WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:07.040 Steve Rivera and Jagon Salez. They have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson's 2 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:11.720 Sports Big Jet, Fox Sports fourteen to fifty streaming live. I mean, 3 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:16.879 iHeartRadio WAPs. Welcome back on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. 4 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:21.800 I'm Jacob Zalez here in the studio. My buddy Steve. You just finished 5 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:23.879 the segment with him. He's in Salt Lake City, so we got him 6 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:28.160 over the phone and talked about today's press conference with Tommy Lloyd and the players. 7 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:33.119 I got a trustee guest host today, George Mortis from Showtime Cards. 8 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:37.520 Just realized that today's this morning's Dodger game was actually a real game. He's 9 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:41.759 actually counting this is Yes, Dodgers are playing in Korea. They have a 10 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:45.000 two game set with the Padres. They have won one, five to two. 11 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:49.640 Today show, Hey went two for five and a stolen base. Who 12 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:53.240 got Sammy here running the board capably as he always does, So anywhere's we're 13 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:57.799 going to break it out now to Sammy for breaking news. Is Eye on 14 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:03.679 the Ball breaking news? Yeah, So we mentioned just before the end of 15 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:07.920 the hour some college basketball All American teams were being named. Uh, kind 16 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.079 of left and right, it's uh. I don't think the NCAA has come 17 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:17.799 out with their their their final All American team, but Caleb Love has been 18 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:23.560 mentioned in four total, two second team All Americans and two third Team All 19 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.439 Americans and obviously being the PAC twelve Player of the Year. That kind of 20 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:32.200 makes sense. And I'm really trying to think when the NCAA does come out, 21 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:37.040 he'll probably be on the second Yeah, he's probably And that's about right. 22 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:38.519 You know, Well, a couple of things there. One, the 23 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.079 visibility that some of these other guys get. You got you got guys like 24 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:47.799 Zach Edy, Uh, You've got uh, Kyle Philipowski, who's you know, 25 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:53.359 Duke because you know second team guy uh r J. Davis Silver in 26 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:56.840 North Carolina, Dalton Connect. You know, they've gotten a lot of national 27 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.439 attention. You look at the usb W A man first team. He got 28 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.879 Davis from North Carolina, is the Dy from is the Edie from Purdue Tennessee's 29 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:09.280 Connect, Tyler Kolloch from Marquette, Jamal Jamal Sheed from Houston. All top 30 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:15.680 teams. Can't argue with those. Caleb's a second team player on that one. 31 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:22.400 He was also second team on the NABC National Association Basketball Coaches Team again 32 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:28.960 Eddie Davis connect a player from a Connecticut Tristan Newton, and then she'd from 33 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.680 Houston. So he's in that circle. He's in. He's a top fifteen, 34 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:36.319 right, he's on the list, probably probably consistently be a second team 35 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.840 guy. Yeah, that's what That's what I would say. And then also 36 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:40.879 in you have a basketball news, they landed a top ten recruit today, 37 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:46.319 right, Joe Son Sanhan. I don't know if I get that right, 38 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:52.599 but he is actually reclassing up right, and has the potential to be in 39 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.719 the twenty twenty four class, right, Yeah, yeah, he'll be here 40 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:00.360 next year. He's a six to five wing player. They say he's they're 41 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:04.639 calling him a shooter. Now, you know, those of us who've been 42 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:07.759 here and we hear the word shooter, you know, the shooter at Arizona 43 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.639 is a is a little higher standard than some other place. So we've had 44 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:15.680 guys like Selim Stoder, Myron, Steve Karr. But they say he's that 45 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:19.319 kind of a shooter. We'll see. But they're also saying he's probably a 46 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.840 one and done. He's already he's projected as a as a lottery pick in 47 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:29.360 the twenty twenty five NBA draft. Already, Yeah, we'll see that that 48 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:31.800 draft is going to be loaded anyway, So we'll see kind of the year 49 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:37.000 he has. And before I guess the Tommy Lloyd Air the one and Dun's 50 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:40.520 that you were really hit and miss they were, So we will and I 51 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:45.199 mean even in the three years that Tommy's been here, you have seen a 52 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:49.520 lot less one and right that obviously has to do with the transfer portal. 53 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:53.280 Maybe it's al yeah, somewhat of a new culture at the basketball program. 54 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:58.240 So we'll see where he ends up. But nonetheless, that recruiting class is 55 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:02.400 getting better better. But wait a minute, didn't we hear didn't we hear 56 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:05.319 after last year, after the lost of Princeton, didn't we hear that Tommy 57 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:09.319 couldn't recruit? That's what I thought, Yeah, that's what I thought. 58 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:12.280 I heard. I heard that lot. I heard that a lot. Heard 59 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:15.120 it. I believe me. I heard it a lot as well. I 60 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:16.759 never thought it, but I never thought it, but it was like, 61 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:20.959 you know, he's and again it also comes down to his assistant coaches, 62 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:29.920 Jack Murphy mus he does a really really good job. He's kind of been 63 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:33.000 that backbone of the recruiting. Even in the Sean Miller A people don't realize 64 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.519 he's a personal friend of mine as well. But he's off season. He's 65 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:41.879 just constantly traveling. His wife's like come home. Yeah, yeah, twins 66 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:45.560 man triplets, twins, twins, twins, two girls, and then he's 67 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.759 got a younger son. Yeah. But he's traveling all over doing a great 68 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:54.040 job. He's building himself quite a legacy here at Arizona. And then lastly, 69 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:59.240 in college basketball, we were officially one sleep away what some may say 70 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:02.160 is the best two day of the year. You have Thursday Friday, Round 71 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:08.439 of sixty four March Madness. Brackets will be busted and people will think they 72 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:14.319 have perfect brackets left and right. But kind of some big storylines Kansas is 73 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.319 Kevin McCullers is out for the entire time for the church. That's a big 74 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:21.680 loss, big loss for Kansas and Hunter Dickinson. The status is that it 75 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:27.439 looks like he will play in the Round of sixty four game, but they 76 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.240 Kansas has had some injuries and McCullers is one of their best players, so 77 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:36.879 that definitely could change some some brackets. And also Tyler Kollik, a first 78 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:43.079 team or second team All American, is participating in full court drills. Shaka 79 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.480 Smart still doesn't know if he's going to be ready to play in the first 80 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:51.600 game. So two, I mean two borderline All Americans will their status will 81 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:56.439 be up in the air. But and then Boise State in Colorado will play 82 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:02.040 later tonight, and Grambling and Montana State are in action right now. My 83 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:04.759 iPad has screwing up, so I don't have a score now. But yeah, 84 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:09.160 so those are those are some big storylines. Obviously there's going to be 85 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:13.439 more as the days go on, with upsets, god forbid, injuries and 86 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.839 whatnot. But that is the college basketball breaking news. And we talked briefly 87 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:21.839 the MLB Opening Day. I guess so you wouldn't know it, right, 88 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:25.040 You wouldn't know it. The game was on. It was on at three 89 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:27.879 o'clock in the morning our time. Yeah, here, I was asleep. 90 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:31.439 I'm not that big of a Dodger. Actually, I'm you know what, 91 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:35.040 even I'm not. I'm sitting here. I'm all geared up. I've got 92 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:39.360 my Dodger shirt on, my Dodger hat on, I'm all geared up for 93 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:44.600 for Opening Day. But no I didn't even my my white all though my 94 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:46.600 wife actually asked you to go. Are you gonna say I watch a game? 95 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:50.040 I'm not. No, I'm not. But some interesting MLB news we 96 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:56.399 talked about it before the show. Shoe hal Tani's translator who's been with him 97 00:06:56.439 --> 00:07:00.959 since he got into the MLB I allegedly has stealing from him and using that 98 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:06.199 money to UH to gamble and so he had has since been fired and he 99 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:11.639 is looking for a new trains lady. Yeah, and they're saying, they're 100 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.879 saying millions of dollars with not even not even online betting with a bookie, 101 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:19.959 and but that they that they're saying he's taken millions of dollars from from show. 102 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:24.720 Hey, now he's got you know, seven hundred million coming his way. 103 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:28.360 So I'm you know, I'm thinking, yes, I'm guessing. I'm 104 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:30.279 guessing the interpreter got you know, got the money out of his UH out 105 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:34.839 of the you know, the couch coaching, you know, stuck in the 106 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:38.879 seats of the car, you know, in the change trade whatever. But 107 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:42.959 look, when you're talking millions of dollars, it's serious, you know, 108 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:48.639 you know guys like that who are part of let's say somebody's yeah, you 109 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:54.839 know, he's got to be devastated by this, because I'm sure this guy's 110 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.639 you know, a personal friend, maybe in a family ride. To to 111 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:03.959 have something like that happen comes out on opening day, holy cow, you 112 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.480 know. And you hear a lot about it. With memorabilia, you know, 113 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:11.160 they they kind of like slide a jersey or up a right, you 114 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:13.279 know, certain certain things football. I think it happened to Tom Brady with 115 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:16.399 one of the footballs. But you know it's just cash, you know. 116 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:20.279 So yeah, and T million. I mean, how bad of a gambler 117 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.959 do you have to be, Phil Mickelson to be so bad that you're losing 118 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:28.519 millions and millions of dollars? Yeah, I don't know. You're asking the 119 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:35.360 person that had Virginia money line, so Andy over No, No, no, 120 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.799 didn't No, not not that. And then quick NFL news. Caleb 121 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.840 Williams had his pro day at USC today and from my understanding and from what 122 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:48.840 I've seen, he looked nothing short of amazing, right, which you'd expect. 123 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:54.679 And his quote maybe new teammate Keenan Allen showed up wearing all USC gear, 124 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:58.639 assuming if he does get drafted by the Bears. That is probably going 125 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.919 to be his target. So, I mean, Kaller Williams is actually putting 126 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.799 stuff out there for people to see. I know there were some questions of 127 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:09.559 him not throwing you do anything in the combine. All that stuff's out there 128 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:11.799 now. Well, and you know the Cardinals are dealing with that because everybody 129 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:15.279 thinks the're gonna take Marvin Harrison Junior. He's not even having a pro day. 130 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.799 Yeah, he's working out with pros. Yeah, he's just you know, 131 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:26.600 okay, okay, oh I'm I'm he's sure sure fired draft him and 132 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.240 he's going to be our number one receiver for twelve years. Okay, I 133 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:35.480 think so too. And I get the Malik and Abers has maybe more total 134 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:39.240 upside and his twitchiness, his speed and his overall potential. But what the 135 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:43.960 Cardinals need is a guy to be there for a long time with Kyler hopefully, 136 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:48.559 and that's Marvin Harrison Junior. He's he could play them. Yeah, 137 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:50.879 I mean, he can play them with god, you know he does, 138 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:54.480 and you see he watches film and that's really what you need to see. 139 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:58.240 But these guys are just, you know, there is there something they're protecting, 140 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.559 something they're hiding by not working out, and I mean, what, 141 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:03.120 you know, why wouldn't you work out or something like that. That's just 142 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.879 that's just me being a guy that you know, I'm gonna do whatever I 143 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:09.639 can to get a job. No, understand, when they're that type of 144 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:11.720 talent, they feel like they don't need to show it. You know, 145 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:16.919 They're just gonna go where they go. And you know, he said if 146 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:18.759 they dropped him, no, it's when they dropped him number one, right, 147 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.080 you know, for Caleb, you know, And that's why they made 148 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:26.759 the move with Fields. Yeah, because if not, the GMS fired immediate. 149 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.120 Yeah, exactly. And then the last thing I have, you know, 150 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:35.240 I had to squeeze in the Phoenix Suns. They signed Isaiah Thomas. 151 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:39.759 I hate that guy to a contract. I hate that guy really. No, 152 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.320 it's not good. He had a buzzer beater against Arizona Washington in a 153 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.879 packed in championship game, so we signed him to Uh, isn't he like 154 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:50.320 eighty five years old? No, No, he's he's just turned thirty four, 155 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.200 just turned thirty four. And listen, I'm not saying he should be 156 00:10:56.200 --> 00:11:00.279 playing on the floor for us, but he's a guy that I think him 157 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.039 and Durant have a good relationship. Him and Bill. He he was kind 158 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:07.559 of in that breed of guys and it's something that the Suns made his need. 159 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:13.120 Right now, we're roughing it a little bit as we slow, slow, 160 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:18.000 slowly get to the playoffs are playing. But that is that's another discussion 161 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:22.759 for another time. It is fully college basketball season and that is my breaking 162 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:24.600 news. All right, we'll go for one more item. We saw that 163 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:31.720 Aery McDonald's was named the MVP of her team in the Australian League, the 164 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:35.720 Perth Links. I think she had some sounds like she had some trouble with 165 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.639 a need during the season, but named her the her as the MVP of 166 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.039 her team down there, and then of course she'll be back to, you 167 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:46.879 know, take her spot back in the w NBA when that season gets going 168 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:52.080 again. But you know, you know what what I love about that is 169 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.919 that she was such a talented Arizona. She was you know, easy to 170 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.440 get along with. You know, she came on our show a couple of 171 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:03.200 times. She was always available, just seemingly a good person, a great 172 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:07.080 player. And to see that they're actually is opportunity like that, you know, 173 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:11.519 for a player like that. Now it's getting you're getting more and more 174 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:15.679 of that with you know, Caitlin Clark and and UH and UH and Angel 175 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:20.000 Reese, and they're going to do well HB right with with endorsements and and 176 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.120 and stuff like that. But you know, up to now, you know 177 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:28.519 they they go overseas, right, these these great women's basketball players, like 178 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:31.799 he said, they've had to find other ways other than just being in the 179 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.919 NBA of w NBA to to to make a living off of this. And 180 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:39.159 you know, they're never going to make the hundreds of millions of dollars that 181 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.799 that you know, the Kevin Durance and the Lebron James. But you know, 182 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:48.279 if they're making a few million dollars, yeah, you know, no 183 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:52.480 doubt Rush right, And I think you speak to the product of it. 184 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:58.639 I mean ten fifteen years ago you had Diana Tarassi really kind of carrying back 185 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.159 of the w NBA. Now, especially next year when Caitlin Reese is the 186 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.159 number one overall, she's gonna change. She's been must watch television for four 187 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:09.960 years now and that's now changing from college women's basketball to the w n b 188 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:16.399 A and she's joining Sabrina and Esque and there and Brianna Stewart and the names 189 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:22.240 that are almost like pretty household names when it comes to the sporting world. 190 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:24.440 And so that's gonna it's gonna be good for the w NBA. It's Caitland 191 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:28.200 Clark is we even see them on these sports card dots. But yeah, 192 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:31.960 it's kind of evening up, you know with Caitlyn Clark, you know, 193 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:37.320 her pricing are almost like similar to guys you know, yeah, sports cards. 194 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:39.480 So it's it's nice to see that, and it's gonna change. It's 195 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:43.000 great to see it. And look, you just love for them to have, 196 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:46.600 you know, if not the same opportunities, at least you know, 197 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:50.200 yeah, maybe similar or just something. So that's great. Okay, uh, 198 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:54.399 that's okay. We're we're about to take our next break. We're gonna 199 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.240 have Ben Boltch. He's a basketball writer for the La Times normally the u 200 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.240 c l A beat writer. 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This is 269 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:03.880 I on the Ball with Stebra and Jacob Salez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. 270 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:08.240 Welcome back on the Baking on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm your host Jagan 271 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:15.960 Zales and uh you confused me there, I've Jacob Zalaz and Steve Rivera. 272 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:18.960 My buddy is on the road to Salt Lake City and we just had him 273 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:21.240 on a little bit ago. And I've got a guest host today, George 274 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:25.799 Motis from Showtime Cards. But on phone we've got Ben Boltch, who ran 275 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:29.920 into last week at the at the Pac Tweff Tournament. Normally the beat writer 276 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:33.799 for UCLA was there for that, but now he's covering Long Beach State with 277 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:37.359 this great story. I guess you call it a great story. Maybe not 278 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:40.960 something great for Dan Monson who got fired from his job on Monday and now 279 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:45.720 he's coaching in the NCAA tournament. So, Ben, you had a story 280 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:51.640 this morning on on Monson and the whole situation. What do we know about 281 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:55.759 all of that right now? Yeah? I mean to me, it's really 282 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:00.799 one of the potentially most heartwarming stories of the tournaments. Dan Monson, who's 283 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:06.720 been Lombi State for seventeen seasons, he's along uh winning its company history. 284 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:11.920 You know, had a team with all five stars returning. They had. 285 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:15.640 They got to a good start, they beat USC DePaul in Michigan and it 286 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:18.599 was looking like, hey, maybe we got something again. They've been to 287 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:22.559 the tournament once in twenty twelve, but then they went into kind of a 288 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:26.039 funk and uh, you know, finished the fifth place in the conference and 289 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:33.240 at the end of the year with loss. On senior night, Monson called 290 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:36.160 a meeting with his athletic director and said, Hey, if we don't have 291 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:37.599 a run in the tournament, I'm just going to resign. You know, 292 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:41.160 this is I'm not doing a good job, maybe they need a new voice. 293 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:45.519 To his surprise, the athletic director said, no, you know that 294 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:49.119 that decision has already been made. We're going to go in another direction, 295 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:53.519 and we're going to announce it today. So that completely caught coach Monson off 296 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:59.039 guard. He went to his team and said, hey, they not only 297 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:00.960 don't believe in me, they don't believe in you because they don't think we 298 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:03.960 can make a run in this tournament. They think our season is going to 299 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:08.000 be over this week. So they've parlayed that into a heartwarming run in the 300 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:11.799 Big West Tournament, won three games in three days, and the rest is 301 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:17.720 history. There here playing Arizona is the fifteen seed tomorrow in Salt Lake. 302 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:21.680 You know, you had obviously, you know, did a bunch of interviews 303 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:23.759 with players and stuff like that, a lot of great quotes about you know, 304 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:29.119 how much they want to do this for him. You know, how 305 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:33.119 much can that translate into you know what it means for them, you know, 306 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:37.640 to take on Arizona. Yeah, you know they've got us against the 307 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:41.039 world. Mentality that they used in the Big West Tournament. Now everybody knows 308 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:45.559 it's very obvious when in the Big West Tournament's a little bit different than meeting 309 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:48.240 the number two seed Arizona. But you know, that's what I love about 310 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:52.160 basketball. On any given day, anything can happen. And when you have 311 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.519 a team that's inspired and pulling together like this, we know we're going to 312 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:59.880 see a great effort tomorrow from Long Beach Day. And not saying they're going 313 00:21:59.920 --> 00:22:02.440 to win or even make it, you know, a ten point game, 314 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:07.039 but I expect to see them playing at a high level. And one of 315 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:11.519 the things that they told me that I didn't put this in the story was 316 00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:15.559 that they kind of went from playing with each other for each other and you 317 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:21.319 know, really moving the ball better and looking for better shots and setting each 318 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:26.160 other better, so really playing more as a team coming together. And they 319 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:30.000 also have some talent. I mean, let's not dismiss that they've got five 320 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:36.559 guys who average double figures, which is pretty unusual. They've got six guys 321 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:41.839 who score at least twenty points in a game. And they're two best players 322 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:47.279 who interestingly have the same last name but are not related, but are from 323 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:52.559 the same area in West Africa. One of them averages a double double and 324 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:56.400 the other one nearly had average a triple double in the Big West Tournament. 325 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:00.720 So they got some guys could do a lot of things. Well, when 326 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:03.599 you look at the at the talent, then you know, how did it 327 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:07.640 go so wrong that it got the coach fired? Any ideas in terms of 328 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:11.119 just what happened in there? Yeah, you know, I mentioned those those 329 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:17.160 those Wednesday had over usc to Paul Michigan, and I think at that point 330 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:18.759 they kind of felt like, hey, we've done enough and we're going to 331 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:22.640 coast through the Big West and uh, you know, go to the NCTATE 332 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:30.079 Tournament and they got into some problems with defense lacking and consistency lacking, and 333 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:33.319 it just kind of caught up with them and you know, through the motions 334 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:37.400 a little bit, and they don't have that much talent to be able to 335 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:41.599 just coast through a season, so you know, that kind of caught up 336 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:44.599 with them. It was funny. Uh, I wasn't there today and so 337 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:48.799 like I'm on the way later tonight, but I heard it quote from coach 338 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.880 Lonton today that he was shot him filmed, Uh, you know before the 339 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:56.039 Big West Tournament pointing out some of the things that went wrong and said, 340 00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:59.200 hey, these are the kind of things that can get get a coach fired. 341 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:02.680 And and they uh and the guys cracked up. So that was a 342 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:07.039 kind of a tension reliever there for uh and just kind of indicative of the 343 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:11.920 coach person coach Monson, and he's he's a real kind of warm and funny 344 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:17.799 guy, which for yeah, you know, listening to Steve talking about the 345 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:22.039 press conference because he sat in the press conference, clearly Monson is very loose, 346 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:25.319 right, I mean, once he got to lose absolutely nothing, that's 347 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:29.079 uh, he's cracking jokes about all of this, and uh, he was 348 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:33.319 he apparently at dinner last night he told Tommy Lloyd that he was busy putting 349 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:37.880 in the Princeton offense and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, which is 350 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:40.640 pretty cool. You know, he dote that, you know, he's coaching 351 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:44.160 for free, coaching for free, so he didn't have to answer any questions. 352 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:47.599 And you know, he's told the players they're they're putting they're putting meals 353 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:49.759 on the credit card because you know, he's basically gone at this point, 354 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:53.839 just like you said, I mean, they really have nothing to lose, 355 00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:59.039 so expecting him to come out, uh, you know, just completely fighting 356 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:03.559 tomorrow. Ben you said of months and you said he stood before his team 357 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:07.160 and he was dead coach walking. Is that the inspiration or is that what's 358 00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:12.519 motivating this team? Oh yeah, I think so completely, because it was 359 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:17.359 kind of a dual, a dual front of, hey, you know, 360 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:22.200 our coach is gone, and you know we didn't do enough for him, 361 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:26.000 and then you know, as I said earlier, it was almost also an 362 00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:29.759 indictment on the players of hey, you know, they don't think we're very 363 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:33.400 good, so it's right, let's pull together for our coach and ourselves. 364 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:37.920 When you got that kind of combination going, it's pretty dangerous. You mentioned 365 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:41.079 that they've got I want to talk about the match up a little bit. 366 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:42.880 You mentioned that they've got you know, five guys scoring in double figures. 367 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:47.839 Arizona's I think got that still going in the last week. I think Umar 368 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:49.119 was like at nine point nine or something. But anyway, they're close to 369 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:55.519 it. Are these teams similar? Do they play similar a similar style? 370 00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:59.559 You said, you know, and Arizona's not a bad defensive team, but 371 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:03.079 you said some of the troubles were defensively and they were busy having fun offensively. 372 00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:07.440 What's the matchup? Look like to you. Yeah, you know, 373 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.240 we know Long Beach they can score, and the question is can they defend 374 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:15.720 at a high level against the team like Arizona that they really haven't seen offseason. 375 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:18.279 That'll be the big question. Can they contain Balo? They've got good 376 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:21.839 size, was not great size. You know, I don't think they havent 377 00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:26.279 anybody who's going to match up, you know, particularly well Balow. So 378 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:30.039 I'll be to see how they kind of go about trying to stop him. 379 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:33.720 But yeah, I think defense is going to be the big question mark for 380 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:37.519 Long Beach. Can they you know that, I don't think they want to 381 00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:41.640 get into a ninety point shootout because the recipe for disaster. But they do 382 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:45.000 like to score, and they they do like to have up tempo, but 383 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:49.039 I think they want to stay reasonable with that, maybe keep the game in 384 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.039 the high seventies, right right, all right, let's talk a little bit 385 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:56.160 about the tournament as a whole. A lot, you know, a lot 386 00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:59.720 of discussion about how many teams can possibly win this. Obviously you kind oft 387 00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:02.960 the at the top of that list, but certainly, you know, a 388 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:06.559 whole bunch of teams Arizona included, you know, Tennessee, Houston, nor 389 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:11.240 so many teams that can you feel like somebody can jump up and do this. 390 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.319 Well, what's your general impression of what this tournament looks like going in? 391 00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:19.480 Well, I think it's gonna be a lot of fun because you know, 392 00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:26.519 we still have older teams with COVID eligibility players. I was just wondering 393 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.839 today when when is that all gonna fall off. I think we've maybe got 394 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:34.960 one more year of that. But you know, with all these older teams, 395 00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:40.160 sometimes the mid majors can pop up and surprise people. I really like 396 00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:42.519 James Madison. I'm actually picking them to get to the sweet sixteen. I 397 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:48.599 think they're another great story in the tournament. I went through my bracket the 398 00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:55.720 other day and I've got I'm going with the final matchup of defending champ Yukon 399 00:27:55.839 --> 00:28:02.559 against Houston, and I'm actually picking the Cougars with their defense too uh, 400 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:06.559 to knock off the Huskies and and win the title. So that thirty point 401 00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:10.440 lost to Iowa State didn't scare you off. Now, you know, everybody's 402 00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:12.960 everybody's in titles a day like that, even even sports writers. So I'm 403 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:17.640 gonna I'm gonna give them a break for that one that that was just ugly. 404 00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:19.000 I mean, I I you know, I turned I turned that game 405 00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:22.839 on, and five minutes into the game, I knew Houston was in big, 406 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.039 big trouble and it just it just it just had that feel of you 407 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:30.160 guys, are you guys got no shot? And they didn't. Yeah, 408 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:33.920 you're absolutely right. But as I said, one game, that's not the 409 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:37.480 finest season. And I really like their their defense. I think they're pretty 410 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:41.400 close to complete team. Your thoughts on how the how the PAC TWELF tournament 411 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:47.440 ended up with Oregon winning the thing? You know, well, Well, 412 00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:51.839 on the one hand, I was a little surprised that that Oregon you know, 413 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:53.799 beat Arizona when they when they did in the semi finals. It wasn't 414 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:59.119 shocking to me. Uh, you know, Oregon's got players and we've known 415 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:02.079 that all along. In fact, I kind of thought, why aren't they 416 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:06.799 better? What did you think about the way that thing turned out? You 417 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:10.400 know, not totally surprising. I did think Arizona would warn't it. But 418 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:12.720 as we've seen over the years with Oregon, I mean they did this, 419 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:17.759 it's basically kind of same thing in twenty nineteen where they needed to win the 420 00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:21.039 tournament to get in, and they did it as well. You know, 421 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:25.599 Dana Altman's known for getting his team's better as the season goes on, and 422 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:30.000 fally Dante was just playing a super high level that that really elevated them to, 423 00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:34.000 you know, the best team in that tournament. And you know, 424 00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:41.200 you've got Queisnard and Shelstad banging in threes to go with that. It makes 425 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:44.480 them really tough. So you know, I think they're a team that could 426 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:48.839 win a couple of games in the INNS Tournament as well. Yeah. Interesting, 427 00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:51.440 And I like Colorado, you know, I thought they were. I 428 00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:53.799 kind of thought they were going to beat Oregon on in the championship game. 429 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:59.200 I really like Tristan to Silva Well I did. I never thought that kJ 430 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:04.400 Simpsons should be the player of the year over Caleb Love I, you know, 431 00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:07.839 getting a good look at him in in in three games, I thought, 432 00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:11.960 Okay, I can see why some people thought he was the player of 433 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:14.440 the year. I see, I know they're in the playing game tonight, 434 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.920 but I see them winning a game or two. Yeah, I mean, 435 00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:21.759 I think kaed Well was probably one of the most criminally underrated coaches in all 436 00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:25.480 of college basketball. And you know, he he only needs a handful of 437 00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:30.039 good players to really maximize that into uh, you know, maybe a sweet 438 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.160 sixteen level team. And I agree with you. I think that they will 439 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:37.319 you know, win this game and uh and maybe another or two. Okay, 440 00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:41.039 Well, now with U C l A, you know, going to 441 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.160 the Big ten, it's a whole different scenario for them. Uh. You 442 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:47.480 know, let's just say, you know, they had a rough year this 443 00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:51.519 year. What you know, what what do you see for them coming up, 444 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:55.839 you know, heading into next season. Well it's interesting because you know 445 00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:57.960 a lot of people say, let's just scrap this whole roster and start over 446 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:03.400 with you know, seven or eight transfers. But I don't think that's gonna 447 00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:07.160 happen. You know, Mick mccron is the developp developmental coach, which means 448 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:11.039 that you need to be in his system for multiple years, uh to really 449 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:15.480 play at a high level with what he wants you to do. So I 450 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:19.200 think we'll see anywhere from uh, you know, realistically to two to three 451 00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:23.720 to maybe four transfers coming in. And these are going to need to be 452 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:26.240 impact guys. These are not going to be guys that can just sit on 453 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.000 the bench and you know, six man kind of thing. I think that 454 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:33.799 they're going to want, you know, starter level guys, at least two 455 00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.599 or three starter level guys to come in, uh, and then you know, 456 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.559 get the the sophomore bumps from from all these freshmen who have potential. 457 00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.759 But you know, they just had too many freshmen. Uh. And I 458 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:49.400 thought that I think that mccronin acknowledged that he thought that the hit rate of 459 00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:52.680 elite play from these freshmen was going to be higher than it was, right, 460 00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:56.519 And I think that that ultimately was kind of what cost them the season, 461 00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:59.960 was that you know, these guys are going to be good players, 462 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:05.519 they just weren't able to do that as freshman. He kind of overplayed his 463 00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:07.200 hand on that, right, All right, well you're gonna you're gonna be 464 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:09.359 shipping off to the Big ten as well. So I don't know when we're 465 00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:14.440 gonna hear from you more about UCLA and let's say, you know, decide 466 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:15.200 to play the series, which I think, you know, we had a 467 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:20.839 conversation that you'd think that that's possibly not gonna happen. But uh, Ben, 468 00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:22.559 it's been a We've appreciated having you on the show all these times, 469 00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:25.839 and you know, good luck on some of those road trips. Oh, 470 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.519 same to you in the Big twelve exactly. Thanks a bunch, Ben. 471 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:32.839 I hope you get to Salt Lake City and uh and we'll see what happens 472 00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:38.279 tomorrow. Thanks a bunch. All right. That was Ben Bolche, basketball 473 00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:42.160 writer for the La Times. He's covering Long Beach State this week because of 474 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:45.039 the big story with with Dan Monson, so he'll be covering the Arizona Long 475 00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:50.680 Beach State game tomorrow if he gets there. The line is twenty right now 476 00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:53.480 and twenty and a half, Okay, I still feel we could cover that 477 00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:58.559 love in the Long Beach State line. You're loving that one, yeah, 478 00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:02.680 one hundred. That's why I always go with the opposite way when it seems 479 00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:07.400 like, oh god, this this could be the line and stuff. Andy 480 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:12.920 kappers do those lines for a reason. They want guys like streams. It 481 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:23.519 streams, Long Beach streams slaughter, so they those points streams. Well, 482 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:30.720 Okay, I'm young, and I know Arizona fans who know my my reputation 483 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.400 is they don't give out a pick. I'm not not touching the game. 484 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:39.680 I took Arizona minus the points against Princeton last year. I was certain of 485 00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:45.039 it, and I even bet more than my usual unit on it and got 486 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:50.799 crushed. I'm not touching it. I'm just gonna leave that one alone. 487 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.119 That'll be a game that I don't even think about taking tomorrow. So anyways, 488 00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:57.039 all right, we're gonna take our last break. We'll take your calls. 489 00:33:57.079 --> 00:34:00.880 Five two zero four, one sixty are funds of been busy today with 490 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:06.400 outside guests, but we have an open segment to take your calls. Talk 491 00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.280 about the game tomorrow. 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Breaking 541 00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:39.360 down all the ex's and ohs, It's Steve Rivera and Jagin Salvez. This 542 00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:45.239 is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Welcome back toime to 543 00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:50.880 balling on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. We're headed into our last segment before the 544 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:54.480 sixty four team bracket gets gone tomorrow morning. We've been talking about Arizona and 545 00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:59.599 its matchup against Long Beach State. Want to remind everybody we do have a 546 00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:04.519 brac it uh that we're a bracket challenge that we're having here at uh at 547 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:08.880 Eye on the Ball with the grand prize, the grand prize of dinner with 548 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:15.639 Steve and I for two, so that Mexican restaurant we split the costs of. 549 00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:17.679 This guy was gonna say, where were going? Yeah when most likely? 550 00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:22.519 Most likely Minidito Restaurant. Yeah, you know, it's my all time 551 00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:27.760 favorite Mexican restaurant here in town. Part of it will depend on dates and 552 00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:31.480 stuff. Me Detols closed on Mondays. Whatever. The last time we did 553 00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:39.360 this, a friend of my son who's a firefighter, big dude played football 554 00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:44.519 at Arizona, six foot four, and he was alignment and we took him 555 00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:46.639 in and I joked that he ate the left side of the menu. He 556 00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:52.360 killed us. I mean they just started. They just started bringing plates and 557 00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:55.000 putting him in front of him. But we we covered it. We had 558 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.480 a great time, and we're gonna do that again on this great challenge basic 559 00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:05.079 bracket. It's just basic bracket wigs uh, increasing points for each for each 560 00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:09.719 round. There's a tie breaker. But if you go on our web on 561 00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:15.159 our Twitter page, our profile both on Twitter and Facebook, it's pinned at 562 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:20.119 the top. It's it's on a website called bracket fanatics dot com. Go 563 00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:23.119 in there and search for the eye on the ball, uh bracket challenge and 564 00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:27.400 uh and you can you can find out we've got there's about a dozen of 565 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:30.320 brackets in there right now. You know. That's we'll take it. We'll 566 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:34.880 take them all. We've also told people that if you're if you don't live 567 00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:37.360 in town, you can't go to dinner with us, we'll send you a 568 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:40.800 fifty dollars gift card to a restaurant where you live. So so, Steve 569 00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:44.079 and I are all in would love to have you. We'll just you know, 570 00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:46.559 we'll take the winner. Or to have a fun evening, maybe have 571 00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:51.519 some beers and some great food and uh and just chat saying it's look, 572 00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:53.840 you know, it's just for fun. We want to have some fun and 573 00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:58.559 uh and so we uh we're gonna do. I haven't done my bracket yet. 574 00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:01.360 I haven't done any brack and yet I'm just telling the guys I I 575 00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:09.480 wait until until rounds over. I waited till Wednesday night, and I'll probably 576 00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:13.800 do three or four. Maybe maybe I was gonna ask, are you guys 577 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:16.920 ay you pick You're a one bracket person, but you send that bracket? 578 00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:22.519 No? No, I picked multiple brackets that had been me the last like 579 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.599 five years on the same bracket. Or No, I've done a bunch of 580 00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:30.599 different brackets, but I've committed to one this year. Are you committed? 581 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:32.039 I'm committed to my bracket. Yeah, that's what I like to say. 582 00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:37.239 Yeah, I you know, I'll I think I can think of four pools 583 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:40.159 that I'm in right now. One of them is not a bracket, it's 584 00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:44.960 a it's a different point system, and then then the others are brackets. 585 00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:47.960 I'm sure i'll have Arizona to win it in at least one. I'm sure 586 00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:52.800 i'll have Yukon to win it, probably in a couple. And then I'll 587 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.440 probably pick some sort of a not a long shot. I'm not gonna go 588 00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:59.559 below, say a three seed to win it. I'm not gonna pick a 589 00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:01.719 seven or four or whatever. I'll probably find a three seeds, say, 590 00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:06.880 Okay, if they come out of nowhere, you know, a Tennessee, 591 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.000 you know, somebody like that, I'll pick them to win it. And 592 00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:15.199 it's funny, it almost never works, but I guess I've won a couple 593 00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:19.159 of poles, but I'll pick a champion. So then my next thing is 594 00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:23.079 I'll pick a runner up, and then I just work my way backward through 595 00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:27.559 the bracket. Interesting, So I don't sit there and go through all the 596 00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:30.400 first round games and then pick those games and you know, pick up sets 597 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:37.320 and things like that. I work my way backwards to do that. You 598 00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:40.599 know, that's my system. So I was telling you guys, you know, 599 00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:44.880 I haven't picked a final four yet, but I think I have a 600 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:49.039 good sense of who. Let's let's say my my main bracket, my one 601 00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.480 on the pool that I really really want to win. We'll get my A 602 00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:55.639 bracket, Okay, okay, all right, So my I'm looking at it 603 00:41:55.719 --> 00:42:00.239 right now. Probably my A bracket is going to have Yukon. It's hard 604 00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:02.199 on the yeast, that's hard, right. My A bract is going to 605 00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:06.000 have Yukon in Arizona. Okay, all right, in the final four, 606 00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:09.000 I'm not talking about the Championship. I'm saying the final four, I'm probably 607 00:42:09.039 --> 00:42:13.960 going to Yukon in Arizona. On the other side, after watching what Houston 608 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:15.719 did me. Plus I had a money line on that one, and they 609 00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:19.800 and they smoked me on that. You know, I see a lot of 610 00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:22.639 people taking Kentucky and I just don't know that I can do that. No, 611 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:25.800 I had I had them losing, uh Mark, No, I have 612 00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:30.840 them losing the NC State. Yeah, oh wow. So you know, 613 00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:35.079 and and and Marquete just doesn't have the juice for me, right, and 614 00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:37.679 they're like, let's take this call. They're Creighton to me. They just 615 00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:42.119 don't have enough of a reputation. Good team, Right, let's take this 616 00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:45.199 call. Hi, you're on the air and I on the ball. Hide 617 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:49.519 Jim, Hey, Jim, how you doing, buddy? I'm good? 618 00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:53.239 How are you? Thanks for calling? Well, I'm telling you I'd be 619 00:42:53.320 --> 00:43:00.199 better off if you do me a favor tonight. That is, just go 620 00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:07.880 ahead and email me your pigs so you can go opposite. I know where 621 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.039 you're going, Jim, go ahead, say it. Say it. No. 622 00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:14.519 I don't need to finish. I just want to have some idea of 623 00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:19.400 what not to do. Well, like I said so far, I'm chock 624 00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:22.159 on my final four with Yukon in Arizona. But going to the other side 625 00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:25.159 of the bracket, I still don't know. I still don't know, Jim. 626 00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:30.400 But I feel hard. Yeah, I know you feel free. I 627 00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:34.599 just I deserve the hard time. But yeah, I called in. I 628 00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:38.000 made a point of calling in when you picked up the football team to go 629 00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:43.480 ten three, and I made a big deal out of that. So who 630 00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:47.400 are you taking? I have no idea. Yeah, yeah, exactly. 631 00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:52.079 I thought I was late. These guys are really no man. You know, 632 00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.480 I got to have all the information. Look if I picked a bracket 633 00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:58.599 and we found out that Kansas dude was injured, and I taking Kansas, 634 00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:04.840 now we know, right? I like Houston and I like Purdue, all 635 00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:07.159 right, all right, well, which is pretty easy to do. Well 636 00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:10.320 that's so easy for you because I'm not taking Purdue. I'll tell you that 637 00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:15.840 right now. I am so. I think I think Houston gets the nudge 638 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:22.639 for me because they're so physical and they're there. They play defense. Yeah, 639 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:31.480 defense seems to throw a just skew every good team's game. They're unrecognizable 640 00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:36.039 when it's over. Yeah, I hear you. I hear you, all 641 00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:37.880 right, Jim. Hey, it's baseball season. Man, It's baseball season. 642 00:44:38.239 --> 00:44:43.360 Next week. We can talk about baseball the week after, and it's 643 00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:47.280 about it's about time to give my little league updates. All right, man, 644 00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:52.760 we'll talk to Larry. Thanks for calling. Appreciate it. Jim and 645 00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:57.880 I coached little league together. Okay, so you're out on Houston, out 646 00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:00.480 on Houston. I have Nebraska. Then in the second, you know, 647 00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:02.079 when it comes down to it, I might, I might get back on 648 00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:06.159 them. But I'm looking at that. I'm looking at the top four seeds 649 00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:09.239 there, and none of them float me right in that top right backet and 650 00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:12.480 the yeah in the in the in the south bracket, which is the top 651 00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:16.679 right. You got Houston, Marquette is the two. Kentucky Duke is the 652 00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:22.400 four. I don't got Duke, and I gotta take somebody. You do, 653 00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:25.719 you do eventually. The thing with Kentucky is that Cala Perry's had all 654 00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:30.800 these teams and coached a lot of freshmen, and this year is extremely freshman 655 00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:37.079 oriented, and I just it's really hard unless they're all world players like you 656 00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:40.719 had when Anthony Davis won and Karl Anthon Townsend Booker. It's hard for them 657 00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:44.920 to just get over that get over that peak. So that's why I think 658 00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:46.599 it might be a little tough for them. Yeah, we'll see, but 659 00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:51.519 yeah, here's what Here's what my issue is with with all of these teams 660 00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:54.639 is that being in Arizona guy, Right, you're in Arizona, growing up 661 00:45:54.679 --> 00:46:00.199 in Arizona fan, I think more about the losses than the wins, right, 662 00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:07.599 And all these teams in Houston, Duke, Kentucky, Marquette, Purdue, 663 00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:10.440 everybody, they've all lost recently, and I can't get that out of 664 00:46:10.519 --> 00:46:15.360 my mind, Like you know that they still might be really damn good, 665 00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:20.119 And that's that's that's sort of the problem I have with with taking one of 666 00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.559 these guys. I think I'm on the side with Jim on the last, 667 00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:27.840 Like Houston, these guys are men playing defense. Yeah, they're gonna shut 668 00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:31.559 teams down and they're they're just not gonna go lightly. I definitely like Houston 669 00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:35.599 on that side. Yea. And I like Markat too. I think I 670 00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:39.960 got to see, especially if Tyler Kolok plays, he's one of the best 671 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:45.920 guards in the country and he makes he's he's the conductor of that of that 672 00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:51.079 train. He makes it go and he's he's fantastic. I think I'm going 673 00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:57.119 Tennessee in the Midwest. I think I'm gonna do that. They're They're coming 674 00:46:57.159 --> 00:47:00.000 in as a two seed, and I just think somebody along the way is 675 00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:04.559 gonna is gonna find a way to beat Zach Eaedy and produce just not gonna 676 00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:06.519 get there. So we have three out of the four. So I've got 677 00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:10.760 three out of the four. I'm stuck on the on the South region and 678 00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:15.239 I may end up defaulting to the one seed over there, but I Houston 679 00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:20.320 at this moment, I'm not ready to commit to any of those guys. 680 00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:27.360 I'm just not I've committed Iowa State. It's really hard to repeat in college 681 00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:30.719 basketball. Hasn't been done since Florida in eight or oh seven, oh eight. 682 00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:34.400 So I do think you come is one of the best teams in the 683 00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:38.760 country, but Iowa State and my heart tells me no, but my mind 684 00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:44.880 says, Arizona out of that out of that section is probably the best team, 685 00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:47.800 especially, and I think there's some wiggle room to if they don't play 686 00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:52.760 to their quote potential, they can still sneak away with a game. Like 687 00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:57.960 two years ago, when we lost to Houston, barely beat TCU. That 688 00:47:58.199 --> 00:48:01.400 that Houston game. We couldn't. We had to play great to win that 689 00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:05.960 game, right, Yeah, we got right. That's take this call higher 690 00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:08.079 on the air, on the ball. Yeah, Hey, how you guys 691 00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:13.599 doing. We're good? How are you goody? They gave they said a 692 00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:19.519 recent stat it was like twenty five and ten if you lost by twenty points 693 00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:24.480 sometime during the year. No, no, the last couple of games you 694 00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:29.599 get blown out. Okay, before the tournament starts, Houston, I'll call 695 00:48:29.599 --> 00:48:32.239 it right now, Houston ain't making it to the Grade eight like I used 696 00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:37.519 to have the other number ones going to it. You got all the this 697 00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:39.840 is Howard right, yeah, yeah, you got all the number ones except 698 00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:44.000 Houston. Oh yeah, they're going to be knocked out, right, Yeah, 699 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:45.760 they're going to be knocked out. And uh, Kentucky, by the 700 00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:51.000 way, has a good Uh they have a good draw to get to to 701 00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:53.119 the state. I got to go into the final four. I'll tell you 702 00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:58.800 now, who do you have winning it? I got two Wildcats in the 703 00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:01.239 championship game. Look at you, Look at you believe it? At that? 704 00:49:01.679 --> 00:49:05.440 Okay? All right? I like that. I like that all right, 705 00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:08.239 hey, because we got we got I think our guards don't. I 706 00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:13.679 think this is the first time when the year before where you have two teams 707 00:49:13.719 --> 00:49:15.800 that made it, two players on your team that made it to the final 708 00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:20.519 four, right in both San Diego. Yeah, I think that's going to 709 00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:25.519 help. It sounds like they're expecting to they Tommy feels like he said today 710 00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:29.639 that he feels like they've gotten some run with that. That having those two 711 00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:34.400 guys to help the other guys understand has been meaningful to the team. So 712 00:49:34.639 --> 00:49:37.239 yeah, all right, I think. So, Hey, what time does 713 00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:40.679 the game start? Eleven o'clock tomorrow morning? Oh yeah, eleven am. 714 00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:44.880 It's the first game. Not a great it's the first game in Salt Lake 715 00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:47.480 City. So what are we What are we predicted about? Twenty points? 716 00:49:47.559 --> 00:49:52.639 It's what's it's twenty and a half? Hey you look, hey, I 717 00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:55.960 can I can do this twenty points? I guess all right, man, 718 00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:01.159 all right, all right, one appreciate the call. I don't know, 719 00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:07.440 man, we understand this genuinely. Is that what easy money? Or like, 720 00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:14.000 listen, I and that's why these handicappers know, yeah, they do. 721 00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:17.639 My thing is you a has we we were coming off a loss in 722 00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:22.559 the PAC twelve tournament where both Caleb Blood, both Caleb b Love and Caylem 723 00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:30.440 Boswell are quote guards have not played well and the track record in these tournament 724 00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:34.480 games are just not good for us. And you and I get. I 725 00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:37.679 get the whole story of Long Beach State has quote momentum one five in a 726 00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:40.719 row, fired their coach. It's a great story, and they could easily 727 00:50:42.079 --> 00:50:44.599 Like a lot of people are like, oh, this could be a blowout 728 00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:49.280 game for Arizona, but until Arizona actually blows someone out, that they should 729 00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:53.199 blow out to me, to me, because it's going to be U of 730 00:50:53.239 --> 00:50:55.480 A is going to push the pace, It's going to be up and down. 731 00:50:55.519 --> 00:51:00.239 And so either Long Beach State wants to hang and they make some shots 732 00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:04.639 and they think that they can be in the game, or it just goes 733 00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:08.719 the opposite way, which I don't think that. I think eighteen. Yeah, 734 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:10.599 do you think twenty is just too much? I think twenty is too 735 00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:15.519 much, especially in the first round of an NCAA tournament. Well, you 736 00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:21.800 know, it used to be that the one sixteen game, you always gave 737 00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:25.639 the point if it was thirty five points, whatever you take, and you 738 00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:30.800 almost can't do that anymore this tournament. These brackets are different, they're so 739 00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:35.719 even. I mean there's higher seeds that are favored a lot, yeah, 740 00:51:35.960 --> 00:51:38.119 I think, yeah, I agree with you, and twenties kind of Yeah, 741 00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:40.639 that's kind of a stresshold, right, I think. Yeah, any 742 00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:44.960 number could say what you want and say what you want about all the seeds 743 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:50.039 and everybody who's in the tournament. If you're in this bracket, you're a 744 00:51:50.039 --> 00:51:52.960 pretty good basketball test. Yeah. And the beauty of this, and I 745 00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:55.480 know we only have a minute left, but the beauty of March Madness, 746 00:51:55.519 --> 00:52:00.519 which everybody likes, is that it's not a series you have to wait well 747 00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:05.440 today, and it's the common saying of anybody can win on any given and 748 00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:07.920 you found that out last year as an Arizona Wildcat fan. And if you 749 00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:14.119 were a Purdue Boy boiler Maker like Virginia Cavalier, like if you don't have 750 00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:16.039 it on one day, your season's over. And that's the beauty and that's 751 00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:21.840 why everyone loves it. And that's why it's pissing me off. Right here 752 00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:23.679 we are, man, We've been waiting all year for this, We've been 753 00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:27.920 talking about this, and with all the the wins, and the losses and 754 00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:31.559 say, none of it matters until you get here. And we're here finally, 755 00:52:31.760 --> 00:52:36.800 so we'll be back tomorrow. We'll have some folks here to break down 756 00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:38.599 the game. The game will have been only over only a couple of hours 757 00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:42.840 by the time we come on the air, so we'll sort of do almost 758 00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:46.599 a postgame show, uh with. We'll get Steve from from Salt Lake City 759 00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:52.239 to get his thoughts on what we just saw. But Arizona at at oh 760 00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:57.440 just just got a confirmation Reggie Gary will join us tomorrow to break the game 761 00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:00.239 down. So we'll have Reggie on and so that'll be great, right, 762 00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:02.239 all right, So we'll see you tomorrow. Good luck to the cats, 763 00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:05.760 both the men and the women, and we'll see how it goes. So 764 00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:07.639 we win, I think we win, I do all right, great, 765 00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:08.559 let's do it all right,