Well, happy New year from all of us at Inside the Paint, all
three of us, which you may be surprised by because we haven't had a
lot of three person shows recently. But today all three of us to recap
one the Wheat Shockers, two non conference play, and three I don't know
we have anything else to recap anything else fun happened? How was your Christmas?
Christmas? Three? We can recap twenty twenty three. There you go,
twenty twenty three. Good year overall for the Jayhawks. They earned a
number one seed, They won a Big twelve title. This year looks like
it's going promising. Obviously a good year. Eric Musselman's nipples. Hey,
you know that that wasn't the best part if you take out anything related to
Arkansas. It was a darn near perfect year for Kansas athletics. But that's
pretty true. But you can't do that. You cannot do that. Kansas
football won a bowl game. Since the last time we did this. We
have not been doing this podcast long enough to have remembered the last time they
did a bowl How old were you guys when they won the Inside Bowl one
O nine eight? Wow? Wow? Yeah, it was at the very
beginning of two thousand and nine. Oh no, I was eighth then.
That's utterly ridiculous. I don't know how old Jalen Daniels is, but he
was what like like six then whenever the last time one now, so he
would have been six or five or six. That, yeah, is unbelievable
that it's been that long. But hey, the Jayhawks won a bowl game.
The basketball team won a basketball game over a team that they could not
defeat in a postseason setting a few years ago. Got their revenge, right,
that's for justice for Evan Wessel. Yeah. Well, I wish if
I could trade the games, I would trade them immediately, but we can
that currently headed ass Oh I yeah, no, I really thought whenever I
look back at the tournament losses, uh And there were some that we saw
coming, Like realistically, we knew games like Villanova and Oregon would be tough,
but but man, I was positive they were gonna be Wichitass State was
so overd Wichita State and Stanford back to back. Yeah, yeah, back
to back? Are those the Uh? So? There have been three times
that Bill's self in the last No, there's been four times that Bill's self
as at least a two seed did not get out of the first weekend of
the NCAA tournament back to back Stanford Wich toss State. That's two of them.
Can you name the other two a's at least a two seed one or
two seed first weekend loss. I don't know. I'm not sure you guys.
You guys have had COVID short term memory because you don't got to think
too hard to remember one of them. It just happened this year. There's
that one Arkansas. Oh oh is that is that? Is that a national
champion's reference? Not intentionally, but yes, now its well the year before
that was usc by approximately sixty five, as Mitch lightfoots out there trying to
prevent Yeah, oh yeah, oh you mean as a two seed. The
other one was Northern Iowa. That was that was that's the fourth one.
I thought you meant they had back to back. Uh no, no,
it's happened. It's happened four times. I see. The two that we
just talked about were back to back and they were complete and total, kind
of like this segment the page show. Yeah, yeah, that's that's okay.
We're off to as good of a start this year as all of our
other years. I'm Ryan Landreth. I'm the guy that makes the show good.
So they say, and this is my final year on this show.
That's I was wondering if he if you would say that, sir, this
is this is the final year of Nick. That is, unless he told
me in a pre show meeting that unless the Jayhawks failed to win a national
championship this year, in which case he will be back until it happens again.
That's what I heard reading between the lead in the twenty five more years,
Nick, no, please, And if they don't win a national championship,
I will not be back. Yeah, that's that's well. They just
had they better win one then, so you get to go off on a
high note, all right, Kansas, Which to state that we're gonna recap
a little bit of non conference play. We have all the Big twelve teams
ready to go for what is a wild fourteen team conference race. We gotta
pick seven Big twelve games every show now instead of five, so Landon,
you'll have even more chances to not win pick them this year. Woo can't
wait to go two and five and Big twelve play every week. That's very
well might be on the horizon and then by the time the show's over,
we'll have previewed a big twelve game. Very exciting to get back into the
swing of now A. I guess the conference schedule is still eighteen games,
but next year it's probably going to twenty. Isn't it like they're not gonna
keep it. We're gonna eventually be playing conference games. It's ridiculous. We're
going to eventually be playing conference games on Thanksgiving weekend. That's just how this
sport is going. Today is the whatever your anniversary of one of the best
non conference games I've ever watched as a Jayhawk fan, being their overtime victory
over Georgia Tech, And I was thinking about how that's on New Year's Day
now, most teams are playing. Most teams already have played multiple conference games
by this point. Kansas normally starts in December. I'm surprised they haven't.
It's just one more gripe to pick. I felt like with the two old
dudes that I do this podcast with, at least one of you guys would
agree about that. Right to get off my lawn start conference play in January.
Take Yeah, that's definitely the normal way that it's usually been done.
But yeah, when you have leagues of approximately between twenty four and thirty five
teams, you got to fit them in on the schedule somewhere. And it's
gonna have to be in December. And you're probably right. If the ACC
implodes, I guarantee you we are going to see Rutgers against North Carolina in
late November for the Big Ten opener. Yeah, and the teams will be
absolutely nothing like they are at the end of the year. And yeah,
pretty ridiculous. Also, your pick them update as we get started here,
your non conference after non conference play pick them update? Nick sixty points,
Ryan sixty points. Landon drum roll, how's he doing? Let's let's take
a look here. Oh, we actually have a drum roll fifty three.
You're a minus seven, sir as we enter conference play in your quest to
win your very first elusive Big twelve pick em crown, So I'm at least
a touchdown underdog here. That's fine, that's fine, We got time to
make it up. It won't happen, but we have time. Oh and
you haven't done a show since you and I played in the Fantasy semi finals.
How'd that go? Also? Bad? Pretty bad? Didn't like it.
I felt I could have predicted that. Yeah, and then it's okay.
I got bombed in the in the finals, so we're both losers.
I won a different fantasy championship though for the oh you did long, you
got one. You got one. That is very exciting. So we both
got obliterated in the league that we're both in, which is what's going to
happen, and pick them when Nick inevitably wins it. But so you're a
champion, huh, that's pretty exciting, Yeah, Landing fields Field. Everyone
everyone loves hearing about other people's fantasy leagues, just like they love hearing about
other people's dreams. Yeah. But yeah, I was in the league for
like fifteen years and I never won it because apparently I suck. Also,
finally got also thrown in there is everybody else's brackets. They love hearing about
upsets that people predicted in one of their thirty two brackets. I got that
fourteen over three in my one the bracket. Yeah, but when you fill
out eighteen cough, Nick, it's not as impressive. Whenever, I only
want slander from you. I per correctly predicted the national champion. I won
the Rockshock blog pool this year, did I am. Yeah, as far
as I'm concerned, the best the best of the best when it comes to
brackets, So god, Nick is a winner. Nick won the inside the
Whole, inside the Paint bracket last year. I believe it was a tie,
but still it's a title. And then, sir, you're out of
masters school. You graduated. I think the greatest thing that's happened to me
in the last year is whenever I looked in my McDonald's bag and they made
a medium fry I paid for. It was actually a large congratulations to you
for your commerce school. Right, yeah, as the large container is now
the same size as what a medium used to be. But you know whatever,
this is not inside the politics or inside the shrink flation. Okay,
let's talk. Let's go number two, Kansas eighty six. Not gonna read
what says there, but it's pretty funny about which SA state? Which is
SA state? Wheat shockers sixty seven. It was kind of dicey for a
little bit. It looked for a while that this was going to be the
same game we've been watching for a month now. Kansas plays with its food.
Then finally turns it on late to win by a few possessions, but
it was very different following a fourteen to fourteen tie through the first twelve minutes,
and then Kansas started to roll. They led, They took a twenty
eyeing the thirteen run into the break. They left that balloon all the way
to a twenty eight point lead in the second half. Kind of set their
foot off the gas at the very end. But overall, this was your,
hey, looking good sort of win for Kansas. They covered with ease.
The cover really wasn't in doubt in the second half. Good to see
them come out in their final tune up before conference play and drop a hammer
on an inferior opponent. So what we've been wanting to see for a while.
Yeah, I was a little worried, not even worried, but just
like, ah, yeah, here we go again. Kansas just kind of
kind of come out and sleep walk again, and then they didn't. And
that was really nice to see a little more focus and intensity in the last
non con game before we go into Big twelve play. Yeah, Nick,
did you just overall thoughts or initial thoughts I should say on Kansas actually being
a little bit impressive in a non con Win. Yeah, No, this
is the game where it seemed like things finally offensively kind of got put together.
I got to a little bit of a slow start, but after that
in most of the first half second half as well, high scoring forty three
points in both halves. I think that that was exactly what we're looking for.
Hunter Dickinson got out of his many little slump he's been having it,
and we debated this during the game over text about whether that was actually really
a slump. Average he was, you know, averaging probably like fifteen points
a game in that four game stretch where a little bit less than his stats
were low this season, we was averaging like twenty points in like fifteen rebounds.
But really fantastic performance from Hunter Dickinson in this game, and quality contributions
from other guys will talk about all. Marco Jackson was great, Dwan Harris
made some really good shots in this game. Kevin mcclub was stellar as usual,
so as kJ Adams. So really just felt like all the pieces really
did fit in the puzzle for this game, and it's great to see that
that, you know, the question mark about the two guard spot that who's
gonna be the fifth player to step up on this team, and Marco Jackson
did do that on Saturday, and I think Kansas showed out in a big
way, got a nice win over which does state for his standards. It
was a slump for Hunter Dickinson, which is still a very good run for
most players, but yes, he looked better led them in basically all categories.
The Alamarco Jackson as Nick keeps zooming in on the face of the Wheat
Shockers logos, face mascot's face, and the more you look, the more
you wish it didn't. But overall, so here's my question. The Jayhawks
twelve and one, they enter non conference are they interconference play? Having won
eight in a row? We all kind of talked about after they beat Tennessee
that the everything looked like it was in place for them to win ten in
a row. Well, that's eight and TCU and at UCF for up next
who they should be favored against, So definitely looks like that they've at least
gotten close to that. Every year Kansas plays thirteen non conference games, how
many of those thirteen do you typically do you think you would say they're impressive
in Uh, it depends on the year. Place six. Maybe I was
going to say like seven or eight. Okay, so somewhere between six and
eight. Well, let's look at the thirteen games that they've played, because
I think that the common conception for this team is that they've been pretty lack
luster and non conference played despite a good record. They're like fourteenth in ken
Pom. Instead of their their their second to Apeo Pole, they're like fourteen
and ken Palm. They're like sixteen in the net. H just just haven't
been metrically as good as their record and strength of schedule to suggest no hesitation.
They were impressive in each of their first two games against North Carolina Central
Manhattan. Right, that's two, correct, we'll give them which toss eight.
That's three. I think you gotta give them Yukon. It's a win
over a top five team. I don't care what it takes. You beat
a top five team, you beat the defending champs, we're gonna say it's
impressive. That's four. I think I'm gonna take the same logic with Tennessee.
Right, you're gonna say they're impressive there. I wouldn't say that was
that impressive. Again, I think they were impressive against Tennessee. Yes,
you have to count it, Nick. Their ranked fifth in the country and
they beat them by nine on a neutral Tennessee also shot thirty game in twenty
seven percent from three, So that's Kansas's defense though, Yeah, I mean,
I don't know. I don't think Tennessee's as good as people think they
are. But and then and then Kentucky willing to call that one impressive?
I am it was a wild comeback against a very good team. It was
definitely gutsy. Nick. Yeah, sure, I don't know how Kentucky,
but winning by five is more impressive than beating Tennessee by nine. But Landon,
you have them with seven impressive wins, Nick, you have them with
six, Like I feel like you gotta feel that's about normal. That's about
what they normally do. They normally have about that many quality non conference wins.
And then there of course are a few. You know, I think
you could argue Indiana's impressive too, but they covered against they covered against Yale,
like there are I don't think. My point of this is, no,
they haven't blown everybody out of the water. But I don't think that
the if you really look at the numbers, the record the point margins the
opponents. I don't think that you can say that this team was a lot
different from how they performed in the first two months of the year. Then
most years teams are am I wrong, I mean to be fair, Though
they did get blown out by Marquette, they barely squeaked by an Eastern Illinois
team that Iowa State beat by forty I know, it's a flute game.
And then yeah, I mean he hung around for quite a while, UMCC
hung around. They didn't really beat They didn't really play well against Missouri,
Yeah, and then Yale obviously was close. Yeah, but then they still
covered against Yale. Like, I don't know, I'm not here to say
that this team is the most impressive team we've ever seen. But all I'm
saying is I think that the whole notion of Kansas has been unimpressive compared to
their record, and they have just Twitter seems to be very down about a
team that's twelve and one. Maybe this game helped, Like last year's team
was twelve and one in non conference play, and I don't remember this kind
of nonsense last year, and they had a significantly less impressive non conference strength
of schedule last year, like, why is this year the outlier? Why
do you think this year has viewed differently? What are they doing differently this
year that they don't normally do. I think the real answer, honestly is
Eastern Illinois. I think that's it. I think they almost kind of sort
of almost lost to Eastern Illinois and then looked mid against a handful of teams,
and I think that's it. Whereas in normal years, yeah, they
might have those games where they do look kind of mid against a bunch of
other teams, but they didn't have that Eastern Illinois game, and so I
think people kind of overlook it. Also, Shamanad was also kind of the
sleepiest thing you've ever seen. Even if those are very justifiable reasons as to
why that was and still was almost a threat point win. I think the
the just to play the side of Twitter, I think that it's just more
as, yes, this team is winning games, which is all you can
hopefully that's all it matters in college basketball, but it's just a lot of
them haven't been impressive wins. Even in the obviously the good wins against top
ten teams, a lot of those haven't been in an impressive impressive fashion.
I do think Kansas this year, unlike most years, has had a legitimately
bad, like ten minimum like ten minute stretch in like every game since Manhattan.
Yeah, that's true. There have been stretches where it's been real ugly.
And I also think the order is what's messing us up to Their most
two impressive beatdowns were the first few games of the year. Let's switch the
schedule around a little bit. What if they open with Kansas City. What
if Eastern Illinois is game three and Manhattan is a game that was last week
instead of Yale? Then are people feeling like, oh, they're rounding in
the form whenever all you're doing is switching around the same games, Like,
I don't know, I don't, but I don't think you can do that
because I do think things happened in a linear fashion. So I do think
there is something about Like I think, honestly, what happened for the most
part here is Kansas obliterated Manhattan and NCA Central realizes that they didn't want to
play very hard against teams that they knew they could crush, and it just
didn't. I think that's kind of what happened. I don't get that they
just didn't get that's necessarily just saying that they would have always obliterated those two
teams by one hundred and always played Eastern Illinois by eight. I don't know.
If Eastern Illinois was Game one, they would have won that game by
forty. I kind of want to push back on the notion that the kids
just sleep walking, you know, like it's kind of like the same thing
as like the Chiefs, where like people will say, Oh, the Chiefs
are just bored, you know, they don't. I just think it's flat
out Ku just hasn't been great at stretches during games where they just have a
very cold stretch of stretch of shooting. I don't I don't think you can
assert that it's just like, oh, they're just bored with the teams you're
playing and they're ready for real competition. I don't know. And that is
why I'm really interested to see conference play, because I, on one hand,
I do green Nick. I think there is something quintessential about this team
that is hurting them a little bit. But at the same time, I
if they continue just to win a bunch of games or just rattle off victories
in conference play, I'm at some point I'm gonna write that off and just
say this team knows how to win games. That's what they are going to
do. By the way, We're gonna turn around and this team's gonna be
twenty five and four, and we're gonna be like, oh, wow,
look at all those nine point wins that everybody's chronically unhappy with. How ugly
the offense looks in all of them. Wow, soft ass lousy Hunter Dickinson
is averaging twenty one points in conference play and he's on first team all the
mayor how did that happen? You know? Kansas has two of the top
three Vegas odds for the Wooden Award right now, Like they have two of
the best three players in the country, and they still are underwhelming a lot
of people. I don't know. I think that what we'll see, as
Nick compared it to the Chiefs, a lot of people have done that,
like said that that may not be the best way to do it. I
think we're gonna find out, because if they go out and they start five
and zero conference play and every win is by nine to twelve points, I
don't think anyone's gonna care because conference wins seemed to count for three times.
Is what one non conference win counts. I'm just saying another thing that's substituting.
Probably the disappointment is that the expectations coming into the season as the number
one team and they're number two in the country. They have twelve wins only
one loss. That's not a legitimate argument, but like I said, I'm
gonna keep saying it. You talk about that missing piece, possibly in the
two guards spot, and that missing fifth player to round out the rotation,
or if Artio Morris is on this team, you're probably looking at a team
who is above and beyond the best team in the country, even above Purdue.
Yeah, that does hurt, because you're right, that is the piece,
right. We've talked about that, how McCuller and Dickenson are brilliant,
but when Harris isn't scoring and l Marco Jackson was really good in this game,
but whenever he's not there, you look at a team that kind of
struggles where to go with the ball. I thought it was really interesting how
a couple of people on Twitter were comparing how what Kansas's offense looks like this
year whenever Hunter Dickinson is efficiently contained compared to what it was last year when
Grady Dick was effectively defended. Like you obviously had Jalen Wilson, who could
go get to twenty points and be a bowling ball out there, just like
Kevin McCuller can do. But when you take away Dickinson or Grady Dick and
somebody else has to step up besides Wilson's slash McCuller, the offense went through
some dry stretches. I think that you're kind of seeing that a little bit
here, and Bill self's a good enough coach fully expect him to adjust.
We saw Grady Dick start to get things going at the end of conference play
after a rough mid conference loll and they were starting the round in a form.
They won seven games in a row before their coach had heart problems and
missed the rest of the year. I think you're going to see a similar
trajectory this year. Let's talk about the game. The biggest story Almarco Jackson.
Time all year we've let off with him. He had a twelve point
two rebound, two assists, showing five for ten from the floor. He
made two of his three threes, which was nice, setting a I believe
this is just a second time all season he's made multiple threes in a game,
first since the very first week of the year. Twenty seven minutes for
him is a good chunk as well. Is el Marco Jackson turning a corner
or is this more likely to be a one off day from a scoring perspective
for KU's McDonald's All American guard. I don't know. I think he continues
to play pretty well even when he doesn't score. But obviously as two Knicks
point of having our Tara Morris on this team would be the perfect piece on
the court. I don't know. I think he if he scored, obviously
like that would solve a lot of Kansas's problems and something we've talked about at
length on this show. I don't know, We're gonna need more points of
data, but it's really nice to see. He looked very comfortable. He
looked very confident doing what he was doing against the Wheat Shockers, obviously not
a great team, but nonetheless he's looked far less comfortable against worse teams.
I think he's better El Marco Jackson after struggling mightily in those first few weeks.
Remember we talked about his shooting percentage. We talked about everything but the
free throw percentage. He's been better over the last month of the year.
Very good defense, very good defender. His handles have gotten better. He's
getting a little bit more comfortable playing against the tough teams and the environments and
everything. We saw the Indiana rattles a little bit. Looked more comfortable here,
and then the two threes was big. His biggest play was the transition
dunk. Though this is the guy you got to get in transition. Sorry
to cut you off, Nick, I'm assuming that's kind of where you're going
with it. Like getting el Marco Jackson in transition opens up a totally different
side of that kid. Yep. All right, let's talk about the rebounding,
which I hear was good, Nick, tell me about it. Yeah,
Kansas had a season high in rebounds, with forty eight of them.
Mccull Dickinson, and Adams Junior all had seven or more individually. The Jayhawks
are ranked eighty fifth nationally in rebounding despite having one of the best rebounders in
the country. Ian Hunter Dickinson, how much do you think rebounding the ball
better will impact their ceiling. I think it's huge. I think it's a
gigantic thing. Because they already shoot a very high percentage from the floor.
They're not gonna post very sexy offensive rebounding numbers because of that. This is
a team that shoots north of fifty percent from the floor. They're not gonna
have very high offensive border rebounds because they don't. They don't have a lot
of shot. They don't have the same number of shots to rebound on their
own offensive end. Defensively, yeah, it's gotta get better. Dickinson is
fantastic. We know that he's the second leading rebounder in the nation, but
Adams isn't your typical four man rebounder. Mccullor's pretty good, but he primarily
plays around the perimeter and is it normally right around there? And then the
other guys make minimal contributions. Parker Brown doesn't play enough. The rebounding being
better in this game, holding them to one shot huge because Kansas first shot
defense really good. How do they lose in the tournament? Most years they
give up a ton of offensive rebounds. It seems to be a consistent thing.
Landed in my on too the right track. Yeah, I think so
rebounding is one of those weird stats sometimes that like you think it would matter
a lot, and then your team gets out rebounded by like fifteen and they
win the championship. Anyway, they gotrebunded by more than that against North Carolina.
I think it was a ridiculous. Yeah, but yeah, sometimes like
games where rebounding should matter, it does it, and then games where it
shouldn't matter, it does, and it's just it's a very weird thing at
times. But yeah, I do think that especially kJ Adams with his rebounding
Ryan you were talking about this last show, that he just doesn't rebound the
ball enough or well enough. If he picks up his rebounding. With how
good McCuller and Dickinson aren't getting boards, I think that is huge for Kansas
to have three guys on the floor most of the time that can grab you
five, six, seven plus rebounds. That is gonna be really tough because,
yeah, they don't miss a ton of shots. They shoot a high
percentage, and if they can get a lot of their missus anyway, I
do think that is actually pretty impactful for the team. They were minus twenty
against North Carolina, including minus sixteen on the offensive glass, despite shooting a
better percentage by thirteen points. And in that game, Kansas's best two rebounders
had twelve and ten, So kind of similar story. The leaders are not
the problems. The problem is everybody else. Jalen Wilson, Dwan Harris,
O Chaya Baji. Three starters combined for seven rebounds. The bench we all
know how that went, combined for five rebounds, and three of them were
from Remy Martin, So really not a lot coming there, And that's always
kind of been a Kansas thing. They normally have two one elite rebounder,
one pretty good rebounder, and then you just kind of hope for the best
for everybody else. Hunter Dickinson fantastic. Speaking of rebounders, twenty two points
led the team, thirteen boards led the team, four assists, three steals
led the team, and a block on ten for seventeen from the floor,
he made two of his three threes. Good to see that go down after
a couple of games wherever he wasn't making threes at the clip he was earlier
in the season. He played thirty one minutes. It was a brilliant performance
for him. Whenever he attacks the basket. No one can stop him.
Nick, you've been critical of Hunter Dickinson for a few reasons. Did this
kind of did this performance impress you? Yeah? I'd say my two biggest
criticism of Hunter Dickinson one on offense, one on defense, And it has
to do with, particularly on defense, him going up or for rebounds,
grabbing the ball with two hands, like it seems like oftentimes, and I
don't know it might be with an anecdote of him being a little clumsy comes
into play, but he kind of just sometimes he just swats at the ball
and get at rebounds or it comes off his fingertips instead of going down with
the rebound and pulling it in with two hands. It seems like he's sometimes
a little careless or just not trying is hard enough to get the rebounds,
box out and get the rebounds because he's seven too. And I've said my
other criticism with him is that it seems like, why doesn't he dunk the
ball more when he's on offense. I know that he's double teamed a lot,
but you'd think that with a lot of these mishots at the rim that
he's had in that little slump, that he'd eventually, like just start throwing
it down a little more. I don't know. I feel like I would
do that if I was seven ft two. But those are very minor criticisms
overall, when the guy's averaging nineteen points and fifteen rebounds throughout the season,
Landon, I feel like my Hunter Dickinson question has a little bit to do
with what Nick just said. It's the whole notion of his defense. Right,
we've seen this criticize. I don't know how anybody can have a gripe
about his offense at this point. You really don't see a lot of it
because he's averaging. You just look at his stats, but his defense,
right, he's soft on defense. He doesn't challenge like he should. He's
seven to Why doesn't he can test more shots at the rim? Well,
because he plays thirty two minutes a game, and because he's not in foul
trouble, he's able to be on the floor enough to be able to score
twenty points in rebound twelve. If you want him to be more aggressive,
he might contest a couple more shots, but then he's gonna get a couple
more fouls, and he's gonna play six or seven fewer minutes as a result,
which is gonna hurt your offense. Like I personally would much rather have
the hundred Dickenson they have than see him try to be twenty percent more aggressive
on defense, which may take him off the floor as a result in four
or five games because of foul trouble. Yeah, I think I definitely understand
that take. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like he is just
out of position a little bit on defense. But at the same time,
like for a lot of guys that have played at cans that have been great
scores and have lacked on defense, which they're having some you know, they
make that back, They make that back for you a lot. And Hunter
Dickinson is definitively going to do that. Uh. And nonetheless, he still
is going to like be a defensive presence because he just is seven too.
Like he you have a guy like that in the paint and not everyone's gonna
be able to score around that in college basketball. So he does have a
defensive presence, maybe isn't as good as we'd like it to be. Yes,
I think that's it. I think Hunter Dickinson is way better defensively than
a lot of people give him credit for they see guys score with him in
the picture sometimes and they think, wow, that's Hunter's fault. If he
just tried on defense, that guy would never score. And I just really
don't think that's how it works. But you know, we'll see going forth
that how that works. In Big Twelve play, kJ Adams nine points,
eleven rebounds, and five assists in thirty two minutes. Quality stat line there,
career high in rebounds. We've talked about him not rebounding enough. Then
he goes out there and nearly has a double double. Oh no, Landon
says, how many ten rebound games has kJ had in his career? Is
it one? This is the one? Oh my gosh, Yeah, I
knew it wasn't many. And you want to talk about guys that play a
lot of minutes. That's that feels like that should be higher. I don't
know. Is that just a gripe? No? I think it should be
higher considering he played the five like all of last season. Yeah, well,
and Jalen Wilson had great rebounding numbers, and Kevin McCuller was a pretty
good rebounder. I don't know, Nick, your thoughts on on kJ Adams,
who I thought played really well and had a couple of just ferocious dunks,
and the transition one was great. He took one coast to coast,
had a block where his at the top of his afro was at least eleven
feet in the air. Just a ridiculous hop there. Pretty pretty important piece.
kJ Adams has turned out to be. Yeah, I think that some
people probably wish Hunter Dickinson had the athleticism as kJ Adams does. Wonder what
that would look like. But no, He's been fantastic consistently this season,
so nothing really else to add on him. If Hunter Dickinson had kJ adams
athleticism, he would be the best basketball player that college has seen in the
last five years. Correct, That would be unbelievable. That guy would have
been a one and done as a freshman. It would have been Zion with
like eighty's height. Yeah, yeah, exactly, and a generational player.
At that point, I was trying to pull up I was trying to pull
up a show note from a couple of years ago, because I'm trying to
find out, like, do we normally recap non conference player than anything?
And so two years ago our non conference recap show the ASCARCB section just says,
recite the Declaration of Independence? What when did we do that? Who
thought that was an idea? That's not a good idea. Who I bet
we did very poorly. We the people mu to form a more perfect union.
Nick could probably crush it. That feels Nick is smarter than all of
us. So that's true. I feel like you could do it, sir.
Can you do the Declaration of Independence? Yeah? It is Uh.
We actually had to memorize it in my eighth grade. No, no,
I think just like the preamble. But it's like we we hold these truth
to v said self evident, that all men are created equal, that they're
doubt by their creator, were certain and alienable rights, that among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I think I do the
next sentence that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among pete you know,
men driving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Is that
right? Wow? That's yeah, that's better than I thought you get.
And during that time I saw Texas Marquis Valdez scantling a pass. So I
think that that's and but that But unlike Markus Valdez scandling that the guy that
dropped that pass didn't turn around and point at Mahomes where he should have thrown
the fricking football. RAN's not angry. Ryan's not worried that the Chiefs are
gonna lose to the Dolphins in the wildcard round. Not if every time Mahomes
throws a receiver the ball it goes off the guy's hands, killing me.
Nick, tell me about the bench production. We need music for this.
Yeah, welcome back to Inside the Bench Production I t p BP. We
discussed the ways Kansas will lose in March. Probably surely there's some mid major
team that's gonna be good this year. Oh so, no, God,
Hey, I'll sign me up for two seed Kansas against seven seed James Madison.
James Madison will not be a playing Kansas in the first round, that's
for sure. They're probably like a five seed. But Johnny for if he
played fourteen minutes and at seven points and three rebounds after his return missing the
Yale game, she props to him for being able to play that well after
a flight from Australia that probably to last like sixteen hours. Jamary McDowell was
solid. Yeah, that's long time passes. Whenever you get off, only
like four hours have passed, because it's there like a day ahead of us
out there psychologically, that would be pretty rough. Oh man. But Jamari
McDowell was solid. He had six points, three boards, four for four
from the free throw line. Nick Timberlake was sold, went right back to
being terrible, zero points, zero for four from deep. Let me illustrate
the game. Were you brick? Oh, he might make it a brick.
He's got a good look here, he's wide open brick. Oh,
he's finally he's kinda make it's a brick. It's junk time. He's gotta
make a three here, doesn'ty brick? Uh. He also had three thousand
seven minutes, so it wasn't just bricks. There was also some fouls in
there. Parker Brown Brown continues to be okay. He had four points,
but also four ten minutes. As Ryan says, he is just a white
flag. Yeah, And Barker honestly is okay. He just isn't gonna play
very much because of Dickinson like any other year, and he's probably asked to
play. Mitch Lightfoot's eleven or twelve minutes a game this year. It's just
it's Hunter doesn't foul. So Bill's like, Nope, I'm not gonna pull
him out. I thought Furfey was pretty good. I'm officially ready to step
off the Nick Timberlake Express as it's already a mile beneath the ocean surface,
and I'm ready to I'm ready to say that I think Johnny Furfey is this
team's best shot at getting a three point shooter off the bench to develop.
Is that I think it is. I think I've been there for a while.
Johnny Furfy is this team's true sixth man. And I don't think that's
awesome. That doesn't invoke a ton of confidence. It's a nineteen year old,
or is eighteen? Eighteen year old? You're sixteen seventeen? Isn't he's
even younger than that. He's a baby looks there, fifteen? So yeah,
yeah, Timberlake is just awful man. That that Yale game was the
anomaly. I hope Nick Timberlake is gonna go off against you know, Texas
Tech on a random night in February, and he's gonna have like fourteen points
off the bench and make four threes where he'll be like, hey, maybe
that'll be their X factor in the tournament, and he won't make another three
the rest of the year. I don't understand how this guy was so good
at TALS and it just hasn't happened at Kansas. And it would be awesome
if he could find fifty percent of it, because right now he's barely given
him ten percent of towels in Nick Timberlake, it just probably wonly is you
asked if there was a white guy of the game. I don't believe there
is one. Nick Timberlake definitely, isn't it. Which is toss State went
just four for twenty as a team from three we talked about. Yeah,
scouting report, they're not very good shooting threes. They also don't take a
lot of them. So if Kansas forces them to take more than they're used
to, it might have good results for the Jayhawks. And it was four
different players made those four shots overall, which Toss State they've had quite the
fall from Grace. Yeah, it's too bad. If only they'd beaten Louisville.
Yeah, and definitively did not win a national championship. Michigan lost the
championship. Louisville didn't win. Yeah, and also have you also have which
toss state in complete control of Louisville for a while, and then the refs
got involved. Everybody's favorite that it's been a great weekend of refs going on.
As on my TV screen, here come five jackasses with r's on the
back of their shirt. I see three damn handkerchiefs on the on the field
as they try to sort this out. Just an awful weekend of just you
know, in theory, Ryan, So if I came to you and I
reported as eligible and then Nick ran up to you and said nothing, which
one of us reported eligible? Uh, the answer is whoever had the ref
had money on whichever one gets me on TV to mess it all up,
because wow, they are so bad at every sport. Everything they touch turns
to crap. They are the Elon No, no, they really shouldn't go
there. But I mean you're not wrong though, they're getting reason everything.
When Elon touches cars, ugliest truck on Earth comes out. When touches Twitter,
yeah, then there's that. Yeah, when Elon touches Twitter, it's
bott mentions probably a lot of pornography, because you know, they don't care
about that anymore. Apparently, On in the interwebs, refs my least favorite
part about last year and all other years and all my least favorite part about
this year. All right, there are two more players. Landon. You
didn't even write about Dewan Harris, which I assume is became I totally forgot
about Dewan Harris. I knew this was too short, very underwhelming. Six
points, nine assists, thirty six minutes. Quality game for Harris, whose
shooting percentage continues to climb. He made two of his three threes that was
early in the game, kind of set the table for Kansas and made some
nice passes all day. Not a lot to analyze there. Why don't you
tell me about Ken Wade to one? The way Dewan Harris's game went is
that I went for a walk just before the game started. I missed the
first like couple minutes, and Dwan Harris had made both his threes and he
didn't score again. Yep, that's exactly what happened. Marcus Garrett the second
didn't score after you turn on the TV. But Kevin mccolluy continues his season
as Jalen Wilson two point zero. He had twenty points seven rebounds thirty two
minutes. I went five to fourteen overall, zero for four from behind the
arc, but ten of ten at the line as he continues to get to
the free throw stripe a lot. He's gutsy, he's tough, and he
looks as though he's never heard of the concept of a foul. Whenever he
gets called for one, he just, as he pointed out, Ryan,
just puts his hands on his head and just looks around. Was the last
thing you said. Yeah, it's like he could he could run a guy
over and look shocked when he gets called for it. Yeah, yeah,
I me too, Kevin. I'm surprised that the refs made it all about
themselves for a minute. That doesn't happen very often. Kevin McCuller is averaging
twenty points, seven rebounds, five assists while shooting forty nine percent from the
floor, thirty eight percent from three, and eighty five percent at the line.
Every single stat I just read is a career high. Most of them
aren't even close. He is a first team All America and with all the
Terrence Shannon Junior stuff that just came out, a spot for a wing is
even more up for grabs. Than ever. He's gonna be in All America
at this point, he's halfway home to that owner. Yeah, and he's
probably at worst third in the Nasmith voting, probably second, maybe second.
Yeah, I think he is second. Kevin McCuller is. I think without
Kevin mccolor, Kansas has three losses than they do. Don't really know where
they are, but I think he's three wins, has two triple doubles.
Yeah. Yeah, that's in a game that they won by five, by
the way, Like he's nuts. Final stats forty two percent from the floor,
twenty six percent from three, which wasn't great, ninety percent of the
line, which was better. Uh they are. They have shot the ball
well from the stripe recently too. They're best shooters. McCuller, Dickinson good
free throw shooters. Harris is good too. Uh. Just don't keep just
keep kJ off the line as much as you can and you'll be fine.
Final thoughts on non conference play. That was kind of what we started with.
We kind of opened with our non conference play thoughts. I think you
got to give him a B plus, if not a minus, I think
it's gotta be an a minus. They won twelve of thirteen against that schedule.
That's pretty impressive. They have a ton of quad one wins compared to
everybody else at this point in the season, which those are about as valuable
as well. The next best thing, I guess we saw that last year.
Uh they have they have infinitely more than Gonzaga because Gonzaga has zero.
That is what I know. Think you got to be pretty impressed with how
Kansas has played to this point, and now we all know that they get
ready to go for conference play that's on the horizon. You guys' final thoughts
on this game slash non conference play for the Hawks? Yeah, I think
for non con a lot of highs for Kansas beating a lot of good teams.
I would say a lot of lows, it felt like that, but
their lows were all wins except for the one time they didn't win, and
that was against a very good Marquette team. So yeah, I think they're
gonna be just fine. There are a little a few weird kinks in here
and there maybe to work out, but all in all, Yeah, still
I think Kansas did need have a very impressive non con Yeah, I think
the Kansas I would give this game you know, summing up the non conference
schedule, this game was an A minus. Think this non conference schedule has
been kind of a B minus performance for KU. Definitely not a flunking or
c type stretch. Like you Ryan said, twelve to one, number two
in the country. Can't really argue too much with that, despite how they
played against mid majors. Good work, Jayhawks. And now let's talk about
everyone else who's not as good as they are. And there's a lot of
teams in that neck of the woods Big twelve games. Well, this is
the last time that we'll say that and not recap actual league games, So
I thought i'd get everybody's appetite stimulated here by we'll go ahead and talk about
the Big twelve teams. You know, as as Landon posts the picture of
Jennifer Aniston, which is always a winner in my book, Nick is now
vomiting profusely at the thought of such a horrible to look at woman like Jennifer
Aniston appearing in front of his face. Oh okay, we got the thumbs
up. We have the thumbs up. Trying to figure out how Nick thinks
about appearances and attractiveness will never not be confusing. It's it's like a game.
It doesn't happen. Then uploaded a pasted a photo for about twenty years
ago. Yeah, I'm not interested. I'm not interested in a fifty seven
year old woman who's going through menopause. So WHOA, Okay, all right,
there is which is which is fair? You are three years old at
twenty three. I'm not when I'm not fifty seven myself. However, I'm
just no. I know, I know, I'm just saying I'm not attracted
to an old Jennifer Andison. I think she looked way better than she was
younger. I don't know if it has anything to do with actually being attracted
to her or if she just say yes, she's still pretty, like.
I think there's a difference, isn't there. I think there is a difference,
Like you're not gonna go out and pursue fifty seven year old Jennifer Aniston,
but you still nod like, hmm, pretty pretty darn good for fifty
seven. Yeah, I am gonna look like a I'm gonna look eighty three
years old when I'm fifty seven. So I have no glass house man.
He is not. He's also and probably it's gotten a lot of procedures done,
so yeah, that's true. In the Big Twelve there were there's only
one team that went down this week, and to nobody's surprise, it was
the team that's always losing. It feels like West Virginia for the eighth time
this year. They're five and eight on the year. They did give Ohio
State, who's quite good. They gave him a fight, taking him to
overtime in a road game in Cleveland, losing seventy eight seventy five. Can
either of you name Wes Virginia's coach. I've asked you just several times,
see if you can do it this time. I still can't. No,
I believe it's Josh Eilert, who I always think is a black guy,
and then I google him and he's not, which should make sense because he
coaches West Virginia. I don't know why I would ever think that's the Cosslert.
But yeah, that's uh, that's that's I get a mixed up.
I always picture Mike Boyton in my head for some reason whenever I think Josh
Eilert, and I don't think Josh Eilert is going to be coaching West Virginia
for very long, because wow, oh he's only good if you compare him
to Kenny Payne, which is not good at all. Nope, not even
a little bit uh less of a fight was put forth by Penn, who
got that absolutely curb stalked by number three Houston, ESPN's favorite team of all
time, Houston eighty one to forty two. The Cougars are thirteen to zero
and enter Big Twelve Play with an eighty percent chance to win the league and
a seventy two percent chance to win at Allen field House per ESPN. Nick,
that makes complete sense to you, right, You've you've seen Kansas get
annihilated, actually kind of have seeing them get annihilated by teams allenfield House at
this point PCU. Yeah, but you think Houston should be a seventy two
percent favorite over the Jayhawks in Lawrence. Yeah, Well, as my good
friend Chris Reynolds would say, I mean, what team. The metrics have
just showed that this team is undefeated. They're winning their games by forty points.
It doesn't matter if they schedule like Chris Beard, like that coward and
woman beater, and they beat every team they play by fifty because they're playing
Texas School to blind. But you know it doesn't matter, Like all that
matters is that you win these games by forty to fifty points and you hold
them to like twenty seven points from the game and the net and the metrics
which the stat nerds like Jesse Newll really liked to love. Well, my
good friend Kenneth Pomeroy thinks very highly of Houston. Yeah, hoson number one
according to Ken Palm, which is that's fine. You know we're about We're
about to find out Houston's about to play. Like the metrics though clearly Kansas
was a seventy Kansas was a sixty eight percent chance to lose before the last
set of games, and it went to seventy two. Now, So the
ESPN metrics saw Houston beat Penned by thirty nine, and then they saw Kansas
beat which tah State by nineteen, and they said, okay, we gotta
ship the scales even higher in the direction of Houston. Clearly they are valuing
nothing more than just sheer strength. Our margin of victory. Kansas is beating
good teams by tennish and it's not doing it as much as beating What happened,
what happened to caring about the eye test more than the metrics, Like
why why did the metrics become such a problem. It's college basketball. You
already have sixty eight teams in the field. There's already teams in the tournament
that should not be in the tournament. Remember when Michigan was like seventeen and
seventeen two years ago and they made the tournament. It's like, in the
sight, it doesn't matter. This is not the college football playoff. Like
you can have a you can use the eye test and teams performance and conference
play and against good competition, and if you have a lousy schedule, like
Gonzaga Houston, you can say, well, this team is a fraud because
they went two to four against Power five teams in their non conference state before
they went and played Our Lady the Lake and Saint Mary's twenty seven times.
Oh jeez. Well. And I think it's interesting because I have a different
thought than a lot of the blue check marks do about if Gonzaga is backed
up there there are people out there that think Gonzaga has proven themselves. They
made two championship games, they have won x amount of tournament games. I
don't value that as much because neither of their two runs to the Final four
did they beat a team seeded higher than five. Their record against top three
seeds is abysmal compared to everybody else who gets high seeds that frequently. I
don't think it's Zaga has proven anything that there are questions that have been opened
as a result of great regular season records against lackluster schedules, even more so
this year. But a team like Houston Metrics was great. ESPN also loves
Iowa State, a team that we've openly laughed about how awful their non conference
schedule is. ESPN thinks Iowa State has a seventy eight percent chance to beat
Kansas at Hilton Coliseum, and they think Iowa State has a five times higher
chance to win the Big Twelve than Kansas does, three and a half percent
to about eighteen percent. So we'll see right like like these teams are gonna
play Saett. Yeah, there's a reason that Kansas has a three percent chance
to win the Big Twelve. According to ESPN. There's a reason that Vegas
isn't offering thirty two to one on Jayhawks on the Jayhawks winning the Big Twelve
because that would definitely not be on the board for long if people were allowed
to bet on it. I suspect Houston is probably going to win about twelve
Big twelve games. That'll be a good season for sure. Is that going
to be the They're the best Big twelve team that I've ever seen. ESPN
have these metrics for no, of course not. They have a ninety nine
percent chance to beat West Virginia on Saturday, which West Virginia is not good.
But West Virginia is absolutely winning that game at least twice if they played
one hundred times. Like, there's just a lot that the computers aren't taking
into account. That's that's my two cents. I think you're right. We're
doing Big twelve standings entering conference play. I'm saying we are Houston the best
team of all times thirteen to zero. BUYU, Kansas and Oklahoma like we
all thought, are twelve and one. Yeah, a whole bunch of teams
that are eleven and two. That's Cincinnati, second best team of all time,
Iowa State, Baylor, TCU, and Texas Tech who forty percent of
the current All America teams were at Texas Tech two years ago. Oops,
they're eleven and two. K State and UCF are ten and three in Oklahoma
State and notched another win. They're eight and five after beating Chicago State.
Well kind of so that game hasn't happened yet. That game's in two days.
But you know, we're not going to do a show till afterwards.
I'm going to sue that might we don't make assumptions here. I'm going to
assume that by the time you've listened to this Oklahoma State they took care of
Chicago State because manhe I would think. And then West Virginia five and eight,
just terrible with home losses to Monmouth and a bunch of other lousy like
just not going great in the Josh Eilert era and as landon sen and the
last show, Kirk Cris has got to be saying, why did I leave
beautiful sunny Tucson, Arizona to come play in the coal mines and lose probably
fourteen big twelve games at least other games. Well, I'm always down to
talk about wing. Gonzaga is a big loser. The biggest loser nationally this
past week was, in my opinion, the thirteenth ranked Bulldogs. They lost
that home to San Diego State by ten to fall to nine and four in
the year. Now, San Diego State isn't a terrible loss. However,
the problem for Gonzaga that's mounting is they haven't beaten anybody good, literally,
nobody even kind of good. They have zero quad one wins two months into
the season. They very likely will not have any and all of WCC play
either, with how bad Saint Mary's is. The last time Gonzaga beat a
team that currently has a winning record was November twenty, first two days before
Thanksgiving against Syracuse and Maui. That was nine games ago. Last time they
beat a team that currently has a winning record. Yikes. Yeah, Gonzaga
might not be very actually very good this year. What's their seed? They're
gonna go fifteen to one, They're gonna win seventeen of their next eighteen with
their conference tournament. What is their seed at that point? Probably sixth seed.
I was gonna say six. I would think that is where they should
be seeded. I think that they'll work their way up to about the three
line if they go two straight months losing one game, though that is possible
for sure, and then all of the two seeds ever should want them as
their three seed. Yeah, because they're bad. Yes, thank you.
I like all then Zoga teams, but even worse, they will lose to
the first even semi athletic team they play. First team that's a top three
seed. They're going down. It happens every year. Really look it up,
if not sooner. They did manage to beat UCLA in overtime last year.
That was good. They beat a top three seed by taking them down.
That was their first win. And as a team that's always a one
or two, so they always are making deep tournament runs. That was their
first win over a team seeded three or better since twenty sixteen. That's not
great. Yuck. Opening the last season of PAC twelve play at least between
teams not named Oregon State and Washington State. Uh with win was in four
Arizona, who claubored low le Cal after getting off to a twenty five or
twenty six to five lead out of the gate. Cal is four and eight,
just one game worse than five and seven Louisville in a battle that should
only be decided at halftime of this year's Final four, which is exactly what
I was about to suggest. We can skip the the best sixth grade boys
team that gets that wins the right to play at halftime of the final four.
Just let Louisville and Cal go ahead to head and you get ukun Elon
ending it up all you want where he first team did thirty wins or just
just for our own entertainment, whom I'd take a long damn time to get
to thirty. I don't know how long it's e ending ending elam ending.
Sorry, I got Elon on the brain. The game with the coward verst
into flames. That's pretty good. Number eleven. Illinois ten and two inclined
it to in the top ten this week, just ahead of their conference opening
match up at number one perdue but superstar guard Terrence Shannon Junior got arrested.
Uh, it wasn't arrested in Kansas, but he was. I guess he
was technically arrested in Kansas for rape Kansas. It was just about do it
for the fighting line of this year, if that's the case the rape.
The rape occurred the same weekend that he was in Lawrence to watch KU play
Illinois in football, which Landon and I were at that game, but we
were not involved in Illinois said he was surprised whereabouts. Yeah, Illinois,
it was like, we're really surprised to hear the news. You waited six
months to hear the news. So and they they, well, who knows
what they knew? You know that the coach can say, we take this
real seriously, who knows? Who knows what happened with Artario Morris? Who
knows what happened to this? Did they know for a while and they were
just hoping that it would well, let's just hope it doesn't to get public.
Maybe we can settle under the table. Or did they really not know
until now? Like no one's ever gonna know? And I mean grow.
So the thing that people don't understanding why this is a witch hunt line,
it does take four months to happen. People do understand that, especially in
instances of rape, It takes DA Office a long time to get DNA evidence
back to even prosecute these crimes. So it makes the timeline makes sense.
It doesn't make sense that the eighties acting surprise unless it's just legitimately cover up,
right. Yeah, and uh and Terrence Shannon scored thirty against Missouri and
he has a first team All America chewing at this point and now, yikes.
Feel bad for the rest of his team too. They don't deserve this.
They're they're their best player, their leader, that's that's that's taken them
to top ten season and then this happens. What an absolutely horrible act for
a lot of reasons. Far from the most most noteworthy person that an impacts
are the rest of his basketball teammates, but still something that angers me for
those kids because now they're totally screwed because allegedly their leader is accused of doing
a very until proven guilty. But yeah, the sentiments there, I mean,
he turned himself in, he flew to he went to Kansas to turn
himself in and was booked in Douglas County, wasn't he? And that the
story? I mean, that's yeah, but you have to well, yeah,
I guess it could get worse, but man, that's awful. The
highest ranked team to lose this last week was number seven Florida Atlantic, fresh
off there thrilling double overtime win over Arizona. Good luck every kind of handicapped
this sport because they did that, and then they go out the next week
and lose to a five to nine Florida Gulf Coast team seventy two to sixty
eight. They are going to be the hardest team to put in your bracket
because they're gonna be like a seven seed. They're gonna have a great record,
they're gonna have a couple of really nice wins, but any loss they
have is gonna be a head scratcher. They obviously went to the Final four
last year. I have no idea how to handicap that team. No,
yeah, that's super weird, one of the weirder teams. Yeah, I
have no idea what to make of them. I think they're really good,
but I really don't know a team that I do think is really good.
I think I know they're really good. Number ten Marquete scored a good Big
East win by team number seven twenty two Creighton at home, seventy to sixty
seven. They were particularly good on defense, mainly because they're allowed to have
six players on the floor once Shaka back up a few steps for we police
unless missed. If that actually happened, that'd be wild. No, it's
it's about Shaka, Nick. You saw that, right, Yeah, he's
on the floor and he clearly impacts the the Creighton player having to change directions.
I do not understand. We saw Bruce Weber do this, and we've
seen Shaka do this. What happened with Shaka the other day was more egregious
than I've ever seen it. I don't know how they missed this as officials,
and I don't know how the players aren't plowing into him because it would
be an auto technical on the bench. I have never seen a player legitimately
Blayedy our coach legitimately played defense out there like Shaka did. It's unbelievable,
but I mean he did help them get a win. There's that, I
guess. Yeah. Enormous loser Tony Bennett, which Ryan which was out on
the floor and got hit in his lousy Virginia team got spanked at a horrendous
Notre Dame squad seventy six to fifty four. I don't know if you're allowed
to get spanked by just said that. It was thirteen to zero at the
first TV time out, didn't favorite and lost by twenty two. Bat him
forever. Yeah, this is for you, Tony, You suck. This
is what you deserve for what you've done to offense the sixteen seed loss was
justified, but honestly, this might somehow be worse. That UNBC team was
a tournament team. This Notre Dame team. I don't know if they could
beat Sunrise Christian Academy. At this point, they'll be Virginia by twenty two.
Good lord, Yeah, that's terrible. Chris Beard. Speaking of we've
we've talked about a lot of great human beings on this podcast. Let's do
one more or Chris Beard. His Ole Miss team is thirteen to zero and
ranked. I bet you they probably would be favorite at Allen Fieldhouse according to
ESPN. Because if you've forgotten how Chris Beard does things, here's this schedule.
Well, you have Alabama State, Eastern Washington, Detroit, Mercy,
Sam Houston, Temple, North Carolina State, Memphis, Mount Saint Mary's,
UCF, CAL, Troy, Southern Miss, and Bryant. Holy crap.
They open SEC play at number five Tennessee. I don't know what the money
line on that game is or not the money. I don't know what the
spread is. I would take the Valls. Yeah, I think I would
too. I would. It's not gonna go too great. That is amazing.
We made fun of Chris Beard on this show for his awful non conference
schedules, and now Rodney Terry has kind of picked up where Chris Beard left
off. Glad that Beard can do his thing at a different school. What
he set out like two whole months without a paycheck and then the next Power
five. Yeah, just a lousy This sport has lots of love people in
it. That's bad. Also a lot of lousy teams, A lot of
lousy teams. Ranked teams to lose since the last show, there are only
three of them. Number seven is Florida Atlantic, who lost to the where
Andy Enfield and his hot wife got their start FGCU on number thirteen Gonzaga,
they lost to San Diego State. Number twenty two, Creighton lost to Marquette,
and Ryan Landris says that Shaka Smart is a which toa state Shakers mascot
knows, Yes, yes I do. Shaka Smart is a penis head,
thank you very much. He's the worst. And I cannot stand that little
torp last week and pick him. I tried to give us five dubs and
then Virginia happened, so we all went four and one. Oops, that's
what it is. Sometimes Virginia didn't does that to you, they'd give you
random ls all the time. They've never lost to a team they should have
beaten. That's a major UNBC Furman. I'm sure. Yeah, I know
a team that's never done that either, is Purdue. Sure certainly? Right?
YEA good for that, Kansas. That's why that, that's why that.
Right as I pushed, I got a new Apple Watch for Christmas and
it popped up and said loud environment sound levels hit ninety decibels around thirty minutes
of this level can cause temporary hearing loss. So we watch must stop,
not stop going off at Allen Field House. Yeah, I would have to
turn it off before I go back there because what so Apparently what I'm figuring
out is if you so we've always wondered how many times can you hear dab
before you actually lose your hearing? And according to this, it's thirty straight
minutes of nothing, but which is probably a lot of our twenty twenty one
podcasts. That's true, No wonder. I started having to jack up my
headphone volume after that. Yeah, I definitely don't blame you. All right,
let's talk about ascarcibs all right. Here we go, ask Rock Chalk
Blog you guys did a good job getting nine questions in on this. Let's
see here. Oh my gosh, oh this is absolutely incredible. Uh,
there is a question. I'm excited to read it, and one of our
regular question askers has actually added on as a part two to an original question.
So with this, you're kind of wet your appetite. There. We
begin with basketball questions at Show Me Hawk when we play Houston and Allen Fieldhouse,
I want Kansas to make a statement. This is nothing against Houston,
but this is against the metrics nerds thinking Houston is the best non Kansas Big
twelve team since twenty twenty one. Baylor. Yeah, that is very true
they do. Who is the best non Big twelve Kansas team that we've seen
in our time on this show. Might be that ball team. Probably is
that Baylor team? Right? How is that Baylor team better than most of
that Baylor team's better than all but a couple of the Kansas teams we've seen
too. Yeah, they're as good or better than a lot of the Kansas
teams, which is pretty rare. I don't think that's true of anyone else.
They just flat out garbage can over a ten can on our garbage truck
on a ten can ran over Gonzaga in that championship. I remember that was
like that was a spring that no one was doing anything because that was the
second wave of COVID. I was excited to watch that basketball game and it
was over in five minutes. Yeah, it was. It was bad.
They were so much better. Not surprised. A question from Show Me Hawk.
Do you think that the Chiefs AFC West title streak now at eight in
a row? Will Ty bill Sels Big twelve regular season streak currently at or
well, allegedly it's at fourteen, The history books say it's at thirteen.
Will they get to that many in a row? No, you don't think
so. No, they're not going to get there this year. What AFC
West Division? Oh oh, I thought I heard AFC Championship. No,
AFC West Championships. Probably they have a good chance, to be honest,
think it probably will. I don't know who's like they're gonna be such overwhelming.
Yeah, and early enough in the season, by the way, not
like in week fifteen. Yeah, I would have to happen like preseason or
like before. The Broncos are in purgatory right now. The Raiders don't have
a quarterback, and the Chargers aren't just a dysfunctional mess like odds are.
No, the Chiefs will not win their next six AFC West titles, but
like they're gonna be a three to all. What like the the odds they
don't win are probably three to one every individual year. Yeah, as long
as Mahomes is healthy in plays and the other teams don't have Mahomes, they're
gonna be the favorite for sure. And Andy Reid, unless his arteries give
out from eating too many Nuggies, isn't gonna retire anytime soon. Of Yeah,
very unlikely. How lucky for all of us Andy, As we're shouting
at as Marquez Valvez Scanaling continues to get sixty plays a game at Logan Canard,
what changed in the first half of the Wichita State game that led to
the offense going from scoring fourteen points in the first ten minutes to then scoring
twenty eight points in the second ten minutes. I definitely have an answer to
this, do you guys? Nick? What do you think Ryan? Go
for it? Hunter Dickinson started going in the middle of the started going in
the basket that the first few possessions he was way out there, and Bill
was trying kJ kind of at the post and Hunter shooting jumpers, and it
worked sometimes but not most of the time. And then Self said, okay,
fine, screw that Hunter, We're just going to put you under the
basket. And look what happened. Yep, I agree, that's what happened.
They started playing at the rim, they attacked the basket. It led
to some transition opportunities too, because which toa state defensively or which to state
turns it over? A lot defense leads to offense. In the entire history
of the Bill Self tenure, you should know by now that their best offense
under Bill Self is when the defense creates it. Saw it a lot in
this game at Matt underscore Gallantine, what is the best New Year's tradition doing
sitting and watching ilish? I could say it would be kissing a girl before
midnight, but tradition for me hopefully in a few years, Landon maybe twenty
twenty seven New Year's Eve. That's that's let's start the clock. Alexa set
a reminder for December thirty first, twenty twenty six, at eleven fifty nine
pm, and I'll ask Landon if that's indeed what happened. Then maybe on
season fifteen of this show, I'll be able to say land and did you
come on Landon? Come on land land In Buddy could be yes, it
might not mean, but it could be Well, Landon have one pick him
by that point, I hope, Nick, Well, I have been done
with the show for five years and you and I will still be doing this.
That's probably true. Somehow. The best New Year's tradition is watching the
college football semifinals. At this point, both games are good now all of
a sudden. Yeah, it's amazing how that happens when there's not one super
uber dominant SEC team. Yeah, that's true. And also Oklahoma doesn't lose
to LSU by six, yeah or whatever. When four seed Oklahoma stays away,
it's it usually gets much better. Yeah. At KLON seven twenty eight,
was l Marco's game a fluke or sign of things to come? We've
already answered this. I think it's uh talked to be determined. Yeah,
it's hopeful. Uh. I am more encouraged with his performance after that than
I have at any point. And it is a thing for Bill self players
to be rounding in the forum, right around this this time of year at
Kevin not only one. We need a top transfer badly, a top grad
transfer badly. I would like that, especially with Timberlake not playing very well.
But at the same time, I don't think it's very likely. I
can't remember have they ever had a mid season transfer. I guess Silvio de
Sosa kind of yeah, but he was a freshman, of course. Yeah,
transfer at the mid season, it's so rare, it's so unlikely.
To Michael, Phoenix is almost as good as Mahomes. This guy's insane.
That's that's Nick. Nick thinks. Patrick Mahomes is like a five point five
on the one. Awesome to me that Nick demands to pronounce it like penis.
Yeah it's yeah, it's Poenix, isn't it. It's Pennis, Yeah,
it's Penix. Okay, sorry, can you even imagine what Patrick Mahomes
would do with Damn? The Washington receivers are better than what he's working with.
The leit are just draft all three of them. Yeah, let it,
let it roll. Honestly, there's a lot of teams that have better
wide receivers than the Chiefs in college. That's terrible. All right, here
we go at Ryan Underscore Landreth, I'm really not trying to laugh at my
own questions, but they're just there. This is pretty good. If a
beautiful, captivating woman with two arm sleeve tattoos approached Nick and thank you,
Landon and said, you can either take me on one date of your choosing
or forever extinguish your loved ones. How quickly wouldn't How how quickly would Nick
yeat an entire clan of white birds off the Olden gate Bridge? And then
replying to this at Dick Underscore Taser adds in and would Nick know how fortunate
he was to have an entire army of his kid living in the Bay Area
before he offed them. I'm taking the girl on a date and I'm throwing
her off the Golden gate Bridge. Who wow, that's horrible. I have
nothing against I have nothing against tattoos. You can't do that there. To
spite you, I'm going to get a full arm sleep myself. Oh my
gosh, wow, would that be a twist? What I can if bullying
convinced Nick to get a full arm sleeve tattoo. Landon has been talking about
getting speaking of family, and my family probably disowned me at that point.
I speak from experience. They get over and I'm also five years older than
you guys, So you'll get to that point where you're just like your parents
would not disown you. You're still there, flash and blood. Wow,
maybe they would. Maybe they would based on how quiet I was. Yeah
to change at Dick Underscore Daser, you run into the ghost of Bobby Knight
at Johnny's Tavern after listening to your questionable takes on college basketball. He says,
listen, son, you need to let it go with sports. It's
ruining your life. Here's one million dollars cash, but you can never watch
another game in your life. Oh my gosh, hey taking the money so
quickly. No more Kansas tournament losses, No more Andy Reid in the Chiefs
losing the AFC championship game. Oh that'll be yeah. I'd take the million
dollars. I'd find a better hobby. Now there is more information here,
he says. You cannot even participate. You can't listen, you can't read,
you can't check. Sports become dead to you if you watch participate as
in participate as in I cannot go out and shoot hoops with friends. I'm
assuming that's what it means, Yes, participate. It says if you watch
any game, even water polo, even just stressage, all the money gets
repolled and you die. So what do you choose cash? So you're saying
I can't play pickleball with friends? I believe that. Yeah, it says
you can't participate. So Wayne Kurrent leads this out there. You have three
options. Do you choose cash, do you choose sports, or do you
choose a strawberry blonde with seventeen tattoos? That one strawberry blonde, seventeen tattoos.
Yeah, Nick and Landon are like, I don't need cash or sports
at that point. Redhead, though, I lose all the money and I
die if I my willpower runs out. Yeah, strawberry blonde is a redhead
though, right kind of I'll take the sports. Wow. No, No,
redheads are beautiful too. Straw There there are some strawberry. There's some
strawberry blonde is probably more red than blonde. But I mean the answer is
always yes, Nick. My goodness, if Ryan, if Ryan and Lannon
had if we if we had to describe their love life interests as an ice
cream flavor they like neapolitan ice cream, a little bit of everything. That'll
work most of everything someone likes. I've got that French I've got that uh
French vanilla. And you know what, Nick, most people like neopolitan ice
cream. Most people would look at that and say, yep, I get
it. That person. I would dig the vanilla out, of course,
and the chocolate out and leave the strawberry. Wow, that's just a horrible
take. Strawberry ice cream is the best of those three. It is horrible.
So strawberry milk no chocolate is best of both. It depends just by
itself with no topping back. Yes, I'll take the straw I'll take the
strawberry. Nick is slowly reverting into twenty eighteen me where he can't just not
ignore the football on the team on it. I love Texas losing. Yeah,
it would be very nice if Texas does inted lose this game. And
obviously by the time yeah, you know, you'll know. Yeah, a
couple more Matt underscore Gallentine. Why was the twenty twenty twenty one team so
bad for KU standards? Looking back on that roster they had, Well,
okay, you'll get to go off on that minute. Looking back at the
roster. We had McCormick, oh Chai, Christian Brown, Jalen Wilson,
and Marcus Garrett. Why was that team so bad? I mean, the
problem is all those guys were like one year away, right. They also
didn't have a shooter yet. Yeah, they were. They were an underdeveloped
team with a point guard who couldn't score and didn't want to and sometimes wanted
to too badly, and they were still pretty good. They finished, like,
I know, bad for Kansas. Kansas's standards is like the first off
that season had like five fewer give me, non conference games than they would
have had an normal non COVID year. So you see, the final record
was twenty one and nine. If it was an actual season and you get
a couple more games against the Manhattans out there, the game's probably like,
what are they like? Twenty seven and nine? Probably twenty seven to ten,
something a little bit more realistic. Also, they finished second in the
Big Twelve. The only team that won more Big Twelve games than they did
was the national champion, and they lost to a team that was chronically underseeded.
Right, Like that team was. They weren't great, but they also
weren't bad. No, they like, Yeah, the key there is for
Kansas standards, Like they were still an actually like pretty solid team. I
mean they beat the national champions. Yeah, one of two teams to do
it. Yeah, like they they were actually still pretty good. They were
worse for Kansas standards, but they were still pretty good. But I kind
of do think Marcus Garrett is like seventy percent of the reason that team wasn't
that good. So, by the way, Baylor was given a seventy six
percent chance to win that game before things tipped off at Allen Fieldhouse. Houston
given a seventy two percent chance. So they are saying that this Houston team
is basically ninety five percent of that Baylor team, which is a take.
Yeah, that's also I don't think that makes sense at all. Also,
there were no fans, so it really is not like Ale the things.
There were a few a few very loud fans. Kansas in that game shot
nineteen percent from three and beat Baylor by thirteen. It was awesome plus twenty
on the glass, Big Dave coming up clutch with twenty points. Jalen Wilson
had fourteen rebounds in the Red Jerseys and they almost utipped immediately after that,
remember that? And then they got us seed hard. Yeah, yeah,
they us seed very hard. Last question at AJS and Underscore Official, it's
actually two questions. We'll start with this. What are KU's chances of making
it to the playoff next year with twelve teams? Nick, what do you
think? All right? Probably, I'm actually true, but like their schedule's
pretty soft now it is. But on Jalen Daniels being healthy, I'm not
gonna try to break your heart on purpose, guys, but what the heck
have you seen from Jalen Daniels that would make you think that man is lasting
double digit games? He isn't. He's going to get hurt in September.
Again, Uh, it's possible, It's definitely possible. If Daniels can play
most or all of the season, they have a real shot. But it's
gonna almost really have to be with a Big Twelve championship. Yeah, if
you tell me, If you're telling me right now, Daniels plays every game,
there's a very real chance they win the Big Twelve, which would get
them in almost certainly, which would be a heck of a comeback. Yeah.
And then another question here from AJSN Underscore official. Who is your pick
to win the College Football National Championship? Washington mission. I would have said
Alabama before the game earlier. I think the Alabama Michigan winner was always set
up to win by double digits in the finals. I hope I'm wrong,
because Washington's got the best player, the best player in the field right now
he is currently. Yeah, but Michigan's defense a little different than the Steve
Sarcassian defensive death. They are not not quite the same. I hope Washington
wins. That would be who I'd like to see wins. Do I think
it's gonna happen. Not a chance in the world. I think the fighting
harballs Jim Harbaugh on his way back to what I don't know, the Chicago
Bears. Something like that gets a Cheaters always have to win in Houston,
don't they. Hey, look who we root for, sir. I'm not
sure we should be throwing eggs at the cheaters in college sports House. At
least, the cheating in this case is just paying players. It's not cheating
in game like signed Steelers and trash can slappers, sling should be allowed.
That's my hot take. I mean, Bill Belichick agrees who might be the
most overrated coach in the history of football? Now is uh is this uh
AT and T technology where they the deaf quarterback can see the plays? Change?
Is that? Should that be allowed? How in the hell can they
have technology produced so that the blind quarterback or the deaf quarterback can see the
plays? How can ATT do this? But whenever my phone is five freaking
away from the live birauter, Yeah, it doesn't work like geez At and
T is the worst. I can't wait to see what how they feature Coach
K and all their tournament ads this year. Everybody loves that, all right,
Coach K and Nick Saban. That's All State? Yeah, Nick Saban
has been in All States since you guys were babies. Why do they have
to put the two least interesting people on the planet. I mean, well,
it's an insurance company. So if if you're talking about most hated companies,
you might have the most hated coach ever because he's with Alabama and every
last one of them has a different bowl game that they sponsored. All State
just popped up on my TV as a sponsor for this this this uh the
college football player. But I'm I'll have to pay one hundred and eighty five
dollars for my car insurance this month. Thanks Progressive. Yes you do well.
Progressive is as bad as that was the cheapest too. Now they had
the cheapest rate. Apparently you can discriminate against twenty three year old guys who've
never had an history with bad driving. So but it get pulled over on
Saturday? Yeah, and did you get a ticket for that? You got
pulled over for riding someone's coattails a woman with one. I said, I
was driving too close to someone. That's that's an insane ticket. I guess
the cop was a The cop was a sleeved strawberry blonde girl. I gave
her a ticket. That's yeah, I would too. Wait what there is
no uh, there is no better usage of the strap than insurance companies,
not the strawberry blind tattooed cop that was I had that finger on. So
preview TCU at number two Kansas on Saturday, January sixth pm, Nick,
go ahead and read the first line, please, guys under the edge of
thirty. Of course, I'm talking about TCU number then it is the three
I almost got it. I got him was a really funny and sure to
be canceled line. Well, I can read it, it says Ryan wrote,
No, that's not what I'm in. I didn't write these notes.
Land and help Me was Jamie Dixon's Warden Frogs. Yeah, I don't know.
Skunks might have been in the white Skunks might have been in the Capitol
building. The Frogs enter at ten and two on the season, which is
how many incompetent candidates we have running for president versus how many incompetent present candidates
we're gonna get in the election. They lost to Clemson in Nevada, which
are the best two teams they played. Their wins are against best wins are
against Arizona State and Hawaii. Because that's your best two wins. That makes
all miss look like they're number one in the country. Yeah, somehow they're
still here to lead the front court as Emmanuel Miller, who is averaging seventeen
and six while shooting thirty seven percent from the outside. Jacoby Coles has emerges
of quality power forward to log eleven and six, and former jayack Ernest fude
Is starts at center. He averages fifteen a game o Nope, fifteen minutes
per game because he fouls so much. He's sitting on a averages of just
four points and four rebounds against a really poor non conference schedule. So I'm
sure he's gonna have twenty against KU. Yeah. Yeah, And they have
a really weird non conference schedule because their metrics look great, we just don't
know how good they actually are because of those schedule's bad. Without Mike Miles
here anymore. Former Delaware Gardjamir Nelson runs the show. He also plays with
aver Ry Anderson kind of a Bill selfie two point guards on the four at
the same time. Stuff. Nelson averages eleven points and four assists. He's
only shooting twenty six percent from three, but he's over eighty five percent of
the line. If that tells you about where he likes to play his game,
the Jayhawk should look to avoid fouling him. I would say that they
should make him shoot threes, but every three years TCU isn't good at shooting
threes, and they shoot it really well at in field House. I'm twenty
six percent shooters typically do really well. Now in field House they do.
Yeah, wing Micah Peevie and still here. Chuck O'Bannon junior year number seven
in college he was a freshman and played double digit games when Devonte Graham was
at Kansas. Still here, they are the other primary backcourt players of note.
The horn Frogs, per usual, are very good on the offensive class
and play a very fast paced ranking the top ten in shots made per game.
They've been very good on offense, averaging eighty seven points per game thus
far, though again against a week schedule. They get to the line a
lot and shoot an elite seventy seven percent as a team from the stripe.
They're also right there with Kansas for best passing team in the league. They
take a ton of twos, not a lot of threes, but as Ryan
noted, that has not mattened in the past. That's what it was last
year too. The weaknesses are what they usually are, a lot of turnovers
and they don't shoot well from three. But they've played such a lousy schedule
that all their match looks look really, really good to this point, as
is the case for a lot of Big twelve teams. So we're not really
sure, though. I think we're all relatively high on the horn Frogs.
Yeah, I think they're top five Big twelve team. I do. Yeah,
I would agree. Last year featured TCUs first ever win an Allen field
House. The horn Frogs are one to ten and Lawrence and four and twenty
one against Kansas overall since joining the Big Twelve. When did they beat KU
and L in the house the two schools meet this year? What did you
say, Nick? When did they beat KU and Allen field House? Certainly
last year year ago obliterated them? Yeah, yeah, I'm joking. Yeah,
last year they won the first Big twelve game. They won Big Twelve
tournament game when Josh Jack team was awful too. Yeah, yeah they were.
That might have been the worst KU lost in conference play in this past
decade. It is, it is. It's the worst conference loss of the
celf era. And I don't know if it's even close, honestly that that
Gerald Vick team that somehow lost in Morgantown at the Buzzers up there too.
The other one that I think we're forgetting was maybe the low point of Inside
the Paint when we were so done with watching Remy Martin not play and they
go down to Fort Worth and just got shredded, as Bill self was perfectly
podcast. Yeah, and then two days later they played him again, because
remember it was a COVID makeup game when they almost lost to him at home
then but they didn't and then they didn't lose again. Yeah, that was
it after that. Okay, So I have two different angles here. I
originally wanted to pick Kansas to win in a statement. I think the Jayhawks
have been sitting there waiting for conference play for a while, and I think
that TCU hasn't shown that they can contend with anybody of quality. They lost
by double digits to Clemson, who's the only ranked team that they played all
year. But I like TCU's team and I like the way that they match
up with Kansas. Because Kansas, we've established, isn't a great rebounding team.
Teams are guarding Hunter Dickinson well enough where the rest of Kansas can be
taken advantage of and be had on the glass. TCU's gonna do that well.
Kansas has been prone to forcing Kansas has been prone to turning the ball
over. TCU very good at that. And if there's a team that can
match Kansas's athleticism and speed in the open court, it's the horn Frogs.
Jamie Dixon's a great coach. A lot of these guys were here whenever they
rolled Kansas last year. They're not going to be intimidated by the atmosphere.
In the end, I think it's a really close game. I think Kansas
wins something like seventy nine is seventy four. A high scoring game that's gonna
feature some lead changes. I think you're gonna see TCU make more shots than
they typically do. But in the end, Kansas has the best two players
in the game and they have the better coach. I think that's enough.
They make enough free throws down the stretch, but you don't want to get
into a free throw shooting contest with these guys. If Kansas finds themselves down
by five points in the final two minutes and they are counting on TCU missing
free throws to get back in, it probably not gonna end well. Hornfrog
is one of the eight best free throw shooting teams in the country. I
like the Jayhawks win, but I think it's close. I agree, I
think Kansas will win, but I do think it's gonna be a good game.
I think TCU is gonna hang in there. They have played Kansas close
a bunch of times, and of course they have knocked him off a few
as well, But yeah, I think I think Kansas wins like seventy five,
seventy three or something like that. I think it's gonna be really close.
But I think you are going to see Kansas up their level play.
If they get off to a really slow start through, they could be in
the danger zone. But I think they're not gonna I think they're gonna start
a lot faster than they have been. Yep, I agree as well.
I think this is gonna be a relatively close game. You mean Kansas eighty
one, TCU seventy five. Kansas has not beaten TCU by double digits in
any of their last five matchups, neither game last year, neither game of
the year before that, and then the game I guess there's a big twelve
tournament game in there when o Chaia Baji had that super dunk. But regular
season matchups, you have to go all the way back to very early in
twenty twenty one conference play, when I believe who's sat in that game.
Marcus Garrett sat in that game, didn't e to want Harris just rolled.
Kansas dominated TCU in Fort Worth and then won maybe the grossest conference game ever.
Do you remember the score of the rematch a couple weeks later, Landon,
you remember the halftime score, either one of you? TCU at Kansas
January twenty twenty one. What was the halftime score? I don't, but
I do you remember it being really bad? The halftime scorer TCU nineteen Kansas
eighteen. Oh my gosh. I trying to find out some of the stats
in this game. Kansas four for seventeen from three they had. This game
had a total of a lot of turnovers and a lot of fouls and not
a lot of shots. I think this game's much prettier. These are very
good offenses. Should be fun to watch. Also, wouldn't surprise me if
Kansas roles. Wouldn't surprise me if you see like a twenty two to six
start and they just roll them. Considering I think they've been kind of waiting
to get to this point in their season since yeah, MAUI probably since around
then. Other games got a lot of games to pick. It's gonna be
a thing this year because of all the Big twelve games. West Virginia at
number three, Houston, the metrics say ninety nine percent. You're ruling with
them. I am going to yeah, Yeah, it's terrible. Yeah,
Houston should win this game pretty easily. Number eighteen Baylor at Oklahoma State.
I don't think the Cowboys are good. I do think Baylor is give me
Scott Drews squad on the road, correct. Yeah. Iowa State at number
eleven Oklahoma. ESPN Metrics say the Cyclones are a favorite in this game.
I disagree. Sooners at home. Yeah, give me the Sooner. Well
you see F at Kansas State. I think we all expect the Wildcats to
open. They're not going to have the best conference late, but we all
think they open with a win, right I do? Yep. This feels
like and and bram Ledge isn't great by any stretch against non Kansas Big twelve
teams unless the team's really good. Uh, but this feels like UCF getting
their first taste of Oh, this is what it's like every night in this
conference. And they lose by twenty. Texas Tech at number twenty Texas close
game. Texas hasn't shown me very much, but I think they win.
Yeah. I think so too. Yeah. And Cincinnati at number twelve BYU.
We have no idea how that's going to go. If we I assume
we all want BYU and did we all take the exact same results in all
seven conference games. Yeah, this is a really bad opening weekend, though
none of these games were remotely interesting. I honestly tea see you at Kansas?
Is TCU Kansas the game where the underdog has the best chance of winning?
Uh? What's the actual favorite? Probably? I was stayed open.
It'll be close. Hey, don't you cave now? Don't you remember you
guys agreed with me. We read Iowa states crappy non conference schedule over and
over and said that you would not fall for it whenever they were eleven and
two or whatever entering January. You all agreed to that. Oh I'm not.
I think they're going to be pretty mediocre other games. This game looked
a lot better twenty four hours ago. Number nine Illinois at number one Perdue.
Boy, you think this is walking in new old hornet's nest for an
a lin Ni team that now doesn't have their leader. I'll I think Purdue
wins by a lot. Yeah, boiler Makers. Yeah without Arren Shannon.
Number seven, Marquette haven't been the same team away from their company confines of
their home arena at Seaton Hall Pirates already have a over Ucon. Do they
get one over Marquette? Yoho? Give me the good Pirates Marquette. Yeah,
I think Marquette wins. I think they're the best team in that conference,
even though I think you kind of win it. Number eight North Carolina
at number sixteen Clemson. I'm not a Hubert Davis fan. I will take
the Tigers at home. I am an RJ. Davis fan. Give me
North Carolina. Yeah, I'll take Clemson. Number six Kentucky at Florida.
Do the PayPal Cow's Open SEC play with a win? Yes they do.
How good is Florida? I think they do though, Yeah I do too,
I do too. And number twenty two Ole Miss at number five Tennessee.
Hey, Chris Beard, welcome to conference play voles by twenty Yeah.
Yeah, Ball's big, all right. So we're now in Big twelve play,
which means two games a week, two shows a week. It's gonna
be fun. Nick, you're working a you're out of school, you're working
your full time job. So I guess that means we can't record very late.
Probably not. And yet here we sit at ten forty on a on
a work night, chirping away about women with tattoos and the Houston, West
Virginia prediction and it's great important unemployed unemployed behavior. Yeah, very much so.
This is inside the Paint on Rock Chalk Blog. I'm Ryan landrath Ah,
a man who likes women with tattoos and strawberry blondes, and I have
a job. Well that's that's a sequence right there. You guys can do
what you will with that. All right, we'll be back. We'll be
back, I'm assuming at the end of the weekend to talk about how the
Horny Frogs dumped Kansas to a season opening loss. Sad believe