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Broncos Country Tonight. Benjamin Olbrighten, Nick Ferguson, Grant Smith here with you
go to the Kway Commasperal Hotlinery on voice and the Boss Mark Johnson. Mark.
You could make a cross over that exciting, could you not, Ben?
And that's good to be on with you. Uh yeah, Well you
can always tell a little ampusis behind it if you have to. But that
was a pretty special dunk that o'bd had the other night there in Vegas.
We were trying to get Grant. I don't know if you saw the dunk
last night that Edwards had on John Collins that was floating around the internet.
We were trying to get Grant to dub your voice over it because I did
not feel like that the announcing team had given it enough and I was like,
I know the one man that can make this, that can do this.
We're having him on the show. Well, you know, here's to
think about it is. You know, one thing you do is played by
playing. I guess you described the action, but you also want to match
the energy of the reaction, right, That's part of the story. And
so when there is a big play and fifteen thousand people in the building go
nuts, you want to match that energy. And so yeah, that's part
of the play. My play, well, Mark, Right now, the
Buffs are just kind of sitting waiting for their matchup against Boise State tomorrow.
What is it that you're most looking for in tomorrow's game? Well, Nick,
I think this is going to be a very physical game. Boise He's
number one, a very quality basketball team, obviously coming out of a great
year for the Mountain West. They're a big basketball team. Now, they're
not going to oversize Colorado, but they are big everywhere. They'll they'll run
a line about there and they're starting line will be the smallest guy'll be six
foot five and everybody else's six six, six eight. So they don't have
any behemits out there like an Eddie Lampion like Colorado does. But they've got
a lot of size everywhere. So they're a physical basketball team. Both of
these teams are in the top twenty five or thirty and rebounding of the country.
They're the kind of defensive team that maybe doesn't go out on the edges
and really pressure you, but they're the kind of team that every time you
go by, they're raking at the ball and so they force turnovers that way.
So I do think this is going to be a physical basketball game tomorrow
between these two here and Dad. Yeah, I'm looking forward to this as
I was looking for. You're absolutely right, boys, he does have a
lot of lengthy even if they don't have the Behemoths, have got some guys
like Beaganhard who can get the rebounds and Omar Stanley who can alter shots.
But the one thing that jumped out of me when you run down this is
just how efficient Colorado's been from the field this year versus Bois, who is
just not And maybe that's the advantage there is that Colorado makes their baskets a
better much higher clip. Yeah, with that question, Ben, you know,
when you look at Colorado this season, I haven't looked at the stats
after the weekend, but they've been pretty much in the top twenty of field
goal shooting, three point shield goal shooting, and free throw shooting. All
season long, They've been one of the better offensive teams in America, and
so, you know, scoring the ball has not been an issue for Colorado.
I think one of the numbers I be watching tomorrow night when the Boss
hold their opponent under seventy points. They're seventeen and won this season, and
so the question for me then becomes, Okay, can Boise who's got a
decent offensive team that can think about it, can can the Buss hold them
under seventy this game? I know Colorado can score more than seventy, and
so because of how good Colorado is offensively, that's one of the things I'll
be keeping an eye on tomorrow night. Defense is always something that I always
look for this time of the year, especially in March madness. Now,
Tad bole Boyle, when you look at his team, how do you think
that they're going to defend? Not just with the game tomorrow night against Boise
State, I'm already pushing them ahead to the next round, but how is
it that they defend as a group to make sure they keep the score down
versus the opponents. You know, Nick, if he would ask you that
question in December. In January, I would have said not very well,
which is kind of interesting because has always been a guy that has pride to
his program on defense and rebounding, and they were very inconsistent. So you
look at the end of the season, we're on that eight Welling Street before
geting knocked off my Oregon last Saturday, the nineteen Las Vegas the Fastball title
game, they really had come a long way. I think defensively, this
this team's playing very good defense right now, much more consistency, and I
don't think it was ever an effort thing. I think it was an assignment
thing. Where were they making the right read, where they rotating when they
were supposed to, were they helping the helper and all the things you want
to do defensive in basketball. I think they finally kind of have found their
rhythm on the side. So it can't can you that out of defense that
they do have a great ship to get Star and I then ultimately floored that
make him happen after that, So this team, you know, the hope
is always you're playing your best basketball at the end of the year. Right
now, college basketball, I uh, you know, I look at over
this in the half. It does feel like she usually picked it up.
I think a lot of it's been you know been kJ And then the way
that he has facilitated and distributed boys who have set up a little bit different.
They got two guys that distribute the ball between Anderson and Mark. How
do you think that that affects the Boston in terms of trying to shut down
the Boise offense. Well, there's a couple of guys you got to really
watch out right. I think Tyson day Art is really interesting player for them.
He's the first team bull Mountain West guy. He's six s two thirty
five, uh fifty percent shill goal guy, three consecutive, efficiently offensive,
and he can shoot the three. They don't have a big per se,
like we talked about earlier that any matches up with inside, they don't have
the gut to tell you. I can finally dant that just another big,
you know, earth mover kind of guy. So he's gonna have to chase
guys because they all shoot the three. And so I think defending the three
point line tomorrow night is going to be huge in this ballgame for call defensively,
and they make sure they find the shooter. They find Stanley, they
find Dagonheart, they find the coach's son, Mac Price, and find them
on the three point line up there, and they'll be big in this.
And then can they read bound out of that from throm so be a couple
of things. I think the tear Colorado mom Mark, You've called a lot
of these games, and you've seen a lot of these games. What makes
March man is the man is that we known it to be now? I
think there's the unexpected nature. It's the deep seed or the higher seat comes
out of nowhere that gets hot. It's it's you know when I was at
Syracuse years ago and all of a sudden Syracuse had a great season but became
the best team in college basketball. March it's the unexpected. It's the great
stories that we see that you know, you've never heard of that guy off
season long and he's playing wells They go out of there money, this guy
becomes a house. It's all this and what's happened in college athletics with the
transfer portal. He's altered all of this. I saw an interesting topic the
other day where some show was doing with he said, he is the era
of the blue Blood's over because everyone is just I that's what's happening today in
football and in transfer portal news. I mean, it's just going crazy as
being insane out there. The same thing has happened in basketball, and so
you get talent just moving across the board all over the place, and so
you're not exactly sure who is going to have that magic run. As a
result of all the biggest everyone seems to have players right now, and I
think that's what makes it special. Absolutely. Mark Johnson, voice of the
cu Buffs that are joining us. H Mark, you know, it was
interesting because both see you and see as you wound up with fourth play in
ten seeds, I didn't really feel like see you. You know, I
felt like they shouldn't have had to play it in. But uh, you
know, you kind of get that game. Isn't an advantage to kind of
get warmed up for this tournament to have that extra play in game? Well
you know that that's the way the coaches are going to spitting. And by
the way, I was talking with some books people today, You've got you've
got Boise out here, You've got Montana's Day, you got you got Collinletta.
I would say to those folks, couldn't we have all just met like
in Salt Lake City, come by the way to the eastern for the country.
But you know, I don't know, I use some schools do that.
I mean, I had a number I was looking at earlier today about
all the teams that have gone in the first four to twelve teams have come
to the Sweet sixteen or beyond from here, including UCLA just a few years
ago, on the way to the final fours. So depending on who you
ask, and depending what the circumstances are going to certainly you know, kick
some ruts off, maybe get over the uh you know, the kind of
the odd nature of being in the instant lay tournaments, and then you get
to the next round you've already kind of you know, gotten over that to
the fact that here planning to think it has I think there can be some
positives. It's not what anybody would act for, but I think it can
be a positive. You're gonna if you're gonna accept it that way, well,
I's hoping it is. I think got a tough draw ahead of that
as well. But one foot at a time, one step at a time,
and we look forward to listen to Call Right Here on KAA tomorrow with
Mark Johnson. Mark thanks for your time, guys. Take care, absolutely
take care. Mark Johnson Voice to See Bus