What a night for Kansas, What a night for college basketball? Alan Fieldhouse,
You are the best Landon. You were there. I have to lead
off with you. How was the atmosphere at the fog It was spectacular,
I mean, and it always is usually very very good, of course,
but yeah, I mean there was a feeling that I got anyway that Kansas
the fans, I mean, obviously the team as well, but the fans
really seemed to want this one over Yukon, and that definitely came out when
Kansas opened the game very hot and was leading sixteen to five, they had
Yukon had the under sixteen timeout, and then Dan Hurley was forced to take
a time out shortly thereafter because the building was absolutely rocking and he had to
call the momentum. And it felt a lot closer to the under four time
out in second half than it did the under sixteen in the first in that
building. Early obviously you commented a game and it got a little more tense,
But yeah, the atmosphere one of the better atmospheres that I've been at
in allenfield House. That definitely sounds right. It was on TV. Nick,
I'm sure you and I can both confirm it sounded loud. Yeah,
it sounded very loud on TV. It was nuts. Every single shot sounded
like a game winner on TV. And it was a huge result for the
Jayhawks who take down the defending champion Huskies to continue their their winning ways.
I want to say ignited winning streak. They're already on a winning streak,
but man, that's gonna propel them into a string of dubs coming up.
The defense was great, the clutch shooting was great. We've been waiting to
see some three point shooting. And then there are also plenty of things that
we can sit here and wonder about and ask if they're gonna get better.
So oh in all, a really good game from a talking point perspective,
and an excellent one for the resume. This is inside the paint. Welcome
to December. Best month of the whole year, almost that whole wide world.
But yes, I'm Ryan Landreth. I'm the man that is here to
tell Nick he is wrong about his Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift takes in diamand
Travis kill I forgot that you weren't on the last show. Okay, we'll
go ahead and get that out in the open. Here Nick said on the
last show, Taylor Swift is an untalented Uh what is that? Taylor Swift
is untalented and Olivia Rodrigo can sing just as well, And I went,
I didn't mean that. I didn't mean it that way. I was gonna
be provocative and saying that Taylor Swift overrated. Oh you're gonna get that's a
little bit true. She's a little overrated. I liked some of her music,
but Olivia Alrigo is not good and nobody is who is who is as
good as Taylor Swift at this point. I mean, yeah, talent and
songwriting wise, in the modern pop landscape and no money, does anyone make
good music anymore? Though, yes, Taylor Swift, it just doesn't get
played on the radio. But yes, that's what I'm talking about. I'm
talking about pop music. Does anyone make good music anymore? In the answers
probably know well, you know what is good music? That is what they
were playing over the allen Field House loud speakers, because you know, whenever
they hit you with the hum for the pre tip song, you know you're
in for a wild night. Let's talk all about a Top five showdown between
the last two national champions. Number five Kansas what else sixty nine points woo
Number four Yukon sixty five. This was an insane atmosphere and a dominating defensive
performance, but despite that, Kansas only led the Huskies by seven at halftime
thanks to some wild threes that went down. Really, it felt like a
game that could have been a fifteen point halftime margin, and you would think
that Yukon was winning based off the studio analysts that were saying how they should
be overjoy that they're only down seven points. Yukon quickly erased that deficit and
built a five point lead halfway through the second half, but it was a
late surge by Kevin McCuller and kJ Adams that lifted the Jayhawks over the hump
down the stretch. It was a twenty two to thirteen run over the last
nine minutes after falling behind by a couple of buckets that won the game for
Kansas. Defeating the defending champs in a classic, I don't know classic.
People over use the word classic. I don't know. Sixty nine to sixty
five in a game with like three lead changes can be a classic, But
yeah, I don't think worthy of classic, but a very good basketball game,
a wildly entertaining basketball game. And kudos to both of these teams for
being this aggressive scheduling. Dan Hurley acted a little bit babyish at times,
but the man is not coach k when it comes to scheduling. Because the
Huskies played Kansas last night, They've already played Indiana and Texas. Their next
game is against North Carolina. They played Gainzaga right before Christmas. Awesome to
see these quality premier teams schedule like this, because wow, was that more
exciting that Watchington beat Eastern Illatis? Yeah? And yeah, then you have
that, Then you have that. My first question is how good was Allen
field house Landon? You kind of answered it. I saw some people on
Twitter saying it was one of the five best atmosphere games in the self era.
I mean, I know that you haven't been to a ton of games
that qualify as maybe that, but it's hard to imagine it being much better.
I've been. I've been to not that many games, but I think
the games that I've been to have given me a good a good swath of
atmospheres. I was there when they clinched. I think it was the fourteenth
straight in Frank Mason's senior year. That was thirteen, and that was the
last year the streak Now officially, sir right, there is no four.
I was also there when they played K State. I was there when they've
played Missouri. I've been there for random non cons like Rider. I been
the best atmosphere this this and last year. I went and watched or two
years ago, I went and watched them host Texas Tech double overtime. Typology
dropped thirty seven. Uh, it was at least as good as that we
were on, at least as good as what that game was by the end,
which was we were both at that game, just not just on different
sides of the arena. And that game was like three hours and fifteen minutes,
and everybody was drenched in sweat. After that game ended, and my
uncle's truck broke down on the way home, so we had to sit on
the side of the road, and I didn't get home until like one am,
and I had worked the next morning. That was whenever you had to
get up at like six in the morning or five point thirty to drive.
It's true I did not do that. I text my boss, I'm gonna
be an hour or two late. Sorry, yep, yeah, that's what
That's what anybody smart would do. So good work, Uh, Nick,
Kansas beats Yukon. This was always gonna kind of I know that you didn't
truly believe that they were going to lose this game, but you picked against
Kansas thinking that this was a really tough matchup. You've been the hardest on
this team of the three of us. It had to feel good any race,
at least a little bit of your concerns to see them go out and
secure a win over a top five team. Yeah, the first half certainly
erased a lot of my concerns, but it seemed like, you know,
not to be a debbie down or anything, but it seems like the second
half they kind of regressed back to their at least difficulties that they've had over
this season and having long gaps of without scoring and really some lapses defensively.
But altogether this game they played great defensively. We knew Yukon was gonna light
it up from the floor, like like I mean, j Billis made the
point quite clear enough. I don't think they'll need to hear it reiterated again.
But Yukon shots late in the shot clock were all miraculous heaves that went
in. I mean, KYU just based on the fact that how how they
were defending towards the end of the shot clock every possession, they could have
easily been up fourteen to fifteen heading into the locker room at halftime and we
wouldn't have batten an eye. It was that truly, that not miraculous.
Great of a performance in the first half for Kansas defensively and offensively as well.
You know, hitting ten of their first thirteen shots, that's very impressive
as well for this team. You know, Hunter Dickinson made a big part
of that with his threes, and then got other guys contributing. Kevin mccullor
fantastic as usual. But then that second half spurt came in. They came
out of the locker room and it's almost a reverse of the game against the
Eastern almost a reverse of some of the other games this season, the Marquette
game, but similar to the Eastern Illinois game. They just kind of came
out in the second half flat and disappointing. But like I said, it's
a good Yukon team. They really did as much as they could DEFENSEI him,
and holding that team to sixty five points, it's going to be a
good stat line however you shake it. But still those concerns linger about who's
giving this team production when Hunter Dickinson and Kevin mccuur on the bench or in
foul trouble, And I don't think that answer has been very clear yet,
at least it wasn't clear in this game. But it's hard to fault the
team who just won on their home floor against the top top five team who
hadn't lost in twenty four straight non conference games. Yeah, and the defense
you mentioned was great. This is a team that entered having scored at least
eighty one points in every game except for one. The fewest they'd scored all
year was seventy seven, and then you hold them to sixty five and they
needed some miraculous threes to get there. It kind of all balanced out because
you had guys like Cam Spencer who are normally very good scorers that weren't,
and then you had a couple of three point shooters that don't normally step up
that were much better. The interior scoring for Yukon wasn't nearly what it had
been all season law, which is bound to happen because they you know,
they've played teams like stone Hill and New Hampshire and then you go up against
Hunter Dickinson inside, it's not gonna be as easy. But Dan Hurley said
after the game that this was one of the toughest atmospheres. It got them
off their game. It's not something we see all the time now. Allen
Fieldhouse is never not great, but Big twelve teams seem to be handling it
better than they used to. It feels like it's not as frequent that Kansas
opens games by just buzz sawing opponents and using that crowd to their advantage.
This was a vintage This was a vintage performance in that regard because we saw
Kansas jump to the sixteen to five lead, force the timeout and the game.
I know Yu Kon was leading in the second half, but at least
to me, it felt like the game was over at that point. It
felt like that I had already seen enough to think Kansas has brought the defensive
intensity that the building is what it is. I would be stunned at that
point based off of oh, they're not laying an egg, They're probably not
losing at home based off of how self is now three hundred and eleven and
seventeen at home. Usually whenever they lose at home, you can blame horrible
starts. Feels like just about every home loss I can think of, except
for the Texas game the day after Thomas Robinson's mom died, where they just
ran out of gas, it feels like all of them can be attributed to
really bad starts. They don't lose very many home games when they control the
first half. Even though they had that stretch in the second half for Yukon
serge back and took a lead, never felt like a game they were truly
going to lose. Something that really helps, too, is that resume Landon.
We've heard about how this team isn't good at shooting, this team isn't
deep, and yet here we are in December first, and they probably have
the best resume of anyone in college basketball. Yeah, I would say that's
very arguable. They already have wins over teams that are currently ranked fourth,
tenth, and twelfth, and it's only December second as of recording. Half
of their games as far have been against teams currently in the top fifteen,
seven and one. Overall life, you said, Ryan, a lot of
wins on the horizon, especially with arguably your most difficult game out of the
way. Yeah, the Jayhawks, even with you know, some genuine questions,
they are, you know, as they always do, continuing to win.
I mean, when is the next loss? They're not gonna lose to
Kansas City and they're not gonna lose to Missouri at Indiana isn't going to be
easy. They're six and one, but also Indiana, we're gonna find out
a lot about them. Their next two games are against Michigan and Auburn,
and they don't have a quality dub on their resume. They haven't been very
good. I don't think they're losing that. They're not gonna lose to Yale.
I don't think they lose to wich TOAs State. They're not gonna lose
to TCU at home. They're not gonna lose at Central Florida. Like,
when is their next loss? Am I being a little too premature to say.
I think this team may get into late January before they lose one,
barring something really surprising. They feel like they're gonna be a five point favorite
in all these games. They're gonna be favored in all of them. Kansas
obviously does have the incredible ability to lay weird eggs sometimes, so I think
there's a chance for that. But they're definitely the better team in all these
games for sure, not even close. Yeah. No, I said something
similar last night. I texted in and said that, you know, you're
looking at the schedule, like you say, I think Indiana might be a
trap game, might be underlooking that team a little bit, especially going in
assembly haul. But January twenty seventh is maybe the first real true test that's
on the road and aims against Iowa State. And then you've got a little
bit tougher schedule. I mean KU's conference slate is like very back heavy.
I mean the last like what six games is against top twenty five teams and
then k State. So it's going to be it's gonna be a tough sledding
to the end of the conference play. But I mean for the next couple
of months, it seems like KYU is gonna have be in a good position
to get wins. Yeah, their conference schedule is back heavy. Both Houston
games, both Baylor games, the Texas Tech road game, the Kansas State
road game, and their only game with Texas all in the back half of
the conference late. But unless you think they lose it out field House,
which can happen, but certainly we're not going to predict it. So I'm
just gonna take the Allen field House games out. You tell me where the
next losses At Indiana maybe if they just get overwhelmed by the atmosphere, which
to State at T Mobile Center. No, at Central Florida No. No.
At Oklahoma State and at West Virginia. Those are tough venues for them,
but they're probably the twost seats in the Big twelve. Yeah, and
then at Iowa State. So I think you're gonna I think it's the most
likely loss other than Indiana is a random one at home. And if that's
your second most likely loss, Kansas losing at Allen field House to an unranked
team, Okay, I don't think they're gonna lose very much. So yeah,
well we'll see. Okay, Nick, let's move into the players,
because Kansas got a huge performance in the second half by a senior not the
one we're used to seeing this year, at least carry them down the stretch.
Yeah, you're talking about kJ Adams well, Adams is a junior.
Yeah, that's true. And also the first guy in the notes is not
kJ Adams. Yeah, but we're talking about one of the best players in
the shining stars of this game. Well, huh, did you have a
different take on Kevin mccullor then, or what I'm joking. Kevin McClure was
fantastic. Yeah, I'm trying to find him in the notes. Okay,
you didn't lead off with Kevin mccullor. The three point shooting carried the Jayhawks
home in this game. Kevin McLure was the team's best player, scoring twenty
one points on six for ten from the floor, three for four from three,
and added five rebounds in his thirty six minutes. Mccluur made all three
of his threes over the last nine minutes of the night, also six for
six from the free throw line. So landed Kevin mccullar. Good work.
Sorry, Harry, you could have some applause for making it through the notes.
I'm impressed. I did kind of ambush you by not opening that paragraph
with Kevin mcculler's name, so that that's normally what I do, and I
was trying to I was trying to be wordsy and it didn't work. Landon
and Kevin McCuller, we've talked about he seems to be this team's most clutch
player. We saw last year he hit huge shots against Wisconsin. He was
the wound up making game winners in those narrow home wins against Ou and Oklahoma
State. He's a very clutch player. We saw it once again here.
Huge performance down the stretch. Yeah, and clutch is a really good way
to put it, obviously. I mean those three threes all coming in big
moments down the stretch in the close game. I mean, he's just he's
been so good this season, like there's not a ton to analyze really.
I mean three for four is kind of the biggest thing that I think id
ke in On and six for six the free throw line, because he's a
guy that can definitely get to the free throw line. He's not afraid to
attack the basket, try to drive close. But he shot the ball in
jump shooting situations really well. He had a couple at least one or two
pull up jays for mid range as well that went down and then had the
three threes. Of course, if he can do that going forward, Obviously,
three for four is not gonna happen every night. But if you can
just knock a couple down every night, his ceiling goes way up, the
team's ceiling goes up. That's been his biggest struggle, which is weird because
going into the season in the exhibitions, which I know are exhibitions, but
he shot the ball really well those nights. Thought that was going to be
a nice area of improvement. He's not really shown that yet, but really
nice to see that from him in this game. Obviously his defense was also
remarkable, But you'll take twenty one and five and excellent defense and clutch threes
every night. I mean, that's that's a winning player, and I think
it continues to build the case that he is arguably the most bill selfie player
of all time. Well, we talked about how all Kevin McCuller needs to
do is shoot about thirty five percent on threes. As awesome as forty five
would be, it's just not gonna happen for a guy who's a career thirty
percent shooter. If he can elevate his game, I mean, going up
four percent from one year to the next and three point shooting is a tremendous
improvement. And right now he's sitting at thirty five point five percent, So
thirty five thirty six, that's awesome. Through eight games that will play,
he's averaging nineteen seven and five right now, which is an All America caliber
season. I think that if if he continues that pace, which he won't
because the games are gonna get tougher. But as of right now, I
don't think there's been ten better players in college basketball than Kevin McCuller. He's
been the team's second best rebounder, he's been the team's second best passer,
he's been the team second best scorer. He's been probably their best free throw
shooter, clutch clutch player. I don't know what the weakness in the guy's
game is on nights wherever, he's gonna make threes like he's He's just a
terrific player. And that's the sort of reason why Bill self was so overjoyed
to have him back, because this is an l on the schedule if you
don't get Kevin McCuller back. The three point shooting overall was very good,
nine for fourteen, sixty three percent. We've talked about how this team has
struggled to make threes, but in this game, I didn't think they shot
enough of them. Furfey made a couple, Dickinson made a few, McCuller
made a couple, Harris made one. Like it was balanced. Then against
the very good interior Yukon defense, they were kicking it out and knocking down
those shots. Three point shooting won them the game, which I think had
you been told the beginning of the night, this game's gonna come down to
Kansas's abilities to make threes late, I don't know how confident you would have
been, Nick, I want to. I think what's interesting here is that
Kansas actually does make nine threes, but they still only score sixty nine points.
What do you make of that? Yeah, I think part of that
and we'll talk about him after this. But Hunter Dickinson's presence in the post,
like Klingon was you know that those guys are battling out, but was
pretty underwhelming. That competition between those two in scoring points in this game the
big men, so I think that's a factory. Hunter Dickinson's been averaging twenty
two points per game this season, so that's been a huge part of Kansas's
scoring. Obviously, Kelvin mccull wasn't responsible for that lack of points in this
game. But I think you think, look at some other guys, maybe
coming off the bench, Parker Brown's not scoring much for you, But you
know, I don't know, it's definitely interesting to see that that that distribution
of points was so high in favor of threes in this game. But yeah,
I mean, I mean, I think that the reason that they didn't
score as many points as we used to seeing them is one that the game
pace was slower. Kansas, I think was at at advantage whenever they were
playing slower over a Yukon team that likes to play fast, they were trying
to limit transition opportunities. We saw the offense start hot when Yukon was turning
it over a little bit, but as they as it continued and the Huskies
slowed down their possessions and we're taking thirty seconds on each possession, then it
was never going to be a track meet. But Dickinson not scoring, you
know, twenty three like he normally does. I mean that if Dickinson scores
his average in this game, then they're close to eighty, which I think
feels a lot more right, But the three point shooting was good, they
just didn't take as many and make as many twos. And they also didn't
make the free throw shooting in this game. They weren't at the free throw
line very much until the very end of the night. That's my guess for
the offense, Land and I don't know what yours is. No, I
don't know what the exactly it is either. I think that's fair. I
mean, Yukon I don't think played like poor defense either. I think Yukon
played pretty solid defense for the most part. Dickinson having a quieter night as
he and Klingon kind of cancel each other out or certainly limit each other,
I think does also have a lot to do with it. Also, the
bench, which we'll talk about as well, didn't give you pretty much anything
other than Johnny Furpy making a couple of shots, So I think there was
a few few different things. Nonetheless, very nice to see them knock down
a couple threes. Let's talk about Hunter Dickinson. We've alluded to him a
couple times already. He has fifteen and nine four blocks to go along with
it, six for twelve from the floor. He played an insane thirty eight
minutes was three or four from three, the last of which coming at a
pivotal time during KU's big run near the end of the game, when he
once again gestured at the large size of his genitalia, according to him,
is very very large. That post move. He battled the post all night
against fellow seven to center Donovan Klingen, pulling him to eight and seven.
Dickinson not bad in fifteen to nine by most other KU centers in the last
several years, would be a more than worthy performance unless you're Udoki as a
booky play against a high school team, but otherwise still solid night, but
definitely little quieter anything to make of that, or just playing against a good
center. This is where you can't I don't think can fault it through fifteen
points. I mean yeah, this is where people need to remember that they're
playing against very good players too. Klingon's one of the best centers in the
country, especially on the defensive end. He's coming off a twenty four point
maybe it was twenty eight point, it was one of them. He had
a big game in the game before this one, so Dickinson's defense was every
bit as big as his offense. The second half was quieter, as as
I think Landon alluded to. He only scored five points in the second half,
but the three was big and Dickinson and the really the thing I watched.
I found myself watching Dickinson and Klingon go head to head whenever neither one
of them had the ball. They were fighting like lunatics down low to get
in position to get an outlet pass, whereas or a post pass, whereas
you know most guys after they played, Dickinson playing thirty eight minutes with being
a center, like both guys were gassed at the end of this night,
and both were fighting, diving on the floor for everything, Like just tremendous
effort. Whenever you're going up against a player like this, you're not gonna
score thirty. It's just not gonna happen. And I think Dickinson made his
presence felt both in terms of what he actually contributed, which is fifteen to
nine, and then him drawing a lot of double teams and opening things up
for guys like kJ Adams. I think that Dickinson more than gave you what
you could have wanted you had been on It was one last point about Dickinson
here. One thing I thought that was strange from a tactical perspective for Kansas
that they did a handful of times that I think they need to immediately stop
doing is when they have kJ Adams initiate offense on the perimeter, which I
actually have no problem with because he's a capable enough driver, obviously very athletic.
If he gets a lane, it's a dunk. But you cannot have
him on Dickinson's side when Dickinson's in the post, because that is an instant
double team because kJ can't shoot. So yeah, that was a that was
a weird thing. I think that was maybe the only thing that Kansas did
to like, you know, limit Dickinson on their own terms. That I
think has to be something you got to figure out in some other way.
You have to put anyone else really that can shoot at all out there so
that the defense has to respect the kickout at least a little bit. Otherwise,
Yeah, that's just instantaneously two bodies on Dickinson. Otherwise, Yeah,
I think I think Dickinson had a fine nine just played against a good player.
But that was one weird thing I noticed a handful of times and kJ
tonight, it wasn't It didn't really impact them or cost them because kj's little
hook floater was going and he also did pretty well at the free throw line.
But yeah, on a night where that SHOT's not going and they're leaving
kJ adams open, which they seemed content to do and credits to kJ,
he burned them. I would rather take my chances with kJ hitting floaters than
I would have Hunter Dickinson just eat me alive inside. But at the same
time, on a night wherever it was working well for kJ, great,
but you know, if he's not hitting those shots, then this night goes
very, very differently. So those eighteen points from kJ were immits. Yukon
first lost for them since last year's Biggie's Tournament. We just did this last
year with Kansas as national champs. How whenever you win an NCAA tournament,
you definitely can stretch your winning streak out to some pretty big numbers. Connecticut
had won thirteen games in a row. They had also won twenty four straight
non conference games by double digits. But all of those statistics can't change the
fact that there the parents of the players are a bunch of whiny, freaking
cry babies. And I never in a thousand years thought i'd hear that much
about where parents players had to sit in a college basketball arena. Landon,
you were kind of up in that section where the opposing parents were, and
you said they were a little extra loud. Yeah, they were just up
into the left of our seats, not too far from us. Yeah they
were allowed. They got the let's go Husky's chant go in a handful of
times, go Yukon, whatever other weird chance that Yukon has. They pulled
a few of them out. Yeah, they seem feisty, they seemed up
for it, and I can't necessarily blame them. I don't think Ku was
like intentionally sticking it to him, but you know, an odd place to
put the parents when they normally sit behind the bench. But yeah, they
were into it for sure. Okay, Nick, let's talk about Dewan Harris.
I think that we need to have this conversation and we may have some
different takes across the board here, so this should be a pretty interesting debate.
Let me read the stats and then I'll throw it to you for some
analysis. Dewan Harris struggled, at least statistically, he made it three early
in the game and then did nothing else scoring wise the rest of the night.
He finished with just those three points on one for seven from the floor,
zero for six on twos, and then missed two free throws too down
the stretch when they were up too and could have. I mean, when
you're up to and are taking two free throws, that's about as big as
it gets because you're obviously determining if you can lose on the next possession or
if the game is completely salted away. And he missed them both. Six
assists, two turnovers, and then yeah, the two miss free throws were
rounded out his stat line. Cam Spencer had a great look at a game
winner and it just was short. So Harris he played really well against He
played great whenever they played the Wildcats in in Chicago, But other than that,
really has struggled statistically. We're still yet to see him score more than
seven points in a game other than Kentucky, and we're now have eight games
worth of a sample size. What are your thoughts on how on how Harris
has struggled. Yeah, I don't think he's been good at all this season.
It's just, to be quite honest with you take out the Kentucky game
where he scored twenty three. He was brilliant in that game, but the
rest of the sample size zero to seven, seven points against Shamanad four,
five, one and three points. Nothing like you're talking about a team who's
been depleted in scoring. Obviously, I've talked plenty about Arterry Morris not being
there as a guard anymore. So who is going to make up those points?
Well, Timberlake, Furfey, guys off the bench. That hasn't happened.
So who you're gonna trust your junior guard maybe to make some shots?
And in this game, like you said, terrible one for seven from the
floor against Eastern Illinois, he was over four, missing layups left and right.
He's been sloppier, some more turnovers, I don't think. I think
he's been a little more careless with the ball. You know, two turnovers
in this game, three in the previous two games. So a little bit
uncharacteristic, uncharacteristic for him. The assists numbers have been good obviously with Hunter
Dickinson in the lineup, But outside of that, I mean, what are
you seeing from this guy that is making you say this? Because the top
point guard in the country. I know he is, and I'm being a
little harsh, but when you have a team that needs scoring this badly,
and you know Bill Soelf talks so frequently about how Dwan can score and he
can get his points, he just doesn't need to or you know that that
whole stick, Well, he's kind of needed to at some point in the
season and haven't really seen it yet. So I'm my concern more is is
is this guy. Is this guy just gonna step up and try to assume
a role where he can be more of a score and more of a threat
offensively, or is he just still winning to sit back in the shadows and
be the orchestrator of this situation. But I think that at least from my
posture, at least I had expect themselves to be pushing him a little bit
more to be that type of guy. But it doesn't seem to be happening.
Obviously, seven shots in this game they didn't fall. What is the
answer for to one, Harris, because I don't think it's good enough right
now. So Landon, we kind of talked before before we started the show
that I my opinion watching this game and I just may be an idiot.
I didn't think Harris played that poorly. I just don't think the ball went
in the basket like I thought. He quarterbacked the offense well, he needed
a breather, and Kansas actually made their run to take the lead with Harris
on the bench, which we've noticed happened a couple times this season. But
Harris is still instrumental in what they do. There wasn't anybody that held a
better role or a bigger and Yukon's offense being thrown out of whack then Harris's
pressure at the top of the key. Like, I didn't think he played
bad. He didn't turn it over. The ball just didn't go in.
If he makes half those those shots he normally makes, then I think we're
talking about a quality performance. I'm definitely not panicked on this guy. I
think that he's bound to The stats are going to really pick up in a
big way here in the next couple of weeks. Yeah, I don't know.
I was never really sold on Dawan Harris scoring a lot anyway, I
genuinely agree. I don't really think he played poorly in this game necessarily.
I don't think the shots he took were bad, but I do think when
you've missed your last like five layups, maybe don't take the sixth. I
don't know. I don't necessarily think he played bad. I think he played
pretty well, and like you said, defensively he was great. I still
think he ran the offense and kept the offense moving well. I think he
pushed the ball pretty well in transition play. I think he did a lot
of things well. And I still think he is one of the best point
guards in the country, one of the most important. But I do think
at a certain point you just have to sell the guy as a consistent scorer,
and I think that's kind of where we are. I think you just
kind of know he isn't gonna score, and that's an important flaw on this
team, to be fair on a team where your bench does not look like
it's gonna give you a lot on a lot of nights, again subject to
change. You never know. It's important that your point guard can get you
something. I don't know if he's the guy that's going to be able to
get you something because he just has never really had the intent to do so.
Obviously he's capable, but I'm in kind of both camps. I think
he played well, But at the same time, I think he just he
just isn't a scorer. And I think that is that's just who he is
as a player. He just isn't a guy that is going to score.
He's gonna score sometimes, like the Kentucky game. He's gonna have some nights
where he has eighteen and nine assists and it looks amazing, but he's just
not that guy a lot of the time. He doesn't need to take more
threes, regardless he needs to take or threes. I just want to clarify.
I'm not saying I don't think he's like a lost cause or anything like,
oh, we just got to deal with him, But like, I
just think it's a genuine concern when you look at this guy who's the stat
lines just and obviously Dewan Harris has always been sold as a guy who's intangibles
are better than anyone else in the floor. It's the stuff that doesn't show
up in the stats. I get that. Defensively, you know, orchestrating
the offense, I understand that. But Kevin McCuller, in that same vein
is known for his defense, known for making plays. But if Kansas fans.
If he had a game where he scored three points, Kansas fans would
be completely concerned about that. So I'm just saying, why can't we expect
a power five on the top five team in the country, who's developed under
Bill self these past three or four seasons. Why can't we expect this guy
to have a better offensive output than he's had in previous seasons. I just
don't think that's too much to ask. And I don't understand, you know,
why Kansas fans are so quick to give this a pass. I mean,
I do understand it, because he does the untangibles, But I just
don't understand. I really do understand why and the fans aren't more concerned about
a guy who scored three one in five points in the last three games.
I mean, you'd expect I think you'd expect more at this level in this
point in this career. That's just my two cents. I don't know.
Yeah, No, that's a good take. Like they absolutely are realistic for
expecting more. It's not costing Kansas games. But if Kansas had lost this
game, I think that Harris is probably the thing we're leading off with talking
about being the problem. If Cam Spencer's three goes in. We'll have a
totally different order of operations in today's show, and it probably starts with that.
I don't know if that's fair to a player, but I think that's
just kind of how sports works. It's game of inches. Harris hasn't cost
Kansas a game yet, but whenever he does, and he did cost them
a couple of games in the year they won the national title and he was
enemy number one on Twitter and on this podcast. I just have seen enough
of Dewan Harris being a positive contributor to this team to think that this is
going to continue much longer last year, this year, whatever, I think
you're gonna see him settle in as a nine points and six assists sort of
player, which considering who he's got around him. We talked on this show
three weeks ago when they rolled Manhattan about how Harris didn't take a shot and
they scored one hundred, because that's how this team is put together, and
so I think I kind of got to stick with that a little bit.
But I do think it's it's a perfectly realistic question to say they getting more
than seven points a night from your point guard. That doesn't feel like a
big that doesn't really feel like a huge ask. I agree, And then
also one like one last thing to say is like, obviously this is an
eight game, eight games tample size. But just looking at his stats,
his field goal percentage is dropped by twelve percent since last year. His free
throw percent down as well. Assist obviously are up. Steals are down by
one point three per game too, so he's getting less steels per game.
Turnovers are up by point five and then obviously points are down by three point
three points per game. So I mean, when is like for you guys?
Obviously I know Landon, you're kind of in the middle range and you
still think de one Harris has potential to these numbers to go up. When
do you start rolling the alarm bells about his drop in production on the after
the next few games back on the stat sheet, okay, after the next
few games when they play some cupcakes. If he's still struggling and the field
goal percentage status is a great catch by you, I didn't even detect that
his three point percentage has gone up and his overall field goal percentage has gone
down. His two point percentage last year forty nine percent this year thirty one
percent. That's why I'm not concerned. He's No. One. He's a
thirty one percent from two shooter. He's gonna have a run of five or
six games where he shoots seventy percent on twos and that evens up. That's
why I'm not concerned. But I will say, if we're still having this
conversation and three weeks after they played teams like UMKC and Missouri and Yale and
it's still eh, then all then I'm willing to be like, Okay,
there's a big problem here. See. I'm not actually worried if he doesn't
score against those teams, because he's probably not gonna have to. But if
we're a handful of games into conference play and he's still been that, that's
when I will start to really genuinely be worried about that being a limitter on
Kansas. Not that they can't win a lot of games still, obviously they
could, but Kansas isn't hitting their ceiling on less Dwan Harris is giving them
better than at least one for seven a night. I also don't think they're
winning unless some of these guys start to play better. And there was much
as there is with the two guards. There was some good and some bad.
Al Marco Jackson six points, four rebounds plus four fouls and thirty two
minutes made a bonehead played where he threw the ball into the second row of
the crowd when Kansas was basically trying to do anything but turn it over down
the stretch, but then he made up for it by forcing a turnover of
his own on the other end on the play that got replay reviewed. So
defensively, I thought he was great. Offensively, I can't remember a single
shot that he's created for himself this year, and that just maybe a product
of being young. Johnny Furfey did some good things, making two threes for
six points, but also committed three fouls, really struggled on defense. I
think that's a perfect way to summarize these guys. You saw good moments,
but also you had seven fouls between Jackson and Furfey, and against a team
like Connecticut that I know wasn't hitting free throws yesterday, but they normally are
an excellent free throw shooting team, that could have been disastrous. Nick Timberlake
appears to just be a second fiddle player at this point. Two minutes in
the first half, didn't play for the second straight game after halftime, and
Jamari McDowell, who we thought could potentially have a big role in this game,
especially with the defensive intensity being ups, he only played the final two
and a half seconds of the game after kJ had made those last two free
throws, So that was interesting. We always lump these guys together. I
thought Jackson played pretty well overall. Like, I know, the scoring isn't
there, but I thought he did everything else fine, and I think he
was the best of these players. But Twitter continues to disagree. Land and
you were at the game. You said that the reaction when Jackson does something
poorly is extremely palpable. Fans seemed to kind of be impatient with him.
What are your guys' thoughts on this quartette of mediocrity at this point. Yeah,
I think Jackson largely held his own He did make a couple of his
own shots. He had that pull up jumper, he banked in another pull
up jumper, so he had a couple of moments. I don't think he's
bad. I think he's got room to grow, certainly, but I think
he is the best option for the team currently. I was surprised that Johnny
Furfey was the guy and pretty much the only guy out of the rest of
the four that they tried. Not that he was bad, but he certainly
his defense I think improved, but he is a pretty slow and relatively unaware
defender to this point, and that burned them a couple of times, gave
it some shots, gave it some looks because of that, because he just
couldn't stay with his guy very well or didn't know exactly where he was supposed
to be. That'll improve, but you know, that's definitely a problem with
a young player right now. He did hit a couple threes that was nice.
I think he holds his own on offense pretty well. That's always good
to see Timberlake. Yeah, I mean, they're just they punted him.
They just punted Timberlake in this game, and same with McDowell. Was actually
the surprised that McDowell got nothing, considering that I thought he was playing pretty
well the last handful of games, So I was really surprised to see him
literally only get two point four seconds at the very end. But I guess
that that is a really indicator if I think where self sees this team is
pretty much literally only six players because Parker Brown also only played two minutes and
had nothing else. With no hesitation whatsoever, I would have said if you
had asked me before this game, who plays more against the Huskies, Jamorry
McDowell Johnny Furfey with zero hesitation, I would have said Jamary McDowell. And
it couldn't have been more wrong. We didn't say how many minutes that Furfree
played, but it was more than the zero for Jamary McDowell. What did
Furfee play in this game? I'm guessing probably about twelve something like that.
Fourteen. Yeah. Elmarco Jackson on this season in eight games is only averaging
six points two rebounds, but he is averaging three assists. He's been a
good passer. Also a ninety four percent free throw shooter. That's huge.
He's a excellent free throw shooter, maybe the team's best, despite being a
freshman. Three point percentage just twenty percent three for fifteen and less than forty
percent from the floor. That's another thing. Much like Dawant Harris, I
think will change as he gets more comfortable. He's not gonna have another eight
games. I don't think he's shooting thirty seven percent from the floor over the
next eight games. The arrow is pointing upward with Jackson, I think it's
pointing sideways. With Furfey, we kind of know what he's gonna be asked
to do. He's gonna be asked to go make threes and everything else may
just kind of be a liability this year. Timberlake, the arrow is pointing
straight down and McDowell's a question mark. Nick, is that kind of fair?
I don't know, what do you think of these guys? Yeah,
I think I definitely say mc dawell is a question mark at this point.
Iq. I'm kind of surprised that he didn't play in this game too.
I'm really surprised Nick. Timberlake hasn't played at all. Obviously he struggled,
But you think Bill self would be a little bit more keen to get a
guy with experience in the game. But that's a whole that's a whole nother
conversation. Seems really odd. But Timberlake just isn't close. Just not close
either either. So Yeah, and there was no need for Parker. Like
the number of minutes that Dickinson and Brown play will almost always get you forty,
like it might be forty two. It might be if they decided to
play with two bigs for a little bit. It might be thirty seven if
it's walk on time. But when Dickinson plays thirty eight, Parker's not seeing
the floor for more than two. Like, that's just how it's going to
work. Somebody who saw the floor plenty well, so kind of because this
was kind of a reverse White Guy of the Game because Cam Spencer is a
good player and he didn't make anything. I think he was one for seven
on threes. The row in the foot didn't help, and then he had
a great flop that got him a few free throws. Alex Caravan made a
couple, so I'll give you some music for that. But holy crap,
this is more of an honorary White Guy of the Game honoree because Tristan Newton
stepped up with one of the best games by any player in college basketball this
year. Landon as someone who was there, it was six threes, but
it had to feel like a hundred, yeah, especially because like one of
them was from like twenty seven feet out. One of them was a fade
step back at the end. I remember the step back, step back at
the horn was great, and he only hit like one or two that were
truly like normal. The rest were all really impressive makes later in the shot
clock, even not right at the buzzer. Yeah, he was. He
was tremendous. He was. He was really fantastic. I mean, he
scored like what forty eight percent of Yukon's points or something like that. He
had thirty one other sixty five. He was. He was a special,
special player in that game. I mean, I'm not not Buddy healed exactly,
but that's that's what I was thinking of. That's what it was for
the first he was shut down like he They shut him down pretty good down
the stretch, and I'm I'm stunned it wasn't him that took the shot.
I'm stunned they went with Spencer and to take that shot in the end,
I thought for sure, I posted on Twitter with five minutes left, this
game is coming down to a Tristan Newton three. I don't know if it's
gonna win the game or if him missing its result in then losing the game,
but it's coming down to it. And he didn't attempt to three over
the last seven minutes of the night. So thank you for that, I
guess, and people on Twitter are talking about how it's always a scrub that
goes off against Kansas. Christan Newton had nineteen and ten in the National championship
games. He's probably at this point the favorite for Big East Player of the
Year, so he's definitely not a nobody. You did have some some doozies,
like Hasandiara, who's an eighteen percent three point shooter making one. I
mean, I get that, But there is also like Yukon's good. They
don't normally make a ton of threes. They made more than they than they
typically do in this game, but so did Kansas, and Yukon was You'll
definitely give him a few more threes than they normally make. They only made
four in the second half. Figure that would slow down when they had seven
and a half time, and Kansas hung right in there with them. If
Kansas has ever outscored by just six points on three pointers, they're going to
win ninety five percent of the games because they have one of the best interior
offenses and one of the best interior defenses in college basketball. You saw it
here. We have one player left to talk about. As this recap goes
long and it really isn't. And the reason that this I don't think will
take very long is because there simply is no criticism that I don't think any
of us can have. But the performance landing that kJ Adams had or whoever
which onever W two wants to read this, I think should go down as
one of the best performances that anybody under Bill self has had. Yeah,
Nick, tell us about it. Yeah. kJ Adams had eighteen points,
six or ten from the floor, five rebounds, two steals, two blocks,
tremendous altogether, was mostly good on the line to six for nine starting
heading into this game. I believe he was twenty five percent from the free
throw line. So yeah, two, Yeah, he had some big ones
down the stretch and UKNDA dedicated a ton of attention but just slowing down Dickinson
in this game. So kJ had some open lanes throughout the night and he
took advantage of it. kJ Adams, for people who do not know,
left immediately after the game to fly home to Texas because the very next day
after this game is the funeral of his mom and to go out there.
And he hasn't missed a game, by the way, played in MAUI played
this week to go out there with everything. Bill self talked about this on
Hawk Talk how it really hasn't hit him yet, so he's expecting after this
there could be a little bit of a lull. And right now you're just
really going on adrenaline because it's not like you're sleeping or doing anything. After
something like that happens. But every time that I get a tweet in my
mentions the rest of time about how these guys don't care, about how these
guys aren't putting an effort, I'm going to point that person back to this
performance by kJ Adams, because these guys are unbelievable, the mental toughness it
takes to play sports at this high of a level and to go out there
and play your best game of the season in these stakes. You saw an
emotional kJ Adams all night, with the lot of fist pumps, a lot
of shouting. He was into this game, and Bill self said after this
game that they played it for one person. Hopefully that sort of performance can
make one of the worst stretches of that poor kid's life a little bit better,
because wow, what a performance, and especially considering the circumstances I don't
know how someone can go out there and do that with all that on their
mind. Yeah, special performance from kJ He was fantastic. Fifty percent from
the floor, sixty four percent from three, and seventy percent of the line.
All of those numbers will work. Usually whenever you have those stats,
you're gonna score more than sixty nine points. But they played a very good
defensive team, so that has something to do with it. They take down
Yukon Kansas seven and one on the season, with nothing but green grass and
high tides on the schedule for them coming up. ESPN said they do not
play a team that is currently slated to be ranked until mid January, and
that is Oklahoma, who's number twenty five at home. And if you think
that that's going to offer a true threat to Kansas, then you haven't watched
Porter Moser coach. They don't play a quality basketball team in this conference for
a long long time. So we will see how that goes. But for
now, Yes, seven and one, big win, lots of quality dubs,
good stuff, any closing thoughts, great win, good resilient win for
the Jayhawks. They trailed there for a minute. Yukon made a good push,
but Kansas as they usually do. They wake up when they have to,
they get buckets when they have to, they make bigger and better plays
than you will in their building, and they get out with another top ten
victory. Yep. Any closing thoughts, Nope, summoned up. Let's roll.
Well, there aren't a lot of Big twelve games because Kansas Yukon was
pretty much the only interesting game of the whole week. But there is a
little bit of information here, so I guess let's do it big wow.
Stuttering bill self there Big twelve games land and lead us off, so I
don't stutter my way into the next dimension. Oklahoma State and West Virginia both
have four losses already, as both schools lost their twelve Big East Battle.
The Cowboys lost at home to the Blue Jays of Creighton seventy nine sixty five
they trailed by eighteen and a half, never really close there, and the
Mountaineers lost to the fighting Richard Patino's not Richard, It's Reck. He has
a sun named Richard, confusing it's the real Wreck seventy nine seventy three.
Though Saint John zuom with you know, one of the greatest coaches ever is
gonna be pretty alright this year. Other Big twelve Big East Battle games.
As I guess, I'm just taking over this segment. Iowa State one big
at one and six to Paul to Paul, the team who always has like
two top fifty recruits and always loses twenty games, ninety nine to eighty.
Cyclones win that twenty four points from Trey King number sixth. Houston got twenty
three points from l J. Crier. They held off Xavier on the road
sixty six to sixty. The Kougs are eight to zero, Butler needed overtime
to take down Texas Tech one oh three ninety five. That is unofficially the
high scoring game in Red Raiders history. It's got to be close at least.
I can't remember the Red Raiders ever scoring ninety five and then they lose
largest the double the triple overtime game in Oklahoma. I'm sure they scored eight
to one five in that game. Yeah what Landon said. They scored one
hundred and fifty points on Kentucky and as I don't know how that even happens.
I haven't watched much clips of that game. I would like to sit
down and watch it sometime and just see how that's possible, because what that's
a that's that's two points every geez, but that that that's so much scoring.
That's three points a minute more than that, Like, that's that's gotta
be that that's that's three points of possession basically with how fast they were playing
that night, the three over two. The most they've scored under self was
one of the Shamanad games. I think they scored like one hundred and twenty.
I think that's right unless they I'm talking about yeah, then that then
then you have games like that where they just where they just blow through people.
But they score in the one twenties against Shamanad in twenty fifteen. I
think that's the most I've seen them score. Good, good riveting discussion there,
ye eating Hey, did you say that TCU plays Georgetown on the road.
Yeah, they do, and they're favored by twelve. Yeah, Georgetown
is awful. I would like to give even though they're not in the Big
twelve, they could be at some point a Cal basketball update because Cal is
two and five. They've lost four games in a row after starting the season
two and one. They lost at home to Tulane, they lost at home
to UTAP. They lost at home to Montana State, and then they weren't
competitive at San Diego State once the game got to overtime. Pretty disappointing.
Land and Louisville has been better. They actually are over five hundred right now.
Cal's two and five. Let's check in on Georgetown, because I'm pretty
sure that's bears all. Georgetown's five and two. But still, I guess
five and two is not enough to be just a single point underdog to uh
TCU at home. Oh yeah, I'm looking at the teams Georgetown has beat.
Here we go the way. I haven't even heard of some of these
teams. So Georgetown beat Lemoyne, They beat Mount Saint Mary's by nine,
They beat American News. This is outstanding. Here, they played American University
and one in overtime. They beat Jackson State, which is something Missouri can't
say. And then they beat Merrimac. What is the best win of those?
Is it American in overtime? Either that a Lemoyne maybe? Oh gosh,
well, they beat Lemoyne by forty, so I'm gonna say lemoy can't
be worthy of being their best win. I found the way for the h
one ninety five Kansas game, which was Roy Williams versus Rick Patino. Yeah,
it was what was the shooting percentage seventy five? They went fifty two
of eighty five from the floor, eighty five shots. Yeah, that's and
Kentucky still ninety five points they hit. Kentucky hit seventeen threes. Did they
track of turnovers? Sixty the recorded turnovers at least twenty seven turnovers for Kentucky,
forty four free throws and went thirty six of forty four. Yeah,
that helps downtown by comparison, and thirty one points. So by comparison,
Kansas took forty six shots in the game against Yukon and then they took eighty
five and the Kentucky won fifties score. That's Roy for you, though it
is very Roy does give up ninety five but still win and win fifty five
points. Yep, that's that's amazing. Uh, one of the one of
the stupidest things you're ever gonna see. I mean, that's that's Wilt's one
hundred point game. Like you're you're never seeing anything like that in college basketball
again, mainly because we've let Cretans like Tony Bennett and made this sport.
That's true awful. Can't believe you know the scene at the end of The
Hunger Games where they find out that the game maker screwed up and let two
people win, and they just banished him into a room, and that's how
the movie ended. That's what needs to happen to Tony Bennett. They just
need to take him to a room, lock him in there. Nobody needs
to say anything. We all understood why you're here. You're here because you've
ruined and made a product worse and we're not going to put up with it
anymore. So that's it, right, no objections to that. Na.
I'm good with that. He can have his family and whatnot. I don't
want him to die. I just want him away from my favorite sport to
watch in the winter months. Like he's terrible to He's done terrible things to
college basketball and Virginia by the way, I guess even at Blind Squirrel Finds
and not. Kudos to you, Tony Bennett and your your who's scored eighty
one and counting on Syracuse today as we're doing acc play on the first Saturday
in December for some stupid, wacky reason. Yeah, I don't need that.
But I mean if they score eighty one, then that's different. I
guess it counts. It counts that will will let them count this one.
Other games, there's one despite getting a buzzer beater from out Yeah, I
guess there is a half, despite getting a buzzer beater from Zach Edy,
who had thirty five points and fourteen rebounds to send the game in no overtime.
Number one Perdue loses at Northwestern for the second season in a row,
ninety two to eighty eight. And my goodness, if there was ever a
man that was put on this earth to defeat Perdue, it is uh man.
Did you guys see the highlights of this? I haven't. I mean,
so Northwestern stud Boo Bewie is absolutely ridiculous. Noo what boo? I
think it's boo, isn't it. It's boo interesting, Yeah, it's bobooy.
I just googled it. Whatever it is. Boo Bwie is a stud
because he scored thirty one in this game on ten for twenty from the floor,
and then last year when they took down Number one Perdue at home,
he had twenty six. So the man just lives for beating number one ranked
perdue teams, by the way, nothing to worry about if you're Purdue,
nothing at all. Plenty of teams that go on to win the national championship
wind up losing to Northwestern. It is totally a normal thing that great teams
do. Don't trust them. I don't know how many more examples they have
to give you don't trust them? Yeah, I think you're right. And
then also, Markett and Wisconsin are playing as we record. It's close.
Yeah, Marquette was down by as many as sixteen in the first half.
They opened the second half on like a sixteen to two run or something.
So that game is neck and neck. Marquette very well. Maybe in the
list of ranked teams to lose since the last show, Kansas is going to
be two or three in the polls depending on what happens in this game.
So their stay outside the top three, sir, was short. How would
you rank the top five teams in college basketball right now? What do you
think, nick? I would probably put Arizona first, Marquette penning a win,
it looks like at this point maybe will win. They're down by one
now. If they win, I'll put them at two. I think Kansas
is three, and then I think you slide Perdue down to four, and
then you round up the top five. I think could put Kentucky five,
and then Yukon and six. So I think what Nick said the top four
is exactly what you will see happen. Assuming Marquette does hold on and win,
Arizona's going to go up to one. Marquette with a win, goes
to two, Kansas goes to three, and then you have Produce sliding down
to four. And after that, I agree Nick, I think Kentucky's as
good as a top five team. I don't see them penalizing Yukon very much
for that loss to Kansas. Houston is there for some reason, I mean
fraud. They haven't played anyone their number one single year. Oh yeah,
everything, okay, Daddy kimpom what happened in the NCAA tournament last year?
I mean, come on, Houston. Houston could play a directional like Division
III school and with no one would bat and I at their non conference schedule,
Kevin Samson plays nobody. He needs to take lessons from Hubert Davis or
someone else on how to actually make a schedule. Louisiana Monroe Texas A and
in Corpus Christy Stetson thousand, Utah. I guess that was I mean,
Utah sucks, but at least they're playing a power five Dayton Montana Xavier,
they get one of the worst Big East teams and they have Rice Jackson State.
Oh, finally, Texas A and N they finally play a ranked team
and it's December sixteenth, and then after that Texas State Penn. I mean,
come on, like, are we seriously gonna playt the Houston game again
this year? They just beat Xavier by six Come on, don't get me.
I fully agree with Nick. I don't think Houston should be anywhere near
like Yukon. Yukon's gonna schedule this stuff and lose narrow games at Allen Fieldhouse,
and we're gonna put them behind a Houston team that their second best win
of the year is what Dayton like. Come on, I'm entirely in agreement
there. I think Houston's gonna have a step back year in the Big Twelve.
I could see them losing six or seven league games, even though I
do think they're pretty good. But from a rankings perspective, no, I'm
not gonna keep sliding Gonzaga Junior up two spots every week because they keep beating
Stetson and Rice and penalizing the teams that are playing top five showdowns on the
road. Landon, Is that fair? Uh? Yes, I think that's
holy fair. I mean, then rounding out the rest of the top fair
step up in the vocab today and then what, yeah, Duke is seven?
Ny should fall. Duke's nowhere near the top ten right now, get
out of here with that. Miami, I know they got so I think
they're solid, but they've unless like Michigan State's a mess and Duke has not
passed two of their three tests this year. Kansas has passed three of their
four. So I mean, we'll we'll see me. Got bushwhacked pretty good
at Kentucky, But I still think they're solid. Baylor is probably the sleeper
here. Baylor is a team that I think should be five to six,
maybe at lowest. Right now. They look nasty and their schedule hasn't been
as bad as Houston's. They haven't played an absolute gauntlet yet, but they're
getting ready to play a much increased schedule of difficulty because they play Michigan State
and Duke coming up, and Seaton Hall is not a lay up either.
But yeah, for the most part, these teams Baylor and Houston have not
played super tough schedules, so we have no idea how good they are.
Give me a team like Yukon being much higher who's actually played some tougher games
than one of those teams in the top five, as if it matters.
Rankings are irrelevant, but still, and yeah, I mean, everybody who
went to Maui has played such a big arsenal of games against good teams that
I don't think really any of them should be penalized for narrow losses, especially
on the road. Yeah, I'd much rather teams have the guts to schedule
good opponents and dare to lose and then not get grossly punished for it.
I think that makes a lot of sense. Like if Marquette winds up losing
in Wisconsin, I think Kansas is going to go to number two. But
I mean, where do you are you seriously gonna say if Marquette loses a
tough home a home game they scheduled at Wisconsin, a team that already has
a win over Kansas on the resume, a team that narrowly lost to Purdue,
Like, are we really gonna slide that team behind freaking Houston in the
polls because that just shouldn't happen. Yeah, that's just done. It's what.
It's how we saw Gonzaga grab a stranglehold on the number one ranking for
so long and then lose to a four seed every time they got to the
second weekend because oh no, here come the actual athletic teams. It's ridiculous
ranked teams to lose since the last show. For now, there's just two
teams on this list. Number one Perdue, who's totally not gonna do it
again this year guys lost to Northwestern, and number four you Khon lost to
Daddy Bill. Yeah. I feel like that Bill beats the national champs.
He gets the rap black build set these bills to myself. Maybe Marquette,
we'll see. They're down five with nine minutes left. But everybody who's lost
ranked teams wise is in the top is in the top five. Right now.
I'm looking at other games because there is there's a healthy amount of Saturday
games. We're recording this earlier in the day, so a lot of them
haven't finished. But like Gonzaga does play a pretty tough game against Andy Enfield
and his hot wife tonight in Las Vegas, and then Colorado State may lose.
They're going to Washington in that same tournament, so there may be more.
But other than that, unless you think Arizona loses to Colgate or do
lose US to Georgia Tech, there's not going to be very many other ranked
teams to lose since the last show. Any other thoughts on other teams in
college basketball? Uh no, but Houston is not good. I just think
that Houston should be number one, Gonzaga should be number two, and Stetson
should be. It's my top twenty five YEP sets in three YU four.
Really don't need to do the Houston Gonzaga game again until they win anything and
people can say Gonzaga has been to two national titles and neither of those runs
that they play anybody seated better than a five. Until Gonzaga gets through and
proves that they can win consistently with the top teams, I don't care if
anybody tells me they have because they haven't. We've all seen it, we
all have eyeballs. Until they prove they can do that, don't need them
anywhere near my top three or four in the rankings. Same with Houston beat
somebody with a pulse. Ask rock Chuk blog, Let's see how you guys
did today, because I put this question out just a couple hours before we
did the podcast, and we have seven responses, which is pretty good.
Let's start with one from at Ryan Underscore Landrath. How would you rank your
top five and you don't have to rank them, just who are, in
your opinion the three to five best coaches in college basketball right now? Bill
self? Yeah? Us, Wait, Scott you can't. You can't actually
mean Scott Drew Iso. I most certainly do. Yeah, he is.
He absolutely is program building, recruiting and winning, executing on the big stages,
and he's got a ring top five dunk. After that, I think
it gets moderately tricky unless there's just someone I'm blatantly forgetting. I think that
Danny Hurley is a really good coach. He's really elevated that program back to
where it is. I think that Tommy Lloyd has proven himself to be one
of the best coaches in college basketball, though he hasn't had that deep tournament
run yet. And I still think you have to put Mark few up there.
What he's been able to do consistently. I know he hasn't won a
ring, but the guy is a very good recruiter and consistent dominance is worth
saying. I mean, they've won that that conference. I know it sucks,
but they haven't had a down year in a very very long time.
I think Patino still has a legit argument to be top five. Oh,
he does been a premier program, but he is one of these great coaches.
He and Bill are the only two with active coaches with two rings.
I think, yeah, Shaka's actually done a pretty good job building a program.
We kind of all know how that goes whenever the games get tough.
But I think his he at least is rising the ranks more than I ever
thought he would. And Cal I didn't say Cal, He's not in the
top five. John cal Perry's not in the top five. I mean he's
a program builder. No, he's won with recruiting. I think that carries
that holds some water. It does, it does, But I also think
when you look at his resume compared to talent now, I don't really even
fault him for not winning the championship. Honestly, with that thirty nine to
zero team, because that's just that team was so so freaking good, even
though they didn't win. But, like you know, I think he's had
a lot more struggles than he should have considering who he had on his teams,
especially recently, because John Calaperi made four Final fours in a five year
window eleven, twelve, fourteen, and fifteen, and he was the undisputed
top dog in college basketball. He hasn't made one since. I know we
make a lot of Perry Yellis jokes, but he has not made a Final
four since Perry Yellis was at Kansas. Like, it's been a while now,
and he's had great teams, as you've pointed out, nobody's put more
players in the NBA than John Cali Perry. And they've lost a lot of
Elite eight games. They lost the Elite eight game to Auburn in Kansas City
that Nick had tickets for. They lost the Elite eight game to who else
beat him? Oh, the UNC team where Luke May hit a walk off
game winner against them. They've had some brutal, brutal Incia Tournament losses,
and obviously Saint Peter's I think the best team of any of Cal's since the
fifteen team that was definitely the best team in college basketball and then they win
the title. The best one was the Oscar Sheebway Player of the Year team
that lost to a fifteen seed out of nowhere. Yeah they got Sam Peters
yep, and yeah that was so Cali Perry needs to do definitely. This
is a big year for Cal because he's loaded with talent. He's got his
freshman superstars again, and they look really good out of the shoot. So
we'll see at Boom and Frosty. Let's talk about Dewan Harris. What is
going on with Dewan Harris? He used to be automatic around the rim.
Doesn't even look like the same player anymore. Nick, Yeah, we had
a good conversation on this earlier. I think that he's off for sure.
Yeah, I don't know, it's weird. I do think his lack of
finishing is weird because that has been an immense strength, even at low volume.
So I don't know. I'm not sure. I'm not worried about it
per se yet, but it's definitely something that is odd, and I do
think eventually he needs to score. I don't know, I think he kind
of does look like the same player, a little more careless with the ball,
but I also think he's aware of who he's throwing to. If I
had Hunter Dickinson on my team, I would be a little more careless too,
just because I expect anything I throw up there him to grab. And
I think that he's still kind of learning a lot of the pieces on this
team. I think that Dewan Harris we have in January and February to watch
be much different than this one. But I actually think he kind of has
looked the same. The ball just hasn't gone in the basket as much.
I think you're gonna see that improved, just because we have a huge sample
size where he's a very good finisher at the rim. He has a great
touch on a lot of those a lot of those hook shots that have we've
seen go in more often than not. I think you're gonna see that swing
back sooner rather than later. But if things are still this way one month
from now, when we're talking about conference games, then I'll be on the
panic train. At AJ Stevenson, the fouls were seven to six at the
under four time out in the second half. Lately, both teams are at
or nearly double bonus by this point. So was this game better officiated?
No, it was horribly officiated. I mean I like that it was.
It was badly officiated, though very badly. They just don't have any consistency.
There was a right before Kevin mccullor hit the game tying three, or
it may have been a go ahead, it may have put him up by
one. Right before that, Kevin McCuller got shot to the ground and Jay
Billis was like, wow, that could have been fouls on a couple different
guys. How was there no contact there? And then a minute later they
well, we saw them call the fouls on the three point shots that it
didn't look like there was much contact there. They're just not consistent. I
did like how we had a fewer number of whistles in this game. It
seemed like we had less momentum killing whistles. But they just let guy,
They let Dickinson and Kling and just hammer each other all night and then they
would call soft stuff. I don't think they truly know. Yeah, well,
that one play Kevin McCuller swatted the ball, completely made contact with the
ball, and they called it a foul. Yeah, and then like that
first or second possession of the game, Yukon was down to one second left
in the shot clock and there was actually shot clock violation, but they called
a foul after the shot clock violation had happened. And how long it took
them to whistle a couple of those jump balls the one that turned into a
shot clock violation for Kansas when could have been called a jump with legitimately like
five or six seconds on the shot clock. Yeah, it was. It
was weird. I thought that they did a good job calling less fouls,
but the ones they called were head scratching. So I guess this is a
superior result than the games where they call forty five forty minutes. I guess,
so maybe it's better officiate. I don't know. I don't know up
to you to decide for that. At rock Chok eighty four, what do
I need to order the next time I go to Chick fil A? I
like this, You guys get the right questions to ask spicy chicken sandwich you
can do deluxe or not deluxe, and then a large fry and lemonade.
So a question on the spicstard with honey mustard okay, so I'll let Nick
go in a second. But a question about the spicy. So, McDonald's
ran a thing where they had a spicy McChicken and it tasted exactly the same
as the regular McChicken. Is the chick chicken is kind of spicy? Correct?
Yeah, that's why it didn't feel any or it didn't taste any different.
So is the Chick fil a spicy chicken sandwich noticeably spicier than the regular?
Yes, it is. It's good. Also, if you go to
McDonald's you should get the uh it's it's there like normal chicken sandwich, not
the MC chicken, but they have a spicy version of it. It's very
good. Oh, the mick crispy I think is what it's called. Yeah,
the spicy mccrispy's. I didn't like the regular one. I was so
excited to order it because I was like, yeah, they got their Chick
fil a sandwich and I didn't really think it was that good. So I'll
have to go try the spicy one because it's done. That sounds pretty good.
Okay, Nick, you thought that the crispy chicken or Crispy I'm still
in Culver's mode. Landa in case you couldn't tell Nick you thought that the
spicy chicken Sandwich Deluxe with fries and some honey mustard sauce is a bad order,
tell me what a good order is. Well. First of all,
spicy chick spicy food in general is just overrated, like the mild stuff.
I'm white, I know I have very low tolerance for spice, but the
non spicy food is just distaste better. Like if you I've had tie food
before and you're so focused on how hot it is you can't even taste the
how the cuisine. You know, It's like, it's just why, why
need something spicy in your food? Just add more salt like white people do.
Anyways, also also order eighty seven year old Wall here's the eighty seven
year old take for you as well, Landing, Why are you getting lemonade
at Chick fil A? I mean, in order for me to step in
for mister first watch here, you have to say something that's just that crazy.
But oh, Chick fil A has got the best lemonade on the block.
It's so good. Oh it's outstanding. I I will die on the
hill that anything that sugar flavored water is just trash, like why why take
the extra sugar just for like something like to me, water taste fine,
like I don't like, I don't like soda or anything, but like I
don't know, I'd rather drink. I'd rather have my sugar in like an
ice stream, like a cone or something at Chick fil a and not like
a drink that that you're gonna have in like five minutes anyways, my order
at chick floy. My take is that pickles do not belong on a chicken
sandwich. It makes the patty, it makes the past I love. I
love pickles. I used to drink the Brian out of the pickle jar after
I finished eating dill pickles. It's very good, it's very good. But
pickles on a sandwich just make the patty a little soggy and the butt a
little saggy. I just don't I've never understood why that's a thing. But
for me, I just get a number one, no pickle. I usually
get extra mail on it. Because sandwiches are worthless if they don't have,
If they don't have, if sandwiches don't have a lot of condiments on them,
they're worthless. Like people who eat dry sandwiches, deserve to be in
prison, but right. The other other egregious part of Landon's take is that
the honey mustard at Chick fil A is good. It's actually I am a
honey mustard connoisseur. I made a list in my notesap about five years ago
of ranking the top one hundred honey mustards I've ever had, and Chick fil
A was like eighty seven on that list. It's not good. It is
the best that I've ever had. To be fair, it's very good.
Yes, that's crazy. I thought there were like six No, Like I'm
just talking like every restaurant I've ever been to. I made a list,
and I used to get chicken tenders like every place I went to, So
that was why it was easy for me to make the list. But the
only the best condiments at Chick fil A. Chick fil A sauce, you
cannot go wrong, Like if you're not dipping your fries in Chick fil A
sauce, then you're which is very probably a sociopath. But also I tried
the Polynesian recently, and that's actually a really good sauce. Chick fil A
barbecue is actually acceptable for fast barbecue is always this Bobbycues. Barbecue is always
a safe bet no matter where you're at. Athough barbecue is usually garbage.
But people who get ranch and stuff at Chick fil A, I mean,
like I think I'm white for my spice takes come on like ranch at Chick
fil a. Ranch is good. It is good. But the secret to
if you're really hungry, you get the sandwich fries. I don't get drinks,
like I said, I just drink water. I'm not like I being
pretentious about it. But the secret is to get like like a four count
strip on top of that and just like eat half of it and then put
it in the fridge for like a snack later. So I think Nick and
I fundamentally agree on most things. Like the more Nick and I talk,
the more I think we have quite a bit in common. And then every
like three months he'll say, like, women with tattoo sleeves are ugly,
and I hate chick lemonade. I just lose it. I just can't understand,
Like I think that one time I thought that you needed glasses, and
now I think you need a new set of taste buds. If you think
Chick fil a, there is a fundamental difference between thinking preferring basic white girls
versus someone like I never said something. I just said vanilla ice cream.
I only drink water. I'm sensing a trend here extra male on the Chicken
sandwich and also at Rock Chalk eighty four always asks me or has a couple
of times, when are we doing our next YouTube live show? So at
a camera? So I just have a camera on lock now, so we
can let's do it. Yeah, we need to, We need to do
it. We need to do it for the fans. At Jay Rodriguez Underscore
ninety eight. Curious what your favorite bigger than sports moments are. Ooh,
this is a good one. kJ making some clutch free throws to put the
game away. And that postgame locker room speech by Bill Uh. I know
that neither of you are on Twitter, but get on the get on and
look at Bill self's locker room speech after the game on the official KU Basketball
Twitter page. Uh for what he said about kJ Adams and the locker room
was was just unbelievable. There will not be a dry eye in the house.
And yes, that is an excellent question. The biggest for me and
you guys are probably too young for this. The biggest, big, bigger
than sports moment I have ever seen in my life was Gret fav going out
on Monday Night football the day after his dad died and absolutely going atomic on
the Raiders, throwing for four hundred yards and four touchdown passes. And the
stats don't do a justice. He was just on one on that Monday night
game. He had the entire stadium cheering for him as they were hit their
team. Uh and it was just an insane performance to watch. That will
forever be the biggest larger than sports moment in regard to rallying around tragedy.
And then I'm sure there's been The New Orleans Saints were one of the worst
teams of football. Yeah, that and the and before that, the first
game after Katrina, how they went on the road and won at the last
at the last second, like get the block punt moment at the Superdome.
Yah, things like that. What college basketball ones have we seen? I
think Michigan flying the Michigan state flag after the shooting at the Spartans campus last
year. Stuff in Virginia with the Purdue football smashed Ohio State at home,
and that was they had a kid like uh, which I mean they had,
like the kids with cancer had lots of games and they don't always win.
That one still got stood out to me a lot because actually got to
like see the whole special on the guy who had cancer and he was a
huge Purdue fan. They let him in the locker room and talk to the
team a bunch of times and all that, and then Perduyo goes out and
smashes number like three or whatever. Ohio State at home. That was pretty
cool. And Kansas, Uh, the comeback on k State after Bill self's
dad died. Oh yeah, that's true. I remember that one. The
Thomas Robinson angle after that's true his mother died was like that too. But
I'd say because I remember very vividly when I was not even one year,
not even barely alive, when George W. Bush threw the first pitch at
the Acies game. Yeah, yeah, that is the and and that man
wearing a aluminum bullet proof vest through a sixty six and a half foot strike
and it was right in there. It was beautiful. One of the best
first pitches, probably the best first we're talking we're talking about this guy though,
like talking about presidents who knew how to play sports like this dude was
little on a golf course talking about terrorists and he told the reporter to watch
his drive and he just ripped the drive after that, So and that was
so that to that game. Yeah, that was right after nine to eleven
and New York Like obviously at the heart of these attacks, nobody has any
idea what's gonna happen. And the president just goes walking out on the mound
and everyone's watching and throws a frigging strike. It was awesome. Yeah,
those are good. There are some really good, larger than sports moments that
you see sometimes, and we've gotten to see quite a few of them around
Kansas basketball. But kJ and the day after or the after the weeks he's
had being arguably the best player on the floor and being their second leading scorer
for for Kansas, the day after or right considering what he's gone through,
is up there at show me. Hawk says some Yukon fans last night,
We're a different breed. They talk a lot for a program that's never beaten
Kansas. That's true that the Kansas four and o against Yukon. Wish we
could be playing our actual rival in the Big East mort Ooh, I like
that. I will never say no to a Kansas Villanova game. I actually
welcomed it. Here, here we go, here comes the two seat Villa.
That's big for Kansas. I love that matter, love that match.
Sometimes. That was the worst take on the show, wasn't it. No,
My worst take in my life was that Mitch Lightfoot was gonna win a
Big twelve Player of the Year, the Big Twelve twenty nineteen Big Twelve Player
of the Year. Landa and I joined that podcast. Land and I joined
that podcast, and he texts me, sir, I can't wait for you
to join and we can watch Mitch Lightfoot win the twenty twelve Player of the
Year together and Mitch lifefoot played three freaking seasons after I made that claim in
twenty nineteen, and he never averaged more than five and n of them.
Yep, Yeah, that was That was my worst take of all time.
I like Kansas Yukon. They need to play more. Yukon fans were definitely
pretty geeked. I thought Indiana fans were kind of the same way when they
came in here last year, and I hope we get to see it next
year in Connecticut because that was good. Shouldn't have put the hat on the
James Naismith statue didn't go well? At let's see here. I think we
only have one more here, Yeah, at show me hawk. I do
have one major pet peeve about the state of Kansas. Why does Kansas City,
Kansas's city center look so drab? We're talking about a city that has
one hundred and fifty thousand people that has across the state line from k CMO,
and they don't have any buildings taller than one hundred and seventy feet.
That is a good tassuming this person's not from Kansas. Well, uh,
Okay has a better skyline than Casey, k Yeah, says for ads.
For reference, Springfield, Massachusetts has roughly the same population as Caseyk and their
downtown looks way better. Even Clayton, Missouri, and they're thirty thousand people,
is next to Saint Louis and has a much more vibrant city center.
Has this person ever been to Kansas City, Kansas? I mean you're just
kind of very mid I mean a lot of it, A lot of it
has to do before I go further. A lot of it has to do
with red lining and you know, white flight because kans City, Kansas actually
used to be a pretty good you know, like Kansas City, Kansas,
Kansasity, Missouri actually used to be like, you know, somewhat comparable.
And then like you know, you had the red line, which there's a
whole story behind redlining that happened in Country Culle Plaza where that used to be
low income housing and a developer literally went in there, yeah and built like
this really rich and fancy nate playground for rich people and moved the people past
trust. So that's really interesting. But like Kansa City, Kansas, I
mean the demographics. You know, when when pay started increasing in these wealthy
people who actually once lived in Kansaity, Kansas, they moved obviously to Johnson
County, and ever since that movement has just been like further south. That's
why jov Land Park's so big now. But you have all these like really
really rich people move out and then just starts this progression. Like the schools
are terrible in Kansa City, Kansas. I think that has a lot to
do with people not wanting to live there. And overall, Ryan Windout County
is just kind of like no offense anyone in Windett County. But it's just
kind of like the armpit of Kansas. It's Kansas City at this point.
The Legends is nice and that area is great, but it really but that's
not even Kansa city, Kansas. That's pre village. It's no. The
Legends is Casey K. Yeah, Legends is Casey K. It's wind dot
Kem somewhat. Yeah, it's the they have a Caseyk address. They got
the speedway up there and ends up there. There is nobody that knows more
about geography and this sort of thing than Nick. So show me hawk if
if this sort of thing is your cup of tea, you have a beautiful
source to ask ask RCB questions to all the time because Nick knows his stuff.
Casey K. Yeah just really isn't. I mean, it never really
has been the they had. I mean they had Curner Headquarter with a big
campus there and that that didn't last more than a few years, just because
Casey K is not. Overland Park is way more populated, and I think
Casey I think cac Moo has a very pretty skyline, but the metro here
is just kind of weird where That's how it's set up like it's a big
metro with several big cities, but really only one of them has a true
downtown. Yeah, pretty much. Oleifa sort of like Aletha, has a
distinct downtown area, but it's not all that. Like you see all the
construction happening in Lenexas City Center, now, like that's that's they really have
a centralized yeah, really centralized place in Lenexa. But yeah, you're right,
I mean, most of Johnson County is new. Like if we're talking
about Kansas City in the nineteen fifties, like Kansas City, Kansas is Kansas
City, Kansas, right, Yeah, and yeah KSEK definitely used to be
better than it is, and it has plenty of capability to be better than
it is, but it's just not really known for being a city center sort
of life or nightlife or any of that. You're you're trying to dodge gunfire
more often than not if you get into any part of KSEYK. That's not
the I mean that they had the Splitter Bond Park up there, and that
was in a pretty like we saw how that went though. Yeah that wasn't
in a great area either. Okay, as Shaka Smart continues to pout on
the sideline because his team's about to lose. Let's talk about a game that
Kansas will moste definitely not lose. We've been calling them you and KC,
but that is officially incorrect because they now go by the city at number five
and probably soon to be number two Kansas on Tuesday, December fifth, at
seven o'clock PM, You guys can can can calm down your heart right from
that thriller that was the Connecticut game with the ruse. Yeah, and the
rules of the Summit League. They enter at three and five overall. They
lost by thirty eight at Baylor. They also lost the schools like You and
C, Greensboro Brown, and Middle Tennessee State. One of their three wins
somehow counts is against Avella, if only Naia School State in a game that
counted one. For those of you not from the Kansas City area, Avala
is an NAIA school here in case with about one thousand students enrolled. I
have no idea. We've seen like four divisions down. That's not even NCAA.
Yes, I don't know how that counts, but yeah, woof.
Also, if you lose to Brown, you should have to shut your basketball
college down, like that's just that's horrible. Wing Jamar Brown is the team's
leading scorer at fourteen points per game. He also leads the Ruse in rebounds
with six per game and three point shooting at thirty eight percent. Anderson Copp
actually talked to this guy every Tuesday night he goes to Paradigm, which is
the youth ministry in Kansas City. I'm Alan cool, Alan mcbach are the
big cop. Is the your white guy at the game, candidate? None
of this matters out to tell him that he's our white guy Candida of the
game. Yeah, you should tell him that he's absolutely going six for ten
in this game. The Ruse, though, may not because they are horrendous
on offense. We said this against Eastern Illinois. I'm gonna try it again
because the stats say this is a bad offensive team. They barely score seventy
a night. None of their shooting percentages are in the top one hundred and
eighty nationally. They're good on the offensive glass, but that's mainly because they
miss a lot of shots. They're also a unheard of horrendous fifty nine and
a half percent at the free throw line, which is three hundred and fiftieth
nationally. The only thing at this team really excels at, based on the
stats through however many games, which isn't against very good competition either, is
fouling. They're also decent at not turning the ball over because they played a
slower pace. Kansas is a and O against case all time, with the
most recent victory coming in the team mobile center back when David McCormick scored twenty
eight points and then Bill self decided against letting him have fun all the way
back in twenty eighteen. The average margin of victory in the A wins is
thirty five points, so I don't think we're anticipating a super close outing here.
I have such a gripe to pick with College Basketball References website because they
used to make it so I could click on the they show the head to
head record of each team against every team, and I can see the record
that Kansas is eight, and oh they used to make it so I could
click that and see every game score and I can't do that anymore, and
it really really chaps my ass. I that was one of my favorite things
on that website, So I hope they fix it soon. But yes,
in that game, David McCormick had twenty eight points in sixteen minutes, and
I believe that was about halfway through the second half before waved him to the
sideline so we could watch Mitch Lightfoot Sniff's own farts for the last ten minutes.
Well, that was a running tradition, so you don't break it for
you in case, so Marquette, excuse me. So Marquette did in fact
lose to Wisconsin, which is pretty hilarious because Shaka Smart was whining at the
refs in a game that they were they were definitely going to lose at that
time. So let's update our pickum percentage here. Looks like that I went
four and one Nick. What was your record this week, sir? I
believe I went three and two. Nick and I both win Marquete. All
right, So the new updated results, Nick has thirty six points, I
have thirty five points, and Landon has thirty one points. Land and that
means you keep pace. You are five games behind. I'll take it for
now. We'll see what happens. But you are better than Nick picking Kansas
schemes. To be fair, I would have picked Ku if I didn't want
to be different than everyone else. So what a flex? What an absolute
flex? I knew, I knew that I could beat you and pick them
even if I just started screwing around. How does that make you feel?
Landing about the same because I think that's what was happening in the last several
years. So Kansas is likely going to go up to two, maybe three
at worse, depending on what they do with Purdue, they will be right
back in the top three. These other rankings are going to change. Oh
we didn't pick the game. That tells you how focused I am. Kansas
two hundred, UMKC five, Kansas ninety six, UMKC sixty, Kansas eighty
nine, UMKC fifty five. I'm gonna say they score one hundred, right,
They got to score one hundred eventually, and the UMKC feels like a
good bet to do it against. Yeah, if there was anyone who might
be this one. But I will say I wouldn't touch this game from a
betting perspective, one because it's Kansas hum KC. And two the I know
that there's so much more talented that this might not matter. But the dynamics
here, they're coming off a Yukon win. The coaching staff's gonna spend this
weekend in Texas at kJ adams Mom's funeral. He will be distracted. They're
getting ready to play Missouri. You want to talk about the sleepiest game in
the history of sleepy games, it could be this one. So Kandas could
look pretty lethargic, but they're just so much better than you, MKC.
You gotta figure they're going to win by plenty of points. Other games,
these rankings will all get a facelift, but for now, this is what
we've got. Number fifteen Creighton at undefeated nebraskatball in state rivalry. Is Nebraska
for real? No Blue Jays. Yeah, I don't win this game.
No, Nebraska's not gonna be even close in this game, but I wanted
to see if I could steal a freebie on one. Again. He is,
and they're better, but they're not gonna be Creighton. That's not happening.
Number eighteen Villanova at k State. Good game here in the Big twelve,
Big East battle. I will go with the Wildcats to take one at
home. Oh, they're both the Wildcats. I'll go with Kansas State at
home. I think that they're you know, they haven't played very well this
year, but they're well coached, tough environment. I think they take down
the gold I think Golden Cheese. So many dams, so over stimilar.
Right now, Kansas State takes down Villanova at home. I think I agree.
I like the Wildcats. I just I just realized case name was the
Wildcats here? Yeah Villanova? Oh okay, gotcha. Number thirteen Florida Atlantic
against number twenty four Illinois. This is in the Jimmy V Classic. As
woll Shaka smart is the Wisconsin storming the floor after beating Marquette. Guys.
I think court storms have gone too far. Yeah, we need to turn
back. It doesn't mean anything anymore coming from KU fans who stormed the field
after beating you know Ice, nobody's who is the who is the worst them?
KU football has storm the court in the field against South after coda.
Oh that's right, they did game and maybe worse. The Oklahoma State woman
is pretty bad last year. I mean, I know it's good to bowel
eligibility, but like the well, I get that one. I get that
one. I love court storms, but whenever you beat Shaka, I don't.
I don't know, okay. Anyway, fau versus Illinois and New York
City, I will go with the fighting ALAINI, as I said, hoot,
hoot, give me the owls. This is a tough one for me.
Honestly, I am going to go with Illinois. I think I think
the Alics lose their first game and then this this pick for me just got
much easier. The Shaka Smart Bowl, Number sixteen, Texas at number three,
Marquette, Big twelve, Big East Battle, Marquette, Big Yeah,
Golden Eagles Texas. Wow? All right, Nick, I like the guts.
I feel like Markette normally plays pretty well here. They slacked Baylor pretty
good last year, and I'm just not feeling Texas. But there is plitally
of talent there. The football team. Three road teams in college basketball,
and he's you're five games, so maybe you should start adopting this strategy.
Good comeback? All right? We will be back what middle next week.
I don't know if we're rushing back to recap um k C, but we
gotta do something before they get the before Missouri comes in here. Yeah,
we'll see uh sometime soon, definitely before Zoo. This is inside the all
right, Hey, you know what, just because you asked nicely, sir,
I'm here for you at Missouri. I think Missouri bounced back the other
day. They did. They won on the road at Pitt. So Pitt
must be really bad if that's Missouri. Jeff still there. Yeah, I
remember when coach k yelled at his own fans for chanting something at at Caple.
Remember that I do. That was actually one moderately thing that Kay did.
But they were being flattering to him. They were telling they were chanting
at Capele to come sit with them. It was it's a tradition, understood
what was happening. Yeah. Yeah, he thought they were like taunting him,
and they weren't out of touch. That makes example. So Missouri plays
Which to State at missour Arena on Sunday, and then they get a week
off before coming into Allen Fieldhouse. Can't get enough of the state of Kansas.
I guess very well, could be two losses. I don't know much
about Which to State, but I know Missouri ain't too good. All right,
we'll be backin, said the paint Rock Chuck Blogg Riyan Landre. I'm
David McCormick's missing two points from the um kiss game yep, And I'm uh
Nick Whippert. I think my favorite nick name ever was when he started calling
himself Sergeibari Whippert. That was one of my favorites. Yeah. Or Santiago
Wipert after the Uh after the Tennessee Nicks. Yeah, yeah, I guess
that is true. Lake. No, now that sounds now, that sounds
like what we've watched this year from that particular individual. All right, everybody,
stay out of trouble. Goodbye,