Well, if you're going to start a college basketball season, you may as
well start like that, because Kansas, looking like the number one team in
the country for basically the entirety of the night, goes to allenfield House and
absolutely clobbers North Carolina Central just a can, just a big old whip can
of whoop you know what, whoop ball, just to blow out from start
to finish, and we're pretty happy about it. So we scampered on in
here real quick to do a podcast recapping it because we're just grateful. Not
every top five team can say that they escaped the evening undefeated. This is
Inside the Paint Show, number three, season number eleven on rockschalkblog dot Com.
I'm Ryan Landrath, I'm the ghost of Tucker Vang, and I am
Tyan Grant Foster. Hey, Tyan, had a great night. No idea
what Tucker's up to. Here's a question, would Tucker Vang have helped the
Kansas get to one hundred points in the last five minutes because that's the only
thing that went wrong at the end. I think he's better than Dylan will
Hede. No shade to sir Dylan. I'm glad you get to play on
allenfield House floor. But that was rough, Buddy, I mean Dylan will
hide at least is tall. Patrick Cassidy fell down and then airball to the
three like that could have been Tucker. I think Tucker did do that many
times. Well, we are not going to spend too much time analyzing the
walk Ons, but we will spend lots of time analyzing what was a fantastic
opening night of basketball for the number one Jayhawks. They have another game on
Friday and then Kentucky coming right up, So one more tune up. We're
gonna recap the first tune up, preview the second tune up, and talk
about everything else in between. Let's do it. Let's rock and roll.
Number one Kansas ninety nine, North Carolina Central fifty six, Nick. The
Jayhawks open their year in dominant fashion. Yeah, forty three point win,
dominant fashion, and it wasn't nearly indicative of how dominant this performance was.
Performance was Kansas lent seventy nine to thirty two to ten minutes left and ninety
five to forty with five minutes left. Bill So put all the walk Ons
in the game and watched them attempt to play basketball over the final five minutes
and they closed a fifty five point lead to just forty three. KAY led
fifty nine to eighteen at halftime. They showcased everything in the fan base wanted
to see in their opener Land an immediate reaction from this blowout non conference start.
Yeah, they looked like the number one team. I know it's North
Carolina Central, which is probably something we'll say a lot, but they looked
every bit the part of the national title favorite coming into the season. Not
really a bad thing to talk about here. I mean, if we wanted
to be extremely nitpicky, we could talk about how Narco Jackson started kind of
slow, which we'll get into. But they looked amazing. Their ball movement
looked really good. Ryan pointed out, either in the chat or on Twitter
or wherever, that they looked like they've been playing together for a long time.
And I think that is kind of the benefit of playing not only a
couple exhibitions, but an exhibition against a theoretically pretty good team, and then
also playing those out of country exhibitions a couple months ago, that this team
has actually played together a lot more than a lot of other bill Self teams
have. And you could definitely see that. A lot of back cutting,
a lot of great ball movement, and they shot the crap out of the
ball, which was really nice to see considering how the exhibitions looked from that
department. But a really cohesive performance from the Jayhawks and one that left absolutely
no doubt as to what your expectations should be. They looked fantastic again North
Carolin Central, but they looked amazing. Yeah, we want to be careful
because we came in here after two exhibitions and basically said, don't overreact to
it's just a couple of basically glorified scrimmages. So we want to take a
little bit of that same energy and say don't overreact the other way to one
game that does count against a team that's not going to make the NCAA tournament.
But yeah, they looked really good. Your answer to how do you
feel about Kansas after one game should be the Leo DiCaprio Bye's hand gift,
because they were fantastic from start to finish. Basically every starter had very positive
contributions throughout the night. I think I actually think that you mentioned guys like
al Marco Jackson, who started slow and Johnny Furfey started a little slow.
Those guys played pretty well after they started to get going a little bit,
and then you had Hunter Dickinson and Kevin mccullor going nuts from the very start
of the game. Yeah, just an absolutely dominant first thirty to thirty five
minutes for Kansas. They are preseason number one for a reason. We wondered
if they would still have the explosivity without Artario Morris, and through one game
the answer is yes. They look every bit as fast, like everybody is
athletic, and the chemistry, yeah, we'll talk about that here in a
little bit. They look as good as we could have hoped for. Let's
lead off with the shooting. Kansas shot seventy percent from the floor, which
is the highest I can remember it being in a game that wasn't against Shamanad.
Ever, I don't know if we've ever recapped a game against the Division
one opponent where they've shot seventy percent from the floor. That just looks funny.
In the notes, thirteen for twenty three from three, that's fifty seven
percent. The eight scholarship players because Shumari mcdal didn't play, those numbers actually
were even better seventy four percent from the floor, were the eight scholarship players,
eighty three percent on twos, sixty percent from three, and just for
a cherry on top of that, Sunday, one hundred percent on free throws.
It's a three point shooting WHI stood out to you the most. It
was really rough against against the exhibition opponents, and suddenly that was great Or
what was your biggest takeaway considering, Yeah, considering the expectations and you know
what we saw from two games shooting the ball, I would say the three
point shooting definite stood out, especially with the absolute barrage that they unleashed early
in the game. Especially like the shooting was was tough not to see.
Of course, the one hundred percent of the line, that's really really encouraging.
How many free throws did they actually shoot in this game? Numbers wise,
I don't know if we had that in the notes off. They were
eight for ten, eight for ten. It's of course that's not too many,
but that's also something like free throw shooting does not really matter your opponent
so much, you know, So that's that's definitely good considering kind of the
struggles that they've had from the line. Off and on in recent years.
So that's that's also really encouraging. Nick is also the three point shooting for
you did that stand out? Uh? Yeah, I mean the law of
averages says that they're not going to shoot it as poorly as they did against
you know, Fort Hayes State in Illinois. But I, like I said,
I don't you don't want to take too much stock into a first exhibition
game, but I think KU fans needed to pump the brakes a little bit
before jumping out completely off the KU can't shoot threes at all train. You
know, it's gonna take a little bit of time for guys like Nicholas Timberlake
to get going. Hunter Dickinson obviously a great three point shooter for a Sinner,
and then Kevin mccouller the emergence of him earlier this season, like Ryan
has in the notes, really becoming that Ochi Boggie Jalen Wilson super senior season
type, and I think his three point shooting is really gonna be a mark
of that this year. So I think KAY fan should probably pump the brakes
a little bit on the threes. I know it's gonna be concerned you know,
you don't have a true scoring point guard. A guy like Artaria Morris
is not on the team anymore, So you're gonna have to find ways to
score, is it Johnny Furfy? You know? Is it? Al Marco
Jackson? Right now, it seems pretty clear that at least a few of
these guys are gonna be stroking it from three this year. I guess if
we're gonna mention Kevin mccullor Landon, you may as well go ahead and read
off some stats. Gotta feel good to read some stats. Spen a long
time, and this is a good one to start with. Yeah, let's
get back into it. Uh. He kind of looked like he might be
taking that O Chai Jalen Wilson jump juice. He looked the part you had
twenty two points again. I mean again, anything we say here is caveated
slightly by its North Carolina central, but he looks fantastic. Twenty two points.
It's the most he scored in a Kansas uniform, eight for twelve from
the floor in twenty four minutes, four to seven from behind the arc,
which again backs up what I've been saying that I noticed that in the exhibition
games that mccullor's stroke has looked really, really smooth, and that definitely continued.
He knocked down his JS, six rebounds, five assists to go along
with that. But yeah, McCuller, I kind of expected this. I
kind of expected him to take that jump. It was nice to see him
shoot the ball well in games that didn't count, really nice to see him
shoot the ball well in the game that does count. But yeah, I
mean, Ryan, what do you think here on McCuller. I think was
really really good and I expect him to be a guy that is gonna flirt
with probably seventeen or eighteen at night. I know, again, bad opponent,
but I really think he's that good. If McCuller can finish in the
high thirties as a three point shooter, which I took an under on thirty
five percent at the beginning of the year, because yeah, he's never been
better than a thirty one percent shooter, so that's a huge jump. But
if he gets into that thirty seven thirty eight percent range, I think you
legitimately might be looking at a top ten bill Self era player, because I
don't know what the weakness is at that point. We know He's a defender
than Jalen Wilson and Oach Yep exactly. There's that He's He's one of the
ten best defenders in college basketball. He's an All America caliber defender. He's
a very clutch player. We saw that last year where he would be the
one, not Jalen Wilson, not Grady Dick. It would be Kevin McCuller
that would hit the big shot at the end of games, at the end
of regulation, the shot against Wisconsin that senates overtime. He won the game
with game winners against Oklahoma State and Oklahoma at home. He was the clutch
player down the stretch. He's got that gene an elite ball handler. We
see the passing, the vision, the IQ. I don't know what the
weakness about Kevin McCuller is if he's gonna be a very good three point shooter.
On top of all that, he looks like an NFL player out there
size wise, clearly a great athlete. I just don't know what the weakness
is if he's gonna be a very good three point shooter, which means Kansas
very well may have three of the best fifteen to twenty players in college basketball,
Nick, we were high on Kevin McCuller. It's one game, but
it looks like that those I mean, that definitely checks out. He looks
like he could be a maybe Hunter Dickinson's biggest competition for Big twelve Player of
the Year. Yeah, what a huge git to have him come back,
though, I mean, you hard to imagine where this team would be without
him. You know, the leadership too, with how young this team is,
So I think, yeahsent Kevin McCuller is definitely such an important piece of
this team, and I'm glad that he decided to come back and really elevate
himself. You know, we always talk about it on this on this shows,
but Bill self, you know, Bill self, guy's coming in and
playing their SUPERSEDI season. I can't even talked to that. I'm sorry,
Senior superseason, Senior season and come in and just really just elevate their game,
become all American type players. And it's really his time to shine.
You know. That was Jalen Wilson last year, oh Shi Abadi the year
before, And I'm really excited to see where he's gonna elevate this year under
this team. Landon mentioned it earlier I did want to talk for a minute
about the chemistry because that's what popped off the page. Last year, Kansas
started great. They only had one loss until what they only lost the Tennessee
game until non conference aren't so conference play, right like? That was their
only loss until January. They were really really good, but it never felt
like the chemistry was there. We saw that that tournament where they didn't play
very well in the in Atlantis, and Dwan Harris was a good passer,
but there wasn't a lot of scoring. Jalen Wilson there's a lot of hero
ball. People were questioning at this time if he shot too much. This
year just feels very different. They all look like they've been playing together for
a lot longer than they have, and I know, I know that's part
of the advantage of having an upperclassmen point guard and having three returning starters from
a one seed. But they added Dickinson who's came from a different Power five
school, and pieces like Nick Timberlake who haven't played in a Power league.
With a couple of freshmen sprinkled in there. These guys look like they've all
been siblings and playing for ten years together. I don't know if that's just
the product of playing North Carolina Central or if that's really where they're at.
That might be what makes them so good. They have a lot of athletes
on this team, so that checks out. But yeah, as Landon pointed
out, a lot of good cuts the ball movement. Kansas had thirty four
assists on thirty nine baskets tonight. It's like just yeah, and whenever you
make a lot of threes, those assists numbers are going to look really,
really pretty. Because college isn't filled with Steph Curry's who can go create their
own three point shot. Most of them are set up by passing. But
at the same time, thirty four assists and thirty nine shots, like,
clearly they have a pretty good idea of where the ball's going at all times.
Hopefully that can continue looked pretty good. Land In A big part of
the reason the numbers looked as good as it did was because of Hunter Dickinson.
He definitely helped guys rack up the assist numbers. Tell me about the
favorite for Pig twelve Player of the Year, Yeah, Hunter Dickinson. He
scored the first seven points of the game in total for Kansas. We didn't
see it because I didn't atually cut to the game until at least the first
seven points had been on the board. But they were working on getting it
fixed very quickly asap. I think that banner at the bottom said the commercials
weren't great. ESPN Plus has been working on fixing something asap since they launched
the app. Hey, but the one thing you aren't working on is not
raising prices, because they're doing plenty of that. Yeah. I remember when
Jeff Long tweeted that it was only five bucks or something like that. It's
now eleven bucks, and I don't know if the app works any better than
it did when boy Jeff Long. Sorry to really make a really positive night
for Kansas negative but two words, just did that trick continue? Sorry,
you had fifteen to four second media timeout. He was definitely on his way
a huge night, but of course the game was not competitive, so his
services were not needed for too long. He found he uh wound up with
twenty one points, eight of nine from the floor in his Jayhawk debut,
eight rebounds, five assists, two blocks in twenty four minutes total. Uh
definitely a strong start to his Player of the Year campaign. Uh Yeah,
I mean North Carolina centraled zero size. They had zero to anything to counter
what Hunter Dickinson was doing, especially when you include the fact that he knocks
down three threes. Uh. But he did look exactly like the player Kansas
recruited really strong start from HD. I don't know if there's even really too
much to add there. He just he looked like the guy that they were
supposed to get. Nick, I want your thoughts on Hunter Dickinson, and
I'm not picking on you. I'm just curious if this kind of eased your
concerns because you landed an. I didn't have any concerns because we talked a
little bit about how Hunter Dickinson the defense was kind of a question mark.
He's not the best athlete, which he's seven to so who cares, but
kind of wondering if he'd be a little ddrich Lawson like, which didrich Lawson
was a fantastic player. Yeah, he's a great player, right, but
statue stuff, Yeah, the statue's stuffer, But the defense at times wasn't
there. Are you convinced after watching this that Hunter Dickinson is one of the
best players in college basketball or is there still more that you're wanting to see
before you're all in. Well, I was already convinced he was one of
the best college back players in college basketball. My text and what I was
talking about was that he did look like a little clumsier of Addrich Lawson.
You know, you'd like you said, he's seven too. He doesn't need
to have the best footwork, he doesn't need to have the best you know,
movements. But I don't know. I think he's probably gonna be the
front runner this year for you know, the Naysmith Award. UH. And
I think that he is the best player on this team and one of the
best players in the nation. I don't doubt that. Never did you know
what we saw him do against at Michigan under a terrible coach, you know,
UH was really impressed too. So I'm really excited to see how he
fits into both US rotation. I can't make any huge deductions from the first
non conference game, but I am really excited. I think that he's going
to be averaging a lot of points and really fun to watch. So you
guys were too young for Wayne Simeon. You guys were only four and five
when he was here, and I was only nine or ten. Uh,
but that was really the Wayne Simeon teams were the first couple of teams I
remember really actively following as a fan. And Dickinson's the most skilled offensive big
as a college player that self has had since Simeon. He's better than Perry
Ellis, He's better than Deezer Gloss, and he's better than Cole Aldrich,
and he's better than Marcus Morris as a college player. And those are some
fabulous names. Those are some first team All America caliber names. Definitely more
technically gifted than Doak. Yeah. Yeah, he's the best offensive player that
Bill sealf has had since Wayne Simeon. He is going to put up some
insane stats. What was tonight? Twenty one, eight, five, two
and twenty four minutes? Good Lord? Like he is going to do ridiculous
things to some of these hapless non conference opponents. I think that they asked
the North Carolina Central coach after the game, can what can other teams do
to slow him down? And the coach only had one word to say,
pray. I don't know how any college player is supposed to stop a seven
foot two walking bucket that also can make threes at a high clip. Like
we knew that marriage was a match made in heaven, and it looks every
bit like it's gonna be really fun. And enjoy him for his one season
in Lawrence. I know he could come back next year if he wants.
Don't bank on it. He's gonna be a first team All America And if
it's not for Zach Edy, he might be the National Player of the Year.
All right, Nick, Timberlake and Johnny Furfey. I gripped him together
because you know they're kind of in that same boat. We need someone to
step up and make threes. They managed to both do that in this game.
Timberlake looked great three or four from three, scored thirteen points, third
highest on the team, played twenty minutes. All the starters basically played somewhere
between fifteen and twenty five minutes. Furfey six points coming on two three pointers
two for four for him seventeen minutes. I'm decided. At Celtic season.
SZN on Twitter said that he's the Kansas Kangaroo. I'm gonna roll with that.
I know that Landon is saying ossy, ossy, ossy every time he
makes it three, which is pretty funny. I've seen the Wizard of Oz
be thrown around on Twitter as well, So there's some good stuff Landon.
You said he just kind of is Spema kaylack. They even said it on
the broadcast. Yeah, I mean he's wearing number ten. He looks a
little nervous, but he has a really pure j. He's pretty athletic.
Honestly, Like, if it weren't for the complete lack of depth that Kansas
has on this team, I would say that he probably isn't gonna play,
like I wouldn't expect him to play. Oh he's gone play come Conferencely he's
not. Yeah, he's not really gonna much choice but to play at least
some unless he's just unplayable. Certainly did not look unplayable in this first game.
I like what I saw from Furfey knocks down the Cup of threes.
Nick Timberlake looked fantastic, really really quick release, quick stroke, smooth stroke,
three for four from three. Yeah. I liked both those guys.
Yeah, and I am excited for Furfey, especially since the you know,
sweet one of my all time favorite Hawks. So if you get another another
s feet that'd that'd be pretty fun. And I also have an odd affinity
for Australia, as has been covered on this podcast in previous season. So
maybe a little match may in heaven for mister Furfey. They've gone out and
gotten a grad transfer that shoots the ball well to fill that we need a
shooter void. On several of the last few teams we saw Isaam Moss and
then last year or the the who am I missing? Who was next?
Who Isaamas? And somebody else? We always compare him, was it Jalen
Coleman Lance? They always go out and they get this guy. Uh.
Nick Timberlake statistically is a better shooter than both of those guys. Like Timberlake
is a sharp shooter. He had an insanely high volume at Talsand and that's
obviously different com petition North Carolina Central as a team that he would have played
at Towson. So we'll see. But man, he the ball. If
you can shoot, you can play against anybody. And the ball was going
in the basket. Nick, do you want what do you want? After
one game? Nick Timberlake to get that starting spot? Are you still gonna
be a little patient on al Marco? I would give I would give him
the starting spot. I think he I think senior already in experience have a
lot to do with college basketball. El Marco Jackson's gonna play a huge amount
of minutes, regardless of if he starting the game or not. I just
think i'd give the nod to Nicholas Timberlake. Like I said that the bench
is pretty shallow, so you know they're both gonna get a good run.
I do like Timberlake in the starting five. I'm excited to see him.
Like you said, Kay, you getting those good three point shooters. I
think that he's gonna have a great season at Kansas. What they really get
settled in, like Landon said, seems a little nervous for these first few
games, but it's really starting to get settled in, I think, and
it's gonna be a lethal threat for KU. Just to give you guys a
Stanislaus State Saint Mary's update. The score is one hundred and one to twenty
eight right now. Oh gosh, so it is. It is every bit
I have it on. With all these games going on, I'm just watching
Saint Mary's do very not not catholically appropriate things to this poor Division twos team
that they're they're playing one hundred and three. They were actually playing the Santa
Claus State Fighting Reindeer, it would be closer than one hundred and one to
twenty eight. Stantis last State has been on twenty eight for a very,
very long time. They just want to get this over with. Now,
let's talk about El Marco Jackson. Got a couple guys left here to talk
about. Jackson had eight points and five assists in his official collegiate debut.
He picked up three first half fouls, but got considerably better after halftime.
Self played him partially because of lack of depth and also partially because they were
killing this team and it made sense to keep him out there with three fouls
in the first half, that's self's quota. Now never ask for him to
do that for the rest of his life. Jackson was three for five from
the floor, with all three of his makes being buckets at the rim that
were set up by other passers. Which is the optimist that me says,
that's capitalizing on his biggest strength, which is as his athleticism. The negative
and me said he did absolutely nothing to create his own shod yea so air
ball to three. He played a total of twenty one minutes Lannon. I
already asked Nick the question, is Kansas making the right choice starting him over
Timberlake? Would you also make that switch? Uh? Yeah, I said
that on the last show. I would definitely stick by it on this not
that like I'm selling all my Marco Jackson stock. I think it would be
a perfectly fine player. I liked what I saw fromim in general, but
with Timberlake, what he can give you shooting the ball, I mean they
were lethal with him on the floor. And again, Jackson I think has
a very bright future ahead of him. But I think I would start Timberlake
in the spot for sure. Let's have the Dewan Harris conversation, because Dewan
Eras has yes, don't yeah if you see this is honestly I was thinking
this during the game, that this is exactly theoretically like Dewan Harris's perfect team
to play on. Oh yeah, guys who can make buckets, guys who
can get buckets. Dewan Harris may not have to shoot the ball for this
team to be really good, which has always been kind of weird in previous
years, that's kind of been the opposite like good teams he's been on.
But man if Harris can knock down a couple of shots, even Sam the
national title team like that was a really good team. Otherwise, obviously they
weren't relying on Dewan Harris, but Harris had the ability on that team to
take a couple of shots and make them, which could be big for that
team at times. But man if he doesn't have to shoot very if he
doesn't have to shoot and can rack up like seven assists a night, that's
gonna be some special stuff. Yeah, I think that's pretty fair. Dewan
Harris has one of the weirder stat lines we've seen. Zero points, zero
for zero from the floor, ten assists, and two turnovers. One of
the really that's one turnover, you know, whenever he got the ball at
the end of the half and just heaved like a half court shot as time
expired, that counted as a turnover. So really he had one turnover and
four rebounds. Yeah, and see he posted on Instagram after the game,
he's something along the lines if they've been saying to shoot, I will when
I have to, and it's like, I don't know how you can argue
that they scored ninety five points in thirty five minutes with Dwan Harris not taking
a shot, and boy is he throwing some nasty passes Like this guy's the
best raw passer in college basketball. We've been saying for a couple of years
that you need a point guard to shoot. We've all said it. This
is just Portland State. It sure helps when you shoot seventy percent from three,
But yeah, Dewan Harris isn't gonna need to shoot when they play Portland
State. Did I say Portland State? You did? They just ran a
They ran an advertisement for the WCC and I saw the word Portland go across
my TV North Carolina Central. How about that easily confused with Portland State just
a couple thousand miles apart. Dewan Harrison probably like them too, Yeah,
Dewan Harrison probab We have tennis sists against either one of them. Though,
Nick, your thoughts onto one Harris? Uh yeah, I pretty much made
my one Harris thoughts pretty clear in the past few seasons. I really hoped
that his volume would go up as a shooter and a scorer. Didn't see
that. Tonight obviously didn't shoot, but I really wish. I mean,
the dude's gotten so good defensively, gotten so good at creating plays for other
players offensively. But I really just one of my hopes was that he'd just
become like a good three point shooter or a reliable scorer. He that'll come,
that'll come with the season. I think his points are going to be
up this year, but I really, I mean, Kansas becomes a really
dangerous threat to an even more dangerous threat when to one Harris, you know,
it is a guy you have to worry about as a defense in scoring.
So I don't know. I at this at this point in his career,
I hope that he'd be a little bit a little bit better shooting,
but betterers can't be choosers. He's the different defensive player of the Year for
a reason. Brown and sorry, one more thought onto one Harris is he
is one of two players in the history of Kansas that I've watched anyway,
which is over a decade of basketball now, that I am thrilled to see,
oh for oh and zero points. The others Marcus Scarrett for different reasons.
But like it's it's pretty wild when you can have a guy that has
zero points and you're like, yeah, he was one of like the four
best players on the on the floor, and he was, yeah, no,
he was. He's proof that you don't have to score a lot to
be one of the best players on the floor there. And let's not let's
not get ourselves here. They are going to need him to score to beat
teams better than this that he can't notot have, he can't take those shots.
He's he's a point where he's got. I think he'll end the year
averaging about ten points a game. I do. I just think on a
nightlight tonight, if if it's working, and it's kind of like if you're
playing if you're playing a football game and run of the ball, you're getting
eight yards of carry like the Patriots were doing to the Bills that one game
where it was real Wendy, and you don't need to pass the ball,
don't pass the ball, just keep doing what works. That's kind of what
Dwan Harris did in this game. He didn't need to shoot it because it
was work in passing. And I'm perfectly fine with him being able to make
that decision and go with what was best for the team. Parker Brown put
up great numbers in relief of Hunter Dickinson, going five for six from the
floor for ten points. He started five for five, the miss was a
three at the end, so five for five inside the arc. He added
five rebounds three assists in twenty one minutes. Is he Mitch Lightfoot the second
and see this is where I'll say I think the jury is completely out because
North Carolina Central had no one that could answer anything on the inside. And
whether or not that makes Parker Brown great or not no clue. So I'd
like to think he could be a solid contributor, but there's nothing that makes
me either lose hope or gain confidence based on this performance. He did look
good though, and that was encouraging, but no idea what any of that
actually means. As tougher teams are coming. Dylan will Hyde, Patrick Cassidy,
and Wilder Evers dipped their hands in butter before checking in for the final
five minutes. That was terrible. I know your walk Ons guys, time
it was, Yeah, you could tell I was irrationally a little disappointed.
They didn't get to one hundred points. They still scored more than they scored
any game last year, but ultimately not getting one hundred after the first half
feels inconceivable. Their stats are all hideous. Mike Jenkovitch did score five points.
Landon annointed him one of the better shooters in the Big twelve, which
I think he's right. He was the only highlight from the walk On unit.
Not a great night. If you said took the over on the walk
On total amount of points, you're gonna need Mike Jenkovitch to go all Klay
Thompson if you want to get there. The walk Ons were minus twelve when
they're five minutes. This game ended on a sixteen to four run by the
Eagles to only quote only lose by forty three points, seventy percent from the
floor, fifty seven percent from three to eighty percent of the line. Maybe
the best slash line we've ever read there in eleven seasons. Also, it
gets better. Plus fourteen on the glass, plus twenty seven and assists and
only ten turnovers in the game. There really isn't anything to be to complain
about. That was in. They get an A plus and pass their first
test with flying colors. Any takeaways that we didn't touch on Jayhawks are one
to zero. Yeah, I mean thirty four assists on thirty nine. We
did talk about it, but that is a truly remarkable number. If that
is the trend that this team keeps, of that ball movement, in that
passing ability. Holy, I expatman, this team is dangerous. Yep,
Nick, any thoughts about the any final thoughts. It's not Stanislaus State,
but it's in North Carolina's Central sou take with that, which you will.
Big twelve games. Wow, we get to recap some of these for the
first time since all the Big twelve teams pooped themselves in last year's NCAA tournament.
And so what better way to pick up from where we left off by
talking about a Big twelve team that pooped their pants? In the opener,
Nick lead us off what happens South? Yeah, Mike Boyton brought in the
twenty twenty three to twenty twenty fourth season with a stunning home loss to Abling
Christian who beat the Cowboys sixty four to fifty nine. That suddenly really bright
Gallagher I by arena. Oklahoma State shot twenty one percent from three. Big
twelve basketball is so back, and Boyton's going to be asking the NCAA to
give them a postseason ban this year. Yeah, Mike Boyton. Mike Boyton
has one NCAA appearance in his career. He's been there now for this is
a seventh season. That was whenever he was gifted Cad Cunningham by an assistant,
and that team at one point was the favorite to go to the final
four in their region and they lost to a twelve seed in Oregon State in
the sweet sixteen. Like, let's let's not act like that. This has
he hasn't had talent because he took over for Brad Underwood. He had Jawan
Evans in his first season. He's had some really talented players, and ultimately
they just didn't do anything. So really really disappointing loss for Oklahoma State.
And yes, Nick mentioned the bright galliber I Arena. They painted the base
lines that now says Oklahoma State and big white letters, big big lights at
the top of the arena. Now too, they showed a ceiling shot.
Oh my gosh, have industrial lights in there now. The Polks wore blue
jerseys in this game too, and they are feeling the blues. They are
the only Big twelve team to open with an L at least for right now.
Land and go ahead and give a we're kind of going out of order,
I guess, but This is the part wherever the game's not over yet
and you have to do an impromptu improv kind of reading about what's going on.
Yeah, case I have the game on right now, Case State losing
the USC with just undred five minutes to go seventy to fifty four. It
was competitive for most first half into the second half. The USC definitely starting
to pull away as we entered the middle part of the second half. They
look at USC that looks really good. Case State looks a little out of
sorts offensively. I did predict to win, but I also predicted a little
bit of a step back for the for the tang over there in Manhattan,
and that is definitely seeming to be the case tonight. As you will see,
who is good is uh probably gonna win this game. By fifteen,
We'll see how long Nakwon Tomlins stay suspended. Because K State's offense is just
not having a good time. They're under thirty percent of the tier guns.
Jerome K State, with the five minutes left in the game, has one
more basket seventeen than they do turnover sixteen. If that tells you it's it's
not going great. Arthur Kaluma and his k State debut is currently one for
nine, including zero for five on threes. Hey, you guys remember what
he made four in that game against Kansas in the NCAA Tournament. I do,
did you guys also see the future when he's gonna do that again in
bram Ledge as they're all late in the shot clock? Yes, I do.
West Virginia banner week for k State though you a withf on a five
star recruit, you rolled the red carpet out for you go for a touchdown
at Texas and losing overtime. Good one there, and then you get blown
out by a Bronni list James Bronnie James less USC team in Las Vegas.
Good week for the cat backers, that's for sure. Hey, they should
have won the game in Austin. That was There was some tom foolery going
on in that, but yeah, not not great. And then a showdown
with the jay Birds here in a couple of weeks in Lawrence looms for the
football team should be a fun one. Well then there's best. But they
didn't inspire anybody with a sixty seven to fifty nine win over Missouri State the
Bears to open the Josh Eilert Era everybody else in the Big twelve to one
with ease. Iowa State smash Green Bay, which makes sense because Jordan Love
is pretty lousy. BYU hung one hundred and ten points on Houston Christian and
TCU scored one hundred and eight against Southern in other really good games. Hey,
you guys really reads next because we got it out of order. Good
job, way to figure it out. To talk amongst yourselves and figure it
out. Yeah, that is the best way to do this. Live editor
number seven Houston beat Louisiana Monroe by fifty three, holding them to thirty one
points, which doesn't feel possible, but it is and it happened. I
number eighteen Texas be incarnate word by thirty two murder rows of squads here the
Big both played. Hey, Christiard walk so Rodney Terry could run with that
scheduling h thirty one points? You think that's not very many way to get
said? What's coming up here in the other game section? Because so okay,
I posted on Twitter and a couple of people disagreed with me. A
lot of people did. So is how it goes? College basketball has easily
not even close. Easily the worst opening week of any of the sports.
It sucks. All these teams completely uneventful. If you're not like someone that's
actively plugged in, you might not even know it's happening. Yes, unless
you're a fan of one of these teams. Why can't we? And there
are several good games this weekend, which is new too. I don't remember
seeing that in uh an open weekend. How else are you gonna fund mid
major athletic programs if you're not paying them two million dollars to come get beat
by fifty. Well they can still do that. They just do. They
all have to do it the same night. Nobody in the top twenty was
less than a fifteen point favorite, and obviously it didn't work out for all
of them. But the scheduling is ridiculous. Why can't we open? They
opened with the Champions Classic for several years. I don't know what happened to
that. Give me some marquee matchups the first couple nights of college basketball and
kick it started the NFL, the NBA baseball, College football is a great
example. All those leagues have premier matchups in their opening week, and I
don't understand why college football filled with week zero awful games all the way up
and down the board. They still manage to play neutral site barn burners half
the time, at least a couple of them to get everybody watching. Don't
understand why college basketball can't do the same. But then again, if it's
gonna go like this, huh, let's let's let's go ahead and talk about
it. Nick, why don't you tell us about what's going to be the
big story from night one of college basketball. I was gonna say, Nick's
not there, he's doing I am there now. Yeah, the big the
big note of the night. Number four Michigan State opened their season with one
of the most stunning losses in modern memory. Thinking back down memory lane,
you know last year Purdue losing to the Farley Dickinson Knights, or even before
that, Tony Bennett's Tony Bennet and Virginia losing to the UNBC Retrievers. A
little worse maybe tonight as number four Michigan State loses in East Lansing to James
Madison, a president. They lost to a president, guys and overtime as
a sixteen point favorite. Yeah, the Spartan shot one for twenty for twenty
for twenty for three five percent. Tyan Grant Foster shot better at Kansas.
Welcome to pick him. We actually picked this game, and now we all
it's karma for me and Nick making fun of Landon's pickup score because now we
all have an l My gosh. Yeah, they not only lost to a
president, but they lost to the shortest president. James Madison was the shortest
president in history. He was five foot four and he went out and beat
Michigan State. This game took four hours. It makes sense every time old
James fell down they had to go pick him up, because you know,
he's been dead for three hundred years at this point. But Michigan State,
Holy like these games happen. What happens in November has no impact on what
happens in March. We know that anybody can make a run. I don't
know what you're supposed to do with this, how you're supposed to measure them.
They play some tough games coming up, but just a stunning opening night
loss for the Spartans. Uh. Yeah, you know what. I know
how Kansas fans are. They're very passionate. That works both ways. I
can't even imagine what Michigan State somewhere out there, there's a Michigan State blog
that is trying to figure out what the hell happened to night Because you lose
to James Madison, I feel like you should have to, like Tom Mezzo,
should at minimum have to do some community service for this. That's that's
abysmal. Yeah, that's like a twenty thousand dollars fine kind of ill.
Yeah, which for him is like you and ib and fined four dollars.
So maybe finey more, I guess, but you know, all right,
with the exception of the Spartans, none of the top twenty teams really top
twenty five teams. USC was the only one that I didn't know about,
and they rolled really had much trouble in their openers. Number nineteen North Carolina
struggled early. They wound up handling Radford after Radford remembered they were in fact
Radford. Number sixteen Kentucky, who Kansas plays next week, shot the ball
well on an eighty six forty six win over New Mexico State, and number
three per Due was up twenty one to one on powerhouse Samford, and again
they ultimately won by fifty three points. Zach Eedy was sixteen points, eleven
rebounds, and four blocks. Not a lot of great matchups there, but
we'll at least talk about the funny stuff. Yeah. Number thirteen Miami nice,
just about as bad as other. Yeah, go ahead, Land and
talk about the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Yeah, which is that's funny
now that we are down this road. But there are number thirteen Miami.
They beat them ng n j I T by forty one. I do think
it's really funny that Ryan is completely bamboozled by that school. Maybe I was
just oddly familiar with them previously. I've heard about the real institution there.
You go. Yeah, they are. Yeah, they're the Institution of Technology.
Oh my god, oh man, it's like it's like the MI T
for morons. Wow. Indeed, go ahead, I'm typing. You can
read what I type. I If you don't want to deal with booby traps,
you write the you write your own notes. Uh tg if and by
that I mean ty On Grant. It's Foster. He had thirty points for
Grand Cannon in their win over Southeast Missouri State. Semoy had two threes in
this game after making three all year when he was at Kansas, so he
is already sixty six point seven percent of the way to his Kansas three point
total a couple of years after playing for the Ox. Hey, look at
look at that TGF. You know what suck. Also look at Louisville.
The guys, Oh, I was so close Cimo don't you mean cimo threes
by Tyon Grant Foster. Oh no, I hit the drum roll show,
I meant the rim shot, and I hit already going down the good show
that we do here Louba, what's not going down the toilet yet? Guys?
They beat UNBC by one. They allowed UNBC to score ninety three points
on them. U NBC already have like how many games did they win all
of last year? Like five four? There are already one quarter of the
way there. So Louisville nine point favorite. Louisville is down the whole night
to the Retrievers for NBC. Yep, and they they're up to with two
seconds left and commit one of the stupidest fouls you ever gonna see in your
life. The guy makes the front end, he misses the back end,
and Louisville escapes by one. Let's look at Louisville's schedule coming up here because
there's not much else to talk about on this show. They play Chattanooga and
Coppin State. I mean, come on, they can get to three and
oh right, I would hope. I mean, they played New Mexico State
not getting to three, and oh is Stanislas State. They lost seven to
twenty eight, which just doesn't feel like it possibly happened. That's like me
and NCA basketball ten where Ice at the Sliders. I don't know how this
counts. I truthfully don't know how Saint Mary's two school, like so Stanislaus
State did. This is listed as an exhibition game on their website. They're
not counting this. They lost fifty seven to seventeen in the second half and
that was somehow the better of the two halves by point margin for them in
this game. So Stanislaus State shot sixteen percent on threes, thirteen percent,
are sixteen percent from the floor, thirteen percent from three, nineteen percent from
two. They did make eighty eight percent of the line. That's pretty good
nine baskets nine not as many as Kansas made against Kentucky against that unbelievable Kentucky
team. But hey, Santaslaus State, I mean They're probably better than UMKC
getting to play Avela. If you live in Kansas City, you'll know that
Avala is an Naia school and UMKC gets to count that as a win,
which they shouldn't because they only won that game by thirty one. It was
seventy nine to forty eight. It was a very normal thirty nine to twenty
two game a half time. Ye that's awful. Oh my gosh. Some
of the names in this next segment, right, go, who's the lucky
one to read? I'll take it. Go for Ryan's favorite opponents from de
Swan schools. Tonight, Indiana State beat Saint Mary of the Woods. Why
is marrying the Woods? Why is it? Wait? Why is Mary in
the Woods in the first place? Austin p got to play Life University Life
Life University, South Dakota kicked things off with Mount Marty College. Penn took
on John Jay. Coolies are not real, bro, These are not real.
S m U opened up with Southwestern Assemblies of God lines. They were
only I didn't know a church denomination was loud. S MU get their young
adult ministry out there, and s m U is a YouTube for Fart University
s m U has a history and they played Southwestern Assembly of God in their
opener. I don't know how that is even allowed. Like, yeah,
one of the most fun things to do in opening out of college basketball is
to just go to all the games that take place and look at Basically,
you're looking for anybody that doesn't have an ESPN page, and that's that's how
we were able to find all these stately Saint Mary of the Woods is probably
my favorite on there. Oh, may you know, I think that's one
of the best in recent memory. Guess how many students South Southwestern Assemblies of
God University have six two thousand. Wow, that's more than I thought.
That's that's not that's not nothing. None of them are good at basketball,
though, well maybe in the first half. Ranked teams to lose since the
last show. I cannot believe we have a name on here, but we
do, and it's a prominent one who wants to take it. We can't
mess up the order when there's just one of us. Number FI. Michigan
State loses to the five foot four king himself, James Madison last weekend bigem.
We don't know yet because not all the games have happened, but yeah,
Nick says we should get five l's forgetting Michigan saved, which is yeah,
I'll out it. Ask rock Chalk Blog. Nick's favorite this show is
it's eleven thirty at night, and Nick goes to bed earlier than both of
us because Landon and I don't have class early in the morning. So Nick,
I'm sure you're gonna love getting to do late night. Ask rock Chalk
Blog. You guys did a good job getting in a handful of questions here
before we only gave you an hour to do it. We have a few
of them here we go at Evan eight five nine four three five nine four
four. Evan, I appreciate the questions. There's no way I'm gonna be
able to read that number every time. I'm going to eventually lose it and
read the numbers wrong. So I'm just gonna call you at Evan Numbers.
We're gonna we're gonna read it that way. Evan Numbers wants to know why
is Clement's red shirting? I feel like we could use the depth in the
front court. What are you guys thoughts? I think he's bad. I
mean, the the answer here is he's third out of three guys playing that
position. Dickinson is going to play a lot of minutes and Parker Brown,
Yeah, that's all, Yeah, exactly. Dickinson's playing close to thirty a
night, and Parker Brown looks more than capable of handling the backup role.
It sounds like this is Clement's choice too. It is interesting, though not
normally. Do you see that? Another one from Evan who was the most
impactful player in this opening game? I think it was Dewan Harris most impactful.
Harris set the table all night for this offense. Let's take him.
McCuller. Yeah, here, McCuller at Derek J. Weber one. Why
didn't North Carolina Central's coach allow his walk ons time to play on that court?
Good question. Their starters were in there lighting up the park or whatever.
Patrick Cassidy's attempt at a three point shot it was kind of weird.
It feels like if there's ever a time that the bench would deserve to go
out there, it's that he didn't want to lose by sixty, so instead
he lost by forty three. I forgot. I'm the only one that can
read these questions at Elliott Russon h one. It is overreaction territory after this
game, right, Yes, just like it was after they law or lot.
Yeah, they did lose, they didn't crush Fort Hayes. Yes it
is, but that's you know, whenever you know how sports fans work,
ads, I love the work or I love the work from all of you
guys. Thank you very much for that, Elliot. We always appreciate your
questions. Elliott says, I personally feel like Furfey might be more valuable to
this team than Jackson, but that's to be seen. It would be a
really great surprise to see Jackson be the better one of the two. That
may be a little overreacting now, Marco Jackson's a McDonald's All American. He's
a great athlete. He can do a lot of things better better than Johnny
Furfey at this point. Maybe not shoot the ball, but there's plenty of
things that I think I'll mark with Jackson brings to the table. I think
Jackson is probably a better player in every facet, but shooting yes, so
at least really shows a lot of growth quickly. I think Jackson is definitely
the player to expect a lot more out of and Jackson didn't play poorly in
this game. Jackson was actually pretty good. Like it's his first game,
it's his very first game. We'll see, but it looks like, especially
with the lack of depth here, it looks like that Furfey, Jackson,
and Timberlake are all gonna have plenty of time, uh to be able to
play and showcase what they can do. So well, we'll definitely get our
answer of who the best one is. They're all going to play at Ajsen
Underscore Official. How high is this team ceiling if they shoot the ball well
from three you saw it, ninety five points in thirty five minutes. Yeah,
agreed, National champions is your answer. That's their ceiling if they shoot
the ball well. That is like the only thing that we're a little concerned
about with this team, right is shooting. And they cleared their first test
with Flying Colors. Yeah, they're gonna defend really well. I think they're
gonna be able to score everywhere else. Yeah, if they if they make
a lot of threes, they are very definitively a top one team in the
country. Honestly at Breckon Hunting, do you think El Marco will figure it
out or well forfe or Timberlake eventually get the last spot. I don't know
why people are making it sound like Jackson's lost and Furfee's not. At this
point, Jackson's further along than Furfey and Furfey didn't play for weeks because he
was a hurt. So it's Timberlake if you want anybody to start over him,
and I just don't think that's happening. I think that self knows that
Jackson does more well than Timberlake, at least for now. Let's not stopped
him from making weird roster decisions in the past. Though. No, no,
it hasn't. I don't know, but you guys both are on board
with start Nick Timberlake. I'm good with either one. Again, they're both
gonna play a lot that I don't think it really technically matters who starts.
But wow, I have sports Center on and Yukon has that center that Yukon
has looks like he's about eight feet tall. I have not seen them play
yet. Wait, do you see Hunter Dickinson and that game coming to Allen
Fieldhouse here in just a few weeks at Show Me Hawk? What is your
take on this recent Kansas quarterback controversy. By God, that's next music.
Do you think that Kansas? Do you think that Kansas rides with Jason Bean
for the rest of the year or do they think they clear Jalen Daniels if
he's healthy. They did clear him, didn't they? He was active like
a week ago. Yeah, this is a hard thing to like care about
honestly anymore. I'm a big Jalen Daniels fan. I hope he plays at
some point. I want him to play. I personally am not on the
He's soft train. I think that's a little silly, but it is very
weird and he he. I don't get what's happening, and the university is
being very unclear about but I think it's very likely you do not see him
play the rest of the season. But I know nothing because the university doesn't
actually say anything about the situation. Regardless of whether he's soft or not,
He's not showing up to watch the games anyways. Jason Bean, with all
accounts and respects, despite how good Jalen Daniels is and despite how Reala's injury
is, is your quarterback one. He's earned the spot. He showed up
for this team he's been there and people, you know, could criticize him.
I know we've given our fair share of criticism of him Ryan specifically,
but he is there and he is fighting for his team, and I think
that he deserves, you know, the starting spot the rest of the season
and should be considered QB one throughout the rest of the season. Yeah.
I think what Nick just said basically copy and paste that that's how I feel.
I love Jaylen Daniel's ability, and I would love to have him out
there because this Kansas team really could have competed for a Big twelve championship with
him. I still think winning double digit games is on the table for them
with Jason Bean as their quarterback. And I have been hard on Jason Bean
because he's you know, we're near as good of a quarterback as Jayalen Daniels.
I don't really even think Jason Bean's that good. But what Nick said
is one hundred percent true. He shows up for his team. He's tough
as nails. We see him take all the shots and get right back up.
We've seen the way that he's turned into a leader on this team.
You can see the way that this team respects him. This is his team.
He's earned that spot, and this Kansas team is ultimately gonna go as
far as they take as he takes them. If he plays well, they
could win ten games. They could be a legitimate contender for an Orange Bowl
spot if he plays well these last few weeks. If he shows up like
most of the fourth quarter at Oklahoma or Oklahoma State fourth quarter Jason Bean,
well you're rolling at ice at that point. But the Jaylen Danilot, Jalen
Daniels, regardless of the injury, Apart from that, like, it's undeniable
that he is a much better quarterback than Jason Bean. Not to say that
Jason Bean is outrightly awful, though he does have that streak in him at
times Like Kansas, I don't think that's an overreaction to say could legitimately be
a play off hopeful. Uh. If if Daniels had started all season,
yeah, because they beat Oklahoma State, be in the Texas Game a lot.
They were already in it, and I think they would have been in
it even more and they would have had a real chance to win that game.
I think if Daniels is in that is in that game, I think
they're eight and one. If Daniels is healthy all year. I think they
they still lose Texas, but I think they win the Oklahoma State game.
They should have won it anyway. Yeah they Yeah, exactly, they should
have won anyway. And I think they would have had like a thirty percent
chance to beat Texas. I mean, they were in that game with Jason
Bean doing nothing. They were in that game in the first half where he
had like three completions at halftime like and Daniels warm. That was the game.
Daniels hurt himself. He aggravated it that morning that morning. Yeahah,
but I mean it's still I mean, this is still the best Kansas team
since the Orange Bowl team in seven uh and they are a blast watch.
Let me tell you one thing that I don't think is happening. I don't
think this is some elaborate ploy to sit out even though he can play because
he wants to transfer with Lan's life Bowlder, I don't think that's it.
I don't think he's healthy enough to play now. I've seen a lot of
players, and I'm not trying to throw the soft card because that's not what
I'm here to do. But I do think it's kind of strange. That
you have a quarterback who's active and dress that isn't fighting like tooth and nail
to get in games, because you see that and those are usually the type
of guys playing quarterback. Jason Bean strikes me as a guy like that.
I don't know if Jaylen Daniels is balancing other things, but if he's not
healthy enough to play, stop making him active for games. Don't put him
in uniform on the sidelines. If he's not a healthy, weird one,
he's not healthy. What game was that was the It was the home game
against Oklahoma, because we were like, yeah, they need him. Yeah.
That was the really strange one. That really where I just threw my
hands up and said, Okay, I'm not even gonna try to like prognosticate
any of this anymore, because yeah, he was in uniform. He was
literally in uniform. He was active. Yeah he was able to go.
If he was able to go, why didn't he go? Like That's that's
the really strange one to me. I do not understand that at all.
But Jason being played a great fourth quarter against Iowa State. I made a
couple of really nice throws to help ice that game. Nick, you were
in ams give us a little bit of a summary on how that went.
What was it like being up there. You said there were no KU fans
in there. Yeah, we were like one of like five KU fans the
game, which is really surprising because it's not a far drive and K's playing
well this season. But I was really impressed with the stadium. I think
that it's cool spot. They did some cool upgrades. They had like fireworks
before the game, so I thought that was cool. I set in a
section around a bunch of old white haired you know, you got the Ku
joco, you know, old money that sits in the sits on their hands
at the K basketball games down in the blue section. It was kind of
like this with the season ticket holders at Iowa State. I was very surprised
at how quiet the stadium was, even in like the the point of the
gamer is eighteen into twenty one and Iowa State could have got in the stop,
you know, and uh it was. It was just I was a
little underwhelmed with with the fans there. But yeah, on the way out
of the stadium, you know, Channing rock Shock, Jayhawk and some lady
came up and whispered in my ear at FKU. So that was cool,
but overall it was a fun trip to Ames. That's that town is like
more po dunk than Manhattan. It's like very small, but it's cool.
And they blew a lot. They bow as much as the basketball fans.
They blew a lot. Wow. Yeah, that's that's what they do.
But they've had Kansas's number up there for a while. Good to see k
you steal one from them. First win for Kansas up at Iowa State in
many years. A couple more questions here at k tweets and News ranked the
seven rotation players from best three point shooter to worst seven Timberlake one, mccolor
two, jeez U three for fear, Dickinson, Yeah, Dickinson four,
then probably Harris and then probably it's kJ last regardless, and then six would
be l Marco at this point and Parker Brown, Parker Brown's Parker Brown's the
eighth, isn't he? That was yeah Brown's eight. Yes, So yeah
that at Timberlakes one, Adams is last and everybody else is somewhere in there.
Two to six are really interchangeable at this point. We'll see that H
mccolrs pretty clearly. Two, three to six is pretty interchangeable at this point.
And then last last not a question here. A at AJSN underscore official
says the as a bookie stealing coach to coach Duncan MAUI was against b Yu,
not Shamanad. I forgot about that. You are correct. That was
the TJ That was the TJ House game. Remember him, that ball little
corp that's like thirty four, he's married with three kids and was playing basketball
against the Jayhawks and MAUI remember the video of him getting upset onnath the baseline
he's shut the freup or something. It was, No, it was shut
the heck up. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it was. Somebody
made fun of his hairline because he was thirty three years old and playing college
basketball. But yes, I do remember that. That was funny. I
forgot that was the same guy. Rats. If you ever have any asscarcbs,
use the ex hashtag ascarcb X gross. That's a horrible name. Who
the heck would name an X would name an app X? Touching that one?
Okay, we are going to touch that one, all right, Manhattan
Formy Daniels, Okay, now, Landon just really ripped off the band aid.
So let's let's make this even better by talking about Stormy daniels partner's hometown,
Manhattan. Manhattan is the next team to come into Alan Fieldhouse. They
are one to zero, winning tonight at Bryant on the road sixty one to
fifty nine. Manhattan was a twelve point underdog in this game and went on
the road and won. So, I mean, obviously Bryant is not gonna
get mixed up with you know, James Madison or any powerhouse. But still
pretty impressive that they went on the road and got a dub there. They
will enter one and oh like the Jayhawks. They are from the May,
from the Mac and they were twelve I'm I'm so that was really funny.
So we can call him the make that's fine. Twelve and eighteen. Overall
last year they were seventh in their conference, a very middle of the pack
for a mid major team. It would appear last year the best player was
named aunt Nelson. Don't see aunt Nelson on the team. They do have
a guy named zin y z i n Ye. Uh. Pretty wow.
I got forty of those letters wrong. I got forty percent of those letters
wrong. I am completely dyslexic x I N y I. I was looking
right at it and just just got it wrong. This dude is six nine
to thirty from China. Yeah, to be the tallest man in the history
of China after Yao Ming. That's funny. Wow. Also, much like
North Carolina Central, Jayhawks have never played Manhattan. So Manhattan in their game
against Bryant went one for sixteen shooting threes, that is six percent. They
are clearly a two point reliant game. Their best player, Daniel Rousen,
went off for sixteen points. He's a six foot eight power forward, so
this team has a little bit more height than North Carolina Central. But this
was a very slow paced game. I know it's one game, but the
starting five nobody made a three in their openers, so I don't get the
sense they're going to try to get into a three point shooting contest with the
Jayhawks. And how many people do you think went to Manhattan versus Bryant tonight?
According to ESPN nine hundred eight, seven hundred and fifty two, you
guys both would have lost prices, right style you both went over incorrect?
Yes, that is that's all the Manhattan analysis we have. By the time
we get to Kentucky, we'll actually be able to tell you a little bit
about the players on this team. Yeah, well, Kansas is gonna win
this one, sure, pretty big. I'm gonna go with the ninety seven
to fifty two. Okay, I'm gonna say KAYU wins ninety five to twenty
eight. I like how the scores are just absolute out of hats at this
point. Kansas wins eighty nine to sixty. I don't know what the line
will be. It's probably gonna be about what the game against the Eagles was.
It'll be about twenty five to thirty. Manhattan, at least from what
we saw tonight, appears to be a better team than North Carolina Central,
so we'll see. But Jaspers, by the way, is a great name.
They'll bring those green uniforms into Allen Field House. That's that's kind of
cool. When's the last time a non conference team with green uniforms came in
here? I don't remember one of those North Dakota State State. Oh yeah,
that, speaking of Tyan grand Foster, Tyon grand Foster saved KU's ass
against North Carolina North. No, it was a block. You don't remember
that, right? I know, I do, I do, I just
very I think he did hit a three in that game. I think that
that was one of his three threes. I think that was that that game
was so that a little input into that game. That was during the COVID
season. North North Dakota State played at Allen Field House and I was flying
home that day from Orlando and the game was on ESPN Plus. And it's
not like if that's gonna get streamed on a Southwest flight. So I got
on the plane in its halftime and KU's losing at home to North Dakota State
and they're white brigade of three point shooters. And the only way I could
follow that game is by watching on Southwest. You can watch ESPN, so
whatever was on ESPN, and every five minutes they would run the score on
the bottom bar with the college basketball scores. That was how I followed that
game and saw the clock get closer and closer to Kansas losing a home game
against North Dakota State before Tyan Grant Foster saved them at the last minute.
Wow. The good news is things got much better for that team as the
season went along. Yeah, only only upward trajectory there all right, So
our next show is going to come out at the end of the weekend.
We're recording Sunday afternoon, right, That's that's kind of what we said.
Uh yeah, I think it's the plan, all right, So look for
the next show to drop on Monday morning. Got a whole week before the
next episode of ITP and at that point we'll actually have a noteworthy game to
preview Champions Classic week coming up. Kansas and Kentucky. Is it in Indianapolis
this year? Is that right? I have no idea what chyrack, because
the last time they played Kentucky at Indy was the seventy two to forty game
that was I think it's in Chiraq. Wait what Yeah, I was just
gonna let that go and go on. That sounds like a good plan.
Pickum No. Twelve Arizona at Yeah to Chicago. Okay, Oh now I
get it, Now, I get it. Okay, that's that's still that's
still pretty funny, though, Nick, I applied your number twelve Arizona at
number two. Duke, this game is at Cameron pretty good matchup, Coach
k Leaves, and what do you know, Duke starts scheduling a little bit
tougher. I guess this is this is the best matchup of the first week
of college basketball. Do the Wildcats have a shot to swow down the Blue
Devils? Uh? That wn'll be a game. I think Duke wins though,
yeah Duke. Sorry. Not very often that we see Duke be the
more experienced team this early in the season. But with Philipowski he had twenty
five points to night against Dartmouth. UH, one of the best players in
college basketball. It's hard to see a young team like Arizona winning there,
but it would be pretty funny. So I will go with the Blue Devils.
Number fifteen Texas A and M at Ohio State. This is a A.
I guess it's a showdown between Power five teams. I will go with
A and M on the road. Ohio State almost lost to night to boy
who they almost lose to. I'll go with Buzz Williams team on the road.
Yeah, same, yep. Ohio State almost lost to Oakland of Michigan
at home. They needed a forty five point second half to avoid that.
So yes, I think A and M beats them. Number nine Tennessee at
Wisconsin. Never trust Rick Barnes, give me the Badgers. Yep, same
Badgers in Tennessee. Nick, did you say Tennessee? Yep? And last
game. These games are all on Friday night. How about this for a
test for a new Big twelve team, number seventeen San Diego State going to
BYU. I don't know anything about either of these teams, so I'll take
the home team, give me the Cougars, and then I was gonna do
this same thing. I'm actually gonna flip up though, I'm gonna go as
text in that case. BYU gets pretty rowdy for these games. I think
Nick's phone's coming out. I didn't hear you. Who do you want?
I said? I said, BYU? Okay, yeah, we're having We're
having some having some phone issues, just like North Carolina Central had some basketball
issues. All issues. Yep, there is your there's your show where one
show in how did we do? Do we get a D plus? That
felt like a D plus? Effort at times? Yeah? It was like
effort wise, yeah, really low. I think execution was decently high,
and I think comedy was moderately high. Even it was just at the expense
of Stanislaus State and Saint Mary's of the Woods. God, but Stanislaus State.
You gotta work with what you got. Stanislaus State really got to play
a game that counted for a top twenty five team, and the final score
was one hundred and seven to twenty eight. The Top Performer page on ESPN
shows like who let each team is scoring, it says top performer, and
then it's somebody named j Wade the third with seven points. That's a quarter
of his team's points. That's normally not bad. Man. I want to
I want to see Kansas get to play Stanislaus Really all basically all of the
WCC teams tonight played teams without ESPN pages. Pepperdine beat somebody named Concordia hyphen
Irvine by twelve. Good good competition there for Gonzaga, h San Francisco beat
Bethesda. They won by a lot. They scored one hundred and twenty eight
tonight, and San Diego played some team named Sonama State and they are winning
forty eight to forty six at the under twelve time out. That's bad.
That's all, really bad. I wonder how Gonzaga has one all these conferences
in a row's I gotta see this for myself. This is also Pacific who's
also actually keeping the show going for But Pacific, who's also in that league,
lost to sam Houston State at home. At least that's a team that
I have heard of before. If sy, I guess Stanislaus State Saint Mary's
is just getting in the in the routine four conference season. It's like a
tune up game for that, because they're better than half the teams in this
league. It's true, all right, somebody say goodbye somebody in the show.
Uh immersively good night, guys, loyal Marrimount is playing Westcliff University,
and Portland is playing Dead Adventures Lewis and Clark. Whoa, whoa what?
Okay, So a lot of the ESPN teams without a page you can't click
on. Lewis and Clark has a logo, but I still can't click on
it. You can also get into that game for four dollars. Are they
actually playing Lewis and Clark? Like, did they get those two guys out
of the grave? That'd be pretty wild. Those are the mascots. It's
just two people wearing Lewis and clark'skins with with Davy Crockett hats and they're just
in a boat. Yeah, yikes, man this conference anyway, See y'all,
good night.