We're not knocketting on the door where bussing and waiting any more. Be champions
gotta win out taken on Htupid, we are we are another chang. Yeah,
that's three years of this challenge, well challenge event series. Hevy Hoops
Border Showdown for you, sir. That's it. I'm sorry, I forgot.
It is not the border war anymore. Missouri calls it a war,
Kansas does not, and uh, for whatever you want to call it,
it's just lots of wins for the Jayhawks who beat Missouri almost a week ago.
We're late getting you this show because everybody has had scheduling commitments. But
Nick, we are once again a two man show today because our third half
May after going on two dates, have what Yeah, Landon Fields goes on
a date and then another date, misses two shows, and now he is
missing today's show because he's ill because he has herpes. It just been't preface
that this is Landon is not active in any sense of the imagination. So
this just has to be the one that spreads from hand to hand contact.
That still means he must have touched someone's hands that you know what, something
happened, But unfortunate for Landon that that's that's how you get that disease.
And never mind, but very poor, very poor week for Landon, who
has been very sick. Feels like everybody's been sick in the world with some
sort of cold. It's just been going around and Landon has been going through
it for about a week and it turned into an earache. And then he
texted us, I believe just the most random ForWords he's ever texted us randomly
earlier in the week, which is I might have herpes And Nick and I
are like, yeah, okay, the funny guy, and he says,
no, I'm being serious. I might have the herpes virus, you know,
like the cold sore that starts with like the that feels like a cold
and everything. Leave it to you, land and to somehow get it,
as Nick said, you get it that way from shaking hands, I guess
with someone. But another another show without land and he's planning on being back
in the next show U after Kansas plays Indiana. But yeah, Landon's basically
taken an unpaid leave of absence here for the entirety of December. That's taking
an unpaid uh not leave that sense right, So I guess you could flip
it around and say the alternative angle is he's not making any less than he
does whenever he does the show. So yeah, sure if you want to
say that. But Nick, you are mister reliable. You are the trooper
here today. Uh, taking time out of having family over for the holidays,
and you're still here to talk about Kansas and Missouri. Uh. That
was That's That's how dedicated you are, sir. There's no way that you're
actually gonna hang it up at the end of this year. Who's ever.
That's why I am on the show is because I got to get in all
the shows in my last season. That's right. Savor every single game I
can before I'm done after you know, the inevitable loss in March. Oh
nope, Yeah, that's that's that's definitely coming. This is inside the paint
on Rock Chuck blog, coming at you a few days later than we normally
do, but you know what, that's that's better late than never. I'm
Ryan Landreth and I am Nick Whipert and you do not have herpes, which
is not something that all of the regular rotation pieces can say and landon.
You know what, this is why I don't miss shows because if you guys,
ever, oh that's a good one. Yeah, let's go ahead and
give that a push. I think we could. I think we could use
that. Come on, h This is why I don't miss shows, because
if I miss shows, you guys would be able to joke about me without
me being able to hold anything to present any actual rebuttals. So why would
I want to do that? This is why I've been on like four hundred
and thirty of these four hundred and thirty five shows. What is it?
Four thirty one show, four thirty one, I've done four and twenty seven
of them. That is that is so many shows, so so many shows.
That's almost as many times as Kansas has beat Missouri in school history.
And they got another one back on Saturday. Let's build the earhart and talk
about it all right. Number two Kansas seventy three, Number nothing, Missouri
sixty four. But screw that. You don't want to hear me say that.
You just want this what's up? Missoo tigernation baby yet? But you
can have this taking on so catchy it's just catch it's actually good, Like
I don't think that's a bad song. I mean it's terrible, right,
but it's also it's terrible, but it's also good. In some so bad
it's good, the same way that your six year old daughter likes the Baby
Shark song. It's horrible, but they think it's good. Yeah. Same
here. Of course, if you're just listening to that song and you're thinking
what the heck is that and you haven't seen the music video, you're doing
yourself a disservice by having not gone to Google or YouTube and type in we
are a Mizoo music video, because this is something that they filmed way back
in twenty twelve that your Kansas and Missouri had the Neck and Neck Conference race
right before they went to the SEC, and you have all these dorky looking
college kids and their jerseys tucked into their jeans and everything, doing this kind
of rap auto tunes song about how great Missouri is and how Kansas sucks because
obviously know how that season turned out for both teams. So it's pretty ironic.
Now, if you haven't seen that video, Nick, how would you
describe that to somebody who has never seen this illustrious music video? Uh?
Have you ever seen a fraternity in the Midwest? Yeah? Wh he is
annoying and h yeah, I don't know. It's Missouri. It's met up.
They've been They've been memed to death as a result of this. I
mean, that's why this is on the soundboard. And another l for Missouri
though, Nick, they did play better than they had played the last couple
of years. I know that's not the highest bar to set or anything,
because they had lost the last two years by like seventy combined points. But
they were better in this game. Still wasn't enough to really be that close.
Yeah, but like I said, it wasn't the margin we've seen the
lastwo years. But Kansas took care of business to win their fifth straight game
overall, taking down Missouri on fieldhouse. He was ending the first half on
a twenty two run that will to claude in Missouri effort early into a deficit.
They never got close closer than eight after halften. What's your initial takeaway
from this game? It is underwhelming fair after they've beaten Missouri, blown the
brakes off them two years in a row, put up one hundred ball and
couple twenty point thirty point wins. Well, so there's a couple different things
with that underwhelming is pretty I mean, you were a thirteen point favorite and
you won by nine and the second half he got out scored. And not
blowing away teams is something we've kind of seen be a trend with this Kansas
team since the opening week of the year. But if you're compared it to
the last two years, that just isn't fair because Missouri was awful two years
ago. They came in here with already like four or five losses in Quonzo
Martin at the controls and walking a dead man walking Quanzo Martin. Of course
they're gonna blow that team out. And last year's Missouri team was pretty good.
They were in at large team in the NCAA Tournament. If they play
that game one hundred times, you saw one of the two or three most
lopsided Kansas performances of those one hundred. Missouri was better than they showed in
that game at missour Arena against Kansas last year. They just got blown away
early. Missouri's pretty good this year. They're not terrible. They probably are
a bubble team. And yeah, Kansas should have won by more, and
there were several things that were gonna point out as to why they didn't but
no, anytime you can beat a team that projects to be an at large
squad by close to double digits at home, you'll take it. I mean,
if you swap out, you're telling me Missouri's any worse. Like I'm
trying to think middle of the Big twelve team. Missouri's not worse than Cincinnati
or Texas Tech or those teams. And Kansas has many games each year where
they beat that team by nine or ten points at home. So I wasn't
underwhelmed. I thought it was a good effort for Missouri. Missouri led this
game fifteen to six and looked like they were gonna hang around a lot longer
than they did, and the second half was never close. Underwhelming maybe,
but overall, I don't really think. So what do you think? Yeah,
I don't think it was underwhelming per se. I think a nine point
win is still satisfactory. Like you said, it's still a power five team.
This Missouri team maybe not as good as the one last year that k
You blew out, But I'm starting to trend towards the same opinion that this
team just isn't gonna blow teams out this year, which is okay. The
twenty twenty team didn't really do blow up have a lot of blowout wins either.
They had some close ones, but they just won games. So you
could see a similar tail for this team. Still just kind of an underwhelming
start to the season, and it's hard to say that when they're nine to
one, But we've really just haven't seen since the North Carolina Central and Manhattan
game just a breakout explosion of offense for all forty minutes or just consistent play.
They seems like the past five games at least they've had at least a
stretch in the first or second half where things just kind of go quiet and
the other team just has the momentum. Alofi House was a little bit quiet
in the second half in this game, which is a little unusual against Missouri.
But yeah, this I don't I don't, I don't know, I
don't get it. I don't understand the trends with with momentum for this season.
But you're just not a great shooting team, I guess, especially from
the perimeter, and you're relying heavily on three excellent phenomenal players and Ken McColl
or, ton of Dickinson and obviously Kja Adams has been huge. But outside
of that, you're looking for like the two guard spot, and you talked
about plenty, you're still a lot of question marks there, and again in
this game, it proved to be true. But I mean, you can't
fault a nine point win, like we said, like we alluded to.
I think one of us said, at least before this previous show, for
the last show for the Missouri game, we said that this was going to
be a little bit closer. You know, you can't expect to blow out
your rival three years in a row. And it was. It kind of
came back down a little bit to earth for KU this year. But so
I think a good win overall for the resume. Yeah, I think it's
a good win for the resume, is what you just said. I mean,
Kansas through ten games now they've won nine of them. They already have
wins over three different SEC teams on their schedule and a win over the defending
national champions. I mean, I don't understand how anybody can look at that
and not be satisfied with where they're at. I think that this team is
one of the two or three best teams in the country. I also think
that this team getting to nine and one or better happens less than half the
times you play this schedule out because look at who they've played. They've played
four teams in the top fifteen. Missouri is your arch rival. They've played
you know, they went to Maui. They've had against that field. I
mean, and now they're getting ready to play Indiana, which is kind of
a mixed bag. But it's a loaded schedule for Kansas. It's this week
of a non con schedule with the exception of that now He tournament as we've
seen, and it's still just a loaded non conference schedule. You'll take nine
and one. Every time you mentioned kJ Adams, that's exactly who I think
we should lead off with. I think he was the most impactful player in
this game. He tied for the team lead seventeen points, season high for
him, seven for thirteen from the floor. Just gotta be on an emotionally
unprecedented place with everything that's happened to him the last few weeks, and he
is taking it out on the basketball court by dominating these opponents. kJ only
had two rebounds, but he had five assists to go along with his seventeen
points and a sole crushing block on an easy transition runout that you will see
on highlight reels for years to come. Paid omits to Thomas Robinson on the
day his jersey number was retired with a sole crushing block of the Missouri Tigers.
kJ played thirty seven minutes. That's the most he's played in a game
in his career. Little Hunter Dickinson, like this is a big guy.
You don't normally see these type of players play that much, but they're in
such good athletic shape that they are able to do that and paying a tribute
to how they are able to avoid foul trouble. That's big. kJ has
been a star, Nick. I know that we've talked about. We knew
Dickinson would be good. We all figured McCuller would take a big leap forward.
But you got guys like hal Marco Jackson, Nick Timberlake who haven't been
maybe what we thought they'd be. Dewan Harris hasn't been quite what we thought
he'd be. But whenever you have kJ Adams who's taken a massive leap forward,
I feel like just about all of us we're completely sleeping on this.
And he has probably been the most improved player for Kansas this year, right
there with Kevin McCuller. You gotta be very happy with his development through the
first ten games. Absolutely, you know, he's been fantastic. Everything he's
been going through. I know we don't want to beat a dead horse there,
but he has gone through the ringer of this season, and just to
see him respond to that, it's just been phenomenal. He's been excellent,
exactly what this team needs in the front court, such a good front court,
and we knew he was gonna be good, but but the way he's
broken out this year has been especially with Hunter Dickinson standing next to him,
I think it's just something we didn't really see obviously. But yeah, nothing
negative to say about kJ Adams. He's been a huge bright spot, one
of the lone real surprises of this roster in a positive way. But another
real positive is Bill self is twelve to zero against Missouri and Allen field House.
Only Oklahoma has played Lawrence Moore without ever winning a game versus self.
Then Missouri shout out Kadeem Latin, who couldn't without these Bills Toma. Yeah,
Oklahoma's had a lot of close calls there. I feel like Oklahoma leads
them by eight in the second half every other year at Allen Field House and
they can never get it done. Obviously, the one you referenced was the
was their best chance. But they were up big last year in the second
half and couldn't finish. They were up big on Josh Jackson and Frank Mason
Senior Day and couldn't finish. They've been up, They've had the lead.
The COVID year, I think they led in the final minute and couldn't finish
it. And this year they're in the top fifteen again. So I'm looking
forward how this year's team leads Kansas sixty three to fifty six with three minutes
left and somehow final final that we know, Yeah, this is Oklahoma's last
chance to win an Allen in a while until I'm sure inevitably we'll see Bill
selfs schedule them as a home at home, like what they've done with Colorado
and A and M and Nebraska and all those former teams. So kJ Adams,
I think is the what's making him succeed. He's the perfect compliment Hunter
Dickinson. Hunter Dickinson, who will talk about in just a second, it's
been really awesome to see those two play together. kJ is not a shooter,
and I think that's what helps because Dickinson can shoot, so when he
goes outside, teams have to trail out. They can't just leave Hunter Dickinson
on the perimeter, and that opens up so much for kJ Adams. I
mean, what a difference that makes. Uh, let's go ahead and talk
about Hunter Dickinson. I want to talk about how much he struggled, because
they talked about on the broadcast, but he had thirteen points in sixteen rebounds
in a game that was one of his roughest eye test games of the year.
He was bottled up early, didn't score until the last couple of minutes
of the first half, but he was dominant on the boards. Was a
huge key in why Kansas was plus seventeen for the game. On the glass,
He was six for nine from the floor and played thirty five minutes.
Nick, I think this is about as quote bad of a game as you're
gonna get from Hunter Dickinson and thirteen and sixteen. Yeah, I mean,
if that's a bad game, then I want to know what a bad game
is for you know, Dewan Harris or somebody. But yeah, just a
fantastic's Hunter Dickinson as well. It has just been really good this season,
and obviously the stats have kind of decreased in the past few games. I
don't think it's a concern for me. Maybe I could get your thoughts on
that, but just seems like the emergency of akg Adams, Hunter Dickinson's presence
hasn't been his services haven't been as important, at least for him to get
twenty and twenty and twenty in a game like he did in earlier this season.
But I think Hudder Dickinson is gonna get as good as fair share of
points this season, I say, And Hunter Dickinson is actually the nation's leading
rebounder right now of any player, with twelve point six rebounds per game,
So yeah, there's not a lot of questioning his rebounding. The thing that
I impresses me about Dickinson, and I've said this every show almost is his
ability to avoid fouls because he plays so much. In his sophomore year,
he averaged three fouls a game in his thirty two minutes, and clearly that
was something he needed to touch up well since last year we saw that number
go down to less than two in an increase in minutes, and this year
so far, he's averaging thirty one minutes a game and is averaging even less
fouls than ever before, one point six files per game in thirty one minutes,
he's fouling once every fifteen minutes. Like that is for a guy his
size that blocks as many shots as he does, and he has the stamina
to be just as good late in games as he is early. I mean,
he's he's a bulletproof player. He's not perfect, but for a college
basketball player, he is about as as blemish free as you can be.
He's seven to he makes threes, he rebounds everything, he makes his free
throws, he doesn't foul, he's a good defender. I don't know what
else you could possibly want him to do. And we're gonna have a lot
of recaps where we're like, hey, he was great. I feel like
we're doing him a disservice by not saying more about him. But what else
can you say? He's just awesome. Here's a question I have for you.
How old do you think Nick Honor actually is twenty four? He's he
looks older than twenty four, sir, How old are you are you twenty
three? Yeah, I'm twenty three now. Yeah. No, he's at
least eight years older than you. That man's married with three kids. You
can't tell me he's not that guy. Yes, he looks older than Perry
Ellis did when Perry Ellis played basketball. He's got the Sharon Collins body,
and he looks like he's in his mid thirties. It's wild. Maybe I
don't know. It's like in the Baby Ye. Maybe they maybe they faked
his age. Yeah. Yeah. Something that I wish we could face is
a little bit more production out of the two guard because here we are once
again and we're doing our once a show two guard conversation. I'm gonna go
get water because I've been shouting about Hunter Nigginson. So I trust you to
read this paragraph and take it for at least thirty seconds or so while I
go fill up a cup. Go for it, sir, two guards.
Yeah, don't spit out with your water when you hear Nick Timberlake stats skin
No, Marco Jackson at eleven points, one rebound, one assist twenty six
minutes and he was two for five shooting. None of the other two guards
did much. Johnny Furfy didn't score in eight minutes after being pretty solid in
the two games before this one, and surprise surprise, Nick Timberlake made an
early three but didn't play in the second half, logging a total of six
minutes. Jamari McDowell continues to barely play, no stats in four minutes.
It's pretty clear at this point it Self was going to ride with Olmarco for
the lion's share of these minutes, right, yeah, Ryan's still the refrigerator,
so uh yeah, that's why you don't write rhetorical question That's why I
don't make questions at the end of notes. But I think it. I
think self is gonna ride with Malmrco this season. It seems like that's that's
what it's trending to be. I think it's weird that Nick Timberlake's just gotten,
you know, completely banished to the bench. We've seen it before in
the Bill celf Era. You know, guys that he just doesn't trust,
he's not going to play. Typically it's the older guys he trusts and the
younger guys he doesn't. But apparently he feels comfortable enough with Almarco Jackson as
a freshman over Nick Timberlake. I think that just underscores the just really how
far off Nick Timberlake is from where his game is at. I think it's
really just showing itself in that the fact that Bill Sluff doesn't trust him.
So it seems deeper than you know, just a little bit of a shooting
slump. I don't know what you think, Ryan, you made it.
You held down the fort while I fill up. We have our refrigerator dispenses
water slower than I can pee, So it is it is. I'm just
standing there forever waiting for this moderately average size Austin's bar and grill cup to
fill up halfway with water. Good y, A good job holding that down.
I'm really conflicted on al Marco Jackson, right, Like, part of
me wants to say, this is a guy who is tabbed to be an
immediate starter on the preseason number one team. He's not shooting the ball well,
he's not putting up a lot of stats, and that's just not good
enough because we've seen guys come in that were ranked lower in the recruiting than
he is and be really good. The other part of me wants to say,
this is a kid that's played ten college games, and he's out there
looking perfectly competent for the number one, number two, whatever they are team
in the country. That the arrow is pointing straight upward, he's gonna shoot
the ball better. He's an excellent free throw shooter. I don't know what
perspective is the right one to say. I lean more towards the ladder,
and I think he's actually been pretty good, despite the fact that the stats
haven't been that good, at least compared to what we were hoping they would
be. El Marco Jackson on the season is averaging six points, one rebound,
three assists, and is shooting thirty eight percent from the floor but ninety
two percent from the line. I think Arco Jackson's in to improve quite a
bit throughout the course of the season, and there's no doubt that that would
be the best outcome, because none of these other guys are going to consistently
put forth quality performances for you to feel really good about what happens when he
goes to the bench and Jamary McDowell, what the heck is going on there?
Like? Is this just like we were concerned about Johnny Furfey getting freshman's
fee mkay looked. It actually looks like it might be McDowell because after playing
like twenty seven minutes against Tennessee and being good in that game, Jamari McDowell
hasn't played much at all. Here are his minutes since playing twenty seven against
a top ten Tennessee team eight five four. What gives? Why do you
think he's played so much less hasn't made a basket since then either. Yeah,
I don't know. They probably goes back to the Bill selph as his
guys and his rotation figured out, but it is very odd, and I
think self knows that, you know, Almarco Jackson's not going to turn into
Zion Williamson or anything. But I think Bill self knows that Almarco Jackson hitting
his ceiling gives Kansas the best chance to reeve theirs. Furfey is limited as
a freshman. He can make you some threes, but you're not gonna reach
your maximum ceiling by playing Johnny Furfey more than Almarco Jackson. So yeah,
I think that they have to ride with Jackson, and he has all the
tools of a guy who you know, if he's not a one and done,
is he gonna be like a Wayne Selden where he has three very good
years at Kansas but never quite lives up to that McDonald's all American hype.
Or is he gonna be a guy that explodes as a sophomore and we're like,
oh, there it is. Or could he be a little like Josh
Jackson who was good in his first few games, But Josh Jackson wasn't a
well oiled, polished machine in his first few games. It really wasn't until
early January when we started to see all of that shine. Yeah, no,
I hardly agree with that. He's his own player and we'll see,
but yeah, at this point and Timberlake at I'm kind of done hoping in
that one. It can't get worse, but I'll he's got to show me
something before it can get worse, says Tyan Grant Foster. That's true.
He's already made more threes on the season than Tyon made in his and Tyan's
a good player now, like you would trade him. You would absolutely trade
Nick Timberlake for Tyan Grant Foster right now. Absolutely. That's weird, weird,
weird that we'd be saying that. But so you mentioned at the beginning
of the podcast that Kansas has underwhelmed you a little bit shooting threes and I
don't know if they are a percentage has been as frustrating as the number of
attempts, because I think they need to take more of them. Yeah,
it's a number of tymps for sure. Like the right, the percentage obviously
is a lower VOWE and that's why it looks a little bit higher than it
actually probably would be. But the volume is very low for sure. Yeah,
in this game, Kansas took forty six twos against just ten threes.
And Kansas is the number one team in the country and field goal percentage,
so a lot of that's clearly coming from Hunter Dickinson in the two point where
kJ Adams is also shooting like seventy five percent from the floor, so that's
a big part of it. But Kansas is shooting thirty eight percent from three,
which is top forty nationally, and we don't have a very big sample
size yet either. Normally there's a lot of teams that shoot higher than that.
And yeah, it's just one of those times where I think that they
need to be taking more threes than they are. And you know, their
ranked first overall in field goal percentage. It feels like they could be taking
more threes, especially if the guys like Kevin mccull a going to continue to
shoot it hot. As of late, only one one for four in this
game, but yeah, I'd like to see him taking one. Yeah.
Yeah, Dickinson's gone just fine shooting the ball. And I think Timberlake needs
to take four or five threes a game. I think he needs to play
enough minutes to be able to take. He's not playing the second half of
games, so it's not doing that. But like, it'd be nice if
if we could see him get enough minutes to take four or five threes and
we'll see if that can get him going. I guess I don't know a
guy that is going to play plenty of minutes. Kevin mccullor tell me about
the other guy that scored seventeen points. Yep, he is good as usual,
tie the team for the team lead in points with seventeen, but he's
only four baskets in this game, going four to fifteen from the floor.
McClure was eight for nine from the line to Pattis totals, and added nine
rebounds for assists. Three steals in his thirty nine minutes. Not much analyze
here. Obviously, one of the fifteen best players in college basketball. In
a down game for him turns into seventeen points. Have anything to add about
him or has he just been phenomenal in your eyes? Nope, he's just
been really, really good. Just a clutch baller who I would take on
my team any day of the week. Also, Kevin mccullor is a first
class trash talker. He would be an All Big twelve trash talking player because
he knows how to get under people's skin. He kind of started that whole
Marquette squirmish in Maui that we saw, and he was doing all sorts of
talking to Missouri's bench. Had that really high basketball i Q play where he
totally baited the Missouri defender into fouling him on that three point shot right before
halftime. Yeah, you knew Kansas wasn't losing at that point. All right,
Let's talk about Jwane Harris. Feels like every to one Harris recap sans
Kentucky has been the exact eight points, five assists, four steals, forty
minutes, didn't sit down, played a lot, he was three for six
shooting. Is there anything really to analyze here? We're ten games into the
Dewan Harris senior year and he's only scored more than eight points once. Yeah,
I think the stat line is just the points particularly just haven't been as
high as they should be for a Dewan Harrison another season at Kansas, they
just haven't. And I know I've gone on a I've gone on my own
monologue about this before, but you know, people disagree. People think that
the intangibles and the defense and the assists and stuff or are good enough.
But you know, when you're looking at this team, kind of scoring is
kind of tapered off a little bit. You know, those two ninety nine
point games and the eighty nine against Kentucky. Now they're not scoring more than
seventy and much many of these games. I think some of that's going to
be attributed to the lack of scoring from Dewan Harris. So I'm not saying
as a bad shooter, either increase your volume, dude, shoot more shots
like you can be more on, you can be more selfish with the basketball.
I just checked the asset. I just checked the asscarcbs. Nick,
you're a popular man here prepared to answer a lot of food questions and about
chicken. People apparently have picked up on the fact that you are a chicken
tender critic. It's gonna be good. Okay, let me ask you Dewan
Harris question. Would you say that Dewan Harris has been better than his stats
this year? Is he passing the eye test? No? No? Okay?
Interesting? All right? See, I think he's I think he's looked
better. If I watched all of his games and then you asked me to
guess what he's averaging, I think I would be surprised at how low some
of his stats are. He feels like a guy that's averaging about eight points
while shooting better than the thirty three percent or whatever he is from the floor.
I also have full confidence Dwan Harris is going to get better. I
think Dwan Harris is going to get better. We've seen enough of him to
know that these sample sizes are small. He should shoot the ball better,
he should draw more contact, and he should clean up the turnovers. As
he gets more familiar throw into these teammates. That's the way I see it.
Until then, there's really not a whole lot we can truthfully analyze.
But he hasn't been as good through ten games as we expected him to.
I think he's been better than what the stats show, but I don't think
that he's been as good as we expected. kJ has picked up some of
that slack by being better than we thought. That's why they're still nine to
one. But yes, Dwan Harris needs to be better than he has been
in these last ten games for Kansas to get better over their next ten games.
There's not much to say here about Parker Brown, who and that's not
us insulting him because he did good things in his five minutes. He had
two baskets and two blocks. He was good. Somebody tweeted at me that
he was the best big in the game, and okay, that's a little
strong. He wasn't he. Hunter Dickinson on one leg would be better than
Parker Brown. But that's no fault of Parker's. That's just Hunter being good.
The only other takeaway I have to say is can they show his mom
more? Yeah? That's so bad? Like that you you and Landon were
funning over, that's for sure. Oh Man, Whenever they showed whenever they
showed the Brown mom, it was like, uh, my cousin followed her
on Instagram year old, I would too, I would too if I find
her Instagram, Yes, I will do that because just yes, yes is
the answer. Overall, this is a pretty short recap. The game was
a week ago. Uh, but I don't really feel like like every year.
It feels like there's about five of these games a year. There really
isn't a lot to take away from. Nobody has a huge statistical performance,
nobody stands out for being awful, and they win a game that they were
expected to win by fifteen ish by ten. We chalk it up in the
win column and we're like, we didn't really learn anything. We didn't really
find out anything that leaves us scared, but we didn't really learn anything about
the team. Is that just kind of what this game is? Yeah?
I think so that that's been kind of the trend of this season, hasn't
it. I feel like there's been a couple of games we've learned some stuff
about the team, but certainly recently like the Eastern Illinois and the UMKC and
the Missouri games three the last four, I don't feel like I've learned anything
positive or negative about this team. But I do think that we're gon we're
gonna be saying I don't think we're gonna be saying that after playing Indiana on
the road and then we get to see how they are right before Christmas and
then conference play right after that. We only have three more non conference games
on Kansas's schedule before we get to before we get to the TCU conference opener.
So forty five percent from the floor, thirty percent from three to eighty
seven percent of the line. They shot the ball very well from free throw
line in this game. That was good to see. Plus seventeen on the
glass is dominant. Kansas did have sixteen turnovers, which that's a consistent problem.
Stop doing that, especially in a team that doesn't force very many of
them. Geezh. Overall quality showing from Kansas. They don't get an A,
they don't get an F you know, a B minus game. They
coasted to a win over good team that's gonna win twenty games. Like that's
that feels fine. I wouldn't say Missouri is gonna win twenty games guaranteed,
but you knowlin, Missouri's gonna get to twenty. I mean they already have
what seven then it probably will. Like, let's take a look, Missouri
has seven wins. They're seven and three right now. I don't know how
it's not eight because they lost to Jackson State. They play Seaton Hall at
home. They should win that game. That's on Sunday. Then they play
Illinois. That's gonna be a tough one that if they beat Illinois maybe and
then Central Arkansas so and then Georgia to open SEZ play, So they're gonna
have ten wins by the time they start that, and then yeah, can
they get Can they play ten and seven? Ten and six sec ball?
I think so. I don't know, twenty maybe. I think they're a
solid team. I don't think they're that Ken Palm had him at like eighty
into this game, Like, I think they're better than that. I think
they're like probably fifty fifty five somewhere like that. Whatever nine seeds kind of
what I get from Missouri. Any other takeaways on this game. I don't
think so turnovers are bad though, Yeah, the turnovers are bad. From
that perspective, you could say that we don't know what we're doing, but
we'll we'll definitely hopefully get a little bit better with that. As the season
goes along other games, which, of course, if you know by now,
begins with Big Twelve games. Well, Nick, it was a Saturday,
bloody Saturday for a lot of the teams in the Big Twelve that walked
in with undefeated records, because not very many of them walked out with undefeated
or winning whatever undefeated. Not many of the undefeated teams entering Saturday escaped Saturday
still undefeated. Yeah, three Big twelve teams lost for the first time this
weekend, BUYU, Cincinnati, and TCU. Beginning with number fourteen BUYU,
the Cougars were number two in the net and they fell at Utah seventy three
to sixty nine. That second number is not allowed in Utah. I don't
know how that got a statue. The Couter's picked up picked to finish thirteenth
of the Big Twelve seat at eight and one, with wins over San Diego
State, Arizona State, and North Carolina State. What's their that look like
going to the Conference Bay. I think they're better than we thought. Also,
they're new to the Big Twelve. BYU is one of those teams that
actually seems to hold their own over the years despite playing in a horrible league.
So I think that they'll be a little more acclimated than like a UCF
will to this conference. But I also think that they're gonna have their growing
pains. I don't think that they're gonna finish top half in the Big twelve.
And they're currently number three in the net. They were too, as
you said, they're three. Now, that's pretty ridiculous. Give me a
give me a break. North Dakota State's probably like two in the net.
Hey, after what happens. Yeah, they they did have a performance worth
mentioning. We're gonna get to that, but yeah, it would surprise me
if they collimbed to the ranks. Also falling from the ranks of the unbeaten
was TCU. The Horny Frogs lost seventy four to sixty six, too and
Toronto to number twenty four Clemson, who is a quality opponent. But still
TCU had beaten absolutely nobody and this was their first chance to beat a quality
opponent and they didn't do it. The horn Frogs finally played a team of
the pulse, couldn't get it done. Ernest Dowdey has four baskets made in
eight games. The grass is not always Greener. Why were they playing basketball
in Canada? Well, the Alabama game was up there because of Zach Eay's
homecoming. But I don't know how TCU and Clemson got into this great question.
TCU has played games in Puerto Rico and Hawaii and stuff every year,
and now they were in Toronto. I don't know. If you were in
Toronto, I don't know if you'd want to watch Clemson tc basketball. But
there were people in the stands, so someone did. I'm surprised they could
afford the tickets with how expensive it is to live in Canada. But pressing
was number nineteen Oklahoma. They handed Arkansas, handled Arkansas in a game that
Eric Musselman got ejected from. He did not take his shirt off, at
least not for the rep from night from seventy nine to seventy wins, reaching
nine and on the season, the Sooners are now in the top fifteen,
have one of the country's best overall offenses, particularly inside. Their next big
test is next week against North Carolina. I wish I had a yawn sound
on the board, because that's how overwhelmed I am and intimidated I am by
Porter Moser's Oklahoma team. Okay, so they're nine to zero, so they
beat Arkansas, They're going seven and ten and Big twelve play and we're gonna
be like, yep, that's Porter Moser for you. I could not.
I don't give a flip about Oklahoma, and I maybe I'll be wrong at
the end of the year if they wind up being something, but sure,
bring up, bring on Oklahoma another team. I'm not particular intimidated by is
Ima bitches because Kansas State is somehow, I don't know how. They're eight
and two overall. They keep winning, So here you go. They went
on the road to LSU and one easily seventy five to sixty. Overcame a
big Tiger run in that game to win. The Wildcats dominated the glass.
They got seventeen and eleven from Arthur Kaluma, who probably is their best player
at this point other than Tyler Perry. Jerome Tang's team is eight and zero
against unranked teams and oh and two against rank ones. I spy a trend.
KSE State or Oklahoma who wins more Big twelve games? Oklahoma? K
State or BYU who wins more Big twelve games? Ky State? Yeah?
I think you're right. I don't think you run on Oklahoma. I will
take KSE State winning more games than the Oklahoma Stingers this year. I think
they're better coached, and I think they have a better player than anybody that
the Stoniers have. Whatever. They also have a tougher building, like they're
gonna win against good teams at Bramblench. Oklahoma has no home court atmosphere at
all. It's true. And then rounding out the Big twelve, Cincinnati lost
to Xavier, UCF lost at home to Ole Miss. West Virginia barely beat
Drexel at home by six, and at least I was State one big.
They played Prairie View A and M and maybe by fifty one. That game
shouldn't count. You should not be allowed to count that game. A degree
at Prairie View A and M University shouldn't count. Also true is what are
there? What is Prairie View A and M's mascot? Do you know it?
It's a Panthers? I think where are they? Do you know where
they're located? Texas? I think Prairie View, Texas. That's correct,
they are. Wow, you crushed both of those things. That's unbelievable.
I think they are there. I think they're a historically black college and university.
I think so maybe Iowa State got a big check for hosting them or
whatever, because that's that's like. I know teams are being incentivized to do
that now, but I think Prairie View A and M is better than the
Los Angeles Chargers because crap, one of the most not safe for work football
games of all time is on. I always look FORID to doing Thursday night
podcasts because I like having the football game on and being entertained. While being
entertained, and this is just the Raiders have fifty six points in three quarters.
Yes, that was big twelve standing. Let's go on to other games.
There's a lot of information here. The most impressive showing of the weekend
belonged to Number one Arizona, who absolutely wall up twenty third rank Wisconsin at
home, ninety eight to seventy three. Somebody said that's the most points Wisconsin's
given up in twenty five years. All five Wildcats scored in double figures,
including Caleb Love who had twenty points. Arizona's next test will be likely a
showdown for the number one ranking with Purdue, who also won an impressive fashion
I number four. Purdue came from behind to take down Alabama ninety two to
eighty six in Toronto. Zach Eedy had thirty five points and drew ten different
fouls. Ah meanwhile, was nineteen for forty six for three more threes than
KU's made all season. They're two for five from two in the first half.
Yeah. So Nate Oates always has been a coach that likes to rely
on the three point shot, and it's very clear in this game. He
said, all right, here's how it's gonna work. You get a runout
sweet anything else, shoot three. You're going against Zach Edy, why even
try? And it almost worked. Alabama shot the ball very well. Yeah,
and like they were, they tailed off at the end too. They
were like sixteen for thirty four for a while and then just got really cold
when Perdue made their push. So Purdue is now three, Arizona's one.
Obviously, Kansas is in the middle there. Kansas can beat Indiana all they
want. The winner of that Perdue and Arizona game is likely going to be
one. So if Purdue upsets Arizona takes down number one, I don't think
Kansas is going to move to number one. Even with a win. And
that's fine, but just I feel like nobody gets leapt at number two for
the number one ranking more than the Jayhawks do. The highest ranked team to
lose a team, it's very familiar with being number one, number seven right
now Gonzaga who shockingly and I may need you to sit down before I dropped
this bombshell on you might be overrated. The Bulldogs lost to Washington in Seattle,
seventy eight, seventy three. Plenty of national championship contenders lose to Washington,
Guys, nothing that feels stressed about. After scoring three points over the
last seven minutes of the game. They did bounce back and take out their
frustrations by beating oh and ten Mississippi Valley State by thirty eight two days later.
You good for you, Gonzaga getting ready for conference play? Uh yeah,
and Land and get your old Mary voice out. Oh he's not here.
That's so sad. At least we have a reboard though. Oh may
there we go. The gals beat number thirteen Colorado State on the road,
sixty four to sixty one. I have a a non ranked team, fact,
and that is Michigan State. Holy Mother of God, Michigan State sucks
ass. That team was number five in the preseason polls or four whatever,
and they are four and five on the season. They lost to Nebrasketball the
other day, the team that we were laughing about for being an illegitimate wasteland
of talent, and they beat Michigan State by seven at home. Oh my
gosh, tom Izzo, this is a firebale offense. What you have done
to this very talented roster. That's pretty embarrassing. And then what's also embarrassing
is that Landon picked Pen to beat Kentucky. He did. Yeah, yeah,
that's really really embarrassing, and they in fact did not win Penn loss
by fifteen. That is why Landon will never win a pick'm race. And
number eight Creighton took a surprising loss to a four lost UNLV team on the
road, losing seventy nine to sixty four. Cool to see that UNLV was
able to rally behind their school. I guess, yeah, this happened after
the shooting, right, Yes, it just happened the other day, correct.
Yeah, So the Blue Jays already have twenty one and fifteen point losses
on the resume, but they'll inevitably clean it all up in time to make
twelve threes against the five seed on the Jayhawks, and this year Sweet sixteen
got to play him again in the tournament. Yeah, want no part of
that. Creighton could enter the NCAA tournament ozer and thirty one and I would
not want any part of that roster. Here is now, guys. We
like to do this thing on the show where we talk about hilarious teams that
come into top dogs and get blown out in non conference play, like Mississippi
University for women for example. But what we saw this last week is one
of the all time to never be topped sad scores that this sport will ever
see. The North Dakota State Bison, who you've heard of, they've played
in Allen Fieldhouse before they are a established D one school, was somehow allowed
to play and count as a win a game against Oak Hill Christian College,
which, per Rock Chalk Blog follower and ask RCB question asker at Elliott Ruson
Age, is a couple of tears below Juco in something called the Niac.
The final score of this game, sir, was one hundred and eight to
fourteen. Okay, that's also what I want to talk about because you always
tell me that the five inside the paint host could score five points on the
Jayhawks. What this actual college team couldn't get to fifteen against North Dakota State,
and you think us boobs are getting anything except for region against the Jayhawks.
I'm saying, if we could beat this team, I think we could
could hang thirty on this duco team. I do not know, for the
life of me, how you are allowed, when record matters, to count
a game against oh Kill Christian College, which is at least four or five
levels below yours. That is unbelievable. What are we doing here in college?
What was the what was the hold on? Okay, I gotta find
some information on the oh Here's what the box score looks like. Actually,
I actually did do some notes. North Dakota State's opponent, oh Kill Christian
College shot twelve percent from the floor, one for twenty on threes, twenty
three turnovers, six baskets, and two assists. Guess how many Guess how
many students are enrolled at this this so called school. One hundred and three,
one hundred and three, and that it's more than my graduating class in
high school. That is exactly one hundred more than this team had players score
in this game, which is three three players scored a point for this this
hey, three percent of the university had a basket in this game. That's
true. Yeah, I'm looking at what the score. My god, it
was it was. It was sixty to five at halftime. That's sixty to
five. It was sixty to five, and it was actually, amazingly it
was two to two at one point it was even. This team has wins
though they'd beat six Sister Cisyton whap weep Eton College ninety to eighty eight.
I'm not kidding. Cytonton College, Cyton c Seaton would beat us by a
million, and they would lose to Kansas by a million and a half.
Oh who else they beat? They also beat uh No, they beat sissy
Ton twice. That's their two wins Landon. I'm sad that you missed the
podcast for a few reasons, but no bigger than the fact that you they
lost. Laugh at this. They lost by one hundred points the Valley City
State University one hundred. They lost by one hundred, one hundred and thirty
one to thirty nine. So pretty much that's about what the score of this
Raiders Chargers game is so the Chargers are current. The Raiders are currently beating
the Chargers sixty three to seven, and at one point the North Dakota State
Oak Hill Christian College game was sixty two to seven, so pretty close all
things considered. Wow, that is that is just amazing. And on a
day where we had all this excitement. At number twenty two, Duke played
Charlotte, which is a girl's name, not a college at Cameron ass embarrassing
ranked teams to lose since the last time we did a podcast. Number seven
Gonzaga lost to the Huskies of Washington. Number eight Creighton lost to UNLV.
Number thirteen Colorado State lost to a horrible Saint Mary's team. Number fourteen BUYU
lost to Utah. Number twenty Illinois lost a good game to Tennessee, and
number twenty five twenty three Wisconsin lost to Arizona. We didn't talk about Illinois
Tennessee because it was kind of how expected. Tennessee got a nice win,
and Illinois, I think is pretty good. I think Illinois is probably the
second best team in the Big Ten. And also number twenty four, oh
Kill Christian College just gidding. Twenty four is way higher than the number of
points that they scored. That's a joke I should have made. I should
have said. And number fourteen, oh kill Christian College. Oh wait,
that's not their ranking, that's the number of points that they scored. Lost
by ninety two. North Dakota State legitimately cannot believe that counts. That should
never count. Just scrimmage against yourself at that point, you can't tell me
that's not worse. Somebody on somebody on Twitter was comparing Oak Hill Christian College
to College of the Ozarks in Branson, like that level of college, college
of the more of a legitimate university. Oh yeah, College of the Ozarks
is n ai A, which is ahead of ni A C. Like like,
geez, that's that's that's the difference between a five A high school team
and a two A team. That's horrible, not horrible, though, Nick,
your pick'am score. Yeah no, that's actually been pretty good.
Let's do ask RCB. You guys had one hour to get questions in and
you did a pretty good job. We got double digits. Here here we
go. So Nick, you are a popular man in the questions today at
k Tweets and News says this is more of a statement. Nick reminds me
of an old man. He hates things for seemingly no reason, like lemonade,
just based on contrarian boomer vibes. How old are you actually, sir?
Uh? Sixty three now that checks out. Sixty three, by the
way, is forty nine more points than oak Kill Christian College scored against North
Dakota State. Uh kay, tweets the news just going right at at where
do Sprint centered chicken tenders rank on your list? On what scale of vomit
inducing diarrhea is between Taco Bell and the Sprint Center's chicken? Oh? Man,
I would rather eat a literal cat turd at this point than eat those
chicken tenders from the Sprint Center again. And I don't even think I'm kidding
gross Uh yeah, Landon got sicker than I did. I didn't eat as
much, and and we weren't that sick like we we had upset tummies for
a little bit. It's not like we were in the hospital. You ever
said the word tunny tummy again? That's an ick word? Is it really
that? That's your ick word? I don't like tummy. It just sounds
like juvenile to me, like okay, like you're talking about Toddler. Look
there's an old man take for you at K. He doesn't like that one.
Yeah, you're full of them, right. What would the botto god
this question? I can see the horror in this question, and I haven't
even asked yet. What would the podcast look like if if KU basketball mirrored
current day Royals baseball? Holy Sweet Jesus, it would be all A lot
of the probably be off the air. Yeah, no, it would be
quite bad. I would not want to get on here every single show and
scream Jordan Lyles for being so bad. The Royals are spending a little bit
of money right now and it's actually nice. Maybe they'll maybe they won't lose.
Uh. Then, did you hear about how the stupid baseball lottery worked?
No, I don't. I don't understand pro baseball so used to work
pretty simple baseball. The MLB draft order used to be reverse order of record,
the worst record picked first. Well, they decided that they were going
to start doing because everything Rob Manfred, the Commissioner of Baseball touches turns to
hell. As nick Is posted the picture of the I'm assuming the Oak Hill
Christian College basketball team and they look like sixth graders. Is this homeschool league?
I can't believe they scored fourteen if we're being honest, like I really
can't. But anyways, so so baseball the other a couple of years ago
decided that they were going to try to discourage tanking. They were gonna do
what the NBA does, which is they're going to change to a lottery system.
And the Royals, who finished with the second worst record, are picking
sixth in the draft because they got screwed in the lottery. There are the
Royals lost a franchise record one hundred and six games last year, and they
are the third team to draft in their own division because of this lottery.
That's crazy. So yes, if it was, we would have had a
full on. Kansas lost the TCU again sore a meltdown podcast After that,
at Ari Norell underscore the third Do you guys like, how k you match
us up with Indiana? I think Kansas and Indiana's big are a wash,
but k you should have a sizeable advantage in the back ord A special or
of Xavier Johnson doesn't go for the Hosiers. Indiana doesn't attempt a ton of
threes later. I'm gonna save that question for the end because that is actually
very similar to the analysis that I plan on bringing to the table in about
fifteen minutes. Whenever we talk about that game at cam Lippolt Golf, you
know, whenever Cam pops in here, Nick, You're always gonna have a
question. That's uh, they got the arrow pointed at you. What is
the Vegas line on Nick dating a woman with a tattoo? You can't get
odds on that? Yeah, plus ten million better than the odds that the
Chargers are going to come back and win At this point, I mean,
the odds the Charger are gonna come back to win are pretty low. Right,
Oh, I met worse worse than those odds, which is wrong?
One day? Will you will open your eyes on that one? At Kope
Froud, why do we not give Johnny Furfey more run time? Every game
He's been in the ten to fifteen minute range when your typical six man should
be playing near starter minutes. Hopefully this change is against notoriously bad three point
defensive team in Indiana. Yeah, what are your thoughts on that Furfey not
playing the sort of minutes that a six man normally does play. Yeah,
I don't know. It's the whole bitch bench thing is weird. It seems
like Bill Sos has his mind pretty much made up he wants to play.
I think Bill self is trying to get el Marco Jackson as many minutes as
possible to acclimate him. We've seen Bill self play Alamarco Jackson with two or
even three first half fouls this year. That tells you everything you need to
know. He wants this guy to get twenty twenty five minutes a night,
as many minutes as he needs without being a liability to develop because he thinks
that Jackson, not Furfey, is the tickets to this team's success at the
two guard position. That being said, yeah, Furfey needs to play more,
especially considering I want this team take more threes for sure, and if
Timberlake's not gonna do anything for if he's all you got at Hawkman one oh
three to one. How many points will Kansas beat Kansas State by this year?
Uh? Probably like eight. They'll beat him handily at home they usually
do. The road games are tough. Kansas doesn't typically blow Kansas State out
on the road. I don't think they've won out there by double digits,
and they've only won like two games out there by double digits in ten or
twelve years or something like that. Not typically something that they roll. But
you gotta think they'll beat him twice this year, even though the environment will
be good at Preston Skirsick. What is the better mix and match Hunter Digginson
with Jamari McDowell's hair or Dwan Harris with Patrick Cassidy's hair. Oh my gosh,
I have to google Patrick Cassidy's hair. I have no idea what Patrick
Cassidy looks like. Let's see Patrick Cassidy is sporting. Oh, he kind
of has your hair, sir, He's kind of got like just the classic
I'm in Master's school at Kansas sort of haircut. Imagine Dewan Harris with that.
I think I need to see Hunter Dickinson with dreads hundred Dickinson with dreads.
That'd be pretty funny because Jamari McDowell doesn't just have dreads. They're they're
kind of going in a few different directions, Like I feel like Hunter doing
the I have a big penis gesture with that. That's that's something I think
we all need to see at jack and nine seven to one, ninety six
seven five seven. Will Kansas continue to win the Big twelve? Seems like
the changes to the league will see KU winning every year less likely. That
is true. We're there. We're definitely gonna see more quality competition being added.
It's not like Oklahoma and Texas ever did anything, but yes, they
will win the Big Twelve this year, and they're still gonna be the favorite
most years. Bill self is the best coach ever at winning in the regular
season. Yep at Boom and Frost. The best fast food chicken nugget,
not chicken strip nick go, that's gotta be chick fla. It isn't it
nuggets. I have a very basic answer on this, and you're not gonna
like it. Give me some of your favorite I don't really like McDonald's chicken
nuggets. Personally are pretty good. I don't know. I wasn't like I
said, it wasn't big chicken nugget fan. I was just I was more
of a strips person. McDonald's chicken nuggets are a tier, S tier or
whatever you want to say. So delicious, so amazing. I'm a small
person. I weigh one hundred and twenty pounds. I don't eat very much.
I can whip down those chicken nuggets like nobody's business. And you know
what McDonald's has, I'll give you Chick fil A because Chick fil A has
got a lot. With the exception of Chick fil A, McDonald's might have
the best sauce of any of the fast food restaurants. They're hot mustard.
They're hot mustard is fantastic. They're honey mustard is fantastic. McDonald's actually has
pretty good barbecue sauce too. McDonald's has good sauces. Yep, I'm at
true ball. Noah saw good things from L. Marco. Do you think
we finally see a breakout? Yes, that's coming. Yeah, Marco's Marco
has been better than the numbers would indicate. He's gonna be good. Uh,
that still need to be all to use the bench. That only hurts
us more, draining our starters and gonna get hurt in mid March. We
say that most years he never rides the bench as much as we think he
is. But overall, yes, you're probably correct. And at me and
another question here thrown in here. If you had to get rid of one
thing, which of these four. Is it pizza, burgers, wings,
tacos? Wings? Probably it's wings are tacos. What if I change it
from wings to pizza, burger, tacos and chicken uh tacos. Yeah,
I think it's right. I'm not getting rid of burgers. That's that's the
one I'm keeping. Pizza is important too. I don't need a lot of
tacos, but I eat tacos more than wings. Yeah. Yeah, I'm
not a I'm not a huge wing person, like because the wings I like
are like the boneless ones, which are essentially chicken nuggets with lots of sauce
on them. That's all they are. Yeah. I do some uber and
DoorDash deliveries with my wife working at night, and there's a lot of pickups
for like Buffalo wild wings and wingstop and everything. They never smell good,
They're real expensive. It takes a while to cook them. I never got
the appeal with wing. You know why America is so broke? It is
because people are spending thirty dollars and ten wings, yeah, in door dashing
it and an extra fifty cents per sauce they want. And yeah, then
the door dash fee of eight dollars and throw in a few more bucks for
the tip, because we got a tip based culture and that's the only way
DoorDash and Uber drivers make money. Yes, if you door dash or Uber
delivery, know that without a tip, your driver's getting paid two dollars maybe
two dollars and fifty cents for that pickup. That's how much that people do
you think actually tip you? Well? I I mean whenever you do that,
I accept less than ten percent of offers. I will not accept an
offer unless it's at least a couple dollars per mile because but I would say
the average tip is somewhere between three and five dollars. And for like that,
See, that's where it sucks, because like somebody could order one McDonald's
meal and tip four dollars on a ten dollars meal. That's a good tip
that should suffice. But your DoorDash driver, because they're paid so poorly,
is only being offered like six dollars to deliver that whole meal, and that's
not worth their time. That's where the tip culture sucks because that person is
tipping forty percent, but it's still not a competitive enough offer because these food
subscription services are paying the driver so little, and you have people who are
willing to take everything that's thrown at them. But so that's why they'll eventually
get their food. Does DoorDash still do the thing where if you drive like
a certain amount of routes that you'll get like extra cash or something. So
DoorDash is crooked and door dash makes you be a top dasher, which means
you have to accept at least fifty percent of your orders to have the priority
on the best ones. So it's kind of a you have to take your
early losses to get your acceptance right high enup. You have to take all
the crappy no tip orders to get it to fifty percent, and then you're
in the Then you're in the in crowd where you're getting the good offers.
I mainly use uber eats where you don't. It doesn't work like that.
It just sends it out based on whoever's closest. But yes, DoorDash is
is these places are so corrupt they try to incentivize taking more orders, which
if you take every order throwing it, you're gonna lose so much money by
driving all the time. And it just is that is that worth it overall?
Like just with the gas and the miles on your car, and if
you're strategic about it, like I cherry pick everything with it, I don't
I take because I don't take someone else that pays me. I did.
I. I also at one point doordashed the COVID summer because everyone was at
home and it was an easy way to make money and get out of the
house. And I did it in Hutchinson, Kansas because I was back home
and all the restaurants in this town are literally like right next to each other,
so it's like very easy to get the food and drop it off people's
houses and do a lot of orders at once. And there was no competition,
Like it wasn't a college town. There weren't a lot of people doing
it, so you could pick up all the orders you wanted. And yeah,
it was a good way to make money that summer. But yeah,
you had a perfect storm there. And also door dash and Uber was paying
better than they are now. They've lowered their rates a lot, So I
have a lot of success in Overland Park. Overland Park's busier than Aletha.
That one thirty fifth in Metcalf area is usually kind of my hot spot.
There's a lot of restaurants around there. Yes, the answer is you can.
It's inconsistent. It's side money. I usually make about twenty five dollars
an hour, which sounds great, but then whenever you think about it's hard
work. You're driving, you're moving around a lot, and that's not covering
your gas, and you're working premium hours. You know, you're working six
to nine pm on Friday and Saturday nights to get there. My wife works
overnight. She has to work a lot of weekends as a nurse. So
that's great money for me to make there. Otherwise I'd be sitting at home
doing nothing. But could I do it full time? No chance. It
does better whenever there's less competent, like the summer, it was worse because
it's warmer, people don't want to stay in and order food as much,
and the college kids are here so there's there's more business. So yeah,
you had a perfect storm. Overland Park's a pretty good place to do it
in, but more than ten hours a week, it doesn't become worth your
while. One more question here from where are we at here? At me
without and you rank these fast food places in order from best to worst.
Taco Bell Arby's, Subway, Panda. I think all of them except Panda
Express is the best one. You could rest them out. Pand Express is
so unnarrated. Pan Express is good. Arby's is the best of those four.
Arby's has everything. Have you been in on Arby's recently? They have
really good burgers now they have a huge menu. If I'm eating fast food,
which isn't often, I'll be at Panda Express for Chippotle, mostly Chipotle.
I ate it. I've been eating Chipotle like too many times. I
think Arby's is the best. I think Subway is the worst, and Subway's
gone downhill a lot in recent years like they used to be. Are they
going to pay for all those celebrities in their ads? Yeah, exactly.
Did you know that Subway has more than twice as many locations as any other
fast food restaurant. Yeah, it's crazy. There are tens of thousands of
Subway in this country. I think i'd go. I actually eat at Panda
the least, so I think i'd say Arby's, Taco Bell, Subway,
Panda Express. I think that's my order, and I know that that might
be the opposite of what you like. What's your order, you have Panda
one and then what you gotta eat at one of them? Right now,
Panda, I'd probably take some pepto bismo and eat the taco bell and don't
really care about the others. I mean, I used to like subway,
but it's just like twenty dollars sandwich. So subway is so expensive now it's
crazy. The five dollars foot long now you're getting like a Now it's like
a thirteen dollars foot long. It's great and it's all bred. Oh yeah,
and people have measured it before, Like there's if you look up measuring
subway foot long on YouTube, Like the subs are like, yeah, they're
like ten and a half inches. They're just they're just screwing people left and
right. It's it's terrible. Good round of ascarcbs. Guys. You had
a limited amount of time to get those in and you manage to do a
really good job. So keep them coming and hopefully on the next show we'll
have three people to answer them. If you ever have ascarcb's use a Twitter
hashtag or the x hashtag ASCARCB. All right, and now it's time to
preview a road game number two Kansas at Indiana on Saturday morning, December the
sixteenth, at eleven thirty am in Bloomington, Indiana neck This is one of
the best settings for college basketball in the country and Kansas. It's been a
long time since they've been up there. It has been the Big Tens.
Indiana Hoosiers are seven to two on the season. Their best win is on
the road against Michigan. They also beat Maryland and Louisville in I guess.
They also have two hideous losses to the best two teams they've played, by
twenty two Yukon and by twenty eight to Auburn last weekend. Chase Jackson Davis
is gone, but his replacement has been excellent. Seven foot center khalil Ware
and Oregon transfer leads the team with seventeen points, nine rebounds at a couple
of blocks per game while shooting sixty one percent from the floor. Excellent after
this with comfortable handling the ball away from the basket, but he is at
his best when he's at the rim. He's paired with six nine power forward
Molik Renew who adds fifteen and five while also shooting a good percentage. Yeah,
Indiana's entire team is filled with guys that are like six' nine in
athletic like, I can't really figure them out. Their backcourt has been their
problems. Xavier Johnson, their very talented point guard, has been hurt.
He's missed the last three game. Status unknown for this game. All time
White Guy of the Game candidate Trey Galloway has been playing the point in his
absence. In Guys, if you've ever heard this song song in your head,
he is shooting fourteen percent from three. He's three for twenty two on
the year. Guess what happens when the blue wearing day Hawks come to town
A lot, That's what happens. There's also m mackenzie Mbaco, who Kansas
fans will know as a guy who almost committed to Kansas over the summer and
opted for Indiana at the last minute. He's averaging ninety four of US drive
through Yeah he did, that's right, and he hasn't missed any games,
I don't think. But still that happened before it started, averaging nine and
four, a solid start to his career. Anthony Walker c J. Gunn
similar similar size too. Uh they round out the perimeter. Uh. Here,
let me take the Indiana stats monologue because there's a few things I want
to update here the Hoosiers. So what I do whenever I put together these
notes is I'll watch some highlights, I'll review the record, and I'll look
at the college basketball reference page, and that'll normally give me a pretty good
idea on what to expect Indiana. I'm puzzled, completely conflicted here. They
have so many guys in that six to eight ish range, so they have
plenty of height. They're an athletic bunch, but something is preventing this team
from bringing it all together. They play at a very slow pace. They
make a lot of twos. That's a staple of a Mike Woodson offense.
They draw a lot of contact. They shoot twenty six free throw attempts per
game, so they get to the line a lot. They make an average
amount, but when they're there that much, it's a decent total. They're
averaging eighteen points at the free throw line per game. This is a good
defensive team that blocks a good amount of shots and takes away the ball at
a decent clip. But there are three big weaknesses. They're a horrible rebounding
team, especially on defense, which isn't great with Hunter Dickinson coming to town,
and they are horrible, horrible, all time horrible at both things.
Three pointers they shoot just twenty seven percent as a team, bottom twenty nationally,
and they are making three three three pointers per game, which is three
sixty out of three sixty three teams. And they're equally bad defending. The
three teams are making nine threes a game on Indiana and shooting thirty five percent,
which is horrible. Uh, this is an Indiana team that is averaging
being outscored by eighteen points per game at the three point line. And they've
played a lot of cupcakes, so teams are making threes against them. Could
it be bad luck? Could it be a trend? We'll see Jayhawks.
Great question that was asked in the notes. There are a couple of them
about how Johnny Furfee this could be a great smash spot for him. You
know Bill SEL's reading that scouting report. We'll see. Yeah. So all
time Kansas is seven to eight, and fifteen matchups was Indiana, including a
blowout win at home last year. The Jayowks were seven to two versus the
Huger since the start of the Roy Williams era. Interestingly, though, Kansas
has never won it assembly hauled. They're zero and three, with losses coming
in nineteen seventy one, seventy three, and ninety four. That's the last
time Indiana had a successful basketball team, and they also are zero to two
against Indiana. They've lost multiple times in the national championship game. I think
what forty They lost in forty and they lost once in the early fifties.
I want to say it was like fifty four or something like that. It
was in the Wilt era. So Indiana is the reason Kansas doesn't have six
national championships instead of the four that they have. Yeah, definitely a very
interesting matchup here between two of the bluest bloods in college basketball. Indiana's won
five titles. They are a blue blood, though it hasn't been great recently.
And I legitimately don't know what I want to pick in this game.
We'll start with Landon because I have his in front of me. He thinks
Kansas wins by about nine seventy seven to sixty eight, and I think that's
probably the most likely result here. Kansas is probably gonna be a four ish
five maybe point favorite. Five is pretty big. Probably about fourish on the
road. Indiana hasn't been particularly impressive. However, this is a really tough
environment and this is a huge game for Indiana's at large chances. They need
a signature win like they need anything else, So they are going to be
ready for this one. They got pounded by Auburn last week. Not likely
they're gonna put up that stinker again. I think this is a really tough
spot for Kansas. I'm curious what you think happens. I was thinking about
picking them to lose, but it's Indiana team's gotten blown out by the two
good teams they played this season. I think it's gonna be a close one.
I'm gonna say Kyu seventy three, I Indiana at seventy. I think
it's to be close. Okay, I'm gonna split the difference between you and
Landon and predict Kansas to win by about seven. I think as a seventy
eight to seventy two sort of game. Seventy eight to seventy one feels about
right. I think Kansas is better. I think they will have a you
know, a three to ten point lead throughout the course of the second half.
Remember the Oklahoma State road game last year where Kansas was ahead like six
to ten points the entirety of the second half. They couldn't quite pull away,
but they weren't really in danger of losing it. I think that's a
similar feel here. Also, you better believe Kansas fans are gonna make the
trip for this one. I've seen a lot of Kansas fans talking about going.
You even mentioned maybe going. This is a rare opportunity to see Kansas
play and a historical basketball venue. You gotta think there's gonna be a lot
of Blue shirts in that crowd. You still considering going or is that ship
sailed? I'm assuming that tickets are expensive. Yeah, no, I'm not.
I'm not driving seven hours to Indiana. It's a what a fun car
ride through Missouri and Illinois. Yeah, where's Bloomington? Is it on the
east or west side of the state? Right? What side of Indiana is
Bloomington on? Is it? You gotta drive a little. I think Bloomington,
Indiana looks Yeah, it looks cold and doesn't It's right, it's not
too far from Indianapolis according to Google. So only in our flight can you
get use some of those southwest points? Sir? Yeah, I got plenty
of travel funds. I need to use me worth there you go. You
could go why Kansas win a very forgettable game up there? So we all
like Kansas to win. This is one of the best Saturdays in college basketball.
Take off your shoes and enjoy a full day of hoops. Let's pick
the most consequential games beginning on Friday night. How about this for a good
game? Number five Yukon versus number ten Gonzaga on Friday night in Seattle.
Gonzaga try to not get totally blanked against the good teams they played. Do
they get a dub over the defending champs? I think Yukon's gonna win.
I am gonna pick Gonzaga to win this game. This is their last opportunity
to win a game against the quality team until March. They are in their
home state. Yukon's gotta fly across the country. I'm just gonna throw a
dart and say Gonzaga upsets Yukon. Number six Baylor versus Michigan State. You
want the upset here is? This game's in Detroit. Landon thinks Michigan State
wins and I am I'm conflicted on this one because like they can't lose them
all and the second I bail, they're gonna win. But I can't trust
that team Baylor's gonna beat them. They're like Michigan State's just not very good
right now. Texas A and m versus Number four Houston Landon another upset for
him. He thinks the Aggies take down the Cougars. And you know what
I do too, Aggie's Houston, Ohio State versus Ucla Saturday afternoon. This
is part of the CBS Sports Invitational. I will take the Buckeyes. They're
better this year the than the Bruins. Even though the game you pro probably
have more UCLA fans, I'll say Ucla. Number thirteen Clemson at Memphis undefeated
Tigers. Do they meet their match? I'll say yes, I'll take Memphis.
Uh, that's a tough one. I think that Clemson's gonna win,
but I I think it's a sneaky, sneaky game for them. Very tough
games here. Number fifteen Florida Atlantic at Saint Bonaventure. One of the sneaky
good games here. That's a pretty good little atmosphere for FAU to go travel
too. But I think FAU takes care of business. I do too.
I think they are a very solid squad, returning everybody from a final fourteen.
Number one Arizona versus number three Perdue. How about that for a blockbuster?
Give me the fighting zach Edies to take down number one. Yeah,
I think Arizona's gonna take their first. Still, So if Purdue wins this
game, they will have wins over one Arizona, four, Marquette seven,
Tennessee good lord, and yet they still can't beat Boo Buie and Northwestern.
That's crazy. Number nine North Carolina versus number fourteen Kentucky. I will continue
to put my eggs in John Caliperry's basket. Give me the Wildcats. I'll
take North Carolina. Yeah. I don't have a good feel on that one,
but I think Kentucky's two talented Alabama versus number eight Creighton and Old Yeah,
I agree. I think Creighton's pretty good. But there are a hard
team to predict. I am pretty sure that you and Nick picked different in
just about every game this week. So we're gonna see how the Pickham's stats
go from here. This will be interesting. This is inside the paint.
We'll be back. I assume midweek is what Kansas Next is Yale? Right?
They play Yale on a Friday night. Yeah, fun one, it's
gonna be Oh yeah, it'll be the best sixty eight to fifty five game
you've ever watched with your eyeballs, at least until they play Harvard and do
the same thing next year. This is IP will be back early in the
week. I'm Ryan Landreth and I'm Landing Fields. Gotta love of landing Fields.
Miss that guy. But Nick, You and I I think can do
just fine on our own. Whenever Nick or whenever Landon quits next year and
it's just you and I beat Oh what's the other way around? Right?
Well, if Lannon can cannot get STDs, I think you'll want to be
sticking around with you next year. But who knows, you might have to
do a few one man shows if he keeps going on these dates. Hey,
they are officially called STIs now, sir. Diseases was deemed derogatory,
so we changed it to infections. That is a change that was made by
whoever is in charge of making those changes. Whoever made that decision. Is
a disease by behavior self