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All right, So I'm really not
sure how I want to open this podcast.

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I have a couple of different options. I could say, Nicholas Timberlake

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for three and nope, nope,
there goes off the rim. No,

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not even not even close. Or
I could open this up with and Mahomes

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drops back, Oh, he's got
Valdez scaling for the game winner. And

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then with the loudest and I do
mean loudest that I could ever put into

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a podcast. Thanks well and in. The Jayhawks really did not play particularly

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well today, but they did,
in fact have eighty three more points in

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their game than the Chiefs had in
the second half of their game. And

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the Jayhawks, of course finished with
eighty three points in this game. We've

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been watching a lot of sports.
We're like, really really stimulated with sports,

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but not in the way that we
had hoped to after a Super Bowl

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rematch that did not go to the
Chiefs ways, So it's that we're gonna

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talk about shamanad. This is said
the paint on Rock Chalk qlog on Ryan

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Land. I'm justin Watson Sands,
No, please don't do that. You're

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not there. That's why he dropped
the ball. Most of the time that

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that you you don't say your name
and you instead say things. There are

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things that are fun or not PTSD
chihuah wah triggering here, But man,

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how about the this was not fun
and was PTSD trigger That's actually the drop

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right there, the the slip and
ball hits the turf there. That's that's

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pretty accurate. Everybody but Hunter Dickinson
and Kevin mccoller really could get that sound

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effect for today? Do you know
how many points jay Hawk players not named

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Dickinson and mccoller combined for today?
By the way, well, they had

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fifty three, so it's thirty,
right, thirty against Division two Shamanad who

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I cannot click on the their page
because they don't have one. You could

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bet on this game. The line
was forty two and Kansas did not even

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come close, which, hey,
I was right. I didn't think it

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would be this weird, but I
was right. It was under forty.

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And I said that you can have
rock Chalk blog if they do not score

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at least ninety two points. So
congratulations, I have a whole dollars a

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year. What an investment I've run. Hey, not just eight dollars a

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year, but you also get eight
million bots that chirp in your mentions every

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time you tweet anything, and you
also get the great following that I have.

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And that's not being rhetorical. Most
most of the people that follow Rock

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Chalk Blog are terrific. With those
eight dollars, I can I can buy

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the blue check and the bots go
away, just as the Lord intended.

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I'm happy to know that we by
the Lord, I mean Musk. I'm

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happy to know that Kansas, failing
to score ninety three got Elon Musk his

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eight dollars. That's that's exactly the
way all is well in the world.

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Let's talk about all right. So
number one Kansas eighty three Shamanad. I

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think ESPN made a mistake here.
I'm not seeing Shamanad's ranking. They only

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scored fifty six. Do you know
what Shamanad is ranked. It has to

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be like top eight, right based
on how that game went. Yeah,

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I mean it felt like it at
times, but they did have fifty six.

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I would credit to Shamanad. I
actually think they put forth a pretty

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valiant effort for a one and two
Division two team. Yes, they played

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pretty feisty. They shot the ball
very poorly, but they did play pretty

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feisty, especially whenever you consider what's
been going on for that school in the

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last few months there where they are
living, not knowing if it was even

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gonna be there the next day at
some point, and then having to get

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up and play the number one team
in the country. Yes, I thought

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that they did a very valiant effort
for Shamanad. It's kind of wild that

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this was the best that they've played
against Kansas in the team's four games,

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and they made six of thirty one
threes. Like if they just have a

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good day from three. I'm not
saying Kansas loses, but this gets way

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more interesting than we thought it would
get. If they make an average amount

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of threes. Yeah, they did
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Kansas. You could argue, who
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they make an average amount of threes, it's maybe not quite as close,

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but it wasn't. I mean,
I guess we should probably lead off with

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Hunter Dickinson as he was the leader
the second second game in a row that

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mccullor gets a triple double and we
don't think he's the leadoff story, Like,

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man, what are the like?
That's impossible? It is, but

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I think I think it's still true
because Hunter Dickinson had thirty one points,

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eleven rebounds, fifteen of eighteen from
the floor, one of two from three,

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given him five or six on the
year from behind the arc in thirty

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three minutes he was six of seven
actually six of seven, oh six,

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seven, My bad. He's been
absolutely fantastic. That's no surprise. This

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is the type of game that I
kind of envisioned him having and wanted to

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see from him against the smaller schools. They played at North Carolina Central,

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and man had to open the year
just absolutely feed him, feed the post

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all night in the critical moments.
There shouldn't have been critical moments, and

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there really actually wasn't. It wasn't
like this game was actually close, but

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it was close enough that Bill Sell
felt the need to play Hunter Dickinson.

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I feel correctly. I think if
you tried to play the walk Ons with

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eight minutes, this would have been
a pretty interesting affair. So all thirty

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one very necessary points from Hunter.
But I mean, he did exactly what

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you'd hope he would do against a
Division two school, and that his score

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at will and again he didn't shoot
any free throws like that's a natural thirty

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one from the field. Like,
that's very, very impressive, especially for

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a post player who can shoot free
throws well. So he was pretty stunning.

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I mean, yeah, what are
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So my takeaways. At the beginning
of the year, we thought Hunter Dickinson

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was the perfect player in the bill
Self offense. And while his stats are

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sexy, we knew that he was
going to do dirty things to shamanad.

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Those poor silver Sword players will have
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a player of Hunter Dickinson's caliber the
rest of their lives. But Hunter Dickinson

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leads. We talked at the beginning
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great, The question was how would
his supporting cast be? Was the depth

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there? Well? Through four games, Hunter Dickinson leads Kansas in field goals,

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field goal attempts, free throws,
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yes for real points, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, total rebounds, and

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blocks. So Honor Dickinson leads Kansas
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Like those are the only two categories
left. And I'm a little concerned about

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that because while Hunter Dickinson has posted
insane numbers at Michigan. He was great

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as a freshman, and he was
in All America nineteen points a game guy

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in the last two years. I
think that like kind of like ddrich Lawson

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was, he kind of feels volume
proof, where him getting tired and wearing

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down throughout the course of the year
doesn't feel likely because we've seen him do

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this year in and year out.
But I am a little nervous. We

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saw o Chaia Baji, Jalen Wilson. Those guys had nuclear starts in the

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non con season. Wayne Selden did
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Wilson held up better than Selden did
in his last year. Here guys that

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were averaging twenty ish points a game
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and then the wear and tear of
a forty games season. If all goes

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well, it catches up the shooting
slumps, and you see whenever the better

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defenses come up, the stats go
down. I'm a little concerned about Hunter

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Dickinson getting so worn out, so
to speak, with these high, high

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usage games, because man with the
exception of him, mccullor came on late

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with his scoring, but with the
exception of Dickinson, that Kansas had nothing

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really going for it in those first
twenty five minutes. They were up by

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twelve after twenty five minutes against a
D two team, So really, like,

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I don't know, are you concerned
at all about that? Like Dickenson,

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his usage is so high, so
good this early in the year on

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fresh legs, but by game seventeen
or eighteen, if we still don't see

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that the number five six guys on
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get really worn down. I mean, I think it's possible, But I

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think you have lots of examples.
I mean, there's lots and lots of

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examples of guys that played a lot
of minutes in a given season and there

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was never like I mean, not
that they they would have down games.

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You know, I'm specifically thinking like
Frank Mason, DeVante Graham, Perry Ellis,

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you know, not that they would
have no off nights. Certainly they

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did, even in great seasons,
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their lofty standards. But no,
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I don't feel like in most of
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season drop off that they never really
bounced back from now O Chai kind of

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did. He got kind of cold
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a legs issue a little bit,
and he never, like one hundred percent

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came back to what his form was
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So there are examples of that too. I don't know. I don't think

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I'm too worried about it. I
think in this tournament specifically, this could

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be something interesting to watch because certainly
this is a game that you would have

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really liked to be able to sit
Hunter Dickinson for far less than the thirty

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three minutes that he played, and
you didn't have the opportunity to do that.

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And he's gonna have to go back
out there tomorrow against a very good

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team either Marquet or UCLA, not
sure at the time of recording game's going

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on, but he's gonna have to
play probably that much again, and then

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if you win that, he's gonna
play that much again in the championship game.

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So yeah, I think that is
interesting. Playing a lot of minutes

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three straight games overall season. I'm
not too worried about it. I think

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we've had enough of the proof of
concept that you can play a lot of

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minutes in a season and still be
extremely good from beginning to end. And

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it helps Dickinson that the majority of
his shots are within three feet of the

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rim. Like Baji and Wilson relied
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and we saw Baji and Wilson both
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or in transition is where they struggle. We just saw them go cold for

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longer stretches from three hundred Dickinson,
I don't think he shoots enough threes for

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that to be a factor. He's
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But yeah, in this game,
we answered some questions before it started,

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how much do we expect the KU
starters to play? And I mean,

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well, as you said, Dickinson, thirty two Harris, thirty five

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mccullor thirty five, kJ Adams didn't
start, still played twenty six, so

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a lot of minutes like this was
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be a game wherever they could all
play about twenty minutes. But really,

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and I know they were really never
in danger of losing, but you're not

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sitting your starters with fifteen minutes left
in a game you're only up to twelve.

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Jeanne was playing at a level that
they would have beaten the walk Ons,

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Like you couldn't just put your walk
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you had to actually play your rotation. And I'm sure we'll analyze this

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game a little more and really what
it means going forth. I did post

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a couple of nonsense questions on Twitter
before it started, and this game really

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doesn't matter much, so it feels
like it'd be more fun to talk about

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those I asked before the game,
and I had almost a unanimous yes from

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all of the responses, which was
a good chunk about thirty or forty of

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them. But the questions were,
uh, number one, would Kansas beat

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Shamanad if you allowed Shamanad to have
six guys on the court at all times?

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And after regressive that even the bots
were answering yes to that, Thank

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you, Elon, I appreciate you. Uh, but what do you think

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wood Kansas? After watching that game? Would Kansas have beaten Shamanad if it

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was six on five not tonight?
No? I believe not, kind of

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still think they would have, Like
I I don't know how they stop Hunter

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Dickinson. Hunter Dickinson would have maybe
had like forty five instead of thirty one

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for Kansas in that instance, But
I don't know how many. I honestly

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don't think they would. How many
people are you putting on? How many

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people do you have to throw at
Hunter Dickinson before, similar to the way

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that the Eagles throw like five guys
at Travis Kelcey because nobody else on the

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team can catch. Similar to that, how many guys would you have to

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put on Hunter Dickinson before the eight
or nine players on the court Shamana silver

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Starger just like sure Nicholas go ahead
and shoot. I don't care. Uh

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well, the way Timberlake has been
shooting lately, I would say, throw

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about four or five at Hunter Dickinson
and just take your chances. And then

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what was the other question that I
posed on Twitter? There was one more

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that was good. I know that
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I don't know about the second one. So the other one was would Kansas

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beat shamanad if Dickinson, McCuller,
Harris, and Adams all sat and doing

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the math real quick. If you
take Harris, mccullar, Dickinson, and

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Adams out. I believe that Jayhawks
scored fifteen points. Not I think McDowell

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had two, Timberlake had two,
Jackson had seven, and Furfy had four.

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I believe that is fifteen. So
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would not have not even close.
Yikes. At least they didn't get a

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Jackson State. But hey, more
on that later, I guess. All

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right, So we talked about Dickinson. I yeah, we got a talk

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about mccullor because the man went out
and had a triple double. You want

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to read his stats and we'll get
in his dues. I don't care who

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you do it against. Triple doubles
ridiculous. Yeah, he has now had

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as many triple doubles in the last
two games as Kansas has had recorded triple

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doubles in the rest of their program
history with two. Yeah, he had

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twenty two points, ten assists,
and eleven rebounds, eight to fourteen from

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the floor, five to seven from
the free throw line, only one of

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five from behind the arc. So
he's definitely cooled off from his early season

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form, which is a bit concerning. But that's the only thing truly concerning

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about Kevin mccullor currently. Yeah,
I mean just I mean he did.

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He turned the ball over five times. He also had three steals, he

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had two blocks. I mean,
just a psychotic performance. You said it

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on the last show, and I
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might be the single bill selfiest player
of all time, and I think he's

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one of the best players to fit
that mold. Ever. Yeah, and

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all triple double stats. We will
say this every time. All triple double

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stats come with an asterisk because blocks
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was playing, who obviously had a
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Yeah, it was ridiculous. But
since those became stats and triple doubles became

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a thing. Entering last week,
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history of Kansas cole Aldrits did it
in an NCAA tournament game in two thousand

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and nine and Jeff Withy did it
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in twenty and twelve. Kevin mccullor
has now gone out there and matched everybody

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in the history of Kansas basketball since
since assists and blocks became a thing.

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With two triple doubles, himself in
a week. I mean, the man

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is the is the ultimate Swiss Army
Knife basketball player. I do want to

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talk about the three point shooting.
We had some optimism that that would be

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better this year. If there's one
negative to focus on, Kevin McCuller this

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year is now six for twenty shooting
threes. That is nope, not gonna

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get it done, especially when three
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the worst six or seven teams you're
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like to see that improve. But
he is clearly their second best rebounder,

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and he is the one Harris may
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and I'm not sure to wan Harris
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That's how good of a passer Kevin
mccolor is. Man. Would this

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team be in a completely different state
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Kansas has three I think it's fair
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They have four bonafide studs. And
after that, all right, let's

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talk about the two guards. Uh
we don't have to really analyze all the

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numbers here. Johnny Furfey got the
start the week. kJ Adams has had

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pretty miraculous that he was able to
play and be as good as he was.

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He did not start because he just
joined the team in Hawaii today,

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So they start Johnny Furfey, who
scores. I do think that is kind

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of important to caveat a little bit
with the way that Kansas looked in general.

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I mean, just had a teammate
lose their mom this week. Also

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they're playing in Hawaii. Also,
just everything that's been with Hawaii, I'm

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sure that weighs on you as well. Also, it's shamanad So with all

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of that, I mean, it's
not exactly like stunning that they had a

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sleepy performance well, and also like
and kJ Adams losing his mom and going

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out and playing a basketball game less
than a week later is unbelievable. And

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I want everybody to remember that the
next time that you criticize one of these

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players for not putting the ball in
the basket enough for your liking. I

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physically would not be capable of doing
that. I don't know many people that's

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more chance. And he goes out
there and plays for his teammates and plays

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well, scores eight points, makes
four of us five shots, has a

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couple of emphatic dunks. Awesome.
I'm sure that whenever basketball is your life

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to that extent, one of the
best things you can do is to get

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out there and try to stop thinking
so much and just kind of get to

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play freely. But wow, the
guts that that took to sit on an

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airplane ride, presumably by yourself,
for eight hours after the week he's had,

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just to go play a basketball game
and be with his teammates. Nobody

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would have judged him if he said, I'm not up for the strip,

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I'll meet up with everybody whenever they
get back to Kansas. Just remember that

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the next time that we're criticizing these
kids for not being fast enough for well

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enough shooters. They give everything they
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And I think that's awesome. But
yes, good point. Not just

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the parent. By the way,
This isn't a guy that they just met

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that lost his mom. This is
somebody who there are pictures of her on

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the sideline during their national championship run. The players knew this person and for

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that to happen, and a guy
that's you're in the locker room with everyone

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to go through that, Like I
can't imagine playing that. They went out

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there and did as well as they
could all things considered. Now onto the

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two guard with Johnny Furfey starting four
points, missed all of his three seventeen

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minutes. Marco Jackson was the best
of these guys. He made a three

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late to Salvage's seven point night,
had three assists. Not much there.

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Nick Timberlake continues to be a bit
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He misses all of his threes,
does get a bucket late two points eleven

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minutes. All these guys are very
him right now, like we're we're gonna

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have this conversation every podcast. I
feel like they don't have to have the

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answers right now. I suspect Furfey, Jackson, Timberlake, one of them,

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if not two of them, will
emerge as very quality options when do

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we get into the meat of big
twelve play, But for now, rank

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Furfy Jackson, Timberlake and McDowell.
Uh, what's my criteria here right now?

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Or who I have the most upside
or what? That's a good question?

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I mean, I guess it would
have to be a little bit of

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mixture of everything, But just who
would you most want to start at the

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two guard right now, el Mark, who have the most faith in El

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Marco and it's not close, and
then Furfey and it's not close, and

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then Timberlake and I don't know where
McDowell mixes in there. McDowell played ten

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minutes, he made a bucket.
That's shot. Dwell might be over Furfee

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right now. McDowell had the best. I think McDowell gives you the best

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chance to play mistake free basketball,
which is an angle, right. They

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started guys like Hunter Mickelson on previous
Kansas teams, and Landon Lucas got started

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this way too when they had quality
players around him and all the other guys

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told their coach, Hey, we
just want someone that's not going to f

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up everything out there. That's kind
of what McDowell does. He gets the

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ball of the open guys, and
Furfey and Timberlake take more shots and they

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have a higher up in night for
sure. I do think Furfey has a

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way higher upside. That is that
is true. I think Furfey has has

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like we've been saying, he has
kind of a spee skill set, and

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speed skill set is really really enticing. Yeah, he's also played the least

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he had the injuries. I okay, give me the Timberlake take, because

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you and Nick are are already calling
Timberlake booty cheeks, and I'm not sure

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I'm there yet. Yeah, it's
maybe it's just because I had more expectations

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for him and he's not been very
good, and that I'm that I'm selling

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all my Timberlake stock, whereas you
you had your kind of reservations for him

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and all that, and and you've
seen him kind of struggle and that's more

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of what you thought, So maybe
you're not selling as fast. Yeah,

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I mean he's been terrible, I
think, which again, you know,

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like we were just caveated. It's
it's college basketball. It's not it's not

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it's not that deep. But uh, he's not been very good. And

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to see him struggle this way against
shamanad Is is not a great sign,

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especially when the one thing he's supposed
to be able to do is shoot the

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ball. And even if he still
struggled at everything else, but he could

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shoot and be like, Okay,
well he is. He is guind of

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the guy we thought he was,
but he's not really doing that at all.

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No off to you, like,
do they look like they're they're just

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missing or does everything look wrong?
I don't know, And he looks confident

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taking it. His form is is
pretty solid. I don't think there's anything

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like fundamentally broken about the way he's
shooting the ball, at least not that

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it looks maybe it's all in his
head. I don't know, No,

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I mean, yeah, it doesn't
look like there's anything that's so obviously wrong

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with the way he's shooting. I
don't think he's taking bad shots either.

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I mean, I think he's taking
open shots in the rhythm of the offense,

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like just not going down, And
that is, honestly the more concerning

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thing. It's kind of like when
you see a guy have a non contact

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injury as opposed to when he gets
crunched in the knee by two guys.

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The non contact one is usually the
worse or the more guaranteed devastating injury.

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If a guy's just missing shots all
the time, even when they're good shots,

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that's that's a pretty bad sign.
Again, it's early. Who knows,

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he might develop just fine and just
he might just take a few games

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to get going, but that is
often not the case. So that is

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concerning to me, and I remember
so I for some reason, I have

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a pretty good memory with Kansas basketball. I remember Isaiah Moss startling. Remember

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random things really well all the time, right, Yeah, I know,

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and and none of it's really that
useful. But in this case, I

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was incorrect. I remember Isaiah Moss
starting slow. He did what I think,

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I remember that true. He missed
the Duke game hurt, and then

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he immediately comes out and he goes
five for six against Monmouth and three for

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four against Shamanad two of his first
three games. I mean, quality looks

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ball is going to the basket.
Isaiah Moss's first four games of his of

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his Kansas career, he made ten
threes. Nick Timberlake has three. There's

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a difference, uh, Jalen Coleman
Lands was immediately very good shot more than

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forty percent throughout the course of a
year on a national championship team. Kansas

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always has that one guy who his
job is to make threes. Nick Timberlake

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made threes on a very high clip
at Talsand this guy average seventeen points a

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game the last two years. And
I hope that we didn't just that Kansas

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didn't just fall into a guy who
just isn't cut out at this level.

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The competition is so different. But
geez Towson played plenty of teams that are

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just as good as Shamana, and
the ball is just not going to the

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basket. So I have a feeling
it will work for him. The thing

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that makes me nervous though, is
Isaiah Moss and Jalen Coleman Lands were better

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at non shooting parts of basketball than
Nick Timberlake, as I think the better

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play power before exactly yes, they
played NCH tournament games, whereas Timberlake.

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I don't have doubts about the shooting. I think his three point shooting will

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be fine. What I'm nervous about
is is he going to be a liability

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when he's in the game defensively?
Is the ball handling something to watch this

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point in the year. He has
more turnovers more fouls than assists. Like,

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that's not great, more turnovers than
steals not great? Are we going

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to see that part of his game
get better? Right now? I think

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that Kansas probably should continue to start
Almarco Jackson. He has the highest upside,

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he has the highest ceiling. I
think he's the best of those guys

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right now, and I think he
does the most things well. The shooting

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may not be great right now,
but his ball handling is easily the best

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of any of those guys. I
think his defense is the best of any

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of those guys right now, and
I think that gets you as close to

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that. We got four good guys, just put somebody out there that can

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make the passes and not screwed up. I think al Marco's your best chance

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right now, and I also think
he has the highest chance of turning into

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a really good player. Furfey needs
to see plenty of minutes, and Timberlake

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does too. I wonder kind of
if Artaria Morris was here. I wonder

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if you would see him kind of
definitively grab that number five spot because he

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plays quality defense and he was a
good ball handler, very good athlete.

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But without him, I think that
you're kind of doing this bi committee.

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Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.
I think I think Timberlake's in danger of

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playing himself to be like a five
minute a guy or five minute a game

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kind of guy. Tried him out, see what he does, doesn't do

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much, doesn't play again, but
we'll see. Who knows you think he's

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in danger of falling behind like McDowell
in the rotation. Uh, I do,

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but again I mean McDowell to be
fair, he did play like ten

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minutes in this game, and I
thought looked good. McDowell has gotten the

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least run of these guys. He
missed the first game, right, he

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didn't play against n C Central,
and then of course only played like the

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last handful of minutes against Kentucky.
I think he played well in those minutes,

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but it wasn't a big sample size. So certainly like he's the guy

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we've seen the least of of these
four. And I agree, I think

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Jackson is definitely the leader in the
clubhouse. He's looked good. You know,

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he's just not super flashy, but
he also hasn't had to be very

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flashy. But I think over the
course of time, if Timberlake isn't making

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shots and it's clearly struggling elsewhere,
if McDowell's doing all of the elsewhere things

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better than he is, I think
you have a great case to play McDowell

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over Timberlake. I tend to agree. I don't think Timberlake necessarily, Will

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is just already a bust. Like
again, it's it's the fourth game,

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but I think he's looked the worst
out of the four, and I think

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McDowell probably also has a higher upside
considering he's a true freshman. I'm trying

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to find the numbers on the three
point shooting. If you take Hunter Dickinson

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out of the equation, it's not
great. So they are if you take

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Dickinson out, Kansas has made thirty
three minus six threes, so they've made

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twenty seven threes this year and they
have attempted let's see here, nineteen plus

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sixty seven is eighty six, and
then you subtract seven for Dickinson, so

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that's seventy nine. They're twenty seven
of seventy nine shooting threes. That is

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thirty four percent. If you take
out on Hunter Dickinson, unless you think

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he's gonna shoot eighty five percent all
a year, it would be great.

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So the three point shooting hasn't been
great, and I think that that's going

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too. You're going to see guys
like Timberlake shoot the ball better. Dewan

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Harris has also been very good shooting
the ball from three this year. Hopefully

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that can keep up. But the
shooting and the depth are the two weaknesses.

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I don't think they got a lot
of weaknesses on this team right now.

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Those are the two. As far
as kJ Adams, I don't think

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there's a lot to analyze basically,
anyone we haven't talked about at this point.

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Not a whole lot to take away
from Adams could have had zero,

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zero and twenty five turnovers and it
would have been better than anybody could have

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00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:45.720
expected considering his his week eight and
four. On the assist that's he had

406
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an awesome on the receiving end of
an Alliop slam off the backboard by the

407
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one Harris. That was cool,
clearly jump out of the jim great athlete.

408
00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:56.079
Good to see him on the court. Figure he moves back into the

409
00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.440
starting role tomorrow, and then Dewan
Harris. Not a whole lot. Seven

410
00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.799
points eight assists was great. Did
turn it over a lot. They were

411
00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:06.440
playing shamanad It kind of looked like
they were just kind of screwing around a

412
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little bit. Thirty five minutes more
than I thought we would see. But

413
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overall, Kansas shot sixty percent from
the floor and twenty one percent on three,

414
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which means they're Their two point percentage
was seventy eight percent, seventy eight

415
00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:23.880
percent on twos and twenty one percent
on threes. That's that's something that's called

416
00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:27.920
having hundred Dickinson on your team.
It is. Those are good numbers.

417
00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:32.279
Yeah, I mean you're not a
lot to analyze the other guys, Harris

418
00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:36.119
good Kji Adams obviously, especially considering
circumstances. I mean, he had eight

419
00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:37.759
points and four assists. I mean
that's a pretty solid stat line coming off

420
00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:44.920
the bench anyway, but especially considering
the circumstance. Amazing. Yeah, just

421
00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:48.880
a really strange game. They did
not look focused. There's some very obvious

422
00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:52.599
reasons why they might not have been
focused, so tough to say. Ei,

423
00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:55.279
They're definitely they're gonna have to be
more focused against either of the next

424
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two opponents, because if you put
forward an effort like this against one of

425
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those two, you very well will
lose. I don't think that's gonna be

426
00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:06.279
the case. I think they'll be
just fine. But yeah, really a

427
00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:08.160
really weird one. I mean,
any any final takeaways from you, Ryan,

428
00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:12.920
other than just strange outing from the
Jayhawks that you probably don't think is

429
00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:17.200
gonna be a lasting issue. No, I mean this is I think there's

430
00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:19.920
enough things there and then, and
this team is I still have the I

431
00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:22.640
have the confidence in this team.
I think they're gonna win the Mali Tournament.

432
00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:26.799
I think this team is gonna go
undefeated into January. So didn't see

433
00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:30.720
anything tonight that changes my mind at
all. It's pretty funny how we're talking

434
00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.599
about a game if they won by
twenty seven points, and we're sitting here

435
00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:37.279
trying to find the negatives because it
is Shamanad. I don't really know what

436
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:40.759
else you're supposed to do. But
yeah, they wound up winning a game

437
00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.359
by twenty seven. They beat Shamanad
by the and they put up a season

438
00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.599
low in points, which is pretty
wild. Dickinson's in All America. He's

439
00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:52.000
the Nate Smith favorite in my book. Kevin McCuller is a superstar. Harris

440
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.759
and Adams are both really good.
And I don't care who the rest of

441
00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:59.559
you of your roster is. If
you have four players who you consider be

442
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very good, three of which maybe
top fifteen college basketball players, you're gonna

443
00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:07.480
be just fine. Final number sixty
percent from the floor, twenty one percent

444
00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:10.799
from three, and sixty four percent
on just eleven free throws. Refs were

445
00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:12.519
not calling very much, as you
said, even Hunter Dickinson did not attempt

446
00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:17.720
a free throw. Kansas was plus
fifteen on the glass. That fifteen matches

447
00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:19.920
the number of turnovers they had,
playing at a high pace, and it

448
00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:25.039
was a It was an entertaining game, and it was probably the most unpleasant

449
00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:27.359
twenty seven point win you're ever gonna
watch as a Kansas fan. But it

450
00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:30.880
was really nice considering that the Big
TV had the Chiefs Eagles to backle on

451
00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:34.799
the TV. So really can't complain
about how at least one of my favorite

452
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:44.319
teams one tonight Big twelve recaps,
Well, there were more l's to be

453
00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:48.240
taken by Big twelve teams this week
and that's gonna surprise you. But taking

454
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:55.279
their second loss of the season are
none other than the Ema bitches. Because

455
00:29:55.359 --> 00:30:00.400
Kansas State got Nigel Packed in a
revenge game, Pack led Number on thirteen

456
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.920
Miami to a ninety one to eighty
three win over the Wildcats in the Bahamas

457
00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:08.039
Championship. Kse State managed to beat
Providence in overtime two days prior before giving

458
00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:11.519
up twenty eight points, including six
threes in the first half to their old

459
00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:18.160
point guard. Pack made seven threes
the Wildcats as a team four on twenty

460
00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:22.000
eight shots. Yuck. KSE State
is three and two through five games,

461
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:25.680
and while none of the losses have
screamed, oh my gosh, this team

462
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:29.400
sucks, they're zero and two by
double digits to the only two ranked teams

463
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:33.960
that they played. I wish that
wasn't the only loss that k State took

464
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:37.799
this week. I'm sad about that
football game. I was there. Yeah,

465
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:47.400
how is that? How was speaking
of watching Lance Reid and Cole Mahomes

466
00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:52.240
blow a double digit point lead at
home in the second half. Yeah,

467
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:56.440
and Andy Ktlnicky had such a weird
game because on one hand, he engineered

468
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:03.279
his third string quarterback to score twenty
seven against a ranked team. Uh,

469
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:07.160
which on that hand, I'm like, hey, great game, Like that's

470
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:10.960
what they had. They had Jason
being active and in pads. But you

471
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:14.720
know, they just didn't think that
was the right move. You know why

472
00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:18.960
is that? It's just because because
coach speak Land and you and I are

473
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.960
just chuds that don't understand it about
football words. They announced being as the

474
00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:26.680
starter and they had no intention to
start that. Man. Yeah, yeah,

475
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:32.079
ridiculous, just ridiculous. They've done
that twice now and then Lance Leippold

476
00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:34.519
made some sort of comment about how, uh maybe, well maybe we'll just

477
00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:38.119
red shirt Jaylen Daniels today. It's
like, oh my gosh, dude,

478
00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:41.920
I'm not I'm all for fun in
sports and tongue in cheek humor, but

479
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:45.960
you're the head coach. You have
to stop acting like this is a joke.

480
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:51.119
Pick a quarterback, if that quarterback
is healthy, start him. Full

481
00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:55.119
credit to Cole Ballard. I think
he had a solid game. Uh,

482
00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:59.559
he's just young and makes he has
young mistakes. He doesn't have a great

483
00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:01.559
timer the pocket. I actually think
he has solid poise. I think he

484
00:32:01.599 --> 00:32:07.079
can, like generally speaking, read
the field decently. Well, well he

485
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:09.240
did all you can just stupid throws
he made. He made a couple of

486
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:16.240
bad throws. But honestly, like
the KU effort, the KU loss and

487
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:20.640
against k State and the Chiefs lost
against the Eagles are like super similar.

488
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.559
They are very very similar. Lots
of turnovers, lots of second half blown

489
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:31.519
leads, lots of drops. Yeah, it's great and cold cold on outside

490
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:38.000
on both occasions. I'm glad you
got between. Yeah that it's very much

491
00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:43.920
the KU women beating Arkansas in the
w N I t of of Salves.

492
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:50.599
Oh, speaking of Louisville is getting
no satisfaction. Per the years, Nineber

493
00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:55.640
nineteen, Texas narrowly avoided an apocalyptic
outcome. They squeak past the Cardinal eighty

494
00:32:55.680 --> 00:33:00.079
one eighty in New York City on
a buzzer beater by Max Acemis. The

495
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.759
next day they took on number five
Yukon. They lost that one eighty one

496
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:08.119
seventy one in the title game of
that tournament. The Huskies controlled that game

497
00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:13.319
all night from start to finish,
despite twenty one from Dylan Mitchell. So

498
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:17.119
Texas comes up just short of hoisting
their first trophy since uh oh when when?

499
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:20.400
When was the last time that Texas
won a tournament? Ryan? Can

500
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:23.319
you remember? Yeah, they were
national champions just two years ago or three

501
00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:25.920
years ago, weren't they? You? But you forget that time that they

502
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:30.759
obliterated Kansas from beginning to end in
the Big twelve title game. Hey,

503
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.799
that's yeah, that's ouch. Yeah, but then they also were national champions,

504
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:39.480
Yeah, the national champions on National
champions. I do remember Arterio Morris

505
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:43.759
dunking all over Kansas in a game
where we were like, what the hell,

506
00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:45.680
I don't care if they lost by
twenty. That's a number one overall

507
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:51.279
seed to me. And then they
very much so were not and Arkansas said,

508
00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:53.160
hold this, but yeah, Texas
kind of feels like a fraud.

509
00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:57.480
This year, they beat Louisville on
a buzzer beater and actually went up four

510
00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:01.759
spots in the rankings. I mean, okay, we're doing this like I

511
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:06.359
that. I think last year was
the outlier for Texas. They're usually an

512
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.719
underachieving, talented team that loses three
more games than they should. Now they

513
00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:14.920
don't have a come last year.
They were actually very good. This year.

514
00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:16.440
I kind of agree. I think
they're gonna aggress back to a totally

515
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:21.599
okay, but very underwhelming team.
Yep, and k you will. I

516
00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:23.360
guess they don't play there, kay, you hasn't won there since before the

517
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:30.559
Chiefs won their first Super Bowl,
and now they Yeah, that's that's probably

518
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:34.840
not but they could beat my album
this year. Another Orange team that's not

519
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:37.159
doing too hot in the Big twelve
is Oklahoma State. They are quite bad.

520
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:39.760
They are one and three on the
season. I believe they're two and

521
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:44.840
three now. I believe they beat
New Orleans University tonight. They did by

522
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.960
by almost thirty by more than Kansas
beat shamanad So Oklahoma State's two and three.

523
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:52.960
They took two losses in two days
at the Legends Classic, losing to

524
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:57.239
Saint Bonaventure and Notre Dame. Mike
Boyton Seed has to be pretty hot right

525
00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:00.000
now. He's the winner of Well
He's gonna get Fired Award this year,

526
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:04.400
I believe. Yeah, I think
his seat is hellish, pitchforks hot.

527
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:08.599
Now. I don't think that guy
makes it through the season. Speaking of

528
00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:13.000
guys that won't make it through the
season, one of these teams doesn't even

529
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.199
have a coach technically right now.
And I can't say that the start they've

530
00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:20.920
gotten up to is really going to
inspire confidence. West Virginia, Yeah,

531
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:25.239
they lost to SMU in the Fort
Myers tip off by twelve. That's it's

532
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:29.559
pretty bad. What was the final
score of that one? Seventy to fifty

533
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:34.559
eighth season? That's very West Virginia
way to lose. Season high end points

534
00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:37.559
for West Virginia is seventy, that's
all. They haven't scored more than seventy

535
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:42.800
and they played Missouri State, Monmouth, Jacksonville State, and SMU, a

536
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:46.280
grambling state that would be begging for
seventy. They lost by almost seventy.

537
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:51.440
Iowa State beat Grambling State. Who
are they the Tigers? Is it the

538
00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:54.840
Grambling State Tigers. I think that's
right, ninety two to thirty seven.

539
00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:59.519
Yes, they are the Tigers.
And the Tigers did not have a very

540
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:01.519
They were not out for the hunt. They were down thirty two to four

541
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:06.119
at one point in this game when
I checked the score, and I wasn't

542
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:08.159
looking to see the Grambling State Iowa
State score. I just was looking through

543
00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:12.079
scores and saw thirty two to four. That is the only reason that is

544
00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:15.639
in the notes. Yuck. So
in other games, I guess we probably

545
00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:20.280
should talk about the Maley Tournament first, but I screw that. We get

546
00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:22.760
we'll come back to that because I
want to talk about Virginia Land and our

547
00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:27.440
friend Tony Bennett. I love talking
about Virginia because Virginia. You know,

548
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:31.239
Virginia gave up twenty eight points in
the first half today they played Wisconsin and

549
00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:35.320
four. It's pretty good defense,
really good defense. Like, you give

550
00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:37.800
up twenty eight and a half,
you gotta feel pretty good about your chances,

551
00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:39.920
right, yeah, and then only
give up thirty seven in the second

552
00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:43.440
half. I mean, that's that's
under seventy for the night. Like,

553
00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:45.079
that's you should have a good chance, right, I think, Joe,

554
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:49.679
that's that's pretty good. So they
give up twenty eight in the first half,

555
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:54.360
only to still be down by ten, and then they did give up

556
00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:58.280
thirty seven in the second half.
But good defense in the first half means

557
00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:04.079
Virginia only allowed was consin has scored
sixty five points, which somehow still resulted

558
00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:08.519
in a twenty four point loss.
Oh, it didn't even crash. The

559
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:12.679
computer didn't even want to crash.
It gave up because of how awful that

560
00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:19.039
is in Virginia's ranked twenty four.
Why are we still ranking Virginia in the

561
00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.599
year twenty twenty three? Gotta make
it stop. It's it's worthless, guys.

562
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:28.280
Virginia does play West Virginia and the
John Denver Bolt give yeah, and

563
00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:31.079
that game, what is the over
under in that game going to be?

564
00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:35.800
By the way, in Wisconsin,
Virginia the over under was barely one twenty.

565
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:38.360
I was gonna say, I feel
like the over under in this game

566
00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:43.119
that game should be like one hundred
and fifteen. Yeah, Kansas almost did

567
00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:45.760
that by themselves the other night.
Just not great. By the way,

568
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:50.039
Wisconsin still has some of your favorites
from last year, Tyler Wall, Connor

569
00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:55.320
Gilmore and the infamous Chucky Hepburn.
They are all still there from Kansas Man

570
00:37:55.719 --> 00:38:01.039
awful Thanksgiving Day struggle with the with
the Badgers of Wisconsin. That was.

571
00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:06.760
That was not a fun thing that
my eyeballs watched. Gross, No,

572
00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:09.159
it was not. But hey,
Bobby Pettiford will ever forever be immortalized for

573
00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:15.480
that one moment, all because Zach
Clemens sucked. That's the only reason why.

574
00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:20.000
So looking at the Maui tournament,
all the favorites to this point one

575
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:23.199
we're at halftime of Marquette UCLA and
it's a five point game, so koy

576
00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:28.559
the direction number seven. Tennessee close
really strong. They beat Syracuse seventy three

577
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:30.559
to fifty six. This was just
like a four point gamer, so I

578
00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:35.559
believe Syracuse was held scoreless the last
like six minutes of this game. Old

579
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:39.760
friend Kyle Cuff Junior went one for
five for the Orange and that's pretty much

580
00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:44.079
how the night went for Tennessee.
The thing that I noticed about the balls

581
00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:45.800
the most, who are always really
good in November, and Rick Barnes has

582
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:49.559
a stack team. I noticed two
things. Number One, they forced a

583
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:53.320
lot of turnovers. Number Two,
Santonio Vascobe is still in college. Did

584
00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:59.360
you know that I did? Actually
it is surprising. He and Cam Rising,

585
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:04.199
quarterback of the utah Utes. They're
going for longest tenured college player,

586
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:07.719
but they have like at least fifteen
years to catch Perry Ellison mitchellifoot. So

587
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:09.599
that's right. I'll be there for
a one and Kevin mccullor too. So.

588
00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:15.239
Santoniovscoby, Land and you, Me
and Nick did a podcast three weeks

589
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:21.760
before the first COVID case was reported
in the United States about how santoniovs Scoby

590
00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:23.760
was gonna be the white guy of
the game as Tennessee came into Allen Field

591
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:30.000
Hows to play Devon Dotson in the
Kansas Jayhawks, and he is still shooting

592
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:36.119
threes in college and could potentially both
teams just won away from another shot with

593
00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:39.400
that man who he proclaimed in the
Bahamas Tournament last year when he made all

594
00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:44.480
those threes that we were done with
him. Maybe not. Tennessee looking pretty

595
00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:46.519
good though they Are you feeling this
a little bit? Feeling Are you feeling,

596
00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:52.920
Barnes? It's easy to feel Barnes
in November and December. It's more

597
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:55.599
about feeling Barnes in March. So, yeah, he puts together good team.

598
00:39:55.639 --> 00:40:00.599
They're pretty solid. They have a
chance against number two p who beat

599
00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:06.199
number eleven Gonzaga, shocking everyone.
Just take note, Gonzaga. They played

600
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:08.400
an athletic team and they lost.
I know, stunning, stunning that they

601
00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:10.599
played a team that could actually play
with their talent level and they lost.

602
00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:15.719
Produced seventy three number eleven Gonzaga sixty
three. Gonzaga did actually lead this game

603
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:20.400
by five at halftime. They went
on to get outscored by fifteen in the

604
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:23.480
second half. Trying to pull up
Zach Edy's actual numbers, they were very

605
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:29.639
good. Twenty five points, fourteen
rebounds, including five on the offensive glass.

606
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:31.320
Added three blocks to that, nine
of ten from the free throw line

607
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:37.280
for him as well. Really nice
outing from eighty in their win. They

608
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:42.840
go into play Tennessee in the semi
final. Yeah, Gonzaga. So the

609
00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:46.760
Bulldogs were the final score says.
They were six for thirty two shooting threes.

610
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:50.320
It felt like six for one hundred
and thirty two, especially in that

611
00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:52.239
second half. They just kept launching
and it didn't work. They had neim

612
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:54.920
hard was one for nine. They
had another guy that was one for five.

613
00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:59.119
They had another guy that was one
for six, one for four,

614
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:02.360
zero for three. Oh my gosh, these numbers are terrible and I want

615
00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:06.639
to criticize and I did on Twitter. I said, they just keep shooting

616
00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:07.679
him. Then I thought, what's
the alternative? You can try to go

617
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:12.079
score on Eedy like it was kind
of a if you're not making threes against

618
00:41:12.519 --> 00:41:15.880
against Purdue, you're screwed and very
very fortunate because if Kansas plays Perdue,

619
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:20.280
they shoot the absolute daylight out of
the ball from three. Yeah, so

620
00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:23.960
Kevin McCuller is there to go of
eight. Nothing to worry about there.

621
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:29.960
Yes, number two Perdue, number
seven Tennessee. And if Marquette is able

622
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.239
to win the final four of the
Maui tournament, will all be top seven

623
00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:37.840
teams and one of them will lose
multiple games in the next two days.

624
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:42.519
Pretty wild, that's true. And
then the other Maui game we talked about,

625
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.760
Marquette currently losing number four, Marquette
currently losing UCLA thirty five to thirty.

626
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:49.000
By the time we get through this
segment, du Ask ARCBS will be

627
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.440
a little closer to the finish too
early to determine who will be the Jayhawks

628
00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:58.119
opponent as of recording. This another
game of note. At least Kentucky needed

629
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:02.239
overtime at home to get by Saint
Joseph's. They did get by him ninety

630
00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:08.000
six to eighty eight. Let's see
here, three Kentucky scorers had twenty plus

631
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:13.119
They made twelve threes. But is
that a little bit of a letdown maybe

632
00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:16.760
from playing Kansas really close, really
fast paced, intense game. You play

633
00:42:16.840 --> 00:42:21.199
a team you should blow out and
you don't. Quite Yeah, I wanted

634
00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:23.719
to say that that explains it.
Oh, they just played Kansas, but

635
00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:28.800
they played a game on Sunday and
they rolled with whatever Lollsey team they played,

636
00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:31.039
So like, I really can't make
it sound like this is just the

637
00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:35.840
Kansas hangover. Kentucky also does this, though. They usually get up for

638
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:38.199
the big games, especially early in
the season, and then they have tendency

639
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:42.960
Like I feel like we're talking about
Kentucky a couple times a year almost losing

640
00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:46.000
or actually losing a stunning November home
game to a crap school. Like it

641
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:49.840
feels like that's kind of part for
the course with them. They're really good,

642
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:53.639
and to be fair, Saint Joseph's
has they've They've put together some perfectly

643
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:57.960
solid teams in the past before.
Sure, Yeah, absolutely, Saint Joseph's

644
00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:00.760
a solid squad, which kind of
ties me in the next point that I

645
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:04.239
want to talk about, which I
have a gripe with AP poll voters because

646
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:09.000
do these clowns even watch the games? So you had Florida Atlantic losing at

647
00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:14.039
home to Bryant, which we'll talk
about in a second, and somebody moved

648
00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:17.199
them up one spot on their ballot. They only fall to nineteen. I

649
00:43:17.239 --> 00:43:22.079
don't know how that's still a top
twenty five caliber spot. Texas barely beats

650
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:27.320
Louisville. They need a buzzer beater
to avoid that they move up for spots.

651
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:30.239
Kentucky only moves up one for what
they did against Kansas. I am

652
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:34.920
stunned they didn't move Kentucky into the
top ten. Kentucky's one of the ten

653
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.920
best teams in college basketball. I
don't know anybody can watch Houston beat cracker

654
00:43:38.039 --> 00:43:44.000
Jack University and move them up.
But Kentucky almost beats Kansas and really should

655
00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:46.639
have beat Kansas, and they just
kind of stay where they are. Rankings

656
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:50.760
are weird. We've kind of talked
about that before. Overall, not a

657
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.039
whole lot to be impressed about.
Also, Arkansas lost to a weird school

658
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:58.000
at home. They didn't move down
more than a couple spots in a lot

659
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.880
of ballots. I don't think,
especially early the season, that a lot

660
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:05.920
of people are watching college of games, but rescue like and also then James

661
00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:09.159
Madison is one spot behind Michigan State
despite having beaten him on the road.

662
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:14.400
Yeah, which I mean, to
be fair, I don't watch a ton

663
00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:16.679
of college basketball games early in the
season, not this early in the season

664
00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:21.880
anyway, But yeah, I mean, at least I knew that James Madison

665
00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:23.599
beat Michigan State. So and I
also, my job isn't to be an

666
00:44:23.639 --> 00:44:28.039
AP voter, right, yep,
this is not your full time job.

667
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:30.239
You're actually paid more than most of
those media guys for doing this podcast,

668
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:36.000
so you should actually know everywhere with
all of all these rosters. I'm disappointed,

669
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:40.000
well, knowing the state of media
currently, that is maybe a little

670
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:43.480
closer than it should be, not
true, but a little closer than it

671
00:44:43.519 --> 00:44:45.360
should be. Media is showing a
lot of restraints because Andy Reid said,

672
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:49.039
we got to do a better job, and it starts with me and nobody

673
00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:52.239
tackled him. So I think that
that's a pretty good sign of restraint from

674
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:55.920
the media members. Let's talk about
a couple of weird home losses from this

675
00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:00.000
last week. You unc Greensboro one
at number fourteen Arkansas seventy eight to seventy

676
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.679
two after the Razorbacks shot less than
twenty percent from three, something that they

677
00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:07.960
did much better on when they played
the Jay Birds. Also, last year's

678
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:10.719
Final four Darling number ten FAU lost
at home by nine to a school called

679
00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:15.119
Bryant. I mean FAU. Every
year we get a team that makes the

680
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:17.440
final four run that kind of gets
a little inflated. We saw it with

681
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:21.960
UCLA a couple of years ago.
We saw it with North Carolina last year.

682
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:23.760
They make a run to the Final
four, and everybody annoints them,

683
00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:28.199
and then if they get most of
their starters back and FAU return their entire

684
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:30.920
squad like, clearly that was a
team that could ball. That team was

685
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:35.519
all set to play for a national
title until they got buzzer beatered by the

686
00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:39.280
Aztecs of San Diego State in the
Final four. However, I think putting

687
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:44.280
them at ten was a little premature. Like I agree, we'll see and

688
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:46.800
like you know, they're gonna have
a really nice record. They feel like

689
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:50.599
one of those witch TOAs State teams
that's gonna go like twenty eight and four

690
00:45:50.679 --> 00:45:53.079
and no one knows if they should
be a three seed or and eleven seed,

691
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:55.719
Like you just won't know, just
gonna have to hope they stay away

692
00:45:55.719 --> 00:46:00.840
from your half of the bracket.
Yeah, but you don't want to be

693
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:02.960
losing to Bryant by nine at home. Not a great look, you know

694
00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:06.719
who? You really don't want to
be losing at home too, though,

695
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:09.199
sir, I got the music,
if you got that, if you got

696
00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:12.599
the points with this one, let's
see if we can just go ahead and

697
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:19.000
fire it up here, Here we
go, we do yea For all those

698
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:23.719
bad ones, this is the worst
the Tigers. They entered eight twenty three

699
00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:30.280
point favorite at home to Jackson State, to whom they lost and Jackson State,

700
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:34.480
mind you, this is Jackson State
will not be playing in the NCAA

701
00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:38.840
tournament. Jackson State will not sniff
a winning record in all likelihood. They

702
00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:49.800
were owed five coming into this game
and Missouri lost to them. This song

703
00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:59.719
is fitting. This is the only
fitting song where they're all wearing their stupid

704
00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:04.840
ass SEC shirts. I love this
video so much. It's so great,

705
00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:07.599
and hey, full credits Missouri.
They've got a really good football team this

706
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:09.760
year. I don't really know how
that happened, Like I didn't see that

707
00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:15.599
coming this year. But I'm glad
the football team's good because we do is

708
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:22.079
going to lose by seventy five points
to Hunter Dickinson and his friends here.

709
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:27.679
They maybe shouldn't air that on broadcast
television. There was a tweet from one

710
00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:30.239
of the Missouri blogs that deleted it
because Kansas fans were laughing at it,

711
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:32.079
and it said, Okay, who
do we have to call to get the

712
00:47:32.159 --> 00:47:37.360
Kansas game taken off the schedule?
Because oh man, Kansas has thirty ball

713
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:39.679
of them in each of the last
two years, and I think that this

714
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:44.760
might actually be the worst. Like
there's a chance, there's a real chance.

715
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:47.199
We have seen because we do this
show and we've seen all the scores.

716
00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:52.519
We have read a lot of Oh
my gosh, I can't believe school.

717
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:55.519
I've heard of lost to school.
I've never heard of Missouri losing at

718
00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:59.760
home to zero to five. Jackson
State might be one of the two or

719
00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:05.440
three most are you kidding scores I've
ever seen. It's Iowa State losing at

720
00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:07.760
home to Florida A and M.
Yeah, that's a good call. It's

721
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:10.039
a good comp and that Iowa State
team was horrible. You have to be

722
00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:14.559
very bad for this to happen.
Dennis Kates, by the way, got

723
00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:16.679
up in his postgame pressure respect how
he still has the suit, and he

724
00:48:16.760 --> 00:48:21.880
said, first of all, Jackson
State is the best OH to five team

725
00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:25.159
in the country. Well, sir, they were also the only OH and

726
00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:30.039
five team in the country and during
this game, so I guess that would

727
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:32.480
also make him the worst. But
they are now they're now who knows,

728
00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:37.920
Okay, so Jackson State. You
know, sometimes these these schools like Texas

729
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:45.440
Southern is pretty famous for scheduling like
really good games and play them all on

730
00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:47.760
the road and they lose all of
them and they're like oh and eleven every

731
00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:52.320
year and then they're like one of
the better teams in their conference like Yale

732
00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:55.880
does. Seems like that. Yeah, this is Jackson State's schedule. Now.

733
00:48:55.920 --> 00:48:59.840
To be fair, these are actually
all road games, so full credit

734
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:06.960
only played row games. But here
there opponents Memphis, San Diego, Loyola,

735
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:13.519
Marymount, Tulsa and California Baptist and
they're own five. Well, they

736
00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:15.760
were own five until they played Missouri
and now they are one and five.

737
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:21.920
Yeah, that might that's one of
the worst. Like, that's that's wild,

738
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:25.280
like Virginia only. And also they
lost all these games. None of

739
00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:30.039
these games were even close. It
was not even the cal Baptist. They

740
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:36.880
lost by fourteen the California Baptist.
Hey, cal Baptist might be cal At

741
00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:39.320
this point, we talked a lot
about Louisville, but Cal might actually be

742
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:43.519
the worst Power five team in the
sport. They lost at home to Montana

743
00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:47.119
State the other day. Montana statea
state has a history of being like not

744
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:51.559
the worst, right or are they
the worst? Well, now I'm now

745
00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:54.360
I'll ask you this question after your
statement and to see if you can detect

746
00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:59.679
the irony. How many wins over
Power five schools do you think Montana State

747
00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:02.320
has an now that they've beaten California. Well, I did hear the beginning

748
00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:06.360
of your last sentence, So I
think it's one. Now they have one.

749
00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:09.960
It is their first ever win over
a Power five team. Yeah,

750
00:50:10.039 --> 00:50:15.760
Cal's bad and Louisville, I thinks
Pacific. Yeah, and I think cal

751
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:21.599
lost the Pacific too. They've lost
since the Montana State game that was before.

752
00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:23.719
On November tenth, they lost to
Pacific. On the sixteenth, they

753
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:27.920
lost to Montana State, lost to
a whole ocean, and then they lost

754
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:31.199
to the most boring state in the
United States. Maybe Wyoming will complete the

755
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:36.320
trifecta coming up here. We also
talked a lot about Louisville. We need

756
00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:39.000
to talk about them. So they
almost beat Texas and then they almost beat

757
00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:45.559
Indiana and Mike Woodson, boy,
we talked about an All Times stuper Bowl.

758
00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:51.440
How about Kenny Payne v Mike Woodson
for third place in whatever whatever that

759
00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:55.800
tournament is. Because Louisville, Indiana
is bad and because they were only a

760
00:50:55.960 --> 00:51:01.000
six and a half point favorite against
the horrible Louisville Cards, that team had

761
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:05.400
some pride and I'm still kind of
surprised Louisville beat Coppin State by more than

762
00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:08.159
like ten. I think you and
Nick both said Kansas might take an Allen

763
00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:13.480
Bloomington. I'm not feeling that one. No, I don't think so.

764
00:51:13.800 --> 00:51:17.159
I think I think Indiana's not great. So Louisville's now two and three.

765
00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:22.079
They played New Mexico State at home
next, which ESPNBBI gives them a fifty

766
00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:25.280
four percent win chance. We'll see, we'll see how that works out.

767
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:29.800
Uh yeah, not not great.
And then they played Bellermine, who I

768
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:32.239
think has beat them at the KFC
Young Center before. Right, Bella Mine

769
00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:37.440
is actually good. Yeah, So
who knows what it'll be like for Louisville.

770
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:39.280
Ranked teams to lose since the last
show. You will not find Missouri,

771
00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:45.000
Louisville or cal On here, but
you will find number ten Florida Atlantic,

772
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:50.159
who lost to Bryant, Number eleven
Gonzaga. They lost to the fighting

773
00:51:50.239 --> 00:51:53.639
Zach Edies of Purdue. Number fourteen
Arkansas lost at home to You and C

774
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:58.639
Greensboro. Number fifteen Texas. Not
the first time they're gonna be on and

775
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:00.880
not the last time they're gonna be
on this It's definitely not the first,

776
00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:05.000
won't be the last either. They
lost to Yukon and number twenty four Virginia

777
00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:07.880
lost the game their pride, their
dignity, their courage, and everything else

778
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:14.000
you can stuff into John Paul Jones
Arena because they scored eighteen first half points

779
00:52:14.039 --> 00:52:17.480
and still trailed by double digits en
route to a boat racing dog walking at

780
00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:22.159
the hands of the mighty Wisconsin Badgers. Yuck, ban them forever from the

781
00:52:22.199 --> 00:52:25.079
top twenty five. And who knows
Marquette might be on this list too.

782
00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:30.000
They're down double digits to UCLA,
now who knows. All right, so

783
00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:34.920
I did send out an ASCARCB and
I said, you got forty five minutes

784
00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:37.079
to get questions in, and we
did get ten responses. So look at

785
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:39.880
people, go just what you wanted
to hear at eleven forty five at night,

786
00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:43.519
right, that's exactly the news for
real. Now here we go.

787
00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:46.599
At least Max's not here to drown
himself in between questions, so there are

788
00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:51.519
a few. I'm gonna go ahead
and get all the same category questions out

789
00:52:51.559 --> 00:52:53.719
here. Here. Let's go here
at carter Worth fifty six? Would you

790
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:59.400
rather have KU Football's wide receivers or
the Chiefs wide receivers? At Evan Phillips

791
00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:02.000
forty five? I want Tyreek back? At Brett Rasdohl, does k you

792
00:53:02.039 --> 00:53:06.840
have a better wide receiver? Corpse
in the cheat And at Cooper Reeves ten?

793
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:10.760
Could you have caught that pass that
Marquest Valvedez scanting drops at the end

794
00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:15.360
of the Chief I know I could
not have. I would not have gotten

795
00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:17.159
open. I would have fallen on
that wet turf. I would not if

796
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:22.440
I'd been teleported to the open spot, I would have not caught the ball,

797
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:23.119
and it would not have been close, and it would have been far

798
00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:27.320
less close than he got. Patrick
would not have passed me the ball.

799
00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:30.239
He would have instead thrown at somebody
else who probably would have dropped it.

800
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:35.760
That is true. Pound for pound, the KU receivers are better. The

801
00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:39.079
Chiefs receivers are way better. Like
actually, but like for what is expected

802
00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:43.360
for the skill level, for the
competition level, the KU receivers are much

803
00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:46.199
better. I don't think, yes, not even close. I don't think

804
00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:50.400
that this is that we're gonna talk
much about football in the show. But

805
00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:54.000
I know the Valvez scantly drop sucks. But honestly, justin Watson dropping the

806
00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:59.719
fourth and twenty five dot that that
one like two damn times that Mahomes this

807
00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:04.800
year has had a fourth and twenty
five yeat across the field that's hit his

808
00:54:04.920 --> 00:54:08.920
guy in the hands. This is
the least talented offense Mahomes has ever had.

809
00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:15.000
Right like Patrick easy, Yeah,
Patrick Dickerson has to has to go

810
00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:19.679
out there and do everything he can
because uh, you know, and no

811
00:54:19.679 --> 00:54:22.039
one else's is hold. But man, if the Chiefs had a Kevin McCuller

812
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:27.480
like bet Robbin to Patrick Mahomes',
I guess they do have Travis Kelcey.

813
00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:30.280
But whatever, Just that just a
frustrating night for the Chiefs. Yeah,

814
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:34.400
at Matt Underscore Callentine, I did
not watch. Why did we score so

815
00:54:34.519 --> 00:54:37.719
few points against seam and on eighty
three is pretty few? It's because the

816
00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:42.360
entire team was sleepy from jet lag
except for Hunter. Yeah, that's true,

817
00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:45.719
and mccullar was mostly not sleepy with
this triple double. Everyone now McCuller

818
00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:49.159
a little way longer. Wait,
yeah it was, And I don't blame

819
00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:51.840
him because if I was in Maui, the last thing I'd want to do

820
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:55.840
in my life is play basketball.
That's fair. At K tweets and news,

821
00:54:55.880 --> 00:55:00.440
what what was that? The worst
K basketball win you've ever watched?

822
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:02.559
Oh, that's a good question.
What's the worst KU basketball? It was

823
00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:07.679
the worst twenty seven point KU basketball
win I think I've ever watched. Yeah,

824
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:14.639
the worst actual win. Surely there
must be worst ones ones I felt

825
00:55:14.679 --> 00:55:19.000
worse about. I mean they played
Uh, I think the worst win I've

826
00:55:19.039 --> 00:55:22.280
ever seen, and this one was
a blowout, was when they beat k

827
00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:27.920
State and the COVID year at Bramwadge
like fifty nine. I think when they

828
00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:32.840
beat Harvard or whatever by like eleven
before last. Those ones are always gross.

829
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.599
I think the Purdue NCAA tournament game
from a while back, shocking Purdue

830
00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:40.559
lost tournament game where they won sixty
three to sixty What is let me see

831
00:55:40.559 --> 00:55:43.960
if I can find this. There's
no way it's gonna be the season tournament

832
00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:46.920
game. Fewest points scored in a
win bill self Kansas, Like, what

833
00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:51.960
is the like? Have they ever
won like fifty three to fifty? I'm

834
00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:55.880
sure they have. I mean kay
State game is almost that fifty one.

835
00:55:57.360 --> 00:56:02.280
In the COVID year, Kansas beat
Tech Tech in Lubbock fifty eight to fifty

836
00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:07.400
seven. That's that's pretty bad.
And then a Baji rescued them that night

837
00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:09.199
with a game winner. Yeah,
they're the top five. I remember that.

838
00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:13.440
Yeah, that was that was rough. Definitely, I'll agree. Worst

839
00:56:13.480 --> 00:56:16.639
twenty seven point win will Hunter Dickinson
ended with his name in the rafters.

840
00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:21.880
Uh, totally, depending on how
the season goes. If he is actually

841
00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:25.239
American Nation Player the Year and they
go to the Final four, then yeah,

842
00:56:25.239 --> 00:56:30.880
probably all right. If I love
Hunter Dickinson and if he wins First

843
00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:34.000
Team or if he wins Big Tip
Player of the Year, which he's gonna

844
00:56:34.119 --> 00:56:37.400
unless he pops his achilles, he's
gonna win Big Twelve Player of the Year.

845
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:39.840
If that happens. Uh, he
should be in the rafters. But

846
00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:44.000
if you're gonna say that, Jeff, why shouldn't be up there on Hunter

847
00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:46.519
Dickinson should? I can't be friends. I can't do it. I cannot

848
00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:52.079
I'm I might left. Let Jeff
up there. Yeah, the best defensive

849
00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:58.280
player and maybe maybe the best defensive
player in modern day college basketball history.

850
00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:00.679
I don't know. You know,
Chiefs fans have to fall in love with

851
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:05.119
defense now, ky fan should respect
it too. Yes, he will end

852
00:57:05.199 --> 00:57:07.039
up with his name in the rafters. I do believe that what would your

853
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:10.960
what from your personal life would Bill
Walton bring up if you were on a

854
00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:15.760
call with him, Oh my gosh, so many horrible and you have too

855
00:57:15.800 --> 00:57:17.519
many things. Oh yeah, this
is bad land and this is real bad.

856
00:57:17.519 --> 00:57:21.840
If we get to this point,
I have a very flowery shirt.

857
00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:23.239
I think he would like that a
lot. It would remind him of his

858
00:57:23.400 --> 00:57:29.440
LSD trips. Yeah, with me, it'd be that it'd be my Villanova

859
00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:32.559
Oregon takes which are replayed on this
podcast. And I thought Mitch Leifoot would

860
00:57:32.599 --> 00:57:36.800
be the Big twelve player of the
year and he only had twenty three chances

861
00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:42.639
at it. My blonde hair.
He would probably mention he might say something

862
00:57:42.639 --> 00:57:45.480
about your blonde hair that could get
in legitimate trouble, Like I don't I

863
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:50.400
kind of I think your blonde hair
is pretty cool, but I don't know

864
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:53.599
if I trust Bill Walton to say
something that would not be dumped. Mmm,

865
00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:58.079
that's fair. That's fair. Do
you think are you insinuating that Bill

866
00:57:58.119 --> 00:58:00.800
Walton would be sexually attracted to me
because of the hair? Hey, if

867
00:58:01.039 --> 00:58:06.000
that I both respect that and do
not. You can have you can have

868
00:58:06.039 --> 00:58:07.800
Bill Walton sicked on you if if
that happens, can you at least get

869
00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:10.559
him to come on the show,
Like, if you're gonna have Bill Walton

870
00:58:10.599 --> 00:58:14.480
as your partner, at least get
him to come on it TP before you

871
00:58:14.559 --> 00:58:16.480
hang it up. I don't think
it'd be the worst thing that Bill Walton's

872
00:58:16.480 --> 00:58:24.559
ever come on. The microphone just
fell over on the desk. I don't

873
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:28.239
want to pick it up. I'm
retiring. This is the last episode we

874
00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:32.280
end on Shamanad. Have a great
night. You're welcome. Go Jayhawks.

875
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:37.360
Somebody the microphone, by the way, hit the ground like the ball on

876
00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:42.800
Marcus Valdez Scantling's end zone pipe shot
that I heard that. I can imagine

877
00:58:42.800 --> 00:58:45.239
that will only be infinitely worse for
the people listening. Yeah, well,

878
00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:52.079
or basically it was that. And
then there's there's videos of Valdez Scantling in

879
00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:54.679
the locker room after the game as
he's walking down the tunnel, slamming his

880
00:58:54.719 --> 00:58:58.679
helmet against the wall and he almost
drops it, but he catches it,

881
00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:02.280
so of course he held on Actually
yeah, yeah, of course he holds

882
00:59:02.280 --> 00:59:07.760
on to that one. All right, just just one time, just just

883
00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:12.639
just one time. Yeah, Marcus
at Cooper reeves ten. When can we

884
00:59:12.679 --> 00:59:15.360
start worrying about Nick Timberlake. I
have a take on this, but I

885
00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:17.719
want your answer first. I say, now we can start right now,

886
00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:22.000
all right. I don't think that's
I don't think that's fair. What did

887
00:59:22.039 --> 00:59:25.599
I say with David McCormick whenever he
was kind of booty cheeks against some of

888
00:59:25.639 --> 00:59:30.960
the horrible competition k you played early
on in the there and wound up winning

889
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:34.920
the title year. I remember you
yelling loudly a lot about it, but

890
00:59:35.039 --> 00:59:38.760
remind me I kind of went back. I'm kind of hypocritical, I believe.

891
00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:43.199
I said. I'm not gonna panic
about David McCormick until they've played seven

892
00:59:43.239 --> 00:59:46.480
games. Seven is the number,
because after seven, yep, after seven,

893
00:59:46.519 --> 00:59:50.960
you have a blend of cupcakes that
he should rip apart, and you

894
00:59:51.079 --> 00:59:53.719
have a few quality teams, and
you have some film on him. Teams

895
00:59:53.719 --> 00:59:58.239
should be able to adjust a little
bit, throw some counters. Nick Timberlake

896
00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:01.039
has played four games. They're gonna
some big, big basketball games the next

897
01:00:01.079 --> 01:00:05.159
two days. They're gonna play two
very good teams. I want to see

898
01:00:05.159 --> 01:00:07.400
what Nick Timberlakes got there, because
he was pretty good against Illinoying the scrimmage,

899
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:10.519
and I think you're gonna see his
three point shooting be necessary if you

900
01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:14.519
want to see Kansas get out of
this tournament with a win, with three

901
01:00:14.519 --> 01:00:17.760
wins. So I'm not gonna panic
until after the Yukon game. Yukon is

902
01:00:17.800 --> 01:00:22.079
game number eight. If we are
still at that point a quarter of the

903
01:00:22.159 --> 01:00:25.079
year, a quarter the way through, halfway through non con If Nick Timberlake

904
01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:29.000
still sucks and it's shooting thirty percent
on threes and can't do anything else,

905
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:31.079
then I'll start to panic. But
we can give him a few more games

906
01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:36.639
at red H Wilson Right now,
this is an interesting question. I got

907
01:00:36.639 --> 01:00:38.000
this tweeted at me earlier, and
I think it was I think it was

908
01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:43.000
incorrect, but maybe you'll have a
different opinion. Who would you trade for

909
01:00:43.199 --> 01:00:47.480
Joe Yesifu right now? Nobody,
thank you, nobody, No. We

910
01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:53.119
people said that Timberlake is is worse
than yesafu one. I don't know if

911
01:00:53.159 --> 01:00:58.800
that's true. Two we had two
years. He's also way more interesting than

912
01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:04.039
yesafu at least yes there were two
years of sample size information to take away

913
01:01:04.039 --> 01:01:08.079
from Joe yesafu Like, like we've
we've seen four games of Nick Timberlake.

914
01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:12.880
Like what you think that's that's enough
to pull the play? I don't know.

915
01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:15.719
I I would rather have Nick Timberlake
on my team than Joe YESAFU,

916
01:01:15.800 --> 01:01:20.800
and I watched a lot of Joe
Yesifu. Yeah, I agree. I'd

917
01:01:20.880 --> 01:01:24.280
much rather ride it out with Timberlake
than than have Yesfu because I know Yesfoo

918
01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:28.760
is not good. Do you miss
any of the players that transferred out,

919
01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:30.840
Like, is there any of them
that you think would really help right now?

920
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:32.679
The best ones were the sinners,
and that's the last position they need

921
01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:38.000
right now. Uh. I would
say only for depth, I would not

922
01:01:38.119 --> 01:01:43.320
hate Ernest Ooday otherwise no, but
even then I don't miss Ernest oday,

923
01:01:43.559 --> 01:01:46.360
but he would be the one I
would take back. Ernest Day through four

924
01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:50.920
games is averaging less than two points
a game. He has five zero,

925
01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:54.639
two and zero points seven rebounds of
games. Nice shooting twenty five percent from

926
01:01:54.679 --> 01:01:59.440
the floor thus far this year.
That's really been really spelling a lot too.

927
01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:04.840
Three fifteen minutes this year for Uda
on an average basis, Yeah,

928
01:02:04.920 --> 01:02:08.360
not great. So yeah, I
agree Udai was the best player that transferred

929
01:02:08.360 --> 01:02:13.679
out. But the guards really,
Yesufu Pattiford, I don't need those guys

930
01:02:13.800 --> 01:02:15.320
like we saw it. We had
two years of that now not at all.

931
01:02:16.119 --> 01:02:21.199
At Evan eight five nine four three
five nine four four last morning,

932
01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:22.320
now I'm gonna call him Evan Numbers. I said I was gonna do it

933
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:24.599
last show, and I gave him
one more. Evan says, who will

934
01:02:24.599 --> 01:02:29.639
be the guys on the bench that
step up and become consistent contributors or will

935
01:02:29.639 --> 01:02:35.480
it ride on the four horses.
Uh, I think it's very possibly going

936
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:39.440
to be that. I think el
Marco Jackson has the again, the highest

937
01:02:39.519 --> 01:02:44.360
upside to be a guy that can
actually score the ball somewhat. But I

938
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:49.199
mean again, Timberlake, Furfey,
McDowell really hasn't showed any scoring quite yet.

939
01:02:49.199 --> 01:02:52.440
But I do think Furfey has at
least shown a wantingness to score.

940
01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:55.800
He's also shown a lot of an
experience. So I don't know, but

941
01:02:55.840 --> 01:03:00.320
I think you're gonna have to rely
on those four guys more often than not.

942
01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:04.760
Well, and yeah, you're right, I mean, and by and

943
01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:07.440
large, like Arizona's pretty balanced,
you got a couple teams that are pretty

944
01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:13.079
Yukon's pretty balanced, and Kansas is
too. Like whenever we're talking about the

945
01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:15.880
Jayhawks here, they have four really
good players. If you're going to talk

946
01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:22.559
about four players that you feel very
confident in, that's plenty enough for just

947
01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:25.280
about anyone. That's more than most
teams can have. If your biggest problem

948
01:03:25.320 --> 01:03:29.199
as a basketball team is, oh, no, we have four really great

949
01:03:29.199 --> 01:03:31.360
players, but I don't know who's
gonna come off the bench. Like that's

950
01:03:31.400 --> 01:03:37.039
a pretty that's a pretty privileged problem
in today's college basketball. It is.

951
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:39.679
Yeah, with depth, I think
becoming a thing that is very much a

952
01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:45.039
luxury instead of a requirement. I
agree, but I do agree with what

953
01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:46.960
you said. I do agree that
El Marco is the best hope, he

954
01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:52.360
has the highest upside. Furfey could
do some damage. I think Timberlake will

955
01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:55.400
eventually do some things. Well,
what a great bart clear there. I

956
01:03:55.440 --> 01:04:03.679
hope that we'll see if you ever
have ascarcbs the axe hashtag ascarcb. Boy

957
01:04:03.679 --> 01:04:06.320
do I hate that? All Right? Now's the time land and where we're

958
01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:10.960
supposed to preview a game and we
don't really know who it's gonna be.

959
01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:15.360
That's all I got. Yeah,
that's uh, that is the case.

960
01:04:15.519 --> 01:04:20.360
Currently, there is about twelve and
a half minutes in UCLA. Marquette Ucile

961
01:04:20.639 --> 01:04:25.480
still leads by three. Marquette has
made a push lately and they're currently reviewing

962
01:04:25.639 --> 01:04:29.840
for an elbow in the face that
looks like it'll very possibly be a flagrant

963
01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:32.039
tube interjection. Maybe I have to
get on mute, so I have no

964
01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:34.440
idea what they're saying, but I
think it's just a bunch of happening.

965
01:04:34.599 --> 01:04:38.559
It's just a bunch of stupid refs
huddling on my screen. That's all I

966
01:04:38.559 --> 01:04:42.119
can watch. They're huddling on talking, right, and I know that one

967
01:04:42.159 --> 01:04:44.360
of us, I don't remember which
it was, at least one of us

968
01:04:44.400 --> 01:04:46.679
is like twenty or thirty seconds behind
the other, And so glad to see

969
01:04:46.719 --> 01:04:50.280
that whoever's behind is still not missing
anything because they're all just chit chatting here.

970
01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:53.920
Yeah, it's be going on for
a good minute. Sweet, That's

971
01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:57.039
exactly what I wanted to hear.
So do you have thoughts on this matchup?

972
01:04:57.079 --> 01:04:59.719
Like, we don't know anything about
UCLA or Marquette. I know that

973
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:02.760
Art has really good guards and that
may be a little bit tougher test for

974
01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:04.800
Kansas. At this point, they
seem like they're the better team. The

975
01:05:04.880 --> 01:05:10.760
rankings would suggest that Marquette does start
a six to eleven center, but definitely,

976
01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:14.119
you know, he's he's more of
your back to the basket big think

977
01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:17.039
kind of kind of what what was
the Indiana dudes? Trace Jackson Davis?

978
01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:20.960
Is really the vibes that I get
from what is it? Oh so uh

979
01:05:23.519 --> 01:05:26.719
ego Daro? Is that is that
we're gonna roll with that six eleven two

980
01:05:26.719 --> 01:05:30.199
thirty five. Yeah, I mean, obviously you have Marquette's frontman, Tyler

981
01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:33.920
kolek He. Uh, he's probably
the best player between the two teams.

982
01:05:33.679 --> 01:05:36.840
He's pretty fantastic guard. Uh.
But yeah, I don't I don't know

983
01:05:36.840 --> 01:05:40.880
a ton about either of these two
teams off the dome. Obviously, Sir

984
01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:44.840
Shaka Smart does coach Marquette, were
pretty familiar with him. He does a

985
01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:48.599
decent job beating the Jayhawks, at
least more more often than most coaches get

986
01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:54.840
to. Yeah, he's done decently
well, Shaka Smart. So he he's

987
01:05:54.880 --> 01:05:58.599
beaten Bill self the last two times
they played. I think I think it's

988
01:05:58.679 --> 01:06:00.519
it's the last. Yeah, it's
a lost two times. They swept them

989
01:06:00.559 --> 01:06:04.480
in twenty twenty one. Yeah,
they also swept them in twenty eleven.

990
01:06:05.239 --> 01:06:10.440
Oh well, if one's a sweep, Yes, you're correct. UCLA is

991
01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:15.320
probably the better coach team overall.
Marquette doesn't normally turn the ball over.

992
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:18.920
These are very very These were two
of the best teams in college basketball last

993
01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:24.119
year at protecting the ball, and
they both have at turnover problems in the

994
01:06:24.119 --> 01:06:27.679
game that's going on right now.
So kads is obviously prone to turning it

995
01:06:27.719 --> 01:06:30.639
over either way. I think you're
gonna see. If it's Marquette, I

996
01:06:30.639 --> 01:06:33.199
think the game's higher scoring, so
UCLA probably plays a little bit better than

997
01:06:33.199 --> 01:06:35.280
what they want to do. But
this is all for not because by the

998
01:06:35.280 --> 01:06:38.920
time you are listening to this,
you will already know. So give me

999
01:06:38.960 --> 01:06:42.599
two different scores, two different predictions
what happens in the event of either matchup.

1000
01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:45.960
Yeah, again, not knowing a
ton about either of these two teams.

1001
01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:51.039
But if it is indeed Ucla,
I think the Jayhawks end up winning

1002
01:06:53.880 --> 01:07:01.840
eighty five to seventy three. I
think UCLA ends up not being able to

1003
01:07:01.880 --> 01:07:06.960
hang super well with the Hawks close
ish but not close enough. If it's

1004
01:07:08.039 --> 01:07:12.480
Marquette, I still will take the
Jayhawks to win, especially this game looks

1005
01:07:12.519 --> 01:07:15.239
like it's gonna be a pretty hard
fought contest going down to the wire.

1006
01:07:15.840 --> 01:07:23.480
But I think you're probably way more
in line for a eighty one seventy nine

1007
01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:26.079
kind of game. I think I
think you're in for a very close contest.

1008
01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:29.679
If it's Marquette, I'll take Jayhawks
either way, but I do think

1009
01:07:29.679 --> 01:07:32.239
Marquette is going to give Kansas everything
they can handle if they do get there.

1010
01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:38.440
I'm trying to remember the last time
Kansas played UCLA. It's been It's

1011
01:07:38.440 --> 01:07:43.320
been a very long time. I
believe that the last long time. Yeah,

1012
01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:45.400
I'm trying to I'm trying to find
the head. Not that Elite eight

1013
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:48.559
that long ago? Was it?
No, they played in Maui. I

1014
01:07:48.559 --> 01:07:53.280
think they played him in Maui in
sixteen, and I know they played him.

1015
01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:56.320
And did they play them in Maui? Or is that by h I'm

1016
01:07:56.360 --> 01:08:00.800
seeing fifteen might be the last time. Yeah, it was in Maui,

1017
01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:03.960
was it not? Uh, it
was in Maui. I can't tell you

1018
01:08:04.360 --> 01:08:10.480
that it was between sham and OD
and Vanderbilt that they beat in the finals

1019
01:08:10.480 --> 01:08:13.440
that day. I think, Yeah, Marquette was losing this game by twelve

1020
01:08:13.519 --> 01:08:16.159
and now they are winning on a
thirteen to oh run in counting, so

1021
01:08:16.199 --> 01:08:19.760
they have roared back. Marquette's the
tougher game. I think that's who Kansas

1022
01:08:19.840 --> 01:08:24.520
is gonna get. I think Kansas
beats Marquette, if for anything else,

1023
01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:29.279
then just because this is I mean, the Marquette's more experienced than Kansas as

1024
01:08:29.319 --> 01:08:31.159
far as they play together longer,
but Kansas starts all the upper classmen.

1025
01:08:31.399 --> 01:08:33.600
I think Kansas is the best team
in the country. I'm not gonna give

1026
01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:35.800
you a lot of analysis because I
don't know a bunch, but I think

1027
01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:40.399
that Kansas wins against either team.
If it's against UCLA, I think they

1028
01:08:40.439 --> 01:08:42.880
win by tennis. If it's against
Marquette, I think it's a down to

1029
01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:45.840
the wire sort of game. So
we'll see and then what we're gonna do

1030
01:08:45.880 --> 01:08:50.159
the We're gonna come out tomorrow and
do another late night podcast. But if

1031
01:08:50.159 --> 01:08:55.399
we do, we're at least going
to know the winner of who the Jayhawks

1032
01:08:55.399 --> 01:08:59.119
will be playing or potentially loser,
because Marquette is not a gimme, who

1033
01:08:59.159 --> 01:09:01.159
do you think they are going to
be playing or who do you think is

1034
01:09:01.159 --> 01:09:03.720
gonna win? I guess it's a
better question. Other semi final and MAUI

1035
01:09:03.960 --> 01:09:09.600
number seven, Tennessee number two Perdue. Uh yeah, tough between Rick Barnes

1036
01:09:09.640 --> 01:09:15.600
and Matt Painter. Who's gonna choke
first? I will take Purdue because I

1037
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:19.039
want to see that matchup the most. I want to see Zach Edy against

1038
01:09:19.079 --> 01:09:24.600
Hunter Dickinson. Maybe just the two
best players in the country period, definitely

1039
01:09:24.600 --> 01:09:27.640
the two best big men in the
country. I think that would be a

1040
01:09:27.640 --> 01:09:30.479
pretty awesome thing to see what happens
I mean a very fun matchup. I'm

1041
01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:34.840
trying to find other matchups for tomorrow, like it's hard because the schedules still

1042
01:09:34.880 --> 01:09:39.960
coming out. I guess we'll just
pick other MAUI games. Syrahcuse versus Number

1043
01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:44.600
eleven Gonzaga and the losers bracket.
Theoretically, Oh no, that is that

1044
01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:49.079
is the matchup. That is.
I think in Zaga bounces back with a

1045
01:09:49.079 --> 01:09:53.800
close win. Yeah, I think
in Zaga wins by a healthy amount of

1046
01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:57.479
points. I think they're a lot
better. They're They're clearly the best team.

1047
01:09:58.119 --> 01:10:00.039
I think it's clear. We'll see
h depending on what happens here.

1048
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:02.960
I think that they are the best
team in the losers bracket, assuming Marquette

1049
01:10:03.000 --> 01:10:05.720
does wind up winning, and then
do we do we need to know the

1050
01:10:05.760 --> 01:10:12.359
loser either UCLA number four Marquette against
against Shamanad. We're not going with Shamanad,

1051
01:10:12.439 --> 01:10:15.720
right, Yeah, I'm going for
the major conference team to win that,

1052
01:10:16.319 --> 01:10:19.239
all right. And then just because
we need a fifth game here you

1053
01:10:19.279 --> 01:10:27.960
go, you tip against and it's
on the road at California. Cal is

1054
01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:31.560
a three point underdog. I'm gonna
go Golden Bears, get a get a

1055
01:10:31.560 --> 01:10:35.239
momentum building victory. For you're gonna
go with them, surely will be their

1056
01:10:35.319 --> 01:10:40.439
nine win season. I'm gonna go
with the Miners. The Miners are four

1057
01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:42.680
and oh and I think they make
a five and oh and Landon. If

1058
01:10:42.680 --> 01:10:45.800
you think col wins nine games this
year, I will give you rock chalk

1059
01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:49.399
Blog and ten thousand dollars on top
of it. Cal is not winning nine

1060
01:10:49.600 --> 01:10:53.079
games this year. You're kidding.
They'll be lucky to get some five.

1061
01:10:53.680 --> 01:10:57.560
Hey, you all heard it.
Let's go for nine and twenty three Cal.

1062
01:10:58.680 --> 01:11:00.760
If they get there, that'll be
the most surprising thing that my eyeballs

1063
01:11:00.760 --> 01:11:03.560
I've ever witnessed. All Right,
so you me and Nick. I guess

1064
01:11:03.640 --> 01:11:08.720
Nick back tomorrow, despite the fact
that show's gonna be even later. Oh,

1065
01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:12.720
he should be all right, Well, we'll be back. It'll be

1066
01:11:12.720 --> 01:11:16.039
a really fun game to recap regardless. So let's let's ride jay Hawk Country.

1067
01:11:16.119 --> 01:11:18.319
Let's ride, right, hottest team
in the AFC West, Come,

1068
01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:23.000
hey, jay Hawk Country, let's
ride. That is a team that won

1069
01:11:23.039 --> 01:11:28.640
their last game, unlike Kansas and
the Chiefs, or that's what I meant.

1070
01:11:28.640 --> 01:11:30.399
That's what I meant the Chiefs.
I thought you made Kansas football.

1071
01:11:30.439 --> 01:11:34.199
Boy, we're just we're just all
sorts of fun. Fun parts of this

1072
01:11:34.279 --> 01:11:38.920
Kansas basketball game kind of did feel
like a loss. Yeah, and I

1073
01:11:38.920 --> 01:11:42.680
didn't even watch it. I mean
I did, but it was it was

1074
01:11:42.680 --> 01:11:45.680
on mute on the second TV.
Yeah. Yeah, I had it on

1075
01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:48.520
mute on my phone most of the
night. Yep. And you look down

1076
01:11:48.520 --> 01:11:51.279
and you're like, oh, Hunter
out another bucket. Oh everybody? That

1077
01:11:51.359 --> 01:11:55.600
is what the last five minutes of
the game where it was just shamanad brick

1078
01:11:55.600 --> 01:11:59.760
three Hunter layup yep, And they
wound up winning by twenty seven, when

1079
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:02.199
that was pretty close to the biggest
lead they had all night. I don't

1080
01:12:02.199 --> 01:12:04.399
know if it got bigger than like
twenty nine or thirty, I don't know.

1081
01:12:04.439 --> 01:12:08.119
All Right, well, we'll be
back tomorrow. All three of us

1082
01:12:08.399 --> 01:12:12.600
can't wait. Gott to recap a
big boy game. Say bye. Yeah,

1083
01:12:13.039 --> 01:12:20.119
I'm either I'm either Father Marquette,
the Catholic bishop maybe Priest Marquette is

1084
01:12:20.199 --> 01:12:24.920
named after or I'm I'm I'm Bill
Walton's ghost. He's not dead, but

1085
01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:29.840
his his basketball ghost. I was
at the UCLA. So do you want

1086
01:12:29.880 --> 01:12:32.079
to uh, do you want to
say goodbye? Hopefully you can will this

1087
01:12:32.199 --> 01:12:39.720
into existence? Can you say goodbye
to Marquez Valdez scantling Man in a couple

1088
01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:42.680
of months. I kind of hope