Gil Sol has his head up his ass so much, but not in that
game. Not in that game. That's just for you. Nick. Well
you've been you've been the best in attendance of the two of you guys,
and also pick them. But hey, we'll get there. That was just
drop. Oh really, okay, how about this one instead? Myself?
Better? That's better? Yeah? All right, Well that's how Kansas played
because Hello, I guess that the very first thing I really should have opened
the show with. Every time they beat Texas, we opened the show the
same way, so I guess i'd probably should just start with that. Hey,
Patrick, what am I now? Stupid? No, Ti cake,
It's Oh I love comedy, so do you because you're listening to this wonderfully
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This is inside the Paint. Can you beat Texas? And all of
us are going to beat a dead horse. I'm Ryan Landrup, I'm Sleeping
the Dwarf. I am Eddie the Smurf. So in one of the biggest
twists in the history of Inside the Paint Landon had to bail on a podcast
at the last minute on Friday night because you were planning a party like a
blog party. Uh No, it was. It was a game party.
We we did a me and a friend of mine did a best of seven
game party for our collective friend group. Uh and it was really fun.
Some have you even said it's the best party their friend group has ever had.
Wow, that sounds a little trumpy, but I'll take your word for
it. That my party the best party party. It was the best party
of all time. China's never had a party this good. Well, speaking
of Trump, get that son of a Field. That's what Texas should be
saying about Rodney Terry because he led his team of Longhorns into Allen Fieldhouse and
they got absolutely railed. Kansas hangs eighty six on the lost Horns. Trump
to do. Yeah, we're gonna talk about Kansas beating Texas and then maybe
the wild this weekend of college basketball. Yet this year, we are just
three weeks now from selection Sunday, getting closer and closer. We're gonna talk
all about it. Let's do it. Still undefeated, so you get Mary
still number nine, Kansas eighty six, Texas sixty seven. Here's my Texas
assessment. They are and there's no reason they should be because without Kevin mccullor,
who will talk about, Kansas made quick and easy work of Texas,
jumping to a twenty eight to fifteen lead and staying ahead by double digits for
the entirety of the second half. The offense hummed along the defense was terrific.
It was a well rounded, complete effort. The Jayhawks forth a complete
performance after a week of rest. It is February, it is late February,
and rounding into form, come the Kansas Jayhawks, a tale as old
as time. Gotta be pretty happy about the way that game went right,
no complaints. Maybe the best of conference play. Yeah, they looked really
good in the highlights that I saw due to the aforementioned party that kept me
away from watching the game, but they did seem to dominate even without mccullor,
which is impressive. Second time that they've truly ran an opponent without Kevin.
This is the state of it TP where we don't watch the game at
all, We just talk about something we saw highlights from. So Nick,
you've been very pessimistic. Ryan would harass me if I skipped yet another podcast,
So I have to take my lumps on this one, am I the
harassing supervisor? Is that my title? Do I harass whenever you miss shows?
I think I kind of do, don't I definitely used to. Yeah,
I used to, right, Yeah, just more banter. And and
here in this in this part, you try, you try to try to
make me, You try to make whoever's missing the show do the show until
they eventually caved to your waist. Okay, yeah, that is true because
here in America these days, these gen zers are so soft, they have
it so easy, actually wanting them to put in some work, and they're
like, oh, I don't want to work. I'm scared to work.
Right, That's that's the That's exactly what people said about the millennials. And
I'm like people probably said about gen X, and that's what people could say
about Rodney Terry because he is at everything will not wanting to work and having
a guy that just shouldn't. Nick, you were pessimistic about Kansas for a
good part of the year, and I feel like you've had a little bit
more confidence in them recently. While I'm just grasping at straws, trying to
find some sort of segue here. Tell me your thoughts about this game.
I thought it was a shade of Houston. They put their foot on the
gas for one of the rare few times this season they came out of the
shoots just playing fantastic and albeit at the start of the second half, they
played a complete thirty eight minutes in this game without Kevin mccullull. Obviously,
that's the big storyline, but I think even further than that, like we're
gonna talk about, they got key bench contributions. Obviously, Nick Timberlake looked
great, that white man can jump, and you've got other, you know,
some key plays from you know, Jamari McDowell making a shot and Parker
Brown playing some good substitutionary minutes, and so overall, you know, the
guys obviously missing Kevin for the fourth game and seems seems like seven games at
this point, and they they rallied behind it, and they continue to show
how they've just been dominant in Allen Field House. And uh yeah, so
we begin with a stat and it should be a plus Kansas stat, but
it's just a shot at Virginia because F Virginia with capital F and capital last
three letters of that word. Kansas scored more points in the first half against
Texas than Virginia did in the game. And that's that was also true if
you talk about Virginia's other game from this week. Uh, good offense by
Kansas. But just just throwing that stat out there, Virginia is gonna take
a pounding on this podcast. I have lots of Virginia stuff to talk about
because I hate them and I would rather get a root canal on no pain
management medication than watch one second of Tony Bennett's basketball team play. But okay,
more about them later. Let's talk about somebody who's the opposite of Virginia,
as in good at offense. Nick, tell me about Hunter Dickinson.
Yeah, Hunter Dickinson fantastic as he has been all season. Fed was fed
early, and when you feed the big Dick, he often scores a lot
of points, to the tune of twenty points and seven rebounds in this game.
I did not mean to make that an inny window. Let's just start
with his last name, Dick. Dickinson was nine to seventeen for the floor
in thirty three minutes. My favorite. Ryan's favorite play, though, isn't
that one it's the stat sheet. No, that's one that's not in the
stat sheet, and it is whatever. Max Asmis had a The word that
first came to mind was bitch ass. I don't know if I can say
that. I just so, I'm just gonna call it cowardly because that's better.
We don't say not say for work things on this podcast. At the
end of the games, at the end of the game, Texas is getting
blown Their doors are blown off them, and he's like, you know,
I don't feel like Nick Timberlake don't get this ball, So I'm just gonna
grab him with both hands and try to pull him to the ground. I
thought it was pretty lousy. And Hunter Digginson got right in that man's face
and just the sheer touching of his chest to Asmis's chest pushed Acemis back about
a foot. He was having none of it. And everybody talks about how
soft Hunter Dickinson is and I'm so over it because he's clearly not. But
in addition to being a great basketball player, what a great teammate, he
was having none of that in a twenty point game. And I thought that
was pretty cool. That's my observation of the day. Texas is gonna be
Texas and do stuff like that. And Hunter said, Nope, not in
my house, you're not. I thought that was good. Landon didn't see
it because he doesn't watch the games. He just saw the highlights. That's
true. But you believe me. You can believe Texas throwing some cheap shots
and you can believe Hunter Dickinson not be in there for it. I definitely
believe that that is a very Hunter Dickinson thing to do. I imagine he
just walked up to him with his fore arm place where he does that.
Dickinson was great. This is a not great defense statistically, but certainly on
athletic one and we've seen Marquette and UCF have athletic five men that gave Dickinson
trouble. Dylanndosue didn't play very well, but he's still that mold of an
athletic can can really shoot the ball, so he's not just under the basket.
That's the sort of player that Dickinson has struggled to defend. And I
thought he did a really good job on both ends of the floor. Rebounded
well. Was the tied for the lead and rebounder. I guess one one
off the team leader rebound in a game that they dominated on the glass.
If Hunter Dickinson is not your leading rebounder, it used to be bad things
for Kansas. I think now it means that it's just the more balanced effort,
because like kJ had eight, which is great, Furfey had eight,
that's awesome. Dickinson being the third leading res is usually a good thing unless
he just has an apocalyptic game. So yeah, I thought he was really
good. Somebody else that was really good landing kJ Adams. The other half
of the front court played really well. Yeah. kJ Adams a focal part
of the game plan, and Ryan thinks he might have been the best player
on the floor. He had sixteen points and eight rebounds. Very nice number
to see from kJ in thirty two minutes. An excellent eight of twelve from
the floor. Very typical kJ Adams game for the first time in a couple
of weeks, Nick, are the problems resolved here for kJ? Or is
this a little bit of a fluke. I don't know if the problems are
resolved from kJ. Obviously had concerns about this Texas front court coming into this
game. He looked good in this game. Religious I think part of it
was more strategic. It wasn't a lot of him throwing wild shots off the
glass that he has in the past. It was a little bit more methodical
getting the ball in the painting or making that pattinon jump shot he does right
by the free throw line. It was a little bit more of his game
did not look sped up. He gets sped up often, it seems like,
especially when he's trying to score, and that's when he tends to make
more mistakes. Definitely was a much more cleaner game for Kja Adams and obviously
Ku plus nine on the glass in this game. A typical area of fault
is when they're not getting as many rebounds as they should. There were a
couple times in this game where Texas was getting some offensive rebounds, but overall,
I don't think you can fault him for any of that. They won
by twenty and he looks great. Any game that kJ has like six or
more rebounds, he's gonna be a fantastic bet to be the best player on
the game and the floor because he scores well, he shoots a hygh percentage.
He's a better free throw shooter than he's been at any point in his
career, and he's a good defender. All he's got to do is rebound.
I mean, if any game where kJ has eight rebounds is gonna be
an all Big twelve caliber performance. That's his measuring stick. And there doesn't
seem to be a pattern with who he rebounds well against, because Texas is
a pretty good rebounding team. They have a lot of size at least than
kJ posted great numbers there, and we've seen kJ not rebound against teams like
Oklahoma who can't rebound at all, so weird. Whenever he's in the right
place at the right time, he's He's an excellent, complete player and all
he needs to do is rebound to get there. Not controversial to say that
Hunter or kJ were great players on Saturday, It is a little controversial talk
about the uniforms. What did you guys think? I was surprised that some
of Twitter's thoughts. I liked him. They were great. Yes, I
think that's the right take sweep it. We all three liked them. There
were some some controversies with them on Twitter. Some people thought they were boring,
and I thought the block letters on the back looked really good. I
like that. They weren't the best uniforms Cancer ever had, but they were
good ones. What are the best uniforms they've worn in the celf era Joel
embiid Cream, Cursive blue. The cream cursives are pretty good. Really.
See everybody says that I liked the pants whenever they wore those, the shorts
they just had like that that the head of the jayhawk and white and blue.
I think they also wore an eight or eighty eight throwback against Texas Circus
the Circus. The circus are always the best. Yeah, Circusponse really good.
They wear red ones every once in a while, and the red is
very good. Any gray is in the bottom half immediately anything under anything with
the Trojan font on it is trash. So I don't know, that's trash.
It's not my favorite Landon are you talking about? So? I think
the one you're talking about is from fifteen, not seventeen, when they played
Texas and it was real close and they wore like the really old throwbacks,
right, Yeah, probably Perry Ellis played really well in that game, and
we all know he had eighteen different years that you can get mixed up with
So that's fair. You guys don't really like the gray jerseys. In the
twenty twenty year, they wore gray with Kansas straight across. Yeah, those
are okay. The only time I like the Trajan font ones was whenever it
said Kansas straight across. I don't really like how it's curved. I think
straight across Kansas looks pretty good because it's bigger letters and the side twenty twenty
nineteen twenty twenty season, those uniforms are the worst. The really stripes on
the sides of the pans did not match the pattern of the tops. It
was just like a red No, it was just red accent. I don't
like. I don't think that looks good, especially with the Trajan funt I
liked those uniforms. I thought the next year the COVID teams uniforms were horrible.
Well yeah, I didn't like the fact that Adidas moved to the logo
from the side the top of the side of the jersey to the middle.
I think it made it look a little bit more like Chinese black market jerseys.
I'm trying to find, like just a list, Like everyone loves the
Circus font ones. Those are those are really good and they're going to those
permanently next year? I think so? Is that? Is that? Actually?
Yep? I've heard that. And Nick knows a lot about about uniforms.
He's he's the uniform extraordinary, So I'll take his word for it.
I liked the twenty ten, two thousand and eight kind of that era of
the blue uniforms where they had the the white stripe. It seemed that there
was more white that featured on there the game and what against West Virginia and
eighteen whenever they honored the ten year anniversary they wore them. I thought they
were just more Kansas like. And then you guys remember in the West Virginia
comeback in twenty seventeen at Allen Field House, they wore like a Black History
Month throwback where it said Kansas and red letters, but the jersey was white.
Does that ring a bell at all? A little bit? Yeah?
Yeah, those were good. I remember that good. Yeah. I'm still
surprised Nick didn't like the nineteen twenty team. I thought those were good.
I liked o Kan it looked cheap. I remember that ice Kansas straight across
is not good. Uh. The Wiggans team boy, they wore a lot
of different ones. They had the gray ones that said Jayhawks and cursive letters
and those are okay. Uh what I think it was? Was it last
year that they wore gray circus font ones and those were okay? I think
they I don't remember who they played in that game, but I remember gray
circus font uniforms. Yeah, Circuspon's always very good. If they go back
to Circus pont permanently, that would be pretty awesome. And I liked the
the throwbacks that they wore. I like any sort of throwbacks. Don't really
like the pay Heed ones that they wear. They wore them against Indiana at
the game at Allenfield House where it just says the name every everything looks really
small. I think I don't really like I like with that. I do
too, but I like the The only true variation that they have that isn't
either a throwback or sticks with their pattern just a different color is the sunflower
uniforms. Those are really the only true alternates that I like. But I
think the Sunflower is pretty good. I like that. I like seeing different
colors they should they like do people want to see a black variation or do
people want to see a you know, okay, what about a gold variation?
No, okay, so you guys are are exclusively white and red.
I don't even like blue. I don't like. I don't like any blue
uniform they've worn. I think the road uniforms look great, but that's no.
I don't like the blue. That's that's a take. That's that's a
very controversial take. They're blue. I don't like. I didn't like the
reds at the Devonte Graham wore. I don't like the trojan on that.
Yeah, Nick doesn't Those red ones are great. I'm a fan Kangaroo man.
Let's talk about him because he is not controversial. He is just awesome
right now. Had one of the most fish He had one of the most
efficient games in college basketball history. That's true. He had sixteen points on
three shots, Landon, I don't know if you've analyzed the box score yet.
Did you know that. I remember when you texted to the chat last
night. That's right, Yeah, three for three from the floor, sixteen
points because he went nine for eleven at the free throw line. Oh,
throw in a team leading eight rebounds and a couple of steals, just kind
of doing it all. In thirty two minutes. He had an outstanding alley
you dunk that will be forgotten about because Nick Timberlake had an even better one
a few minutes later. Furpe has turned in from ge. If he could
just give us a couple threes each night, that'd be great too. Oh,
he can do everything on the basketball court a high level. I saw
him mocked at thirteenth on one of the mock drafts this morning. I saw
a recent lottery projection. It's it's done. He's gonna go to the NBA.
Yeah, he'd have to. He'd have to average like two points from
here on out. I have seen some takes about how he can't get either
anything from nil or as much because he's here on a visa. So that
would just open and shut CeAl it. Go make money at the NBA level.
But man, if he came back, I think he'd be I think
he's your favorite for Big twelve Player of the Year if he comes back.
I would agree with that. There's just no way though, right, Like,
there's just why why would he at this point? Like, yeah,
if he if he keeps up at even a moderately similar pace, the potential
is so high that he really would have no reason on earth to return to
Kansas. People get so caught up on the stats and having an off game.
All that off game shows he's not ready for the NBA. If you're
being mocked as a top i'd say a top twenty pick, it's a slam
dunk to go, lottery pick, go go, like it's it's not worth
what because because seriously, we don't talk about it. Brandon Rush was an
example. What if Furfey comes out and on opening night against imporious state and
exhibsion game, he tears his achilles and you go from would have been tent
to less than that next year and you lose a year. It makes no
sense go while the opportunity is there in front of you. I don't know
if there is any industry where we would not feel that way about professionally being
professionally employed. If you have the opportunity presently to leave your current employer to
go to a more prestigious organization and get an infinitely bigger raise, why would
you In what industry would you say thanks, but I think I'm gonna wait
a year, Like I don't know why why college? Because he should focus
on his education, Ryan before, Yeah, that's he is in college to
go to class. That's right. Yes, he needs to get his community
community Operate or whatever it's called marketing degree. And so whenever he's done making
his millions in basketball, he can go make a seventy thousand dollars a year
office job. I'm sure that's exactly what he wants to do. Will not
ever be a lottery pick, but was really good in this game and hopefully
we'll turn it around at the end of the year. Nick Timberlake thirteen points
three or six from the floor, six of eight from the line in thirty
three minutes. Had an insane Alley Duncan's transition. That is one of the
things that the highlights showed me that was pretty awesome. Is he gonna be
actually good or is this another game where he just kind of played a bad
team. Nick, We've gone over this before. He had a great opening
season opener and then completely pooped his pants for the next twenty games, So
I'm not holding any reserved for that. I do think the shooters shoot and
the reposit Ryan always likes to talk about regressions and changes get back to a
more normal statistic. I believe this three point shooting is gonna get better.
I don't think he can say that for the entire season. So Nick Timberlake's
last eight games here are the points. I'm gonna read them from, not
in chronological order, but from most points to lease points, so the order
will be shuffled. Last eight games thirteen thirteen eight seven zero zero zero zero.
Consistency ain't a thing, but whenever he's able to give them this,
Yeah, he's a really nice piece. I gotta say. I thought his
biggest impact to this team would be three point shooting and not doing the once
every ten games Vince Carter squ dunk. But the fact that he's giving them
anything at this point is a plus. They need him more than any other
piece on the roster with McCuller out, and he's playing starter minutes without Kevin
McCuller, and he's been solid. He's averaging double digit points per game whenever
McCuller doesn't play, he's averaging two mad threes in those games where mccullr doesn't
play. It's not gonna win an award, but it's solid. It's prevent
timber He likes averaging eleven points a game. In the games he starts because
mccolrs out mccoller averages nineteen. Going from nineteen to eleven is obviously a step
back, but it's not falling through the fricking floor like we thought it would
be. Right, Timberlake's been a solid piece for about a month with continued
to be a high ceiling. He has more threes that are halfway down and
bounce out than anybody I've ever seen. It feels close to having like a
six of eight game. Well, and like we've said, no one else
on the bench can give you the potential reward that Nick Timberlake can. So
he's the guy you still have to try because occasionally he might give you a
game like this, And this is really all like, this is the absolute
ceiling of what you're actually asking reasonably from Nick Timberlake. Is like, just
just give him like ten points every once in a while and hit a couple
threes and then, yeah, if you want to do a Tracy McGrady impression
while you're at it, go for it. And Tracy McGrady. I thought
Andrew Wiggins was gonna be Tracy McGrady two point zero. I was so for
sure on that one and that was considered an insult. Like I remember posting
on rock shots right exactly like Tracy McGrady would be such a disappointment. Was
kind of the was kind of the thought about and how many All Star teams
did Tracy McGrady make. I mean he was he was a seven time All
Star. Yeah he was, Yes, and people thought that would be the
minimum for Wiggins. But yeah, you're right, that's that's kind of the
same. I don't know. Timberlake, we had the whole Timberlake experience.
In the first there was like a seriously like a sixty second window where Timberlake
made a basket and then Hunter Digginson block two shots and in succession blocked a
shot, threw it to Nick Timberlake, immediate turnover, Texas shot, Hunter
Digginson block, throw it to Nick Timberlake, immediate turnover, and then he
had the dunk. Like it's just it's all hit or miss Nick. What
are your expectations for your your Nick or your Nick buddy, what's the phrase
name doppel gang or whatever. What are your expectations for Timberlake? I mean,
I think I already said it. I think that the statistics say that
he's going to start making threes at a better clip than he was early this
season. Like you said, a lot of them have just been kind of
in and out. But I do think that he has the potential to have
a real impact in March, especially when they're gonna need guys if mccohler is
not going to be available as they head into the end of conference play in
a Big twelve tournament. I do think that once that, as that confidence
continues to rise, which I think it is, I think it's pretty apparent
at this point as the statue just read, he is getting a little bit
more comfortable. As those numbers continue to improve, I do think that we're
gonna see it. We're gonna see a little bit different Nick Timberlake down the
stretch, which will be beneficial for this team who needs guys who can reliably
score. And nobody is allowed to criticize Bill self for Nick timber Lake,
like, I don't want to hear anything about talent evaluation. He went out
and got a guy that made six hundred some he made is it six hundred
threes? That's not right, that's way to me, he'd attempt it over
six hundred threes. Yeah, it's that he'd attempted over six hundred threes and
shot like like thirty nine percent in his career. Give me a break if
you're irritated that Bill self went out and got that guy because there wasn't a
single human on X or Twitter, whatever you want to call it. That
was like the day they got it. I still can't believe that website is
called X now. It's total. No one's ever gonna call it X.
That's awful, But there wasn't a soul on Twitter that was like, Yeah,
this guy, I don't think he's gonna be able to translate to Kansas.
Everyone's like, yes, Bill got the best shooter out there. I
would take if you had another Nick Timberlake out there and you could grab that
guy in the transfer portal. You're doing it every single time because more often
than not, they will shoot better than the twenty seven percent. No timber
Lake is giving you. Well, you need to talk about mccullar, who
sat with kne problems for the third time in the last four games. Yeah,
next said fourth game this year he's missed. Bill Sell said that they
don't know when or if he's coming back. He emphasized that several times.
We don't know when or if he's coming back. We don't know when he's
coming back, if at all. We're both quotes that self said. Self
also said he's for sure out for the BYU game on Tuesday night and that
he is considered week to week. Is this a Jaylen Daniels thing all over
again? Yeah, that's true. We are all we all are week to
week? Is this Jaylen Daniels two point zero? Or do you expect h
mccolor to play soon? Who knows? Who knows? He doesn't strike me
and this isn't because people try to do this with Joelle embiid and look how
that works. But he doesn't strike me as a guy based on the way
he acts on the bench that's done like he seems like he's I don't know.
Is that that's probably stupid? Yeah, that has a lot to do
just with individual mindset more than anything, because you know, you could read
it as well because he's energetic and he's into it. He knows he's not
done, he knows he's coming back. But you could also read it as
he knows he is done, and therefore he is now chosen to turn all
of his energy into cheering teammates on making sure they can still be the best
team they can. So who knows. I don't. I don't think that
means anything in particular. I think that's more of a person to person.
I feel like I feel like sitting out, though, would hurt his draft
stock, wouldn't it? Like just like, oh, for sure he has
no draft stock. What? Yeah, he's a projected first round pick in
some of the sites. He will not be an NBA player, it doesn't
matter, but he's I don't think that he has a long longevity in the
NBA. He will he will not play any minutes in the NBA, but
he'll still be draft will play minutes. He will never play real minutes on
a good team. That wasn't the question though. The question was about his
draft stock. Yes, if he plays and and can play the last eight
games of the year and average nineteen points in them, he's going to be
a first round draft pick. That's that's insane to me. That's is this
the weakest draft class of all time? Kevin mccullar is not an NBA player
in any year. No, No, I don't go ahead initial college athlete,
but we're seeing a trend here, like like Kentucky is like an NBA
for him, but like Bill self, like he's not. These most guys
that come from Kansas aren't really NBA players, I mean outside of you know,
Andrew Wiggins, Drew Embiid, Like these guys like Rady Dick and o
Chaia Baji will just go and play in the G League and play on the
dual contract thing, and then they'll eventually just find their way to Iceland,
like Ridney Martin did. Like that, like most of these Kansas players aren't
going to be long term NBA prospects in the first place. But like you
said, I mean, this is his final year of college, so you
can only hope to increase your draft stock as much as you can to have
a potential to be in the NBA. So I don't think it's by sitting
out, certainly if he's available to play in the tournament, I don't think
by sitting out you're gonna do yourself any favors. NBA mock draft dot Net
updated a week and a half ago, has Kevin mccollor going twenty second in
the draft. He's he's an NBA draft pick, and that's a factor here
like I he offense Kevin That's uh, that's pretty wild to me. But
Okay, I hope the knee is structurally sound, because that's the that's the
key here. Is it a bruise or is there a structural problem going on?
I suspect you'll see him play again this year. I don't know when,
and I don't know what it'll look like. They're obviously not gonna play
him against b YU. Do they think they still have a chance in the
conference race slash? Is that something they're willing to push it for, because
then you go down to Waco next Saturday in a game you have to have
to stay in the conference race. They need Houston to lose, but they're
gonna have a chance. If Houston loses, they control their own destiny for
a piece of the league, So they're gonna have a chance to do it.
Is he gonna be okay in a week I would have thought that after
a week off he would be willing to or not willing able to play,
So I think that potentially raises a red flag. No, he played fine
in Oklahoma a week ago. It's it's a weird situation. No one really
knows Rodney Terry. He sucks and he should be fired. Horn's down you
Harry's Harry looking. He should not be coaching an eighth grade girls basketball team.
No, he's terrible. Can't jam Whipple, Cam Whippleton, sorry,
Verner Camplipple to sit and said he's the the uh the hood Harry Potter.
Yeah, the glasses are very Harry Potter like and and he's I don't think
that they work very well because all that man does with all this talent.
And as Landon will point out, that's Texas for you. This isn't just
Rodney Terry. They always have talent. They always although, to be fair,
this is very bad even for Texas. This is really really bad.
Texas is that woman with twenty million dollars in her bank account and she just
goes and like becomes a herman in Vegas and just blows all their money on
casino, like in the casino at the slot machine. Like Texas has a
limited resources and they still find a way to just completely waste every single bit
of talent that comes through that doors. Like you said, you said yesterday,
this team has too many good players to be this unorganized. It's like
they're out there playing in in Ma a yb R traveling basketball team where they're
all trying to get an offer from Jackson State. You know, it's it's
yeah, it's it's it's a circus, like Rodney Terry is the clown.
So many players on that team. That's a good three point shooting team,
and they have two absolute freaks in the front court, and yet all they
do is run around and dribble and he on off balanced, weird hero ball
shots. There is no reason for this to be that way. And they
were kind of like that with Barnes, but they won consistently. They were
kind of like that with Shaka, and they won, but then they hit
the tournament and it always it never went well. He didn't win a tournament
game at Texas, I don't think. And then you had the the Chris
Beard era, which Chris Beard was a good coach. He was. It
was gross all the uh because it was a defense muddied up sort of style.
But Chris Beard at least got a lot out of that team. And
I suspect that they would be in much better hands had he, you know,
not choked his wife and gotten fired. Have no fear he got hired
less than half a year later. But Rodney Terry. I don't understand why
they have to hire Rodney Terry. They felt like, I remember all the
blue check marks or the suits and ties. Remember Jeff Goodman sitting on ESPN
going, oh, you have to hire Rodney Tervy. Look at the job
he's done. You have to hire him. There's no rule that said you
had to hire him. It just made no sense. I don't understand it,
but I don't know. I don't mind the hiring, but like at
this point, you're just like, yeah, that was He's not a good
coach. Yeah, it's he's not getting the most out of his team.
He didn't elevate him last year. He's anything out team. Yeah, they're
under five hundred and they have all sorts of talent. If Bill self had
this team, they would be flip Kansas and Texas. Yes, yeah,
I think they would too. A very clean game Fordwan Harris. This is
quiet, but it's so it's not going to get a whole lot of attention.
But wow, was he good? Fourteen points, seven of eleven from
the floor, six assists, no turnovers, thirty three minutes. People want
him to play a clean game, and people want him to shoot more.
Well, he did both those things, and he gave you a fourteen to
six and no turnover game. Pretty darn good. One of his best showings
of the year. He was awesome, and I feel like he has quietly
been playing excellent basketball over the last several weeks. He's been playing outstanding basketball
the last a little while, and hopefully that'll continue. It's a great time
to do it. Remember whenever we talked about how the the two point luck
would eventually start to swing back around his luck on shots at the rim,
there you go, starting to happen. White guy of the game, not
really, but he's worthy of the music. kJ Adams buddy brought Cunningham,
who it's interesting to their buddies because I don't even know if kJ was alive
when brought Cunningham signed his letter been in the Big twelve since the Nixon administration.
Yeah, so, Landon, you missed this on the last podcast.
So when Brock Cunningham first appeared in a game for text for Mahomes won the
first Super Bowl. Yes, Mahomes had never played in a Super Bowl and
there were no cases of COVID in the United States. When Brock Cunningham dribbled
the ball for the first time. Yeah. Mahomes now has played in four
Super Bowls and brought Cunningham is still making threes on the Jayhawks. Yeah,
it's it does seem unfair to have a thousand year old player on your team.
I feel like that would have a lot of basketball knowledge built up Rock
Cunningham age. Rock Cunningham is going to be twenty six years old this year
and he's still in college twenty six and in college you need to go find
something to do with your life. Well, at least he's not Brandon Whedon
yet, wasn't there at I think that there was a college basketball player or
maybe he was a college football player that was if not thirty close, I
don't remember that. That's happened a couple times with some guys that have entered
school just late, so like they have all the eligibility in the world and
they use it. Yeah, and why not get a free ride, get
a rack up degrees. Now you can make some money and uh and play
games. I guess I would do the same thing. I'm not acting like
it's weird, but yeah, I guess the bench they were better. Jamari
mc Dallas scored five points in fifteen minutes, and Nick pointed out that he
made a couple of good plays. He did, made a three and gave
very solid defensive minutes, furthering the question why he hasn't been playing more all
year. Parker Brown made about get in seven minutes, had a couple of
blocks, and al Marco Jackson didn't shoot because he doesn't do that, but
he did have four assists in fourteen minutes, played really good defense, had
a super nifty behind the back assists. That was just terrific in that first
half. That was just going great for Kansas. They helped and Timberlake I
still consider a bench player giving you thirteen points all of a sudden, Hey,
twenty points from your bench if if you count Timberlake in there, twenty
points from the guys that we consider the bench pieces. And look, they
almost hung ninety on Texas without their their leading score. Amazing how that works
when you get solid bench contributions and you get to play Texas go free of
that. That's true. Yeah, sixty two percent from the floor, hello,
thirty eight percent from three even though they only I think that thirty eight
percent. I think they were three for eight. They really didn't take many
of them. Seventy percent of the line plus nine on the glass. Very
very solid game for the Jayhawks. They played great on both ends. Any
closing thoughts more Allen Fieldhouse games please, Yeah, closing in on an undefeated
season at Allen field House, even though in order to get there they have
to get past the final boss in the sweep stakes. Don't you worry.
That's gonna be interesting. Great game for Kansas Land at any closing thoughts,
bring back Matthew loves ball so I can watch better highlights. Yeah, the
highlights are only like twelve minutes now, and they're all laggy and all that
because Matthew loves ball. Bit the es so many of the buckets. And
yeah, because well it doesn't matter anyways, because YouTube, now, if
you have an ad blocker, they're gonna slow down your videos regardless, right.
Yeah, I bet the bullet and paid for YouTube premium and it's I
hate it. I know. I suck. NCAA annual revenue. A quick
Google of that shows that the NCAA only made one point three billion dollars last
year. Sir. They cannot afford to have people like Matthew loves Ball posting
YouTube highlights of their games. Come on, don't you know how this works?
Which they're taking the ad revenue off. Anyways, here's my thoughts,
right, yeah, good point on that. Here's my thoughts on that.
Doesn't the YouTube account Matthew loves Ball posting the highlight clips that hundreds of thousands
of people watch. Isn't that a good thing for the NCAA product. More
people then are aware of it and watch future games because of it. Yeah,
but the NCAA can't control it. Oh, that's the real thing.
I would say. The other thing is that it would take your hundred thousand
dollars salaries down to ninety eight thousand. That's not even true. It would
take those hundred thousand dollars salaries keep them at exactly. That is not anything
raised them because it actually is taking money away from the people making twelve dollars
an hour in NCAA gift shops around the country, right yeah. Yeah,
And it's not like the NCAA is posting quality highlight videos. It would be
one thing if it was directly and yeah, just total you want to talk
about as I'd start with the NCAA. But good game for the Jayhawks thumbs
up. So before we get to Big twelve games, Landon, you just
said a very interesting sentence, and I want you to say it again and
then tell us the answer. Yeah, I said. I'll let you guys
guess you guys get a guess each. Uh what do you think? I
watched at one o'clock instead of basketball? I did watch Baylor Houston most of
it. Anyway, I watched most of that and then at one o'clock another
thing was on and I watched that instead. What it was it? Boy,
I'm not I'm not at well enough divers in the world of land and
to know this is it something that was fair? Uh? It was.
I was pretty pleased with it. It might even been more than fair.
Nick. Any guess, dude, I don't watch TV. I don't know
what he'd be talking about. We don't know if it was TV. Well,
okay, I'll give up, sir. What did you watch instead of
basketball at LANDI United at Columbus Crew one? Oh On Kucho? Who is
rible? I just just absolutely I love MLS. Say what you want about
it. It's not the Premier League, but I love MLS absolutely. All
I think sporting either let me guess you after that, let me guess after
the one one draw you turned on c SPAN. Soccer's beautiful. Man,
he's the best game of the world compared to freaking soccer. Virginia's got an
offense that would make Andy Reid proud. Can't stand watching those one to one
draws, just makes that MLS is better than MLB, that's for sure.
That's also not true. It's not even close. Yeah, I know that's
never gonna work. Base. They're all better. It's better than college basketball.
They're all better than Baylor's center because yikes, Number two, Houston eighty
two, Number eleven Baylor seventy six in overtime, Houston, probably barring collapses,
getting close to wrapping up the Big twelve. At this point. They
made their case to be the number one team in the country. I believe
they are, with two top fifteen wins this week, all thanks to double
agent Eves Messi and his Kadeem Latin moment wherever I got this, Yeah,
I got this, oh and then yeah, I have a sound effect for
that. In case you missed it, The Cougars controlled this game. They
led by fifteen and a halftime saw Baylor slowly crawl back, and then they
got it really close at the end. Messigh down two ties the game with
an and one and four seconds left, and then with the chance to win
it, all he has to do is make a free throw. By the
way, he made nine of them at Allen Fieldhouse and right off the back
iron, and then in overtime in case that wasn't enough, he just completely
let the buttered up basketball slip through his fingers trying to throw down an lau
and they lost. Baylor loses at home and their spiffy new but also horribly
camera angled arena. Is the race over in the Big Twelve. Is Houston
gonna win the Big Twelve? Yes, and they're the extremely heavy favorite at
this point, So Houston is excellent. I have been wrong on a lot
of things on this show, and I was incorrect about Houston, thinking that
their style wouldn't translate as well with the Big Twelve, thinking they get worn
down. They haven't. They're on pace to lose four games at most in
this conference, which is probably gonna be an outright title. But I do
worry about them a little bit. I would rank them one. They have
a great resume, they pile up wins. But I'm a little nervous when
we get to the NCAA tournament. You're gonna ask that team that is used
to Big twelve officiating, they get away with a lot of contact, and
we know how tightly games are called in the tournament. Could they have a
couple of guys get in huge foul trouble early. It's kind of what happened
in their loss to who they was at Miami last year, where they got
into some foul trouble and Miami just evisciertd them on three point shots. I
don't know, I'm eviscerted. I'm a little bit nervous about Houston in the
tournament. But I don't think there's a better team with our team with a
better case to be number one right now than them. I think that's a
solid point with Houston. They definitely play physical. We have seen that in
the tournament often, even just with varying styles, a team's style specifically just
does not play well in March. I could see Houston's physicality being something like
that. At the same time, I do think Houston is one of like
the three best teams in the country. I think Houston is arguably in just
the tier below Perdue in Yukon. Oh they're better than Perdue. They're better
than Perdue. Are you kidding me? Purdue beats up on Milliga ten times
a year. I don't care. Houston would beat Perdue the what they benefit
Zach Edie would have forty and twenty. What they benefit from is that this
team we just talked about it before, Like, this team is really good
defensively obvious, but I mean they have some some stinker offensive games. But
at the same time, they have two guards who can light it up whenever
they want to. You know. L J. Cryer is obviously one of
the best shooters I've ever seen in the conference. Emmanuel Sharp is a really
good shooter as well. Like very awesome yesterday too. He played a great
game, and like I said, they they they are so. For as
much as you can make fun of Kelvin Sampson for being a cheater and a
weirdo, we have one. We have a coach as a cheater as well.
So I can't say anything you can't throw into glass houses. But I
will say for a yes, for as much as I would say that he
does coach a team, he does coach teams that are his hard knocks,
like they'll all crash the glass. You'll see three what red shirts right going
after a rebound. That's why they tend to out rebound teams offensively. It
seems like they're always in the right place with their sets. The ball never
sticks. They move the ball very very well, get open shooters, open
looks, and they also attack the basket and they're very physical, like you
guys said, so they do a lot of things well. And for most
teams that are that good defensively, they get in the NCAA tournament, they
have a crutch because they're not typically good shooting teams the ones that defend think
like Virginia because they always lose in the tournament. But they won the title
that one year somehow because the Rebus fell asleep against Auburn won that, but
they also lost to U and b BC the year before. So hot,
Yes, I think you have teams. You have teams like that who just
really fall apart because they can't score. But Houston really can at times score
and they usually play such good defense. Like teams need to shoot sixty five
to seventy percent from the floor, like we saw in Allen Field House to
even beat them. Still to this day, the only game they've given up
this year more than seventy points that did not go to overtime was the Kansas
game. So they're they're loaded defensively, and Nick crushed it. With Kelvin
Sampson, we don't talk about him as one of the best coaches in college.
His NBA stent was the reason he's not going to wind up. He
probably still will be a college Basketball Hall of Fame coach, like he would
be considered one of the truly elite guys in the sport had he never left
for the NBA, because that cost them a lot of time to get wins.
Houston is a great ad to the Big twelve, and they are.
They just continue to play better and better by the week. We will see
how style holds up. Number six Iowa State seventy one, West Virginia sixty
four. Nick, it was the Cyclone's still in second place, but this
game kind of close. Yeah, it was closely than people thought it would
be. But they do stay in second place, like you said, and
undefeated in Hilton Coliseum. They got fourteen from tam and Lipsei. West Virginia
turned it over twenty three times. Ass Well, West Virginia sucks. There's
only one team that they can beat. Kansas State eighty four number twenty five
BYU seventy four. They won for what feels like the first time in forever.
So Landon, you read and I will sandstorm if I can find it?
Where's it at? It? Essentially was the first time in forever that
case State wins, just their second win in February. For the Wildcats,
they controlled throughout. They shot fifty six percent from the floor. They got
twenty eight and ten from Arthur Kluma. Tyler Perry added four threason of his
own BYU. Kansas's next opponent BYU was six of thirty one from behind the
arc. That's nineteen percent. We all know what's gonna happen. That's not
what that says, but it is what I'm going to say. Just good,
go ahead and get your preparations in place for Tuesday night. You know
what's gonna happen BYU is getting ready. Spencer Johnson and all these other guys
that looked like they were built in the lab to shoot threes against Kansas all
look the same. Hen be Mormon. It looks like if you typed in
to a chat GPT for images, show me five people that could go make
threes on Kansas and upcome their portraits, Like yeah, it's it's just just
prepare for it. The Asian dude playing the scene of twenty seven incoming,
The Asian dude playing the basketball arcade game where he's throwing in buckets with both
hands. That's what's happening here in a couple of nights. Oklahoma eighty four,
Oklahoma State eighty two and overtime. I will read this because it cost
me a pick them point and I was on the right side. This annoys
me. This why pick them is frustrating. Down one, jav and McCollum
buried a crazy buzzy breeding three. Do you guys see the shot? Either
of you see it? Nope, classic buzzer beater ride at the horn.
If it misses, they lose. If he makes it, they win.
Splashed it to win the game and save Oklahoma's tournament hopes. And it was
a crazy contested shot that really could have been avoided had Oklahoma State just played
better three point defense, Right, that's how that works. Definitely, Porter
Moser is so bad. So is Mike Boyton. I wonder if the nope,
I almost got myself there. I wonder if these two and Rodney Terry
ever pass each other when they're meeting at the Idiot Convention. But I probably
should have. Yeah, I'm glad that I didn't. I'm glad there's no
more booby just written that and that would have been fun enough. I'm glad
that there's no more booby traps in the rest of these notes. Guys.
UCF seventy five, Oh, okay, and knew Nick was gonna go there.
That's nope. UCF seventy five, number twenty three, Texas Tech sixty
one, proof that everything is better in the Sunshine State. Yeah, Texas
Tech reminded us that they're only good at home. They weren't in this game
in the second half. The Knight's got sixteen points from Darius Johnson. What's
your thought on the Red Raiders. I don't think they're a lot worse than
Iowa State, But I think that that's just two teams that win a lot
at home and I've gotten some breaks on the road. Right, Like,
I think that they're fine. They're like the seventh best team in the Big
twelve, right, Yeah, probably. I mean credit to them for being
as good as they are. I didn't think they'd be this good. I
don't think Iowa State's as good as their record either. I think Iowa State
Iowa State's pretty good, but I don't think there's a lot of difference.
Houston is the best team in the Big twelve, Kansas is the second best
team in the Big twelve, and then you probably gotta put Iowa State,
Baylor, TCU Tech. They're all kind of the same, like I don't
know what whatever. They're all getting bounced in the A round to thirty two
regardless. So just say I was just reading a stat how Caitlyn Clark had
twenty four, fifteen and ten. Yep, I saw that, and people
were talking about Texas Tech losing by fourteen US. Somebody on Twitter was like,
a stat you won't see is Kayln Clark is also fifteenth most turnovers ever
because he's such a bullog. Yeah, you're gonna turn over a few times
whenever you average twenty four, fifteen and ten. It's okay. It's like,
how the best baseball players the Big ten in assists? I think she
leads the nation in assists. Yeah, she does. Yeah. It's like
how the best baseball players are also the league the all time leaders in strikeouts
and the best quarterbacks ever are also the all time leaders and interceptions, Like
because whenever you post crazy volume stats, it's gonna happen. It's okay,
totally okay. TCU seventy five, Cincinnati fifty seven. Sorry, Landon,
you deserve better than this game, that's okay. Manuel Miller eighteen points.
Jacobe Coles also eighteen points. Cincinnati has been quite buns since early conference play.
Tc gets a big win there, big twelve. Eh? Is it
a big win though? Like that's big by numbers? Oh okay, I
was gonna say, we might need to change the term big win at this
point. If that's a big win, they got to play Cincinnati twice,
must be nice. Big twelve standings. First place pulling away is Houston.
They're eleven and three with four left, and second is Iowa State at ten
and four, and third is Bill all by himself at nine to five.
Good for Kansas starting to pull into that top three. Number four, Baylor,
Texas Tech, NTCU are all tied at eight and six. Good luck
trying to figure out tie breakers when it's not a balanced schedule in seventh BYU
Oklahoma seven and seven. In ninth, Texas and K State are sharing six
and eight. Eleventh, another tie Cincinnati and Central Florida to newcomers, they're
five and nine. That's buns, and even more buns in last tier for
thirteenth Oklahoma State and West Virginia at four and ten. Okay, So we're
gonna go on to other games. But we need to get very serious now,
guys, because we will only be discussing one here, and it is
out of immense respects for what happened yesterday in Winston Salem, Because out of
respect for Kyle Philipowski, who was wrong to betrayed and martyred in the Wake
Forest at the Wake Forest Pavilion. The culprit was the unimaginable. Just go
ahead and get your cleanexes out a court storm of excited fans, and here
on inside the paint we pass along our best wishes and can only pray and
hope that Philipowski is one day able to open his eyes after this truly devastating
set of circumstances. Sorry, I just basically repeated, I've been watching ESPN
and nothing else for twenty four hours. What did I miss? That's that's
That's all they've talked about is how Kyle Philipowski was Basically, most storms are
suddenly bad when Duke's involved. Yeah, we get all we get all mad
and act like that's how player celebrations are really cool unless Texas or Duke is
being celebrated on and then they suck and then they're ring in the sport.
And ESPN is like, we have to stop court storming as they show a
court storm in like every college basketball post, highlights of it every time,
every single time. Yeah, exactly. It's like it's like rich people on
their private jets saying we need to save the planet as they fly from San
Francisco to Leonardo DiCaprio into the atmosphere on daily basis. So in game news,
I'm sure you know we're talking about number eight Duke. They went to
Wake Forest, took a fat l and then got court storm so hard that
Kyle Philipowski and a fan collided. Now there's some controversy here. Philipowski hopped
off the floor like he was a Vietnam soldier that took three bullets to the
leg, when in reality he's totally fine, and John Shire screamed about how
we need to ban court storms. When are we going to ban court storm
be Coach k Oh. There's a reason Coach k handed him that Michael Scott
letter of recommendation because, as you see, folks, if something bad happens
to Duke, it always has to result in sweeping legislation of change. So
my take on this, which was mostly popular and somewhat not on Twitter,
I thought Philipowski tripped the dude. I thought he looked like he initiated that
trip. And I get it, there's a thousand people running at him.
One I was surprised he didn't make more haste to get off the floor.
That's not to say that was his fault. I'm just surprised all these people
are running at you and you're like, I'm just gonna take my time getting
off the floor. But I thought it looked like he kind of tripped the
fan, and then it was the leg of the person that went tumbling to
the ground, and then he's hopping around like he's been shot. This is
not the student's fault. By the way, they beat an elite team.
They ran on the floor. It's gonna happen. If you want to blame
somebody, blame the security for not being set up and letting the players get
off the floor first, because no arguments here. If you're gonna court storm,
you gotta make sure the players get off the floor. Also, if
you're that bitchy about it. Surprised they didn't sub him out because they were
down four with the second left. You see Bill self do that sometimes you
see them basically just just and seed that last second because of this, But
like I thought, it looked like Filipowski wasn't the innocent old lady walking her
dog that got sniped by a terrorist on the rooftop that a lot of people
are making it sound like interesting analogy. I like it. Yeah, I
think colorful analogy. I don't know that. Maybe I'm wrong, Like it's
not Philipowski's fault that he got injured, like it shouldn't have happened. But
I don't think it was the I think he was kind of like, you
know what, I'm pissed, we just lost. I'm gonna trip this person
running in front of me and immediately got some karma. I don't know.
That may be the wrong take. I'm open to any perspectives, but watching
all the blue check marks on ESPN act like that he has been just wrong.
I don't know if that's true either. I don't feel bad John Shire.
You suck. You want to prevent the court storm beat freaking wake Forest
on the road. Speaking of suck elsewhere in the ACC, never tend to.
North Carolina defeated the basketball equivalent of coronavirus by beating Virginia fifty four to
forty four in Charlottesville. The tar Heels regained the lead in the ACC at
thirteen and three, with the of course, as previously mentioned, badly badly
wronged Duke Blue Devils at twelve and four. Virginia is eleven six, but
nobody cares about the record because Virginia should not be allowed to play in the
tournament. They should not be allowed to play in D one. I'm currently
on the TV watching Bad Temple play Bad Wichita State, and I'm more entertained
than any time I've ever watched Virginia. Virginia hasn't cracked fifty points in their
last three games forty nine, forty one, forty four, and Virginia season
ticket holders should are probably yeah, studies just came in from the National Institute
of Health that say that every single Villanova or every single Virginia season ticket holder
has been diagnosed with depression. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know how you
can't be like, seriously, you have to score more points per game than
the ticket is worth. If I could change one game in the history of
sports, it would be that god dang Virginia national title win, because oh,
that just ruins the perfect argument because they the refs backed them into a
title where they escaped against Auburn and they escape against Texas Tech. That otherwise
covers up what a horrible tournament coach Tony Bennett is and how awful that program
really is to watch. They are always like this. They're horrible offensively.
I cannot fathom why anybody would want this on their screen. Don't give them
the chance to lose to another double digit seed. Also, Temple and Wichisa
State have combined for twenty seven conference games. Guess the combined record, Oh
boy, six and twenty one five and twenty two even better, Just wait
till we talk about Georgetown. De Paul, sir, it gets worse.
Nick the opposite of Virginia Kentucky. How about that for a stat Yeah.
Speaking of actual fun basketball to watch Kentucky doing their best impression of the All
Star Game in the NBA last Yeah, essentially if you're keeping running total one
hundred and nineteen one hundred seventeen points for Kentucky on Saturday and one hundred and
thirty four points up for Virginia in the last three games Kentucky. In this
game, the Unski scored fifty to four points in Alabama scored seven ninety five.
So by logic, you know you'd think the Alabama would win. But
number seventeen Kentucky, as I just alluded to, all did dirty and awful
and not safe for work things. In number thirteen Alabama hanging a cool one
hundred and seventeen points on them in one hundred and seventeen to ninety five win.
The numbers are wild. The Crimson Diede shot fifty seven percent from the
floor and were down thirty seven points in the second half. Kentucky shot sixty
three percent, made thirteen threes, twenty two free throws, and got twenty
eight points on a ten for ten shooting performance from Justin Edwards doing his best
Texas Tech compression after playing Kansas, so if you hear that in the distance,
that is landon. Nick and I all preparing to make KNTUS go way
further in the NCAA tournament than we should, because wow, are they good
whenever they play well? Like wow, that guys, I just got weird
that they drew Saint Paul north of uh North Massachusetts. It's an now,
it's an now. Yeah. And if John is literally John Calipari is literally
Rodney Terry. But they think he's a good coach. Yeah, yeah,
he's He's better than Rodney Terry. He's much better than Rodney Terry. But
he's still not very good. No, he's not. And he's washed,
I think is the phrase. Seriously, do not let Virginia play basketball in
the tournament. God should get full permission to set his world ablaze. If
his creation his people allow Virginia to play NCAA tournament basketball seems like just punishment.
To me, that was my turn. I'm fine with that being my
turn. I hate Virginia fair enough. Is it my turn? Then it
is. That's how we're figuring out the rest of the SEC. Still difficult,
except that Missouri sucks their own fourteen alast Arkansas number five Tennessee railed walking
disaster Texas A and M at home. Number fourteen, Auburn bully Georgia on
the road. Number twenty South Carolina took down Ole Miss by thirteen on the
road because Chris Beard has never beaten a quality team in his life. That's
the end that has an oh oh wow, that's that hot that pause that
you heard Lamon say was reading ahead to make sure that I didn't write anything
you can't read on the air, by the way, and then said that
Number twenty four Florida beat Vanderbilt because it's Van Belt and the most irrelevant collegiate
sports program in the country. The standings are a long jam Tennessee and Bama
at the top at eleven and three, Auburn and the game Cocks at ten
and four, and Florida and Kentucky at nine and five. Good League second
best league out there. The Patch twelve race shifted back to realities. Numberfore
Arizona trashed Washington and then number twenty one. Washington State, fresh after a
couple of days of hearing how great they are, dropped to turn at Arizona
State late in the evening. The Wildcats are back in the lead and the
likely stay there for the rest of the season. They are projected two bid
league per ESPN. That is horrible. By the way, they're a two
bid league like the Mountain West has like five teams. This is impact Wolf
does like every other year. The bottom of that league is so unbelievably awful.
They're just horrendous. Seeing like the Oregon States and the Utahs and all
that. It's just speaking of awful. Do not put Virginia in the tournament.
Don't do it? I agree. Is that relevant to the PAC twelve?
No, I just I'm very passionate about that. That's three times I've
said it, because three games they haven't made it out of the forties.
See it just it just brought everything to a screeching hole on this show.
In the Big East. Number one Yukon blew out Villanova, Number seven Marquette
handled Xavier. I think that game hasn't happened yet, but I think we
know how that's gonna go. And Rick Patino's Saint John's squad upset number fifteen
Creighton. But enough about all the those exciting games. Let's get to the
one you really want to know about. Can I read that that's supposed to
as up one of you would get that. I don't think I can read
that. Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I don't think so.
Storestown edged De Paul seventy seven to seventy in Chicago. Oh boy,
do we have to have this talk on the air? Do we do?
We have to? I don't. I'm touching my nose, Landa, and
you can explain it to our to our very youthful boy, I think.
Oh okay, I will tell you guys off the air. The Hoyas are
nine and eighteen and there's six games clear of horrible, atrocious De Paul.
No team has ever gone ohen twenty in a major league before. That's that's
a that's just did a quick Google search Georgetown de Paul, Georgetown, and
DePaul is way more offensive than me telling you on the air what edging is?
Uh? DePaul is zero and sixteen. By the way, with four
games left, they might be the worst power Power League team ever. Nothing
ears interesting happened in the Big Ten, so we're skipping them today. But
number eighteen Saint Mary's is on the doorstep of a West Coast Conference title.
They ruled San Diego Gonzagas wind streak is over unless the Gales go one and
two in the last three. So just you want to talk about value,
what would you rather have a West Coast Conference title or six Nichols? I
mean it's worth about the same. Don't put Virginia in this tournament. Agreed
right, teams the low since the last show. Virginia not on this list
because they're not ranked. Number eight. Duke lost to Wake Forest. Kyle
Philipowski got a booboo on his foot, his girlfriend was screaming at the wake
Forest fans on the way out, and he's probably not gonna miss any time
because oh wow, It's not like Duke could do something for attention. Lost
to wake Forest. Number eleven. Baylor they lost to Houston. Number thirteen.
Alabama gave up more points than never mind, gave up a lot of
points to Kentucky. If only they could have got more shots off. Number
fifteen. Cyton lost to Saint John's. Number twenty one. Washington lost to
Arizona State. Washington was ranked Sorry, there you go, Washington State,
There you go. That couldn't possibly goes to show. No one cares about
the PAC twelve. Number twenty two Colorado lost at UNLV. That's also wrong.
Sorry, that's also a state. I must have fallen. I was
asleep. I was gonna say Colorado does not playing the Mountain West. They're
going to lead twelve number twenty very ten to A and M. I didn't
forget the state this time. They lost to What is Nick screwing with us?
Did I write UCF or Am I just having a really tough time here?
They lost a Tennessee. I think happened a tough episode. I think
I'm just having a problem. I had a stroke writing these notes. I
guess this one is correct er twenty five BYU. They lost a K state
and we lost to Landen and pick them. But whenever your ten games back,
you got to make up more than one game a week, sir.
Hey, you're eight games back at this point. I know I'm but I've
won before, Sir. I have crowns more valuable than WCC crowns. I
must ask if Landon can come back and win pick them this year, I'll
join the show. Last year. Oh, there's real stakes, real stakes.
Does he have to win it outright? Yes? I don't know if
that's fair. I think if he ties, if he ties at the title.
Right, you're a KU fan, sir. You have to count not
balanced shared titles. It's in your blood either way. I have to be
either ten or eleven games better than from here on out. And that's not
happening. I though we're gonna pick one hundred games a week now, I'm
gonna put every d one game in Pickham. I'm either going to lose by
one hundred or win by one hundred? Can I read the ASCARCB that Nick
type? There? Yes? Okay, all right? And then was gonna
say, no, what weren't you? Yeah? I was. Nick wants
to know my opinions on the coaches that I don't think are good in the
Big Twelve. And let me just give you this very clearly. Here are
the Big Twelve coaches that I think are good, Bill Self, Scott,
Drew Kelvin. Okay, that's not fair. You can't do that. Calvin
Sampson's good. There, I got one there, tj Olsoberger, nick ITT's
Iowa. They don't have much of a choice in Iowa. I think Jerome
Tang's pretty good. That hurts your logic. I think that's it. Every
other Big Twelve coach Jamie Dixon's okay, right, Like, who is the
widest Big Jams coach? Directly on the Bruce Weber track. Oh, he's
better than Bruce. I think he is, but I feel like he's also
recruiting out of Fort Worth, Texas. It's not in Manhattan, Kansas.
Yeah, so let's let's let's talk about this. Who is the widest coach
in the Big twelve Jamie, Jamie Dixon, Probably Scott Drew, Grant mccastles.
Yeah, Scott Drew. It's Scott. Scott. Drew's at a Catholic
private school with the comb over because he doesn't want to accept the fact that
the hair is not coming back, and he jumps up and down and pumps
up the fans whenever they get loud on the that they get Baptist school,
sir, Oh, it is a Baptist school. Sorry, is TCU the
Catholic school? TCU is Church of Christ. All right? You know what,
Nick knows everything about all colleges. I'm not gonna be able to win
this at Dick Underscore Taser, says Landrath. Explain your stance on court storming
in full kind of dead earlier love court storms, I blame every time a
court storm goes poorly. I don't blame the fans, I don't blame the
coaches. I don't blame the players. I blame security for not doing an
adequate enough job. You got to keep the students off the court until the
players are clear. Honestly, it might even be best to wait until the
players are back in their locker room before you let them run on the floor
and celebrate with the home kids. Also says do you hope one day you
can have a job. We're at the last ten seconds of your shift.
Three thousand adults run towards you like cattle and a stampede. I mean,
athletes get paid a lot of money. If you want to pay me as
much as Kyle Philipowski's making on the nil at Duke, Yeah, you can
run at me like cattle and stampede. That's fine. I'll make sure that
my six foot ten assts off the court before they start running at me,
like come on, I'll do it for that kind of price tag, not
for what I make now on this podcast, which speaking of those six nickels,
I didn't just pull that one out of nowhere at Cool Underscorehand Underscore Lucas
on the all time dunk's list at ku Boy, we're gonna struggle with the
all time ones, so let's just do Bill Self dunks. Where does that
Timberlake dunk rank? And does the mustache push it up the list or down
the list? Land in our resident facial hair expert, you can handle that
part. Did Nick Timberlake have a mustache? He has more of a mustache
than most of the players. I definitively up. Then any mustache is a
plus in my book. Wrong, that's fine. It's pretty high on the
list. I would argue it's a very good dunk. Awayne Selden dunking over
Baylor is number one forever? But which I am? The TCU Tournament game
and Thomas Robinson against Baylor are the three that come to mind. Yeah,
yeah, that one was really good. Jamari Traylor had a couple of ridiculous
ones, one of them in Texas. Yes, I had one in Austin
that was insane. Yeah, it's it's a top ten Bill Self era dunk.
I don't know if it's top three, it's probably it's not. It
was really good, though. Timberlake's done that a couple times this year.
Too. That's show the bunch too. That was his best dunk of the
season, best non Udoka alley up that I've seen in a while. Yeah,
Oach had a couple of really really good aliup dunks. kJ has a
dunk once a week that I'm like, oh, okay, pretty good.
Yeah, jump like twelve feet in the year. Yeah, it helps,
but not rebound somehow at Show Me Hawk. If Nick Timberlake can be a
prolific bench scorer, oh, here we go. It's the it's the once
every week question. If Timberlake the national championship, If Nick Timberlake scores seven
points close, can they win in Waco and Houston? Yes? Absolutely,
if they get Yeah, they can. I think they need mccolor though for
both. Yeah. Yeah, the Baylor game is looking less daunting by the
week. If we're being honest, Kansas defends pretty well and that's not a
great environment in the first place. They need them both to win in Houston
though, and even that, even that's gonna be hard. I forgot that.
I have to read the question, so whenever it goes quiet, it's
always on me to do this. Here at Elliott rus in h one.
This was without Kevin mccullor, which I think was pretty impressive. But is
this a new normal for the team or is it just a good blip inform
normal at Allen field House. They don't lose at Allen and they never really
will, not consistently at least. Yeah, I want to see him on
the road. I mean, I don't want to see them go on the
road without mccullor, but I need to see them play well and win a
road game without mccullor before I can be like, yeah, they are facts,
but there definitely is something without McCuller where I think you're never gonna say
they're better with mccolor than or without mcculor than with But the offense does look
a little cleaner without McCuller, who had had some five for sixteen games.
Like, I mean, is this time it did not in Lubbock, No,
but we it also did against Oklahoma State, albeit not very good.
It'st Baylor. Uh, yeah, that's true, that's true. It might
be an opponent thing. I'm not sure because the worst two teams on there
are Oklahoma State and Texas, who they were the ones that they railed.
Gonna miss you, Nick, adds Elliott love your input on the show.
Going to try to enjoy it while it lasts. Oh also says, ps,
let me know if you're ever looking for a new co host with a
wing face. That, sir, I'm gonna put that in my pocket,
and I may have to I may have to revisit that. That is interesting.
Appreciate the appreciate that we're just taking anyone here on I t P.
If you if you have a if you're breathing and you have an interest in
talking, then you can't talk. Maybe if that's asl do you think do
you think we should let Nick be coach K and pick his replacement by a
hand? I think we should. I just can't. Someone has to represent
the brand, Like who is going to be funny on the show. If
I'm gone, we're just gonna hear that's fair, and we're gonna hear a
bunch of drops about inappropriate nickcas of the chaotic Ryan has the loudest, but
I have the most witty comments. Yeah. So Nick is like, guys,
my employer listens, we must be careful. And then he's also like,
Ryan, why do you hate all the black coaches? And it's like,
whoa sir? How can we do all that? Like Nick? Nick
is chaotic energy, I am just chaotic, and Landon is like the Landon
is the cool hippie. That's just like, hey man, that's fair.
I'll take that. That's fair. That was no purpose. That wasn't even
purpose. Didn't mean to say that. And now I the only thing missing
from that is Nick scrambling gonna be like, oh, you have to beat
that. You have to beat that now only and that shows Nick's really out
of cares to gam at this point, I think at J two wills.
How often do you wear Kansas Skar during the week? That's a good question.
How often do you guys wear ku clothes? I have like two shirts
that sometimes I wear sometimes one says rock Chuck blog on it. I don't
wear that one anymore. It's so it was really cool. I did wear
that one all the time when I had it. What Tea Public? A
T shirt from Tea Public? Did it last through the test of time?
Shocking? I know, so maybe maybe once a week. Way. The
good news is you've had it for like six years now, so probably the
vinegar smell has probably worn off of it by this point. Yeah. Yeah,
Washington didn't help either, because washing also made it more faded. Right,
Yeah, you have to wash it inside out, which is a trick
my wife taught me that I thought was annoying because I hated putting away laundry
with all the inside out shirts. It says logos. Though true, I'm
getting old. I'm giving you laundry tips at this point, see a gray
hair for me. Nick, you went to Ku. You have to wear
Ku gear quite a bit. I have like nine Ku jerseys have probably I
may I don't wear a lot of Ku shirts, but I probably have about
like thirty. And Nick is a corporate guru now, so he probably wears
like freaking Tommy Hilgar polos and Khaki's every day. Right, That's how I
envision you at your Oh no, not every day. We have it.
We have really I don't know. Since COVID, the office environment's gotten really
really casual. Like yeah, you know, business casual used to be polo
and slacks, and now it's more like if you come up with jeans and
a T shirt on then and you're not clearly nude when you walk into the
office, you'll be so the business casual. My go to is the sweaters
I'm a sweaters guy. You know why all our sweaters in July and all
our sweaters in January, because everyone's like, it's it's hot outside and you
ring sweaters. Yeah, I don't sit outside. My desk isn't out on
the front lawn like it's cold in the building. Regardless of what time of
year it is, I keep at the same temperature. I actually think that
justification for wearing shorts when it was freezing out, yeah, because inside the
building it's still seventy five degrees Like. I actually think that most office buildings
and hospitals and all the all the basically any sort of indoor place, restaurants,
I think that they're colder in the middle of the summer than they are
in the middle of the winter. Well, yeah, because they have ac
on. Yeah. So I'm a sweaters guy regardless of the year. Regardless
of the time of year, I got under armour on underneath and a sweater
every single day I go to work and sometimes don't judge. I'm married.
I wear my wife's leggings under the black slacks or khakis. I wear it's
basically long underwear at that point because my legs get cold. Landon and Nick
both know that I am a eternally freezing person. I am wearing long sleeves
and sweats when it's ninety six degrees outside. You guys have played the charity
softball games with me, and how much visible skin is there when we're playing
softball in the middle of the summer. Yeah, you even got tattoos,
and I think you still have the compression sleeve over your new tattoos, which
hurt because I had just gotten it. And I'm just like, well,
I'd rather be in pain than be cold. What are we doing here?
Yeah? I wear KU clothes quite a bit. I'm a much more casual
dresser, I think than either of these two. I wear I mean,
I'm t shirts and like long pants like ninety of the time. All right,
maybe maybe at least I'm more casual dressing than Nick is because of your
your office setting, and I wear I wear it KU or achieved something like
I'm wearing a Jayhawk's long sleeved shirt right now, like it's it's my go
to comfort clothes I guess several times a week, especially in this part of
the year. And any hoodie or sweatshirt I wear it has all shirt.
It is seventy five degrees outside? Yeah, what temperature does it have to
be for you to wear short sleeves outside? Like, if you're outside for
more than ten minutes, how warm does it have to be outside before you
are comfortable in T shirt and shorts? Forty five? Oh that's great.
That's crazy to be comfortable in T shirt and shorts like sixty five. No,
No, it's like a worse fifty. Let me give you a breakdown,
bro, you guys didn't know that the thing of public high school you
had guys every guy in the class would show up to in shorts when it's
thirty degrees outside in the winter. I've been to alan Fieldhouse enough times to
see people walking from their dorms to the building when it's zero degrees outside in
shorts, or women are in just leggings, and I'm like, there's no
way that you're not freezing your literal buns off. I think it's hilarious when
people that went to public school like, well, because you didn't go to
public school, you didn't experience life. I'm aware of men wearing shorts in
the cold. I was one of those men. Yeah, Land's from Michigan,
Sir, they don't even own long pants up there, shorts the instant
February hits because it's not as cold as January, and yeah, the whole.
If it's under sixty, it's freezing. If it's in the sixties,
it's chilly. If it's in the seventies, it's better. If it's in
the eighties, it's good. High eighties. Ideal nineties is warm. Hundreds
is hot. That's such. Now the out you the outdoor ideal temperature is
probably eighty six, eighty eight somewhere around there. Ugh, that sound nice.
Come from a family of jacked up thyroids. And I weigh one hundred
and twenty five pounds. I am not long for the cold weather. Which
if you're ever, if the three of us ever get stranded on a camping
trip, you can kill and eat me first, because I don't want to
be there. I don't have much meat on the phone, at least meat.
Yeah. Yeah, Hey, you know what someone can take someone can
it? Can it can keep you held over for six hours at ky Eden
fourteen? How long does Bill self stay at Kansas and then adds ten more
years? Question mark absolutely not no, definitely not ten Maybe self doesn't Self's
got grandkids. I don't think he wants to do this much longer. I
think Kansas would be lucky to get five years more out of Bill Self.
I think three to five is the answer. And I also think there's a
shot that if he like wins a Natty in two, he's gone, yeah,
I think, and it'll be quiet. You know how Self's gonna do
it. It's gonna be like Roy. There's not gonna be any warning signs.
It's just gonna you're gonna get on Twitter one day and see Bill Self
has announced he's retiring. He's not gonna be like the way Well, it's
done like that by everybody. Right. Let me just look at my list.
Here, Beheim did it that way, Nick Saban did it that way,
Jay Wright did it that way. Am I missing anybody who handled it
differently? I got one. I don't have a goat sound. Also Lebron
James, who's like, I don't know if I want a farewell tour.
I'm not. I don't really like praise. Okay, you can't see the
hand gesture I'm doing right now, but it's quite offensive. Just with the
farewell tour. That's yeah, yeah, Kobe's was cool. Derek Jeters was
nauseating. Don't need that though, and the Royals beat him in his last
his last and Derek Jeter Day, and then I guess his last home game
he had a walk off single because all he did was hit singles. At
Kujhawk's underscore fan thoughts on Kevin's injury bad. They need him back to be
able to beat the top teams. Correct. At Baby j twenty twenty four,
is Nick is Nicholas Timberlake the greatest player to ever rep the Crimson in
Blue? Yes, yeah, shortly. I mean it just maybe maybe will
first, but yeah, that's close. Flip the coin, flip one of
those Nichols from certain Nick underscore wiper. Is Remy Martin the best player in
March in the history of college basketball? Yeah? I love Remy Martin,
but he was the fourth best player on that team in the tournament. Uh,
And you got go ahead argue with me. We don't have a lot
of time, But tell me I'm wrong. Just tell me yesterday I said
he was the best team player on that team in March. He's still like
on Kansas alone, he's probably like barely top ten if that David mccormicky scored
fifty points in the last two rounds of the tournament. He is right there
with Danny Manning as far as I'm concerned best mark performers. Like Really,
David McCormick is one of the greatest tournament performers in the history of Kansas basketball.
Remy Martin was great. Remy Martin was the fourth best player in March
that year. He was very important. He was not better than the guy
that made six threes in the final. He was not better than the guy
who should have won Most Outstanding Player. And he was not better than the
guy who led them in Nash who led the National Championship game in scoring and
had three double doubles in the tournament. He was great though. At Chris
Surcoat too, Where do you think Oklahoma and Texas will finish in the SEC
next year? Perfect send off to send them to the SEC by kicking their
hold on ask it is Texas should be better than they will be and Oklahoma
feels like seven and eleven. Yeah, I think they'll both finish very close
to the middle. Texas will have a new coach very soon. Oklahoma might
too. If you ever have asked RCBS use a Twitter hashtag ask RCB for
the All right, let's just go ahead and start with this living number twelve
BYU at number thirteen Kansas. That's the net rankings. By the way,
BYU is still ahead of Kansas. On Tuesday, February twenty seventh, at
seven o'clock at night, in all honesty, BYU will probably be out in
the top twenty five because they lost the Kansas State. They are nineteen and
eight overall, seven and seven and Big twelve play and this is their first
game in the Fog since nineteen seventy one. BYU frontcourt is led by six
to seven hybrid Jackson Robinson, who leads the team with fourteen points per game.
Everyone on this team can shoot, so it's thirty five percent. Three
point mark doesn't even stand out, but he is a good player, can
knock it down from behind the arc. For whatever reason, he doesn't start,
despite leading the team in scoring and having played in every game. They
start six to eleven. No waterman at four and six eleven. Ali Khalifa
from Ej tarn It. Come on, I thought i'd get you with that.
Read aware of me a Khalifa? Enough? Oh there you not say
that. I was hoping somebody would be like, what's that? But rats.
They also throw in I don't know, oh I John Gerson, that
big fe treer FUSSENI. This team has lots of lineup combinations, and unlike
the Jayhawks, has a very deep bench. Yeah, a lot of bigs.
The backcourt features lots of balance. But every player is basically the same.
Trevin Snell averages eleven points per game. He's white. Spencer Johnson averages
eleven points per game. He is white. Richie Sanders averages nine points per
game. He's white. Then there's TJ. Hawes, who is white.
I'm kidding on TJ. Hawes. He's not actually still there, but he
might as well be because they all look like TJ. Hawes. He is
white. All those guys make threes now is the best. He didn't make
any in case State. So now, boy, remember they get ready for
five to seven. There is only one thing of importance with BYU statistically,
as it's no secret what they plan to do. This team averages Kansas had
a nightmare about a team. Yeah, beat them it is. We're gonna
find out here if we're right. This team averages eleven threes and thirty two
three point attempts per game, which is precis It is top three nationally in
both categories. They make thirty five percent of their threes as a team,
which the percentage doesn't really matter here. They shoot so many of them that
thirty five percent can be nothing when they're getting nothing inside, or if they're
getting decent interior offense and they're drawing fouls, thirty five percent can put you
over the top of one hundred. It's a weird offense. But all they
do is launch. Now only Kansas has more assists per game than byu of
every team in D one basketball. As a result of that style, they're
also a very good rebounding team. They grab forty per game for twentieth nationally.
A lot of length, not a lot of stockiness aside from that one
center that's that's a big big boy, but the rest of them just kind
of six ten in long, kind of have the Chet Holmgren build a little
bit. They're a dynamite offensive team when they're making shots, but the weaknesses
are on the defensive end of the ball. They're poor guarding both two point
and three point which, eh, we'll see how that goes opponents can wreck
them at the basket. Hunter Dickinson should have a huge game, and they're
prone to enormous free throw discrepancies because of the contrast to playing styles. They
don't draw a lot of fouls. They don't have a lot of interest in
shooting twos. Good free throw shooting team Ben get there a lot. But
again it all comes down to they're gonna take thirty plus threes, probably more
if we're being honest, because they're gonna likely have to keep up at Allen
Fieldhouse. I would bet they take close to forty threes in this game,
which, if they hit their average is geez fourteen freaking makes. Kansas is
four to one all time against BYU, their only loss coming in a trip
to Provo in nineteen sixty. They've only played the Cougars twice in the last
fifty years, once in Malee in twenty nineteen and thirty two back in nineteen
ninety three, both easy dubs for Kansas. So ken Pom has them bare
You projected to win this. They have Kansas as a one point favorite in
this game. Prize surprise, Yeah. They BYU has posted some really good
numbers and if you look at the net, which is hilarious. So BYU
is twelve and Kansas is thirteen. Kansas against Quad one opponents has three more
wins than BYU seven and five against four and six. They have one more
Quad two win five and zero against four and two. But BYU with those
five Quad four wins more than Kansas nine and oh against Quad four despite having
a worse overall record, a worse conference record, a worst Quad one record,
a worse Squad two record, and a worst record at home. Somehow,
some way, by you better make it make sense. That was both
of them trying to make it make sense, and they can't. You can't
make the argument what happens in this game. Here's my prediction. I predict
Spencer Johnson's gonna make some threes. I predict that Richie Saunders is gonna make
some threes. I predict Trevion Nell is gonna make some threes. I predict
Noah Waterman's gonna dribble his lanky ass out there on the three point line and
launch a couple of threes and make them. I predict that BYU's managers off
the bench, who are twenty four and all have lost all their hair.
I predict they're gonna go out there and make some threes and then after all
that, I think Kansas wins because I don't think that that BYU's defense is
gonna be able to stop Ku. I'm gonna say Kansas eighty eight BYU eighty
three. I think it's a really close game, though. I think by
He's gonna score a lot of points. Yeah, you think high scoring is
definitely the way to bet here. I'm gonna take Kansas also to win because
I just don't think they're gonna lose. An allenfield House, give me Kansas
eighty one seventy seven. Give me Kansas one hundred and ninety seven to the
AU one hundred and fifty six. Wow, forty one point win. That's
crazy. That's Alabama logic blown out. So according to home schooling, can't
spell or count. Yeah, you had to know that was coming, sir.
If anything, homescores should be able to count because they all they do
is count. Well. If if US homescores counted our friends, we wouldn't
be able to count very high numbers. All they do is eat orange slices
and uh sit in their house with no TV celery with no peanut butter to
dip it in, just the celery itself. Kansas is the according to Ken
Palm, which is usually more accurate than the net, Kansas is tenth and
adjusted deficiency BYU is ninth and adjusted offensive efficiency so that's a probacs gas is
one first an adjusted deficiency. Yeah. See that's where it gets interesting here.
So they're saying BYU's offense should roughly cancel out Kansas's defense. But KU's
offense is much better than BYU's defense according to these metrics. That's where Kansas
should be able to do well. I don't think BYU has the athletes that
Kansas does. Dickinson should play well and realistically, if the Kansas wins this
game, probably by a decently comfortable margin, if BYU doesn't make double digit
threes, right like, they average double digit threes, but they're gonna that's
still easier said than done. They're gonna have to make twelve thirteen threes to
really give themselves a chance to win this game. That's asking a lot at
a tough environment of Allen Field House, where if you believe in the defensive
numbers, Kansas only allowing opponents to shoot twenty nine percent on threes this year.
But I think Kansas the challenge. If anyone was literally Taylor made to
give Kansas this trouble, it would be the other games. West Virginia at
the octagon of doom. I wonder how much tickets to this game cost.
I bet it's three West Virginia Kansas State tickets. Let's give it a Google
here. I'll just go over to a seat geek here. The Kansas game
was over one hundred oh seven dollars. That's shocking. Pretty close, sir,
you were you missed it by a buck. Speaking of missing, that's
what West Virginia will do a lot of in this game. Case state goes
for two straight at home. Agreed, yep. Only one team in Kansas
loses to West Virginia. Yeah. Number eleven Baylor at TCU. Really really
torn here. Baylor hasn't won in a week and a half and they have
Kansas on Saturday. I think they go into Fort Worth and win. I
think they're better than their record. Hornfrogs Uh. I'll go TCU Cincinnati at
number two Houston. I wish that Kansas got to play Cincinnati twice. I
guess they got to play Oklahoma State twice pretty close. Houston big yes correct,
Texas at number twenty three, Texas Tech. These rankings are all gonna
ship. By the way, should I do it? Texas tex Texas Tech's
really good at home? Yeah, I'll say Texas wins. Let's say they
went on their own Red Raiders HM, Texas Tech. Oklahoma at number six,
Iowa State, No upset here, give me the Cyclones at home?
Yep, U seem at Oklahoma State? Sorry I thought Nick said, yes,
it was just a foegun conclusion. Nights at Cowboys Cowboys Cowboys probably,
but like they just lost at the buzzer and overtime, like they could totally
just not care about this game. I will say they win, but still
other games. Good luck figuring out what to do with Kentucky, because I'm
gonna make you pick every Kentucky game. They are on the road at a
Mississippi State team who has one less winning conference play than they do. Can
they win? No wins? I think it's a decently easy one to see
coming. I think Kentucky off that game. Yeah, I think they fall
right on their caboos and Mississippi State wins. Number fourteen Auburn at number five
Tennessee. Good game here offense versus defense. I will go with Barnes because
the calendar says it's not yet March. Correct, Bama? Hmm, damn
it, Bill, sir, you want to try that again? Sorry?
I meant the other. Now I'll go Tennessee. Sorry, I was thinking
Auburn in my head. Right now. You can pick Bama. Number thirteen
Alabama at chrispy Ole Miss team. Yes, probably, yeah, I guess
Alabama twenty suwating matchup. That is great, dudes, but one's actually good
at coaching offense. Number twenty South Carolina at Texas A and M A and
M's awful. I'll take the game Cocks Aggie's South Carolina and number four Arizona
hits the road and plays Arizona State, probably the last chance for Arizona to
win. They're better, but rivalry games are weird. What say you?
This should be Arizona? Sure, I don't think it's really that close either.
Arizona State just got their big home win and now it's gonna Yeah.
I think Arizona win's big. All right, So next show Thursday night?
Probably right, there's only a few games, right, we always record Thursday.
I have a show to you by Friday, one way or the other.
Jayhawks at Baylor on Saturday. After this, there's just three regular season
games left and then we get to do Big twelve tournament shows. Oh aren't
your nipples hard for that? Oh? So hard? Yep, so excited
to do? Now? You know who? You know what time window the
number three seed in the Big twelve Tournament plays, don't you? That feels
like it's the five o'clock window. Maybe six, it's the nine o'clock window
with all the other So I hope you guys are ready to either do late
night or early morning number three Kansas versus Number six Texas Tech recaps. It's
what we do best time of here, as Nick is even Nick is continuing
to pat himself on the back for getting out of this after this season.
This is inside the Paint on Rock Chalk Blog. I am Ryan Landreth,
but more importantly, I am praying for Kyle Philipowski. Who should I be?
I'm the guy who's gonna pick them again. Yep, that's not surprise.
I'm off the show in like ten shows, so I think your next
show are you? There was a milestone. So the next show is four
fifty. Landon has been on two forty eight. You're almost at two fifty.
Nick still needs fifteen more shows after this, Yeah, fifteen more shows.
You need to get to two fifty, Sir. I don't know if
you're gonna get there. You better you got I'd be so devastated if I
didn't get there. You need, you need Bill to make a hell of
a run. As I'll all say, we'll see do it for Nick.
Do it for Nick? All right, Bye bye,