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Well that was close. We almost
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have an exhale drop on the board, but but just no metaphorically exhale.

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This is our reaction from a what
turned out to be I don't know.

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I don't want to use the phrase
nail bier because I don't think any of

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us actually thought they're going to lose, or even it's more likely than not

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that they lose. Their Their lowest
win probability at any point in that game,

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according to ESPN, was still like
seventy six percent, But not how

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we expected to spend a Tuesday night
watching our thirty eight point favorite Jayhawks sweat

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one out down the stretch. How's
about that? This is inside the Paint

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on Rock Chalk Blog. You just
get two of us today. I'm Ryan

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Landrath and I'm Nick Whiper. Nick, where is where is landon? He's

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on a date from what I heard. You hear that? Yeah, he's

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out with a woman tonight. Very
congratulations Land and congratulations Land And that's extremely

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exciting. We waited a long time
for this moment. Uh. Nick found

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his Remy Martin last year, and
now you have found hopefully misses right uh

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and obviously we are. We are
just kidding because missus right is the couch

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at this point, because Landon is
he's just tired tonight, I think is

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uh is, what's is? What's
going on? So uh oh rats,

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maybe next time Landon, But Nick, you and I are going to talk

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about Whenever the schedule came out and
we saw this game sandwich between Maui and

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the Titanic showdown between the two last
national champions, I think we thought this

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would be the sleeper podcast, just
like the the game was supposed to be

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a sleeper. Well, the game
lived up to a little more building than

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we thought, So I guess that
means with just the two of us that

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we've got to be a little bit
more more lively today. I mean,

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are we up for this? I
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It's it's pretty late for me,
but I'm up for it. All right,

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all right, let's let's uh,
let's talk about it. Since you're

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up for and most of the Jayhawks
were not down to number five Kansas seventy

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one Eastern Illinois sixty three, Nick, I'll let you go ahead and read

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the game story and then we'll start
analyzing exactly what in the world we're supposed

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to take away from this. Yeah, entering as a thirty eight point favorite,

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that's a pretty big spread. Kansas
raced to a seventeen point lead through

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seventeen minutes appeared well on their way
to ruling the Panthers, but from the

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three minute mark of the first half
to the three minute mark of the second

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half, Kansas extended their lead to
thirty. No. Eastern Illinois outscored KU

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forty three to twenty nine, most
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two. The Jayacks did close out
in a twelve to five run to put

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it away a bit, but this
was an underwhelming showing against the team fick

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to finish last in the Ohio Valley. Ryan, you got on this show

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a couple of nights ago and said, Eastern Illinois you thought, on paper

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was the worst team Kansas was gonna
play all season, and they go out

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there and only beat them by eight. What is your immediate reaction to that?

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I did say that, And statistically, if you're a Ken Palm believer,

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if you're a metrics believer, or
if you just know stats, which

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are this Eastern Illinois team beat Copp
and State forty eight to forty six two

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weeks ago. Then all of those
things will tell you the same thing,

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and that's this Eastern Illinois team is
bad and Kansas, you know, things

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are weird. We're going to talk
about maybe why this was closer, way

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closer than anyone he thought basketball is
weird, and watching this game, it

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was clear Eastern Illinois played a lot
better than they had been. Kansas looked

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very lethargic for most of the night. And what you got is proof that

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just about anything can happen on a
given basis, on a given night in

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college basketball. I have never in
my time, we've done ten seasons,

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eleven seasons of this show. We've
previewed every game. We've been aware of

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the point spreads, and that extends
beyond the show. I have never seen

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a thirty eight point favorite for a
Kansas game against the Division one team.

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They were in the forties against Shamanad. But thirty eight is the largest number

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I've seen in at least a handful
of years. And honestly, looking at

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this, that line was a trap
the whole time. Sure, Eastern Illinois

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is bad, but just the psychological
angle you're coming off Maui, you're getting

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ready to play Yukon. Like this
game from a betting perspective, was not

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in a good spot for anybody looking
to back a big Jayhawk win. Now,

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certainly we thought the talent gap between
these two teams was large enough that

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it wouldn't have surprised us. I
was at the game with my grandma and

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I said, at halftime, I
bet they score fifty in the next half,

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because even at that point up by
light twelve. But halftime it felt

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like they were due to play much
better, and they they didn't score thirty

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five in the second half. It
was it was a very sloppy showing.

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So I'll ask you what contributed in
your opinion to this being such a weird

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game. Are you blaming some Maui
jet lag, Are you blaming them looking

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the head to the Connecticut game,
or just basketball happening. Sometimes I think

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it's more basketball happening. I mean
they, like you said, like we

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had just read in the notes,
they got up to a seventeen point lead.

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So usually when Kansas is playing bad
at home against an inferior opponent,

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it's usually like, you know,
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slow, and you're like, wow, this is a bad start. You

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know, maybe it's going into halftime. Typically Billsolf teams do not, you

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know, play bad in the back
half of the game. Usually the second

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half adjustments are good enough, especially
to overcome an Ohio Valley team. But

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like we said, in this case, they just completely fell apart, could

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not score. The ball, had
a huge drought, and Easter Illinois was

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making shots weirdly. I know,
you say, a team that just scored

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forty nine points against copp And State
a few weeks ago, but they were

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making shots. They were they were
hitting stuff that I don't think that team

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has hit all season long. And
I don't know if they were just you

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know, juiced up because of the
Allen Kilos. Energy was a little bit

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low and that run started to take
place. Because I do know no minimum

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momentimum. Basketball is really really fickle. But I do think this is attributed

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to maybe a little bit of looking
ahead to Yukon. You know, they

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had that a huge emotional week last
week. kJ Adams, you know,

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obviously losing his mother and that the
emotional toll heading straight to Maui, the

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team playing a game for him,
for his mother, right then after games

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for his mother, then after that
in Hawaii, and then quickly, you

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know, coming back to the States
to play a game against the team that

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you know, you usually don't get
up for a game against Eastern Illinois.

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So I think, like you said, there's a lot of little, tiny

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factors that maybe contributed to it,
but I really just think it's just an

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underwhelming basketball game. I don't think
we'll see something like this on knocking Wood

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for the rest of the non conference
slate, but definitely a wake up call

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to this team struggles. You know, we've talked a lot about Dewan Harris,

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will talk about him in a few
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offensively in this game. But a
guy who didn't have a rough game offensively

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was Hunter Dickinson. Yeah, Dickinson
was really good. I'll get to his

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stats here in just a second.
I think that everything that you said was

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excellent, and I think that's it's
more. The first thing is basketball happened.

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They won this game by eight points. They missed a handful of free

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throws. If these teams shoot an
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a sudden, this is like an
eighteen point win. Which wouldn't jump off

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the table, but it would also
be a little bit closer to what you

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expected. Eastern Illinois hit some shots
that I do not believe they would hit

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again if these two teams played another
game tomorrow. A lot of off balance

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shots from a team that statistically entered
as one of the worst offensive teams in

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college basketball. Kansas missed every three
they took in the second half. Dickinson,

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as you mentioned, was great,
mccullor was very good. Everybody else

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stunk. Kansas opened the game up
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Dickinson having seven rebounds before the first
TV time out, it looked like they

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were just going to destroy this squad. And then the team's actually played even

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after that over the last thirty five
minutes pretty wild. I still want to

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point out that a game like this
happens every single non con slate with Kansas

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last year, and it's easy to
forget these games. Last year, the

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fourth game of the year was against
Southern Utah. They were up one in

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the final two minutes before Grady dick
hit a dagger three that saved them.

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The year before that, Remy Martin
had to rescue them against Steven f Austin

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at home, and the year before
that, Tyan Grant Foster, now one

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of the better players in basketball,
had to rescue them against North Dakota State.

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Every single year there is a game
kind of like this, and we

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obviously have seen each of the last
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weekend or win the whole thing.
So clearly, having a close call with

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a much inferior opponent a non conference
play doesn't have a lot of jurisdiction as

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we're determining how the rest of your
season is going to go. I think

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they got caught looking ahead pretty straightforward
to Yukon. You mentioned kJ Adam Mom.

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The team has to be exhausted and
a little not focused. Maui jet

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Lag had a couple people say,
well, the other teams I played in

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that tournament didn't look jet Lag.
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bunch of angles. They didn't really
look too interested. And this came from

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the start, and you know who
said that. The Jayhawk players after the

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game said, yeah, we were
sleepy in this one. So it happens.

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But because something like this seems to
happen every year, and you never

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actually thought Kansas was going to lose
that game. It really isn't worth looking

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into that much. Okay, now
let's talk about Hunter Dickinson. Go ahead

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and read me his stats. I
know you kicked to me. I'll take

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Kevin McCuller here in a little bit, But tell me about Hunter Dickinson,

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who might be the only player we're
not concerned about. Yeah, Parker Brown,

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Sorry, wrong, white big Parker
Brown's a white flag, not a

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Hunter Dickinson. I consaided twenty five
points, thirteen rebounds in three blocks,

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and another dominant performance. Well on
his way to I think being a favorite

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would be a favorite if Zach Heaty
would just leave college and go to the

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NBA or do something with his life
instead of staying around in East Lofayette,

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Indiana. Hey, if I don't
know who has decided who in the world

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the history of the world said,
you know, I'm gonna turn down twenty

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million dollars to go back to East
Lofayette in Indiana to play basketball at Purdue

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for Matt Painter, a guy who's
never got squeaked his nose out of the

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second into the second week into the
NCAA tournament. That's how it feels.

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But hey, before you before you
say that, Zach ed he's been in

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college forever. The guy you're talking
about has been in college. Every bit

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is long. That's how basketball is
now. I guess, yeah, tell

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me about who I'm with you is
one of two, one of the two

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best chances to win National Player of
the Year. He did underwhelm and undersize

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Panther front court early and often grabbing
seven rebounds before the first team. He

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time out eleven for fifteen from the
floor. Look at that efficiency and is

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now shooting sixty seven percent on the
season. He played thirty five minutes,

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including all but one of the final
twenty nine minutes. Yeah. So he

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played the first five and had six
and seven like immediately, and then Self's

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like, okay, that's enough of
that. Hunter, Come sit your butt

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on the bench so I can watch
Parker go out there and sniff his own

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farts. And so then they kind
of fall back in the Okay, they

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just but obviously Bill self assumed I'm
sure that they were gonna win this game

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by a lot, and he was
planning on probably playing Hunter Dickinson about twenty

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to twenty two minutes and then the
rest of the game happened, and Hunter

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only sat for about thirty seconds in
the second half. They needed him out

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there the entire time. Dickinson tremendous. He overwhelms lousy teams, he overwhelms

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great teams. He's one of the
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there really isn't a lot for us
to take away from it. As much

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as we would love to sit here
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which we can definitely do and will
do, I feel like the minutes

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on this recap should be dedicated to
other things when there just isn't anything to

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analyze from Dickinson's dominance. There's a
little bit more to talk about with Kevin

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McCuller had an excellent second half eighteen
points, thirteen of them coming after halftime,

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on eight for eighteen from the floor
in thirty seven minutes. He added

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five assist and he didn't turn the
ball over. That's the big stat I'm

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looking at here, because he had
a bunch of them in Maui and then

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quickly eradicated those woes. The downside
is that he missed both of his threes,

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dropping him back to the same thirty
percent mark that he shot last season

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and the year before that. We
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how we really wanted to see him
take a leap forward from a three point

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shoot. It looked like he did. Yeah, it looked like he was

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going to in the first few games. And so that's that's surprising for me

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to read. It doesn't feel like
he's dropped under thirty percent. But yeah,

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wow, no, and it doesn't
feel like that. And I also

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I am not sure I think he
is a better shooter. Like, we

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only have six games worth of sample
here. There just isn't a lot of

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data. We're not really gonna have
an idea as to what guys shooting percentages

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are until we get to the start
of January. And at that point I

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think we're gonna have a pretty good
idea. But I think mccullor well in

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the year in the mid thirties,
I think thirty five thirty six, with

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how he plays in all of their
aspects of his game, would be a

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colossal improvement. But he was good. He scored down the stretch and on

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a night when very few players were
interested in scoring the ball. Okay,

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now, on that note, we
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of the way. Let's talk about
some of the bad. Kansas was three

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for fourteen shooting three that's twenty one
percent, which is a season worst,

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including zero makes in the second half. The Panthers of Eastern Illinois made nine

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on the night. I don't think
that you had going minus eighteen on three

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pointers against Eastern Illinois on your bingo
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But well here we are. We
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Artario Morris can't be on the team
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a little thin. I assume that
you still feel that way. And the

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way that they started the year and
the first two games by shooting great,

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that looks like a little bit of
a mirage. Yeah, well absolutely,

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we You know, the team has
very little depth from the three point line

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anyway, So coming into this year, we are very, very, very

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concerned about this because you gotta trust
guys like Furfey and Timberlake, and neither

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of them. Furfey has a little
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that. You know, he's a
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decided to take a little year early, so that development is not gonna

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be a problem or at least not
a concern right now. But Nicholas Timberlake

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has just been a huge, huge, huge disappointment so far. I know

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we talked a lot about him being
from you know, thousand and different competition.

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He was the best player by far
on thousand. I'm pretty sure some

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kids I played middle school basketball with
probably started for tousand last season. But

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yeah, I just shooters shoot though. That's the thing. It's like,

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why is this guy struggling so hard
to make threes. It's like it's not

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a size thing. You know,
going up against bigger guys or better competition

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typically does not affect shooters as much
as it has for him. He's in

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a slump. I don't know if
it's the pressure, just being anxious about,

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you know, getting off to a
good start this season, but it's

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been horrible in all regards. And
Almarco Jackson the same way from the three

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point line. Maybe expect a little
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too, we'll talk about Dewan Harris, but earlier on the season it looked

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like, you know, especially the
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four of its threes really was looking
surprising this game, kind of like Kevin

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McCuller is seeing his three point shooting
percentage slump again. I don't know if,

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like you said, there's enough sample
size to make any determination on that,

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but this team is going to struggle
to shoot the three ball. You've

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got to find answers, and I
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What do you think, Well,
let's go ahead and talk about those guys,

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because the three point shooting is definitely
this team's biggest struggle. McCuller,

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Dickinson, phenomenal players don't have a
lot of questions there. I think Harris

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and kJ Adams for the most part, don't have a lot of questions there.

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You know that they're gonna be there. And everybody on Twitter is talking

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about how this team only has four
players. I'm not sure if there are

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any teams in college basketball that have
more than four really good players, Like,

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no team has nine guys at this
level or anything. But your five

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through ten can't be in total no
shows like they've been at this point in

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the year. Timberlake, I thought
he was on his way to having one

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of his better games. He had
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half minutes, and then Bill didn't
play him at all in the second half.

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I'm assuming he was available and just
didn't go out there. Almarco Jackson

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had a five point three steel line
in twenty two minutes, but he was

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just two for six from the floor. He's struggling to shoot threes, even

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though he did make one in this
game. Johnny Furfy six points fourteen minutes,

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one for four from the floor,
so not a whole lot there.

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Jamari McDowell had a good stretch but
played the least of the four, which

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is a trend and none of us
can figure that out either. Scoring a

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point in eight minutes. I still
am. I'm patient with Timberlake. I

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think Timberlake will be okay. I
don't know if he's going to be Jalen

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coleman Lands level consistent for you,
but I think he's going to give quality

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off the bench minutes. This is
a guy that's done this in college and

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at a very high level. I
know he was at talisand but he scored

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seventeen to night back to back years
like he he has shot the ball from

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the same distance that he's shooting now
and had considerably better results, and then

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you have a concussion down in Tennessee. Like, I don't know, I'm

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patient on Timberlake Furfey, I think
you're just seeing a really raw freshman that

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he's gonna have glimpses this year,
but isn't gonna be consistent there for you.

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El Marco Jackson, I feel like
kind of should be better than he

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is, even though self said that
he'll he'll get there. And Jamary McDowell

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feels honestly like maybe the best of
any of them at this point in his

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career, but he's playing the least. I don't know how would you fix

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this? If you were Bill selfh
would you continue to start El Marco Jackson?

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And and if not? And if
so too, I guess how would

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you distribute these minutes? Is your
priority trying to see the ball go through

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the net from three? Or is
your priority something else? From this two

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guard debacle? What was the first
part of that question you asked? Are

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you just trying to get three point
shooting from your two guard or are you

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looking for other things? I mean
this with this team probably looking for other

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things. But I mean typically in
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I would say the two guard is
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in Bill Self's teams. The past
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So this year's kind of an anomaly
in that in that regard, But for

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this team, I mean, you
hope Elmarco Jackson's gonna go out there and

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make at least one, but that
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Yeah, and Jackson was a good
shooter in high school and that hasn't

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materialized us far. And Timberlake obviously
has been a mess. I still think

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that we have enough cupcake games on
the schedule coming up to watch the Jayhawks

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play that you're going to see somebody
start to establish themselves. Kansas plays UMKC,

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they play Missouri, Indiana hasn't been
very good. That that game's gonna

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be tough. They play Yale.
Like these games, they're not gonna win

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all these by eight. They're gonna
have some blowouts in there, and I

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think you're gonna see guys like Timberlake
and Furfey and McDowell play better. Like

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what I would do, and I've
been straightforward with this, I would continue

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to start Almarco Jackson. I think
his ceiling is the highest, and I

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think he's the one that you definitely
need to develop the most. But I

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would play Timberlake twenty minutes a night, like I would have Timberlake shoot seven

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or eight threes whenever they're not playing
Yukon caliber teams. I want to see

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that, you know. It's like
I always compare it to like starting a

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car. I don't know for sure
if this old car that's not really reliable

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is going to start on a cold
winter day, but I'm gonna try to

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crank that key several times and keep
trying to forestart it. Because I mean,

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if if I have this car in
my possession and I'm not actively trying

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to start it, why is Temberlake
on the roster if you're not actively trying

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to get him three points? Shit? It's like, I don't know what

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does that mean? Park What car
is Parker Brown? Then Parker Brown is

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the plain white old mini van that
you throw out there when the other cars

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are busy or you need one,
and it could be worse. I guess

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it performs, but it's definitely not
gonna be fun. I was gonna say

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salvage title, Oh oh, that's
rough. It's really old, right,

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because he's been in college since like
nineteen eighty. Yeah, really old car,

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really old, unreliable, don't expect
much out of it. Yeah,

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and you don't get much out of
it. And it's like you trade out

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your Porsche for it too, because
you go from Dickinson down to Parker Brown

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too. It's just a brutal downside. And Kansas, I will say too.

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So, Kansas this year is shooting
thirty six percent from three. That

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is about one hundredth out of three
hundred and sixty five teams. And they

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played a very tough strength of schedule. They've had great games, they've had

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terrible games. But overall, if
you pick ten college basketball teams, Kansas

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is better than six or seven of
them at shooting threes, and considering how

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much else they do, well,
that's not too bad. If they shoot

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thirty six percent as a team from
three this year, they're gonna win thirty

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plus games before the NCAA tournament.
I agree, So they're gonna be They're

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gonna be just fine. Thirty before
the NCAA tournament's a big stritch. They're

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gonna win twenty five plus before postseason
play. How about that? All right,

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let's talk about Dewan Harris. Go
ahead and read his stats and then

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I want to I want to have
a little chat about Dewan Harris. Yeah,

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Harris scored one point on a zero
for four, not outing from the

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floor in thirty six minutes. He
did have nine assists to three turnovers,

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but Eastern Illinois completely ignored him when
he had the ball, smothering mccouller and

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Dickinson with extra help and Darren Harris
to shoot the ball. He's averaging six

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points, seven assists, and three
turnovers per game this year, but he

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scored seven or fewer in every game
beside Kentucky. You just mentioned I just

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read in the stats that they're not
guarding him. Are you wanting Harris to

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be more assertive in making taking those
shots? Obviously miss all of his shots

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in this game, but are you
wanting him to drive, take more threes,

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create more score scoring opportunities for himself? What do you think dewe.

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Harris needs to do to get more
points for this team because he needs to

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score for this team to reach any
ceiling they want to have this year.

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Yes, yes, he has to
score more. That is that is absolutely

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correct. We know he's capable.
We've seen him do it inside the arc,

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outside the arc. He doesn't look
to score because he likes to set

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up his teammates. At some point
that just becomes no, he's just not

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looking to score. He has to
score the ball more than this or you're

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gonna put up like Dickinson and mccullor
gave you forty three and you barely got

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to seventy against Eastern Illinois because he
got nothing basically from Dewan Harris. My

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hot take on Dewan Harris. And
I'm not here to tell you he's not

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good, and I'm not here to
tell you that he had He's not He's

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a D two point guard and all
that, like we've seen on Twitter.

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Uh, But my hot take isdwe
Harris, the exception of one half against

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Kentucky has been pretty mediocre this year. He hasn't been very good compared to

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what we know he can do.
Now. Dwan Harris has always been a

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player that has gotten better throughout the
course of a season, So I think

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he's going to be just fine.
But yes, he has to look to

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score the ball more because Kansas just
doesn't have the pieces around him for him

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to just focus on passing it.
And in this game, Eastern Illinois knew

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he wasn't gonna shoot it, and
they just didn't guard him like we've seen

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teams do that before, and it
made life on his teammates a lot harder.

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Harris was brilliant against Kentucky and has
been very okay against everybody else.

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And I thought that Kansas was better
with Harris on the bench last night at

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times whenever al Marco Jackson played the
point in the first half was when they

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made their best push. So I
don't know. That's what I think the

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Dwan Harris thing is. I don't
think anything's wrong with him. I just

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think he has to look to score
the ball Moore, which sounds easier said

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than done, I guess. But
when he doesn't look to score, you're

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gonna have seventy point nights, even
with the other two stars being brilliant.

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I also think the turnovers have been
a little bit uncharacteristic for him to start

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the year. I know it's three
per game, but that he has been

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lauded as you know, a guy
who does not turn the ball over,

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right, So just a little bit
sloppier. I think to start this season,

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which is kind of surprising. Obviously
he's, you know, an assist

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machine with Hunter Dickinson down low,
but yeah, I want him to take

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and look for more shots. We
saw in the Kentucky game a glimpse of

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how good he can be scoring the
basketball. Why not become a little bit

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more assertive. You know what,
guy, what college basketball player does not

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want to shoot open threes when they
get the chance. I just think,

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I don't know if it's you know, Bill Solf just coaching him to,

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hey, hey, let's take some
more shots, or what to get through

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his mind that you've got to start
daring teams to guard you. Like the

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amount of disrespect. Obviously very disconcerned
with Kevin mcclutran Hunter Dickinson, but the

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amount of space and leverage teams are
giving you is a huge advantage for KU,

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especially if you have a guy who's
proven he can score the ball.

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If it's not three, it's into
the basket, creating plays. I think

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Dwan Harris needs to be more assertive. He's a great point guard, probably

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the best in the country, but
just some parts of his game where he

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just can do a little bit better
at executing. I think, yeah,

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it's that simple, Like he's trying
to do too much of a good thing

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at this point and he's got to
look to score the ball more than he

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is. It's just that simple.
He is. He has had a little

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bit more uncharacteristic turnovers for him.
He's been sloppier with the ball, which

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you can get away with if you're
also putting up ten points. You only

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put up, you know, less
than seven and most of your games,

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and suddenly those turnovers carry a lot
more weight because you're not making up for

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those possessions as much so. And
also Kansas doesn't really have another point guard,

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like I know, el Marco Jackson
is. He can kind of combo

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guard it, but al Marco is
not a guy that you're gonna want quarterbacking

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your team in the big minutes.
It's it's right or die with Dewan Harrison,

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and they just need him to be
They just need him to be a

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little bit better than he has been. Think he'll get there. It's only

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been seven games. We talked about
the bench. It was not good.

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We talked about Nick Timberlake, who
was kind of good in his limited minutes

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but then didn't play there is kJ
Adams, who had ten points, four

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for four from the floor, three
assists, two seals, two blocks,

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three rebounds thirty two minutes. Not
a whole lot to analyze. There feels

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like a pretty solid line for kJ. He's had a brutal week and he

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put forth some really quality minutes.
There not not a whole lot to take

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away from from his game. I
assume what do you take away from No?

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I kind of want to jump back
to Nick Timberlake. I want to

406
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ask you this question, why do
you think Nick Timberlake didn't play it all

407
00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:34.839
in the second half. I think
it's a Bill Self trust issue right now?

408
00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:37.720
Yeah, I do. I think
it's he's played the least minutes.

409
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I mean, guys like Furfey and
McDowell have played more so as Jackson,

410
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and I also don't think that Self
felt like that Timberlake deserved to play over

411
00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:49.759
those guys even though none of them
were playing that well. That's what concerns

412
00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:55.680
me the most about Nicholas Timberlake.
It's not like his competition is just so

413
00:26:55.960 --> 00:27:00.559
fierce that there's not time to get
him the minutes, like we've seen happened

414
00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:03.960
with Kansas guys in the past.
Uh, And yeah, guys like Travis

415
00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:07.160
Relliford and Elijah Johnson that wound up
being starters on Final four teams that were

416
00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.599
third string guys as a freshman.
Like, it wasn't all that was just

417
00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:14.839
because there were so many good talented
players in front of him. Here,

418
00:27:15.079 --> 00:27:19.359
Nick Timberlake can't get on the floor
ahead of one for four Johnny Furfey and

419
00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:25.240
Jamari mcdowan is one point, like, man, he needs the That's not

420
00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:27.519
a good sign. It's just it's
so bizarre though, because Bill self,

421
00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:32.839
you usually prioritizes getting you know,
guys with that much experience in years under

422
00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:37.039
the belt into the game before he
does freshmen, right and baby freshmen like

423
00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:41.960
that's yeah, that's that's signaling like
some trust issues. I don't know like

424
00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:45.920
that. That's just that's very odd
to me. Yeah, it is pretty

425
00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:51.839
bizarre. Something that will never and
I mean never be bizarre is whenever this

426
00:27:52.000 --> 00:28:00.640
happens at the Fog because what else
would you expect from Cooper with a k

427
00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:07.240
Jacoby who went two for three while
being a twenty five percent three point shooter

428
00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:11.480
for his career, and then I
know that Nikhil Shelton made four as a

429
00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.920
twenty nine percent shooter, he's not
white, but it also kind of fits

430
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:19.839
the Bill. I'm so tired of
being tweeted at whenever I point out that

431
00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:25.880
the white guys are making off balance
crazy threes against the Jayhawks and the people

432
00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:29.839
on Yeah, Ryan, Yeah,
that's all I hear. They leave them

433
00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:33.359
wide open. They're just open looks
every single time. Apparently every single you

434
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:38.599
make an anecdotal comment on my own
account, right, yeah, Apparently the

435
00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:42.480
twenty five percent of threes that these
guys have made in their life, every

436
00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:48.400
one of them has been face guarded
by Marcus Garrett caliber defenders. But then

437
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:51.519
when the Jayhawks come to town,
they get the whole side of the floor

438
00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:56.119
to themselves. Like it makes no
sense with this logic. Kansas is not

439
00:28:56.240 --> 00:29:00.720
the best three point shooting team I've
ever seen, or three point defending team

440
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:07.119
I've seen. It's probably say,
yeah, they definitely aren't. It's probably

441
00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:10.240
Bill self's biggest weakness as a coach, because we have seen this team get

442
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:14.960
burned more often than they should from
teams that shoot the ball in Kansas doesn't

443
00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:18.680
seem to adjust quick enough. But
come on, there are plenty of times

444
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:25.119
where you have the goofy looking lousy
shooters that hit those step back, falling

445
00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:30.799
sideways threes that the defense is irrelevant
slash fine. It just feels like yeah,

446
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:36.079
And someone on Twitter is like,
there's no magic reason why teams shoot

447
00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:37.799
better against Kansas. Yeah, I
think there is. I think teams do

448
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:41.839
shoot better against Kansas. I think
teams play better. I think there's a

449
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.240
little more juice in their step,
and we've seen that work the other way,

450
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:47.759
where then they come out totally flat. How many times you've seen Case

451
00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:49.640
State get so geeked up they can
barely think straight. Then they just get

452
00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:53.799
blown out out of the shoot against
Kansas. But I think that, Yeah,

453
00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:57.440
I think teams are a little extra
fired up to play the Jayhawks.

454
00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:00.640
I don't know if that makes the
ball go in the bat ask it more,

455
00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:03.839
but based on the evidence, it
definitely doesn't make them play any worse.

456
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.200
What are your thoughts? Yeah,
No, I agree that That's always

457
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:10.279
been kind of my feeling as well, is that you know, people are

458
00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:14.319
always like, oh, Alan Fieldhouse
is so intimidated, intimidating, but these

459
00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:17.319
guys want to go into Allen field
House and play their best basketball. I

460
00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:19.359
mean, they're not you know,
these are college basketball players. I granted,

461
00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:23.000
Eastern Illinois players have probably never played
before a crowd of more than four

462
00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:29.039
thousand people, let alone sixteen thy
three hundred, but I mean, I

463
00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:32.039
mean, I guess they have because
they're always you know, they're schools collecting

464
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:36.079
checks, two million dollar checks to
go play by games against power five schools.

465
00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:38.720
But besides that, these these players
are are there to play ball,

466
00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:41.799
like they're gonna play their best against
Kansas, particularly, you know, teams

467
00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:47.720
like ky State regular conference foes for
Kansas, they get everyone's best shot.

468
00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:49.920
And you know that's a cliche,
but I think that it's true. And

469
00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:53.759
obviously in this game Easter Illinois,
I think if you simulated this game one

470
00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:56.839
hundred one thousand times, I don't
think they're gonna replicate that three times,

471
00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:00.519
which is really hard to say because
you know, kay, you hasn't been

472
00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.440
playing their best basketball at this point
in the season. But you know,

473
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:07.160
that's that's just how it happens sometimes. Yeah, guys like Pooper with a

474
00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:10.960
keg that come in there, and
a good thing it wasn't Ali with an

475
00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:15.880
a this time. Oh man,
Yeah, speaking of you and I Bob

476
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:18.920
Boleseby's the new ad there. I
saw that. Yeah, boy, what

477
00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:25.039
an interesting what an interesting job for
for Bob Bowlesby to be the big twelve

478
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:29.519
just keeps on getting richer, and
Bob Bolsby continues too well. He's yeah,

479
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:33.519
he's interimediet Northern Iowa. No,
yay, Bob, all right.

480
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:37.039
Kansas did have eleven blocks and eleven
steals. That's pretty Uh, those are

481
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:41.400
two pretty big numbers. You don't
see that every day. Parker Brown had

482
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:45.039
two of those blocks. He played
five minutes. Those are the five minutes

483
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:48.960
Dickinson was on the bench. And
honestly, we're probably too hard on Parker.

484
00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:52.680
He's easy to punch on. He's
he's a perfectly fine backup big that's

485
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.480
probably going to have some some rough
moments when they start playing better teams.

486
00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:00.519
Uh. From the floor fifty percent
for the Jayhawks, twenty one percent from

487
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:05.200
three, sixty seven percent of the
line, and minus three on the glass.

488
00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:07.759
Getting out rebounded by Eastern Illinois when
you have Hunter Dickinson on your team's

489
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:10.640
not exactly the best look. In
fact, you could actually say it's quite

490
00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:15.880
ass. But you know, they
won the game. Uh So overall they're

491
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:20.160
six and one, they've won every
one of their seven games except for one

492
00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:24.000
and through through the first this is
it for November. They finished November with

493
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:27.720
a six and one record. And
what are your thoughts? What do you

494
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:31.079
think about the way that we've seen
this team play this far? I mean,

495
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:34.079
I think it's right where I predicted. I think I had them going

496
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:36.000
six and one at this point in
this season. I thought they'd lose,

497
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:38.480
and nowI you know, I didn't
believe it would be as bad as they

498
00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:44.079
did against Marquette, you know,
and not be a competitive game because usually

499
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:46.640
the Kansas gets up for those games. But as he's look in the past

500
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:50.759
few years too, these mid season, these things, giving the week tournaments,

501
00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:53.599
KU has just laid an egg.
The Dayton game a couple of years

502
00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:59.279
ago, the Gonzaga game they got
absolutely Mickey Mouse and the Mickey Mouse Tournament.

503
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:04.720
And so it hasn't been can you
has not been the best that they've

504
00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:07.640
been since you know, ydo Ka
Zabuki went in and beat an exciting dat

505
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.160
and team and Mawi a couple you
know, like what six years ago,

506
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:15.640
and at this point, so you
know, the expectations I think k you

507
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:20.119
fans so high companitiason obviously the number
one ranking, but I've I've alluded to

508
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:23.359
it, and I'm alluded to it
again. This team without Arteria Morris is

509
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:27.440
pretty drastically different than what it would
be with Arterio Morris. You look at

510
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:30.119
this roster, you look at them
play against Hestern Illinois the other night,

511
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:35.519
a very clear key peep piece missing, a clear score missing in the two

512
00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:37.880
guards spot, which we did see, you know, and people are like,

513
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:39.559
well, you know, there's no
guarantee that Artery Morris is gonna come

514
00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:43.759
in. He he He scored a
lot of points in those those two games

515
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:45.880
in Puerto Rico, so I think
that he was going to be a huge

516
00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:50.160
lift for this team offensively, and
obviously things shape out that way. You

517
00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.319
know, the guy can't keep his
hands off of women or you know,

518
00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:57.920
just in general be a good person. So that's disappointing. That's more disappointed

519
00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:00.000
than him not being able to play
basketball. I want to make that clear.

520
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:02.960
But you know that's a huge,
huge loss for this Kansas team.

521
00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:07.400
So that expectations after that, I
think still stayed pretty high. Team.

522
00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:10.320
I think k You fans in particular, weren't too concerned. But now you're

523
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:15.119
starting to see a few flaws and
that's they're gonna guys are gonna happen.

524
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:19.280
You know, you have a freshman
playing starting minutes in that spot. You

525
00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:22.280
know, Johnny Furfey barely played high
school basketball. Now he's played in college.

526
00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:24.760
And then you got these transfers come
in. And obviously we knew Hunter

527
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:30.000
Dickinson was gonna gell him immediately and
Kevin McClure is going to be a star,

528
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:32.440
but you know, still question marks
about other guys like Dwan Harris.

529
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:36.280
Can he make that leap like we
just talked about scoring. So a lot

530
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:38.480
of things answered for this Kansas team, but they've got a really really comfortable

531
00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:43.679
stretch after this Yukon game to really
get things rolling, get comfortable, and

532
00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:47.159
rack up some wins before they start
conference play. Yeah, I think that

533
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:51.719
you summed it up pretty nicely.
I think that Arteria Morris would have really

534
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:53.679
helped this team. They don't have
him. They're just fine without him,

535
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:58.239
but it's it's it's definitely puts pressure
on the other guys to be a little

536
00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:01.280
bit better. And overall, you
know, this is the sort of game

537
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:05.960
that it happens every now and then
you mentioned the tournaments. I think they

538
00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:09.559
won every tournament between twenty fourteen and
twenty twenty that they played in the little

539
00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:14.639
Thanksgiving feast weeks and now I don't
know if the Gonzaga loss was technically a

540
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:16.559
tournament in Fort Myers, it was
an event, but we're gonna count it

541
00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:21.719
because it makes the stats sound better. This is the fourth straight year that

542
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:25.199
they didn't win that tournament. Obviously
the Dayton loss, the Tennessee loss last

543
00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:28.800
year, and then Marquette this year, so four straight years that they did

544
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:31.159
not win their tournament. They schedule
brutal and they haven't made it through November

545
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:36.199
unscathed in a while. But overall, it's hard to be disappointed with six

546
00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:38.400
and one, considering they already have
two wins over top twenty teams on their

547
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:43.599
schedule, neither one of those games
being at home their neutral site top twenty

548
00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:46.360
wins, and they have an opportunity
to get the best win of their season

549
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:51.880
thus far with Yukon coming in here
in a couple of days. If they

550
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:53.360
win the Yukon game, I think
they get an a through this point in

551
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:57.360
the season. If they lose the
Yukon game, it'll be kind of disappointing

552
00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.360
to see him lose two out of
four of the big games. But until

553
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:04.400
then, this team is perfectly capable
of doing it, and until they don't,

554
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:07.119
until they are considerably coming up short
of expectations, I think that this

555
00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:15.159
team is going to be just fine
Big twelve games. Well, we do

556
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:21.119
have some Big twelve notes here,
as the majority of these conferences or these

557
00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:25.280
conference opponents, have already finished out
their November schedules. Iowa State they place

558
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:29.920
fourth in the ESPN Events Invitational,
or as Nick likes to call it,

559
00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:34.199
the Mickey Mouse Invitational, after blowing
a ten point halftime lead and losing to

560
00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:37.719
number twelve Texas A and M.
Unless they are able to beat Iowa at

561
00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:42.000
home next week, the Cyclone's best
win of non con is going to be

562
00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:47.000
a four point escape over a four
and three VCU team. I know a

563
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:53.559
team that is also in the Big
twelve that could use a win over VCU.

564
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:59.880
Damn it Bill. The winner of
the tournament, as if anyone cares,

565
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:06.000
was number nineteen Florida Atlantic, who
romped Virginia Tech by thirty four in

566
00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:09.239
the title game. Iowa State's gonna
be like ten and two entering non con

567
00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:13.159
play, and everyone are entering conference
play and everyone's gonna be like, Wow,

568
00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:15.559
it's a sexy record. Don't don't, don't fall for it. We

569
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:22.280
all see what's going on under that
under that mask. Yep. And then

570
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:28.480
Kansas State needed overtime to avoid getting
Oral Roberts. They beat a two and

571
00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:32.519
four Oral Roberts team eighty eight to
seventy eight at Brandwage. Cincinnati six and

572
00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:37.760
zero also needed overtime to beat a
five lost Kamala Harris team in Washington,

573
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.639
d C. Yeah, you think
that Kamala Harris went in the locker room

574
00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:45.280
after they almost beat Cincinnati and told
him that they played so good. Probably

575
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:51.840
she's not. She's doing everything but
be vice president. Oh oh wow.

576
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:55.079
I mean, I don't know if
are there any is there? Yeah?

577
00:37:55.159 --> 00:38:00.280
Is there anyone that's that would defend
Kamala Harris in the first place. She's

578
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:06.159
the Parker Brown of politicians. Oh, that seems kind of harsh. That's

579
00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:08.360
a real that's a that's a title
that I don't know if I could use,

580
00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:12.239
even though, yes, as you
said, I couldnot name a single

581
00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.639
thing Harris. She's She's Okay,
I'm not I'm not saying that Parker's anything

582
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:20.119
as terrible as she is, but
just basically on like an output an output

583
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:23.440
perspective. Like Similarly, yeah,
there's not a whole lot of news surrounding

584
00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:28.760
Parker Brown's been Parker Brown has probably
had better productivity as vice president than she

585
00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:31.519
has, but let's let's get past
the politics. Sorry for that. Speaking

586
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:36.199
of politics, there's six Big twelve
teams that are main undefeated Baylor, Oklahoma,

587
00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:38.480
by U, Cincinnati, Houston,
and TCU. On the contrary,

588
00:38:38.519 --> 00:38:43.679
West Virginia and Oklahoma State both already
have three losses. Mike Boytan is going

589
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:46.400
to be done after this year.
He is very likely that West Virginia and

590
00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:51.159
Oklahoma State are both looking for coaches. West Virginia obviously has an interim coach

591
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:54.119
right now. Oklahoma State Boyton's got
to be on his way out. One

592
00:38:54.159 --> 00:39:00.639
tournament appearance, uh, and it
was the Mickey Mouse COVID Tournament where Cunningham

593
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:02.199
was the favorite in the region.
They couldn't get past the sweet sixteen.

594
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:07.079
Yeah, that Mike pointon about time
for him to go. The Big twelve

595
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:09.519
teams that are undefeated shore are interesting
because I still kind of think Oklahoma sucks

596
00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:14.440
and BYU was picked to finish second
last in this conference. And they are

597
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:16.599
in the top twenty right now.
So the league, you know, we

598
00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:21.320
say every year, is this the
year the Big twelve takes a step back?

599
00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:23.400
We always say yes, and then
the Big twelve is always really good.

600
00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:29.840
Ten top forty teams on Ken Palm
right now can't help but think that

601
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:34.239
maybe they won't just be really really
good. Once again, let's look at

602
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:39.719
TCU's wins. Speaking of things that
are not very good, Jamie Dixon scheduling

603
00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:45.880
like Bill self, but the opposite. TCU has beaten en route to starting

604
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:53.039
six to zero Southern Omaha, ut
Rio, Grande Valley, Mississippi Valley State,

605
00:39:53.880 --> 00:40:01.159
alcorn State, and Houston Christian College. Jamie Dixon's oprah win with the

606
00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:08.519
payouts to the y HBCUs, you
get a bye game, and you get

607
00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:12.920
a bye game. And this is
all of us shocked that TCU has managed

608
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:16.039
to win all those games. My
goodness, no one really knows how good

609
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:21.079
they are, because how could you
with that schedule? But I do know

610
00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:24.880
that Ernest U Day Junior has started
six games for the horn Frogs and is

611
00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:30.320
averaging three points and five rebounds.
Like he has not been very good,

612
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:36.599
supposing he says a foully a ton. Gosh, darn, that guy averages

613
00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:42.000
almost three foul fifteen minutes of action
a game like just he's been pretty raw

614
00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:45.679
and we'll see. Uh, he's
gonna have to guard Hunter Dickinson when the

615
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:49.239
horn Frogs come to Allen Fieldhouse for
a conference opener here in a few weeks.

616
00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:52.480
So not sure that's gonna go too
good for old Ernest h Who are

617
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:55.480
your top five teams in the Big
twelve? Right now? You've watched the

618
00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:58.960
months worth of action? How would
you rank the top five teams? And

619
00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:01.239
yeah, I think it's still pretty
clear the top four. Who the top

620
00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:07.920
four? It's obviously Kansas, Houston, Baylor and sorry Baylor. And why

621
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:14.320
am I blanking on the other good
team Texas? Texas is up there.

622
00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:20.440
I probably leave Texas at five,
and then wow, good Radio completely forgot

623
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:22.719
the other team I was gonna put
up there. I mean, it's Kansas

624
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:28.400
at one, it's Baylor at two. I think I know Houston's ranked higher.

625
00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:32.719
I know that people like I know
people have thoughts about the Cougars.

626
00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:37.199
I want to see him do it
against quality opponents first, so I'll put

627
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:43.840
them at three, and then Texas
is there Originally I thought that somebody like

628
00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:47.320
like Kansas State could be there,
or I mean, I think the fifth

629
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:52.400
best team in the league right now
is probably is probably based on their resume.

630
00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:57.159
Yeah, I still think I would
put TCU as my fifth best team

631
00:41:57.159 --> 00:41:59.840
in the Big Twelve. They are
still like, we don't know how good

632
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:02.559
because they haven't played anybody. But
I think they have one of the five

633
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:07.159
best rosters in this conference. I
don't know, we'll we'll, we'll see

634
00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:10.320
if we get that far, but
for now I would go one Kansas,

635
00:42:10.519 --> 00:42:16.639
two, Baylor, three or three
Houston, four Texas and five TCU.

636
00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:22.840
We will see if we get to
that point. Other games, there was

637
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:28.239
an acc SEC Challenge going on this
week, which made ESPN all sorts of

638
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:32.239
Tingley inside, and it produced some
pretty impressive results. One of the impressive

639
00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:38.039
results, though nick, did not
result in a particularly entertaining game. Yeah,

640
00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:42.719
Number twelve Kentucky was college basketball's most
impressive. This team. Remember when

641
00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:45.039
we were talking about how good this
team could be. They hung ninety five

642
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:49.360
at number eight Miami and the acc
SEC Challenge. Fun fact, I didn't

643
00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:52.800
realize Miami was a private school until
a couple weeks ago. Reeed Shepard scored

644
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:55.599
twenty one points and is now shooting
sixty three percent from three this year.

645
00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:59.480
The Wildcats of six and one,
with their only loss being the Big Gag

646
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:02.599
against the Ahawks KU has a really
mark he win on their resume already.

647
00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:07.960
I still can't believe that the voters
haven't moved Kentucky up to the top ten.

648
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:12.159
Maybe they'll get there now after what
they did against Miami, but there's

649
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.199
no way that they should be ranked
behind like Houston right now? Are you

650
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:21.199
joking? How is Houston ranked a
head of Kentucky. My eyeballs have watched

651
00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:23.599
both teams play, and my eyeballs
tell me Kentucky is one of the ten

652
00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:28.760
best teams in college basketball. Come
on, get it right. Great win

653
00:43:28.840 --> 00:43:32.519
for them. Then there was also
this explosion of points in one of the

654
00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:37.760
best offensive showings of the season.
Number seventeen North Carolina hung one hundred on

655
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:43.079
Number ten Tennessee's good defense, riding
a monstrous first half. I think they

656
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:46.559
scored sixty one in the first half
and holding off a furious comeback by Dalton

657
00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:52.239
next en route to a one hundred
to ninety two win. The tari Hills

658
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:54.159
got twenty seven from R. J. Davis, still in college, and

659
00:43:54.239 --> 00:44:00.679
twenty two from Armando Baycott, still
in college. Dalton next had forty seven

660
00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:04.639
on thirteen of seventeen for Tennessee and
then rolled his ankle late, too little,

661
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:07.840
too late. This game was honestly
very similar to Kansas West Virginia in

662
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:12.000
the Wiggans year, where West Virginia
got off to a huge lead and had

663
00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:15.159
all the offense and then one player
almost willed them back single handedly. That's

664
00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:17.920
kind of what happened in this game. But I don't know if Dalton Neck

665
00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:21.679
will go number one in the draft
like Andrew Wiggins did. But a good

666
00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:27.079
bounce back win for the tar Heels. Yeah, and another team with a

667
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:30.719
surprise win, Tony Bennet's Virginia Cavaliers
made number fourteen Texas same one one hundred

668
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:34.920
tonight. No, they beat him
by twelve, but they didn't even get

669
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:38.039
to sixty points to go figure,
the final score is fifty nine to forty

670
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:42.440
seven. Should we just skip ahead
and band Tony Bennet from college basketball at

671
00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:46.280
this point? Seriously, he is
the worst person alive. I don't I

672
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:51.559
know that that's not fair. He's
obviously not the worst person alive. But

673
00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:55.559
I cannot believe that this man is
allowed to coach and is allowed to wear

674
00:44:55.599 --> 00:45:00.840
a national championship ring for what he
has done to this beautiful sport. Because

675
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:06.880
fifty nine to forty seven is a
Big twelve football game, not a basketball

676
00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:12.119
game. Give me a break.
Excruciating to watch. We'll talk about Duke

677
00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:15.199
Arkansas here and a second because of
that game is about to end, so

678
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:17.079
we'll go ahead and talk about K's
next opponent, Number four, Yukon.

679
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:22.400
They beat New Hampshire by twenty despite
only shooting like four for twenty eight on

680
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:25.880
threes or something gross like that.
So Yukon has now won an all time

681
00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:31.800
Division one men's basketball record twenty four
straight non conference games by double digits.

682
00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:36.400
Obviously, if they get to twenty
five, it probably would be their most

683
00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:39.320
impressive of any of them, because
that game will take place at Allen Fieldhouse.

684
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:44.000
Just crazy how they are rolling there
seven to zero. Included in that

685
00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:46.760
streak, by the way, is
all six of their NCAA Tournament wins from

686
00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:52.280
a season. Agouh. Yukon is
not just a really good team coming in

687
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:55.239
here, but they have all the
wheels churning. They are a force at

688
00:45:55.239 --> 00:46:02.719
this point Yeah, and number eighteen
Villa Nova, fresh off the Battle for

689
00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:07.920
Atlanta's tournament win, lost another game
to a local Philadelphia school, this time

690
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:10.079
seventy eight to sixty five to Saint
Joseph's. How did this team win the

691
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:15.880
Battle for Atlantis? Great question.
They're really good in that tournament for no

692
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:19.480
inexplicable reason. I don't really understand
it, but they're just really good in

693
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:22.639
that tournament. But yeah, they
have a loss to Penn, they have

694
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:27.400
a loss to Saint Joe's, and
then they have some really nice wins in

695
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:30.679
between there. But they're going to
be a very hot and cold team.

696
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:34.800
They're gonna be like a sixth seed
and I don't know. They feel like

697
00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:37.159
a team that could be sneaky sneaky
good in the tournament. They usually are,

698
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:44.079
and with their inconsistencies that can be
anywhere and anywhere. The only thing

699
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:47.559
that they're not is consistent. Louisville, they're four and three. That's as

700
00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:51.519
many wins they had all last year. Good job, Louisville. They beat

701
00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:54.719
Bellermine, who's actually pretty good,
which means that I think our time making

702
00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:59.960
fun of Louisville is over because we
now get to talk about who is actually

703
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:04.960
the worst Power five team, which
is California, who has now lost four

704
00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:08.840
in a row to Montana State.
You know what this would be better with

705
00:47:08.920 --> 00:47:15.599
drops they've lost to Montana State.
U tip ak. You almost did two

706
00:47:17.239 --> 00:47:23.960
yep, Tulane and San Diego State. I won't scream at him for that

707
00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:27.679
one. San Diego State at least
you've heard of, but you get one

708
00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:32.280
more for losing to Montana State.
You tip in Tulane. That is very

709
00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:37.239
difficult to do California. There's no
reason why cal should be this bad.

710
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:40.760
No, they have, They have
access to just a gold mine of recruits

711
00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:45.480
out there. UCLA is good,
USC is good, Stanford's had quality teams.

712
00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:52.840
Why is cal this bad? No
idea. They are total and complete.

713
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:55.360
Another team that's total, incomplete poop
is Louisville. But they won,

714
00:47:55.679 --> 00:48:00.599
They'd be in a former D two
team. They're four and three power five

715
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:02.199
team. Like you said, but
I wanted to You already said that,

716
00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:07.599
but I wanted to repeat that Louisville
won a game against beller Mine. They

717
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:10.199
did. Yes, Louisville has.
Louisville's doing a little better. Like and

718
00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:15.880
Kenny Payon said some quote about how
they had a player that almost didn't suit

719
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:19.760
up because he didn't have the tights
or the leggings that he wanted to wear.

720
00:48:20.079 --> 00:48:22.440
And nobody knows if he was serious
or not, or if the Louisville

721
00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:28.119
program is in such desiree that somebody
almost didn't suit up because they didn't have

722
00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:30.920
their their apparel that they wanted.
But no one knows, because Louisville,

723
00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:35.039
right, and now we do have
we do have a result in the duke

724
00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:38.880
game. Arkansas takes down number seven
Duke in Fayetteville. Uh, they are

725
00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:43.800
winning by multiple possessions with five seconds
left, so we are we are gonna

726
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:45.320
go ahead and put that one in
their column. The Blue Devils, who

727
00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:51.079
Jeff Goodman wearing his clown mister Rogers
makeup said was better than Kansas, and

728
00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:53.519
really this is a this is a
bad day for that take because Kansas didn't

729
00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:59.920
exactly look very good yesterday, but
still Kansas not worse than Duke. Blue

730
00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:05.000
Devils now have played two quality opponents? Are they played three quality opponents?

731
00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:07.199
The other one Bee Michigan State,
who they beat and then obviously losing to

732
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:13.599
Arizona at home and now to Arkansas
in Fayetteville final score of that one eighty

733
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:15.960
to seventy five. As here they
come, They're gonna storm the floor.

734
00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:21.320
Eric Musselman's still acting like a well, he looks like a pompus. He

735
00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:23.599
looks like a pompous douchebag. But
clown works too. That's that. And

736
00:49:23.639 --> 00:49:29.559
that they they have like four security
guards getting John Shier off the court.

737
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:31.880
That's so cute. I wonder if
Duke fans at this point just wish he

738
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:36.000
gets trampled so they could go ahead
and throw a big check at somebody else.

739
00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:43.079
The ranks team to lose in the
last since last show h starting off

740
00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:46.840
with the private school. Number eight
Miami lost Kentucky and actually the highest ranked

741
00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:51.599
team to lose since the last show
just lost. Number seven Duke. Yeah,

742
00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:57.480
they lose in Fayetteville to the Razorbacks
joined that club, and number ten

743
00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:01.519
Tennessee lost to North Carolina. Big
name schools here this week. Number fourteen

744
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:05.800
Texas A and M lost again,
this time to Virginia. Should count six

745
00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:09.000
losses. Number eighteen to Villanova lost
to Saint Joseph, which would count as

746
00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:15.280
a twenty losses. Number twenty one
Mississippi State, who you didn't know was

747
00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:16.840
in the top twenty five, and
by you, I mean anyone listening,

748
00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:22.280
because nobody did. They lost to
Georgia Tech. First ranked win for them,

749
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:25.000
I'm guessing in a long time.
And number twenty three Alabama lost the

750
00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:29.639
Clemson, which has never happened in
the college football playoff. That's right,

751
00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:32.760
Yep. Lots of teams there.
So Duke Duke cost you a pick him

752
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:37.440
point, Nick, But you are
still I believe you're now six games in

753
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:40.559
front of Landon because you had another
week where you extended your lead a little

754
00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:45.039
bit. Landon has never won pick
them. I mean you gained a game

755
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:46.000
on him, didn't you, and
you were five in front of him.

756
00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:50.280
I haven't updated those final standings down
here. I just said, oh,

757
00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:52.239
it's been updated. Yes, you
know we now have forty games picked.

758
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:55.719
Yes, you have a five game
lead on Landon and we just ended November.

759
00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:00.320
So that's that feels That feels about
right, because we know how Landon

760
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:05.719
does in these in these competitions.
All right, ask Rock Chok blog if

761
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:07.440
you ever have questions that you want
us to answer. On the day we

762
00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:10.760
record each show, I always send
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763
00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:15.000
on x now and you can reply
to it and we will tweet the bots

764
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:20.280
reply with ask questions too. Yeah
they do, I do not have.

765
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:23.480
I do not Oh yeah I do
have U I do have an ask RCB.

766
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:28.320
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767
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Mouth who says yes hot skiply Mouth, who says there's a great change of

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recovery. In my honest opinion,
I'll suggest reach out to at depth a

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Depta da. She was that recovery. Nicholas Timber like playing good perfectly useless.

775
00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:06.639
I might click that link. I'm
not clicking the link to recover my

776
00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:10.199
lost top notch service, even though
this account can attest for his good job

777
00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:15.800
to humanity. Elon, I hate
you. I hate this product. I

778
00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:19.920
can't believe I have to use it. So I thought we have twelve ask

779
00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:22.679
garcbs Nick, and because of the
bots, we only have ten. Awesome.

780
00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:25.199
That should make you happy. But
yes, if you ever have a

781
00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:29.280
question, you're sitting there listening,
going, oh, these questions are complete

782
00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:31.679
garbage. Mine's way better than theirs. Sure, get on and ask us

783
00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:36.440
and we'll probably answer it. I
don't think that there's much of anything we

784
00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:38.639
won't answer. Let's start with this
one at Ryan underscore landrath Nick, give

785
00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:43.079
me in a little bit of an
update on your car chronicles. You gotta

786
00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:46.800
update the masses on how your last
few weeks have been. I wouldn't.

787
00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:52.400
I'd say my last few weeks have
probably been one for the books. I

788
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:55.800
would say so. Yeah. I
decided about at the beginning of November that

789
00:52:55.840 --> 00:53:00.320
I was gonna I saved up a
bunch of cash and was gonna pay pay

790
00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:04.119
for a new car and get rid
of my old one. And I found

791
00:53:04.119 --> 00:53:07.360
a nice deal in a car in
Little Rock, Arkansas. And unlike the

792
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:12.360
Razorbacks to Night, this was not
a win. Had it driven up,

793
00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:15.760
had an uncle live there, had
it driven up a couple weekends. A

794
00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:17.440
couple of weekends ago, he was
actually coming up for a wedding in Casey,

795
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:21.280
so it was convenient. Got my
car. The next day, I'm

796
00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:25.599
driving up to my sister's apartment and
I start to smell oil, and I

797
00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:30.559
got out of the car and I
look under and obviously it's dripping on the

798
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:32.199
pavement. My dad was standing out
front and he's like, it does smell

799
00:53:32.199 --> 00:53:36.679
like oil. So we got the
dipstick out and there was like no oil

800
00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:39.159
left in the car because it had
leaked all the way on my way from

801
00:53:39.159 --> 00:53:44.599
my apartment to the my sister's apartment. And if you look to this day,

802
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:50.599
there was a gigantic trail of oil
in my apartment complex driveway that marks

803
00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:53.480
my tracks as I drove that car
to my sister's apartment. Anyways, long

804
00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:57.079
story short, took it in to
get a service to see what was going

805
00:53:57.119 --> 00:54:00.920
on, why it was leaking oil. The smart mechanic the dealership in Little

806
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:04.280
Rock didn't screw the oil flilter on
all the way, but in the process

807
00:54:04.320 --> 00:54:07.760
discovered that the car had been in
an accident report before that and it was

808
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:09.840
not reported and there was a lot
of damage. So the dealership did not

809
00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:15.599
tell us about that. Called the
dealership marched down there. You didn't buy

810
00:54:15.639 --> 00:54:21.519
this on Craigslist like this a dealer, a dealer with seventeen dealerships. You

811
00:54:21.519 --> 00:54:23.760
think they haven't figured out by now. But we marched it back down.

812
00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:28.199
I got my check, my money
back, and then the same weekend that

813
00:54:28.360 --> 00:54:31.679
Saturday, I went to a dealership
in Casemo and found the same car,

814
00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:35.440
same year, twenty twenty three,
niece On Ultima, with a few more

815
00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:37.639
miles of black, which I actually
liked the black color better. Now since

816
00:54:37.679 --> 00:54:42.840
I've gotten it, found that car
and thank goodness, knock on wood,

817
00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:46.239
there's nothing wrong with it and it's
been driving good. So got it for

818
00:54:46.280 --> 00:54:51.920
the same price as well. So
worked out, but very your your week

819
00:54:51.960 --> 00:55:00.639
had been there, but it was
kind of like Kansas and East in Illinois,

820
00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:02.519
like it was really rough. But
now now that it's over, you're

821
00:55:02.519 --> 00:55:05.519
like, whoo, I got what
I wanted out of it, which is

822
00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:07.039
a do We'll see how the Yukon
game go. That seems like getting a

823
00:55:07.039 --> 00:55:10.519
flat tire or something. Getting yeah, head on delition with a Semi.

824
00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:21.679
I love the car crash downs on
the board here. That was me after

825
00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:25.360
I left the escape room three years
ago. Oh I always forget that.

826
00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:29.840
Yeah, Nick, and I did
an escape room together, and you got

827
00:55:29.880 --> 00:55:34.280
you hit somebody on your way home. Yeah, dude slamming on his brakes

828
00:55:34.280 --> 00:55:38.480
at the ninety fifth and ninety fifth
Street exit on I thirty or sixty nine,

829
00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:43.679
Great Night Day, Great sixty nine
Highway is the worst highway ever.

830
00:55:43.719 --> 00:55:46.960
I don't know the construction. It's
the construction. It's pretty bad. It's

831
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:50.880
pretty bad. Yeah, you live
right off of it, don't you,

832
00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:52.920
so you get a deal with all
of it. I do some Uber and

833
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:58.760
door dash deliveries while my wife works
overnight sometimes, and I will avoid anything.

834
00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:00.119
I don't care what the payout is. If I have to drive several

835
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:04.960
miles north or south on that highway. It is pitch black. There's construction

836
00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:09.239
workers everywhere. It goes from merge
lanes the single lanes like you have Jonathan

837
00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:15.760
County drivers and their soccer moms and
their Mercedes and Accuras, and they don't

838
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:20.679
care. Two speeds at eighty five
or twenty five and no one between.

839
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:23.760
It's it's painful. Yeah, it's
quite bad. Speaking of bad at k

840
00:56:23.960 --> 00:56:27.719
tweets, the news thinks that the
rebounding is bad, says, why doesn't

841
00:56:27.719 --> 00:56:30.840
this team rebound? Kansas is seventh
and average height, and they're two sixty

842
00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:36.519
sixth and offensive rebound percentage and one
hundred and second and defensive rebound percentage.

843
00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:39.719
I have an answer to this,
I'm curious what you think's I really don't

844
00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:43.480
have an answer for this, to
be honest, I mean, Hunter Dickinson's

845
00:56:43.519 --> 00:56:45.519
doing his part, but you know, you'd think that KG Adams would be

846
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:50.840
a little bit more effective rebounding.
I don't know what you think. I

847
00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:53.679
think part of the reason that they're
not as good in the offensive rebounding metrics

848
00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:57.880
is because they make more of their
first shots than most teams do. I

849
00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:01.519
know percentage is just the percentage of
their misses, but I mean, Dickinson

850
00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:05.920
is the only rebounder on this team. Like Bill self pointed this out,

851
00:57:05.960 --> 00:57:09.280
Bill self said, we need the
We need Dickinson, kJ and Kevin to

852
00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:14.119
get the rebounds. And Digginson's doing
it. McCuller did and the double double

853
00:57:14.159 --> 00:57:16.119
games, but he's not going to
be a guy that you can consistently count

854
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:20.000
on to get you seven or eight
boards game. As great as that be,

855
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:22.280
Dickinson is like having two rebounders at
once. I mean, there are

856
00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:27.000
plenty of teams out there that they're
two leading rebounders average eight and six and

857
00:57:27.119 --> 00:57:30.960
like eight rebounds and the second leader
is six rebounds. Well that's basically together

858
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:34.800
what Hunter averages. But yeah,
they're just they're not a very good rebounding

859
00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:37.159
team. I suspect that will get
better as they get their positioning ready because

860
00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:42.760
guys like al Marco Jackson and UH
and Kevin McCuller have to be better rebound

861
00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:45.840
in the ball for this team to
take off at kve tweets and news call

862
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:49.599
your shot? What household item will
you break when kay you inevitably doesn't give

863
00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:53.360
it to Dickinson and consecutive possessions in
a close conference game? Oh boy,

864
00:57:53.719 --> 00:57:59.599
thinking of things, Yes, Landon
will rip his shirt off, which I

865
00:57:59.599 --> 00:58:04.440
don't believe he's done since the Jalen
Wilson fumble in Texas. Yeah. I

866
00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:07.800
don't break a lot of stuff,
but I'm absolutely hitting a table or hitting

867
00:58:07.880 --> 00:58:13.599
the floor when Hunter is wide open
and instead El Marco's like, but what

868
00:58:13.639 --> 00:58:16.840
if I shot this three from the
logo? Because that's happening at some point

869
00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:22.119
at kam liple Golf. You know, whenever Cam asked a question, it's

870
00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:25.039
about to get good rank these meats, turkey, ham, prime rib.

871
00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:35.000
I've never had prime rib before,
so wow, it's good. It's probably

872
00:58:35.039 --> 00:58:37.440
closest to ham of any of the
major meats. I think it goes ham

873
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:42.719
turkey prime rib. Honestly, I'll
say that as well. I think ham,

874
00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:46.760
like a good honey Ham on Christmas
is hard to beat. Turkey is

875
00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:51.280
good if it's the dark meat.
The white meat is isn't very good.

876
00:58:51.320 --> 00:58:53.880
It's like Parker Brown. Oh all
right, Well, I don't know if

877
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:57.679
it's that bad, because that might
just be dog crap out of a trash

878
00:58:57.719 --> 00:59:01.519
can. But it's it's white meat
with cranberry sauce on it, then oh

879
00:59:01.519 --> 00:59:06.519
that's a good call. It's literally
white meat. Yeah. And I think

880
00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:09.000
that a running shit on the show
has now turned into excessively dumping on Parker

881
00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:12.559
Brown. But and I'm not needing
to do that too. I'm sure he's

882
00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:14.639
a great guy, but I mean, we've got to have some sort of

883
00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:16.760
punching bag on this show, right
Yeah, I'm here for it, Like

884
00:59:16.800 --> 00:59:21.039
we don't have Tian Grant Foster to
make fun of anymore. And he's one

885
00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:23.039
of the better players in his conference
right now. He's playing great. Yeah,

886
00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:30.079
at co p fraud. Why would
opponents play any defense outside of Kansas

887
00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:34.920
out against Kansas outside of fifteen feet
they have zero guys that can make a

888
00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:37.079
jumper, and a two three zone
where everyone is inside the free throw line

889
00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:40.280
would give them fits. I was
thinking about this and I'm surprised more teams

890
00:59:40.320 --> 00:59:45.000
don't zone Kansas, especially with Hunter
Dickinson being kind of because to beat threes

891
00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:49.199
you have to hit to beat man, I'm having a hard time with words

892
00:59:49.239 --> 00:59:51.880
today. In order to beat a
zone, you have to hit shots.

893
00:59:51.920 --> 00:59:53.519
You have to hit threes. This
team just doesn't have a lot of guys

894
00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:57.800
that can do it. But I
do kind of suspect if you saw them

895
00:59:57.960 --> 01:00:01.199
zone, I think Kansas would slow
the game down so much where their defense

896
01:00:01.239 --> 01:00:05.119
would be able to keep them in
it. Kansas is also pretty good at

897
01:00:05.119 --> 01:00:07.480
getting to the free throw line,
so I think they would try to attack

898
01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:12.079
that way. But whenever you turn
the ball over a lot you don't shoot

899
01:00:12.079 --> 01:00:15.920
the ball well from three, eventually
somebody's gonna zone you for sure. At

900
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:20.639
dick underscore taser, did you guys
see what Reed Shephard is doing over on

901
01:00:20.719 --> 01:00:24.360
those Kentucky Hills. Guy is playing
like an elite. Kentucky might end up

902
01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:28.519
being on top of the class when
it is all said and done. Maybe

903
01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:31.400
in spite of Cal Yeah, I've
heard that one before. I've seen plenty

904
01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:37.480
of talentsed Kentucky November teams. Then
Caliperry does something weird. They lose to

905
01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:42.880
a seven seed in the second round. Yep, he's good, though,

906
01:00:43.039 --> 01:00:45.199
I'd love to have him on this
Kansas team. My gosh, all right,

907
01:00:45.239 --> 01:00:51.880
here's one Aboutnwan Harris at Kate Eden
fourteen has the Wan Harris regressed.

908
01:00:52.119 --> 01:00:54.639
Seems to be a little less athletic
and slower than every opposing point guard Kansas

909
01:00:54.679 --> 01:00:59.440
has played. Even the Booger kid
on Eastern Illinois looked a little more athletic,

910
01:00:59.719 --> 01:01:02.599
thought Harris. I don't know if
he's I don't think he's regretsed.

911
01:01:02.599 --> 01:01:07.360
I don't know if there's been much
of a visible improvement this year. He's

912
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:09.920
off to a slow start. The
exception of Kentucky, and we said that

913
01:01:09.960 --> 01:01:14.440
against Marquette, we said he looked
like he was outgunned a little bit.

914
01:01:14.519 --> 01:01:20.039
He was outstrengthed or whatever you want
to use as a word there. I

915
01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:23.360
think that that's probably going to be
the way it is, but more often

916
01:01:23.440 --> 01:01:29.119
than not, he's his intangibles are
good enough to help fight you back.

917
01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:31.519
Now, at some point, you're
gonna want to see tangibles, not just

918
01:01:31.679 --> 01:01:36.840
intangibles. I'm with you. I'd
like to see him too, but at

919
01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:39.719
least for now, he's plenty smart
enough to win you a lot of games,

920
01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:45.119
and whenever he scores ten points,
they win every single time. Four

921
01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:47.480
more here at aj Stevenson. How
much would you love a reality TV show

922
01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:54.119
of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey?
I literally don't care. So here's a

923
01:01:54.159 --> 01:01:58.079
thing. I love Taylor Swift being
a big Chiefs fan. I think that's

924
01:01:58.119 --> 01:02:00.599
awesome because you know, everybody's tired
of the Chief and everybody's tired of Taylor

925
01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:05.360
Swift, so you combine those two
things and everybody's just like like all those

926
01:02:05.400 --> 01:02:07.280
years we had to watch the Patriots
win, and then I had to watch

927
01:02:07.280 --> 01:02:10.440
Peyton Manning be in every commercial and
I hated it because he won all the

928
01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:15.320
time. The Chiefs are in those
glory days right now and everybody else is

929
01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:19.159
sick of them, and that's awesome. But are you a little Travis kelseed

930
01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:23.679
out based on these commercials? It's
every single ad break it's my homes or

931
01:02:23.800 --> 01:02:29.199
Kelsey. Yeah, I don't.
I just I don't watch a ton of

932
01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:31.199
TV, so I don't really see
those that much. But I mean the

933
01:02:31.199 --> 01:02:37.000
whole Kelsey Swift thing. I I
my hot take and this is you know,

934
01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:38.519
people have joy and find joy in
different things. But it's like,

935
01:02:39.159 --> 01:02:44.079
do you guys not have something more
like important to do with your life or

936
01:02:44.159 --> 01:02:47.320
just like go out and going outside
for a walk. You really wrapped up

937
01:02:47.360 --> 01:02:51.800
in the life of two celebrities that
don't give a rats but your name,

938
01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:54.840
you know, you know, it's
just it's it's really weird. But that's

939
01:02:54.880 --> 01:03:00.239
always existed. Celebrity cult followings have
always existed base of mental health issues.

940
01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:05.320
Probably I don't know, but it's
weird. Wow, that's uh, that's

941
01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:07.519
rough, Nick, because you know
what you are. You know what you

942
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:15.519
are. With a take like that, You're that's you. You're a big

943
01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:20.159
fat anti hero. With a take
like that, I'm sure all the That

944
01:03:20.199 --> 01:03:23.480
doesn't help my odds with women because
they all like the Swift Yeah exactly.

945
01:03:23.639 --> 01:03:27.960
I mean, if you're gonna you
know, if you're gonna talk trash on

946
01:03:28.039 --> 01:03:31.719
Taylor Swift. The percentage of women
in your dating pool that are compatible.

947
01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:37.760
That just took a nose dive.
Uh. And but it's brilliant marketing.

948
01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:43.920
Like since that it sorry, go
for it. Everybody's talking about being tired

949
01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:46.199
of Taylor Swift. Have you seen
the NFL's numbers with women since Taylor Swift

950
01:03:46.239 --> 01:03:51.119
started watching Chiefs games? Like?
They love it, they love everything about

951
01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:53.960
it. I'm just saying her music's
been mid since she was a country artist.

952
01:03:55.559 --> 01:04:00.519
O. That's she was a country
artist at her best. I do

953
01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:03.360
agree with that. And now she
now, Olivia Rodrigo might be putting out

954
01:04:03.400 --> 01:04:09.599
better music than her, and that's
a little that's a little strong. Olivia

955
01:04:09.760 --> 01:04:14.159
Rodrigo had an amazing song in the
Hunger Games film that just came out.

956
01:04:14.719 --> 01:04:18.000
But but boy, unless she's edited
oblivion, I'm back. That just isn't

957
01:04:18.199 --> 01:04:24.800
And it's two guys doing basketball podcast
railing on millionaire pop star. I know,

958
01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:30.119
But yeah, I would listen to
Taylor Swift singing Underwater before I listened

959
01:04:30.119 --> 01:04:36.199
to Olivia Rodrigo. You stopped that
need Landon's take on this Landon. If

960
01:04:36.239 --> 01:04:40.079
you're listening, let me know over
text and I'll read on the next show.

961
01:04:40.079 --> 01:04:42.880
What would be like? Yeah,
I think I think both of them

962
01:04:42.920 --> 01:04:46.519
are cute. That's fair. I'm
landon. That's fair. That's fair.

963
01:04:46.719 --> 01:04:51.440
That's also fair. Next question at
Elliott rus in h I was going to

964
01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:54.599
ask about this team's depth. Sure, you guys covered it, Yeah,

965
01:04:54.599 --> 01:04:58.199
a little bit earlier there. So
he says his question is instead, will

966
01:04:58.199 --> 01:05:00.880
this team live up to the building
at the end of the season or will

967
01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:03.199
that be determined by their upcoming game
against Yukon. Oh so you're already,

968
01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:08.400
you're already. It's curtains for you. The Bill was national title that it's

969
01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:12.880
that that's not happening. They're in
the top five. You can't name five

970
01:05:12.920 --> 01:05:17.079
teams more likely to win it.
I didn't say that. I don't think

971
01:05:17.119 --> 01:05:20.000
they're I'm just saying I don't think
they're going to win it. Well,

972
01:05:20.039 --> 01:05:23.960
I don't know if anybody's gonna win
it, Like, I don't know who.

973
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:27.360
I don't know who we're talking about. That says I think they're gonna

974
01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:31.000
win it in November, like I
don't know. I think people maybe people

975
01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:35.760
act like the Bill self teams man
getting all choked up here and others Bill

976
01:05:35.800 --> 01:05:40.559
Self slander. Don't talk about Daddy
Bill that way. People act like the

977
01:05:40.599 --> 01:05:45.440
bill Self teams struggling a little bit
compared to expectations in November is unusual,

978
01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:48.440
and Missouri and Case State fans are
so tired of this because they're like,

979
01:05:48.480 --> 01:05:53.800
every year Kansas squeaks past a couple
of underwhelming teams in non conference play,

980
01:05:54.039 --> 01:05:57.320
the fans say this is the worst
softest bill Self team of all time,

981
01:05:57.519 --> 01:06:00.239
and then they wind up winning thirty
games and getting a one seed, like

982
01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:02.760
that's always what happens. I want
to see what happens against Yukon. If

983
01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:06.280
they get completely plastered against the Huskies, then maybe we have a little different

984
01:06:06.280 --> 01:06:09.920
conversation. But for now, I
have no reason to think that this team

985
01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:13.280
can't live up to the billing.
And yeah, the game against Yukon we'll

986
01:06:13.320 --> 01:06:15.599
talk about in a minute. At
Preston. Skursey has two more questions here.

987
01:06:16.119 --> 01:06:19.840
Who has been the most underwhelming defensively
this season? Coming in with Harris

988
01:06:19.880 --> 01:06:24.159
McCuller and kJ, I thought the
starters would be pretty dominant defensively, but

989
01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:27.320
at times it feels like they just
get slashed. Your thoughts on that,

990
01:06:29.719 --> 01:06:34.320
Yeah, I mean I think that's
probably right. I mean, Kansas really

991
01:06:34.360 --> 01:06:39.800
struggled defensively when they were turning the
ball over against Kentucky. Other than that,

992
01:06:39.960 --> 01:06:43.320
the defense has been fine. The
defense has given up fifty six,

993
01:06:43.519 --> 01:06:47.880
sixty one, fifty six, seventy
three, sixty and sixty three in the

994
01:06:47.920 --> 01:06:53.480
games that aren't against Kentucky. Defense
has been great. It's the offense that's

995
01:06:53.519 --> 01:06:57.559
been the bigger problem. Yeah,
they have gotten blown by a couple times,

996
01:06:57.559 --> 01:07:00.519
and they're not the most athletic teams, so you're gonna see that happened.

997
01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:03.559
But Harris has been fine defensively.
So is mccoller. kJ has been

998
01:07:03.599 --> 01:07:09.119
a little exposed. He's he's kind
of a rough four in certain matchups on

999
01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:12.559
the defensive end, just because he's
undersize compared to a lot of guys.

1000
01:07:12.599 --> 01:07:15.480
But I don't think the defense has
been underwhelming at all. I think that

1001
01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:18.679
they've been very good. It's the
offense, particularly of players not named Dickinson

1002
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:24.280
or McCuller, that's been very scratched
my head, because if this offense proves

1003
01:07:24.280 --> 01:07:27.239
to be good, then the defense. I mean, they're like the number

1004
01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:30.239
three defensive team according to Ken Palm. Right now, the defense has been

1005
01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:35.159
very good. Last question here from
at me without and you realistically, what

1006
01:07:35.159 --> 01:07:39.760
would it take for Dewan Harris to
shoot the ball. Good question, man,

1007
01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:43.000
I don't know, like we all
want to see it. We've been

1008
01:07:43.039 --> 01:07:45.960
wanting it forever. Yeah, I
mean, just just make it happen.

1009
01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:50.079
If Nick Timberlake played longer than eleven
minutes, would we have seen a better

1010
01:07:50.119 --> 01:07:54.480
performance, giving that he was actually
making some shots. Yeah, I don't

1011
01:07:54.559 --> 01:07:57.320
understand why Timberlake it wasn't worth a
look in the second half. I would

1012
01:07:57.320 --> 01:07:59.760
have liked that. Maybe the game
got a little too close for Bill's liking.

1013
01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:03.239
He played the guys he trusts.
That's my guess. Yep. I

1014
01:08:03.239 --> 01:08:06.000
want to see timber Lake play twenty
minutes in one of the upcoming games.

1015
01:08:06.079 --> 01:08:09.599
You're not gonna see it against Yukon, and if you do, it's because

1016
01:08:09.599 --> 01:08:12.639
something's either done really good or really
wrong. But I think you're gonna see

1017
01:08:12.679 --> 01:08:15.679
Timberlake play more minutes. And let's
face it, if he's still this,

1018
01:08:15.399 --> 01:08:19.000
if Timberlake is in this exact same
spot in January that he is in December

1019
01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:23.920
as we start, then we're gonna
be having some tougher conversations about this team

1020
01:08:23.960 --> 01:08:27.520
because they need Nick Timberlake. They
need Nick Timberlake to be eighty percent of

1021
01:08:27.520 --> 01:08:31.199
the shooter. He was a thousand. Yep. If you ever have asked

1022
01:08:31.359 --> 01:08:38.119
RCBS, use the Twitter hashtag ask
RCB and once I sort through the bots,

1023
01:08:38.199 --> 01:08:44.800
I'll find your question. Thanks toealing
Oh, Elon boy, what are

1024
01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:47.199
we ever gonna do with Elon?
Not like he cares he's making his dollars.

1025
01:08:47.640 --> 01:08:53.600
Speaking of dollars, what a big
money showdown we've got here, as

1026
01:08:53.720 --> 01:09:00.399
it is time for a sonic blockbuster
Number four Yukon at number on five Kansas.

1027
01:09:01.039 --> 01:09:04.640
We welcome the month of December,
the best month of the year because

1028
01:09:04.760 --> 01:09:09.800
guess what happens twenty four days after
this with a top five showdown at Allen

1029
01:09:09.840 --> 01:09:13.039
Field House. Game will tip at
eight o'clock at night, so it is

1030
01:09:13.079 --> 01:09:17.319
going to be a late night at
the Fog. Yeah, and they are

1031
01:09:17.359 --> 01:09:23.479
welcoming the defending national champion Yukon Huskies
the Big East. They enter at seven

1032
01:09:23.520 --> 01:09:27.720
to zero in the season. They
have five cupcake wins plus neutral site victories

1033
01:09:27.720 --> 01:09:30.479
against Indiana and number fifteen Texas.
All seven of their wins have been by

1034
01:09:30.560 --> 01:09:34.920
double digits. They've been rolling through
their schedule. Yep, no hiccups whatsoever.

1035
01:09:35.079 --> 01:09:39.239
They did beat Texas by just ten
to barely extend that streak. But

1036
01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:42.359
they dominated Texas from start to end, and it felt like they should have

1037
01:09:42.359 --> 01:09:45.880
won by more. Their leading scorer
is senior wing Cam Spencer, who right

1038
01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:49.159
out of the shoot against a really
good team we get a prime candidate for

1039
01:09:53.840 --> 01:09:59.239
But Spencer is a stud against just
about everybody, so really not really not

1040
01:09:59.359 --> 01:10:01.920
going to surprise anybody if he makes
threes. This is not a very good

1041
01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:05.960
three point shooting team, but he
is elite sixteen points per game, forty

1042
01:10:06.039 --> 01:10:10.760
eight percent shooting the ball from three. The point guard is Tristan Newton,

1043
01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:15.079
who is a role player. Last
year that's absolutely taken off sixteen points and

1044
01:10:15.119 --> 01:10:20.760
seven assists. He specializes slashing to
the basket. Stefan Castle is their top

1045
01:10:20.800 --> 01:10:25.840
recruit. He was a top ten
recruit. They have Solomon Ball, Hassan

1046
01:10:25.920 --> 01:10:30.640
Diara. These are guys who are
projected to be I mean these are most

1047
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:36.399
of these guys are freshmen and they
are all absolutely terrific, loaded with talent

1048
01:10:36.439 --> 01:10:41.520
from top to bottom. Here I
believe is Castle the guy who's been hurt

1049
01:10:41.560 --> 01:10:45.239
that that's getting ready to come back
or who Yeah, Castle is their elite

1050
01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:48.079
recruit. He played in the first
two games of the season. And then

1051
01:10:48.199 --> 01:10:53.479
got injured and is targeting. He
hasn't officially been cleared, but all signs

1052
01:10:53.479 --> 01:10:58.520
points to him playing tomorrow, which
would be yet another jolt in their arm

1053
01:10:59.079 --> 01:11:02.760
yep. The front court is anchored
by seven to two center Donovan Klean,

1054
01:11:02.920 --> 01:11:06.840
who averages fifteen and six plus two
blocks per game while shooting almost seventy percent

1055
01:11:06.880 --> 01:11:11.159
from the floor. He only plays
about nineteen minutes per night, which allows

1056
01:11:11.199 --> 01:11:14.960
them to slide the starting four Alex
Caraban over to play the five when he's

1057
01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:18.439
out. Carabine averages fifteen and six
as well, team's best free throw shooter

1058
01:11:18.479 --> 01:11:23.479
at eighty seven percent. So much
to love here, So much to love

1059
01:11:23.479 --> 01:11:26.760
here. They got everybody on the
floor can shoot the ball. They're they're

1060
01:11:26.880 --> 01:11:30.079
big guys or elite free throw shooters
like you want to talk about. They

1061
01:11:30.119 --> 01:11:33.279
just scored eighty eight on a Granted
it was allowsy team, it was New

1062
01:11:33.279 --> 01:11:39.359
Hampshire, whatever, but they did
it while only making four threes. This

1063
01:11:39.399 --> 01:11:42.319
is a team that can beat you
in so many different ways, and they're

1064
01:11:42.359 --> 01:11:45.920
one of the better teams that I've
seen in terms of scouting. Whenever I

1065
01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:48.279
get all their statistics up to put
together this little blurb there's not a lot

1066
01:11:48.279 --> 01:11:53.119
of weaknesses here. They are elite
on offense. They average eighty nine points

1067
01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:57.279
per game. They lead the nation
with a sixty six percent two point percentage.

1068
01:11:57.520 --> 01:12:00.600
They have one of the best post
defenses in the country, mainly because

1069
01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:04.159
they're so tall. They are leading
the nation at keeping opponents off the glass.

1070
01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:09.279
Defensive rebounds allowed they are first.
They are excellent passing the ball,

1071
01:12:09.560 --> 01:12:13.720
protecting the ball, blocking shots,
and making free throws. You're good at

1072
01:12:13.720 --> 01:12:15.800
all that stuff, You're gonna win
a lot of games. They lost a

1073
01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:17.920
lot from their national title team,
and yet here they are one of the

1074
01:12:17.920 --> 01:12:21.840
best three four teams once again.
They're also very well coach Dan Hurley looks

1075
01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:26.239
like he's on his way to being
an elite tier of coaches. The weaknesses,

1076
01:12:26.439 --> 01:12:30.119
which are far and few between,
include just a thirty one percent three

1077
01:12:30.119 --> 01:12:32.520
point shooting mark as a team,
though getting castleback would help that long term,

1078
01:12:32.520 --> 01:12:35.880
you'd think, and fouling a lot. This team has been in foul

1079
01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:39.279
trouble, and you know that it's
hard to get a good whistle at Allen

1080
01:12:39.319 --> 01:12:42.600
Field House, so maybe Kansas can
use that to their advantage. They played

1081
01:12:42.600 --> 01:12:45.800
a pretty week schedule and still are
committing sixteen seventeen fouls per game. Jayhawks

1082
01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:49.199
are going to need to make their
free throws to escape with a victory in

1083
01:12:49.279 --> 01:12:54.359
this one and all time. Kansas
is three to zero against the Huskies.

1084
01:12:54.600 --> 01:12:57.600
They've played twice in the nineties with
Roy Williams, and then they beat them

1085
01:12:57.640 --> 01:13:00.760
pretty good in the twenty sixteen NCAA
turn game. Jamari Trailer dunked a lot

1086
01:13:00.760 --> 01:13:05.840
of basketballs Uh, that's that's what
I got for analysis, Give me a

1087
01:13:05.880 --> 01:13:10.720
little bit of keys to win.
What what are you looking for? Kansas

1088
01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:14.920
wins the game of what happens kind
of analysis. I think Kansas wins this

1089
01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:17.680
game if they are able to reverse
the trend that happened in the Marquette game

1090
01:13:17.960 --> 01:13:23.880
and really play uh play there,
like control the game by playing their speed

1091
01:13:23.880 --> 01:13:27.239
of basketball, which is a little
bit slower than Connecticut. They really need

1092
01:13:27.479 --> 01:13:30.920
to avoid these fast break points,
and that's going to start by not turning

1093
01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:33.720
the ball over. This is a
Yukon Huskies team who can get down the

1094
01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:38.039
floor quickly. They have a lot
of, like you said, a very

1095
01:13:38.119 --> 01:13:41.840
high scoring offense. So if Kansas
can obviously defense is going to be a

1096
01:13:41.920 --> 01:13:45.720
huge part of this. But if
Kansas can limit the turnovers and give Yukon

1097
01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:49.439
fast break opportunities. I think that
that's going to have a huge help to

1098
01:13:49.479 --> 01:13:53.720
this team's ability to win the game. That was what burned them in Marquette.

1099
01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:56.159
Uh so, I think that's gonna
be a huge, you know,

1100
01:13:56.239 --> 01:13:59.319
key to the game obviously. And
uh see, I'm excited to see what

1101
01:13:59.359 --> 01:14:03.920
Hunter Dickinson can do against this Yukon
front court. I wouldn't be shocked if

1102
01:14:03.920 --> 01:14:06.279
he kind of takes a step back
in this game and some other guys need

1103
01:14:06.359 --> 01:14:10.800
to step forward. But yeah,
my keys, the game overall, limit

1104
01:14:10.840 --> 01:14:14.479
your turnovers, and this team just
needs to shoot the ball well against Yukon.

1105
01:14:14.760 --> 01:14:17.560
You're not gonna win the game if
by playing a slug fest like they

1106
01:14:17.600 --> 01:14:20.439
did against Tennessee the other night.
They've got to be able to shoot the

1107
01:14:20.439 --> 01:14:24.439
ball well. They need Nick Timberlake
to score a couple of points, a

1108
01:14:24.520 --> 01:14:27.319
couple threes, and uh yeah,
if they want to win, they're gonna

1109
01:14:27.319 --> 01:14:30.680
have to score the ball. I'm
gonna pick this game, though, saying

1110
01:14:30.800 --> 01:14:33.479
Yukon is gonna win this game.
I think the skis these these are two

1111
01:14:33.560 --> 01:14:36.560
teams heading in different trajectories right now, and It's hard to say that because

1112
01:14:36.640 --> 01:14:41.119
Ku, like we talked about earlier, a little fluky win. They still

1113
01:14:41.119 --> 01:14:45.520
win by eight against a poor Ohio
Valley team. But these are two teams

1114
01:14:45.520 --> 01:14:48.520
that are a little different place right
now. Kansas a little disoriented at least

1115
01:14:48.560 --> 01:14:53.079
trying to figure out the roster drop
down to five, and then Yukon,

1116
01:14:53.359 --> 01:14:57.439
a sneaky number four team in the
country maybe should be higher. Obviously said

1117
01:14:57.439 --> 01:15:00.319
Blemish, haven't lost the one a
game by less than ten points this season,

1118
01:15:00.359 --> 01:15:02.640
won all of them. And I
think that they come into on field

1119
01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:06.640
House not intimidated by the atmosphere.
This team is, like you said,

1120
01:15:06.640 --> 01:15:10.880
a lot of freshmen, but season
Dan Hurley is a great coach, and

1121
01:15:10.920 --> 01:15:13.399
I think that they come in and
they controlled the temple of the game and

1122
01:15:13.479 --> 01:15:15.439
keep Allen field House quiet. And
this is a really good team. And

1123
01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:17.760
just at this point in the season, you know, if this game is

1124
01:15:17.800 --> 01:15:23.119
played in maybe late late February,
we'd be talking about something different. But

1125
01:15:23.399 --> 01:15:26.920
I think Yukon's gonna win this game, seventy eight to seventy. That's a

1126
01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:29.800
take. That's a good take.
You take Yukon to win, but you

1127
01:15:29.840 --> 01:15:33.600
have their their streak of ten ten
plus point margins and noncong games dying.

1128
01:15:33.960 --> 01:15:39.000
So I immediately after Kansas looked terrible
against Eastern Illinois, sent out of Okay,

1129
01:15:39.039 --> 01:15:41.800
guys, give me a give me
your thoughts what happens against Yukon.

1130
01:15:42.159 --> 01:15:44.800
I wanted to check the vibes,
and they were pretty fifty to fifty.

1131
01:15:45.239 --> 01:15:46.479
You had plenty of people that were
saying Kansas is going to lose, and

1132
01:15:46.520 --> 01:15:49.199
you also had people saying that no, they're gonna bunce back, They'll be

1133
01:15:49.279 --> 01:15:55.880
okay. I tend to think that
two things that happened this week, Kansas

1134
01:15:55.920 --> 01:15:58.800
has going for it. You know, I don't know how much I believe

1135
01:15:58.800 --> 01:16:00.560
in the psychology, but I do
think that if you're gonna draw up a

1136
01:16:00.600 --> 01:16:03.840
storm for what's gonna happen right before
Yukon, it's a game like the one

1137
01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:08.800
they had. Clearly they're going to
be very focused for the Huskies. I

1138
01:16:08.840 --> 01:16:11.119
saw a couple of people saying that
they think this game is gonna be like

1139
01:16:11.119 --> 01:16:14.439
when Kentucky came in here two years
ago and just wipe the floor clean with

1140
01:16:14.560 --> 01:16:17.079
Kansas. I don't see that happening. This is a very talented, very

1141
01:16:17.119 --> 01:16:21.720
prideful batch of Jayhawks that even if
they are out talented, which they probably

1142
01:16:21.800 --> 01:16:26.079
are in this game, I don't
see him getting mopped. Here's the thing

1143
01:16:26.119 --> 01:16:30.279
with Kansas. The defense is very
very good. Yukon excellent on offense,

1144
01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:35.720
not as much on defense as they
are on offense. Jayhawks playing at home,

1145
01:16:36.319 --> 01:16:43.119
very good on defense. Yukon's not
scoring ninety like that they've been rolling

1146
01:16:43.159 --> 01:16:45.439
through everybody. They're gonna have to
make shots to win this game. They're

1147
01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:50.119
gonna have to make contested shots to
win because Hunter Dickinson is matched up with

1148
01:16:50.159 --> 01:16:54.199
another guy his size. He's not
automatically gonna be the best guy on the

1149
01:16:54.239 --> 01:16:57.880
floor, but he's gonna bring very
quality defense against the team that can spread

1150
01:16:57.880 --> 01:17:00.199
it out quite a bit. I
think you're gonna see them try to ace

1151
01:17:00.239 --> 01:17:02.319
Hunter Dickinson out, kind of like
how Marquette did, and we saw that

1152
01:17:02.399 --> 01:17:06.760
work. My analysis on this game, Kansas is at home and Bill Self

1153
01:17:06.800 --> 01:17:11.439
is their coach. They haven't lost
a non conference home game since San Diego

1154
01:17:11.479 --> 01:17:15.680
State ten seasons ago at this point, and I trust that the Jayhawks will

1155
01:17:15.720 --> 01:17:19.079
bounce back, especially at home,
because everything my eyes have ever watched them

1156
01:17:19.079 --> 01:17:25.239
do under Bill Self tells me that's
what they always do I think that Kansas

1157
01:17:25.279 --> 01:17:29.800
finds a way to get past Yukon. I don't necessarily think Yukon's better than

1158
01:17:29.840 --> 01:17:33.359
Kansas, but I think Kansas makes
one more play than the more talented team

1159
01:17:33.359 --> 01:17:39.600
they're gonna face, and Kansas escapes
with a seventy six to seventy one victory.

1160
01:17:39.840 --> 01:17:44.079
A thriller, a classic at the
fog. I don't know what it'll

1161
01:17:44.119 --> 01:17:48.039
look like, but I do think
it'll be very competitive and very entertaining between

1162
01:17:48.319 --> 01:17:53.920
two teams that Nick you said,
Yukon's not gonna be intimidated by this environment.

1163
01:17:53.960 --> 01:17:57.159
They've played in the biggest games you
can play in battle the last two

1164
01:17:57.239 --> 01:18:00.199
national champs. I think that kJ
Adams and and then like kJ two,

1165
01:18:00.960 --> 01:18:04.239
being a guy who it's a little
bit a little bit more different of a

1166
01:18:04.279 --> 01:18:08.800
matchup, They're gonna be very focused
on Hunter Dickinson. kJ Adams is gonna

1167
01:18:08.800 --> 01:18:12.279
have to play well and look for
Nick Timberlake to make two threes in the

1168
01:18:12.319 --> 01:18:16.079
second half. Kansas beats Yukon by
five and shuts all the doubters that are

1169
01:18:16.119 --> 01:18:20.079
in my Twitter mensons up. If
they lose this game, are you are

1170
01:18:20.079 --> 01:18:25.439
you panicking or what? I don't
think it's time to panic. This is

1171
01:18:25.439 --> 01:18:27.439
a really, really good Yukon team
and they're gonna, like you said,

1172
01:18:27.439 --> 01:18:30.319
they're gonna have nine games after this
that they should win all of them.

1173
01:18:30.680 --> 01:18:33.359
I'd start to panic if they lose
any of the next few games, but

1174
01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:38.760
you know, Yukon, if they
keep it close and respectable. If they're

1175
01:18:38.760 --> 01:18:43.239
to lose, I don't think that
would be huge. But like I said,

1176
01:18:43.279 --> 01:18:45.520
it's it's early in the season.
This team is still figuring it out.

1177
01:18:45.880 --> 01:18:48.000
Unless they get twenty eight baald or
something, I don't think there's reason

1178
01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:53.079
to be concerned. Yet. Love
home and homes with powerful teams. Love

1179
01:18:53.119 --> 01:18:56.640
how they scheduled this, Love how
are we gonna watch the return game next

1180
01:18:56.680 --> 01:19:00.880
year? Great work by both Kansas
and Yukon. And and you know another

1181
01:19:00.920 --> 01:19:03.199
thing that we're used to Kansas having
a coaching advantage. Dan Hurley is one

1182
01:19:03.239 --> 01:19:06.359
of the He might be one of
the five best coaches in college basketball at

1183
01:19:06.359 --> 01:19:10.359
this point. That guy just flat
out knows how to assemble basketball teams and

1184
01:19:10.439 --> 01:19:15.760
win u. Yukon hasn't lost the
game since Geez Win's Yukon's last loss because

1185
01:19:15.760 --> 01:19:19.960
obviously they they obviously ended last year
on at least six in a row.

1186
01:19:20.199 --> 01:19:25.760
Yukon's last loss was March of twenty
twenty three. Shaka Smart was the last

1187
01:19:25.760 --> 01:19:29.800
coach to beat the Yukon Huskies.
They've won thirteen in a row. The

1188
01:19:29.880 --> 01:19:33.079
buck stops here. Jayhawks win all
right other games. So this game is

1189
01:19:33.119 --> 01:19:38.800
part of the Big twelve Big East
Battle, which you forgot about because nobody

1190
01:19:38.840 --> 01:19:42.159
remembers that that's a thing. But
there are a couple other games that are

1191
01:19:42.199 --> 01:19:45.560
a part of that event that We're
gonna pick Number fifteen Creighton at Oklahoma State.

1192
01:19:46.039 --> 01:19:49.039
The Cowboys are starving for a quality
win. Do they get it?

1193
01:19:54.039 --> 01:19:59.279
Yes? Wow? No, I'm
okay, it's gonna be crazy. I

1194
01:19:59.319 --> 01:20:00.960
agree. I think Glahoma State might
be the worst team in the league at

1195
01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:03.960
this point, So we will all
go with the Blue Jays. Number six

1196
01:20:04.039 --> 01:20:10.319
Houston at Xavier. Good test for
Houston, not not so sure Xavier is

1197
01:20:10.359 --> 01:20:14.720
good enough. Landon thinks that they
beat Houston, which is probably how you

1198
01:20:14.720 --> 01:20:18.359
always beat Landon and pick them for
being totally honest. And then you want

1199
01:20:18.359 --> 01:20:21.840
to know what the absolute stupidest thing
in the world is Nick based on this

1200
01:20:21.960 --> 01:20:32.239
next game, what do you think
I'm gonna say? Purdue is Perdue playing

1201
01:20:32.239 --> 01:20:40.199
at Northwestern. What's stupid about that
they're playing conference games in December in non

1202
01:20:40.279 --> 01:20:45.399
conference play? The Big One always
think and the Pac twelve does too.

1203
01:20:45.479 --> 01:20:48.960
It's just really stupid. Like the
conference race is gonna look very different because

1204
01:20:49.000 --> 01:20:54.159
of these games being played so early. Number one Perdue at Northwestern, Uh,

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Purdue is do to go down.
I will say that it happens Northwestern

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wins, I'm gonna stick with Purdue
and then number three Marquette at Wisconsin.

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I went with the Badgers to beat
Tennessee at home. They didn't do it,

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and Tennessee's already got three losses.
I'm not trusting them to take down

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a Marquette team that I know how
good they are. I will take the

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Golden Eagles. Yeah, Marquette.
We will be back this weekend. Before

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I want to say the next game
is going to be really, really slow,

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but that's what we said last time, and look what happened. They

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play U and k C. The
Ruse are the Jayhawks next opponent. And

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we don't know at this point when
we're going to be doing a podcast,

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but it will be at some point, probably sooner rather than later, before

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that game and then yeah, we'll
have we'll have the whole band back together.

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Uh but but but wow, right
that that's gonna be Uh that that

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should be every bit as fun as
Yukon. Right, Like if they beat

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Yukon, I don't care what the
spread is. I'm betting you and KC

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to cover because Kansas is gonna be
sleep be in that one again between you,

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Yukon and Missouri. Oh boy,
mmm mmm mmmmm for it. In

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the show this is inside. This
is a great way in the show.

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Good radio, Nick whipert we do
we only do the best radio here just

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giving us what Elon, what Elon
expects from from us, after what he

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gives me on Twitter. I want
to I want an Ai bought to do

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this show with us and see how
how much he knows about Kansas basketball.

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That would be amazing. If anybody
is going to develop that would be you.

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Like, how about you find out
how to do that and we'll and

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we'll do it. We'll see.
Maybe I'm not good with that stuff,

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but sign off somebody, bye bye
man and hope you had fun on your

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date. It didn't happen