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Well, happy New year from all
of us at Inside the Paint, all

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three of us, which you may
be surprised by because we haven't had a

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lot of three person shows recently.
But today all three of us to recap

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one the Wheat Shockers, two non
conference play, and three I don't know

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we have anything else to recap anything
else fun happened? How was your Christmas?

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Christmas? Three? We can recap
twenty twenty three. There you go,

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twenty twenty three. Good year overall
for the Jayhawks. They earned a

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number one seed, They won a
Big twelve title. This year looks like

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it's going promising. Obviously a good
year. Eric Musselman's nipples. Hey,

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you know that that wasn't the best
part if you take out anything related to

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Arkansas. It was a darn near
perfect year for Kansas athletics. But that's

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pretty true. But you can't do
that. You cannot do that. Kansas

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football won a bowl game. Since
the last time we did this. We

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have not been doing this podcast long
enough to have remembered the last time they

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did a bowl How old were you
guys when they won the Inside Bowl one

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O nine eight? Wow? Wow? Yeah, it was at the very

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beginning of two thousand and nine.
Oh no, I was eighth then.

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That's utterly ridiculous. I don't know
how old Jalen Daniels is, but he

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was what like like six then whenever
the last time one now, so he

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would have been six or five or
six. That, yeah, is unbelievable

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that it's been that long. But
hey, the Jayhawks won a bowl game.

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The basketball team won a basketball game
over a team that they could not

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defeat in a postseason setting a few
years ago. Got their revenge, right,

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that's for justice for Evan Wessel.
Yeah. Well, I wish if

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I could trade the games, I
would trade them immediately, but we can

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that currently headed ass Oh I yeah, no, I really thought whenever I

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look back at the tournament losses,
uh And there were some that we saw

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coming, Like realistically, we knew
games like Villanova and Oregon would be tough,

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but but man, I was positive
they were gonna be Wichitass State was

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so overd Wichita State and Stanford back
to back. Yeah, yeah, back

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to back? Are those the Uh? So? There have been three times

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that Bill's self in the last No, there's been four times that Bill's self

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as at least a two seed did
not get out of the first weekend of

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the NCAA tournament back to back Stanford
Wich toss State. That's two of them.

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Can you name the other two a's
at least a two seed one or

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two seed first weekend loss. I
don't know. I'm not sure you guys.

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You guys have had COVID short term
memory because you don't got to think

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too hard to remember one of them. It just happened this year. There's

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that one Arkansas. Oh oh is
that is that? Is that a national

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champion's reference? Not intentionally, but
yes, now its well the year before

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that was usc by approximately sixty five, as Mitch lightfoots out there trying to

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prevent Yeah, oh yeah, oh
you mean as a two seed. The

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other one was Northern Iowa. That
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I thought you meant they had back
to back. Uh no, no,

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it's happened. It's happened four times. I see. The two that we

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just talked about were back to back
and they were complete and total, kind

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of like this segment the page show. Yeah, yeah, that's that's okay.

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We're off to as good of a
start this year as all of our

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other years. I'm Ryan Landreth.
I'm the guy that makes the show good.

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So they say, and this is
my final year on this show.

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That's I was wondering if he if
you would say that, sir, this

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is this is the final year of
Nick. That is, unless he told

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me in a pre show meeting that
unless the Jayhawks failed to win a national

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championship this year, in which case
he will be back until it happens again.

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That's what I heard reading between the
lead in the twenty five more years,

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Nick, no, please, And
if they don't win a national championship,

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I will not be back. Yeah, that's that's well. They just

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had they better win one then,
so you get to go off on a

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high note, all right, Kansas, Which to state that we're gonna recap

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a little bit of non conference play. We have all the Big twelve teams

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ready to go for what is a
wild fourteen team conference race. We gotta

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pick seven Big twelve games every show
now instead of five, so Landon,

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you'll have even more chances to not
win pick them this year. Woo can't

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wait to go two and five and
Big twelve play every week. That's very

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well might be on the horizon and
then by the time the show's over,

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we'll have previewed a big twelve game. Very exciting to get back into the

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swing of now A. I guess
the conference schedule is still eighteen games,

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but next year it's probably going to
twenty. Isn't it like they're not gonna

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keep it. We're gonna eventually be
playing conference games. It's ridiculous. We're

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going to eventually be playing conference games
on Thanksgiving weekend. That's just how this

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sport is going. Today is the
whatever your anniversary of one of the best

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non conference games I've ever watched as
a Jayhawk fan, being their overtime victory

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over Georgia Tech, And I was
thinking about how that's on New Year's Day

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now, most teams are playing.
Most teams already have played multiple conference games

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by this point. Kansas normally starts
in December. I'm surprised they haven't.

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It's just one more gripe to pick. I felt like with the two old

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dudes that I do this podcast with, at least one of you guys would

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agree about that. Right to get
off my lawn start conference play in January.

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Take Yeah, that's definitely the normal
way that it's usually been done.

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But yeah, when you have leagues
of approximately between twenty four and thirty five

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teams, you got to fit them
in on the schedule somewhere. And it's

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gonna have to be in December.
And you're probably right. If the ACC

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implodes, I guarantee you we are
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late November for the Big Ten opener. Yeah, and the teams will be

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absolutely nothing like they are at the
end of the year. And yeah,

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pretty ridiculous. Also, your pick
them update as we get started here,

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your non conference after non conference play
pick them update? Nick sixty points,

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Ryan sixty points. Landon drum roll, how's he doing? Let's let's take

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a look here. Oh, we
actually have a drum roll fifty three.

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You're a minus seven, sir as
we enter conference play in your quest to

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win your very first elusive Big twelve
pick em crown, So I'm at least

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a touchdown underdog here. That's fine, that's fine, We got time to

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make it up. It won't happen, but we have time. Oh and

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you haven't done a show since you
and I played in the Fantasy semi finals.

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How'd that go? Also? Bad? Pretty bad? Didn't like it.

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I felt I could have predicted that. Yeah, and then it's okay.

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I got bombed in the in the
finals, so we're both losers.

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I won a different fantasy championship though
for the oh you did long, you

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got one. You got one.
That is very exciting. So we both

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got obliterated in the league that we're
both in, which is what's going to

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happen, and pick them when Nick
inevitably wins it. But so you're a

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champion, huh, that's pretty exciting, Yeah, Landing fields Field. Everyone

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everyone loves hearing about other people's fantasy
leagues, just like they love hearing about

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other people's dreams. Yeah. But
yeah, I was in the league for

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like fifteen years and I never won
it because apparently I suck. Also,

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finally got also thrown in there is
everybody else's brackets. They love hearing about

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upsets that people predicted in one of
their thirty two brackets. I got that

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fourteen over three in my one the
bracket. Yeah, but when you fill

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out eighteen cough, Nick, it's
not as impressive. Whenever, I only

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want slander from you. I per
correctly predicted the national champion. I won

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the Rockshock blog pool this year,
did I am. Yeah, as far

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as I'm concerned, the best the
best of the best when it comes to

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brackets, So god, Nick is
a winner. Nick won the inside the

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Whole, inside the Paint bracket last
year. I believe it was a tie,

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but still it's a title. And
then, sir, you're out of

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masters school. You graduated. I
think the greatest thing that's happened to me

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in the last year is whenever I
looked in my McDonald's bag and they made

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a medium fry I paid for.
It was actually a large congratulations to you

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for your commerce school. Right,
yeah, as the large container is now

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the same size as what a medium
used to be. But you know whatever,

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this is not inside the politics or
inside the shrink flation. Okay,

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let's talk. Let's go number two, Kansas eighty six. Not gonna read

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what says there, but it's pretty
funny about which SA state? Which is

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SA state? Wheat shockers sixty seven. It was kind of dicey for a

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little bit. It looked for a
while that this was going to be the

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same game we've been watching for a
month now. Kansas plays with its food.

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Then finally turns it on late to
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it was very different following a fourteen
to fourteen tie through the first twelve minutes,

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and then Kansas started to roll.
They led, They took a twenty

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eyeing the thirteen run into the break. They left that balloon all the way

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to a twenty eight point lead in
the second half. Kind of set their

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foot off the gas at the very
end. But overall, this was your,

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hey, looking good sort of win
for Kansas. They covered with ease.

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The cover really wasn't in doubt in
the second half. Good to see

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them come out in their final tune
up before conference play and drop a hammer

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on an inferior opponent. So what
we've been wanting to see for a while.

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Yeah, I was a little worried, not even worried, but just

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like, ah, yeah, here
we go again. Kansas just kind of

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kind of come out and sleep walk
again, and then they didn't. And

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that was really nice to see a
little more focus and intensity in the last

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non con game before we go into
Big twelve play. Yeah, Nick,

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did you just overall thoughts or initial
thoughts I should say on Kansas actually being

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a little bit impressive in a non
con Win. Yeah, No, this

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is the game where it seemed like
things finally offensively kind of got put together.

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I got to a little bit of
a slow start, but after that

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in most of the first half second
half as well, high scoring forty three

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points in both halves. I think
that that was exactly what we're looking for.

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Hunter Dickinson got out of his many
little slump he's been having it,

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and we debated this during the game
over text about whether that was actually really

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a slump. Average he was,
you know, averaging probably like fifteen points

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a game in that four game stretch
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were low this season, we was
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But really fantastic performance from Hunter Dickinson
in this game, and quality contributions

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from other guys will talk about all. Marco Jackson was great, Dwan Harris

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made some really good shots in this
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so as kJ Adams. So really
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did fit in the puzzle for this
game, and it's great to see that

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that, you know, the question
mark about the two guard spot that who's

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gonna be the fifth player to step
up on this team, and Marco Jackson

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did do that on Saturday, and
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way, got a nice win over
which does state for his standards. It

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was a slump for Hunter Dickinson,
which is still a very good run for

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most players, but yes, he
looked better led them in basically all categories.

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The Alamarco Jackson as Nick keeps zooming
in on the face of the Wheat

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Shockers logos, face mascot's face,
and the more you look, the more

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you wish it didn't. But overall, so here's my question. The Jayhawks

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twelve and one, they enter non
conference are they interconference play? Having won

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eight in a row? We all
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that the everything looked like it was
in place for them to win ten in

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a row. Well, that's eight
and TCU and at UCF for up next

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who they should be favored against,
So definitely looks like that they've at least

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gotten close to that. Every year
Kansas plays thirteen non conference games, how

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many of those thirteen do you typically
do you think you would say they're impressive

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in Uh, it depends on the
year. Place six. Maybe I was

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going to say like seven or eight. Okay, so somewhere between six and

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eight. Well, let's look at
the thirteen games that they've played, because

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I think that the common conception for
this team is that they've been pretty lack

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luster and non conference played despite a
good record. They're like fourteenth in ken

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Pom. Instead of their their their
second to Apeo Pole, they're like fourteen

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and ken Palm. They're like sixteen
in the net. H just just haven't

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been metrically as good as their record
and strength of schedule to suggest no hesitation.

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They were impressive in each of their
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Manhattan. Right, that's two,
correct, we'll give them which toss eight.

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That's three. I think you gotta
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over a top five team. I
don't care what it takes. You beat

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a top five team, you beat
the defending champs, we're gonna say it's

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impressive. That's four. I think
I'm gonna take the same logic with Tennessee.

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Right, you're gonna say they're impressive
there. I wouldn't say that was

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that impressive. Again, I think
they were impressive against Tennessee. Yes,

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you have to count it, Nick. Their ranked fifth in the country and

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they beat them by nine on a
neutral Tennessee also shot thirty game in twenty

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seven percent from three, So that's
Kansas's defense though, Yeah, I mean,

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I don't know. I don't think
Tennessee's as good as people think they

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are. But and then and then
Kentucky willing to call that one impressive?

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I am it was a wild comeback
against a very good team. It was

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definitely gutsy. Nick. Yeah,
sure, I don't know how Kentucky,

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but winning by five is more impressive
than beating Tennessee by nine. But Landon,

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you have them with seven impressive wins, Nick, you have them with

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six, Like I feel like you
gotta feel that's about normal. That's about

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what they normally do. They normally
have about that many quality non conference wins.

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And then there of course are a
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you could argue Indiana's impressive too,
but they covered against they covered against Yale,

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like there are I don't think.
My point of this is, no,

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they haven't blown everybody out of the
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the if you really look at the
numbers, the record the point margins the

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opponents. I don't think that you
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different from how they performed in the
first two months of the year. Then

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most years teams are am I wrong, I mean to be fair, Though

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they did get blown out by Marquette, they barely squeaked by an Eastern Illinois

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team that Iowa State beat by forty
I know, it's a flute game.

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And then yeah, I mean he
hung around for quite a while, UMCC

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hung around. They didn't really beat
They didn't really play well against Missouri,

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Yeah, and then Yale obviously was
close. Yeah, but then they still

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covered against Yale. Like, I
don't know, I'm not here to say

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that this team is the most impressive
team we've ever seen. But all I'm

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saying is I think that the whole
notion of Kansas has been unimpressive compared to

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their record, and they have just
Twitter seems to be very down about a

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team that's twelve and one. Maybe
this game helped, Like last year's team

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was twelve and one in non conference
play, and I don't remember this kind

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of nonsense last year, and they
had a significantly less impressive non conference strength

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of schedule last year, like,
why is this year the outlier? Why

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do you think this year has viewed
differently? What are they doing differently this

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year that they don't normally do.
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Eastern Illinois. I think that's it. I think they almost kind of sort

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of almost lost to Eastern Illinois and
then looked mid against a handful of teams,

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and I think that's it. Whereas
in normal years, yeah, they

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might have those games where they do
look kind of mid against a bunch of

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other teams, but they didn't have
that Eastern Illinois game, and so I

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think people kind of overlook it.
Also, Shamanad was also kind of the

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sleepiest thing you've ever seen. Even
if those are very justifiable reasons as to

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why that was and still was almost
a threat point win. I think the

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the just to play the side of
Twitter, I think that it's just more

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as, yes, this team is
winning games, which is all you can

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hopefully that's all it matters in college
basketball, but it's just a lot of

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them haven't been impressive wins. Even
in the obviously the good wins against top

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ten teams, a lot of those
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I do think Kansas this year,
unlike most years, has had a legitimately

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bad, like ten minimum like ten
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Yeah, that's true. There have
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And I also think the order is
what's messing us up to Their most

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two impressive beatdowns were the first few
games of the year. Let's switch the

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schedule around a little bit. What
if they open with Kansas City. What

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if Eastern Illinois is game three and
Manhattan is a game that was last week

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instead of Yale? Then are people
feeling like, oh, they're rounding in

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the form whenever all you're doing is
switching around the same games, Like,

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I don't know, I don't,
but I don't think you can do that

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because I do think things happened in
a linear fashion. So I do think

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there is something about Like I think, honestly, what happened for the most

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part here is Kansas obliterated Manhattan and
NCA Central realizes that they didn't want to

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play very hard against teams that they
knew they could crush, and it just

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didn't. I think that's kind of
what happened. I don't get that they

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just didn't get that's necessarily just saying
that they would have always obliterated those two

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teams by one hundred and always played
Eastern Illinois by eight. I don't know.

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If Eastern Illinois was Game one,
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forty. I kind of want to
push back on the notion that the kids

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just sleep walking, you know,
like it's kind of like the same thing

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as like the Chiefs, where like
people will say, Oh, the Chiefs

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are just bored, you know,
they don't. I just think it's flat

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out Ku just hasn't been great at
stretches during games where they just have a

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very cold stretch of stretch of shooting. I don't I don't think you can

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assert that it's just like, oh, they're just bored with the teams you're

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playing and they're ready for real competition. I don't know. And that is

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why I'm really interested to see conference
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I do green Nick. I think
there is something quintessential about this team

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that is hurting them a little bit. But at the same time, I

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if they continue just to win a
bunch of games or just rattle off victories

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in conference play, I'm at some
point I'm gonna write that off and just

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say this team knows how to win
games. That's what they are going to

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do. By the way, We're
gonna turn around and this team's gonna be

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twenty five and four, and we're
gonna be like, oh, wow,

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look at all those nine point wins
that everybody's chronically unhappy with. How ugly

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the offense looks in all of them. Wow, soft ass lousy Hunter Dickinson

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is averaging twenty one points in conference
play and he's on first team all the

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mayor how did that happen? You
know? Kansas has two of the top

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three Vegas odds for the Wooden Award
right now, Like they have two of

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the best three players in the country, and they still are underwhelming a lot

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of people. I don't know.
I think that what we'll see, as

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Nick compared it to the Chiefs,
a lot of people have done that,

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like said that that may not be
the best way to do it. I

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think we're gonna find out, because
if they go out and they start five

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and zero conference play and every win
is by nine to twelve points, I

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don't think anyone's gonna care because conference
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Is what one non conference win counts. I'm just saying another thing that's substituting.

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Probably the disappointment is that the expectations
coming into the season as the number

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one team and they're number two in
the country. They have twelve wins only

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one loss. That's not a legitimate
argument, but like I said, I'm

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gonna keep saying it. You talk
about that missing piece, possibly in the

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two guards spot, and that missing
fifth player to round out the rotation,

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or if Artio Morris is on this
team, you're probably looking at a team

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who is above and beyond the best
team in the country, even above Purdue.

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Yeah, that does hurt, because
you're right, that is the piece,

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right. We've talked about that,
how McCuller and Dickenson are brilliant,

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but when Harris isn't scoring and l
Marco Jackson was really good in this game,

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but whenever he's not there, you
look at a team that kind of

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struggles where to go with the ball. I thought it was really interesting how

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a couple of people on Twitter were
comparing how what Kansas's offense looks like this

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year whenever Hunter Dickinson is efficiently contained
compared to what it was last year when

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Grady Dick was effectively defended. Like
you obviously had Jalen Wilson, who could

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go get to twenty points and be
a bowling ball out there, just like

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Kevin McCuller can do. But when
you take away Dickinson or Grady Dick and

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somebody else has to step up besides
Wilson's slash McCuller, the offense went through

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some dry stretches. I think that
you're kind of seeing that a little bit

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here, and Bill self's a good
enough coach fully expect him to adjust.

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We saw Grady Dick start to get
things going at the end of conference play

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after a rough mid conference loll and
they were starting the round in a form.

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They won seven games in a row
before their coach had heart problems and

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missed the rest of the year.
I think you're going to see a similar

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trajectory this year. Let's talk about
the game. The biggest story Almarco Jackson.

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Time all year we've let off with
him. He had a twelve point

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two rebound, two assists, showing
five for ten from the floor. He

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made two of his three threes,
which was nice, setting a I believe

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this is just a second time all
season he's made multiple threes in a game,

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first since the very first week of
the year. Twenty seven minutes for

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him is a good chunk as well. Is el Marco Jackson turning a corner

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or is this more likely to be
a one off day from a scoring perspective

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for KU's McDonald's All American guard.
I don't know. I think he continues

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to play pretty well even when he
doesn't score. But obviously as two Knicks

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point of having our Tara Morris on
this team would be the perfect piece on

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the court. I don't know.
I think he if he scored, obviously

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like that would solve a lot of
Kansas's problems and something we've talked about at

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length on this show. I don't
know, We're gonna need more points of

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data, but it's really nice to
see. He looked very comfortable. He

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looked very confident doing what he was
doing against the Wheat Shockers, obviously not

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a great team, but nonetheless he's
looked far less comfortable against worse teams.

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I think he's better El Marco Jackson
after struggling mightily in those first few weeks.

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Remember we talked about his shooting percentage. We talked about everything but the

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free throw percentage. He's been better
over the last month of the year.

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Very good defense, very good defender. His handles have gotten better. He's

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getting a little bit more comfortable playing
against the tough teams and the environments and

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everything. We saw the Indiana rattles
a little bit. Looked more comfortable here,

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and then the two threes was big. His biggest play was the transition

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dunk. Though this is the guy
you got to get in transition. Sorry

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to cut you off, Nick,
I'm assuming that's kind of where you're going

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with it. Like getting el Marco
Jackson in transition opens up a totally different

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side of that kid. Yep.
All right, let's talk about the rebounding,

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which I hear was good, Nick, tell me about it. Yeah,

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Kansas had a season high in rebounds, with forty eight of them.

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Mccull Dickinson, and Adams Junior all
had seven or more individually. The Jayhawks

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are ranked eighty fifth nationally in rebounding
despite having one of the best rebounders in

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the country. Ian Hunter Dickinson,
how much do you think rebounding the ball

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better will impact their ceiling. I
think it's huge. I think it's a

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gigantic thing. Because they already shoot
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They're not gonna post very sexy offensive
rebounding numbers because of that. This is

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a team that shoots north of fifty
percent from the floor. They're not gonna

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have very high offensive border rebounds because
they don't. They don't have a lot

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of shot. They don't have the
same number of shots to rebound on their

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own offensive end. Defensively, yeah, it's gotta get better. Dickinson is

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fantastic. We know that he's the
second leading rebounder in the nation, but

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Adams isn't your typical four man rebounder. Mccullor's pretty good, but he primarily

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plays around the perimeter and is it
normally right around there? And then the

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other guys make minimal contributions. Parker
Brown doesn't play enough. The rebounding being

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better in this game, holding them
to one shot huge because Kansas first shot

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defense really good. How do they
lose in the tournament? Most years they

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give up a ton of offensive rebounds. It seems to be a consistent thing.

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Landed in my on too the right
track. Yeah, I think so

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rebounding is one of those weird stats
sometimes that like you think it would matter

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a lot, and then your team
gets out rebounded by like fifteen and they

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win the championship. Anyway, they
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I think it was a ridiculous.
Yeah, but yeah, sometimes like

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games where rebounding should matter, it
does it, and then games where it

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shouldn't matter, it does, and
it's just it's a very weird thing at

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times. But yeah, I do
think that especially kJ Adams with his rebounding

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Ryan you were talking about this last
show, that he just doesn't rebound the

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ball enough or well enough. If
he picks up his rebounding. With how

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good McCuller and Dickinson aren't getting boards, I think that is huge for Kansas

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to have three guys on the floor
most of the time that can grab you

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five, six, seven plus rebounds. That is gonna be really tough because,

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yeah, they don't miss a ton
of shots. They shoot a high

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percentage, and if they can get
a lot of their missus anyway, I

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do think that is actually pretty impactful
for the team. They were minus twenty

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against North Carolina, including minus sixteen
on the offensive glass, despite shooting a

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better percentage by thirteen points. And
in that game, Kansas's best two rebounders

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had twelve and ten, So kind
of similar story. The leaders are not

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the problems. The problem is everybody
else. Jalen Wilson, Dwan Harris,

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O Chaya Baji. Three starters combined
for seven rebounds. The bench we all

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know how that went, combined for
five rebounds, and three of them were

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from Remy Martin, So really not
a lot coming there, And that's always

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kind of been a Kansas thing.
They normally have two one elite rebounder,

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one pretty good rebounder, and then
you just kind of hope for the best

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for everybody else. Hunter Dickinson fantastic. Speaking of rebounders, twenty two points

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led the team, thirteen boards led
the team, four assists, three steals

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led the team, and a block
on ten for seventeen from the floor,

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he made two of his three threes. Good to see that go down after

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a couple of games wherever he wasn't
making threes at the clip he was earlier

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in the season. He played thirty
one minutes. It was a brilliant performance

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for him. Whenever he attacks the
basket. No one can stop him.

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Nick, you've been critical of Hunter
Dickinson for a few reasons. Did this

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kind of did this performance impress you? Yeah? I'd say my two biggest

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criticism of Hunter Dickinson one on offense, one on defense, And it has

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to do with, particularly on defense, him going up or for rebounds,

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grabbing the ball with two hands,
like it seems like oftentimes, and I

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don't know it might be with an
anecdote of him being a little clumsy comes

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into play, but he kind of
just sometimes he just swats at the ball

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and get at rebounds or it comes
off his fingertips instead of going down with

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the rebound and pulling it in with
two hands. It seems like he's sometimes

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a little careless or just not trying
is hard enough to get the rebounds,

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box out and get the rebounds because
he's seven too. And I've said my

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other criticism with him is that it
seems like, why doesn't he dunk the

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ball more when he's on offense.
I know that he's double teamed a lot,

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but you'd think that with a lot
of these mishots at the rim that

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he's had in that little slump,
that he'd eventually, like just start throwing

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it down a little more. I
don't know. I feel like I would

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do that if I was seven ft
two. But those are very minor criticisms

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overall, when the guy's averaging nineteen
points and fifteen rebounds throughout the season,

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Landon, I feel like my Hunter
Dickinson question has a little bit to do

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with what Nick just said. It's
the whole notion of his defense. Right,

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we've seen this criticize. I don't
know how anybody can have a gripe

408
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about his offense at this point.
You really don't see a lot of it

409
00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:34.759
because he's averaging. You just look
at his stats, but his defense,

410
00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:37.920
right, he's soft on defense.
He doesn't challenge like he should. He's

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00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.920
seven to Why doesn't he can test
more shots at the rim? Well,

412
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because he plays thirty two minutes a
game, and because he's not in foul

413
00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:49.680
trouble, he's able to be on
the floor enough to be able to score

414
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twenty points in rebound twelve. If
you want him to be more aggressive,

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he might contest a couple more shots, but then he's gonna get a couple

416
00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:03.279
more fouls, and he's gonna play
six or seven fewer minutes as a result,

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which is gonna hurt your offense.
Like I personally would much rather have

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the hundred Dickenson they have than see
him try to be twenty percent more aggressive

419
00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:14.480
on defense, which may take him
off the floor as a result in four

420
00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:19.920
or five games because of foul trouble. Yeah, I think I definitely understand

421
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that take. Yeah, I don't
know. I feel like he is just

422
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out of position a little bit on
defense. But at the same time,

423
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like for a lot of guys that
have played at cans that have been great

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00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:34.000
scores and have lacked on defense,
which they're having some you know, they

425
00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:37.720
make that back, They make that
back for you a lot. And Hunter

426
00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:41.759
Dickinson is definitively going to do that. Uh. And nonetheless, he still

427
00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:45.759
is going to like be a defensive
presence because he just is seven too.

428
00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:48.920
Like he you have a guy like
that in the paint and not everyone's gonna

429
00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:52.839
be able to score around that in
college basketball. So he does have a

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00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.400
defensive presence, maybe isn't as good
as we'd like it to be. Yes,

431
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I think that's it. I think
Hunter Dickinson is way better defensively than

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a lot of people give him credit
for they see guys score with him in

433
00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:07.920
the picture sometimes and they think,
wow, that's Hunter's fault. If he

434
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:11.759
just tried on defense, that guy
would never score. And I just really

435
00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:15.000
don't think that's how it works.
But you know, we'll see going forth

436
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:18.839
that how that works. In Big
Twelve play, kJ Adams nine points,

437
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:22.480
eleven rebounds, and five assists in
thirty two minutes. Quality stat line there,

438
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.799
career high in rebounds. We've talked
about him not rebounding enough. Then

439
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:29.920
he goes out there and nearly has
a double double. Oh no, Landon

440
00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:33.440
says, how many ten rebound games
has kJ had in his career? Is

441
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:37.559
it one? This is the one? Oh my gosh, Yeah, I

442
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:40.759
knew it wasn't many. And you
want to talk about guys that play a

443
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:45.200
lot of minutes. That's that feels
like that should be higher. I don't

444
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:48.039
know. Is that just a gripe? No? I think it should be

445
00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:52.920
higher considering he played the five like
all of last season. Yeah, well,

446
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.839
and Jalen Wilson had great rebounding numbers, and Kevin McCuller was a pretty

447
00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.480
good rebounder. I don't know,
Nick, your thoughts on on kJ Adams,

448
00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:04.440
who I thought played really well and
had a couple of just ferocious dunks,

449
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:07.160
and the transition one was great.
He took one coast to coast,

450
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:11.880
had a block where his at the
top of his afro was at least eleven

451
00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.200
feet in the air. Just a
ridiculous hop there. Pretty pretty important piece.

452
00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:18.319
kJ Adams has turned out to be. Yeah, I think that some

453
00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:22.599
people probably wish Hunter Dickinson had the
athleticism as kJ Adams does. Wonder what

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00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:27.519
that would look like. But no, He's been fantastic consistently this season,

455
00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:33.559
so nothing really else to add on
him. If Hunter Dickinson had kJ adams

456
00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:36.920
athleticism, he would be the best
basketball player that college has seen in the

457
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:42.279
last five years. Correct, That
would be unbelievable. That guy would have

458
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:47.079
been a one and done as a
freshman. It would have been Zion with

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00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:53.039
like eighty's height. Yeah, yeah, exactly, and a generational player.

460
00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:57.880
At that point, I was trying
to pull up I was trying to pull

461
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:02.039
up a show note from a couple
of years ago, because I'm trying to

462
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:03.960
find out, like, do we
normally recap non conference player than anything?

463
00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:10.519
And so two years ago our non
conference recap show the ASCARCB section just says,

464
00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:15.160
recite the Declaration of Independence? What
when did we do that? Who

465
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.720
thought that was an idea? That's
not a good idea. Who I bet

466
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:27.599
we did very poorly. We the
people mu to form a more perfect union.

467
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.039
Nick could probably crush it. That
feels Nick is smarter than all of

468
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:36.279
us. So that's true. I
feel like you could do it, sir.

469
00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:41.839
Can you do the Declaration of Independence? Yeah? It is Uh.

470
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:48.920
We actually had to memorize it in
my eighth grade. No, no,

471
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I think just like the preamble.
But it's like we we hold these truth

472
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to v said self evident, that
all men are created equal, that they're

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doubt by their creator, were certain
and alienable rights, that among these are

474
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life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness. I think I do the

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00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:07.119
next sentence that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among pete you know,

476
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:12.160
men driving their just powers from the
consent of the governed. Is that

477
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.599
right? Wow? That's yeah,
that's better than I thought you get.

478
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:21.559
And during that time I saw Texas
Marquis Valdez scantling a pass. So I

479
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:25.000
think that that's and but that But
unlike Markus Valdez scandling that the guy that

480
00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:29.720
dropped that pass didn't turn around and
point at Mahomes where he should have thrown

481
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:35.720
the fricking football. RAN's not angry. Ryan's not worried that the Chiefs are

482
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:39.200
gonna lose to the Dolphins in the
wildcard round. Not if every time Mahomes

483
00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:45.400
throws a receiver the ball it goes
off the guy's hands, killing me.

484
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:47.720
Nick, tell me about the bench
production. We need music for this.

485
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:54.000
Yeah, welcome back to Inside the
Bench Production I t p BP. We

486
00:32:54.079 --> 00:33:00.480
discussed the ways Kansas will lose in
March. Probably surely there's some mid major

487
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:04.680
team that's gonna be good this year. Oh so, no, God,

488
00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:07.839
Hey, I'll sign me up for
two seed Kansas against seven seed James Madison.

489
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:15.599
James Madison will not be a playing
Kansas in the first round, that's

490
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:17.759
for sure. They're probably like a
five seed. But Johnny for if he

491
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:22.799
played fourteen minutes and at seven points
and three rebounds after his return missing the

492
00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:24.920
Yale game, she props to him
for being able to play that well after

493
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:31.839
a flight from Australia that probably to
last like sixteen hours. Jamary McDowell was

494
00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:38.319
solid. Yeah, that's long time
passes. Whenever you get off, only

495
00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:42.480
like four hours have passed, because
it's there like a day ahead of us

496
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:46.839
out there psychologically, that would be
pretty rough. Oh man. But Jamari

497
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:50.559
McDowell was solid. He had six
points, three boards, four for four

498
00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:54.200
from the free throw line. Nick
Timberlake was sold, went right back to

499
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:59.559
being terrible, zero points, zero
for four from deep. Let me illustrate

500
00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:02.200
the game. Were you brick?
Oh, he might make it a brick.

501
00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.400
He's got a good look here,
he's wide open brick. Oh,

502
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:12.280
he's finally he's kinda make it's a
brick. It's junk time. He's gotta

503
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.159
make a three here, doesn'ty brick? Uh. He also had three thousand

504
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:17.840
seven minutes, so it wasn't just
bricks. There was also some fouls in

505
00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:22.840
there. Parker Brown Brown continues to
be okay. He had four points,

506
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:27.400
but also four ten minutes. As
Ryan says, he is just a white

507
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:32.199
flag. Yeah, And Barker honestly
is okay. He just isn't gonna play

508
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:36.280
very much because of Dickinson like any
other year, and he's probably asked to

509
00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:38.719
play. Mitch Lightfoot's eleven or twelve
minutes a game this year. It's just

510
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:42.400
it's Hunter doesn't foul. So Bill's
like, Nope, I'm not gonna pull

511
00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:45.239
him out. I thought Furfey was
pretty good. I'm officially ready to step

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00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:50.360
off the Nick Timberlake Express as it's
already a mile beneath the ocean surface,

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00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:54.039
and I'm ready to I'm ready to
say that I think Johnny Furfey is this

514
00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:59.639
team's best shot at getting a three
point shooter off the bench to develop.

515
00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:02.199
Is that I think it is.
I think I've been there for a while.

516
00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:07.400
Johnny Furfy is this team's true sixth
man. And I don't think that's

517
00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:13.559
awesome. That doesn't invoke a ton
of confidence. It's a nineteen year old,

518
00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:16.320
or is eighteen? Eighteen year old? You're sixteen seventeen? Isn't he's

519
00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:22.000
even younger than that. He's a
baby looks there, fifteen? So yeah,

520
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:25.000
yeah, Timberlake is just awful man. That that Yale game was the

521
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:30.639
anomaly. I hope Nick Timberlake is
gonna go off against you know, Texas

522
00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:36.360
Tech on a random night in February, and he's gonna have like fourteen points

523
00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:38.320
off the bench and make four threes
where he'll be like, hey, maybe

524
00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:42.400
that'll be their X factor in the
tournament, and he won't make another three

525
00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:45.599
the rest of the year. I
don't understand how this guy was so good

526
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:47.920
at TALS and it just hasn't happened
at Kansas. And it would be awesome

527
00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:52.280
if he could find fifty percent of
it, because right now he's barely given

528
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:57.159
him ten percent of towels in Nick
Timberlake, it just probably wonly is you

529
00:35:57.199 --> 00:35:59.719
asked if there was a white guy
of the game. I don't believe there

530
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:02.280
is one. Nick Timberlake definitely,
isn't it. Which is toss State went

531
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:06.519
just four for twenty as a team
from three we talked about. Yeah,

532
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:08.280
scouting report, they're not very good
shooting threes. They also don't take a

533
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:12.800
lot of them. So if Kansas
forces them to take more than they're used

534
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:15.199
to, it might have good results
for the Jayhawks. And it was four

535
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:21.320
different players made those four shots overall, which Toss State they've had quite the

536
00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:24.039
fall from Grace. Yeah, it's
too bad. If only they'd beaten Louisville.

537
00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:29.880
Yeah, and definitively did not win
a national championship. Michigan lost the

538
00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:35.239
championship. Louisville didn't win. Yeah, and also have you also have which

539
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:37.719
toss state in complete control of Louisville
for a while, and then the refs

540
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:43.239
got involved. Everybody's favorite that it's
been a great weekend of refs going on.

541
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:47.519
As on my TV screen, here
come five jackasses with r's on the

542
00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:52.960
back of their shirt. I see
three damn handkerchiefs on the on the field

543
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:57.920
as they try to sort this out. Just an awful weekend of just you

544
00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:00.719
know, in theory, Ryan,
So if I came to you and I

545
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:05.400
reported as eligible and then Nick ran
up to you and said nothing, which

546
00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:09.119
one of us reported eligible? Uh, the answer is whoever had the ref

547
00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:15.199
had money on whichever one gets me
on TV to mess it all up,

548
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:21.039
because wow, they are so bad
at every sport. Everything they touch turns

549
00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:24.480
to crap. They are the Elon
No, no, they really shouldn't go

550
00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:32.119
there. But I mean you're not
wrong though, they're getting reason everything.

551
00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:40.400
When Elon touches cars, ugliest truck
on Earth comes out. When touches Twitter,

552
00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:44.920
yeah, then there's that. Yeah, when Elon touches Twitter, it's

553
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:50.320
bott mentions probably a lot of pornography, because you know, they don't care

554
00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:57.280
about that anymore. Apparently, On
in the interwebs, refs my least favorite

555
00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:00.239
part about last year and all other
years and all my least favorite part about

556
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.119
this year. All right, there
are two more players. Landon. You

557
00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:07.239
didn't even write about Dewan Harris,
which I assume is became I totally forgot

558
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:09.599
about Dewan Harris. I knew this
was too short, very underwhelming. Six

559
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:13.960
points, nine assists, thirty six
minutes. Quality game for Harris, whose

560
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.280
shooting percentage continues to climb. He
made two of his three threes that was

561
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:20.519
early in the game, kind of
set the table for Kansas and made some

562
00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:22.440
nice passes all day. Not a
lot to analyze there. Why don't you

563
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.960
tell me about Ken Wade to one? The way Dewan Harris's game went is

564
00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:29.960
that I went for a walk just
before the game started. I missed the

565
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:32.360
first like couple minutes, and Dwan
Harris had made both his threes and he

566
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:37.920
didn't score again. Yep, that's
exactly what happened. Marcus Garrett the second

567
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:42.480
didn't score after you turn on the
TV. But Kevin mccolluy continues his season

568
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.760
as Jalen Wilson two point zero.
He had twenty points seven rebounds thirty two

569
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:50.199
minutes. I went five to fourteen
overall, zero for four from behind the

570
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.199
arc, but ten of ten at
the line as he continues to get to

571
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:55.599
the free throw stripe a lot.
He's gutsy, he's tough, and he

572
00:38:55.639 --> 00:38:59.960
looks as though he's never heard of
the concept of a foul. Whenever he

573
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:01.519
gets called for one, he just, as he pointed out, Ryan,

574
00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:06.960
just puts his hands on his head
and just looks around. Was the last

575
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:08.960
thing you said. Yeah, it's
like he could he could run a guy

576
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:14.519
over and look shocked when he gets
called for it. Yeah, yeah,

577
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:16.960
I me too, Kevin. I'm
surprised that the refs made it all about

578
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:21.880
themselves for a minute. That doesn't
happen very often. Kevin McCuller is averaging

579
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:25.840
twenty points, seven rebounds, five
assists while shooting forty nine percent from the

580
00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:30.159
floor, thirty eight percent from three, and eighty five percent at the line.

581
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:34.320
Every single stat I just read is
a career high. Most of them

582
00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:37.960
aren't even close. He is a
first team All America and with all the

583
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:40.920
Terrence Shannon Junior stuff that just came
out, a spot for a wing is

584
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:45.159
even more up for grabs. Than
ever. He's gonna be in All America

585
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.280
at this point, he's halfway home
to that owner. Yeah, and he's

586
00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:53.039
probably at worst third in the Nasmith
voting, probably second, maybe second.

587
00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:58.280
Yeah, I think he is second. Kevin McCuller is. I think without

588
00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:01.559
Kevin mccolor, Kansas has three losses
than they do. Don't really know where

589
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:05.719
they are, but I think he's
three wins, has two triple doubles.

590
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:08.599
Yeah. Yeah, that's in a
game that they won by five, by

591
00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:14.280
the way, Like he's nuts.
Final stats forty two percent from the floor,

592
00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:16.440
twenty six percent from three, which
wasn't great, ninety percent of the

593
00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:20.280
line, which was better. Uh
they are. They have shot the ball

594
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:23.039
well from the stripe recently too.
They're best shooters. McCuller, Dickinson good

595
00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:25.960
free throw shooters. Harris is good
too. Uh. Just don't keep just

596
00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:29.440
keep kJ off the line as much
as you can and you'll be fine.

597
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:31.719
Final thoughts on non conference play.
That was kind of what we started with.

598
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:36.119
We kind of opened with our non
conference play thoughts. I think you

599
00:40:36.199 --> 00:40:37.880
got to give him a B plus, if not a minus, I think

600
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:42.840
it's gotta be an a minus.
They won twelve of thirteen against that schedule.

601
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:45.880
That's pretty impressive. They have a
ton of quad one wins compared to

602
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:50.199
everybody else at this point in the
season, which those are about as valuable

603
00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:52.039
as well. The next best thing, I guess we saw that last year.

604
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:57.360
Uh they have they have infinitely more
than Gonzaga because Gonzaga has zero.

605
00:40:57.440 --> 00:40:59.920
That is what I know. Think
you got to be pretty impressed with how

606
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:02.400
Kansas has played to this point,
and now we all know that they get

607
00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:07.239
ready to go for conference play that's
on the horizon. You guys' final thoughts

608
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.199
on this game slash non conference play
for the Hawks? Yeah, I think

609
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:15.239
for non con a lot of highs
for Kansas beating a lot of good teams.

610
00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:17.840
I would say a lot of lows, it felt like that, but

611
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:22.280
their lows were all wins except for
the one time they didn't win, and

612
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:24.639
that was against a very good Marquette
team. So yeah, I think they're

613
00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:28.920
gonna be just fine. There are
a little a few weird kinks in here

614
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:30.079
and there maybe to work out,
but all in all, Yeah, still

615
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:35.440
I think Kansas did need have a
very impressive non con Yeah, I think

616
00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:38.280
the Kansas I would give this game
you know, summing up the non conference

617
00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:42.039
schedule, this game was an A
minus. Think this non conference schedule has

618
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:45.800
been kind of a B minus performance
for KU. Definitely not a flunking or

619
00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:51.159
c type stretch. Like you Ryan
said, twelve to one, number two

620
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:52.840
in the country. Can't really argue
too much with that, despite how they

621
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:58.199
played against mid majors. Good work, Jayhawks. And now let's talk about

622
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:00.400
everyone else who's not as good as
they are. And there's a lot of

623
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:07.400
teams in that neck of the woods
Big twelve games. Well, this is

624
00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:12.800
the last time that we'll say that
and not recap actual league games, So

625
00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:17.199
I thought i'd get everybody's appetite stimulated
here by we'll go ahead and talk about

626
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:22.599
the Big twelve teams. You know, as as Landon posts the picture of

627
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:25.679
Jennifer Aniston, which is always a
winner in my book, Nick is now

628
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:31.599
vomiting profusely at the thought of such
a horrible to look at woman like Jennifer

629
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:37.400
Aniston appearing in front of his face. Oh okay, we got the thumbs

630
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:39.480
up. We have the thumbs up. Trying to figure out how Nick thinks

631
00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:45.760
about appearances and attractiveness will never not
be confusing. It's it's like a game.

632
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:50.559
It doesn't happen. Then uploaded a
pasted a photo for about twenty years

633
00:42:50.599 --> 00:42:54.159
ago. Yeah, I'm not interested. I'm not interested in a fifty seven

634
00:42:54.239 --> 00:43:00.800
year old woman who's going through menopause. So WHOA, Okay, all right,

635
00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:05.599
there is which is which is fair? You are three years old at

636
00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:10.199
twenty three. I'm not when I'm
not fifty seven myself. However, I'm

637
00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:13.840
just no. I know, I
know, I'm just saying I'm not attracted

638
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:15.599
to an old Jennifer Andison. I
think she looked way better than she was

639
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:20.199
younger. I don't know if it
has anything to do with actually being attracted

640
00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:22.800
to her or if she just say
yes, she's still pretty, like.

641
00:43:23.079 --> 00:43:27.599
I think there's a difference, isn't
there. I think there is a difference,

642
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:30.639
Like you're not gonna go out and
pursue fifty seven year old Jennifer Aniston,

643
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:36.199
but you still nod like, hmm, pretty pretty darn good for fifty

644
00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:42.519
seven. Yeah, I am gonna
look like a I'm gonna look eighty three

645
00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:46.719
years old when I'm fifty seven.
So I have no glass house man.

646
00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:52.800
He is not. He's also and
probably it's gotten a lot of procedures done,

647
00:43:52.000 --> 00:44:00.400
so yeah, that's true. In
the Big Twelve there were there's only

648
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:02.440
one team that went down this week, and to nobody's surprise, it was

649
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:07.519
the team that's always losing. It
feels like West Virginia for the eighth time

650
00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:09.519
this year. They're five and eight
on the year. They did give Ohio

651
00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:13.400
State, who's quite good. They
gave him a fight, taking him to

652
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:17.239
overtime in a road game in Cleveland, losing seventy eight seventy five. Can

653
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:21.400
either of you name Wes Virginia's coach. I've asked you just several times,

654
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:23.840
see if you can do it this
time. I still can't. No,

655
00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:29.039
I believe it's Josh Eilert, who
I always think is a black guy,

656
00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:31.320
and then I google him and he's
not, which should make sense because he

657
00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:36.119
coaches West Virginia. I don't know
why I would ever think that's the Cosslert.

658
00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:39.679
But yeah, that's uh, that's
that's I get a mixed up.

659
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:44.719
I always picture Mike Boyton in my
head for some reason whenever I think Josh

660
00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:47.519
Eilert, and I don't think Josh
Eilert is going to be coaching West Virginia

661
00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:51.960
for very long, because wow,
oh he's only good if you compare him

662
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:55.119
to Kenny Payne, which is not
good at all. Nope, not even

663
00:44:55.119 --> 00:44:59.719
a little bit uh less of a
fight was put forth by Penn, who

664
00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:04.159
got that absolutely curb stalked by number
three Houston, ESPN's favorite team of all

665
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:07.840
time, Houston eighty one to forty
two. The Cougars are thirteen to zero

666
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:12.360
and enter Big Twelve Play with an
eighty percent chance to win the league and

667
00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:19.199
a seventy two percent chance to win
at Allen field House per ESPN. Nick,

668
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:22.840
that makes complete sense to you,
right, You've you've seen Kansas get

669
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:25.400
annihilated, actually kind of have seeing
them get annihilated by teams allenfield House at

670
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:30.320
this point PCU. Yeah, but
you think Houston should be a seventy two

671
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:36.440
percent favorite over the Jayhawks in Lawrence. Yeah, Well, as my good

672
00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:38.880
friend Chris Reynolds would say, I
mean, what team. The metrics have

673
00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:44.199
just showed that this team is undefeated. They're winning their games by forty points.

674
00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:46.800
It doesn't matter if they schedule like
Chris Beard, like that coward and

675
00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:51.719
woman beater, and they beat every
team they play by fifty because they're playing

676
00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:54.360
Texas School to blind. But you
know it doesn't matter, Like all that

677
00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:59.239
matters is that you win these games
by forty to fifty points and you hold

678
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:02.599
them to like twenty seven points from
the game and the net and the metrics

679
00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:07.199
which the stat nerds like Jesse Newll
really liked to love. Well, my

680
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:12.440
good friend Kenneth Pomeroy thinks very highly
of Houston. Yeah, hoson number one

681
00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.960
according to Ken Palm, which is
that's fine. You know we're about We're

682
00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:21.000
about to find out Houston's about to
play. Like the metrics though clearly Kansas

683
00:46:21.079 --> 00:46:24.880
was a seventy Kansas was a sixty
eight percent chance to lose before the last

684
00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:28.960
set of games, and it went
to seventy two. Now, So the

685
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:32.920
ESPN metrics saw Houston beat Penned by
thirty nine, and then they saw Kansas

686
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:37.760
beat which tah State by nineteen,
and they said, okay, we gotta

687
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:42.239
ship the scales even higher in the
direction of Houston. Clearly they are valuing

688
00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:50.119
nothing more than just sheer strength.
Our margin of victory. Kansas is beating

689
00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:53.039
good teams by tennish and it's not
doing it as much as beating What happened,

690
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:57.320
what happened to caring about the eye
test more than the metrics, Like

691
00:46:57.360 --> 00:47:00.400
why why did the metrics become such
a problem. It's college basketball. You

692
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:05.159
already have sixty eight teams in the
field. There's already teams in the tournament

693
00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:07.119
that should not be in the tournament. Remember when Michigan was like seventeen and

694
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:09.880
seventeen two years ago and they made
the tournament. It's like, in the

695
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:14.519
sight, it doesn't matter. This
is not the college football playoff. Like

696
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:19.679
you can have a you can use
the eye test and teams performance and conference

697
00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:22.960
play and against good competition, and
if you have a lousy schedule, like

698
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:25.800
Gonzaga Houston, you can say,
well, this team is a fraud because

699
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:30.639
they went two to four against Power
five teams in their non conference state before

700
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:34.320
they went and played Our Lady the
Lake and Saint Mary's twenty seven times.

701
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:37.639
Oh jeez. Well. And I
think it's interesting because I have a different

702
00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:42.199
thought than a lot of the blue
check marks do about if Gonzaga is backed

703
00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:46.119
up there there are people out there
that think Gonzaga has proven themselves. They

704
00:47:46.199 --> 00:47:50.960
made two championship games, they have
won x amount of tournament games. I

705
00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:54.440
don't value that as much because neither
of their two runs to the Final four

706
00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:59.880
did they beat a team seeded higher
than five. Their record against top three

707
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:04.000
seeds is abysmal compared to everybody else
who gets high seeds that frequently. I

708
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:07.360
don't think it's Zaga has proven anything
that there are questions that have been opened

709
00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:13.159
as a result of great regular season
records against lackluster schedules, even more so

710
00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:16.760
this year. But a team like
Houston Metrics was great. ESPN also loves

711
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:22.079
Iowa State, a team that we've
openly laughed about how awful their non conference

712
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:24.920
schedule is. ESPN thinks Iowa State
has a seventy eight percent chance to beat

713
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:30.639
Kansas at Hilton Coliseum, and they
think Iowa State has a five times higher

714
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:36.039
chance to win the Big Twelve than
Kansas does, three and a half percent

715
00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:40.280
to about eighteen percent. So we'll
see right like like these teams are gonna

716
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:45.039
play Saett. Yeah, there's a
reason that Kansas has a three percent chance

717
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:49.239
to win the Big Twelve. According
to ESPN. There's a reason that Vegas

718
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:52.280
isn't offering thirty two to one on
Jayhawks on the Jayhawks winning the Big Twelve

719
00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:57.000
because that would definitely not be on
the board for long if people were allowed

720
00:48:57.039 --> 00:49:00.960
to bet on it. I suspect
Houston is probably going to win about twelve

721
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:05.000
Big twelve games. That'll be a
good season for sure. Is that going

722
00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:09.079
to be the They're the best Big
twelve team that I've ever seen. ESPN

723
00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:14.440
have these metrics for no, of
course not. They have a ninety nine

724
00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:19.440
percent chance to beat West Virginia on
Saturday, which West Virginia is not good.

725
00:49:19.679 --> 00:49:23.679
But West Virginia is absolutely winning that
game at least twice if they played

726
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:28.320
one hundred times. Like, there's
just a lot that the computers aren't taking

727
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:35.440
into account. That's that's my two
cents. I think you're right. We're

728
00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:38.760
doing Big twelve standings entering conference play. I'm saying we are Houston the best

729
00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:45.920
team of all times thirteen to zero. BUYU, Kansas and Oklahoma like we

730
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:49.480
all thought, are twelve and one. Yeah, a whole bunch of teams

731
00:49:49.480 --> 00:49:52.159
that are eleven and two. That's
Cincinnati, second best team of all time,

732
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:59.159
Iowa State, Baylor, TCU,
and Texas Tech who forty percent of

733
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:01.440
the current All America teams were at
Texas Tech two years ago. Oops,

734
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:08.079
they're eleven and two. K State
and UCF are ten and three in Oklahoma

735
00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:12.280
State and notched another win. They're
eight and five after beating Chicago State.

736
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:16.639
Well kind of so that game hasn't
happened yet. That game's in two days.

737
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:20.119
But you know, we're not going
to do a show till afterwards.

738
00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:24.480
I'm going to sue that might we
don't make assumptions here. I'm going to

739
00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:29.760
assume that by the time you've listened
to this Oklahoma State they took care of

740
00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:35.079
Chicago State because manhe I would think. And then West Virginia five and eight,

741
00:50:35.239 --> 00:50:38.840
just terrible with home losses to Monmouth
and a bunch of other lousy like

742
00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:44.079
just not going great in the Josh
Eilert era and as landon sen and the

743
00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:45.800
last show, Kirk Cris has got
to be saying, why did I leave

744
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:52.639
beautiful sunny Tucson, Arizona to come
play in the coal mines and lose probably

745
00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:57.559
fourteen big twelve games at least other
games. Well, I'm always down to

746
00:50:57.599 --> 00:51:00.599
talk about wing. Gonzaga is a
big loser. The biggest loser nationally this

747
00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:05.960
past week was, in my opinion, the thirteenth ranked Bulldogs. They lost

748
00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:08.039
that home to San Diego State by
ten to fall to nine and four in

749
00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:10.760
the year. Now, San Diego
State isn't a terrible loss. However,

750
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:15.480
the problem for Gonzaga that's mounting is
they haven't beaten anybody good, literally,

751
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:20.519
nobody even kind of good. They
have zero quad one wins two months into

752
00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:23.880
the season. They very likely will
not have any and all of WCC play

753
00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:28.800
either, with how bad Saint Mary's
is. The last time Gonzaga beat a

754
00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:32.280
team that currently has a winning record
was November twenty, first two days before

755
00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:37.679
Thanksgiving against Syracuse and Maui. That
was nine games ago. Last time they

756
00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:42.960
beat a team that currently has a
winning record. Yikes. Yeah, Gonzaga

757
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:46.239
might not be very actually very good
this year. What's their seed? They're

758
00:51:46.239 --> 00:51:51.079
gonna go fifteen to one, They're
gonna win seventeen of their next eighteen with

759
00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:54.400
their conference tournament. What is their
seed at that point? Probably sixth seed.

760
00:51:54.880 --> 00:52:00.159
I was gonna say six. I
would think that is where they should

761
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:05.000
be seeded. I think that they'll
work their way up to about the three

762
00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:10.559
line if they go two straight months
losing one game, though that is possible

763
00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:15.719
for sure, and then all of
the two seeds ever should want them as

764
00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:20.360
their three seed. Yeah, because
they're bad. Yes, thank you.

765
00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:22.760
I like all then Zoga teams,
but even worse, they will lose to

766
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:28.039
the first even semi athletic team they
play. First team that's a top three

767
00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:30.800
seed. They're going down. It
happens every year. Really look it up,

768
00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:35.719
if not sooner. They did manage
to beat UCLA in overtime last year.

769
00:52:35.760 --> 00:52:37.960
That was good. They beat a
top three seed by taking them down.

770
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.199
That was their first win. And
as a team that's always a one

771
00:52:40.239 --> 00:52:43.920
or two, so they always are
making deep tournament runs. That was their

772
00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:50.639
first win over a team seeded three
or better since twenty sixteen. That's not

773
00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:57.480
great. Yuck. Opening the last
season of PAC twelve play at least between

774
00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:01.360
teams not named Oregon State and Washington
State. Uh with win was in four

775
00:53:01.480 --> 00:53:07.039
Arizona, who claubored low le Cal
after getting off to a twenty five or

776
00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:10.079
twenty six to five lead out of
the gate. Cal is four and eight,

777
00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:15.360
just one game worse than five and
seven Louisville in a battle that should

778
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:19.159
only be decided at halftime of this
year's Final four, which is exactly what

779
00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:24.000
I was about to suggest. We
can skip the the best sixth grade boys

780
00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:28.360
team that gets that wins the right
to play at halftime of the final four.

781
00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:32.880
Just let Louisville and Cal go ahead
to head and you get ukun Elon

782
00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:37.199
ending it up all you want where
he first team did thirty wins or just

783
00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:39.920
just for our own entertainment, whom
I'd take a long damn time to get

784
00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:45.559
to thirty. I don't know how
long it's e ending ending elam ending.

785
00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:51.760
Sorry, I got Elon on the
brain. The game with the coward verst

786
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:59.800
into flames. That's pretty good.
Number eleven. Illinois ten and two inclined

787
00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:01.320
it to in the top ten this
week, just ahead of their conference opening

788
00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:06.480
match up at number one perdue but
superstar guard Terrence Shannon Junior got arrested.

789
00:54:06.920 --> 00:54:09.280
Uh, it wasn't arrested in Kansas, but he was. I guess he

790
00:54:09.400 --> 00:54:15.599
was technically arrested in Kansas for rape
Kansas. It was just about do it

791
00:54:15.679 --> 00:54:17.400
for the fighting line of this year, if that's the case the rape.

792
00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:22.159
The rape occurred the same weekend that
he was in Lawrence to watch KU play

793
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:29.239
Illinois in football, which Landon and
I were at that game, but we

794
00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:35.760
were not involved in Illinois said he
was surprised whereabouts. Yeah, Illinois,

795
00:54:35.880 --> 00:54:39.800
it was like, we're really surprised
to hear the news. You waited six

796
00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:45.119
months to hear the news. So
and they they, well, who knows

797
00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:49.440
what they knew? You know that
the coach can say, we take this

798
00:54:49.480 --> 00:54:53.000
real seriously, who knows? Who
knows what happened with Artario Morris? Who

799
00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:57.039
knows what happened to this? Did
they know for a while and they were

800
00:54:57.079 --> 00:55:00.599
just hoping that it would well,
let's just hope it doesn't to get public.

801
00:55:00.599 --> 00:55:02.280
Maybe we can settle under the table. Or did they really not know

802
00:55:02.480 --> 00:55:06.079
until now? Like no one's ever
gonna know? And I mean grow.

803
00:55:06.159 --> 00:55:08.079
So the thing that people don't understanding
why this is a witch hunt line,

804
00:55:08.079 --> 00:55:12.239
it does take four months to happen. People do understand that, especially in

805
00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:16.400
instances of rape, It takes DA
Office a long time to get DNA evidence

806
00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:21.519
back to even prosecute these crimes.
So it makes the timeline makes sense.

807
00:55:21.559 --> 00:55:25.599
It doesn't make sense that the eighties
acting surprise unless it's just legitimately cover up,

808
00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:30.880
right. Yeah, and uh and
Terrence Shannon scored thirty against Missouri and

809
00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:35.599
he has a first team All America
chewing at this point and now, yikes.

810
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:38.519
Feel bad for the rest of his
team too. They don't deserve this.

811
00:55:38.679 --> 00:55:44.800
They're they're their best player, their
leader, that's that's that's taken them

812
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:49.559
to top ten season and then this
happens. What an absolutely horrible act for

813
00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:53.239
a lot of reasons. Far from
the most most noteworthy person that an impacts

814
00:55:53.239 --> 00:55:57.480
are the rest of his basketball teammates, but still something that angers me for

815
00:55:57.599 --> 00:56:04.679
those kids because now they're totally screwed
because allegedly their leader is accused of doing

816
00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:07.920
a very until proven guilty. But
yeah, the sentiments there, I mean,

817
00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:13.639
he turned himself in, he flew
to he went to Kansas to turn

818
00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:15.800
himself in and was booked in Douglas
County, wasn't he? And that the

819
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:22.920
story? I mean, that's yeah, but you have to well, yeah,

820
00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:27.719
I guess it could get worse,
but man, that's awful. The

821
00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:31.440
highest ranked team to lose this last
week was number seven Florida Atlantic, fresh

822
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:36.559
off there thrilling double overtime win over
Arizona. Good luck every kind of handicapped

823
00:56:36.559 --> 00:56:38.639
this sport because they did that,
and then they go out the next week

824
00:56:38.679 --> 00:56:43.440
and lose to a five to nine
Florida Gulf Coast team seventy two to sixty

825
00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:47.039
eight. They are going to be
the hardest team to put in your bracket

826
00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:51.960
because they're gonna be like a seven
seed. They're gonna have a great record,

827
00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:54.320
they're gonna have a couple of really
nice wins, but any loss they

828
00:56:54.320 --> 00:56:58.599
have is gonna be a head scratcher. They obviously went to the Final four

829
00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:01.320
last year. I have no idea
how to handicap that team. No,

830
00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:06.920
yeah, that's super weird, one
of the weirder teams. Yeah, I

831
00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:08.280
have no idea what to make of
them. I think they're really good,

832
00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:12.519
but I really don't know a team
that I do think is really good.

833
00:57:12.519 --> 00:57:15.880
I think I know they're really good. Number ten Marquete scored a good Big

834
00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:20.559
East win by team number seven twenty
two Creighton at home, seventy to sixty

835
00:57:20.599 --> 00:57:23.719
seven. They were particularly good on
defense, mainly because they're allowed to have

836
00:57:23.719 --> 00:57:28.559
six players on the floor once Shaka
back up a few steps for we police

837
00:57:28.599 --> 00:57:32.239
unless missed. If that actually happened, that'd be wild. No, it's

838
00:57:32.280 --> 00:57:37.760
it's about Shaka, Nick. You
saw that, right, Yeah, he's

839
00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:43.960
on the floor and he clearly impacts
the the Creighton player having to change directions.

840
00:57:44.400 --> 00:57:46.360
I do not understand. We saw
Bruce Weber do this, and we've

841
00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:51.000
seen Shaka do this. What happened
with Shaka the other day was more egregious

842
00:57:51.039 --> 00:57:53.400
than I've ever seen it. I
don't know how they missed this as officials,

843
00:57:53.519 --> 00:57:57.599
and I don't know how the players
aren't plowing into him because it would

844
00:57:57.599 --> 00:58:01.800
be an auto technical on the bench. I have never seen a player legitimately

845
00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:06.679
Blayedy our coach legitimately played defense out
there like Shaka did. It's unbelievable,

846
00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:08.880
but I mean he did help them
get a win. There's that, I

847
00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:13.639
guess. Yeah. Enormous loser Tony
Bennett, which Ryan which was out on

848
00:58:13.639 --> 00:58:17.679
the floor and got hit in his
lousy Virginia team got spanked at a horrendous

849
00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:22.119
Notre Dame squad seventy six to fifty
four. I don't know if you're allowed

850
00:58:22.119 --> 00:58:30.599
to get spanked by just said that. It was thirteen to zero at the

851
00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:35.639
first TV time out, didn't favorite
and lost by twenty two. Bat him

852
00:58:35.639 --> 00:58:37.119
forever. Yeah, this is for
you, Tony, You suck. This

853
00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:40.800
is what you deserve for what you've
done to offense the sixteen seed loss was

854
00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:45.440
justified, but honestly, this might
somehow be worse. That UNBC team was

855
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:47.760
a tournament team. This Notre Dame
team. I don't know if they could

856
00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:52.599
beat Sunrise Christian Academy. At this
point, they'll be Virginia by twenty two.

857
00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:55.679
Good lord, Yeah, that's terrible. Chris Beard. Speaking of we've

858
00:58:55.679 --> 00:58:59.639
we've talked about a lot of great
human beings on this podcast. Let's do

859
00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:02.440
one more or Chris Beard. His
Ole Miss team is thirteen to zero and

860
00:59:02.599 --> 00:59:06.760
ranked. I bet you they probably
would be favorite at Allen Fieldhouse according to

861
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:09.920
ESPN. Because if you've forgotten how
Chris Beard does things, here's this schedule.

862
00:59:10.559 --> 00:59:15.280
Well, you have Alabama State,
Eastern Washington, Detroit, Mercy,

863
00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:19.719
Sam Houston, Temple, North Carolina
State, Memphis, Mount Saint Mary's,

864
00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:24.079
UCF, CAL, Troy, Southern
Miss, and Bryant. Holy crap.

865
00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:30.400
They open SEC play at number five
Tennessee. I don't know what the money

866
00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:31.320
line on that game is or not
the money. I don't know what the

867
00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:35.760
spread is. I would take the
Valls. Yeah, I think I would

868
00:59:35.800 --> 00:59:39.559
too. I would. It's not
gonna go too great. That is amazing.

869
00:59:39.760 --> 00:59:44.039
We made fun of Chris Beard on
this show for his awful non conference

870
00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:46.320
schedules, and now Rodney Terry has
kind of picked up where Chris Beard left

871
00:59:46.360 --> 00:59:50.800
off. Glad that Beard can do
his thing at a different school. What

872
00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:53.840
he set out like two whole months
without a paycheck and then the next Power

873
00:59:53.880 --> 01:00:00.800
five. Yeah, just a lousy
This sport has lots of love people in

874
01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:05.000
it. That's bad. Also a
lot of lousy teams, A lot of

875
01:00:05.079 --> 01:00:08.079
lousy teams. Ranked teams to lose
since the last show, there are only

876
01:00:08.079 --> 01:00:14.239
three of them. Number seven is
Florida Atlantic, who lost to the where

877
01:00:14.280 --> 01:00:20.159
Andy Enfield and his hot wife got
their start FGCU on number thirteen Gonzaga,

878
01:00:20.199 --> 01:00:24.880
they lost to San Diego State.
Number twenty two, Creighton lost to Marquette,

879
01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:30.079
and Ryan Landris says that Shaka Smart
is a which toa state Shakers mascot

880
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:36.119
knows, Yes, yes I do. Shaka Smart is a penis head,

881
01:00:36.159 --> 01:00:38.639
thank you very much. He's the
worst. And I cannot stand that little

882
01:00:38.719 --> 01:00:42.679
torp last week and pick him.
I tried to give us five dubs and

883
01:00:42.719 --> 01:00:45.440
then Virginia happened, so we all
went four and one. Oops, that's

884
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:49.000
what it is. Sometimes Virginia didn't
does that to you, they'd give you

885
01:00:49.079 --> 01:00:52.960
random ls all the time. They've
never lost to a team they should have

886
01:00:52.000 --> 01:01:00.079
beaten. That's a major UNBC Furman. I'm sure. Yeah, I know

887
01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:04.280
a team that's never done that either, is Purdue. Sure certainly? Right?

888
01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:08.400
YEA good for that, Kansas.
That's why that, that's why that.

889
01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:13.559
Right as I pushed, I got
a new Apple Watch for Christmas and

890
01:01:13.599 --> 01:01:19.199
it popped up and said loud environment
sound levels hit ninety decibels around thirty minutes

891
01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:22.239
of this level can cause temporary hearing
loss. So we watch must stop,

892
01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:25.760
not stop going off at Allen Field
House. Yeah, I would have to

893
01:01:25.800 --> 01:01:29.920
turn it off before I go back
there because what so Apparently what I'm figuring

894
01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:32.760
out is if you so we've always
wondered how many times can you hear dab

895
01:01:34.360 --> 01:01:37.039
before you actually lose your hearing?
And according to this, it's thirty straight

896
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:42.920
minutes of nothing, but which is
probably a lot of our twenty twenty one

897
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:46.440
podcasts. That's true, No wonder. I started having to jack up my

898
01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:51.159
headphone volume after that. Yeah,
I definitely don't blame you. All right,

899
01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:55.239
let's talk about ascarcibs all right.
Here we go, ask Rock Chalk

900
01:01:55.280 --> 01:02:00.639
Blog you guys did a good job
getting nine questions in on this. Let's

901
01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:06.039
see here. Oh my gosh,
oh this is absolutely incredible. Uh,

902
01:02:06.079 --> 01:02:08.760
there is a question. I'm excited
to read it, and one of our

903
01:02:09.239 --> 01:02:15.599
regular question askers has actually added on
as a part two to an original question.

904
01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:17.960
So with this, you're kind of
wet your appetite. There. We

905
01:02:19.039 --> 01:02:22.800
begin with basketball questions at Show Me
Hawk when we play Houston and Allen Fieldhouse,

906
01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:25.960
I want Kansas to make a statement. This is nothing against Houston,

907
01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:30.440
but this is against the metrics nerds
thinking Houston is the best non Kansas Big

908
01:02:30.519 --> 01:02:35.000
twelve team since twenty twenty one.
Baylor. Yeah, that is very true

909
01:02:35.039 --> 01:02:38.039
they do. Who is the best
non Big twelve Kansas team that we've seen

910
01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:43.000
in our time on this show.
Might be that ball team. Probably is

911
01:02:43.079 --> 01:02:46.480
that Baylor team? Right? How
is that Baylor team better than most of

912
01:02:46.519 --> 01:02:50.639
that Baylor team's better than all but
a couple of the Kansas teams we've seen

913
01:02:50.679 --> 01:02:53.119
too. Yeah, they're as good
or better than a lot of the Kansas

914
01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:57.199
teams, which is pretty rare.
I don't think that's true of anyone else.

915
01:02:57.719 --> 01:03:01.599
They just flat out garbage can over
a ten can on our garbage truck

916
01:03:01.679 --> 01:03:07.760
on a ten can ran over Gonzaga
in that championship. I remember that was

917
01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:10.199
like that was a spring that no
one was doing anything because that was the

918
01:03:10.239 --> 01:03:15.679
second wave of COVID. I was
excited to watch that basketball game and it

919
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:17.800
was over in five minutes. Yeah, it was. It was bad.

920
01:03:17.880 --> 01:03:23.679
They were so much better. Not
surprised. A question from Show Me Hawk.

921
01:03:23.719 --> 01:03:28.320
Do you think that the Chiefs AFC
West title streak now at eight in

922
01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:31.719
a row? Will Ty bill Sels
Big twelve regular season streak currently at or

923
01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:36.159
well, allegedly it's at fourteen,
The history books say it's at thirteen.

924
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:40.159
Will they get to that many in
a row? No, you don't think

925
01:03:40.199 --> 01:03:45.840
so. No, they're not going
to get there this year. What AFC

926
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:51.440
West Division? Oh oh, I
thought I heard AFC Championship. No,

927
01:03:51.760 --> 01:03:54.119
AFC West Championships. Probably they have
a good chance, to be honest,

928
01:03:54.199 --> 01:04:01.119
think it probably will. I don't
know who's like they're gonna be such overwhelming.

929
01:04:02.400 --> 01:04:05.000
Yeah, and early enough in the
season, by the way, not

930
01:04:05.039 --> 01:04:09.239
like in week fifteen. Yeah,
I would have to happen like preseason or

931
01:04:09.239 --> 01:04:13.679
like before. The Broncos are in
purgatory right now. The Raiders don't have

932
01:04:13.719 --> 01:04:19.039
a quarterback, and the Chargers aren't
just a dysfunctional mess like odds are.

933
01:04:19.199 --> 01:04:23.920
No, the Chiefs will not win
their next six AFC West titles, but

934
01:04:24.159 --> 01:04:30.679
like they're gonna be a three to
all. What like the the odds they

935
01:04:30.679 --> 01:04:34.719
don't win are probably three to one
every individual year. Yeah, as long

936
01:04:34.760 --> 01:04:40.039
as Mahomes is healthy in plays and
the other teams don't have Mahomes, they're

937
01:04:40.039 --> 01:04:43.360
gonna be the favorite for sure.
And Andy Reid, unless his arteries give

938
01:04:43.360 --> 01:04:47.840
out from eating too many Nuggies,
isn't gonna retire anytime soon. Of Yeah,

939
01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:53.840
very unlikely. How lucky for all
of us Andy, As we're shouting

940
01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:59.800
at as Marquez Valvez Scanaling continues to
get sixty plays a game at Logan Canard,

941
01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:02.679
what changed in the first half of
the Wichita State game that led to

942
01:05:02.760 --> 01:05:06.360
the offense going from scoring fourteen points
in the first ten minutes to then scoring

943
01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:11.280
twenty eight points in the second ten
minutes. I definitely have an answer to

944
01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:14.960
this, do you guys? Nick? What do you think Ryan? Go

945
01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:17.719
for it? Hunter Dickinson started going
in the middle of the started going in

946
01:05:17.760 --> 01:05:21.119
the basket that the first few possessions
he was way out there, and Bill

947
01:05:21.239 --> 01:05:25.960
was trying kJ kind of at the
post and Hunter shooting jumpers, and it

948
01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:28.960
worked sometimes but not most of the
time. And then Self said, okay,

949
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:30.679
fine, screw that Hunter, We're
just going to put you under the

950
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:33.840
basket. And look what happened.
Yep, I agree, that's what happened.

951
01:05:33.880 --> 01:05:36.480
They started playing at the rim,
they attacked the basket. It led

952
01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:41.719
to some transition opportunities too, because
which toa state defensively or which to state

953
01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:45.239
turns it over? A lot defense
leads to offense. In the entire history

954
01:05:45.239 --> 01:05:48.840
of the Bill Self tenure, you
should know by now that their best offense

955
01:05:48.920 --> 01:05:53.480
under Bill Self is when the defense
creates it. Saw it a lot in

956
01:05:53.519 --> 01:05:59.719
this game at Matt underscore Gallantine,
what is the best New Year's tradition doing

957
01:06:00.519 --> 01:06:02.639
sitting and watching ilish? I could
say it would be kissing a girl before

958
01:06:02.679 --> 01:06:08.679
midnight, but tradition for me hopefully
in a few years, Landon maybe twenty

959
01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:14.519
twenty seven New Year's Eve. That's
that's let's start the clock. Alexa set

960
01:06:14.519 --> 01:06:18.880
a reminder for December thirty first,
twenty twenty six, at eleven fifty nine

961
01:06:18.920 --> 01:06:23.960
pm, and I'll ask Landon if
that's indeed what happened. Then maybe on

962
01:06:24.079 --> 01:06:27.559
season fifteen of this show, I'll
be able to say land and did you

963
01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:32.280
come on Landon? Come on land
land In Buddy could be yes, it

964
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:35.360
might not mean, but it could
be Well, Landon have one pick him

965
01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:38.079
by that point, I hope,
Nick, Well, I have been done

966
01:06:38.079 --> 01:06:40.840
with the show for five years and
you and I will still be doing this.

967
01:06:41.880 --> 01:06:45.360
That's probably true. Somehow. The
best New Year's tradition is watching the

968
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:48.639
college football semifinals. At this point, both games are good now all of

969
01:06:48.679 --> 01:06:53.079
a sudden. Yeah, it's amazing
how that happens when there's not one super

970
01:06:53.159 --> 01:06:57.719
uber dominant SEC team. Yeah,
that's true. And also Oklahoma doesn't lose

971
01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:01.400
to LSU by six, yeah or
whatever. When four seed Oklahoma stays away,

972
01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:05.280
it's it usually gets much better.
Yeah. At KLON seven twenty eight,

973
01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:11.360
was l Marco's game a fluke or
sign of things to come? We've

974
01:07:11.360 --> 01:07:15.360
already answered this. I think it's
uh talked to be determined. Yeah,

975
01:07:16.079 --> 01:07:21.000
it's hopeful. Uh. I am
more encouraged with his performance after that than

976
01:07:21.039 --> 01:07:25.039
I have at any point. And
it is a thing for Bill self players

977
01:07:25.079 --> 01:07:28.079
to be rounding in the forum,
right around this this time of year at

978
01:07:28.159 --> 01:07:31.079
Kevin not only one. We need
a top transfer badly, a top grad

979
01:07:31.119 --> 01:07:35.760
transfer badly. I would like that, especially with Timberlake not playing very well.

980
01:07:36.360 --> 01:07:39.960
But at the same time, I
don't think it's very likely. I

981
01:07:39.960 --> 01:07:44.119
can't remember have they ever had a
mid season transfer. I guess Silvio de

982
01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:48.159
Sosa kind of yeah, but he
was a freshman, of course. Yeah,

983
01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:54.320
transfer at the mid season, it's
so rare, it's so unlikely.

984
01:07:54.440 --> 01:07:57.880
To Michael, Phoenix is almost as
good as Mahomes. This guy's insane.

985
01:07:58.639 --> 01:08:01.679
That's that's Nick. Nick thinks.
Patrick Mahomes is like a five point five

986
01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:06.519
on the one. Awesome to me
that Nick demands to pronounce it like penis.

987
01:08:08.360 --> 01:08:12.800
Yeah it's yeah, it's Poenix,
isn't it. It's Pennis, Yeah,

988
01:08:12.840 --> 01:08:16.039
it's Penix. Okay, sorry,
can you even imagine what Patrick Mahomes

989
01:08:16.039 --> 01:08:19.319
would do with Damn? The Washington
receivers are better than what he's working with.

990
01:08:19.800 --> 01:08:24.680
The leit are just draft all three
of them. Yeah, let it,

991
01:08:24.760 --> 01:08:28.039
let it roll. Honestly, there's
a lot of teams that have better

992
01:08:28.039 --> 01:08:30.039
wide receivers than the Chiefs in college. That's terrible. All right, here

993
01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:34.239
we go at Ryan Underscore Landreth,
I'm really not trying to laugh at my

994
01:08:34.239 --> 01:08:38.479
own questions, but they're just there. This is pretty good. If a

995
01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:45.800
beautiful, captivating woman with two arm
sleeve tattoos approached Nick and thank you,

996
01:08:45.880 --> 01:08:48.239
Landon and said, you can either
take me on one date of your choosing

997
01:08:48.680 --> 01:08:57.640
or forever extinguish your loved ones.
How quickly wouldn't How how quickly would Nick

998
01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:00.960
yeat an entire clan of white birds
off the Olden gate Bridge? And then

999
01:09:01.600 --> 01:09:09.960
replying to this at Dick Underscore Taser
adds in and would Nick know how fortunate

1000
01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:14.079
he was to have an entire army
of his kid living in the Bay Area

1001
01:09:14.279 --> 01:09:19.840
before he offed them. I'm taking
the girl on a date and I'm throwing

1002
01:09:19.840 --> 01:09:27.399
her off the Golden gate Bridge.
Who wow, that's horrible. I have

1003
01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:32.439
nothing against I have nothing against tattoos. You can't do that there. To

1004
01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:35.960
spite you, I'm going to get
a full arm sleep myself. Oh my

1005
01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:41.920
gosh, wow, would that be
a twist? What I can if bullying

1006
01:09:42.239 --> 01:09:45.159
convinced Nick to get a full arm
sleeve tattoo. Landon has been talking about

1007
01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:50.359
getting speaking of family, and my
family probably disowned me at that point.

1008
01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:56.000
I speak from experience. They get
over and I'm also five years older than

1009
01:09:56.000 --> 01:09:58.960
you guys, So you'll get to
that point where you're just like your parents

1010
01:09:58.960 --> 01:10:04.319
would not disown you. You're still
there, flash and blood. Wow,

1011
01:10:04.399 --> 01:10:08.960
maybe they would. Maybe they would
based on how quiet I was. Yeah

1012
01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:15.119
to change at Dick Underscore Daser,
you run into the ghost of Bobby Knight

1013
01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:21.159
at Johnny's Tavern after listening to your
questionable takes on college basketball. He says,

1014
01:10:21.439 --> 01:10:24.720
listen, son, you need to
let it go with sports. It's

1015
01:10:24.800 --> 01:10:28.600
ruining your life. Here's one million
dollars cash, but you can never watch

1016
01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:31.000
another game in your life. Oh
my gosh, hey taking the money so

1017
01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:35.680
quickly. No more Kansas tournament losses, No more Andy Reid in the Chiefs

1018
01:10:35.680 --> 01:10:41.279
losing the AFC championship game. Oh
that'll be yeah. I'd take the million

1019
01:10:41.319 --> 01:10:44.880
dollars. I'd find a better hobby. Now there is more information here,

1020
01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:47.920
he says. You cannot even participate. You can't listen, you can't read,

1021
01:10:48.199 --> 01:10:54.199
you can't check. Sports become dead
to you if you watch participate as

1022
01:10:54.199 --> 01:10:58.239
in participate as in I cannot go
out and shoot hoops with friends. I'm

1023
01:10:58.279 --> 01:11:00.920
assuming that's what it means, Yes, participate. It says if you watch

1024
01:11:00.960 --> 01:11:06.920
any game, even water polo,
even just stressage, all the money gets

1025
01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:13.560
repolled and you die. So what
do you choose cash? So you're saying

1026
01:11:13.560 --> 01:11:16.279
I can't play pickleball with friends?
I believe that. Yeah, it says

1027
01:11:16.279 --> 01:11:19.920
you can't participate. So Wayne Kurrent
leads this out there. You have three

1028
01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:25.039
options. Do you choose cash,
do you choose sports, or do you

1029
01:11:25.159 --> 01:11:30.359
choose a strawberry blonde with seventeen tattoos? That one strawberry blonde, seventeen tattoos.

1030
01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:34.079
Yeah, Nick and Landon are like, I don't need cash or sports

1031
01:11:34.119 --> 01:11:42.520
at that point. Redhead, though, I lose all the money and I

1032
01:11:42.760 --> 01:11:47.920
die if I my willpower runs out. Yeah, strawberry blonde is a redhead

1033
01:11:47.920 --> 01:11:57.560
though, right kind of I'll take
the sports. Wow. No, No,

1034
01:11:57.800 --> 01:12:03.119
redheads are beautiful too. Straw There
there are some strawberry. There's some

1035
01:12:03.479 --> 01:12:08.920
strawberry blonde is probably more red than
blonde. But I mean the answer is

1036
01:12:08.960 --> 01:12:13.880
always yes, Nick. My goodness, if Ryan, if Ryan and Lannon

1037
01:12:13.960 --> 01:12:17.079
had if we if we had to
describe their love life interests as an ice

1038
01:12:17.119 --> 01:12:21.479
cream flavor they like neapolitan ice cream, a little bit of everything. That'll

1039
01:12:21.479 --> 01:12:28.000
work most of everything someone likes.
I've got that French I've got that uh

1040
01:12:28.039 --> 01:12:30.560
French vanilla. And you know what, Nick, most people like neopolitan ice

1041
01:12:30.640 --> 01:12:32.479
cream. Most people would look at
that and say, yep, I get

1042
01:12:32.479 --> 01:12:36.159
it. That person. I would
dig the vanilla out, of course,

1043
01:12:36.279 --> 01:12:40.680
and the chocolate out and leave the
strawberry. Wow, that's just a horrible

1044
01:12:40.680 --> 01:12:43.680
take. Strawberry ice cream is the
best of those three. It is horrible.

1045
01:12:44.039 --> 01:12:48.520
So strawberry milk no chocolate is best
of both. It depends just by

1046
01:12:48.640 --> 01:12:53.800
itself with no topping back. Yes, I'll take the straw I'll take the

1047
01:12:53.840 --> 01:12:58.479
strawberry. Nick is slowly reverting into
twenty eighteen me where he can't just not

1048
01:12:58.680 --> 01:13:03.239
ignore the football on the team on
it. I love Texas losing. Yeah,

1049
01:13:03.279 --> 01:13:05.840
it would be very nice if Texas
does inted lose this game. And

1050
01:13:05.880 --> 01:13:10.760
obviously by the time yeah, you
know, you'll know. Yeah, a

1051
01:13:10.800 --> 01:13:15.720
couple more Matt underscore Gallentine. Why
was the twenty twenty twenty one team so

1052
01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:18.960
bad for KU standards? Looking back
on that roster they had, Well,

1053
01:13:19.039 --> 01:13:21.640
okay, you'll get to go off
on that minute. Looking back at the

1054
01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:25.520
roster. We had McCormick, oh
Chai, Christian Brown, Jalen Wilson,

1055
01:13:25.760 --> 01:13:32.920
and Marcus Garrett. Why was that
team so bad? I mean, the

1056
01:13:33.039 --> 01:13:36.000
problem is all those guys were like
one year away, right. They also

1057
01:13:36.039 --> 01:13:39.960
didn't have a shooter yet. Yeah, they were. They were an underdeveloped

1058
01:13:39.960 --> 01:13:43.760
team with a point guard who couldn't
score and didn't want to and sometimes wanted

1059
01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:48.199
to too badly, and they were
still pretty good. They finished, like,

1060
01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:54.000
I know, bad for Kansas.
Kansas's standards is like the first off

1061
01:13:54.039 --> 01:13:57.920
that season had like five fewer give
me, non conference games than they would

1062
01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:00.560
have had an normal non COVID year. So you see, the final record

1063
01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:03.800
was twenty one and nine. If
it was an actual season and you get

1064
01:14:03.840 --> 01:14:08.319
a couple more games against the Manhattans
out there, the game's probably like,

1065
01:14:08.359 --> 01:14:11.800
what are they like? Twenty seven
and nine? Probably twenty seven to ten,

1066
01:14:11.960 --> 01:14:15.319
something a little bit more realistic.
Also, they finished second in the

1067
01:14:15.319 --> 01:14:17.680
Big Twelve. The only team that
won more Big Twelve games than they did

1068
01:14:17.920 --> 01:14:21.800
was the national champion, and they
lost to a team that was chronically underseeded.

1069
01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:28.039
Right, Like that team was.
They weren't great, but they also

1070
01:14:28.079 --> 01:14:31.520
weren't bad. No, they like, Yeah, the key there is for

1071
01:14:31.760 --> 01:14:36.119
Kansas standards, Like they were still
an actually like pretty solid team. I

1072
01:14:36.119 --> 01:14:41.239
mean they beat the national champions.
Yeah, one of two teams to do

1073
01:14:41.279 --> 01:14:45.239
it. Yeah, like they they
were actually still pretty good. They were

1074
01:14:45.319 --> 01:14:49.560
worse for Kansas standards, but they
were still pretty good. But I kind

1075
01:14:49.560 --> 01:14:55.560
of do think Marcus Garrett is like
seventy percent of the reason that team wasn't

1076
01:14:55.560 --> 01:15:00.399
that good. So, by the
way, Baylor was given a seventy six

1077
01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:05.520
percent chance to win that game before
things tipped off at Allen Fieldhouse. Houston

1078
01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:12.000
given a seventy two percent chance.
So they are saying that this Houston team

1079
01:15:12.039 --> 01:15:15.880
is basically ninety five percent of that
Baylor team, which is a take.

1080
01:15:16.319 --> 01:15:19.159
Yeah, that's also I don't think
that makes sense at all. Also,

1081
01:15:19.199 --> 01:15:24.359
there were no fans, so it
really is not like Ale the things.

1082
01:15:24.680 --> 01:15:28.159
There were a few a few very
loud fans. Kansas in that game shot

1083
01:15:28.279 --> 01:15:33.199
nineteen percent from three and beat Baylor
by thirteen. It was awesome plus twenty

1084
01:15:33.239 --> 01:15:38.960
on the glass, Big Dave coming
up clutch with twenty points. Jalen Wilson

1085
01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:43.560
had fourteen rebounds in the Red Jerseys
and they almost utipped immediately after that,

1086
01:15:43.640 --> 01:15:46.399
remember that? And then they got
us seed hard. Yeah, yeah,

1087
01:15:46.439 --> 01:15:51.279
they us seed very hard. Last
question at AJS and Underscore Official, it's

1088
01:15:51.319 --> 01:15:55.279
actually two questions. We'll start with
this. What are KU's chances of making

1089
01:15:55.279 --> 01:15:59.000
it to the playoff next year with
twelve teams? Nick, what do you

1090
01:15:59.000 --> 01:16:04.600
think? All right? Probably,
I'm actually true, but like their schedule's

1091
01:16:04.760 --> 01:16:12.520
pretty soft now it is. But
on Jalen Daniels being healthy, I'm not

1092
01:16:12.760 --> 01:16:15.640
gonna try to break your heart on
purpose, guys, but what the heck

1093
01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:20.359
have you seen from Jalen Daniels that
would make you think that man is lasting

1094
01:16:20.439 --> 01:16:25.680
double digit games? He isn't.
He's going to get hurt in September.

1095
01:16:25.800 --> 01:16:30.760
Again, Uh, it's possible,
It's definitely possible. If Daniels can play

1096
01:16:31.039 --> 01:16:34.159
most or all of the season,
they have a real shot. But it's

1097
01:16:34.199 --> 01:16:38.399
gonna almost really have to be with
a Big Twelve championship. Yeah, if

1098
01:16:38.399 --> 01:16:41.600
you tell me, If you're telling
me right now, Daniels plays every game,

1099
01:16:41.680 --> 01:16:45.000
there's a very real chance they win
the Big Twelve, which would get

1100
01:16:45.039 --> 01:16:47.680
them in almost certainly, which would
be a heck of a comeback. Yeah.

1101
01:16:47.920 --> 01:16:53.279
And then another question here from AJSN
Underscore official. Who is your pick

1102
01:16:53.359 --> 01:17:00.560
to win the College Football National Championship? Washington mission. I would have said

1103
01:17:00.560 --> 01:17:04.640
Alabama before the game earlier. I
think the Alabama Michigan winner was always set

1104
01:17:04.720 --> 01:17:08.359
up to win by double digits in
the finals. I hope I'm wrong,

1105
01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:12.640
because Washington's got the best player,
the best player in the field right now

1106
01:17:13.239 --> 01:17:17.079
he is currently. Yeah, but
Michigan's defense a little different than the Steve

1107
01:17:17.159 --> 01:17:24.520
Sarcassian defensive death. They are not
not quite the same. I hope Washington

1108
01:17:24.600 --> 01:17:27.119
wins. That would be who I'd
like to see wins. Do I think

1109
01:17:27.159 --> 01:17:29.479
it's gonna happen. Not a chance
in the world. I think the fighting

1110
01:17:29.520 --> 01:17:32.039
harballs Jim Harbaugh on his way back
to what I don't know, the Chicago

1111
01:17:32.079 --> 01:17:36.159
Bears. Something like that gets a
Cheaters always have to win in Houston,

1112
01:17:36.239 --> 01:17:40.239
don't they. Hey, look who
we root for, sir. I'm not

1113
01:17:40.279 --> 01:17:44.560
sure we should be throwing eggs at
the cheaters in college sports House. At

1114
01:17:44.640 --> 01:17:47.279
least, the cheating in this case
is just paying players. It's not cheating

1115
01:17:47.319 --> 01:17:54.479
in game like signed Steelers and trash
can slappers, sling should be allowed.

1116
01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:59.119
That's my hot take. I mean, Bill Belichick agrees who might be the

1117
01:17:59.159 --> 01:18:03.720
most overrated coach in the history of
football? Now is uh is this uh

1118
01:18:03.960 --> 01:18:09.640
AT and T technology where they the
deaf quarterback can see the plays? Change?

1119
01:18:10.680 --> 01:18:15.000
Is that? Should that be allowed? How in the hell can they

1120
01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:19.039
have technology produced so that the blind
quarterback or the deaf quarterback can see the

1121
01:18:19.039 --> 01:18:24.479
plays? How can ATT do this? But whenever my phone is five freaking

1122
01:18:24.520 --> 01:18:29.680
away from the live birauter, Yeah, it doesn't work like geez At and

1123
01:18:29.720 --> 01:18:31.800
T is the worst. I can't
wait to see what how they feature Coach

1124
01:18:31.880 --> 01:18:36.000
K and all their tournament ads this
year. Everybody loves that, all right,

1125
01:18:38.199 --> 01:18:43.760
Coach K and Nick Saban. That's
All State? Yeah, Nick Saban

1126
01:18:43.800 --> 01:18:46.600
has been in All States since you
guys were babies. Why do they have

1127
01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:49.960
to put the two least interesting people
on the planet. I mean, well,

1128
01:18:50.039 --> 01:18:55.800
it's an insurance company. So if
if you're talking about most hated companies,

1129
01:18:55.840 --> 01:18:59.840
you might have the most hated coach
ever because he's with Alabama and every

1130
01:19:00.079 --> 01:19:02.560
last one of them has a different
bowl game that they sponsored. All State

1131
01:19:02.840 --> 01:19:09.119
just popped up on my TV as
a sponsor for this this this uh the

1132
01:19:09.159 --> 01:19:12.760
college football player. But I'm I'll
have to pay one hundred and eighty five

1133
01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:16.279
dollars for my car insurance this month. Thanks Progressive. Yes you do well.

1134
01:19:16.319 --> 01:19:19.520
Progressive is as bad as that was
the cheapest too. Now they had

1135
01:19:19.520 --> 01:19:24.640
the cheapest rate. Apparently you can
discriminate against twenty three year old guys who've

1136
01:19:24.640 --> 01:19:29.039
never had an history with bad driving. So but it get pulled over on

1137
01:19:29.079 --> 01:19:30.960
Saturday? Yeah, and did you
get a ticket for that? You got

1138
01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:35.000
pulled over for riding someone's coattails a
woman with one. I said, I

1139
01:19:35.079 --> 01:19:41.359
was driving too close to someone.
That's that's an insane ticket. I guess

1140
01:19:41.520 --> 01:19:46.199
the cop was a The cop was
a sleeved strawberry blonde girl. I gave

1141
01:19:46.199 --> 01:19:50.279
her a ticket. That's yeah,
I would too. Wait what there is

1142
01:19:50.359 --> 01:19:57.960
no uh, there is no better
usage of the strap than insurance companies,

1143
01:19:58.000 --> 01:20:04.119
not the strawberry blind tattooed cop that
was I had that finger on. So

1144
01:20:04.399 --> 01:20:13.159
preview TCU at number two Kansas on
Saturday, January sixth pm, Nick,

1145
01:20:13.279 --> 01:20:15.239
go ahead and read the first line, please, guys under the edge of

1146
01:20:15.279 --> 01:20:26.199
thirty. Of course, I'm talking
about TCU number then it is the three

1147
01:20:21.840 --> 01:20:30.600
I almost got it. I got
him was a really funny and sure to

1148
01:20:30.640 --> 01:20:35.159
be canceled line. Well, I
can read it, it says Ryan wrote,

1149
01:20:36.640 --> 01:20:40.119
No, that's not what I'm in. I didn't write these notes.

1150
01:20:40.199 --> 01:20:48.840
Land and help Me was Jamie Dixon's
Warden Frogs. Yeah, I don't know.

1151
01:20:48.960 --> 01:20:51.439
Skunks might have been in the white
Skunks might have been in the Capitol

1152
01:20:51.479 --> 01:20:57.119
building. The Frogs enter at ten
and two on the season, which is

1153
01:20:57.560 --> 01:21:02.479
how many incompetent candidates we have running
for president versus how many incompetent present candidates

1154
01:21:02.479 --> 01:21:08.159
we're gonna get in the election.
They lost to Clemson in Nevada, which

1155
01:21:08.159 --> 01:21:11.439
are the best two teams they played. Their wins are against best wins are

1156
01:21:11.439 --> 01:21:15.680
against Arizona State and Hawaii. Because
that's your best two wins. That makes

1157
01:21:15.760 --> 01:21:18.159
all miss look like they're number one
in the country. Yeah, somehow they're

1158
01:21:18.199 --> 01:21:21.960
still here to lead the front court
as Emmanuel Miller, who is averaging seventeen

1159
01:21:21.960 --> 01:21:26.680
and six while shooting thirty seven percent
from the outside. Jacoby Coles has emerges

1160
01:21:26.720 --> 01:21:30.439
of quality power forward to log eleven
and six, and former jayack Ernest fude

1161
01:21:30.840 --> 01:21:33.680
Is starts at center. He averages
fifteen a game o Nope, fifteen minutes

1162
01:21:33.720 --> 01:21:36.680
per game because he fouls so much. He's sitting on a averages of just

1163
01:21:36.720 --> 01:21:41.039
four points and four rebounds against a
really poor non conference schedule. So I'm

1164
01:21:41.039 --> 01:21:45.600
sure he's gonna have twenty against KU. Yeah. Yeah, And they have

1165
01:21:45.640 --> 01:21:49.399
a really weird non conference schedule because
their metrics look great, we just don't

1166
01:21:49.439 --> 01:21:55.680
know how good they actually are because
of those schedule's bad. Without Mike Miles

1167
01:21:55.720 --> 01:21:59.720
here anymore. Former Delaware Gardjamir Nelson
runs the show. He also plays with

1168
01:21:59.760 --> 01:22:01.800
aver Ry Anderson kind of a Bill
selfie two point guards on the four at

1169
01:22:01.800 --> 01:22:06.319
the same time. Stuff. Nelson
averages eleven points and four assists. He's

1170
01:22:06.319 --> 01:22:10.560
only shooting twenty six percent from three, but he's over eighty five percent of

1171
01:22:10.640 --> 01:22:13.039
the line. If that tells you
about where he likes to play his game,

1172
01:22:13.239 --> 01:22:15.319
the Jayhawk should look to avoid fouling
him. I would say that they

1173
01:22:15.359 --> 01:22:19.520
should make him shoot threes, but
every three years TCU isn't good at shooting

1174
01:22:19.520 --> 01:22:23.159
threes, and they shoot it really
well at in field House. I'm twenty

1175
01:22:23.159 --> 01:22:26.880
six percent shooters typically do really well. Now in field House they do.

1176
01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:33.239
Yeah, wing Micah Peevie and still
here. Chuck O'Bannon junior year number seven

1177
01:22:33.399 --> 01:22:40.520
in college he was a freshman and
played double digit games when Devonte Graham was

1178
01:22:40.560 --> 01:22:45.000
at Kansas. Still here, they
are the other primary backcourt players of note.

1179
01:22:46.199 --> 01:22:49.319
The horn Frogs, per usual,
are very good on the offensive class

1180
01:22:49.399 --> 01:22:54.600
and play a very fast paced ranking
the top ten in shots made per game.

1181
01:22:55.279 --> 01:22:58.319
They've been very good on offense,
averaging eighty seven points per game thus

1182
01:22:58.359 --> 01:23:00.039
far, though again against a week
schedule. They get to the line a

1183
01:23:00.079 --> 01:23:04.159
lot and shoot an elite seventy seven
percent as a team from the stripe.

1184
01:23:04.479 --> 01:23:09.399
They're also right there with Kansas for
best passing team in the league. They

1185
01:23:09.439 --> 01:23:13.199
take a ton of twos, not
a lot of threes, but as Ryan

1186
01:23:13.239 --> 01:23:15.720
noted, that has not mattened in
the past. That's what it was last

1187
01:23:15.800 --> 01:23:18.760
year too. The weaknesses are what
they usually are, a lot of turnovers

1188
01:23:18.920 --> 01:23:23.199
and they don't shoot well from three. But they've played such a lousy schedule

1189
01:23:23.279 --> 01:23:27.199
that all their match looks look really, really good to this point, as

1190
01:23:27.239 --> 01:23:29.399
is the case for a lot of
Big twelve teams. So we're not really

1191
01:23:29.439 --> 01:23:31.720
sure, though. I think we're
all relatively high on the horn Frogs.

1192
01:23:32.119 --> 01:23:34.520
Yeah, I think they're top five
Big twelve team. I do. Yeah,

1193
01:23:34.520 --> 01:23:41.479
I would agree. Last year featured
TCUs first ever win an Allen field

1194
01:23:41.520 --> 01:23:44.640
House. The horn Frogs are one
to ten and Lawrence and four and twenty

1195
01:23:44.680 --> 01:23:47.640
one against Kansas overall since joining the
Big Twelve. When did they beat KU

1196
01:23:47.680 --> 01:23:51.119
and L in the house the two
schools meet this year? What did you

1197
01:23:51.159 --> 01:23:55.359
say, Nick? When did they
beat KU and Allen field House? Certainly

1198
01:23:55.399 --> 01:23:59.319
last year year ago obliterated them?
Yeah, yeah, I'm joking. Yeah,

1199
01:23:59.520 --> 01:24:03.479
last year they won the first Big
twelve game. They won Big Twelve

1200
01:24:03.479 --> 01:24:11.039
tournament game when Josh Jack team was
awful too. Yeah, yeah they were.

1201
01:24:11.199 --> 01:24:15.119
That might have been the worst KU
lost in conference play in this past

1202
01:24:15.159 --> 01:24:17.039
decade. It is, it is. It's the worst conference loss of the

1203
01:24:17.079 --> 01:24:20.880
celf era. And I don't know
if it's even close, honestly that that

1204
01:24:21.319 --> 01:24:25.920
Gerald Vick team that somehow lost in
Morgantown at the Buzzers up there too.

1205
01:24:26.840 --> 01:24:30.800
The other one that I think we're
forgetting was maybe the low point of Inside

1206
01:24:30.840 --> 01:24:34.560
the Paint when we were so done
with watching Remy Martin not play and they

1207
01:24:34.600 --> 01:24:41.119
go down to Fort Worth and just
got shredded, as Bill self was perfectly

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01:24:41.560 --> 01:24:45.000
podcast. Yeah, and then two
days later they played him again, because

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01:24:45.000 --> 01:24:46.560
remember it was a COVID makeup game
when they almost lost to him at home

1210
01:24:46.640 --> 01:24:51.119
then but they didn't and then they
didn't lose again. Yeah, that was

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01:24:51.159 --> 01:24:56.119
it after that. Okay, So
I have two different angles here. I

1212
01:24:56.199 --> 01:24:59.680
originally wanted to pick Kansas to win
in a statement. I think the Jayhawks

1213
01:24:59.720 --> 01:25:02.000
have been sitting there waiting for conference
play for a while, and I think

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01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:06.479
that TCU hasn't shown that they can
contend with anybody of quality. They lost

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01:25:06.520 --> 01:25:10.359
by double digits to Clemson, who's
the only ranked team that they played all

1216
01:25:10.439 --> 01:25:14.880
year. But I like TCU's team
and I like the way that they match

1217
01:25:15.000 --> 01:25:18.159
up with Kansas. Because Kansas,
we've established, isn't a great rebounding team.

1218
01:25:18.439 --> 01:25:21.800
Teams are guarding Hunter Dickinson well enough
where the rest of Kansas can be

1219
01:25:21.800 --> 01:25:26.279
taken advantage of and be had on
the glass. TCU's gonna do that well.

1220
01:25:26.520 --> 01:25:30.560
Kansas has been prone to forcing Kansas
has been prone to turning the ball

1221
01:25:30.600 --> 01:25:33.039
over. TCU very good at that. And if there's a team that can

1222
01:25:33.079 --> 01:25:36.880
match Kansas's athleticism and speed in the
open court, it's the horn Frogs.

1223
01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:41.439
Jamie Dixon's a great coach. A
lot of these guys were here whenever they

1224
01:25:41.600 --> 01:25:45.319
rolled Kansas last year. They're not
going to be intimidated by the atmosphere.

1225
01:25:45.640 --> 01:25:47.439
In the end, I think it's
a really close game. I think Kansas

1226
01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:51.840
wins something like seventy nine is seventy
four. A high scoring game that's gonna

1227
01:25:51.840 --> 01:25:56.479
feature some lead changes. I think
you're gonna see TCU make more shots than

1228
01:25:56.479 --> 01:25:59.840
they typically do. But in the
end, Kansas has the best two players

1229
01:25:59.840 --> 01:26:01.720
in the game and they have the
better coach. I think that's enough.

1230
01:26:01.760 --> 01:26:04.520
They make enough free throws down the
stretch, but you don't want to get

1231
01:26:04.520 --> 01:26:09.359
into a free throw shooting contest with
these guys. If Kansas finds themselves down

1232
01:26:09.399 --> 01:26:13.159
by five points in the final two
minutes and they are counting on TCU missing

1233
01:26:13.159 --> 01:26:15.760
free throws to get back in,
it probably not gonna end well. Hornfrog

1234
01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:18.760
is one of the eight best free
throw shooting teams in the country. I

1235
01:26:18.840 --> 01:26:23.439
like the Jayhawks win, but I
think it's close. I agree, I

1236
01:26:23.479 --> 01:26:25.960
think Kansas will win, but I
do think it's gonna be a good game.

1237
01:26:26.680 --> 01:26:30.319
I think TCU is gonna hang in
there. They have played Kansas close

1238
01:26:30.359 --> 01:26:31.760
a bunch of times, and of
course they have knocked him off a few

1239
01:26:31.760 --> 01:26:36.039
as well, But yeah, I
think I think Kansas wins like seventy five,

1240
01:26:36.319 --> 01:26:40.159
seventy three or something like that.
I think it's gonna be really close.

1241
01:26:41.000 --> 01:26:43.880
But I think you are going to
see Kansas up their level play.

1242
01:26:45.359 --> 01:26:46.239
If they get off to a really
slow start through, they could be in

1243
01:26:46.239 --> 01:26:48.920
the danger zone. But I think
they're not gonna I think they're gonna start

1244
01:26:48.960 --> 01:26:53.479
a lot faster than they have been. Yep, I agree as well.

1245
01:26:53.479 --> 01:26:56.119
I think this is gonna be a
relatively close game. You mean Kansas eighty

1246
01:26:56.199 --> 01:27:02.279
one, TCU seventy five. Kansas
has not beaten TCU by double digits in

1247
01:27:02.560 --> 01:27:08.840
any of their last five matchups,
neither game last year, neither game of

1248
01:27:08.840 --> 01:27:13.039
the year before that, and then
the game I guess there's a big twelve

1249
01:27:13.079 --> 01:27:15.439
tournament game in there when o Chaia
Baji had that super dunk. But regular

1250
01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:18.680
season matchups, you have to go
all the way back to very early in

1251
01:27:18.720 --> 01:27:23.840
twenty twenty one conference play, when
I believe who's sat in that game.

1252
01:27:23.840 --> 01:27:26.720
Marcus Garrett sat in that game,
didn't e to want Harris just rolled.

1253
01:27:27.039 --> 01:27:31.199
Kansas dominated TCU in Fort Worth and
then won maybe the grossest conference game ever.

1254
01:27:32.199 --> 01:27:34.760
Do you remember the score of the
rematch a couple weeks later, Landon,

1255
01:27:34.800 --> 01:27:39.319
you remember the halftime score, either
one of you? TCU at Kansas

1256
01:27:39.479 --> 01:27:44.000
January twenty twenty one. What was
the halftime score? I don't, but

1257
01:27:44.039 --> 01:27:47.800
I do you remember it being really
bad? The halftime scorer TCU nineteen Kansas

1258
01:27:47.840 --> 01:27:55.800
eighteen. Oh my gosh. I
trying to find out some of the stats

1259
01:27:55.800 --> 01:28:00.960
in this game. Kansas four for
seventeen from three they had. This game

1260
01:28:01.039 --> 01:28:05.199
had a total of a lot of
turnovers and a lot of fouls and not

1261
01:28:05.279 --> 01:28:09.439
a lot of shots. I think
this game's much prettier. These are very

1262
01:28:09.439 --> 01:28:12.960
good offenses. Should be fun to
watch. Also, wouldn't surprise me if

1263
01:28:13.039 --> 01:28:15.920
Kansas roles. Wouldn't surprise me if
you see like a twenty two to six

1264
01:28:16.039 --> 01:28:20.359
start and they just roll them.
Considering I think they've been kind of waiting

1265
01:28:20.359 --> 01:28:26.199
to get to this point in their
season since yeah, MAUI probably since around

1266
01:28:26.199 --> 01:28:29.039
then. Other games got a lot
of games to pick. It's gonna be

1267
01:28:29.039 --> 01:28:32.119
a thing this year because of all
the Big twelve games. West Virginia at

1268
01:28:32.239 --> 01:28:38.479
number three, Houston, the metrics
say ninety nine percent. You're ruling with

1269
01:28:38.560 --> 01:28:43.960
them. I am going to yeah, Yeah, it's terrible. Yeah,

1270
01:28:44.000 --> 01:28:46.960
Houston should win this game pretty easily. Number eighteen Baylor at Oklahoma State.

1271
01:28:47.079 --> 01:28:50.039
I don't think the Cowboys are good. I do think Baylor is give me

1272
01:28:50.039 --> 01:28:58.039
Scott Drews squad on the road,
correct. Yeah. Iowa State at number

1273
01:28:58.039 --> 01:29:00.840
eleven Oklahoma. ESPN Metrics say the
Cyclones are a favorite in this game.

1274
01:29:00.880 --> 01:29:05.680
I disagree. Sooners at home.
Yeah, give me the Sooner. Well

1275
01:29:08.399 --> 01:29:12.359
you see F at Kansas State.
I think we all expect the Wildcats to

1276
01:29:12.439 --> 01:29:15.159
open. They're not going to have
the best conference late, but we all

1277
01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:19.279
think they open with a win,
right I do? Yep. This feels

1278
01:29:19.319 --> 01:29:25.000
like and and bram Ledge isn't great
by any stretch against non Kansas Big twelve

1279
01:29:25.000 --> 01:29:28.960
teams unless the team's really good.
Uh, but this feels like UCF getting

1280
01:29:29.000 --> 01:29:31.479
their first taste of Oh, this
is what it's like every night in this

1281
01:29:31.560 --> 01:29:36.960
conference. And they lose by twenty. Texas Tech at number twenty Texas close

1282
01:29:38.039 --> 01:29:40.439
game. Texas hasn't shown me very
much, but I think they win.

1283
01:29:41.479 --> 01:29:46.119
Yeah. I think so too.
Yeah. And Cincinnati at number twelve BYU.

1284
01:29:47.000 --> 01:29:49.279
We have no idea how that's going
to go. If we I assume

1285
01:29:49.279 --> 01:29:53.319
we all want BYU and did we
all take the exact same results in all

1286
01:29:53.319 --> 01:29:56.439
seven conference games. Yeah, this
is a really bad opening weekend, though

1287
01:29:56.520 --> 01:30:00.880
none of these games were remotely interesting. I honestly tea see you at Kansas?

1288
01:30:00.920 --> 01:30:03.760
Is TCU Kansas the game where the
underdog has the best chance of winning?

1289
01:30:06.600 --> 01:30:11.279
Uh? What's the actual favorite?
Probably? I was stayed open.

1290
01:30:12.760 --> 01:30:15.880
It'll be close. Hey, don't
you cave now? Don't you remember you

1291
01:30:15.920 --> 01:30:19.039
guys agreed with me. We read
Iowa states crappy non conference schedule over and

1292
01:30:19.079 --> 01:30:23.520
over and said that you would not
fall for it whenever they were eleven and

1293
01:30:23.600 --> 01:30:28.079
two or whatever entering January. You
all agreed to that. Oh I'm not.

1294
01:30:28.319 --> 01:30:31.720
I think they're going to be pretty
mediocre other games. This game looked

1295
01:30:31.720 --> 01:30:36.159
a lot better twenty four hours ago. Number nine Illinois at number one Perdue.

1296
01:30:38.319 --> 01:30:41.880
Boy, you think this is walking
in new old hornet's nest for an

1297
01:30:41.880 --> 01:30:45.199
a lin Ni team that now doesn't
have their leader. I'll I think Purdue

1298
01:30:45.239 --> 01:30:50.920
wins by a lot. Yeah,
boiler Makers. Yeah without Arren Shannon.

1299
01:30:51.560 --> 01:30:56.680
Number seven, Marquette haven't been the
same team away from their company confines of

1300
01:30:56.720 --> 01:31:00.960
their home arena at Seaton Hall Pirates
already have a over Ucon. Do they

1301
01:31:00.960 --> 01:31:08.159
get one over Marquette? Yoho?
Give me the good Pirates Marquette. Yeah,

1302
01:31:08.199 --> 01:31:10.520
I think Marquette wins. I think
they're the best team in that conference,

1303
01:31:10.520 --> 01:31:13.239
even though I think you kind of
win it. Number eight North Carolina

1304
01:31:13.319 --> 01:31:16.239
at number sixteen Clemson. I'm not
a Hubert Davis fan. I will take

1305
01:31:16.239 --> 01:31:20.479
the Tigers at home. I am
an RJ. Davis fan. Give me

1306
01:31:20.600 --> 01:31:27.399
North Carolina. Yeah, I'll take
Clemson. Number six Kentucky at Florida.

1307
01:31:27.479 --> 01:31:33.920
Do the PayPal Cow's Open SEC play
with a win? Yes they do.

1308
01:31:36.960 --> 01:31:41.479
How good is Florida? I think
they do though, Yeah I do too,

1309
01:31:41.640 --> 01:31:44.680
I do too. And number twenty
two Ole Miss at number five Tennessee.

1310
01:31:44.800 --> 01:31:47.000
Hey, Chris Beard, welcome to
conference play voles by twenty Yeah.

1311
01:31:48.000 --> 01:31:51.600
Yeah, Ball's big, all right. So we're now in Big twelve play,

1312
01:31:51.680 --> 01:31:55.399
which means two games a week,
two shows a week. It's gonna

1313
01:31:55.399 --> 01:31:58.000
be fun. Nick, you're working
a you're out of school, you're working

1314
01:31:58.079 --> 01:32:00.880
your full time job. So I
guess that means we can't record very late.

1315
01:32:01.399 --> 01:32:04.520
Probably not. And yet here we
sit at ten forty on a on

1316
01:32:04.560 --> 01:32:10.199
a work night, chirping away about
women with tattoos and the Houston, West

1317
01:32:10.279 --> 01:32:15.439
Virginia prediction and it's great important unemployed
unemployed behavior. Yeah, very much so.

1318
01:32:17.039 --> 01:32:19.880
This is inside the Paint on Rock
Chalk Blog. I'm Ryan landrath Ah,

1319
01:32:19.880 --> 01:32:25.039
a man who likes women with tattoos
and strawberry blondes, and I have

1320
01:32:25.079 --> 01:32:30.000
a job. Well that's that's a
sequence right there. You guys can do

1321
01:32:30.079 --> 01:32:33.000
what you will with that. All
right, we'll be back. We'll be

1322
01:32:33.039 --> 01:32:35.840
back, I'm assuming at the end
of the weekend to talk about how the

1323
01:32:35.880 --> 01:32:43.439
Horny Frogs dumped Kansas to a season
opening loss. Sad believe