Transcript

03/19/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the huddle, smart, good looking Insomniac's early risers
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Speaker 1: and friends of the program.
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Speaker 2: We're glad you're here. Drew Wilson, Bill smid Armandsarian on
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Speaker 2: what many.
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Speaker 1: Believe is the best sports day of the year, for
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Speaker 1: the best fortnight, if you will, best sports weekend of
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Speaker 1: the year. Many many, many circle this on their calendars.
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Speaker 1: They're taking the day off. Let's let the beers flow,
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Speaker 1: Let's let the wings flow. Let's have the nachos, you know,
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Speaker 1: chicken in beef, bring them both over, let's go. I
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Speaker 1: made it now day March Madness.
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Speaker 3: Five h three, the first Irish cricket being cracked. That
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Speaker 3: means that it is going to be a phenomenal, phenomenal
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Speaker 3: start to the NCAA tournament. You're right, all the snack
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Speaker 3: foods that you possibly can find, maybe some taketos get
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Speaker 3: dragged out of a freezer, some pizza rolls. Maybe if
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Speaker 3: you don't have a beautiful, screaming Sicilian pizza the thrown,
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Speaker 3: you can have yourself a phenomenal day. And uh it
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Speaker 3: started out last night, Drew, Holy cow, the madness was cooking.
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Speaker 4: It was fun.
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Speaker 3: And uh, now it starts for real and I love
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Speaker 3: that we don't have to wait.
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Speaker 2: You mean the madness of the Lakers beating the Rockets.
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Speaker 4: Lakers team's white hot right now. Yeah, they are. And
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Speaker 4: Lebron had it caught him six dunks.
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Speaker 5: If you went to you know, if you go at
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Speaker 5: ESPN dot com, that's one of the top stories, Lebron
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Speaker 5: six dunks propel.
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Speaker 4: I don't know we're counting dunks now, well, but we are. Apparently.
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Speaker 4: The funny thing is we count dunks on this radio station.
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Speaker 3: Colin Cowherd, who follows us, Yeah, okay, yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 3: The illustrious part of his career is following us. He
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Speaker 3: has been counting Luca dunks all year long.
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Speaker 4: Is like none of them. He's got four dunks, four
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Speaker 4: dunks all year long.
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Speaker 3: He's not the same player, not the same player, and
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Speaker 3: I'm not the same player averaging thirty. But yeah, so yeah,
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Speaker 3: madness up. They're the Twitter slim now he does. He's
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Speaker 3: starting to starting to even himself out on the get
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Speaker 3: at that playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Our stude diet, the diet.
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Speaker 1: Been running out of the attorney into Wisconsin. They packed
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Speaker 1: fifteen pounds on you at the airport just to let
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Speaker 1: you fit in.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: In La.
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Speaker 2: It's the opposite effect.
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Speaker 1: You're in La for two weeks, you're suddenly doing a
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Speaker 1: cleanse and your power walking like Armin through the mall.
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Speaker 4: Sure, and on the beach.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're eating green drinks, green drinks, seaweed, seaweed mats and.
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Speaker 4: Stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Luca just never struck me as a seventy two
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Speaker 3: hour water fast guy. Oh no, No, however, Drew you
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Speaker 3: hit on it. The divorce guy diet, I think that
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Speaker 3: might be the issue. He's got talent or anything on
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Speaker 3: the separation issue going on. He's like, I need to
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Speaker 3: be getting into them hills and getting some getting some
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Speaker 3: conversations flowing in there.
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Speaker 5: That'll affect anybody enough where you don't need for a while.
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Speaker 5: I mean that, you know, that's a little anxiety. No,
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Speaker 5: I mean stuff, big stuff life. Stuff like that happens.
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Speaker 5: People usually have an anxiety about for a few weeks
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Speaker 5: and they get skinnier.
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Speaker 4: So sometimes.
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Speaker 5: But the thing is, it was funny to see on
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Speaker 5: ESPN's like, you know, I'm scouring the site in the
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Speaker 5: morning a little bit. Not to sound like an old guy,
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Speaker 5: but you know, I'm like, all right, let's see what's
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Speaker 5: going on and talking about Lebron's dunk and Lakers win, Like,
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Speaker 5: are people really paying.
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Speaker 4: Attention to that?
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Speaker 5: But look, SVP is talking about it right now, So
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Speaker 5: who am I to say. I mean, yeah, I'm walked
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Speaker 5: in on Miami Ohio SMU highlights. But hey, there's there's
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Speaker 5: other things going on still, but in his day, one
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Speaker 5: of the tournaments. So let's keep the main thing the
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Speaker 5: main thing, right, guys, this is the buffet now upon us?
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Speaker 1: Are we as jacked as the about this as we
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Speaker 1: normally would be, because it does seem weird not having
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Speaker 1: two local teams to pay attention to selection Sunday was
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Speaker 1: a little bit tough.
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Speaker 2: Tough for me, rang a little hollow, so it is
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Speaker 2: a little tough for you.
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Speaker 4: M little to say.
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Speaker 5: Obviously, I'm not as jacked as I can be, and
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Speaker 5: I've jack been jacked many more times over the years
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Speaker 5: for the tournament. I said that weirdly pause. Yes, I
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Speaker 5: had been much more jack for tournaments obviously in the past, right,
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Speaker 5: I mean, and we all love having more local teams in,
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Speaker 5: whether it be the years u WM got in or
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Speaker 5: you know, if you remember back.
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Speaker 3: To the Green.
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Speaker 5: Bay they did, and you know, listen, obviously Marquette for me.
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Speaker 5: But I think the difference is I've been processing for
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Speaker 5: three months that they're not gonna get in the tournament.
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Speaker 5: So it's like it's not one of those things where
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Speaker 5: they were a bubble team you were hoping Marquette was
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Speaker 5: pretty much out of it by Christmas, and in that sense,
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Speaker 5: you might have already been preparing yourself for it. Listen,
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Speaker 5: there was a time this year where I thought we'd
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Speaker 5: have maybe no local teams in the tournament, no state
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Speaker 5: teams in the tournament.
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Speaker 4: You were trying to pound the table on that. I
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Speaker 4: wasn't trying to pound the down.
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Speaker 5: I was just saying, everybody, you know, put up your alerts,
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Speaker 5: this is a problem right now. And the Badgers were
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Speaker 5: kind of wallowing in that pool a bit, but obviously
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Speaker 5: made a huge run the last two months and are
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Speaker 5: great in great shape with the five seed now. So
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Speaker 5: the juice isn't the same for me, but I would
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Speaker 5: imagine for Badger fans it's the same. I think it's
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Speaker 5: probably better when your rival's not in it. You know,
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Speaker 5: then you know you're the only team that you can win,
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Speaker 5: and you can dunk on your rival and things like that,
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Speaker 5: and yeah, I think the juice is there, especially because
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Speaker 5: the Badgers lead this thing off basically, you know.
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Speaker 4: That's the part.
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Speaker 3: Like not having a weight, Drew gives me a lot
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Speaker 3: reason to Fiel even more energy and excitement and ready
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Speaker 3: to roll in and not have to wait. Yes, the
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Speaker 3: waiting until nine thirty eight for them to tip off
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Speaker 3: against Colgate again. Couldn't have it, Oh yeah, couldn't be
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Speaker 3: sitting here waiting around until tomorrow night at nine thirty
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Speaker 3: eight to get James Madison, like, get this thing out
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Speaker 3: of the way right away, and a couple of Big
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Speaker 3: ten teams playing early with Nebraska Troy. I think it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be a fun game, so it should be very
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Speaker 3: very exciting. How many how many brackets do we make?
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Speaker 4: Drew? Do we make?
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Speaker 3: Fifteen twenty one? Where where are we at here on
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Speaker 3: the brack account? Zero at this juncture? Come on, now,
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Speaker 3: come on.
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Speaker 4: One brat? I got one and one bracket at that's enough.
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Speaker 5: All these nineteen bracket guys, listen, that's that's over.
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Speaker 1: Now to help you out. Did she get to some input,
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Speaker 1: because that's you got to let the kids.
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Speaker 4: Yes, one, you know what I did.
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Speaker 1: My kid asked me to help for a bracket was
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Speaker 1: as proud day as a parent. Yeah, smiling that fit.
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Speaker 5: I could have picked blocks. Maybe, I don't know what
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Speaker 5: I would have done it. She it's still a little
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Speaker 5: too young for this. Yeah, we know. We looked at
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Speaker 5: the logos for the one for the one Youngster. However,
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Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean, I didn't want to burst
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Speaker 5: his public.
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Speaker 3: Don't think Idaho's making it to the sweet sixteen, That's
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Speaker 3: that's the thing. However, he's got Wisconsin roll into the
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Speaker 3: final four, so I'm I'm into I'm into that thought.
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Speaker 3: He's got Florida winning at all. Cator looks like a
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Speaker 3: pretty cool animal. There's ways of being able to stack
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Speaker 3: this thing up, but in a year that it feels
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Speaker 3: like it might be just a tick less chalky than
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Speaker 3: it was a year ago. Man, there's still some really
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Speaker 3: really good teams at the top. There are still some
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Speaker 3: really really good teams right near the top that I'm
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Speaker 3: excited to be able to see, uh run through this thing.
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Speaker 3: I uh, Drew, I'm actually with you. I still have
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Speaker 3: not made a bracket now. I'm at some point it'll
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Speaker 3: probably get filled out here the show, during the show,
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Speaker 3: but it's more of just I've been looking at all
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Speaker 3: the different first half spreads and over unders that I
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Speaker 3: haven't even thought of trying to figure out a Sweet
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Speaker 3: sixteen or a Final four.
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Speaker 4: The more important, the more important bracket. And we're still.
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Speaker 2: Doing the whole looking for the perfect bracket thing? Is
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Speaker 2: it still it.
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Speaker 4: Still exists, but it's not going to happen. Do we
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Speaker 4: have the competition still?
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Speaker 3: Do they still give us a million dollars if we
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Speaker 3: get the perfect racket?
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Speaker 4: Like that?
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Speaker 6: Right?
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Speaker 4: Funny?
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Speaker 5: It is still a thing, the perfect bracket, And they
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Speaker 5: give a there's bracket contest that you can for free
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Speaker 5: enter when you when you do your egg your car.
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Speaker 1: I'll give you a million dollars anybody, and we'll set
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Speaker 1: up a little soccer ball here on our side of
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Speaker 1: Bradford Beach if you can kick it over the lake
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Speaker 1: to Michigan.
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Speaker 4: That's basically it's funny, give you a million dollars.
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Speaker 5: Funny you mention that because I made a decision this
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Speaker 5: year when I was filling out the bracket. Uh, well,
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Speaker 5: would do in the family bracket, you know, And by
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Speaker 5: the way, Laura committed a full PA.
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Speaker 4: You can't.
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Speaker 5: You can't fill out your bracket. Ask me about it
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Speaker 5: and then go back and change it before tournament starts.
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Speaker 4: But she did that. I thought you were locked in.
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Speaker 4: She can't do that, So what she didn't take all
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Speaker 4: of your advice? Is that what I'm hearing?
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Speaker 5: No, she took my advice and then used it to
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Speaker 5: change it. I'm not It's not cool. You already filled
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Speaker 5: out your bracket. You're not allowed to do that. You
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Speaker 5: know a how to change it.
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Speaker 4: Up if the game started yet she had at far.
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Speaker 5: I shouldn't have given her any help. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 5: competing with her in this bract anyway. Here's here's my
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Speaker 5: point though. All right, you're doing the bracket contest, You're
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Speaker 5: filling it on ESPN, and then they say at the end,
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Speaker 5: would you like to enter for free? Click this box
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Speaker 5: for all these different prizes, and then you realize you're
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Speaker 5: not gonna win in these prizes.
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Speaker 4: All you're gonna do is give them permission to use your.
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Speaker 5: Email, so you're gonna be getting emails and texts and
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Speaker 5: all these people call on your phone like nobody's business
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Speaker 5: block numbers. Ah No, I'm not doing that for you
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Speaker 5: know what. This is the first year. Yes, that's exactly right, Billy.
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Speaker 5: This is the first year, I decided, Drew and Billy,
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Speaker 5: that my desire to avoid spam is greater than my
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Speaker 5: desire for that one to ten million, like you said, Drew,
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Speaker 5: kicking it across the like chance to actually win a
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Speaker 5: national bracket contest and not gonna happen. So I unclicked,
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Speaker 5: unchecked all those boxes. I'm No'm not eligible for the
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Speaker 5: five hundred thousand dollars Tournament Challenge presented by Procter and Gamble.
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Speaker 3: I want you to let me know every single team
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Speaker 3: you picked today because I'm gonna put them all into
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Speaker 3: a parlay. And if this son of a gun goes
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Speaker 3: sixteen and now, could you fathom knowing that you were
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Speaker 3: this close that you would have been the leader in
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Speaker 3: the clubhouse with the perfect bracket.
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Speaker 4: That would have been nice to Yeah, that would have
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Speaker 4: been wild. You've been right there, You've been right there, arman.
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Speaker 5: That would have been me, And that probably will happen.
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Speaker 5: I'm sure it's like the one guy that doesn't buy
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Speaker 5: the lottery ticket at the at the office and they win.
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Speaker 2: You know, if you just waking up with us, where
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Speaker 2: have you been? We start?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Five sharp, perfect attendance.
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Speaker 1: We're fired up Live on nine to twenty in Milwaukee,
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Speaker 1: ten seventy Madison, everywhere on the iHeart happened in streaming
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Speaker 1: live on Facebook, YouTube, and the x X is going
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Speaker 1: to be popping today. A lot of people moon walking
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Speaker 1: away from their opinions that the Miami RedHawks did not
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Speaker 1: belong field of sixty eight.
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Speaker 3: Well, and I was glad Andy Enfeld grabbed himself a
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Speaker 3: little bit of the home game. Hard to win, hard
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Speaker 3: to win on the road in the tournament, hard to
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Speaker 3: win on the road in the tournament, great crowd, all
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Speaker 3: Miami of Ohio fans. I loved Travis Steele, head coach
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Speaker 3: of Miami of Ohio, drew saying.
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Speaker 4: People love upsets.
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Speaker 3: This wasn't an upset tonight, No at allbody's under dogs
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Speaker 3: at all. Where nobody's under doll were eight and six,
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Speaker 3: but they're thirty one. They won thirty two games. Now, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and listening to thanks to the Varsity app, which you
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Speaker 3: can find all Learfield calls on, I got to listen
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Speaker 3: to a tick of Redhawk's coverage last night.
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Speaker 4: They mustn't fired up, Billy huh their halftime show.
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Speaker 3: If you could, if sweat emanated through audio, you could
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Speaker 3: hear these boys sweating at half court. I mean they
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Speaker 3: were dialed in trying to figure out how do we
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Speaker 3: finish this next twenty minutes drew to get us to
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Speaker 3: the next round and devalidate everything that they had been talking.
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Speaker 3: And you're right, there were a lot of people saying, Man,
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Speaker 3: so good, I'm so glad they were in.
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Speaker 4: I'm so glad they're in. I said it the whole time.
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Speaker 4: They should have been in.
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Speaker 3: I said it the whole time they should have been
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Speaker 3: in because they ended up taking out a team in
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Speaker 3: a SMU who may or may not have had their
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Speaker 3: best player out. Yeah, however, you can only win the
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Speaker 3: game of the five players on the floor that you're
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Speaker 3: playing against.
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Speaker 4: And damn, when they got hot from three last night,
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Speaker 4: it was all over for the Mustangs.
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Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's that narrative. Will be buzzing until they
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Speaker 1: make their exit from the tournament fields, right, and that will.
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Speaker 4: Be totally that's the story.
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Speaker 2: Freezing cold takes will be.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 1: You know, they're fresh, they're serving them up fresh. Do
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Speaker 1: you think people are cheering against them? There are some
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Speaker 1: that might some maybe, but there are people cheer for
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Speaker 1: their predictions to be right.
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Speaker 6: An.
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Speaker 1: I'm like in the grand scheme. Who cares right?
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Speaker 4: I mean absolutely right, Drew. And that's the thing.
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Speaker 1: People there's like Auburn like the can we shut them up?
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Speaker 4: Or because that kid was hurt, and like.
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Speaker 5: That's the one thing I never I never had said
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Speaker 5: like that Auburn should be in because this and that,
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Speaker 5: Like I was to Oklahoma now playing in the college
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Speaker 5: Basketball Crown, the Crown Crown.
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Speaker 4: I mean like arguing for against a team to be
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Speaker 4: in base and the resume.
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Speaker 5: I get it, but like I wasn't like didn't care
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Speaker 5: about Auburn's or like didn't feel bad for Auburn at all.
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Speaker 5: And the thing is, I think, yeah, you're right, Drew.
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Speaker 5: People care in terms of they want to be right.
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Speaker 5: So especially these days and everything's on the internet, they
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Speaker 5: want to be able to go back and take a
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Speaker 5: lap and say I was right to all the people
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Speaker 5: they were arguing with that said like this team doesn't
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Speaker 5: belong this and that. So everyone's ego in Huberts was
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Speaker 5: on the line last night. But I've told myself I
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Speaker 5: tried not to be that guy. I do have a
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Speaker 5: lot of I'll have strong take some things, but I
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Speaker 5: don't want to be the guy that's only going to
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Speaker 5: care about, you know, being proven right because ultimately you're right, true,
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Speaker 5: it does, it doesn't matter. Thanks, I'm trying to have
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Speaker 5: personal growth, your abillity. But ultimately, Drew, you're absolutely right,
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Speaker 5: it doesn't matter. So Miami Ohio, they proved me wrong.
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Speaker 5: I thought they were gonna lose last night. So pretty impressive.
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Speaker 5: They played hard. Now I'm gonna say this, they did
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Speaker 5: their shot quality expected first half points was thirty and
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Speaker 5: a half. They outperformed that a lot, So they got
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Speaker 5: hot last night. Congratulations. I'm just saying that's no. I'm
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Speaker 5: not gonna I'm not gonna go right.
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Speaker 4: Did right quality chart.
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Speaker 5: I think I think the Dayton crowd helped them, which
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Speaker 5: is totally fine.
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Speaker 4: That's the way it's the way it goes for them.
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Speaker 5: They had a huge they had a huge boost from
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Speaker 5: the crowd, the Miami Ohause swim team and the speedos.
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Speaker 5: They were they were there behind the basket, you know
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Speaker 5: mess and with SMU's free throws, it was the site
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Speaker 5: to behold that.
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Speaker 4: If you didn't, if you were a guy like me
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Speaker 4: that you.
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Speaker 5: Know kind of was like poop pulling Miami Ohio and
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Speaker 5: said they shouldn't be here or their resume wasn't that
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Speaker 5: good and thought they'd lose. But you use that to
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Speaker 5: motivate you into like not enjoying last night. It's it's
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Speaker 5: too bad because last night was a great game, great performance,
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Speaker 5: and they're a good story. So congrats to Miami Ohio
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Speaker 5: and they're play and win and now they're moving on
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Speaker 5: to play to play again.
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Speaker 3: When you've got a guy dropping going six of nine
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Speaker 3: from downtown Trew, it's gonna be hard to get beat. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: And forty percent from distance in college is almost like
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Speaker 3: seventy percent, it feels like in the NBA game. But
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Speaker 3: once they got it Roland last night, you said it,
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Speaker 3: and I could not agree more. I saw a little
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Speaker 3: bit of the clap back, like, wow, everybody be able
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Speaker 3: to play if you play an hour away from where
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Speaker 3: you're at.
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Speaker 4: Sorry, you can't help that. That's just that's not my fault.
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Speaker 3: That's not my fault problem that you didn't want to
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Speaker 3: put us in Portland in a regular game. You could
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Speaker 3: have put us in Greenville, South Carolina if you wanted.
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Speaker 3: You said we were one of the first four. So
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Speaker 3: these are where the game are played. If you want
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Speaker 3: to start moving the first four round, go ahead, but like,
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Speaker 3: you can only do what is in front of you.
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Speaker 3: And it feels like that's been the clapback against Miami
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Speaker 3: of Ohio all year is like, well you haven't done this.
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Speaker 4: Well sorry, we weren't asked to, but we're just playing
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Speaker 4: the games that we're.
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Speaker 5: Going on to thirty one wins, yeah, and last night
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Speaker 5: was by their best win of the year. I mean
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Speaker 5: everyone said, well, we don't know what they do against
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Speaker 5: a better opponent, Well now we did. So when they
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Speaker 5: are proving themselves or at least to a certain extent,
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Speaker 5: you have to like give them the wreck was a
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Speaker 5: credit and stop trying to make excuses to explain it away.
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Speaker 5: Now they played Tennessee, different animal. Do I think they'll
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Speaker 5: be Tennessee? I don't, but you know what, They've earned
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Speaker 5: their shot now and I'll certainly walk in there waiting
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Speaker 5: are you going to see what they can do?
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Speaker 1: What parallels can we draw from that and that story
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Speaker 1: arc and what we're saying about Miami of Ohio or
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Speaker 1: Miami University of Oxford, Ohio a baby and what awaits
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Speaker 1: us today with high Point. There's a team that has
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Speaker 1: run it up, has hasn't lost a game in several weeks.
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Speaker 2: That's not Monte in a row.
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Speaker 1: Right, So we're teen n row playing the Badgers, a
14:59
Speaker 1: high tempo game, their Division I school.
15:01
Speaker 4: They're in the field.
15:01
Speaker 1: If you're in the field, you gotta be like, by definition,
15:04
Speaker 1: you got to be pretty good, right for sure? It's
15:06
Speaker 1: the old caught a wave in your conference tournament, totally
15:09
Speaker 1: the old ship and a chair conversation. And when you
15:12
Speaker 1: win thirty games, I don't care what conference you're playing in,
15:16
Speaker 1: you've you've been able to find that many w's and
15:19
Speaker 1: the explosiveness offensively, I think is the one where Armin's
15:23
Speaker 1: three point variant and most steal it from him right here.
15:26
Speaker 3: You know, last night it's one team shoots thirty nine percent,
15:28
Speaker 3: one team shoots twenty five. Both teams are gonna shoot
15:31
Speaker 3: what forty threes in this game? Thirty five forty threes
15:35
Speaker 3: in this game, And it's gonna come down to who
15:38
Speaker 3: can can get rolling. And if you don't have the
15:41
Speaker 3: confidence of those top guards, it could be a different story.
15:45
Speaker 3: I I didn't anticipate, guys in our conversation when we
15:48
Speaker 3: first started breaking down this bracket.
15:49
Speaker 4: I don't know.
15:50
Speaker 3: One hundred does a phenomenal job is going to join us,
15:52
Speaker 3: coming up at seven o'clock talks and brewers with us
15:55
Speaker 3: with our our clips and.
15:56
Speaker 4: Our reels and things like that.
15:59
Speaker 3: I really upset some Arkansas Razorback alum the other day
16:04
Speaker 3: when we were talking about this pairing, and I thought
16:06
Speaker 3: that it was a good.
16:06
Speaker 4: Group for the Badgers. Let's go, it was a good
16:09
Speaker 4: group for the Badgers. On Twitter, the X on the IG,
16:12
Speaker 4: oh come on now on instamo from Bobby portis.
16:16
Speaker 3: Dude, I'm getting Darius acuffed all over the place. I
16:20
Speaker 3: mean this, My man dropped like twenty five memes on me,
16:25
Speaker 3: and even to the point where there was a buddy
16:28
Speaker 3: from Arkansas that said, hey man, you even go to
16:30
Speaker 3: school here like I was. I'm like, hey, all due
16:34
Speaker 3: respect to the Razorback, I'm not trying to say anything else,
16:37
Speaker 3: Tyson Chicken. I'm talking more about the high point game.
16:40
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get get across one bridge first. We're
16:42
Speaker 3: trying to cross one bridge before you go to the
16:44
Speaker 3: next one. Uh.
16:46
Speaker 5: But should have gone all in and just ripping on Arkansas.
16:48
Speaker 5: I mean, let's be honest, that's one state we don't need, right,
16:51
Speaker 5: Let's be honest.
16:52
Speaker 4: I talk about what.
16:54
Speaker 3: I think that Nebraska is the one. Like, if we
16:57
Speaker 3: got to host something, throw it in Lincoln, what does
16:59
Speaker 3: it matter? Well, we'll figure it out. But yeah, so
17:02
Speaker 3: there's there's some hot contention going on there in the
17:04
Speaker 3: Portland in the Portland squad.
17:06
Speaker 4: I'm excited to see it.
17:07
Speaker 5: Well, it is funny to see what algorithms you end
17:09
Speaker 5: up finding yourself into now with this new way X work. So, uh,
17:12
Speaker 5: that's pretty good, Billy. And it's gonna get real hot
17:14
Speaker 5: if both teams go chalk and then we actually play them, like,
17:17
Speaker 5: you know, but Arkansas has gotta win their first game.
17:19
Speaker 5: So I think the best scenario for you, Billy would
17:23
Speaker 5: be obviously the Badgers winning today and then when Arkansas
17:25
Speaker 5: loses to Hawaii, just ripping on all those guys being like, hey,
17:29
Speaker 5: you weren't even good enough to come play us, you know,
17:32
Speaker 5: go back to Arkansas.
17:33
Speaker 4: So that's the one.
17:34
Speaker 1: Big Rent Just dos rent, just do what?
17:40
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I love it.
17:41
Speaker 3: I mean like there were some phenomenal, phenomenal gifts that
17:44
Speaker 3: are getting thrown my way into that conversation sue for
17:47
Speaker 3: Billy today. I liked it and I didn't I didn't
17:51
Speaker 3: know if like they thought that there was still some
17:53
Speaker 3: bad blood with the Beatles.
17:54
Speaker 2: It.
17:55
Speaker 4: I don't know.
17:56
Speaker 3: Maybe, I mean I think I think we're all I
17:57
Speaker 3: think we're all cool with the To get our buddy Jocko,
18:00
Speaker 3: Mike Jockstall way in because he worked in Arkansas, he's.
18:04
Speaker 4: He's that's true. You might be able to give us
18:05
Speaker 4: the Holuits in woopig Sully.
18:07
Speaker 1: He might know, like what what line Billy stepped across here?
18:13
Speaker 3: I love calling the hogs. I'm all about doing that.
18:15
Speaker 3: I'm calling the dogs, calling the hogs. Whatever we can
18:18
Speaker 3: do down.
18:18
Speaker 5: South, dogs, dogs, lambs, rams, greens, beans.
18:22
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
18:23
Speaker 1: We can have all of it here today on a day.
18:26
Speaker 1: Well that's a hell of a start to the ends.
18:28
Speaker 1: You mentioned our pal Hunter Bombguard. He joins us at
18:30
Speaker 1: seven o'clock. Talk a little Brewers, as we are. We're
18:34
Speaker 1: one week away, right.
18:36
Speaker 3: That just does not seem right, But we are one
18:38
Speaker 3: week away, week away from both ready to go Brewers
18:41
Speaker 3: breaking camp this weekend, coming home for a couple exhibition games,
18:45
Speaker 3: and then firing up the championship season for twenty twenty six.
18:48
Speaker 1: Well, here we are. We've made it. We made I
18:51
Speaker 1: was gonna melt today. You can feel it's getting warmer out.
18:53
Speaker 1: Snow is gonna be melting like crazy.
18:55
Speaker 3: We can almost see the concrete in the Yeah, the
18:58
Speaker 3: parking lot here, which is cool.
18:59
Speaker 4: That getting there.
19:00
Speaker 1: Yep, the icy finger of winter gave us one last
19:02
Speaker 1: prostate exam and now we're ready to go on.
19:05
Speaker 4: We're on it.
19:06
Speaker 5: They took the they took the arm and strategy in
19:09
Speaker 5: the parking lot that I fantasized about, like it'll probably
19:11
Speaker 5: melt by the end of the week.
19:12
Speaker 4: We're just gonna leave it.
19:13
Speaker 1: And he's been He adjusted his parking spot because it
19:16
Speaker 1: was snowed in, so he had to move his parking space.
19:18
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable to me that they didn't figure that out.
19:21
Speaker 1: Just I mean plow that part of the lot where
19:23
Speaker 1: Armond parks. The lifestyle change it had for me. Not
19:28
Speaker 1: all heroes were capes. We're sorrying.
19:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're really proud of you for battling through the adversity.
19:33
Speaker 2: Man. We're glad you're hanging out with us on this
19:36
Speaker 2: glorious day in the good line.
19:38
Speaker 1: What's your strategy for today, what's your strategy for brackets.
19:40
Speaker 1: We'll discuss that as we move forward. Dolph joins us
19:42
Speaker 1: at halftime. It's the usual stuff, but not because it's
19:46
Speaker 1: a great day in sports. It's a great day on
19:48
Speaker 1: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
19:55
Speaker 4: Five seconds ran off the clock.
19:59
Speaker 6: Inside he's got to take it straight away. It's to
20:12
Speaker 6: the bottle.
20:17
Speaker 4: Sorry to play that coming back show. That's some growth
20:21
Speaker 4: right there. I'm here to pro for the people.
20:23
Speaker 1: I'll do my chocra ring out Ahoya aside for the
20:26
Speaker 1: fan base out some.
20:28
Speaker 5: Great Badgers, a lot of great Badgers turnment moments, trying
20:31
Speaker 5: to find as many as I can come back with today.
20:33
Speaker 1: Day one of the NCAA tournament and Ernest, Yes, we
20:36
Speaker 1: had playing games and Dayton, but the actual brackets start today.
20:39
Speaker 2: It's the Thursday. It's what everybody points to.
20:41
Speaker 1: Nobody takes off for Tuesday and Wednesday of tournament week,
20:44
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday, right, if you're doing it right? Eight
20:47
Speaker 1: seven seven seven nine, Nicola, Look, I'm talking text line.
20:51
Speaker 1: What's your strategy for today? Did you finagle it to
20:53
Speaker 1: get the day off? If you were thinking about taking
20:56
Speaker 1: Thursday or Friday off? For some it's easier to take
20:58
Speaker 1: Friday off because that's a day a lot of people
21:00
Speaker 1: very much show off. Yes, but the Badgers play today,
21:03
Speaker 1: So what's the move. Is it to suck it up today,
21:06
Speaker 1: work through the Badger game, and then like enjoy like
21:10
Speaker 1: happy hour tonight and take tomorrow off. Or does it
21:12
Speaker 1: take today and enjoy the Badgers and roll into today
21:16
Speaker 1: and then you bluff your way through a hungover Friday
21:18
Speaker 1: at work.
21:19
Speaker 2: See what's the move?
21:20
Speaker 3: I always think that it's more fun to really fool
21:23
Speaker 3: them tomorrow, right like, and just know that you've got
21:26
Speaker 3: one day in the bank and had the most fun possible.
21:29
Speaker 4: Tomorrow, you roll in a little bit.
21:31
Speaker 3: Later, you spend a lot of time at the coffee
21:32
Speaker 3: machine or the water cooler, and by eleven, you're hitting
21:35
Speaker 3: that boss button on the NC DOUBLEA app and you're
21:38
Speaker 3: feeling really good about that one Penske file spreadsheet that
21:41
Speaker 3: you pull up every single time anybody actually walks by.
21:44
Speaker 5: Yes, and the schedule is different than it used to be.
21:47
Speaker 5: I mean, there's more games at night now than there
21:49
Speaker 5: is in the daytime than there used to be. The
21:51
Speaker 5: NCAA tournament, But I agree with Billy a little bit
21:53
Speaker 5: in terms of you got to know your business all right. Obviously,
21:56
Speaker 5: if you're doing something like maybe construction where you're at
21:59
Speaker 5: a site.
21:59
Speaker 4: Working outside, you got.
22:00
Speaker 5: To be we don't want you hitting the boss bot,
22:02
Speaker 5: and you got to be off to actually watch the games.
22:04
Speaker 5: But if you're in the right kind of office and
22:06
Speaker 5: the right kind of situation, it's almost better to be
22:10
Speaker 5: at work because this is the day everybody's going to
22:12
Speaker 5: be slow walking it and watching games.
22:14
Speaker 1: I was just talking to a friend of ours from
22:16
Speaker 1: one of the stations down the hall, and uh, it
22:20
Speaker 1: was it wasn't that long ago in this very building
22:22
Speaker 1: here at headquarters there would be a bloody Mary bar
22:27
Speaker 1: and wee I don't pizzas. Oh yeah, I mean we've
22:33
Speaker 1: been hollowed out. That was ten years ago. Things were
22:35
Speaker 1: a lot different pre COVID.
22:37
Speaker 5: And you know what, they're trying to get people a
22:39
Speaker 5: lot of officer, they're trying to get people.
22:41
Speaker 4: To come hearing food in the workplace.
22:42
Speaker 2: I want a culture that was for the culture.
22:45
Speaker 1: You want people to work on Thursday during the tournament
22:47
Speaker 1: and Friday, well, make make it part of the work day.
22:51
Speaker 4: Everybody.
22:52
Speaker 1: We have been watching games. There's no bracket contest that
22:56
Speaker 1: I'm aware of in the office. Then again, we're not
22:57
Speaker 1: really We're kind of isolated given our hours and stuff.
23:01
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, if you want to build the culture,
23:04
Speaker 1: that's one way to do it. The best way. We're
23:06
Speaker 1: read today for the Badgers. If you're you know at
23:09
Speaker 1: x y Z Corp.
23:10
Speaker 5: Yeah, everyone's trying to get people back to the office.
23:12
Speaker 5: This is this is one way to do it. All
23:14
Speaker 5: the game's on.
23:15
Speaker 4: What we have.
23:15
Speaker 5: Everyone's got millions of screens now up, fine, I party.
23:19
Speaker 5: This is in nineteen ninety six when you had one
23:21
Speaker 5: TV and the teacher's eight office and that guy rolled
23:23
Speaker 5: it in, you know.
23:24
Speaker 4: And somebody rolled in the TV.
23:25
Speaker 3: Which's kid, are never going to know the electricity at
23:28
Speaker 3: that moment, never never.
23:29
Speaker 5: Know the one guy I think, mister k I think
23:32
Speaker 5: the health teacher of the business.
23:35
Speaker 2: Before the Brewers games were on TV.
23:36
Speaker 1: Again, our our teacher fourth grade, he's putting a radio
23:40
Speaker 1: for opening Day and.
23:41
Speaker 4: We listened to the game.
23:41
Speaker 1: That's when we did a whole unit of him teaching
23:43
Speaker 1: us how to score like a logical thing of that
23:45
Speaker 1: is so kids, we did a whole hour edukas how
23:48
Speaker 1: you keep score of the game, and while the game
23:50
Speaker 1: was happening, we all kept score.
23:51
Speaker 2: He did it on the chalkboard, we did it in
23:52
Speaker 2: our own notebooks. It was kind of cool.
23:54
Speaker 3: It was missus gem and Yanni, who was my sixth
23:57
Speaker 3: grade teacher, English teacher. She was the first one to say, hey, Billy,
24:00
Speaker 3: you should probably try to figure out how to talk
24:02
Speaker 3: sports because you can't do anything else. But you're really
24:04
Speaker 3: you're really good at You're really good at this good advice.
24:06
Speaker 4: You're really good at this, so you should keep trying
24:08
Speaker 4: to do this.
24:09
Speaker 6: Uh.
24:09
Speaker 3: And she was the one that again people were like,
24:12
Speaker 3: would always give her the side eye at.
24:13
Speaker 4: Saint Mary's Paris School. We can't be watching games basketball.
24:17
Speaker 4: We need to have religion class. What are we talking
24:20
Speaker 4: about here?
24:21
Speaker 3: And she would wheeld that that big old stanchion into
24:24
Speaker 3: the room. Before the day of smartboard, Now, I don't
24:27
Speaker 3: even know if you're gonna get that electricity when you
24:29
Speaker 3: flip the HDMI on the smartboard to two and all
24:32
Speaker 3: of a sudden cable pops up, or you're just firing
24:35
Speaker 3: up YouTube TV. It's not nearly as as good, but
24:38
Speaker 3: that feeling of knowing, man, we're gonna get forty five
24:43
Speaker 3: minutes here where everybody else walking down the hall looking
24:46
Speaker 3: through that little sliver of the window.
24:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're playing, they're watching, they're watching games of the games.
24:53
Speaker 3: From there, Yeah, that's not fair and then trying to
24:55
Speaker 3: like weasele their way in during the passing periods.
24:58
Speaker 4: What a great, great moment of a teacher able to
25:00
Speaker 4: do that today.
25:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely need to know your strategy for your brackets
25:04
Speaker 1: perhaps or even just today, how you how you working
25:07
Speaker 1: it today to get the maximum viewing of the tournament.
25:11
Speaker 1: And this is where again the existential crisis.
25:14
Speaker 4: Time moves on.
25:16
Speaker 1: But I'm convinced in some way, somehow the tournament used
25:19
Speaker 1: to be better, like a little TV thing that I
25:22
Speaker 1: asked you, what's your favorite tournament memory? And I remember
25:25
Speaker 1: it going back to before you could watch every game,
25:28
Speaker 1: before you had to go hunt for true TV. That's
25:30
Speaker 1: the you know, the annual rite of passage where the
25:32
Speaker 1: hell is true TV? I had a hell of time
25:34
Speaker 1: logging in hell is it? I had a hell of
25:36
Speaker 1: a time logging it, you know, like that that whole
25:40
Speaker 1: finding the games thing. Yeah, always tough, always tough. But
25:43
Speaker 1: when it was when there wasn't that and you had
25:45
Speaker 1: one channel showing games. They debuted like twenty five years
25:49
Speaker 1: ago they soft launched the Red Zone channel, and it
25:53
Speaker 1: felt like you were watching.
25:54
Speaker 4: Every game even though you were only on one channel.
25:56
Speaker 1: It felt like you knew the tournament, like, let's go
25:58
Speaker 1: now to the East region, let's go to Lexington, and
26:01
Speaker 1: they would take you there and they would dump out
26:03
Speaker 1: of games that were bad, which you know, no no problem.
26:08
Speaker 4: Laws wasn't local teams up by thirty you don't?
26:11
Speaker 1: You know?
26:11
Speaker 4: You know the original Scott Hansen, he was the question.
26:16
Speaker 1: So I look at the tournament and then I again,
26:19
Speaker 1: I go and then you look at the ball and
26:22
Speaker 1: there's been years where I watch it and you watch
26:25
Speaker 1: the end of game execution, and you're just like, how
26:27
Speaker 1: can it be this bad? How can it be like this?
26:29
Speaker 1: You know, how can the product be this bad? And
26:31
Speaker 1: I've seen games where you just go, this isn't a
26:33
Speaker 1: great game. And it is different, it's a different entity.
26:36
Speaker 1: It's still great, but is it as great as it was?
26:39
Speaker 2: I don't know.
26:39
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just the fog of being getting older and
26:42
Speaker 1: you say everything was better when you were younger.
26:43
Speaker 3: You will always have a little bit more wistful thought
26:46
Speaker 3: of of what used to be. I think there was
26:49
Speaker 3: also just some true unknown about all of these teams, right,
26:53
Speaker 3: because it like, uh, we had our friend pete'sa at
26:56
Speaker 3: Wisconsin's this disowning or Billy's dis owning Wisconsin if they
27:00
Speaker 3: can lose to some random high Point school nobody knew
27:02
Speaker 3: existed until now. That's not good and I'm right there
27:06
Speaker 3: with you. But the thing is, you could probably have
27:08
Speaker 3: watched every high Point game in conference this year if
27:11
Speaker 3: you have the ESPN plus app right and like the
27:13
Speaker 3: accessibility to see some of these teams. You had no
27:17
Speaker 3: way of watching Northern Arizona for twenty five thirty years.
27:21
Speaker 3: Now that was part of the excitement. You very much
27:23
Speaker 3: could see every single one. So that part of it
27:25
Speaker 3: you'll never get back. And I'm with you, Drew, like
27:27
Speaker 3: that part of the unique, complete unknown we won't see
27:32
Speaker 3: because there will be one hardcore guys as well. Actually,
27:35
Speaker 3: Ken Palm has had Akron as one of the thirty
27:38
Speaker 3: eight best teams in basketball all year long, and now
27:41
Speaker 3: we actually know what's happening there with Akron in the set.
27:44
Speaker 5: What we do we do And the thing is, you know,
27:45
Speaker 5: high Point's been in the tournament the last couple of years.
27:48
Speaker 5: The thing, I think that for some people that kind
27:51
Speaker 5: of dulled maybe the some of the energy some team
27:55
Speaker 5: some fans might have had when they're trying to pick
27:57
Speaker 5: a random upset, especially at twelve five. About high high
28:00
Speaker 5: Point is that they, you know, were a sexy pick
28:02
Speaker 5: last year and Purdue beat the drums out of them.
28:04
Speaker 5: So yeah, I think that that definitely dulls the excitement
28:08
Speaker 5: about for somebody, because you know, people are out there
28:10
Speaker 5: trying to pick up sets all the time. They become
28:13
Speaker 5: experts this time of year, and I think this team's
28:15
Speaker 5: gonna win this and that. But yeah, it's funny when
28:18
Speaker 5: Pete says that, because I don't see many people saying
28:20
Speaker 5: high Point could even be an upset pick.
28:22
Speaker 1: So well, see, you never know in the tournament. Here's
28:24
Speaker 1: the thing that that's where we get into it. And yeah,
28:27
Speaker 1: all right, you're gonna be mad, Like if they Batters
28:29
Speaker 1: don't win, does it mean Greg Guard should be fired?
28:31
Speaker 1: You've watched this season, You've seen what he's done over
28:33
Speaker 1: recent years. Right, Have the bat Batters had a good season?
28:36
Speaker 1: Clearly they had a great body of work, good body
28:38
Speaker 1: of work. They won games. Now did they stub their
28:41
Speaker 1: toe a bunch of times?
28:41
Speaker 2: Yeah? Sure?
28:42
Speaker 1: Could they have been a higher seed And if they
28:44
Speaker 1: lose today, it's like, well, if they'd been a higher seat,
28:46
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have to play. Well, you got to play
28:47
Speaker 1: who was on in front of you, right, But uh
28:50
Speaker 1: as as you watch it, it could happen.
28:52
Speaker 2: They could lose today.
28:53
Speaker 1: But I still think that this has been a pretty
28:55
Speaker 1: successful season and all you can do is all you
28:58
Speaker 1: can do, and they're going into the tournament if Nolan
29:00
Speaker 1: Winter is healthy. I don't know, Janicky may or may
29:03
Speaker 1: not be waiting in the wings to make an appearance
29:05
Speaker 1: at some point. But they're pretty healthy and they're playing
29:08
Speaker 1: pretty good ball. Like the last couple of weeks, they
29:10
Speaker 1: played pretty good ball. They're the point where no one
29:12
Speaker 1: wants to play it.
29:13
Speaker 4: Now.
29:13
Speaker 1: Could they lose today or could they lose and get
29:16
Speaker 1: boat raced by Arkansas on Saturday?
29:19
Speaker 2: Sure, but what does that do with the season.
29:21
Speaker 1: Again, it's a small sample, it's a random it's a randomizer,
29:25
Speaker 1: it's a tournament that's built on upsets. It's winner go home,
29:28
Speaker 1: so anything can happen. But I still think I'm I'll
29:32
Speaker 1: be surprised if the bat I'll put it. I'll be
29:34
Speaker 1: shocked if the Batterers lose today. It's not surprised if
29:37
Speaker 1: they don't make it to the second weekend. Because Arkansas
29:39
Speaker 1: is pretty good. That's not easy to win in the tournament. Well,
29:41
Speaker 1: it's not easy to get to the second weekend. But
29:43
Speaker 1: but then it's like, okay, big picture, how mad should
29:46
Speaker 1: we be? Let's calibrate our anger and discuss a lot
29:50
Speaker 1: of it depends on how they play. We've seen it before.
29:52
Speaker 1: If the batters aren't hitting threes, they're susceptible. To Parkside, right,
29:57
Speaker 1: it can get ugly. That's the reality. They're not hitting threes.
30:00
Speaker 1: If they're if they have a bad shooting day, they're susceptible.
30:03
Speaker 1: If they're hitting threes, they can win the whole thing.
30:06
Speaker 4: They have very much.
30:07
Speaker 1: That's what you want, And it's I again, I'm like,
30:10
Speaker 1: will it okay? I'm trying to imagine tomorrow's show if
30:13
Speaker 1: the Badgers lose, right, and it's like, whoa.
30:17
Speaker 4: How mad?
30:17
Speaker 5: So?
30:17
Speaker 4: How mad will I be?
30:18
Speaker 1: How I need to calibrate my outrage because I'm not
30:21
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not. I can't envision a place even if
30:24
Speaker 1: they got even if they lose by thirty, I'm not
30:26
Speaker 1: gonna come on the open the microm Mark and say
30:28
Speaker 1: Greg Guard's gotta go.
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Speaker 5: But that was gonna be stun Yeah, that'll be stunning,
30:31
Speaker 5: But that'll be the emotional response from a lot of
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Speaker 5: fans who value March, and understandably so.
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Speaker 1: Saying should shock ago because they didn't make the term
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Speaker 1: and they lost twenty games.
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Speaker 5: I mean, this is the time of year if you're
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Speaker 5: a passionate fan that it matters what happens now. So
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Speaker 5: there's gonna be a point where it's like, well, you
30:46
Speaker 5: should get it done now, and that's what you should
30:47
Speaker 5: be judged on. But I think there are more of
30:50
Speaker 5: that say listen that that's not what you should only
30:52
Speaker 5: be judged on, because it's not. It's the miamic, the
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Speaker 5: short sided way of looking at it. But that's what
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Speaker 5: it's a little.
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Speaker 1: It's analogous to last year's per season. Yes, incredible time.
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Speaker 1: They led the major leagues and wins. They made it
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Speaker 1: to the NLCS and got boat raced and were uncompetitive
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Speaker 1: and got steamrolled.
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Speaker 2: Yeah in a four game suite.
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Speaker 1: All right, So did that negate the other parts of
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Speaker 1: the season that we enjoyed and that we liked or
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Speaker 1: did you know?
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Speaker 2: Can you separate the two? Probably not. They didn't get there,
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Speaker 2: they didn't get they didn't win.
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Speaker 1: Well, okay, well I'm old enough to remember when making
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Speaker 1: the NCS would be a big enough deal to have a.
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Speaker 3: Parade, Yeah, when we would be celebrating at the stat
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Speaker 3: at the Summerfest grounds and throwing a big old party.
31:29
Speaker 3: I also equated it drew almost to like the twenty
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Speaker 3: sixteen Packers when they go down to Atlanta. If anybody
31:34
Speaker 3: thought they were winning that game, I got, I got
31:36
Speaker 3: a great beach front property for you in Montana.
31:39
Speaker 4: Like, there's not a whole.
31:40
Speaker 3: Lot that you're going to be doing there in that
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Speaker 3: run for the Badgers, like in the last four or
31:45
Speaker 3: five years, if it would be the you know, well,
31:48
Speaker 3: let's let's do it cliche.
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Speaker 4: Sports Radio time.
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Speaker 3: Eight seven seven seven nine four one nine seven three.
31:54
Speaker 3: Is this second weekend or bust for the Wisconsin Badgers
31:57
Speaker 3: or should Greg Garby fired if they don't go to
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Speaker 3: the second weekend? Like out of the last three or
32:02
Speaker 3: four years, I think you probably could have made that case,
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Speaker 3: the least for this year, even though I probably feel
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Speaker 3: better about them going into this year's tournament than those
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Speaker 3: other ones.
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Speaker 2: Because of the backcourt. They're playing great.
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Speaker 5: But sports people focus a lot about you know, did
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Speaker 5: you underachiever overachieve? But they always leave out the middle
32:21
Speaker 5: like they always sometimes you can just achieve like like,
32:24
Speaker 5: So I think that there's a part of that too.
32:26
Speaker 5: I you know, when when Marquette was playing Vermont two
32:29
Speaker 5: years ago, Billy I was just talking about this yesterday.
32:32
Speaker 4: They had a great year.
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Speaker 5: But I think it would have been a failure to
32:34
Speaker 5: lose to a fifteenth seed Vermont. But I think the
32:37
Speaker 5: failure is less. So when you lose to Michigan State
32:39
Speaker 5: in the second round, does that make sense? There's a
32:40
Speaker 5: level of you're definitely underachieve if you get upset in
32:43
Speaker 5: that first round, that is a disappointment if you're a
32:46
Speaker 5: higher or lower seed how.
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Speaker 4: You look at it.
32:48
Speaker 5: But if you do, But if you lose to a
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Speaker 5: comparable team in the second round, close game. Last year,
32:52
Speaker 5: the Badgers lost to BYU john Tonjay was one shot away.
32:55
Speaker 5: They didn't play badly, they weren't embarrassing, they weren't disappointing.
32:58
Speaker 5: They lost a close game to a team in the
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Speaker 5: second round of the tournament. That's achieving. That's what happens.
33:03
Speaker 5: That's normal results. So I agree with you there, No, Yeah,
33:07
Speaker 5: if you get if you get blown out by a
33:09
Speaker 5: team and people think you should beat it's a different reaction.
33:12
Speaker 3: More than any reason why you can't lose today is
33:14
Speaker 3: because you will then be the highlight sizzle reel all
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Speaker 3: tournament long. Yeah, because it means you're probably getting goalkeyed
33:20
Speaker 3: right Like this Cat number ninety nine is gonna go unconscious,
33:24
Speaker 3: Chase Chase Johnston, and he's gonna throw the sweater and
33:28
Speaker 3: tie it around his neck and walk off like it
33:30
Speaker 3: just sounds like the preppiest name you possibly could have
33:32
Speaker 3: at the country club.
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Speaker 4: That's gonna be a bad feeling.
33:35
Speaker 3: That's gonna be maybe the most painful part, Drew, because
33:37
Speaker 3: you'd have to relive it. So you can't lose today.
33:40
Speaker 3: Then all bets are off, I think on Saturday. But
33:42
Speaker 3: most importantly, you can't lose today because I want to
33:44
Speaker 3: talk to matl of Pay tomorrow.
33:46
Speaker 4: I want to talk to Matlin.
33:46
Speaker 3: Pay tomorrow and have him be in a good mood,
33:48
Speaker 3: or maybe later on today because of the time change.
33:50
Speaker 3: We'll figure something out. But I want to be able
33:52
Speaker 3: to hear the voice of the Badgers. Yes, previewing another game.
33:56
Speaker 3: I'm not ready for this thing.
33:57
Speaker 2: Let's get it.
33:57
Speaker 1: It's the first day of the tournament, old baby, We're
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Speaker 1: just the pregame show. We're the order, We're the appetizer,
34:03
Speaker 1: the waken Bakers, if you will, We're the little weenis
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Speaker 1: glad you're hanging out with us on the huddle. Fox
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 5: It's tune the gold stick to.
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Speaker 4: The Sweet sixteen. Jamie's got it, grinds yourself.
34:20
Speaker 1: It's God, It's gone Westconson, How's lot it? What a
34:35
Speaker 1: great call by Brian Anderson arm In bringing us back
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Speaker 1: with the Badger's highlights the first day of the NCAA
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Speaker 1: Tournament March Madness is upon us on this nineteenth of March.
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Speaker 2: In the good line Drew.
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Speaker 1: Billy and arm bringing it to you from headquarters eight
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Speaker 1: seven seven, seven nine four one ninety seven three nicolayla
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Speaker 1: the sidelines in Buffalo today because his voice was so
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Speaker 1: cashed on Tuesday when he's working with bar Vitale that
35:02
Speaker 1: they decided to give him breather and they went to
35:04
Speaker 1: the bullpen for a promising young broadcaster named Jason Bennetti.
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Speaker 4: Who oh, I've heard of him before.
35:08
Speaker 3: Fantastic, Yeah, I've heard of him before. So soon to
35:11
Speaker 3: be Sunday Night Baseball. One of the best lead uh,
35:14
Speaker 3: lead broadcaster, which I think is.
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Speaker 4: Gonna be awesome, awesome.
35:16
Speaker 2: Absolute best.
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Speaker 1: So Jason Bennetti that so it's that's a pretty good
35:20
Speaker 1: fill in, good opportunity for him to bump for BA
35:23
Speaker 1: because he looks forward to that four game, you know that.
35:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that exam. Yeah, it's things for us now.
35:31
Speaker 3: I will say, uh, we do need to find somehow
35:34
Speaker 3: for them to call I don't know the match or whatever.
35:37
Speaker 3: Brian Anderson, Dick Vitale, Charles Barker, let's go.
35:41
Speaker 4: We need it.
35:41
Speaker 3: We need to get that trio again because that was
35:44
Speaker 3: phenomenal of Brian Anderson. Still a little bit dinged, but
35:48
Speaker 3: he was playing a phenomenal point guard referee. Also, just
35:52
Speaker 3: like student aid teacher, it felt like in the middle
35:54
Speaker 3: there of like, hey, guys, can you just wind out
35:56
Speaker 3: for one second, just to give me one quick second
35:59
Speaker 3: one to tell him who scored the last seventeen points?
36:01
Speaker 3: Like that was just too good. We need them in
36:03
Speaker 3: another setting, the madness of March. Does it bring us
36:06
Speaker 3: more of a maddening or crazy look than what Jonathan
36:09
Speaker 3: Kaminga did last night? Did you guys see this one
36:12
Speaker 3: from the Atlanta Hawks now Star where he accidentally hit
36:16
Speaker 3: a full quarter court shot. Look like he's trying to
36:19
Speaker 3: base He's trying to baseball pass this thing up the
36:22
Speaker 3: floor to an alley oop, and instead from the other
36:26
Speaker 3: lane drops it in. Now, I'd be interested to hear
36:30
Speaker 3: how a college basketball announcer would be calling this one
36:32
Speaker 3: here today. But there's gonna be some There's gonna be
36:35
Speaker 3: one or two shots here today that I don't know
36:37
Speaker 3: that it's gonna go full Kevin Harlan style where it
36:39
Speaker 3: looks like he's falling out of his chair.
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Speaker 2: But there's gonna be some phenomenal, phenomenal calls.
36:43
Speaker 4: Now, that's the thing. That's the thing about the first
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Speaker 4: two days.
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Speaker 5: The term is you know you're gonna be blessed when
36:47
Speaker 5: you wake up with some great moments somewhere.
36:50
Speaker 4: I mean you you almost always are.
36:52
Speaker 5: And then when we don't get those, that's when it
36:54
Speaker 5: becomes disappointing for people. So yeah, I would say we're
36:57
Speaker 5: gonna get it somewhere. You just hope it's not you
36:59
Speaker 5: that gets that gets you know, that gets miracled or
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Speaker 5: whatever like that.
37:03
Speaker 4: Especially when you're a higher seed.
37:04
Speaker 1: But last year was all chalk. We had four number
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Speaker 1: one seeds advanced to the final four. People like that
37:10
Speaker 1: as long as there's upsets along the way, as long
37:12
Speaker 1: as you get a five to twelve, not High Point Wisconsin.
37:15
Speaker 1: But if you get a five to twelve, you're mixing
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Speaker 1: some upsets. Somebody was saying, when's the last time we
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Speaker 1: had an actual buzzer beater, like a shot with you know,
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Speaker 1: no time ended the game? Yeah, ended the game. It's
37:26
Speaker 1: been a couple of years. I'm sure we're just forgetting because,
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Speaker 1: like you, we make a shot now and it's like, oh,
37:30
Speaker 1: there's point three lefter, there's point five left or something,
37:33
Speaker 1: but an actual walk off that's the last shot of
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Speaker 1: the game, like buzzer beater. Sadly, I'm thinking, aren't it
37:41
Speaker 1: seems to be you get one or two every years.
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Speaker 3: As we think the ones that I'm remembering Jordan Poole's
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Speaker 3: from Michigan as he hit that thing when time expired
37:52
Speaker 3: and that sent them to the to the sweet sixteen, right,
37:54
Speaker 3: but that was I mean, dang, you're already looking at
37:57
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen for that one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's been a while.
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Speaker 5: College Basketball Reference has a list of them, but I
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Speaker 5: don't know if any of these my melos Uzan had
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Speaker 5: one last year, is that correct? In the in the
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Speaker 5: Houston purduing the six Florida Derek Queen had the buzzer
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Speaker 5: beater last year from Derek Queen.
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Speaker 4: Yep, that was one.
38:17
Speaker 3: I remember.
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Speaker 4: I'm from I'm kind of from Baltimore.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Amar Knox in the sixteen sixteen I do remember
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Speaker 5: that in the sixteen sixteen playing there was a buzzerbeater.
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Speaker 5: I don't if you count that. You know that if
38:28
Speaker 5: we don't count the playing as a as a turn.
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Speaker 3: Twenty sixteen playing isn't even showing like man, there's it
38:34
Speaker 3: doesn't happen as often necessarily as you would as you
38:37
Speaker 3: would think.
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Speaker 4: Good call them at Jordan Poole.
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Speaker 5: But you're right though, Drew like a true buzzer beater
38:41
Speaker 5: where it where the horn goes off mid air and
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Speaker 5: not where there's like you know, we're gonna go refresh
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Speaker 5: the time and go look for extra time and getting
38:48
Speaker 5: around the monitor because that does kill the moment a bit,
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Speaker 5: you know.
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Speaker 1: But uh yeah, but you're gonna have to You're gonna
38:54
Speaker 1: have to do it. I mean, you was Island sugs lamon.
38:56
Speaker 1: Butler did it in the Semis, which is pretty amazing
39:01
Speaker 1: the COVID year, right, yeah, I think so. He had
39:03
Speaker 1: himself a hell of a celebration. Chris Jenkins hit one
39:07
Speaker 1: like to win that buzz and then ten year anniversary.
39:11
Speaker 5: Right, and then Seth Davis had to go on go
39:13
Speaker 5: on Twitter and say, actually, the funny thing about that
39:16
Speaker 5: was they would have to clean up the confetti if
39:17
Speaker 5: there was time left in the clock. So the guy
39:19
Speaker 5: was premature in the confetti. I'm like, brother, the buzzer
39:22
Speaker 5: went off like as it left his hand.
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Speaker 4: Pretty much. It was close. So according to.
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Speaker 1: Uh, sports reference dot com, the same people that bring
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Speaker 1: the Baseball Reference.
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Speaker 4: Basketball Reference, the same group.
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Speaker 1: Sports Reference, UH, it would be sports dash reference dot
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Speaker 1: com March Badness game winning buzzer beaters. There's been one
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four and.
39:43
Speaker 5: The yeah, that's right, that's right, I got the milo.
39:46
Speaker 4: Would be nice to see that.
39:48
Speaker 1: And they have the information like the opponent, the type
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Speaker 1: of basket, the margin, the time point nine seconds.
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Speaker 2: Who assisted the distance?
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Speaker 4: Oh wow?
39:57
Speaker 2: And of the last few, several have been the layup.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that there was a better one though
40:02
Speaker 3: than a homeboy.
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Speaker 4: From Northern Iowa.
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Speaker 3: And what was that twenty fifteen twenty sixteen beats Texas
40:09
Speaker 3: and just like so casually hits it to mid court
40:12
Speaker 3: Paul Jessperson half court shot. Just clease, just one of
40:19
Speaker 3: the craziest shots you could have ever seen. And everybody
40:21
Speaker 3: on Texas is like, wait a second, You're not allowed
40:23
Speaker 3: to do that, right, Hey.
40:24
Speaker 4: We're gonna wave that off. Right, There's no way he's
40:27
Speaker 4: allowed to just euro step into.
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Speaker 5: A fifty footer Paul Jessperson Merrill, Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Native Paul Jefperson. But that was also on the same day. Uh,
40:38
Speaker 1: Northern Iowa beat Texas and then Iowa one on the
40:41
Speaker 1: same day. Ooh temple wow on a layup. So we're
40:46
Speaker 1: gonna Dolph's gonna be in.
40:48
Speaker 5: He's head coach of the Valley suns Now and we'll
40:50
Speaker 5: talk to We'll talk to Dolph about how hot things
40:52
Speaker 5: are in Iowa now.
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Speaker 1: Bronson Knnig hit a buzzer beater with an assist from
40:56
Speaker 1: ethan half ten years ago.
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Speaker 4: Which is just crazy. I think years ago it's hard
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Speaker 4: to believe.
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Speaker 1: So, yeah, buzzer beaters is part of the stew of
41:04
Speaker 1: what we love about the NCAA tournament.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, the James was a James forrest right with that
41:10
Speaker 5: one happened in Milwaukee ninety one, where Al McGuire called
41:14
Speaker 5: it and had that great Holy mag call. Is famous
41:17
Speaker 5: well obviously talked about Price Drew all the time.
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Speaker 3: There was a buzzer beater a couple of years ago
41:21
Speaker 3: that was even worse though, because uh, I think it
41:24
Speaker 3: was gotten Zaga. I can't even remember what directional school
41:27
Speaker 3: they're playing, and I got gotten Zagalan three and a
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Speaker 3: half in Homeboy knocks down a.
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Speaker 4: Half quarter to lose by two.
41:33
Speaker 3: You just get absolutely heartbroken at the Potawatamy Sports book.
41:37
Speaker 1: These are the games that aren't done yet. He's smart
41:39
Speaker 1: hit one to win in eighty seven.
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Speaker 4: For you with the championship over Syracuse. Yeah he did.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, Sorry Smart.
41:45
Speaker 4: That's where one shining moment started.
41:47
Speaker 2: Really, yes, indeed it isn't. So that's what the blame is.
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