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All the noises that you're here.
Those are the Kansas offense, are you

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nay? In the same levels of
sex? Elemic temper light shots? A

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Marco? A Marco is running the
offense? Why did the one shoots the

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leven shots? Normally I don't say
that, but I am. I've done

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shows with weird before. I don't
have one. Yeah, m hm,

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that was a should we go again? Well, man, I love watching

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good basketball. Should we go again? Let's go again? No, I'm

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just kidding, We're not gonna do
that again. But kind of feeling a

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little masochistic at this point. I
don't know about you. Yeah, something

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like that. I mean, what
was that? I mean, I know

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they didn't have their two best players, which obviously I think I think if

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they had those guys, they don't
do this. But yeah, I think

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that's a pretty big factor. Did
you have the day that we came on

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this mic for the first time in
twenty twenty three, twenty four and said

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the Jayhawks are the preseason number one
team. Did you have getting run out

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of the Team Mobile Center by Cincinnati
for their fourth loss in five games on

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that Bengo card and their ninth loss
of Big twelfth play and their tenth loss

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of the season. They were outscored. To kick off with a stat,

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Kansas was a minus two to nineteen
on threes in conference games. That is

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what, seventy three fewer three pointers
made than their opponents seventy three. I

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think something. I don't know how
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either, because that's not even the
right number. Yeah, it is seventy

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three times three is two nineteen yep. Uh. And tonight, oh boy,

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tonight. The final box score shows
that they made three threes. But

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that's triple the amount of credit they
deserve because they had well, you know

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what, we don't. We don't
have a box score in front of us.

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We don't have the exact numbers.
But we're on the mic. Actually

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do it? Okay? Are you
on the ESPN site because ESPN doesn't show

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them, No, doesn't show the
number. I'm on. I'm on the

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live step page that was still running. Where is the live stats link?

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I need that? Oh, that
was on the KU website schedule. If

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you go to the KU schedule,
I'm not sure if it's the link will

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still be there, but I'm still
on the page. I'm on it.

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Because I can't wait for my eyeballs
to see those composents. Yeah, why

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don't why don't we do that?
I could use that. Oh, yes,

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here is the box score. I
have found it. So the Jayhawks,

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Oh boy, the Kansas basketball Jayhawks
lose in their Big twelve tournament opener

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for the first time since you and
Nick were on this show twenty seventeen.

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Was the last time that happened.
Yeah, that we didn't have a This

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is the first time that we've ever
talked about decided he was angry cars.

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Yeah, and that's I'm much like
tonight. There was a reason that more

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than likely contributed to the loss.
But we don't have a game plan here

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because we don't know the next opponent. We don't even have our third co

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host, who is stranded due to
the snowstorm in Colorado right now. He's

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had a Nick Timberlake of a time
trying to get back to Kansas City.

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Just they just a disaster of an
evening. So the only thing to do

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is hop on the microphone for a
impromptu Inside the Paint podcast late night edition

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blow out over Cincinnati recap edition.
How fun this is Inside the Paint Huh,

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I'm Ryan Landreth. I'm going camping
tomorrow, which is gonna be way

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better than this, is it.
Yeah, just make sure that you are

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wearing protection in the event that some
of those basketballs that Nick Timberlake launched that

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bounced off the top of the backboard
come crash landing in your campsite. They

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very well might, you know,
You never know. Yeah, they are

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gonna have to start installing the equivalent
of spit guards. Yeah for Nick Timberlake

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bricks. Yeah, you're going to
You're gonna go out in the middle of

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the night to use the bathroom in
the dark, and you're gonna hear and

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it's gonna be Nick Timberlake's third three
point shot landing in the car window of

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whatever vehicle you use to get to
that part of the woods. Does a

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Nick Timberlake brick make a sound if
there's no one else in the gym to

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hear it, it does? It
goes like this. It's so about the

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same as normal. Yeah, it's
all all Timberlake bricks are about the same.

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I think they're waited about the same. But here we go. Let's

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poll the air hoorn and talk about
the Jayhawks. We'll do our best.

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Actually, you know what they earned
it WCC champs, not champs of anything,

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right now, Number eleven Cincinnati,
seventy two, number six Kansas.

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That fifty two was the number.
So this was this game here, game

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story. Normally, this is something
we read, can't read it, We

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don't have the notes for it.
Kansas plays just an abysmal first half.

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They don't have Dickinson's, they don't
have McCuller. They didn't really have Parker

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Brown either, who played just two
minutes he was hurt, so that really

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they were rolling with six scholarship players, only one of which plays front court,

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and they they fall behind by thirteen
at the break, but they come

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out in the second half behind a
little bit better offense, if anything,

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just by default, and Cincinnati having
a horrid start scoring three points in the

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first eight minutes. The second half, Kansas cuts that that deficit from thirteen

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to two. It's forty to thirty
eight, and they're right there. And

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then from that point on it was
thirty two to what fourteen, thirty two

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to fourteen the rest of the night. Yeah, you knew it too.

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You sense there was a moment in
that second half where Cincinnati left the door

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open for you to take the lead. We saw missed mid range jays,

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couple of opportunities that maybe could have
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on few opportunities slipped through their fingertips, and then Cincinnati stretched it right back

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out and that was that. We'll
get to the ramifications of this game.

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But you knew it was gonna be
ugly heading in, and oh boy,

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was it just a horrible night for
Kansas, who shoots thirty three percent as

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a team twenty one sixty two.
They go three for twenty shooting threes after

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starting one for sixteen, and they
got two of their last four in garbage

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time. They were minus eleven on
the glass, They had twelve turnovers.

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Horrendous, just horrendous. So before
now of a sudden, the last show,

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you and I both said that they
would beat Cincinnati. Presumably we didn't

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know the injury status, of course, of Dickinson and mccullor. Officially.

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We kind of thought Dickinson would be
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But after we both knew, you
still stuck in the chat we were

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talking. Of course, before the
game, you still thought Kansas was gonna

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win. I did not. I
thought they would lose without both those guys.

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What this will sound funny, but
genuine question, what did you think

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would happen? How did you think
they would win? I do mean that

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genuinely. I'm curious to know your
thought process. Knowing they didn't have two

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guys that average eighteen at night,
how do you think they were gonna win?

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I mean, when you were it
that way, I feel kind of

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stupid. I guess my thought process
was, Okay, Cincinnati played really well

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yesterday. They put in a lot
of energy to that wild comeback over West

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Virginia. Coming into play a second
game in two days after Kansas has gotten

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some rest. Kansas is coached by
a Hall of famer, Kansas has a

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tremendous home court advantage, and they
entered this game as a two point underdog.

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It was essentially a coin flip,
and I wondered if we would see

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Kansas play some different basketball. Surely
Bill self had to look at this game

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without his best two players by a
huge margin, and he clearly had to

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think, Okay, how are we
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tall, really good at rebounding.
I thought that they would utilize their speed.

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I thought you would see a team
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twos. I thought you would see
a team that was quarterbacked by a point

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guard trying to get to the hole
the way they did against Kansas State,

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and they really didn't do that.
They kind of tried to run the same

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game plan that they run whenever they
have their seven foot two center, which

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is, let's feed the post and
score two at a time. I get

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the three pointers weren't falling. They
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they tried to make threes, it
didn't go well at all, But I

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wondered if the game plan on going
in was gonna be let Timberlake and Furfee

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take ten plus threes each, Let
kJ do what he can inside, which

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he did great in this game,
and we'll see what happens against the team

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that hasn't been in the spot,
that isn't familiar with the setting. Like

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I thought, it would come down
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Kansas still had enough quality players on
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players and a handful of other highlys
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You got a high impact transfer,
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to at least keep it interesting.
Clearly I underestimated, which you got right,

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just how god awful this offense was
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And I've been that fight on Twitter
all year, the people who aren't impressed

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with Hunter Dickinson. What's it look
like when he's not there? Well,

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there you go forty six and fifty
two points. That is less than one

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hundred points in two games for Kansas. Congrats, no one. I've never

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said scoring the basketball was this problem. When you take Virginia or whenever you

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take a hundred Dickinson off Kansas,
they're left being Virginia, especially when you

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don't have Kevin mccullor on that either, because they I thought Dwan Harris was

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gonna take like seventeen shots in this
game, which was that was clearly foolish

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of me. But I thought he
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tried to create a lot, and
he only took a lefn shots, which

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was tied for second on the team
with Almarco Jackson. So that kind of

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shows you how the night went.
How did you think they Surely you didn't

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think they were gonna get twenty bald
or, did you I didn't think they'd

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get twenty bald. No, I
didn't think it'd be that bad. Certainly

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obviously, yeah, I thought they'd
lose. I didn't like, it's not

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that Cincinnati was this juggernaut though obviously, Like I didn't think they would run

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him off the court. I I
don't know, man. I was trying

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to do the math earlier today,
knowing, you know, once we knew

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for sure, for sure that mccullar
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Okay, how does this team score
like six? Like is there a

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path for them to get to like
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sad that you're even at that point, but big twelve it might be enough,

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right, And that was also kind
of the thing where it was like,

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you know, it's Cincinnati, Like
if Kansas plays good defense, which

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maybe they still could, if Cincinnati's
cold or something, you know, they

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could hold him to like the low
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out, which wouldn't have done the
job either. They scored fifty two,

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and I really I was kind of
struggling to get there. I was like,

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well, you know, kJ ordwan
have a have a good night,

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and kJ did. He had twenty
two I'm nine to fourteen shooting though,

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as he was good, maybe you
get this and if Furfey plays well and

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if you know, if you get
a little bit of this and that,

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like you know, maybe maybe there's
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But that obviously would have required a
lot of things going right. Uh,

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and really none of those did because
I mean Johnny Furfey was just non existent.

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He had eight rebounds. Yeah,
well go ahead, and let's go

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ahead. You mentioned kJ he's the
bright spot. Twenty two points. Yeah,

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he was great. Only four rebounds
as the five man. People are

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like, oh, well he doesn't
get to play the five. Okay,

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he's the five here and played thirty
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That's great. Also foul fourth on
the team in rebounds. No,

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he didn't foul out. What does
f D mean in fouls? Says personal

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fouls? Two f D five Oh
like times fouled? Oh okay, gotcha?

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Okay, So yeah, only two
fouls but nine to fourteen from the

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floor. Yeah, he was fine. I think that the moment when the

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game began to shift back Kansas got
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they really weren't playing great as much
as Cincinnati just was ice cold for eight

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or nine minutes. And Kansas also
got the benefit of some probably could have

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been foul calls. The officiating in
the entire round of whatever round number this

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says, was terrible all throughout the
game, from the the everything yesterday.

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They call all those technicals on West
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even played Cincinnati. There are some
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State Texas game, and then this
it was all over the place. But

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Kansas goes on their run two points
at a time because that's the only way

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this team can score. And then
kJ looks like he gets bumped going to

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the rim on what would have been
a game tying basket. They ought not

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to call it. There on the
other end of the floor, Cincinnati gets

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pretty much the same call. Then
after that, Cincinnati hit a couple threes

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and just like that it was back
to like fifty three to forty two or

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something like that, so that pretty
much ended it kJ. The good thing

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about this being a short recap with
only six players, there's not a lot

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of players to RECAPKJ. I assume
we didn't learn anything here. He's easily

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the best player on the team whenever
you take away Hunter and Kevin, and

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he did more than enough. He
battled his ass off, and kudos to

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him, by the way, who
clearly kind of probably saw the riding on

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the wall coming into this game.
He was banged up, hit his head

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on the goalpost, like he had
to have known the sheer amount of work

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he was gonna have to do to
keep this team in the game, and

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he did as noble of a job
as he realistically could have, Like get

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huntering, Kevin back, and he
should be he'll be a fine piece,

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right, Like, we don't have
a lot to analyze with kJ. No

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no kJ, even though we have
nitpicked him a lot this year, and

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you could even just say have been
hard on him, which I think would

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be a fair assessment. And the
four rebound sucks like that, that's what

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we knew was gonna happen. They
got shredded on the glass and the five

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man can't rebound, right, and
that's you know, that is the case

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for sure. But I you know, I mean, you still needed him

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in this game, and he was
he was very good. He scored twenty

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two obviously, so yeah, not
a ton there for kJ to really dig

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your teeth into that we haven't already
talked about. He was as good as

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he could have been. So am
I doing the math correctly? If I

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take Kj's nine to fourteen away,
that the rest of the team was twelve

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for forty eight from the floor,
twelve for forty eight twenty five percent?

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Yes, wow, that's amazing.
Who so that Jamari McDowell was three for

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six, So you take him out, and that leaves five other guys,

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four of them starters that were nine
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is barely twenty percent who you want
to start with, because oh my gosh,

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there's just so much every I just
love his buck score and all I

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see is like it is just an
abomination the problems. I guess they lost

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this game the instant reaction. They're
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Maybe the committee really punishes him and
they fall to a five because they've

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lost four out of the last five
games. Now they've won one since the

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last week. They fall a five. They are on upset watch. I

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think they're on upset watches a four. Are you kidding me? South Dakota

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State is looming as a thirteen?
Yeah, that would not be fun at

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all. But what like, So
here's the stat that I went and researched

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with your help right before. It
was the thing that was on my mind

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when they were ending the game so
poorly on offense. So Bill Self has

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coached a total of four hundred and
ten games at Kansas against Big Twelve opponents,

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four hundred and ten games if you
combine conference play and the Big Twelve

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tournament. In the first four hundred
and eight of those games, Kansas scored

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at least fifty three points in all
of them. In the last two at

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Houston last weekend and Cincinnati to night, they didn't score fifty three in either

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game, the two lowest scoring outputs
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However, you won award that in
the Bill Self era have been the

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last two games forty six against Houston, fifty two against Cincinnati. Ah,

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but you're forgetting the fifty that happened
in Lubbock. Oh my goodness, Oh

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my goodness, you're right. I
then that that damn stat's all messed up

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on Twitter. So how about we
just adjust it too. They've never scored

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less than fifty three until a month
ago, and now they've done it three

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times, three times in one season, oh, three times in half a

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season. And you look at some
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they've all been banged up to get
there. But but oh, it's

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just just that doesn't make it a
lot better. No, it's not.

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And you enter the NCAA tournament and
Bill self has said they're gonna get McCuller

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and Dickinson back, and I and
they're spreading that like wildfire on ESPN says

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they're gonna be healthy. So I'm
gonna take his word for it, and

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hope he's just not trying to hype
up the committee. They're gonna play next

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week against the thirteen seed, and
then what what what's your expectation when you

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get those thirty seven combined points per
game back? I mean, like I

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think think best case I mean best
case scenario depends. My expectation is they

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lose in the round to thirty two
to a five seed. I would assume,

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yes, yes, my expectation is
that they would be a four and

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lose to a five. A lah
Auburn, Okay, And when they do,

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the game's gonna look what kind of
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I don't know, It's hard to
compare anything. I was excited for

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this game because I thought we'd get
to see them play a little different.

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I thought they'd throw crap at the
wall and see what's stuck. And instead

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they threw crap at the basket and
nothing stuck. Like God, what's your

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expectation with those guys back? I
think that with the right draw they could

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make the Elite eight. I think
that with the right draw, yeah,

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you could absolutely win two games in
that first weekend. And then you give

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your one of the best coaches historically
ever in the sweet sixteen, with all

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that prep time, you give him
some time to They have two All League

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players. I think there was still
one of the ten best, most talented,

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whatever you want to say, teams
in the country. I I don't

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know if they're gonna get the right
drown maybe good. I think that's gotta

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get punted at some point. They've
gotten some really really rotten luck. Like

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everything went right in twenty twenty two. It did. They got some breaks

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with their seeds that they played they
got their matchup breaks, they got their

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their health breaks. Uh with North
Carolina was banged up in the title game,

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I think four. Yeah, and
then everything else has sucked. I

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think it's not untrue that they've gotten
really rotten luck this year, but at

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some point, like but really good
teams can overcome bad luck. Yes,

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for sure, this team has not
been able to do that at all.

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No, I mean what what what
would the line have been tomorrow against Baylor

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had they survived with this with the
same roster? Yeah, uh, probably

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Baylor minus ten. If Kansas,
if this was the NCAA Tournament tonight,

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Wood mccullor and or Dickinson have played, Yes, both of them, I

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would. If they're ready, if
they're going to play next week and that's

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the full expectation, then they're probably
somewhat good enough to go in a single

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elimination seasons over format. So I
guess then that's the case. You shouldn't

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be too disappointed about tonight because for
years there have been Kansas fans on Twitter

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that have said, let's just use
the Big Twelve tournament to rest our guys,

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and they did, and fans are
like, oh man, that sucked,

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Like all right, it was bad, But I don't know what you

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expect. You said, they've lost
by fifty fricking combined points in the last

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two games. Yeah, and we
thought that Case State game would get them

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back on track. All right,
I want to talk about Nick Timberlake.

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I didn't. I never thought that
to be fair. So Nick Timberlake goes

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two for nine from the floor in
his twenty seven minutes, one for five

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on three. The three was in
the final four minutes. He was zero

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for four for a while while the
game was in doubt or well, and

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at the end just apocalyptic, like
just just he He had shots bouncing off

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the top of the backboard. He
was open, and then there were even

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fran for Schila was like, oh
my gosh, he's gotta shoot that.

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He just jee He did and he
and he was right. Timberlake in this

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game five points and an apocalyptic minus
twenty five and the plus minus Kansas was

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five points better than Cincinnati when Timberlake
was not on the floor and twenty five

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points worse when he was. It's
bad, that's gross. They were Kansas.

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These are the kind of things where
we were talking about this before we

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got on the call for the show
that Dickinson and timber or Timberlake, but

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Dickinson and m clor excuse me,
uh, they they multiply everyone, like

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they make everyone else around them a
little bit better, even if obviously Nick

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Mberlake's case, that's not been as
true as you'd like it. But they

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do make they improve the entirety of
the team. It's not just like,

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oh, they are on the floor, so the team's better just because they

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can do their thing. It's they
can help everyone because obviously the defense has

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to focus on certain things. You
all understand basketball. But like, so

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obviously that's true and it doesn't help. But like, holy goodness, Nick

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Timberlake man, like just he just
can't make anything, like and I know

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that's been the case all season,
but like, I don't know how this

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is possible. I do not know
how a guy that shot well, he

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shot over forty percent his last two
years a toousand or the high thirties at

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least. I don't know how you
go from that to this in a season

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and it just never ever clicked for
him. Uh. And I'm I'm I

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mean I called it on Timberlake a
long time ago. I guess putting the

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tombstone on him. But yeah,
it's it's bad, and he was truly

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terrible in this game. Truly terrible. This is a Bill self quote from

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after the game. It's like they're
shooting at the fair where the balls can't

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actually fit in the goals. He's
he's not wrong on that. Also,

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resident dumbass Jeff Goodman, who watched
this game from the moon approximately said that

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he talked to Kevin mccouller after the
game, and both Kevin McCuller and Hunter

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Dickinson are quote absolutely going to play
in the tournament. This was precautionary,

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according to Jeff Goodman, who was
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So great, hey, they have
him back. Woo. Let's let's let's

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right right, so they can lose
to who's a five seed? I don't

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even know Kentucky Clumson. If they
drop Kentucky, I quit. Oh.

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Oh. If they get Kentucky,
Kentucky can't defend. So maybe it will

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be immovable object, unstoppable force.
But in reverse like which terrible thing is

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just a little worse. Tonight be
my ken tonight p my validation for all

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the times I complain about how bad
three point shooters go nuclear against Kansas,

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and people say it's because the defense
is bad and the Jayhawks are proof that

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it does not matter how well you
guard people. Bad shooters miss shots most

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of the time. Yeah, I
think that's true. So let's talk about

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a couple of other guys here.
Johnny Furfey was going into this game.

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They needed Furfey to carry them.
Yeah, he was irrelevant. He took

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the least amount of shots of anybody
in the starting five, despite playing thirty

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three minutes, one for eight from
the floor, didn't make a three,

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did have eight rebounds. Two points
for Johnny Furfey. Two points, and

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it was on a basket that came
within the I think it might have been

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Kayu's second basket. It came really
early, and then he just he just

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ran around and did cardio out there
and missed open shots. He missed several

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long range twos that would have been
a huge Like the good news, I

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guess if you want it for Kansas, And we always say this really actually

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isn't good news. Whenever a guy
slides late in the year and it turns

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out he has to come back another
year. I don't think Furfrey's gonna go

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pro. But but like Furfey has
really struggled in the last couple of weeks

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shooting the ball, and they need
a freshman yep, yep comes in and

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you're like, he's gonna be the
savior, and then it starts to taper

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back down to a freshman level a
little bit. Furfey's gonna be a really

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good player. I bet that he's
in the he's in contentionent for an All

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League spot next year, but he's
just Yeah, they needed a team that

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can't shoot, needed him to kind
of be their savior in that regard.

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And I mean nineteen games this year
they out shot their opponents from three.

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They made more threes than their opponent
in one of nineteen conference games. When

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Furfey isn't making anything, nobody's making
anything. And I also, by the

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way, I also don't know.
I don't know how much confidence you can

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really have in Johnny Furfey in the
NCAA tournament because he has had the deer

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and headlights look a lot recently in
these big in their season games, been

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a track record of much better freshman
than Furfey disappearing in the tournament. Yeah,

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oh, for sure. If Biggins
is held to six points because he

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gets the yips a little bit furfy? Could I mean one for eight feels

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about right. El Marco Jackson,
another freshman that we thought would be better,

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shot a lot, didn't do anything. Score dock, Yeah, great

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dunk. Didn't know he could do
that. Five points for el Marco,

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two for eleven from the floor,
oh for four on threes? How many

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times did he pass up an open
three point shot to take two steps in

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and shoot along two every time?
He shot almost just four or five at

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least at least. He's so bad, man, He's so bad. He

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can't pass. He really didn't defend
very well here. I know it wasn't

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a great matchup. He can't handle
the ball. Like what what do you

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what do you want at this point? Like I would rather Timberlake play thirty

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five minutes and al Marco plays zero
than than anything else. Like it's he

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it's not gonna happen. This is
he's not gonna be back at Kansas.

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I'd be stunned. Yeah, that
feels like a pretty instant transfer, and

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he'll go start for most teams in
the country. Half fun, have fun

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with a guard that can't shoot.
He should be a point guard, which

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isn't gonna happen on next year because
they have de Wan Harris coming back.

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But he can't he can't score.
He can't score. Kansas has a point

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guard that doesn't always look to score. What use do they have for a

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combo guard that doesn't look to score
and when he does, he can't.

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Yeah, that's a pretty deadly combo. There By deadly, I mean more

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in the silent but deadly sense.
We need to talk about Dewan too,

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because d one eight points in this
game, three for eleven from the floor,

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five assists, four turnovers the assist. I think this is arguably his

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worst game of the season. I
think this is his like most unacceptable performance

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of the year. I agree,
back to back they were his worst two

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games of the year. Tell me
a little bit more about I'm assuming what

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you're gonna say is, because hey, Kevin and Hunter are out, dude,

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we need the senior leader of our
team to go do something. Yeah,

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that is essential to take Yeah.
And I think I even said that

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earlier in the show, where I
was guessing he would take like, I

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don't know, seven, like a
bunch of shots. I kind of was

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in like he'll take like fifteen plus
shots in this game, which is crazy.

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But we'd seen Dewan at least turn
up the offense a little bit in

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spots where they needed it, or
you know, if someone was a little

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banged up, or when McCuller was
out. You know, we saw Harris

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take more shots, and I guess
he did take eleven but won three point

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attempts. That was that was the
problem. Thirty eight minutes, he and

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Timberlake just decided they weren't gonna shoot
semi open threes. And I'm like,

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at what point do you cause they
took eight three much do you have to

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be down to just not start shooting
everything. Yeah, they scored twenty five

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points in the first half and took
twenty one twos in eight threes, And

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I'm like, why, at what
point do you just decide launching threes is

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your best option? It's either a
pass inside to kJ and de one.

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00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:02.880
I guess the problem I haved One
runs in, runs into the blane and

406
00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:06.960
he doesn't have his two best guys
to throw to, and he kind of

407
00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:10.839
just yeats the ball back into the
field of play as he's getting ready to

408
00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:12.400
run out of bounds. Like,
what do you think is gonna happen with

409
00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:18.359
this million times this makeshift crew around
him? Like how can the one dribbles

410
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:22.039
around and tries to find someone open
play be a better option than a semi

411
00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:26.400
open three by guys who haven't been
making anything all night? Like I would

412
00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:29.880
rather take my chances with that.
You're you're losing either way. But still

413
00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.559
also on my screen on the ESPN
bottom bar, it just showed me that

414
00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.039
Latrell Jostle has seven points for Steven
f austin the night. That's more than

415
00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:42.559
Nick Timberlake and Alan Arco Jackson and
only one less than Dewan Harris Gross.

416
00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:45.759
The only other guy we didn't talk
about Jamar McDowell, who played pretty well

417
00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:49.160
for I mean, considering the rule, he had played the fewest amount of

418
00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:53.359
minutes of the main six, which
that's a choice seven points and six rebounds.

419
00:29:55.000 --> 00:30:00.720
The guy was third and scoring and
third and rebounding, and he only

420
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.519
played what he played twenty three minutes, like he probably should have been playing

421
00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:08.000
more. He kind of has,
Yeah, he has that kind of bulldog

422
00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:12.359
mentality that I think they were looking
for. Timberlake got bench really quickly in

423
00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:17.079
the second half too, he was
all right. Parker brown Sel said he's

424
00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:19.599
pretty banged up with the rolled ankle. He only played two minutes and the

425
00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:22.759
walk on's got some run at the
end. Patrick Cassidy made one of the

426
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:29.400
team's three three pointers. So yeah, that imagine me. Imagine being told

427
00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:33.279
Patrick Cassidy's gonna have one third of
their threes entering the night. I would

428
00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:36.880
not have been on Kansas at that
point. No, I wouldn't have either.

429
00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:40.640
So that's kind of your rundown of
stats, Like there's there's more to

430
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:44.759
analyze, I'm sure with it was
it was just awful. It was.

431
00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:48.480
It was a disgusting game. And
then I think the part that frustrated me

432
00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:52.200
look that winning this game wouldn't have
done much for their seed because they would

433
00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:56.680
have lost the Baylor tomorrow. But
the thing about it is a win could

434
00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:59.920
have this team could have really used
a win. He gets some confidence they

435
00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.440
were they were playing or even just
a better performance than this. Right,

436
00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:06.720
Yeah, and you were there to
start the second half, Cincinnati put it

437
00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:11.559
on a silver platter for you and
misses all those shots and you cannot you

438
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.079
knew when they couldn't get over the
hump and it stretched back out to five

439
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:19.519
or seven points if that was it, Yeah, yeah, more or less.

440
00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:22.720
I mean, I don't really know
what there's quite to take from this

441
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:27.559
game, because obviously, as we've
talked about, and as has been talked

442
00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:30.759
about a lot, they didn't have
their two best players, and taking out

443
00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:36.880
two first team All Conference players who
average you know, like what thirty six

444
00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:41.000
thirty seven combined points on the ear, obviously, that's gonna make you a

445
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:45.200
lot worse. At the same time, though, I mean, that doesn't

446
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:51.200
really make Johnny Furphy's zero for three
from three or Nick Timberlake's two for nine

447
00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:56.000
or whatever sit a lot better,
because, as Ryan you're saying, like

448
00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.599
it would have at least been nice
to get some good out guys. I

449
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:05.640
don't know how at some point Nick
Timberlake drop a few threes and like,

450
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:08.240
play well, and just nothing happened. They all were exactly who they've been

451
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:14.960
all year, no improvement at all. Like Dan Skilling shot twenty three times

452
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:16.839
and scored twenty five. It's not
an efficient night, but he said,

453
00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:21.599
give me the ball, this is
my game. How with a depleted team

454
00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:27.799
where you only had six guys play, how does nobody take fifteen seventeen shots.

455
00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:30.160
How is there nobody that said,
missus b damned give me the ball.

456
00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:36.079
I'm gonna launch until the coach pulls
me or I'm told otherwise, Like

457
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:37.880
how is and if he pulls you, he can't pull you for long because

458
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:42.279
he literally has six players that can
play tonight. Yeah, exactly like the

459
00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:45.000
fact that nobody on the team.
And that's where I wanted to see Harris

460
00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:51.039
or Furfey take that role and say
we need someone to just say screw it,

461
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:55.519
I'm gonna launch with Charlie Moore level
confidence, and instead, nobody looked

462
00:32:55.599 --> 00:33:00.400
like they had any interest in shooting
the ball except for Timberlake and well timberl

463
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.599
Even Timberlake I thought should have shot
the ball more, even though that he

464
00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:09.880
every time he looks. So a
loss for the Jayhawks. They will enter

465
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:15.039
the NCAA tournament. What twenty two
to ten ten losses has never happened before

466
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:21.319
the NCAA Tournament and the Bill celf
Era, Uh yeah, not not great.

467
00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:23.920
We're gonna we don't have a lot
else to talk about on this show.

468
00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:27.279
Normally we do two takes. I
don't think we need to here.

469
00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:29.759
I think we can just do the
whole segment. Let's let's talk about some

470
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:32.240
of the other Big Twelve games briefly
and then kind of put a bow on

471
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:37.680
how the rest of this uh pre
NCAA tournament season will go. And then

472
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:40.880
I guess we'll just kind of see
how that goes. That work sounds good

473
00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:44.359
to me, all right, let's
do it. Disappointing night for Kansas.

474
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:50.000
The final stats Kansas thirty four percent
from the floor, fifteen percent on threes,

475
00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:55.160
minus eleven on the glass, barely
more assist than turnovers, just one

476
00:33:55.359 --> 00:33:59.880
and a twenty point l It's getting
better. They lost by thirty last time

477
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.160
and only twenty nights, so they're
only gonna lose to a fourteen seed or

478
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:05.880
whatever by ten. Right, that's
that works? Yes, yeah, I

479
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:10.480
think so. Damn it, damn
it, damn it. So other games.

480
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:15.239
The Big twelve quarterfinal round is set
for the first time ever. The

481
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:21.239
Jayhawks will not be playing in it, but there are some pretty entertaining games

482
00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:24.039
throughout the rest of the Throughout the
rest of the bracket, let's quickly do

483
00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:30.360
an abridged version of other games.
The two games from yesterday since UCF seventy

484
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:34.880
seven Oklahoma State sixty two really just
one question here. That's it for Mike

485
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.480
Boyton, Right, he's done.
Gotta be, gotta be. I've heard

486
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:40.800
there's a decent enough buyout. It's
like a six million dollar buyout. But

487
00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:45.400
I did you see Gallavaria this year? I don't know how you don't try

488
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:49.360
it again. Cincinnati ninety, West
Virginia eighty five. Did you watch this

489
00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:53.639
game? No? I was somewhat
keeping up with it. I saw that

490
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:57.679
West Virginia was up by a lot
and then all of a sudden they weren't

491
00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:00.599
anymore. West Virginia had a sixteen
point lead. That was the better That

492
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:06.840
was Kansas's preferred matchup. Kansas wanted
that one, and then they just melted

493
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.039
down, which I know, shocking. West Virginia blew a lead, also

494
00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:13.159
got three technicals and blew it in
like four minutes or something like that.

495
00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:17.480
Cincinnati made sixteen threes both day day
two guys that made seven each. Yeah,

496
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:23.039
Lukasias and Thomas both made seven.
So Cincinnati advances and now they are

497
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:28.639
to the quarterfinals and now onto the
second round. Recaps number five BYU eighty

498
00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:30.960
seven, UCF seventy three. How
about this one? Did you watch that?

499
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:37.320
I didn't watch. I watched about
five minutes of TC Oklahoma, and

500
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:43.199
then I proceeded to turn on PSV
Eindhoven and Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League,

501
00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:47.719
which I found quite nice. So
BYU. BYU led twenty one to

502
00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:52.320
three, and then they see that
let lead get all the way down to

503
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:57.400
three midway through the second half,
and then it got blown back open UCF.

504
00:35:57.599 --> 00:36:00.079
All things considered, pretty decent year
for him. They won eight games

505
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:06.039
in league play and I'm combining Big
twelve play and Big twelve tournament play only

506
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:10.719
too less than the Jayhawks, which
is bananas, and BYU is scary.

507
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:15.280
I'm not predicting BYU to go to
the Final four, but they made fourteen

508
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:20.039
threes. They nobody wants them in
their bracket. They absolutely could make a

509
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:22.800
deep run if they If they're just
making threes on a couple of days,

510
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:27.559
they're pulling an upset. That's my
call. They are upsetting somebody. Yeah,

511
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:31.440
And the thing that's hesitated us from
believing in BYU in the past is

512
00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:37.480
their week schedule. Now they've done
it against quality teams. They have twenty

513
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:43.320
three wins against a tough schedule like
That's absolutely that I could argue if they

514
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:47.880
take down Tech tomorrow, they might
be entering four seed range. Yeah,

515
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:51.639
I don't think that'd be crazy at
all. I don't know if you can

516
00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:57.559
definitively say that BYU is a couple
seeds worse than Kansas right now. They

517
00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:01.280
shouldn't be at all. They absolutely
should not be number eight. TCU seventy

518
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:07.119
seven, number nine Oklahoma seventy Oklahoma
was playing without Jvion McCollum, but still

519
00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.920
it's it's another l for the Sooners. TCU gets an easy win behind twenty

520
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:15.000
six from Emmanuel Miller. They will
get a shot at Houston, who they

521
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:19.360
beat earlier in the season. Oklahoma's
probably gonna make the dance their twenty and

522
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.679
twelve. But I mean, they
haven't gotten past the first weekend since Buddy

523
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:29.280
healed. They haven't been better than
a nine seed since Buddy healed. I

524
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:32.760
think they might be sweating a little
bit. That win number twenty is really

525
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:36.760
gonna help them. But like,
they they're not a team you have any

526
00:37:36.840 --> 00:37:40.119
confidence in, right, No,
I'm really looking forward to them getting blasted

527
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:45.320
by like I don't know, New
Mexico or somebody of that caliber. TCU.

528
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:50.800
Any confidence that they could have a
shot against the Cougars. They did

529
00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:52.480
beat them earlier in the year,
that was in Fort Worth. Of course,

530
00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:57.199
I think I would say they'd give
them a game. I don't know.

531
00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:59.599
Houston's playing out of their mind right
now, though, so I think

532
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:04.280
He's should take that one pretty pretty
comfortably probably. And then the biggest upset

533
00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:08.199
by points spread today number ten Kansas
State seventy eight, Texas seventy four.

534
00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:14.880
Texas had a ten point halftime lead
and then got gave up forty nine in

535
00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:17.119
the second half. It was a
coaching mismatch. Did you watch this game?

536
00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:22.159
No, I did not watch this
game either. I was watching Knives

537
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:24.079
Out with my sister over dinner,
doing your homework. All right, that's

538
00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:30.360
at least that's more entertaining than watching
Rodney Terry. This game was coaching mismatch

539
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:32.199
of all time. Like Kansas State
just punched them in the mouth in the

540
00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:38.039
second half. Then there was your
classic Doug Sermon's intentional foul as Texas was

541
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:42.000
trying to foul the fourth free throws
at the end. That was good Kansas

542
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:45.199
State twenty one points from Tyler Perry, who goes ten of ten at the

543
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:49.880
line. I think Kansas State now
with nineteen wins on the season. If

544
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.800
they beat Iowa State on Thursday,
I think they should get in a head

545
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:59.760
of Go Oklahoma. Yes, I
wholeheartedly agree. I think they're better.

546
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:04.039
I think they're playing better right now. They are I think that's all true.

547
00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:07.719
And then other games, there really
isn't a whole lot of action from

548
00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:12.159
around college basketball. The only games
with ranked teams were in the Big Twelve

549
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:15.280
Tournament, if that goes to show
just how crazy the Big Twelve is.

550
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:19.920
But there was a near somebody said
it would have been the biggest upset in

551
00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:24.239
the history of Bubble Watch in the
Big East Tournament, where Villanova needed a

552
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:30.320
three pointer by Justin Moore with eight
seconds left to beat De Paul by one

553
00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:34.880
fifty eight to fifty seven. They
probably would have been out of the dance

554
00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:37.440
altogether, and Kyle Neptune I believe
gets locked in a closet for attorney if

555
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:40.760
they lose. Kansas has had some
rough times this year, but at least

556
00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:45.639
they did not lose to a DePaul
team that lost all twenty one games they

557
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:50.519
played against the Big East opponents.
Yeah, that would have been truly devastating,

558
00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:52.400
but hey, good on you.
Villanova. I hope you're not the

559
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:55.480
two seed. I don't think Villanova. I don't know if Villanova is in

560
00:39:55.519 --> 00:40:00.360
the dance for sure. Like you're
telling me that Kansas days out and Villanova's

561
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:05.280
in really like we're we're sure all
right? Oh, and then this,

562
00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:12.079
I don't know this for sure,
but I think Missouri may have just become

563
00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:15.400
the first ever SEC team to go
oh to nineteen. I don't know that,

564
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:21.800
but I don't remember it happening.
Wouldn't be shocked. Missouri actually led

565
00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:25.480
fifty nine to fifty two. At
the final TV timeout, they lost sixty

566
00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:29.840
four to fifty nine. That is
a twelve oh run to a fifteen lost

567
00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:36.039
Georgia team in the final four minutes. Yeah, that is utility, just

568
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:38.719
really really disappointing. Missouri was only
a two point underdog in that game,

569
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:42.800
by the way, that's how bad
Georgia is. And that you know who

570
00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:45.880
else was a two point underdog that
lost today? That's right, I do.

571
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:52.519
Oh, it's on mutual as Missouri
losing highlights playing in the background,

572
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:55.039
rand teams to lose. It's the
last show. Oh no, Landon,

573
00:40:55.880 --> 00:41:00.440
there's only one team on this list. I'll let you do the honors,

574
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:07.159
sir, it is whatever they are
nationally. Don't even know. Sixteen I

575
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:14.159
think I think Kansas they lost to
Cincinnati, all right, so what looking

576
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:16.639
at this Big twelve tournament. Let's
go ahead and pick these games and then

577
00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:20.840
we'll I don't know, I guess
that's about it. They will close with

578
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:24.039
something Kansas related. So the quarterfinal
round is set, first time in your

579
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:30.119
lifetime, there's no Jayhawks in it. Let's start with number five BYU against

580
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:34.159
number four Texas Tech. We all
picked the Cougars in our bracket, and

581
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:37.760
they are a two point favorite.
I'd like them to win that game.

582
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:40.880
Yeah, I'm rolling with that.
Give me the Kougs. Number eight TCU

583
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:45.480
versus number one Houston. The Cougars
open up as an eleven point favorite.

584
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:49.840
I don't know if i'd bet on
that. I think i'd take TCU in

585
00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:53.480
the points, but I do think
that Houston wins the game. I agree.

586
00:41:54.559 --> 00:42:00.960
And then number ten Kansas State against
number two Iowa a state. I

587
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:06.039
can't find point spreads on this because
I would assume Iowa State's gonna be about

588
00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:09.320
a seven ish point favorite because it's
essentially a home game. But I don't

589
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:12.960
I'm feeling case State a little bit. I think they win. I think

590
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:16.639
Iowa State's pendulum luck swings back.
I think this will be feisty. I

591
00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:19.880
think this is gonna be a really
good game, probably the game of the

592
00:42:19.960 --> 00:42:22.880
day, to be honest. But
I think Iowa State sneaks went out and

593
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:28.559
then and the late game here because
Kansas isn't here. Number eleven Cincinnati against

594
00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:31.559
number three Baylor. Boy, what
a silver platter of a path Baylor has

595
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:36.760
set up. I think that they
win, but what a gift. Yeah,

596
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:38.079
I think they win. I also
think this game could be a little

597
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:44.280
closer. Cincinnati playing hot. Sometimes
you just see teams randomly do this,

598
00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:46.800
no matter how good they actually are, So I think they'll play close.

599
00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:50.280
I think I think, even though
you know they're playing their third game in

600
00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:52.599
three days, I think they're gonna
hang around with Baylor. But I do

601
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:55.920
think the Bears pull it off.
So that's our big twelve tournament picks.

602
00:42:57.320 --> 00:43:00.599
I guess the next time we do
a podcast will probably we usually do a

603
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:04.360
double header. We usually do like
a thirty minute show that just specifically talks

604
00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:07.000
about k usdraw and a preview of
their game, and then we do our

605
00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:10.239
March Madness Show, so I assume
we'll do something like that. The bracket

606
00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:14.119
will be out the next time we
do a podcast. Normally, they're not

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one and done in the Big twelve
tournament, so it's kind of weird to

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not do one for a while.
But going forth, Kansas, they're gonna

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get a handful of days off.
They're gonna get more than a week off.

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They should get their best cue players
back, and they're gonna go into

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an NCAA tournament as a four seed
with plenty of questions, but a complete

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reset and a clean slate on their
season. Seriously, all they gotta do

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is just go out there and play
to their strings, play through Hunter Dickinson.

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Hopefully Kevin mcculler's knee is healthy enough
to make an impact, and if

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those two guys are early season,
Kevin McCuller and Hunter Dickinson, I think

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with the right matchup, this team
could make some noise. And I think

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more realistically speaking, they will lose
in the round of thirty two again,

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Kansas, if you so as Kansas, They've only made it out of the

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first weekend once since twenty eighteen,
right, and it was the title that

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one went really well. Yeah,
but it was and also one tournament got

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canceled. Yeah, and you gotta
think they had a great chance to make

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at least the second weekend there.
But last year they lose to Arkansas,

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which I think they I think they
win that game if Bill selfs hurt is

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there, but it wasn't. Nonetheless, then a title, then the lost

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to USC then the no tournament,
and then the lost to Auburn. Yeah,

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they've made one second weekend in the
last what five six years? M

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that's weird and I think that will
continue. Well, however, if it

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does or if it doesn't, we'll
still be here. This is inside the

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paint on a rock chalk blog.
I'm Ryan Landrith. I'm tired. I

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haven't drop on a drop on the
sport that's just called fail SpongeBob's that's us

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right now. With the Jayhawks being
what one in three in March or whatever,

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I don't know. I bad losses
in five, folks. Yeah,

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one a Allen Field House won at
T Mobile Center and two on the road,

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and they they make sure that they
spread around for all the sites.

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Oh, they're gonna lose an Omaha
in a week. You think they're getting

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Omaha, they'll still be a four
seed. So maybe I mean Baylor Iowa

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State like they're gonna let they're they're
okay. I think I think a nice

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Salt Lake City loss to the South
Dakota State Jack Rabbits feels like it's all

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lined up in their future, more
more on the table than it has been

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since whichever one of buck Nell and
Bradley came second. I think Bradley was

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the second one because that's when people
were really saying gilso has his head on

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his ass so much, and then
he won a title a couple of years

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later. We'll see, we'll see, all right, Well, at least

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you're not Fran for Schilla, who
you're not liking more and more by the

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show the worst. All right,
bye Aireus