep, like they have this, that little capsule
• 1:11:52
  that has like the parachutes attached.
• 1:11:53
  To it and they just land in the ocean.
• 1:11:57
  I don't. Know clearly I don't know enough
• 1:11:59
  about it. We'll splash.
• 1:12:02
  Down the Pacific Ocean, off. The coast of San Diego on Friday
• 1:12:07
  at approximately 8 O 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.
• 1:12:12
  So five O 7 local time. Is that how they always land?
• 1:12:15
  Yeah. They're like in this little.
• 1:12:17
  Capsule and like these the the parachutes slow it up and just
• 1:12:21
  splashes into the ocean and it floats and then it floats.
• 1:12:25
  Yeah, it's in the movie, but I've seen it a couple other
• 1:12:27
  times and it just floats and then the the Coast Guard goes
• 1:12:32
  out and picks them up. Did you ever want to be
• 1:12:35
  astronaut? No, I went to I.
• 1:12:38
  Did that mission space? In Disney World at Epcot once
• 1:12:41
  when I was a little bit younger and I wanted to barf as soon as
• 1:12:44
  I got off. So I knew that that was probably
• 1:12:46
  about the time that I was not going to be an astronaut.
• 1:12:49
  We we went to Huntsville in 4th grade.
• 1:12:52
  I got a big giant. I spent the night.
• 1:12:55
  In space shirt. Yeah.
• 1:12:57
  Never. Never really.
• 1:12:59
  Contemplated being an astronaut. Pretty.
• 1:13:03
  Dang cool though, it would be awesome.
• 1:13:05
  Like can I? Just like.
• 1:13:06
  Float in space without the whole take off and coming back part
• 1:13:09
  just like yeah, I don't I don't think it's possible.
• 1:13:11
  I think they make those simulators the way.
• 1:13:13
  In Huntsville, if you want to do that and feel like with no
• 1:13:15
  ground, just just teleport me to like.
• 1:13:17
  The space station or whatever Artemis is right now.
• 1:13:21
  And then I'll we're back. It takes us a certain level of
• 1:13:24
  courage to get on. That Dang thing, doesn't it?
• 1:13:27
  Yes, yes. Like.
• 1:13:31
  Obviously it's pretty, pretty cool to have that opportunity.
• 1:13:34
  And that's something they've been looking forward to probably
• 1:13:36
  their entire careers. But still, even when you get to
• 1:13:39
  that moment, just the anxiety. That you've got to feel when
• 1:13:43
  you're in. That rocket and it's getting
• 1:13:44
  ready to take off. Oh.
• 1:13:48
  Extreme anxiety and then like. Just to know the 10 next 10.
• 1:13:51
  Days it is you're, you're up there, you're up there and you
• 1:13:58
  got to sleep with no gravity and you got to take care of your
• 1:14:00
  business with no gravity and the whole thing's just kind of.
• 1:14:04
  It's wild to think about. Have you been watching much
• 1:14:06
  baseball yet? Yeah, been watching the Reds
• 1:14:10
  almost. Nightly, they're down. 7 to 4
• 1:14:12
  right now in the bottom of the seventh is Brady Singer did not
• 1:14:15
  have his best stuff tonight, but they're the worst offense in the
• 1:14:18
  majors. They have scored the fewest
• 1:14:20
  runs, but their pitching has been absolutely great and that's
• 1:14:23
  why they're off to an 8 and three start and they had a
• 1:14:25
  comeback win last night, had a comeback win.
• 1:14:27
  Last night with down. Two in the bottom of the ninth
• 1:14:30
  and thanks to a wild pitch, got its extra innings and put up a
• 1:14:34
  couple of extras, but Reds are off to a great start.
• 1:14:36
  Eight and three. Best start since 2011, maybe
• 1:14:40
  2010. 2011. Yeah, been watching.
• 1:14:44
  Watching the Reds nightly and I. Saw your Braves get into a
• 1:14:47
  little fight last night. Yeah, Ronaldo Lopez left a
• 1:14:51
  little 1A little high and. Tight really wasn't that close
• 1:14:53
  to him. Yeah, it was right after school.
• 1:14:55
  Larry. Well, Larry took him.
• 1:14:56
  Deep earlier in the game, though, took him deep, but it
• 1:14:59
  really it wasn't. He wasn't throwing at him.
• 1:15:01
  It wasn't even that that close to be throwing at him, but
• 1:15:05
  Former Brave, former World Series MVP for the Braves.
• 1:15:08
  He's had two stints with the Braves, but they they.
• 1:15:12
  Threw down on the. Play yeah why did it take him so
• 1:15:16
  long if he's. Going to charge them why did it
• 1:15:18
  take him so long were they just chirping at each other for a
• 1:15:20
  while Yeah they he they I think somebody stole and.
• 1:15:23
  They threw down on the play and they don't even have the cameras
• 1:15:27
  on either Solair or Lopez. And all of a sudden you hear the
• 1:15:30
  the announcer go start screaming.
• 1:15:32
  Oh, they're they're going at it. And yeah, they just tried to
• 1:15:36
  chirp in a little bit. And then Lopez said something.
• 1:15:41
  Lopez got him a good. Yeah, and then Solaire charged
• 1:15:45
  the mound and. Dude, he was throwing some
• 1:15:47
  haymakers, so Lopez was kind of backpedaling, but dude never
• 1:15:51
  took the baseball out of his hand.
• 1:15:53
  Did it swing with the baseball in his hand?
• 1:15:55
  He did, and he connected. He got a nice little.
• 1:15:58
  Piece of Solaire and then Walt Weiss.
• 1:16:02
  The manager comes in and just body Spears Jorge Solaire to the
• 1:16:07
  ground, gets him up, calms him down, and basically ends the
• 1:16:11
  whole thing by himself. Well, Weiss, you think?
• 1:16:15
  Walt Weiss has a career in the. WWE I they say he works out.
• 1:16:20
  More than any other manager. But dude, I mean, he just took
• 1:16:24
  it was a football tackle, like shoulder.
• 1:16:28
  Tackle didn't use his. Neck didn't use his.
• 1:16:30
  Head so no targeting, no targeting on the play a nice.
• 1:16:34
  Fundamental wrap up, so Larry and Lopez both.
• 1:16:38
  Got 7 game suspensions today. Why are you like, give Solaire
• 1:16:43
  the seven games? He's the.
• 1:16:44
  One that charged the mount. But why you giving Lopez 7?
• 1:16:46
  Give him Oh he also is a pitcher so he misses what one start?
• 1:16:49
  It really doesn't affect him as much.
• 1:16:53
  But also like, what is he supposed to do when he gets
• 1:16:58
  charged? That's what I'm saying.
• 1:16:59
  Like why? Why is he getting the same
• 1:17:00
  punishment as Solaire? Who?
• 1:17:02
  Charged the mount and started this to me.
• 1:17:05
  He was chirping a little bit too.
• 1:17:06
  And you? Kind of instigate it that way
• 1:17:08
  maybe, but maybe we don't have a camera to to tell us that.
• 1:17:11
  He was turbing on him. We're too, you know, there is,
• 1:17:14
  there is cameras. You can see him talking.
• 1:17:17
  Yeah, he was talking and not. At first, but.
• 1:17:19
  I think Solaire was kind of staring him down and talking and
• 1:17:22
  then Lopez talked back and and that was it.
• 1:17:26
  I don't, I don't have anything else.
• 1:17:28
  No, nothing for me. Nobody.
• 1:17:30
  Nobody. 'S putting phones and chicken
• 1:17:31
  coops, no other. We tried to promote that.
• 1:17:33
  No other restaurants have followed suit.
• 1:17:38
  Have you put your phone down more frequently at dinner in the
• 1:17:40
  last week I've. Thought about like I've it's
• 1:17:42
  it's more in my. Consciousness, I will say that
• 1:17:45
  your internal coupe, I'm trying to be better.
• 1:17:48
  I'm trying to be better. Trying to be better.
• 1:17:50
  Is that Brian on Saturday? Is that Brian on Saturday at
• 1:17:54
  the? LNN Federal Credit Union
• 1:17:57
  Stadium. The lots will be open like
• 1:18:00
  normal, right? Five hours before concert time,
• 1:18:03
  so lots will be open at 2:00. Do you know what they'll cost?
• 1:18:06
  50 bucks, 50 per car so. Pile your buddies into.
• 1:18:11
  Your your Chevy or whatever you got over.
• 1:18:14
  There and split the. Cost.
• 1:18:16
  There's no doubt that's a tailgate event.
• 1:18:20
  The weather's going to be nice. Weather's going to be nice in
• 1:18:22
  the. Afternoon.
• 1:18:25
  Behave yourself. And the Louisville Kings on
• 1:18:27
  Friday. Night.
• 1:18:29
  I'll be out there again in my Red Hat.
• 1:18:31
  They are not off to a good stuff.
• 1:18:32
  I'll be out there again in my red.
• 1:18:33
  Hat former. Car Jack plumber coming to town.
• 1:18:37
  Who do they play at? Orlando.
• 1:18:39
  Yeah, I. Think that's where he is?
• 1:18:41
  I will say the the first game was a great crowd, the weather.
• 1:18:43
  'S going to be a lot better on Friday night, so if you didn't
• 1:18:47
  get out there the first time, come check it out.
• 1:18:49
  It was football wasn't great, but I think it'll get better.
• 1:18:52
  I do. I do think it'll improve and the
• 1:18:55
  crowd was awesome. The let's go.
• 1:18:56
  Kings chant when they took the lead in.
• 1:18:57
  The fourth quarter was pretty cool.
• 1:19:00
  That's nice. That's nice.
• 1:19:01
  Hope this this is it's a. Successful adventure.
• 1:19:04
  I do too. I I think it'd be good for the
• 1:19:05
  city. But before we get off your
• 1:19:10
  reminder, subscribe to the height differential however you
• 1:19:12
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• 1:19:19
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• 1:19:22
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• 1:19:26
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• 1:19:28
  at height differential but. I think that's about it for this
• 1:19:33
  one. Just.
• 1:19:34
  Still a little sad that the tournament's over.
• 1:19:36
  I'm glad I watched. 1 shining moment so it kind of wraps the
• 1:19:38
  ball on it. I'm sorry you didn't experience
• 1:19:40
  that. Sorry you don't care about that
• 1:19:42
  honestly. You know what I am looking
• 1:19:43
  forward to what you ever. Watched the the dude that does
• 1:19:47
  the. Masters.
• 1:19:48
  Recaps the rap that's coming up tomorrow, tomorrow and Friday.
• 1:19:54
  I look forward to that guy. That yes.
• 1:19:57
  Chris Vernon. I think is, yeah.
• 1:20:00
  What's What's his Tiger Woods? Chant.
• 1:20:03
  Where's he goes? Where's?
• 1:20:05
  Tiger or something, I don't know.
• 1:20:07
  Yeah, Tony Fee now where he be? Now where he be now and then the
• 1:20:10
  guy's like 2. Over and he's like the the one
• 1:20:16
  thing that sucks about it is the show's only weekdays so you
• 1:20:20
  don't get a continuation over Sunday, Saturday and Sunday.
• 1:20:24
  Like that is with the momentum that he has with that, he should
• 1:20:29
  do it stand alone without it actually being a part of his
• 1:20:31
  radio show. It's Chris Vernon.
• 1:20:33
  I just remembered his name off the top of my head.
• 1:20:35
  It's he doesn't show out of Memphis.
• 1:20:37
  I'm glad you listened to me because I said his name 10
• 1:20:39
  seconds ago. Well, your audio has been kind
• 1:20:42
  of going. In and out throughout the entire
• 1:20:44
  show, so hopefully this show listens.
• 1:20:47
  It sounds OK, but for the six? Six deal on the four. 10 Nick,
• 1:20:52
  we will likely talk to you next week on Monday night.
• 1:20:57
  It'll hit your podcast on Tuesday morning.
• 1:21:01
  We'll see you then. Give it to me.
• 1:21:09
  Your audio was terrible. Well, not on my normal computer.
• 1:21:13
  My. More computers at work.
• 1:21:14
  I can tell because it was there was some.
• 1:21:17
  Dead moments, We'll see what it sounds like.
• 1:21:19
  There was just sometimes where your audio cut out completely,
• 1:21:22
  where you went mute. So that's why I didn't hear you
• 1:21:24
  say Chris Vernon, Tony Fee. Now where he being at?
• 1:21:30
  It just did it right there. That's stupid.