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You guys hear that. You hear
that for the first time, and what

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feels like in eternity there's no curb
your enthusiasm music to open a show.

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And there also are three of us, so maybe that's maybe that's why we

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got the bad juju of the regular
season because you also as his head up,

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his asked so much. So we're
done with that and now we're onto

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the NCAA tournament. The music is
refreshing, the three of us having takes

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pretty exciting right, enjoy it for
well at least four more days. So

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here's how this is gonna work.
On the inside of the Paint podcast.

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Uh, there's gonna be a couple
episodes before Kansas plays. This is the

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episode where we're going to discuss the
tournament from the Jayhawks perspective. We're gonna

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give our assessments of how they did
with their draw, We're gonna recap the

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conference championship week that we just had, We're gonna answer the ask ARCB,

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and then we're gonna preview the Jayhawks
NCAA opener. This is the Kansas version

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of this show. We're not gonna
pick brackets on this podcast, but there's

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gonna be another show that launches the
same day that exclusively features our NCAA Tournament

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reagion by region picks. So doubleheader
both a little shorter than normal, but

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twice the content. We are up
and adam here at what nine o'clock on

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a Sunday night, giving you all
the Jayhawks content you could possibly have with

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tempered expectations. I'm Ryan Landreth,
this is inside the paint. I'm Will

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Wade's chances of beating both Gonzaga and
Kansas next weekend, Da da damn.

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And I am Bruce Weber, a
new TV analyst. Oh that's right,

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he is? Is he? Is
he on the Big ten network? Or

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did he get like promoted? Okay, all right, so here it looks

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like so he didn't hold up on
his promise that until Bill Stuff got punished

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he would cut his hair. That's
rats. Well, he was gonna start

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to look like the abominable Snowman,
I would guess at some point. But

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it's it's okay. They got rid
of Bruce and somehow they have an even

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weirder coach out there. We'll talk
about it. So all right, the

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NCAA Tournament is here, even though
Greg Gumble is not on the show.

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That just didn't feel right. That's
the first one in my entire life.

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Yeah, that's right, No,
Jim Nance. At least we still have

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Seth Davis and his five foot two
ass. They're to pick against the Jayhawks

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every every time. Everything everything's good
with Greg Gumble sounded like it might not

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be so hopefully. Yes, he
said it's a family health situation and that

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he'd be back for the next tournament. So we'll see Greg Gumble to that's

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true. Yeah, that would That's
that's always a positive in that Greg Gumble

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in so many ways is the NCAA
tournament. Whenever they cut to him.

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At least before the days of having
four TVs in your living room, they

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would cut to Greg Gumble in the
game you're watching and you know, oh,

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we're about to see something crazy happen. Uh So yeah, Instead we

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get Jay Wright, who's very good, we get Clark Kellogg, who's fine,

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and we get Seth Davis who picks
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predictably, when people are like wow, that's Chalky, he's like,

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well meet me to mean on Twitter. I just hope he has a sharpie.

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I can't wait to see that tweeted
sixty six times here in the next

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couple weeks. That's what I live
for these days. Okay, let's talk

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about the Jayhawks. You're not here
to hear about Seth Davis, because he

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is. You're here to talk about
the Jayhawks, and even though they have

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been we have some optimism they might
not be. Let's rock all right.

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Let's lead off with Kansas's draw.
They are the number four seed in the

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Midwest region of the NCAA Tournament,
the fourteenth overall seed, the number two

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four seed, and they draw a
pool that features number one Perdue, Number

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two Tennessee. Couple of teams there
that have long standing histories of March chokes.

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The three seed is creating the five
seed is Gonzaga definitely not a familiar

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friend here on this podcast. That's
not shaping up for us to get curb

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your enthusiasms or anything. And then
you go on so and so on down

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the bracket. Twelve seed, mckney
State, thirteen seed caves. First of

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Poe, it is Samford the Bulldogs, who are I believe based out of

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is it is it Tennessee there for
a minute, really your friend was a

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Bulldog? Is what does your friend
think about Samford? Well, they don't

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go there anymore, so I I
think not great. Okay, Well it

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was worth the shot, you know. I figured there was a one in

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four chance that that'd be an interesting
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it didn't work. It's okay,
as most done on the show, let's

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talk about their draw. Kansas draws
the Midwest region. What do you guys

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think specifically? How'd they do last
year? We thought immediately they got put

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in a really tough region. We
saw Arkansas sitting there as a second round

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opponent saying, wow, that's brutal
and obviously came to fruition. We saw

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eventual CHAMPI Yukon sitting there was a
four seat hated that. How do we

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feel in this year? I think
it's a pretty easy region overall. I

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could see this region going many different
ways. I don't think there is a

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very clear favorite here. Obviously good
teams, but no, I don't.

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I don't think because of the region
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To be quite honest, I think
I think this is a pretty weird and

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wide open corner of the bracket.
Nick, what say you? I agree?

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I don't think it's as bad as
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I mean, if we're looking at
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Stanford, the two teams that you
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I think that is tough for Kansas, but likely we're gonna have to

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play one of those two teams.
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upsets Gonzaga. I don't think Ryan
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actually would like that. So rcb's
mentions do not implode when they lose.

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The Kanzaka has a one and four
chance of being really bad. I might

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join Nick on the I'm Done Show
if that happens. But anyways, no,

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overall, like you said Perdue,
I mean they just lost. They're

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not completely you know, anept from
from out of the question of losing the

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game. Tennessee's had some awarts.
Creighton, you know, he's been al

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right. So I mean it's it's
it's an overall. I think it's when

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sy it's an easy region. I
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do wish they would have gotten shipped
out west to a soft one seed North

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Carolina. I think if you're talking
about anyone getting the shaft. It's Iowa

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State not getting the one seed after
blowing out Houston and then in the Big

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twelve Championship North Carolina pooping their pants
a couple days ago, and then they

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still get rewarded with the one seed. Iowa State has to play a Washington

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State team presumably in the second round, and they're a Yukon's bracket. So

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you know, you could nitpick and
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hard job to seed all these teams. I know some people think that some

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teams are good that some others don't, But overall, I think the path

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if Kansas can get healthy, can
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see this as a favorable path to
the Final four for Kansas? So this

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is interesting. I just read this
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one overall seed, which should make
them a six seed. BYU was slated

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as the top five seed, but
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to play a Thursday Saturday slate as
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get bumped down to a six.
They went down. So that's the reason

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that Gonzaga at twenty one overall is
actually serving as a five seed, so

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we knew that Gonzaga that was a
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That's a good draw my just a
weird little effect tooy there. I

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was looking at the overall seed list
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why. So my initial thoughts on
this draw is the first matchup is scary

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because of what we've seen happen in
the tournament so many times. We're gonna

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give you a more in depth Samford
preview at the end of the show.

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That's obviously already being pegged as at
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popular upset pick around the country,
even a popular upset among Jayhawk fans.

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But I think that overall, I
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weakest regions. It's way easier than
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the South. I think that it
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have Purdue as the one than everybody
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Tennessee as the two than Arizona.
I'd rather have Creighton as my three instead

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of Baylor, and I'd rather have
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even though that kind of feels like
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think that Kansas finally got the draw
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little bit, and I think this
path sets up kind of nice for them

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to make a run. I think
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out of their pot of four.
Perdue is the one seed. Really the

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same Ku fans on Twitter who laugh
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are now gonna act all scared of
them. You can't do that same with

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Tennessee as your two seed. Perdue
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very good chance of making the final
four. But come on, all the

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laughing we do about how no one's
scared of these teams in the tournament and

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now they get paired with Kansas and
everybody's complaining about how scary that is.

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I think Kansas got as good of
a draw as you could have hoped.

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The draw and essence is all about
what happens in your first two games.

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Once you get to this week sixteen, there's gonna be enough madness, but

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otherwise everybody's good. You expect to
be playing ones and two seeds when you

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make the second weekend, So Samford
tough on paper in some ways, not

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so tough in others. Then you
also have Gonzaga, who is overseeded McNeice,

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who is a scary matchup that they
may not even get there because they

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have to play Gonzaga. Kansas is
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teams, so there's no sense in
panicking about all three. How'd you guys

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think that the committee did? This
seemed to be a tougher year than many

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for the committee because there were so
many auto bids that were secured, with

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teams like Oregon and North Carolina State
stealing bids down the stretch of conference play.

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But the committee took quite a pounding
on Twitter. Do you guys agree

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with that? Uh? Yeah,
But I do think some of the oddness

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was forced upon them, like having
teams like Texas A and M and Michigan

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State as nine seeds. In normal
years, that's not the case at all.

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In normal years, I feel like
they are easily tens or even elevens.

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But yeah, this year, there's
so many automatic bids that weren't gonna

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be there, shouldn't have been there, or wouldn't normally have been there that

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were there because yeah, you had
lower seated teams winning that. I think

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there was some oddness put upon them
that is not necessarily their fault. I

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don't think it's a necessarily poor job. I think I've seen worse brackets.

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But it's I mean, it's it's
got its quirks, like all brackets do.

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I'm not super picky because I just
like having a bracket. There's no

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there's no giving Kansas like seven seed
Wichita State, which I think is pretty

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wild. I'm glad Oklahoma's not in
as well, which is nice. I

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guess that bounces out Virginia being in, which sucks. That's a bad call.

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I don't know why Virginia is in. Well, they're in the plan.

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They're not gonna if they can get
out of the playing game. Nick,

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It's probably true. You never know, though, So Nick, you

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were This obviously wasn't a Chris Reynolds
job. We saw that last year.

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But overall people still pretty unhappy with
the job the community. Was there anything

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that really stood out to you?
Uh, Michigan State Lanta made a good

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point. They're nineteen and fourteen.
How the heck did they even get in

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the tournament? I don't understand.
I don't if you're at fourteen losses,

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I just I don't. That was
the weirdest name. I thought Michigan State

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was out completely and they got a
nine, which was pretty wild to me

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when it was right out of the
shoot. We saw Florida Atlantic with four

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quad four losses draw an eight seed
BYU as a six, which is now

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understandable that all of the four or
five matchups or the regionals that they would

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play into, they had to they
had to figure that out, so they

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should have been a five. They
were a five. They just didn't land

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there. Northwestern a lot of people
thought they'd be a bubble team there,

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and nine. A lot of people
thought that Boise State would not be a

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bubble team and they were one of
the last four in. Uh, this

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is this is really strange. Mountains
close either, Yeah, Saint John's didn't

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even make the first four or out, and then there was a lot of

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people who thought Indiana State was going
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and they were the second team out. The thing that I'm confused about is

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the Mountain West got totally shafted here
and Michigan State and Gonzaga get over seated.

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So after they announced the bracket,
they interviewed the chair of the committee

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and he stated that New Mexico,
who won the Mountain West title last night,

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would not have been in the tournament
if they didn't receive the at large

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or they would not have gotten at
large. They would not have made it

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had they not received the automatic bid
for winning their tournament. They were five

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and six in quad one games,
and he stated that the reason they would

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not have gotten in is because of
their lack of quad one wins. Then

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a few minutes later, he was
asked about Michigan State and how they were

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seated as high as an eight seed
or are they a nine and eight whatever,

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they're nine. I think as a
nine seed, and he stated the

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reason that they were higher than some
people were expecting is because of their record

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in quad one games. Michigan State
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New Mexico's five and pliticians. Hey, this is yes, this is

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what I hate about the committee interviews
because they they aren't allowed to actually say

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anything, so it's a completely pointless
interview because like they aren't gonna actually break

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down their actual process in picking these
teams. Because it will real too much

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about what they actually look at,
and they don't want to do that.

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And then they also just like don't
know what they're talking about. Half the

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time. It feels like yeah,
like it's completely pointed, and they won't

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criticize the team. They'll never actually
criticize the team or say actually, why

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a team did or did not get
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I watched four seconds of it.
He was talking about Indiana State, I

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think, and he was like,
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All credit to Indiana State. They
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They were a good team. It's
like, well, then why didn't they

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get in? You want to actually
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we didn't like Indiana State very much. We didn't think they were worth putting

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in the tournament. So it's a
completely useless interview. It's twenty twenty four

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and AI is starting to take over. Can we not just replace this human

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process with a bunch of random dudes
in a locked room together talking about advocating

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replace human since twenty twenty four,
can we literally just get eight? I

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mean, you have all the stats, just get AI. Make it a

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little bit sentient, so it can
do some eye tests out a great idea,

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and then you just have AI fill
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better than it's better than a bunch
of morons in a room together trying to

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figure out how high they can see
Michigan State in the tournament when they're nineteen

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and fourteen. Highly disagree, but
I understand that point. I'm trying to

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figure out. So we've heard net
net net like all year, right,

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the net is written whenever they show
the first four out in the last four

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in graphic on CBS, they show
the net ranking. That is the only

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fact that we get other than record. That's the only end to rank these

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teams. Well, looking at the
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who would have been out? Dayton
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play in team. Michigan State is
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Colorado's a playing team. Michigan State
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Then I scroll way way way down
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so, we just thought New Mexico
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Indiana State's twenty eight, they are
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they're out. Then you scroll all
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and Virginia at fifty three and fifty
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a nine seed, and Virginia is
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not with net it's complete buns.
It doesn't actually matter. They're looking at

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other things. One thing I thought
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saw all of the at larges,
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I wondered if the committee would leave
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send a message that the non con
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them only give Iowa State the last
two seed in a clear message of they

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are great in conference play, but
the non con strength of schedule ain't gonna

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fly around here to get to get
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I wondered if that was gonna happens
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Oklahoma's non con schedule wasn't good,
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of their competition in the conference.
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I'm glad they left Oklahoma out.
We've been advocating for that the whole time.

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We don't need Oklahoma and anyone who
complains about how we need an expanded

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field, why so we can watch
teams like that is oklahomaket ever. Yeah,

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we don't need more, we don't
need we don't need more of these

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mediocre teams in there, Virginia Ryan. What the NCAA does need more of

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is money. Yeah, yeah that. Did you see that? That Wendy's

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ad that made me want to drill
screws into my brain? To Sandstorm?

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Did you see that? Because you're
gonna see about one hundred times if you

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didn't today. Oh yeah, I
can't wait for the March Madness app to

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show me a Coca Cola commercial,
an All State commercial and what's the other

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the Corporate Partners or something with Barkley
and all of them will have Chuck Chuck

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Barkley in them. Yeah, yeah, No. The the Wendy's one is

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terrible. It's these two guys singing
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in the apps thanks to March Madness
to Sandstorm, and it's it's it just

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sounds it sounds like this the one
thing that the committee, so the one

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thing they got right, was Oklahoma. Uh, Virginia, Why seriously why?

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I saw that stupid, god awful
basketball team pop up and just screamed,

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oh god, nobody. It's like
they were like, hmm, we

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only have a couple spots left here. You know, we could put a

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team like Indiana State or Saint John's
in a team that people would like to

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watch, or we could put a
team like Oklahoma and a team with some

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quality wins. And it's like that. They they cleared all that and said,

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but wait, what if we put
a team in there that sucks but

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also that everyone hates watching. Great
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We don't want Virginia in the dance. So here they go. No

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one does. Not a single person
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I thought it was a really bad
bracket if we're being honest. But

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you know, it's still a bracket. We're still gonna watch. Also,

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Oklahoma declined an n invitation. It's
really sad that Porter has never made the

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NCAA tournament at Oklahoma. Moser is
taking his ball and going home, just

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just sad. What's the point he's
declining? Then it well, you're prideful

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sir, don't you see whenever you're
you're used to making the tournament at a

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zero zero zero percent clip like Porter
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to be left out. And I
guess the Oklahoma fans, instead of ruining

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the prestigious like six hundred people that
watch every single one of their games in

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person, go down to like two
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That's fair, right, Well,
I'm with you, though, why decline

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it? Like you? It's money
revenue opportunities for your school. It's a

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chance for your student athletes to to
continue to play a sports they've worked all

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year four Like I'm something. Yeah, I don't understand it. I thought

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Oklahoma would win that tournament. They
wouldn't. It's a pride thing, I'm

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sure at this point. So that's
our take, Canda Straw at least,

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okay, if not a thumb's up
compared to other years, they committee bad

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to be specific. All right.
Now, let's do a recap of some

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of the action from over the weekend, just because there is some stuff here

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that impacts the bracket other games.
So we begin with the Big twelve land

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in the take going into the week
was that Iowa State. This is kind

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of their super Bowl. They get
up for it, and wow did they

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do that in a big way this
week. Yeah. Look, I got

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made fun of for picking Iowa State
v. Houston, and that's exactly what

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happened. I was say ripped through
the field. They beat K State,

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Baylor, and number one Houston by
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The exclamation mark was a sixty nine
to forty one demolition of the top rank

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Cougar's in the In the championship game, the Cyclones held Houston to twenty seven

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percent from the floor, while I
mean lan mom Silovic, who Nick said

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looks like Ryan and he's not necessarily
wrong, made four threes. What are

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your takeaways from the rest of the
Big twelve tournament? I think particularly stand

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out, Nick, anything stand out
to you in these games, like the

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honestly the last like with the exception
of I'm trying to think. I think

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all the games sucked, Like after
I think Texas and K State, there

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were nine games after that and they
all sucked, right, they were all

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blowouts. I be honest, I
didn't watch any of these games. Yeah,

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I want to know how your camping
trip was whenever we're not in the

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Big twelve segment. I think Houston
jumped on TCU sixteen zip. They crushed

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Tech and then they got crushed.
Iowa State won their games by a bunch

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UH. Tech thumped BYU and UH
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So yeah, the last eight games
of this tournament sucked. Also, Mike

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Boyton got fired. That did happen? That final checks out? So yeah,

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Iowa State, Wow do they do? They play well in this tournament?

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I do not look at that,
doesn't it doesn't even matter how good

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they are almost going into it like
they just are great. They've won it

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five times in the last ten tournaments, like I think Kansas only won it

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three times by comparison. So you
know that only six teams have won the

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Big twelve tournament in twenty eight years. I was looking at that the other

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night. Yeah, it's a shockingly
low number. Baylor still has never gotten

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it done. They never play well
in this tournament. Missouri won a couple

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times, Oklahoma won it three in
a row way back at the start they

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got a couple yeah, and Missouri
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State and Kansas who have won like
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something like that. Just you you'd
think after next year, we're going to

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have had twenty two different teams playing
tournament and only six of one. It's

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that's kind of wild. Houston concern
about them, Like you don't see a

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lot of teams that go ride into
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l on their resume. Concern there. There was always some concern with Houston,

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especially offensively. I they really there
are seed draw its gonna be really

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tough well, and they're banged up
too. Roberts didn't play in the second

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half and they've lost two or three
guys this season ending injuries. Like their

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front court depth is so thin right
now for an offense that doesn't really shoot

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the ball well. Baylor got blown
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a road game. Tech and BYU
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TCU just got ripped to shreds by
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didn't play well in that game either. So we'll see. Okay, Nick,

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tell me about the ACC. Everybody's
favorite. Yeah, in the ACC

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bid steeard. North Carolina State,
who entered as the number ten seed in

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the field, won five games in
five days to force their way into the

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dance. Really truly crazy. The
wolf Pack up set number eleven Duke on

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Tuesday. A Thursday, used a
crazy overtime, forcing Buzzerbe to take down

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Virginia on Friday, and then the
outlast a number four un c win eighty

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four to seventy six in the title
game. The tar Hills should not be

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trusted. The Blue Doubles are on
a losing streak. Virginia absolutely sucks Ostrich

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balls, and yeah, the ACC's
trash like we are. The the ACC

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got well, they got four teams
in because Pitt got left out. But

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Virginia's knuck in right and then the
Autobid and Duke and Carolina. I believe

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that's correct. Yeah, okay,
So like Duke Man, every time I

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start to round the corner with them, they just they just slip up.

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I think that's gonna lead to an
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North Carolina's had a really nice year. They have, they are loaded with

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experience, and they're in a pretty
soft region. But I don't know something

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there, like am I crazy,
We'll obviously pick the brackets with something with

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North Carolina. Even with all that
going for him, it just doesn't feel

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right. Yeah, I agree,
And then what then? What else you

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have? Virginia? Yeah? The
North Carolina State shot to beat Virginia was

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amazing. They tied it with a
crazy three after a ninety percent free throw

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shooter missed one that would assaulted the
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It would have been poetic if that
had been the shot that knocked Virginia

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out. It wasn't. It was
close. In the Big Ten, number

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thirteen, Illinois won the championship over
Wisconsin in a super entertaining and high scoring

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unlike the Big Ten to have it
not it's anything but a rock fight in

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their tournament. But this was a
brilliant game either sport for that matter.

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Arren Shannon Junior I think had ninety
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He was absurd way more. He
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and just the semi final and championship
alone, he had like another twenty

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eight in the quarterfinal. Oh and
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story has kind of gotten a little
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He's playing. We'll see, you
know if that winds up biting them

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in the ass one day, You
know, I don't have fun with that.

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The Badgers upset number three per due
in overtime despite Zach Edy taking twice

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as many free throws as Wisconsin's entire
team. You guys want to say anything

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about the way Zach Edy is officiated? Uh, here, here's a here's

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a sound. Is there a whistle
sound on the soundboard? Oh yeah,

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let's see if I do. Someone
tried to defend Zach aty. Ohpe he

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bumped into a trash can on the
way into the arena. Ope, he

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slipped in on the floor. Oh
nope, that's the Hunger Games whistle.

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That's not the that's not the whistle
I wanted. Okay, that's gonna have

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to do the job. That's basically
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Zach Edie and I believe so produce
played thirty three games, and Zach

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Eaty has taken three hundred and seventy
free throws, which is just I'd hope

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he's averaging near thirty if he's taking
fifteen game, how many has Kansas shot

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as a team at this point,
like it. I'm sure it's more than

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that. Kansas as a team has
attempted four hundred and thirty two free throws.

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Zachiaty has taken three hundred and seventy
by himself. My gosh. Yeah,

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it's unwatchable the stuff he gets away
with. And then they'll you know,

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and here's the thing. He gets
fouled a lot and they don't call

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it. He probably gets filed every
possession. But relative to the way they

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officiate other players, yeah, it's
pretty absurd. Also nebrasketball, they are

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scrappy as hell. Hoiberg finally got
a team of Hoyberg level players who shoot

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a high percentage and play at an
up tempo pace, but they don't play

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any defense. It's hence why they
got They got run out of the gym

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in the second half against Illinois after
leading by double digits at halftimes. Those

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are kind of the hallmarks of Hoiburg
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So they draw on eight seed.
How many teams did the Big ten get

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in the dance produced at the top
Illinois is good, wisconstants five they get

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six. So those final four teams
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and Northwestern I guess yeah, they
did. Wow. Every year it feels

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like that we're lucky to get more
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again? Yeah, it's very on

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the table. I don't trust most
of I don't trust almost any team in

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the dance. Quite honestly, I
really don't trust most of the Big ten.

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Well, I know you don't trust
any of the sec So why don't

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you tell me about all those teams? Yeah, that's decidedly true. On

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number twelve Auburn. They won the
tournament, though their path to a championship

405
00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:41.680
was five seed, nine seed six. They beat Florida in the finals after

406
00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:47.279
number five Tennessee got trashed by number
nine seed Mississippi State and nine overall Kentucky

407
00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:49.839
got ninety seven hung on them by
Texas A and M, who also is

408
00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:52.599
in the dance as a nine seed, which was a little odd to me,

409
00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:56.400
but that's okay, we are here. Auburn ended the tournament with just

410
00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:02.400
one quad one victory, so the
resume he'd get some badly needed polish on

411
00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:06.400
it. While the top teams at
the conference enter the NCAA's with major questions

412
00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:10.279
like are you capable of playing defense
at all? EXAs, A and M

413
00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:11.880
had a lot of really good wins. They just had some bad losses.

414
00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.160
So here we go again with the
committee, Like they're saying with I would

415
00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:19.160
the message the committee sent was we
don't care about bad losses if you have

416
00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:23.839
good wins. That's why FAU and
A and M both weren't even on the

417
00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:29.039
bubble. Alabama is giving up a
ton of points. They had over one

418
00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:32.680
hundred hung on them by Florida.
And you said Kentucky too. Everybody's loving

419
00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:36.160
Kentucky's draw. I saw someone on
Twitter say, man, if Cali Perry

420
00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:38.480
doesn't blow this, they're gonna go
a long way. Well, guess what's

421
00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:41.599
gonna happen here in a couple of
wek Guess what cal Perry and not being

422
00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:45.920
able to play defense and the tournament
gets yet cal s walenis what's wrong with

423
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:48.400
that? Like, I don't know. I applaud you for trusting in Kentucky

424
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:52.920
every year we picked them two rounds
too far. They're great when they're playing

425
00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:55.400
well, but oh wow, is
that a young team that doesn't play a

426
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:59.039
lot of defense. Auburn, to
me is the scary one. Auburn is

427
00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:02.200
the one that no one's talking about. I also thought they got a lousy

428
00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:04.880
draw. They got paired with Yukon
as their one seed. A lot of

429
00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:08.119
people thought maybe this was enough to
get them up to the three line.

430
00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:12.319
But again, not a lot of
quality wins before this tournament. Uh.

431
00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:15.920
And then Tennessee. We're doing this
again. Like a lot of people like

432
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:21.720
Tennessee's draw, but Barnes is like, you're gone, Rick Barnes, Yeah,

433
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:26.759
yeah, Barnes deserves this. The
instant the calendar turns to March,

434
00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:32.000
Rick Barnes appears and they lost by
twenty against the nine seeds. Hey,

435
00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:36.160
guess who's all in the same region
together? Him and Matt in my head

436
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:40.519
and looking around at Knowing in particular
when we were talking about Tennessee, definitely

437
00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:42.440
gonna They're definitely gonna choke, right, I bet they'll I bet they'll choke,

438
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:48.359
for sure, choke one. They
won't go to the final four.

439
00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:51.680
They're definitely not in the final four, right. What are the odds that

440
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:59.799
a team in the Midwest region not
named Purdue or Tennessee make the Final four?

441
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:08.839
Two and five very specific. I
think it's I think it's decently high.

442
00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:15.440
Probably yeah, or may not reflect
that, but it is decently sounds

443
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.359
about right, And Kansas fans need
to remember that these are two of the

444
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:22.039
teams we make fun of all the
time, and now you're terrified of them

445
00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:23.079
as the one of the two.
That's not how it works. Now.

446
00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:29.240
Theoretically purduees do Tennessee's do eventually.
One would think you keep giving them ones

447
00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:32.079
and two seeds, they're gonna make
one eventually. But you know, if

448
00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:36.359
history is any indication, I don't
get the panic over Purdue. Landon thinks

449
00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:38.519
Purdue is the best basketball team ever. He thinks Zach Edie would basically murder

450
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:41.119
Hunter Dickinson on the court. So
I don't even know why they're playing the

451
00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.039
games. Just go ahead and fly
Purdue to Phoenix right now, and don't

452
00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:48.359
even let them play the games in
their region. In the Pac twelve,

453
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.400
as they seem to do just about
every couple of years, Oregon came out

454
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:56.200
of nowhere to win this tournament and
earn an NCAA bid, upsetting Number six

455
00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:00.000
Arizona and then Colorado in the semis. In the finals. The league probably

456
00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.240
turned from a two bid league into
a four bid one as a result of

457
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:06.599
this tournament, because Colorado made a
run to clinch and then Oregon obviously winning

458
00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:10.359
it out right. Who here is
excited for a red hot Ducks team to

459
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:12.839
get paired with Kansas. I wrote
this before the bracket and they are in

460
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:18.680
the same region. Boy, if
anything can make us go, Oregon's always

461
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.599
scary. They always do this.
They always sneak their way in there and

462
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:26.279
win one or two more games than
you think they will. I think Arizona

463
00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.359
got paired in an easier region with
great geography, but they haven't made a

464
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.960
Final four in a thousand chances as
a one or a two seed, So

465
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:37.279
I don't trust anyone from the PAC
twelve. That's the league. I'm the

466
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.359
most bearish on. Washington State's not
doing it for me. Oregon, I

467
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:44.720
think I actually might have the most
confidence in of these teams. Really,

468
00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:49.640
Arizona's fine, but they don't play
defense. Oregon's the hottest. Oregon is

469
00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:55.559
the hottest. I definitely could see
Orgon winning a couple of games. I

470
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:57.759
don't hate Arizona's draw it all though. I think Arizona got a pretty good

471
00:31:57.799 --> 00:32:00.359
draw, But then again, if
Arizona when they lost to Princeton last year.

472
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:04.880
They've lost a Buffalo before. Like
you said, they have had a

473
00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:07.119
lot of teams that have been very
good and theoretically were Final four good that

474
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:10.279
could not get the job done.
Well. There was one league that was

475
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:14.599
not very interesting, and that was
the league with the number one overall seed

476
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:19.559
that would be the Big East.
Yukon ripped through the field, beating a

477
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:23.400
Tyler Kullich less Marquette team by sixteen
in the finals. It's their first Big

478
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:27.519
East title since twenty eleven. The
most interesting event from the tournament was a

479
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.680
shouting match between Rick Patino and Dan
coach k two point zero Hurley in the

480
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:35.039
quarterfinals. Did you guys see this? Did you guys see what went on

481
00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:37.640
with this? It was a ninety
five to ninety barn burner by the way,

482
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:40.880
that cost Saint John's that they wanted
they'd been in the tournament. Did

483
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:45.400
you guys see the whole thing?
No, So, there was a fan

484
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:51.680
behind the Saint John's bench that was
shouting at the game, as you should.

485
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:53.119
He was being a little rambunctious,
but he was in no way an

486
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:58.279
active threat to the game, and
he was yelling at Dan Hurley, and

487
00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:01.119
both coaches got technicals for shouting at
each other very early in this game,

488
00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:06.519
and Hurley starts screaming at the officials
to throw this fan out of the game,

489
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:09.400
like he is stopping the game and
pointing at this fan telling him to

490
00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:13.119
get lost. They didn't end up
throwing him out. And then after the

491
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.960
game, Dan Hurley gets in his
presser and he goes, you know,

492
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:19.680
I was just looking out for our
game because that fan was honestly behaving worse

493
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:23.200
than coach Patino was. Oh my
gosh, who let coach k back in

494
00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:30.119
here? You self righteous jackass.
You win one tournament and you think you're

495
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:35.160
God walking around out there. What
a absolute piss baby he is. It's

496
00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:37.640
no surprise who his brother is where
he gets this, But how did he

497
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:43.160
go from you know, oh we
would the Big East is this man's league?

498
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:45.440
Whatever he said. When he gets
his feelings unhappy, he gets his

499
00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:51.279
panties in a water at any turn
of his head. What a manchild.

500
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:55.319
The Hurley brothers both are other.
Then again, anytime you insult Rick Patino,

501
00:33:55.400 --> 00:34:00.960
I'm not I'm not livid. I
like Rick Patino. I could use

502
00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:07.280
more Rick Patino in my life.
Why didn't they give Virginia? Why didn't

503
00:34:07.280 --> 00:34:12.519
they give that spot to Rick Patino? I much rather would have had that

504
00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:16.199
anybody there you go. Yeah,
the Mountain West six seed New Mexico beat

505
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:19.760
five seed San Diego State to win
the league's autobid in the finals, which

506
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:22.800
sums up how crazy that league wound
up being. We did get a Patino

507
00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:25.400
in the dance. It is Richard
Patino who has taken New Mexico from like

508
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:30.039
a seven win team two years ago
to dancing even though they wouldn't have,

509
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:34.559
says the clown committee chair, because
we have to have powerhouse teams like Virginia

510
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:38.679
in there. Can't have any spot
for you. Mountain West Juggernaut, ridiculous

511
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:42.960
good league. Mountain West is the
third best league in the country, after

512
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:46.480
the Big Twelve and the and the
U and the SEC. Maybe the fourth

513
00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:51.639
if if you want to say the
the the Big East gets in there because

514
00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:53.519
it's top heavy. I don't know
Mountain West really entertaining league. Glad they

515
00:34:53.599 --> 00:35:01.280
got all their teams in UH miscellaneous
tournament information. Long Beach State won the

516
00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:05.760
Big West Tournament one week after their
ad announced he was going to fire the

517
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.639
coach at the end of the season. That's wild. What do they do?

518
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:16.239
I don't Decaine overcame premature confetti to
send off premature confetti send off to

519
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:21.039
win the eight en title for their
first tournament birth since Star Wars. Did

520
00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:23.800
you see that? I saw the
end of the game. I heard about

521
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:28.639
the premature confetti. I did want
to win that game. In the middle

522
00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:30.480
of the second half they shot the
confetti off. It just starts falling and

523
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:37.079
they had to stop the game to
clean it up. And then Ryan,

524
00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:42.280
you should tell us about the Kansas
basketball Twitter count bracket. Yes, so,

525
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:45.199
Rock Chuck Blog made it to the
Elite eight in the Ku Twitter Tournament.

526
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:52.239
And then as we do, as
we know how to do, just

527
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:55.559
like the team we embody, the
team we cheer for, we cruised to

528
00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:02.199
the Elite eight and then yeah we
lost. We lost the Braden Turner,

529
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:07.719
who's one of the most popular individual
KU Twitter accounts out there. What was

530
00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:09.800
this? What was the percentage breaking? As like sixty eight to thirty two.

531
00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:14.840
It was a blowout. We got
cooked after a really close game over

532
00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:19.480
eleven seed the Ghost of Joe YESAFU, one of my favorite Twitter accounts.

533
00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:22.119
We needed a late rally just to
get there. You kind of knew that

534
00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:25.440
we were we were dead man walking
after that. So major folks or major

535
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:29.679
props to Jayhawk Focus for taking the
time and putting that together. That takes

536
00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:31.480
a lot of work and it was
cool to see everybody get enjoyment out of

537
00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:35.199
it. We will hang an Elite
eight banner. We will be Kansas State

538
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:38.280
not Kansas and showcase our Elite eight
banner with its gonna get another ring because

539
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:43.719
he gets rings every time he wins
Fantasy football, and he also gets rings

540
00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:46.400
when he wins his Blue and Gold
charity game. So I can't I can't

541
00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:52.320
wait for a show one of season
whatever, season twelve when we hang that

542
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:53.960
early day banner. It's gonna be
a great Oh yeah yeah, Nick,

543
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:58.639
you'll have to come back late night
bann of that takes up most of the

544
00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:04.239
rafters. Nick, you have to
come back for season twelve because we're gonna

545
00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:07.679
hang a banner that on late night
next year that says Elite A to the

546
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:12.679
Rock Chalk Blog Twitter tournament. That's
that's awesome. Yeah. Even though the

547
00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:15.960
Elite eight loss we got, we
got Oregon out came Dylan do or outcome

548
00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:22.840
Dylan Brooks and Tyler Dorrisey and also
Nick, you won pick them by thirteen

549
00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:30.599
games l good job show. Yeah, this was just pick them always.

550
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:35.719
So this is uh, this is
pick them and and this is these are

551
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:45.159
the sounds for each of us.
Nick, Ryan, Eh Landon that is

552
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:50.360
a twenty You're only twenty games back, sir. That's well next year,

553
00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:52.679
I'm I'm gonna run it back.
I'm gonna run it back being at least

554
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:57.239
five to ten games behind and pick
them probably worse. Yeah, Nick is

555
00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:00.079
the pick him crown, that's his. That's his third outright title. And

556
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:04.519
then he and I also split one
and I won three. Four. Yeah,

557
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:07.880
we each have four and signed to
come back for season twelve, so

558
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:10.679
I can take the outright crown.
Yeah. And then and last with no

559
00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:22.920
titles, you have Landon Fields,
but Landon Rick Painter, I meant to

560
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:27.559
say, I meant to say Landing
Fields as his head asked so much.

561
00:38:27.719 --> 00:38:31.000
But you know, especially late season, pick them, yeah, late season

562
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:37.840
pick them, and and Landonville is
just one big all right right team solutions

563
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:39.800
the last show, we're not doing
that because it's everybody but Iowa State.

564
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:45.880
They are the only ones, ask
r CB, so there's only a few

565
00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:50.400
questions. I assume most of them
are about the Jayhawks. They knew they

566
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:53.079
normally are. Let's open up with
one that's not about the Jayhawks. And

567
00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:57.519
I love this question. It's from
our buddy at ku Tweets and News who

568
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:05.880
asks who's worse, Jean or Jean
Sterotur. Here's my answer. God,

569
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:10.480
I actually think I dislike Jean Sterotor
more. Jean Sterotor is one of my

570
00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:15.960
five least favorite people in sports.
He sucks. Who was the first one?

571
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:21.400
It was Jeane Sterotoriy and you cut
out before the first Sister Jean said,

572
00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:27.599
yeah, the Jeans. What do
you guys think? Really you think

573
00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:30.400
sister Jean's annoying? But Jane story. You can hate on a little old

574
00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:35.719
woman, he does so gen No, I also hate on little old men

575
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:38.960
like fran Fraschilla, and he basically
does the same thing that Jean Sterotor does.

576
00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:43.239
They just defend the refs all the
time, Like, seriously, a

577
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:47.320
fan could run on the on the
field and tackle three basketball players and knock

578
00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:51.880
them all out unconscious. And if
the refs said, you know what,

579
00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:53.280
I think We're not gonna call anything, play on Jean would go. You

580
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:57.519
know, I think that's a good
call. No one was in danger there,

581
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:00.679
clearly just have to move along.
He's just completely at the mercy of

582
00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:05.480
the officials. And I hate it
at Kat tweets and news. Is there

583
00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:10.800
a better slew of opponents in the
field than mcneice's. So here's who McNeice

584
00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:16.599
has played this year? Are these
are these real? Wait a second,

585
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:21.719
I have to verify this. Is
this Are these real names? Or are

586
00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.679
you screwing with me? Kat tweets
and News. The McNeese Cowboys coached by

587
00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:28.840
Will Whitt. Oh my gosh,
he's right. So these are four teams

588
00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:36.559
that McNeice has played. Mississippi University
for Women who scored twenty three I remember

589
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:46.199
on twenty three points, Letturnio Laturnio
Champion, Christian Champion Christian who only lost

590
00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:51.719
by sixty and Ryan went to school
and no, we went to their other

591
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:58.360
opponent which is College of Biblical Studies, which is CBS. Wow, that's

592
00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:05.639
an all timer. And then what's
the one is MUW and McNeese has VCU

593
00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:08.599
and Michigan road wins, which I
know are not what's the MUW team that's

594
00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:15.159
the women's school. I think that's
the women three. Yeah, Mississippi University

595
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:17.440
for women. The men's team,
I assume, uh, they scored twenty

596
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:22.920
three points and that is twelve That
is seven for fifty five is what that

597
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:25.599
shooting percentage looks like. They could
have had twenty nine had they made the

598
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:30.239
six free throws that they missed.
Also, so have you ever seen a

599
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:34.199
team have thirty seven baskets to their
opponents seven in a basketball game? Because

600
00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:36.800
that's what happened. And this is
the team people are afraid of in the

601
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:39.199
tournament. Well, I mean they
do have a ninety two to twenty three

602
00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:44.679
win on their resume, and they
do shoot the ball extremely well at kate

603
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:47.119
Eden fourteen. Kansas either makes the
Final four or loses the first game.

604
00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:50.960
Overall, love the draw in this
region. What's your thoughts kind of talked

605
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:52.480
about that. I think overall we
think it's a it's a decent draw,

606
00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:54.960
right, It's as well as they
could have hoped for To avoid one,

607
00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:59.360
avoid Ucon that was priority A.
We know they're gonna be a four.

608
00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:00.960
Want to seem a void, Yukon. Were there any other teams you were

609
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:08.079
really wanting to see them avoid Sandford? I mean not that you actively could

610
00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:13.760
really avoid. I was hoping Gonzaga
is genuinely like the best five seed you

611
00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:17.440
could have got. Gonzaga is not
a five seed. Yes, they literally

612
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:20.480
are not a five seed. They're
six. They just had to get moved

613
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:25.719
because BYU. I think that Kansas
got a pretty good two seed, a

614
00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:30.880
pretty good three seed, and a
really good five seeds are all like I

615
00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:32.239
would have taken quite ones. I
probably would have taken any of the five

616
00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:37.360
seeds. It's San Diego State,
Saint Mary's, Gonzaga, who is,

617
00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:40.320
like we said, living not a
five seed, and Wisconsin. Wisconsin's the

618
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:44.760
scariest there. But Wisconsin is the
best for sure, and then the six

619
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:50.119
seeds might be better like Gonzaga was
supposed to be there BYU is better Texas

620
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:53.719
Tech. Yeah, the struggle against
Texas Tech at all right now? Nope,

621
00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:59.320
butides at time to keep moving.
Besides being healthy, what does Kansas

622
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:01.880
need to change about their playing to
help them win? Well, Bill se

623
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.599
said, they just need to play
with some swag, do everything better.

624
00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:10.199
They need to go out and make
threes. That's the thing. You don't

625
00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:14.400
have to make a lot of threes
because your two point games so good but

626
00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:17.920
you need to be able to make
somewhere in the vicinity of six to eight

627
00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:22.199
threes. If you can consistently do
that, it doesn't matter where they come

628
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:25.800
from, You're gonna be fine.
At Preston skirts sake. Rob Dillingham has

629
00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:29.960
been electric to this year to watch. By the way, John Calli Perry

630
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:35.880
brought both Dillingham and Reed Shepherd off
the bench in that loss AAU hoopin Power

631
00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:39.840
five. Who have been the most
fun players among all college basketball players for

632
00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:45.400
you to watch this year. So
the real thing is, I didn't watch

633
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:49.519
very much college basketball this year.
Well, I love watching considering the College

634
00:43:49.559 --> 00:43:53.199
Basketball podcast I do. I love
watching players shoot free throws, tweet free

635
00:43:53.199 --> 00:43:55.760
throws, tweet free throws. So
it's been a dream to watch. Zach

636
00:43:55.880 --> 00:44:01.360
Edy ps Reed Shepherd is genuinely up
there. He's really good. Fun.

637
00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:07.119
Yeah, Dalton is a monster.
Caleb love when he has his moments.

638
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:14.119
Uh, that's that's hit or miss. Wade Taylor is a stud at A

639
00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:20.519
and M fun and the the dude
for Indiana State was fun too down the

640
00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:24.119
stretch until it just they they didn't
end up making it. Yeah, that's

641
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:30.480
and Jamal said Jamal pretty electric.
Yeah, he had a forty burger earlier

642
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:35.360
this year. Honestly, read Shepherd
and uh and freaking Rob Dilleam might be

643
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:38.159
your answer and they come off the
bench. Yay cow. Two questions from

644
00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:42.800
at show Me Hawk. Do you
like our chances of a trip to Phoenix

645
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:47.239
if our path is if the path
is Sanford McNee state you in Oregon?

646
00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:52.920
Well, yes, I would very
much like that. Really, Wow,

647
00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:57.920
that's sad at Show Me Hawk,
Nick, if North Carolina and Duke were

648
00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:00.400
in the Big twelve, what would
their conference records be? Ooh man,

649
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:05.400
eleven and seven and ten and eight, Yeah, something like that. I

650
00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:09.840
think North Carolina. North Carolina might
get to twelve. Duke is no better

651
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:15.039
than any of the teams like the
Texas Kansas. They're exactly ten and eight

652
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:16.679
I think. And they weren't even
that good at home this year. They

653
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:20.599
lost multiple home games, so who
knows how that how much that of an

654
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:22.880
advantage would have been. Yeah.
And then the final question for Matt Preston

655
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:27.320
SKIRTSK I was thinking about this the
other day, is the m color injury?

656
00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:32.360
What Kansas fans thought that Jalen Daniels
injury actually was a lot of interesting

657
00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:37.639
comments around his injury from inside the
program, Yeah, self said basically he

658
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:39.440
hasn't seen mccullor practice, so they
don't know. It sounds like Dickinson should

659
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:45.159
be good to go. But yes, it is interesting that we all kind

660
00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:51.960
of speculated how much of this is
the player's choice with Jalen Daniels, and

661
00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:54.920
that appears to be exactly what's going
on, at least to a certain extent

662
00:45:55.320 --> 00:46:00.199
with with what's his face with Kevin
mccullor. Yeah, if you ever having

663
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:07.320
ascarcbs twitter hashtag, all right,
let's preview the game. The Jayhawks draw

664
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:14.280
number thirteen, not macnece Samford,
Number thirteen Samford versus number four Kansas on

665
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:17.440
Thursday. They won the tournament.
March twenty first, late tip off,

666
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:27.239
eight fifty five pm. Nick,
your thoughts, No, it's the late

667
00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:30.320
game and it's probably gonna start later
than that too. The Samford Bulldogs,

668
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:35.840
they won the regular season title in
the Southern League and then they won the

669
00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:40.239
tournament. They are twenty nine and
five overall. They have not lost since

670
00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:45.760
February twenty eight. They lost three
conference games. They started h to two

671
00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:51.199
with a fifty three point loss to
Purdue and a ten point loss to VCU.

672
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.000
Those are the only quality non con
opponents. They played oh to one

673
00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:58.840
against ranked teams and it was by
fifty three points. This is the thing

674
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:01.599
that everybody is going to know about
Samford. They shoot a lot of threes.

675
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:05.599
They're good at a lot of threes. Just to give you a basic

676
00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:12.280
breakdown here, Samford is seventh nationally
with a thirty nine per team mark from

677
00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:19.639
the three point line immediately go ahead, however game. They are fifth nationally

678
00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:24.360
in points per game and they play
with one of the five smallest lineups in

679
00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:30.400
the country. But the first thing
that stands out here they make a lot.

680
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:32.239
They shoot a lot, but it's
not as many as you think.

681
00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:37.440
People are comparing this to BYU,
a team that catches and shoots everything.

682
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:44.320
They really don't. Here's what Samford
does. They play hella fast, They

683
00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:49.119
lead the confer or. They lead
the country in possessions per game, up

684
00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:52.800
tempo pace, full court press all
the time, what West Virginia used to

685
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:58.400
do. And they're not necessarily looking
for threes. They're looking to shoot early

686
00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:00.840
in the shot clock, so it
reopens up early in the shot clock.

687
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:05.280
They're gonna fire it. I heard
on eight to ten tonight driving around that

688
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:09.440
they had the shortest time of possession
among any team in the country. They

689
00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:14.199
want to take a lot of shots. They want to maximize possessions. They're

690
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:17.000
also really small, a team that's
not very good on the glass, a

691
00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:22.840
team that's about on defense what Kansas
State kind of. They're right around k

692
00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:27.199
State and the Ken Palm rankings,
but they're only about eightieth in defensive efficiency.

693
00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.800
Offensively, they're brilliant, but it
remains to be seen how much of

694
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:32.159
that was a product of their schedule, because they didn't even get out of

695
00:48:32.199 --> 00:48:37.800
the forties against Purdue. What do
you guys think about this matchup and what

696
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:42.280
do you think the keys to it
are. I think it's a really bad

697
00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:46.239
matchup in anything other than size for
Kansas They've played really poorly against teams that

698
00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:51.760
play fast and like to cause turnovers, which McNee State, who I think

699
00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:58.760
should outrightly be favored against Gonzaga,
maybe also does. But in the little

700
00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:04.239
analysis the ESPN game, they also
sub a lot ten players ours at least

701
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:09.920
twelve minutes a game. Six of
the top seven guys in minutes shoot at

702
00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:15.840
least thirty six percent from three.
They have a freaking small forward who's shooting

703
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:20.239
forty seven percent on threes, and
you may think, oh, so he's

704
00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:23.400
probably like eighteen for forty fifty one
for one hundred and eight. That's a

705
00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:30.199
huge sample size. That's amazing.
That's a lot of threes. They shoot

706
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.280
a lot of threes. They also
their best player also is a guy with

707
00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:37.119
the same first name as last name, Aussie A Core at Core is their

708
00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:43.119
big guy. So I do think
it's a bad matchup. However, you

709
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:49.920
do see in games like this often
enough that all that doesn't actually matter when

710
00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:52.679
it comes to four thirteen and you
sort of outthink yourself and it doesn't really

711
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:58.320
matter in the four seed wins by
fifteen to twenty anyway. So it's it's

712
00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:00.880
a little bit tough to know.
Like Ryan, you were saying, like

713
00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:05.199
it's a little bit hard because you
know, it's the SoCon. I think

714
00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:10.039
that's Seinford's conference, right, the
SoCon not exactly the best conference that's ever

715
00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:15.960
walked the earth, and they got
smashed by Purdue. They lost by ten

716
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:19.559
at VCU early in the season two. So yeah, I don't know,

717
00:50:19.639 --> 00:50:22.920
but I do think on paper,
pretty bad matchup for Kansas, though.

718
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:27.360
Hunter Dickinson theoretically should play very well. Nick, give me a prediction.

719
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:31.719
What do you think happens in this
game. I think Kansas is gonna win

720
00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:36.320
this game. I think there's a
lot of, you know, rightfully so

721
00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:42.719
hysteria about this three point shooting Mark
Stanford team has, which makes sense.

722
00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:45.159
Kansas hasn't been great defending the three
this year. They've been unlucky with the

723
00:50:45.199 --> 00:50:50.320
three this year. What spells disaster
more for Bill's self from the first and

724
00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:53.440
second round of the NCAA tournament more
than teams with fire bomb white shooters,

725
00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:58.519
and that seems to be the case
here. But I do think they win

726
00:50:58.599 --> 00:51:02.199
this game pretty comfortably. I think
by fifteen plus. Honestly, if you're

727
00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:07.159
looking for a white guy of the
game, it is Rylan Jones from Utah

728
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:10.039
who shoots thirty eight percent on threes. Yes, that's not gonna be good.

729
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:15.760
I agree with Nick. You ready
for this, Kurby your enthusiasmy on

730
00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:19.880
the next show. I don't just
think Kansas wins. I think Kansas put

731
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:24.599
Samford in a body bag. I
don't think that this is unnecessarily a bad

732
00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:28.960
matchup for Kansas. It's a scary
one in the sense that you've seen them

733
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:31.599
lose to You see a lot of
three point shooters. That's what we said

734
00:51:31.639 --> 00:51:37.880
about Freakin Texas Southern or didn't they
play? Was it? Who was the

735
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:42.840
team that came in with like the
huge three Eastern Washington. I guess made

736
00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:46.119
him sweat a little bit, like
I remember Howard being pretty good shooting three.

737
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:51.159
I don't care. Here's what I
know about this team. You want

738
00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:53.960
to take a look at the four
games that Kansas played a team with the

739
00:51:54.079 --> 00:52:01.400
ken Pum defensive rank about what Samford
is. Kentucky scored eating are U KC

740
00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:08.320
scored eighty eight, Kansas State scored
ninety like when the Jay Like, I

741
00:52:08.360 --> 00:52:13.760
don't know this, Kansas State scored
seventy in overtime, but that's true.

742
00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:20.559
Yeah, but Kansas put up points
whenever they Oklahoma State is one spot behind

743
00:52:20.599 --> 00:52:24.320
them in defensive efficiency and Kansas scored
in the eighties in both games. This

744
00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:29.639
is a team that turns it over
a lot and they have no interior defense

745
00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:35.280
or size. Hunter Dickinson bet the
over on his props. He should tear

746
00:52:35.400 --> 00:52:38.360
this team apart. And while yes, if Samford's making threes, will it

747
00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:42.679
be hard for Kansas to counter?
With twos. Yes, but you are

748
00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:47.000
playing a team that is going to
try to maximize possessions. I think the

749
00:52:47.119 --> 00:52:51.880
problem matchups for Kansas are the ones
that slow them down with elite defense like

750
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:55.199
Cincinnati. Look how that went.
The Jayhawks struggle to score more than they

751
00:52:55.239 --> 00:52:59.880
struggle to defend. Give me strength
against strength, and I will bet on

752
00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:05.320
more talented team every time. Kansas
should not have a problem scoring and getting

753
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:09.599
quality looks both inside and outside the
Ark against this team. They've proven this

754
00:53:09.719 --> 00:53:14.639
year that, again similar competition,
they're able to take advantage of that.

755
00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:22.119
And I think Kansas wins going away. Jayhawks eighty nine, Samford seventy one.

756
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:27.679
I think Kansas wins, but I
hate every second of it. I

757
00:53:27.719 --> 00:53:30.719
don't feel good about it at all. But I think they do win.

758
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:36.280
I think it's close. I think
Samford scores a lot. I'll take the

759
00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:39.599
Jayhawks to win. I don't know
Sanford scores a lot. I think it's

760
00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:46.559
a close game. I'll say seventy
five sixty eight. The line right now

761
00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:51.679
is Samford minus eight. What side
of that line are Samford plus eight?

762
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:58.559
What side do you want? I
will take Sanford and the points. I

763
00:53:58.599 --> 00:54:01.280
guess wows wit that right, but
I'll take the points. If they lose

764
00:54:01.320 --> 00:54:05.960
to Samford, you know it's over, so I'll own it all. But

765
00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:08.480
I don't think this is the type
of team that's beating Kansas. The Jayhawks

766
00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:13.840
are very good defensively. I trust
them to get stops, and I also

767
00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:17.199
think that you are gonna be stunned
how easy the Jayhawks will get quality looks

768
00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:22.079
in this game. This feels like
a Hunter and kJ combined for fifty points.

769
00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:24.679
Game could be, could be,
hopefully so, so we will be

770
00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:30.440
back. Make sure to click our
NCAA Tournament bracket preview. We're gonna do

771
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:34.199
that show here after we rap recording
on this, and then you're gonna get

772
00:54:34.199 --> 00:54:37.239
a show that's gonna post Saturday morning, win or lose. I guess hopefully

773
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:40.719
we're talking about the next game for
the Jayhawks, so be on the lookout

774
00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:45.639
for that. We will be back
later in the week to talk about Kansas's

775
00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:47.800
first NCAA Tournament game. This is
inside the Paint on Rock Chuck flogging Ryan

776
00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:53.960
Landrath. I am Bucky McMillan's chance
to beat Kansas. I'm poor moser,

777
00:54:55.519 --> 00:54:59.119
al is what I have to say
on that one. All Right, Guys

778
00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:06.519
behave, don't get stand farted ideas
mhm