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Well, the road Woads are over
one victory and the Lloyd Noble Center is

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all you need to get all the
confidence and sing. I mean, that's

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what I'm gonna roll with, because
wow, I've never been so to see

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them win a game in that awful
arena. But you know, hey,

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it's it's it's a dub, maybe
one that points them in the right direction.

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And speaking of being pointed in a
direction, we're pointed to a two

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man show direction today because Landon,
you're back. We didn't think we'd have

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you on this show. But just
as quickly as you swooped back in from

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grace, our third half departed with
a little bit less grace. I love

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things that have three halves. Nicholas
Show today as he continuously becomes less and

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less intrigued by the idea of saying
things online, especially in front of people,

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including us. So no, Nick
today, he's got the day off,

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which I think you'll appreciate. Yeah, Nick has the day off.

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I'm a very genre a supervisor here
on this podcast. Get the same rate

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of pay per usual, that's right. Yeah, we call it paid time

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off in the business world, sir. That's easy. He's getting. He's

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getting his same compensation package from relaxing
as he would doing the strenuous work of

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a podcast of listening to one hundred
times and discussing Hunter Dickinson's is That is

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hard work labor sometimes, so we
have to we have to carry the witch

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shoulder the load today talk about Kansas
beating Oklahoma by double digits on the road,

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and uh, you guys know how
the show works. By now.

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I'm not gonna sit here and try
to like give intrigue about what else we're

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gonna talk about because everyone knows.
But there's no preview at the end of

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the show because Jayhawks like Nick have
the week off. That's that's nice.

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I guess right, you want to
break I don't know. I think it's

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a pretty boring part of the show. I know not everyone agrees. I

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think it's boring, but you know, okay that let's let's let's start with

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that. Then rank the segments of
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Okay, this this is gonna be
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true. Uh, you know,
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Then my least my least favorite segment, uh is the preview? I really

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okay, it's not that it's bad, I just it's not my personal favorite.

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I think after that you'd have to
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Big twelve games. No other games. I think it be other games than

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Big twelve games. Wow. Then
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my favorite, uh is ASCARCB.
I love ASCARCB. Honestly, that's something

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that's a take. See. I
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I think I'm probably a different or
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up the same. My favorite part
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I think that is usually where the
funniest bones of the show are made.

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I think that is I think it's
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it's everybody gets involved, and it
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somebody says something mean about Mark Few
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think that's fun. Second favorite if
Kansas loses is the recap if Kansas.

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If Kansas wins a big game is
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one, yeah, then it's it's
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I think the preview is fun.
I like I like hearing what everyone thinks

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is gonna happen. It's I think
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reasons that the it TP fan base
likes the show's format as much. People

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like shows that prediction. People like
predictions for each and every game. They

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like score predictions. I do think. I do think the format is tried

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and true. I think I think
our format is pretty solid. Not to

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pattern on back and just be like
our show. I think the show that

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I do is pretty good. Actually, don't you agree, everyone? Don't

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you agree the show we do is
great? Oh well, a accident.

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I was trying to hit applause,
but producer extraordinary Ryan Lander hit the wrong

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button. There continues sir. But
yeah, I think I think our format

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is actually pretty solid. I think
it's very it's a good structure. I

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think a good structure is important.
Good structure not as good on the editing.

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My least favorite is Big twelve Games
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to be that way, But the
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same. Houston beats whoever by ten, Texas loses to somebody at home.

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Cincinnati and UCF I swear they have
played eight times this year, Like,

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come on, I recapped so many
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Normally that's kind of fun. I
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either which way, this is inside
the pain. I'm Ryan Landers, I'm

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Van Houtem. For those of you
that know, you know. Yeah,

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so right on with that before we
blow the airhorn and talk about Kansas beating

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Oklahoma. How was your time in
the lone Star state. You were in

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Texas working over the weekend. Yeah, it was fun. Got to work

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filming a dance competition, something I
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fun time. Although I could go
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pop music for a while. That's
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Swift or Katie Perry or whatever.
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had a dance they did, Okay, Okay, they definitely turned down for

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what. My sister is a college
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so all of their cheer routines are
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music in the style of turned down
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that song twenty times every time I
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figured it was probably pretty similar.
But speaking of similar things, Kansas winning

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and Oklahoma, that was kind of
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think in your brain and you've watched
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that's like every game, you know, how like the whenever the NFL

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will post something like this is every
NFL player face swaped together, like it's

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it's every one portrait for every NFL
player portrait that's been merged into one.

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This game was Kansas and Oklahoma every
game they've ever played merged into one.

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It was ugly, it was quiet, It was an early bad start for

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Kansas, and then the ending wasn't
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ou game ever and it was probably
the final one. And that either team

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hit seventy. Yeah, which I'm
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the first half was played. Let's
talk all about it. It was muted

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more producer extraordinary work going on here. So number six Kansas sixty seven,

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Number twenty five Oklahoma fifty seven.
You didn't watch this game live? How

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many tears were shed about having to
miss that. Uh, none probably rewatched

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none and none and a half.
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your thoughts were, oh, okay, what I thought was gonna happen?

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is that it really was like very
very stereotypical oh Uku kind of kind of

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game, Like somehow nothing interesting happened. Even while KU was down like eleven

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and came to win, it was
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course, I mean I knew the
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dull. But yeah, I mean
it was rather dull. But for the

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first time in weeks. Something we
haven't talked about is that Kanas won a

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road game. We haven't got to
discuss one of those since the last time

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they visited Oklahoma. Usually not the
case. Usually they drop one down there.

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Not this year. Yeah, four
and oh and Oklahoma's rare. They

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did dig themselves a quick eleven point
deficit, but a strong finish to the

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first half got it within five,
and then the second half was quite dominant

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for the Hawks. K outscored Oklahoma
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minutes of the game, holding the
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half. Ryan, Are you feeling
better about Kansas on the road. Do

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you think it's a sign of them
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in their favor, whatever you may
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The answer is yes to all of
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I think that they had been they
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I've made my description of what I
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they were a very unlucky one and
five on the road. I thought there

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are a couple of breaks away from
escape West Virginia if they're not having an

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all time performance and if Hunter Dickinson
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they beat Case State and Regulation,
and then you're like, oh, this

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is a typical Kansas. Here a
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but otherwise pretty darn solid. That's
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is, just with a little bit
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couple of road games. The health
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happy about for this team is they
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saw Kevin mccullor back, playing a
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They have their entire roster now,
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I'm sure there's people that are banged
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appears to be trending in the right
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track, which he had really struggled
in some of his last couple of showings,

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and they won a road game.
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a bye week where you don't play
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games in a row after this,
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They're gonna be six seven point favorites, I would think, against both

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Texas and BYU. So you have
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going into two of the final three, which are brutal. Yeah, at

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Baylor, Case State and at Houston. Two brutal road games and a team

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that beat is sandwiched in there in
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for Kansas, but yeah, if
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get three straight wins. This was
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win at least one road game to
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Twelve road record. Yeah, I
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also don't think they necessarily were better
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I think this is just kind of
the variable randomness that happens when every team

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in this league is at minimum solid
and at best really good, you play

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tough teams on the road, and
various results happen. I don't know what

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what's your thoughts on kind of all
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I do think I do think you're
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to luck or just an unluckiness fluchy, I guess maybe more so than like

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luck, like yeah, flu But
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is you know, somewhat of a
real problem when you're one in five,

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you know, like dropping a couple
that can be deemed fluky. I do

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think one in five when the fluke
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that can amount to something that's a
little more tangibly a problem. But nonetheless,

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I do think there's a very good
chance that KU now they have tough

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road games coming up here at the
end of this of the season, but

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I think it's very real chance that
KAYU will play a lot better on the

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road coming up. I don't even
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of the time. I just think
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times or had weird things happen,
like you were saying, Ryan, So

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yeah, I do think this is
really nice to see though. I think

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any win you can get on the
road, especially when you're one in five

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on the road, is really nice
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which, yeah, I don't think
either of us think is like all

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that good, but they're not the
worst team of all time or anything.

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There's still a solid squad that can
beat you. So yeah, I think

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I think a very good sign for
Kansas, hopefully a confidence builder going forward.

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Well, and before the Texas Tech
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was really bad, there were a
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it really bad. The other team
played great, you played terribly, and

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they didn't have their best player.
All that stuff resulted in a twenty nine

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point blowout loss. Before that,
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with a plus four net differential.
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their opponents in road games, and
they were one and four. They blew

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out Oklahoma State, and they had
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take that Oklahoma State game away,
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twenty points. It's not exactly like
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everything on the road. These were
close games, an average loss of five

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points on the road. Random and
you're right, fluky is the better word,

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because they lost the games. They
didn't play well down the stretch,

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but most of those games were coin
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Kansas is on the right side of
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they have been this year. It
ultimately doesn't matter. Are they gonna win

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the conference? Probably not unless they
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would still need Houston and Iowa State
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if they don't win this conference,
I think they're gonna finish what second or

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third probably in this league. Maybe
they finish as low as four. Does

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it matter? Are you gonna feel
a lot better about twelve and six Kansas

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finishing in third? Ending the year
having won five of six than you would

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have about thirteen and five Kansas tying
for free. I just don't know if

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there's a huge swing. We're just
so used to liking seeing them win Big

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twelve titles. They're probably not going
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State and Houston have been so consistently
good. But I don't think that what

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they've done so far, and those
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the stinker in Lubbock, I don't
think any of that says they can't be

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one of the five best teams in
the country entering March. Right But there's

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still a they're a mid two seed
right now. If they feel if they

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seeded the bracket, yeah, I
think that's probably true. Yeah, I

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don't think because if Kansas improves and
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down the stretch, I think you
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regardless if they actually can win the
Big twelve or not. I think

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winning the Big Twelve not an important
thing right now considering where they stand.

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State are doing this year. You
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both those teams right now, and
the standings again possible, especially you play

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at Houston again, you could get
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yeah, I think if you see
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hot take is I don't even know
if you actually saw any real improvement from

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Kansas in this game. But nonetheless, I think if you do see real

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improvement, that's what's far more important
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and into of course the National Tournament
than anything else. Well, I'm gonna

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dump on Oklahoma plenty because Oklahoma just
gets out my nerve. I think their

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football team's prettyal choke artists. Their
football team is what everybody made Kansas basketball

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sound like. With the great regular
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Oklahoma earned that claim more than real
star less randomness than Colt. Correct,

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that's the difference, Yeah, exactly, And Oklahoma's basketball team is the

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least interesting program out there. I'm
gonna talk plenty about Oklahoma, but we'll

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start with Hunter Nickotsonman kau basketball never
got Joe burrowed, but then again,

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Villanova did happen, So yeah,
no, they definitely did yes. As

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far as Hunter Dickinson, he was
brilliant in this game for the second time

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this year. He just made Oklahoma
his word you can't say on the air,

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posting twenty points and sixteen rebounds in
thirty six brilliant minutes. He was

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nine for sixteen from the floor.
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half for Kansas, not just Dickenson, for all of them. He also

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had four assists, which was quite
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being doubled pass out of it.
I believe it was. I believe it

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was Dicktson that passed to either mccolor
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ahead three. I don't rember which
one was passed out of some double teams

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and found the open man. We
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show You Weren't On. He dominated
him in Lawrence. They don't have a

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lot of pieces that are equipped to
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game saying we're gonna We're gonna feed
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pretty good to see after his awful
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in the second half against Baylor either
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I thought he did pretty much everything
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conference games than quite a while.
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mean twenty and sixteen nine of sixteen. Like you're saying, yeah, I

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mean, he did everything he wanted
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pretty high level, especially when Oklahoma
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the ball, not just the defender
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defenders on the court. He yeah, took two steps in to try to

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limit him, and he still goes
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him, and he's done a lot
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but no this. I've had my
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really don't have any of that.
In this game. I thought he was

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truly sensational. I thought he was
fantastic. One of his best games in

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a while. Yeah. I just
clicked on his I just clicked on the

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box score because ESPN just is like, oh, you just clicked on this

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score. Here is a loud highlight
video point zero one seconds after you click

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it, and it was the Dewant
Harris game, tying three. Hunter Dickinson

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catches the ball in the post,
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to identify that and throw a cross
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that I think a lot of Kansas
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looking back at some stats. I
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I went back a little over a
decade and he's leading. He has the

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most assists of any five man in
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looked at. Yeah, I believe
it. I can't think of a better

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passing big. Ddrich was a pretty
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lot of people to pass to.
Dickens then gave it to Quentin Grimes and

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Von Dotson who just climbed threes,
who could not make any threes. Yeah,

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two Dickson stats. Here, one's
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good one. First, in two
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forty four points and thirty rebounds.
You know how that goes? Hunter Diginson,

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Hunter Digginson's I don't know something like
that. Whatever the joke I wanted

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to make is not safe for work? There with all who never do any

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of those, we all know those. No, not at all. We

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do not ever push anything that could
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mean, I don't even know why
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we don't ever do that, the
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So here's the scream in advance.
Hunter Dickinson in his last eleven games

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is shooting nine percent from three.
That's two for twenty three, or Tyan

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Grant Foster a season stat line entering
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has been Tyan Grant Foster in his
last eleven games. Yeah, the seven

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for seven start or whatever that was
is a long long time ago. Why,

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why, what's that's weird? Yeah, I mean, obviously we knew

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he wasn't gonna do that all season. We knew he wasn't gonna be like

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a ninety percent shooter, obviously,
but you know he did shoot, not

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on a high volume by any stretch, but he shot forty two percent last

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season at Michigan. I think that's
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low forties on even if it was
low volume, which of course we

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all kind of knew it was gonna
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I think that is that is annoying. Now obviously it's like he's your center,

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so that's not and he's still got
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He's still been pretty productive. But
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shoot threes, it's like unfortunate that
a guy that can also make them sometimes

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is simply also just going extremely cold
from behind the arc. So that is

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kind of an annoying, frustrating trend
more than I think, like a devastating

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one. But it definitely like if
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think that would be a boost.
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they could get bigger help from other
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threes again, I do think that
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Well, And this is a weird, weird, this is a drought.

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I mean, Hunter Dickinson last year
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he was forty four percent in conference
play, so very similar what he shot

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non conon conference play the year before
that. He wasn't nearly as good of

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a three point shooter thirty three percent
on his season twenty nine percent or thirty

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percent in conference play, again very
close. This year, you're looking at

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a guy who's still, despite shooting
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still at thirty four percent for the
year, because his non conference rate was

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like forty five. So just a
weird variance there. We saw Wayne Seldon

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do similar things and then sometimes it
turned around and he shot well in the

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tournament. Other times it did and
you're seeing it's a three part season.

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Part one very good for hundred Dickinson
shooting threes, Part two very bad.

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What's part three gonna be If it's
more like the first and less like the

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second, No one's gonna mind too
much. But he does so much well

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that it's really one of the least
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albeit one of the nicest to have
when it's going. Kevin mccullor returned

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from injury. Tell me about how
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the overtime brutal second showing that he
had in Manhattan, and there was some

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rust, but overall got I feel
like they may not have been able to

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scrap this one out had he not
been on the court. Yeah, definitely

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an interesting performance from him. He
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which we're starting to grow accustomed to. Not shooting well overall. Did hit

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a go ahead three with about nine
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His impact was felt primarily on the
glass. He had ten points,

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but did have eight rebounds, something
Kansas definitely missed in the games with him

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out. He played thirty five minutes, which is good to see for a

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guy that was banged up. Didn't
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I mean he definitely he made the
Kevin mccullar esque impacts, like he

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played pretty well on defense. He
made a couple of big shots. But

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yeah, the shooting percentage continues to
be a problem. Do you think that's

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actually a problem, Ryan, or
do you think that'll kind of work itself

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out. Even if he shoots spoorly
they can still win. You think he's

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playing better defenses because in the non
conference he was about exactly fifty percent from

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the floor. In conference play barely
forty three percent, so it has gone

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down. He hasn't been as effective
also average twenty one points per game of

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the non cons, seventeen in conference
play, still very good. Overall,

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his rebounding numbers have actually got sayed
basically the same. The assist number is

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exactly the same. The shooting percentages
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thirty five percent from three in conference
play. We've seen that go back down

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to that thirty three percent, which
is a little better than what he was

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doing the last few years. But
I mean, cheez, you know,

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Kevin mclor shot twenty four percent on
threes in conference games last year, Like

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he has always kind of struggled shooting
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He's a less talented Jalen Wilson.
He's a bowling ball that goes and gets

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you good volume stats, but he
may take a lot of shots to get

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there. Still shooting forty six percent
from the floor this year, that's quite

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fine, and I think it's a
byproduct of playing some very difficult defenses and

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also being pretty banged up. Not
super concerned about McCuller. They will go

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as far as he goes. However, they're inevitable n to see a tournament

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loss. Kevin McCuller is probably gonna
be like four of sixteen or something like

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that. That's just kind of how
it goes. Yeah, and like zero

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for five from three if I had
yes, that's yeah, the team's going

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two for fourteen and their season enning
three point loss or from three in their

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season enning loss, and no.
Porter Moser has led Kansas in the second

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half five six meetings and has managed
to lose all of those games. He's

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zero and six versus Bill self and
may have been a bit over hyped.

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He's not been great at Oklahoma,
and even this team, which looked like

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one of his better teams, definitely
falling fast. Porter Moser's only competition for

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worst coach in the Big twelve is
the guy on the other side of the

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state that I think I have to
agree with that, Yeah, I have

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no like. I think that is
just true. He did a great job

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at Lawyer in one run that started
with a buzzer beater just to win the

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first round game, and then they
won the next three in exciting fashion.

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People fell in love with them.
They played Michigan pretty tough in the final

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four, and they were consistently pretty
good. But why were they really good.

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They had one super solid big and
a primarily a backcourt heavy team that

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works in mid major leagues. Porter
hasn't been able to build a front court

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at Oklahoma at all. He tried
with the Groves brothers. I'll give him

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credit on that. That just didn't
work. They weren't as good of front

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court players as you thought they'd be. But this year, the front court's

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horrible. It wasn't ever gonna work
in this conference. He missed the tournament

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his first year being on the bubble, they were one Big Twelve tournament went

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away. Remember they were right there
with Texas Tech in the semi finals.

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If they had won that, they
probably would have gotten in the second year.

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They were the worst team in the
Big Twelve last year, finished tenth

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place this year. I think ESPN's
got him as a nine seed right now.

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I don't think they're gonna make it. Their last few games they still

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have in their final five conference games. They have to go at Iowa State,

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at Texas, at Oklahoma State,
who isn't good but road game nonetheless,

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and Houston at home. They could
easily lose three or four of those,

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and then you're on the wrong side
of the bubble again. I think

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he's in over his head, and
I project that he is not at Oklahoma

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long. I think he bails for
a good major job. I think he's

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over his head. He always leads
Kansas. The worst of any of those

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was the game in Allen last year
when they were up ten with five minutes

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left and blew it. But yeah, he can't close out games. Every

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single time I turn on an Oklahoma
game, they're in it, or they're

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leading with eight minutes left and they
lose. Yeah, because I mean,

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that's kind of the Oklahoma way.
But it is enough of the Porter moserre

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at Oklahoma away. And I'm just
gonna throw in this too while we're talking

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about it. That Lloyd Noble Center
is it's the worst arena in the Big

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twelve by far. Yes, it's
awful. They have in big letters cheer

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like a champion on the top of
the arena of what what Yeah, what

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has that team ever done at all? They are, their team is and

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their arena is, and go go
be perennial nine to nine in the SEC.

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I don't ever need to see anything
Oklahoma related ever, that's generous.

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I don't need them in the UH
in the College Football Playoff every two years

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to lose by fifty to the one
seed. I don't need that like enough.

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With Oklahoma athletics, how many did
they have three Heisman winners in a

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row and they never did anything.
They had back to back and then Herts

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was up for it. That's right, That's who I'm thinking of. They

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had three straight years that they snuck
into the college football Playoff and the team

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with Bakers should have won the Rose
Bowl. That was a brilliant game that

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they were in with that team was
actually really good. Yes, that was

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a fun team to watch. But
but then the little next to the team

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with Kyler and the team with Hurts
just got bombed by the four seed or

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by the one seed in the playoff. That Kyler team that was also very

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much a ku villanoving and Alabama jumped
out to a huge lead. Yeah,

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and then Oklahoma actually made that a
game. They only lost that game by

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eleven. It was for four considering
considering that it was twenty eight nothing before

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Oklahoma scored. That game was way
closer than it ever should have been.

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Maybe never actually close, but they
actually got in it a little. I'll

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give you credit for trying to make
it sound better than I think it was.

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That they just they're they're always outclassed
like and then obviously it was at

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00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:19.680
least better than the next team that
lost sixty three to twenty one. The

408
00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:23.759
LSU game was, and that probably
wasn't as much Oklahoma's fault as it was.

409
00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:26.960
They played the greatest college football team
I've ever seen, one of the

410
00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:32.799
best ever. Yeah, who then
took took care of a very good Clemson

411
00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:36.880
team pretty easily the next week as
well, So they were they were just

412
00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:40.000
really do you think Will Howard also
could have won with and that's not true.

413
00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:42.279
I don't, okay, I think
Will Howard would have won double digit

414
00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:45.599
games, So that LSU team,
I do, uh, double digits may

415
00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:49.799
be considering how talented they would not
have clocked Clemson that way with Will Howard.

416
00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:52.720
No, Joe Burrow was very good. This is a Joe Burrow discussion,

417
00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:55.720
by the way, that we Landon
and I have gone back and forth

418
00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:57.680
on for a while, because Landon
thinks Joe Burrow is the second best quarterback

419
00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:00.480
in football, and I'm not so
sure that's not true. I think Josh

420
00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.039
Allen is the second best quarterback in
football. I don't think you thought that

421
00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:08.119
at the beginning of the year.
I think that's I think some people have

422
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:11.640
the hot take that Joe Burrow isn't
good, And I don't think he's not

423
00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:18.559
good. I think he's a system
quarterback. Uh, that is somewhat true,

424
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:22.759
but like I don't know. I
mean, I'm not saying he is

425
00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:25.839
Tom Brady. I think that would
be ridiculous, but I'm saying he does

426
00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:29.640
have a Tom Brady quality. And
then I think he is like he can

427
00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:33.519
kind of create his own system.
Like even though Jake Browning put up good

428
00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:37.359
numbers, they didn't win with Jake
Browning, but they win with Joe Burrow.

429
00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:40.799
Even though Joe Burrow, what was
Burrow this year like four and six

430
00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:42.839
when he got hurt or something like
that. He was he was at the

431
00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:47.079
beginning of the season too. They
rushed him back from injury. All Right,

432
00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:52.440
everybody acts like Joe Burrow is right
there with the greats in the playoffs,

433
00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:56.480
and the man has thrown like seven
touchdown passes in five career playoff games,

434
00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:00.680
and he's thrown one fourth quarter touch
down pass and his playoff career.

435
00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:04.880
All I know is I watched him
have like five chances to take the lead

436
00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:07.160
on the Rams and go win that
Super Bowl, and he could not do

437
00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.240
it on any of them. I'm
not saying he's Mahomes, but I'm saying

438
00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:12.920
he's good. He's actually good.
No one's Mahomes. No one in the

439
00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:18.119
history of time has been Patrick Mahomes. Michael Jordan maybe isn't even Patrick Mahomes.

440
00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:22.160
But Joe Burrow is a good quarterback. Now that being said, Joe

441
00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.720
Burrow is much better at what he
does than Oklahoma is, So I guess

442
00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:29.920
that's kind of how we got off
track with Sure is better than Johnny Furfey.

443
00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:32.480
I like Johnny Furfey a lot more. I don't know. Do they

444
00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:36.400
look alike and they don't really look
alike. Their names start with the same

445
00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:38.720
letter. I guess that's that's true, and that's it. And the second

446
00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:41.640
letter in their names is the same
too. I guess that's kind of where

447
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:45.400
the similarities stop. Furfey was second
on the team in score. The second

448
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.200
and third letter of their last name
are also the same. Wow, look

449
00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.559
at that. Basically, if it's
it's like the Taylor Swift fans who were

450
00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.119
trying to find all the different numbers
that added up to thirteen to get Super

451
00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.000
Bowl conspiracies going, that's what we're
doing, sister. Yeah? Really,

452
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.319
Oh so you live with a sweet
I guess you don't live with your with

453
00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:06.480
your parents and sister anymore. That
was a while ago. But your sister

454
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:11.079
is a designated Swifty. Uh.
She became one only after the Kelsey and

455
00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:14.519
Swift things started. Okay, that's
that's fair, that's that makes sense.

456
00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:18.440
I I Taylor Swift's music. I've
liked Taylor Swift's music for a while.

457
00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:22.000
I think she's quite good. I
don't really understand the full on obsession with

458
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:25.359
her personal life and her dating life. I don't understand that with anybody.

459
00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:27.200
No, I don't. I don't
either, even though you do know that

460
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:32.559
Josh Allen's girlfriend's name, and I
didn't know that. Yeah, because Hailey

461
00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:37.039
Steinfeld is extremely attractive woman and is
good in movies that I like, and

462
00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:41.720
she's dating a better quarterback than Joe
Burrow. Yeah, and according to Bill's

463
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:44.839
fans, the best quarterback that's ever
lived. No, maybe if you take

464
00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:48.279
out I'll takeout playoff wins. Yeah, I guess did that work, Furfey,

465
00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:51.480
No playoff wins yet? For him, but hopefully he gets them this

466
00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:55.279
year. Fifteen points, nine rebounds, thirty seven then it's very good stat

467
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.960
line. Still not shooting a ton, I think that's more because he's being

468
00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:02.480
guarded very well. Five for eight
overall, three of five from three for

469
00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:04.680
Ifey went through a stretch where he
missed ten straight threes. We've now seen

470
00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:10.400
him put in a couple. I
think he led the team, which was

471
00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:12.799
not saying much against Texas Tech.
Then he goes out and puts up fifteen

472
00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:15.960
in this game. He was pretty
much all of their early offense. He

473
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:19.559
was the reason they didn't get buried
alive in the first half. Really really

474
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:22.880
good fifty to fifty that he comes
back, I think at this point.

475
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:26.000
Yeah, I was saying without that
after watching the game this morning. Yeah,

476
00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:29.640
I don't know. I could see
an NBA team taking a flyer on

477
00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:30.880
him, for sure. I could
also see him coming back, especially at

478
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:36.359
the NILS there. Yeah, I
think part of you mentioned him not taking

479
00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:38.160
a ton of shots. That's also
because, as we kind of talked about,

480
00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:42.279
the one thing in his game is
he essentially has to have other people

481
00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:45.559
create the offense for him because it
basically has to be an open look from

482
00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:49.480
three or transition opportunity, which he
can be very good in both those situations,

483
00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:52.839
and there is a skill to that, of course, but he's not

484
00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:56.759
gonna be like Devonte Graham yet where
he can just kind of he can dribble

485
00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:00.680
make his own shot, or he's
not a great driver, yet he has

486
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.839
shown flashes of that, so it
kind of has to be an open look

487
00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:10.279
that he's in a catch and shoot
opportunity or has to be transitioned. But

488
00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:12.960
that honestly makes it even slightly more
impressive that he puts up the numbers that

489
00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:15.640
he does because he just has a
knack for being in the right place at

490
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.799
the right time, Like he seems
to be a very intelligent player. Yeah,

491
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.200
of course I noticed that knocked down
the threes, three threes in this

492
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.839
game. Yeah, he was really
good. Nice to see him back and

493
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:29.599
forth. Hence all the offensive rebounds
usually the more offensive rebounds, again,

494
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:32.279
especially as a guard, is a
sign of very good instincts. We saw

495
00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:36.119
guys like Andrew Wiggins, primarily player
on the perimeter, was an excellent offensive

496
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:40.079
rebounder because his IQ was just so
good. A guy that could just recognize

497
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:41.960
where he needed to be to be
in a position to grab the ball.

498
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:45.839
A little bit of that with Furfey
came out of nowhere this season, like

499
00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:48.640
he did none of that in non
con I know he played a lot less,

500
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:52.920
but like you saw essentially no sign
of that. And then all of

501
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.759
a sudden he starts and he's like
this amazing rebounder. Like I don't there's

502
00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:00.839
any particular reason for that, or
like it's a talent flip on. It's

503
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:02.799
just the raw talent. It's somebody
who is like it's a little bit of

504
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:06.599
the Joel and Meat effect, the
guy that had all the ability that then

505
00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:08.640
just started getting more comfortable, caught
up to speed with the way the game

506
00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:12.599
works, and the ends things take
over. Andy Katz at the beginning of

507
00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:17.559
the year posted his top ten preseason
small forwards and Johnny Furfey's name was on

508
00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:21.279
that list, and everybody was like, what what what is he talking about?

509
00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:22.440
This is a guy that might not
even play much this year. So

510
00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:25.759
before Arterio Morris left this when we
thought Nick Timberlake would be good, people

511
00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:29.759
thought Furfrey maybe getting mop up minutes
at that point, and he wound up

512
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:32.839
being correct. Some of the people
knew exactly what Kans has had with furfe

513
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.359
I think that it is fifty to
fifty. If he goes, this is

514
00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.559
a pretty weak draft class. But
if Furfey comes back next year, I

515
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:42.720
think he has all the makings of
a top five pick. Really, he's

516
00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:45.079
brilliant. He's going to be a
brilliant basketball player. You could argue that's

517
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:49.000
the reason he comes back, because
unless he finishes this year on like a

518
00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:53.319
Malik newmanesque heater, right, Yeah, Like he probably is like a second

519
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:57.279
round pick. Oh, I think
he's a first round pick at this point.

520
00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:00.279
He he could be a first round
pick. Obviously, NBA drafts almost

521
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.480
solely on potential, so I could
see that. But then the argument would

522
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:07.319
be, if you come back,
you have the chance. Because I totally

523
00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:10.920
agree. I think he could be
a guy that averages like eighteen and like

524
00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:15.279
seven next year, forty one percent
from three, that has the Grady Dick,

525
00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:19.640
the Grady Dick best case scenarios season
next year. Right, he could

526
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.400
easily easily be a lottery pick if
not higher. Yep. And I think

527
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.559
that the nil makes it interesting too, As you said, like it used

528
00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:30.240
to be I'm a friend's first round
pick. Now could wait a year come

529
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:34.720
out and be not make any money, add another year to my It's how

530
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:37.759
old I'll be whenever I come out
and then go top ten? Is it

531
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:39.720
worth it? And there was some
some you know, the way it used

532
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:43.599
to be, it may not have
been worth it to lose a year of

533
00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:47.200
how much a year of million dollar
making to make a little bit more out

534
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:51.279
whenever you are ready to come out, Whereas now with an il, I'm

535
00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:54.319
sure you could figure it out and
make seven figures at Kansas, uh doing

536
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:59.359
commercials and getting paid to stay there
for sure, right and then then come

537
00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:02.759
out next year wherever you've kind of
made up for that gap that you otherwise

538
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:06.480
would have been making money. So
yeah, I think it's very interesting.

539
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:09.239
kJ Adams nine points, four rebounds, thirty three minutes. I don't really

540
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:13.519
want to beat the dead horse here
continues to not be much of a factor

541
00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:15.800
in the rebounding game. He had
a good second half. He had zero

542
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:17.880
and one at halftime and finished with
nine to four. So he was more

543
00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:22.639
impactful when Kansas started to get a
going electric player in the open court fantastic

544
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:25.920
whenever he gets a shot at the
rim. He's the big twelves leading field

545
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:32.280
goal He's the Big Twelve leader in
shooting percentage. So the weird slide where

546
00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:35.679
he was one for ten against Tech
and then a bad first half year was

547
00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:37.960
never gonna last. I still think
that the rebounding is gonna be a problem.

548
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:42.320
It's not a problem when Kansas is
making fifty five percent of their shots,

549
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:45.679
because then they're fine. You saw
it against Houston. Doesn't matter what

550
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:47.719
the rebounding numbers were. They're shooting
well enough to stay ahead of everybody.

551
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:52.280
But when they're struggling to make baskets, Wow, does every possession become that

552
00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:55.000
much more valuable? And having a
foeman that can't rebound hurts? Yeah,

553
00:34:55.039 --> 00:35:00.920
And I also try to pay attention
to that specifically in this game. Weird

554
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:02.719
because I think Ken J. Adams, as we've talked about many times now,

555
00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:06.239
is a very good basketball player.
I think he's really good in a

556
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:09.400
vacuum. I do think, and
I think he's an intelligent basketball player too.

557
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:13.480
I think he does a lot of
things well, his passing ability,

558
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:19.079
he can see the floor really well, but he is he just is like

559
00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:22.400
not a very instinctual rebounder, which
is weird for a guy that's that athletic,

560
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:25.880
that strong. You think it's the
instincts. I just see a guy

561
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:30.719
who I don't think is long enough
to I don't think he's physically enough,

562
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:35.760
at least in specifically paying attention to
that. In this game, he was

563
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:39.280
out of place decently often for rebounds, and it was mostly only when he

564
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:45.480
was specifically more quote unquote randomly in
place for rebounds when the ball kind of

565
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:50.599
bounces his way. Was he getting
rebounds and not the best rebounding team.

566
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:52.000
He had ten in the game at
Allen Field House against them too, So

567
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.639
I guess that's also there. And
I'd have to go back and like really

568
00:35:54.719 --> 00:36:00.000
watch like the games again and watch
tape of him to see if that's been

569
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.079
true all season or if this is
just kind of a weird outlier in that

570
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:06.199
specific regard. But yeah, he
doesn't feel like he gets in place a

571
00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:09.239
lot, and he's not the longest
guy ever, so that definitely could be

572
00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:13.280
part of it too. But I
agree, definitely a little bit, much

573
00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:19.840
like Hunter Dickinson's three point shooting,
something that I don't think inherently, like

574
00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:22.760
in a vacuum would kill the team, but when you factor in the rest

575
00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:27.400
of the team's strengths and weaknesses.
Yeah, becomes that much more glaring exactly.

576
00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.079
Yeah. And if you have a
four or five game run in March

577
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:34.679
where Dickinson makes forty percent of his
threes and kJ rebounds, well, I

578
00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:37.039
don't know if you can pencil anybody
in beating this team at that point,

579
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:39.800
but you need those things to go
well whenever you don't have the depth to

580
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:42.880
make up for it. I we'll
talk about the bench in a minute.

581
00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:45.079
The only other starter we haven't discussed
dw One Harris eleven points, seven assists,

582
00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:47.639
thirty seven minutes. He was just
four for twelve from the floor,

583
00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:51.480
but he quarterbacked the offense that surge
in the second half. I have no

584
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:53.599
complaints about de One Harris's game.
I don't think I've watched a single game

585
00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:57.800
this year where I've said, Wow, they lost that game because Dwan Harris.

586
00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:00.320
And on the flip side, I
know I've said many times as well,

587
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:02.119
one of the big reasons they won
that game was the one Harris.

588
00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:07.159
I'm convinced he's not going to be
a liability in any sense whenever they lose.

589
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:09.159
You may want him to do more, but he's not gonna be what

590
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:14.559
kills you. And I was glad
to see him actually attack and score or

591
00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:16.000
try to for sure. Yeah,
it was only four for twelve. I

592
00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:20.159
liked his aggressiveness and I only went
like one for four from three I think

593
00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:23.440
is what it was. His make
was a big one, but yeah,

594
00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:27.320
I'd rather have to be I'm glad
he was trying to put the ball in

595
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.199
the basket. I'd rather have him
be four for twelve than three for four.

596
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:31.800
Really, Like, I know that
sounds kind of stupid, but I

597
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:36.599
need to want Harris to shoot more
than that because there people may think that

598
00:37:36.679 --> 00:37:39.119
sounds crazy, right, Oh,
but that's that's so many more misses going

599
00:37:39.159 --> 00:37:42.599
from three to four to four of
twelve. Well, if the one Harris

600
00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:45.440
is going to take those, who
are those other eight shots coming from probably

601
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:47.719
somebody who's gonna miss him. So
I'd rather do want Harris attack the basket.

602
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:50.920
Or if he only goes three for
four, he better have like eleven

603
00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:53.119
assists. Yeah, then that's also
totally fine unless it's a GA where kJ

604
00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:57.079
and Hunter are just doing their thing. Landon, I don't know if you

605
00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:02.159
realize this live, but you watched
amazing thing happened in the game of basketball.

606
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:07.760
You watched the worst three point shooting
defense ever in the first half.

607
00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:13.159
That team got such a good pep
talk from Bill self in the second half

608
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:19.199
that they turned into the best ever
I think statistically the best ever three point

609
00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:22.119
defense in the second half. Pretty
amazing. I had people on Twitter yelling

610
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.719
about how Javan McCom first game he
had made three threes in a game in

611
00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:30.119
a month and a half. Oh, the defense is so bad. And

612
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:32.519
a twenty nine percent shooter starts three
for three. Oh my gosh, the

613
00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:37.760
defense is so bad. And then
suddenly the defense was not bad because Oklahoma

614
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:42.920
started missing. Yeah. Yeah,
that's really just the amazing strategist Bill self,

615
00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:45.679
is it is, let you just
get into a place where their comfortable

616
00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:49.199
shooting threes. Yeah, only the
lead to the downfall. No, obviously,

617
00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:53.800
No, that really isn't really isn't
the case very much. It is

618
00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:59.840
astonishing to me that, like you
can set your watch by it halfway like

619
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:02.280
that, if you're shooting under thirty
percent from three, you can just pencil

620
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:06.840
like at least two makes in against
the Jayhawks. Like, I don't know

621
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:14.079
how that happens quite because that's like
weirdly fluky beyond reason, Like there should

622
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:15.480
be a reason for that, but
there just isn't. Well, it's because

623
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:20.960
the defense is the worst ever.
Some fans Oklahoma seven for twelve to start

624
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.880
from three, and then they made
one of their last eleven like it's it's

625
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:28.559
it's a there's a lot of variants
with three point three point. Three point

626
00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:31.559
defense is really weird because the best
three point defense you can play is just

627
00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:37.360
simply not allowing the other team to
take very many threes. That's three.

628
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:42.880
That's three point defense, missus and
makes like I was thinking about this earlier.

629
00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:45.880
I was thinking of this exact conversation
I saw into the future, and

630
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:47.880
I realized we were going to discuss
this again because the show goes the same.

631
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:52.599
That's how it works. The Nick
Timberlake two possessions at the end of

632
00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:58.000
the Baylor game are a perfect example
of how we are both kind of right

633
00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:05.280
about three point defense. Ye,
that is atrocious three point defense as far

634
00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:09.320
as like he left two guys like
wide open, like as wide open as

635
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:16.480
you can very good. Yeah,
like like practice open. But they missed

636
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:21.280
both shots, and so like,
yes, it's bad defense, but at

637
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:24.159
the same time, they didn't go
in, and so that is kind of

638
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:28.840
the fortune that you do have,
and that does exist in three point defense.

639
00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:30.519
So it's a two way street.
Obviously, you'd much rather have a

640
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:35.280
hand in the face. But just
because there is or isn't doesn't inherently mean

641
00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:39.199
it increases or decreases the likelihood sometimes
of a miss or make. But it

642
00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:44.079
does not inherently mean that the ball
is or is not going in. And

643
00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:46.519
that's that's just how defense works.
It is really annoying when every team ever

644
00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:52.119
knocks down all their threes against Kansas. That's weird. That's how teams on

645
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:57.760
the road are making Like Kansas on
the road is allowing like forty one percent

646
00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:00.519
of their opponents threes to go in, and that number is twenty nine percent.

647
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:05.039
And I've seen people try to be
like, well, that's because Allen

648
00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:08.039
Fieldhouse is so tough, isn't that
kind of proving the point that it's not

649
00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:14.199
Kansas's defense that's doing it. There's
a lot of variable there's a lot of

650
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:17.159
variances with three point shooting, like
and that also, you expect to defend

651
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:22.000
a little bit better. You expect
your defensive numbers to be slightly better at

652
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:23.480
Allen than they do on the road. Obviously, the other team's not in

653
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:27.840
their element. That's fine, but
come on acting like that. That's there's

654
00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:31.440
plenty of variants in that. That's
a small sample size. They're not fifteen

655
00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:36.400
percent worse guarding the three on the
road, that that their three point defense

656
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:39.320
on the road would be the worst
in all of D one basketball by like

657
00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:45.559
five percent. They're not that pad
guarding the three. No, weird.

658
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:49.599
I do think it's it's pretty.
It's pretty crazy to suggest that it's only

659
00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:54.800
because Kansas is defending poorly that other
teams are making their threes. People need

660
00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:59.000
scapegoats like, yeah, it's it's
pretty. It's pretty wild. Yeah,

661
00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:02.599
I think. And not that I'm
a basketball expert by any stretch. I'm

662
00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:09.199
not even close. But I do
think like that's a relatively casual take to

663
00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:13.519
say something like that. Well,
and we talk about things that are bad,

664
00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:15.880
how about the bench? How about
the bench? And the bench is

665
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:19.880
pretty bad? Wouldn't you say it's
really bad? It's really really bad.

666
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:22.719
So, yeah, I was working
during this game. I got to see

667
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:27.199
like the last two minutes or whatever. But I did get to check the

668
00:42:27.199 --> 00:42:30.239
score a couple of times, and
nearer the end of the game, I

669
00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:37.119
saw that Jamar McDowell was tied for
the bench lead in shots and led the

670
00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:42.559
bench in points with both one shot
and two points, which was just truly

671
00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:45.119
awful. The bench as a whole
played twenty two minutes and that was the

672
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:47.320
only two points they scored. Jamar
McDowell did get it. He played four

673
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:52.920
minutes. Parker Brown got four minutes
of cardio, as Ryan said, Marco

674
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:57.039
Jackson got a foul in four minutes
and maybe one assist, maybe not.

675
00:42:57.800 --> 00:43:02.920
And Nick Timberlake fouled three times in
ten minutes. This this is why this

676
00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:07.159
team will lose. Oh yeah,
in March they have There's just nothing there,

677
00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:10.360
Like, there's just nothing there.
We talked about in the last couple

678
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.840
of games. I also wasn't on
the Tech Show, but that like,

679
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:19.800
hey, even if they lose these
couple games and look kind of weird and

680
00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:22.760
with Kevin mccullor out, but if
that means that Nick Timberlake might get something

681
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:27.880
going, you would take that because
that has, like we were talking about

682
00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:30.519
earlier, that has way more implication
for the rest of their season and for

683
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:36.400
March than winning a random game in
Lubbock does right now. But then he

684
00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:37.880
just comes out and does nothing again. So what do you make of that?

685
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:39.920
I think I think he's just not
good, and I don't know I

686
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:45.159
think there's any rhyme or reason for
him playing particularly well, although he just

687
00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:47.360
got more shots and more minutes and
maybe he's a guy just needs minutes.

688
00:43:47.400 --> 00:43:50.960
I don't know, but uh yeah, I don't. I don't trust the

689
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:52.880
bench as far as I can throw
it. Well. Tamberlake was I want

690
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:55.599
to. I don't know if I
say better, because he did put up

691
00:43:55.599 --> 00:44:00.480
eight points against Baylor, albeit in
a game with lots of ups and downs

692
00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:02.679
for him, and then he let
them in scoring with thirteen ins Tech,

693
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:07.880
but none of those shots came when
the game was even competitive. So he

694
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:09.840
hasn't had a game where he's gone
out and gotten you ten or twelve points

695
00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:14.599
and played legitimately well in more ways
than not in a game that they've needed

696
00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:19.000
every one of them. Yet that
has not happened. And Timberlake against against

697
00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:22.480
Texas Tech. I don't know if
you remember, but I said after the

698
00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:25.519
Baylor game, if Nick Timberlake can
give him eight plus points a night the

699
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:28.440
rest of the year, I don't
know. If they lose again and then

700
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:31.199
he gives them thirteen ins Tech and
they lose by twenty nine. So it's

701
00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:36.960
it's they need quality minutes from someone
on the bench, they're probably not getting

702
00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:39.760
it. Timberlake's your best bet,
and he played ten minutes without shooting much.

703
00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:43.000
I don't think he was a liability
in this game. He just didn't

704
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:45.719
score. I guess he's been a
liability in a while, to be honest,

705
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:52.039
I think he's gone past being that
bad since most of conference play,

706
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.119
probably, but he just he's just
not given you anything. And on a

707
00:44:55.159 --> 00:45:00.400
team that is struggling to shoot and
is struggling to find great scoring consistently from

708
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:06.440
anyone not named Hunter Dickinson and sometimes
Kevin mccullor or Johnny Furfy, like that

709
00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:09.400
is a problem that you are not
getting anything from the bench. It's essentially

710
00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:13.760
last year again. Oh yeah,
yeah, it is last year. And

711
00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:17.199
look how that worked. They wound
up having a couple Grady dick didn't play

712
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:21.239
as well going into the tournament,
Jalen Wilson was banged up, and they

713
00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:23.599
got blown out by Texas and then
they lost Arkansas. The last year their

714
00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:28.360
final three games because the bench really
couldn't do much against athletic teams that had

715
00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:30.559
a very good bench. Both Texas
and Arkansas had benches. It does matter.

716
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:34.599
I think bench plays a little overrated
over the course of a regular season,

717
00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:37.400
but it can be really helpful in
the tournament. Something else that was

718
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:40.440
bad the refs they were I don't
know if you saw the did you see

719
00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:45.480
the foul on Hunter Dickinson where the
guy ran into him, fell down like

720
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:49.119
full on, arms flailing everything,
just ran right into his stomach and fell

721
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:52.559
down. And Doug Sermons comes running
over as like foul on number one because

722
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:55.719
what else would he do? And
Franz like, oh, Doug Sermons wouldn't

723
00:45:55.719 --> 00:46:00.719
call anything unless it was a legit
foul. I know him personally. Fran

724
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:04.599
Facilla, according to fran Facilla,
knows everybody that's ever lived. Fran Fracilla

725
00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:07.679
thinks that Bill Self and he are
best buddies because Self lets him wear one

726
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:13.320
of those I volunteered at Bill Self's
fantasy camp. Teacher always mentions Greg Gurley,

727
00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:15.719
Yes he does, Greg Curley,
he does, and he acts like

728
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:19.840
that. Greg Gurley, who you
know has played at Kansas and has been

729
00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:22.639
around the program since he was an
eighteen year old kid. He acts like

730
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:27.559
he's always having to explain to Gurley
what the team's doing wrong. He was

731
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:30.760
like, Greg Gurley asked me,
why are we playing well? I'm sure

732
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:35.400
Greg Gurley really wants your opinion on
why Kansas isn't playing well. Fran I'm

733
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:37.920
sure. I just I don't.
I don't like Fran. I know he's

734
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:42.760
a little games he's a little turd, and he's actually than I would be

735
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:46.559
at announcing basketball games. But surely
ESPN can find somebody. Well, you'd

736
00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:50.639
think, but ESPN hires a lot
of very interesting people. Just let Bill

737
00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:52.400
Walton do all of it. That's
what I have to say. No,

738
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:54.679
that's not true either. Forty four
percent from the floor, thirty two percent

739
00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:57.840
from three, and fifty percent of
the line. None of those numbers are

740
00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:00.840
great. Yeah, that last one
especially off. Yeah, they were like

741
00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:02.960
one for six or something to start
it. Actually finished strong to get to

742
00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:07.400
fifty percent. They were plus eleven
on the glass. Mccullor playing was a

743
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:09.480
big reason. There. Also helps
when your opponent only makes four shots and

744
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:13.599
a half, you're gonna get some
rebounds when that happens. Also, only

745
00:47:13.639 --> 00:47:16.519
eleven turnovers. I'm with you.
I don't did they play better in this

746
00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:20.440
game than they played against West Virginia
in case State. I don't really think

747
00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:23.400
they did, but it all No, I don't think the other team just

748
00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:27.480
didn't make a bunch of threes in
the second half like both of those teams

749
00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:30.400
did. Like, but you'll take
it, you'll put it in your pocket.

750
00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:32.280
It's a great time. By the
way, I would so much have

751
00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:37.000
rather seen them win this one than
win the Texas Tech Game and then lose

752
00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:39.400
this because now you're going into a
week long stretch with people healthier, you

753
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:45.400
have an opportunity to get that arrow
pointing upward. I think it is twenty

754
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:49.000
wins for Kansas. Also, I
don't have the stat but I think they've

755
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:52.079
won twenty games every year since the
first year of the Roy Williams era,

756
00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:58.079
which is just ridiculous, including the
COVID season which which claimed so many teams

757
00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:01.760
twenty game streaks. Like I think
Michigan's States Dukes and Gonzagas not Gonzaga.

758
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:05.519
It might just be Michigan State Duke
and Kentucky something like that. They all

759
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:07.559
died in the COVID year. Kansas
still managed to get there there, Bill

760
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:10.119
self, very consistent. Good road
win, right, you'll take it?

761
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:14.639
Oh, you definitely take it.
Yeah, and again they struggled in Oklahoma.

762
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:16.800
Usually they drop at least one in
the state of Oklahoma, and they

763
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:23.920
didn't this year, So you'll definitely
take that Big twelve games. Well,

764
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:29.039
we have six more, I think, most of which are pretty uninteresting.

765
00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:31.480
We both said that this is kind
of a mess section, so let's see

766
00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:36.079
how fast we can go. Starting
with the team though that deserves the utmost

767
00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:39.599
of respect Number ten Iowa State eighty
two, Texas Tech seventy four. I

768
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:43.840
don't think anybody saw the Cyclones coming, But if TJ. Alzelberger is not

769
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:45.800
the Big twelve Coach of the Year, I do not know what the why

770
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:50.360
they would even bother having said award, Yeah, they are really good.

771
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:52.239
I thought they'd be all right.
They are very very solid. Cyclones are

772
00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:57.639
twenty and five overall, still undefeated. In Hilton Coliseum, they got twenty

773
00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:00.320
four points from Keishawn Gilbert, including
four threes. Man, if he was

774
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:04.800
against Kansas, he must be like
a twenty six percent shooter. Darren Williams

775
00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:07.920
followed up his twelve or twelve game
versus Kansas by wait for it, everybody

776
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:13.719
making three baskets as Texas at got
a better whistle, but turn it over

777
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:17.440
sixteen times. As the Cyclones continue
to roll and are in strong contention to

778
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:22.119
win the Big twelve. Huge huge
game coming up this week with Iowa State

779
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:24.760
and Houston playing for a first place
in the Big Twelve. If Iowa State

780
00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:28.159
can upset Houston, they have to
win on the road, and they're a

781
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:30.559
ten point dog, which I think
is kind of a lot to points is

782
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:35.960
ludicrous. Yeah, that's there there
plus ten tonight. If they can win

783
00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:37.599
that game, then they'll have the
sweep over the Cougars and they will definitely

784
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:40.679
be in the driver's seat. Also, Iowa State don't want to be that

785
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:44.320
guy didn't have to go at Kansas, didn't have to go at Texas Tech.

786
00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:49.079
That very possibly two l's there definitely
helps whenever you don't have to do

787
00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:52.119
that. Unbalanced Lee schedule is bizarre
Tech whatever. They're very met in my

788
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:58.519
opinion. Number three Houston eighty two, Texas sixty one. We talked about

789
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:00.679
it. Houston and Iowa State are
now locked atop the Big twelve ahead of

790
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:05.679
their big Monday showdown. Cougars have
bounced back nicely from that loss at Allen.

791
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:08.679
They've won four in a row LJ. Cryer with twenty six points and

792
00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:15.320
six threes sixteen eleven and six from
Big twelve Player of the Year favorite Jamal

793
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:20.440
shed He's the favorite if they win
it, right, I think I think

794
00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:23.400
he has to be. He's their
best player. Yeah, that's usually how

795
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:28.320
it goes. Best player on the
best team. Texas is and their coach

796
00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:31.599
is And I can't believe Rodney Terry
got five years because Rodney Terry should have

797
00:50:31.639 --> 00:50:36.000
never been given any years. We
all saw that coming. What were they

798
00:50:36.039 --> 00:50:38.159
thinking? Yeah, I think that
was one of your better predictions of the

799
00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:44.440
last few seasons on the show.
Rodney Terry not great. Well, the

800
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:47.760
Maexas was like a dominant winner before
Rodney Terry. But I think that's the

801
00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:54.679
thing. If he had taken over
a you know, a unranked four and

802
00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:59.199
four team, and then they turn
into a top ten team, they get

803
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:01.039
to two seed, they makely eight. Okay, that's one thing, but

804
00:51:01.159 --> 00:51:05.360
they were ranked exactly what they were
at the end of the year as they

805
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:07.199
were the day he took over.
Like, I just don't know how you

806
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:09.760
can look at that guy and say, oh, he took us to the

807
00:51:09.800 --> 00:51:14.280
next level, because he didn't.
And your Texas. I have a feeling

808
00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:15.960
that they will be in the market
for a new coach sooner rather than later.

809
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:22.920
TCU seventy five Kansas State seventy two, entertaining game that was ultimately decided

810
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:28.400
on a heartbreaker for the Wildcats.
Their NCAA tournament hopes are dwindling. They've

811
00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:30.199
now lost five of six. You'll
never got who the win was against.

812
00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:34.360
Yeah, it couldn't be the Jayhawks. They took an eight point lead with

813
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.239
twelve minutes left and then scored two
points over the next five minutes to fall

814
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:43.800
behind tied at the final minute.
Jamiir Nelson junior not however, old actual

815
00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:46.559
Jamier Nelson is in the game,
winn three with one second left to win

816
00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:51.599
the game. Micah Peeve scored twenty
six points. Case State went one of

817
00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:55.920
fifteen, which is a worse than
ty Foster seven percent from three. Sorry,

818
00:51:55.960 --> 00:52:00.239
Toyan, you're good now, Ton's
good Now, He's a good at

819
00:52:00.519 --> 00:52:04.679
a while. Yep. Tyler Perry, who made four to threes in the

820
00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:09.480
second half versus Kansas is also of
fifteen, which is against in the two

821
00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:14.400
game sets. That's unbelievable. And
I had a couple of people being like,

822
00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:17.519
well, what do you think he's
closer to forty percent or seven percent?

823
00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:21.960
He's not four threes and a half
good, is my point. It's

824
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.559
annoying. Also, everyone must think
Kansas has the single worst defense in the

825
00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:29.920
Big Twelve, which is just literally
not true. They do. And what

826
00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:32.400
if I told you that in the
last ten years, if you judged solely

827
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:37.159
based off of three point percentage allowed, this is one of Bill's better five

828
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:43.280
Kansas teams on defense. It doesn't
feel like it, but that's true.

829
00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:52.000
I would imagine whenever you have people
that are watching Tyler Perry go all Buddy

830
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:55.760
healed against Kansas for a half,
then I guess it probably would look that

831
00:52:55.800 --> 00:53:00.719
way. Speaking of teams that went
Buddy healed on Kansas, A game number

832
00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:05.880
twelve, Baylor ninety four, West
Virginia eighty one. Literally everybody in this

833
00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:10.320
conference can beat West Virginia except for
Bill self. Ass Oh, only six

834
00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:15.760
Baylor players scored, but they made
twelve threes, highlighted by five from Jayan

835
00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:21.199
Nune and twenty three points from Jacoby
Walter. Baylor is in third place in

836
00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:23.440
the league. They have an outside
chance. I don't know if they're gonna

837
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:25.639
get there. But they do have
a they're in the running still. They

838
00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:30.400
have home games against Kansas and Houston
the next two Saturdays, so definitely a

839
00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:37.239
chance. Yeah, West Virginia saw
Raekwon Battle and Jesse Edwards combined for forty

840
00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:39.880
six points and sixteen of twenty six
shooting, and it was a three possession

841
00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:45.679
game minimum for the entirety of the
second half. That's just how West Virginia's

842
00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:46.840
role in the season, unless it's
Bill, in which case they win.

843
00:53:47.239 --> 00:53:51.920
West Virginia shot about thirty five percent
on threes in this game. That is

844
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:54.920
exactly a ninety four to eighty one
l That is exactly how the Kansas game

845
00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:59.360
would have gone had they shot thirty
five percent instead of fifty five percent that

846
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:05.480
night. Yeah, that's probably true. Oklahoma State ninety three, number nineteen

847
00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:08.000
BYU eighty three. I can't believe
none of us picked Oklahoma State at home

848
00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:12.880
because we've all thought Byu is overrated
here. But have no fear Land and

849
00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:15.559
they are still tenth in the net
and the head of Kansas on Ken Pom.

850
00:54:16.199 --> 00:54:20.440
If Bayu loses out, are they
gonna drop below twenty in the net?

851
00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:23.480
Well, they are a forty one
percent win chance. At Allen Fieldhouse.

852
00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:27.840
According to ESPN, right, they
win that game four out of ten

853
00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:30.280
times, which I've seen. How
all they shoot the three? Maybe Oklahoma

854
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:37.199
State had their West Virginia against Kansas
offensive explosion, shooting sixty percent from the

855
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:45.840
floor and making eleven threes. Somebody
named Jamron jam Eun Jamiron maybe Jamiron Jamiron

856
00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:51.719
Jamiron Keller scored twenty two points and
went four for four on said threes.

857
00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:54.880
Yeah, Oklahoma State had their game
where everything went right and they gotta win.

858
00:54:54.960 --> 00:55:00.639
They're no longer in last place.
I believe Cincinnati seventy seve Yeah,

859
00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:04.599
seventy four, Dad, this is
five seconds or less on this game.

860
00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:08.239
I'll read fast. Then Cincinnata was
in control of this, but furious UCF

861
00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:13.119
comeback forced a tie with a minute
left. Free throws were carried a home

862
00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:16.880
victory for the Bearcats. Fifteen points
from Dan Skillings Junior. You see a

863
00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:20.480
four n eight in league play,
but only two of those losses were by

864
00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:23.440
double digits. They've definitely exceeded expectations
even at four and eight. I mean,

865
00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:27.039
I think we thought they would be
like a three or four win conference

866
00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:30.000
team. Yeah, in total,
but they've been feisty. They've been a

867
00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:35.039
solid ad. Yeah they have,
and obviously I know who they beat.

868
00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:38.199
Damn it Bill like that. That's
a big difference. Though. They're four

869
00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:42.599
and eight. They have wins at
Texas and over Kansas, Like if you

870
00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:46.840
if Kansas just closes that out,
they're three and nine with three h teams

871
00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:51.639
on their on their resume like that, that goes a long way. Big

872
00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:54.960
twell standings last week for buy so
these records will consolidate soon. Number one

873
00:55:55.039 --> 00:55:59.760
Houston and Iowa State tied entering their
big Monday show down at nine and three.

874
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:04.599
Baylor just one game back of those
two in third at eight and four.

875
00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:08.199
Number four is Kansas. They're eight
and five, tied for fifth.

876
00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:14.320
TCU and Texas Tech they are seven
and five, seventh place and the standings,

877
00:56:14.320 --> 00:56:16.800
but tenth in the net is BYU. They're six and six. Make

878
00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:22.079
it makes sense. In eighth Oklahoma
six and seven. How it makes sense

879
00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:24.760
is a lot of quad four victories
patting those metrics. That's how it works.

880
00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:29.320
Yeah, and number nine is Cincinnati
and k State who you expect,

881
00:56:29.360 --> 00:56:34.800
and oh my gosh, there's Athletic
Department Juggernaut Texas and Rodney Terry's glasses sitting

882
00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:40.199
at five and seven, and then
in twelfth the aforementioned Knights of UCF there

883
00:56:40.239 --> 00:56:45.880
four and eight. Thirteenth is now
a tie between Oklahoma State and West Virginia.

884
00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:47.960
They're three and nine. They are
both going to be a waste of

885
00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:51.800
a hotel room for a night when
they play the Big twelve tournament here because

886
00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:54.880
they will lose their first game and
we will be done forever with both mci

887
00:56:54.960 --> 00:57:00.239
wins yep, and neither one of
them will have the same coach next year.

888
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:05.639
Also probably accurate a team that probably
shouldn't have their same coach next year

889
00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:08.880
aftert least after this other games.
The game of the day wound up being

890
00:57:08.960 --> 00:57:15.559
a complete laugher, as Number one
Yukon just whitewashed number four Marquette eighty one

891
00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:17.159
to fifty three. It wasn't even
that close, by the way. That

892
00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:22.280
was with a late garbage time push
against the walk Ons, the Huskies dominated

893
00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:27.360
in Hartford on the glass, grabbing
eighteen offensive rebounds and a statement win that

894
00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:30.559
clearly showed everybody who the best team
in college basketball is. As of right

895
00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:32.760
now, Yukon is twenty four and
two overall, still not number one in

896
00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:36.639
Ken Palm. That would be the
mighty Houston Cougars by a couple of points,

897
00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:38.320
by the way, but Yukon has
already just won, went away from

898
00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:42.880
clinching the biggiaess. They're fourteen and
one overall, they've won fifteen straight.

899
00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:45.559
They are undisputedly the best team in
the country right now, and one of

900
00:57:45.559 --> 00:57:51.960
the losses Kansas good resume win for
the Jayhawks, the team that had the

901
00:57:52.039 --> 00:57:54.000
argument of being the best team in
the country, but I don't think can

902
00:57:54.079 --> 00:57:58.960
say that after this loss in the
Big Ten. Ohio State, with an

903
00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:02.960
interim coach and f everything Stone number
two produce seventy three sixty nine in Columbus,

904
00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:07.480
a wild loss for the boiler Makers, who went twenty for twenty at

905
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:13.320
the free throw line and still lost
by four to Ohio State, who's not

906
00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:17.119
exactly a giant killer this year.
I mean, Kansas lost to West Virginia

907
00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:22.239
and that's a similar loss to this
by West Virginia playing their best game in

908
00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:27.000
years. Purdue just crapped the bed
at Ohio State, which happens right like

909
00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:30.079
they have a great season going,
You're not gonna win all of them.

910
00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:34.719
They're gonna disappoint a lot of people
in their office bracket pools. Here in

911
00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:38.039
about four weeks, it's gonna happen. I had somebody on Twitter. It

912
00:58:38.119 --> 00:58:42.159
was one of the Riders. And
if you're a college basketball writer, then

913
00:58:42.199 --> 00:58:45.480
you just have delay your nuts on
the line with takes that are boring and

914
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:50.840
irrelevant. But this writer for twenty
four to seven Sports says, go ahead

915
00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:53.719
and get your likes in retweets about
how Purdue's gonna choke early in March again,

916
00:58:53.800 --> 00:58:59.280
They're gonna be fine, And I
just responded, boy, I agree,

917
00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:02.280
I think Purdue is fine, but
living on that Purdue won't choke again

918
00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:07.519
this March. Just you watch Hill. That's a dangerous place that I'm not

919
00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:10.239
sure I would want to let to
build my bed in. Like, why

920
00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:14.679
would you go out on a limb
and say, oh no, Purdue's not

921
00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:16.960
gonna choke. Guys don't even joke
about that. That's all they do until

922
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:21.679
they win, until they at least
make a Final four. Yeah, I

923
00:59:21.679 --> 00:59:25.000
have no lose to a really good
team that they're not as good as yes

924
00:59:25.119 --> 00:59:29.239
bye bye. They have to lose
to a team that is within what ten

925
00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:32.960
points of their seed? Yeah?
For real? I think Purdue is really

926
00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:37.559
good, But I don't think there's
any team in the country that is more

927
00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:42.519
dependent on officiating than Perdue. If
games are being called really tight, they

928
00:59:42.559 --> 00:59:45.280
have an advantage. If they're letting
stuff go as they did in the game

929
00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:49.280
where they lost to the sixteen seed, It's gonna be a little tougher without

930
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:53.159
Zach Edi, who has shot one
hundred ninety eight more free throws than hundred

931
00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:57.480
Dickins in this year, which also
does not make any sense in the world.

932
00:59:57.639 --> 01:00:00.320
Well, the ku fans are like
Wudska's Hunter's soft. Yeah, one

933
01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:04.639
hundred and ninety eight free throws because
he's soft. Okay. Also in the

934
01:00:04.639 --> 01:00:07.320
Big Ten, number twenty, Wisconsin's
fall from grace continues. They lost in

935
01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:12.920
overtime to Iowa, not even the
Iowa with Kitton Clark. And also number

936
01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:16.400
fourteen Illinois beat Maryland on the road
in a game where Terrence Shannon Junior and

937
01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:20.599
Kevin Willard got into a bit of
a shouting man. Did you see that?

938
01:00:20.960 --> 01:00:24.400
Not see that? Now? So
remember Scott Drew got thrown out of

939
01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:29.639
the game for having his kneeling knee
on the coach's box line because they were

940
01:00:29.639 --> 01:00:31.639
trying to enforce keep coaches off the
court. Well, in this game,

941
01:00:32.119 --> 01:00:37.920
Illinois has a fast break and Terrence
Shannon is running down the sideline right in

942
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:42.039
front of the Maryland bench, and
the throws a little wild where Kevin Willard

943
01:00:42.119 --> 01:00:45.679
just reaches up and grabs a ball
that's like in play to try to keep

944
01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:49.119
it from going out of bounds,
and Arren Shannon starts freaking out like I

945
01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:52.800
was gonna catch that. That was
a transition dunk, and the Maryland coach

946
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:55.679
starts like wagging his finger in Tarren
Shannon's face, like as if to say

947
01:00:55.719 --> 01:00:59.199
him, you stay in line,
don't yell at the coach, young man,

948
01:00:59.400 --> 01:01:01.199
And it was just really weird.
I don't know how that's not an

949
01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:07.000
instant ejection for a coach to catch
a pass intended for a player that stops

950
01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:10.039
the game. I hate this culture. Now. This is not to justify

951
01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:15.519
like like players just yelling at people, which like I am generally not in

952
01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:19.280
favor of, And that's not what
he was doing. He was just like

953
01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:22.280
he was trying to lead to the
ref. He stopped the fast break.

954
01:01:22.320 --> 01:01:24.360
What are we doing? But I
do hate this culture that we've built up

955
01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:29.239
of refs and coaches being above the
law. Uh huh. Yeah, people,

956
01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:32.039
we players should be able to talk
to them. They're all normal people,

957
01:01:32.119 --> 01:01:35.440
guys. Most of these guys,
especially in the last few years,

958
01:01:35.599 --> 01:01:38.880
are well over twenty years old.
They're they're adults, they're they're they're borderline

959
01:01:38.920 --> 01:01:42.760
grown men. You know. I
understand that the coaches are much older.

960
01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:45.079
Whatever. I don't really care about
any of that. You gotta be able

961
01:01:45.119 --> 01:01:47.079
to have a conversation out there.
I agree. Yeah, No, I

962
01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:52.000
completely agree that the whole and that
whole thing started to change whenever players started

963
01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:53.760
getting paid and you could see coaches. I mean, I like how they're

964
01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:57.119
they got paid, but now that
they're making as much as me, I

965
01:01:57.119 --> 01:01:59.119
don't. I don't like it as
much. Like we gotta do something about

966
01:01:59.119 --> 01:02:01.320
this, you see, like that
same stuff going on. It's a societal

967
01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:05.920
thing for sure. At number twenty
two, Kentucky was the big winner I

968
01:02:05.960 --> 01:02:07.840
think of all the teams this weekend. They went on the road at number

969
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:12.639
thirteen Auburn and one in a raucous
college game day environment, seventy to fifty

970
01:02:12.719 --> 01:02:15.840
nine in a game that they controlled
from the start. They were up like

971
01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:19.880
nineteen to six and it was never
closer than five. I don't think Antonio

972
01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:23.119
Reeves had twenty two points. The
Wildcats defense suddenly came to life, holding

973
01:02:23.119 --> 01:02:27.480
Auburn to just thirty one percent from
the floor. Are we starting to feeld

974
01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:31.239
Kentucky again? I think there's more
than one time. I think they're so

975
01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:35.920
talented, but I am absolutely picking
them to go further than they will in

976
01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:38.800
my bracket. Yep, same,
I do I really like the talent on

977
01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:45.119
the floor. I do not like
cal Perry. No. Therefore, when

978
01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:52.119
they lose to pick another Saint,
it'll be pretty hilarious. They sure feel

979
01:02:52.199 --> 01:02:54.679
like a five to twelve that everyone's
gonna pick to go to the final four,

980
01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:59.639
and they lose to that twelve seed. That definitely could happen. I

981
01:02:59.679 --> 01:03:02.960
could see that. Or they could
also get a favorable matchup and lose to

982
01:03:04.119 --> 01:03:07.559
a case state again. Yeah in
the sweet sixteen, talking about like,

983
01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:12.920
oh man, talented Kentucky flex their
muscles. Yeah, they lose to like

984
01:03:13.400 --> 01:03:16.119
Oklahoma. Yeah, yeah, seriously, that's I think that that's more likely

985
01:03:16.159 --> 01:03:20.880
than losing to twelve. We've seen
that many times. Oh yeah, my

986
01:03:20.920 --> 01:03:23.519
turn again. Sorry. On number
eleven. South Carolina, who's been very

987
01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:25.719
good, did not play very well. In this game, they lost to

988
01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:31.719
a terrible LSU team at home after
blowing a sixteen point lead, capping their

989
01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:35.920
lousy week right as they gained the
lead in the conference. Leading the SEC

990
01:03:36.800 --> 01:03:40.840
is now number fifteen Alabama as they
are the first to ten wins after hanging

991
01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:45.599
one hundred on Texas, A and
M the Crimson Tide. Some of us

992
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:47.599
do, some of us don't.
I'm some of us on the second one.

993
01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:52.480
The Crimson Tide are ten and two
and Tennessee, Auburns, South Carolina

994
01:03:52.480 --> 01:03:55.559
and Florida and Kentucky all find themselves
in the wrong place at the wrong time

995
01:03:57.320 --> 01:04:00.840
behind Alabama with nine or eight wins
each, SEC is a crap shoot.

996
01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:04.239
I think it's the second best league
out there. And sorry, yeah,

997
01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:13.559
oh boy, okay, you know
what, Zoo maybe the worst. Taking

998
01:04:13.599 --> 01:04:16.679
the history of this podcast, Missouri
led Ole Miss by Rodney Terry is bad.

999
01:04:16.719 --> 01:04:19.400
There's some Miszoo's gonna win twenty games. Yeah, there's about five of

1000
01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:23.599
them, honestly, because yeah,
Missouri is definitely gonna lose twenty games,

1001
01:04:23.639 --> 01:04:26.679
if that's what I meant. The
Tigers led Ole Miss by ten on the

1002
01:04:26.760 --> 01:04:29.760
road with twelve minutes left and still
found a way to blow it. The

1003
01:04:29.840 --> 01:04:32.360
Tigers are oh and twelve in league
played. They do get this old Miss

1004
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:35.599
team at home in a few weeks. That's probably their only shot to avoid

1005
01:04:35.679 --> 01:04:41.000
oh to eighteen, eight and seventeen. Overall, they've won once since the

1006
01:04:41.199 --> 01:04:45.719
week after Thanksgiving. Good lord,
it's really bad. Not as bad as

1007
01:04:45.719 --> 01:04:51.199
this, arguably not as bad as
number twenty one Virginia beating Wake Force forty

1008
01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:56.480
nine forty seven. I thought football
season was over. How about this for

1009
01:04:56.559 --> 01:05:00.800
a weird stat. Virginia missed their
first ten free throws, made one with

1010
01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:05.199
four seconds left in the game,
and finished one for eleven at the line.

1011
01:05:05.639 --> 01:05:09.480
Something new every game in this sport, really, But something that's not

1012
01:05:09.559 --> 01:05:13.840
new is Virginia not getting out of
the forties. That's that's that shouldn't count.

1013
01:05:14.039 --> 01:05:16.119
You should not get to count that. I can't wait to watch them

1014
01:05:16.119 --> 01:05:20.800
loose to New Mexico. I don't
want them anywhere near New Mexico. I

1015
01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:25.519
don't want them in the tournament they're
going to be though. Yeah, and

1016
01:05:25.519 --> 01:05:28.840
they're right there. They're only game
back of North Carolina. I think the

1017
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:31.559
acy so gross. Yeah, every
year they're the same thing. It's time

1018
01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:35.760
to ban Tony Bennett, the ACC
powerhouse is both one. Number seven UNC

1019
01:05:35.960 --> 01:05:39.800
rolled over Virginia Tech at home and
number nine Duke got a nice road win

1020
01:05:39.880 --> 01:05:43.320
at Florida State. These two teams
and Virginia, Yeah, they're all within

1021
01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:45.440
a game of each other. At
the top of the league. Who is

1022
01:05:45.480 --> 01:05:50.199
the best? I think it's still
North Carolina. I do too. I

1023
01:05:50.199 --> 01:05:54.039
think Duke has the highest ceiling.
I don't know if they'll get there.

1024
01:05:54.239 --> 01:05:57.400
I saw some stat of how they've
won, like thirteen or fifteen. Yeah,

1025
01:05:57.480 --> 01:05:59.960
okay, go look at those wins, like, good for them.

1026
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:02.360
I would hold her name in Louisville, Wake Forest a bunch of throwing some

1027
01:06:02.400 --> 01:06:04.880
Syracuse and that's about it. Yeah, if they have two more road games

1028
01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:09.280
in a row, let's see where
they are after that. Playing this week

1029
01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:11.239
or the leaders in the Pac twelve, if you can call them that,

1030
01:06:11.960 --> 01:06:15.719
Number five Arizona bea Arizona State one
hundred and five to sixty, because that's

1031
01:06:15.800 --> 01:06:18.400
just what the league is. They're
still in first place at eleven and three.

1032
01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:24.920
Ryan, you do you ask,
do I know who the second place

1033
01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:29.400
in the league is. They've won
seven in a row. In our half

1034
01:06:29.400 --> 01:06:31.760
game back of the Wildcats at eleven
and four, play in Tucson this week,

1035
01:06:31.880 --> 01:06:34.480
so they have a chance to win
the league. I don't know my

1036
01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:40.920
Pac twelve basketball standings very well.
Here's that hint. I'm gonna say it's

1037
01:06:40.920 --> 01:06:43.159
not something you can't I want to
take one guess you'd give me a hint.

1038
01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:48.239
It's not so obvious. So I'm
gonna say it's like Washington State.

1039
01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:53.079
That's correct, it is Washington State. I was gonna say, joe Yasafu

1040
01:06:53.239 --> 01:06:57.159
is your hint. But they were
having a slightly better than normal season,

1041
01:06:57.320 --> 01:07:00.800
and therefore, and they weren't Oregon
or Colorado or anyone else that could be

1042
01:07:00.239 --> 01:07:04.280
remotely good. So and they're they're
like a sixth seed right now. Probably

1043
01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:06.719
they're gonna have their shot at Arizona. I don't think they're gonna win.

1044
01:07:06.719 --> 01:07:09.840
I actually they're gonna lose by a
lot, but you know, well,

1045
01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:14.320
we'll see. Still, though,
solid season for Washington State. Did they

1046
01:07:14.440 --> 01:07:15.719
pull into the top twenty five this
week? That just came out. Let's

1047
01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:18.320
take a look are they right now? They are the number twenty one before

1048
01:07:18.360 --> 01:07:23.519
they are the pack two. They
are number twenty one this week, So

1049
01:07:23.800 --> 01:07:26.400
I don't even think we're picking that
game if that goes to show just how

1050
01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:30.800
little of confidence I have in them. And then Mississippi Valley State no confidence

1051
01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:34.280
at all here They lost by twenty
three to A seven and eighteen Alabama.

1052
01:07:34.320 --> 01:07:38.280
A and O you just talked about
Did I get to talk about Detroit Mercy

1053
01:07:38.360 --> 01:07:40.920
or did you guys only talk about
the truck? You missed it? They

1054
01:07:41.000 --> 01:07:45.920
won, They did win, they've
won Titans. Yeah, And Missisippi Valley

1055
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.440
State they are alone in the race
of a winless season. They are getting

1056
01:07:49.559 --> 01:07:54.400
very very yeah. I know it's
it's a race full of ranked seems to

1057
01:07:54.440 --> 01:07:59.039
lose. Since that show Number two
per due at the top, they lost

1058
01:07:59.119 --> 01:08:02.400
to Ohio State, Number four,
the fighting Shakas of Marquette. They lost

1059
01:08:02.400 --> 01:08:05.480
to Yukon by a lot of points. Second show in a row, Number

1060
01:08:05.480 --> 01:08:10.199
eleven, South Carolina made this list
and then they pummeled. They went tumbling

1061
01:08:10.239 --> 01:08:15.559
down in the rankings. They got
upset at home by LSU Number thirteen.

1062
01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:20.199
Auburn lost to a potentially surgeon Kentucky
team Number ten BYU. Oh sorry,

1063
01:08:20.199 --> 01:08:25.600
we're not doing net rankings. Number
nineteen BYU lost to Oklahoma State. They

1064
01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:30.760
are still somehow barely ranked. I
don't know how. Number twenty Wisconsin loses

1065
01:08:30.760 --> 01:08:34.079
again, this time to Iowa.
Number twenty three Indiana State. Hope you

1066
01:08:34.159 --> 01:08:36.960
enjoyed your week in the sunshine.
They said this was their first week being

1067
01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:41.439
ranked since the Larry Bird days,
and then they lost both games this week.

1068
01:08:41.479 --> 01:08:45.319
They lost to Southern Illinois. Is
what this says is that they lost

1069
01:08:45.319 --> 01:08:47.199
it. They lost to Illinois State
this week, so not a good week.

1070
01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:51.760
Number twenty four Florida Atlammett continues one
of the weirdest seasons in recent memory,

1071
01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:55.199
and they lose to South Florida.
Yeah, no one knows how that's

1072
01:08:55.199 --> 01:08:58.640
he's gonna go. And then forever
probably the last time I'll ever read this

1073
01:08:58.720 --> 01:09:01.439
name in the ranks, because why
are they ever rating I hope. Number

1074
01:09:01.439 --> 01:09:10.159
twenty five Oklahoma lost to and we
lost to Nick who now has an eight

1075
01:09:10.199 --> 01:09:12.760
game lead on you. As you
try to win your first Pickup Crown.

1076
01:09:12.800 --> 01:09:15.000
You're running out of time, sir. They just wait, I'm saving my

1077
01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:20.079
best for last year, all right? Yeah whatever myself. So not a

1078
01:09:20.159 --> 01:09:24.359
lot to ask arcbast today. I'm
sorry to disappoint, as I know this

1079
01:09:24.479 --> 01:09:28.039
is your favorite segment, but we
kind of need it because we're going long

1080
01:09:28.079 --> 01:09:30.920
on the show. Uh, so
we're going to start with U. We're

1081
01:09:30.960 --> 01:09:34.880
going to start with at Dick Underscore
Taser, who always has something good for

1082
01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:39.119
us to answer. And this will
be interesting considering. Uh, this is

1083
01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:41.600
not inside the politics, but it
might be for a minute. Here,

1084
01:09:42.119 --> 01:09:46.319
it's President's Day, says Wayne Kerr. Correct. Besides Millard, nobody can

1085
01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:53.920
fillmore. Who are who is the
most underrated president? I don't I don't

1086
01:09:53.960 --> 01:09:58.159
know, I don't know my old
Just say Biden or Trump and just watch

1087
01:09:58.239 --> 01:10:01.960
it. Just watch the fire and
ro years. I don't know if you're

1088
01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:05.159
being serious or if you're just trying
to start chaos on this show. It's

1089
01:10:05.159 --> 01:10:13.520
that one. I've only like,
I've only experienced four presidents, and for

1090
01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:16.479
one of those four, I was
like seven years old when he left office.

1091
01:10:16.560 --> 01:10:21.640
Yeah, you can't count w h
Yeah. Like I wrote a letter

1092
01:10:21.720 --> 01:10:26.920
to George W. Bush when I
was like six, and they sent me

1093
01:10:27.039 --> 01:10:30.520
a letter back and a picture of
their dog, which I appreciate. Really,

1094
01:10:31.359 --> 01:10:35.800
what was the dog's name? Do
you remember of the dog? Yeah?

1095
01:10:35.880 --> 01:10:40.800
What was the dog's name? I
know Obama's dog. I think I

1096
01:10:40.800 --> 01:10:45.039
think it was a little like black
Boston terrier kind of thing. Yeah,

1097
01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:48.680
I don't remember. Oh duh,
it was Barney. I remember Barney.

1098
01:10:49.159 --> 01:10:51.359
Oh I don't. I don't.
I did not know it was Barney,

1099
01:10:51.359 --> 01:10:57.840
but I remember the picture. It's
still somewhere in the house. Let's let's

1100
01:10:57.840 --> 01:11:03.479
go with uh, let's go with
the HW. It's like not maybe not

1101
01:11:03.560 --> 01:11:06.159
great, but I think for a
guy that only had one term, he

1102
01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:10.760
probably had a little more going on
than normal. I'm gonna roll with Dwight

1103
01:11:10.800 --> 01:11:15.239
D. Eisenhower. I feel like
everybody always, everyone always talks about you

1104
01:11:15.239 --> 01:11:17.279
know, you have Roosevelts and your
Truman's, your wartime presidents. Then you

1105
01:11:17.279 --> 01:11:21.520
have your JFK was very popular leading
into another war, and Eisenhower is just

1106
01:11:21.600 --> 01:11:25.079
kind of in the middle there.
He's a Kansas guy, the only Kansas

1107
01:11:25.159 --> 01:11:28.920
president. I have you Have you
guys gone out to the to the museum

1108
01:11:28.920 --> 01:11:31.159
in Abilene? That feels like a
very fields family vacation. No, I'm

1109
01:11:31.159 --> 01:11:33.840
sure my mother would love to,
but I'm not driving, can't. But

1110
01:11:33.960 --> 01:11:38.880
yeah, it's a very very awful
drive, unless you like looking at nothing

1111
01:11:38.920 --> 01:11:42.680
on the way there except for adult
video stores. Yeah. Uh no,

1112
01:11:42.800 --> 01:11:45.319
Eisenhower. I feel like Donald's,
there's a loves. There's a lions Den,

1113
01:11:45.359 --> 01:11:50.359
there's another lions Den. There's probably
some adult video stores and maybe some

1114
01:11:50.439 --> 01:11:55.439
Dollar Generals, and that's about it
on their way to Abilene. But yeah,

1115
01:11:55.520 --> 01:11:57.680
we'll go with Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was a he had a

1116
01:11:57.720 --> 01:12:00.439
lot of military experience. He obviously
was was big with the D Day stuff.

1117
01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:03.079
Uh. So we're gonna, we're
gonna roll with him. Uh And

1118
01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:06.880
then part two of Wayne Kerr's question
says little known but probably not surprising fact,

1119
01:12:06.920 --> 01:12:11.720
a lot of presidents were complete Wayne
Kurz. Uh, He says,

1120
01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:15.039
how about Grover Cleveland? Yikes?
And now I want to know what What

1121
01:12:15.119 --> 01:12:19.600
did Grover Cleveland do? Is what
I'm typing into Google because I would go

1122
01:12:19.680 --> 01:12:24.720
out to assume that probably the majority
of presidents were at least moderately to very

1123
01:12:24.840 --> 01:12:29.840
racist. Yeah, especially back in
the eighties, eighteen eighties. So yeah,

1124
01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:33.239
yeah, but he was. Grover
Cleveland was president twice. He had

1125
01:12:33.239 --> 01:12:39.199
two different terms as of right now, the only one that served to right.

1126
01:12:39.399 --> 01:12:42.760
Yeah, I was gonna say,
you want to make that comment,

1127
01:12:42.800 --> 01:12:46.359
I'm not gonna comment on this.
I love all the candidates equally. I

1128
01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:53.159
I wish I could vote for multiple
candidates. I love them both. We're

1129
01:12:53.159 --> 01:12:56.520
taking the opposite turns here. Yeah, I love every candidate equally and I

1130
01:12:56.560 --> 01:13:00.279
hate Oh yeah, I hope that
Joe Biden serves one term and I hope

1131
01:13:00.279 --> 01:13:05.720
that Grover Cleveland remains the only president
to serve two terms non consecutively. You

1132
01:13:05.800 --> 01:13:10.960
know that's that's a sentence that think
about it, sir. You The Trump

1133
01:13:11.079 --> 01:13:15.520
Hillary election was twenty sixteen, and
then the Trump Biden election was twenty twenty,

1134
01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:18.880
So that's eight years now of sample
size. Have you heard in regard

1135
01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:24.119
to either election, any human being
on TV or in person say, you

1136
01:13:24.159 --> 01:13:26.520
know, I'm having a tough time
to siding I really like them both.

1137
01:13:27.079 --> 01:13:30.479
Nope, not one, not one
time has that happened, So, yeah,

1138
01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:34.560
I do. Neither the person has
bright blue glasses on or ruby red

1139
01:13:34.560 --> 01:13:41.159
glasses on, or they're normal person
with normal emotions and normal feelings that isn't

1140
01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:45.439
on cable news, and they are
disgusted that either one is running. Yeah.

1141
01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:47.520
Oh absolutely, Yeah. I'm trying
to think of who the who the

1142
01:13:47.880 --> 01:13:51.920
biggest Wayne Kurves that were president was, And then there were a lot in

1143
01:13:51.960 --> 01:13:57.079
that like teen range, like the
Franklin Pierce era. I know, he

1144
01:13:57.239 --> 01:14:00.640
was like, nah, man,
we don't need this Kansas Nebraska that we're

1145
01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:02.479
just gonna We're just gonna let everybody
do their own thing. And then like

1146
01:14:02.479 --> 01:14:06.359
the James Buchanan obviously all the stuff
leading up to what Abraham Lincoln did.

1147
01:14:06.359 --> 01:14:11.000
You you kind of know what what
Lincoln did that at least the couple guys

1148
01:14:11.039 --> 01:14:15.119
before him probably weren't great, just
based on how how that would make logical

1149
01:14:15.239 --> 01:14:20.079
play out Civil War. Yeah,
those guys probably handled things less than ideally.

1150
01:14:20.359 --> 01:14:23.880
You had a few in their twenties
that got shot when they were in

1151
01:14:23.960 --> 01:14:26.319
office, and then you had two
World Wars, and then you had some

1152
01:14:26.399 --> 01:14:29.279
guys in the thirties that you got
shot and off. If my mother has

1153
01:14:29.319 --> 01:14:32.000
texted me, Herbert Hoover was great
regardless of the depression, So probably I'm

1154
01:14:32.039 --> 01:14:35.960
audible. All right, all right, let's let's take a look. Was

1155
01:14:35.960 --> 01:14:41.840
was Herbert Hoover a good president?
Let's see impact and legacy. There is

1156
01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:45.119
a Herbert Hoover website. Somebody says
he's a very well meaning guy and he

1157
01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:49.840
winded up. Somebody says he gets
too much hate. That he was a

1158
01:14:49.840 --> 01:14:54.399
good and honorable man and he would
have been much better had the circumstances been

1159
01:14:54.439 --> 01:15:00.000
different, which, all right,
we'll roll with that. Okay, that's

1160
01:15:00.199 --> 01:15:02.119
expect inside the politics to day.
But without a preview, what else are

1161
01:15:02.119 --> 01:15:06.960
you gonna do at Preston's skirtsek?
How bad was previous speculation that the West

1162
01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:10.479
Virginia loss wouldn't look so bad as
the season went on. Yeah, I

1163
01:15:10.520 --> 01:15:12.840
was right there with you, man. I tried to I tried to fight

1164
01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:15.319
the good fight and that they are
they are awful, They're they're last right

1165
01:15:15.319 --> 01:15:18.600
now in the Big twelve. I
think, Yeah, I was. I

1166
01:15:18.680 --> 01:15:23.560
was hopeful. I was hopeful because
weren't there a couple injuries with that team,

1167
01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:27.680
and like, yeah, they haven't
had at least playing like better and

1168
01:15:27.680 --> 01:15:30.000
then it just didn't happen. But
also, I think that's the flukest of

1169
01:15:30.039 --> 01:15:32.920
the losses, that one. It
annoys me a lot, but that's not

1170
01:15:33.000 --> 01:15:39.880
one I have, like I'm like
one. They were both very fluky.

1171
01:15:39.920 --> 01:15:44.119
One was the biggest blown lead you've
ever had in a conference game, and

1172
01:15:44.159 --> 01:15:47.359
the other was probably the best out
of nowhere shooting percentage that you've ever seen

1173
01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:50.840
an opponent have. And they happened
within a week of each other. Because

1174
01:15:50.880 --> 01:15:54.880
basketball is weird at Show Me Hawk
with two questions, is there a way

1175
01:15:54.920 --> 01:15:58.399
we can jump Houston for the number
one seed in Dallas despite a Quad two

1176
01:15:58.399 --> 01:16:00.760
and Quad three loss. I will
never predict Kansas to beat Houston at anything

1177
01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:03.520
in the NCAA tournament. I saw
how that worked last year when they actually

1178
01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:06.439
did have the better resume. Yeah, I don't. I don't think there's

1179
01:16:06.439 --> 01:16:10.920
any chance. No, they're not
getting the number one in Dallas unless unless

1180
01:16:10.960 --> 01:16:13.960
Houston just falls through the floor.
I think Kansas could still get a one

1181
01:16:13.960 --> 01:16:15.920
seed. I think they, if
not have to win out, have to

1182
01:16:15.960 --> 01:16:18.880
do pretty close. But I don't
think they're gonna move ahead of Houston.

1183
01:16:18.880 --> 01:16:24.680
Houston's too sexy in the metrics.
Yeah, I agree, Also show me

1184
01:16:24.720 --> 01:16:28.600
Hawk. If Kansas goes four to
one over their final five regular season games,

1185
01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:30.880
I'd say they're in a good spot. But if they win out,

1186
01:16:30.920 --> 01:16:32.800
are they big twelve champs? Yeah? If they went out and go thirteen

1187
01:16:32.840 --> 01:16:35.199
and five, they'll find a way
to win the league. At least that

1188
01:16:35.199 --> 01:16:40.279
feels like a split. Yeah,
because if they went out, then Houston's

1189
01:16:40.279 --> 01:16:44.800
got at least four losses. Iowa
State's probably losing to Houston, So that's

1190
01:16:44.840 --> 01:16:47.760
four. Do we think that Houston
and Iowa State aren't losing at least one

1191
01:16:47.760 --> 01:16:51.640
more? Houston's gotta go to Baylor
Houston, Yeah, I think five wins.

1192
01:16:51.680 --> 01:16:55.000
If Kansas can get there with five, I think that's a share.

1193
01:16:55.840 --> 01:16:58.479
Yeah, if they finish thirteen and
five, I agree. I think I

1194
01:16:58.479 --> 01:17:00.560
think that should get you at least
to share. Houston or Iowa State would

1195
01:17:00.560 --> 01:17:03.720
have to go on quite the tear, yes, to end. Yeah,

1196
01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:08.000
they'd have to go through the last
three weeks without losing more than once.

1197
01:17:08.239 --> 01:17:11.960
And I don't know if that's happened
for any Big Twelve team at any point.

1198
01:17:12.399 --> 01:17:15.920
I don't think anybody's gone four weeks
with only one loss at any point

1199
01:17:15.960 --> 01:17:18.399
in this conference race, Just not
how it's set up to be at Stefan

1200
01:17:18.520 --> 01:17:25.239
Timmy seventeen, who joins mccullor and
Dickinson on the current All Big Twelve First

1201
01:17:25.279 --> 01:17:29.079
Team. Oh okay, well yeah
they're both on it. Yeah, probably

1202
01:17:29.119 --> 01:17:32.800
Cryer too. Right, you go
to Houston to Kansas players probably, and

1203
01:17:32.840 --> 01:17:36.479
then I don't know, like,
who's Baylor's leading scorer right now? You

1204
01:17:36.600 --> 01:17:41.920
gotta have an Iowa State person on
there, don't you like? Who's right

1205
01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:46.960
Keyshawn Gilbert's leading Iowa State and scoring, but Taman Lipsey's the do it all

1206
01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:50.600
Baylor. I guess you could say
Jacobe Walter. I don't know, are

1207
01:17:50.640 --> 01:17:56.199
we first sure? I think Kansas
is definitely going to get McCuller and Dickinson

1208
01:17:56.239 --> 01:18:00.119
on there. Yeah. I think
there's a very good chance unless mcular finishes

1209
01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:05.439
the season really really poorly or missus
games hurt. Yeah, Dickinson's there though

1210
01:18:05.800 --> 01:18:11.760
at ky Eden fourteen. When it
comes to basketball nicknames, is Paul Pierce

1211
01:18:11.800 --> 01:18:15.560
being the Truth the best all time? It's one of them. It's really

1212
01:18:15.600 --> 01:18:19.840
really good. Yeah. Lebron James
being King James is just so simple,

1213
01:18:19.880 --> 01:18:24.479
but it's so good. That's one
of the best. It is King James,

1214
01:18:24.640 --> 01:18:29.399
the Truth, I mean, I
mean Black Mamba is like truly elite,

1215
01:18:29.399 --> 01:18:32.560
like, especially for a self given
one. Self given nicknames do not

1216
01:18:32.680 --> 01:18:38.119
usually stick, Toby, so it
just does. They tried so long to

1217
01:18:38.159 --> 01:18:42.920
get a good nickname for Pastor Mahomes
and then the remember how how they shoved

1218
01:18:42.920 --> 01:18:45.279
Showtime down our throats so much,
and I still can I still have nightmares

1219
01:18:45.319 --> 01:18:51.479
of of Joe Testatory. Yes football, yep, I remember that very well.

1220
01:18:51.800 --> 01:18:56.399
And then the best Mahomes nickname came
from Andy Reid. It took three

1221
01:18:56.479 --> 01:18:59.000
years and they finally got it right. You know what's what I'm talking about.

1222
01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:00.560
Yeah, when it gets when,
when it looks grimm be the grim

1223
01:19:00.600 --> 01:19:06.039
Reaper gram Raper, that's the act. That's the perfect Mahomes nickname. I'm

1224
01:19:06.359 --> 01:19:13.720
best basketball nicknames for players, Yeah, black mamb are right there. Let's

1225
01:19:13.760 --> 01:19:16.760
see here, Iceman, George Gerfin, that's a good one. Yeah,

1226
01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:21.039
Doctor J. Doctor J might actually
be the best. That's so clinton.

1227
01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:25.760
Yeah, and I like Alan Iverson
just going with Ai. I thought that

1228
01:19:25.840 --> 01:19:29.520
was the good Like the Joker forgot
about that one. That one's pretty good.

1229
01:19:29.880 --> 01:19:32.199
Yeah, I feel like I feel
like every like that one comes around

1230
01:19:32.279 --> 01:19:34.920
every once in a while. Though, Like he's not the only person that's

1231
01:19:34.960 --> 01:19:40.119
ever been called Joker. Who's that
dude that scored all the points in college

1232
01:19:40.119 --> 01:19:43.680
that they call pistol Pete Pete Merrivage? Right, Yeah, Pistel Pete's really

1233
01:19:43.720 --> 01:19:46.600
good and uh, magic people forget
that that, like his name is not

1234
01:19:46.600 --> 01:19:51.840
actually magic. That one's weird because
he like actually goes by magic though,

1235
01:19:51.920 --> 01:19:56.760
right, Yeah, and it's not
quite it is a nickname, but like

1236
01:19:57.960 --> 01:20:00.439
his nickname is ha Ha, but
it's like his name. And then they

1237
01:20:00.479 --> 01:20:03.880
call Kevin Durant the Slim Reaper.
I remember that when he was at Texas.

1238
01:20:03.880 --> 01:20:05.960
That was a big thing. And
now I think, like, yeah,

1239
01:20:06.279 --> 01:20:10.640
I haven't heard that in years.
And Kevin Durant weighs eight well,

1240
01:20:10.720 --> 01:20:14.159
I mean, he's very tall,
but Kevin Durant weighs two hundred and fifty

1241
01:20:14.159 --> 01:20:15.960
pounds. He's not If I say
the baby face assassin, you know what

1242
01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:19.439
I'm talking about, right, Yeah, yeah, that's Steph Curry. But

1243
01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:24.199
yeah, so and and that one, Steph Curry still looks like he did

1244
01:20:24.239 --> 01:20:26.760
at Davidson. I think so that
one has held up over the course of

1245
01:20:26.800 --> 01:20:29.640
time. Chef Curry. Chef Curry. Yeah, I've heard chef a few

1246
01:20:29.640 --> 01:20:31.800
times. Who beat who won the
three point shooting contest at the All Star

1247
01:20:32.039 --> 01:20:36.279
competition, But would would keep that
really close. She's a stellar she can

1248
01:20:36.359 --> 01:20:40.319
they gotta do. They gotta do
doubles next year. They got to bring

1249
01:20:40.399 --> 01:20:44.439
her in, Caitlin Clark into play
against like Curry and Ray Allen or you

1250
01:20:44.479 --> 01:20:46.720
know something like that, or Dame. He's one of the last two Yeah

1251
01:20:47.640 --> 01:20:51.119
competitions and All Star MVP too.
In a game where they scored about three

1252
01:20:51.199 --> 01:20:57.119
hundred on their own. Geez,
do you ever have asked garcy B's Twitter

1253
01:20:57.159 --> 01:21:01.319
hashtag gascarcy B. Well, we
don't have a preview because we're gonna do

1254
01:21:01.359 --> 01:21:04.199
another show later in the week.
But Kansas has a bye week, So

1255
01:21:04.520 --> 01:21:11.640
what key takeaways are we looking to
find during the bye week? Who wins

1256
01:21:11.680 --> 01:21:14.359
between Iowa State and Houston. That's
a big one. Yeah, that's about

1257
01:21:14.359 --> 01:21:19.880
it. Can b why you beat
Baylor ten seconds? Interesting segment? As

1258
01:21:19.920 --> 01:21:24.880
always? Here are your pick'ems for
that? Yeah, number six Iowa State

1259
01:21:24.920 --> 01:21:28.840
at number two Houston. I completely
disagree with a ten point spread. I

1260
01:21:28.880 --> 01:21:31.159
think this game's very close, but
it's hard to pick against Houston at home.

1261
01:21:31.239 --> 01:21:34.720
I think they will win. Do
I hope Iowa State wins. I'm

1262
01:21:34.720 --> 01:21:38.600
gonna do it. I'll give you
the Cyclones, all right. I mean

1263
01:21:38.680 --> 01:21:45.279
that's that Houston hasn't beaten the elite
teams. They haven't beat Kansas, they

1264
01:21:45.359 --> 01:21:47.640
lost with TCU. Those are the
two best teams they've played. They beat

1265
01:21:47.640 --> 01:21:50.439
Texas Tech at home, but this
is their toughest home test, and then

1266
01:21:50.439 --> 01:21:56.079
they'll obviously have Kansas coming up too. They only played Baylor once. Did

1267
01:21:56.159 --> 01:21:59.840
Baylor and Houston only get one draw
against each other? Because that's nonsense.

1268
01:22:00.000 --> 01:22:02.680
It feels weird if it's true.
Let's see here, considering they're not that

1269
01:22:02.720 --> 01:22:06.479
far apart. Yeah, they are
only playing ones they play in Waco,

1270
01:22:06.760 --> 01:22:11.079
So Houston doesn't have to do with
Baylor twice either. That's kind of stupid.

1271
01:22:11.800 --> 01:22:15.520
This unbalanced schedule sucks. Yeah,
I agree, and now I fully

1272
01:22:15.600 --> 01:22:19.960
understand why other leagues do not prioritize
regular season titles very much. Baylor doesn't

1273
01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:24.640
have to go at Iowa State,
and they don't have to go at Houston.

1274
01:22:24.840 --> 01:22:27.880
They don't have to play the two
leaders on the road this year.

1275
01:22:28.520 --> 01:22:30.279
If only that was true for Kansas. Yeah, that's why, exactly,

1276
01:22:30.319 --> 01:22:34.439
that's why conference titles are kind of
crazy. Kansas State at Texas. I

1277
01:22:34.520 --> 01:22:39.600
am tempted, really tempted, but
I just don't think Case State's any good.

1278
01:22:39.640 --> 01:22:42.720
Texas should be able to overwhelm them
with talent. Yeah, two teams

1279
01:22:42.720 --> 01:22:45.319
that I would pick against most other
times at this point, but give me

1280
01:22:45.359 --> 01:22:49.279
Texas. Yeah, UCF at West
Virginia last place Bowl. Any confidence in

1281
01:22:49.319 --> 01:22:55.680
the Knights? Uh? No?
None. Also, two teams that normally

1282
01:22:55.720 --> 01:23:00.159
I'm gonna pick against But give me
the Mountain Mamas number eleven. Baylor at

1283
01:23:00.199 --> 01:23:02.920
number twenty five BYU. If you
want the Cougars to be ranks coming into

1284
01:23:02.920 --> 01:23:05.800
Allen Field House next week, they
probably have to win this. Do they

1285
01:23:05.800 --> 01:23:12.960
do it? I think that they
do. Actually, yeah, I do

1286
01:23:13.039 --> 01:23:17.079
too. I wasn't gonna pick them
until Baylor's got the home game means Houston.

1287
01:23:17.079 --> 01:23:19.359
They have a brutal schedule this week. I agree. I think BYU

1288
01:23:19.359 --> 01:23:23.520
wins at home. It's a good
home court. TCU at number twenty three

1289
01:23:23.560 --> 01:23:27.319
Texas Tech. Nobody wins in Lubbock. Give me the Red Raiders, yeah,

1290
01:23:27.359 --> 01:23:31.119
I guess so. And Oklahoma State
at Cincinnati A yeah, no,

1291
01:23:31.119 --> 01:23:33.520
no one will be watching this game, but I think we will all pick

1292
01:23:33.600 --> 01:23:39.720
the Bearcats. Yeah. Other games. Number twenty four Florida at number thirteen

1293
01:23:39.800 --> 01:23:44.840
Alabama, big game in the SEC. We all want the Tide. Uh

1294
01:23:44.920 --> 01:23:47.359
yeah, I think so. All
right, take control over this one.

1295
01:23:47.399 --> 01:23:50.720
I will pick whoever you do.
Not. Number one Yukon at number fifteen

1296
01:23:50.880 --> 01:23:55.720
Creighton. I think. I think
Yukon is like legit, really really good.

1297
01:23:55.760 --> 01:23:57.840
I think they are actually the best
team, So give me them,

1298
01:23:58.039 --> 01:24:00.600
all right, I'll take Creyton a
home. I think you can. I

1299
01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:02.520
wanted to do that anyway. I
think ukon coming off that big win,

1300
01:24:02.800 --> 01:24:05.880
they just can't win them all.
They eventually are going to slow down,

1301
01:24:06.279 --> 01:24:10.279
even though they are really good.
Number eight Duke at Miami. I will

1302
01:24:10.279 --> 01:24:13.199
take the Hurricanes here. I don't
think Miami's very good, but I don't

1303
01:24:13.199 --> 01:24:15.359
think Duke's good enough to keep winning
all these games. I want Miami as

1304
01:24:15.399 --> 01:24:18.840
well. A Number seventeen Kentucky.
Do they keep it going at LSU?

1305
01:24:19.359 --> 01:24:23.479
At LSU? Yeah, I think
they do too, but this is the

1306
01:24:23.880 --> 01:24:28.199
exact sort of game where they normally
lay a turd like this. We'll see

1307
01:24:28.239 --> 01:24:30.119
what they can do. So our
next show is gonna be Friday night,

1308
01:24:30.199 --> 01:24:33.680
Right, We're going later this week. I think that's the plan. Yeah,

1309
01:24:33.760 --> 01:24:36.560
okay, so it'll come out.
I'll drop it early Saturday morning,

1310
01:24:36.560 --> 01:24:40.600
and then you'll have the whole day
because Kansas doesn't play till five o'clock at

1311
01:24:40.720 --> 01:24:45.359
night against the Longhorns no longer the
fighting shakas the fighting Rodney Terry's. That'll

1312
01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:47.720
be a lot of fun. No, it actually won't be. This is

1313
01:24:47.760 --> 01:24:51.800
inside the paint on rock Chog blog. I'm Ryan Lands, I am oh

1314
01:24:51.840 --> 01:24:55.800
I was gonna say my real name, but we're still sticking with that that.

1315
01:24:56.199 --> 01:24:59.199
I'm watching my first NHL game live
in a long time, so I'm

1316
01:24:59.239 --> 01:25:02.479
Dylan Larkin. Wow, what's a
score? One to zero? What?

1317
01:25:02.960 --> 01:25:06.640
What's to score? One? Zip? Three to two? Wow, it's

1318
01:25:06.680 --> 01:25:10.079
a lot. Wow, that's a
record. That's a lot. There was

1319
01:25:10.119 --> 01:25:14.560
a game today that finished ten to
seven. Wow. Minnesota beats Vancouver ten

1320
01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:18.039
to seven. That's very Kansas like
to score seven and their opponents make ten,

1321
01:25:18.119 --> 01:25:21.840
and everybody's like, the defense is
so bad. But in Vancouver's case,

1322
01:25:21.880 --> 01:25:25.680
that is actually true. The defense
that is truly apocalyptic. Don't tell

1323
01:25:25.760 --> 01:25:28.439
k Twitter. I don't need more
heat than mentions. I have enough my

1324
01:25:28.600 --> 01:25:33.119
nudes in bio responses to sort through. I do not need more responses from

1325
01:25:33.119 --> 01:25:36.720
people who are Wayne. No,
there are well, yeah, some of

1326
01:25:36.760 --> 01:25:41.239
them are from Wayne, some of
them are from Elon's bots. Oh well

1327
01:25:41.279 --> 01:25:44.640
that's fair. Yeah. You know, whenever we're talking about underrated presidents,

1328
01:25:44.680 --> 01:25:50.640
in twenty years, president number forty
nine, Elon Musk and by that point

1329
01:25:50.960 --> 01:25:56.079
Kansas will still not know how to
guard the three and it'll be a chaotic

1330
01:25:56.159 --> 01:26:00.960
show. So enjoy. That's on
so many things would be chaotic if that

1331
01:26:01.640 --> 01:26:11.520
behavior selves elon you can't bye m
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