Well and abbreviated Inside the Paint Podcast still and Inside the Paint Podcast. We're
so dedicated. You know. Our thing has been we do a show for
every game the Jayhawks play. False we do a show for every game the
Jayhawks play and one. That's my that's my John Higgins calling an and one
whenever. I don't know if it's justified by the way you have the whole
arm movement, like the tomahawk chop coming down with the finger down. Yeah,
you did not see it. You did not see it. But I
ran all the way across my hallway from baseline to baseline basically to signal the
and one. Because that's how dedicated we are. You're on this show.
You could also the other option was if it was a charge call, you
run across down the hall, but this time you punch a hole in the
wall because you're hard standing forward to call. The effect of a charge is
so fast and precarious that you break break the drywall. Because it's all about
the refs. It is all about It is a show. It's a circus.
Yeah, and you know, we had a game this week around the
Big twelve that fran Fraschilla said, like three times down the stretch. These
guys could not have done a better job officiating this as ref. You suck
chance are reigning throughout United Supermarkets Arena because what else would happen? And Ali,
when we watch Big twelve games, you have to know we watch refs.
We know what we're looking for. So when we call on and one,
which is this podcast, you know that you're always getting something good.
Two man show on Inside the Paint. It's gonna be a short show because
there's no Kansas recap, but we're still here to talk about all things Kansas
basketball. Nick, you're pretty excited. Yeah. I can't remember the last
time Landon and I were on the same show together. It seems like when
I was on a couple of times when he was at a cheerleading competition,
and then I was on earlier this week, got a little day off because
I was at work, and then I'm back on and now Lannon's gone again,
so I guess he doesn't like me. Yeah, you guys are playing
opposites for sure, but Kansas playing opposite their normal schedule. They had a
whole week off today this week, so we're not gonna do a Kansas recap.
There isn't one to recap. They play the Long Horns of Texas On
the night of the day this podcast will drop, and then they're right back
to the grind. Everybody's now had their bye week in Big twelve play,
everybody has played thirteen games, so we have five left. We have three
weekends and two weeks left until the end of the season. And the Jayhawks
have moved themselves into third place. I believe they're fourth with a tiebreaker because
Texas Tech has the the one win over them and Kansas has the win over
Bailey. It's our real confusing that the unbalanced schedule, schedule it is it's
really really hard to keep an eye on. So what we're gonna do today,
We're gonna blow the air horn and then we're gonna talk ask Garcy B
right out of the shoot. So two man show Nick all the excitement for
you. You actually are kind of excited for this variation of asked GARCB because
it's first right, Yeah, because instead of talking about what color shorts the
one Harris was wearing or how bad he was, we can talk about Rodney
Terry's pants and his Perry Potter glasses. Yep. Because Rodney Terry's coming to
Allen Fieldhouse, and I hear his glasses are with him. It's gonna be
an interesting night for the Longhorns as they take on Kansas on Saturday night.
Not the college game day game, but it is the college game day time.
So we're gonna do ask GARCB. First, we got ten questions for
you, just to give you some Kansas basketball content, because that's pretty much
all you're gonna get till the preview. So then we'll recap all the other
games, and then we'll eventually end with the preview. So pretty short inside
the paint, but you know, it's game day, so everybody who's listening,
i'm sure is okay with that. Let's blow the airhorn and do some
questions. Well, I hit the it was on mute up oops Bee ask
RCB. Wow. Do it's like you fell asleep and missed the first two
thirds of the show. That's not what happened. We're gonna lead off with
that today. You guys did a good job getting questions to us, and
here we go at let's start with a ku question because this is a Kansas
basketball podcast. I don't know if we set our names by the way.
But it's up to you guys to guess. At ky Eden fourteen, We're
not gonna start with a Kansas question. We're gonna start with a Nick question.
Kleb asks why is this Nick's last season? Outside of his opinion on
tattooed women, I like to hear what he has to say, Sir,
you have fans, why are you leaving them? I'm tired of Ryanan and
Lannon. That's the honest te Oh, well that's fair. And Landa's not
here, but he would say that's fair. Yeah, I just I just
two nights a week listening to you guys talk is just far too much for
an hour at a time. I just can't can't handle it. So kind
of an inside the inside the paint. Look here, I am in my
late twenties. Landon and Nick are in their early twenties. Nick just wrapped
Masters school. Is working full time in an office. I work full time,
split between an office gig and delivering DoorDash and Uber orders combined together to
get me there land and works. Landon's kind of doing a few different jobs.
He has many short term jobs. It feels like he kind of goes
from project to project kind of a contractor, if you will. So those
are three jobs that are all relatively new. You know, we're constantly changing
things around. I've done this show now for eleven seasons. I was eighteen
when we started this show as a freshman in college, and I'm now twenty
eight. Nick and Landon are on their seventh season. You guys did this
show all the way through your late high school and all of your college years.
You guys are now working professionals, so you've done this a while.
And no, we don't make any money from it. I make about two
hundred dollars a year from the ad revenue, and that pays for the Rock
Chalk blog domain, and it pays for the Spreaker, which is my podcast
hosting website fee. So we don't do this for money. We do it
for a hobby. Nick has done two hundred and fifty shows almost and it
gets to a point where, depending on your work schedule, sir, you
have to get up at five point thirty in the morning to go to work
five days a week, as most people do. We record these shows pretty
late in the evening because land and I have more evening centered shifts. So
at a certain point when you've done it so much he kind of runs hired
of it, or it just kind of runs its course. I think that's
kind of where you're at. It's not that you hate Kansas or you hate
the podcast, just sometimes it isn't the best. You know, you've given
seven years to the show. I think that you more than deserve your your
opportunity to write off when you please. Yeah, and it's not really the
fact that I'm just you know, tired of podcasting and talking. But it
is, like you said, my schedule and I have a lot of stuff
going on, you know, in my personal life, not like anything bad.
It's like activities, you know, Bible studies, events I go through
throughout the week after work. So it's just it's hard. It's a lot
harder to balance the schedule, especially when you're working full time, not in
college where you can just you know, mosey around whenever you want. So,
yeah, life's changing, you know, some different things, and yeah,
it just seems like the right time too. I wouldn't say my fandom
for Ku has changed much at all, but I've been kind of more of
just kind of lase Fayre hands off a little bit more, just watch watch
for the enjoyment of my alma mater and watch ku play unless like psychoanalyze why
if kg Adams Schwartz run backwards is why he was terrible at rebounding? Or
Yeah, just things are changed, life changing. So I've enjoyed this show
and it's been so much fun to do this, and yeah, it just
seems like, you know, thought about every once in a while and maybe
maybe could have gone out at the end of the National Championship, but you
know, I've enjoyed this show and decided to come back for seven seasons.
So it's been fun. Yeah, this show. This is the four hundred
and forty eighth episode of ITP season eleven, episode twenty nine. I've been
on all of them but four. I missed a couple when I was either
really sick or whenever I was out of town. And even that's where you
guys have been on eighty plus percent of the show since you guys started seven
years ago. And so the first four years of this show, I did
it with two guys that I do in college, and then Landon and Nick
I met through the podcast. Nick, you were someone who asked us ask
RCB questions that we started talking and became friends. As a result of that.
Land And and I actually worked together as teenagers, and he started listening
to the show. So it's it's wild how you find people that can do
this, and who knows Nick I met on Twitter. Maybe future hosts of
this show should we should we change that up whenever you're not here next year.
Maybe that will come from an ask RCB questioner as well. You never
know, but yeah, a little inside the paint, inside the inside the
paint, look for you there. It's been a really nice run, and
I'm eternally grateful for the countless hours that Nick and land And have put in
while not making money, just at a hobby to try to bring everybody some
fun content. And I also envy, sir, how next year you will
be able to watch a Kansas basketball game without wondering how you're going to analyze
it on a podcast, because I'm sure that's that's pretty fun sometimes. Yeah,
at Stefan Timmy seventeen. Is there a better football and basketball head coaching
duo in the country than Lance Leipold and Bill self? I was gonna say
Nick Saban and Natoates, but that is no longer Okay, that's no longer.
But yeah, the first one that came to mind was Arizona, and
yeah, how they happened to right, yeah, exactly. He left to
be the Washington coach, right, yep. Yeah, they just hired a
new guy, and Tommy lloyd Is is a brilliant coach. So it's not
who are the best coaches in college basketball? Baylor has a really good basketball
coach, but they don't have a very good football coach. Who else comes
to mind? Kentucky is up there. I don't think Cala Perry is what
he used to, but they got a good due because Kentucky's football coach is
Mark Stoops, isn't it So? Yeah? And North Carolina is always good
even now with with Mac Brown and with with Hubert David. Yeah, that's
that would be fairly high up there. Uh. It's it's harder than it
sounds, though, to find a school that has a really good duo.
And I think Kansas about as good as it gets, which is kind of
weird to say, we're talking about a kay football coach like that at Preston
skirt Stick. Thoughts on the freshman of the Year race in the Big Twelve
seems to be between Johnny Furfey, Jacoby Walter, and Yeve MESSI which of
them is at this point the favorite. I think it's Walter. He has
the best stats. I know Baylor's got two names on that list, but
Walter has been the most impactful freshman. I'd agree Furfey's been really good,
and I would put Furfee second right now, but I think Walter. It
seems like Baylor always has the freshman of the year. Walter seems to be
the most impactful, albeit not spectacular, but very consistent. If Grady Dick
was a freshman this year, year he was a freshman with Keante George.
There's no Kante George this year. If Grady Dick was in there this year,
I think that he would be the Freshman of the Year, but it's
kind of a down year for a freshman as far as I'm concerned. At
Chris Cisco two s Rico, Sorry at Chris Crico too, what teams as
of now would be I'm gonna change this question, but it says better.
I'm gonna change favored. Who would be favored over KU on a neutral court
right now? Sorry? You kinda who would be favored to what over the
Jayhawks on a neutral court today, Houston, yep, produce yukon maybe Arizona.
I I don't get the Arizona line. I think I don't, to
be fair, they have the same record as Kansas and Joe putting them on
the two line the one line? Yeah, yeah, who else is up
there at this point? I don't maybe, I mean at this point Marquette
beat him, so maybe I don't know. Up there, you beat Tennessee
on a neutral court already, Iowa State probably Alabama would be really close.
Yeah, dude, I would say there's three definitively, and then once you
get into that Arizona, Iowa State, alabama'sier, then it gets a little
dicey. A team like Duke, I think would have a better chance of
being favored over Kansas than Iowa State because they have the freshmen and the kind
of the name. But yeah, it's there's not many, is the answer
to that, although a lot of those games are either pick them or essentially
pick them, like it's all really really close. A few more questions here
at Show Me Hawk. If Missouri, Texas, A and M and Nebraska
were in the current Big Twelve, what would their conference records be not very
good. No, Nebraska would be okay, Nebraska would probably be kind of
in that BYU, NURI would would all be their record that is currently in
the SEC. They'd be O for ah. Yeah, Honestly, if Missouri
can't beat teams like Ole Miss and Missouri lost to horrible, horrendous Vanderbilt and
Arkansas teams, all three of those teams are worse than anybody in the Big
twelve and A and M what's done after this year? I think he will
get one more year. I don't think you have lost. Yeah, they're
gonna start losing those recruits too. I think they're gonna give him another year
because they were an NCAA team last year, and they will have a good
recruiting class, albeit one that's not as good as it is right now.
They're gonna lose players. Right now, it's the best in the SEC.
But I think if you go win less than the SEC or it gets this
bad. If you if you have a single digit win season and a Power
five league, I think it's gotta be on the table. Why was Arkansas
so bad this year? I know they lost Anthony Black, Rickey, Counsel
Smith Smith and Walsh, But like, weren't they supposed to be kind of
good this year with the recruiting class I four and nine in SEC and they're
thirteen and thirteen. That's that's the yikes. Yeah, they were ranked whenever
they went down to was it Orlando is that where they played that tournament?
Or was it Atlantis? It was one of them, And then they beat
Duke at home and everyone was like, oh, Okay, this team's pretty
solid, and they've just been horrendous since SEC play started. They were nine
and four, which isn't a great record, but they were nine and four
when SEC plays started, and their only losses were all to pretty good teams
except for UNC Greensboro and then and SEC play they've been horrible. Though they
have won three of their last five or three of the last six or something
like that. Very strange, but the SEC has just garbage at the bottom.
I think that A and M would be probably around that Cincinnati tier.
I think that Missouri would probably, if not win, let's be very close
to it. And Nebraska would be Okay, Nebraska is better than Nebraska's righting
at Oklahoma BYU tier, I think that's right. Another one from show me
Hawk. Let's say the Big Twelve is able to go back to the Round
Robins scheduling format, but you have to remove six teams from next year's Big
Twelve. Who are you removing? Oklahoma? Well, I get they're not
in it, so they have to go down to ten teams, and we're
just taking next year sixteen. We have to remove six. Yeah, I'm
getting rid of the first name that came to mind was I don't need Cincinnati.
I don't need Central Florida. Yeah, any of the ACC I mean
guess Houston. Houston's good at basketball. Yeah, but I would definitely get
rid of Cincinnati, would definitely get rid of UCF B YU probably two.
Yeah, I don't need Utah either. Yeah, no, Utah, Arizona
States trash. See. I'm okay with Arizona State if you keep Arizona because
that makes it fun. But yeah, I think that the So with with
there being sixteen teams in the Big twelve, how many of them are original
Big Twelve members? Six Kansas, CA State, Iowa State, Baylor,
t or Nope, Tech, tack in TCU Right yeah, wow, TCU
is now an original Big twelve member. Uh yeah, those six have to
stay the rest of them, I don't really care. I like Houston being
in it. I like West Virginia being in it. Did I say them
too, West Virginia whatever? Like old like actual Big twelve from like twenty
ten, Kansas, Kansas State, Texas Tech, Iowa State. That's is
that it? That's it? Oklahoma State. Okay, Baylor Baylor, Yeah,
Baylor Baylor. Okay, those six are locked. Then I'm keeping TCU,
West Virginia and probably Arizona and Houston for Fundsie. It's all, it's
all. You forgot Colorado too, they were an original Big twelve member.
Yeah, I forgot Colorado. But but yeah, I hate I hate realignment.
I wish they just go back to regionality. I want the original Big
A or the original Big twelve, where Texas, A and M, Colorado,
Nebraska, Missouri, we're all in the same conference with the I'm with
you, the Gate teams, I'm with you. I missed that original regionality,
I think because the whole point of conference re alignment has been for football,
and now you're making women's rowing teams travel from Los Angeles all the way
to New Jersey. Why not just make the super League? What's the sport
that. What's the sport that Florida joined the Big Twelve in the other day,
No idea Florida, A Florida team join the Big twelve. I think
it was women's rowing, as you as you just said Florida women Big twelve.
I'm just looking it up on Elon Musk's X Women's lacrosse features Florida as
one of the teams. Also, Old Dominion is in the Big Twelve for
rowing. Old Dominion Yep. Yes, But I was just gonna finish my
point in saying, like, if it's all for football, why not just
go make football the NFL feeder League. Get thirty two of the best college
football teams in one conference, and let us all have our fun back with
college basketball and get all your original power conferences back together and football can be
a separate conference. Yeah, I'm good with that. Here are the six
teams. By the way, so the inaugural Big twelve women's lacrosse season will
begin in twenty twenty five. Here are the six teams that are competing in
Big twelve Women's lacrosse. Cincinnati, Arizona State, Colorado, Florida, San
Diego State, and you see Davis. That's a big twelve conference that is
sport. The women's rowing team at least has a little bit more realistic from
what people used to do Central Florida, Kansas, Kansas State, West Virginia
than Old Dominion and Tulsa. So, I yeah, you're the days of
being able to keep track of all this are done. It's very hard.
At cam Lippolet Golf, Sidney Sweeney will marry Nick, but she has a
quarter sized tattoo of Bob Huggins's face on her arm. What is Nick doing
and why is he instead joining Christian Mingle? Oh? That's that's You're awesome,
Cam love that. I okay. So you could have someone that looks
like Sidney Sweeney, sir, But if she has Bob Huggins face anywhere that
you have to look at, I'm not sure I can put up with that.
That'd be bad. It can't be hidden anywhere, no playing sight.
You're seeing it all the time. Oh yeah, Do you believe there's seven
billions? Guy? I just can't. There are seven almost eight billion people
alive on Earth and like plenty more that have lived, like tens of billions
more that have been alive at some point. Do you think any of them
ever had Bob Huggins face tattooed on their body. One person ever Bob Huggins
face tattoo someone who had a lot of moonshine in West Virginia. Maybe I
bet somebody did. I bet there's some person that lived in that state that
got Bob Huggins face some at some point we need to find that person.
Sounds like fun at Drew Watton, What would this team look like had Grady
Dick stayed one more year? And what would it look like next year if
Dick and Furfy stayed for next season? Really good? Is the answer?
Really? Yes? Lots of threes basically this team, but the opposite.
Seriously, Dick is the missing piece. Like I I know that Kansas had
to expect stop you stop laughing, sir. I know that, uh,
Grady Dick is the piece that this team is lacking. If they had Grady
Dick, then all of a sudden, you could bring geez. If they
have Grady Dick, they're probably bringing freaking Furfey off the bench, right,
which sounds hilarious Like I wouldn't, but Bill Bill probably would. That's the
piece that would be awesome at Preston skirt sick. Matchup wise, what two
teams would you hate to see in Kay's bracket on Selection Sunday? Oh boy,
we're doing this already. Alabama. Alabama scores a lot. Yeah,
Goshe though, Hunter Dickinson's defense against the seven to four Zach Eaty and then
kJ Adams trying to guard him too, that doesn't sound very fun. The
answer to who you're trying to avoid is any team with a six' ten
athletic five man. We saw Marquette have one of those and Hunter Dickinson was
shredded. That's not Hunter's matchup. When there's a guy with a lot of
size that's also a damn good athlete. We saw that happen with Marquette and
the then Central Florida had a big, athletic seven foot center and that didn't
go well for Hunter either. Those are the ones you want to avoid.
Edie just demolishes everybody, but he's not particularly athletic. I'm much more scared
of those teams like Donovan Klingon also isn't a super athlete, so Dickinson did
okay on him. You want to avoid the guys that are basically kJ Adams,
but three inches taller, because that's that doesn't go well with Hunter,
So my answer would be Marquette at the very top. Also, don't really
want to see him play Arizona, as I think they're better than Era,
But Arizona's got five guys on the Florida can score and that's gonna put Hunter
in a bad spot. And the last question here from at show Me Hawk
do you think the Big East will expand anytime soon? They could capitalize on
the realignment palooza. Teams like Gonzaga, Saint Mary's, Saint Louis, which,
tah State, Daton, and VC are out there. The Big East
really should, right, they're the one that's kind of are they a major
conference? Are they not? They're really good to basketball. Yeah, there's
there's not much with football there. You gotta think Gonzaga makes the least geographic
sense, but arguably maybe the most league sense. Yeah that yeah, well,
geography is front out of the window the last round of realignment anyways,
so it's not well, yeah, yes we have UC. I mean people
wanted Gonzaga in the Big twelve. I mean you you want them traveling to
Central Florida. Yeah, I guess that's true. All right, well,
there's asscarcb. If you ever have any ask garcyps Nick, I guess you
and I are just running this through one take show what could go wrong?
If you ever have askcarcbs use that Twitter hashtag it was on mute again.
I'm doing great Big twelve games. Wow, that feels weird, but here
we are. Well, we have a we have a outright leader in the
Big twelve and it is number two Houston seventy three, Number six Iowa State
sixty five. Nick just turned into a top six matchup and it was kind
of close, but also it went pretty much how we thought it would.
Yeah, Houston's defense was the star of yet another game. They forced sixteen
turnovers and created enough havoc to overcome a nine for seventeen three point shooting performance
from the Cyclones, another Trey King masterpiece. The Cougars are now an outright
position of first place at the Big Twelve, and there isn't a lot to
be concerned about Iowa State. Here. They battled hard in their toughest game
of the year. They have a really soft finish to the conference slate.
Still we do They're running obviously for winning the conference with Houston still and traveled
to Waco and then KU coming to town for the final regular season game.
Yeah, Kansas, if they had any shot of winning the league or a
it, they're gonna probably have to win at Houston and get it. And
they had to have Houston win this game because they can control their destiny with
Houston Iowa State they can't the Cyclones, who they have had a really good
year and they didn't play poorly in this game. They made nine threes.
As you said, they're nine to four, which is impressive. They've gotten
a little bit of the scheduling luck. They've played a pretty tough road schedule.
They've had to play Baylor on the road, and they had to play
Houston twice. But they only they didn't have to play Kansas at Allen Field
House. They didn't have to have Baylor come to Ames, and I'm not
sure did they. I think they also avoided Lubbock. I think that Texas
Tech came there. Even though Iowa State's very good, you got to think
very very possible, if not likely, that they would have two losses had
they played at Kansas and at Texas Tech. So this is where that unbalanced
league is a thing again, but good, good showing by Iowa State.
They're solid. Houston the best team of the Big Twelve for now. They
are in first place. Texas sixty two, Kansas State fifty six. Really
not a whole lot to say here. Texas has got twenty points from Dylan
to sue as they beat k State in one of the least interesting basketball games
of conference play thus far. Nick Krivit, question for you here the Wildcats.
They've now lost seven of eight in the month of February. Can you
guess who that win was against? Here's a hintf West Virginia Cincinnati. A
Ye, nope. Now eventually you'll get to damit Bill, because that's who
it was against. They ran into Jerome Tang and overtime game that did not
go to overtime but almost did, felt like it did. Number twenty three
Texas Tech eighty two, TCU eighty one. It is the Red Raiders that
move into third place with Kansas They have a very soft finish to the league
race. They've had a very soft schedule as is, getting to avoid Lawrence
only Iowa State once, only Houston once, and pretty pretty nice break for
the for the Red Raiders. Yeah, they blew a TCU blew a ten
point lead in Texas. Tech got nineteen point from popeye Is to survive at
home. This was a good basketball game that Franfur Schiller called very well officiated,
despite an ending with thirty eight total fouls, refs, you sucked chance
and Jamie Dixon yelling at the officials after a probable travel was uncalled after the
clock ran out. Yeah, every time he said this has been a well
officiated game, it got worse and then his chair sunk a little bit further
and he couldn't see it with the scores table. Maybe that's why he thinks
the refs are doing a good job. Maybe he just can't see number twenty
five BYU seventy eight, Number eleven Baylor seventy one. Well, the Bears,
who have had it pretty soft thus far, not having to go to
they don't have to play at Houston, they don't have to play at Iowa
State, but boy do they have a loaded back five here. They needed
to win this one to have much of a chance in the league race.
They did not. Probo continues to be a tough place for visitors to play.
BYU made fourteen threes. That game of Lawrence is going to suck,
and they controlled the second half. Baylor, on the contrary, made just
five of twenty threes. The Bears still have These are all in their last
five games at home, at TCU, Kansas at home, and at Texas
Tech. Very easily could be four l's in there. They won't lose them
all, but they're going to lose at least two of those. All left
in Big Twelve play. They are currently tied for third, but you gotta
think they're going to be very fortunate to make it through Big twelve play without
at least seven losses. Yep, West Virginia seventy seven, UCF sixty seven.
I said earlier that Texas was one of the least interesting games of conference
play. So was this? Yeah, twenty four points from Rayshawn battle as
West Virginia was a when is a home dog? Not much to say about
UCF. They've lost six of seven. What was one of their wins?
Right? Oh, mummy, fire up the soundboard again, because the answer
is, as always, the dumbest of all those losses. I think there's
several contents, but at least Bill didn't lose to both of those teams.
Right, Oh, there are two teams, three teams that are four and
nine, and dam did lose to two of them. That is true.
UCF's kind of fallen off a little bit, still had a I think they've
been much more competitive than people thought they would be. People thought they'd be
a doormat West Virginia. I thought would be better, and no they're not.
But they did win this game. You CEF started losing after you went
to Orlando for vacation, so that's yeah, that's true. Maybe I maybe
I put the voodoo on them there. Oklahoma State eighties, Cincinnati seventy six.
Nick, somebody needs to break up the Cowboys. Yeah, two wins
in a row for Oklahoma State. All five starters scored at least eleven points,
including nineteen from Javon Small. Cincinnati is quietly one of the more disappointing
teams in the Big Twelve after a kind of decent start. Yeah, they're
five and eight. They're in the bottom of what five teams in the league.
Pretty disappointing for them. They're not gonna make the tournament. They're tied
with Kansas State, who's obviously had just a brutal month of February, and
you lose at home to Oklahoma State, It's not gonna be your year.
The Cowboys seem like they always win a handful of their games down the stretch
to save Mike Boynton's job. Watch this team find a way to get to
like six and twelve or something like that, and then everybody be like,
you know what, let's just give himnother year. Is some weird circumstances.
I don't know. Big twelve standings. Well, finally, some symmetry here,
as everybody has played thirteen games leading the charge. The only team with
ten wins Houston. They're ten and three in second place all alone, as
IWA was stayed at nine and four, got three teams tied for third,
Kansas who beat Baylor, and Texas Tech who beat Kansas. All those teams
are eight and five and in sixth place. The horn the place where you
can get horny, in the place where you can't love that number six is
TCU and b YU at seven and six the us AS and yeah, one,
yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely one. You're you're absolutely allowed.
Darn it, I wanted to play it. One you're allowed to get and
the other you're very much so discouraged. Number eight Oklahoma and Texas, who
will both be leaving, and that's fine because they're mediocre. They're six and
seven and in tenth place to e ac add ons Number Cincinnati and Kansas State
at five and eight. And then we have a three way tie at the
bottom. Normally everybody loves three ways, but not whenever it's like this,
Oklahoma State, UCF and West Virginia who I believe Oklahoma State is actually the
tiebreaker over both those teams. There are four and nine. They beat both
of those teams that they're tied with. I think, I don't know,
I forget all these games, but I won't forget as many of these other
games. Well, Nick, you're a big Yukon guy. You picked him
to win all last year. Uh. And the reaction has been yeah,
yeah, yeah, sorry, there you go. You have to feel take
a good dog impression. It is though, I don't you you found your
talent, which is being a dog. I guess tell me about how Speaking
of they got thrown to the dogs this week. Yeah, the biggest story
to come out of college basketball this week is that Kansas no longer has the
worst three point shooting defense in basket job. Yeah, title now belongs to
number one Yukon, who got shredded by number fifteen Creighton eighty five to sixty
six. The Blue Jays are in their first ever winning an over number one
team by making fourteen threes. Dan Hurley also threatened a fan while walking off
the court. Sounds like Dan Hurley, Yeah, yeah, it does.
Dan Hurley is, uh, he is a weird, weird man, and
whenever you look at his brother and how crazy his brother is, it really
isn't that hard. There's definitely a clear video. Dan. He pointed out
a fan and said that he was gonna knock him out, which is,
uh, you know, you're a coach. No, you don't have to
say that to a twenty year old college kid who's excited about his team won
a game. Just very strange. I'm sure the college kid said something that
probably wasn't very nice, but I mean, come on, you're a basketball
coach to the number one team in the country, my man, you gotta
be better than that. But yes, Yukon guys, I don't know how
clearly, if they had just guarded the three a little better, they wouldn't
have given up fourteen of them. I mean, I don't know what they
were thinking. Don't they teach this stuff? Very obvious? Nice? Nice
for Bill to get his team out of the doghouse. The Pac twelve race
thing we have never said and never thought we would say on the show saw
control seized by number twenty one Washington State. Joeyeslavu isn't even playing. He's
hurt for the rest of the year. The Cougars went into Tucson, used
a nasty four point play down three with ten seconds left, and took down
number four Arizona seventy seven seventy four. What a win for them, maybe
the biggest in the last twenty years of their program. Washington State is now
twelve and four and league played. They swept Zona, and Caleb Love,
speaking of Zona, boy, bet on them to go deep in your bracket
at your own risk because he was like the gay two years ago. Oh
yeah, you see how it goes. He was like eight of twenty two
with a couple turnovers in the final minute. And that's what Caleb Love does.
Stunning. Washington State might be the best team in the Pac twelve,
and yet Lenardes still has Arizona head of Kansas. Why another conference that's interesting?
The ACC as Number eight Duke got surge after just dominating Miami eighty four
to fifty five in Quarrel Gables. The Blue Devils are twelve and three in
the league, tying them with you and see at the top of the game
in Durham looming in two weeks. That conference is trash. Speaking of trash,
then there's this Virginia. Oh my, Virginia, congratulations unscoring ninety Wait
wait, wait, wait a second, I'm being told that ninety points was
over two games. Oh it was a mute Again, I'm doing a great
job today. Virginia lost seventy five to forty one to Virginia Tech. Please
stop allowing this team to exist enough, ugh, forty one points. People
have been banned for so much less than Tony Bennett ruining offense and putting up
ninety points in two games too, mind you, not exactly the fricking eighty
five Chicago Bears defenses to Wake Forest and Virginia Tech. Don't let the man
in the tournament to lose to another twelve s. We don't need that again.
Number two Purdue Clawber the State University of New Jersey at Rutgers, Zachi
took at least ten free throws for the fifteenth time this year's surprise surprise,
Hunter Dickinson. How many times has he in then that this season? Ryan
one Uno times, uno times? As Hunter Dickinson, He's only done it
four times in his career. When I tweet about that, I do think
he gets a lousier whistle than Edie. But man to say that they don't
play the same styles of be an understatement. How are you seven to and
you've only shot ten free throws in your career four times when you've played like
one hundred years. I don't understand that. I don't understand he's a good
free throws year. He needs to be drawing more contact and then the big
ten elsewhere. Everyone has decide it to just go ahead and give Purdue the
trophy now instead of making them wait two weeks. Penn State upset number twelve
Illinois Michigan State. Remember them a long time ago. Preseason Top five Michigan
State lost to Iowa. Not the Caitly and Clark team, the men's team.
They lost to Iowa at home. Wisconsin actually won barely over a horrible
Maryland team. The Big Ten is gonna get like six teams in only Purdue.
Well, I was gonna say only Purdue is gonna make the second weekend.
But that's not always an open and shutcase. The league sucks. It's
always bad. It's really not good this year, though. A good league
is the West Coast Conference. I see you want that laugh track number eighteen.
Saint Mary's is on the doorstep of a West Coast Conference title? Is
there? Thirteen to zero after beating San Francisco at home? I remember a
team that beats San Francisco about two or three weeks ago, who does not
play who does play in kind of a bad y, a mediocre conference.
Yeah, mahomes, they need not mahomes. But the Saint Mary's Gales need
to win two of their final three to officially end Gonzaga's run of eleven straight
West Coast Conference titles. Yeah, that's over. Unless you think that Saint
Mary's is losing to I believe it's San Diego at home, which no,
that's not gonna happen. And I'm trying to find that they play Gonzaga at
home. Unless you think they lose at least two of San Diego at Pepperdine
and Gonzaga at home. They're going to end that streak. And it took
Gonzaga losing it a really flukey buzzer beater in order to make it so they
don't have a chance to play for it in the finale. So yeah,
that good to see that run coming to an end. Kansas's record stand for
I'm gonna say eternity with how big these conferences are getting at this point.
Nobody's winning double digit conferences ever again. Number five Tennessee avoided an apocalypse by
using a second half rally to get out of Columbia with a seventy two to
sixty seven win. The losers of that game again, they are oh and
thirteen count with me now as ass ass as as five ass ass as,
ten ass as and as thirteen times for Missouri to lose in thirteen conference games.
Dennis Gates said its team was quote terrible. We are fing terrible.
And then the media, a couple of media members are like, wow,
what a classless thing to say. Guys. The athletes are getting paid now,
they're adults, right, Bosses say the F word sometimes if you're gonna
pay him, their boss can say the F word when they've lost thirteen times
in a row. Because He's right, they are that terrible. Speaking of
terrible, the rest of the I guess the SEC was just chaotic, not
terrible, but a terrible LSU teams then number seventeen Kentucky. At the very
end of seventy five to seventy four, it's already eight losses by the Wildcats,
who were being mocked as low as an eight C in some bracket projections.
Also, first place number thirteen Alabama took down number twenty four Florida and
over time another ninety eight points from the Nate eight Nate Oates coach team.
Jealous, Yeah, I would love Nate Oates. I don't know how much
I like the dude after hearing the way he handles the Brandon Miller thing last
year. Florida is the wrong place, the wrong time in this game,
though. There you go carrying on Landon's legacy here. But man, when
I love that man's style, I know people are like, he hasn't won
anything. They really did crap the bed last year when they were the one
overall and couldn't even make the Elite eight. But this year they are just
scorching the nets. They are first in America averaging ninety one points per game.
They are second with their twelve threes per game, They are sixth with
their thirty one baskets per game, and their sixth nationally in free throw percentage.
Oh my, a coach that preaches fast paced offense and free throws.
Boy Natoates is gonna make a lot of money in his career because he is
now starting to enter that tier where he's turned his roster over several times and
has still made toa like he kind of feels to me like when I realized
Scott Drew was getting pretty good at this when he would turn his roster over,
because he would The first thing about a coach has to do at a
Power five school is they have to have a really good team. All right.
They did that, and then guys left for the NBA, and you
recruit, and a couple of years later that team's really good again. And
then you start doing it really consistently. You're good at the portal, you're
good at recruiting five star talent to come in. Baylor started to do that,
and they went from Friends' top twenty five team every year to their top
ten team most years. Now, Alabama's kind of entering that stage for me.
I think Nate Oates is going to be a very popular name if the
jobs at Kentucky or Kansas or any of those places ever open, and those
teams don't look to just hire the top assistant because that man can coach basketball.
Also, Deep Paul, maybe they should hire Natots. They are three
and twenty three. We've been talking about Detroit Mercy and all that, Deep
Paul. A power league team being three and twenty three, that's the most
ugly awful thing in all of college basketball. I think gross. Number one.
Oh but sorry, I skipped the ranked teams to lose since the last
podcast. A lot of number one. There are a lot of them here.
Number one Yukon, first time they've been on this list. In jeez,
is it Kansas? No, they lost some time in December. I
guess Number one. Yukon lost to Creighton number four hours that I lost to
WAZU. Number six Iowa State lost a conference game at Houston. Number eleven.
Baylor lost at UYU. Number twelve Illinois they gave up, they were
up too late, gave up an and one or three free throws or something.
Happened. They wound up losing by one to Penn State. Not great
thing. Not great things happened to Penn State, and Penn stated would appear
Number sixteen. Dayton lost to George Mason number seventeen. Yeah, you didn't
know that happened, and you didn't know Dayton was ranked sixteen. I didn't
until I typed that sentence earlier. Number seventeen. Kentucky just cannot get out
of their own way. They score a bit, it's two steps backwards for
every one step forward they take. They lost to a just awful LSU team
Number nineteen. San Diego State lost to Utah State, number twenty two.
Colorado State lost in a real entertaining game that nobody watched to New Mexico number
twenty four. Florida lost to Alabama, and last weekend pick them, we
both lost to Nick again. Nick now has a nine game lead in pick
him. He's going to beat Landon again, which is pretty hilarious, but
you know that's that's how it goes. Ask RC beat Just kidding, Nick,
We're not gonna do that tea twice in one night. Now, when
you're the only one that volunteered to show up. We didn't say where Landon
was tonight. By the way, he's like planning a party. Is that
what he's doing? Yeah, and now he's asking me to dj the party
tomorrow. So hey, that's cool, but sir, if you djay the
party, you will miss Texas at number nine Kansas. Here we are at
the preview part of the show, Saturday, February twenty fourth, at five
o'clock PM. This is the only battle that Texas and Kansas will duel in
this year, and it will take place at Allenfield House. Rodney Terry's Texas
Longhorns are seventeen and nine overall but a losing six and seven record in Big
Twelve Play. They're three and three on the road in league play, which
is actually the best in the conference. They've just been horrible at home.
They have been horrible at home. Rod you already read that that they're in
seventeen and nine overall and six and seven and Big twelve play. Sure did?
Okay, Well, you didn't write that they're terrible at home, but
I guess that was an autlum. Two Big twelve caliber players anchor the Longhorns
with six' nine Dylan de Sue and his seventeen points lead in the way.
He's a long athletic. He's long and athletic that shooting over fifty percent
from three this year and put in eighty one percent of his free throws.
As if what he does at the rim isn't enough. His weakness is that
he's very foul prone. He's spared with five man Dylan Mitchell in his averaging
eleven and nine per game. He's also an athletic man, but he's terrible
free throw shooter. Six and eleven. Cadeen Schedrick gets cinner minutes off the
bench and very curious, very curious there. How you were You were very
careful not to say the word freak. Dylan de SEUs, Sir, is
a freak. I've watched that man play. He plays a little durant like
honestly, in the sense that he's six' nine and real thin. It'll
pop out there and knock down threes. Yeah, he's one of the five
best players in the Big twelve. My bet is he is the highest drafted
Big twelve player next year. He is a monster. Just can't stay on
the court. Average is like three fouls every twenty eight minutes, which doesn't
sound like a lot, but you get a couple early at Allen field House,
things are gonna go south quickly. Sorry to cut you off. Two
Guard Max Abe misses a stunt and averages seventeen points and shoots thirty seven percent
from three. But the regression of Tyree Hunter is a big reason the Longhorns
have struggled at times this year. Hunter averages eleven and four but has taken
a step back in all things offense. Ethel Horton and Shandal Weaver are the
other guards of note. While the immortal Brock cunning inme God Texas two months
before the first COVID case in the United States is discovered, it is still
here to make a three at the worst time. Remember that is three before
the Yeah, Patrick Mahomes got his first Super Bowl ring of three. Yeah,
Brock Cunningham was a student at Texas. Yeah, Patrick Mawomes. Patrick
Mahomes had never played in a Super Bowl when Brock Cunningham first dribbled the ball
with the Texas uniform on. And now Mahomes has won four and has played
in four one to three and out comes Brock again for his thirteenth game at
Allen Fieldhouse ridiculous, and he's part of the reason why this that's true.
Texas is a very good three point shooting team at thirty seven percent. I
know I can hear everybody in the background. Now, everybody get it out
now, Oh god, they moved the ball well. They're one of the
better offensive teams in the league. Their size leads to a lot of blocks,
and they play good interior defense as well. Here's the problems. Their
three point defense has been the Big twelve's worst in conference play. This team
is loaded with athletes. Dylan de Sue and Dylan Mitchell are freaks down low.
Nick won't say it, I will a SMIs is one of the best
players in the Big Twelve and under one Big Twelve Defensive Player of the Year.
At one point, you ever want proof that three point defense is kind
of a bunch of crap, it's that because it makes no sense why this
team can't guard the line. They're not good at guarding the three, and
despite shooting well from the line, they've gotten to the line and shot fewer
free throws than any team in the conference. And also, as if that
wasn't enough, their coach is a complete and income poop who have no confidence
that can out coach Bill self in a basketball game, even though he has
two and one against him right, Texas beat him twice last year. Kansas
is eighteen and two at home against Texas all time, but he hasn't had
a season where they didn't lose to them at least once since twenty twenty.
And then I also wrote a bad word and then the word Texas, and
then that same word followed by the SEC. That same word being the word
Dennis Gates used to describe his team I used to describe Texas and the SEC.
So this game is very interesting. Kansas has struggled with Texas. They
lost to him uh and the they's got swept by him and Shakas. Last
year Chris Beard beat him twice, went two for two, and uh no,
I guess he didn't. He only played them once because he got fired.
So so uh Shaka beat him twice in one year, and then uh
Beard beat him in Austin and took him to overtime at Allen Field House,
and then last year Texas took two of three from them. So Kansas in
the in the last couple of years has lost five games to Texas in the
last three years and uh, they've only won, They've only beaten them,
what twice? Yeah, that's that's that's weird. This time could be different,
though. I suspect that Kansas, after a week off, will come
out with their fangs and this is gonna be a very good allen Field House
game. Texas is in a superstar matchup with their current roster, but there's
enough players of note in this game. ESPN Saturday Night Basketball at the Fog.
It's gonna be loud, it's gonna be fun. Texas's final trip to
allen Field House as a member of the conference, and I predicted goes quite
poorly for them. Trying to see if there's a line Kansas Texas line I
am looking at. Come on first random website I clicked on. Kansas opens
up at minus eight. I would take that money. Kansas eighty two,
Texas sixty six. Yeah. Texas is gonna end their time in allen Field
House with another l KU seventy five, Texas sixty seven. Yep. I
think that sounds about right. It's it's it's gonna be a tough time for
Texas at Allenfield Has. Their best shot is to make threes. They also
here's the thing, Remember how I just talked an ascarcb about how those long
athletic fives they can give hundred Dickinson some trouble. Well, Texas has one
of the best. I don't like this matchup very much. I just don't
trust Texas at all. Every time Texas comes in here and you expect big
things from them, they do something that plays themselves out of it. I'm
actually gonna mend my prediction and make it a little closer. Kansas eighty two,
Texas seventy four because I don't love the matchup with the Sue and Dickinson
down low, but with the way the whistles are going to go, probably
at Allen, Texas fowls a lot. They don't draw a lot of fouls.
I don't think that's a great recipe against the Kansas team that hasn't played
in a week, and I think mccolorr's gonna play better, draw some contact.
I think Kansas will make plays to win. I would take Kansas by
eight, even though I just picked them to win by eight. So fine,
Kansas eighty two, Texas seventy three. There, that's that'll do the
job that checks all the boxes. Other games good slate a Big twelve basketball
tomorrow, beginning with this number two Houston at number eleven Baylor. That the
Cougars could really do some damage in this league race if they could win.
I don't believe they will, though. I think Baylor wins at the Baylor
what's the name of that arena? It's not the Faral Center, any Foster
Pavilion. The name of the court Mark and Paula Jones court heard heard whatever.
I picked the whitest name I could find and heard that'll work. Yes,
we all want Baylor to sweeping West Virginia at number six Iowa State an
easy game for the Cyclones. Only one team I know loses to West Virginia.
I'm not gonna play the drop because you already know what we want the
Cyclones big, right. Yeah. Number twenty five BYU at k State.
This is an interesting bet. Here are you going with the Cougars off their
big win over Baylor. I think KSE State wins. I do too.
I like Case State at home. I think that this is one of those.
So think of it this way and I might be real wrong on this.
This is around the time of the year that I expect. Maybe not
Houston because they're really good, but we're seeing Cincinnati really struggle. We're seeing
UCF. They were pretty good in the first half conference play, right,
they're kind of starting to slide. This is around the time that the teams
that aren't used to the big twelve, the grind, the day in and
day out crowds. I think they're gonna start to struggle. I think you're
gonna see BYU struggle in these back few games. And I think kse State,
who's used to this grind, gets them at home. I agree,
Cincinnati at TCU. Nobody's feeling the Bearcats right now. We all want TCU.
Yeah. Number twenty three Texas Tech at UCF. I will take an
upset here. Give me the Knights to bounce back. I just went against
my own logic. But I don't think Texas Tech roster is that good.
I think the Knights get them at home. I don't think Texas Tech is
good enough to win eighty ninety percent of their remaining games. I think there's
gonna be an ell in here. So I'm gonna roll the dice and say
this. I don't think it's at UCF it might not be. They're probably
an underdog, but I'll still take them. Oklahoma at Oklahoma State Gross.
I will say the Cowboys make it three in a row. I'll say Oklahoma
gets off the Schneid Boy. Picking Porter Moojure on the road is not the
way to spend your weekend, sir. Other games. Number eight Duke at
wake Forest, I keep picking against them. I'm gonna do it one more
time. I think wake Forest, who is a bubble team, beats Duke
at home. I don't Duke may be rounding in the form. If they
win this, I'll believe you're right. Number ten North Carolina at Virginia.
I will take both acc powers to go down. I think Virginia wins,
and they're better than they've played, albeit gross, but I think they're gonna
win. I don't. I think North Carolina wins. I think what's likely
is we'll split those. But you gotta try. Number thirteen Alabama at number
seventeen Kentucky, two teams in opposite directions. Kentucky gonna lose again at Rup.
Yes, give me Alabama. I'm gonna take Kentucky at home. I
think that eventually they can't lose a million home games in You're right, You're
right. I'm gonna go to Kentucky. Yep, all right. It should
be a good game though. That's one of the best games of the day.
Kentucky cannot stop anybody on defense and that offense coming in. That feels
like a horrible idea to switch for both of us. But yay. Number
fourteen Auburn at Georgia. I will finally pick a favorite. Here, give
me the Tigers on the road yep. And we have to pick oh,
no, we have to pick this. I know. I created this these
notes a week ago because I wanted to be sure we got this game in.
We are going to pick one and fourteen Georgetown at oh and fifteen de
Paul the line Georgetown by four. Who do you want? Gosh, give
me the I think. I think DePaul is so horrible, man. De
Paul is so unimaginably awful. I will take Georgetown, and they have ed
Cooley right like, you should be able to out play DePaul. Yep,
I'm going Georgetown. I just see how to pull De Paul's got got gotten
beat so far this season and these teams, these teams have a combined eleven
and forty one record and they are one and twenty nine in conference play combined.
Someone's got to get number two tomorrow. But oh my gosh, that's
awful. All right, Nick, we did it abbreviated show about an hour.
An hour of itp to wet your appetite. Uh, Land, you
and I are all going to be back probably Sunday, right, kay You
doesn't play till Tuesday, so Sunday night probably is the name of the game.
Yep, all right, we'll be back on Sunday for your regularly scheduled
Monday show. You should have Monday Friday shows the rest of the year,
and then we'll see how the postseason brackets play out. Prior to Unick for
spending your Friday night inside the painting while Landing plans a party, Kayu planning
to play Texas. Hopefully it goes well. This is Inside the Paint on
Rock Chalk Blog. We didn't say our names at the beginning of the show.
I'll do it now. I'm Ryan landrath An Undick, white Bird.
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