Well, congratulations to Kansas who got a nice, hard earned victory over another
very worthy opponent, the Houston Cougars. We're gonna talk about that basketball game
with all respect and dignity and everything aside, just kidding, what a bunch
of fucking good I told you that was gonna happen. And look what happened
at the fog Houston went in there and dropped one giant that wasn't even close,
not even close. Kansas kind of dominated. They would have won by
thirty if they would have went by thirty, if LJ. Crior did and
go Nukio in the second half. Yep, yeah, Nick has just posted
in really big numbers plus one point five in the in our show opening notes,
because holy crap, you know what, I understand that there's plenty of
nerds that you got all your calculators, you got all your spreadsheets, and
you might be a little turned off by the start of the show because Houston
is still the number one team in the last fifty years of any level of
basketball. They are about three spots ahead of the ninety six Bulls. But
at the same time, I am gonna enjoy our moment in the sunshine because
that game. Numbers aside, stats aside that game went. How every game
at the fog goes when a untested but looking all sexy opponent comes into Allen
field House ready to challenge Kansas and they don't even last ten minutes before they've
been KOed. How many times do you need to see that? And yet
the odds makers still made them a home dog. Yeah, and like we
all thought this game would be closer, Like I have no idea. We've
said this all season, but like no earthly clue why Houston had been favored
on ESPN all season. They're favored by Vegas all week. It's as if
these people have never watched Kansas play in this building before. Yep, Bill
self has never lost to a top ten team as the lower ranked team.
Fourteen to oh, fourteen to oh, definitely worthy of. And the thing
that I couldn't get over isn't the fact that the computers love Houston. They're
a top five team still after this loss. I might challenge that a little
bit, but I still think they probably are fine. You like Houston,
you think they're a good team, that's cool, But they were playing a
top ten Kansas team. They were playing a seventeen and four Kansas team,
And I don't understand how anybody that the number one team, the number two
team, nobody should be favored over a Kansas team that's in the top ten,
that still has a ton of things going forward. At Allen Field House,
it was a complete I don't normally complain about like they were disrespected or
whatever, but how could they not be disrespected? And they showed it because
they whipped Houston for forty straight minutes at the Fog. They're back in first
place in the Big twelve, and we are here to talk all about it.
This is gonna be our toxic podcast. I said that yesterday to Landon
and and Nick, and either one of you pushed back. We're gonna be
toxic on this show. So if you are in that questioning the numbers camp,
like I know a few of the regular listeners are, this is gonna
be one of your favorite shows. I am Ryan Landra, this is inside
the Paint. I'm the Toxic Avenger. I'm Kelvin Sampson's bag man. Are
you who here? Is Kelvin Sampson's time out in the final twenty seconds down
by thirteen? Anybody, anybody at all. That was great, But that
was so weird. Man, fran loved it. I know Landon you didn't
watch it because you were there. Fran loved it. He said, that's
a timeout that says we'll see you on March ninth. Oh no, they're
gonna have to play them again. They may lose that game. But man,
the way he said it, it's like it's supposed to send shivers down
your spine. I don't know if they saw it, but Fran had his
Houston Cougar costume head on. He did. He was righting the bench.
Yeah, you could barely see you over the bench in the first place.
Yeah, land And I don't know if you could see from your seats.
Fran was wearing nothing at all except for the cougar head of the mascot.
That's the only thing he was wearing. Unfortunately, I had an upward angle
of him too. So awesome, pretty pretty upsetting. Yeah. No,
fran Franz said it was the most impressive half played by any team against any
opponent this year. And I'm like, oh my gosh, are they playing
one of John Wooden's UCLA teams? Like, good lord, they play Ryan.
That is very on brand. For you to have Fran even say something
positive about Kansas, and I know I was thinking about that, but everything
felt so backhanded, like yeah, it was like I can compliment. It's
like, ohh Houston hasn't allowed this all season, Kansas has had their bad
Yeah, it is a very overrating Houston comment. I agree. God,
well, hey, you know what they can keep. ESPN loves it.
Whatever. We will talk about Kansas winning because at some point you have to
look at what happens on the court and less with the nerd numbers. So
let's talk all about it. Let's rock as Nick has posted three refs with
clown makeup in the noes. Not necessarily for this game, but I think
that was the crew that officiated the Iowa State game. We'll talk all about
that anyway. That's for you. Saint Mary's number eight, Kansas seventy eight,
number four Houston sixty five. Just a complete and complete and thorough kicking
at the fog. One of the vintage ones. They're good for one of
these every couple of years where income's top ten team that's pretty sexy but also
kind of unchallenged. Here they come at the King best not missed. I
think That game gave me serious Chiefs Ravens energy that kind of feel the same
way to you guys, except it was less boring. Yes it was.
But like the Ravens, just like Houston kind of had that we're gonna play
bully ball. We're gonna be the physical team, We're gonna get under their
skin. And then they go out the defending champ and they just completely melt.
They're not the more physical team. They get punked, is what happened.
I know the Chiefs only beat the Ravens by a score, but the
Chiefs dominated that game in the trenches, just like Kansas just smacked Houston.
They made Houston there. I don't have the drop, but they made Houston
their toy for a couple of hours. If you will land in game story,
you were there, you get to read it. Yeah, Jayhawks,
they really did just own Houston for the better part of forty minutes. There
was a little stretch there where LJ. Carr made things a little more interesting
than they should have gotten. He's quite good, he is very good.
But Kay, you jumped out to a thirty to fifteen lead pretty early and
they made it maintained a double digit lead for the last twenty five minutes of
the game. Kansas shot an extremely nice sixty percent every one defense in college
basketball, scoring one hundred and fifty percent of the points Houston averages giving up
per game. They move into a first place tie in the same Big twelfth
race that so many fans were counting them out of just a week ago.
Yeah, Kansas really good. Houston I still think good, but did get
absolutely bodied by the Jayhawks. They had no answer, especially on defense,
which was pretty wild to see. Yeah, Nick, you gotta be pretty
thrilled. We're gonna talk about the players. We're gonna talk about some takeaway.
It wasn't a perfect game from Kansas, but top five team comes in
Allen Field House and Kansas just wrecks them for forty straight minutes. Had to
be everything you needed to see to get bought back into this team. Yeah,
perfect display offensively overall, defensively, just a masterclass by Bill self,
really eliminating l J. Cryer in the first half. And obviously that huge
run a bunch of momentum. Obviously the place is juiced up to start the
game, but the way Kansas put their foot on the gas and really never
let up. You know, there were times where it seemed like in late
in the second half l J. Cryer was making his threes that the gap
was going to close a little bit. But no, they kept Houston at
arms length distance, just consistent, high quality basketball minus the turnovers they had
a slew of those, but outside of that, a near perfect game from
Ku. We'll talk about sixty nine percent from the island sid sixty nine percent
from the floor, unmatched for especially this team this year. Assists were there,
just overall a culmination of what we wanted to see in this team.
KG Adams get a little bit better offensively outside of just a dunks. Hunter
Dickinson played a little bit more complete on defense, and Dwan Harris contributed a
little bit more on offense, had that huge three. And then also we've
talked about this the entire season, but the emergence of the Kangaroo, the
kangaroo himself just jumping onto the scene here as of late. Well, let's
start with some maturity. Those overrated ass clowns. I am not going to
be annoying this entire podcast, but I will be annoying in this monologue because,
oh my gosh, was that fun to see Houstons as a top ranked
the top ranked Big twelve team over the last fifteen years. Not twenty one
Baylor, not twenty Kansas, not ten Kansas, not nineteen in Texas Tech.
You know, teams that either won a title, got to a final
four, one thirty plus games won the league. No, no, no,
no, no. It was Houston and their best win was Texas Tech
at home. Oh wow, they beat Jackson State and Rice by one hundred
points. They must be the number one team. No. At some point
what you see on the court has to matter. Houston is won in three
away from their home venue. Now they have lost to the best three Big
twelve teams. They've played at Kansas, at Iowa State, and at TCU.
They are a good Big twelve team. They are right there with Kansas.
They are right there with Baylor. This is a good team that could
contend and win the league. They could get a one seed. They are
a good basketball team. But what absolute rubbish it was to think that this
was the greatest Big twelve team in the last fifteen years just because your nerd
numbers saw him as well. Give up thirty eight points to Jackson State and
vaults them into his historic unsharded waters and what did the computers do? How
much did they move them? They still have a ninety one percent chance per
ESPN to win the Big Twelve. It was ninety two percent yesterday. I
don't get it. At some point, what we see on the court has
to speak louder volumes than these predictive measures. Because Houston is still won with
a bullet on Ken Palm and Kansas went from fifteen to thirteen as a result
of smashing the number one team in the country. Somebody make it make sense.
I will not be that guy. I don't think it makes sense at
all. I agree with you, it's very strange. Again, I agree
with you also that, Yeah, Houston I think is very much still a
good team. I don't think that is necessarily in doubt. But yeah,
Houston has always been overrated for how high they've been, and Ken Palm makes
no sense to me. Yeah, and I do like that. We called
this from the very start. We always thought this was gonna happen. We
always thought this was gonna be the case, you know. I think if
they played the game ten times in all field House, I don't know if
Kansas wins them all by thirteen and leads by twenty and many of them.
But they are nine and one if they play ten games. Yep, yep.
And here's the thing. Also, I loved the overrated chant. Normally,
I know that's not everyone's cup of tea, and they're tuned in on
that for a second. Yeah, as you should. And there are a
few self righteous people on Twitter that are like, this is Kansas, we
do the rock chalk chant. Okay, stop, it's a chant, right,
It's not gonna make them melt or anything like that. Yes, in
that case, Houston was overrated. I've seen some people say that diminishes the
quality of your win. No, it doesn't. They beat a good team.
Saying that they're overrated in this particular case didn't imply they're not good.
It implied they weren't as good as they were being hyped up to be,
and Kansas bodied them. So even if they are overrated, it was a
dominant outing. Yes, and chances are fine. Like in a Big twelve
where it's against the law, you get you get sent to the you get
death sentenced if you say horns down, I'm perfectly fine if you want a
chance overrated at a team that is truly more overrated than any basketball team I've
seen in our time on this show. And that's the case even if they
win the NCAA Championship, if they do not lose again, they are still
overrated because they are being ranked as better than just about any team ever on
Ken pom Nick. Your thoughts, Yeah, the r To Ryan's point,
the predictive metrics do such a bad job of accounting. I mean, we've
talked about this before, like the betting thing, how Kansas in tough game,
close game situations now like eight with the final media timeout. How underestimating
these metrics are that these betting algorithms use, and they just don't want to
cat There's there's no account for Allen Fieldhouse. There's no special formula for the
building. And every time it seems like these odds makers get burned because they
don't realize that Kansas and outfield House is just completely different than any other environment.
And to Ryan's point, this is a top ten team and Houston for
as much, for much respect they're getting in the metrics, how good defensively
defensively they've been this season. You're talking about a game that Kansas has won
as the stats show what fourteen to zero and bill selves tenure against top ten
teams and outfield house. The stats don't lie at this point. It's not
just a statistical anomaly. It's a probability that Kansas is going to win games
like these. So I don't get it. I don't get the whole net
thing, the whole Ken Palm thing has the stats nerds really have. I
know they're helpful for a lot of things. Comparing resumes eye test only goes
so far in some circumstances, But in comparing teams it does such a poor
job of actually comparing head to head results getting good wins, especially in the
Big Twelve. How tough of a conference this is, and it's why we've
complained for years about Gonzaga and Houston when they're in the American it favors blowout
wins, and you're not gonna get grind them out close wins a huge brownie
points in the Ken Palmer Net rankings because you won by two. You're gonna
get browning points because you won by forty and had high offensive efficiency and defensive
efficiently efficiency margins. It's that right there, that right there. Teams figured
out last year ironically, Houston was the one that laid the groundwork that these
metrics, which are used as just as much of a factor as the eye
test when they see the tournament. These metrics value beating a Quad four opponent
by forty more than they value beating a top ten team by five. It's
true, we saw it last year. That's why so many Big twelve teams
were ahead of Kansas and the non con Kansas now has four wins over teams
currently in the top ten, and there were marks a three seed by Joe
Lonardi yesterday despite having as many wins as anybody that's ahead of them. But
the teams that spanked all the Quad four teams that the Iowa States, the
Arizona's, the Houstons, Purdue had a great non conference schedule and has as
many wins as Kansas. I think they have one more than Kansas. Why
are they the two overall and Kansas is the nine overall? There's no consistency.
Teams figure that out. And Kansas now with four top ten wins and
leading the best conference in college basketball, they are as much of a one
seed as anybody right now. And yet here we are where the metrics don't
wait, It doesn't wait opponent at all. Right, yeah, just purely
just your statistical output. I mean it does. The net does weight opponents
because they do the quad two thing. The net does, yes, But
the kN Palm metrics, yeah, the efficiency metrics are complete hogwash. The
net is kinder to Kansas than Ken Palm. Kansas is up to eleven in
the net. You'll never guess who's still won with a bullet. Houston is
six and three in Quad one games. Now that's better. Okay, fine,
you know what. We like that he still has top five and Ken
Pom BYU coming up. That's their toughest game on the schedule. Left.
Forget about Houston, forget about Baylor. They've got to go play at BYT.
They play BYU here later on this season as well. Yep, that
is it. Yeah, there's like seven losses and see that right there.
That's where I'm losing my mind. Kansas has two more wins than BYU.
Kansas has five Quad one wins, BYU has three. Kansas has what two
more conference wins? And they are five spots below BYU in the net.
I can't figure this out. At some point, it has to be about
who you beat, and not about the nerd stats about how you beat them
and was their luck involved in all that? If you beat enough top ten
how many top ten teams do you have to beat to be a one seed
when you're also leading the strongest conference. This seems like it should be.
We have four total losses. There is no argument right now. And this
is a stupid thing to talk about in early February because this will play out
just fine. But there is zero argument right now to having Houston ahead of
Kansas on the bracket curve. And I saw a lot of bracketologists which is
it may as well be a if that's in your Twitter bio, It may
as well just be a different way of saying I don't go outside. But
these bracketologists say, well, Houston is still clearly a one seed because quad
one wins and all that stuff. It's like, No, at some point
we saw last year quad one wins don't matter. Kansas got dinged for setting
a record in quad one wins because they had more Quad one losses. Okay,
Houston's got more Quad one losses than teams like Purdue and Yukon and North
Carolina because they have more opportunities. Now, why are they being It's just
it makes no sense. It makes no sense, and I'm over it.
Let's talk about the environment, land and how was Allen Fieldhouse loud? It
was? It was good as always, It was very loud at the very
beginning. I don't think it was actually as good as the Yukon game,
but also that Yukon game was closer longer. That's why the fans felt a
need to stay really really up where was like we sat for most of the
game against Houston, there was not a ton of standing. Well, the
Kevin mccullor dunk that made it thirty to fifteen and forced the time out,
that's when I thought it peaked in loudness other than the pretty I agree,
Yeah, and at that point this hype video of theater h Yeah, the
mccullor dunk was pretty pretty awesome that happens, and then Furfy's dunk was also
close. Yeah, and after that the game was kind of over. Like
it was. You kind of knew at that point. Now. Now,
ESPN did say Houston still was a fifty one percent favorite when they were behind
like sixteen to five or something like that. But everybody with common sense knew
it was over, So yeah, it obviously wasn't that possession specifically, like
because Kansas just had a good offensive possession. And I remember thinking like,
Houston really needs to get a bucket here if they want to keep this thing
within striking distance. And then of course they throw a breakaway pass to Kevin
mccullor, who makes a great play on the ball and then two hands slams
it and I was like, oh, yeah, that might be game that
curtains it was possible for him, and it did. Nick. Let's talk
about Hunter Dickenson. You have been kind of hard on him for a few
different reasons, but I think this is the game that everybody should look at
him and awe about. He was Kansas's best player in this game, so
at least statistically going for twenty points, eight rebounds, and four assists against
an elite defense box house box outs. Like I said earlier, we're a
little bit better terrific defense against a quick and physical team as Houston's was.
This sort of a game you needed to see him play winning. Uh.
I think he was really good. I think Ryan and I both I think
predicted Hunter Dickinson having a really nice night and I think he was really good.
I don't know if I really quote unquote needed to see him play this.
I think this is the way he's been playing most of the season.
Obviously, he's had a couple of down games, I guess, but uh
no, I think he's been really really solid, and I think he played
really really well. Again, I continue to think he is he boxed out
like alright, but I don't think he actually rebounded that well. Yeah,
I agree that I think he was decently sloppy underneath Straws at this point,
Straws, he's been sloppy underneath. That doesn't affect the quality of player that
he is. He's still an undeniably great player. He's one of like the
two or three best players in America. Yeah, but I think you you,
you should be able to point out the fact that this is a slight
like problem for him. I hesitate to even called it problem, but like
it's a flaw. It's a flaw in his game that Yes, he does
get a lot of rebounds, but I think most of those rebounds are either
right to him or just because he's the biggest guy. Yeah, he's seven
to That's that's the first key in rebounding well, like man, Parker Brown
goes out there and scores five points and we're like, oh my gosh,
those were great minutes from Parker. And Hunter Digginson scores twenty and eight against
this godly defense and people are like, well, the box out could have
been better, and oh, there was a couple times he didn't convert on
his first look. I'm just like, geez, I think Hunter Dickinson's one
of the that's the raising of standards, which I don't totally agree with.
I think you have to kind of check that, like, yeah, obviously
you have higher expectations for better players, but I do think there's a weird
thing that happens. When your expectations are really high for a guy, it
becomes truly just expectation that he plays very well, and you start to notice
the flaws more because you're not as wowed by the little things that he does,
whereas when Parker Brown you have no expectations. So when he knocks down
at three, everyone goes crazy. I'm not saying that's right, but that's
is just what happens. Dickinson's averaging nineteen and nine in conference play. He
is fouling quite a bit more in conference play, so there's your more physical
side that everybody wanted to see. His passing numbers are his blocking numbers are
up in conference play. He has been phenomenal, like just phenomenal. He's
the Big twelve player of the year right now. If you take out his
teammate, I think it's it's just crazy. He was the best player in
this game until LJ. Cryer's garbage time three started going in, and at
least statistically, he was the second best player in this game. I think
he probably was the most impactful. Yeah, he was fantastic. And everybody
talks about how he's soft. Okay, here's twenty eight against the most physical
defense there is apparently, and it's yes. I think he was fantastic.
Exactly what we needed to see, and he was a large part in how
Kansas shredded Houston's defense. With again the Aforemen ships sixty nine percent shooting,
but they were also plus sixteen against one of the best rebounding teams in the
country. They held the Cougars to very few second chance opportunities until the final
few minutes. It got sloppy with the rotations. Houston did finish with twelve
offensive rebounds, but it was like four until halfway through the second half,
and then it got a little bit lopsided, a little skewed with that.
They did turn it over eighteen times to Houston's three. Imagine being told at
the beginning of the game, predict the score Kansas is going to turn over
eighteen times and only force three. We would have probably predicted losses at that
point, right, probably, But it didn't really also matter because the defense
was so good that Houston wasn't scoring on those transition opportunities, and Kansas was
making so many of their shots that as long as they didn't turn it over,
it was at least two points most of the night. Well, in
a weird sort of fluke, a lot of Kansas's turnovers were dead ball.
They were just yeating it out of bounce a bunch of times. Yeah,
which including Alago to your point, it allows Kansas defense to set up so
weirdly, those turnovers did not lead to very many transition opportunities. It was
a lot of half court defense. Yeah, that helped a lot, because
Houston just looked one step slower, I thought in this game on both ends,
they're supposed to be the quick team. They're supposed to be the physical
team. Kansas is supposed to be the team because of lousy soft ass Hunter
Dickinson's slowness clogging everything up. They're supposed to be the team that gets burned
on these back door things, and Kansas was the one who looked a step
ahead there. Dwan Harris's passing numbers weren't particularly great in this game, and
Kansas's assists numbers as a team were fantastic because everybody got involved. It was
a really good showing to see. Nick. I assume that, like all
the reasons that they won this game, I think the most impactful, the
most impactful thing about it was their first shot defense. But you can take
your pick. What was the most impressive thing in your eyes about Kansas in
this win. I would say it's the offensive output. You know, at
times it's been a little bit spotty this year really emerged the as of late
especially you know, the WESTERNI game was a loss, but they still scored
eighty five points in that game. I really think it's starting a round the
corner. Credit to Johnny Furphy. You know, he's been such a huge
lift this team's needed offensively. But I think it was just accumulative performance from
all of these these starters, just really good showing offensively from each of them,
and then the defense obviously complemented that as well. But I was just
really stood out to me. It's hard not to overlook that number of sixty
nine percent from the floor. They're a good field goal percentage team as a
whole already and near the top of the nation and assists as well, but
really just overall shows the skillless team has the potential this team has when they
play well and play together even without having a bench that this was still a
massive performance for KU. They are first nationally with almost twenty one assists per
game as a team, and they are second nationally with fifty two percent team
FRIEL team field goal percentage. So yeah, as long as they're not turning
it over, they're likely getting an assist into a basket on Just think about
all those all those eighteen turnovers. If three or four of those would have
even turn into baskets, this guy would have been blown even more open.
Yeah, it's it's pretty wild that you have fifteen more turnovers than your opponents
still win by thirteen. Like that's we kind of see something new every time
we do a recap, and that's that's that's the new thing here. Landon
Johnny Furfey. Let's talk about him. He just continues to improve and Bill
self said he's been one of the best players in the Big twelve over the
last month. He's right, Yeah, he is. He was sensational,
especially in the first half, seventeen points total, six four to seven shooting,
including three four from deep. He had eight rebounds as well in thirty
five minutes. Furfey is now shooting fifty four percent from the floor and forty
three percent from three, but that number is forty nine percent from three in
Big Twelve play Nick, he talked about him, You said you liked him
a lot. He has been fantastic and, as you said, a huge
lift to this team. Is he going pro after this season? Is his
time in Lawrence almost up? Already? Ryan doesn't think so. But I
think that there's a cyby sneaky suspicion he's gonna get drafted. I think so
too. I think so now the last two games, I think I've changed
my mind. Yeah, he's I think he might be a lottery pick now
he's nineteen. He he might be a first rounder. He genuinely might be
a first round pick at this point. He's an nineteen year old that's six
foot nine and shoots threes in the forty percents and he rebounds really well too.
What what? Why? Was not excellent defense against Houston, which had
been his real weakness was he wasn't a great defender. He lost guys,
He wasn't always in control on defense with foul and he did still foul some,
but like he had some absolute lockdown moments. He was sensational from the
start. It was clear Houston's strategy was they were going to try to pick
on Furfey. We saw immediately a couple of guys try to try to drive
to the basket right on Furfey. They spread it around, they found the
guy that Furfey was guarding, and they tried to send him inside against Furfey,
and Furfey's foote work has improved so much to a point where he didn't
budge, they didn't get in the lane against them. I especially noticed this
happened a couple times with Emmanuel Sharp. It was very clear that he was
going to try to attack the basket against Furfey. And he wound up going
one for five from two, and that's a guy who's normally their best driver
to the basket on the outside, completely locked him down. Crier was the
only reason that Houston didn't get burned by twenty plus in this game, and
it took him making some crazy shots to get there. It doesn't feel like
it because he's not white, but at least to me, Crier has now
made eight hundred career threes against Kansas. Congratulations l J. Cryer for making
that many. I remember every single one of them. Yeah, he was.
He was genuinely sensational. You said in garbage time. It wasn't quite
as in garbage time as you think. Nothing that game was ever in doubt
either, but he genuinely put some a little bit of pressure on Kansas.
Of course, Kansas responded that pressure extremely well. But he was great.
He was the only reason. Yeah, like you said, the game was
even remotely close. And you know what's wild, guys, Kansas their three
point lousy ass worse in history three point defense. Houston only made thirty one
percent of their threes in this game. Kudos to Bill self. He taught
the worst three point defensive team. How to become really good in just the
week. Good Bill, I mean, since no part of its flukiness or
luck, I guess you gotta give it up. He's the best coach in
the history of basketball. Right, Kansas locked down three point defense. They
were extremely good defensively, Like, I know, you think all three point
defense is luck. I think if you play better overall defense, that improves
your three point defense a little bit. I think luck is the biggest attribute
of a three point defense. But yeah, I guess Nick, tell me
about those updated numbers. I mean, surely Kansas whipped Houston. They got
to have a much better chance to win the Big Twelve, or they have
a much better chance. Right, Kansas whipped Houston. ESPN said that they
had a seventy five percent chance to win. Houston did against Kansas? Did
that he did yesterday? No? Actually, but hey, you know what,
I'm sure ESPN has adjusted, right, They've realized that, surely they're
not right. Surely they're not going to be wrong about anything else. I
maybe they've adjusted their efficiency metrics. But it says I'm reading it says they
have it Houston at a ninety one percent chance to win the Big Twelve.
And Kansas is at six percent. Also, Kansas's chances of winning the return
game in Houston went from seven to eight percent. How many consecutive times would
Kansas have to beat Houston to pass them on Ken Pam, I actually want
to know what you guys think here, because once, uh, they got
two spots closer, but they're still a long way away and Houston's. Houston
is actually considered one of the most unlucky Power Five teams according to Ken Palm
now too, So I'm gonna say it would be three. I think it's
three. You actually, I was gonna say, like seven, it's gonna
be more than that, like five, yeah, yeah, I think they
would grow exponentially with each one. I think if you beat them, beating
them once, in some people's minds, even though it's not could be attributed
to locker whatever, which is dumb. But you know, you could make
these cues. If you beat them twice in a row, you show that
you're the better team, but maybe the metrics would still bear something else out.
And then if you beat them thre times in a row, you just
really had no choice at that point about Chris Reynolds says, Hey, you
know what. It was a little rainy in Kansas and it wasn't in Houston.
It was just there's a weird circumstance. Clearly got to still give us
to the one see because of what they did against Jackson State. I mean,
just clearly. Right, here are three players we don't have a ton
of analysis for, but still want to give them their comeuppets. Kevin McCuller
seventeen points, seven of eight shooting geese, seven rebounds, three assists,
and on a bad knee. Nick has changed that to McCullough. Thank you,
Fran. McCullough played thirty seven minutes, so the injury must not be
too much of an issue. Turns out that Oklahoma State does indeed just suck
balls, and Bill self couldn't give that as a reason why he didn't want
mccullor to play the other night. Dwan Harris has seven points and just to
assist in thirty seven minutes. Yes, thank you Nick for pointing that out.
Fran does call him Houston a lot like he switches the U and the
age. That was driving me nuts too, Thank you for pointing that out.
So Harris seven points to assist, thirty seven minutes, three or four
for the floor. Not his best statistical game, but he played well.
kJ ten point seven assists, four rebounds, four or five shooting thirty six
minutes. We don't really have any talking points, or maybe you guys do
about any of these guys right like kJ, I will say, only four
rebounds. I had a couple of people be like told you that it doesn't
matter when you don't Yeah, they shot seventy percent from the floor. If
they shoot seventy percent from the floor every night, it doesn't matter how much
kJ rebounds. They'll be fine. And it exists from your fore man is
crazy though it is. YEAHKJ played great the rebounding. We'll see what happens
when Kansas struggles to shoot. If you're gonna get away with your fore man
not shooting, I now get what you're doing. We don't worry, sir.
We'll talk about that. If you're going to have a poor rebounding fore
man. It's great that it happens on a team that is really good at
shooting the ball, because you want high percentage shooting teams if you don't have
to worry about rebounds, I guess. But anything to say about any of
those guys they were all very very good. Someone in the crowd was very
worried about rebounds. Oh no, yeah, not really. I mean,
remains sensational, he was. He was great. Uh yeah, not too
much really analysis here they were all. They were all really solid. I
like the way Harris played for the most part. I think he played well,
even though just had two assists. Like, I think he played a
really solid game. Rebound That's not how she said it. That's not how
she said it. But I did write down lady yelling rebound during Ku free
throws. I can't read that on the as a kid, didn't know to
do that. Yeah, exactly. Also read the rules, dumb ass,
They can't rebound the first land. Did you hear now in fieldhouse? Yeah?
I know I had. I was gonna say everybody on that half of
Kansas hurt her, like seriously so much. Generally didn't hear. I had
no clue that she was saying anything. I genuinely could not hear really close
to him, Mike, Wow, Yeah, it was awful. It was
the whole game. Did you watch the highlights to hear it or like,
you still don't know what we're talking about? I mean, I knew it
happened based on what you guys were saying in the chat, But no,
I have not heard any of this. This lady sitting right behind the Houston
bench that was yelling rebound like a screeching hawk every time Ku shot free throws.
I think kJ should have taken a miss and just yeaded it at her
face as hard as he could have, just like shut her up, like
seriously, I look, we're not We're not the class guys. We're not
the unwritten rules guys. Nick might be, We're not. But I'm not
gonna like sit here and tell you I don't like that. But that is
kind of bush league, like you know, you go into someone else's gym
and yac like a like like that for the whole game. You get it
once or twice, you make your point. But it was constant. Man,
I can't believe Landon didn't hear it. Landon might need his ears checked
after that. I don't feel hows is loud man? Somebody talk about the
bench. I was gonna ask Nick to do it, but he's writing his
he's writing his rule book, which may take a while. Ritten rules.
Parker Brown, he was actually all right. He had a three h five
wins in eight minutes. Pretty solid minus and relief of Dickinson. Everyone else
not so much. Brick Timber brick bricks three in his three minutes, more
maxim mad threes. Jamar mcdal brikeed three in his two minutes, and then
was once again banished to the phantom zone. Elda Jackson made a pull up
jumper, had a nice lobb assist Keji Adams, but he turned it over
three times in nine minutes, including a couple truly not great ones. He's
not great. He's really not been good in conference play eight baskets to ten
turnovers to sixteen fouls, and that's only halfway through Big twelve play. He's
been very not good, as we've been saying on this podcast, he's been
a little bit buns. You got to ride or die with Timberlake, man,
I know that that's terrible. I know that likes Timberlake. Does she
really does? Gosh? Yeah, she was like, oh, I like
him, I like him. He plays well for him. Oh all right,
I went with it. She's a nice Landon needs his ears checked.
Grandma might need to go to the eye doctor. We'll have to. I'll
have to arrange that I do like Timberlake. I think he works hard,
and I think it takes a lot of guts to have high expectations and really
disappoint. He's well aware he's been a disappointment this year, and nobody's more
disappointed that Nick Timberlake has disappointed than Nick Timberlake. So he's a guy who
shoots like nearly forty percent in his entire career. He is not exactly like
in the dark that he's shooting poorly, Like that's got away on him,
Yes, and and like clearly he's disappointed and no one's working harder to get
out of it. I respect how he's kept his composure and hasn't let that
frustration showed. I also have the most confidence that he can figure it out.
So I think you got to keep riding with it, and I want
to see him continue to take three or four threes a game. I said
I was done with Almarco two three podcasts to go, and I've only seen
stuff that has made me further be done with al Marco. There was a
couple series where he was following LJ. Cryer around and I was like,
well, just go ahead and put three on the board for Houston and give
Kansas the ball back. Let's let's go out and save our time. Al
Marco Jackson gives them absolutely nothing, and people on Twitter I said that in
a nice way. I was like, he's a nice guy, but he's
not really a big twelve player right now, be wow, he's at Jayhawk.
You can't talk about our own like that. No, he's buns.
He's horrible. Stop playing him, please. I agree with you on Nick
Timberlake, though, I like, there's no one else, uh, none
of the other three guys like that are gonna yeah exactly, Like there's no
one that can give you what he could potentially give you, even though he's
only shown it against Yale and and NC Central yeh and Manhattan or it was
in C Central yay, right, I knew it was one of the first
couple of games if if either one doesn't matter, two terrible teams. If
he can uh get hot and hit like two threes a game in March,
that would be enormous. And Frank Freschiella, go sit on a cactus ass
wipe. I don't care about how how great of at oh that was such
a great half by cans me me me, okay, great, good by
Kansas, Jim Wise, it was a great half. What do did you
expect to happen? Fran? Did you expect Houston to go in there like
they own the place? Are you in on it? To nerd? Go
sit on your phone book. I'm so tired of hearing Fran for Scilla call
games at Allen Field House and he acts like he's Bill selfs buddy. Every
show He's like, you know, I was here for the KU Coaches Fantasy
Camp. Oh cool, Fran, you get a badge too, You get
a T shirt? Says Bill's ups Fantasy Camp. I'm so overhearing about that
wish opportunity, overhearing about how how Fran really wants us all to know that
he and Bill self talk every now and then. Fran, I'm sure Bill
loves Fran. He seems like Bill selves cup of tea, right, Bill
loves five foot four nerds who talk about Houston and mispronounces player's names all the
time. I think Bill playcates to Fran. Yeah, yeah, he is.
He throws him a bone. Is what you call that? That's called
throwing somebody a bone and Fran, I've heard enough Fran to last a lifetime.
I am so Overfriand they never want Bob with shoes. That's a foul.
People in this building probably don't think it's a fell. Yeah, that's
a fel. Yeah he said that. While boy, he's like, it's
hard to believe for the people in this building, but that's a foul.
It's like he would never say that anywhere else. And I don't want to
breathe loser energy by talking about this because this is like the twelfth most important
thing in the fifth tier of important things to talk about in this game.
But I have heard enough fran for Scilla to last me a lifetime. I
never get to hear Bob with shoes in anymore. It's rare I get to
hear Dan Shulman. It's rare that I get to hear Bill Raftree. I
never get to hear Jay Wright. But Franz there twelve times a year.
Oh and Bill Walton. Yeah, they put Bill Walton on the PAC twelve
network. Now. I the first thing I thought of is, Oh,
he finally says, is he gonna do the PAC twelve dissolves next year?
And what Oregon State games? Or I mean, there's yeah, the big
twelve should hire him. I love Bill Walton. I'm all four more Bill
Walton. Final numbers in this game can sixty nine percent from the floor,
forty six percent from three to sixty seven percent from the line, and sixteen
more rebounds than their opponent. The only bad number is they had eighteen turnovers.
But Houston number one of the country forcing turnovers. It's gonna happen,
and these were, as Landon said, not super costly turnovers for a few
to reasons. Any closing takeaways for me a plus game. They show that
they're one of the five best teams in the country. I've always thought they
are. They are a top five team. They're the favorite in this conference.
They're gonna be a one seed as long as they don't, as long
as they win the conference, win a share of it, whatever. I
think that this team is rounding in de forman February, as most Bill Salves
teams do. Yeah, color me shocked, Pikachu that Kansas put on one
of their best performances of the season in one of their toughest tests at home.
They usually do that, and they did it again, and they look
great doing it four times this year They've done that yeah, great game,
as you said, A or A plus type of performance. Now the big
question mark is, but these guys, these starters playing thirty seven to forty
minutes a game. You've got a Monday night game two days later, and
then you've got a daunting six ranked teams, maybe seven if it persists,
with Texas back in the top twenty five. Maybe, But Kansas has a
gauntlet of a schedule coming up. If these guys can stay healthy and the
starting lineup can stay energized, I have a hard time picking against Kansas to
win the Big twelve. And one more thing here, oh God, of
course, of course, why would that play in that drop? Well,
now I have to go back and beat it. It was just supposed to
be suck on that from the office, and somebody must have played with it
because I was gonna throw one at the nerds. Now I have to go
back to the twelve fifty beat mark and beep out that word. Maybe that's
what Bill Walton finally said that got him kicked off of ESPN. Who knows,
all right, whatever, it's more work for me, freaking my favorite.
Also, darn it, now I clicked off the soundboard, So now
I'm really screwing up this recap bag Big twelve games. There was a lot
of action around the court. We're starting to see the cream rise at the
top of the Big twelve, and this was definitely the best game I think
in a weekend full of good games. Number eighteen Baylor seventy, number twelve,
Iowa State sixty eight. Who wants to start off? Because who wants
to start with the refs? I'll let Nick take it. Baylor was in
total control before Iowa State went on a twenty to zero run in the second
half, and things were neck and neck into the final seconds when Neilon Moum
chilavi holded it when Chilavich hosted an apparent buzzer beating three to win the game,
but replay showed he didn't get off in time, giving the Bears the
win. And of course, the rest went to the monitor after that because
they had to make sure that the clock was started right on time because of
their previous trip to the monitor for twenty minutes while they sorted out why the
clock didn't start for two seconds after a missed free throw, which gave Ioways
State another time out, but Scott drew that the real part of the refs,
not just them spending eight hours of the monitor. Scott Drew got ejected
for leaving the coaches box. I'm glad that we have officials in the sport
really relegating the indecent behavior of coaches, right right, Yeah, meanwhile,
what's his name can run out on the court and play defense. Yeah,
what's the coach? Travis Ford? Travis Ford out playing defense? Travis Ford
too. He was yes, yes, good points by Nick. That's exactly
what I was hoping to hammer home that. Now, Scott Drew, you
may be picturing a guy gets ejected for leaving the coaching box. That he
was running and like screaming at half court. He was on a knee with
his foot over the line, and he had already been given a technical for
leaving the coaches box. I didn't see the first one. Maybe the first
one was egregious, but he was just coaching his team, knealing on the
court with a foot an inch over the line, and they stopped the game
and tossed him, and everybody in the stands nobody really understood what was going
on, because it's not like he was screaming at him. Really, that's
when we're gonna enforce this, like if we are now enforcing leaving the coach's
box with ejections, then I want to see Shaka get teed up within the
first thirty seconds of the next game. Consistency you stripe wearing mouth breathers logic,
thought, Well, yeah, totally knowing with that logic. Also,
so Trey King. In his first game since setting his career high in threes
last week, Trey King was zero for two shooting threes. Well, Leanna,
I don't know why you're surprised. Kansas sucks at guarding the three,
and Baylor face guarded him with each of those two attempts. They were the
two. They were the two toughest defensive possessions you've ever seen in your existence.
Way tougher than anything Kansas did to Houston. Those two possessions that Tray,
Yeah, that's are you starting the field Baylor a little more. I
think they're the third best team in the Big twelve, and I think they're
going to be a contender for this league. I guess, I don't know.
You think it's a two You think it's a two man league. You've
been the last few seasons two man league. Yes or no. Let's say
the question again. Two. Is this a two team race? Yes,
it's a two team race. I do not think it's a two team race.
I think it's a three team race, Nick, two or three team
race? Two teams? All right, Well, you guys are bouncing off
the Scott. You're express off liarly. I'd rather bet on a guy that's
won the title and won the Big twelve than a guy who's done nothing but
win four out of the last ten AAC titles. I didn't say that it
was Houston and Kansas. I said it was. I could have said it
was Baylor in Kansas. Was the two team race? That's true. That
would take some guts and I never will know. That's for you to know,
sir. Oklahoma State seventy five, Kansas State seventy two. Well,
since Landon said he was quote wonting all the tang all the Wildcats have done
is go oh and four, Nick has added three more l's and Wildcats.
So it's now wild Cats who turned it over fifteen times and couldn't stop fouling
down the stretch. Keon Williams led the way for Oklahoma State seventeen points ten
rebounds. Case State's lost four in a row. They get Kansas this week,
so we'll see a season saver could be on deck. What is their
final Big twelve record going to be there? Four and five through the first
half, Yeah, seven eleven, eight, eight and ten. I think
that we're gonna find out a lot about them in the Kansas game. They're
a five point dang thing, really because you think they're gonna lose. Well,
for one, I just think rivalry games are weird no matter what.
So even if they win, I don't know if I'd really bet on them
being amazing, but I do think they're gonna lose, probably by an okay
margin. They have such a brutal schedule, and I know that that's not
saying much because Big twelve, but they really do. They get Kansas,
then they go at BYU. They're gonna be underdogs in both those games.
Then they get TCU at home. So we say, maybe they win one
of those three at Texas, BYU, at Home West virgin and yet Home
at Cincinnati, at Kansas, ioways stayed at home. There's probably four wins
in there. Yeah, they're probably eight and ten, but it wouldn't surprise
me if the floor fell out. I think there's some weird things going on
with Jerome tang As good of a coach and guy as I think he has
something just doesn't feel right in that athletic department. And they've now lost to
you lose to this team, and boy, that's just the wheels may be
coming off. Cincinnati, same score, seventy five, number fifteen, Texas
Tech seventy two. Landon. If we were all right on one thing,
it's that Texas Tech. Eventually that five and one start, it was gonna
even out. And two l's this week. Yeah, they're lucky. Close
games swung back here for sure. Stemus Lukosius hit a go ahead jumper with
twenty one seconds left to grant Cincinnati a massive road win. Lukasius leather Bearcats
with sixteen points. Which of these two teams are actually better? Nick Case
State? Oh sorry, I just completely had a brain fart. Yeah,
I probably think that it's Texas Tech. I think it is too. I
think I think too, but it is closer than I thought it would be.
Tech is another one of those cases. That's their experience in this league.
They know what it's like, they know what it takes So I'm gonna
bet on that team because I think that the four newbies, it's gonna be
tougher for them down the stretch. They haven't done this before. Here's Tech's
next few games. They go at Baylor. They're gonna be an underdog there.
Central Florida home. They should win that KU at home. Lubbock's tough,
but still at Iowa State at Central Florida, Texas TC at home.
I think there's a lot of l's there to be had for Texas Tech,
who I think they also feel like about a nine to nine Big Twelve team.
There's a lot of that in the Big Twelve this year. Lot els
like how about this UCF seventy four number twenty three Oklahoma sixty three? Nick,
you read the score, Porter Moser, this is you. UCF led
wire to wire in this game, and by double digits for almost all the
second half. Jalen Sellers had twenty points. The Sooners are buns, folks.
Oh. Also fun fact here, Luke Northwather remember whenever he made two
threes in Allen guys? Yeah, Uh, they've played six games since he
hasn't made one. Man, It's almost like that happens every single time.
No Landon. Gosh darn it, I'm so tired of you acting like that.
It's luck. I'll tell you exactly what happened. So Kansas's three point
defense totally freaking sucks. That's why north Weather got those open looks right right,
yeah. And West Virginia, Cincinnati, Texas, Texas at k State
and UCF all of them played super good defense and prevented him from getting open
looks. That's why he hasn't made any Come on, do you guys even
know ball? I mean, it's obvious what's going on at this point.
Oklahoma, there's one thing that I was right on in Big twelve play.
It's that Oklahoma is buns. Porter Moser is buns. I told you they
don't have the bigs to contend in this conference race. I cannot believe there
is a number in front of their name. They are horrible. That won't
be much longer. Nope, Texas seventy seven, number twenty five, TCU
sixty six. This was typical. I can't believe we all missed. This
game was tied at sixty four at the under four time out, but Texas
closed strong, ending the night on a thirteen two run. Max Asmis led
the way with twenty one points. By the way, Acemis is now thirteenth
on the all time NCAA D one scoring list, passing Danny Manning, which
is he is he is playing an extra year. That helps, But that
dude just fight out gets buckets. Would have been fun to have him.
TCU also shreded on the glass. They looked every bit as hot and cold
as they normally are. They can beat anyone, they can lose to anybody
as well. They will probably find themselves at five hundred because that is Jamie
Dixon one oh one, number twenty two BYU eighty six West Virginia seventy three.
Nope, still still not feeling the Mountaineers. Let's give this name a
shot. Twenty four points for a Fusini Trai or Fussini uh as b Yu
made thirteen threes and scored a win their first of a trip to Morgantown,
unlike the Jayhawks. That's from twenty three points, but no one else did
much of anything. Raekwon Battle had three threes in the last four games,
and he made three against Kansas. Oh you're gonna make me do this again?
Clear well, clearly, Central Florid, Oklahoma State, Cincinnati by you
just played much better defense than Kansas. I mean, come on, they're
clearly better. That's how it works. I mean, come on, come
on, Landing, come on, land buddy. Just just just watch a
little more ball Landing, and maybe then you can you can know how it
works. It's really what I've been saying. I believe big twelve standings.
Hey, look at this. Kansas and in Houston are tied for the league
league. They are both six wins to three losses. In third place.
Texas Tech, Iowa State, and Baylor all have five wins in three losses.
In sixth place, all alone is TCU at five and four. Seventh
place is BYU. They it feels about right there, four and four,
the logjam of eighth place Cincinnati. You see Texas, Oklahoma, and k
State all four and five. It all by themselves again West Virginia their three
and six. Last is Oklahoma State. But uh oh uh oh West Virginia
team that Bill lost to. Can you hear those footsteps? Here comes Mike
Boyton's dead man walking behind. He's gonna catch it. He's two and seven.
Now. Oklahoma State's won two of their last three. Uh, they're
games. Hey, landon High five, we predicted Kentucky would lose it,
rup, go ahead and tell me about it. Oh yeah, Tennessee put
up a huge win in ropp Arena, beating number ten Kentucky one oh three
ninety two and sending John calperryty back to back home losses. Oh no,
Kentucky's gonna lose the all time wins list of Kansas again, which they shouldn't
even be ahead in anyway, because vacated wins aren't a thing. NCAU suck
giant Ostrich. But Tennessee got twenty six points and thirteen sists from Zekai Ziggler
as they made their case as the SEC's best team. I think they definitely
are at this point. The sc refs, sensing the opportunity to interfere an
otherwise very entertaining game called forty five thouls in forty minutes because we just can't
have nice things. And you mentioned the wins record. Kansas is back to
just two games now behind Kentucky on the all time wins list. They would
be up thirteen right now if not for those twenty eighteen wins getting vacated vacating
wins sucks giant Ostrich balls. I don't know how many times I have to
say it. It does. It is as yeah, what isn't that is
Alabama? Apparently they continue to put it on an offensive the hammer down on
their opponents, hanging ninety nine on Mississippi State in a blowout win. They're
eight and one in the SEC and currently lead the conference in second place.
Number sixteen Auburn, who beat Chris Beard's fraud Ole Miss team by fourteen in
South Carolina. The game Cocks won at Georgia and appeared into the top twenty
five this week. With only three losses. SEC has got a pretty good
case as the second best league in the country. I think Tennessee is very
good until the Barns themselves eventually. Kentucky's ceiling remains very high. It remains
to be seen if they ever figure it all out. Auburn is dangerous.
This is their first Quad one win of the year, I believe, and
it's Ole Miss. Maybe not. Maybe they're the one that hasn't won a
Quad one game or something. It's their resume is lacking, but they still
show a lot of firepower and South Carolina is kind of a dark horse.
As you said, Alabama has a great resume, So yeah, SEC is
pretty good. They got five legitimate NCAA tournament locks right now overall, pretty
entertaining league, their second best for my money? What was it? Me?
It's me, isn't it? Sorry? Big East Number one Yukon used
a late push to beat Rick Patino Saint John's team seventy seven sixty four at
Madison Square Garden. The Huskies are twenty and two overall. They're ten to
one in league play, firmly entrenched in the driver's seat of that race.
Number nine Marquette is in second after beating a horrendous Georgetown team ninety one to
fifty seven in their own gym all on Friday night, Balder beat number thirteen,
creating ninety nine ninety eight in regulation. But a few people on Twitter
were saying the game was bad because the defense was non existent. I just
don't know how to live in world where that's a bad basketball game. Omber,
probably Ryan's was that? Ryan was your grandmother one who said that?
That is? That is definitely something Grandma would say. I don't like the
NBA defense. Randomly, just about midway through the second half, if tattoos
were a requirement to play basketball. Oh no, I get too much.
Yeah, my influence is where off hunderd answers kind of well. Number seven
Duke couldn't compete in Chapel Hill, losing number three North Carolina ninety three to
eighty four on game day because where else would ESPN go. Armando Baycott,
who has been in college since Jimmy Carter, who was in the office,
went for twenty five points and ten rebounds. Zach Edy, not to one
up him, has been in off has been in college basketball since JFK was
in office. Yeah, yeah, it now gets three straight home games against
Notre Dame, Boston College and Wake Forest because the schedule is just buns and
how they get that's in the middle of a CC Yeah, jeez, yeah,
isn't that funny? So Nick was talking about Zach Edy, who was
very shook up on that dark day in Dallas in nineteen sixty three, whenever
he was just a wee freshman at Purdue. His boiler Makers did beat number
six Wisconsin and Madison seventy five sixty nine. They controlled that game and led
throughout. Edie had eighteen and thirteen. Really not a lot to talk about
in this game, because because we said that the boiler Makers would pass Wisconsin
in the Big Ten standings eventually, and they're way past them now. Purdue
is tendant two Wisconsin and Illinois, who beat Nebraska in a really entertaining overtime
game this afternoon. They are tied for second at eight and three. In
other Big Ten news, Joe Biden's favorite state. Do you have the dry
beat Northwestern and overtime? Please? The man in charge not in charge.
He shouldn't be the man in charge. I would if Joe Biden was.
God, didn't he say other teams in that or any other states in that
sound by, we need to go find those and add those to this outboard.
He did, Yeah, he did. It's like Alabama, Florida.
He's getting all excited and every somebody one's found out like these are the Joe
Biden reading off the n I T teams And it was pretty funny. Land
and please continue to read where Joe Biden's then presidents. Yes, so Ruggers
beat Michigan and in Arbor and Juwan Howard. Uh So it's safe because I
have to I have to be careful. I have to skim ahead. Now
I'm very nervous after that last sentence, so that she plays walk on because
the scholarship players don't care. That feels right, because they're not eight and
fourteen or something like that. Uh. Indiana lost at home by fourteen to
Penn State because Mike Woodson not having a great season as the IU played color
down there. And that's just two absolute nuke sentences in this In this paragraph,
I put a good one in the middle. Yeah, that's fine.
Having Mike Woodsen as your coach is very bad, is my takeaway. He's
an awful basketball coach. That team starts five players that are all four or
five stars. They're a horrible Your favorite team ever, Ryan Gonzaga, Oh
no, it's it's Nick. It's my turn. They lost at home to
Oh oh sorry, shoot, I'm still on. Yeah, the there we
go. They dropped two games behind the Gales after it. With seven league
games left, two huge streaks could be coming in for the Zags. Twelve
straight WCC titles and twenty four straight NCAA tournaments. It's been twenty four months
since Mark I Few got his DUI, so that it's there probably belong to
that that was in the offseason. They are zero to five and Quadrant one
games and about out of chances to get more. It's Gonzaga going to make
the n Gonzaga will win that stupid tournament because no one else is worthy,
and they'll get in. Gonzaga actually plays at Kentucky next Saturday, and a
random non con game in the middle of the conference slate, and then they
have at Saint Mary's at the very last game of the year. They have
to win at least one of those to have a chance. They're not getting
Kentucky. I'll tell you that I don't think Kentucky's nearly as shiny as you
do right now, sir, but you're probably right. They're gonna annihilate Gonzaga.
Though in the Pac twelve number eleven Eras took off a double digit halftime
deficit to roll past Stanford eighty two to seventy one. One of the many
teams that Joe Lenardi believes should be in front of Kansas on the s curve,
Arizona has a very underwhelming resume. They have the same record as Kansas
and their conference is horrendous. So even though they are in first place,
they're eight and three in that league. They're going to win the Pac twelve.
They did beat Duke at Cameron, and they beat Wisconsin by a lot.
I don't know how much you think of Wisconsin right now, but they
lost to Purdue. They lost the Florida Atlantic. They've lost a handful of
Pac twelve games. Whatever. Arizona's not better than Kansas either, But Joe
Lenardi gonna Joelnardi. How many teams could Joe Lenardi rank ahead of Kansas.
He could fit like fifteen teams between the gap and his front two teeth.
That's how many teams that he would put in front of Kansas. That's pretty
tough draw for Leonardi. In December, a tough draw for Ryan. He
called the twenty win team like five wins. They love they are, and
they're not going to get to three overall. They've won one game since two
months ago, December third, which was against Central Arkansas. Nick, what
a Central Arkansas mascot? They're the Bears. Wow. Like a grad assistant
on Central Arkansas. He was a team manager for a while. He and
four friends. He and four friends could beat Missouri because they are horrendous.
They're so bad. And what did Kansas being by like seven. It was
pretty not good. Were as bad as the teams in this next segment though,
can't Ryan read the next segment? Oh sure, all right? First
the good news in the that's okay in the department. Louisville beat Florida State
and dropped a hundi on them in the process. But that's about where the
good news for these horrible teams ends. Because DePaul is oh and eleven and
begies play. They are three and nineteen overall, which Mississippi folks, means
they went three and eight in non con yes against and I think there wins
are Chicago State, Louisville, and somebody else in the WCC. I'm sure
Mississippi Valley State had a chance against Arkansas bind Luff but lost by six.
They're own twenty two and Detroit Mercy O and twenty four twenty four games twenty
four els. Yikes, quite bad ranked teams to lose. It's the last
show. Number one in our hearts forever Houston. They lost to Kansas number
six, Minnesota's neighbor to the east, Wisconsin number seven. I actually didn't
know this happened because there this wasn't published at all. This wasn't like this
game. But number seven Duke, they actually be They actually lost them North
Carolina. Remember taking time, They didn't really publish articles about the game.
They just published articles about how they're having like an orgy at this time.
All they did was talk about it's the most matchups between top ten teams ever,
Duke and North Carolina. Great. Nobody cares, nobody like they call
it the best rivalry in sports. No, it's not. Nobody outside of
that state really cares. They watch. It doesn't mean they care. Number
ten Kentucky again lost to Tennessee UND twelve five was State. They lost the
Baylor. Number fifteen, Texas Tech lost to Cincinnati number seventeen. Utah State
lost to San Diego State, Good League number twenty three. Oklahoma lost to
UCF number twenty five. TCU lost the Horns down last weekend pick on Land
and closing the gap. He'll still blow it. Watch ask Rock Chalk Blog
what we've done good on time today? Boys? So I think that means
we can read our normal arsenal of questions and there are a lot so buckle
down here we go at cam Levault Golf. Tough scene for Nick. What's
more inevitable Furfey to the league or Purdue losing before the Elite eight. Yes,
and yes, no, not even needing to add anything on I got
it that well. Uh, Purdue is more likely. Uh yeah, Purdue
is definitely not. I mean we know this by now. This could be
the year Perdue makes a Final Four run their boundary. Zachi d will not
leave Purdue until they get out of the second weekend. That's why he's been
there since the sixties at DKG Underscore High Life. Does Furfey leave for the
NBA? Yes, he's more likely after every game. Yeah. Next question,
will al Marco Jackson transfer? I say yes, becomes more likely after
every game. And number three, will Timberlight transfer? He cannot, he's
out of eligibility, but he will not be back. He might transfer to
an insurance firm at not the experts. Longtime listener, first time caller.
If they made a movie about KU basketball, who would play Bill self?
And why is it? Ryan Reynolds not bad all things considered, that's a
that's not accurate. Really, you don't think so? Personality wise? Kevin's
Ryan Reynolds, I mean personal it personality snarky or jokey what Bill's self isn't
snarky. He's really snarky, but he's not Ryan Reynolds snarky. Kevin James
is pretty good going from Sean Payton to Bill self as an adjustment. Ray
Romano if Ray Ramono, the Midwest accent and the stutter, I mean,
that's pretty good. That's also not bad. Landon sounds like a big Ray
Romano guy I used to be. And now the more sitcoms and more everything
that I watch, I realize everybody else everybody loves Raymond not a great show.
Oh wow, wow, Hey, you and my wife would agree with
that. Looks like he has a two pay yes to get it. That
would work. That would work. Jason Bourne as Bill self would be pretty
fun at Rock chalk A. What do you Brad? Now, we're just
going with everybody loves Raymond references? Doris can play, Yeah, there you
go at rockshok aj. What do you think about Paramount Plus's new Super Bowl
commercial. It's the one with Sonic the Hedgehog and uh and Tua taga Ailoa
and like you have you seen those where like they're all on the mountaintops.
It's like all the different shows that I saw Josh throwing the ball over a
mountain with like door pig. I think I missed the h a pig.
I didn't. I don't know if I saw the sonic one. Let me
tell you something about Paramount plus Folks Total and Complete Buns Total service. That
app sucks. I wanted to watch Ku and Iowa State on CBS. They
advertise live CBS and I get on that Paramount stupid app and they're like,
you have to download the CBS Sports app to watch live CBS. Constant,
No, it's not. They just lied. I almost yeaded my iPad out
at thirty five thousand feet up there. It's ridiculous, crazy at Dick Underscore
taser. You young blood's ever been to Mexico? Best country ever? And
I've been to a pun's ton of them. Never left the country. Have
you guys left the country? I know Landon hasn't in Mexico. Yeah,
what do you think, sir? Are you? Are you a Mexico guy?
I'm not thin, beaches type of person, so not really preach anything
old I figured Nick would like. So I'm surprised you're not like a beach
guy. But I know I've heard that Wayne is saying this because, of
course, Kay, you and Houston are playing in Mexico in December of twenty
twenty four. Uncle Wayne Pace, this is hilarious, he says, Uncle
Wayne pays for airfar airfare. You guys in for an ITP field trip figured
tickets probably only forty paysos or so. Absolutely, I do not have a
passport. I need to yet one. But what I would go anywhere in
the world with Uncle Wayne. For sure? I would Uncle Uncle Wayne flying
me down to Cancun. Yeah. Yeah, I need to get a passport,
which I do not know though it's in Mexico City. Yeah. He
says, you can do slash get anything in Mexico anything, and then actually
says, any of you guys have a passport? And why the hell is
Kansas playing in Mexico? How is there a basketball market there? Yes,
that I've read that that you actually played in the Basketball World Cups, though
it's not gonna count as a conference game, and then they're gonna still play
two conference games. I think, like, why, why Houston? Why
not just have Kansas and Houston play a doubleheader with marquee teams in another conference
at that point, Yeah, that feels way more logistically, like, that
makes way more sense. I guess. I guess with that you'd have to
travel like four teams down there. But still those planes are big, sir,
let's I'm sure we can squeeze John Caliperi's squad on there and and Bill
can beat him in the final four minutes again at Rockshock aj Can you guys
please talk about these Furfey stats real quick? And why is he the greatest
Jayhawk to ever walk the earth? That's his last six games, sixteen points,
eight rebounds, sixty five percent from the floor and fifty five percent from
three. Good lord, he's ridiculous. Yeah, that's uh, that's league
level stats. There will be a skid in there, there will be a
seven or eight game colder stretch. But yeah, he's clearly he's he's gone
nuclear in the last few weeks at Kate Eeden fourteen. Oh my gosh,
Okay Land and this is a this is a landing take, I think,
so argue with it. I would rather play Djankovic than Timberlake. Your thoughts,
uh, I mean, Timberlake is way more athletic than Michael Djankovic,
But I would have genuinely. There is no confidence that Mike Jankovic would hit
more threes than Nick Timberlake. Uh not actually probably, but I would.
I still kind of would like to see it. I'd like to see a
little jank I'd like to see a little jenk in real game action. Nick,
how would that go bad? Probably? But maybe Nick one? Well,
I think it's a little difference having him yeat threes at the very end
of blowouts and it is actually thinking he's gonna do it from the start,
Nick, do you want Timberlake or Djankovic? If those are your options?
Djakovic? Wow. Even Uncle Wayne Kerr says, sorry, so weird to
say that, But man, you might be right at this point. He's
definitely a better shooter. I'm still riding with Timberlake. I think this team's
best chance the get bench production is by playing Timberlake. That's a horrible statement,
but it's true. It really is. At Show Me Hawk. At
Show Me Hawk. There are rumors at the SEC and Big ten could break
away from the NCAA. Will be very interesting to see if that Faris Kansas
better for football and basketball in the future, Yeah, the sooner they get
away from the NCAA, the better they have to figure out a tournament.
But I've got to think at some point somebody would figure that out, or
these leads get so big that we just get league tournaments. Yeah, I
mean, I think I still think the most likely outcome is that what is
currently like the Power four just goes on to be its own thing, and
then like what we get an SEC tournament, a big twelve tournament and like
the final four is the winner from each or in each league or something.
No, I think like maybe maybe you just shrink down to like a I
don't know how many it would be. Maybe you do like a twenty four
team playoff or something like that. You'd have to find a unbiased Chris Reynolds
led selection committee, which the NCAA provides right now. But you know,
well, yeah, I think that I think the NCAA's days of being in
charge are coming to an end very quickly. But there's good You see,
the the SEC Big ten sort of reminiscent of the quote unquote alliance that fell
apart in like an hour, thing that they agreed upon. They're doing like
a basically like an advisory committee with each other. So they're so they're interested
in one another. They're not at that love stage yet, but they like
each other. Not yet stage. Yeah, Okay, let's see. It's
getting a little more serious now, is what you're saying. It's there,
and you know I haven't even gonna have I'm not even gotten close to that
far. No, Yeah, I'm saying it's it's sorry, it's it's it's
the post Land, It's it's where Lynn and wants to be, it's the
it's on the other side of the bridge at Cope. Fraud more likely to
happen Kansas fans having faith this team is going to be better that after being
mediocre in January, Kansas being favored at Houston, not that one, or
al Marco Jackson becoming Remy Martin at the time of the NCAA Tournament. Oh
my god, there's a better chance Kansas is a seventy five point favorite at
Houston per Ken Palm than Almarco Jackson turning into Remy Martin in the NCAA Tournament.
Yeah, I think my hand is forced to be the first one.
It is, But man, I wish that I wish that wasn't a thing
at Rockchalk AJ What current NBA team would be the best fit for the current
for the Kansas Kangaroo. Any of them that like players that can shoot?
Uh? Yeah, I think I don't. I generally speaking, like NBA,
I don't follow NBA rosters anywhere near close enough to know where he would
like slot in nicely. Uh about the pistons. He can start on the
pistons right now, let's roll with it. If he wants to win all
of like fourteen games next year, he's sure. Yeah. A couple more
from AJ here. How was your date with Ryan's grandma Slash? How was
Alan? And was it as loud as it seemed on the TV? Alan
was really loud. It was really fun. I like Ryan's grandma. If
you're listening, Beth had a great time. She's super fo Yeah. No,
it was a great, good date. That's the Yeah. And you're
gonna hear a couple of comments that make you go really okay every time you
go to a game. Yeah, not like in a bad way, just
like I'm surprised that's what popped in your mind while you're watching a basketball game.
Although she did turn to me right after they announced Furfey in the starting
lineup, and she goes one and done, so she really wow. So
even Grandma knows Furfy's not gonna be here for too long. She's right.
Also, I'm amazed you could hear that she does like to talk during the
announcements and that's the loudest part of the game. And I'm lucky if I
get away. She's such a ladies. She's so short that I'm not even
like that tall, but I have to like basically borderline sit down to hear
you just get the tap on the shoulder and that means squat down. So
I can tell you something, yes, several Yeah, yeah, I know
that very well. Yeah. At Stefan Timmy seventeen. How much of this
win was coaching? Oh, this is a good question on the double teams
bill self, and the players seem to know exactly where the open man would
be every play, and by the time they could adjust, the lead was
already in double digits. Yes, very good point there. Kay. You
clearly scouted Houston very well. Their strategy going into this game was we're gonna
let Houston shoot threes more than we're gonna let them drive to the cup.
Some of that was Houston feeling like they fell behind and they had to catch
up with threes. But Kansas was okay letting Houston jack threes. I suspect
it was probably pretty similar on the defensive scouting report as it was in Iowa
State. They got burned up there. They didn't get burned against Houston.
And on offense, they put on a clinic. They knew exactly who to
move the ball to. Yeah, I think I think offensively, Bill self
did drop a really excellent game play, and then defensively they decided to essentially,
I think let Furfey try to hold his own and then he just did.
Yep, yep, one more Furfey. Question at Drew Walton, is
Furfee better than Dick? No? I still say no. Grady Dick was
so much more polished man. Grady Dick was a better shooter too. As
good as Furfee shooting, Grady Dick was was. There was no player that
I've seen ever at Kansas get more defensive attention to shooting the ball than Grady
Dick. He was face guarded over and over again in those matchups. He
was shooting fifty percent until they started face guarding him every time. Grady Dick
commanded so much attention the rest of the team did so little to help him.
The rest of the team was so poor for his skill set. That's
why he was guarded so much. Just put another decent shooter out there,
and he would have been so so much more open. The floor would have
been even higher. I think Furfey has a higher ceiling, though I don't
know if that's true. Grady Dick is the best shooter I've seen play at
Kansas. Yeah, but he's done nothing in the league. I mean,
yeah, but you think Furfey would be something in the league, And halfway
through his rookie season, he's developing as quickly as I've ever seen a Kansas
player develop since Joelle. Yeah, I think you're right. Who is done
for a while? I think what is the chance that Furfey comes back for
a second year? Right now? It's probably fifty to fifty, but it
is dropping fast. Yeah, and that's yeah, that's down from like seventy
percent chance he comes back like two weeks ago. And also, you want
him to be good. You want that percentage to drop because if that percentage
gets worse, it means he's not playing as well and therefore Kansas is worse.
Correct, Yeah, you want him to be like a top five pick
in the draft. Since yes, you want you want to have the top
five picks in the draft. You want to be Kentucky, uh and not
win a title. I guess at Travius ninety go or Robert Morris. Final
question from Travius ninety nine. I feel like el Marco, a freshman,
deserves more leniency from the fan base compared to Timberlake, a senior. Am
I wrong? I have a take on this. I want you guys's takes
not completely wrong. I think that there's some validity that Landon. I don't
know. I definitely get the take. I mean, you know it would
stand the reason that it would take Jackson a lot longer or just longer to
develop, whereas Timberlake, you recruited him to be a already established, already
developed you know, Nick, Timberlake was supposed to be McDonald's. Maybe not
sensational, but you know exactly what you're going to get and it's ready for
you. Al Marco Jackson might be more like a nice aged cheese. But
I don't know. I think they're both not good, so I don't know
how much matters. I agree with your point in the sense that Timberlake was
brought in to do one thing and he has been a huge disappointment for that.
Al Marco Jackson is a freshman and there are obviously expected to be more
growing pains. Timberlake, being a proven player, was thought to be a
safer player, and Timberlake was chosen and as a result of them getting him,
they did not go after guys like Jalen t and guys they could have
used because they thought they filled the shooting void. So that in that sense,
yes, However, el Marco Jackson's getting worse. Al Marco Jackson is
a worse player right now than Nick Timberlake in just about every way. Al
Marco's giving them nothing. When Timberlake is on the floor, even though he
doesn't make very many threes, they still guard him. They don't leave him
open. They see the shooter, and he commands defensive attention. That's more
than Almarco commands. Also, Timberlake doesn't turn it over a lot. Timberlake
doesn't foul a lot, turns it over some, not as much as al
Marco. Al Marco's the worst player, I agree, I agree. I
don't know if it's by so much that it matters very much. I also
think Timberlake could bust out at any moment, Like, would it stun you?
I would it be surprising, Yes, you're not expecting it. But
would it stun you if Timberlake shot forty percent from three the next five games?
No, it wouldn't really. Okay, well maybe it would. Maybe
I'm not there yet him doing in college. Yeah, but it's just been
so bad at Kansas. It's been really disappointing because he was good in the
exhibitions and he was good in the first game, and we thought, oh,
there's a guy that's gonna average ten off the bench immediately or did he
start? Did he start? Oh? No, it is al Marco.
Alm Marco started until the Marco started. Okay, yeah, all right.
Do you ever have asked arcb's us a Twitter hashtag ask arcb? Next question
will probably be the return of a nick would you rather question? Stay tuned?
He wait? I know it's your favorite, but you know what's Landon's
personal favorite is whenever this game happens and we get to play that song number
eight Kansas, It's gonna go up to like three at Kansas State. It's
the Sunflowers showdown in Manhattan at the Octagon of Doom Monday night, February fifth,
eight o'clock, not on ESPN plus. Fran will be there wearing nothing
but purple thong oh Kent State. They're fourteen and eight overall, four and
five in league play. They've lost four to zero and five of the last
fourteen wins have come in overtime, so they're pretty lucky that it's not worse
than it is. They are ten and two at home this year, but
their losses not great ones to Nebraska and Oklahoma, and they were bad losses.
They were twenty point ls pointyard Tyler Perry averages fifteen points and five assists
per game, but he struggled to turnover since conference play started. He is
a horrendously inefficient player that shoots just thirty three percent from the floor overall this
season. Wild Kat's best player is two guard Cam Carter, who leads the
team, was sixteen points at night. Neither Carter or Perry shoot better than
thirty one percent from three, which means you can clock in three for five
each. Right now, is this data? Ames had no idea that they
that was his real name. That's awesome and Dorian Finister are the guards of
note that come off? Who are the old name teams? Sorry? Nick,
I just totally freight trained you. Yeah they have. We have a
Dayda Thomas and a Dayda Aimes. We got a Gisel James Milan Momsilievich has
gotta be right up there. That's pretty good. Who is that guy from
Cincinnati that you just said they got a lot of contenders, the guy that
that made all those baskets and helped them beat Tech. Oh oh yeah,
that was a good one. Yeah, it's just right up here. Uh
that was the by guy. Yeah, yeahs. I think it's the only
b YU player not named Spencer. I think is is that guy that you
read Kansas? And what's Kansas's coolest name? Is it? Is it?
It's Furfy? Right, yeah, Johnny Furfy. Probably not a lot of
super interesting names on the team this year. No, not not not as
entertaining. Okay, next, sorry, go back to Yeah, well I
think that at that point the battle has already been lost. But we have
several names, okay, Nick. Anyway, from Creighton transfer, Arthur Khaluma
is case State's best three point threat. He plays the three and averages fifteen
and seven while shooting thirty eight percent from deep. Fore Man David and Gasan
and center Will mcneers junior shoot high percentages and both add about seven points and
six rebounds per game, but neither have been able to fill the absence of
Nakwon Tomlin void in the front court. Case. State is a good defensive
team that's sawid on the glass and has been excellent with interior defense. Their
poor non conference schedules help those numbers. They have not played one hundred distens
in an Esque caliber opponent to truly test their front court. They're poor across
the border offense, shooting thirty one percent from three as a team. We'll
steal about that on Monday. Probably going to be the opposite of that,
probably like sixty one. They commits fifteen turnovers per game, which is among
the country's worst. Excuse me, they don't necessarily play at a super low
so pace, but they turn the ball over so much they get real latively
low numbers of shots up. Kansas has dominated this rivalry over the years.
Shocker they'll sell thirty nine and six against the Wildcats in his time as Kansas
head coach and fifteen and five in Manhattan won sixteen to the last eighteen matchups
in the series. They did lose at Brambridge last year. One of Jerome
Tang's ten overtime wins was that game. Nick just drove that thing, man.
That is code for I am tired and I'm ready to go to bed.
Is whenever Nick reads three paragraphs in a row, all right, prediction
time got first. I'm gonna go first, and I am going to predict
a handy Kansas win. This is a matchup between two teams in opposite directions,
and I have predicted Kansas to lose out there or the games to be
closer than a lot of people in the past. I don't see it happening
this year. Case State has put up battles the last couple of years against
KU and played over their heads. This is two teams going in opposite directions.
This feels like a team that comes out and shoots way too hard,
tries way too hard to turn their season around on one night and it just
falls flat. They turn it over a lot. Kansas has been feasting in
transition recently in the half court offense. Whenever they get there. I don't
think Kansas State can slow down Dickinson without Nakwon Tomlin, I think Kansas wins
a game it's in complete control the whole second half. Kansas seventy seven,
Kansas State sixty one. Yeah, I think I think you'll see a good
if. Maybe I don't know how sleepy you can be in Bramwich. I
guess I think it'll be a quiet second half sandwich between two huge games in
Allen Field House for the Jayhawks. But I do think they're going to win.
Give me Kansas seventy two sixty five in a game that maybe Case State
gets up for a little bit earlier but can't really contend with Kansas over the
stretch of the game. I think the Jayhawks will overpower them. Look for
I mean, per usual, It's not really been a prediction at this point,
but Hunter Dickinson's gonna have a good game. I could see Johnny for
a few maybe having a slower night. I think that is I'll roll without
my interesting prediction, but yeah, Kansas wins in a game that is probably
not as close as the scored say. Yeah, I'm waffling on what I
wanted to site here. I think Kansas could theoretically come out a little bit
rough, just because of that small turnaround time. They have five guys who
are playing thirty seven minutes per game. But I think that this game,
like Ryan said, the trajectories a case State's just not being good, Kansas
heading in a different direction. I think that Jayhawks end up coming in and
getting a pretty commanding win. Give me Kansas seventy six, Kansas State sixty
five. I also think that this is the game where the three point luck
starts to swing back. Kansas has allowed forty seven percent from the three point
line and the three losses they've had the last month, this has got to
be where it turns around. Kansas State is the worst three point shooting team
in the Big Twelve. They're just not going to see their opponent shoot fifty
percent every night. It's just not gonna happen. This feels like the game
where it spends back around Case State has a bad shooting night, and I
don't know how they slow down Hunter Dickinson. I don't so as long as
Kansas doesn't forget that number one exists, I like their chances, And honestly,
this feels kind of weird. So this maybe whenever I am exposed and
proven to be a fool. But this is the least concerned I've been about
a Kansas at Kansas State game in quite a while. I think they roll
well. All these predictions like that have never bit us in the past.
Never. I'm not even gonna look at the soundboard to see if there's any
Finally check one time this season against the team in Florida. Yeah, oh
yeah, no, that would that would never happen. Art And in fairness,
Kansas was in complete control of that game. Let's see him get up
sixteen to blow it again. It's like the SpongeBob mean, you want to
watch me do it again? And ain't gonna happen. Big twelve games,
these rankings will all shift. Houston probably goes up a few numbers, right,
I mean you can't. You can't knock them for that game at Yeah,
you might as well put them at one at this point. I mean
they are Yeah, they're one, They're one, and everything that matters,
we know that. But they do get a layup of a game this week
Oklahoma State at number four. Houston who here wants the pokes? Not me?
Though I actually do think this game could be a snak keep it close
I don't. ESPN says Oklahoma State has less than a one percent chance to
win this game. That's not true. They played it one hundred times.
Oklahoma State would win twice. I think so, But yes it will.
This will not be one of those two times. It will be Houston.
Number twelve Iowa State at Texas. God, I'm so bad at Texas games.
They're oh and three at in the league at home and three and oh
on the road or something like that in the last six games. I think,
but I don't know. I think Texas. I'll take times. I'll
take Texas, yeah true. Number twenty two BYU at Oklahoma. I do
think, oh, you as Buns, But I think that BYU isn't roadworthy
and to get back to back dubs, I'll take the Sooners and hate myself
for it. Yeah, same, I don't like that, but I am
taking them. I'll take BYU and number fifteen Texas tex Oklahoma sorry at home
going against the fighting Mormons here that's all of us. And number fifteen Texas
Tech at number eighteen Baylor. I am a big fan of the Bear so
I feel very confident in taking them, But you guys, maybe not so
much. I do think they win. I actually think they roll in this
game. You say, I already said they're winning other games. Mountain West
Action Number nineteen, New Mexico at Wyoming maybe the two least exciting states in
the country. I think Wyoming wins at home. New Hampshire exists, but
uh give me Wyoming New Mexico. Number twenty four. Alabama at number sixteen
Auburn rivalry game. Ken Palm has very different opinions of these teams. What
say you, I think the Tigers win. I agree, Yeah, I
do too. I'm a big fan of Bruce Pearl's roster. Number thirteen Creighton
Providence. Tough game here for the Blue Jays, who have not had good
luck. But I will say they went on the road and I hate it.
Give me the Frars close. I'll take Creighton. How about this for
a fun one? Texas A and M at Missouri. Is this the night
for the Tigers? No? No, no, I thought that'd be more
climactic. Here's an upset for you. Number eleven, Arizona at Utah.
Give me the Utes Wildcats. I'll go with Utah, all right, So
our next show coming out later in the week, and then we gotta figure
out what we're gonna do for the Super Bowl, because the stupid Jayhawks played
the day before in the day after the Super Bowl, don't they. Surely
that weekend's not gonna be a bad one. Baylor Chiefs played the forty nine
ers, and then KU has a game against Texas Tech. I think it's
the Lubbit game, yeap in Lubbock. Surely there's no three l's in that.
Hey. I feel pretty confident there'll be at least one dub I just
hope there's one that I that I'm a little more focused on than the others.
Landon's like, no, I hope the Cheese lose Go Lions. Yeah,
I honestly would not mind if brock Party won the Super Bowl. I
hope the game is fifty six to fifty five and the Chiefs win, but
brock Party has seven touchdowns. Wow, that's yeah, okay, boat on
that one. This is insact. I am Ryan Landreth, and I am
not a fan of the metric and the nerves. I am so tired,
so am I. But I'm a broad pretty fan, I guess too.
All Right, everybody behave himself, especially if you go to Mexico. With
Wayne Kerr, behave yourself. What could happen on that trip?