WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.639 So the Fred Hoiberg coached Iowa State Cyclones in the year twenty fifteen have defeated 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:09.679 the Kansas Jayhawks. Wait wait, wait, I'm getting a text from what 3 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:13.439 seems to be just the Big twelve in general. Oh, it's not twenty 4 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:17.960 fifteen anymore. Yes, twenty twenty four, and Iowa State is still hitting 5 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:22.359 threes against Kansas and still beating them in Hillton Coliseum. Welcome Inside the Paint. 6 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:26.800 Liane's on the show and I'm opening it for some reason. Yea, 7 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:31.120 I am the co host, Johnny Kansas. Oh that is kind of weird 8 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:35.359 whenever you go first, because then I go second. Right, I'll just 9 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:38.960 I'll just say I'm ashamed of Kansas Twitter. How about that? How about 10 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:43.119 that? Are Kansas X? Because you know that's why. So this is 11 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:47.679 a very bizarre setup today on Inside the Paint. First off, there's no 12 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:51.719 Nick because he's a quitter. He's already mailed it in. Second of all, 13 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:57.359 Landon, you are not at your normal recording headquarters. I'm in a 14 00:00:57.399 --> 00:01:00.399 hotel room that's about two hundred square feet. My life is five feet from 15 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:04.560 me. Our neighbors in the room behind us are just one wall away. 16 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:08.599 So they all get to hear the parade. I'm sure how lucky everybody is. 17 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:12.599 Yeah, so this is weird parade. Dedicated and confident and confident and 18 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:17.359 dedicated are we? Why aren't you? What is your setup? It's weirder 19 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:21.400 than mine. Yeah, it is weirder than yours. I'm also not in 20 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:23.719 my house like you said. I'm in what amounts to a large hotel room. 21 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:29.400 It's basically like a cabin in Cocker City, Kansas, which, for 22 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:34.519 the keen eared listeners out there, is where the world's largest ball of twine 23 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.239 resides. I'm not here for the ball of twine. I'm here because my 24 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:42.640 aunt and uncle are moving to They're moving in the area and I was helping 25 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:47.439 them out today and it wasn't until well after I offered to help that I 26 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:52.200 realized that this show was going to have to happen. So my gracious uncle 27 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:57.400 has allowed me to record on his work laptop with audio software that I have 28 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:02.799 not used before in what is a very echoe uh recording spot. Though I 29 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:07.680 did check previous audio and it sounds okay, So my apologies. If it 30 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:09.680 doesn't, we're gonna roll with it because you all, you know how fun 31 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:15.360 it is to try to Frankenstein together. So when we're missing one of the 32 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:17.879 audio funds, actually the worst thing ever. Yeah, it's it's bad. 33 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:22.000 Yeah that so hopefully we don't have to do that. But that's how that's 34 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.520 how dedicated. Everybody here is talking about Bill's Jayhawks on a day when the 35 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:29.360 Chiefs are going back to the Super Bowl and landon your they're not even your 36 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:32.879 favorite team right now. The Detroit Lions decided to are also out. Yeah, 37 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:38.080 they they decided to North Carolina in the second half of the Championship game 38 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:43.120 themselves there in the second half in Santa Clara. Uh you. Nick has 39 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:47.240 said that you have become so I don't care about the outcome of sports, 40 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:52.199 that that's become something you care about. The Chiefs are going to the League 41 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:54.800 Super true. The Chiefs are going to Super Bowl. Kansas has lost three 42 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:59.280 out of five, And do you really like you're just kind of okay, 43 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.680 let's see what how happens on both. Yeah, I have no actual emotion 44 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:06.520 towards either of those things, to be quite honest, that's interesting. I've 45 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:12.240 become way more interested in, like just what is more interesting than exclusively my 46 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:15.319 team winning, which is weird, because that's never how I've thought before. 47 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:16.599 Yeah, I get it. I get it because the Chiefs have won a 48 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:20.039 lot. The Jayhawks have won a lot. Jayhawks of USS have lost a 49 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:23.639 lot recently. We have a whole bunch of interesting takes here. They are 50 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:27.319 either the worst basketball team ever if you're on Twitter, or if you're me. 51 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:30.680 It's all a fluke. There's no in between. There's no method to 52 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.759 madness whatsoever. So let's go ahead. Let's blow the airhorn, which is 53 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:37.800 going to be at a quiet volume today because of the sound setups that we 54 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:42.000 have. I love. I love losing like two percent of my hearing every 55 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:43.719 show. All right, you know what, just for you all, blast 56 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:46.280 that just once and then Angie can't get Nope, I'm getting a very not 57 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.560 very I'm not getting a very supportive face over there. So let's go. 58 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:55.319 Let's go ahead and keep it down. Here we go. Number twenty three, 59 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:01.000 Iowa State, seventy nine, Number seven, can Kansas seventy five, 60 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:11.199 seventy two. Well not for Kevin mccover, my good sir, splashing in 61 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:15.199 that one win in some money iving friends would disagree with me adamantly. That 62 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:18.519 last shot mattered for some, but not for the game story, because really 63 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:21.560 it didn't. You're right. It was a last second three that turned a 64 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:26.120 seven point l into a four point one, an ugly first half that saw 65 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:29.600 ninety eight combined second half point so we did get to see some offense in 66 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:31.920 one of these games for the first time since the Hoyberg days. Iowa State 67 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:35.639 built a ten point lead five minutes in the second half. Kansas never caught 68 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:40.600 up. Oh yeah, and then there was Iowa State making fourteen threes, 69 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.879 which is the most they've made in a game in three years. The Jayhawks 70 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:47.000 cut the deficit to seventy four to seventy two inside the final minute, but 71 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:50.600 the fourteenth and final three of the night on a broken play. Nonetheless, 72 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:56.560 at the shot clock buzzer splashed through the net and it ended Kansas's comeback bid 73 00:04:56.959 --> 00:05:02.279 sent them to their third road loss already. I watched the first I tried 74 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:06.199 to watch this game on a Southwest flight, and that went about as well 75 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:12.000 as it sounds. Nick was texting me updates and then I got to see 76 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:16.879 I actually by the time I got the CBS Sports iPad app, because not 77 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:21.160 Paramount, because why would they make it easy? And the airport Wi Fi 78 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:26.079 set up right when we got to the baggage claim. I got the iPad 79 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:29.839 on and at seventy four to seventy two with a minute left, just to 80 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.720 watch that very last three pointer that was yeaded at the last second go, 81 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:40.920 and so it was all for not really Kansas. I may as well didn't 82 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:44.120 watch more or less didn't, but I saw that that was fun. You 83 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.600 actually got to watch. What did you think? I mostly got to watch. 84 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.040 I was still helping my aunt and uncle move, so I saw most 85 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:56.319 of the game somehow, but it was mostly on like a forty inch TV 86 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:00.920 while eating a sandwich. So it sounds like still a smaller teav than normal 87 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:05.199 robust analysis today. Hey, that's okay, because I went to YouTube and 88 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:09.800 watched the highlights of this game, and they're basically just all Iowa State less 89 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.879 than twenty five percent three point shooters making threes. That's all it was. 90 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:15.600 They did happen a lot. Yeah, yeah, we gotta start with that, 91 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:17.279 by the way, Like I'm sure we'll give plenty of analysis, but 92 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.399 let's go and get into this here. Iowa State fourteen for thirty on threes. 93 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:27.360 That's forty seven percent. Trey King, who had made just three threes 94 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:31.839 all year, goes out and makes four. UCF West Virginia and Iowa State, 95 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.600 none of whom are necessarily good three point shooting teams have now gone thirty 96 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:40.639 three for seventy one shooting threes against KU, which is forty seven percent. 97 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:44.920 Let's let's let's just do this here. Are they really bad at guarding the 98 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:47.120 three? I'm just gonna ask you yes or no? Because Twitter is Twitter 99 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:54.439 has all sorts of opinions. Sorry x, sorry Elon. They are fine 100 00:06:54.639 --> 00:07:00.959 guarding the three, but that is not why teams are making threes at this 101 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:06.360 rate. Okay, I think they could be better at allowing in rhythm catches 102 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:11.319 and ball screen defense and all those kind of things. I think they could 103 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:16.199 be better than they are. However, teams are making threes at like historic 104 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:23.279 rates against them. That's not because of mediocre defense. That's because of weird 105 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:29.040 basketball luck. For the most part, some threes teams are making can be 106 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.959 more directly contributed to the idea that Kansas is not defending the three point line 107 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:38.439 very well. They are seeing some more open shooters at times, but I 108 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:43.639 think that's a very miniscule percent in comparison to the threes that they're actually giving 109 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:48.079 up, which, as you have pointed out, Ryan is fluky, is 110 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:51.480 lucky. But it's happening very consistently, which is really weird. Like, 111 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:56.560 I don't know how to quite pair those things, because consistency usually does not 112 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:00.560 mean luck. It's actually usually the proof that it isn't luck. But in 113 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:05.079 this case, I do think there is some weird fluky thing that keeps happening. 114 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:07.959 This happened a couple of years ago too, We had very similar conversations 115 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:11.879 where Kansas was giving up a lot of threes, but like there was no 116 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:18.720 real reason why other than teams were just simply hitting more. Even if there 117 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:22.839 was maybe a slight decline in defense, the increase in made threes was so 118 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:26.480 much. I think that's what's happening again this year. It's a very weird 119 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.360 thing to observe. Yeah, And what happened after those stretches, I mean, 120 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.519 what happens is then you have a seven or eight game stretch where the 121 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:39.600 pendulum swings back, and you have those month's worth of games where teams shoot 122 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:43.720 twenty seven percent instead of forty seven percent from three against you, and all 123 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.600 the people go on Twitter and talk about how great Bell self is for fixing 124 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.360 this defense. And I told you on the last show that three point defense, 125 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:52.720 the biggest attribute of it is more or less luck. There've been. 126 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.159 I mean, Iowa State was one of the worst three point from an efficiency 127 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:00.799 perspective, one of the worst three point shooting team in college basketball entering this 128 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:01.879 game. And they go out and they make more than they made in the 129 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.679 game in three years. Kansas had an allowed fourteen threes in a game since 130 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.799 February of twenty nineteen. Like, did they just forget how to guard? 131 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.320 They held Cincinnati to three threes the other night, so and that was after 132 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.080 a West Virginia game where they didn't guard, and then they did guard really 133 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.919 good against Cincinnati, and then they just sucked again in this one. I 134 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.159 guess I don't. It's really hard to keep up with. Three point shooting 135 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:26.200 is more or less flukey. It always has been. We've seen random performances 136 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.519 and bill South Kansas teams. If there has been one achilles heel over the 137 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:33.320 years, it's been that they've been very susceptible to getting blitzed from three point 138 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.039 range in games that they would win nine out of ten times right out of 139 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.120 ten times, and they don't. And this isn't a game that they would 140 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:41.360 have won that much. But we've seen it in tournament losses the double digit 141 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:45.919 seeds, and I think that's kind of what you had. What happens whenever 142 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:50.000 you have strong interior defense, and teams just say, were our best chances 143 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.039 to launch threes? And in this case, Iowa State did not have a 144 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:56.600 lot of interest in trying to go up against the worst defender in the history 145 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.200 of college basketball, Hunter Dickinson, as I've been told on this show. 146 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.240 So they, I said, just decided their best shot was to launch threes, 147 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:07.279 and it worked. And here we have Kansas allowing fourteen threes, losing 148 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:11.799 to a top twenty team gonna be top twenty come Monday on the road by 149 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:16.039 just four points. Like I this is the part where we kind of transition 150 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:22.120 into now what because they've lost three out of five. The four and three 151 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.879 record is the worst they've ever been through seven games in the Big twelve race. 152 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:28.960 Under yourself, what happens next? Like is this, Are you feeling 153 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:33.919 better about this team now than you were before it? Are you feeling better 154 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:39.879 about them than you were before the UCF game. Where does all this stack 155 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:45.279 up? Is it time to sound the panic alarm? Uh No? I 156 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:48.720 mean well, I think that depends on exactly where you were before the startup 157 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:50.879 conference play. I guess uh No. For me, I don't think so. 158 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:56.039 I don't think it's time to hit the panic button. I feel almost 159 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:00.120 exactly the same probably about this team right now than I did going in to 160 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:05.279 it. I think Iowa State is like pretty solid and I think and very 161 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:09.519 hard to beat at Hilton, Yes, exactly. That's one of the that 162 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.679 might be the best home court not named allenfield House in the Big Twelve. 163 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.519 That's a place that KAU has lost before, and they've had great teams that 164 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:24.679 have lost up there before. I don't know. I'm not super worried about 165 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:26.759 it. But then again, I think almost exactly the same about this team 166 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.279 then I did going in. I think Kansas is a good basketball team that 167 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:37.360 has some flaws. I do think overall, they actually aren't that great of 168 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:39.519 a defensive team. I think they actually do have some genuine defensive flaws, 169 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:46.039 but I still think they're a very solid team. I don't think you have 170 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:50.799 a ton to worry about. I think there's a very good chance that they 171 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:56.000 lose like less than three games the rest of Big Twelve play, even though 172 00:11:56.039 --> 00:12:01.879 the schedule is a gauntlet. I don't think Kansas is going to be lose 173 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.120 seventy five percent of their road games in the Big Twelve. I don't think 174 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.840 that's the team they are, So no, I would not panic. I 175 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:13.799 a would state as good, and the Big Twelve is a very difficult conference 176 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:16.000 to win road games in. Well, in the Big Twelve. I mean, 177 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:24.039 for that standings, the Jayhawks very well may have cost themselves eventually, 178 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:28.240 whether it's an outright or a shared Big Twelve title, by losing to two 179 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.559 of the three worst teams in the league on the road. Right, if 180 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:33.399 they don't win the league, they're not going to be four games out of 181 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:35.639 first. If they don't win the league, it'll be by a game or 182 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.279 two, and we'll point to the UCF and West Virginia games and say that's 183 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:43.879 why they didn't win the league. However, one bill self said yesterday that 184 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.039 he didn't think that conference titles meant quite as much now that we're not playing 185 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.159 a balance schedule, which is partly true and also partly sounds like something you'd 186 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:56.440 only say whenever you realize your chances of winning the conference title are not as 187 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:58.240 good as they were at the beginning of the year. But the other part 188 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:03.639 is that has no bearing whatsoever on Kansas reaching its ceiling. If they end 189 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.039 up finishing second or third in the Big Twelve because they lost to UCF. 190 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:09.600 Did that keep them from finishing first? Yes, it did. Did that 191 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:13.080 keep them from reaching what they could and how well they could be playing by 192 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.440 that point in the year. No, it won't have anything to do with 193 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:20.919 it. Kansas fans value conference championships more than any basketball fan base in the 194 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.360 country. Still, after the streak has ended, that I think that's died 195 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:26.879 a little bit, but it's still something fans want to do. Kansas has 196 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:31.159 won seventeen to the last twenty Big twelves, and I agree with you. 197 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:33.799 I think they're going to win the Big twelve. I'm gonna call the shot 198 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:35.799 right here, and I put this on Twitter and I said, you know, 199 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.000 you can laugh at this take and blow it up if it winds up 200 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:41.919 being a disaster, which it could, but if I'm right, I want 201 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:46.440 some apologies. I think Kansas goes nine to two in their last eleven Big 202 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:48.200 Twelve games. I think they finished thirteen to five, and I have one 203 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:52.120 of those losses as a loss in Houston to end the regular season, So 204 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:54.600 I guess I'm kind of saying I think they might win nine of their next 205 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:58.559 ten games, and I think they'll go into that last game of the season 206 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.159 in a similar spot as they last year, where it's just going to be 207 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:05.000 I'm not gonna say a meaningless game, but they'll already have a piece of 208 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:07.120 the Big Twelve wrapped up by the final game of the year. That I 209 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:11.360 think. I mean that I've looked at the schedule and I feel better about 210 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:13.159 Kansas now than I did before the game. I think they played well at 211 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:16.639 Iowa State. The offense scored seventy five points against a really good defense. 212 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:20.279 It took Iowa State making fourteen threes to keep it that close, and you 213 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.480 can guarantee that Iowa State didn't walk out of that thinking, oh man, 214 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:26.120 if we got to play Kansas again tomorrow, we've got them. I think 215 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:28.879 Kansas played fine. I think the games you're looking out of the UCF and 216 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:33.240 the West Virginia games, which were both fluky and nature yesterday, they just 217 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.360 got beat by a good team on the road, and they played pretty well. 218 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:39.879 I think Kansas played a B B plus game yesterday. That's just basketball. 219 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:41.840 It happens. You can't be in the camp of this league is so 220 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:46.159 good all our teams deserve to make the tournament and then also be on the 221 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.720 camp of why didn't we beat every road team, like even West Virginia and 222 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.519 Oklahoma State, or even West Virginia and UCF have been better in the last 223 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:54.879 couple weeks that we thought so. I don't know, that's my stance. 224 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:58.759 Could these losses cost them a big twelve? Yes, quite possibly. Well 225 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:01.559 that matter. No, I still think they're one of the five best teams 226 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.080 in the country. Can you I ask you this, every loss, can 227 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:11.320 you name five teams right now definitively better than them? You know, I 228 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:15.120 think it's a very good question. I think it's an interesting question. I 229 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:20.480 think I'm starting to get close because I'm starting to hedge that Houston might be 230 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:26.639 better, which would give me like Purdue, North Carolina, Yukon, Arizona, 231 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:30.879 Houston. See, I'm not ready to say Arizona. They both have 232 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:35.000 four losses. Kansas is a better schedule. I'm definitely not ready to concede 233 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:39.120 North Carolina. Yet you don't think Kansas is at minimum eight and one in 234 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:41.799 the ACC with that schedule? Oh and to be fair, yes, the 235 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.440 ACC and the PAC twelve are absolute garbage. Let's switch to you and C's 236 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:50.480 schedule. With Kansas's. They've played four road games and they've played TCU at 237 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:54.639 home. They've played Cincinnati at home, They've played you know, Oklahoma at 238 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:58.039 home. I bet North Carolina has multiple losses if they're in Kansas's shoes. 239 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:02.559 I agree, I definitely agree. So you bet, and like this conference 240 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:03.879 gives you so many chances for quad one wins. I don't know. Do 241 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:07.720 you think they win the Big twelve? Not outright, I don't think they 242 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.279 win it out right. I'd be surprised. Okay, but you think they 243 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:18.000 could. But you think they'll finish top three in the Big twelve? Yeah, 244 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:19.919 I would at the same rate. I would be very surprised if they 245 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:23.200 finish much worse than that. Yeah, I think. I think third would 246 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:30.759 be decently low. How many conference games they win, I think the prediction 247 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:34.720 that makes the most sense right now is thirteen. Okay, again, I 248 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:38.480 don't think they will. I don't think they are going to lose that many 249 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:42.559 more road games, and I don't think they'll lose more than maybe one home 250 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:47.039 game. So I'll say thirteen and five. I think that's usually how Kansas 251 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:51.360 figures it out. I could see twelve and six at the same rate I 252 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:52.679 could see fourteen and four, because I do think this is a really good 253 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:56.519 team, but that schedule is pretty brutal. So I'll say there's two losses 254 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:00.679 in there. Okay, So thirteen and five would put them entering the Big 255 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:03.039 Twelve Tournament at twenty five and six, and then what we're gonna give them 256 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:07.240 two Big Twelve Tournament wins? Say they're twenty seven and seven with all those 257 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:11.039 quad one wins, that's a one seed. Yep. That was last year. 258 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:14.839 Disagree that they were. That's exactly what they were entering the tournament last 259 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:17.279 year, and a lot of people thought they were in line to be the 260 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:22.599 one overall until their coach's heart stopped working right and they had to They got 261 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.079 boat raced by Texas in the Big Twelve title game, and even then people 262 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:29.240 had thought they had an argument to be at minimum the second one seed. 263 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.000 And we know how that worked out. We do. They were paired with 264 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:37.319 a bunch of teams that are that wind up being pretty good and it didn't 265 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:38.680 go good. So yes, I'm gonna say they still in the Big twelve. 266 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:42.000 I haven't seen I feel better about them. And and you know what, 267 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:45.799 people on Twitter can say, Oh, this is such optimism. This 268 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:49.880 is so here's the other thing that i'll I'll say about this. Which side 269 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:53.920 of the coin would you rather gamble on? Based off of the track record 270 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:57.400 here? Could they fall through the floor and finish fifth in the Big Twelve 271 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:00.880 and lose in the first round and get a sick seed? Yeah, absolutely 272 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:07.799 that could happen to them. But what happens more that or they have Yeah 273 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:12.440 the thing that has never ever happened exactly exactly what happens more they don't get 274 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:15.359 it figured out in February or they do, because nine times out of ten 275 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:19.119 they get it figured out in February, and even the times they quote unquote 276 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.880 don't, they're like a four seed. Yeah, that's the that's the worst 277 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.000 case because there's so many the one, they're so good at home, and 278 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:30.200 two there's so many opportunities for quality wins in this conference. What's the floor 279 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.000 if the floor falls out there like a five seed, look at their resume. 280 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.680 Yeah, when you when you can out coach and out talent pretty much 281 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:41.559 everyone. You play every single night and you have one of, if not 282 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:45.440 the single best home court advantage in the sport that you're just gonna win a 283 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.960 lot of games. You're just gonna win a lot of games. And they're 284 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:52.759 starting five. I would put up against just about anybody's the bench is killing 285 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:56.039 him. Let's get into that here. Let's talk about Hunter Dickenson, who 286 00:18:56.079 --> 00:19:00.200 has been accused of not playing super well in physical games. This was a 287 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.319 pretty physical game. Kansas was had a big foul advantage. They shot a 288 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:07.960 lot of free throws, and I think you got to give him credit for 289 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:14.680 most of that. Yeah, he was slow out of the gate. I 290 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:17.240 honestly, I'm not even sure if he read his style line I'm so tired. 291 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:19.640 No, I did not. You sound quite tired. Let's we can 292 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:23.680 theme roll through this. I can get you there one hundred. Dickinson twenty 293 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:27.160 points, fifteen rebounds, four cysts in thirty eight minutes. He fouled just 294 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:30.920 twice as well, nine to eighteen from the floor. Did start slow, 295 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:33.960 definitely picked it up in the second half. He snapped an OH for twelve 296 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:40.200 streak from three with one in the final minutes, which was big that drew 297 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:44.440 Kansas very close. Kansas did well in the glass overall, finishing plus six. 298 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:48.200 It's by Iowa State making everything. So I'm definitely happy with Dickens's performance. 299 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:52.039 He was big reason why the game remained close at the end. I 300 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:56.039 imagine you are as well. I think it's funny how people act like this 301 00:19:56.119 --> 00:20:00.680 offense is so hard to watch and they're clunky, and I'm pretty sure that 302 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:03.880 the worst Kansas has shot in any of their Big twelve losses is like forty 303 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:07.680 seven percent from the floor, like they I know it was over fifty in 304 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.799 the first two in this one. Yeah, forty five in this one, 305 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:12.960 and that was just because of the three point shooting, which wasn't very good. 306 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:18.559 Twenty for forty on twos. Dickinson also making fifty percent of his As 307 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:22.039 you said, yeah, Hunter Dickinson, it was just fine. You knew 308 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:26.640 that he'd have a pretty good matchup in this game, and he did his 309 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:30.079 part. Twenty and fifteen should be enough. And we're gonna talk about kind 310 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.319 of I think we're gonna have the kJ Adams conversation later, which I'm gonna 311 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:37.480 have some spicy takes on that that some people are not going to be crazy 312 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:42.480 about. But I think considering the the group of players that Dickinson is playing 313 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:47.160 around, it's remarkable he gets twenty and fifteen as much as he does. 314 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:51.599 Yeah, I agree. I mean he continues to be really, really good. 315 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:55.160 I think it was a really good second half from him. I don't 316 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:57.279 think there's too much more to analyze there. I thought he's softer on defense 317 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:00.680 and a lot of people like, but that really wasn't the problem here. 318 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:03.079 Let's talk about mccullor and then we'll get into the refs because huh, I'm 319 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:07.160 trying to keep that down as I'm trying to be quieter, but I don't 320 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:10.200 know if I can do well Whenever we talk about the well, I can't 321 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:11.960 shout it, so refs there. You have to think of that as volume 322 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:17.359 twenty. Kevin mccover hit two threes late to get his point total up to 323 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:21.359 sixteen, including one right at the horn that was very important to some, 324 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:23.480 but he really struggled overall. He was five for eighteen from the floor. 325 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:26.119 I think it was his worst game of the year until those late makes. 326 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.119 Turned it over five times. Also had four fouls. Just a ton of 327 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:34.640 damage done to Kansas there. Pretty difficult to be upset with a guy who's 328 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:37.359 won them so many games. It's gonna happen. Iowa State. It's a 329 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:41.519 good defensive team, but the zero for six from three killed them early. 330 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:45.680 He also had seven rebounds and three assists, but he struggled mightily until the 331 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:49.039 very end. We've said he's their most clutch player. He showed that again 332 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:52.680 with some big shots down the stretch. It was a little bit too late, 333 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:56.000 but a frustrating outing for McCuller, who just didn't get the role on 334 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:59.279 a couple of shots, was in the wrong place at the wrong time, 335 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:02.680 with a couple of foul and turn it over a lot. I'llbe it against 336 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:04.519 the team that forces a lot of turnovers. Kansas did okay turning the ball 337 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:08.759 over or not doing that. Mccullar had almost half five of their eleven turnovers. 338 00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:11.559 It's gonna happen, right, Nothing to be too discouraged about. Just 339 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:15.480 ran into a good defense. Still managed to score sixteen, which is a 340 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.640 mark of a great player. Yep, very similar to one I think we've 341 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:22.559 said in pretty much every loss. Uh mccullar not the problem. Yeah, 342 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.119 there might be a low shooting percentage, but I mean, he's the guy 343 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:29.839 that you want taking a lot of these shots, and he does and sometimes 344 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:32.319 they don't go in, but he was still very solid. All Right, 345 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:33.279 you want to talk about the refs, let's do it. Let's let's talk 346 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:38.240 about the well I'm trying to This is the part where normally, you know 347 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:41.119 what I would do if I wasn't in a hotel room, I would turn 348 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:45.279 up the volume all the way and play a bunch of times. But because 349 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:52.559 I'm in a hotel room, I'm also not gonna push this. And most 350 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:56.240 of all, because we're in a hotel room, I'm definitely not gonna sit 351 00:22:56.279 --> 00:23:00.839 here and do this. But I'm glad you're not doing that because you're in 352 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:03.960 a hotel room. Obviously, Yeah, so can't do that. But well, 353 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:06.440 I'm not gonna read what I wrote about the refs and the notes. 354 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:10.880 But every game, it's every game, they're so bad, just just so 355 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:14.759 bad. I don't know if they are, like, I don't even know 356 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:18.119 if they're they're not even really more than a footnote. In this game, 357 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:22.039 there was a really bad foul on kJ Adams as Kansas was trying to make 358 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:25.680 a push, but it felt like Dickinson was getting bodied a lot and then 359 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:29.720 some easy stuff on the other whatever. Big twelve. Probably shouldn't have that 360 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:33.319 conversation because we know what team we root for. We shouldn't talk about home 361 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:36.000 court whistles. But you know what, I'm going to anyway, screw them. 362 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:38.519 Okay, I don't. I don't have a lot of details. Just 363 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:41.400 that's my thoughts. Yeah, I meither. I mean, there was bad 364 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.160 calls. There's always bad calls. I think they go in the direction about 365 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:49.640 teams. Yeah, I don't know. I'm never as quite as compelled by 366 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:53.240 talking about the refs as you are, But I mean, who could be 367 00:23:53.319 --> 00:24:00.519 really really not sure how the team that attempted half their shots as three pointers 368 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:03.480 still managed to take as many free throws as the team that took just about 369 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:08.319 every shot they took inside, including several times where Dickinson and Adams looked like 370 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:11.680 they were just bodied with no calls. But hey, you know what, 371 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:15.160 then who they played now, Oklahoma State. They're gonna have like a twenty 372 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:18.160 one to seven foul advantage in his next game, and people are gonna be 373 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:22.519 tweeting about it, So I'm not gonna make that criticism. Okay, let's 374 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:26.279 talk about Johnny Furfrey. He continues to be very very good. Yeah, 375 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:30.480 fifteen points, six rebounds in thirty five minutes for the Aussie five of eight 376 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:33.640 from the floor, and three of five from three. Since being inserted into 377 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:37.240 the starting lineup five games ago, which, man, that's already been five 378 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:41.640 games, Furfey's averaged fifteen points and he shot fifty percent from three. He 379 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:48.200 has been a stone cold killer. And yeah, I think, what's that 380 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:51.559 off in the distance. Oh, it's the NBA theme, which doesn't have 381 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:53.759 a theme. I don't even know it's it's music that I associate with the 382 00:24:53.880 --> 00:25:00.799 NBA. It's Adam Silver's bald head in my eyeballs. He's playing like a 383 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:03.279 like a lottery pick right now. Well, not so fast, not if 384 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:10.880 you work for Not if you're the senior national recruiting analyst for ON three Recruits, 385 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:14.680 which is a website that I've gotten a lot of information from over the 386 00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:18.240 years. And this is from a writer over there that has forty five thousand 387 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:21.000 Twitter followers, And this is a tweet I thought, I thought this was 388 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:25.720 a just a satire post. This is from Jamie Shaw five, who's one 389 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:29.839 of the riders over there, says, since Kansas moved Johnny Furfee into the 390 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:33.480 starting lineup, the Jayhawks are now three and two. They are just four 391 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:37.240 and three when Furfey plays at least eighteen minutes this year, But they were 392 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:41.559 thirteen and two when Almarco Jackson was starting for the Jayhawks. That's worse than 393 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.880 any take Rock Chalk Blog has ever had, and we've had some bad ones. 394 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:48.799 I agree, because look at the fifteen teams they played with al Marco 395 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:53.720 Jackson. Yes, some of them were Eastern Illinois exactly. Yeah, Furfee 396 00:25:53.839 --> 00:26:00.240 has been Kansas's third best player at worst over the last five ish game and 397 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:03.640 he's an eighteen year old freshman. He's not a good defender, No, 398 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:07.000 he's not a good defender, but he's giving them what they need on offense. 399 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.079 He's also part of the reason the bench is literally giving them nothing now 400 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:12.559 because he was the only good piece to come off of it. But they 401 00:26:12.599 --> 00:26:15.559 said they need a guy who can step up and shoot threes. They said 402 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:21.400 they need a guy who can who can give you double digit points and and 403 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.039 take a little bit off of mcculu and Dickinson. Well, here's a guy 404 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:26.920 that's made fifty percent of his threes and he's averaging fifteen to night. The 405 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:30.960 rest of the bench has to do something. Furfey is two hundred percent of 406 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:33.519 what we thought he'd be. Can anybody else be fifty percent of what we 407 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:38.359 thought they'd be off the bench? Anybody not Nick Timberlake. It's not Nick 408 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:44.279 Timberlake's been a better player this year than Almarco Jackson. That's crazy. I 409 00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:47.799 think he has been in conference play. He genuinely has been in conference Oh 410 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:49.599 it's not. It's not even a debate. And conference play you have as 411 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:53.759 many threes in conference play as Almarco Jackson do have as many? How many 412 00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:59.279 more field goals as you have? Like three? Three? Those stats are 413 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:02.559 in the notes. We'll get there whenever we talk about the horrible bench. 414 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:04.400 In fact, that's coming up. But first, you know, Kansas does 415 00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:07.920 have a white guy. We did talk about that, but of course we 416 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:14.839 have to talk a little bit about that volume going down. I would normally 417 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:17.599 yell white guy of the game, but you know this by now. I 418 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:22.240 actually had two or three different people tweet me fire up the Mario music on 419 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:26.680 Twitter. Whenever this was happening, Trey King going four for seven whenever he 420 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:29.200 entered having three all years. Great, but he's not white, so you 421 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:30.880 know we can't do that. What what do you want to read that? 422 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:37.279 Sound? There you go? Yeah? Three for five? Yeah, he 423 00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:40.880 looks like the Dodo bird that drops the watermelon in the first ice Age film. 424 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:45.839 That was my takeaway. Time to google that real quick. You're not 425 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:51.240 an ice age person, Come on, I love the ice Age as I 426 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:57.119 guess. It's a really long time ice age. Yeah, okay almost almost. 427 00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:03.319 Yeah he looks like Mala yep, yep, yeah, yeah he does. 428 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:08.119 Rock Chalk Blog got a good take. See that's better than the Johnny 429 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:12.880 Furfy sucks take that I just read you on Twitter. Yeah, there's how 430 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:15.960 many different white guys is Iowa State had that have done this? I remember 431 00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:19.880 who was? I I remember their faces, and I don't even remember their 432 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:23.640 names. I can't. Here's that one guy who actually played in the NBA 433 00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:27.119 for a minute, Matt Thomas. Yeah, Matt Thomas, that's the one. 434 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:32.200 I remember. That's the big one. Every every time he would and 435 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:34.720 and and he had like a dunk over Brandon Green, I believe, and 436 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:38.640 in a game that was just as the as the floor was falling out in 437 00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:41.720 garbage time there, and I was like, oh not just as he's not 438 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:45.400 just the white guy at the game shooting, he can also do that against 439 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:49.039 them. Yeah. No, Matt Thomas and Milan mom Silovitch or whatever, 440 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.799 Yeah they are. There are two peas in a pod up there in ames 441 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:59.680 Iowa. Great, although that wasn't even as bad as the bench for Kansas 442 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:03.799 to two points the second game in a row, Parker Brown his only shot. 443 00:29:04.119 --> 00:29:07.640 When Parker Brown is your only bench score, you know things are tough. 444 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:12.839 Oh that means things are out of yeap. But wasn't that negative because 445 00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:15.440 he got a flagrant fowl and therefore did not play in the second half. 446 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:21.640 Nick Timberlake, shockingly, everyone sit down was over three in seven minutes. 447 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:26.759 Jamar McDowell did play some, he got he got the down and backs in, 448 00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:32.200 he got some cardio in, get some of the pilates going for him, 449 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:33.640 because he, yep, didn't do anything else. And then there's a 450 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:38.240 Marco who've already discussed all he did when his eight minutes was foul three times. 451 00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:42.960 I didn't realize it was that little that's atrocious. In seven Conference games. 452 00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:47.720 Marco has as many baskets as he had fouls in this game, which 453 00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:51.559 is three zero made threes, which Ryan and I have combined four as we 454 00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:55.160 cover, Yeah, five turnovers which Ryan and I actually have less of, 455 00:29:55.400 --> 00:30:00.240 Yeah, and fourteen fouls. Wow. What wasn't that was just to go 456 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:04.759 through all this? Timberlake should play more. Self didn't play any bench in 457 00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:11.880 the second half until I think El Marco subbed in and immediately fouled somebody whenever 458 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.680 they sat in McCuller, like fifteen minutes in the second half. Timberlake needs 459 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:18.480 to play more. You have to ride or die with this guy as your 460 00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:21.279 sixth man. I know you don't want to do it because you're probably going 461 00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:25.039 to die if those are the two options here. But El Marco Jackson is 462 00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:29.799 unplayable. He is not a big twelve caliber player, and every game my 463 00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:33.839 opinion of him gets worse. I used to think that it Self figured the 464 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:37.880 best path of his team reaching its ceiling was to play El Marco and develop 465 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:40.319 him so he'd be good in January. Well, they kind of got bailed 466 00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:44.319 out with Furfey being as good as we hoped El Marco could get in January. 467 00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:48.640 And oh my gosh, al Marco is so bad. The argument used 468 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:51.279 to be he'd at least give you solid defense, and he's been a genuinely 469 00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:55.359 horrible defender in conference play. Everything two fouls per game in addition to his 470 00:30:55.599 --> 00:31:00.000 what is that zero point two baskets per game in conference play? He's unplayable. 471 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.640 You have to give Timberlake like twenty minutes and don't play El Marco. 472 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:08.759 I don't need any Alamarco Jackson ever. Did you know that in like in 473 00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:14.799 Europe when they're talking about soccer, unplayable actually means like the best player on 474 00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:19.480 that Lionel Messi is unplayable in Europe, Yeah, which means the exact opposite 475 00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:22.119 for al Marco. Yeah, he's not Leo Messi. Yeah, he's been 476 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:27.079 really bad and he's gutting worse, which is pretty upsetting because he was not 477 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:30.680 this bad in non Con. Now I know that's non Con, and like 478 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:34.720 that happens because non Con is not playing at Iowa State every night, So 479 00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:37.519 like, I guess that's not a huge knock. But you can't, you 480 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:42.119 can't drop this much, and that is really a problem. He's not gonna 481 00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:45.960 be at Kansas next year. He's not going to be here next year. 482 00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:48.680 Come on, he won't play over the guards that they have, No, 483 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.160 Yeah, because they would bring in He's he's lousy, he can't score, 484 00:31:52.319 --> 00:32:00.440 he can't shoot like you can. I think I think a big part Harris 485 00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:04.079 is definitely gone, right or does he technically have eligibility? No, Dewan 486 00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:06.559 Harris is gonna be their point guard next year, sir, Yeah, then 487 00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:08.279 he's gone. Yeah, then there's no chance. I say, if Harris 488 00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:13.359 leaves, then I could see it, maybe because he could compete for the 489 00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:16.200 point guard spot, which I do think he would be appreciably better at with 490 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:20.880 a year of development. But no, Ifdwan's there, and he will because 491 00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:23.680 Dwan is not an NBA player, then yeah, there's no reason for him 492 00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:29.400 to return. And not only that self has completely stopped. At least he's 493 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:35.359 really tried to not play el Marco and Harris together quite as much. So 494 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:38.519 it's like he's realized the offense is a total shutdown here and now that fur 495 00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:42.880 if he's playing thirty five minutes a game and mccullor's playing a lot of minutes, 496 00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.119 there is not a way to play Harris and Jackson at the same time 497 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:51.680 because it's absolutely unplayable. We're gonna wrap up with a couple of guys here. 498 00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:54.640 Dewan Harris nine points, seven assists, the two turnovers, made four 499 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:58.359 of us six shots. We're fine with that game, right? He played 500 00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:00.920 fine? Yeah? I saw people on Twitter at k Tweets The News is 501 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:06.400 one of my favorite Twitter accounts, was talking about Harris and got into some 502 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:09.680 dust ups with some other fans for cave tweets. The News suggested Harris didn't 503 00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:13.720 play well, missed a couple big shots down the stretch. He did the 504 00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:17.559 floater was a big one. I thought that overreaction with people going against his 505 00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:21.880 takes was way too strong. I think Dwan Harris, we've talked about a 506 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:23.799 lot on the show, is definitely not above criticism. This was not a 507 00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:28.119 game. I thought he hurt them in this l is on the bench and 508 00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:31.200 the three point shooting by the Cyclones. Harris was fine. Let's talk kJ 509 00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:36.160 thirteen to five and three for him, three for six, shooting seven for 510 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:39.240 ten at the line, all things to get considered. A pretty quality performance. 511 00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:43.440 Again, not the guy you're gonna blame, But tell me if I'm 512 00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:46.319 crazy for this take. I think kJ Adams is the biggest liability on this 513 00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:51.359 team, not because he's the worst player, but because of what he does 514 00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:57.599 at his position versus what the strengths of this team really need. kJ Adams 515 00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:00.400 doesn't rebound, and kJ Adams doesn't shoot, the fact that he doesn't shoot 516 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:05.480 kills Hunter Dickinson. The fact that he doesn't rebound kills Kevin McCuller. You 517 00:34:05.480 --> 00:34:07.400 have a four out there who catches the ball on the perimeter and plays a 518 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.840 lot of time catching the ball at the perimeter, and defenses don't even bother 519 00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:15.360 putting a body on him because there's no thought of him shooting the ball. 520 00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:19.159 He's not going to shoot it. Dickinson gets double teamed so much as a 521 00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.480 four. I'd love to have a guy like La gerald Vick, not actual 522 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:27.000 La gerald Vick, but think of his skill set from that twenty seventeen to 523 00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:30.320 eighteen team Junior Vick, not the senior Vic that had a super nova November 524 00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:35.320 and then fell apart. Lagerald Vick was the same size as kJ Adams. 525 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:38.159 He was a big athlete like kJ Adams, but he could shoot the ball. 526 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:43.599 He rebounded better than kJ Adams, and because of that, Udoka didn't 527 00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:46.159 get double or triple teamed nearly as much. And I think Dickinson's a better 528 00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:50.960 player than Youjok. He's definitely a better call as player than at the time 529 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:54.119 sophomore Udoka. I think kJ not being able to rebound and not being able 530 00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:59.800 to shoot is really really hurting this team. He's an excellent player, he's 531 00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:05.039 an excellent success story, and he is a likable, likable kid. Totally 532 00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:07.320 get why so many people like him, But he is a rich man's Jamari 533 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:12.719 Traylor. Jamori Traylor looked like an NFL safety and he was six foot eight 534 00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:15.159 and he couldn't rebound at all. He could dounk really good, but he 535 00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:21.679 couldn't shoot and he couldn't rebound. And Trailer. Obviously Kj's better than Trailer, 536 00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:24.760 but the limitations are still the same. And I think that's the problem 537 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:29.719 where Hunter Dickinson can go beat you have fifteen boards and you're only plus six 538 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:35.239 because kJ can't do anything as the foreman on the glass. Yeah, I 539 00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:38.480 don't think that is a crazy take. I do really like kJ. I'm 540 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:42.719 a fan of kJ, And again, I think you're right. It's not 541 00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:44.960 like it's not that he's a bad player. I think he's actually quite a 542 00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:52.440 good player, but yeah, he he does not fit this team's specific needs. 543 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:57.480 It's a really weird thing where like this team's specific weaknesses are kJ adams 544 00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:01.159 weaknesses. Yeah, which does make for a weird thing, even though I 545 00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:04.599 don't really think that's necessarily his fault. It's not like there, it's not 546 00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:07.599 like those are KU's weaknesses because of kJ Adams, Right, it's a weird 547 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:13.039 situation. Yeah, there's other reasons why those are the weaknesses, but he 548 00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:16.039 also feeds into that, and I do I also have noticed many many times 549 00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:21.000 we talked about it before on the show, uh that when kJ has the 550 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:23.480 ball on the same side as Hunter Dickinson, it's an instantaneous double team. 551 00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:29.639 It's a double team before Hunters even touches the basketball because Kj's defender doesn't need 552 00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:32.280 to be out on him because he's not going to shoot. And that is 553 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:38.079 that's a really unfortunate situation to be in. And the thing that in the 554 00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:43.960 Dickson is still averaging what he does both on the glass and scoring the ball 555 00:36:44.280 --> 00:36:49.559 while simultaneously being called soft by KU fans blows my mind. He's one of 556 00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:52.039 the two or three best players in the country because of that, like, 557 00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:59.159 that's that even furthers his case for being so good. M Yeah, I 558 00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:02.480 agree, it's is really weird. I do like kJ a lot, but 559 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:08.039 I do also agree that, yeah, if this team had a guy that 560 00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:15.719 could kind of play the middle of zones and could play perimeter offense well and 561 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:22.000 could knock down corner threes a bunch, they would be appreciably better probably. 562 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:25.199 And they've done this before, right, Like the twenty team that was really 563 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:30.519 good played Marcus Garrett as the four, and he had similar rebounding numbers to 564 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:36.599 kJ. This year, the team that was in the final four with VIC 565 00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:40.000 had similar rebounding numbers. But I guess I just remember those teams having won 566 00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:45.079 a little more depth than being able to shoot better, whereas kJ I thought 567 00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:47.639 he'd be a better rebounder by this point in his career not having a jump 568 00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:51.320 shot. Maybe I'm just watching the NBA too much, but like I watch 569 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:54.599 Arizona and Yukon where all their guys can shoot and they can all rebound, 570 00:37:54.920 --> 00:38:00.559 and I think that that weakness really gets exposed. I don't know, maybe 571 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:02.239 I'm over maybe I'm looking into it a little bit too much. But like 572 00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:07.519 next year, if Hunter Dickinson stays, which I predict, I don't know 573 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:10.719 what I think is gonna happen there two million bucks at Kansas. I don't 574 00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:15.719 think he's getting drafted, so who knows. But if Dickenson stays, when 575 00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:20.039 you bring in Florie Badonga, who is a six foot ten guy who's played 576 00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:23.920 the center in high school, and he would probably like, that's the four 577 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:27.840 that I would love to see Hunter Dickinson get to play with because he can 578 00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:30.079 rebound the ball really well. You need to do one of those things. 579 00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:35.119 But then what happens, what happens with that rotation if Dickenson and Adams are 580 00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:38.840 both on that roster next year, right, Yeah, it is gonna be 581 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:44.639 really strange if you have those three guys all on the team. kJ can't 582 00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:50.039 play the three, No, he definitely can't play the three in modern college 583 00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:54.000 basketball. I am wary of him playing the four. As this conversation's going, 584 00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:59.280 obviously, like whenever I say odd, whenever I say who's the first 585 00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:09.480 NBA four that you think of? Like the skill set wise is like Nicolay 586 00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:17.119 who shoots what from is like a different animal because he plays point guard half 587 00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:20.800 the time. Exactly. They can all handle the ball at that level, 588 00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:24.960 but like, you don't have to be an electric three point shoot. Geez, 589 00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:29.320 just Okham, Yeah? Who are who are all guys that aren't? 590 00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:32.079 Like Ben Caro is a good example because he's not gonna shoot, He's not 591 00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:36.599 gonna light up the nets from three. But you can't just leave him as 592 00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:38.639 the only guy on the freaking court when he steps and he can hit mid 593 00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:43.400 range all day if you want. Yes, kJ has attempted two mid range 594 00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:46.559 shots all season, Like that's yeah, it's hurt. It's a couple more 595 00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:50.320 than two, but it's not much more than two. I think when the 596 00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:53.920 offense goes cold, I think that weakness right there is one of the most 597 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:58.039 pressing because they got a point guard that can distribute the ball. I know 598 00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:00.719 people want Harris to score more, but he can just tribute the ball and 599 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:04.480 find the open guy. You have two elite scorers, one that plays center 600 00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:07.559 and one on the wing. Furfey has now stepped up as a third, 601 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:12.519 very reliable scorer away from Dewan Harris throw to. So if they can't score, 602 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:15.599 I think it's the defensive alignment, with kJ having a big lot to 603 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:19.360 do with it. Two other small things that I'll say number one I want 604 00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:22.599 to talk about with the refs. I forgot about it. Then the technical 605 00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:23.840 foul. I think it was kind of a weak call, and then I 606 00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:28.199 thought, well, if you're gonna call the one on Ernest D. Dade 607 00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:30.360 Allen field House, you kind of have to be okay with that one, 608 00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:34.880 right. Yeah, probably, and self earned the tea. I think that 609 00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:37.199 he kind of wanted it. We see him do that every now and then. 610 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:39.639 Second thing, Kansas Iowa State one of the best rivalries in the Big 611 00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:44.880 Twelve. Like that rivalry has venom, it has, but I think it 612 00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:47.800 has a lot of respect. I don't think that Iowa State fans hate Kansas 613 00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:52.000 because of their fans. I think they hate Kansas because they win. And 614 00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:54.559 I think Iowa State has similar respect from Kansas. Oh, you're a team 615 00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:59.960 that is usually a thorn in our side. We more often than not loose 616 00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:02.480 split the series with you in a season. I think Kansas fans have a 617 00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:06.639 lot of respect for Hilton. I think Kansas fans have a lot of respect 618 00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:09.320 for the coaches that Iowa State has had. With Hoiberg, Steve prom had 619 00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:15.440 some success and also Burger has been excellent up there at maintaining that. And 620 00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:17.360 yeah, I think that it's a really fun rivalry, and I think Bill 621 00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:21.360 self has a lot of respect for that rivalry as well. It's ridiculous they're 622 00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:23.079 not playing the return game at Allen Fieldhouse, but instead we get to watch 623 00:41:23.079 --> 00:41:29.039 them play Oklahoma fricking state twice. Yeah, no, I agree. I 624 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.559 think they should have kept and protected the Iowa state rightley. It's always been 625 00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:35.880 one of my favorites. Also, a quick bit of a live producing here. 626 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:39.320 We normally do like our little pause in between segments. Here, let's 627 00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:44.280 just keep it rolling because I this is a different software, so it might 628 00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:46.639 work. It probably would, but if you're good, let's just go onto 629 00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:49.920 the next thing. When we're there. I'm good with that. The only 630 00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:52.840 thing that makes me nervous is then we got one take where if anything gets 631 00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:54.280 messed up on that take, we're rolling with it. As long as you 632 00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:58.920 are you trusting it? Are you trusting to your computer? You're Kevin McCuller 633 00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:01.519 computer to make that threat? If you will, I am trusting it. 634 00:42:01.559 --> 00:42:05.599 So far, we're on a more of a ten for fourteen with Color Night 635 00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:07.840 than the five of eighteen. Oh I like it? Okay, Well, 636 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:09.199 then in that case, Yeah, let's do it. Kansas. Forty five 637 00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:13.800 percent from the floor, thirty five percent from three, seventy four percent on 638 00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:16.039 the glass are on the from the line, plus six on the glass, 639 00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:20.400 and only twelve turnovers. Those are numbers that I think had you seen at 640 00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:22.719 the start of the game, I think we would have pick Kansas to win. 641 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:23.840 Right, you would have seen those those five numbers. I think you 642 00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:27.920 pick Kansas to win. The fourteen threes? Did it? Yep? I 643 00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:31.719 agree? And those threes they will even out, they will even out. 644 00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:36.159 And if I'm wrong, okay, I'll be the first person ever in college 645 00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:39.119 basketball to watch a team give up forty seven percent the whole season. The 646 00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:43.079 defense is not as bad as seams, and it will be just fine, 647 00:42:43.119 --> 00:42:45.519 but it is annoying when crappy shooters and Trey Kings and all timer. That's 648 00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:49.400 one of the ones we'll remember for a while, the guy that made more 649 00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:52.320 threes in one game than he had all year. I agree, that fits 650 00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:59.920 the category perfectly. All right, let's do other games, big twelve games. 651 00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:04.480 Well, you mentioned earlier that you thought Houston might be better than Kansas, 652 00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:07.480 So go ahead and talk about it. Number four Houston seventy four Ema 653 00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:12.679 bitches fifty two. Not a good day for the Wildcats. No, it's 654 00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.440 not. The Cougar's defense was the story of the day again, as they 655 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:20.440 forced eighteen in case they turnovers and surrendered just nineteen baskets. They also got 656 00:43:20.440 --> 00:43:23.000 seventeen points from Jamal. Is it Sheet or Shed? I think it's officially 657 00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:25.519 Sheed, but Nick has called him both, so you can't go wrong. 658 00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:30.360 One will not trust Nick at all, she forever, even if proven wrong. 659 00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:32.760 All right, Is Houston the favorite to win the Big Twelve? And 660 00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:38.039 Ryan, I think you say no. I might very slightly favor them right 661 00:43:38.039 --> 00:43:42.119 now. It's in it. There's a few interesting angles here. They're the 662 00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:45.599 betting favorite. The metrics definitely say they're the favorite. I also know what 663 00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:51.000 I've seen with Kansas. Kansas has been through an eighteen game Big Twelve grind. 664 00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:54.159 So is Baylor, who I'm not counting out yet. Houston hasn't yet. 665 00:43:54.440 --> 00:44:00.960 Houston still got six road games left. I would say it's if you 666 00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:05.000 like. I think if you simulate this season out one hundred times, I 667 00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:08.800 think the amount of times Kansas and Houston win the Big Twelve is very close. 668 00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:14.199 I would still pick Kansas because I've seen them do it so many times 669 00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:16.920 and I've literally never seen Houston do it. But if you wanted to, 670 00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:20.880 they're clearly one of the five best teams in the country. That defense is 671 00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:23.800 ridiculous, and I think they've adjusted quite well so far in Big Twelve play. 672 00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:27.880 They lost kind of a fluky game to TCU, which I guess you 673 00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:31.119 could say Kansas has a few fluky losses at this point, and their win 674 00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:34.840 over BYU the other night was really impressive. That was kind of the moment 675 00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:37.039 where I was like, Oh, these guys have are They're pretty They're getting 676 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:40.760 adept to winning Big twelve games pretty quickly. I think they're gonna go through 677 00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:45.320 a tough stretch, but I think that this end there, we're looking at 678 00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:46.480 one of the two best teams in the Big twelve pretty clearly, I think, 679 00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:50.800 right, yeah, I certainly think so. I think they're definitely better 680 00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:52.840 than Baylor. Well, I got to give more analysis than you did there, 681 00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:58.280 So why don't you go back to back number twenty Texas Tech eighty five, 682 00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:04.800 number eleven Oklahoma, And I told you that Porter Moser was complete Oklahoma 683 00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:09.199 eighty four. He may indeed be Dogwater The Red Raiders remain in first place 684 00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:14.360 somehow with a narrow road win in Norman. As Chance McMillan hit a game 685 00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:16.840 winning three with thirty seconds left. McMillan went off. He had twenty seven 686 00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:22.199 off the bench. This game had one hundred and seventy one points going against 687 00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:25.320 everything we've ever known about the Big Twelve. Yet neither one of these teams 688 00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:29.079 came close to hitting fourteen threes. Yeah, that's a weird thing to put 689 00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:30.679 in there, r I. No Big twelve teams ever hit fourteen threes. 690 00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:35.760 That's illegal. Go to jail for that, yeah, Porter Moser, not 691 00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:38.480 great. Texas Tech a fluky? What are they? Five and one, 692 00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:40.800 six and one, five and one? They're fluky at five and one, 693 00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:45.000 but they are decent. So let's look at Texas Tech. They're five and 694 00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:47.920 one there in first place in the Big twelve. I predict that that is 695 00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:52.440 about to hit the wall quickly. Texas Tech needed to overcome an eleven point 696 00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:57.360 second half deficit to beat K State. They needed to overcome a sixteen point 697 00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:00.920 a halftime deficit to beat BYU whatever. Maybe you say they earn those because 698 00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:04.239 they're at home. They're tough to play and then they also had this this 699 00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:07.320 narrow win over Oklahoma. So we talk about Kansas being pretty unlucky. Feels 700 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:10.119 like Kansas is one and two. In the coin flips, they won against 701 00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:14.719 TCU, and they lost the UCF and West Virginia with some fluky stuff. 702 00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:17.000 Maybe say Iowa State was a little fluky two. They talked about Houston losing 703 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:20.960 a fluky game. Texas Tech is three and zero. Then here are their 704 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:24.639 next four games are They're wow, God, Texas Tech schedule is so soft, 705 00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:29.159 it really is. They do have road games at TCU and at Baylor, 706 00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:31.360 and then they have Kansas at home and at Iowa State. Those are 707 00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:35.719 four of their next six. I predict four of those next six will be 708 00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:38.719 els. They do have a softer schedule because it's unbalanced. But no, 709 00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:43.199 I don't think this team is even one of the four best teams in the 710 00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:46.920 Big twelve. I would put them sixth right now, behind Kansas, Houston, 711 00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:52.920 Iowa State, TCU, and Baylor in some order. But they're better 712 00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:55.280 than expected. And Grant McCaslin as of right now, should be a National 713 00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:59.480 Coach of the Year front runner because they have one. I just don't think 714 00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:05.000 it's gonna last, what say you, Yeah, that's certainly my expectation for 715 00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:08.280 Texas Tech. They are better than we thought. But yeah, I think 716 00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:13.639 I think they'll lose at minimum three of those four that you mentioned. And 717 00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:15.960 with the big too being so, what are the other two games out of 718 00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:20.519 that stretch, UCF at home and Cincinnati at home? I mean Cincinnati could 719 00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:23.480 absolutely win there. Yeah they will. I think there's a very good chance 720 00:47:23.480 --> 00:47:28.280 they will lose four of the next six. I'm looking at Oklahoma. They're 721 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:30.920 thirty fifth in the net right now, they are three or where. This 722 00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:36.960 is all messed up. I'm trying to find Oklahoma's record against Quad one opponents. 723 00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:39.719 Yeah, they're two and four against Quad one opponents. This isn't This 724 00:47:39.800 --> 00:47:45.039 doesn't feel like a team if they finish eighth or ninth in the Big Twelve. 725 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:46.880 It feels like a team that's gonna need to win Big Twelve tournament games 726 00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:50.559 to get in, which is part for the course with Porter. I don't 727 00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:52.039 need this team. I don't need to watch them play ever. Again, 728 00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:55.480 I don't need to watch them go six and six the rest of the way 729 00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:59.400 in the Big Twelve, and I don't need to watch them lose to a 730 00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:02.320 what an eight seed in the NCAA Tournament. I know what they are. 731 00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:07.519 I think I've said that about almost every Big twelve team that's ever existed, 732 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:12.360 including maybe this one. Cincinnati sixty eight, UCF fifty seven. It was 733 00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:15.079 a strong second half for the Bearcats. They outscored the Nights forty one to 734 00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:19.760 eighteen to avoid a home upset, since UCF almost had the same Big twelve 735 00:48:19.800 --> 00:48:22.719 record as Kansas through seven games and needed a second half meltdown to avoid that. 736 00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:27.800 Dan Skillings had twenty one points. Had you been told that at the 737 00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:31.239 beginning of the season that Kansas and UCF almost had the same record through seven 738 00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:35.079 games, do you think it would have been more likely that UCF was great 739 00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:39.239 or Kansas something went very wrong. Yeah, I mean Hunter Dickinson's tearing his 740 00:48:39.320 --> 00:48:44.599 acl If they're only one game better than UCF through seven, I'm like, 741 00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:46.920 man, they're only two and five. That's brutal. And we thought Kansas 742 00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:51.719 would roll through the first seven. We thought one loss at most. We 743 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.000 thought Kansas would roll their entire slate and they still might win the rest of 744 00:48:55.039 --> 00:48:59.239 them. But hey, we've talked about some crappy games. This one definitely 745 00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:04.000 will make up for it. TCU one hundred and five, number fifteen, 746 00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:08.400 Baylor one hundred and two and three overtimes. Wow, that was fun. 747 00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:13.079 I didn't watch it, but it sounds fun. I watched some highlights. 748 00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:16.079 There was some awesome plays. The gold Jersey sucks. That's why they lost 749 00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:21.440 that arena, I think is cool. Jamiir Nelson had thirty points, which 750 00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:25.599 is pretty awesome for TCU in the winning effort. Baylor made just five threes 751 00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:30.800 in fifty five minutes of basketball, which means they're on pace to make between 752 00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:37.880 fifteen and twenty against bill Yeah. That puts in perspective just how crazy that 753 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:43.079 is. Fourteen threes Iowa State made and Baylor made five and they had basically 754 00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:47.239 an extra half. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, that is That's insane. 755 00:49:47.440 --> 00:49:51.039 One of these two teams you think is winning more Big twelve games, TCU's 756 00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:53.079 at four and now Baylor is at three. On one less game, Baylor 757 00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:58.159 will win more. Baylor will win more because TCU does more stupid things. 758 00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:01.159 But I'm starting to wonder if TCU floor might be the higher one or TCU's 759 00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:06.400 ceiling rather. Uh, Baylor is definitely weird. I don't buy Baylor on 760 00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:08.239 dred percent right now. But see, Baylor's a team I trust to get 761 00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:12.079 it together. They were three and three through six games last year and wound 762 00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:15.400 up being I think the second best team in the Big Twelve. Like they 763 00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:17.840 they this is a team that's been there before. It's a coach that's been 764 00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:22.760 there before. He's won this league a couple of times. I have confidence 765 00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:27.639 on Baylor getting it together and being better over an eighteen game stretch than TCU. 766 00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:30.760 I don't know what that means about the tournament, but TCU will do 767 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:36.199 something stupid like lose to West Virginia on the road, and then they'll look 768 00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:39.719 fantastic against Kansas, and then they'll lose to Texas at home and do a 769 00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:43.119 bunch of weird stuff. It's just what they do. But I think they're 770 00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:45.039 both very talented. I think these are the third and fourth best teams in 771 00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:50.679 the Big Twelve. Yeah, I think that's very likely true. I don't 772 00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:52.760 know who I would put better than them. It's not the team that lost 773 00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:59.920 this game number twenty one BYU eighty four Texas seventy two. Did you hear 774 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:04.119 about the horns down stuff? Yep? So stupid? Come on, Why 775 00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:06.280 there was a bunch of guys. It was T shirts, right, It 776 00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:10.280 wasn't even like chest paint. It was just T shirts shirt so they weren't 777 00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:14.039 shirtless, as if they would be shirtless in the stands. Yeah, yeah, 778 00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:16.719 question. Yeah. They had a bunch of T shirts that just said 779 00:51:16.719 --> 00:51:20.920 horns down, like you know, imagine guys doing the chest paint that spells 780 00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:23.159 a word. That's what they did. And then they were asked to cover 781 00:51:23.239 --> 00:51:29.159 them up in the game. This is just like, I don't get this. 782 00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:31.360 How is this any different than any team saying, oh, we're not 783 00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:37.880 in Kansas anymore, Kansas comes town, it's the same, or I don't 784 00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:40.760 get it, or how about this? How about whenever you have boy, 785 00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:44.239 did I not put it on the soundboard? I may not have put it. 786 00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:47.000 You know what I'm about. We talked about this yesterday. It's whenever 787 00:51:47.119 --> 00:51:52.559 Kansas goes to Kansas State and they can't run out on the court without hearing 788 00:51:52.760 --> 00:52:00.679 you know that this k State can't exist without this happening. No, and 789 00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:05.360 I always state chanted it yesterday too, like and and and then BYU's coach 790 00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:07.320 after the game was like, oh, you know, I want to apologize 791 00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:12.079 to Texas. That's not us. That's not who we are. Stop making 792 00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:16.239 horns down sound like a racial slur. It's not like. And also the 793 00:52:16.239 --> 00:52:21.000 Big twelve should not be in this business to protect Texas at all. They 794 00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:23.719 should get Yes, I don't know if it's a Big Twelve thing or what. 795 00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:28.039 I don't know if Rodney Terry is flapping his arms like the bird that 796 00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:30.639 he looks like. I don't know what it is, but I do know 797 00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:31.960 Rodney. Yes, no one in the SEC will do this because it just 798 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:35.559 means more so, right, yeah, yeah, And as Nick pointed out, 799 00:52:35.599 --> 00:52:39.079 every SEC team has the silhouette of the state that they're playing, that 800 00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:44.440 their home state is on their court, which I yeah, that's yeah. 801 00:52:44.679 --> 00:52:45.960 If there was a team that would do it, it'd be Oklahoma. As 802 00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:50.280 for this game, as a bunch of white guys made baskets and BYU won. 803 00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:54.599 The Cougars shot sixty four percent from the floor. I wrote, I 804 00:52:55.039 --> 00:53:02.519 wrote in the notes that Rodney Terry is using his time being a certified you 805 00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:07.480 know it says bitch ass nerds, So that's that's what he is. And 806 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:12.440 instead of coaching defense, BYU. By the way, Land has made seven 807 00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:15.400 threes as a team can't wait to see how many they make against Bill. 808 00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:21.320 Just like if I gave you an over under on ten and a half threes 809 00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:24.800 for BYU at Allen Field House, you're betting the over. Yeah, I 810 00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:28.719 mean on it, like for real. Maybe they're gonna hit like a at 811 00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:31.679 least, and it's they're all gonna be by white dudes. Texas sucks. 812 00:53:32.199 --> 00:53:36.679 I this is the final year that I have to watch Texas go eight and 813 00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:39.320 nine or whatever, eight and ten or nine and nine or whatever in conference 814 00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:43.800 games and then still have all the suits and ties vouch for them as a 815 00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:46.840 tournament bid. They've never won a single thing worth mentioning in my lifetime, 816 00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:52.039 and I don't need to see them in my conference ever again. Oklahoma State 817 00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:55.880 seventy, West Virginia sixty six, Landon, I regret to inform you that 818 00:53:55.920 --> 00:54:01.400 West Virginia has not won a game since defeating Bill's jay Hawks. Shocking Kirk 819 00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:05.639 Cruse that did his best to try though he made six threes. Thought he 820 00:54:05.719 --> 00:54:07.800 was playing against Kansas and it looked like the Mountaineers were set to win the 821 00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:12.760 game, and said to improve my pick'm record, But I was wrong, 822 00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:15.880 and they led by six with five minutes left. But then scored five points 823 00:54:16.599 --> 00:54:20.960 the rest of the way. That's bad, but ninety one on Bill. 824 00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:25.920 So they barely got one hundred and twenty and two games this week because they 825 00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:29.880 are in fact bad, and that is an embarrassing loss. That's a four 826 00:54:29.920 --> 00:54:35.280 points from somebody named Brandon Garrison for the Cowboys. I've never heard of that 827 00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:37.840 man. Apparently he is not trash, but both these teams are. And 828 00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:40.440 he wrote way more about this game than I thought you would, considering it's 829 00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:44.679 Oklahoma State and West Virginia. Yeah, probably didn't need all of that, 830 00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:47.360 but hey, at least you know now about the Brandon Garrison game. As 831 00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:51.280 for so, I'm on the East Coast right now, and the sports are 832 00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:54.039 weird, like Kansas Oklahoma State on Tuesday starts at nine o'clock. My wife 833 00:54:54.039 --> 00:54:58.119 works at nights. I'm used to staying up till two o'clock in the morning 834 00:54:58.119 --> 00:55:00.760 every night because we're used to that schedule in the in betweens. I normally 835 00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:05.480 like the East Coast sports times, but boy, having to stay up until 836 00:55:05.480 --> 00:55:08.119 eleven o'clock at night whenever we're out of town to watch Oklahoma State at Allen 837 00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:13.239 Field House, that just seems a little mean, like I don't need that. 838 00:55:13.239 --> 00:55:15.760 That game should start, yeah, wife, that game should start at 839 00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:21.760 three pm Central time, Like, we don't need this just played at nine 840 00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:24.360 am Central time. Honestly, just move it up twelve hours, make sure, 841 00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:29.199 and Oklahoma State will make twelve threes and it'll be a five point game 842 00:55:29.199 --> 00:55:31.679 with two minutes left. I've seen that story before, or maybe not, 843 00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:36.719 maybe they're maybe they're really that bad. Big twelve standings. We're starting to 844 00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:38.320 get a lot of different records here. Texas Tech is alone in first for 845 00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:44.599 now. They're five and one, tied four second. Iowa State in Houston 846 00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:47.320 five and two. I was waiting for Nick and then I realized he's not 847 00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:52.639 here. Kansas, Kansas State, and TCU are all tied in fourth with 848 00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:55.159 four wins. They're four and three, Purple purple, and a team whose 849 00:55:55.199 --> 00:56:01.280 colors make purple seven alone is they are three and three. Eighth place. 850 00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:06.320 Feels like we're all the mediocrity sits here in this league. Oklahoma and Texas, 851 00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:09.239 yeah, which are their mediocre at their finest. Ucf B YU and 852 00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:13.679 Cincinnati the guys leaving and most of the new guys. They're three and four 853 00:56:14.360 --> 00:56:17.199 by use, the best team out of that group, right, Yeah, 854 00:56:17.280 --> 00:56:21.239 I think you're right. I think Cincinnati might be the second best too. 855 00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:25.519 Number thirteen West Virginia. They are two and five, and then the gap 856 00:56:25.559 --> 00:56:30.599 is closer, but still in last place is fourteenth Oklahoma State. They are 857 00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:35.280 one and six up. If West Virginia or Oklahoma State played in the PAC 858 00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:39.679 twelve or the ACC, would they be a top five team? Oklahoma State 859 00:56:40.119 --> 00:56:44.159 in the PAC twelve maybe maybe not in the ACC, I don't know, 860 00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:46.400 but they would be way better than this. Okay, let's take a look 861 00:56:46.599 --> 00:56:51.960 now, I'm just curious standings. Okay, Atlantic Coast Conference. Boy, 862 00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:55.880 what a stupid conference. This is so okay. The fifth Wake Forest is 863 00:56:55.960 --> 00:56:59.800 in fifth place. They're five and three in the ACC. You're telling me 864 00:56:59.800 --> 00:57:02.800 what Virginia couldn't get there? They might, I don't know. They are 865 00:57:02.840 --> 00:57:07.159 bad, but with their current form, they would be closer to that than 866 00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:10.480 two and five. Fifth place in the PAC twelve is an Arizona State team 867 00:57:10.480 --> 00:57:15.039 that is eleven and nine on the season. Yeah, in the PAC twelve, 868 00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:17.239 I think both teams could be tough. Five that's just terrifying. And 869 00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:20.800 the PAC twelve is about to be dead, and I think there's too many 870 00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:22.280 teams in the Big twelve. Now. I know I'm not brat your mark, 871 00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:25.000 but I I'm kind of tired of all these teams. I missed the 872 00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:29.920 balance schedule. I am going to go yell to cloud other would get ready 873 00:57:29.920 --> 00:57:32.320 for twenty team leagues in nine nine years. Yeah, conference titles are really 874 00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:37.639 gonna become obsolete here pretty soon. Other games, well, that is ten 875 00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:42.119 wins in a row for number three North Carolina. We always start with the 876 00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:45.920 ACC because whenever I look up other games, it puts that conference first alphabetically, 877 00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:49.320 and I just don't care like we should just we should just boycott the 878 00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:52.679 ACC for a couple of shows. I know UNC is good. They're nine 879 00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:54.000 to Oh. They beat Florida State on the road, which is their toughest 880 00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:58.679 conference game other than the Duke game. By the way, Houston Kansas not 881 00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:04.280 College Game Day because Duke Carolina are playing the same day. Duh. North 882 00:58:04.320 --> 00:58:07.000 Carolina has a three game lead in the win call him in the league race. 883 00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:08.440 They are going to win that league and they will be a two seed 884 00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:13.280 that loses to a seven seed because Hubert Davis is bad. Always gets moist 885 00:58:13.360 --> 00:58:15.760 for this game. Oh yeah, boy, moist is an understatement too. 886 00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:21.039 They are soiled, sir oof. That depends on how kinky you are. 887 00:58:21.079 --> 00:58:23.440 I guess did you even read about duke? I was thinking about that joke. 888 00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:27.039 I didn't, And I don't know if that that word that you just 889 00:58:27.079 --> 00:58:29.920 said has ever been said on the show in four hundred and forty shows like 890 00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:31.280 like, so there's for Yeah, I don't know when it would have been 891 00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:35.440 said when we when we have talked about that, we talked about basketball. 892 00:58:36.280 --> 00:58:38.320 I mean that's true. I mean I don't know. I mean we get 893 00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:40.960 off on some weird tangents. Man, I think kinky could have come up, 894 00:58:40.960 --> 00:58:44.800 and it's now come up three times in every one seconds. So maybe 895 00:58:44.800 --> 00:58:46.239 when we're talking about Mary, I don't I don't know, Like I don't 896 00:58:46.280 --> 00:58:52.280 know what else. Yeah, our duke by Joel whatever, Duke the basketball 897 00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:55.280 team who moved up to second in the ACC. This does not make me 898 00:58:55.400 --> 00:58:59.840 kinky or horny or anything similar to that. Duke. I hate Duke. 899 00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:02.079 I had to beat Clemson seventy two to seventy one, fouling a what you 900 00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:07.039 might call controversial, what I might call rigged on the Tigers, rigged fowl, 901 00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:12.679 not really, with less than half a second left on Tire's Proctor Duke 902 00:59:12.760 --> 00:59:19.360 needed thirty three free throw attempts to barely survive a middle of the pack ACC 903 00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:22.880 school. Yeah, it's totally fine, John Shire. Plenty of national championship 904 00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:27.519 contenders need thirty three free throws to beat Clemson, not home by one, 905 00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:32.320 that's totally They replaced john Shire with Freddie Prince Junior. One would anyone notice? 906 00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:35.960 Two? Would anyone care? Three? Would they be a better team? 907 00:59:36.159 --> 00:59:37.920 I was gonna say, I'm waiting for you to say, would they 908 00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:39.599 be worse? And no, I don't think so. And Shire, it's 909 00:59:39.639 --> 00:59:43.599 hard to bury a guy that's so young, because you know, I mean, 910 00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:46.760 Shire and Hubert Davis are so new in their tenures, but they have 911 00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:51.320 so many resources. Davis's team's pretty good this year, and yet I have 912 00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:54.199 no confidence in that man whatsoever to go deep in a tournament, which sounds 913 00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:57.920 kind of stupid because a year and a half ago he was in the national 914 00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:01.280 championship game. Though that was more as Baylor blew it. And if honestly, 915 01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:05.519 if Baylor had lost that game, I think the heat is way up 916 01:00:05.559 --> 01:00:08.639 on Hubert Davis because then they'd have second round loss and no tournament would be 917 01:00:08.719 --> 01:00:14.320 his two years Duke. They lost in the second round last year and this 918 01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:16.159 year. I think they have a top three team in the country in terms 919 01:00:16.159 --> 01:00:20.880 of talent, and they're just not very good. And they have just a 920 01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:23.920 gift of a schedule. They have two against Louisville, they have two against 921 01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:29.039 Wake, they have two against Pitt. Like, this team should be seventeen 922 01:00:29.079 --> 01:00:32.400 and three in league play and they're just here's interesting. Here's an interesting thing 923 01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:37.599 that I thought about while watching the Duke game. If we were as separated 924 01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:42.000 from Kansas as we are to Duke, would we be saying the same thing 925 01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:45.440 about Kansas that we're saying about Duke. Maybe, But I think the saving 926 01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:51.119 grace with Kansas is you definitely wouldn't be able to question their coach. I 927 01:00:51.159 --> 01:00:53.679 think that's the biggest problem I would do that. It's the coach. The 928 01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:55.920 second thing is I think you'd still look at it and you'd say, well, 929 01:00:55.920 --> 01:00:59.599 they got two of the best like five players in the country, and 930 01:00:59.679 --> 01:01:00.880 they always went at home and they always win the big twelve. So I 931 01:01:00.920 --> 01:01:04.199 think they'll figure it out. But I think that, yeah, I think 932 01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:07.239 it's closer than you think. I think Duke and Kansas from fans that are 933 01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:09.599 not Duke or Kansas fans. I think they're kind of thought of as in 934 01:01:09.679 --> 01:01:15.159 similar boats right now. The Pac twelve another league that is bad, and 935 01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:21.400 we're talking about them for a long time. Also in Arizona, they are 936 01:01:21.559 --> 01:01:22.960 definitely the favorite in that conference. I mean, if they don't win this 937 01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:25.679 conference, like, yeah, they will see they'll win it by three games. 938 01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:29.920 They went into Eugene and took down Oregon eighty seven to seventy eight. 939 01:01:30.119 --> 01:01:34.360 Caleb Love went off for a career high thirty six points. Arizona and Oregon 940 01:01:34.440 --> 01:01:37.840 are both tied at six and three, but the Wildcats are the only ranked 941 01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:40.480 team in the league and they should win it with ease. USC, by 942 01:01:40.519 --> 01:01:44.960 the way, is an outright possession of last place, otherwise known as the 943 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:50.119 Brownny Curse. Yeah No, and lebron are Bronnie James's stats in conference play 944 01:01:50.119 --> 01:01:52.159 I have been abysmal. I haven't checked him in a week, but he 945 01:01:52.639 --> 01:01:55.360 Marco Jackson of USC, I think he's been about as bad as El Marco. 946 01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:58.760 I think he was averaging like three points a game in conference play for 947 01:01:58.800 --> 01:02:02.000 a while against much worst competition, by the way, So that's that's just 948 01:02:02.119 --> 01:02:06.679 sad, even though it kind of unfair to knock on Brownie James because he 949 01:02:06.719 --> 01:02:09.280 didn't get off to any sort of like he's been behind because of that freak 950 01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:15.679 health scare that he had and which wasn't wasn't able to get on the same 951 01:02:15.719 --> 01:02:20.360 page with every rate. I assume he comes back right like he's like, 952 01:02:20.639 --> 01:02:22.679 I know, there was always a thought he was gonna be a one and 953 01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:24.920 done, but he's got to. I mean, he's just not very good 954 01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:29.400 right now. Yeah, and that's in obviously with who his uh, who 955 01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:32.079 his dad is. I'm sure he can get better quite quickly. The SEC 956 01:02:32.360 --> 01:02:36.800 was uneventful over the weekend, as it typically is. Number six Kentucky barely 957 01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:40.960 escaped a terrible Arkansas team in Fayetteville sixty three to fifty seven. Number five 958 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:45.239 Tennessee handled Vanderbilt, while Mississippi State brought down Number eight Auburn for the tigers 959 01:02:45.239 --> 01:02:49.840 second straight loss. Well, there's your answers about Auburn. They finally played 960 01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:52.039 a couple of good teams on the road, and they lost them both this 961 01:02:52.119 --> 01:02:54.480 week. But the current league leader is none other than Alabama, and another 962 01:02:54.519 --> 01:02:58.480 win for Ken Palm, who is six and one at the right place at 963 01:02:58.519 --> 01:03:01.960 the right time. Yeah, oh oh, I forgot about that because now 964 01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:07.079 we have to deal with Terren Shannon junior. So I totally forgot about Alabama 965 01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:09.599 being that team last year. Alabama should have entered the polls on Monday. 966 01:03:09.639 --> 01:03:15.719 They hung one hundred and nine on LSU. Because Nate Oates is him in 967 01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:21.320 a certain sense in basketball as a Number two Purdue one at Rogers Tet revenge 968 01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:23.800 from last years buzzer beater. They won by eight. Zach Edy joined the 969 01:03:23.800 --> 01:03:28.480 two thousand point thousand rebound club, becoming just a sixth player in Big Ten 970 01:03:28.599 --> 01:03:31.199 history. To get their congrats. Zach, I don't know if I can. 971 01:03:31.400 --> 01:03:35.039 I don't know if I can count this or make this joke because the 972 01:03:35.079 --> 01:03:37.199 basketball team I root for has Hunter Dickinson on the roster. But I don't 973 01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:43.880 think that should count. Whenever you play twelve years, Uh, it should. 974 01:03:43.880 --> 01:03:45.840 He's been sensational, He's very, very good, and it will be 975 01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:49.599 all the more shocking when they lose to an eight seed in the second round. 976 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.679 Number thirteen Wisconsin beat Michigan State by fifteen to reach eight and one in 977 01:03:52.719 --> 01:03:57.000 league play. We're getting the point where Michigan States Ken Palm rank is almost 978 01:03:57.039 --> 01:04:00.800 as good as the number of losses they have. The Spartan are now twelve 979 01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:02.599 and eight overall and four and five in league play, and it took Ken 980 01:04:02.599 --> 01:04:06.719 Palm until today to move them behind the Jayhawks. Pretty certain Kansas would be 981 01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:10.679 a decent favorite over Michigan State at this point, the Spartans are bad. 982 01:04:11.119 --> 01:04:15.280 Also. Number ten Illinois survived Indiana thanks to a Time Person of the Year 983 01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:20.119 nominee Terrence Shannon Junior making six free throws in the final minute. If only 984 01:04:20.199 --> 01:04:24.519 he could, like he made that lead safe? Make women feel safe? 985 01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:27.440 Oh impossible? To tesk, what can you say? In the Big East? 986 01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:31.280 Number one Yukon obliterated Xavior ninety nine to fifty six, speaking a comfortable 987 01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:34.800 they have a comfortable lead in the Conference Rice something no woman has ever fell 988 01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:40.920 around Arren Shannon Junior orl Terra Morris. Oh. Number fourteen That may or 989 01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:45.159 may not be true. Great Sport fourteen Marquette rolled Seaton Hall and number seventeen 990 01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:47.159 Creighton beat Paul. They are the best three teams in the league at the 991 01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:50.440 bottom of Georgetown per the Huge who is one in eight and to Paul. 992 01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:56.480 Also per the Huge, who is zero to nine and three. God, 993 01:04:56.559 --> 01:04:59.280 that's horrible. That's almost as bad as some of our jokes. By the 994 01:04:59.280 --> 01:05:03.519 way, the Terrence Shannon Junior and Artaria Morris Common Denominator both leged incidents happened 995 01:05:03.519 --> 01:05:08.360 in Kansas. Wow, that sucks. What a great state. I mean, 996 01:05:09.920 --> 01:05:14.000 I don't least it's not the state's fault. I guess at least probably. 997 01:05:14.639 --> 01:05:16.039 Okay, the Mountain West should be our new league. I think I 998 01:05:16.079 --> 01:05:19.119 think that should be the new league that we cover because they're just really, 999 01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:23.840 really fun. I watched some of these highlights too, because the hotel i'm 1000 01:05:23.880 --> 01:05:27.440 end does not get many channels besides Sports Center. Wyoming beat number twenty four 1001 01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:31.079 Colorado State seventy nine seventy six in overtime. Josh Allen must be happy awest 1002 01:05:31.079 --> 01:05:34.199 the dates Hailey Steinfeld, maybe also because of this, but certainly because of 1003 01:05:34.239 --> 01:05:38.320 that. Also because he didn't have to play a football game against Patrick Mahomes 1004 01:05:38.360 --> 01:05:41.079 this weekend, so therefore he's not sad. He was sad because of that. 1005 01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:46.639 Also. Number eighteen Utah State beat Boise State in overtime. Fun games 1006 01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:49.960 everywhere. This league is better than the ACC. Yeah. I have a 1007 01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:55.880 joke about literally look at the next paragraph. Oh yeah, there it is 1008 01:05:57.360 --> 01:06:00.400 Detroit Mercy still buns. They will be rest of the year. They're own 1009 01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:04.880 twenty two. They lost to Green Bay seventy eight sixty four. Jordanis must 1010 01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:10.360 have had a good day Green Day one Utah State one seventy. Mercy shoots 1011 01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:15.760 twenty six percent. As a team. Their best three point shooter shoots thirty 1012 01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:19.679 one percent, which means they would shoot forty six percent against the Jayhawks. 1013 01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:26.880 That's that's just that's just so sad. True. I like the Detroit Mercy 1014 01:06:26.960 --> 01:06:31.119 stick. I like how we all I like how we always we always find 1015 01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:36.920 ways to talk about them because Louis Mercy DePaul exists and is an abomination upon 1016 01:06:36.960 --> 01:06:41.159 our eyes and the sport. But yeah, Detroit Mercy is getting clowned. 1017 01:06:41.719 --> 01:06:44.199 Yes they are. They They may not win a game the whole year. 1018 01:06:44.199 --> 01:06:46.920 They are so so bad. Ranked teams to lose since the last show a 1019 01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:53.280 list that you will not find on on this list is Detroit Mercy. But 1020 01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:56.559 instead, you know, you always know who the highest ranked team to lose 1021 01:06:56.599 --> 01:07:00.679 since the last show is. It is always number seven. Lost to Iowa 1022 01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:05.519 State Membrad Auburn then lost to Mississippi State, number eleven Oklahoma get them away 1023 01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:10.800 from my top twenty five lost to Texas Tech. Number fifteen Baylor, who's 1024 01:07:10.880 --> 01:07:13.639 mid I think maybe a little bit mid, though very talented. They lost 1025 01:07:13.679 --> 01:07:17.840 to TCU number sixteen Dayton. You didn't know Dayton was ranked? You out 1026 01:07:17.840 --> 01:07:20.679 there listening, did you? You didn't know they were sixteen. They lost 1027 01:07:20.719 --> 01:07:25.440 to Richmond, who you also didn't know beat Dayton the other day. Number 1028 01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:28.960 nineteen Memphis lost to uab Man. If only we could have guessed that the 1029 01:07:29.039 --> 01:07:32.039 AAC team was overrated. Yeah, I know, it's shocking. It's hard 1030 01:07:32.039 --> 01:07:36.000 to imagine how Houston got that one seed last year and number twenty four Colorado 1031 01:07:36.079 --> 01:07:40.480 State lost to Wyoming, the fighting Josh Allens, What is Wyoming? Are 1032 01:07:40.480 --> 01:07:43.920 they the what's their mascot? They're the cowboys? They are the cowboys. 1033 01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:46.760 That's right. Sometimes it just fits last weekend pick up. Don't know, 1034 01:07:46.880 --> 01:07:50.840 didn't add it up. I'll do that in a minute. All right, 1035 01:07:50.920 --> 01:07:55.719 let's do ask Rock Chalk blog. I saw this was a sleepy segment before. 1036 01:07:55.760 --> 01:07:58.760 You have not seen a dang thing yet. Hey, Nick isn't here, 1037 01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:00.480 so we don't have a Nick question, which kind of makes me sad 1038 01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:04.039 because I like doing that. We're going to start off with who we shouted 1039 01:08:04.079 --> 01:08:09.719 out earlier here at kau Tweets and news with just that chef's kiss tweet just 1040 01:08:09.760 --> 01:08:15.000 says why didn't Kansas guard Trey King like Clay Thompson from the jump? Clearly 1041 01:08:15.279 --> 01:08:20.039 this team just sucks at defense? And then send And the best way to 1042 01:08:20.119 --> 01:08:25.880 sign off a tweet sad exclamation mark. That is your favorite way to sign 1043 01:08:25.920 --> 01:08:28.720 off at tweet? I do that all the time over text too, And 1044 01:08:29.119 --> 01:08:32.640 yes, that is so hilarious. Yeah, they clearly should have anticipated this, 1045 01:08:32.800 --> 01:08:36.760 Like people are like, well you go to My favorite thing is people 1046 01:08:36.800 --> 01:08:42.840 making it sound like that the twenty three point shooter. Oh there goes the 1047 01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:48.199 speaker there just fell off my So my current setup for this is microphone. 1048 01:08:48.239 --> 01:08:50.680 I have to get at mouth level, So it is on top of an 1049 01:08:50.680 --> 01:08:53.920 ice pin, on top of a suitcase, on top of a bed. 1050 01:08:54.119 --> 01:08:57.399 And I can't believe that we got two thousand beats into the show before we 1051 01:08:57.479 --> 01:09:00.000 had a cap size there. But is that the only thing that's gonna be 1052 01:09:00.039 --> 01:09:02.279 off level in the hotel room tonight? Oh boy? Yeah, We've walked 1053 01:09:02.279 --> 01:09:04.760 a lot of steps down here sir, I am tired and go into bed. 1054 01:09:05.039 --> 01:09:09.000 A lot of it pacing from the Chiefs win. But anyway, my 1055 01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:12.600 favorite thing is my my favorite thing is whenever people are like, he may 1056 01:09:12.600 --> 01:09:15.399 shoot twenty percent, but you can't leave him open, and they act like 1057 01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:17.600 the reason he's shooting twenty percent because every one of those threes he's taken and 1058 01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:23.279 missed this year has been a contested guarden three guarded by prime Marcus Garrett defense. 1059 01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:28.279 Exactly. The first open threes he's taken all year are the ones that 1060 01:09:28.279 --> 01:09:30.279 he's shooting up against Kansas, which some of them were kind of open. 1061 01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:33.720 There were also plenty of NBA range bombs. Didn't they make their first like 1062 01:09:33.800 --> 01:09:36.760 seven threes and a half or something like that. I think it was like 1063 01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:41.399 six and like seven of eight or something like that. Stupid, that's unbelievable. 1064 01:09:41.479 --> 01:09:44.359 Yeah, all right, here's a good question from at Kamlipolk Golf Cam. 1065 01:09:44.439 --> 01:09:45.880 I'm so sorry about the Lions, my man. You did not deserve 1066 01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:49.920 that they get all the way to this point and then they pull they pulled 1067 01:09:49.960 --> 01:09:55.079 the pre Mahomes Chiefs. I feel like that's the game that the Chiefs would 1068 01:09:55.079 --> 01:10:00.720 have rate these hires from best to worst. Oh my gosh, John Shire, 1069 01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:04.720 Rodney Terry, Juwan Howard, Mike Boyton, Mike Woodson. Oh, 1070 01:10:06.840 --> 01:10:15.359 I think the best is shy Well, he's also got the best team Woodson. 1071 01:10:16.439 --> 01:10:23.439 Uh, Okay, the worst tire here is Rodney Terry. Juwan Howard 1072 01:10:23.520 --> 01:10:30.000 has had a little success, also punched the man, and he had Hunter 1073 01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:33.439 Dickinson in like three five stars on the missed the tournament. Yeah, that's 1074 01:10:33.520 --> 01:10:39.680 true. I think the best Boyton might actually be the best because he has 1075 01:10:39.800 --> 01:10:44.239 the least like of those schools. Oklahoma State is not the same as Indiana, 1076 01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:49.920 Duke, Texas or Michigan and they have. Honestly, I feel I 1077 01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:53.720 don't even want to rank him. I feel like they're all like exactly the 1078 01:10:53.840 --> 01:10:56.920 same. It kind of feels like the Spider Man meme where you got five 1079 01:10:56.960 --> 01:11:00.560 of them all pointing at each other. Howard had the highest ceiling the lowest 1080 01:11:00.640 --> 01:11:04.039 floor. Oh, I sure. Have you seen what Mike Boyton has done 1081 01:11:04.079 --> 01:11:06.920 with some of his worst Oklahoma State teams. I'll be at fewer resources, 1082 01:11:09.560 --> 01:11:11.760 I might give you that, but I mean, have you seen what Juwan 1083 01:11:11.800 --> 01:11:14.880 Howard has done with those resources? I see, if I had to pick 1084 01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:18.079 one to be my team's coach. It's Shire. It's not close, but 1085 01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:23.159 that's just because I think the other four are abominations and Shire hasn't been proven 1086 01:11:23.239 --> 01:11:26.239 to be one yet. He's still not good, though, but you are 1087 01:11:26.279 --> 01:11:29.920 probably right. And Kim Lipole also says, at what point during the game 1088 01:11:29.960 --> 01:11:33.079 did you look like the PTSD dog helicopter dot meme. I didn't get to 1089 01:11:33.319 --> 01:11:36.880 see it directly, but whenever we landed, or well I didn't land the 1090 01:11:36.960 --> 01:11:41.560 pilot landed, and I got on my phone and saw that Trey King was 1091 01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:45.199 four for six or whatever it was at that point. And then we're gonna 1092 01:11:45.199 --> 01:11:47.960 have a lot of questions like this at r see and Coat underscore. Sc 1093 01:11:48.399 --> 01:11:51.600 Are we bad defense or do teams just play out of their minds against the 1094 01:11:51.720 --> 01:11:57.159 Jayhawks literally the worst defensive team that's ever played basketball? Yeah, yeah, 1095 01:11:57.279 --> 01:12:00.760 definitely. We kind of talked about that earlier. I think that they overall, 1096 01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:03.760 they're a perfectly fine, not great, not bad, whatever, perfectly 1097 01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:08.520 fine three point shooting team on defense, as most teams are. You're not 1098 01:12:08.640 --> 01:12:13.479 gonna find the stoutest defense against three pointers, and you're not gonna find one 1099 01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:15.520 that just totally sucks. And lets guys. Shoot, it's all about the 1100 01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:20.600 same. It's all about athleticism, which Kansas has lots of. That is 1101 01:12:21.479 --> 01:12:27.600 decently true. I like, that's the best we're ever gonna get whenever it 1102 01:12:27.680 --> 01:12:31.840 comes to a three point defense analysis. Oh boy, at dick underscore taser. 1103 01:12:31.880 --> 01:12:35.600 Hey Cam, I'm gonna need you to pull the PTSD Chihuahuah gift for 1104 01:12:35.840 --> 01:12:40.960 a dot meme for this one. This is Wayne's exact tweet. Can't believe 1105 01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:44.520 I'm about to say this. The bench is a giant sad sack. Don't 1106 01:12:44.600 --> 01:12:48.199 say it. Marco Brown and Nick Timberlake couldn't score in China. I hate 1107 01:12:48.239 --> 01:12:54.560 myself for thinking it. Starters sit less than a Buckingham soldier. Stop yourself, 1108 01:12:54.640 --> 01:12:58.840 Wayne Kerr, don't do it. Break glass. In case of Clements, 1109 01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:04.319 question Mark, that's such a sad and funny tweet. Clemens is better 1110 01:13:04.439 --> 01:13:11.279 than anybody on Kansas's bench right now, not close, And like that's so 1111 01:13:11.479 --> 01:13:15.399 true, but it's so unfair to him. He wanted a red shirt. 1112 01:13:15.479 --> 01:13:18.560 He's way he has red shirted half his season. Like, yes, he 1113 01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:23.079 would help, but Wood he though, because like they don't need help with 1114 01:13:23.159 --> 01:13:27.319 the five, they do not need help with the five, but they do 1115 01:13:27.479 --> 01:13:31.760 need a warm body that can play. I think the answer is, and 1116 01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:35.520 I know this sounds stupid, I think the answer, and I'm gonna tie 1117 01:13:35.560 --> 01:13:39.479 in a question here for Matt Preston Skirsik. Why are we being so hard 1118 01:13:39.560 --> 01:13:43.279 on Timberlake? If three pointers Okay, this is more a rock chalk blog 1119 01:13:43.319 --> 01:13:45.920 takes. If three pointers are mostly luck, as some of the fan base 1120 01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:49.000 believes, he's simply having the most unlucky season of his career, why are 1121 01:13:49.039 --> 01:13:54.439 we not overly sympathetic to someone who's fallen victim to unfortunate luck. Yeah, 1122 01:13:54.479 --> 01:13:57.239 that's also more or less a good point. Like it is kind of hard 1123 01:13:57.279 --> 01:14:00.560 to say three point defenses all luck and then say three point offense all skill. 1124 01:14:00.159 --> 01:14:03.079 But like, I think the answer is, you gotta play Timberlake a 1125 01:14:03.159 --> 01:14:06.359 lot more. And I know that kind of sucks. I think, Okay, 1126 01:14:06.479 --> 01:14:12.680 here's my joke that is not fully a joke. Play Michael Jankovic and 1127 01:14:12.840 --> 01:14:19.960 his own Oh God, really like a six man Mike jenk I'm not six, 1128 01:14:20.239 --> 01:14:26.479 maybe like eighth. I think Mike Jenkovic has more threes in Big Twelve 1129 01:14:26.520 --> 01:14:29.520 play than el Marco Jackson. I don't remember who he made it again. 1130 01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:31.960 It's more than none. Might have been the witch toa state game. I 1131 01:14:32.039 --> 01:14:34.880 don't remember, but I know I've seen him make it three more recently. 1132 01:14:35.079 --> 01:14:39.840 Yeah, whatever, close enough. I'd like to see Timberlake play more. 1133 01:14:39.920 --> 01:14:43.239 I don't. I'm getting I'm I'm giving up on Jackson entirely. I don't 1134 01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:48.840 player off the bench play, which is like finding the three ugliest people alive 1135 01:14:48.920 --> 01:14:53.000 and saying you're the prettiest. I get it, but he has been the 1136 01:14:53.079 --> 01:14:58.520 best option. My my wife made a that's mean face at me. They're 1137 01:14:58.560 --> 01:15:01.000 fine, you want a better analogy. It's like fighting the three worst basketball 1138 01:15:01.039 --> 01:15:04.880 players and saying you're the best. Happy, Okay, I got a thumbs 1139 01:15:04.920 --> 01:15:11.000 up. Let's go at cope fraud ranked the remaining road games by most likely 1140 01:15:11.399 --> 01:15:15.720 to least likely win. Case State Tech, Oh you, Baylor, Houston 1141 01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:18.640 the most likely wins, Oklahoma the most. Oklahoma and KSE State are the 1142 01:15:18.680 --> 01:15:21.640 two most likely They're gonna win both of those games. Case State's barely better 1143 01:15:21.640 --> 01:15:26.920 than u sef in. Oklahoma's environment is buns. As you said, Houston 1144 01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:30.800 is the toughest. Correct. UH Tech might be tougher than Baylor right now 1145 01:15:30.880 --> 01:15:36.800 because the environment's better maybe I'm gonna say, oh, you k State, 1146 01:15:36.960 --> 01:15:41.399 Tech, Baylor, Houston in that order most likely to least likely, and 1147 01:15:41.479 --> 01:15:44.760 I say they win four of them. Come at me. This is the 1148 01:15:45.199 --> 01:15:47.640 the Jayhawks right now. Just had their Christmas Day against the Raiders game at 1149 01:15:47.760 --> 01:15:50.600 Arrowhead, and everyone's like, well, I think they're done, guys. 1150 01:15:50.680 --> 01:15:54.680 I think someone else's turn. And it's like, really, I've seen this 1151 01:15:54.920 --> 01:15:59.520 happen a few times before. Decent analogy. It's fine. They play it 1152 01:15:59.520 --> 01:16:00.720 a lot better than the Chiefs did in that game, to be fair, 1153 01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:04.439 Yeah, they they did, and which should make you even happier at DJ 1154 01:16:04.640 --> 01:16:06.920 Radar. How do they win the Big Twelve? Is a one seed still 1155 01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:11.199 possible? Because last year's team was five and three at this point and they 1156 01:16:11.239 --> 01:16:14.119 won the Big Twelve, we got a one seed? Oh yeah, Both 1157 01:16:14.159 --> 01:16:17.079 those are very much on the table at ky Eden. Why didn't Bill transfer 1158 01:16:17.199 --> 01:16:20.279 in someone like Jalen Coleman Lands instead of Nick Timberlake. I think he did. 1159 01:16:20.399 --> 01:16:24.520 I think that Timberlake what he tried to do. Yeah, that's that's 1160 01:16:24.600 --> 01:16:28.560 Timberlake was a better three point shooter throughout his career than Jalen Coleman Lands was. 1161 01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:31.600 Yeah. Yeah, No, that's that's the exact guy tried to go 1162 01:16:31.680 --> 01:16:35.920 get and he just missed this one at show me Hawk. If Kansas City 1163 01:16:35.960 --> 01:16:41.239 had a second baseball team that played in the NL sent, would anyone want 1164 01:16:41.359 --> 01:16:45.840 that that played in the NL Central On the Kansas side? Would you root 1165 01:16:45.880 --> 01:16:47.720 for that team? Or would you still work for the Royals? Are you 1166 01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:50.439 kidding me? I would throw the Royals in the nearest dumpster. I need 1167 01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:55.479 any excuse I can to get rid of that stupid ass baseball team and their 1168 01:16:55.560 --> 01:17:00.319 petition everyone in the city to sell either for an NBA team. I'd sell 1169 01:17:00.359 --> 01:17:03.039 them both for an NBA team if we're being honest, but that I don't 1170 01:17:03.079 --> 01:17:06.199 need the Royals want to move anyway? I yes, I would root for 1171 01:17:06.279 --> 01:17:10.479 any baseball team that move here because odds are they would be better than the 1172 01:17:10.600 --> 01:17:15.119 Royals. Correct, I don't need to be loyal really? Okay? And 1173 01:17:15.199 --> 01:17:16.760 the final question here, I say this for last Land and this is a 1174 01:17:16.880 --> 01:17:19.439 doozy. You got to hear me out on this, but it is. 1175 01:17:19.760 --> 01:17:24.680 It's one straight for you from at Rockchalk aj and I can't read the first 1176 01:17:24.760 --> 01:17:29.319 line because it is a bad word. This one is for Landon Why are 1177 01:17:29.399 --> 01:17:33.840 your friends takes so and then a not very nice word substitute for bad Ross 1178 01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:38.840 and Rachel. It starts with an S and ends with a hit. Yeah 1179 01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:41.520 it does, Yes, it does very good. Okay, here we go. 1180 01:17:42.079 --> 01:17:45.840 Ross and Rachel are absolutely supposed to end up together. Now, hold 1181 01:17:45.840 --> 01:17:47.239 on, hold on, you gotta hear me out. They have a child 1182 01:17:47.359 --> 01:17:51.760 together. He's loved her since the ninth grade. He's her lobster land in 1183 01:17:51.800 --> 01:17:56.000 your tike socks, Your face sucks, and I hope A scammer calls you 1184 01:17:56.319 --> 01:18:00.239 about your car's extended warranty. You fall for it and get all of your 1185 01:18:00.279 --> 01:18:02.920 money stolen out of your bank account. Then when you look at your bank 1186 01:18:02.960 --> 01:18:05.560 account and see that it's at zero dollars, you sad on your couch and 1187 01:18:05.640 --> 01:18:10.960 think, hmm, that's fair to show that you're wrong. Here's a one 1188 01:18:11.039 --> 01:18:14.560 hundred word essay from chat GBT on why Ross and Rachel are meant to be 1189 01:18:14.720 --> 01:18:17.920 together. Send it to me. It's gonna take a screenshot and send it 1190 01:18:17.960 --> 01:18:20.199 to me. I'll read it, all right, I will. I will 1191 01:18:20.239 --> 01:18:25.159 do that if you mean to pivot, because could you even be more wrong? 1192 01:18:25.479 --> 01:18:30.079 Oh? I love that good comeback. I'm like no, no, 1193 01:18:30.439 --> 01:18:33.640 I know he loved her since the ninth grade. They made out because she 1194 01:18:33.800 --> 01:18:38.199 watched a video of him being nice once. And that's even when I liked 1195 01:18:38.279 --> 01:18:41.399 the relationship. That doesn't make any sense. They only have a kid together 1196 01:18:41.439 --> 01:18:44.680 because that was interesting in the writing room. Yes, yes, if two 1197 01:18:44.720 --> 01:18:49.119 people actually had a kid together, I understand that vastly increases the idea that 1198 01:18:49.119 --> 01:18:53.279 they might end up together. Fine, I will slightly grant you that. 1199 01:18:54.439 --> 01:18:58.079 The biggest problem I really have with all of that is that it's not even 1200 01:18:58.119 --> 01:19:00.279 that Ross, like I just don't like him even I don't, it's that 1201 01:19:00.479 --> 01:19:05.159 he doesn't have any like real redemption arc. I feel like, like, 1202 01:19:05.359 --> 01:19:09.279 yeah, he gets better later in the show, like in the last couple 1203 01:19:09.319 --> 01:19:11.319 of seasons. I think he's a little better than he is in the middle 1204 01:19:11.359 --> 01:19:15.039 point of the show, but like he never acknowledges that he was like the 1205 01:19:15.199 --> 01:19:19.319 worst for a long time, and yet he still like is rewarded for that, 1206 01:19:19.520 --> 01:19:24.039 And that's like crazy, that's my like more analysis take of that. 1207 01:19:24.399 --> 01:19:29.239 But Ross is the worst and Rachel deserved Joey come at me. Rachel and 1208 01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:34.399 Joey forever easily the most energy Landon has shown this podcast. With a Kansas 1209 01:19:34.520 --> 01:19:38.600 loss and with plenty of other chaos that was that was good. I am 1210 01:19:38.680 --> 01:19:44.600 having a hard time rating Ross higher than fourth on the Friends Power ranking list. 1211 01:19:45.159 --> 01:19:47.319 But Landon, I think that your your hate for poor Ross is a 1212 01:19:47.359 --> 01:19:51.199 little overblown. Uh, and they're The pivot scene is one of the best 1213 01:19:51.239 --> 01:19:56.159 in the Anti VICH is one of the funniest scenes in the show. You 1214 01:19:56.279 --> 01:20:00.319 are not wrong, just not a Ross guy. Hey, I just wait 1215 01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:02.760 till a guy the other things that made him a garbage person. Just wait 1216 01:20:02.920 --> 01:20:06.000 until a guy named Ross. Well, there goes the speaker again. That's 1217 01:20:06.039 --> 01:20:09.680 two. I don't know if you heard that or not. Just wait until 1218 01:20:10.079 --> 01:20:13.920 just wait until a guy named Ross makes a bunch of threes against Bill's Jayhawks. 1219 01:20:14.199 --> 01:20:17.159 Whenever he increases that to happen and it didn't actually shocking, Yeah, 1220 01:20:17.399 --> 01:20:20.720 I forgot about that. They had plenty of other helps or if you ever 1221 01:20:20.800 --> 01:20:27.600 have asked ARCB used Twitter hashtag ask RCB. All right, now, it 1222 01:20:27.720 --> 01:20:30.479 is eleven thirty at night on the East Coast and this game is going to 1223 01:20:30.680 --> 01:20:32.560 suck. And we just previewed this two weeks ago, so you're gonna get 1224 01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:36.960 a quick one today. Oklahoma State at probably soon to be like ten. 1225 01:20:38.199 --> 01:20:44.279 Kansas on Tuesday, Big Tuesday at nine o'clock. It's it's Super Tuesday. 1226 01:20:44.279 --> 01:20:45.920 It's right, it's at eight o'clock. It's nine o'clock where I'm at whatever? 1227 01:20:46.399 --> 01:20:49.520 Uh And it is the last real lay up for Kansas. They're nine 1228 01:20:49.600 --> 01:20:53.880 and eleven overall are the Cowboys. They just won a conference game, and 1229 01:20:54.000 --> 01:20:58.439 we just previewed this matchup two weeks ago. Javon Small six'y three. 1230 01:20:58.560 --> 01:21:00.600 He's the team's point guardy leads with fifteen points and four assists. He's a 1231 01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:03.680 good three point shooter forty one percent, really good three point shooter. Sure's 1232 01:21:03.720 --> 01:21:09.079 backcourt with Bryce Thompson, who is a really really really good three point shooter. 1233 01:21:09.199 --> 01:21:14.039 Against Kansas exclusively, he avers thirteen points. While shooting he is actually 1234 01:21:14.119 --> 01:21:17.920 thirty seven percent three point shooter in general. Keon Williams and Jerri's Hicklin are 1235 01:21:17.960 --> 01:21:21.600 the wings. John Michael Wright also still around, probably gonna make five more 1236 01:21:21.600 --> 01:21:26.439 threes against the Hawks because he likes to do that as well. The big 1237 01:21:26.560 --> 01:21:29.920 man of no is Eric Daily Junior. He averages ten and six. Brandon 1238 01:21:29.960 --> 01:21:32.520 Garrison here a last game, and Mike marsh alternate between the center spots. 1239 01:21:32.520 --> 01:21:34.760 They're both six to ten, they both blocked a lot of shots. They 1240 01:21:34.800 --> 01:21:39.800 both can't stay out a foul trouble. Oklahoma State's an okay three point shooting 1241 01:21:39.800 --> 01:21:43.479 team. They're actually a pretty good one. They're they're above average in that 1242 01:21:43.640 --> 01:21:45.439 sense, but they're also a really bad free throw shooting team, and they 1243 01:21:45.439 --> 01:21:48.920 don't force any turnovers. So they very likely won't win an Allen field House 1244 01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:53.479 even though this is one of those teams that every two or three years almost 1245 01:21:53.520 --> 01:21:55.560 beats them. But they did last year, so this should be one where 1246 01:21:55.560 --> 01:21:59.479 they roll. They almost did last year, so it should be one where 1247 01:21:59.520 --> 01:22:04.600 Kansas role. Kansas has won eleven or twelve versus Oklahoma State. Maybe just 1248 01:22:04.640 --> 01:22:09.520 read this, who knows a nine L LAS ten Lawrence Mike Boyton with a 1249 01:22:09.560 --> 01:22:13.000 win would become the first coach ever to beat theirself twice on field House. 1250 01:22:13.039 --> 01:22:18.399 But that isn't gonna happen. No, Kansas wins seventy seven to sixty. 1251 01:22:19.039 --> 01:22:23.119 Yeah, it's not gonna be that close, seventy nine to sixty two. 1252 01:22:23.800 --> 01:22:27.319 By that close, I just mean it won't be really close whatever, you 1253 01:22:27.439 --> 01:22:29.880 know what I mean? At this point, Yes, Kansas will win. 1254 01:22:30.119 --> 01:22:33.720 There isn't a lot of analysis. Oklahoma State couldn't stop a nosebleed the last 1255 01:22:33.760 --> 01:22:38.439 time these two teams played, and as long as this also, if there's 1256 01:22:38.479 --> 01:22:41.079 a hope for getting a bench going, this feels like the game where Nick 1257 01:22:41.159 --> 01:22:44.680 Timberlake or l Marco Jackson scores nine points and we're like, yes, I 1258 01:22:44.720 --> 01:22:49.840 think the bench is waking up. Guys. Yeah, we'll see. It 1259 01:22:49.880 --> 01:22:53.640 won't mean that, but you might think that, right, That's what I 1260 01:22:53.720 --> 01:22:55.920 meant. Yeah, let's pick the other games. Number four, these rankings 1261 01:22:55.960 --> 01:23:03.000 are gonna shipt Number four Houston at Texas on Big Monday. Houston, let's 1262 01:23:03.039 --> 01:23:10.199 not get ourselves. You think, yes, I'll say Texas wins. I 1263 01:23:10.279 --> 01:23:13.600 think Houston's gonna lose on the road more sooner rather than later. I will 1264 01:23:13.600 --> 01:23:16.359 take Texas in the Moody Center, Number twenty Texas Tech at TCU. Give 1265 01:23:16.399 --> 01:23:21.600 me the horn Frogs, yep. Number eleven Oklahoma State or number eleven Oklahoma 1266 01:23:21.720 --> 01:23:27.000 rather at Kansas State. I kind of want to pick Oklahoma in this because 1267 01:23:27.000 --> 01:23:30.720 I think kse State is really overrated, but I just don't like the Sooners 1268 01:23:30.840 --> 01:23:35.439 roster very much. I'm gonna say Case State wins at Brambleche I will agree. 1269 01:23:36.119 --> 01:23:40.960 Number fifteen Baylor at Central Florida. I will take the Bears skid to 1270 01:23:41.119 --> 01:23:45.359 end at three in a row YEP. And Cincinnati at West Virginia. Who 1271 01:23:45.399 --> 01:23:49.600 do you want here? I do not know. H you have control. 1272 01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:54.600 I'll pick whoever you don't want, all right, Cincinnati, it is Other 1273 01:23:54.760 --> 01:24:00.880 games. Number twelve Duke at Virginia Tech Hokies YEP. Number ten Illinois at 1274 01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:08.119 Ohio State. I like Terrence Shannon Junior's play. I don't like anything else 1275 01:24:08.159 --> 01:24:12.239 he does, but I think he's enough to beat Ohio State. I think 1276 01:24:12.279 --> 01:24:15.319 I agree he's gonna copy everything, copy this one. Number fourteen Marquette at 1277 01:24:15.359 --> 01:24:19.520 Villanova. Who do you want Villanova? I will take him over the fighting 1278 01:24:19.560 --> 01:24:23.399 Shakas on the road, even though I don't feel good about that at all. 1279 01:24:23.960 --> 01:24:28.680 Arkansas at Missouri in the Buns Bowl. Oh my gosh, this is 1280 01:24:28.760 --> 01:24:31.159 a horrible basketball game. This is so bad. Why is it on here? 1281 01:24:31.600 --> 01:24:39.159 At Arkansas? I'm trying to find what ESPN Analytics thinks. If they 1282 01:24:39.239 --> 01:24:42.479 think Houston has an eighty two percent chance to win an Allen Field House, 1283 01:24:42.600 --> 01:24:45.239 well what do they think they'd okay? Missouri at Arkansas? Arkansas? Oh 1284 01:24:45.319 --> 01:24:48.880 my gosh, Missouri's at a sixty seven percent win chance and they're oho to 1285 01:24:49.079 --> 01:24:55.079 seven in conference play. These teams are combined one and thirteen in SEC play. 1286 01:24:55.920 --> 01:24:59.920 Did you say Arkansas? I did, I'll say Missouri, let's let's 1287 01:25:00.119 --> 01:25:04.039 let's go Tigers and number thirteen Wisconsin at nebrasketball. I will take the fighting 1288 01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:08.720 Hoiberg's I was going to as well, and I still will. All right, 1289 01:25:08.800 --> 01:25:11.680 let's do it. Next show coming out? What probably Thursday Night's the 1290 01:25:11.720 --> 01:25:15.039 record time, right, that seems to be our normal time. Yeah, 1291 01:25:15.079 --> 01:25:17.479 it should be should be good for me. And then Houston on Saturday. 1292 01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:20.399 Kansas plays three of the next four at home. They need to get it 1293 01:25:20.520 --> 01:25:25.079 going, and what a big win that would be to keep their season from 1294 01:25:25.159 --> 01:25:28.439 falling into the toilet. But first they got to a past Oklahoma State Till 1295 01:25:28.439 --> 01:25:30.800 then whatever. We'll probably get Nick back, that is, if he's not 1296 01:25:30.880 --> 01:25:33.960 too busy yelling out a cloud for suggesting that Taylor Swift is attractive, or 1297 01:25:34.439 --> 01:25:40.199 tattooed women are attractive, or anything is attractive, and hopefully we'll have all 1298 01:25:40.199 --> 01:25:44.039 three of us back on. Ryan Langris, I'm the holiday armadillo. Thank 1299 01:25:44.079 --> 01:25:48.720 you for powering through neither one of us is on our normal podcasting computers. 1300 01:25:48.800 --> 01:25:53.760 Neither one of us is in our normal podcasting zip codes. Just a weird, 1301 01:25:54.159 --> 01:25:57.479 but that's dedicated. It's what we do. That's what this show is. 1302 01:25:57.600 --> 01:26:01.319 Baby. This is hard hitting stuff from what I have the news in 1303 01:26:01.520 --> 01:26:05.720 Orlando on the TV because it's I haven't turned the TV off since the NFC 1304 01:26:05.840 --> 01:26:10.319 title game ended. And the way they're talking about the Chiefs is so funny. 1305 01:26:10.359 --> 01:26:15.039 They keep showing old videos of Patrick Mahomes from like the Ravens games from 1306 01:26:15.319 --> 01:26:17.239 many years ago, and I don't know if they know those aren't the highlights 1307 01:26:17.279 --> 01:26:21.720 from today's game, but the result was the same because Lamar Jackson sends Patrick 1308 01:26:21.760 --> 01:26:27.560 Mahomes cards on the third Sunday every June. Yeah, when those happen, 1309 01:26:29.680 --> 01:26:30.439 why goodbye.