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Well, congratulations to Kansas who got
a nice, hard earned victory over another

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very worthy opponent, the Houston Cougars. We're gonna talk about that basketball game

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with all respect and dignity and everything
aside, just kidding, what a bunch

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of fucking good I told you that
was gonna happen. And look what happened

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at the fog Houston went in there
and dropped one giant that wasn't even close,

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not even close. Kansas kind of
dominated. They would have won by

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thirty if they would have went by
thirty, if LJ. Crior did and

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go Nukio in the second half.
Yep, yeah, Nick has just posted

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in really big numbers plus one point
five in the in our show opening notes,

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because holy crap, you know what, I understand that there's plenty of

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nerds that you got all your calculators, you got all your spreadsheets, and

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you might be a little turned off
by the start of the show because Houston

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is still the number one team in
the last fifty years of any level of

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basketball. They are about three spots
ahead of the ninety six Bulls. But

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at the same time, I am
gonna enjoy our moment in the sunshine because

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that game. Numbers aside, stats
aside that game went. How every game

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at the fog goes when a untested
but looking all sexy opponent comes into Allen

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field House ready to challenge Kansas and
they don't even last ten minutes before they've

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been KOed. How many times do
you need to see that? And yet

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the odds makers still made them a
home dog. Yeah, and like we

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all thought this game would be closer, Like I have no idea. We've

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said this all season, but like
no earthly clue why Houston had been favored

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on ESPN all season. They're favored
by Vegas all week. It's as if

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these people have never watched Kansas play
in this building before. Yep, Bill

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self has never lost to a top
ten team as the lower ranked team.

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Fourteen to oh, fourteen to oh, definitely worthy of. And the thing

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that I couldn't get over isn't the
fact that the computers love Houston. They're

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a top five team still after this
loss. I might challenge that a little

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bit, but I still think they
probably are fine. You like Houston,

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you think they're a good team,
that's cool, But they were playing a

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top ten Kansas team. They were
playing a seventeen and four Kansas team,

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And I don't understand how anybody that
the number one team, the number two

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team, nobody should be favored over
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that still has a ton of things
going forward. At Allen Field House,

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it was a complete I don't normally
complain about like they were disrespected or

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whatever, but how could they not
be disrespected? And they showed it because

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they whipped Houston for forty straight minutes
at the Fog. They're back in first

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place in the Big twelve, and
we are here to talk all about it.

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This is gonna be our toxic podcast. I said that yesterday to Landon

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and and Nick, and either one
of you pushed back. We're gonna be

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toxic on this show. So if
you are in that questioning the numbers camp,

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like I know a few of the
regular listeners are, this is gonna

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be one of your favorite shows.
I am Ryan Landra, this is inside

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the Paint. I'm the Toxic Avenger. I'm Kelvin Sampson's bag man. Are

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you who here? Is Kelvin Sampson's
time out in the final twenty seconds down

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by thirteen? Anybody, anybody at
all. That was great, But that

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was so weird. Man, fran
loved it. I know Landon you didn't

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watch it because you were there.
Fran loved it. He said, that's

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a timeout that says we'll see you
on March ninth. Oh no, they're

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gonna have to play them again.
They may lose that game. But man,

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the way he said it, it's
like it's supposed to send shivers down

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your spine. I don't know if
they saw it, but Fran had his

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Houston Cougar costume head on. He
did. He was righting the bench.

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Yeah, you could barely see you
over the bench in the first place.

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Yeah, land And I don't know
if you could see from your seats.

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Fran was wearing nothing at all except
for the cougar head of the mascot.

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That's the only thing he was wearing. Unfortunately, I had an upward angle

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of him too. So awesome,
pretty pretty upsetting. Yeah. No,

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fran Franz said it was the most
impressive half played by any team against any

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opponent this year. And I'm like, oh my gosh, are they playing

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one of John Wooden's UCLA teams?
Like, good lord, they play Ryan.

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That is very on brand. For
you to have Fran even say something

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positive about Kansas, and I know
I was thinking about that, but everything

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felt so backhanded, like yeah,
it was like I can compliment. It's

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like, ohh Houston hasn't allowed this
all season, Kansas has had their bad

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Yeah, it is a very overrating
Houston comment. I agree. God,

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well, hey, you know what
they can keep. ESPN loves it.

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Whatever. We will talk about Kansas
winning because at some point you have to

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look at what happens on the court
and less with the nerd numbers. So

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let's talk all about it. Let's
rock as Nick has posted three refs with

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clown makeup in the noes. Not
necessarily for this game, but I think

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that was the crew that officiated the
Iowa State game. We'll talk all about

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that anyway. That's for you.
Saint Mary's number eight, Kansas seventy eight,

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number four Houston sixty five. Just
a complete and complete and thorough kicking

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at the fog. One of the
vintage ones. They're good for one of

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these every couple of years where income's
top ten team that's pretty sexy but also

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kind of unchallenged. Here they come
at the King best not missed. I

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think That game gave me serious Chiefs
Ravens energy that kind of feel the same

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way to you guys, except it
was less boring. Yes it was.

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But like the Ravens, just like
Houston kind of had that we're gonna play

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bully ball. We're gonna be the
physical team, We're gonna get under their

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skin. And then they go out
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They're not the more physical team.
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I know the Chiefs only beat the
Ravens by a score, but the

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Chiefs dominated that game in the trenches, just like Kansas just smacked Houston.

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They made Houston there. I don't
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their toy for a couple of hours. If you will land in game story,

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you were there, you get to
read it. Yeah, Jayhawks,

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they really did just own Houston for
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was a little stretch there where LJ. Carr made things a little more interesting

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than they should have gotten. He's
quite good, he is very good.

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But Kay, you jumped out to
a thirty to fifteen lead pretty early and

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they made it maintained a double digit
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the game. Kansas shot an extremely
nice sixty percent every one defense in college

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basketball, scoring one hundred and fifty
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per game. They move into a
first place tie in the same Big twelfth

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race that so many fans were counting
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Yeah, Kansas really good. Houston
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absolutely bodied by the Jayhawks. They
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which was pretty wild to see.
Yeah, Nick, you gotta be pretty

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thrilled. We're gonna talk about the
players. We're gonna talk about some takeaway.

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It wasn't a perfect game from Kansas, but top five team comes in

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Allen Field House and Kansas just wrecks
them for forty straight minutes. Had to

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be everything you needed to see to
get bought back into this team. Yeah,

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perfect display offensively overall, defensively,
just a masterclass by Bill self,

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really eliminating l J. Cryer in
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run a bunch of momentum. Obviously
the place is juiced up to start the

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game, but the way Kansas put
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let up. You know, there
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in the second half l J.
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was going to close a little bit. But no, they kept Houston at

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arms length distance, just consistent,
high quality basketball minus the turnovers they had

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a slew of those, but outside
of that, a near perfect game from

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Ku. We'll talk about sixty nine
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from the floor, unmatched for especially
this team this year. Assists were there,

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just overall a culmination of what we
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KG Adams get a little bit better
offensively outside of just a dunks. Hunter

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Dickinson played a little bit more complete
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little bit more on offense, had
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talked about this the entire season,
but the emergence of the Kangaroo, the

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kangaroo himself just jumping onto the scene
here as of late. Well, let's

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start with some maturity. Those overrated
ass clowns. I am not going to

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be annoying this entire podcast, but
I will be annoying in this monologue because,

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oh my gosh, was that fun
to see Houstons as a top ranked

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the top ranked Big twelve team over
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Baylor, not twenty Kansas, not
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You know, teams that either won
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four, one thirty plus games won
the league. No, no, no,

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no, no. It was Houston
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at home. Oh wow, they
beat Jackson State and Rice by one hundred

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points. They must be the number
one team. No. At some point

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what you see on the court has
to matter. Houston is won in three

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away from their home venue. Now
they have lost to the best three Big

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twelve teams. They've played at Kansas, at Iowa State, and at TCU.

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They are a good Big twelve team. They are right there with Kansas.

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They are right there with Baylor.
This is a good team that could

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contend and win the league. They
could get a one seed. They are

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a good basketball team. But what
absolute rubbish it was to think that this

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was the greatest Big twelve team in
the last fifteen years just because your nerd

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numbers saw him as well. Give
up thirty eight points to Jackson State and

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vaults them into his historic unsharded waters
and what did the computers do? How

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much did they move them? They
still have a ninety one percent chance per

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ESPN to win the Big Twelve.
It was ninety two percent yesterday. I

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don't get it. At some point, what we see on the court has

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to speak louder volumes than these predictive
measures. Because Houston is still won with

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a bullet on Ken Palm and Kansas
went from fifteen to thirteen as a result

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of smashing the number one team in
the country. Somebody make it make sense.

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I will not be that guy.
I don't think it makes sense at

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all. I agree with you,
it's very strange. Again, I agree

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with you also that, Yeah,
Houston I think is very much still a

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good team. I don't think that
is necessarily in doubt. But yeah,

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Houston has always been overrated for how
high they've been, and Ken Palm makes

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no sense to me. Yeah,
and I do like that. We called

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this from the very start. We
always thought this was gonna happen. We

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always thought this was gonna be the
case, you know. I think if

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they played the game ten times in
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Kansas wins them all by thirteen and
leads by twenty and many of them.

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But they are nine and one if
they play ten games. Yep, yep.

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And here's the thing. Also,
I loved the overrated chant. Normally,

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I know that's not everyone's cup of
tea, and they're tuned in on

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that for a second. Yeah,
as you should. And there are a

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few self righteous people on Twitter that
are like, this is Kansas, we

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do the rock chalk chant. Okay, stop, it's a chant, right,

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It's not gonna make them melt or
anything like that. Yes, in

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that case, Houston was overrated.
I've seen some people say that diminishes the

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quality of your win. No,
it doesn't. They beat a good team.

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Saying that they're overrated in this particular
case didn't imply they're not good.

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It implied they weren't as good as
they were being hyped up to be,

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and Kansas bodied them. So even
if they are overrated, it was a

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dominant outing. Yes, and chances
are fine. Like in a Big twelve

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where it's against the law, you
get you get sent to the you get

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death sentenced if you say horns down, I'm perfectly fine if you want a

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chance overrated at a team that is
truly more overrated than any basketball team I've

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seen in our time on this show. And that's the case even if they

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win the NCAA Championship, if they
do not lose again, they are still

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overrated because they are being ranked as
better than just about any team ever on

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Ken pom Nick. Your thoughts,
Yeah, the r To Ryan's point,

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the predictive metrics do such a bad
job of accounting. I mean, we've

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talked about this before, like the
betting thing, how Kansas in tough game,

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close game situations now like eight with
the final media timeout. How underestimating

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these metrics are that these betting algorithms
use, and they just don't want to

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cat There's there's no account for Allen
Fieldhouse. There's no special formula for the

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building. And every time it seems
like these odds makers get burned because they

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don't realize that Kansas and outfield House
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And to Ryan's point, this is
a top ten team and Houston for

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as much, for much respect they're
getting in the metrics, how good defensively

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defensively they've been this season. You're
talking about a game that Kansas has won

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as the stats show what fourteen to
zero and bill selves tenure against top ten

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teams and outfield house. The stats
don't lie at this point. It's not

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just a statistical anomaly. It's a
probability that Kansas is going to win games

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like these. So I don't get
it. I don't get the whole net

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thing, the whole Ken Palm thing
has the stats nerds really have. I

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know they're helpful for a lot of
things. Comparing resumes eye test only goes

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so far in some circumstances, But
in comparing teams it does such a poor

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job of actually comparing head to head
results getting good wins, especially in the

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Big Twelve. How tough of a
conference this is, and it's why we've

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complained for years about Gonzaga and Houston
when they're in the American it favors blowout

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wins, and you're not gonna get
grind them out close wins a huge brownie

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points in the Ken Palmer Net rankings
because you won by two. You're gonna

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get browning points because you won by
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efficiently efficiency margins. It's that right
there, that right there. Teams figured

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out last year ironically, Houston was
the one that laid the groundwork that these

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metrics, which are used as just
as much of a factor as the eye

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test when they see the tournament.
These metrics value beating a Quad four opponent

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by forty more than they value beating
a top ten team by five. It's

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true, we saw it last year. That's why so many Big twelve teams

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were ahead of Kansas and the non
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currently in the top ten, and
there were marks a three seed by Joe

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Lonardi yesterday despite having as many wins
as anybody that's ahead of them. But

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the teams that spanked all the Quad
four teams that the Iowa States, the

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Arizona's, the Houstons, Purdue had
a great non conference schedule and has as

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many wins as Kansas. I think
they have one more than Kansas. Why

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are they the two overall and Kansas
is the nine overall? There's no consistency.

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Teams figure that out. And Kansas
now with four top ten wins and

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leading the best conference in college basketball, they are as much of a one

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seed as anybody right now. And
yet here we are where the metrics don't

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wait, It doesn't wait opponent at
all. Right, yeah, just purely

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just your statistical output. I mean
it does. The net does weight opponents

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because they do the quad two thing. The net does, yes, But

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the kN Palm metrics, yeah,
the efficiency metrics are complete hogwash. The

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net is kinder to Kansas than Ken
Palm. Kansas is up to eleven in

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the net. You'll never guess who's
still won with a bullet. Houston is

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six and three in Quad one games. Now that's better. Okay, fine,

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you know what. We like that
he still has top five and Ken

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Pom BYU coming up. That's their
toughest game on the schedule. Left.

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Forget about Houston, forget about Baylor. They've got to go play at BYT.

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They play BYU here later on this
season as well. Yep, that

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is it. Yeah, there's like
seven losses and see that right there.

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That's where I'm losing my mind.
Kansas has two more wins than BYU.

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Kansas has five Quad one wins,
BYU has three. Kansas has what two

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more conference wins? And they are
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I can't figure this out. At
some point, it has to be about

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who you beat, and not about
the nerd stats about how you beat them

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and was their luck involved in all
that? If you beat enough top ten

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how many top ten teams do you
have to beat to be a one seed

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when you're also leading the strongest conference. This seems like it should be.

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We have four total losses. There
is no argument right now. And this

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is a stupid thing to talk about
in early February because this will play out

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just fine. But there is zero
argument right now to having Houston ahead of

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Kansas on the bracket curve. And
I saw a lot of bracketologists which is

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it may as well be a if
that's in your Twitter bio, It may

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as well just be a different way
of saying I don't go outside. But

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these bracketologists say, well, Houston
is still clearly a one seed because quad

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one wins and all that stuff.
It's like, No, at some point

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we saw last year quad one wins
don't matter. Kansas got dinged for setting

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a record in quad one wins because
they had more Quad one losses. Okay,

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Houston's got more Quad one losses than
teams like Purdue and Yukon and North

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Carolina because they have more opportunities.
Now, why are they being It's just

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it makes no sense. It makes
no sense, and I'm over it.

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Let's talk about the environment, land
and how was Allen Fieldhouse loud? It

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was? It was good as always, It was very loud at the very

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beginning. I don't think it was
actually as good as the Yukon game,

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but also that Yukon game was closer
longer. That's why the fans felt a

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need to stay really really up where
was like we sat for most of the

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game against Houston, there was not
a ton of standing. Well, the

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Kevin mccullor dunk that made it thirty
to fifteen and forced the time out,

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that's when I thought it peaked in
loudness other than the pretty I agree,

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Yeah, and at that point this
hype video of theater h Yeah, the

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mccullor dunk was pretty pretty awesome that
happens, and then Furfy's dunk was also

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close. Yeah, and after that
the game was kind of over. Like

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it was. You kind of knew
at that point. Now. Now,

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ESPN did say Houston still was a
fifty one percent favorite when they were behind

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like sixteen to five or something like
that. But everybody with common sense knew

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it was over, So yeah,
it obviously wasn't that possession specifically, like

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because Kansas just had a good offensive
possession. And I remember thinking like,

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Houston really needs to get a bucket
here if they want to keep this thing

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within striking distance. And then of
course they throw a breakaway pass to Kevin

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mccullor, who makes a great play
on the ball and then two hands slams

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it and I was like, oh, yeah, that might be game that

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curtains it was possible for him,
and it did. Nick. Let's talk

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about Hunter Dickenson. You have been
kind of hard on him for a few

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different reasons, but I think this
is the game that everybody should look at

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him and awe about. He was
Kansas's best player in this game, so

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at least statistically going for twenty points, eight rebounds, and four assists against

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an elite defense box house box outs. Like I said earlier, we're a

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little bit better terrific defense against a
quick and physical team as Houston's was.

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This sort of a game you needed
to see him play winning. Uh.

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I think he was really good.
I think Ryan and I both I think

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predicted Hunter Dickinson having a really nice
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I don't know if I really quote
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I think this is the way he's
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Obviously, he's had a couple of
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no, I think he's been really
really solid, and I think he played

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really really well. Again, I
continue to think he is he boxed out

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like alright, but I don't think
he actually rebounded that well. Yeah,

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I agree that I think he was
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Straws, he's been sloppy underneath.
That doesn't affect the quality of player that

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he is. He's still an undeniably
great player. He's one of like the

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two or three best players in America. Yeah, but I think you you,

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you should be able to point out
the fact that this is a slight

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like problem for him. I hesitate
to even called it problem, but like

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it's a flaw. It's a flaw
in his game that Yes, he does

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get a lot of rebounds, but
I think most of those rebounds are either

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right to him or just because he's
the biggest guy. Yeah, he's seven

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to That's that's the first key in
rebounding well, like man, Parker Brown

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goes out there and scores five points
and we're like, oh my gosh,

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those were great minutes from Parker.
And Hunter Digginson scores twenty and eight against

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this godly defense and people are like, well, the box out could have

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been better, and oh, there
was a couple times he didn't convert on

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his first look. I'm just like, geez, I think Hunter Dickinson's one

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of the that's the raising of standards, which I don't totally agree with.

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I think you have to kind of
check that, like, yeah, obviously

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you have higher expectations for better players, but I do think there's a weird

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thing that happens. When your expectations
are really high for a guy, it

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becomes truly just expectation that he plays
very well, and you start to notice

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the flaws more because you're not as
wowed by the little things that he does,

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whereas when Parker Brown you have no
expectations. So when he knocks down

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at three, everyone goes crazy.
I'm not saying that's right, but that's

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is just what happens. Dickinson's averaging
nineteen and nine in conference play. He

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is fouling quite a bit more in
conference play, so there's your more physical

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side that everybody wanted to see.
His passing numbers are his blocking numbers are

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up in conference play. He has
been phenomenal, like just phenomenal. He's

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the Big twelve player of the year
right now. If you take out his

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teammate, I think it's it's just
crazy. He was the best player in

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this game until LJ. Cryer's garbage
time three started going in, and at

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least statistically, he was the second
best player in this game. I think

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he probably was the most impactful.
Yeah, he was fantastic. And everybody

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talks about how he's soft. Okay, here's twenty eight against the most physical

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defense there is apparently, and it's
yes. I think he was fantastic.

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Exactly what we needed to see,
and he was a large part in how

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Kansas shredded Houston's defense. With again
the Aforemen ships sixty nine percent shooting,

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but they were also plus sixteen against
one of the best rebounding teams in the

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country. They held the Cougars to
very few second chance opportunities until the final

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few minutes. It got sloppy with
the rotations. Houston did finish with twelve

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offensive rebounds, but it was like
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and then it got a little bit
lopsided, a little skewed with that.

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They did turn it over eighteen times
to Houston's three. Imagine being told at

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the beginning of the game, predict
the score Kansas is going to turn over

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eighteen times and only force three.
We would have probably predicted losses at that

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point, right, probably, But
it didn't really also matter because the defense

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was so good that Houston wasn't scoring
on those transition opportunities, and Kansas was

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making so many of their shots that
as long as they didn't turn it over,

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it was at least two points most
of the night. Well, in

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a weird sort of fluke, a
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They were just yeating it out of
bounce a bunch of times. Yeah,

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which including Alago to your point,
it allows Kansas defense to set up so

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weirdly, those turnovers did not lead
to very many transition opportunities. It was

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a lot of half court defense.
Yeah, that helped a lot, because

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Houston just looked one step slower,
I thought in this game on both ends,

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they're supposed to be the quick team. They're supposed to be the physical

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team. Kansas is supposed to be
the team because of lousy soft ass Hunter

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Dickinson's slowness clogging everything up. They're
supposed to be the team that gets burned

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on these back door things, and
Kansas was the one who looked a step

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ahead there. Dwan Harris's passing numbers
weren't particularly great in this game, and

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Kansas's assists numbers as a team were
fantastic because everybody got involved. It was

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a really good showing to see.
Nick. I assume that, like all

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the reasons that they won this game, I think the most impactful, the

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most impactful thing about it was their
first shot defense. But you can take

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your pick. What was the most
impressive thing in your eyes about Kansas in

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this win. I would say it's
the offensive output. You know, at

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times it's been a little bit spotty
this year really emerged the as of late

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especially you know, the WESTERNI game
was a loss, but they still scored

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eighty five points in that game.
I really think it's starting a round the

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corner. Credit to Johnny Furphy.
You know, he's been such a huge

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lift this team's needed offensively. But
I think it was just accumulative performance from

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all of these these starters, just
really good showing offensively from each of them,

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and then the defense obviously complemented that
as well. But I was just

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really stood out to me. It's
hard not to overlook that number of sixty

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nine percent from the floor. They're
a good field goal percentage team as a

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whole already and near the top of
the nation and assists as well, but

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really just overall shows the skillless team
has the potential this team has when they

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play well and play together even without
having a bench that this was still a

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massive performance for KU. They are
first nationally with almost twenty one assists per

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game as a team, and they
are second nationally with fifty two percent team

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FRIEL team field goal percentage. So
yeah, as long as they're not turning

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it over, they're likely getting an
assist into a basket on Just think about

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all those all those eighteen turnovers.
If three or four of those would have

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even turn into baskets, this guy
would have been blown even more open.

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Yeah, it's it's pretty wild that
you have fifteen more turnovers than your opponents

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still win by thirteen. Like that's
we kind of see something new every time

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we do a recap, and that's
that's that's the new thing here. Landon

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Johnny Furfey. Let's talk about him. He just continues to improve and Bill

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self said he's been one of the
best players in the Big twelve over the

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last month. He's right, Yeah, he is. He was sensational,

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especially in the first half, seventeen
points total, six four to seven shooting,

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including three four from deep. He
had eight rebounds as well in thirty

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five minutes. Furfey is now shooting
fifty four percent from the floor and forty

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three percent from three, but that
number is forty nine percent from three in

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Big Twelve play Nick, he talked
about him, You said you liked him

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a lot. He has been fantastic
and, as you said, a huge

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lift to this team. Is he
going pro after this season? Is his

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time in Lawrence almost up? Already? Ryan doesn't think so. But I

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think that there's a cyby sneaky suspicion
he's gonna get drafted. I think so

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too. I think so now the
last two games, I think I've changed

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my mind. Yeah, he's I
think he might be a lottery pick now

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he's nineteen. He he might be
a first rounder. He genuinely might be

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a first round pick at this point. He's an nineteen year old that's six

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foot nine and shoots threes in the
forty percents and he rebounds really well too.

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What what? Why? Was not
excellent defense against Houston, which had

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been his real weakness was he wasn't
a great defender. He lost guys,

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He wasn't always in control on defense
with foul and he did still foul some,

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but like he had some absolute lockdown
moments. He was sensational from the

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start. It was clear Houston's strategy
was they were going to try to pick

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on Furfey. We saw immediately a
couple of guys try to try to drive

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to the basket right on Furfey.
They spread it around, they found the

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guy that Furfey was guarding, and
they tried to send him inside against Furfey,

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and Furfey's foote work has improved so
much to a point where he didn't

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budge, they didn't get in the
lane against them. I especially noticed this

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happened a couple times with Emmanuel Sharp. It was very clear that he was

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going to try to attack the basket
against Furfey. And he wound up going

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one for five from two, and
that's a guy who's normally their best driver

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to the basket on the outside,
completely locked him down. Crier was the

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only reason that Houston didn't get burned
by twenty plus in this game, and

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it took him making some crazy shots
to get there. It doesn't feel like

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it because he's not white, but
at least to me, Crier has now

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00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:18.119
made eight hundred career threes against Kansas. Congratulations l J. Cryer for making

407
00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:22.519
that many. I remember every single
one of them. Yeah, he was.

408
00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:26.799
He was genuinely sensational. You said
in garbage time. It wasn't quite

409
00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:29.720
as in garbage time as you think. Nothing that game was ever in doubt

410
00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:33.160
either, but he genuinely put some
a little bit of pressure on Kansas.

411
00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:37.559
Of course, Kansas responded that pressure
extremely well. But he was great.

412
00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:40.079
He was the only reason. Yeah, like you said, the game was

413
00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:44.559
even remotely close. And you know
what's wild, guys, Kansas their three

414
00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:49.640
point lousy ass worse in history three
point defense. Houston only made thirty one

415
00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:53.640
percent of their threes in this game. Kudos to Bill self. He taught

416
00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:57.839
the worst three point defensive team.
How to become really good in just the

417
00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:03.519
week. Good Bill, I mean, since no part of its flukiness or

418
00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:06.440
luck, I guess you gotta give
it up. He's the best coach in

419
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:12.279
the history of basketball. Right,
Kansas locked down three point defense. They

420
00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:15.839
were extremely good defensively, Like,
I know, you think all three point

421
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:18.920
defense is luck. I think if
you play better overall defense, that improves

422
00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:23.039
your three point defense a little bit. I think luck is the biggest attribute

423
00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:26.359
of a three point defense. But
yeah, I guess Nick, tell me

424
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:32.799
about those updated numbers. I mean, surely Kansas whipped Houston. They got

425
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:36.400
to have a much better chance to
win the Big Twelve, or they have

426
00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:41.160
a much better chance. Right,
Kansas whipped Houston. ESPN said that they

427
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:45.279
had a seventy five percent chance to
win. Houston did against Kansas? Did

428
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.920
that he did yesterday? No?
Actually, but hey, you know what,

429
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:52.400
I'm sure ESPN has adjusted, right, They've realized that, surely they're

430
00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.480
not right. Surely they're not going
to be wrong about anything else. I

431
00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:00.200
maybe they've adjusted their efficiency metrics.
But it says I'm reading it says they

432
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:03.200
have it Houston at a ninety one
percent chance to win the Big Twelve.

433
00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:08.119
And Kansas is at six percent.
Also, Kansas's chances of winning the return

434
00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:12.720
game in Houston went from seven to
eight percent. How many consecutive times would

435
00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:17.759
Kansas have to beat Houston to pass
them on Ken Pam, I actually want

436
00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:21.640
to know what you guys think here, because once, uh, they got

437
00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:26.880
two spots closer, but they're still
a long way away and Houston's. Houston

438
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:30.759
is actually considered one of the most
unlucky Power Five teams according to Ken Palm

439
00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:33.519
now too, So I'm gonna say
it would be three. I think it's

440
00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:37.039
three. You actually, I was
gonna say, like seven, it's gonna

441
00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:41.279
be more than that, like five, yeah, yeah, I think they

442
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:44.720
would grow exponentially with each one.
I think if you beat them, beating

443
00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:48.680
them once, in some people's minds, even though it's not could be attributed

444
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:51.319
to locker whatever, which is dumb. But you know, you could make

445
00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:55.000
these cues. If you beat them
twice in a row, you show that

446
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:59.279
you're the better team, but maybe
the metrics would still bear something else out.

447
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:00.680
And then if you beat them thre
times in a row, you just

448
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.720
really had no choice at that point
about Chris Reynolds says, Hey, you

449
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:08.599
know what. It was a little
rainy in Kansas and it wasn't in Houston.

450
00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:12.839
It was just there's a weird circumstance. Clearly got to still give us

451
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:15.039
to the one see because of what
they did against Jackson State. I mean,

452
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:18.079
just clearly. Right, here are
three players we don't have a ton

453
00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.480
of analysis for, but still want
to give them their comeuppets. Kevin McCuller

454
00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:26.000
seventeen points, seven of eight shooting
geese, seven rebounds, three assists,

455
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:27.519
and on a bad knee. Nick
has changed that to McCullough. Thank you,

456
00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:32.079
Fran. McCullough played thirty seven minutes, so the injury must not be

457
00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:36.480
too much of an issue. Turns
out that Oklahoma State does indeed just suck

458
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:38.160
balls, and Bill self couldn't give
that as a reason why he didn't want

459
00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:42.359
mccullor to play the other night.
Dwan Harris has seven points and just to

460
00:31:42.440 --> 00:31:47.680
assist in thirty seven minutes. Yes, thank you Nick for pointing that out.

461
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:51.480
Fran does call him Houston a lot
like he switches the U and the

462
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:53.519
age. That was driving me nuts
too, Thank you for pointing that out.

463
00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:56.519
So Harris seven points to assist,
thirty seven minutes, three or four

464
00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.559
for the floor. Not his best
statistical game, but he played well.

465
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:05.079
kJ ten point seven assists, four
rebounds, four or five shooting thirty six

466
00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:07.319
minutes. We don't really have any
talking points, or maybe you guys do

467
00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:10.960
about any of these guys right like
kJ, I will say, only four

468
00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:14.440
rebounds. I had a couple of
people be like told you that it doesn't

469
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.559
matter when you don't Yeah, they
shot seventy percent from the floor. If

470
00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:20.440
they shoot seventy percent from the floor
every night, it doesn't matter how much

471
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:23.119
kJ rebounds. They'll be fine.
And it exists from your fore man is

472
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:28.640
crazy though it is. YEAHKJ played
great the rebounding. We'll see what happens

473
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:30.599
when Kansas struggles to shoot. If
you're gonna get away with your fore man

474
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:35.319
not shooting, I now get what
you're doing. We don't worry, sir.

475
00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:39.480
We'll talk about that. If you're
going to have a poor rebounding fore

476
00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:44.119
man. It's great that it happens
on a team that is really good at

477
00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:46.240
shooting the ball, because you want
high percentage shooting teams if you don't have

478
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:50.160
to worry about rebounds, I guess. But anything to say about any of

479
00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:53.839
those guys they were all very very
good. Someone in the crowd was very

480
00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:59.359
worried about rebounds. Oh no,
yeah, not really. I mean,

481
00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:04.559
remains sensational, he was. He
was great. Uh yeah, not too

482
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:07.440
much really analysis here they were all. They were all really solid. I

483
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:09.319
like the way Harris played for the
most part. I think he played well,

484
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:12.480
even though just had two assists.
Like, I think he played a

485
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:20.759
really solid game. Rebound That's not
how she said it. That's not how

486
00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:24.839
she said it. But I did
write down lady yelling rebound during Ku free

487
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:28.240
throws. I can't read that on
the as a kid, didn't know to

488
00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:30.960
do that. Yeah, exactly.
Also read the rules, dumb ass,

489
00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:38.440
They can't rebound the first land.
Did you hear now in fieldhouse? Yeah?

490
00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:45.359
I know I had. I was
gonna say everybody on that half of

491
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:49.119
Kansas hurt her, like seriously so
much. Generally didn't hear. I had

492
00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:52.839
no clue that she was saying anything. I genuinely could not hear really close

493
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:55.200
to him, Mike, Wow,
Yeah, it was awful. It was

494
00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:59.079
the whole game. Did you watch
the highlights to hear it or like,

495
00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:01.039
you still don't know what we're talking
about? I mean, I knew it

496
00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:04.920
happened based on what you guys were
saying in the chat, But no,

497
00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:07.360
I have not heard any of this. This lady sitting right behind the Houston

498
00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:12.280
bench that was yelling rebound like a
screeching hawk every time Ku shot free throws.

499
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.519
I think kJ should have taken a
miss and just yeaded it at her

500
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:17.920
face as hard as he could have, just like shut her up, like

501
00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:23.079
seriously, I look, we're not
We're not the class guys. We're not

502
00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:27.920
the unwritten rules guys. Nick might
be, We're not. But I'm not

503
00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:30.280
gonna like sit here and tell you
I don't like that. But that is

504
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:34.280
kind of bush league, like you
know, you go into someone else's gym

505
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:37.440
and yac like a like like that
for the whole game. You get it

506
00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:39.320
once or twice, you make your
point. But it was constant. Man,

507
00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:43.760
I can't believe Landon didn't hear it. Landon might need his ears checked

508
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:46.800
after that. I don't feel hows
is loud man? Somebody talk about the

509
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:50.360
bench. I was gonna ask Nick
to do it, but he's writing his

510
00:34:50.599 --> 00:34:54.239
he's writing his rule book, which
may take a while. Ritten rules.

511
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:59.719
Parker Brown, he was actually all
right. He had a three h five

512
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.239
wins in eight minutes. Pretty solid
minus and relief of Dickinson. Everyone else

513
00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:08.800
not so much. Brick Timber brick
bricks three in his three minutes, more

514
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:14.400
maxim mad threes. Jamar mcdal brikeed
three in his two minutes, and then

515
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:19.760
was once again banished to the phantom
zone. Elda Jackson made a pull up

516
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:23.599
jumper, had a nice lobb assist
Keji Adams, but he turned it over

517
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:29.239
three times in nine minutes, including
a couple truly not great ones. He's

518
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:32.679
not great. He's really not been
good in conference play eight baskets to ten

519
00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:39.320
turnovers to sixteen fouls, and that's
only halfway through Big twelve play. He's

520
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:44.199
been very not good, as we've
been saying on this podcast, he's been

521
00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:47.519
a little bit buns. You got
to ride or die with Timberlake, man,

522
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:52.639
I know that that's terrible. I
know that likes Timberlake. Does she

523
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:54.760
really does? Gosh? Yeah,
she was like, oh, I like

524
00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.920
him, I like him. He
plays well for him. Oh all right,

525
00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:01.920
I went with it. She's a
nice Landon needs his ears checked.

526
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:06.599
Grandma might need to go to the
eye doctor. We'll have to. I'll

527
00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:09.280
have to arrange that I do like
Timberlake. I think he works hard,

528
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:14.280
and I think it takes a lot
of guts to have high expectations and really

529
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:17.159
disappoint. He's well aware he's been
a disappointment this year, and nobody's more

530
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:22.199
disappointed that Nick Timberlake has disappointed than
Nick Timberlake. So he's a guy who

531
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:25.960
shoots like nearly forty percent in his
entire career. He is not exactly like

532
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:30.280
in the dark that he's shooting poorly, Like that's got away on him,

533
00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:34.599
Yes, and and like clearly he's
disappointed and no one's working harder to get

534
00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:37.880
out of it. I respect how
he's kept his composure and hasn't let that

535
00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:40.199
frustration showed. I also have the
most confidence that he can figure it out.

536
00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:43.159
So I think you got to keep
riding with it, and I want

537
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.119
to see him continue to take three
or four threes a game. I said

538
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:49.639
I was done with Almarco two three
podcasts to go, and I've only seen

539
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:52.760
stuff that has made me further be
done with al Marco. There was a

540
00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:54.960
couple series where he was following LJ. Cryer around and I was like,

541
00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:58.480
well, just go ahead and put
three on the board for Houston and give

542
00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:00.199
Kansas the ball back. Let's let's
go out and save our time. Al

543
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:05.400
Marco Jackson gives them absolutely nothing,
and people on Twitter I said that in

544
00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:07.440
a nice way. I was like, he's a nice guy, but he's

545
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:10.280
not really a big twelve player right
now, be wow, he's at Jayhawk.

546
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:13.920
You can't talk about our own like
that. No, he's buns.

547
00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:16.719
He's horrible. Stop playing him,
please. I agree with you on Nick

548
00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:21.559
Timberlake, though, I like,
there's no one else, uh, none

549
00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:24.519
of the other three guys like that
are gonna yeah exactly, Like there's no

550
00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:29.360
one that can give you what he
could potentially give you, even though he's

551
00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:34.920
only shown it against Yale and and
NC Central yeh and Manhattan or it was

552
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:36.599
in C Central yay, right,
I knew it was one of the first

553
00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:40.159
couple of games if if either one
doesn't matter, two terrible teams. If

554
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:45.719
he can uh get hot and hit
like two threes a game in March,

555
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:49.920
that would be enormous. And Frank
Freschiella, go sit on a cactus ass

556
00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:53.920
wipe. I don't care about how
how great of at oh that was such

557
00:37:53.960 --> 00:38:00.199
a great half by cans me me
me, okay, great, good by

558
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:02.559
Kansas, Jim Wise, it was
a great half. What do did you

559
00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:06.440
expect to happen? Fran? Did
you expect Houston to go in there like

560
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:08.559
they own the place? Are you
in on it? To nerd? Go

561
00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:13.880
sit on your phone book. I'm
so tired of hearing Fran for Scilla call

562
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:16.519
games at Allen Field House and he
acts like he's Bill selfs buddy. Every

563
00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:21.119
show He's like, you know,
I was here for the KU Coaches Fantasy

564
00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:22.719
Camp. Oh cool, Fran,
you get a badge too, You get

565
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:27.800
a T shirt? Says Bill's ups
Fantasy Camp. I'm so overhearing about that

566
00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:34.119
wish opportunity, overhearing about how how
Fran really wants us all to know that

567
00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:37.639
he and Bill self talk every now
and then. Fran, I'm sure Bill

568
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:40.679
loves Fran. He seems like Bill
selves cup of tea, right, Bill

569
00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:45.760
loves five foot four nerds who talk
about Houston and mispronounces player's names all the

570
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:51.559
time. I think Bill playcates to
Fran. Yeah, yeah, he is.

571
00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:53.639
He throws him a bone. Is
what you call that? That's called

572
00:38:53.639 --> 00:39:00.639
throwing somebody a bone and Fran,
I've heard enough Fran to last a lifetime.

573
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:02.920
I am so Overfriand they never want
Bob with shoes. That's a foul.

574
00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:07.239
People in this building probably don't think
it's a fell. Yeah, that's

575
00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:09.119
a fel. Yeah he said that. While boy, he's like, it's

576
00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:12.800
hard to believe for the people in
this building, but that's a foul.

577
00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:15.000
It's like he would never say that
anywhere else. And I don't want to

578
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:20.079
breathe loser energy by talking about this
because this is like the twelfth most important

579
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.840
thing in the fifth tier of important
things to talk about in this game.

580
00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:27.880
But I have heard enough fran for
Scilla to last me a lifetime. I

581
00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:30.880
never get to hear Bob with shoes
in anymore. It's rare I get to

582
00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:34.400
hear Dan Shulman. It's rare that
I get to hear Bill Raftree. I

583
00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:37.239
never get to hear Jay Wright.
But Franz there twelve times a year.

584
00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:42.360
Oh and Bill Walton. Yeah,
they put Bill Walton on the PAC twelve

585
00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:44.800
network. Now. I the first
thing I thought of is, Oh,

586
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:46.800
he finally says, is he gonna
do the PAC twelve dissolves next year?

587
00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:53.239
And what Oregon State games? Or
I mean, there's yeah, the big

588
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:57.440
twelve should hire him. I love
Bill Walton. I'm all four more Bill

589
00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:01.440
Walton. Final numbers in this game
can sixty nine percent from the floor,

590
00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:06.719
forty six percent from three to sixty
seven percent from the line, and sixteen

591
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:10.000
more rebounds than their opponent. The
only bad number is they had eighteen turnovers.

592
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.039
But Houston number one of the country
forcing turnovers. It's gonna happen,

593
00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:16.800
and these were, as Landon said, not super costly turnovers for a few

594
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:21.840
to reasons. Any closing takeaways for
me a plus game. They show that

595
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:23.840
they're one of the five best teams
in the country. I've always thought they

596
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:27.880
are. They are a top five
team. They're the favorite in this conference.

597
00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:30.559
They're gonna be a one seed as
long as they don't, as long

598
00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:32.920
as they win the conference, win
a share of it, whatever. I

599
00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:37.039
think that this team is rounding in
de forman February, as most Bill Salves

600
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:42.880
teams do. Yeah, color me
shocked, Pikachu that Kansas put on one

601
00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:45.920
of their best performances of the season
in one of their toughest tests at home.

602
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:47.960
They usually do that, and they
did it again, and they look

603
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:52.280
great doing it four times this year
They've done that yeah, great game,

604
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:55.760
as you said, A or A
plus type of performance. Now the big

605
00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:59.880
question mark is, but these guys, these starters playing thirty seven to forty

606
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:02.519
minutes a game. You've got a
Monday night game two days later, and

607
00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:08.800
then you've got a daunting six ranked
teams, maybe seven if it persists,

608
00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:13.639
with Texas back in the top twenty
five. Maybe, But Kansas has a

609
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:15.719
gauntlet of a schedule coming up.
If these guys can stay healthy and the

610
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:21.400
starting lineup can stay energized, I
have a hard time picking against Kansas to

611
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:28.000
win the Big twelve. And one
more thing here, oh God, of

612
00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:30.679
course, of course, why would
that play in that drop? Well,

613
00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:34.280
now I have to go back and
beat it. It was just supposed to

614
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:37.079
be suck on that from the office, and somebody must have played with it

615
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.159
because I was gonna throw one at
the nerds. Now I have to go

616
00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:45.159
back to the twelve fifty beat mark
and beep out that word. Maybe that's

617
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:49.159
what Bill Walton finally said that got
him kicked off of ESPN. Who knows,

618
00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:52.960
all right, whatever, it's more
work for me, freaking my favorite.

619
00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:57.039
Also, darn it, now I
clicked off the soundboard, So now

620
00:41:57.079 --> 00:42:06.280
I'm really screwing up this recap bag
Big twelve games. There was a lot

621
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:08.639
of action around the court. We're
starting to see the cream rise at the

622
00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:14.079
top of the Big twelve, and
this was definitely the best game I think

623
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:20.079
in a weekend full of good games. Number eighteen Baylor seventy, number twelve,

624
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:22.320
Iowa State sixty eight. Who wants
to start off? Because who wants

625
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:27.840
to start with the refs? I'll
let Nick take it. Baylor was in

626
00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:30.960
total control before Iowa State went on
a twenty to zero run in the second

627
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:35.400
half, and things were neck and
neck into the final seconds when Neilon Moum

628
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:39.239
chilavi holded it when Chilavich hosted an
apparent buzzer beating three to win the game,

629
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:44.159
but replay showed he didn't get off
in time, giving the Bears the

630
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:45.960
win. And of course, the
rest went to the monitor after that because

631
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:49.960
they had to make sure that the
clock was started right on time because of

632
00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:53.320
their previous trip to the monitor for
twenty minutes while they sorted out why the

633
00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:58.320
clock didn't start for two seconds after
a missed free throw, which gave Ioways

634
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:02.360
State another time out, but Scott
drew that the real part of the refs,

635
00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:07.360
not just them spending eight hours of
the monitor. Scott Drew got ejected

636
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:12.000
for leaving the coaches box. I'm
glad that we have officials in the sport

637
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:16.440
really relegating the indecent behavior of coaches, right right, Yeah, meanwhile,

638
00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:22.239
what's his name can run out on
the court and play defense. Yeah,

639
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:27.719
what's the coach? Travis Ford?
Travis Ford out playing defense? Travis Ford

640
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.280
too. He was yes, yes, good points by Nick. That's exactly

641
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:34.760
what I was hoping to hammer home
that. Now, Scott Drew, you

642
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:37.679
may be picturing a guy gets ejected
for leaving the coaching box. That he

643
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:40.440
was running and like screaming at half
court. He was on a knee with

644
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:45.119
his foot over the line, and
he had already been given a technical for

645
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:46.519
leaving the coaches box. I didn't
see the first one. Maybe the first

646
00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:52.159
one was egregious, but he was
just coaching his team, knealing on the

647
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.559
court with a foot an inch over
the line, and they stopped the game

648
00:43:54.639 --> 00:44:00.320
and tossed him, and everybody in
the stands nobody really understood what was going

649
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:02.440
on, because it's not like he
was screaming at him. Really, that's

650
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:07.199
when we're gonna enforce this, like
if we are now enforcing leaving the coach's

651
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:10.480
box with ejections, then I want
to see Shaka get teed up within the

652
00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:17.480
first thirty seconds of the next game. Consistency you stripe wearing mouth breathers logic,

653
00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:22.800
thought, Well, yeah, totally
knowing with that logic. Also,

654
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:28.119
so Trey King. In his first
game since setting his career high in threes

655
00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:34.960
last week, Trey King was zero
for two shooting threes. Well, Leanna,

656
00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.440
I don't know why you're surprised.
Kansas sucks at guarding the three,

657
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:43.559
and Baylor face guarded him with each
of those two attempts. They were the

658
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:47.599
two. They were the two toughest
defensive possessions you've ever seen in your existence.

659
00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:52.199
Way tougher than anything Kansas did to
Houston. Those two possessions that Tray,

660
00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:55.599
Yeah, that's are you starting the
field Baylor a little more. I

661
00:44:55.639 --> 00:44:59.039
think they're the third best team in
the Big twelve, and I think they're

662
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:02.840
going to be a contender for this
league. I guess, I don't know.

663
00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:07.280
You think it's a two You think
it's a two man league. You've

664
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:12.000
been the last few seasons two man
league. Yes or no. Let's say

665
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.760
the question again. Two. Is
this a two team race? Yes,

666
00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:17.679
it's a two team race. I
do not think it's a two team race.

667
00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:20.840
I think it's a three team race, Nick, two or three team

668
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:23.519
race? Two teams? All right, Well, you guys are bouncing off

669
00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:27.440
the Scott. You're express off liarly. I'd rather bet on a guy that's

670
00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:30.280
won the title and won the Big
twelve than a guy who's done nothing but

671
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:35.599
win four out of the last ten
AAC titles. I didn't say that it

672
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:37.079
was Houston and Kansas. I said
it was. I could have said it

673
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:40.079
was Baylor in Kansas. Was the
two team race? That's true. That

674
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:44.280
would take some guts and I never
will know. That's for you to know,

675
00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:49.679
sir. Oklahoma State seventy five,
Kansas State seventy two. Well,

676
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:53.960
since Landon said he was quote wonting
all the tang all the Wildcats have done

677
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:58.880
is go oh and four, Nick
has added three more l's and Wildcats.

678
00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:02.960
So it's now wild Cats who turned
it over fifteen times and couldn't stop fouling

679
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:07.000
down the stretch. Keon Williams led
the way for Oklahoma State seventeen points ten

680
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:10.800
rebounds. Case State's lost four in
a row. They get Kansas this week,

681
00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:15.119
so we'll see a season saver could
be on deck. What is their

682
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.840
final Big twelve record going to be
there? Four and five through the first

683
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:24.039
half, Yeah, seven eleven,
eight, eight and ten. I think

684
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:28.039
that we're gonna find out a lot
about them in the Kansas game. They're

685
00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:32.280
a five point dang thing, really
because you think they're gonna lose. Well,

686
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:35.559
for one, I just think rivalry
games are weird no matter what.

687
00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:37.360
So even if they win, I
don't know if I'd really bet on them

688
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:42.679
being amazing, but I do think
they're gonna lose, probably by an okay

689
00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:45.239
margin. They have such a brutal
schedule, and I know that that's not

690
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:49.039
saying much because Big twelve, but
they really do. They get Kansas,

691
00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:52.360
then they go at BYU. They're
gonna be underdogs in both those games.

692
00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:54.519
Then they get TCU at home.
So we say, maybe they win one

693
00:46:54.559 --> 00:47:00.599
of those three at Texas, BYU, at Home West virgin and yet Home

694
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:05.480
at Cincinnati, at Kansas, ioways
stayed at home. There's probably four wins

695
00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:07.679
in there. Yeah, they're probably
eight and ten, but it wouldn't surprise

696
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:12.039
me if the floor fell out.
I think there's some weird things going on

697
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:15.480
with Jerome tang As good of a
coach and guy as I think he has

698
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:19.199
something just doesn't feel right in that
athletic department. And they've now lost to

699
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:22.360
you lose to this team, and
boy, that's just the wheels may be

700
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:25.639
coming off. Cincinnati, same score, seventy five, number fifteen, Texas

701
00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:29.760
Tech seventy two. Landon. If
we were all right on one thing,

702
00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:34.280
it's that Texas Tech. Eventually that
five and one start, it was gonna

703
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:37.679
even out. And two l's this
week. Yeah, they're lucky. Close

704
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:42.679
games swung back here for sure.
Stemus Lukosius hit a go ahead jumper with

705
00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:47.320
twenty one seconds left to grant Cincinnati
a massive road win. Lukasius leather Bearcats

706
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:54.360
with sixteen points. Which of these
two teams are actually better? Nick Case

707
00:47:54.440 --> 00:48:05.280
State? Oh sorry, I just
completely had a brain fart. Yeah,

708
00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:09.440
I probably think that it's Texas Tech. I think it is too. I

709
00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:13.559
think I think too, but it
is closer than I thought it would be.

710
00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:16.880
Tech is another one of those cases. That's their experience in this league.

711
00:48:16.920 --> 00:48:20.000
They know what it's like, they
know what it takes So I'm gonna

712
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:23.480
bet on that team because I think
that the four newbies, it's gonna be

713
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.440
tougher for them down the stretch.
They haven't done this before. Here's Tech's

714
00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.199
next few games. They go at
Baylor. They're gonna be an underdog there.

715
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:35.880
Central Florida home. They should win
that KU at home. Lubbock's tough,

716
00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:39.119
but still at Iowa State at Central
Florida, Texas TC at home.

717
00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:42.880
I think there's a lot of l's
there to be had for Texas Tech,

718
00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:45.880
who I think they also feel like
about a nine to nine Big Twelve team.

719
00:48:46.719 --> 00:48:50.719
There's a lot of that in the
Big Twelve this year. Lot els

720
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:55.920
like how about this UCF seventy four
number twenty three Oklahoma sixty three? Nick,

721
00:48:55.960 --> 00:49:04.039
you read the score, Porter Moser, this is you. UCF led

722
00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:07.199
wire to wire in this game,
and by double digits for almost all the

723
00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:13.119
second half. Jalen Sellers had twenty
points. The Sooners are buns, folks.

724
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:17.719
Oh. Also fun fact here,
Luke Northwather remember whenever he made two

725
00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:22.599
threes in Allen guys? Yeah,
Uh, they've played six games since he

726
00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:28.599
hasn't made one. Man, It's
almost like that happens every single time.

727
00:49:29.079 --> 00:49:31.840
No Landon. Gosh darn it,
I'm so tired of you acting like that.

728
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:37.360
It's luck. I'll tell you exactly
what happened. So Kansas's three point

729
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:42.440
defense totally freaking sucks. That's why
north Weather got those open looks right right,

730
00:49:42.599 --> 00:49:45.360
yeah. And West Virginia, Cincinnati, Texas, Texas at k State

731
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:51.480
and UCF all of them played super
good defense and prevented him from getting open

732
00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:54.519
looks. That's why he hasn't made
any Come on, do you guys even

733
00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:58.679
know ball? I mean, it's
obvious what's going on at this point.

734
00:49:58.920 --> 00:50:01.039
Oklahoma, there's one thing that I
was right on in Big twelve play.

735
00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:06.679
It's that Oklahoma is buns. Porter
Moser is buns. I told you they

736
00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:09.119
don't have the bigs to contend in
this conference race. I cannot believe there

737
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:13.679
is a number in front of their
name. They are horrible. That won't

738
00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:17.920
be much longer. Nope, Texas
seventy seven, number twenty five, TCU

739
00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:21.639
sixty six. This was typical.
I can't believe we all missed. This

740
00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:24.079
game was tied at sixty four at
the under four time out, but Texas

741
00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:29.079
closed strong, ending the night on
a thirteen two run. Max Asmis led

742
00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:30.920
the way with twenty one points.
By the way, Acemis is now thirteenth

743
00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:37.000
on the all time NCAA D one
scoring list, passing Danny Manning, which

744
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:40.039
is he is he is playing an
extra year. That helps, But that

745
00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:45.840
dude just fight out gets buckets.
Would have been fun to have him.

746
00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:49.360
TCU also shreded on the glass.
They looked every bit as hot and cold

747
00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:52.119
as they normally are. They can
beat anyone, they can lose to anybody

748
00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:55.760
as well. They will probably find
themselves at five hundred because that is Jamie

749
00:50:55.800 --> 00:51:02.400
Dixon one oh one, number twenty
two BYU eighty six West Virginia seventy three.

750
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:07.360
Nope, still still not feeling the
Mountaineers. Let's give this name a

751
00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:14.800
shot. Twenty four points for a
Fusini Trai or Fussini uh as b Yu

752
00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:17.639
made thirteen threes and scored a win
their first of a trip to Morgantown,

753
00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:23.960
unlike the Jayhawks. That's from twenty
three points, but no one else did

754
00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:28.199
much of anything. Raekwon Battle had
three threes in the last four games,

755
00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:31.800
and he made three against Kansas.
Oh you're gonna make me do this again?

756
00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:37.360
Clear well, clearly, Central Florid, Oklahoma State, Cincinnati by you

757
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:39.519
just played much better defense than Kansas. I mean, come on, they're

758
00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:43.039
clearly better. That's how it works. I mean, come on, come

759
00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:46.280
on, Landing, come on,
land buddy. Just just just watch a

760
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:51.159
little more ball Landing, and maybe
then you can you can know how it

761
00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:58.719
works. It's really what I've been
saying. I believe big twelve standings.

762
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:00.519
Hey, look at this. Kansas
and in Houston are tied for the league

763
00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:06.679
league. They are both six wins
to three losses. In third place.

764
00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:09.639
Texas Tech, Iowa State, and
Baylor all have five wins in three losses.

765
00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:14.800
In sixth place, all alone is
TCU at five and four. Seventh

766
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:16.639
place is BYU. They it feels
about right there, four and four,

767
00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:22.800
the logjam of eighth place Cincinnati.
You see Texas, Oklahoma, and k

768
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:27.440
State all four and five. It
all by themselves again West Virginia their three

769
00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:31.239
and six. Last is Oklahoma State. But uh oh uh oh West Virginia

770
00:52:31.519 --> 00:52:36.000
team that Bill lost to. Can
you hear those footsteps? Here comes Mike

771
00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:39.760
Boyton's dead man walking behind. He's
gonna catch it. He's two and seven.

772
00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:44.960
Now. Oklahoma State's won two of
their last three. Uh, they're

773
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:47.599
games. Hey, landon High five, we predicted Kentucky would lose it,

774
00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:53.079
rup, go ahead and tell me
about it. Oh yeah, Tennessee put

775
00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:57.239
up a huge win in ropp Arena, beating number ten Kentucky one oh three

776
00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:01.280
ninety two and sending John calperryty back
to back home losses. Oh no,

777
00:53:01.400 --> 00:53:06.960
Kentucky's gonna lose the all time wins
list of Kansas again, which they shouldn't

778
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:12.159
even be ahead in anyway, because
vacated wins aren't a thing. NCAU suck

779
00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:17.480
giant Ostrich. But Tennessee got twenty
six points and thirteen sists from Zekai Ziggler

780
00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:22.199
as they made their case as the
SEC's best team. I think they definitely

781
00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:24.960
are at this point. The sc
refs, sensing the opportunity to interfere an

782
00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:30.559
otherwise very entertaining game called forty five
thouls in forty minutes because we just can't

783
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:36.079
have nice things. And you mentioned
the wins record. Kansas is back to

784
00:53:36.199 --> 00:53:38.880
just two games now behind Kentucky on
the all time wins list. They would

785
00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:45.239
be up thirteen right now if not
for those twenty eighteen wins getting vacated vacating

786
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:49.480
wins sucks giant Ostrich balls. I
don't know how many times I have to

787
00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:54.639
say it. It does. It
is as yeah, what isn't that is

788
00:53:54.760 --> 00:54:00.840
Alabama? Apparently they continue to put
it on an offensive the hammer down on

789
00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:04.719
their opponents, hanging ninety nine on
Mississippi State in a blowout win. They're

790
00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:07.719
eight and one in the SEC and
currently lead the conference in second place.

791
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:12.159
Number sixteen Auburn, who beat Chris
Beard's fraud Ole Miss team by fourteen in

792
00:54:12.199 --> 00:54:15.119
South Carolina. The game Cocks won
at Georgia and appeared into the top twenty

793
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:20.599
five this week. With only three
losses. SEC has got a pretty good

794
00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:23.559
case as the second best league in
the country. I think Tennessee is very

795
00:54:23.559 --> 00:54:30.480
good until the Barns themselves eventually.
Kentucky's ceiling remains very high. It remains

796
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:34.239
to be seen if they ever figure
it all out. Auburn is dangerous.

797
00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:37.639
This is their first Quad one win
of the year, I believe, and

798
00:54:37.719 --> 00:54:40.800
it's Ole Miss. Maybe not.
Maybe they're the one that hasn't won a

799
00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:45.159
Quad one game or something. It's
their resume is lacking, but they still

800
00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:47.559
show a lot of firepower and South
Carolina is kind of a dark horse.

801
00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:52.800
As you said, Alabama has a
great resume, So yeah, SEC is

802
00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:57.400
pretty good. They got five legitimate
NCAA tournament locks right now overall, pretty

803
00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:00.800
entertaining league, their second best for
my money? What was it? Me?

804
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.639
It's me, isn't it? Sorry? Big East Number one Yukon used

805
00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:08.039
a late push to beat Rick Patino
Saint John's team seventy seven sixty four at

806
00:55:08.079 --> 00:55:13.000
Madison Square Garden. The Huskies are
twenty and two overall. They're ten to

807
00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:15.719
one in league play, firmly entrenched
in the driver's seat of that race.

808
00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:21.360
Number nine Marquette is in second after
beating a horrendous Georgetown team ninety one to

809
00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:27.000
fifty seven in their own gym all
on Friday night, Balder beat number thirteen,

810
00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:30.000
creating ninety nine ninety eight in regulation. But a few people on Twitter

811
00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:34.159
were saying the game was bad because
the defense was non existent. I just

812
00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:38.280
don't know how to live in world
where that's a bad basketball game. Omber,

813
00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:42.920
probably Ryan's was that? Ryan was
your grandmother one who said that?

814
00:55:42.920 --> 00:55:45.960
That is? That is definitely something
Grandma would say. I don't like the

815
00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:50.840
NBA defense. Randomly, just about
midway through the second half, if tattoos

816
00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:55.960
were a requirement to play basketball.
Oh no, I get too much.

817
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:05.920
Yeah, my influence is where off
hunderd answers kind of well. Number seven

818
00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:09.199
Duke couldn't compete in Chapel Hill,
losing number three North Carolina ninety three to

819
00:56:09.239 --> 00:56:14.599
eighty four on game day because where
else would ESPN go. Armando Baycott,

820
00:56:14.840 --> 00:56:16.760
who has been in college since Jimmy
Carter, who was in the office,

821
00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:21.079
went for twenty five points and ten
rebounds. Zach Edy, not to one

822
00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:25.559
up him, has been in off
has been in college basketball since JFK was

823
00:56:25.559 --> 00:56:30.480
in office. Yeah, yeah,
it now gets three straight home games against

824
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:36.559
Notre Dame, Boston College and Wake
Forest because the schedule is just buns and

825
00:56:36.679 --> 00:56:39.639
how they get that's in the middle
of a CC Yeah, jeez, yeah,

826
00:56:39.840 --> 00:56:44.960
isn't that funny? So Nick was
talking about Zach Edy, who was

827
00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:49.119
very shook up on that dark day
in Dallas in nineteen sixty three, whenever

828
00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:52.280
he was just a wee freshman at
Purdue. His boiler Makers did beat number

829
00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:57.280
six Wisconsin and Madison seventy five sixty
nine. They controlled that game and led

830
00:56:57.320 --> 00:57:00.480
throughout. Edie had eighteen and thirteen. Really not a lot to talk about

831
00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:05.639
in this game, because because we
said that the boiler Makers would pass Wisconsin

832
00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:08.079
in the Big Ten standings eventually,
and they're way past them now. Purdue

833
00:57:08.079 --> 00:57:13.800
is tendant two Wisconsin and Illinois,
who beat Nebraska in a really entertaining overtime

834
00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:17.079
game this afternoon. They are tied
for second at eight and three. In

835
00:57:17.159 --> 00:57:22.960
other Big Ten news, Joe Biden's
favorite state. Do you have the dry

836
00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:30.760
beat Northwestern and overtime? Please?
The man in charge not in charge.

837
00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:32.920
He shouldn't be the man in charge. I would if Joe Biden was.

838
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:37.360
God, didn't he say other teams
in that or any other states in that

839
00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:40.239
sound by, we need to go
find those and add those to this outboard.

840
00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:45.400
He did, Yeah, he did. It's like Alabama, Florida.

841
00:57:45.559 --> 00:57:49.239
He's getting all excited and every somebody
one's found out like these are the Joe

842
00:57:49.239 --> 00:57:52.800
Biden reading off the n I T
teams And it was pretty funny. Land

843
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:57.480
and please continue to read where Joe
Biden's then presidents. Yes, so Ruggers

844
00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:04.360
beat Michigan and in Arbor and Juwan
Howard. Uh So it's safe because I

845
00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:06.119
have to I have to be careful. I have to skim ahead. Now

846
00:58:06.159 --> 00:58:08.519
I'm very nervous after that last sentence, so that she plays walk on because

847
00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:13.320
the scholarship players don't care. That
feels right, because they're not eight and

848
00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:17.039
fourteen or something like that. Uh. Indiana lost at home by fourteen to

849
00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:25.000
Penn State because Mike Woodson not having
a great season as the IU played color

850
00:58:25.119 --> 00:58:31.079
down there. And that's just two
absolute nuke sentences in this In this paragraph,

851
00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:34.920
I put a good one in the
middle. Yeah, that's fine.

852
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:38.000
Having Mike Woodsen as your coach is
very bad, is my takeaway. He's

853
00:58:38.039 --> 00:58:43.119
an awful basketball coach. That team
starts five players that are all four or

854
00:58:43.159 --> 00:58:51.039
five stars. They're a horrible Your
favorite team ever, Ryan Gonzaga, Oh

855
00:58:51.039 --> 00:58:53.079
no, it's it's Nick. It's
my turn. They lost at home to

856
00:58:54.239 --> 00:59:00.599
Oh oh sorry, shoot, I'm
still on. Yeah, the there we

857
00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:05.599
go. They dropped two games behind
the Gales after it. With seven league

858
00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:08.320
games left, two huge streaks could
be coming in for the Zags. Twelve

859
00:59:08.360 --> 00:59:14.159
straight WCC titles and twenty four straight
NCAA tournaments. It's been twenty four months

860
00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:19.199
since Mark I Few got his DUI, so that it's there probably belong to

861
00:59:19.199 --> 00:59:21.840
that that was in the offseason.
They are zero to five and Quadrant one

862
00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:27.440
games and about out of chances to
get more. It's Gonzaga going to make

863
00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:32.440
the n Gonzaga will win that stupid
tournament because no one else is worthy,

864
00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:37.239
and they'll get in. Gonzaga actually
plays at Kentucky next Saturday, and a

865
00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:42.440
random non con game in the middle
of the conference slate, and then they

866
00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:45.440
have at Saint Mary's at the very
last game of the year. They have

867
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:47.360
to win at least one of those
to have a chance. They're not getting

868
00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:52.960
Kentucky. I'll tell you that I
don't think Kentucky's nearly as shiny as you

869
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:57.079
do right now, sir, but
you're probably right. They're gonna annihilate Gonzaga.

870
00:59:57.079 --> 01:00:00.800
Though in the Pac twelve number eleven
Eras took off a double digit halftime

871
01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:05.360
deficit to roll past Stanford eighty two
to seventy one. One of the many

872
01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:07.719
teams that Joe Lenardi believes should be
in front of Kansas on the s curve,

873
01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:13.119
Arizona has a very underwhelming resume.
They have the same record as Kansas

874
01:00:13.199 --> 01:00:15.639
and their conference is horrendous. So
even though they are in first place,

875
01:00:15.679 --> 01:00:19.519
they're eight and three in that league. They're going to win the Pac twelve.

876
01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:22.199
They did beat Duke at Cameron,
and they beat Wisconsin by a lot.

877
01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:24.840
I don't know how much you think
of Wisconsin right now, but they

878
01:00:24.880 --> 01:00:29.280
lost to Purdue. They lost the
Florida Atlantic. They've lost a handful of

879
01:00:29.599 --> 01:00:34.039
Pac twelve games. Whatever. Arizona's
not better than Kansas either, But Joe

880
01:00:34.119 --> 01:00:38.800
Lenardi gonna Joelnardi. How many teams
could Joe Lenardi rank ahead of Kansas.

881
01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:43.920
He could fit like fifteen teams between
the gap and his front two teeth.

882
01:00:44.199 --> 01:00:47.159
That's how many teams that he would
put in front of Kansas. That's pretty

883
01:00:47.159 --> 01:00:51.960
tough draw for Leonardi. In December, a tough draw for Ryan. He

884
01:00:51.960 --> 01:01:01.079
called the twenty win team like five
wins. They love they are, and

885
01:01:01.199 --> 01:01:06.639
they're not going to get to three
overall. They've won one game since two

886
01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:09.760
months ago, December third, which
was against Central Arkansas. Nick, what

887
01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:16.599
a Central Arkansas mascot? They're the
Bears. Wow. Like a grad assistant

888
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:20.840
on Central Arkansas. He was a
team manager for a while. He and

889
01:01:20.920 --> 01:01:24.679
four friends. He and four friends
could beat Missouri because they are horrendous.

890
01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:29.960
They're so bad. And what did
Kansas being by like seven. It was

891
01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:32.800
pretty not good. Were as bad
as the teams in this next segment though,

892
01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:39.360
can't Ryan read the next segment?
Oh sure, all right? First

893
01:01:39.360 --> 01:01:45.239
the good news in the that's okay
in the department. Louisville beat Florida State

894
01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:50.159
and dropped a hundi on them in
the process. But that's about where the

895
01:01:50.440 --> 01:01:52.920
good news for these horrible teams ends. Because DePaul is oh and eleven and

896
01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:58.360
begies play. They are three and
nineteen overall, which Mississippi folks, means

897
01:01:58.360 --> 01:02:02.199
they went three and eight in non
con yes against and I think there wins

898
01:02:02.199 --> 01:02:07.840
are Chicago State, Louisville, and
somebody else in the WCC. I'm sure

899
01:02:07.159 --> 01:02:12.400
Mississippi Valley State had a chance against
Arkansas bind Luff but lost by six.

900
01:02:12.400 --> 01:02:17.679
They're own twenty two and Detroit Mercy
O and twenty four twenty four games twenty

901
01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:22.639
four els. Yikes, quite bad
ranked teams to lose. It's the last

902
01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:28.320
show. Number one in our hearts
forever Houston. They lost to Kansas number

903
01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:32.639
six, Minnesota's neighbor to the east, Wisconsin number seven. I actually didn't

904
01:02:32.679 --> 01:02:37.199
know this happened because there this wasn't
published at all. This wasn't like this

905
01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:40.320
game. But number seven Duke,
they actually be They actually lost them North

906
01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:45.320
Carolina. Remember taking time, They
didn't really publish articles about the game.

907
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:51.320
They just published articles about how they're
having like an orgy at this time.

908
01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:55.880
All they did was talk about it's
the most matchups between top ten teams ever,

909
01:02:57.199 --> 01:03:00.920
Duke and North Carolina. Great.
Nobody cares, nobody like they call

910
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:04.599
it the best rivalry in sports.
No, it's not. Nobody outside of

911
01:03:04.599 --> 01:03:07.239
that state really cares. They watch. It doesn't mean they care. Number

912
01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:12.400
ten Kentucky again lost to Tennessee UND
twelve five was State. They lost the

913
01:03:12.440 --> 01:03:16.800
Baylor. Number fifteen, Texas Tech
lost to Cincinnati number seventeen. Utah State

914
01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:22.079
lost to San Diego State, Good
League number twenty three. Oklahoma lost to

915
01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:28.320
UCF number twenty five. TCU lost
the Horns down last weekend pick on Land

916
01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:35.119
and closing the gap. He'll still
blow it. Watch ask Rock Chalk Blog

917
01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:37.639
what we've done good on time today? Boys? So I think that means

918
01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:40.559
we can read our normal arsenal of
questions and there are a lot so buckle

919
01:03:40.599 --> 01:03:45.000
down here we go at cam Levault
Golf. Tough scene for Nick. What's

920
01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:49.920
more inevitable Furfey to the league or
Purdue losing before the Elite eight. Yes,

921
01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:55.840
and yes, no, not even
needing to add anything on I got

922
01:03:55.840 --> 01:04:02.280
it that well. Uh, Purdue
is more likely. Uh yeah, Purdue

923
01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:06.239
is definitely not. I mean we
know this by now. This could be

924
01:04:06.280 --> 01:04:10.360
the year Perdue makes a Final Four
run their boundary. Zachi d will not

925
01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:14.239
leave Purdue until they get out of
the second weekend. That's why he's been

926
01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:18.480
there since the sixties at DKG Underscore
High Life. Does Furfey leave for the

927
01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:25.559
NBA? Yes, he's more likely
after every game. Yeah. Next question,

928
01:04:25.599 --> 01:04:29.599
will al Marco Jackson transfer? I
say yes, becomes more likely after

929
01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:32.920
every game. And number three,
will Timberlight transfer? He cannot, he's

930
01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:35.960
out of eligibility, but he will
not be back. He might transfer to

931
01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:42.719
an insurance firm at not the experts. Longtime listener, first time caller.

932
01:04:43.119 --> 01:04:45.840
If they made a movie about KU
basketball, who would play Bill self?

933
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:50.440
And why is it? Ryan Reynolds
not bad all things considered, that's a

934
01:04:50.760 --> 01:04:56.960
that's not accurate. Really, you
don't think so? Personality wise? Kevin's

935
01:04:57.079 --> 01:05:05.960
Ryan Reynolds, I mean personal it
personality snarky or jokey what Bill's self isn't

936
01:05:06.079 --> 01:05:12.440
snarky. He's really snarky, but
he's not Ryan Reynolds snarky. Kevin James

937
01:05:12.480 --> 01:05:15.880
is pretty good going from Sean Payton
to Bill self as an adjustment. Ray

938
01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:19.760
Romano if Ray Ramono, the Midwest
accent and the stutter, I mean,

939
01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:26.320
that's pretty good. That's also not
bad. Landon sounds like a big Ray

940
01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:30.039
Romano guy I used to be.
And now the more sitcoms and more everything

941
01:05:30.039 --> 01:05:33.519
that I watch, I realize everybody
else everybody loves Raymond not a great show.

942
01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:36.159
Oh wow, wow, Hey,
you and my wife would agree with

943
01:05:36.199 --> 01:05:46.480
that. Looks like he has a
two pay yes to get it. That

944
01:05:46.519 --> 01:05:50.400
would work. That would work.
Jason Bourne as Bill self would be pretty

945
01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:56.000
fun at Rock chalk A. What
do you Brad? Now, we're just

946
01:05:56.000 --> 01:06:01.239
going with everybody loves Raymond references?
Doris can play, Yeah, there you

947
01:06:01.320 --> 01:06:05.559
go at rockshok aj. What do
you think about Paramount Plus's new Super Bowl

948
01:06:05.559 --> 01:06:11.320
commercial. It's the one with Sonic
the Hedgehog and uh and Tua taga Ailoa

949
01:06:11.480 --> 01:06:14.360
and like you have you seen those
where like they're all on the mountaintops.

950
01:06:14.440 --> 01:06:18.840
It's like all the different shows that
I saw Josh throwing the ball over a

951
01:06:18.880 --> 01:06:23.320
mountain with like door pig. I
think I missed the h a pig.

952
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:25.920
I didn't. I don't know if
I saw the sonic one. Let me

953
01:06:25.960 --> 01:06:32.159
tell you something about Paramount plus Folks
Total and Complete Buns Total service. That

954
01:06:32.320 --> 01:06:38.239
app sucks. I wanted to watch
Ku and Iowa State on CBS. They

955
01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:42.920
advertise live CBS and I get on
that Paramount stupid app and they're like,

956
01:06:42.960 --> 01:06:46.199
you have to download the CBS Sports
app to watch live CBS. Constant,

957
01:06:47.599 --> 01:06:51.320
No, it's not. They just
lied. I almost yeaded my iPad out

958
01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:58.000
at thirty five thousand feet up there. It's ridiculous, crazy at Dick Underscore

959
01:06:58.039 --> 01:07:01.199
taser. You young blood's ever been
to Mexico? Best country ever? And

960
01:07:01.239 --> 01:07:05.119
I've been to a pun's ton of
them. Never left the country. Have

961
01:07:05.199 --> 01:07:10.559
you guys left the country? I
know Landon hasn't in Mexico. Yeah,

962
01:07:10.679 --> 01:07:12.960
what do you think, sir?
Are you? Are you a Mexico guy?

963
01:07:13.800 --> 01:07:18.559
I'm not thin, beaches type of
person, so not really preach anything

964
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:23.159
old I figured Nick would like.
So I'm surprised you're not like a beach

965
01:07:23.199 --> 01:07:26.480
guy. But I know I've heard
that Wayne is saying this because, of

966
01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:29.880
course, Kay, you and Houston
are playing in Mexico in December of twenty

967
01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:33.719
twenty four. Uncle Wayne Pace,
this is hilarious, he says, Uncle

968
01:07:33.760 --> 01:07:39.400
Wayne pays for airfar airfare. You
guys in for an ITP field trip figured

969
01:07:39.440 --> 01:07:44.199
tickets probably only forty paysos or so. Absolutely, I do not have a

970
01:07:44.199 --> 01:07:46.199
passport. I need to yet one. But what I would go anywhere in

971
01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:50.320
the world with Uncle Wayne. For
sure? I would Uncle Uncle Wayne flying

972
01:07:50.320 --> 01:07:54.559
me down to Cancun. Yeah.
Yeah, I need to get a passport,

973
01:07:54.559 --> 01:08:00.400
which I do not know though it's
in Mexico City. Yeah. He

974
01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:03.679
says, you can do slash get
anything in Mexico anything, and then actually

975
01:08:03.719 --> 01:08:05.960
says, any of you guys have
a passport? And why the hell is

976
01:08:06.039 --> 01:08:11.360
Kansas playing in Mexico? How is
there a basketball market there? Yes,

977
01:08:11.400 --> 01:08:14.840
that I've read that that you actually
played in the Basketball World Cups, though

978
01:08:15.480 --> 01:08:17.239
it's not gonna count as a conference
game, and then they're gonna still play

979
01:08:17.239 --> 01:08:20.479
two conference games. I think,
like, why, why Houston? Why

980
01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:27.039
not just have Kansas and Houston play
a doubleheader with marquee teams in another conference

981
01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:30.399
at that point, Yeah, that
feels way more logistically, like, that

982
01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:32.560
makes way more sense. I guess. I guess with that you'd have to

983
01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:36.760
travel like four teams down there.
But still those planes are big, sir,

984
01:08:36.960 --> 01:08:42.920
let's I'm sure we can squeeze John
Caliperi's squad on there and and Bill

985
01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:46.760
can beat him in the final four
minutes again at Rockshock aj Can you guys

986
01:08:46.760 --> 01:08:50.039
please talk about these Furfey stats real
quick? And why is he the greatest

987
01:08:50.119 --> 01:08:54.359
Jayhawk to ever walk the earth?
That's his last six games, sixteen points,

988
01:08:54.479 --> 01:08:58.039
eight rebounds, sixty five percent from
the floor and fifty five percent from

989
01:08:58.039 --> 01:09:01.000
three. Good lord, he's ridiculous. Yeah, that's uh, that's league

990
01:09:01.079 --> 01:09:04.680
level stats. There will be a
skid in there, there will be a

991
01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:10.159
seven or eight game colder stretch.
But yeah, he's clearly he's he's gone

992
01:09:10.199 --> 01:09:13.920
nuclear in the last few weeks at
Kate Eeden fourteen. Oh my gosh,

993
01:09:13.920 --> 01:09:16.159
Okay Land and this is a this
is a landing take, I think,

994
01:09:16.279 --> 01:09:21.279
so argue with it. I would
rather play Djankovic than Timberlake. Your thoughts,

995
01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:28.079
uh, I mean, Timberlake is
way more athletic than Michael Djankovic,

996
01:09:28.800 --> 01:09:34.119
But I would have genuinely. There
is no confidence that Mike Jankovic would hit

997
01:09:34.159 --> 01:09:41.279
more threes than Nick Timberlake. Uh
not actually probably, but I would.

998
01:09:41.359 --> 01:09:44.000
I still kind of would like to
see it. I'd like to see a

999
01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:46.319
little jank I'd like to see a
little jenk in real game action. Nick,

1000
01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:51.520
how would that go bad? Probably? But maybe Nick one? Well,

1001
01:09:53.079 --> 01:09:56.039
I think it's a little difference having
him yeat threes at the very end

1002
01:09:56.079 --> 01:09:59.239
of blowouts and it is actually thinking
he's gonna do it from the start,

1003
01:09:59.479 --> 01:10:01.239
Nick, do you want Timberlake or
Djankovic? If those are your options?

1004
01:10:02.279 --> 01:10:09.079
Djakovic? Wow. Even Uncle Wayne
Kerr says, sorry, so weird to

1005
01:10:09.079 --> 01:10:11.399
say that, But man, you
might be right at this point. He's

1006
01:10:11.399 --> 01:10:15.239
definitely a better shooter. I'm still
riding with Timberlake. I think this team's

1007
01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:19.720
best chance the get bench production is
by playing Timberlake. That's a horrible statement,

1008
01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:24.920
but it's true. It really is. At Show Me Hawk. At

1009
01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:27.640
Show Me Hawk. There are rumors
at the SEC and Big ten could break

1010
01:10:27.640 --> 01:10:30.199
away from the NCAA. Will be
very interesting to see if that Faris Kansas

1011
01:10:30.199 --> 01:10:32.680
better for football and basketball in the
future, Yeah, the sooner they get

1012
01:10:32.680 --> 01:10:35.439
away from the NCAA, the better
they have to figure out a tournament.

1013
01:10:35.439 --> 01:10:39.239
But I've got to think at some
point somebody would figure that out, or

1014
01:10:39.319 --> 01:10:44.720
these leads get so big that we
just get league tournaments. Yeah, I

1015
01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:46.920
mean, I think I still think
the most likely outcome is that what is

1016
01:10:46.920 --> 01:10:53.439
currently like the Power four just goes
on to be its own thing, and

1017
01:10:53.479 --> 01:10:57.079
then like what we get an SEC
tournament, a big twelve tournament and like

1018
01:10:57.119 --> 01:11:00.600
the final four is the winner from
each or in each league or something.

1019
01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:05.560
No, I think like maybe maybe
you just shrink down to like a I

1020
01:11:05.600 --> 01:11:10.720
don't know how many it would be. Maybe you do like a twenty four

1021
01:11:10.760 --> 01:11:16.239
team playoff or something like that.
You'd have to find a unbiased Chris Reynolds

1022
01:11:16.359 --> 01:11:20.439
led selection committee, which the NCAA
provides right now. But you know,

1023
01:11:20.520 --> 01:11:24.720
well, yeah, I think that
I think the NCAA's days of being in

1024
01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:28.239
charge are coming to an end very
quickly. But there's good You see,

1025
01:11:28.239 --> 01:11:33.359
the the SEC Big ten sort of
reminiscent of the quote unquote alliance that fell

1026
01:11:33.399 --> 01:11:38.880
apart in like an hour, thing
that they agreed upon. They're doing like

1027
01:11:38.920 --> 01:11:45.079
a basically like an advisory committee with
each other. So they're so they're interested

1028
01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:47.720
in one another. They're not at
that love stage yet, but they like

1029
01:11:47.760 --> 01:11:53.159
each other. Not yet stage.
Yeah, Okay, let's see. It's

1030
01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:55.760
getting a little more serious now,
is what you're saying. It's there,

1031
01:11:56.239 --> 01:12:00.079
and you know I haven't even gonna
have I'm not even gotten close to that

1032
01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:03.079
far. No, Yeah, I'm
saying it's it's sorry, it's it's it's

1033
01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:06.119
the post Land, It's it's where
Lynn and wants to be, it's the

1034
01:12:06.399 --> 01:12:10.640
it's on the other side of the
bridge at Cope. Fraud more likely to

1035
01:12:10.680 --> 01:12:14.760
happen Kansas fans having faith this team
is going to be better that after being

1036
01:12:14.840 --> 01:12:18.079
mediocre in January, Kansas being favored
at Houston, not that one, or

1037
01:12:18.159 --> 01:12:21.880
al Marco Jackson becoming Remy Martin at
the time of the NCAA Tournament. Oh

1038
01:12:21.920 --> 01:12:26.159
my god, there's a better chance
Kansas is a seventy five point favorite at

1039
01:12:26.159 --> 01:12:30.680
Houston per Ken Palm than Almarco Jackson
turning into Remy Martin in the NCAA Tournament.

1040
01:12:30.920 --> 01:12:33.000
Yeah, I think my hand is
forced to be the first one.

1041
01:12:33.319 --> 01:12:36.039
It is, But man, I
wish that I wish that wasn't a thing

1042
01:12:36.199 --> 01:12:40.439
at Rockchalk AJ What current NBA team
would be the best fit for the current

1043
01:12:40.520 --> 01:12:43.960
for the Kansas Kangaroo. Any of
them that like players that can shoot?

1044
01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:48.119
Uh? Yeah, I think I
don't. I generally speaking, like NBA,

1045
01:12:48.159 --> 01:12:54.039
I don't follow NBA rosters anywhere near
close enough to know where he would

1046
01:12:54.039 --> 01:12:58.560
like slot in nicely. Uh about
the pistons. He can start on the

1047
01:12:58.560 --> 01:13:01.319
pistons right now, let's roll with
it. If he wants to win all

1048
01:13:01.359 --> 01:13:06.000
of like fourteen games next year,
he's sure. Yeah. A couple more

1049
01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:10.720
from AJ here. How was your
date with Ryan's grandma Slash? How was

1050
01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:14.319
Alan? And was it as loud
as it seemed on the TV? Alan

1051
01:13:14.439 --> 01:13:18.640
was really loud. It was really
fun. I like Ryan's grandma. If

1052
01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:24.119
you're listening, Beth had a great
time. She's super fo Yeah. No,

1053
01:13:24.159 --> 01:13:27.880
it was a great, good date. That's the Yeah. And you're

1054
01:13:27.960 --> 01:13:31.920
gonna hear a couple of comments that
make you go really okay every time you

1055
01:13:31.960 --> 01:13:34.399
go to a game. Yeah,
not like in a bad way, just

1056
01:13:34.399 --> 01:13:38.720
like I'm surprised that's what popped in
your mind while you're watching a basketball game.

1057
01:13:38.720 --> 01:13:41.960
Although she did turn to me right
after they announced Furfey in the starting

1058
01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:45.239
lineup, and she goes one and
done, so she really wow. So

1059
01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:49.880
even Grandma knows Furfy's not gonna be
here for too long. She's right.

1060
01:13:49.920 --> 01:13:54.520
Also, I'm amazed you could hear
that she does like to talk during the

1061
01:13:54.680 --> 01:13:58.439
announcements and that's the loudest part of
the game. And I'm lucky if I

1062
01:13:58.479 --> 01:14:01.439
get away. She's such a ladies. She's so short that I'm not even

1063
01:14:01.520 --> 01:14:05.039
like that tall, but I have
to like basically borderline sit down to hear

1064
01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:09.760
you just get the tap on the
shoulder and that means squat down. So

1065
01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:13.520
I can tell you something, yes, several Yeah, yeah, I know

1066
01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:15.960
that very well. Yeah. At
Stefan Timmy seventeen. How much of this

1067
01:14:16.039 --> 01:14:19.079
win was coaching? Oh, this
is a good question on the double teams

1068
01:14:19.079 --> 01:14:23.000
bill self, and the players seem
to know exactly where the open man would

1069
01:14:23.000 --> 01:14:25.920
be every play, and by the
time they could adjust, the lead was

1070
01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:29.760
already in double digits. Yes,
very good point there. Kay. You

1071
01:14:29.840 --> 01:14:32.359
clearly scouted Houston very well. Their
strategy going into this game was we're gonna

1072
01:14:32.439 --> 01:14:36.359
let Houston shoot threes more than we're
gonna let them drive to the cup.

1073
01:14:36.640 --> 01:14:40.520
Some of that was Houston feeling like
they fell behind and they had to catch

1074
01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:44.319
up with threes. But Kansas was
okay letting Houston jack threes. I suspect

1075
01:14:44.359 --> 01:14:46.920
it was probably pretty similar on the
defensive scouting report as it was in Iowa

1076
01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:49.760
State. They got burned up there. They didn't get burned against Houston.

1077
01:14:49.800 --> 01:14:53.600
And on offense, they put on
a clinic. They knew exactly who to

1078
01:14:53.640 --> 01:14:58.159
move the ball to. Yeah,
I think I think offensively, Bill self

1079
01:14:58.159 --> 01:15:02.079
did drop a really excellent game play, and then defensively they decided to essentially,

1080
01:15:02.079 --> 01:15:05.039
I think let Furfey try to hold
his own and then he just did.

1081
01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:10.520
Yep, yep, one more Furfey. Question at Drew Walton, is

1082
01:15:10.600 --> 01:15:14.800
Furfee better than Dick? No?
I still say no. Grady Dick was

1083
01:15:14.840 --> 01:15:17.079
so much more polished man. Grady
Dick was a better shooter too. As

1084
01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:21.000
good as Furfee shooting, Grady Dick
was was. There was no player that

1085
01:15:21.039 --> 01:15:27.600
I've seen ever at Kansas get more
defensive attention to shooting the ball than Grady

1086
01:15:27.640 --> 01:15:31.880
Dick. He was face guarded over
and over again in those matchups. He

1087
01:15:31.920 --> 01:15:36.039
was shooting fifty percent until they started
face guarding him every time. Grady Dick

1088
01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:41.000
commanded so much attention the rest of
the team did so little to help him.

1089
01:15:41.199 --> 01:15:43.760
The rest of the team was so
poor for his skill set. That's

1090
01:15:43.760 --> 01:15:45.680
why he was guarded so much.
Just put another decent shooter out there,

1091
01:15:45.680 --> 01:15:48.840
and he would have been so so
much more open. The floor would have

1092
01:15:48.840 --> 01:15:53.880
been even higher. I think Furfey
has a higher ceiling, though I don't

1093
01:15:53.880 --> 01:15:57.319
know if that's true. Grady Dick
is the best shooter I've seen play at

1094
01:15:57.359 --> 01:16:00.920
Kansas. Yeah, but he's done
nothing in the league. I mean,

1095
01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:03.039
yeah, but you think Furfey would
be something in the league, And halfway

1096
01:16:03.039 --> 01:16:06.880
through his rookie season, he's developing
as quickly as I've ever seen a Kansas

1097
01:16:06.920 --> 01:16:12.399
player develop since Joelle. Yeah,
I think you're right. Who is done

1098
01:16:12.399 --> 01:16:15.279
for a while? I think what
is the chance that Furfey comes back for

1099
01:16:15.319 --> 01:16:17.279
a second year? Right now?
It's probably fifty to fifty, but it

1100
01:16:17.319 --> 01:16:21.319
is dropping fast. Yeah, and
that's yeah, that's down from like seventy

1101
01:16:21.319 --> 01:16:26.159
percent chance he comes back like two
weeks ago. And also, you want

1102
01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:30.279
him to be good. You want
that percentage to drop because if that percentage

1103
01:16:30.319 --> 01:16:33.159
gets worse, it means he's not
playing as well and therefore Kansas is worse.

1104
01:16:34.279 --> 01:16:36.840
Correct, Yeah, you want him
to be like a top five pick

1105
01:16:36.840 --> 01:16:40.520
in the draft. Since yes,
you want you want to have the top

1106
01:16:40.560 --> 01:16:43.439
five picks in the draft. You
want to be Kentucky, uh and not

1107
01:16:43.479 --> 01:16:47.920
win a title. I guess at
Travius ninety go or Robert Morris. Final

1108
01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:51.119
question from Travius ninety nine. I
feel like el Marco, a freshman,

1109
01:16:51.159 --> 01:16:55.840
deserves more leniency from the fan base
compared to Timberlake, a senior. Am

1110
01:16:55.880 --> 01:16:58.640
I wrong? I have a take
on this. I want you guys's takes

1111
01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:06.479
not completely wrong. I think that
there's some validity that Landon. I don't

1112
01:17:06.520 --> 01:17:11.079
know. I definitely get the take. I mean, you know it would

1113
01:17:11.079 --> 01:17:14.880
stand the reason that it would take
Jackson a lot longer or just longer to

1114
01:17:15.119 --> 01:17:19.000
develop, whereas Timberlake, you recruited
him to be a already established, already

1115
01:17:19.039 --> 01:17:24.119
developed you know, Nick, Timberlake
was supposed to be McDonald's. Maybe not

1116
01:17:24.159 --> 01:17:27.079
sensational, but you know exactly what
you're going to get and it's ready for

1117
01:17:27.119 --> 01:17:31.640
you. Al Marco Jackson might be
more like a nice aged cheese. But

1118
01:17:31.720 --> 01:17:34.199
I don't know. I think they're
both not good, so I don't know

1119
01:17:34.199 --> 01:17:39.680
how much matters. I agree with
your point in the sense that Timberlake was

1120
01:17:39.720 --> 01:17:44.359
brought in to do one thing and
he has been a huge disappointment for that.

1121
01:17:44.760 --> 01:17:47.560
Al Marco Jackson is a freshman and
there are obviously expected to be more

1122
01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:51.000
growing pains. Timberlake, being a
proven player, was thought to be a

1123
01:17:51.039 --> 01:17:57.760
safer player, and Timberlake was chosen
and as a result of them getting him,

1124
01:17:57.800 --> 01:18:00.159
they did not go after guys like
Jalen t and guys they could have

1125
01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:04.319
used because they thought they filled the
shooting void. So that in that sense,

1126
01:18:04.399 --> 01:18:09.560
yes, However, el Marco Jackson's
getting worse. Al Marco Jackson is

1127
01:18:09.600 --> 01:18:13.760
a worse player right now than Nick
Timberlake in just about every way. Al

1128
01:18:13.800 --> 01:18:17.319
Marco's giving them nothing. When Timberlake
is on the floor, even though he

1129
01:18:17.399 --> 01:18:23.079
doesn't make very many threes, they
still guard him. They don't leave him

1130
01:18:23.119 --> 01:18:26.479
open. They see the shooter,
and he commands defensive attention. That's more

1131
01:18:26.520 --> 01:18:30.880
than Almarco commands. Also, Timberlake
doesn't turn it over a lot. Timberlake

1132
01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:35.279
doesn't foul a lot, turns it
over some, not as much as al

1133
01:18:35.319 --> 01:18:41.359
Marco. Al Marco's the worst player, I agree, I agree. I

1134
01:18:41.720 --> 01:18:44.920
don't know if it's by so much
that it matters very much. I also

1135
01:18:44.960 --> 01:18:47.520
think Timberlake could bust out at any
moment, Like, would it stun you?

1136
01:18:47.760 --> 01:18:50.399
I would it be surprising, Yes, you're not expecting it. But

1137
01:18:50.439 --> 01:18:55.840
would it stun you if Timberlake shot
forty percent from three the next five games?

1138
01:18:55.960 --> 01:18:58.880
No, it wouldn't really. Okay, well maybe it would. Maybe

1139
01:18:58.960 --> 01:19:01.760
I'm not there yet him doing in
college. Yeah, but it's just been

1140
01:19:01.840 --> 01:19:05.359
so bad at Kansas. It's been
really disappointing because he was good in the

1141
01:19:05.399 --> 01:19:08.880
exhibitions and he was good in the
first game, and we thought, oh,

1142
01:19:08.920 --> 01:19:13.159
there's a guy that's gonna average ten
off the bench immediately or did he

1143
01:19:13.239 --> 01:19:15.000
start? Did he start? Oh? No, it is al Marco.

1144
01:19:15.039 --> 01:19:18.239
Alm Marco started until the Marco started. Okay, yeah, all right.

1145
01:19:18.359 --> 01:19:23.119
Do you ever have asked arcb's us
a Twitter hashtag ask arcb? Next question

1146
01:19:23.159 --> 01:19:27.279
will probably be the return of a
nick would you rather question? Stay tuned?

1147
01:19:29.039 --> 01:19:31.640
He wait? I know it's your
favorite, but you know what's Landon's

1148
01:19:31.680 --> 01:19:41.640
personal favorite is whenever this game happens
and we get to play that song number

1149
01:19:41.640 --> 01:19:45.079
eight Kansas, It's gonna go up
to like three at Kansas State. It's

1150
01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:51.960
the Sunflowers showdown in Manhattan at the
Octagon of Doom Monday night, February fifth,

1151
01:19:53.279 --> 01:19:57.840
eight o'clock, not on ESPN plus. Fran will be there wearing nothing

1152
01:19:58.079 --> 01:20:03.399
but purple thong oh Kent State.
They're fourteen and eight overall, four and

1153
01:20:03.479 --> 01:20:08.359
five in league play. They've lost
four to zero and five of the last

1154
01:20:08.359 --> 01:20:13.000
fourteen wins have come in overtime,
so they're pretty lucky that it's not worse

1155
01:20:13.159 --> 01:20:15.199
than it is. They are ten
and two at home this year, but

1156
01:20:15.319 --> 01:20:21.319
their losses not great ones to Nebraska
and Oklahoma, and they were bad losses.

1157
01:20:21.439 --> 01:20:27.920
They were twenty point ls pointyard Tyler
Perry averages fifteen points and five assists

1158
01:20:27.960 --> 01:20:30.239
per game, but he struggled to
turnover since conference play started. He is

1159
01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:35.880
a horrendously inefficient player that shoots just
thirty three percent from the floor overall this

1160
01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:41.279
season. Wild Kat's best player is
two guard Cam Carter, who leads the

1161
01:20:41.279 --> 01:20:44.560
team, was sixteen points at night. Neither Carter or Perry shoot better than

1162
01:20:44.600 --> 01:20:47.319
thirty one percent from three, which
means you can clock in three for five

1163
01:20:47.560 --> 01:20:55.039
each. Right now, is this
data? Ames had no idea that they

1164
01:20:55.039 --> 01:20:59.159
that was his real name. That's
awesome and Dorian Finister are the guards of

1165
01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:01.960
note that come off? Who are
the old name teams? Sorry? Nick,

1166
01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:06.039
I just totally freight trained you.
Yeah they have. We have a

1167
01:21:06.159 --> 01:21:12.119
Dayda Thomas and a Dayda Aimes.
We got a Gisel James Milan Momsilievich has

1168
01:21:12.119 --> 01:21:15.159
gotta be right up there. That's
pretty good. Who is that guy from

1169
01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:16.960
Cincinnati that you just said they got
a lot of contenders, the guy that

1170
01:21:16.960 --> 01:21:23.039
that made all those baskets and helped
them beat Tech. Oh oh yeah,

1171
01:21:23.079 --> 01:21:28.479
that was a good one. Yeah, it's just right up here. Uh

1172
01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:35.520
that was the by guy. Yeah, yeahs. I think it's the only

1173
01:21:35.600 --> 01:21:40.760
b YU player not named Spencer.
I think is is that guy that you

1174
01:21:40.840 --> 01:21:45.880
read Kansas? And what's Kansas's coolest
name? Is it? Is it?

1175
01:21:45.880 --> 01:21:51.159
It's Furfy? Right, yeah,
Johnny Furfy. Probably not a lot of

1176
01:21:51.399 --> 01:21:56.079
super interesting names on the team this
year. No, not not not as

1177
01:21:56.199 --> 01:22:00.319
entertaining. Okay, next, sorry, go back to Yeah, well I

1178
01:22:00.359 --> 01:22:03.960
think that at that point the battle
has already been lost. But we have

1179
01:22:04.079 --> 01:22:11.960
several names, okay, Nick.
Anyway, from Creighton transfer, Arthur Khaluma

1180
01:22:12.119 --> 01:22:15.800
is case State's best three point threat. He plays the three and averages fifteen

1181
01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:18.640
and seven while shooting thirty eight percent
from deep. Fore Man David and Gasan

1182
01:22:18.720 --> 01:22:24.359
and center Will mcneers junior shoot high
percentages and both add about seven points and

1183
01:22:24.399 --> 01:22:27.800
six rebounds per game, but neither
have been able to fill the absence of

1184
01:22:27.880 --> 01:22:30.640
Nakwon Tomlin void in the front court. Case. State is a good defensive

1185
01:22:30.640 --> 01:22:35.199
team that's sawid on the glass and
has been excellent with interior defense. Their

1186
01:22:35.520 --> 01:22:40.239
poor non conference schedules help those numbers. They have not played one hundred distens

1187
01:22:40.279 --> 01:22:44.159
in an Esque caliber opponent to truly
test their front court. They're poor across

1188
01:22:44.159 --> 01:22:45.920
the border offense, shooting thirty one
percent from three as a team. We'll

1189
01:22:45.960 --> 01:22:48.239
steal about that on Monday. Probably
going to be the opposite of that,

1190
01:22:48.279 --> 01:22:53.760
probably like sixty one. They commits
fifteen turnovers per game, which is among

1191
01:22:53.840 --> 01:22:57.720
the country's worst. Excuse me,
they don't necessarily play at a super low

1192
01:22:57.880 --> 01:23:00.399
so pace, but they turn the
ball over so much they get real latively

1193
01:23:00.399 --> 01:23:03.520
low numbers of shots up. Kansas
has dominated this rivalry over the years.

1194
01:23:03.760 --> 01:23:08.279
Shocker they'll sell thirty nine and six
against the Wildcats in his time as Kansas

1195
01:23:08.279 --> 01:23:13.000
head coach and fifteen and five in
Manhattan won sixteen to the last eighteen matchups

1196
01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:15.840
in the series. They did lose
at Brambridge last year. One of Jerome

1197
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:20.039
Tang's ten overtime wins was that game. Nick just drove that thing, man.

1198
01:23:20.079 --> 01:23:24.279
That is code for I am tired
and I'm ready to go to bed.

1199
01:23:24.399 --> 01:23:27.520
Is whenever Nick reads three paragraphs in
a row, all right, prediction

1200
01:23:27.640 --> 01:23:32.159
time got first. I'm gonna go
first, and I am going to predict

1201
01:23:32.520 --> 01:23:39.199
a handy Kansas win. This is
a matchup between two teams in opposite directions,

1202
01:23:39.199 --> 01:23:42.479
and I have predicted Kansas to lose
out there or the games to be

1203
01:23:42.640 --> 01:23:45.000
closer than a lot of people in
the past. I don't see it happening

1204
01:23:45.079 --> 01:23:48.760
this year. Case State has put
up battles the last couple of years against

1205
01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:53.479
KU and played over their heads.
This is two teams going in opposite directions.

1206
01:23:53.640 --> 01:23:56.640
This feels like a team that comes
out and shoots way too hard,

1207
01:23:56.720 --> 01:23:59.880
tries way too hard to turn their
season around on one night and it just

1208
01:24:00.039 --> 01:24:02.399
falls flat. They turn it over
a lot. Kansas has been feasting in

1209
01:24:02.479 --> 01:24:06.319
transition recently in the half court offense. Whenever they get there. I don't

1210
01:24:06.319 --> 01:24:11.720
think Kansas State can slow down Dickinson
without Nakwon Tomlin, I think Kansas wins

1211
01:24:11.720 --> 01:24:15.439
a game it's in complete control the
whole second half. Kansas seventy seven,

1212
01:24:15.560 --> 01:24:23.119
Kansas State sixty one. Yeah,
I think I think you'll see a good

1213
01:24:23.239 --> 01:24:27.359
if. Maybe I don't know how
sleepy you can be in Bramwich. I

1214
01:24:27.359 --> 01:24:32.359
guess I think it'll be a quiet
second half sandwich between two huge games in

1215
01:24:32.399 --> 01:24:35.760
Allen Field House for the Jayhawks.
But I do think they're going to win.

1216
01:24:36.119 --> 01:24:41.880
Give me Kansas seventy two sixty five
in a game that maybe Case State

1217
01:24:41.920 --> 01:24:45.880
gets up for a little bit earlier
but can't really contend with Kansas over the

1218
01:24:45.880 --> 01:24:48.399
stretch of the game. I think
the Jayhawks will overpower them. Look for

1219
01:24:48.680 --> 01:24:50.760
I mean, per usual, It's
not really been a prediction at this point,

1220
01:24:50.800 --> 01:24:54.920
but Hunter Dickinson's gonna have a good
game. I could see Johnny for

1221
01:24:54.960 --> 01:24:58.319
a few maybe having a slower night. I think that is I'll roll without

1222
01:24:58.359 --> 01:25:00.960
my interesting prediction, but yeah,
Kansas wins in a game that is probably

1223
01:25:01.039 --> 01:25:05.319
not as close as the scored say. Yeah, I'm waffling on what I

1224
01:25:05.319 --> 01:25:09.079
wanted to site here. I think
Kansas could theoretically come out a little bit

1225
01:25:09.159 --> 01:25:12.439
rough, just because of that small
turnaround time. They have five guys who

1226
01:25:12.439 --> 01:25:15.039
are playing thirty seven minutes per game. But I think that this game,

1227
01:25:15.119 --> 01:25:19.479
like Ryan said, the trajectories a
case State's just not being good, Kansas

1228
01:25:19.640 --> 01:25:23.960
heading in a different direction. I
think that Jayhawks end up coming in and

1229
01:25:23.960 --> 01:25:29.159
getting a pretty commanding win. Give
me Kansas seventy six, Kansas State sixty

1230
01:25:29.159 --> 01:25:32.279
five. I also think that this
is the game where the three point luck

1231
01:25:32.359 --> 01:25:38.760
starts to swing back. Kansas has
allowed forty seven percent from the three point

1232
01:25:38.800 --> 01:25:42.359
line and the three losses they've had
the last month, this has got to

1233
01:25:42.359 --> 01:25:45.840
be where it turns around. Kansas
State is the worst three point shooting team

1234
01:25:45.840 --> 01:25:49.199
in the Big Twelve. They're just
not going to see their opponent shoot fifty

1235
01:25:49.199 --> 01:25:53.600
percent every night. It's just not
gonna happen. This feels like the game

1236
01:25:53.640 --> 01:25:56.840
where it spends back around Case State
has a bad shooting night, and I

1237
01:25:56.880 --> 01:26:00.000
don't know how they slow down Hunter
Dickinson. I don't so as long as

1238
01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:03.079
Kansas doesn't forget that number one exists, I like their chances, And honestly,

1239
01:26:03.119 --> 01:26:08.359
this feels kind of weird. So
this maybe whenever I am exposed and

1240
01:26:08.479 --> 01:26:11.760
proven to be a fool. But
this is the least concerned I've been about

1241
01:26:11.760 --> 01:26:15.119
a Kansas at Kansas State game in
quite a while. I think they roll

1242
01:26:16.119 --> 01:26:18.439
well. All these predictions like that
have never bit us in the past.

1243
01:26:19.039 --> 01:26:21.279
Never. I'm not even gonna look
at the soundboard to see if there's any

1244
01:26:21.359 --> 01:26:26.560
Finally check one time this season against
the team in Florida. Yeah, oh

1245
01:26:26.680 --> 01:26:30.079
yeah, no, that would that
would never happen. Art And in fairness,

1246
01:26:30.119 --> 01:26:31.880
Kansas was in complete control of that
game. Let's see him get up

1247
01:26:31.880 --> 01:26:34.399
sixteen to blow it again. It's
like the SpongeBob mean, you want to

1248
01:26:34.439 --> 01:26:38.520
watch me do it again? And
ain't gonna happen. Big twelve games,

1249
01:26:38.560 --> 01:26:41.439
these rankings will all shift. Houston
probably goes up a few numbers, right,

1250
01:26:41.479 --> 01:26:44.159
I mean you can't. You can't
knock them for that game at Yeah,

1251
01:26:44.319 --> 01:26:45.239
you might as well put them at
one at this point. I mean

1252
01:26:45.279 --> 01:26:48.039
they are Yeah, they're one,
They're one, and everything that matters,

1253
01:26:48.079 --> 01:26:50.720
we know that. But they do
get a layup of a game this week

1254
01:26:50.760 --> 01:26:57.960
Oklahoma State at number four. Houston
who here wants the pokes? Not me?

1255
01:26:58.079 --> 01:27:00.880
Though I actually do think this game
could be a snak keep it close

1256
01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:06.199
I don't. ESPN says Oklahoma State
has less than a one percent chance to

1257
01:27:06.199 --> 01:27:09.520
win this game. That's not true. They played it one hundred times.

1258
01:27:09.520 --> 01:27:14.399
Oklahoma State would win twice. I
think so, But yes it will.

1259
01:27:14.439 --> 01:27:15.640
This will not be one of those
two times. It will be Houston.

1260
01:27:16.000 --> 01:27:19.920
Number twelve Iowa State at Texas.
God, I'm so bad at Texas games.

1261
01:27:19.960 --> 01:27:23.319
They're oh and three at in the
league at home and three and oh

1262
01:27:23.399 --> 01:27:27.359
on the road or something like that
in the last six games. I think,

1263
01:27:28.000 --> 01:27:31.800
but I don't know. I think
Texas. I'll take times. I'll

1264
01:27:31.840 --> 01:27:41.680
take Texas, yeah true. Number
twenty two BYU at Oklahoma. I do

1265
01:27:41.760 --> 01:27:45.000
think, oh, you as Buns, But I think that BYU isn't roadworthy

1266
01:27:45.319 --> 01:27:48.760
and to get back to back dubs, I'll take the Sooners and hate myself

1267
01:27:48.760 --> 01:27:51.840
for it. Yeah, same,
I don't like that, but I am

1268
01:27:51.920 --> 01:28:00.920
taking them. I'll take BYU and
number fifteen Texas tex Oklahoma sorry at home

1269
01:28:01.359 --> 01:28:09.159
going against the fighting Mormons here that's
all of us. And number fifteen Texas

1270
01:28:09.159 --> 01:28:12.159
Tech at number eighteen Baylor. I
am a big fan of the Bear so

1271
01:28:12.319 --> 01:28:15.359
I feel very confident in taking them, But you guys, maybe not so

1272
01:28:15.439 --> 01:28:17.640
much. I do think they win. I actually think they roll in this

1273
01:28:17.720 --> 01:28:29.000
game. You say, I already
said they're winning other games. Mountain West

1274
01:28:29.039 --> 01:28:32.239
Action Number nineteen, New Mexico at
Wyoming maybe the two least exciting states in

1275
01:28:32.279 --> 01:28:36.680
the country. I think Wyoming wins
at home. New Hampshire exists, but

1276
01:28:36.920 --> 01:28:45.600
uh give me Wyoming New Mexico.
Number twenty four. Alabama at number sixteen

1277
01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:49.000
Auburn rivalry game. Ken Palm has
very different opinions of these teams. What

1278
01:28:49.119 --> 01:28:56.439
say you, I think the Tigers
win. I agree, Yeah, I

1279
01:28:56.479 --> 01:28:59.880
do too. I'm a big fan
of Bruce Pearl's roster. Number thirteen Creighton

1280
01:29:00.239 --> 01:29:02.119
Providence. Tough game here for the
Blue Jays, who have not had good

1281
01:29:02.199 --> 01:29:04.640
luck. But I will say they
went on the road and I hate it.

1282
01:29:05.439 --> 01:29:10.640
Give me the Frars close. I'll
take Creighton. How about this for

1283
01:29:10.680 --> 01:29:13.760
a fun one? Texas A and
M at Missouri. Is this the night

1284
01:29:13.800 --> 01:29:17.039
for the Tigers? No? No, no, I thought that'd be more

1285
01:29:17.119 --> 01:29:21.439
climactic. Here's an upset for you. Number eleven, Arizona at Utah.

1286
01:29:21.560 --> 01:29:30.920
Give me the Utes Wildcats. I'll
go with Utah, all right, So

1287
01:29:30.960 --> 01:29:34.479
our next show coming out later in
the week, and then we gotta figure

1288
01:29:34.479 --> 01:29:40.159
out what we're gonna do for the
Super Bowl, because the stupid Jayhawks played

1289
01:29:40.159 --> 01:29:43.800
the day before in the day after
the Super Bowl, don't they. Surely

1290
01:29:43.840 --> 01:29:47.039
that weekend's not gonna be a bad
one. Baylor Chiefs played the forty nine

1291
01:29:47.119 --> 01:29:51.760
ers, and then KU has a
game against Texas Tech. I think it's

1292
01:29:51.800 --> 01:29:57.319
the Lubbit game, yeap in Lubbock. Surely there's no three l's in that.

1293
01:29:59.159 --> 01:30:01.319
Hey. I feel pretty confident there'll
be at least one dub I just

1294
01:30:01.359 --> 01:30:04.680
hope there's one that I that I'm
a little more focused on than the others.

1295
01:30:06.520 --> 01:30:12.039
Landon's like, no, I hope
the Cheese lose Go Lions. Yeah,

1296
01:30:12.159 --> 01:30:15.680
I honestly would not mind if brock
Party won the Super Bowl. I

1297
01:30:15.680 --> 01:30:18.000
hope the game is fifty six to
fifty five and the Chiefs win, but

1298
01:30:18.039 --> 01:30:28.399
brock Party has seven touchdowns. Wow, that's yeah, okay, boat on

1299
01:30:28.479 --> 01:30:33.439
that one. This is insact.
I am Ryan Landreth, and I am

1300
01:30:33.680 --> 01:30:40.720
not a fan of the metric and
the nerves. I am so tired,

1301
01:30:42.239 --> 01:30:44.960
so am I. But I'm a
broad pretty fan, I guess too.

1302
01:30:46.119 --> 01:30:49.000
All Right, everybody behave himself,
especially if you go to Mexico. With

1303
01:30:49.039 --> 01:30:53.239
Wayne Kerr, behave yourself. What
could happen on that trip?