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March Madness Final Four Preview + Predictions · Height Differential

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  Give it to me. You ready?
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  I'll be. We're ready bro.
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  Let's do it. And then there were four and
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  we're here to talk about it. It is the height differential.
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  That's the 66. Neil.
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  I am the 410. Nick, before we get in, quick
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  It's hard to believe we're already 68 down to four and it's
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  a pretty good 4. It goes by so quickly.
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  The got 64 teams and then a week later, week, what, a week, week
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  and two days later we're down to 4.
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  Well, I mean, a week later you're down to 16.
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  I know it. It does go very quickly.
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  A lot of games, a lot of ball watching a.
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  Lot of ball watching. And Thursday and Friday there
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  were the Purdue game with with Trey Kaufman's tip in at the
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  buzzer was was a really good game.
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  Houston, seeing them getting beat it at home would didn't
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  really play well and Illinois took advantage of that.
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  Yeah, they couldn't shoot for anything in that game.
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  The St. John's Duke game, which I didn't
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  get to watch a ton of because I was working the Louisville Kings
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  game, but they led most of the way.
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  And and then Duke kind of got in a groove late and pulled away
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  and St. John's had a chance to tie it at
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  the buzzer. And Darling, who had saved the
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  day in the win against Kansas, his shot did not, wasn't even
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  close, No. Air ball.
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  Barely bare. Did a graze.
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  Iron. Barely grazed iron.
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  Maybe. And what else was the highlights
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  of Thursday and Friday I. Mean your your Iowa State team
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  that you thought was so great got beat by 14 to Tennessee and.
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  Didn't show look terrible look terrible couldn't make free
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  throws down the stretch. You're you're missing like the
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  loss of of Jefferson is, is is going to look like it caught up
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  with them a little bit, but. But the surprise team in the
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  tournament? Probably the Iowa Hawkeyes
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  getting a victory on Thursday night over Nebraska and making
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  that Elite 8 appearance. Yeah, trailed most of the game
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  against Nebraska and then all of a sudden in the final minutes
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  they just roll, get up by 8-9 and cruise to victory.
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  Nebraska throws 4 guys out there and they go football pass over
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  the four, over the four defenders for an easy score.
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  How do you? Look at it, we've talked about
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  it then McCullum just doesn't lose in the tournaments until
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  they finally did. Against but if you're if you're
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  Fred Hoiberg, how which it's inexcusable to have four guys
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  out there down 3 under a minute left to play and you send four
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  guys out there. It's inexcusable on all parts.
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  It's inexcusable on the coaching staff, It's inexcusable on the
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  referees. It's why is it inexcusable?
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  Why is it inexcusable on the referees?
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  You can play with less than five, you can play with less
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  than 5, but they don't have the you can play with less than
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  five. They don't have to tell you.
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  They don't have to tell you. I think if they would have
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  noticed it, I think they would have told them.
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  I don't. I don't think they did notice
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  it, but it's it's on the coaching staff.
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  It's on the coaching staff and it's and that late of a
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  situation and you I've never seen I've seen people around six
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  out there. I I've never seen people run run
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  four out there, especially in a NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game
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  where? The game is on one.
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  It's just not like it happened in the first half, Nick.
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  This was down three with under a minute like the most crucial
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  time in the game. I, I, that's, it's, it's, it's
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  something that I can't believe it.
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  I would be furious if I was a Nebraska fan.
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  Yeah, you would, but you also just got your first two wins in
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  NCAA Tournament history, so might be a little a little
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  excited about that. But you had an opportunity to
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  play 19 to get to the lead 8 and you didn't take advantage of it.
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  Yeah. The St.
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  John's lost to Duke really screwed my bracket up.
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  I needed that one. I was keeping up with the score.
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  So all they were up 10. I was like all right, let's go
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  and end up do rallying to victory and that they my bracket
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  was so good in the first and second round what 9596
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  percentile and then Sweet 16 elite 8.
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  I got the prices right. I got the prices right you your
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  bid is over sound as pretty much and everything we talked about
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  on the show I think was wrong too.
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  We talked at least me from what I remember talking about we got
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  we got a lot of things wrong. I didn't think any way that I
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  would say would lose the Tennessee.
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  We usually get a lot of things wrong.
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  I took, I took a shot on Saint John's beaten Duke and they
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  clearly could have done it. Had a chance.
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  Just yeah, this what a very good week for me picking games after
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  having a pretty good week in in the 1st and 2nd.
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  Round. But when we did our draft, our
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  top five draft or five round draft, we what what if I'm
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  correct, we both have two final four teams.
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  We do. All four of the Final Four teams
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  were in our ten team draft. The highest pick team was
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  Michigan. I picked them at 2:00, then you
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  picked UConn and Arizona at 4:00 and 5:00, and then I picked
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  Illinois at 7:00. We both got.
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  And the hilarious part is going. To win the title.
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  The hilarious part is you drafted Michigan.
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  What was pick was Michigan for you and you picked Arizona to
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  win the national title, which you could have had them in the
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  draft if you want. Right, but did we both flipped?
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  We flipped. So in my bracket, I picked
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  Arizona to win it all. They are not on my team.
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  And you picked Michigan to win it all and they're they're not
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  on your team. I don't know nobody.
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  Nobody. All I know is that Final Four,
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  and we'll get into it, but that Final four-game Michigan,
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  Arizona on Saturday is going to be.
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  It it's going to be classic, but I, I think the, the game that we
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  really need to get into to kind of start is the last one
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  yesterday, Duke Yukon. I this is another one I picked
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  wrong. I the way Yukon had been playing
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  the last couple of weeks into the regular season and, you
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  know, kind of dealing with some injuries in the first two games
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  with Silas Demery. I, I didn't think they really
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  had a chance against Duke and the first, what, 35 minutes,
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  3035 minutes? It was all Duke.
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  It was all Duke and after, you know, the games on Saturday,
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  they were close in the first half.
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  I will let a lot of a lot of the way in the first half, but going
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  to end. Purdue did as well.
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  But the second-half, especially the Purdue game, Arizona took
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  control late in the in the Illinois, Iowa game, Illinois
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  took control. And then just to blow out with
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  Michigan, like you're thinking, I just want to see a close game
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  going down the stretch. And it surely did not look like
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  this was going to happen in in Duke, Yukon.
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  Duke was up 19 in the first half.
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  They were up 17 with 17 minutes to go.
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  They were up 14 with less than 12 minutes to go.
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  And then they were up 9 with 5 minutes to go.
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  Up 9 with 5 minutes. So the lead is dwindling, it's
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  dwindling, but it's not dwindling at a fast rate.
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  Yukon 1 of 18 from 3 to start the game and you get under 2 and
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  Michigan or Duke still has a 5 point lead after and Goomba
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  makes one of two free throws and Caravan, who hadn't made a three
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  comes down, misses ball, gets an offensive board, sends him to
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  the line on a foul and he makes 1:00 and 2:00.
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  And you're like, they're really not going to get in this game if
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  they don't start making both free throws.
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  Correct. And then Cam Boozer turns it
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  over. He was handling the ball coming
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  off the screen at the top of the key, turns it over, which kind
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  of opens the gate and Caravan comes down and off the screen,
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  hits a three to trim it to 1. And now like it's here.
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  And then Cam Boozer had just turned it over calmly, as calm
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  as possible, gets into the lane and just easily flips it in for
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  two to extend the lead back to three.
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  And Cam Boozer's a guy who has won at every single level.
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  How many times have we heard it? He never loses.
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  He wins championships everywhere he goes.
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  And you're you're just like, yeah, he turned the ball over
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  there. But he's going to figure out a
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  way to win this game. And UConn calls time out now.
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  There's 26 seconds to go after the Cam Boozer bucket and Demery
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  on a switch gets Boozer on him with on the wing, draws A foul
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  and once again only hits one to two.
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  That's who. So now it's a 2 point game with
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  10 seconds to go. They do not call timeout.
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  They inbound the ball. Boozer gets it, forget who
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  touches it second, but he eventually gets it to to Kaden
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  Boozer who tries to flip it over the defense.
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  All it has to do. I mean once he passed the ball,
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  if it just clears on the game, if he just holds it and dribbled
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  like waits until they foul him, the game is pretty much pretty
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  much over. But instead they turn it over.
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  Caravan gets the ball. Like how cool, calm and
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  collected were they with the clock running down?
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  Like Caravan gets the ball, finds Mullins for a 35 footer
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  and it just looked like that thing was.
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  Thing didn't even touch the. Eye just as it left his hands.
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  Everybody goes. Straight swish like you could
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  hear the sound of the swish on the TV.
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  It was pure, but if you're Duke 10 seconds after the game, you
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  don't even have to cross half court like you don't like you
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  just hold on to the ball. They did a good job getting it
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  inbounds, passing it back to the inbound who then found Caden
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  Boozer in the middle of the floor.
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  Like they they did everything exactly that they needed to the
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  1st 5 seconds there and you don't need to risk.
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  I know the two guys were wide open the other end of the court.
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  You don't don't need to risk it. Just hold on the ball.
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  But John Shaw, if you look at John Shaw on the sidelines, he's
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  pointing to the other end basically telling his guy
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  they're open, throw it to him. He tried it, it got deflected.
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  I mean, even maybe even just try ball fake or something.
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  I don't know anything than what you did.
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  Everything's running a million. The smart.
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  Player the smart play and it's easy to say this now, but the
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  smart play is just to hold on to the ball.
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  Just hold on, especially, especially.
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  Once it got to Kaden Boozer. I mean, and who do we know who
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  had the arrow? So like, even if they were to
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  tie you up, like even if you just held on to the ball and
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  they tried to foul you and the ref calls a tie up And if Duke
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  had the possession, like, do you just hold the ball, man?
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  Just hold the ball and you're going to the final four.
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  Well, and they look, they're not going to get a tie up there
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  anyways. They're they're going to like
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  just a foul, put you at the line.
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  Probably will call a foul, but in case they don't.
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  Just a foul put you at the line, you make 2, the game's over, you
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  make 3. You make one, you make 1.
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  It's a 3 point game. Well, if you make one, you can't
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  lose, right? And unless we start doing this
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  foul stuff where you walk them down and we bring all that to an
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  equation, which we got into that plenty last week.
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  But it's just before that moment I talked about Yukon being one
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  of eighteen from three. Before Caravan hit history he
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  was over 5 and before Mullins hit history he was over 4.
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  Yeah. So those two guy, they finished
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  after starting one for 18. They finished five of 23.
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  So they were four for their last five from three.
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  But there's just so many ways that Duke can just do one thing
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  and you can't lose. You can't lose.
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  And just when you saw that ball get tipped, you're just like,
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  oh, wow, this, this could really happen.
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  And. And then he pulls 1 from 50
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  feet, almost like 3535, whatever, you know what I mean.
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  Exactly. What, 35 foot And it's not even
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  a heave. Like it's a, it's a, it's a
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  shot. Yeah.
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  Oh, I would say he shoots that shot.
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  He probably makes it 30% of the time, maybe a little higher than
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  that. I'd say maybe a little lower
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  than that. That's deep.
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  Maybe a little. I'd say 2.
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  I'd say 2 it. Ain't like these kids don't
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  practice that all the time. I mean, they practice up like
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  half court shots and heaves, but I like for, I don't know, maybe
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  maybe 30% of the time. I mean, there was no like there
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  was no contest on that shot. I mean, he was, he had
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  Clearview. Nope, no, no hand in his face or
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  anything like that. So maybe he does make it 30% of
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  the. Time and look that's and I give
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  Alex caravan a lot of credit for just being so calm in that
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  situation. He easily could have talked,
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  took that shot where he was being defended a little closer
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  and it's dead. He looked to his left and found
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  Mullins and the rest is history. But dude, have you?
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  And then they this video comes out of John Shire before the
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  game where he's showing his team the way that the Chicago Bulls
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  handle. And in the game situation where
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  they're up to and basically Trey Jones of the Bulls is kind of
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  falling out of bounds with the clock winding.
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  And he just takes it and throws it straight up in the air and
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  just lets the clock in. I remember when I was a kid,
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  Magic Johnson doing something like that where he just kind of
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  flipped it and just let the clock run out while the ball's
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  flying through the air. So the ironic thing is they had
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  just talked about in the game situations and things you can do
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  if Kadem Boozer just takes that ball and just throws it straight
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  up in the air towards the other end.
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  Would have been enough time for Yukon to grab it and shoot it.
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  There was over 5 seconds. There was over 5 seconds when he
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  turned it. Over there was nobody down
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  there. Down where?
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  At the other end it was it was just dude, guys.
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  I mean, he tried to throw it down there.
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  I mean, I'm just. Saying if you just throw it
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  straight up there, you're not even trying to get it to your
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  guys. No, correct.
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  If you just throw it straight up in the air, it's going to come
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  down probably with about two seconds left.
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  So Yukon would still theoretically have a chance at
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  it, but. I mean, dude, you look at these
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  numbers, Caravan finished with five points, five points, 3
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  rebounds to three assists was like I said, he's one of six
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  from three. Harris Reid was their was their
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  entire team at 26 points and 9 rebounds.
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  Like they just did not shoot the ball well and just I don't know
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  what it is. This UConn team, what they're 18
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  and O 6 Sweet 16 and beyond since 2011, meaning every single
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  time they've made it to the Sweet 16 since 2011, they have
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  won a national title. And which is what in that game?
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  44 titles. Four titles and to win three
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  different coaches, it's just, it's all insanity.
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  It's insane. But to figure out a way to win
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  that game, I, I don't even understand it, but you, you
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  didn't play your best game. You had one player really showed
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  up. And then all of a sudden at the
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  end of game situations, you make everything you put up.
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  Except your free throws. It's.
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  All the free throws. Would you call this more of
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  Yukon came in and won it or more of Duke choked it?
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  Duke opened the door, but Yukon won it.
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  I mean, get this So and Duke's last four losses, right,
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  including last night. Last night they led by 19.
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  The Carolina game they lost earlier this year, they led by
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  13. The Texas Tech game they lost
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  earlier this year, they led by 17.
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  And then the final four last year against Houston led by 14.
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  There's a, there's a pattern going on here.
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  Their last four losses and you're leading by that much in
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  every game. I mean, well, fires got to fix
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  it. You got to fix it.
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  And he, we've given him a lot of credit on this show.
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  At at some point, when you've got the talent that you're
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  putting together, you got to find a way to finish it.
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  And when you're up 17 in the second-half, you should be able
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  to finish that game. I don't care who you're playing.
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  And it's not like UConn shot the hell out of it to get back in
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  the game. They didn't just start raining
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  threes to get back in the game, it was a slow casual grind where
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  they just were chipping away. Got.
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  Some stops and yeah. And I think it dates back even
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  farther than that with with Shire's teams and, and Duke in
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  the, in the tournament blowing leads.
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  I don't remember off the top of my head who they lost to the
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  year before they lost to to Houston in the final four.
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  But I, if memory serves, I, I think it was another kind of
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  blown lead in the, in the same situation.
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  But I don't know, like, well, how are Duke fans reacting to
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  this? Because you know how the rest of
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  the country is, they're elated that that Duke lost and lost in
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  this manner. Are are Duke fans getting
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  getting tired of their team blowing these leads and figuring
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  out ways the games, figuring out ways to lose games they
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  shouldn't be losing? I mean, I feel like they are.
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  I mean, it they're, I don't, I mean, I don't think it's maybe
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  they do criticize Shire because of the, because of the trend
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  that's going on, But obviously he's a good coach.
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  They they get the talent there. They win a bunch of games or the
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  number one overall seed. They have a great season.
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  They're back-to-back ACC regular season and tournament champions.
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  So they're on the right path. But man, it's just like when the
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  pressure is there, they just for some reason they fold.
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  Well, at some point it becomes a trend.
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  I mean, it's, it's getting that way.
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  Yeah. I'm trying to wake up the year
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  before. I'll do.
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  Yeah, keep looking that up, but it happened several times this
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  year. It happened last year when they
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  needed it most and they they've only been to one final four in
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  shires 4 years. Do you find it?
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  Yeah, it was the final four. I was to go to the final.
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  Was it the regional? Regional final?
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  Sorry. Elite 8, the magical run of the
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  NC State Wolfpack. They lost June twice.
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  Didn't they? They beat Duke 7664 in the Elite
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  8. And yeah, I mean, Duke lost him
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  that in that ACC tournament. But yeah, 7664.
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  So as a four seed, Duke makes the run to the Elite 8.
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  All they have to do is beat the 11th seed NC State.
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  But the magic that was NC State that year carried him to the
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  Final Four. Dude, and you talk about trends,
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  look at the trend the other way. Another team, once they get to
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  the Sweet 16, they never lose. Yeah.
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  They never lose. Yeah. 18 and O in Sweet 16 and
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  beyond is just an asinine number.
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  It's ridiculous. And I looked at it, Yukons plus
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  6:50 to win the whole thing. And do I think they have the
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  best team with these four? Absolutely not.
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  Do they think they have the talent to where they can match
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  up and win? Yeah.
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  I mean. When you've got that, I think
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  there is. I'm mad at myself.
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  I'm mad at myself for not thinking about that when doing
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  my bracket. Well, they lost the Marquette at
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  the end of the year, Nick. Like let's, let's be real.
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  Well, I also watched them get rolled by they got.
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  Rolled by St. John's, they got rolled by St.
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  John's again, they've lost, you know, like.
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  They also rolled St. John's once they.
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  They did once, yeah. But I mean, they, they struggled
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  a little bit at the end of the year.
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  And I mean, when we talked about we had that debate of who the
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  last #1 seed was going to be. We're talking about Florida and
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  Yukon. And this was, you know, mid
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  February and I was all in on Yukon and they go out and they
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  start losing games. I was like, and that was a bad
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  pick. But here they sit again.
• 20:29
  I I mean, it's Danny Harley, man.
• 20:32
  Give him give him some credit. He's.
• 20:34
  Dudes all. He's a cycle.
• 20:36
  He's a cycle. The man's jacket is halfway off
• 20:40
  his arm. He's head like, he's not head
• 20:43
  button. He's like leaning his head up
• 20:45
  against the official. Wasn't it Roger?
• 20:47
  Was that Roger Ayers? I I think it it might have.
• 20:50
  Been it looked like Roger he's got, yeah, he's forehead to
• 20:53
  forehead. He's not even saying anything to
• 20:55
  Roger Ayers. He's just putting his forehead
• 20:57
  on his forehead, like what is going on?
• 21:00
  Just from, I mean, from talking to people that in the industry
• 21:04
  that knows like the SI DS, the sports information directors
• 21:07
  that's worked with him, just you, you think he's a maniac on
• 21:11
  the court. Working with him as a sports
• 21:14
  information director, another level of, of maniac.
• 21:17
  The dude, he's got one good quality.
• 21:19
  Well, he's got a lot of good qualities because he's a Bengals
• 21:23
  fan. Yeah, he's one of us.
• 21:25
  Yeah, and became a Bengals fan just because he liked the
• 21:28
  uniforms when he was a kid when they played in the freezer bowl.
• 21:31
  I respect that. I respect that.
• 21:33
  Just continued as Bengal Phantom.
• 21:35
  We saw him be the ruler of the jungle, one of the season
• 21:38
  openers after they had won their second national title.
• 21:41
  Yeah, but one other thing I don't know.
• 21:44
  Did you see or hear the Duke radio team call of the last
• 21:51
  play? Is this when?
• 21:52
  Wait, is this when they wanted a technical foul?
• 21:54
  Yes, yeah, yeah. First off, they're doing the
• 21:57
  call and it gets out the inbounds, the ball.
• 22:00
  Caden Boozers got it. Oh, it's tipped it.
• 22:03
  It goes in. Oh, Malachi, Malachi Smith is on
• 22:08
  the court. That should be a technical.
• 22:10
  That should be a technical. Hey, let me tell you, Malachi
• 22:14
  Smith was on the court because he was one of the five plant
• 22:16
  defense. But also, the officials blew the
• 22:20
  whistle as soon as the ball went in because they were going to go
• 22:22
  check the time. So the whistle was blown.
• 22:24
  All of 13 guys on that bench could be on the court and
• 22:27
  there's not going to be a technical foul.
• 22:28
  Like, come on, dude. I mean, I get it Like you're
• 22:31
  you're. Distraught you?
• 22:32
  I don't get it. That is so weak.
• 22:34
  No, like you're shocked. So weak.
• 22:36
  No, you're shocked and you're distraught.
• 22:37
  You're just grasping at anything that you can do to get your
• 22:40
  talk. Talk yourself into thinking that
• 22:42
  what just happened didn't happen.
• 22:44
  Stop it if you flip that and. Like it's dumb and then but I,
• 22:53
  I, I he's just trying to think of anything he can to somehow
• 22:57
  his team can still win the game and even though they got it.
• 23:00
  It's. Lame.
• 23:01
  It's lame. It is lame.
• 23:04
  And the dude's on the court like you're trying to get a dude
• 23:06
  popped for playing defense and being on the court.
• 23:11
  Moron it is. It was the 6th game-winning shot
• 23:19
  in the final second of Elite Eight.
• 23:22
  The first one was Bob Heaton of Indiana State against Arkansas.
• 23:26
  I guess that's with Larry Bird's team.
• 23:27
  I've never heard of Bob Heaton, but he did that in 79.
• 23:32
  The other five have all been since 1990.
• 23:35
  Well, we all know Leitner. And I'll go ahead and give you
• 23:39
  this. Leitner did it twice.
• 23:41
  He did it in the most famous one ever in the history against UK
• 23:44
  in 1992. He also did it against UConn in
• 23:47
  1990. And then obviously Braylon
• 23:50
  Mullins yesterday. Do you know who the other?
• 23:52
  Mills did Cameron Mills have one somewhere along the line for
• 23:55
  Kentucky right now? It.
• 23:56
  Wasn't a game winner. The Himmons got Padgett a bunch
• 23:58
  of big threes in the comeback against Duke in 1998.
• 24:02
  Remember Patrick Sparks had the one to send it to overtime in
• 24:04
  the Elite 8. That's.
• 24:05
  That was against Michigan State. Yeah, Michigan State No 5.
• 24:09
  One of them was against Kentucky.
• 24:12
  Oh, Matt. Matt.
• 24:14
  Matt with from UNC in in 2017, and then Scotty Reynolds did it
• 24:20
  for Villanova in in 2009. Oh, and we were talking like,
• 24:26
  where does this rank on some of the biggest, best buzzer beaters
• 24:30
  in the history of the NCAA Tournament?
• 24:33
  Just from everything that led up to it, And it's beating Duke.
• 24:37
  Like, I know Carl, we're on a text thread today and he's
• 24:39
  saying it ranked 17th all time in the NCAA Tournament history.
• 24:43
  That's an absolutely ludicrous number.
• 24:45
  Carl's an idiot. We all know this.
• 24:46
  It's Carl. He just says a lot of dumb
• 24:49
  stuff. It doesn't like Lightner.
• 24:52
  Shot will always be #1 it will always be #1 I don't.
• 24:56
  Think so, man. There's no, there's no way that
• 24:59
  you can that you can put any other shot above Chris Jenkins
• 25:04
  and the Villanova game, national championship game winner.
• 25:07
  It won them an actual title. Well if you miss it, you're
• 25:11
  going to overtime. It's not the make it or lose
• 25:14
  situation. What are you talking about?
• 25:16
  Yes, it is. It won a national championship.
• 25:21
  It won the championship. What?
• 25:24
  I was like Jay Wright. 'S game.
• 25:26
  It won the championship. Jay Wright's reaction to that
• 25:29
  one? It might be the coolest reaction
• 25:32
  in the history of sports. You look like.
• 25:35
  He just watches it go in, don't even smile, just starts walking
• 25:40
  to shake hands. No, it's up there.
• 25:43
  It's up there, number one. It is by far the number one
• 25:46
  Buzzard beater shot in NCAA Tournament history.
• 25:49
  It's the only one I probably that I can remember and I'm
• 25:52
  pretty sure it's the only one that is actually won a title.
• 25:56
  What do you mean it's the only one you can remember?
• 25:58
  That says won a title. It probably is the only one that
• 26:01
  is actually won a title. Well, Jordans won a title, but
• 26:04
  it wasn't at the buzzer. This was straight at the buzzer.
• 26:10
  Keith Smart's Was that at the buzzer?
• 26:13
  That was close. Yeah, that was, that was close.
• 26:16
  And that was the window title. Yeah.
• 26:21
  Yeah, some other ones like the tie said he shot always stands
• 26:24
  out and that what that was a second round game against
• 26:26
  Missouri, but they eventually won the title where he went the
• 26:29
  length of the court in in like 2 something.
• 26:31
  Yeah, was will always stand out. The Bryce Drew, I mean, that was
• 26:35
  the first Bryce Drew where they dive on the floor on that
• 26:38
  perfectly executed play that was that was cool.
• 26:41
  The Bryce Drew shot Jalen. And that was it was NOPA.
• 26:44
  Jalen Sugg shot for Gonzaga. That was final four, yeah.
• 26:48
  The code with final four, yeah. So I I think this is top five.
• 26:55
  I would put I'm, I'm, I'm OK with putting it in the top five.
• 26:59
  I yeah, I think it's top five. And like, just like if you're
• 27:04
  you're an 18 year old kid, like Braylon Mullins, like you're an
• 27:07
  18 year old kid and you just hit a top five shot in in city
• 27:10
  tournament history, Like the kind of stuff like he's from
• 27:13
  Indiana. And like, you know, Indiana
• 27:15
  prides himself on being a basketball state.
• 27:18
  You know, you picture like Larry the Larry Birds the world with
• 27:21
  their baskets on the barn doors and stuff out on the farm.
• 27:24
  And you know, like you practice these moments.
• 27:26
  You count down in your head, you know, 321 and you shoot that
• 27:30
  shot in your backyard pretending like you're in the NCAA
• 27:33
  tournament and this kid just lives it out in his first year.
• 27:36
  Yeah, yeah. No, it's.
• 27:40
  And then what there's a picture of.
• 27:43
  Everybody reacted to it. What It's got Bill Murray's in
• 27:47
  the picture, the whole Hurley family, His.
• 27:52
  Mom dropping some F bomb her. Reaction to the shot going in
• 27:58
  like this is when what looked like it was kind of be really
• 28:03
  just four games that weren't that great, especially after
• 28:06
  watching that beat down of Michigan on Tennessee and you're
• 28:10
  just kind of dejected like this is kind of been a let down and
• 28:14
  then all of a sudden that becomes a game and it becomes
• 28:16
  one of the most iconic games and that we've seen in a long time
• 28:19
  in in in the NCAA tournament. And Dan Hurley and UConn just
• 28:25
  figure out a way to do it again the the three games in the East
• 28:29
  regional, we talked about how loaded this could be a final
• 28:33
  four in itself. Duke wins by 5 against Saint
• 28:36
  John's. UConn wins by three against
• 28:38
  Michigan State and then Dukonn wins by one over oh.
• 28:42
  UConn wins by one over Duke. It's the only region ever to
• 28:47
  have three games, decide about five points or fewer, and then
• 28:52
  have a game-winning shot at the last second to to decide who who
• 28:55
  goes on to the. Final, I mean, it lived up to
• 28:57
  the hype. There's no doubt the East Region
• 28:59
  lived up to the hype that we all expected it to and that we
• 29:02
  thought it could. And yeah, it's, I mean, the
• 29:07
  quality of teams and coaches battling it out.
• 29:09
  It was it was a lot of fun to watch.
• 29:12
  But I mean, I know we both think Michigan and Arizona is going to
• 29:16
  win the whole thing. Like you got Michigan, I got
• 29:18
  Arizona, who's like at this point I was you got ever going
• 29:25
  to lose once they get to this level again.
• 29:28
  I think they probably, I think they win.
• 29:31
  I think they win on Saturday over Illinois.
• 29:33
  They'll keep down in Illinois and they keep showing up and
• 29:36
  playing well. But I I got UConn to win on on
• 29:40
  Saturday and obviously I've got Michigan to win on Saturday as
• 29:43
  well. But I mean, I just I don't think
• 29:45
  Uconn's as talented as some of these other as, as the Arizona's
• 29:48
  and Michigan's and of this final four.
• 29:50
  So I think they eventually will run out of of their magic and
• 29:53
  lose in the final. I don't know.
• 29:56
  Every time, every time I'd I feel like I doubt somebody they
• 29:59
  I know I. Know, like I'm serious, I did
• 30:03
  not think UConn had a chance to get Stew.
• 30:05
  Like I thought Saint John's was going to be their tough game.
• 30:07
  Once they figured that out, I was like, all right, they're
• 30:09
  going to cruise to the to the. Well, they were cruising, Nick.
• 30:11
  They were cruising. And then, yeah, I thought I was
• 30:14
  right for 3035 minutes and at that point my bracket was busted
• 30:19
  anyway, so I didn't care. And I I would like to see a
• 30:22
  close game. And we got it.
• 30:26
  We got it. We did not get it in the game
• 30:28
  before. No.
• 30:31
  As Michigan rolls by 33 over Tennessee, it's the was the
• 30:38
  largest win in a regional final since Michigan did it in 1989
• 30:44
  against Virginia. They won by 37 and that team did
• 30:50
  go on to win the national title that beaten PJ Carlissimo's
• 30:53
  Seton Hall Pirates. Looked up that roster.
• 30:57
  I didn't remember a single guy. Like I didn't recognize a single
• 30:59
  guy on that Seton Hall team. That was the year that Glenn
• 31:02
  Rice had 20 plus points in all six games of the tournament.
• 31:05
  He's the only, I think he's the only player to ever do that.
• 31:10
  But Yaxel has now done it in three games was was named the
• 31:13
  Regionals Most Valuable Player. He's so good.
• 31:18
  Yeah, Michigan has now won 11 games by 30 points or more.
• 31:26
  Yeah, I just what? Yeah, and another one for Yaxel.
• 31:29
  He's the first Michigan player to score at least 23 points in 3
• 31:33
  consecutive games since Dejuan Howard did it in four straight
• 31:35
  in 1994. Good on Tennessee, man.
• 31:39
  Three straight Elite Eights was the up and down season for them.
• 31:43
  They figured out how to win three games in a row once they
• 31:45
  got to the tournament. Rick Barnes can coach, but they
• 31:49
  just they were not a match for this this Michigan team from the
• 31:52
  from the tip. Not from the tip.
• 31:56
  I mean it was they were out. What was it like around 1918 or
• 32:01
  somewhere around there and all of a sudden Michigan goes on a
• 32:03
  20 O run like or 21. I think it was a 21-O run from
• 32:07
  that point. They were down.
• 32:08
  Michigan was down one about midway through the first half,
• 32:11
  and then a 21-O run just all but ended it right there.
• 32:15
  And then just cruise the rest of the way.
• 32:17
  Yeah, yeah. This, I mean, we've been talking
• 32:20
  about this since December, January, how Michigan doesn't
• 32:25
  just beat teams, they put them to bed and just continue to
• 32:31
  roll. And, and they're doing this
• 32:33
  without their backup point guard.
• 32:34
  Like I thought missing LJ Cason would be a factor for this team.
• 32:39
  And maybe it still will, but it, it doesn't look like it right
• 32:42
  now. And but like you said, this,
• 32:44
  this game on next Saturday, the, the late 1 is, is going to be
• 32:47
  fun to watch the, the games on Saturday.
• 32:52
  Purdue LED most of the way in in the first half.
• 32:55
  And this is a a game against Arizona where you thought maybe
• 32:59
  Purdue's experience, they could utilize that and maybe pull off
• 33:03
  an upset if people forget who the preseason number one team
• 33:07
  was. Purdue.
• 33:09
  It was predicted. They had the preseason player of
• 33:11
  the year, Braden Smith. They had another All American
• 33:13
  and Trey Kaufman Ren and yeah, I mean, they, they had all the
• 33:17
  hype as they should have. Yeah.
• 33:23
  I mean, they, they were all right.
• 33:24
  I mean they had an up and down season, mostly UPS, but you
• 33:27
  know, finished what, 6 or 7th in the Big 10?
• 33:29
  Mostly UPS. Their end of the regular season
• 33:32
  was. I mean, they finished what, 6
• 33:34
  and six in their last 12 games? Yeah, but I mean, sure.
• 33:37
  But then you run through the Big 10 tournament, you beat
• 33:39
  Michigan, you run through the Big 10 tournament, you win the
• 33:41
  Big 10 tournament, you're a two seed.
• 33:43
  So I mean, it's a good season. It's it's mostly UPS when you're
• 33:46
  a two seed and you win a Big 10 championship.
• 33:49
  Yeah, and, and that core of Fletcher Lawler and and Trey
• 33:52
  Kaufman and Braden Smith, I mean, what a run for for that
• 33:55
  group. 4 NCAA tournaments, 3 Sweet Six teams, 2 Elite Eights
• 33:58
  and a trip to the title game. Their goal, they said at the
• 34:01
  beginning of the year was its win, title or bust.
• 34:05
  And just by the time they got to this point of the season, they
• 34:09
  just weren't at the same level as as Michigan and Arizona, even
• 34:13
  though they beat Michigan in the the Big 10 title game, they
• 34:16
  weren't at that level really they.
• 34:17
  Complained they were playing some of their best ball down the
• 34:20
  stretch. They were.
• 34:21
  It also took a a miracle tip in to get to that game at at the
• 34:25
  buzzer they. Did.
• 34:30
  But yeah, what Arizona went on with a 16 to three run, like we
• 34:34
  just talked about the run that Michigan went on to to kind of
• 34:37
  erase what Purdue was up by 7 points at halftime and they
• 34:40
  changed that to. A 16.
• 34:42
  To a six point lead. Del Orso hit a three,
• 34:46
  Bradenbury's hit another one, Braden Smith turned it over and
• 34:50
  really just down the stretch it it wasn't much of A game.
• 34:53
  They helped Purdue to a second lowest point total of the season
• 34:56
  and produce shot just 38% from the field.
• 34:58
  Cola Pete was was was amazing and was named their regional
• 35:07
  player of the player of the tournament.
• 35:09
  And he joins Conkanople, Zion Williamson and Derrick Rose as
• 35:14
  the only freshman to score 20 plus in the Sweet 16 and Elite 8
• 35:18
  game in the last 25 years. So I mean, dude, just just we've
• 35:24
  talked about all season how many good freshmen there are and
• 35:26
  we're going to see a lot of them in this Final four.
• 35:30
  The other one was Illinois. Iowa was, it was a good game to
• 35:36
  Iowa LED most of the way in in the first half.
• 35:38
  But then Illinois's length really just kind of just wore
• 35:43
  down Iowa. They out rebounded them 38 to 21
• 35:48
  and outscored them 40 to 12 in the paint was really just too
• 35:51
  much much for him. Just yeah, there's Bennett
• 35:57
  starts. It's just they do went from DD2
• 36:01
  from Northwest Missouri State to Drake and and got his team the
• 36:05
  elite 8. That's that in itself, I think,
• 36:07
  is pretty Dang impressive. Yeah, no, he great.
• 36:10
  Story and Ben McCollum dude once he starts getting some dudes
• 36:13
  'cause it was clear that they were out talented and they were
• 36:15
  out talented in the Florida game and figured out a way to win it.
• 36:18
  But they were out talented outsized and eventually Illinois
• 36:24
  was just able to pull away but did and the metrics say that
• 36:30
  they Illinois really has been a top five 617 all year.
• 36:36
  They lost four overtime games from February their own foreign
• 36:40
  in overtime games and made a couple of those flip.
• 36:43
  They easily could have been on the two line and maybe even
• 36:45
  mentioned on as that last #1 So really, and then they lose the
• 36:51
  Wisconsin in the big team tournament, which I think
• 36:52
  brought them down maybe a seed line, but a really a really good
• 36:56
  three seed. Yeah, no, they're, they're very
• 36:59
  good, very good team. So and now we have what, 2 ones,
• 37:05
  A2 and a three. So nobody worse than the four in
• 37:10
  the Final Four. Before these past few years, the
• 37:13
  tournaments the Final four had had at least one team seeded 4
• 37:18
  worst every year dating back to 2010.
• 37:21
  And in the four tournaments after the COVID shutdown, there
• 37:26
  was a team seeded 8th or worse in in all four of those final
• 37:29
  fours. But in the last two it's just.
• 37:34
  We had what we had all. We have all ones last.
• 37:36
  Year last year was all ones and then this year's 2 ones A2 and A
• 37:40
  and a three. So another example of.
• 37:44
  Is Cinderella dead? Is and look, we talked about
• 37:47
  this being a little different, like Cinderella doesn't have to
• 37:49
  get to the final four to be a Cinderella.
• 37:52
  Sometimes you just win one game, you can be a Cinderella, but
• 37:55
  it's another trending factor where you're not seeing these
• 38:00
  high seeds in a tournament after it became pretty commonplace for
• 38:05
  it to happen. So with all the transfer portal
• 38:09
  stuff, we have three guys in the Final Four that have played for
• 38:16
  a competing team in the Final Four.
• 38:18
  Can you name all three of them? Let's see.
• 38:22
  The only team that doesn't have one is Arizona.
• 38:26
  So Arizona does not have anybody on their team that formally
• 38:30
  competed for one of the remaining final.
• 38:35
  The actual came from what, Tulane or something like that?
• 38:38
  UAB and kiddo came from Carolina.
• 38:41
  Yep. It's not easy.
• 38:43
  I don't. Know like there's so much
• 38:44
  movement, I don't know. If I'm going to be able to get
• 38:46
  it. So Morez Johnson, he's a
• 38:51
  sophomore last year. He spent his freshman year at
• 38:53
  Illinois. Terrace Reed senior, Has been at
• 38:59
  UConn the last two years. He spent his first two years at
• 39:01
  Michigan. And Colin Boswell, a senior at
• 39:05
  Illinois, has been there for two years, Spent his first two years
• 39:09
  at at Arizona. That's kind of cool.
• 39:12
  Yeah, I was looking really hard trying to find somebody in
• 39:15
  Arizona that had played for one of these teams, three out of
• 39:19
  four. So I guess getting into
• 39:23
  Saturday, you've already kind of said, do you, you think UConn
• 39:26
  will will beat Illinois or? Yeah, yeah, I'm going to go
• 39:29
  UConn in this one. I don't know, like they, they,
• 39:34
  they, they've been a good team all year.
• 39:35
  And they struggled, like we said toward at the end when they they
• 39:37
  lost the Marquette and lost the St.
• 39:38
  John's twice and and all that. But beginning of the year they
• 39:41
  were they were really, really good.
• 39:44
  They've got the talent. I'm not going against.
• 39:46
  I mean it when it comes to a Final Four.
• 39:49
  I'm taking the experience of a Hurley over the inexperience of
• 39:51
  an Underwood who's not been there before.
• 39:55
  So give me give me UConn in this one.
• 39:58
  In a close game though. Dude, if I just look at numbers
• 40:02
  and the way teams are playing, other than the fact that UConn
• 40:05
  keeps winning, I'm it's, it's Illinois.
• 40:09
  UConn has not shot the ball well.
• 40:11
  They didn't shoot the ball well on Sunday until the final.
• 40:14
  Illinois didn't shoot. But that was that was kind of
• 40:16
  our knock on UConn. They haven't been shooting the
• 40:18
  ball well from perimeter. They start off the Sunday's
• 40:22
  game, shoot 1 of 18, end up hitting what, 4 in the last
• 40:26
  couple of minutes to figure out a way to win.
• 40:28
  Yeah. Illinois is ranks offensively
• 40:33
  second in the country. They don't turn the ball over.
• 40:37
  Well, they shot 18% from three the other day, so yeah.
• 40:40
  They that's why they can, they can do that and still win
• 40:44
  because they don't turn the ball over.
• 40:46
  They get offensive rebounds. They rank third in the country
• 40:49
  and offensive rebounding percentage.
• 40:50
  They don't give the ball the way they give extra shots, which
• 40:52
  allows you when you shoot that poorly from three.
• 40:56
  It makes up for that and that's why they ranked second in the
• 41:00
  country in in offense. They're deep.
• 41:04
  They got it and then Keith Waggler is just the dude is gone
• 41:09
  from being somebody that got recruited by what, 2D1 programs
• 41:14
  3D one programs was ranked in the two hundreds and now he's
• 41:19
  moved his way into being a lottery pick but.
• 41:25
  That's a that's a great story. But despite all this, I'm I
• 41:30
  can't pick against UConn right now.
• 41:31
  They don't lose. They don't lose.
• 41:34
  No matter what, they don't lose and this is going to be their
• 41:39
  jinx and probably be the one they lose because I'm finally on
• 41:42
  board with it. Like who's like if you're 18 and
• 41:44
  oh, who's like, you can't tell me they ain't going to go 19 and
• 41:47
  oh. I mean, I wouldn't bet against.
• 41:51
  You. I appreciate you crunching ice
• 41:53
  in the middle of the pod. It's not even out.
• 41:58
  It's. Not even out loud.
• 42:01
  Would you have some respect for the four or five people that
• 42:03
  listen to this every week? Not even that loud.
• 42:06
  Oh, it's loud. It's not loud.
• 42:09
  Apologize to the people. I will not, I will not.
• 42:14
  It's thirsty. Ken Palm also ranks Illinois is
• 42:18
  the tallest team in in their country.
• 42:21
  They are tall team, Yeah, Paige's kid on there, which why
• 42:27
  is he coming off the bench? Has he come off the bench most
• 42:29
  all year? They're deep.
• 42:30
  Yeah. He's their six guy.
• 42:32
  And like you look at Peja like he's got like this kid can shoot
• 42:37
  it, but when he gets on the wing and he he takes off and tries to
• 42:41
  get to the rim, it's like every single time.
• 42:44
  Every single time. This.
• 42:48
  That's going to be a fun game too.
• 42:49
  But obviously you get to this level, it's going to be fun.
• 42:52
  It's the appetizer to the main course.
• 42:55
  Yeah, we, we're just talking about as we're watching Michigan
• 42:57
  just put it on Tennessee yesterday, just how fun this
• 43:01
  Michigan, Arizona game is going to be.
• 43:04
  And there is a part of you that kind of wishes that they receded
• 43:09
  when they get to this point maybe a little bit, but then
• 43:11
  you're not guaranteed this game, then maybe it gets taken away.
• 43:15
  It's true. So we we are, we are going to
• 43:20
  see this game. We are guaranteed it.
• 43:23
  Are you sticking with your Michigan pick?
• 43:26
  1000% never been more sure of anything in my life after
• 43:29
  watching them destroy Tennessee the other day yesterday.
• 43:33
  Absolutely like Yaxel will have have his way.
• 43:37
  Give me, give me the the Wolverines.
• 43:41
  They've scored 90 points in every game.
• 43:45
  Every game. Give.
• 43:49
  Me. The Wolverines.
• 43:50
  They're the first team to do that through the Elite 8 since
• 43:53
  UConn did it in 1995. So there's a little precedent
• 44:00
  there for figuring out a way to lose after scoring 90 points in
• 44:04
  the first four games. But I mean, dude, I picked
• 44:10
  Arizona in my bracket. I think this game's going to be
• 44:12
  incredible. You got to stick with it, right?
• 44:14
  Oh dude, they are. They've lost two games and both.
• 44:19
  They could have figured out a way to win both of them.
• 44:21
  This team is not that far away from being undefeated.
• 44:24
  Yeah. And I mean, Brayden Buries has
• 44:29
  been one of my favorite guards all year to watch.
• 44:34
  They've been number one in the AP, what, 19 to 25 polls this
• 44:39
  season. They they've won all their
• 44:42
  tournament games by at least 12 points.
• 44:47
  This is the one thing about Arizona, and we've kind of
• 44:52
  talked about this, they ranked 363rd naturally in the amount of
• 44:55
  three pointers that they shoot. Only 26% of their shots are from
• 45:02
  three-point land. And just the way that basketball
• 45:06
  is in this day and age, it's rare.
• 45:10
  It's just. And to put that in perspective,
• 45:13
  Alabama leads the country and the percentage of their
• 45:17
  three-point shots or their shots being 3 pointers, do you know
• 45:20
  what their percentage is compared to Arizona's 26?
• 45:24
  Or their actual like what like. Their percentage of their shots
• 45:28
  being 3 pointers it's. Got to be close to 50 ish.
• 45:33
  We're going to go like 49%. 54% of Alabama shots are from 4:00.
• 45:38
  OK. So we're talking about Arizona
• 45:42
  team that 1/4 of their shots, a little bit more than 1/4 of
• 45:45
  their shots are from three, but they really just emphasize paint
• 45:49
  touches. They'll kill you on the glass
• 45:50
  just like Illinois. Meet Tommy Lloyd in his first
• 45:54
  five years he's got 2Pac 12 titles, a Big 10 to a Big 12
• 45:58
  title, 2PAC12 tourney titles, a a Big 12 title.
• 46:02
  So one coach of the year twice. Give me the Wildcats, man.
• 46:08
  They've been up, they've been up top all year and this is a clash
• 46:12
  of the Titans, there's no doubt about it.
• 46:14
  It's a game we've been looking forward to all season long.
• 46:17
  Just. Feel like these are the type of
• 46:18
  game. Like these are the type of teams
• 46:20
  and the type of games where Michigan is at their best.
• 46:22
  Like they've absolutely destroyed good teams this year.
• 46:26
  Well, you we watched them lose to Duke and DC.
• 46:30
  One time. Well, you just said they show up
• 46:33
  in big games and then I. Mean like, like they like, yeah,
• 46:35
  like, like they went after that Players Air tournament.
• 46:38
  They went out to the Players Air tournament and just hammered
• 46:41
  Gonzaga by 40. You know, they hammered every
• 46:43
  team they played out there by a ton.
• 46:45
  They've lost what, one regular season Big 10 game?
• 46:47
  Well. They deal.
• 46:49
  I already talked about how many times they won by 30 plus.
• 46:51
  Going you win, you win an Elite 8 game, you win an Elite 8 game
• 46:54
  by 3233 points like they're going to be they're they're
• 46:59
  showing up. Give me the Give me the
• 47:01
  Wolverines, and give them to me by 7 Michigan by.
• 47:07
  Seven. Well, I'll, I will you.
• 47:08
  If you want to give me that, I will take it all day.
• 47:10
  I know. You will.
• 47:11
  You give me 7 points. I think Michigan wins by 7.
• 47:15
  I mean, I know that, but I think that that's what happened.
• 47:17
  I no, it's not the spread, but yeah, give me. 1 1/2 was it. 1
• 47:21
  1/2 I think I saw. If I was, if I was good at
• 47:24
  preparing for this show, I would already know that off the top of
• 47:26
  my head. I do not.
• 47:28
  Earlier the earlier today was Michigan by.
• 47:29
  One it is 1 1/2 and then Illinois is 2 1/2 point
• 47:32
  favorites over UConn. All right, so you're going Zona.
• 47:37
  I'm, I'm going UConn, Zona. And then I, I, I know I'm
• 47:44
  picking Connecticut simply because they don't lose, because
• 47:47
  I do think Illinois is a better team, but I, I'm picking Arizona
• 47:51
  to beat them. So my my whole philosophy just
• 47:55
  goes out the window. And it does go out the window in
• 47:57
  that championship, huh? Yeah.
• 47:59
  I mean, I think, I think the winner of Saturday if, if it's
• 48:02
  Arizona or if it's Michigan, I think that's going to be your
• 48:04
  national champion. But then again, I'm just like,
• 48:06
  dude, if UConn figures out a way to get this title game, are they
• 48:08
  really going to lose when they get that far?
• 48:10
  Because because they don't, they never lose these games.
• 48:15
  They never lose these. Games, that's true.
• 48:18
  And it doesn't matter who's coaching you.
• 48:20
  You could coach UConn, You get them to the Sweet 16, they're
• 48:23
  going to figure out ways to win. I don't know if you can get it.
• 48:26
  I don't know if you can get them to the Sweet 16 because Kevin
• 48:28
  Ollie couldn't figure out how to do it after he did it once.
• 48:32
  But if you can get them to the Sweet 16, they ain't going to
• 48:35
  lose. Yeah.
• 48:37
  And there's a lot of talk about Tommy Lloyd to North Carolina.
• 48:40
  Are they going to wait? Can you wait that long?
• 48:44
  The portal opens like the day after the national championship.
• 48:48
  I don't know. I If I were him, I'm staying.
• 48:50
  I, I'm, I get it. It's North Carolina.
• 48:53
  You're already at Arizona, one of the more prestigious schools.
• 48:58
  It's it's Illinois, first Final Four since 05:00 when they lost
• 49:03
  to North Carolina in the title game.
• 49:04
  Because they beat the cards, yeah.
• 49:06
  Yep, the after the cards beat Pitt Snoggle in in the Elite 8.
• 49:11
  And they had an epic comeback against Arizona in that elite,
• 49:14
  in that Elite 8 game, Illinois did.
• 49:16
  They were down. God, they were down like 8 the
• 49:19
  final minute for Dee Brown and Luther Head, and the rest of the
• 49:23
  gang decided to start making some shots and getting some
• 49:26
  stops and yeah, it was a miracle miracle that they ended up in
• 49:29
  the final four. And Arizona's first Final Four
• 49:32
  since 2001, which is kind of hard to believe.
• 49:35
  And it's hard to believe. But we're down to four on the
• 49:41
  women's side. Like all these games kind of
• 49:44
  late have just kind of all been not very close.
• 49:47
  Like Duke kept it close with UCLA for about 30 minutes and
• 49:52
  then you say they'd kind of just put it on them at the end of the
• 49:56
  buzzer. But the rest of his game, the
• 49:57
  Final Four in the women's game and South Carolina's going to
• 50:00
  win tonight. It's going to be all number
• 50:02
  ones. 2 shoes hanging in. They're hanging in right now.
• 50:05
  Up one up. 122216 minutes to go to last.
• 50:11
  Is South Carolina probably a clear 4th?
• 50:13
  Best of those ones I would say. Yes.
• 50:17
  But the eyes likely going to be all ones, I would think, and
• 50:20
  even if it's not but just the games next week in in the
• 50:24
  women's final four are going to be great as well.
• 50:27
  Fantastic. I mean, guy who matches up with
• 50:29
  who, do you know who matches up with who?
• 50:33
  Yeah, I guess Yukon. I guess Yukon, South Carolina
• 50:35
  and would be UCLA and Texas, I believe.
• 50:40
  It's how that shapes up and how that works out are.
• 50:42
  You 100% on that. Yeah, because Yukon is the
• 50:44
  overall number one, right? And South Carolina was the last.
• 50:47
  They were the 4th 1. That's the way it should work,
• 50:51
  yeah. UConn, Yeah.
• 50:53
  UCLA, Texas and UConn would play South Carolina or or TC.
• 50:56
  I mean, I was expecting it to be you, a walk for UConn and UCLA
• 51:01
  to the title game, and I still expect it to be for UConn.
• 51:03
  But the way Texas has looked, where they just absolutely
• 51:07
  destroyed South Carolina in the SEC title and then beat a
• 51:11
  Michigan team in the early date by almost 40, yeah, I think.
• 51:14
  That just lost a 20 by. Yeah, they held Michigan to,
• 51:16
  what, 41 points tonight? Incredible.
• 51:20
  So Texas is absolutely balling out.
• 51:22
  And then you look at UCLA and they've been absolutely
• 51:25
  destroying teams until Duke hung around with them.
• 51:27
  So maybe Texas is better than I thought.
• 51:30
  UCLA will chink in the armor. Maybe with that close game to
• 51:33
  do, that one's going to be that one's going to be a pretty good
• 51:37
  game. And then you kind of just hammer
• 51:39
  whoever that is by 20. See how early they can make Gino
• 51:42
  do do media once they once once they get to Phoenix wake you
• 51:49
  tell him he's got to show up at 6:30 and the balls are going to
• 51:52
  be. Super bouncy balls over inflated
• 51:55
  balls. 8630 press conferences. Gino can take a nap.
• 52:00
  Get him up early, he can take a nap after lunch.
• 52:02
  He'll be fine. I just love it, the rants, dude,
• 52:06
  I just love it. And look, when you're Gino, you
• 52:10
  can do whatever you want because you've now been to 18 of 19
• 52:14
  Final Fours, which is it's just not even real.
• 52:20
  It's just automatic. Yeah, I mean, I feel like.
• 52:23
  Him complaining about them not getting to play close to home
• 52:27
  when they've played at Albany so many times when they're not even
• 52:29
  the one seed. Not by Yeah, got no sympathy.
• 52:33
  You got to play NC State as a one and Louisville as A1 when
• 52:36
  you're at 2IN Albany. Yeah, no sympathy for me on on
• 52:40
  the locations of the of the elite of.
• 52:43
  Should there be better ways to do it maybe than having media at
• 52:46
  7:30? Maybe.
• 52:48
  But when you're when you have one regional site, you only got
• 52:50
  so much time. Especially when there's games
• 52:53
  that day. I don't know, no sympathy for me
• 52:57
  on that. I mean, I just feel like are
• 52:59
  there more rants from women's basketball coaches?
• 53:01
  I mean, I feel like there's a lot more than than there is on
• 53:04
  the men's side. Like UCL as Corey close was, she
• 53:08
  was, she was ranting about having to get up early and do
• 53:10
  media as well. Coaches just don't like getting
• 53:13
  up. I what I'm gathering is coaches
• 53:15
  don't, they don't, they don't like getting up early.
• 53:17
  She's just tired, Neil. Would I rather be chilling on
• 53:21
  the couch watching TV instead of doing this right now?
• 53:24
  Yeah. Yeah, probably, but.
• 53:26
  What time you get out for work in the morning?
• 53:29
  Oh, that alarm goes off at 7:14. OK, so if you had a 730 press
• 53:33
  conference, you probably wouldn't complain about it
• 53:35
  because, you know, most normal humans get up and go to work at
• 53:38
  7:30 in the morning. Unless you're a basketball
• 53:40
  coach, then it's too early. But.
• 53:42
  Well, that basketball coaches get up so early like they're
• 53:45
  used to it. What are they?
• 53:46
  What are they crying about? What's?
• 53:49
  What are Gino and Corey? What are they?
• 53:50
  What are they crying about? Well, Gino mainly was crying
• 53:55
  about the fact that they weren't making any shots too, like from
• 54:00
  three-point range, like all the games, everybody was like 2 for
• 54:03
  16/1 for 18/3 for 20, like no shots for going in.
• 54:08
  And when you're trying to grow the game and get people to watch
• 54:11
  it. What do you want them to do?
• 54:13
  Like make the basket bigger? Well.
• 54:14
  Look, and that's just, he's saying that the balls are too
• 54:17
  inflated. I don't buy it.
• 54:19
  The referees are testing those balls before they put them in
• 54:21
  play. Just the shots weren't going in.
• 54:25
  And look, I want the game to grow and I want these games to
• 54:27
  be great. But when there's three teams,
• 54:31
  four teams that are clearly a lot better than the rest of the
• 54:34
  field and these games are all going to be 20-30 point games.
• 54:37
  It's not it does doesn't create the greatest product.
• 54:40
  And that and when once you get to this point, but now next week
• 54:44
  it's going to it should be really good games.
• 54:47
  Look when look when we when not 2018 when we had Asia Durham,
• 54:52
  Aisha, Hans Allen and we're rolling everybody to get to the
• 54:56
  final four. You think I was complaining?
• 54:58
  No, no, nobody. Just get out of our way and then
• 55:02
  you get to that final four and it's 4 number ones just like
• 55:05
  it's probably going to be this year.
• 55:07
  And all of the games were fantastic.
• 55:10
  It's just the games leading up to it, especially once you get
• 55:13
  past some of those first round games where you're you're
• 55:15
  getting the top level competition against some lower
• 55:17
  level competition. The games don't always they're
• 55:21
  not always the best product. And that's the next step in
• 55:24
  women's college basketball is it's the parity has gotten
• 55:28
  better. But now maybe an I own transfer
• 55:30
  portal separated a little more back to where it was.
• 55:34
  But this year, I think there's three teams that are a lot
• 55:38
  better than everybody else, and maybe 4 if you include South
• 55:40
  Carolina, too. Correct.
• 55:42
  And that's the way it usually is.
• 55:44
  It is you. Missed opening day last week I.
• 55:49
  Know. We so went down with the big dog
• 55:55
  dude. We walk into Plum St.
• 55:57
  Cafe, which is the tradition, the great spot, Tony Brown
• 56:00
  family tradition that. We are now.
• 56:02
  Did you get the grilled cheese? Did the grilled shoes in Chile?
• 56:05
  Let me, let me just tell you, we walk in there, OK, And there's
• 56:09
  two Budweiser girls and they're like, hey, you take a picture.
• 56:14
  We'll give you a free Budweiser. Are they in the picture with?
• 56:17
  Like did you take a? Are they in the picture with
• 56:21
  you? No, it's just me and the big
• 56:22
  dog. His his father-in-law, Mike.
• 56:26
  You. Absolutely.
• 56:27
  They give us the little white picture frame.
• 56:29
  You know that you got a hold. Yeah.
• 56:31
  Which when there's high differentials, the white picture
• 56:33
  frame makes it a little challenging because it's hard to
• 56:35
  get everybody in there. But we, we pose, we get our free
• 56:39
  bud. So it was great.
• 56:41
  And then we bought, if you buy another bud, they gave you some
• 56:44
  gifts. We got some hats, some koozies
• 56:47
  and stuff like that key chain bottle opener.
• 56:52
  So chilling at Plum St. And then we go down the game.
• 56:54
  But it was just William got his first, Tony's son got his first
• 57:00
  Reds opening day so it was a great experience for him.
• 57:02
  Dude was sitting on the 2nd row on the 3rd baseline, got a ball
• 57:06
  thrown to him. What an experience for the
• 57:09
  little doll. And then he ends the night at
• 57:11
  Twin Peaks. So you go into parts of Little
• 57:14
  Doll, the life in the in of this How old is Little Dog now 10?
• 57:18
  9. 9 or 10/9. 10. You get to go in to a a
• 57:22
  fantastic establishment like the Plum St.
• 57:24
  Cafe with some great food. You see some attractive females
• 57:28
  giving your dad and his friends Budweiser beers, the king of
• 57:32
  beers. You go to Reds opening day which
• 57:34
  is the greatest opening day in all baseball.
• 57:36
  You this should still be the first game.
• 57:38
  Still should be the first game, but whatever.
• 57:40
  It's fine, sit 2nd row and get a baseball that you get to take
• 57:44
  home and then go to Twin Peaks to end your night.
• 57:47
  Yeah. And then we were like to give
• 57:48
  one of these waitresses numbers, Would would you give up the
• 57:51
  ball? And he's like, I'm nine years
• 57:54
  old. No, I'm nine years old.
• 57:57
  Well, you should have asked him to give you the ball and maybe
• 57:59
  you give up the ball for for one of the.
• 58:01
  Waitresses. Well, I'm not going to give his
• 58:02
  ball away. Should have bought it that
• 58:03
  would. Be pretty rude.
• 58:05
  Buy it from him. That would be pretty rude, but
• 58:07
  it no the one of the greatest responses from a kid that I've
• 58:12
  ever heard in my life. No, I'm nine years old.
• 58:15
  I don't care about that. Good for him.
• 58:17
  Just just wait, bro, just wait. It's it's.
• 58:21
  Kind of got another about what, 7-8 years?
• 58:24
  Yeah, it's common. I don't know about that long
• 58:25
  he's been a. Little.
• 58:28
  Faster than that, it's coming a little faster.
• 58:30
  Than that so he leaves has a car.
• 58:32
  Yeah, it's but it's coming a little faster than that, but
• 58:37
  great opening day first one you went forward so you you couldn't
• 58:42
  partake. We we missed a lot of our crew.
• 58:43
  Honestly, that was. The first one I've missed, I
• 58:45
  think, since we played UConn up in Albany.
• 58:47
  We just talked about that, that game.
• 58:48
  Well, I'm now what? How many in a row now?
• 58:52
  Five in a row for me after never being able to go because we were
• 58:55
  all, I was always on the road with women's basketball in 22.
• 58:59
  We were. I was able to go after the Final
• 59:01
  four because the season started late.
• 59:05
  And yeah, now I'm on five in a row, but then there's a fight
• 59:09
  afterwards. We didn't see it, but people
• 59:13
  rushing, a bunch of police officers.
• 59:15
  We I'm glad we didn't get messed up in that and all that
• 59:17
  shenanigans. The the story I think of the
• 59:21
  first week has been the ABS. Yeah.
• 59:26
  And on Saturday, the Reds were kind of on center stage of this
• 59:32
  whole ABS thing, which dude, I as somebody who has scored.
• 59:37
  Were the Reds on center stage or was CB Buckner on center?
• 59:41
  Stage they both were. They both were, but I've kind of
• 59:46
  had some experience with the ABS because minor league has has
• 59:50
  used it to test it the last couple years.
• 59:52
  They've had a pure ABS system where it's just straight
• 59:55
  computer and then they have the challenge system, which is what
• 59:57
  they are utilizing. Of the two, I think this is by
• 59:59
  far the the better system. But on Saturday with CB Buckner
• 1:00:05
  behind the plate, there were eight challenges.
• 1:00:08
  Six of them were overturned, including back-to-back pitches
• 1:00:13
  to Gino Suarez. If one of them.
• 1:00:16
  Was an over an inch off the plate.
• 1:00:19
  If you're how embarrassing is it for CB Buckner, which he's
• 1:00:21
  probably been embarrassed the last couple of years because
• 1:00:23
  he's got the reputation of being one of the worst umpires in the
• 1:00:26
  league. But you, you, you, you ring up a
• 1:00:29
  guy on 1/3 strike, give it the old ring him up, punch him out
• 1:00:33
  and they're like, hold on, wait a minute, challenge.
• 1:00:35
  So then you got to admit like, oh, crap, all right, ball.
• 1:00:39
  And then you ring them up and punch them out again on the next
• 1:00:41
  pitch. That was worse than the first
• 1:00:43
  one. It was.
• 1:00:44
  It's over an inch. Out.
• 1:00:45
  It's over an inch off the plate. So you you, you ring them up and
• 1:00:48
  punch them out on back-to-back pitches and you overturn both of
• 1:00:53
  them. An idiot.
• 1:00:55
  So an idiot. You talked about how he's been,
• 1:00:58
  well, he's regarded as probably the worst ball strike on fire,
• 1:01:01
  yes, in the past. Yes.
• 1:01:03
  Well, guess what? Now we got data.
• 1:01:06
  And the data probably supports that.
• 1:01:09
  And look, this is only balls that are, these are balls and
• 1:01:11
  strikes that are only challenged.
• 1:01:12
  So the ones you miss that don't get challenged don't go in this
• 1:01:15
  system because they're still going to be some of those on.
• 1:01:17
  On Saturday, the Atlanta Braves lost their two challenges in
• 1:01:22
  four batters 8. Challenging.
• 1:01:26
  They've lost their two challenges in eight pitches.
• 1:01:29
  You all suck it. Challenging.
• 1:01:32
  The Drake Baldwin challenge one in the top of the first as the
• 1:01:35
  catcher, and then Acuna challenge one as the batter, and
• 1:01:38
  that thing wasn't even close to being a ball.
• 1:01:42
  Not even close. So there's a learning process in
• 1:01:44
  all of this. Well, as a manager, let me ask
• 1:01:46
  you this as a manager, like there's got to be a proper way
• 1:01:50
  to tell your players to manage these challenges.
• 1:01:52
  Like if it's the first inning and there's nobody on and two
• 1:01:54
  out, I'm not challenging anything.
• 1:01:57
  I'm not challenging anything in the 1st 5 innings unless there's
• 1:02:00
  almost basically a runner in scoring position.
• 1:02:03
  You better be damn sure. And you better be even then, I
• 1:02:06
  don't even know the whole risk there.
• 1:02:08
  There has to be some parameters as a manager that you tell your
• 1:02:11
  players you can. You're only challenging under
• 1:02:13
  these circumstances. Has to.
• 1:02:15
  Be from, from listening to kind of what managers have, they're
• 1:02:20
  kind of, I think a lot of them are filling this out early on in
• 1:02:23
  the year before they really put together a plan, which I don't
• 1:02:26
  know if that's the right way to do it or not, but that's kind of
• 1:02:28
  got the the feel that I've gotten.
• 1:02:30
  Yeah. If you, if you're allowing your
• 1:02:33
  team to lose their two challenges 8 pitches in, I feel
• 1:02:35
  like that's not a good usage of your, of your challenges.
• 1:02:38
  And especially after burning one in the top of the inning, the
• 1:02:44
  fact that your lead off batter in the bottom of the first use
• 1:02:46
  is another one. Yeah, I think that's going to be
• 1:02:48
  the last time you do that all year, or it should be.
• 1:02:53
  But this is a it's a learning process and I do think this is
• 1:02:56
  going to be a good thing for baseball and it's quick the way
• 1:03:00
  they do. It it is quick, it gets the fans
• 1:03:03
  into it as we saw in Cincinnati. It's.
• 1:03:05
  Exciting. Get into it.
• 1:03:07
  The way they do it, it's exciting and it's quick and I
• 1:03:10
  think it's going to be good for baseball.
• 1:03:11
  It is good for baseball. But to get back to CB Buck, yeah
• 1:03:16
  he is leading it incorrectly called balls and strikes with
• 1:03:22
  26. That's just the one game he did
• 1:03:24
  this year. The second most is he only been?
• 1:03:29
  I would, yeah. He's had to be only behind the
• 1:03:31
  plate one game. Right.
• 1:03:32
  So 26 in one game. So this must not be challenges.
• 1:03:36
  This is just straight up balls and strikes that you've missed
• 1:03:41
  because he didn't get challenged 26 times.
• 1:03:43
  Oh great, you got challenged 8. This is just yeah, he's missed
• 1:03:46
  according because they've got the box.
• 1:03:48
  According to the box, he's missed 26 balls and strikes.
• 1:03:52
  The next most is Trip get Gibson and Chris Siegel with 19, then a
• 1:03:57
  couple dudes got 16, and then there's some with 14 and all the
• 1:04:01
  way down to five. But now there's numbers out
• 1:04:05
  there. CB Buckner and and you the
• 1:04:07
  worst. I think it's been well known
• 1:04:10
  he's been the worst, but now, yeah, the data supports it.
• 1:04:15
  And before we got it, we got to talk Gary Woodland, man.
• 1:04:21
  And that's why this is the hat that he wore yesterday to win
• 1:04:24
  it. He's a he's a cobra.
• 1:04:25
  He's a Puma guy. OK, But we all we all know the
• 1:04:28
  story of what he's been battling.
• 1:04:31
  It was well documented on the documentary full swing
• 1:04:34
  documentary. And there's been battling demons
• 1:04:40
  and I mean, just absolutely controlled the tournament this
• 1:04:46
  weekend. Think what he should his numbers
• 1:04:50
  were just turn what he shot. Should have had this ready.
• 1:04:58
  But he shot, I don't know, shot 21 under for the tournament.
• 1:05:04
  It wasn't really close. They're walking down the the
• 1:05:07
  fairway on 18. You see Min Wu Lee pumping the
• 1:05:10
  crowd up because Gary Woodland's getting ready to knock in A7
• 1:05:14
  footer to win the thing and he could have 4 putted and still
• 1:05:17
  won it, but men will lose pumping the crowd up.
• 1:05:20
  He's very emotional in in his post game interview, as he
• 1:05:24
  should be. Dude, one thing that really
• 1:05:26
  stood out to me is just how he talked about how proud he was of
• 1:05:31
  himself and you should be. But, you know, I think we all
• 1:05:36
  shy away from being proud of the, some of the things that we,
• 1:05:39
  we are able to accomplish. And I just think it was, he
• 1:05:44
  absolutely should be proud of what he's accomplished because
• 1:05:48
  nobody even knows what he's been through.
• 1:05:50
  Like we nobody can even understand it.
• 1:05:53
  And he was obviously very thankful for for his wife and,
• 1:05:56
  and for his kids for helping him get through it, But and he
• 1:06:00
  wouldn't have been able to do it without their assistance.
• 1:06:02
  So I. Mean there might be people
• 1:06:03
  listening that don't know what he's been through.
• 1:06:05
  I mean, well, it, it started with the what the the brain
• 1:06:08
  tumor that he had, right? Yeah, he had a brain tumor and
• 1:06:11
  it was it was benign, so it wasn't cancerous, but I mean,
• 1:06:14
  anytime you get a brain tumor, it's a scary thing.
• 1:06:16
  And it was it was really leading him to have a ton of anxiety to
• 1:06:20
  where it was. It was affecting his sleep.
• 1:06:22
  He was just having negative thoughts all the time.
• 1:06:24
  I mean, the brain is such a crazy, crazy thing.
• 1:06:29
  And, and it was just, he was, his mind was just running
• 1:06:33
  constantly, I think, with negative thoughts and like he
• 1:06:36
  was going to die. And just, it's just really kind
• 1:06:39
  of scary things that, that that can happen to you, you know,
• 1:06:44
  with, with having a brain stomer and he's been battling it for
• 1:06:46
  the for the last couple years. Thank you.
• 1:06:49
  He it's hard like for him to have energy to get through these
• 1:06:53
  tournaments. I think has has been a struggle,
• 1:06:56
  but just the perseverance as he had through the whole thing.
• 1:07:00
  And he hadn't won since the US Open in 2019 to, to win this
• 1:07:05
  tournament. I just look, I wanted Ricky to
• 1:07:08
  win so or finished in the top five so we can get the masters.
• 1:07:12
  He sucked down the stretch on Friday, figured out a way to get
• 1:07:14
  cut. And so it was all, it was all
• 1:07:16
  Gary Woodland all weekend for me and was just was really cool to
• 1:07:20
  see. And if you haven't seen his post
• 1:07:23
  game comments, I, I suggest all everybody to go listen to it
• 1:07:27
  because it really is. It's a, it's a life lesson for
• 1:07:30
  all of us. Like no matter what we're going
• 1:07:32
  through, like there's always greener pastures on the other
• 1:07:36
  side. If you just believe in yourself
• 1:07:37
  and keep working hard and you got to and allow the people
• 1:07:41
  around to support you because you you got to have them too.
• 1:07:45
  It's he seems to be, he seems to have the respect and admiration
• 1:07:49
  of all of his peers on tour. Like, like you said, you got men
• 1:07:52
  woo pumping up the crowd and feel like everybody in the, in
• 1:07:55
  that locker room that if you weren't in contention, which
• 1:07:57
  none of them really were. I mean, he won the, the
• 1:07:59
  tournament by 5 strokes. Like I feel like everybody on
• 1:08:02
  tour was rooting for him to to get this victory.
• 1:08:05
  So it's just, it's an awesome comeback story.
• 1:08:09
  And, and just like I said, he just seems like a a great person
• 1:08:13
  for this to happen to. No, and he was telling a story
• 1:08:16
  about him and JT are real close. I feel like JT is close to every
• 1:08:19
  party on the tour but him and JT.
• 1:08:21
  Him and JT are really close and I don't.
• 1:08:25
  Do you know how they do like feature groups on PGA Tour Live
• 1:08:28
  and ESPN Plus where they they follow him around the whole
• 1:08:30
  time? Well, him and JT are on a
• 1:08:32
  feature group, so there's cameras everywhere.
• 1:08:35
  And JTI think was just like, well, Gary, man, how, how, how
• 1:08:39
  have you been doing? And Gary didn't want to really
• 1:08:43
  talk about it with all the boom mics and all the cameras around.
• 1:08:47
  And he's like, well, JT, thanks for asking, but I kind I kind of
• 1:08:51
  I'll, I'll tell you, but I don't really want to talk about right
• 1:08:54
  now. And the next day they were they
• 1:08:57
  were playing or no, the the cameras got went away because
• 1:09:00
  one of the guys they were playing with like when like lost
• 1:09:03
  his ball or something. And so they finally did get a
• 1:09:06
  little separation and he told me he was like, dude, I'm I'm not
• 1:09:09
  doing very good and was kind of telling him what he was going
• 1:09:11
  through. And he said JT bogey just next
• 1:09:14
  three holes and missed the cut. And he's like, it was kind of on
• 1:09:18
  me. I felt like but you know, it was
• 1:09:21
  important for me that he asked that and and I didn't want to
• 1:09:25
  lie to him and, you know, kind of had to get that off my chest.
• 1:09:28
  So it's good on Gary Witham man, And and then masters coming up
• 1:09:35
  in a couple weeks. We got the Valspar this week.
• 1:09:37
  This this is Ricky Fowler's last chance to get into the masters
• 1:09:40
  and now it's not a top five or six that's going to do it.
• 1:09:43
  You got to win the thing and the way that his approach shots
• 1:09:47
  we're not approaching on Friday. I'm I'm not very, very hopeful,
• 1:09:51
  but no, I saw. I saw him approach a body of
• 1:09:53
  water on Friday. Yeah, and he needed to get a
• 1:09:56
  birdie coming in and finding a little bit of stream that's
• 1:10:00
  three feet wide. It's not.
• 1:10:02
  It's not the best way to go about it.
• 1:10:04
  No, it's not. They so we're always on our
• 1:10:10
  phones, yeah, and there's one fast.
• 1:10:13
  Food chain, Yeah. There's one fast food chain that
• 1:10:18
  is trying to do something about it.
• 1:10:19
  OK. And look at everybody.
• 1:10:22
  Some people have negative feelings about Chick-fil-A, but
• 1:10:25
  but one thing about Chick-fil-A is no matter which one you go to
• 1:10:30
  in the world, you're always going to get just amazing
• 1:10:33
  service. Is that's what they're known.
• 1:10:34
  For and I don't know what they do because you walk into
• 1:10:38
  McDonald's and everybody's like get the hell out of here.
• 1:10:40
  I don't know why you're here. We don't want to give you
• 1:10:42
  anything. And then if when they have to
• 1:10:44
  give it to you, just take it and leave.
• 1:10:46
  Yes. And you go to Chick-fil-A and
• 1:10:47
  it's just. Like it's a well oiled, I mean
• 1:10:49
  it is a well oiled machine at the Chick-fil-A the drive
• 1:10:52
  through, but how make it the drive through all of IT service
• 1:10:56
  always top notch. It's incredible.
• 1:10:58
  It's a machine. It's no matter, and it doesn't
• 1:11:01
  matter where you go. Every single one of them.
• 1:11:03
  Every single one. We nobody's ever not smiling.
• 1:11:07
  Yes. It's you almost wonder if
• 1:11:09
  they're drugged but. Could be maybe?
• 1:11:13
  We'll, we'll see. They might be.
• 1:11:14
  It could be robots. So there was one Chick-fil-A in
• 1:11:17
  Georgia. Yeah.
• 1:11:19
  Where the general manager noticed like, dude, everybody
• 1:11:24
  when they sit in here and eat, everybody's just on their
• 1:11:26
  phones. And it ain't just it ain't just
• 1:11:30
  millennials, it ain't just kids. No, it's 6070 year olds.
• 1:11:35
  It's everybody. Like we all just spend so much
• 1:11:39
  time on our damn phones. So he notices this and he's
• 1:11:44
  like, I'm going to try something.
• 1:11:45
  I'm going to put these coops, these phone coops, chicken coops
• 1:11:51
  on every table. Chicken.
• 1:11:52
  That's a chicken coop, phone coop, whatever you want to call
• 1:11:54
  it. I'm going to put these on the
• 1:11:55
  table. If people will put their phones
• 1:11:58
  in this table and on in this coop while they eat, I'm going
• 1:12:02
  to give them all free ice cream. So good deal you.
• 1:12:06
  Encourages the family members to talk friends of whoever's eating
• 1:12:10
  lunch, eating dinner together, to put their phones away, enjoy
• 1:12:14
  some Chick-fil-A and have some conversation.
• 1:12:17
  It grew. It's not like this was started
• 1:12:19
  at two stores in Georgia that he owned.
• 1:12:21
  I think now it's up to like 200 stores across the nation.
• 1:12:27
  I mean, what? What an idea?
• 1:12:29
  What? It's a no, it's a, it's a
• 1:12:30
  brilliant idea, actually. It's an absolutely brilliant
• 1:12:33
  idea. And if you were to say, hey,
• 1:12:35
  guess which fast food chain is doing this?
• 1:12:38
  I mean, the answer is going to be Chick-fil-A.
• 1:12:39
  I mean, they've got the, they've got the, the, the, the
• 1:12:42
  hospitality. The good old Southern
• 1:12:44
  hospitality closed on traditional values, closed on
• 1:12:48
  Sundays type deal. So, yeah.
• 1:12:50
  So, you know, they, they want to get back to that traditional,
• 1:12:54
  you know, don't be distracted at dinner.
• 1:12:56
  Talk to your family, talk to your friends.
• 1:12:57
  You know, you're, you're breaking bread together.
• 1:12:59
  Have a conversation, get off your phones.
• 1:13:01
  And yeah, it doesn't surprise me that this idea would, would come
• 1:13:04
  up from a company like, or from a franchise like that.
• 1:13:07
  But it's an absolute brilliant idea.
• 1:13:09
  And their ice cream is pretty good.
• 1:13:10
  I had Chick-fil-A today for dinner, by the way.
• 1:13:13
  But it's a very, very, very good ice cream.
• 1:13:16
  Well, soft there. Yeah.
• 1:13:16
  I mean and. Look, this ain't costing them a
• 1:13:20
  ton of money. It's a small price they're
• 1:13:23
  paying to get friends and family to talk about their days.
• 1:13:29
  Get back to the old school where we, when I, when I was a kid,
• 1:13:32
  dude, we sat at the dinner table, all five of us, every
• 1:13:36
  single. Night when?
• 1:13:37
  When? When you were a kid, I don't
• 1:13:38
  even think phones were around. I got my first phone when I.
• 1:13:42
  Started you were. It was a Zach Norris phone.
• 1:13:45
  No, we didn't have enough money to have a cell phone like that.
• 1:13:47
  We we had the the landlines, but I got my first cell phone when I
• 1:13:53
  started driving at 16 and that's the number that I still have
• 1:13:59
  today, which is pretty crazy. Yeah.
• 1:14:04
  But yeah, dude, like I'll look back at that like, I just don't
• 1:14:08
  think it happens anymore. And all we would all 5 sit at
• 1:14:11
  the table and actually talk about school and talk about
• 1:14:14
  what's going on. Yeah.
• 1:14:16
  But like we didn't have smartphone like you couldn't
• 1:14:19
  just get on your phone back that's.
• 1:14:20
  The point of this deal I don't. Agree with it.
• 1:14:22
  I agree with the concept, but like it's just so much easier to
• 1:14:25
  want to get on your phone now because you can watch whatever.
• 1:14:29
  You can watch TV on your phone, you can pull up the newspaper on
• 1:14:32
  your phone, you can check all the sports scores you want on
• 1:14:34
  your phone. Back when you were a kid, all
• 1:14:36
  you could do was play Snake on your little Nokia.
• 1:14:39
  You just chase the wall around like I.
• 1:14:42
  Got snake. It was the entire screen.
• 1:14:45
  It was just snake. But like that's all you did on a
• 1:14:49
  phone back then. So like, of course people aren't
• 1:14:50
  going to get on their phones as much back then because there
• 1:14:52
  wasn't really thing that you could do.
• 1:14:54
  There was no phones, that's why. There was no phones and then
• 1:14:56
  when you when the phones came out, there also wasn't.
• 1:14:58
  It's not much to do now. Your phone is basically like a
• 1:15:00
  computer. It's a TV.
• 1:15:01
  It's not basically a computer. It's.
• 1:15:04
  Not. Basically, a computer, it's a
• 1:15:06
  television, it's a computer, a television, it's all of it
• 1:15:08
  wrapped into the palm of your hand.
• 1:15:10
  So it's more accessible. It's more enticing to want to
• 1:15:14
  get on your phone now because of all that it can do.
• 1:15:17
  But I agree with. Concept dinner, No cell phones
• 1:15:22
  home. So what's what's make dinner
• 1:15:24
  great again? Is that your?
• 1:15:25
  Is that the slogan? No, I'll never do any great
• 1:15:27
  again slogan. Make dinner great again I'm.
• 1:15:29
  Going to never do any great. Again, make dinner.
• 1:15:31
  Great again. I had to wear a Red Hat to to
• 1:15:36
  time out cordator at football and I I didn't love even having
• 1:15:39
  to wear a Red Hat. I'm getting.
• 1:15:40
  I'm I'm getting. Great.
• 1:15:41
  Against make dinner great again AT shirt and a hat for you to
• 1:15:45
  wear. I mean dude, I get to the point
• 1:15:49
  now where I put my phone down and within 5 seconds I pick it
• 1:15:53
  back up. Like I forget that I just put it
• 1:15:55
  back down. Like that's how obsessed we are.
• 1:15:58
  Maybe we need to get you a chicken coop to put in your
• 1:16:00
  bedroom or your house. I just, I love the idea and good
• 1:16:05
  on good on Chick-fil-A. I hope this continues to grow
• 1:16:08
  like it's not going to grow to other restaurants because.
• 1:16:11
  Well, McDonald's can't do it because their ice cream machines
• 1:16:13
  are always broken, so you can't even get a free ice cream.
• 1:16:15
  Yeah, they have to figure out a way to work.
• 1:16:18
  Yeah, you're right. You can't.
• 1:16:20
  McDonald's are going to do it, but I agree.
• 1:16:23
  Good on Chick-fil-A. Man, I'm with you.
• 1:16:26
  I'm in the Greens. We don't don't have any.
• 1:16:30
  What would Joe's do today? I forgot to ask him.
• 1:16:34
  We'll get one for next week. Oh, next week we can't record on
• 1:16:40
  Monday night. Next week we got national
• 1:16:41
  championship. Yeah, well, and then you got
• 1:16:43
  bowling on Tuesday. That's right, Wednesday.
• 1:16:46
  So we'll be with Wednesday Night Recording next week.
• 1:16:49
  Yeah. So you got you got Michigan by
• 1:16:52
  7. Michigan by 7.
• 1:16:54
  And you've got Connecticut by what?
• 1:16:56
  3. Connecticut by 1, Arizona by
• 1:17:01
  three. It's.
• 1:17:04
  Going to be any buzzer beaters coming this weekend?
• 1:17:06
  And then, oh, I think, I think they're going both going to be
• 1:17:09
  good games. I'm excited.
• 1:17:10
  But will there be a buzzer beater?
• 1:17:14
  In all three or just the final four?
• 1:17:18
  In any of the three. It's hard to say no because you
• 1:17:21
  want it to happen so bad, so I'm going to go yes.
• 1:17:25
  There will be a true buzzer beater, OK.
• 1:17:27
  Like every I don't know if you ever watched the women's pre
• 1:17:29
  games with Andre Carter and all them they ask this question all
• 1:17:32
  the time. Will it be a buzz reader?
• 1:17:33
  And they all they have to do the yes or no for all the questions
• 1:17:36
  and every single time they all chant yes together.
• 1:17:41
  So but yeah, I'm not going to pick no against a buzz.
• 1:17:43
  All right, Final four weekend. It's crazy.
• 1:17:48
  It's already down to 4. But the good thing with, you
• 1:17:51
  know, the NSA tournament wrapping up is now baseball's in
• 1:17:56
  full swing. So it's not completely sad.
• 1:18:00
  The Reds. Season ends, there's you got
• 1:18:04
  your college basketball is wrapping up, so there's always
• 1:18:05
  something there to kind of help you get to get through the end
• 1:18:08
  of the seasons. Reds are off to a decent start.
• 1:18:12
  They're 3, three straight wins, three and one on the season.
• 1:18:17
  How? How have you?
• 1:18:19
  Have you? Did you do the Reds TV?
• 1:18:21
  Did you have to pay for it? Yeah, 100 bucks.
• 1:18:25
  And that was you had to do the same thing with FanDuel last
• 1:18:27
  year, right? Correct.
• 1:18:29
  OK. So it's really not that big a
• 1:18:31
  deal. Now I do think the big deal is
• 1:18:34
  if you want to watch both, you got to pay the 200 bucks.
• 1:18:38
  Watch what both. If you want to get MLBTV where
• 1:18:41
  you get all the games and you want to get Reds, you have to
• 1:18:43
  pay the 200 bucks. I don't need, I don't need to
• 1:18:45
  watch the A's and the Mariners or.
• 1:18:47
  I feel you. But like with T-Mobile, T-Mobile
• 1:18:50
  you get, you get MOBTV for free, but you don't get, you don't get
• 1:18:54
  the the Reds games free because they're local, because they're
• 1:18:56
  local. So I haven't done it yet, but I
• 1:18:57
  think if I paid for the Reds I'd have to switch back and forth
• 1:19:00
  accounts which would kind of get annoying.
• 1:19:04
  No. I don't know.
• 1:19:06
  You can buy them on the same account.
• 1:19:07
  You could have it under the same account.
• 1:19:08
  I haven't played it. It's all under.
• 1:19:10
  It's all under your MOB account. I just finally switched to
• 1:19:13
  YouTube Tvi made it. I made the switch.
• 1:19:15
  Proud of you. I think I was the last remaining
• 1:19:19
  one of the last remaining people in the city of Louisville with
• 1:19:21
  the still dues and DIRECTV, satellite TV.
• 1:19:25
  But it's it's over. And I called the dude on Sunday
• 1:19:28
  morning and. I was like, you were his last
• 1:19:31
  customer. Were you his last customer?
• 1:19:33
  He's the last. Account I'm like, dude, I'm
• 1:19:35
  going from like I'm saving like over 100 bucks a month like this
• 1:19:38
  is not a this is an absolute no brainer.
• 1:19:40
  And he's like, well, you're not it's all going to be robots and
• 1:19:42
  AI. You're not going to get the
• 1:19:43
  customer service like this anymore.
• 1:19:45
  And I'm just like, look dude, if it's that bad.
• 1:19:47
  I don't even want to talk to you here, the customer.
• 1:19:50
  Service I can always go back. But how many times did you talk
• 1:19:52
  to DIRECTV customer service? Once a year, because this is
• 1:19:56
  because you threatened to. Cancel to get your money because
• 1:19:58
  you what? You threatened to cancel to get
• 1:19:59
  your rate lower. No, I've told them like if you
• 1:20:01
  don't take $50 off my bill that I am canceling and they would do
• 1:20:05
  it every year. They would take, but I'd have to
• 1:20:07
  call because it'd be good for 12 months.
• 1:20:09
  So at the end of the 12 months, I'd have to call every single
• 1:20:11
  time like you taking this 50 off because otherwise I'm gone.
• 1:20:14
  But we are YouTube. We we are not sponsored by
• 1:20:18
  YouTube TV yet. The poor DIRECTV customer
• 1:20:20
  service reps looking for a job because he has no more accounts.
• 1:20:23
  Yeah, poor guy. I did feel bad.
• 1:20:25
  I was like, yeah, nothing I can do, bro.
• 1:20:27
  He's like, I was like, they came out this sports pack.
• 1:20:30
  It's like 55 bucks. He's like, dude, I think you've
• 1:20:32
  got wrong information. I was like, no, I do not.
• 1:20:35
  And then he looked it up and was like, oh shit, you're right.
• 1:20:40
  Yeah, He's like, they must have just came out with that.
• 1:20:42
  I was like, yeah, that's why I'm switching.
• 1:20:43
  There you go. All right, thank everybody for
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• 1:20:50
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• 1:20:57
  differential. It's where you get to see shorts
• 1:20:59
  of Neil saying stuff one week and changing his mind three days
• 1:21:03
  later and then it gets ticked off that I posted.
• 1:21:05
  It's like I don't believe what I said anymore.
• 1:21:07
  Why are you? Just supposed 2 weeks old and
• 1:21:10
  you just old you idiot. It was 2 weeks old.
• 1:21:13
  It was not 2 weeks old it. Was two weeks.
• 1:21:15
  It was not even close to two weeks old.
• 1:21:19
  Also, just quit being John Kerry and flip flopping and we won't
• 1:21:24
  have to worry about it, you flip flopper.
• 1:21:27
  I'm not flip flopping next. Thing we know you're going to
• 1:21:29
  we're going to see you parasailing like John Kerry.
• 1:21:32
  Well, that was the do you remember that picture of him
• 1:21:34
  parasailing during the campaign? It was like for that reason,
• 1:21:40
  that was really a negative thing and looking goofy on a parasol.
• 1:21:43
  No flip flopping on this one. I'm all in on the Wolverines.
• 1:21:45
  I'm. Glad because a couple weeks ago
• 1:21:48
  you're all in on Duke, so I'm glad you finally decided to.
• 1:21:51
  And also I just want to thank you for crunching eyes.
• 1:21:53
  So that was we enjoyed. Everybody enjoyed that.
• 1:21:55
  We got one more piece left for you.
• 1:21:58
  For the six six deal, I'm the 14.
• 1:22:00
  Nick, give us an item for We'll talk to you next week after the
• 1:22:03
  national championship game. You give it to me.
• 1:22:14
  Give it to me. Give it to me.
• 1:22:17
  I still got to come up with a new intro.
• 1:22:20
  I haven't done that.