All the noises that you're here. Those are the Kansas offense, are you
nay? In the same levels of sex? Elemic temper light shots? A
Marco? A Marco is running the offense? Why did the one shoots the
leven shots? Normally I don't say that, but I am. I've done
shows with weird before. I don't have one. Yeah, m hm,
that was a should we go again? Well, man, I love watching
good basketball. Should we go again? Let's go again? No, I'm
just kidding, We're not gonna do that again. But kind of feeling a
little masochistic at this point. I don't know about you. Yeah, something
like that. I mean, what was that? I mean, I know
they didn't have their two best players, which obviously I think I think if
they had those guys, they don't do this. But yeah, I think
that's a pretty big factor. Did you have the day that we came on
this mic for the first time in twenty twenty three, twenty four and said
the Jayhawks are the preseason number one team. Did you have getting run out
of the Team Mobile Center by Cincinnati for their fourth loss in five games on
that Bengo card and their ninth loss of Big twelfth play and their tenth loss
of the season. They were outscored. To kick off with a stat,
Kansas was a minus two to nineteen on threes in conference games. That is
what, seventy three fewer three pointers made than their opponents seventy three. I
think something. I don't know how c can be that bad. I don't
either, because that's not even the right number. Yeah, it is seventy
three times three is two nineteen yep. Uh. And tonight, oh boy,
tonight. The final box score shows that they made three threes. But
that's triple the amount of credit they deserve because they had well, you know
what, we don't. We don't have a box score in front of us.
We don't have the exact numbers. But we're on the mic. Actually
do it? Okay? Are you on the ESPN site because ESPN doesn't show
them, No, doesn't show the number. I'm on. I'm on the
live step page that was still running. Where is the live stats link?
I need that? Oh, that was on the KU website schedule. If
you go to the KU schedule, I'm not sure if it's the link will
still be there, but I'm still on the page. I'm on it.
Because I can't wait for my eyeballs to see those composents. Yeah, why
don't why don't we do that? I could use that. Oh, yes,
here is the box score. I have found it. So the Jayhawks,
Oh boy, the Kansas basketball Jayhawks lose in their Big twelve tournament opener
for the first time since you and Nick were on this show twenty seventeen.
Was the last time that happened. Yeah, that we didn't have a This
is the first time that we've ever talked about decided he was angry cars.
Yeah, and that's I'm much like tonight. There was a reason that more
than likely contributed to the loss. But we don't have a game plan here
because we don't know the next opponent. We don't even have our third co
host, who is stranded due to the snowstorm in Colorado right now. He's
had a Nick Timberlake of a time trying to get back to Kansas City.
Just they just a disaster of an evening. So the only thing to do
is hop on the microphone for a impromptu Inside the Paint podcast late night edition
blow out over Cincinnati recap edition. How fun this is Inside the Paint Huh,
I'm Ryan Landreth. I'm going camping tomorrow, which is gonna be way
better than this, is it. Yeah, just make sure that you are
wearing protection in the event that some of those basketballs that Nick Timberlake launched that
bounced off the top of the backboard come crash landing in your campsite. They
very well might, you know, You never know. Yeah, they are
gonna have to start installing the equivalent of spit guards. Yeah for Nick Timberlake
bricks. Yeah, you're going to You're gonna go out in the middle of
the night to use the bathroom in the dark, and you're gonna hear and
it's gonna be Nick Timberlake's third three point shot landing in the car window of
whatever vehicle you use to get to that part of the woods. Does a
Nick Timberlake brick make a sound if there's no one else in the gym to
hear it, it does? It goes like this. It's so about the
same as normal. Yeah, it's all all Timberlake bricks are about the same.
I think they're waited about the same. But here we go. Let's
poll the air hoorn and talk about the Jayhawks. We'll do our best.
Actually, you know what they earned it WCC champs, not champs of anything,
right now, Number eleven Cincinnati, seventy two, number six Kansas.
That fifty two was the number. So this was this game here, game
story. Normally, this is something we read, can't read it, We
don't have the notes for it. Kansas plays just an abysmal first half.
They don't have Dickinson's, they don't have McCuller. They didn't really have Parker
Brown either, who played just two minutes he was hurt, so that really
they were rolling with six scholarship players, only one of which plays front court,
and they they fall behind by thirteen at the break, but they come
out in the second half behind a little bit better offense, if anything,
just by default, and Cincinnati having a horrid start scoring three points in the
first eight minutes. The second half, Kansas cuts that that deficit from thirteen
to two. It's forty to thirty eight, and they're right there. And
then from that point on it was thirty two to what fourteen, thirty two
to fourteen the rest of the night. Yeah, you knew it too.
You sense there was a moment in that second half where Cincinnati left the door
open for you to take the lead. We saw missed mid range jays,
couple of opportunities that maybe could have been fouls it they didn't get the call
on few opportunities slipped through their fingertips, and then Cincinnati stretched it right back
out and that was that. We'll get to the ramifications of this game.
But you knew it was gonna be ugly heading in, and oh boy,
was it just a horrible night for Kansas, who shoots thirty three percent as
a team twenty one sixty two. They go three for twenty shooting threes after
starting one for sixteen, and they got two of their last four in garbage
time. They were minus eleven on the glass, They had twelve turnovers.
Horrendous, just horrendous. So before now of a sudden, the last show,
you and I both said that they would beat Cincinnati. Presumably we didn't
know the injury status, of course, of Dickinson and mccullor. Officially.
We kind of thought Dickinson would be out. We thought mccull probably might play.
But after we both knew, you still stuck in the chat we were
talking. Of course, before the game, you still thought Kansas was gonna
win. I did not. I thought they would lose without both those guys.
What this will sound funny, but genuine question, what did you think
would happen? How did you think they would win? I do mean that
genuinely. I'm curious to know your thought process. Knowing they didn't have two
guys that average eighteen at night, how do you think they were gonna win?
I mean, when you were it that way, I feel kind of
stupid. I guess my thought process was, Okay, Cincinnati played really well
yesterday. They put in a lot of energy to that wild comeback over West
Virginia. Coming into play a second game in two days after Kansas has gotten
some rest. Kansas is coached by a Hall of famer, Kansas has a
tremendous home court advantage, and they entered this game as a two point underdog.
It was essentially a coin flip, and I wondered if we would see
Kansas play some different basketball. Surely Bill self had to look at this game
without his best two players by a huge margin, and he clearly had to
think, Okay, how are we going to attack a team that is really
tall, really good at rebounding. I thought that they would utilize their speed.
I thought you would see a team take as many threes as they did
twos. I thought you would see a team that was quarterbacked by a point
guard trying to get to the hole the way they did against Kansas State,
and they really didn't do that. They kind of tried to run the same
game plan that they run whenever they have their seven foot two center, which
is, let's feed the post and score two at a time. I get
the three pointers weren't falling. They were one for their first sixteen. When
they tried to make threes, it didn't go well at all, But I
wondered if the game plan on going in was gonna be let Timberlake and Furfee
take ten plus threes each, Let kJ do what he can inside, which
he did great in this game, and we'll see what happens against the team
that hasn't been in the spot, that isn't familiar with the setting. Like
I thought, it would come down to the wire, and I thought that
Kansas still had enough quality players on their roster with three honorable mention All League
players and a handful of other highlys houted. Yeah, Yetta McDonald's All American.
You got a high impact transfer, Like I thought there was enough there
to at least keep it interesting. Clearly I underestimated, which you got right,
just how god awful this offense was without either of their two playmakers.
And I've been that fight on Twitter all year, the people who aren't impressed
with Hunter Dickinson. What's it look like when he's not there? Well,
there you go forty six and fifty two points. That is less than one
hundred points in two games for Kansas. Congrats, no one. I've never
said scoring the basketball was this problem. When you take Virginia or whenever you
take a hundred Dickinson off Kansas, they're left being Virginia, especially when you
don't have Kevin mccullor on that either, because they I thought Dwan Harris was
gonna take like seventeen shots in this game, which was that was clearly foolish
of me. But I thought he was going to be a guy that actually
tried to create a lot, and he only took a lefn shots, which
was tied for second on the team with Almarco Jackson. So that kind of
shows you how the night went. How did you think they Surely you didn't
think they were gonna get twenty bald or, did you I didn't think they'd
get twenty bald. No, I didn't think it'd be that bad. Certainly
obviously, yeah, I thought they'd lose. I didn't like, it's not
that Cincinnati was this juggernaut though obviously, Like I didn't think they would run
him off the court. I I don't know, man. I was trying
to do the math earlier today, knowing, you know, once we knew
for sure, for sure that mccullar and Dickinson were done, I was like,
Okay, how does this team score like six? Like is there a
path for them to get to like sixty or seventy points, which is pretty
sad that you're even at that point, but big twelve it might be enough,
right, And that was also kind of the thing where it was like,
you know, it's Cincinnati, Like if Kansas plays good defense, which
maybe they still could, if Cincinnati's cold or something, you know, they
could hold him to like the low sixties or high fifties and maybe squeak one
out, which wouldn't have done the job either. They scored fifty two,
and I really I was kind of struggling to get there. I was like,
well, you know, kJ ordwan have a have a good night,
and kJ did. He had twenty two I'm nine to fourteen shooting though,
as he was good, maybe you get this and if Furfey plays well and
if you know, if you get a little bit of this and that,
like you know, maybe maybe there's in the mid sixties there for you.
But that obviously would have required a lot of things going right. Uh,
and really none of those did because I mean Johnny Furfey was just non existent.
He had eight rebounds. Yeah, well go ahead, and let's go
ahead. You mentioned kJ he's the bright spot. Twenty two points. Yeah,
he was great. Only four rebounds as the five man. People are
like, oh, well he doesn't get to play the five. Okay,
he's the five here and played thirty four minutes at it and had four boards.
That's great. Also foul fourth on the team in rebounds. No,
he didn't foul out. What does f D mean in fouls? Says personal
fouls? Two f D five Oh like times fouled? Oh okay, gotcha?
Okay, So yeah, only two fouls but nine to fourteen from the
floor. Yeah, he was fine. I think that the moment when the
game began to shift back Kansas got off to that starting second half, which
they really weren't playing great as much as Cincinnati just was ice cold for eight
or nine minutes. And Kansas also got the benefit of some probably could have
been foul calls. The officiating in the entire round of whatever round number this
says, was terrible all throughout the game, from the the everything yesterday.
They call all those technicals on West Virginia. Without it, Kansas wouldn't have
even played Cincinnati. There are some horrible efficientty at the end of the k
State Texas game, and then this it was all over the place. But
Kansas goes on their run two points at a time because that's the only way
this team can score. And then kJ looks like he gets bumped going to
the rim on what would have been a game tying basket. They ought not
to call it. There on the other end of the floor, Cincinnati gets
pretty much the same call. Then after that, Cincinnati hit a couple threes
and just like that it was back to like fifty three to forty two or
something like that, so that pretty much ended it kJ. The good thing
about this being a short recap with only six players, there's not a lot
of players to RECAPKJ. I assume we didn't learn anything here. He's easily
the best player on the team whenever you take away Hunter and Kevin, and
he did more than enough. He battled his ass off, and kudos to
him, by the way, who clearly kind of probably saw the riding on
the wall coming into this game. He was banged up, hit his head
on the goalpost, like he had to have known the sheer amount of work
he was gonna have to do to keep this team in the game, and
he did as noble of a job as he realistically could have, Like get
huntering, Kevin back, and he should be he'll be a fine piece,
right, Like, we don't have a lot to analyze with kJ. No
no kJ, even though we have nitpicked him a lot this year, and
you could even just say have been hard on him, which I think would
be a fair assessment. And the four rebound sucks like that, that's what
we knew was gonna happen. They got shredded on the glass and the five
man can't rebound, right, and that's you know, that is the case
for sure. But I you know, I mean, you still needed him
in this game, and he was he was very good. He scored twenty
two obviously, so yeah, not a ton there for kJ to really dig
your teeth into that we haven't already talked about. He was as good as
he could have been. So am I doing the math correctly? If I
take Kj's nine to fourteen away, that the rest of the team was twelve
for forty eight from the floor, twelve for forty eight twenty five percent?
Yes, wow, that's amazing. Who so that Jamari McDowell was three for
six, So you take him out, and that leaves five other guys,
four of them starters that were nine for forty two. Nine for forty two
is barely twenty percent who you want to start with, because oh my gosh,
there's just so much every I just love his buck score and all I
see is like it is just an abomination the problems. I guess they lost
this game the instant reaction. They're gonna be a four seed in all likelihood.
Maybe the committee really punishes him and they fall to a five because they've
lost four out of the last five games. Now they've won one since the
last week. They fall a five. They are on upset watch. I
think they're on upset watches a four. Are you kidding me? South Dakota
State is looming as a thirteen? Yeah, that would not be fun at
all. But what like, So here's the stat that I went and researched
with your help right before. It was the thing that was on my mind
when they were ending the game so poorly on offense. So Bill Self has
coached a total of four hundred and ten games at Kansas against Big Twelve opponents,
four hundred and ten games if you combine conference play and the Big Twelve
tournament. In the first four hundred and eight of those games, Kansas scored
at least fifty three points in all of them. In the last two at
Houston last weekend and Cincinnati to night, they didn't score fifty three in either
game, the two lowest scoring outputs in a conference game against the conference opponent.
However, you won award that in the Bill Self era have been the
last two games forty six against Houston, fifty two against Cincinnati. Ah,
but you're forgetting the fifty that happened in Lubbock. Oh my goodness, Oh
my goodness, you're right. I then that that damn stat's all messed up
on Twitter. So how about we just adjust it too. They've never scored
less than fifty three until a month ago, and now they've done it three
times, three times in one season, oh, three times in half a
season. And you look at some times in like a month and a half,
they've all been banged up to get there. But but oh, it's
just just that doesn't make it a lot better. No, it's not.
And you enter the NCAA tournament and Bill self has said they're gonna get McCuller
and Dickinson back, and I and they're spreading that like wildfire on ESPN says
they're gonna be healthy. So I'm gonna take his word for it, and
hope he's just not trying to hype up the committee. They're gonna play next
week against the thirteen seed, and then what what what's your expectation when you
get those thirty seven combined points per game back? I mean, like I
think think best case I mean best case scenario depends. My expectation is they
lose in the round to thirty two to a five seed. I would assume,
yes, yes, my expectation is that they would be a four and
lose to a five. A lah Auburn, Okay, And when they do,
the game's gonna look what kind of like this? They can't make threes.
I don't know, It's hard to compare anything. I was excited for
this game because I thought we'd get to see them play a little different.
I thought they'd throw crap at the wall and see what's stuck. And instead
they threw crap at the basket and nothing stuck. Like God, what's your
expectation with those guys back? I think that with the right draw they could
make the Elite eight. I think that with the right draw, yeah,
you could absolutely win two games in that first weekend. And then you give
your one of the best coaches historically ever in the sweet sixteen, with all
that prep time, you give him some time to They have two All League
players. I think there was still one of the ten best, most talented,
whatever you want to say, teams in the country. I I don't
know if they're gonna get the right drown maybe good. I think that's gotta
get punted at some point. They've gotten some really really rotten luck. Like
everything went right in twenty twenty two. It did. They got some breaks
with their seeds that they played they got their matchup breaks, they got their
their health breaks. Uh with North Carolina was banged up in the title game,
I think four. Yeah, and then everything else has sucked. I
think it's not untrue that they've gotten really rotten luck this year, but at
some point, like but really good teams can overcome bad luck. Yes,
for sure, this team has not been able to do that at all.
No, I mean what what what would the line have been tomorrow against Baylor
had they survived with this with the same roster? Yeah, uh, probably
Baylor minus ten. If Kansas, if this was the NCAA Tournament tonight,
Wood mccullor and or Dickinson have played, Yes, both of them, I
would. If they're ready, if they're going to play next week and that's
the full expectation, then they're probably somewhat good enough to go in a single
elimination seasons over format. So I guess then that's the case. You shouldn't
be too disappointed about tonight because for years there have been Kansas fans on Twitter
that have said, let's just use the Big Twelve tournament to rest our guys,
and they did, and fans are like, oh man, that sucked,
Like all right, it was bad, But I don't know what you
expect. You said, they've lost by fifty fricking combined points in the last
two games. Yeah, and we thought that Case State game would get them
back on track. All right, I want to talk about Nick Timberlake.
I didn't. I never thought that to be fair. So Nick Timberlake goes
two for nine from the floor in his twenty seven minutes, one for five
on three. The three was in the final four minutes. He was zero
for four for a while while the game was in doubt or well, and
at the end just apocalyptic, like just just he He had shots bouncing off
the top of the backboard. He was open, and then there were even
fran for Schila was like, oh my gosh, he's gotta shoot that.
He just jee He did and he and he was right. Timberlake in this
game five points and an apocalyptic minus twenty five and the plus minus Kansas was
five points better than Cincinnati when Timberlake was not on the floor and twenty five
points worse when he was. It's bad, that's gross. They were Kansas.
These are the kind of things where we were talking about this before we
got on the call for the show that Dickinson and timber or Timberlake, but
Dickinson and m clor excuse me, uh, they they multiply everyone, like
they make everyone else around them a little bit better, even if obviously Nick
Mberlake's case, that's not been as true as you'd like it. But they
do make they improve the entirety of the team. It's not just like,
oh, they are on the floor, so the team's better just because they
can do their thing. It's they can help everyone because obviously the defense has
to focus on certain things. You all understand basketball. But like, so
obviously that's true and it doesn't help. But like, holy goodness, Nick
Timberlake man, like just he just can't make anything, like and I know
that's been the case all season, but like, I don't know how this
is possible. I do not know how a guy that shot well, he
shot over forty percent his last two years a toousand or the high thirties at
least. I don't know how you go from that to this in a season
and it just never ever clicked for him. Uh. And I'm I'm I
mean I called it on Timberlake a long time ago. I guess putting the
tombstone on him. But yeah, it's it's bad, and he was truly
terrible in this game. Truly terrible. This is a Bill self quote from
after the game. It's like they're shooting at the fair where the balls can't
actually fit in the goals. He's he's not wrong on that. Also,
resident dumbass Jeff Goodman, who watched this game from the moon approximately said that
he talked to Kevin mccouller after the game, and both Kevin McCuller and Hunter
Dickinson are quote absolutely going to play in the tournament. This was precautionary,
according to Jeff Goodman, who was at the Sprint Center tonight or whatever.
So great, hey, they have him back. Woo. Let's let's let's
right right, so they can lose to who's a five seed? I don't
even know Kentucky Clumson. If they drop Kentucky, I quit. Oh.
Oh. If they get Kentucky, Kentucky can't defend. So maybe it will
be immovable object, unstoppable force. But in reverse like which terrible thing is
just a little worse. Tonight be my ken tonight p my validation for all
the times I complain about how bad three point shooters go nuclear against Kansas,
and people say it's because the defense is bad and the Jayhawks are proof that
it does not matter how well you guard people. Bad shooters miss shots most
of the time. Yeah, I think that's true. So let's talk about
a couple of other guys here. Johnny Furfey was going into this game.
They needed Furfey to carry them. Yeah, he was irrelevant. He took
the least amount of shots of anybody in the starting five, despite playing thirty
three minutes, one for eight from the floor, didn't make a three,
did have eight rebounds. Two points for Johnny Furfey. Two points, and
it was on a basket that came within the I think it might have been
Kayu's second basket. It came really early, and then he just he just
ran around and did cardio out there and missed open shots. He missed several
long range twos that would have been a huge Like the good news, I
guess if you want it for Kansas, And we always say this really actually
isn't good news. Whenever a guy slides late in the year and it turns
out he has to come back another year. I don't think Furfrey's gonna go
pro. But but like Furfey has really struggled in the last couple of weeks
shooting the ball, and they need a freshman yep, yep comes in and
you're like, he's gonna be the savior, and then it starts to taper
back down to a freshman level a little bit. Furfey's gonna be a really
good player. I bet that he's in the he's in contentionent for an All
League spot next year, but he's just Yeah, they needed a team that
can't shoot, needed him to kind of be their savior in that regard.
And I mean nineteen games this year they out shot their opponents from three.
They made more threes than their opponent in one of nineteen conference games. When
Furfey isn't making anything, nobody's making anything. And I also, by the
way, I also don't know. I don't know how much confidence you can
really have in Johnny Furfey in the NCAA tournament because he has had the deer
and headlights look a lot recently in these big in their season games, been
a track record of much better freshman than Furfey disappearing in the tournament. Yeah,
oh, for sure. If Biggins is held to six points because he
gets the yips a little bit furfy? Could I mean one for eight feels
about right. El Marco Jackson, another freshman that we thought would be better,
shot a lot, didn't do anything. Score dock, Yeah, great
dunk. Didn't know he could do that. Five points for el Marco,
two for eleven from the floor, oh for four on threes? How many
times did he pass up an open three point shot to take two steps in
and shoot along two every time? He shot almost just four or five at
least at least. He's so bad, man, He's so bad. He
can't pass. He really didn't defend very well here. I know it wasn't
a great matchup. He can't handle the ball. Like what what do you
what do you want at this point? Like I would rather Timberlake play thirty
five minutes and al Marco plays zero than than anything else. Like it's he
it's not gonna happen. This is he's not gonna be back at Kansas.
I'd be stunned. Yeah, that feels like a pretty instant transfer, and
he'll go start for most teams in the country. Half fun, have fun
with a guard that can't shoot. He should be a point guard, which
isn't gonna happen on next year because they have de Wan Harris coming back.
But he can't he can't score. He can't score. Kansas has a point
guard that doesn't always look to score. What use do they have for a
combo guard that doesn't look to score and when he does, he can't.
Yeah, that's a pretty deadly combo. There By deadly, I mean more
in the silent but deadly sense. We need to talk about Dewan too,
because d one eight points in this game, three for eleven from the floor,
five assists, four turnovers the assist. I think this is arguably his
worst game of the season. I think this is his like most unacceptable performance
of the year. I agree, back to back they were his worst two
games of the year. Tell me a little bit more about I'm assuming what
you're gonna say is, because hey, Kevin and Hunter are out, dude,
we need the senior leader of our team to go do something. Yeah,
that is essential to take Yeah. And I think I even said that
earlier in the show, where I was guessing he would take like, I
don't know, seven, like a bunch of shots. I kind of was
in like he'll take like fifteen plus shots in this game, which is crazy.
But we'd seen Dewan at least turn up the offense a little bit in
spots where they needed it, or you know, if someone was a little
banged up, or when McCuller was out. You know, we saw Harris
take more shots, and I guess he did take eleven but won three point
attempts. That was that was the problem. Thirty eight minutes, he and
Timberlake just decided they weren't gonna shoot semi open threes. And I'm like,
at what point do you cause they took eight three much do you have to
be down to just not start shooting everything. Yeah, they scored twenty five
points in the first half and took twenty one twos in eight threes, And
I'm like, why, at what point do you just decide launching threes is
your best option? It's either a pass inside to kJ and de one.
I guess the problem I haved One runs in, runs into the blane and
he doesn't have his two best guys to throw to, and he kind of
just yeats the ball back into the field of play as he's getting ready to
run out of bounds. Like, what do you think is gonna happen with
this million times this makeshift crew around him? Like how can the one dribbles
around and tries to find someone open play be a better option than a semi
open three by guys who haven't been making anything all night? Like I would
rather take my chances with that. You're you're losing either way. But still
also on my screen on the ESPN bottom bar, it just showed me that
Latrell Jostle has seven points for Steven f austin the night. That's more than
Nick Timberlake and Alan Arco Jackson and only one less than Dewan Harris Gross.
The only other guy we didn't talk about Jamar McDowell, who played pretty well
for I mean, considering the rule, he had played the fewest amount of
minutes of the main six, which that's a choice seven points and six rebounds.
The guy was third and scoring and third and rebounding, and he only
played what he played twenty three minutes, like he probably should have been playing
more. He kind of has, Yeah, he has that kind of bulldog
mentality that I think they were looking for. Timberlake got bench really quickly in
the second half too, he was all right. Parker brown Sel said he's
pretty banged up with the rolled ankle. He only played two minutes and the
walk on's got some run at the end. Patrick Cassidy made one of the
team's three three pointers. So yeah, that imagine me. Imagine being told
Patrick Cassidy's gonna have one third of their threes entering the night. I would
not have been on Kansas at that point. No, I wouldn't have either.
So that's kind of your rundown of stats, Like there's there's more to
analyze, I'm sure with it was it was just awful. It was.
It was a disgusting game. And then I think the part that frustrated me
look that winning this game wouldn't have done much for their seed because they would
have lost the Baylor tomorrow. But the thing about it is a win could
have this team could have really used a win. He gets some confidence they
were they were playing or even just a better performance than this. Right,
Yeah, and you were there to start the second half, Cincinnati put it
on a silver platter for you and misses all those shots and you cannot you
knew when they couldn't get over the hump and it stretched back out to five
or seven points if that was it, Yeah, yeah, more or less.
I mean, I don't really know what there's quite to take from this
game, because obviously, as we've talked about, and as has been talked
about a lot, they didn't have their two best players, and taking out
two first team All Conference players who average you know, like what thirty six
thirty seven combined points on the ear, obviously, that's gonna make you a
lot worse. At the same time, though, I mean, that doesn't
really make Johnny Furphy's zero for three from three or Nick Timberlake's two for nine
or whatever sit a lot better, because, as Ryan you're saying, like
it would have at least been nice to get some good out guys. I
don't know how at some point Nick Timberlake drop a few threes and like,
play well, and just nothing happened. They all were exactly who they've been
all year, no improvement at all. Like Dan Skilling shot twenty three times
and scored twenty five. It's not an efficient night, but he said,
give me the ball, this is my game. How with a depleted team
where you only had six guys play, how does nobody take fifteen seventeen shots.
How is there nobody that said, missus b damned give me the ball.
I'm gonna launch until the coach pulls me or I'm told otherwise, Like
how is and if he pulls you, he can't pull you for long because
he literally has six players that can play tonight. Yeah, exactly like the
fact that nobody on the team. And that's where I wanted to see Harris
or Furfey take that role and say we need someone to just say screw it,
I'm gonna launch with Charlie Moore level confidence, and instead, nobody looked
like they had any interest in shooting the ball except for Timberlake and well timberl
Even Timberlake I thought should have shot the ball more, even though that he
every time he looks. So a loss for the Jayhawks. They will enter
the NCAA tournament. What twenty two to ten ten losses has never happened before
the NCAA Tournament and the Bill celf Era, Uh yeah, not not great.
We're gonna we don't have a lot else to talk about on this show.
Normally we do two takes. I don't think we need to here.
I think we can just do the whole segment. Let's let's talk about some
of the other Big Twelve games briefly and then kind of put a bow on
how the rest of this uh pre NCAA tournament season will go. And then
I guess we'll just kind of see how that goes. That work sounds good
to me, all right, let's do it. Disappointing night for Kansas.
The final stats Kansas thirty four percent from the floor, fifteen percent on threes,
minus eleven on the glass, barely more assist than turnovers, just one
and a twenty point l It's getting better. They lost by thirty last time
and only twenty nights, so they're only gonna lose to a fourteen seed or
whatever by ten. Right, that's that works? Yes, yeah, I
think so. Damn it, damn it, damn it. So other games.
The Big twelve quarterfinal round is set for the first time ever. The
Jayhawks will not be playing in it, but there are some pretty entertaining games
throughout the rest of the Throughout the rest of the bracket, let's quickly do
an abridged version of other games. The two games from yesterday since UCF seventy
seven Oklahoma State sixty two really just one question here. That's it for Mike
Boyton, Right, he's done. Gotta be, gotta be. I've heard
there's a decent enough buyout. It's like a six million dollar buyout. But
I did you see Gallavaria this year? I don't know how you don't try
it again. Cincinnati ninety, West Virginia eighty five. Did you watch this
game? No? I was somewhat keeping up with it. I saw that
West Virginia was up by a lot and then all of a sudden they weren't
anymore. West Virginia had a sixteen point lead. That was the better That
was Kansas's preferred matchup. Kansas wanted that one, and then they just melted
down, which I know, shocking. West Virginia blew a lead, also
got three technicals and blew it in like four minutes or something like that.
Cincinnati made sixteen threes both day day two guys that made seven each. Yeah,
Lukasias and Thomas both made seven. So Cincinnati advances and now they are
to the quarterfinals and now onto the second round. Recaps number five BYU eighty
seven, UCF seventy three. How about this one? Did you watch that?
I didn't watch. I watched about five minutes of TC Oklahoma, and
then I proceeded to turn on PSV Eindhoven and Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League,
which I found quite nice. So BYU. BYU led twenty one to
three, and then they see that let lead get all the way down to
three midway through the second half, and then it got blown back open UCF.
All things considered, pretty decent year for him. They won eight games
in league play and I'm combining Big twelve play and Big twelve tournament play only
too less than the Jayhawks, which is bananas, and BYU is scary.
I'm not predicting BYU to go to the Final four, but they made fourteen
threes. They nobody wants them in their bracket. They absolutely could make a
deep run if they If they're just making threes on a couple of days,
they're pulling an upset. That's my call. They are upsetting somebody. Yeah,
And the thing that's hesitated us from believing in BYU in the past is
their week schedule. Now they've done it against quality teams. They have twenty
three wins against a tough schedule like That's absolutely that I could argue if they
take down Tech tomorrow, they might be entering four seed range. Yeah,
I don't think that'd be crazy at all. I don't know if you can
definitively say that BYU is a couple seeds worse than Kansas right now. They
shouldn't be at all. They absolutely should not be number eight. TCU seventy
seven, number nine Oklahoma seventy Oklahoma was playing without Jvion McCollum, but still
it's it's another l for the Sooners. TCU gets an easy win behind twenty
six from Emmanuel Miller. They will get a shot at Houston, who they
beat earlier in the season. Oklahoma's probably gonna make the dance their twenty and
twelve. But I mean, they haven't gotten past the first weekend since Buddy
healed. They haven't been better than a nine seed since Buddy healed. I
think they might be sweating a little bit. That win number twenty is really
gonna help them. But like, they they're not a team you have any
confidence in, right, No, I'm really looking forward to them getting blasted
by like I don't know, New Mexico or somebody of that caliber. TCU.
Any confidence that they could have a shot against the Cougars. They did
beat them earlier in the year, that was in Fort Worth. Of course,
I think I would say they'd give them a game. I don't know.
Houston's playing out of their mind right now, though, so I think
He's should take that one pretty pretty comfortably probably. And then the biggest upset
by points spread today number ten Kansas State seventy eight, Texas seventy four.
Texas had a ten point halftime lead and then got gave up forty nine in
the second half. It was a coaching mismatch. Did you watch this game?
No, I did not watch this game either. I was watching Knives
Out with my sister over dinner, doing your homework. All right, that's
at least that's more entertaining than watching Rodney Terry. This game was coaching mismatch
of all time. Like Kansas State just punched them in the mouth in the
second half. Then there was your classic Doug Sermon's intentional foul as Texas was
trying to foul the fourth free throws at the end. That was good Kansas
State twenty one points from Tyler Perry, who goes ten of ten at the
line. I think Kansas State now with nineteen wins on the season. If
they beat Iowa State on Thursday, I think they should get in a head
of Go Oklahoma. Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. I think they're better.
I think they're playing better right now. They are I think that's all true.
And then other games, there really isn't a whole lot of action from
around college basketball. The only games with ranked teams were in the Big Twelve
Tournament, if that goes to show just how crazy the Big Twelve is.
But there was a near somebody said it would have been the biggest upset in
the history of Bubble Watch in the Big East Tournament, where Villanova needed a
three pointer by Justin Moore with eight seconds left to beat De Paul by one
fifty eight to fifty seven. They probably would have been out of the dance
altogether, and Kyle Neptune I believe gets locked in a closet for attorney if
they lose. Kansas has had some rough times this year, but at least
they did not lose to a DePaul team that lost all twenty one games they
played against the Big East opponents. Yeah, that would have been truly devastating,
but hey, good on you. Villanova. I hope you're not the
two seed. I don't think Villanova. I don't know if Villanova is in
the dance for sure. Like you're telling me that Kansas days out and Villanova's
in really like we're we're sure all right? Oh, and then this,
I don't know this for sure, but I think Missouri may have just become
the first ever SEC team to go oh to nineteen. I don't know that,
but I don't remember it happening. Wouldn't be shocked. Missouri actually led
fifty nine to fifty two. At the final TV timeout, they lost sixty
four to fifty nine. That is a twelve oh run to a fifteen lost
Georgia team in the final four minutes. Yeah, that is utility, just
really really disappointing. Missouri was only a two point underdog in that game,
by the way, that's how bad Georgia is. And that you know who
else was a two point underdog that lost today? That's right, I do.
Oh, it's on mutual as Missouri losing highlights playing in the background,
rand teams to lose. It's the last show. Oh no, Landon,
there's only one team on this list. I'll let you do the honors,
sir, it is whatever they are nationally. Don't even know. Sixteen I
think I think Kansas they lost to Cincinnati, all right, so what looking
at this Big twelve tournament. Let's go ahead and pick these games and then
we'll I don't know, I guess that's about it. They will close with
something Kansas related. So the quarterfinal round is set, first time in your
lifetime, there's no Jayhawks in it. Let's start with number five BYU against
number four Texas Tech. We all picked the Cougars in our bracket, and
they are a two point favorite. I'd like them to win that game.
Yeah, I'm rolling with that. Give me the Kougs. Number eight TCU
versus number one Houston. The Cougars open up as an eleven point favorite.
I don't know if i'd bet on that. I think i'd take TCU in
the points, but I do think that Houston wins the game. I agree.
And then number ten Kansas State against number two Iowa a state. I
can't find point spreads on this because I would assume Iowa State's gonna be about
a seven ish point favorite because it's essentially a home game. But I don't
I'm feeling case State a little bit. I think they win. I think
Iowa State's pendulum luck swings back. I think this will be feisty. I
think this is gonna be a really good game, probably the game of the
day, to be honest. But I think Iowa State sneaks went out and
then and the late game here because Kansas isn't here. Number eleven Cincinnati against
number three Baylor. Boy, what a silver platter of a path Baylor has
set up. I think that they win, but what a gift. Yeah,
I think they win. I also think this game could be a little
closer. Cincinnati playing hot. Sometimes you just see teams randomly do this,
no matter how good they actually are, So I think they'll play close.
I think I think, even though you know they're playing their third game in
three days, I think they're gonna hang around with Baylor. But I do
think the Bears pull it off. So that's our big twelve tournament picks.
I guess the next time we do a podcast will probably we usually do a
double header. We usually do like a thirty minute show that just specifically talks
about k usdraw and a preview of their game, and then we do our
March Madness Show, so I assume we'll do something like that. The bracket
will be out the next time we do a podcast. Normally, they're not
one and done in the Big twelve tournament, so it's kind of weird to
not do one for a while. But going forth, Kansas, they're gonna
get a handful of days off. They're gonna get more than a week off.
They should get their best cue players back, and they're gonna go into
an NCAA tournament as a four seed with plenty of questions, but a complete
reset and a clean slate on their season. Seriously, all they gotta do
is just go out there and play to their strings, play through Hunter Dickinson.
Hopefully Kevin mcculler's knee is healthy enough to make an impact, and if
those two guys are early season, Kevin McCuller and Hunter Dickinson, I think
with the right matchup, this team could make some noise. And I think
more realistically speaking, they will lose in the round of thirty two again,
Kansas, if you so as Kansas, They've only made it out of the
first weekend once since twenty eighteen, right, and it was the title that
one went really well. Yeah, but it was and also one tournament got
canceled. Yeah, and you gotta think they had a great chance to make
at least the second weekend there. But last year they lose to Arkansas,
which I think they I think they win that game if Bill selfs hurt is
there, but it wasn't. Nonetheless, then a title, then the lost
to USC then the no tournament, and then the lost to Auburn. Yeah,
they've made one second weekend in the last what five six years? M
that's weird and I think that will continue. Well, however, if it
does or if it doesn't, we'll still be here. This is inside the
paint on a rock chalk blog. I'm Ryan Landrith. I'm tired. I
haven't drop on a drop on the sport that's just called fail SpongeBob's that's us
right now. With the Jayhawks being what one in three in March or whatever,
I don't know. I bad losses in five, folks. Yeah,
one a Allen Field House won at T Mobile Center and two on the road,
and they they make sure that they spread around for all the sites.
Oh, they're gonna lose an Omaha in a week. You think they're getting
Omaha, they'll still be a four seed. So maybe I mean Baylor Iowa
State like they're gonna let they're they're okay. I think I think a nice
Salt Lake City loss to the South Dakota State Jack Rabbits feels like it's all
lined up in their future, more more on the table than it has been
since whichever one of buck Nell and Bradley came second. I think Bradley was
the second one because that's when people were really saying gilso has his head on
his ass so much, and then he won a title a couple of years
later. We'll see, we'll see, all right, Well, at least
you're not Fran for Schilla, who you're not liking more and more by the
show the worst. All right, bye Aireus