Well, despite Nick Timberlake having money on the Baylor money line, those last
two shots just barely out at the last second. Jayhawks win, stay undefeated
at home, stay in the conference race, and keep landing perfect at Alan
Fieldhouse. Sir, you made it. You had three games this year ukn
Houston, Baylor, K You wasn't even favored in all of them, and
yet here they are three winners. Somebody on Twitter, I forget who it
was, said that k you could probably beat an NBA team at Allen field
House, and I'm starting to think that that might actually have a chance,
because Wow, that building is good. It would be a lot closer than
if it was anywhere else, that's for sure. That building crazy. They
just do not lose there. They've lost now one more time under Bill self
than Scott Drew has in that building. And Scott Drew plays there approximately one
seventeenth as frequently as as Bill self does, and lucis about ninety nine point
nine percent more. Yeah, that's the way it feels. At least KU
beats Taylor. They moved back into second place in the conference race despite only
having seven scholarship players. It's also the number of wins Kansas now has in
conference play. Yeah, and yet we learn nothing because the problem has always
been on the road. So we're gonna talk about Kansas winning and then preparing
for a week's worth of road games. Super Bowl Sunday Edition. I've inside
the paint, dedicated and committed, committed and dedicated. I am Ryan Landrith,
I'm the Chief's third Super Bowl win with Mahomes. I'm Kaitlyn Clark.
Oh that's that's dicey. So this put this game will not or this this
show will not post until after the Super Bowl's over Landon has said, this
is the most confident you've ever been in a in a Chiefs playoff game in
the Andy Reid era, which they've played over twenty playoff games. Uh,
it's either this or the Miami game. This year is the most confident I've
ever been. Those are the top two. So I mean, I understand
that you know they might win and then you'll look like a genius, but
you realize the chance if they do not win this game, it will be
one of the curby your enthusiasm moments that you'll hear about for a while.
That's fair. Uh man, that didn't I didn't mean to say that that
was just it's always fair. It's always fair with Landon at the controls.
Uh, it is true, except I have no emotional ties, so it
won't really hurt me. It'll just be another time I've been wrong. We
all think the Chiefs are gonna win the Super Bowl, right, we had
to bet. Yeah, I think they'll win by two touchdowns. I don't
what. I don't think they're gonna win the Super Bowl? What think's gonna
be next? San Francisco thirty four, Chiefs twenty eight. Wow, that's
just Hey, you're fired. I know that you're you're wanting to quit at
the end of the year anyway, But too bad, sir. You don't
get a good on your own terms anymore. You're fired. What the hell
are you can all just picked the Chiefs. Someone's got to go differently.
If the chief fans gives up thirty four points, if any team's hitting thirty,
it's the it's the team with Mahomes on it. Yeah. I think
that's probably true or and uh yeah, that's uh that that's a take.
We'll see if Nick's that's right. Nick loves block Brock Party. Brock Purty
is Nick's favorite player. In the in the whole wide world, Nick,
When did that rotron? I don't know. He's a very nice, down
to earth, godly man. So it's better than Jimmy G and his girlfriend.
So wow, that's a. That's a. I do like Brock Purtty
more than Jimmy G. Not for that reason inherently, but I do like
Brock Purty. I'm not I'm just comparing. I like Brock Pitty more than
most NFL quarterbacks. I'm gonna say that if he wins, I will not
be disappointed. If he wins, I hope that he throws seven touchdown passes
and San Francisco loses forty eight to forty seven. But I mean, I
hope that he plays well. Well. Well, let's talk about a team
that did play well. I don't know. Did they play well? Did
Keimva's play well? I'm not sure. I don't really know. I don't
know either that they kind of did, but I also think they kind of
didn't. It is impressive they beat a top top top thirteen team without Kevin
McCuller, but the way they did it was not impressive. Let's tuck,
let's do it. Let's do it, and as promised you get the merry
drop because as long as they keep winning, we'll keep pushing it. Number
four Kansas sixty four, Number thirteen Baylor sixty one. As was the college
game day game. As I'm sure everybody knows by now, kay, you
raced off to a sixteen to four start and we're like, yay, another
blowout on deck. They saw that lead close to six by halftime. Then
they stretched it back to eleven with six minutes left, and we were like,
yay, they're gonna close it out. No sweats, not so fast.
Not having Kevin mccoler really started to show at that point, everybody got
tired. Dewan Harris rolled his ankle, Baylor crept closer. The Jayhawks made
just one shot in the final six minutes. I'm not sure we can say
they played well if that's a stat. The Bears had two fantastic looks at
a game tying three in the final fifteen seconds, both thanks to mister Nicholas
Timberlake, but both of them bricked out. Kansas finally got some three point
defense regression luck, giving Kansas an eighteenth straight home win. That was the
first thing that went through my head, was all the bitching about the three
point defense. They guarded the three so much better against Iowa State, and
they all went in than they did against Baylor, and Baylor couldn't hit anything.
And that's just see I told you, guys, three point shooting defense
mostly luck. You want to say that it was anything but luck that the
Nick Timberlake experience didn't end with split with splitsh splash at the end. It
should have. It really should have landon you were there, what was your
Was there an audible groan from the crowd when Timberlake just decided, you know,
I just gonna go over here as his man is launching a game tying
three. It was so so strange because it was so so bad defense,
Like I genuinely for a second thought the clock had expired, because I just
didn't know how on earth you could play that poorly on defense in a real
possession. And then the shot goes up and I'm like, oh no,
this game is still happening, that's the time, what's going on? And
then yeah, I was like, there's like a sixty percent chances is gonna
be going over time right now, And then it didn't. And then there
was just like the crowd cheered, But it felt so weird because that didn't
It wasn't like going out incredibly victoriously for the win. It was like,
thank goodness, that was close, like survival mode Kansas, which is rare
for Kansas to do that in Allenfield has to win survival mode. But they
did because Nick Timberlake, despite having a better game than normal, had some
truly truly atrocious possessions in the last thirty seconds. Yeah, Nick, it's
not It's not very often that we feel like Kansas survived anything at allen Field
House. That felt like a game that they had so many chances whenever they
were up five at their the final five minutes to push it out, they
couldn't do it. Baylor kept turning it over and basically saying, please end
this game Kansas, and the Jayhawks wouldn't do it. And then we saw
it get closer and closer. It felt like Baylor was was sneaking up more
and more. That felt like a game that if there had still been two
or three more minutes on the clock there, I think it may have ended
in a loss. That's a weird phenomenon at allen Field House. At least
is that how you felt it too, Yeah, yeah, that was definitely
a nervous steeling. I don't know why it was a nervous crowd reaction,
but yeah, that down the stretch, it was very tight. And there
was never a point in this game where I thought Kansas is gonna lose this.
But I did think for a second it's possibly, you know, this
could be pushed to overtime. We've seen it before. Kay's gonna come in
a rally in the in overtime, but you know, just yeah, lucky,
lucky finish. And like you said, Nick, Timberlake completely blowing a
wide open three point shore in the corner of the basket, even before that
last three that went up, the one before that where he was trying to
stop at two when they're down by three, so boneheaded play, wide open
three, missed it. Then he gets the steel and tries to dunk it
and misses the free throw, another boneheaded play, and then like you said,
that last drive about five feet away from the shooter on the last second
shot. So see, I I'm thinking back Bill selves lost seventeen home games.
I think they've only lost three in overtime, and they've played a lot
of overtime games at Allen Fieldhouse. They've only lost a couple of them,
and it feels like that while they normally you go to overtime at home,
you expect to win it, that felt like a game had Baylor forced it.
I don't know if I'm feeling very good about Kansas's chances in overtime.
They were clearly running out of gas. They played seven guys the whole game.
One of those seven was could barely run up and down the court by
the end because he had turned his ankle. Two of the other guys are
seven footers that were clearly exhausted. So it just wasn't a great vibe down
the stretch. At least that was the mood I had, and I normally
have great vibes when Kansas is in close games. Landon, you said the
vibes there were more or less fine, but it was one that you're definitely
happy just to put in your pocket and move on from. Action on social
media seems to be very positive. They had seven scholarship players. They gut
it out a win against the top fifteen team on a night where they only
made twenty four percent of their threes. We probably thought going into that game,
if they were going to win it without mccolor, they were gonna need
guys like timber Lake and Furfey to make threes. They combined to make just
two of them, and they still managed to get a win. They got
destroyed on the glass, still found a way to gut one out. Seems
like we get a few of these each year at Allen Field House, those
gritty home close wins that you look at the stats and you'll wonder, how
did they get out of this one? And they just managed to do it.
What are you guys thoughts on that. I think if you would have
told me before the game that Kansas gets out rebounded, no Kevin McCuller and
they only score sixty four points, I would have easily predicted an l so
potentially by doubles. That's been the whole trend this season, because I mean,
like the Case State game, you look the stats the game before that,
the Houston game, some of these games this season, at least Kansas,
when they've turned the ball over a lot or just haven't rebounded a lot,
the stats sheet looks like it might be a loss, but they've won.
And the reverse in the opposite scenario when they have lost and they could
have won the stats were in their favor. Well, and I don't want
Kans holding leads is a genuine problem. I think, Yeah, point they
have, and the reason for that is despite having two of the best,
like five players in the country, they do not have a certified killer,
somebody like a Jalen Wilson who you knew when he got to stay consistently scoring.
Either that may also be it because what in conference play. We've seen
him get up sixteen on UCF blow that and lose. We've seen him get
up eleven on k State blow that and lose. We saw him get up
twelve or fourteen or whatever was on Baylor blow it almost lose. So yeah,
there's three conference games right then there, and it's it's puzzling, it
really is, because this is just not something that we're used to seeing Kansas
do. And they also I know it was early, but they also led
West Virginia by like eight or ten points right out of the shoot Now that
obviously it's also not including a bunch of those non con games that they were
up big and just completely fell asleep and let the other team back in for
a long time games that they led thirty two to fifteen and they wound up
winning eighty six to seventy four. Things like that. Yeah, it is
weird, and like, I'm not gonna say that they're lucky to win close
games at Allen Field House because they win ninety eight percent of their games in
that building. But it does kind of make me think a little bit less
of the road problems that people act like because they've had six true games that
are really and it could go either direction down the stretch and conference play.
They've won three of them or no, they've won two of them. They've
won the two at home, they won TCU and Baylor, and they've lost
the four on the road. Like yesterday, for example, the three point
defense was better for my money against Iowa State than it was against Baylor.
Iowa State made fourteen threes and everybody was talking about how they lost because they
couldn't guard the three. Yesterday, Kansas, I think guarded the three point
line very very well early and then very poorly in the second half. He
was great early down the stretch, it was horrible and they escape because the
shot rims like it's just kind of when you play top twenty five teams so
consistently Alan Fieldhouse will give you an elevated chance of winning. They're two and
zer there in these close games. They won all the league games this year
at home. They won all their games at home this year. But I
think whenever you play these competitive matchups and guys get banged up and the rest
is a problem. I think it just kind of all has a varying degree
of randomness a little bit. Am I am I crazy like that. This
was the randomness bit them against k State. Case State made some really tough
shots down the stretch that they don't make more often than not. And then
against Baylor, I think that there were several shots in there that Baylor probably
makes more often than not that just rimmed out. It just kind of happens
that way in the Big Twelve. Yeah, I will say, especially against
the level of competition you're playing in the Big twelve, guys are mostly just
going to get open looks. It's one thing when you're playing you know,
Holy Cross and Sienna or whatever in non con you can genuinely kind of limit
the good looks teams get from three. You can make them take very difficult
shots and you can also just kind of limit just the amount of looks they
get at all. But yeah, if you're playing Baylor, who's like one
of the best three point shooting teams in America, they're just they're going to
get looks. And then yeah, it is like they had a cold day.
And that's why hot and cold are also a thing, because Iowa State
was really hot, and that implies like it really didn't have much to do
with the defense. I would say it was just knocking down threes and then
yeah, similarly, especially in the second half against Baylor, the reverse happened,
where yeah, Baylor was just cold. They got a bunch of really
good looks, very in rhythm, open looks from spots you want to take
them, and it wasn't like late shot clock heaves or anything, and many
of them did not go down. So, Nick, I'm curious for your
thoughts because you were really hard on the three point defense after their losses to
West Virginia and UCF and Iowa State where they gave up a lot of open
looks. It's been a lot better recently. They guarded the three well against
Cincinnati, then Iowa State happened. That was that just they made fourteen threes.
You can say, however happened. Oklahoma State didn't make a ton of
threes against them, Houston struggled shooting against them, Case State really didn't have
a great night. And now Baylor one of the better three point shooting teams
in America, they struggle as well. Three point defense. Has it gotten
better or has Kansas just getting a little bit of that three point regression that
we talked about was on tit. I think it's a little bit of both.
But I think it's a lot of the three point progression. Like you
said, the West Virginia game was an anomaly. Iowa State shot the ball
really well in their game there, So I do think that it's kind of
bounced back in their favor per se, at least teams shooting a little bit
lower from the three point line. But also, like you said, the
first half they were a good three point defense team that was smothering in the
second half guys like Nick Timberlake, you know, leaving wide open shooters.
So mix of both. It was a mixed back. I think that's been
the case of the season, the three point defense, because off of switches,
you know, Dewan Harris kind of what he does so well with his
threes is that he comes off of these screens, slips under these screens,
and that seems like teams as well. He gets and then yep, yep.
But it seems like on the inverse when Kansas Is has he's guy shooting
threes on them, it's either a wide open three in the corner or something
similar to that where a guy's coming off of a screen and gets an open
look. Just a bad switch by Almarco Jackson or something. Yeah, Because
like at the very end of this, I mean that the Jada Nunn one
was the one that was the that was the first of the two Baylor looks
with nine seconds left. I mean, this is a guy that had made
two of his four threes. He's a forty one percent three point shooter this
year, and he was wide open. When people get irritated about how you
can't leave Trey King open because he's a twenty four percent shooter and of course
he's gonna make him well, then show him that an elite three point shooter
the last three years in his career thirty six forty one percent is Jada Nunn
in his career as a three point shooter having a wide open look and still
missing it. I don't think that how open they are has as much of
an influence on their perge as some people do. I think that three pointers
are hard, whether you're wide open or whether you're completely smothered, and there's
always a little bit of a randomness theory with it. Something that is a
little bit random here recently is Hunter Dickinson's touch. It looks good until it
doesn't go in the basket. Nick tell me about. I think he was
KU's best player, but still left you wanting a lot more in this game,
I think, yeah. He did score thirteen of his fifteen points in
the first half. K State was the victims of some weird rollouts when shots
that normally fall did. In the second half, he finished seven for nineteen
from the floor, which is the most missus he's had in a game this
year. Also had seven rebounds in thirty two minutes, which still led the
team, lesser numbers than we're used to seeing from him. Two second half
points, just seven rebounds. He was the only Jayhawk that had more than
five, and there were only seven players that played, so eesh. Not
great there. I think Hunter Dickinson was a couple of weird bounces away from
having twenty two points, but he didn't, and Baylor guard him. Well,
MESSI was the best center in this game. And if you had told
me going in Land, and you listed all those points, how they were
minus seventeen on the glass, they didn't shoot the three ball, well all
those things, then you tell me Hunter Dickinson's not the best big in the
game. Yeah, I think they're super cooked. It feels like they really
did get lucky to get out of there with a win. Here Dickinson any
concern or just just I mean, could it have just have been without McCuller.
They threw the kitchen sink it stopping Dickenson. I think that's part of
it. I mean, I think Dickinson, in a super nitpicky fashion,
has had a bit of a problem missing that first take a lot. But
again, this is the most misses he's had in a game this season.
So sometimes he just throws it up there too, like just like the hookies.
It's so automatic for him. Sometimes he just doesn't even look and just
throws the ball up. I wondered going into this game if their strategy without
McCuller was for Hunter Dickinson to take like twenty five or thirty shots. I
thought that's what they were trying to do in the first half. Then they
just stopped in the second half. And it worked in the first half.
In the first half, he was dominant for the most part, especially early.
Yeah, I think, like you were talking about the three point luck
a little bit, I think that also was Hunter Dickinson. He was just
a little unlucky. He didn't get like some of the offensive boards he normally
gets on his misses, and you know, he missed a handful of things
that normally might go in for him. Obviously that's a little bit of skill,
it's a little bit of luck. It's mixed in there. But yeah,
again, I don't think there's any real concern. But I do think
Hunter Dickinson is a generally in all facet's a little sloppier player than he gets
credit for. Work that hasn't really burnt Kansas in a ton of meaningful ways
yet. But I do think that's something in his game, and I think
you see that when he misses a lot of hook shots and stuff. He
scored at least fifteen points in every game except for two since we turned the
calendar to twenty twenty or four, the rebounding numbers, and I think that
Hunter Dickinson has stabilized right. For a while, we had a trend where
when KU lost, he played worse. When they won, he played better
well. The last two games they've lost, Dickinson has had twenty and fifteen
against Iowa State and twenty one and twelve against k State. And they go
out and they beat Baylor with him having just seven rebounds and missing more shots
than he's made. I think that he's just quietly or not quietly, really
good against everybody, and this game, I think that there was a little
bit more of an attempt to stop him in the second half. Scott Drew
is a very good coach. Clearly they made some adjustments. Kansas had a
harder time getting him the ball they made anybody, but Hunter beat him in
the second half, and it just about resulted in a win for the team
wearing green. The reason it didn't the grit of KU's point guard Land.
And tell me about a guy who started to play a lot better in the
last few weeks. Yeah, Dewan Harris. He was really good. He
stepped up when he had to. Here and he was a lot more aggressive
knowing McCuller was out. He had fourteen points on five of twelve from the
floor, including two threes in thirty six minutes. The only reason didn't play
full forty He rolled his ankle down the stretch as we talked about, jogged
it off in the tunnel. He didn't need to be helped off, of
course, came back pretty quickly. He returned to hit the final shot.
The only shot Kansas had in the final six minutes was a Dewan Harrison voter
Harris. Again, that's a most stat you tell me that I think Kansas
loses. Oh yeah, handily. Harris had five assists, two steals,
and just one turnover. He was really good in his last six games.
Eleven point six sists, two turnovers are his averages, along with forty nine
percent overall, fifty three percent from behind the arc, and he has not
missed a free throw in his last six games. Nick, is this the
Dewan Harris we've been looking for? I think it might be. Yeah.
We wanted him shoot the ball more. He's taken more opportunities when he gets
them, being a little bit more aggressive offensively. That's that's what I wanted
from him. Part of my criticism earlier this season and perhaps his whole career
has been the fact that he is the most passive offensive player on the team,
maybe a little bit two inch selfish, and you know, especially in
a game without Kevin mccouler, you need guys to step up in this very
shallow roster which has four or five really good players, and I think he
did that in this game and came back. He's a warrior. Came back,
like you said, after the injury and quickly back up on the floor,
even if he wasn't one hundred percent, just wanted to be on the
floor. Knew that Almarco Jackson probably knew himself that Almerico Jackson wasn't gonna cut
it. But warrior Dwan Harris, yep, Harris was electric and he's We
talked about how he was only shooting like thirty three percent on twos for a
while. That was gonna spin back. It started to get better. Still
misses a lot more layups and bunnies than he normally does, but that's I
think he's been better than it seems recently. And J Billis said Kansas has
the best starting five in America. They might be right. Kansas and Yukon,
for my money, have the best starting fives. Maybe you throw Purdue
in there just because they have one player that's so much better than anyone else
has. But the issue is never the starting five. The issue is not
Dewan Harris. There would it be nice if Dwan Harrison could could average twenty
a nine, Well, sure, but that's not the start player he is,
and he compliments the rest of the pieces this team has so well they
have won a national championship with him running the show. They can definitely win
another one if they win that. If they do not end up winning the
title this year, I do not think we're going to sit here and be
blaming Dewan Harris as to why they didn't. He was just fine. Finally,
a stat that I always like to read when a team has more turnovers
than shots made and we laugh at them. Well, finally that happened to
a KU opponent because Baylor had twenty one turnovers to nineteen baskets. Okay,
now if you hear that's that before the game, you think Kansas wins by
twenty five. Kansas had seventeen steals in this game. That's the most they've
had in a conference game since two thousand and seven. And steals is putting
it one way. Baylor was just throwing it to them like it was.
It was mind blowing how no one wearing a green shirt could catch the ball.
Yeah. Jonny Furfy especially was a great recipient of many Baylor turnovers.
He had like six steals in the game. And now Marco for I didn't
expect Baylor to be that sloppy. All right, speaking of sloppy, Nick,
tell me about the guy who shares your name. Let's talk about Nick
Timberlake. Because there's Jacko and there's Hide and we're gonna break it all down.
Yeah, Brick Timberlake, who started and played thirty one minutes, scored
eight points and went two for seven from the floor. So five bricks if
you count them on your one finger or one hand, sorry, plus a
transition slam, which was good. That was white guy. White guy got
hops with his play in the last ninety seconds legitimately made fans wonder if he
had money on the Baylor money line. He was sandbagging. He missed a
would be st game sealing free throw and abandoned wide open shooters twice. Remember
he left one guy opened the corner plane help defense for a guy driving for
a two when they're up three, and then stood five feet behind the three
point shoot run the last drive. I don't know if he thought that the
clock already expired or what he was picking dandy lions and the baseline, but
he was awful and his We thought, hey, he maybe finally made a
three in this game, and then he just completely can considers what you would
call the hyperbial peeing down your leg for the last five minutes that he was
in the game. When in any other takeaways or has he just been bad?
Yeah, it was such a weird Timberlake experience because like it was the
exact same Timberlake experience that we've had all season. To start, like,
he just played moderately competent, if extremely underwhelming basketball with no scoring or made
shots. Then he had like a stretch of being pretty good and he hit
a couple threes in there, had a nice breakaway dunk, and then yeah,
the last ninety seconds were just in an apocalypse. Uh, we didn't
even mentioned the turnover. The turnovers what started it. They had the ball
with a chance to put the knife in and he turned it over first,
then bad defense, then the miss free throw, then more bad defense.
That was all twenty four seconds of the Nick Timberlake experience. Yeah, Like
I think like from an optimist view, you could say, well, hey,
he actually hit two threes, he had a nice dunk. You know,
he continues to play like at least better on ball defense. Maybe there
was at least some good to have takeaway there. But then the pessimist view
would be that the bad probably outweighed the good and he just kind of got
lucky that it didn't bite him. I'm not sure were game losing mistakes in
twenty four seconds and then's sure was he a net negative? I think I
think he was. I still think he was in that name. I don't
think he was until the last twenty seconds, but that counts. I guess.
It felt like it took so much to get him to eight points,
Like it felt like with how excited the crowd was getting when he made those
shots and how many times I saw him shoot in thirty one minutes and all,
it felt like that he should have had fifteen eight points. If Nick
Timberlake averages eight points the rest of the year, then Kansas is gonna be
really, really okay because there's bench scoring. He made a couple of threes.
Three for eight from the floor will work just fine. Two for seven
on threes on a night when you bricked a couple, like that's fine,
that's all fine, but it's everything else. It was the what is he
doing out there? Could have just have been a small sample size in a
moment where just's he hasn't been on the floor in those clutch time moments,
and it showed they need that Nick Timberlake. If he can score eight points
per game the rest of the year on average, Kansas will be just fine.
But it felt like a lot of work. Hunter Dickinson, You blink
and Hunter Dickinson's got eight points. It felt like it took two hours for
Nick Timberlake, bit by bit to inch his way closer to a respectable stat
line. That's the thing. This felt like Nick Timberlake's best game of the
season. And he had eight points on two of seven from three. Yeah,
considering opponent, like obviously he had statistically bitter outings against like Yale and
NC Central, but like, you know, Baylor's way better. But that's
how I agree it felt herculean for Nick Timberlake to end up with eight.
Who's the Big Twelve Player of the Year right now? Random question? Uh,
it's Hunter, And especially with mccullor's injury. Now, I think it's
Hunter. I think it is too. I think if it depends on who
wins the conference, if Houston wins the conference, I think shed Yeah,
I I And I've been a proponent in the past of giving it to the
best player on the best team. I think that Hunter Dickinson. But then
again, Hunter Dickinson second in the conference in points and he's the leader in
rebounds. Like, not giving that man Big Twelve Player of the Year feels
kind of stupid, doesn't it. And he's averaging the most assist that a
Kansas center has averaged in a very, very, very long time. Yeah,
I think. I think if you're picking any player in the conference,
you're picking Hunter Dickinson on your team first. But I would, Yeah,
I have a feeling Nick's right. If Houston wins it, it's gonna get
weird. Let's talk about all Marco Jackson don't have a whole lot to say
here. He played twenty one minutes in a game Kansas had just seven bodies
for and he did not take a shot, which is that can't happen.
That's just that I'm not happy when he shoots, but I'm also like,
you have to shoot the ball otherwise you're just He also had zero rebounds,
zero shots, zero rebounds, and three fouls. He did have forced fields,
Uh yeah, one assist correct. The force steals were nice. A
lot of it came early. Just an epic waste of a roster spot.
He is at this point, he's a McDonald's All American who just played a
game where he played twenty one minutes, didn't shoot, didn't rebound, Like
what what what do you do here? Al Marco Nicks says. Nick says,
a McDonald's All American that is going to be working at McDonald's. I
don't think he's going to be working at Kansas next year. I don't think
that's I don't think this is gonna continue. He's like quinnin Grimes underwhelmed his
first year and left because of the expectations and fresh start, and he was
and shot like he was a starter on a four seed and he was a
He wasn't great, but he was a competent college basketball player, whereas Elmarco
Jackson is horrendous. This is more like Bryce Thompson. I think he's worse
than Bryce Thompson is worse. He is worse than Bryce Thompson. When is
he the worst I've seen him? Compare to Josh Selby, Josh Shelby.
That Delby could drop twenty every once in a minute, and he got hurt.
Josh Shelby was a starter that averaged about thirteen points per game the first
month he played, and then he broke a bone in his foot. Like
that's not even close to being the same thing. No, yeah, people,
like I know Josh Selby was not a world beater after the injury,
but like, I mean, you can't compare those guys. Josh Shelby averaged
eight points a game, and I understand that's not setting the world on fire,
and a lot of that happens. It's the same as Quinton Grimes.
Like yeah, they were underwhelming, sure, but like they were competent,
like you could trust them to do something. On the season, Josh Selby
averaged eight points and shot thirty six percent from three. If Almarco Jackson did
that, Kansas would be they wouldn't be undefeated, but they'd have two losses
at most. Yeah, what do you make of el Marco Nick? Like,
is he gonna be back? Is there any hope? What can you
do with him? I don't think he's gonna be back next year. I
don't really know if Bill Bill Solf's been pretty clear at least with the transfer
portal season. The guys I kind of see him like Joe Yesfu guys with
a lot of potential, just never really you know, came to Kansas and
did anything. I don't see him on the roster next year. Bryce Thompson
and his freshman year. How many threes do you think Bryce Thompson made at
Kansas. It's not a lot, but it's definitely more than Almarco. Eight
is the answer. He made eight threes in his first year at Kansas.
I remember then two years later when he made seven and one game at Allen
Field House. I do, and people were telling us that he's always been
an amazing shooter. Yeah, they're like big game. Bryce Thompson, who
by the way, is out for the rest of the year. He had
shoulder surgery after that lousy, horrible fall on his shoulder at Allen field House.
That's too bad. Bad, But yeah, that's that's we're in that
territory. The worst freshman that Bill self has had at Kansas is Bryce Thompson
and Almarco Jackson. Right, that's compared to expectations McDonald's all America expectations.
Who just they they gave nothing. And what's so frustrating is Kansas just needs
a little bit out of El Marco, just a little bit. Give give
the Josh Selby who was underwhelming, Give him the underwhelming seven points on thirty
five percent shooting, and that would be huge for Kansas. What if?
What if gimme Quinton Grimes being hyper frustrating eight points a night? Oh my
gosh, you get that. Let's say they were to get seven points a
game from El Marco and Timberlake. Think of how great they would be if
each of those guys could give them six or seven points a night, especially
if you throw in like two assists in like solid defense from Almarco, Like
that'd be amazing. That stellar, that's all they need. Yeah, they
ain't gonna happen. All right, Let's talk about kJ here kJ uh.
The first the rebounding Kansas was a horrible minus seventeen on the glass. They
only had four offense rebounds in forty minutes. kJ Adams is at the center
of most nights where they have rebounding problems, and that's where we are here.
He did have thirteen points, six for seven from the floor thirty six
minutes, three steals, a couple assists. kJ good the things he's good
at, he usually does them very well. The rebounding was the problem.
Four rebounds for kJ and thirty six minutes as the fore man. Are we
concerned about the rebounding on this team? Is this just a product of not
having mccoller against the quality front court? Am I banging a dead horse too
much here about kJ not being able to bang, beating, banging, whatever
you want to say. I'm out al Marco or al Marco kJ Adams.
He can't rebound your four man can't rebound the ball, and it's a problem.
Nick uh, Yeah, it's a problem. Like we talked talking about
this on so many shows now. It's like he doesn't rebound well, and
he doesn't he clogs the paint and he can't shoot threes. He's not a
as Lenna said in the last show, he is not a modern four.
So uh, definitely, I think kJ Adams, like you said, great
player, absolutely fantastic season, does not fit into this KU footprint. There
are five losses to choose from this year. Which of the five losses,
if you had to predict, most closely, mirrors what the season ending tournament
loss will look like, because I think it's obvious it's Case State. Yes,
it's K State. What happened against K State? They blew a lead
and they couldn't rebound down the stretch and or shoot yep, and the bench
gave nothing. That's the case. That's the I like KG Adams. It's
not I don't think this is kJ adams fault. This is just weird,
like because I think kJ Adams is a fantastic basketball player, and I know
you've said that as well, Ryan, like you thinking a vacuum. kJ
Adams's spectacular. He's just odd because he's not really a five because he can't
rebound. But then he's also not a modern four because he can't shoot,
and so you're just kind of left with, like, this guy who's as
athletic is Zion Williamson, but Zion. No one is confusing Zion with like
prime Steph Curry or anything. But at least Zion can shoot. He can
take jump shots and can make three pointers to some extent. Kje Adams can't
do that, and so it's very strange because he is kind of the he
does exemplify the problems that Kansas has. I think I said that a few
shows ago, and I think that's still true, which sucks because I love
kJ. I think he's a great dude. He's obviously been through a lot,
and he's played his hard out and he's a really really good player,
and he's very fun guy to watch, great energy guy. But he does
have flaws that are Kansas's primary flaws well. And there was a moment where
kJ hit a pull up hit a pull up J from about fifteen, which
he's done consistently over the last handful of games, yep, And you know
what, it reminded me a little bit of like this, this may be
a total stretch, but I think I might be onto something a little bit.
Like you can't call him Zion because he Zion can shoot. But it
was a little PJ. Tucker like, wasn't it wherever he like like the
pull up J. He's a he's a he's a athletic kind of that in
between, he's not big enough. He basically plays more of a point guard
despite being taller than your average college point guard. Like, but you gotta
be able to learn how to shoot the ball a little bit and and kJ,
he's gonna if he hits that shot, he'll be he's an NBA player.
Yeah, if he can actually make jump shots, like even if they're
mid ratings jump shots, Like that's a guy that can absolutely play ball,
Like he's so like incredibly athletic, and he's an incredible passer for his size
and position. Like sure, it's a guy that NBA teams would love to
take a chance on. It's just hard to find where he fits into the
college game right now. And we don't know what's gonna happen with the with
the We're gonna be in a similar predicament next year with Kansas and trying to
figure out his kJ play the and a six foot ten McDonald's All American power
forward who could come in and be as raw as Scheck Diallo or could come
in and be a freaking Juala Loka for we don't know, it's the McDonald's
All Americans. As evidence by this season. Are not guaranteed to be an
instant hit. But I feel pretty confident that Florid but dun Gay, if
he plays alongside Hunter Dickinson, will give Kansas a better rebounding advantage. It
would Is that worth it to lose some of what kJ brings you on offense?
We time will tell Johnny Furfey. We're getting down to the bottom of
the players talk about here. He had a mixed game. I thought it
was actually a really good one. Even though he was zero for six from
three, he contributed a lot of other things. Eleven points, made both
of his twos, made all seven of his free throws, He added five
rebounds as twos were and ones as well. Correct. Yeah, and then
as you mentioned, he as we said, he converted the and one with
the with making the free throw, he added five rebounds, had a whopping
six steals in thirty six minutes while playing under the weather. We're finding,
uh, we're seeing his first shooting slump. He's missed his last ten threes
now, hasn't made one since early in the Houston game. We're seeing the
first shooting slump from him and his extended playing career. But he's fighting other
ways to contribute, and I don't think you can really be that upset.
Yeah, I agree with you. I think he played really well. Actually
he just was cold, but yeah he put a fourth and great, almost
Kevin McCuller esque performance. Yeah, yeah, I think it's accurate. He's
a great free throw shooter too, Johnny Furfey is probably I thought McCuller was
their best free throw shooter for a while and like, hey, State game
changed that. Furfey is seventy three percent, but the number is way up
in conference play after starting the year really really rough. Yeah, I think
it's I think he's pretty good. Uh, go ahead, you drive.
Oh. I was just gonna throw it to Nick to talk about all of
our favorite player, Parker Brown on the statue here. Yeah, Parker Brown
at two points in eight minutes. Most of those came and Bill Soft stupidly
auto bench the only player who did the first. Parker combined like Elf from
or a dwarf from Lord of the Rings. So Nick has just posted and
this is way more interesting than talking about Parker Brown's two points. Uh.
Nick has posted a it's a picture of land and but Nick has been face
swapped onto it and it looks like a a guy who works at Staples and
ask if you want to add on a year warranty to your printer sale.
That is that's that's I'm not gonna be able. I'm gonna see that actual
picture of land and at some point in the future and it won't look right
because this is what I'm now my brain registers. Yeah, this, this
is what you're gonna see when you go to sleep, when you wake up,
when when you're in the shower alone, when you search thoughts, and
also maybe in the mirror. The next interesting Parker stat line will be the
first. Yeah, forty three percent from the floor, twenty four percent from
three, seventy three percent from the line, minus seventeen on the glass and
only eight turnovers. And I don't think I read this earlier losses an Allen
Field House since two thousand and three. Oklahoma seventeen, Bill Cells seventeen,
Scott Drew sixteen. It is a very tight race. Even though I think
Oklahoma's done for a while. I think that they will eventually get past my
Bill self, because they're not gonna play here anymore. Scott Drew, who
knows. We'll see who loses again. Next only eight turnovers for Kansas.
I kept them in the game. Oh yeah, sorry, yeah, I
should play that whenever he turned over that much. It's fair Scott there.
We didn't call time out at the very end of the game, although it
didn't matter because Nick Timberlake was like, nah, man, I got you.
Here's an open shot anyway, But I don't. I think the reason
he didn't call time out is because he thought Kansas would eluct to foul if
they had time to set up a defense. Like I think that was in
his mind right, it had to have been, probably, but only coward's
foul. So you do hate that. I am a coward, so I
want my team to foul up three. I don't want that in any game
I'm watching again. Zaga fouled up three at Kentucky and it worked. Was
way boring. Imagine Mark Few doing something that's dumb and bloy. All right,
well, Dan Zaga is a big winner this week, so let's talk
all about it. Good recap, Kansas gets the win. We have any
closing thoughts. They really didn't teach me much. We knew that he went
at home. They got to do it away from Allenfield House. Yeah,
Hey, winning without Kevin McCuller against a top twenty team that is super impressive,
even though the game itself was weird. That is really nicely done from
Kansas. I just hope they don't have to do that very much off more
often after this any closing thoughts, sir, are you too busy making face
swaps? I'm cringing. You know what the next time. I cringed at
the end of that game. But you know, Kansas polls went out.
You only hope to win without your star Kevin McCuller. Now you've got to
hope that these guys can wind together and find a way to win on the
road. But overall, a win is a win in conference. But good
segue there. But the end of the game made you cringe. I like
it. All right, let's talk all about everything else that happened big twelve
games. Well, one thing that we knew was gonna happen we were very
confident in was that Kansas State would not win after defeating Kansas. They did
not number twenty one BYU seventy two Kansas State sixty six. That is,
sixteen turnovers forced by BYU. As you saw in the game of Monday night,
Kansas State can be turned over and oh that continued. That's really the
only stat that wasn't even in this matchup. Kse State only lost because they
couldn't stop turning it over. They shut the ball. Fine, they did
get fourteen points. By you did from boy u? Is it fu Sinni
fu Senyi Trey or who is the he was the first black man in history
to go to Byu? Is what it says? Oh my gosh, that's
worse. Wow, what is wrong with you? You're fired twice? Oh
that is now it is mine. That's my eyes and nose on Landon's face,
and but it's my eyebros. Think maybe or are those Ryan's? I
can't tell that this judge Ryan's mustach goes better with my beard than I would
ever thought. This is this is it's the forehead for me. I think
it's that that my the facewak it doesn't include Like Landon's forehead is not this
big, but the facewalk cuts off right at the top of the eyebrows,
so there's just a lot more space in the face. Swap a forehead that
would make Peyton Manning blotched. Oh I see this and all I think is
all I think is get that son of a screen was this was the guy
pictured in this photo. Did he attend the January sixth introaction? Both guys,
maybe even rallied extra troops to the cause. Damn it, damnit,
damn it, damnit. Tyler Perry, who was not at the insurrection because
he was playing basketball. He was just the one for nine from three.
Remember whenever he made a bunch of circus shots against the Jayhawks. Guys,
Yeah, he made. He made two in the whole game against against BYU.
If only that was predictable. Number fourteen Iowa State seventy one, TCU
fifty nine. Landon. Iowa State keeps winning quietly. They're in second place.
Yeah, they're really good. Their defense held TCU to just three baskets
in the first fifteen minutes. The Cyclones got fifteen points from tray King,
noted Jayhawk killer. Fun fact tray King has four threes and nine Big Twelve
games that were not against Kansas, and he had four in a game that
was against Kansas. I wonder why that would be, Oh Kansas. Wow?
The defense, Yes, obviously, Cyclones are seven to three and our
second in the Big twelve, and that's only half a game behind Houston.
They've also only played Kansas and Baylor once each, to be fair, but
they are very good. I think. I think I would say it's pretty
legit. They're gonna have a chance better. I think they would honestly have
a case like a two seed. Next Saturday, Iowa State at Houston.
It's not gonna be a game where Iowa State is favored and by any stretch,
but they're gonna have a chance to sweep Houston, and if they do
that, I think they're the favorite in the conference. They're gonna have a
shot. They do. TCU is five and five in the league. Jamie
Dickinson is steamrolling to his birthright, which is a five hundred record in Big
Twelve play. Yeah, TCU should be better record wise than they are.
They can beat anybody, and boy can they lose to anybody. Did either
of you see a minute of this game? Nope, not a single second.
No. It was the worst uniform matchup in the history of college basketball.
What were they? Iowa State were the All Golds and tc yep and
TCU wore these light grays that had an orange stripe down the side and it
just said frogs in this like awful letters all. No, it matched the
game. It was atrocious. Yeah, Iowa State is really really impressive.
Cyclone Larry, who is one of the greatest Twitter accounts that you can possibly
follow, says that this is the best team Iowa State has ever had,
and there's been a couple of people that have argued back saying no, the
Steve Prome first year team had several pros on it, had'n as Long,
had Monte Morris had George n Yang said, fairpoint, this is the
best defensive team I've ever seen Iowa State have. Tj Alzilberger has made an
incredible run as his time as an Iowa State coach, And yeah, I
think that they are. They were clearly slept on. They are a very
good basketball team. Number twenty three Texas Tech, sixty six ucf fifty nine.
Nick the Red Raiders get ready for Kansas. But it was close.
Yes, the Red Raiders defense held the Knights that just thirty seven percent shooting,
and they got four threes from Kerwin Walton, but they won an uninteresting
basketball game. Pop Isaacs, remember this is the guy Joe Biden met with
Corn Pop at the pool was just two for thirteen from the floor. How
many baskets can we make on Monday? Wats six dead keys? You know
the gift of the Asian man that's playing the basketball Arcade game and he's just
throwing the basket in like with both hands and racking up points. That that's
pop Isaac's on Monday Night against the Jayhawks. The Big twelve. God,
he's Big twelve games suck. I'm so angry that we have to do seven
of them every week now instead of five because these are aids. Oh I
can't say that I'm gonna have to go back and beat that thirteen ninety nine
book mark. Notice Oklahoma sixty six Oklahoma State sixty two, a fun statistic
that they actually showed on the screen. This was the least interesting game in
the history of basketball. I think it's bottom five. It's horrible. Fifteen
points from Jalen Moore and he was the only studer that had more than nine.
What a complete the interesting game in history, and the game we just
talked about was Texas Tech sixty six. You see a fifty nine and this
is worse than that. This is so much worse than that. The Cowboys
shot thirty one one percent and fouled twenty three times. They are total.
But Oklahoma is also for somehow only winning that game by four points at home.
That isn't good. That isn't good at all. And I really have
nothing to say because also I didn't watch this because I like my life better
than that. Nobody watches. It's not even fanjoys being alive more than I
like watching Oklahoma Oklahoma State. If you can believe that number five Houston sixty
seven Cincinnati sixty two land in a This wasn't the worst basketball game ever,
but it did feature a very good team that continues to win Big twelve games.
Yeah, Houston, I thought they've been by a little more, but
road games in Big twelve r hard. But Houston does get to win.
They are still in first place twenty points from Juwan Robertson had seventeen offensive boards
as a team, which is very impressive. Cincinnati is in the first four
out per ESPN's bracket projections. What do they have to do to get in?
They gotta win nine games. They gotta get to nine. They're four
and six right now. They've got to get to nine. Even if they're
eight and ten, and they win a Big twelve tournament opener. That could
make it interesting. But who have they beat they want at Tech. They
didn't beat Kansas, they didn't beat Houston, they didn't beat Iowa State.
Like, I don't know that they're got got a lot of marquee wins there.
They're probably gonna need to win a couple of games in the Big twelve
tournament. Houston, by the way, continues to impress me more and more
by the week. I did think that they were fraudulent with their non cone
record and their inflated stats. They're clearly one of the five best teams in
the country. Uh. And whenever you continue to win Big twelve games like
this, it's it's hard not to be impressed. Texas ninety four, Holy
crap, West Virginia fifty eight. Nick, Remember whenever Kansas lost to the
team that just lost to Texas by thirty six points? Yeah? I do.
The long horn score. Starting five scored ninety points though, and the
sue had twenty seven by himself. Texas looks like how you expect them with
the largest athletic budget in the Big twelve. West Virginia made three threes.
How many did they make against Kansas again. Man, I'm so glad we
got the repeating soundboard that has no pauses between. I pushed it one time
for every three that they made against Bill don't make it? Oh gotcha?
Well you know what we're there. All ten people that listen to this show
are giggling because they know our stick by now, sir, speaking speaking of
here is a so Yesterday during the game uh J, Billis had a segment
with Bill Self and Johnny Furfey where he asked Bill Self what a furfey means
in Australian, and I, Leo DiCaprio, sat up in my recliner and
pointed at the TV because I remembered when Wayne Kerr told us that a furfee
in Australia is a rumor or a false tale. You guys remember that,
I do. I tweeted that and Wayne replied and said, wish I could
take credit for that, But I think that was show me Hawk or Ku
tweets or one of the eight other listens nes to the podcast. But Wayne
Kerr says, when my wife saw the interview, she was like, didn't
they already talk about this on that dumb podcast you listen to it did happen
on the dumb podcast that he listens to it? So did it did?
Wayne? You're the man. Wayne Kerr's wife is also the female equivalent of
the man. Would love to hear more, missus Wayne Kerr quotes, especially
knowing that she's heard us in the background. Yeah, oh my goodness,
I would love someone's opinion of just like tangentially listening to us, like just
accidentally hearing this. It must be so strong. Why do you think this
is my final season? Also a major kudos to missus Wayne Kerr for putting
up with anybody who has inside the paint on my choice. Right, And
then there's that, Yeah, that's very true. Big twelve standings. First
place is Houston, who they are not really getting much breathing room, but
they do continue to lead the league at eight and three in second place,
not the Jayhawks, surprisingly, though that might be coming. It's Iowa State.
They're seven and three in third place. It is the Jayhawks, they
are seven and four. Fourth place is a tie between Baylor and Texas Tech.
They are six and four. By the way, after next week,
we are done with some teams only having played one fewer game than everybody else
and this is gonna get a lot less clunky. Uh in fourth place,
Oh no, in sixth place. Sorry, there you go, uh Oklahoma
six and five in seventh place. A school where you can't get horny,
in a school that that's part of their nickname. We have been waiting.
This is like whenever there is a moment in the nineties, we're all nine
planets, we're perfectly lined up, and they said that that only happens once
every like, however, many hundreds of thousands of years, like they're all
on a line. That is the moment that nick has been waiting on since
the beginning of time for BYU and TCU to line up. Boom boom right
there. So you can say, yes, somebody, I'm not scrolling down.
I see the top after that picture and you can't make me scroll down.
That is that is horrible? Is that me and Almarco Jackson? That's
who It looks like. That is wow, that looks like that's that's so
much for being Uh what do I not even have? I don't even put
it r that's sad, sad. I think I think he's he's slightly better
looking than you Ryan. The all of the Celtics players that were kneeling with
their head in their hands after U the injury, like ten seconds into Gordon
Hayward season. That's that's all of us. That's what a sad scene.
This an unfathomable scene taking place here. I don't even know whe're at Texas
and k State are both five and six, which is both four and six.
Yeah, sorry, up the thirteenth Westa is three and seven and I
have fourteen. I don't know how they have two wins Oklahoma State two and
nine. Enjoy your final couple weeks of Mike Boyton other games. Well,
I will take this because I called this. The biggest winner of the week
was Gonzaga, who scored a desperately needed Quad one win by winning at number
seventeen Kentucky eighty nine to eighty five. Graham Ike scored twenty three points.
The Bulldogs were plus twelve on the glass see Baylor normally whenever year plus double
di just on the glass, you win. As for the Wildcats, the
first time they've ever lost three in a row at rupp Arenattes, their first
three three game home losing streak in sixty years. Their defense is just horrendous.
And I'm starting to come around on the fact that I think John Caliperry
is a megabum. It is unbelievable. Every time that man calls time out
to drop a play, they don't score. It's unreal. It's like a
science. The Caliperry arc for me is crazy. I went from absolutely hating
the guys guts to thinking he was awesome and would be like one of my
first three calls for the Kansas job if it came open, to thinking he's
totally washed. Yeah, I think he is washed. He hasn't made a
Final four in nine years now, right, fifteen was their last Final four?
Is that right? Uh? Yeah, that's a long time for them.
He has a thirty million dollar buyout, but I think the Boosters may
pony up some cash. Like I there's a couple of people on the rough
Rafters board that want guys like Scott Drew called, want guys like Dustin May
called, I mean seriously at this point, like Geez May call Jay Wright
and see if he do it. Like I, I think that it's it's
got to be getting close to be an over for Calibori. Kentucky would be
filthy. John Caliperry's arc peaked in the twenty fifteen Final four when they were
undefeated and since he had a thirty eight no team lose, and then there
was a handful of teams that lost in the first weekend. He had a
fifteen seed loss, which I think is Kentucky's worst in program history. They've
lost the case state several times in that stretch, and now this year they
have a three game home losing streak as they they cannot stop anybody on defense.
You can put five people in wheelchairs out there that are in their eighties
in the Civic Center and they're hanging seventy five on the Wildcats right now.
Just a really embarrassing fall from grace for them, and Gonzaga had to have
it. The tournament streak may live after this. They had to have this
win. They're still looking at an upheld battle for their WCC streak, but
Mark Fus never missed a tournament. This helps Quad one win for them,
great win at Roperina, a great home win, unlike what Kentucky can do.
Take notes of Texas A and M Kentucky. They blast number six Tennessee
eighty five sixty nine, another blasting in the SEC, Florida destroys number twelve
Auburn eighty one sixty five, winning by sixteen despite not making a basket in
the final nine minutes. That's truly absurd, and that's how bad Auburn was
on the day. It was like thirty five at one point. It was
just a blow out of massive Basically Kansas Auburn a few years ago, oh
flipped where it was like thirty for a while and then the other team stopped
trying, so it got to within eighteen. But neither of those teams are
in the lead of the SEC because number fifteen South Carolina, obviously never a
doubt, has won seven in ro row, including Saturday versus Vanderbilt, who
is terrible, is leading that it just means more conference, which that's true.
They're Toddenuer sixteen Alabama who hung one hundred and nine on LSU to lead
the SEC at nine and two. Crimson Tide took eighty one shots and went
eighteen to forty four from three. Those are NBA level shut counts. Why
can't all coaches being natoats, Well, we can't all be in the right
place at the right time, Ryan, So how you always find ways to
sneak that in I do not care about any I think Natoates and Tommy Lloyd
are the two guys that you have to call. Speaking of right place at
the wrong time that is per due. In the NCAA Tournament, they absolutely
crushed Mike Woodson's pathetic Indiana team seventy nine and fifty nine to essentially lock up
the Big Ten. Their biggest competition is number eleven Wisconsin in bert, Illinois,
and both them lost. On Saturday. The Badgers got destroyed at Rutgers
for their fourth straight loss with a fighting the line, I blew a late
game lead to lose at Michigan State. The Bulletmakers have a three game lead
in the league race. So we talked about guys that we would call first,
and that would be NATO's and the guy I would call last. I
would call my dog and ask him to coach before I would ask Mike Woodson
to coach my program, because holy bananas, he has to be. We
talk about nobody getting less out of more like John Calipery. Have you met
Mike Woodson, Sir? At least John Calipery is gonna make the tournament.
Rick Patino to Indiana. Ooh, that's kind of an interesting call too.
Yeah, Woodson is gone zo he has to be there there. They are
just embarrassing. They're not even close and yet they still almost beat you know
who at home that one time. Oh it's my turn, isn't. In
the Big East? Number one Yukon, they crushed Georgetown and number seven Marquette
came back to beat Saint John's. They are the two leaders in the league.
They're the class of the league. Then there's number nineteen Creighton. They
can't really decide if they're pretenders or contenders. They won at sweaty Sean Miller's
Xavier team to keep pace with Seaton Hall. In mind, that one's not
horrible. The I assume that's Nick and I together. At least someone actually
looks normal ish. That looks like a kau basketball walk on. But it's
it's not. It doesn't make me. It doesn't make me screen like Southwestern
Asian guys that look kind of like that, or you know where is that
Asian? Coming from Southwestern From south Southwest Asian is much different than like that's
like to Jikistan or like Kazakhstan and stuff. So we're middle Eastern. It
looks more Middle Eastern than you. Is that? Because is Nick more Tan
than I am? I would imagine so considering who you are. Oh okay,
hey, I spent a lot of time in Florida since you've last seen
me in person, Sir, I'm not exactly a lobster. Yeah. Well,
something that also no amount of happiness, sunshine or rainbows can help is
the Pac twelve. That race is buns Land and tell me about it.
Yeah, And Arizona rolled Colorado in Boulder by twenty despite being underdog and despite
us picking them. Yeah, are only one game ahead of Washington State,
who's won five in a row. But that I would be shocked if it
mattered at all. And then Cal is six and seven in the league play?
What happened to Cal? They're not bad anymore? Or maybe the payeh
is that bad? It's it's that one. Yeah, Jalen Tyson exists and
he's been one of the best. He's probably an All Pack twelve player.
So they have one really good player. All those questions where Detroit Mercy win
five games with one hundred Dickinson, Yes, if Jalen Tyson can help Cal
win six league games, Detroit Mercy would win a few games with Hunter Dickinson.
Well, they're not gonna win any without him. I don't think.
Friday Night Hoops VCU beat number eighteen Dayton forty nine to forty seven by leading
them at halftime, just kidding land And that was the final score. Yeah,
college basketball sucks sometimes, just really awful sometimes. Detroit Mercy though it
doesn't plenty of defense, Detroit Mercy would Detroit. Would de Troit Mercy be
the Detroit Pistons, No, they would Nope. That did you hear the
all time abomination? That was that segment? Landon started ranting about defense.
Nick tried to move on, and I pushed the sound drop from the last
blurb, like all simultaneously. Just it basically sounded like this your earphones.
Mississippi State's State's own twenty three though, so and Missouri. Then there's Missouri,
who is seriously probably going to go winless in SEC play. They're eight
and sixteen overall, they're o and eleven in league play. Here's Missouri's last
six games, seven games left to avoid, oh and a eighteen. You
tell me when the win is at Ole miss versus Tennessee at Arkansas at Florida,
Ole, miss at home, maybe Auburn at home at LSU. Where's
the win? It's the two easiest games are LSU in Arkansas, but those
are both road games. So if you wanted to go to any of the
I just listed seven games, the most expensive game, that's the the least
expensive ticket at the most expensive of those games is twenty seven dollars. And
you can get into Missouri versus Tennessee next Tuesday at home for three bucks.
Wow. Really yeah? Inflation, ESPN says il milk for more than that,
Missouri is that's correct, Yeah, any type of milk gallon will be
more than that. So I said Missouri would be a twenty win team,
and I kind of liked their roster. I don't know what happened. They
have gone for an instant firing right like, no one can survive this season
if you're missing. I would think Missouri right now has the best recruiting class
in the SEC coming in next year, better than Kentucky for real. Uh,
they were seven and two whenever they came into Allenfield House. They're now
eight and sixteen. That is one win and fourteen losses since December third that's
tough. That's I don't I have no idea. What's happened to MISSOI They
are really bad. They're not even competitive. They lost by twenty four to
Mississippi State A games with twenty to Texas A and M. I never agreed
with your twenty win comment, but I'd never thought it would be eight and
sixteen. No. I thought they'd be a fifteen to seventeen ish win SEC
team that would be in some at large consideration. They've lost to Mississippi State
and Texas A and M by a combined forty three points the last two games,
both at home. Yeah, that's really really awful. Ranked team salut
since the last show, Missouri non on this list. Their SEC counterpart Tennessee
is number six. The Balls lost to A and M. Fromten Illinois,
they lose Michigan State. Yeah, sorry Michigan State and then scowl the way
down for some reason. Uh well, eleven Wisconsin lost to Rutgers. Really
that one. Number twelve Auburn got railed by Florida or thirteen Baylor lost to
Bill self with all these bills to himself. Number seventeen Kentucky John Calipari does
not have all those bills to himself. They lost to Gonzaga. He also
doesn't have a sweet prow shooter on his Memphis team. Cali Perry got logged
out of his PayPal count. They got a lot. They got to drop
Kentucky out of the top twenty five, right like they they're not. They
keep losing home games. Number eighteen Dayton lost the VCU. However, VCU
was also on the list because they did not score fifty in their win,
so therefore it's a loss. Number twenty four. San Diego State lost in
Nevada in a game no one watched. Yeah, and then finally New Mexico
lost UNLV. Nick is what the kids say? Or is Nick is what
the kids say? Is checked out, undistracted. I was just looking AT's
horrendous pick them record Landon with seven or Zine Big twelve play in one and
four other games. Yeah, it's amazing that happened. So Landon is three
games better than any of us in conference play and is still six games behind
Nicky and overall pick them unfathomable. All right, let's talk about ask GARCB.
This will get Nick more engaged. Let's start with a incredibly controversial question
and I and at J two wills. I'm very curious. I think you
might know me better than I thought you did. I may have been unfamiliar
with your game, because either you asking this as an uber coincidence or you
know what you're doing. And the question is, what do you think of
the TV show Full House? It's bad. I don't want to watch it
ever again. I've seen some of it, didn't like it very much.
It was okay when I was a kid, and I don't want to go
back to it. Nick, go ahead and answer that, and then I'm
gonna say how it's It should have won every Emmy that it was ever eligible.
I don't know what four house is. Wow, you have seen full
House? Really? Nick doesn't know anything that's like narrative. But it's the
widest show in the history of television. I would have thought I don't watch
TV. All right, here we go. Full House is undeniably, unquestionably
and all the other synonyms you can come up with for indisputedly the worst TV
show that has ever graced television. Every episode is the same. You have
the widest, most annoying family and it to the halfway point the midway commercial
with one of their ugly faces looking down as sad music plays, and then
by the end of the episode, they're all giving up hugs and everybody's willing
to give up. All of the non main characters have sacrificed their own dignity
to help one of those nine effing disgrace of human beings all slammed in one
house get something. Danny Tanner is the only salvageable character on that show,
and he sucked, but he was the only one that supported the family.
Joey Gladstone is the biggest waste of oxygen that has ever been spawned on this
earth. A deadbeat, failed, failed comedic loser, never got married,
never had kids, never did anything except for a stick his hand up a
puppets back, and do an annoying cartoon voice every ten minutes of every episode
I watched. Jesse is the worst husband, the worst father, the most
uninvolved person that has ever existed, and those three girls have as much charisma
and personality as my left sock does. It is the worst TV show ever
and I hate. The only thing I hate more than Full House is that
Netflix reboot that I watched a couple episodes of with the girls grown up just
because I felt like being masochistic. It is like four times on ironically,
I think check on them, Blink once for help, blink twice if you're
just weird. That's not normal behavior at all. It's not it is.
It is just it's just so bad. And the worst episode of all time
is when they get stuck in an airport. And because these are the Full
House ass wipes, nothing bad can just happen to them. So Uncle Jesse,
in a full airport terminal gives a a speech that's supposed to make you
feel warm about how you don't need a Christmas tree to celebrate Christmas. We
have this coat rack, and we don't need presents. We have each other.
And I wanted to chug all of the rubbing alcohol in my house while
gargling cyanod pills and bleach and wind Dex and everything I could grab at once.
I hate Full House. I hate it so much, That's all I
got. I think it's ass. I just think it's total ass. So
I'm curious at Jay Williams the show. Do you think when Nick leaves the
show, we're doing a Full House rewatch podcast? I will die. I
would legitimately rather yeet off the tallest building in Kansas than watch every which may
only be four feet tall, then watch every single episode of that. I
would rather do anything. I would rather. I don't know. There there
are horrendous things I would rather do than watch one hundred and eighty whatever episodes
their Armful House, because I like your anecdote used to be, Uh,
your anecdote used to be, uh, would you eat a pound of or
eat a bag of cat poop? Would you do that? Uh? Yeah,
I would. I hate that show, and I loved it as a
kid. I loved that show as a kid because, as land And can
attest to, I grew up homeschooled, and full House was g rated,
So therefore it was the it was. It was allowed in your house.
Yes, it was good to go because there were never any actual social issues
or press. It's not like the characters ever had any actual concerns. It
all came up roses for them. They all got to live in that house
that their brother in law paid for and never have to do a darn thing
to constribute back. That's the weird showever. Weird era of TV, where
like they would make like g rated content, which in a vacuum. Of
course, nothing wrong with you rated content. That's fine. You can do
you can do perfectly decent storytelling and you don't have to have already content to
do it. It's fine. But it was like it would be marketed at
adults as like, yeah, normal show for and it was very popular,
normal stuff, and it's like, Okay, the Olsen Twins weird. The
Olsen Twins are so ugly as kids, and that's a mean thing to say.
But when Michelle's monkey face looks down at her feet when she's sad and
just looks, no, she looks like an orangutang. She does. She's
got these puffy, big cheeks, and she looked like, dad, I
might not get the lead role in my school play. And then well,
shocking, Uncle Jesse's the director. He'll just write her an even better part
in the play and we're all happy about it. It is heard about the
most mundane subject, but at least it goes landon that uh that you mentioned
it being an odd air of TV. That era had good shows. It
had showed like The Fresh Prince and Home Improvement and Family Matters that were good,
and then Full House existed. It's like it's the it's the meme of
all the army shooters in the clown that's holding the AK forty seven in the
middle of all of them. Like, but it was a very popular show.
It was very popular show. And also I've been told I look like
Danny Tanner, So maybe that's why I'm angry about it. Is that true?
Do I look like Bob Saggot? Let me google you look more like
Bob Saggett than you should. There you go. It's gotten better as I've
gotten older, you do a little bit. Okay, Well, at least
I'm not like Danny Tanner. I I don't want to be like any of
those people on that show ever. Okay, So this is uh, this
actually might be more controversial at Rock Chuck AJ says, why does the airhorn
say Mary at the end of it? It's weird and I don't like it.
It feels like it hasn't happened before. Sir, do you not know
how the Mary gag started? Landon? You may have to tell that story.
I was thinking of it. I is it? Is it because of
it's Saint Mary's Yeah, I remember the exact origin story of Oh Mary.
Honestly, I think we were just talking about Saint Mary's once and you did
a really high pitched voice, and it was at some point whenever I am
see. If I lived in full house and I never had to work for
a living, I could listen to every show back and tell you exactly how
it happened, because my brother in law will just pay for it while I
live in the attic and play my guitar. But that's not, unfortunately,
not what happens. So it was Saint Mary's something. I like it?
How dare you? Aj? But you know what, We're rolling it till
they lose. All right, all right, fine, you know what?
Here go? Does that make you feel better? And I don't know.
I like here in my own voice? At Ku tweets and news is there
aku player more weird than Timberlake. We all wanted to play so well,
and it seems like for every great play there's a bonehead one that cancels it
out. Yeah that's pretty fair. He's pretty polarizing, like he's I don't
think he's very good, but we think he should be good, and then
he will do something good and that good grace will last all of forty five
seconds. Yeah, you gotta keep rolling out though, because there's the outside
chance that he'll knock down four threes in a big game in March. And
have you watched del Marco play? He is easily the guy who you should
have the most confidence in, Easily the guy you should have the most confidence
and that's coming off the bench at Evan Lambert. Oh one, Nick,
this is actually something you were talking about earlier. Why does the NCAA hate
Lynette Woodard? Good question, because the NCAA hates everything. So Lynette Woodard,
for those of you who do not know, played at Kansas way back
in the seventies. And Caitlin Clark is closing in on setting the women's D
one scoring record most points in a career. It's over thirty five hundred,
she'll hit it her next game. And Lynette Woodard has more points than the
current who's the current women's leading scorer? Does anybody know Kelsey Plumb from Washington?
That's it? Yeah, it's Kelsey Plump and Lynette Woodard who was a
Jayhawk and played for the Harlem Globetrotters and like was a legitimate superstar back in
the set and eighties. Uh isn't officially recognized by the NCAA because of what's
the reason, Because the NCAA Women's the NCAA did not control women's basketball when
she was playing, so it doesn't recognize her scoring record. It's not like
it's controversial. It's not like she cheated or it's not like the games didn't
count. Correct. Yeah, that's that's It didn't start until nineteen eighty two
women's basketball. Yeah, as I've read more about that story with the Caitlin
Clark News, it's it's baffling because there's there were several comments on Cage was
seven to eighty one, so she was one year out from even being in
the NCAA. Right, Yeah, that's that's that's wild. But yeah,
interesting story that a lot of you guys, I'm sure didn't know. It
sucks donkey balls at everything. It always does at chris Cerco too. If
Harris is out Monday, who do you trust must the most to play the
point? My answer is never gonna happen, and it's kJ Adams Michael Jakovic.
I was gonna say Jayofich, I'd rather have kJ playpoint. And just
like honestly, like kJ do is full Draymon impression yeah, and what do
you start at that point? You don't have Harris and you don't have mccullor
in the scenario either, So you're starting kJ Timberlake, Jackson, and then
Furfey plays the I hope that doesn't happen. It's all Marco and Timberlake that
have to go into the starting lineup. If mcculuy I don't want that.
I don't you want to have a choice. And Djankovic if McDowell's not back,
may actually have to play because there will be no other guards unless McDowell's
also back. And McDowell was too sick to even be at the arena on
Saturday, so who knows if he's going to be able to play in forty
eight hours. All these road Big Monday games are kind of a drag at
this point at Elliot at rusen h. Where does eighteen points per game go?
How does he just disappear? I get that it's a higher level,
but come on, dude, you can shoot the ball really well. You
should be able to do that at any level. And I assume this is
talking about Nick Kimberlake, who averaged eighteen a game last year. It's wild.
Yeah, we've talked about this on the show before. It's very strange.
KU's really good at scouting. They haven't been as good at finding mid
majors that will translate to instant success at the power five level. We saw
that with guys like Joe Yesafu, We saw that guy with guys like Tyon
Grant Foster. It just and we saw that with guys like Sam Kunliffe that
looked really good at the lower level schools and it just hasn't happened. Timberlake
is the most disappointing, though I think he was He was really good at
thousand. Yeah, and the shooting angle is the really Like, no one
expected Timberlake to average eighteen a game, but I think people definitely expected Timberlake
to shoot like thirty seven plus percent from three, like that was an expected
thing. We thought maybe he would be mid on defense or whatever. But
yeah, just the complete lack of any production shooting is so wildly disappointing.
Twenty six percent from three after shooting forty percent the last two years just wild.
Also, Elliott says, on a scale of terrible to the worst,
ever, where does Jay billis rank? Ooh, that's interesting. I've seen
the reputation from Jay Billis. I feel like more and more people have gotten
a little little stale with Jay Billis in the last couple of years. Compared
people say he whinds about the refs a lot. Well, yeah, okay,
compared to Fran for Shilla, I would I'd rather have Mike Woodson as
my coach than have Fran for Schilla announced my games. He complains about the
refs, but he's right, that's true. The refs are bad, and
that kind of leads us into this. At Cope, Fraud ranked the following
commentators from worst to best. All Right, I'm gonna list these names.
You're gonna tell me who's the worst. Shulman, Billis for Scilla, Shombi
was shoes in King McClure and that it's wet guy. It's wet guys,
Joe, Shambi, and Shulman of the top three. Yes, Shulman is
excellent, Shulman is so good, Shulman's fantastic. Yes, Shomby is also
very good. And I mean, if we're saying that with Shosin is one
of those guys having to be third best feels not fair because they're really good
to Yeah. Uh, The worst of those is fran I. I would
I cannot stand fran Frischilla that that's gone still a long time ago. King
McClure, I've only heard go once and I thought he actually provided some some
decent insight. And then billis I think is excellent. I think five of
those guys are legitimate, one is unproven, and and Kate McClure really good
because we've only seen him at the Kansas game one time. Right. Yeah,
but he's the worst. I know Landen would disagree. He's not better.
He's not worse than Fran. I guess is he done? Is he
done announcing? Does he stuff cancer? Or what? I think he is?
Yeah, I think he's retired. Yeah he did get over. Can
he beat cancer? Didn't he? I think he? I, yeah,
it's come back. And then he's beat it a couple of times. I
think, where does uh? Where does uh Bill Walton rank in there?
If Bill Walton and DICKYV I think are like two sides of the same coin
in my opinion, No, that's that's I get where you're coming from with
that. Uh. I don't think of it that way. I think Dick
Fightel is annoying. And I think Bill hold Guess who was a Detroit Mercy
head coach? Dick fightitals he was also a coach. Really yeah, he
coached the and the Detroit Mercy Titans within a five year window. Wow,
that's crazy. At Cope Fraud, if you morphed El Marco's not bad defense
to handle the ball, wow, he would seventy nine and twenty nine in
the NBA. He was seventy ninety four and thirty four. He does no
ball. I guess a little bit. He was fired for going Wow,
that's great. Sorry, sorry to interrupt. He was fired for going what
where did he coach whenever he got Oh? Sorry, no, I messed
up. He was thirty four and sixty in the NBA. He got fired
a second season. That was quick. Yeah, I remember it not lasting
very long. Cope Fraud says, if you morphed el Marco's not bad defense
and okay handles and Timberlake's ability to shoot thirty percent from three, would that
player be a good rotation player. It'd be better than two crappy ones kind
of what we're talking about with Josh Shelby and Quinton Grimes earlier. Yeah,
that's a great comp that is a great comp they are combined Josh Shelby and
Quentin Grimes. Also, is Jamari McDowell our best bench guard? We don't
know. He doesn't get a play he should play more, Which makes me
think it's no. Because if Bill is watching that happen on the floor with
those two guys and McDowell can't play over them, then my guess is that
it's no. Which people are maybe screaming at their phone right now saying why
on earth are you saying this now but not saying this years ago with other
rotation guys. That's fair, I guess. But I think at JB Underscore
cis neuro eighty seventy two seven need truthful responses. Why is this team still
finding and defining itself? Coach usually has the monitrajectory, and now because ar
Terry Morris that got him off on the wrong foot. I think it's just
a matter of it's a tough conference. I actually think that they know what
they are pretty clearly right now. I think that everybody's roles are kind of
established. We don't have a lot of questions with this team. It's just
kind of a matter of can they manage to close out road games by making
one or two more shots than normally do Like normally, I feel like we
have more questions. I feel like I know exactly what this team is right
now. Yeah, I think what they are is relatively set if they can
stay healthy. Of course at show me Hawk. Do you think Alan Fieldhouse
could hope host opening weekend NCAA Tournament games in the future. They did twice
in our three times in the fifties, twice in the sixties, and three
times in the seventies. Interesting they haven't done that. I assume it's just
just not modern enough. Like you see the new arenas that are used have
state of the art Wi Fi. They have air conditioners, like it's just
a different And also like Lawrence, Kansas isn't modern amenity amenities as Wi Fi
an ace. Hey, some people don't want that change. I think more
of the problem is Lawrence isn't super convenient, like it's mostly in cities.
We've seen Kansas City get it, and that was before the NCAA Tournament turned
into as many as it has right now. By the way, Yeah,
they also just aren't I think, just flatly will not have it on college
campuses. Well, they also that they also the capacity has to be over
a certain amount, but which I don't feel that should should? I mean
which interests pank Arena hosts the tournament games, which is fifteen thousands, is
sixteen so and the final question is that show me Hawk? Perhaps Kansas is
protesting Kyle Neptune turning Villanova into an embarrassment by not scheduling them. I want
Kansas and Villanova to play all the time. It's a great rivalry, but
they are just abysmal. They speaking of teams that need a new coach?
Correct? Do you ever have asked GARCBS Twitter As Tech askcarzb. I did
not answer one of the questions, which was a score prediction for Monday.
Question because we're going to do it right here and these rankings will shift,
but for now, number four Kansas at number twenty three Texas Tech Big Monday,
February twelfth at the adaptly named United Supermarkets Arena. It is an eight
o'clock tip on ESPN. The Red Raiders seventeen and six overall six and four
and Big twelve play one back of the Jayhawks. They've only lost one time
this year at home, which was against Since he last week at the buzzer
or a last second shot. Great two guard and potential sexual predator. Pop
Isaac's is one of the best players in the Big twelve, which all of
what I just said is true. He averages seventeen point He's still playing though
Chris pierber Blush. Very high volume shooter, maybe on and off the court.
What are you saying? Thirty six percent of his shots from the floor.
But he's a great driver and a very good free throw shooter, not
afraid to launch threes. Joe Hussant plays point and averages thirteen points four assists.
The three point threat is chan Wing Chance mcmill Is it McMillan or mcmillion.
It's mcmillion. I think, oh okay, who is forty three percent
from deep this year? The front court is very athletic as four wing or
four man Williams Darien Williams adds nine to seven while shooting over forty percent from
the outside. Seven foot center Warren Washington that sounds like an auto film name
for You're My player on two K averages ten eight while shooting over sixty percent
from the floor. Kin Palm has Texas Tech as the eleventh best offense in
the country, but they're barely in the top one hundred. And the defensive
end, they shoot forty percent from three in conference play, which is top
twenty five nationally, and they're superb free through those shooting team. They're also
one of the best teams in the country and not found in vody turnovers.
But the metrics disliked them, and defensively, specifically in conference play, as
they've given up a ton of threes and most shot attempts in the league.
Their transition defense has been a struggle all year, and they've been the Big
Towel's worst rebounding team since conference play started. Who that was? That was
a lot in a hurry. Para Grass Lubbick is one of the toughest places
to play out there, and it will be rowdy on Monday night, but
it hasn't bothered Kansas much. The Jayhawks are eleven and two there since twenty
ten. But as Landon pointed out whenever we were talking before we started the
show, they're always dicey. They've won on the by escaping a last second
three miss a couple of times, and then it took some hero ball by
Devonte Grant to get one they're always close. Kansas has owned Texas Tech,
though they are twenty six and three overall against this team since twenty ten,
so we got fourteen years evidence and a near ninety percent win percentage. They've
owned him in the past doesn't mean anything for Monday. I'll go first.
I really wanted to pick Kansas to lose this game because they've had a tough
time with road games and this is a brutal environment. But I'm looking deeper
at the matchup here. Texas Tech strengths I think are things that Kansas has
done better at stopping. Kansas has a good defense. Tech's been good shooting
the ball, but Kansas has that perimeter link that should bother them. Texas
Tech doesn't do a lot inside and Kansas has one of the best interior players
in the country. And defensively, Texas Tech has really struggled. This is
the worst rebounding team in the Big Twelve. As Nick told you, that's
been the big struggle for Kansas. So they're not facing a team that I
think is a huge threat to just shred them and get second chance points.
First shot defense will be crucial because if Kansas can force Texas Tech into a
fairly off shooting night. Then I don't think Texas Tech will get enough of
their misses to win with or without McCuller, and I predict the one Harris
plays and Kevin McCuller does not. I think this is when Kansas finally squeaks
out a road win that is tied with five minutes left, just like the
position we've seen him in so many times, but this time they're on the
right side of the coin. I think Hunter Dickinson plays key, and I
think Kansas escaped Flubbock with a seventy to sixty eight victory. I'm torn here
because I kind of think Kansas loses one of their next two road games,
which the next one will be at Oklahoma. But at the same time,
it's Kansas, therefore they have a pretty good chance to win both of the
games. So from a pickam perspective and just getting a game right, it
makes a lot more sense to pick both wins as Kansas wins, because over
the course of history that's been far more likely. Then again, on another
short turnaround, on another high effort game, you just beat Baylor in emotional
outing and then going on the road in an environment that has given you some
trouble, not as much trouble as others, but has given you some trouble
without arguably your best player, or at least your second best player, but
not only your second best player, but like the second best player in the
conference probably and Kevin mccullor. I'm gonna take Tech to win a really gross
basketball game to watch. I'm gonna say Tech wins like sixty eight to sixty
four. I'm gonna pick Texas Tech in this game. Give me Red Raiders
eighty three, Kansas seventy five. I think that the injuries are a problem,
major concern. Doesn't seem like Hunter or Kevin mccluir will play, and
Dwan Harris is obviously probably questionable at this point that along with them their road
woes. I think they're one of these clips back to them. I think
that might be Oklahoma on Saturday, but I think they lose at a rowdy
you United Market United Supermarkets Arena. I have a feeling that this game is
going to be very close to a pick him. If anything, Kansas is
maybe a slight underdog, and this is a great chance because I think we
all think this game is pretty fifty to fifty, right. We think this
could go either way. If you want Bill self to have I don't know
if you'll get plus money, but you'll get pretty close. You know.
Sometimes those odds makers will throw out the odds boost for a fifty percent higher
if you make a bet on a game. Not very many opportunities to grab
Bill self in a fifty to fifty game for plus money. Any time I
can have him as a higher ranked team to win a conference game, which
he wins a lot of. I'm at least a little bit interested. But
yes, the environment will be very tough other games. There's only four other
Big twelve games this week, like in old times, like in the good
times. West Virginia at TCU on Monday. The horn Frogs have struggled,
but I think they get back on track here with a decisive victory. Yep.
Sure. Number fourteen Iowa State at Cincinnati. Cyclones have been flying high
for a while. Does it continue? Tough road game? Bearcats? Nick?
Is that who you said? Too? Yep, yep, sweep it.
I think this conference is just too hard to win on the road.
Eventually, everybody's gonna take some l's. Oklahoma at number thirteen Baylor I do
not think the Bears tradition of win three, lose three, win three loose
three will continue because I think they win here yep, pretty easily. Yeah,
and uc F at number twenty one BYU. The Knights have played better
than anybody could have expected this year, but I don't think it holds up
in what's a very good environment out there in Probo. Give me the Cougars.
Correct other games rankings will shift. Number seven Marquette at Butler. I
will take that. Mada's Bulldogs team Marquettes due to take an l it happens
here. Uh sure, why not. I'll take Marquette. Number three North
Carolina, who narrowly escaped. We didn't even talk about the ACZ High five
US and other games. We just skipped the acc this week. You and
c barely beat Miami. They now have to go on the road out of
Syracuse. Team that's right on the bubble. I think the first team out
right now in some of the bracket projections. I think North Carolina has already
peaked. I'll take the Orange. Yeah, I think I will as well.
I'll take North Carolina. So yesterday was Armando Bacon's one hundred and fifty
sixth basketball game as a college player. I thought you were gonna say birthday.
Yeah that too. That's next week. I think Number fifteen South Carolina
at number twelve Auburn. It's been a great run for the game Cocks,
but this feels like a big test. I will take Auburn. Yeah,
give me the Tigers here. Yeah, the winschiagins for the Cox here.
Number one, Yukon at Depault. Just kidding, we're not actually picking that
game, because why would we do that. Number six Tennessee at Arkansas.
Tough sledding for the balls recently doesn't continue, and so it's pretty bad.
I think the balls bounce back. Uh yeah, Tennessee's I mean, Dalton
connected is really good. So yep, that is correct. I think you
guys crushed it all right, So we're gonna be back, what Thursday whatever
later in the week. They only they have a week off between the new
next two Saturday games, So I don't know how we'll do that. Maybe
gonna give you two shows just because we're nice. We may not. Landon's
not gonna be Nick. Nick says no, and Landon's not gonna be here,
So there goes that. But We'll be back later on in this week
talk about the tech game. This is inside the Paint on Rock Chuck Blog
on Super Bowl Sunday. I'm yan Landrath, I'm Andy Reid's mustache after a
win, and I'm Brock Purty. A couple of different angles here them all
right, everybody's stay out of trouble. Bye,