Well, a giant colossal to open up our week, So what else would
you end your week with? Then are car crash of a podcast, but
you'll have to do it with just two people. This is inside the Paint.
We're going to talk about Kansas laying a giant egg. Some would even
say a giant turd in Lubbock, which is the same state that one third
of us is at. Nick, tell me all about what is our buddy
Landon doing in a lone star state. Yeah, Landon picked up a gig
job. He is in Texas filming twelve year old dance in a dance competition.
It is worth mentioning that, yes, Landon is doing videography for a
professional company that is filming dance routines I dance competition. So Landon is not
that's a big money. There's lots of money in that industry for him.
He's getting paid a lot. He's gonna paid like two grand for like a
week in there. So yeah, he's getting paid good money to go visit
Texas, the site of our Lord and Savior most recently. But also a
guy from Lubbock just won a Super Bowl on Sunday, So oh yes,
that that did happen that. Maybe that's why I feel like, if Kansas
is gonna lose twenty nine point games, you may as well do it the
day after the Chiefs win it all because I gotta tell you, I don't
I don't really remember much about that Ku game. I've watched Patrick Mahomes game
winning drive about twelve times, and I haven't watched a second of this game
from the moment that it ended. So I guess that was the way to
do it. This is inside the Paint on Rock Chalk Blog. I'm Ryan
Landruth and I'm Nick quite brute. Nick's still on his Farewell Tour podcast,
and he's putting it all out there for you guys because we don't have landing
and I'm sure it is very tempting, sir, to phone it in,
but not on the Inside the Paint podcast. You are not pulling a Jayhawks
and completely in and getting worse as the season goes along. Let's talk all
about it, AJ. I know you don't like the merry noise, but
they are undefeated in WCC play, so I will play it until they're no
longer undefeated. Texas Tech seventy nine, number six, Kansas wait for it,
wait for it, fifty. Uh, you really can't play worse.
I don't think like there's always it could have been worse guy, But I
don't think that guy even appeared in the Twitter mentions because you can't play worse
than that. No, I mean every single metric, it's hard to find
one thing that they did they did well in this game. And maybe it
was tying their sneakers before the game, but that's probably the closest you're gonna
get to. They made their way to the arena. At least the bus
driver was on his game in this day, and Bill Sealth the quarter zips
I thought, look good on the coaches. I like the Navy quarter zip
the National Championship game vibes. But yeah, there isn't much of a game
story here. Kansas was behind by nine and a half time, and that
felt like a win in itself. People on Twitter started talking themselves into well,
hey, if they could come out and have a good couple of possessions
early on, they may be up against the eight ball only seven scholarship players,
but you know, let's see what happens should they get off to a
good start in the second half, And they did not that, because then
the floor fell out in the second half, Kansas got out or Kansas scored
just fifty points, shot thirty three percent from the floor, shot nineteen percent
from three, and for good measure, got out rebounded by nineteen oh and
their coach got ejected and they're now one in five in conference road games.
But other than that, can't complain. Other than that, just that barrage
of nonsense. Ugh, yeah, I mean there's really like, what do
you even start break down this game? I mean, we knew they were
gonna be shorthanded, like you said, coming into this game, obviously,
you know, Kevin mccohler, And yeah, like you said, it really
felt like at halftime they were kind of skirting some luck. After you know,
they played poorly in the first half. We're able to keep it somewhat
close at a three that Nicholas Timberlake banged in and kind of got kept them
at a closer pace under ten, and then, like you said, second
half, hopes that it's going to start off well, and then all of
a sudden, Texas Tech rolls to like an eighteen point lead, continues hitting
threes, and Texas Tech also had a guy that made all of his shots
and score like twenty points. So really, I mean, if you could
talk about not your night type of game, like you said, that's pretty
much not your type night type of game. Yeah, you're right. And
like I've sat here and talked about how I thought Kansas has been unlucky and
the road losses haven't phased me. I'm not gonna tell you that it's all
gloom and doom because games like this where it all just doesn't go. I
should have done a better job seeing this coming. You guys both picked them
to lose close games. I thought they'd win a close game. The schedule
was brutal, having the two day turnaround again going on the road. They
had just seven players, and this was kind of easy in hindsight to see
coming a little bit more than we saw it, tough place to play all
that, Kansas had redeeming qualities in just about all of their road games.
That may just say, yeah, they may have blown that sixteen point lead
to UCF, but you know, you see, it's better than we thought.
Or yeah, I know that they lost the Case State, but overtime
road games are tough. Yeah, I know they lost to West Virginia,
but I mean, geez, they made twelve three, so they gonna do
that this one though. You really can't say a but about they just got
their their doors blown off them in this one. And these type of games
do happen. Sometimes they're not normally by twenty nine, but they get blown
out in conference games sometimes. This is why Mildfieldhouse too. Yeah, it's
happened. Like they've had a twenty point l in each of the last like
three or four seasons. It's not a doomsday scenario to have one of those.
The problem is they've already racked up more than their fair share of road
ls. If you had just closed out UCF and case State games, you
led by double digits, you're sitting there at nine and three and we're like,
yeah, just blaming on the injuries, and it's fine, but it's
because they didn't take care of their business in any of the other road games.
And now you know, you can make an argument after the first couple
road losses when we were like, oh, they normally win road games,
and they're just one and two, like small sample size, one in five
is two thirds of the road conference late, like we're running out of time
to say it's a small sample size. And by the way, one in
five still gotta go to Waco, still gotta go to Houston. They will
be underdogs in both places. They may be an underdog in Norman on Saturdays.
So yeah, one in eight is not completely off the table in conference
play for road games, which is kind of scary. I don't know,
I assume that you want to say, just flush it. They're not twenty
nine points worse than Texas Tech. There's a few few reasons that went,
but like, it's kind of hard to give these guys the benefit of the
doubt for losing on the road when that's all they've done for two months.
Yeah, the only thing you can really hang out is that they're shorthanded and
they've gotten kind of a shaft when it comes to Big twelve schedule and having
to play back to back weeks a big Monday on the road against very rassius
raccus environments. So especially when your team's crippled like that. You know,
de One Harris was injured and now mccoler has been out two games in a
row. They got no favors from the scheduling, and I'm not saying that
that's some excuse, but it like it all cumulates into, you know,
just kind of the reason why they just came so flat. And then also
fewest points for Kansas in a conference game and herself adding to the statistics,
there's only been two games that they scored less than fifty in guess the other
one was I know, two thousand and five Arizona. Yeah, the five
against Arizona where they still almost won in the in the end somehow. And
then of course the game of Death. I guess it is possible to play
where than they did. I was hoping this was vodka, but no,
just yeah, that game, the Kentucky thirty eight and O team loss in
the Champions Classic. So at are. One of the better KU Twitter followers
or follows is Ryan Reinhart who runs the Ain't No Seats podcast, and he
talked about how this team is starting to really give off twenty twelve or Not
twenty twelve twenty nineteen Vibes, which was the team that ended the streak.
I've been hesitant. I don't want to look that way because it's just it's
just a bad omen Like that was the last team that was number one.
We saw a guy get injured and miss extended time with Doke. Well,
look at McCuller. We saw a guy have to leave the team for personal
reasons. Vic that year, or Terry Morris this year. There was a
blue chip freshman who underwhelmed Grimes that year, Al Marco this year. There
was a big impact transfer that we thought was gonna be really good and hasn't
done much. Timberlake this year. Back in twenty nineteen was Charlie Moore.
And then there was the dedrich Gloss and Hunter Dickinson who are kind of the
same player doing their thing, posting all the stats, but there just seems
to be something missing. That team lost six road games. That team was
a four seed that got destroyed in the round of thirty two, and did
it. They finished third in the Big twelve and did it make the second
weekend? Similar vibes from this team or is it kinda do you still are
you still holding out some hope? You know, they've been they haven't played
very many neutral site games and they haven't lost the road game yet. So
I'm not saying that that the site factors in everything, but this team is
kind of giving shade to that twenty nineteen team. Honestly, just kind of
how things have gone this season. Seems like they're very very that they are
very thin a roster wise, and they obviously have a better couple better forwards
than that twenty ninet team did. But I you know, I wouldn't rule
out an unruly ground of thirty two exit this year. I think this seems
a lot better than that one. I don't know if that's if that may
be still me holding on to too much hope here, but I believe that
this year this team is much better than that one. I believe that they'll
get it rolling in some capacity. This team has a better resume than that
one did. I believe this team has a higher ceiling than that one did,
and we've seen this team take it to the best teams in the conference.
Also, that team twenty nineteen beat the two teams that won the league,
Case State and Texas Tech Tech went all the way of the title game
that year. They beat both of those teams at home by double digits.
Ironically, that was the last time a Kansas team went undefeated at home throughout
an entire season, and barring an upset to Oklahoa or No, it was
at Texas BYU and KSE State. Barring a major upset, this team should
go undefeated at home as well. So yeah, just weird. I'm not
ready to quite bang the drum there, but the similarities are are definitely real.
Okay, well, let's get into the players here. We're not gonna
spend a ton of time analyzing stat lines because wow, they are all terrible.
I do believe that we got to kind of put everybody in a trio.
We knew without Kevin McCuller and Jamar McDowell, who's a lesser piece,
but still they have seven scholarship players, including the big twelves leading scorer out
we knew that the big three that they still had left would have to play
well, and instead they played the opposite of Well, yeah, a Hunter
Dickinson Cage Adams into one Harris combined to go five for thirty from the floor,
beginning with Dickinson, who was two for twelve shooting and had five points
and seven rebounds for easily his worst game as a Jayock. He was awful,
had some disadvantages like being double team ever possession and being hacked endlessly without
drawing foul calls. That's why Bill self was ejected. He made the postgame
presser that he has been frustrated with the calls this season and Dickinson has not
gotten a call this season, and then he was hacked in this See,
like we said, it was downright awful. Minus thirty six on the night.
Oh my gosh, minus that's that's brutal. So minus thirty six I've
only seen once at KU and that was Christian Brown against USC, which is
that that the USC game was worse than this one. Hunter Dickinson was a
minus thirty six in a game that Texas Tech only scored seventy nine points.
Now only seventy nine doesn't sound that sounds a little bit like like not but
in order, you normally don't get a minus thirty six unless you give up
like one hundred. So that's that's pretty wild, pretty pretty terrible, Uh,
Dickinson. I'm not I know. I've been the biggest Hunter Dickinson apologist
for his poor showings this year. I still think that people on Twitter who
are talking about how he's soft or not good, I don't agree with that
this was a bad game. He's been a better shooter. He's been in
a rough couple of week strets. He can't make threes at all. It
might be time to stop trying that three or four times a game. But
yeah, self got ejected because of Dickinson got fouled multiple times. They didn't
call either one and they then they called the offensive foul or whatever. And
that's when Seal said, you know what, I think I'd like to watch
the rest of this one from the locker room. And he said after the
game that Hunter Dickinson's not being not being I mean, Zach Edy has I
posted this stat and it absolutely blows my mind. Hunter Dickinson is not as
good as Zach Edy. Right, we can all agree on that Zach Edy's
best player in the country's the best big. He's also a system player,
but he's also seven to four, which helps. Yeah, but he also
has a reputation and it's this is just a completely ridiculous stat. Hunter Dickinson
has taken sixty eight free throws this year in the same number of games.
Zach Edy has taken two hundred and sixty one one hundred and ninety three more
free throws taken by Edie than Dickinson. Dickinson doesn't just camp under the basket
like Edie does all the time, but come on, hundred Dickinson's got sixty
eight free throws in twenty five games. Bill self has a beef. Yeah,
No, absolutely, his rightfully sell because you know it is. I
think it's a lot has to do with selling it to Hunter. Dickinson doesn't
really sell it. He does, you know, kind of throw his arms
up in the air after it's not called. But yeah, he's he.
I don't know if it's gonna be more aggressive, but it's just kind of
who he is, like he's not He's kind of a lengey guy that just
goes up and you know, gets tapped and doesn't get called for it.
But I don't know, it's very odd. Another another big for ku kJ
Adams entered as the Big Twelves leader in field goal percentage, went one for
ten from the floor, added just three rebounds in a team high thirty six
minutes. KU is minus forty three on the glass in its last three games.
You pointed this out, You had the right call on this, kJ
Adams. He had nine boards in those games. Not good at early running.
A big liability for Kansas on the defensive end. Yeah, that that's
the problem. That's problem one. That's ground zero right now. It's the
rebounding. This team can't shoot and they can't rebound. Well, who does
that sound like? That's kJ Adams. You gotta be able to do that.
He can jump out of the gym. He's probably closer to six six
than the six to seven they list him as. He's just not long enough.
He plays pretty long at times for his uh, considering how athletic he
is and considering how good of a scorer he can be. Most Knights at
the basket. But I posted online if he's not going to and a couple.
This was a very mixed reaction. Some KU fans thought this was a
horrible take, and some agreed with it. If kJ Adams isn't gonna make
shots at the rim, he's gotta sit. You can't play him. He
doesn't rebound, he doesn't shoot. If he's gonna miss shots at the basket,
you gotta try to put guys like I mean, Furfey, Timberlake,
and Jackson need to all be out there around to want Harris at that point,
because Adams was giving them nothing. And I love kJ Adams as a
player. I like so much of his game, but yes, I think
that whenever your four man can't rebound. Hunter Dickinson's a very good rebounder hundred
Dickens at twenty six rebounds in the last three games. By the way,
that's nine per game. He's not the problem. But whenever you put kJ
Adams next to them, you can't have your your four man getting you three
boards a game. As you're getting punked by minus fifteen on average for three
straight nights, that is going to spell all sorts of problems. I don't
know, Cam, how do they how do they fix this? Like Kj's
playing a lot, Like it wasn't a problem earlier in the year, but
that's because they were shooting a better percentage. How do you fix this?
He's not going to rebound. You just have to try to find other ways
to score. Yeah, that's that's tough. I mean, like, I
totally agree with you though on the fact that, uh, it's just he's
just kJ Adams is too much of a liability, and I don't the solution
isn't very clear either, because like if you're gonna sub in Parker Brown or
move guys around a little bit and mix it up, go a little bit
smaller. I just don't see that working well for KU either. So I
don't mind that either. I don't mind playing Dickinson and Brown together and then
putting for feed Timberlake and Harris out there without mccullor. Like I know,
the two bigs is very nineteen eighties of Bill. But yeah, if it's
if. If kJ is not scoring, and as a result, by the
way, Hunter Dickinson gets double teamed all the time because they don't bother putting
a body on kJ unless he gets within three feet of the basket. They
just don't care unless he gets in the paint area at minimum, and more
realistically within three feet of the basket. If Hunter's gonna get double teamed and
no one's gonna care if kJ touches the ball, your best path to try
to get Hunter some open shots and to get three point opportunities is to put
four play four out around Dickinson because kJ is not doing anything. I don't
mind a little more Parker Brown too. I guess you just like having a
cooler back. Yeah, And it sounds like yeah, right. They they
avoided a loss against Baylor, but we knew that eventually, whenever you don't
have your best player or your most important whatever you want to say. Mccullor
is, we knew eventually there would come a day where it all hit the
fan. Hit the fan in both ways, because I think mccullor would have
been the one that would have been guarding the unbelievable performance that what was the
dude's name I should know this, Darian Williams. Darien Williams almost aid Damian
Williams if he played for the Chiefs one hundred decads in, probably would have
been the guy that would have been been tasked with slowing that down. And
then you would have really really liked to have had that nineteen points per game
that mccullor has, would have really liked to have had that. Well,
here is a weird stat. This is one of the weirdest stats I've seen.
Kansas is five and three in their last eight trips to Lubbock. That's
a winning record, but they have a minus fifty five point differential. They
have either one squeakers or lost by twenty nine likes. That's right. They
have twenty nine, twenty nine and ten point losses and the wins are like
three, one, four, five. Little things like that have not won
by double digits in Lubbock since two than and fifteen. They're actually eight and
three in their last eleven games down there. I mean, that's not a
small sample size. That's winning three out of every four matchups. It's a
seventy five winning percentage. They're eight and three in their last eleven and they're
still minus twenty two endpoint differential. That's crazy. That's Lubbock is a tough
place to play. The fans are rowdy, and they're very active on Twitter,
and they have a great fan base. But and that place has earned
its reputation as one of the rowdiest arenas in the country. Yeah, and
moving on, Guys who we'd hope would step up in the absence of Kevin
mccollard kind of did in this game, but not enough. None of it
would have mattered. They could have had Lebron James play and it probably wouldn't
have gotten them to win in this game. But Nick Timberlake and Johnny fur
if you both tied the team lead thirteen points each. Timberlake had his best
game of the season statistically, going five to seven from the floor with two
threes and twenty nine minutes. Of course, it's in the game, they
lose by twenty nine points. Yeah. So if he made his first three
since Houston by going four for eight from the floor seven rebounds in thirty two
minutes, what do you digest of these wings? Yeah, you bring up
a good point about how Timberlake finally plays well and the team falls to the
floor. Somebody on Twitter, I think it was a case they fan found
I exactly one game ago when the Psychic rock Chalk blog said if Nick Kimberlake
can just average eight to ten points a game the rest of the way,
I don't know if Kansas will lose it. And he goes out there and
has thirteen and they lose by a mere twenty nine Yeah, oops Timberlake.
Bill sal said after the game that he didn't see any positives. Even the
worst games have leading scorers, so therefore, really it doesn't matter. I
do see a little bit better play with Nick Timberlake, who for the first
time all year has made back to back, has made at least two threes
and back to back games. Maybe that's getting a little bit better. I
posted on Twitter that I would rather go into the tournament, have Kansas go
into the tournament ten and eight with a Nick Timberlake that's humming along, then
went out at thirteen and five and not have anything from him. I think
he's a pivotal piece and it's good to see him playing by Furfey's still in
the struggle. Bus hasn't made I think he's won for his last like fifteen
from three, but he did make one in this game, and yeah,
thirteen points is whatever. He's being mocked as a late first round draft pick,
and that's kind of that's kind of slown down that traction in the last
few games. I think Timberlake might be starting to play better. It just
might be too little, too late at this point. The three point shooting
home road splits continue to be a crazy thing here. I can complain all
I want about how Kansas has not guarded the three well on the road,
but they've guarded it great at home at Allen field House. Conference opponents are
making just twenty nine percent of their threes against Kansas, but on the road
that number balloons to forty percent after twenty six. Yeah, they made eight
of their first twelve, I think in this game, and that is at
Steve Doyle on Twitter, thank you for the homework on that. Yeah,
is that what's that? Is that just a small sample sized bad luck or
are they legitimately worse defending on the road. I mean, that's definitely not
a small sample size. That's that's just there's there's there can't be a discrepancy
defending on the road. I mean, they just can't like it. Statistically,
there's no way that they're that different playing in a road environment. Defensively,
Yeah, I still think three. It has more. It has more
to do with the home team they're facing. Have a little bit more juice
and energy and start seeing the bottom of the net a little bit more.
Well. In Kansas has been very poor shooting threes in Big Twelve play.
I think they're at thirty two percent as a team. In conference play,
they've been very poor. And whenever you are going to go play on the
road, like k State didn't shoot the ball very well. They only made
thirty three percent of their threes. They were like eight for twenty three.
But they still were a plus fifteen against Kansas is three of fifteen, so
they had they were fifteen more points than Kansas on threes in a game that
you lose in overtime, and then in this game, obviously you get blown
out. The stats are going to be hideous across the board. But Texas
Tech makes twelve threes, you only make three or ten threes, you only
make three. That's in minus twenty one on threes in this game. Free
throws are pretty even. You make an average number of three. You make
about the same number threes as they would have made. And this game is
a heck of a lot different. And then you just have to be better
at shooting the ball they are giving up. The first few road games were
pretty close despite Kansas. How about the Iowa State game. Kansas was minus
like eighteen on threes in that game and you barely lose. Like, yeah,
you gotta shoot the three ball. You don't have to shoot it great,
but you can't be horrible. When they're good enough to make five or
six more of them than you. You're never gonna win on the road when
your opponent's making three times as many threes as you are. That's never gonna
happen. Yeah, so they're one and five on the road. I mean,
anyways, are we done with the embarrassing or the ridiculous stats yet?
Because Darien Williams, as you alluded to, earlier, he to Lubbock,
and he hasn't made more than six baskets in a game all year, and
he walks in there and goes twelve for twelve on the floor for thirty points.
Because of course if you had that on your bingo card, first player
to do that in a D one game in you actually know the year.
Yeah, I've seen so there's some there's a lot of like mixing and matching
with that stat. I saw one website say it was the first in twenty
years. I saw one that was the first in fifteen years. I think
there's some variables in there, like so first when we were in we diapers,
right, Yeah, it's been a long time. Yeah, there's there's
some mixed stats about like, uh, first guy to make at least ten
for ten while also making at least two threes. Like bottom line is this
type of game has not happened in D one, especially against the defense like
Kansas in an incredibly long time. That was shocking, and everything was going
in. You had shots off the backboard, you had shots that were just
kind of hanging around and rolling around. And then Hunter Dickinson had a sequence
where he missed three layups in four seconds. Sure, Yeah, talk more
about guys who you know been scored a little bit more lately, but still
wasn't the worst, but was still bad. Hair d one Harris had seven
points, three assists, three turnovers in thirty six minutes. What do you
make of his game on Monday night? I don't make anything of Harris's game.
He was playing hurt and he's still I mean, seven three and three
is bad in any sense of the word. But he was probably if you
had to give Player of the Game to somebody, if it's not Nick Timberlake,
I mean, Harris was was whatever. He's clearly banged up. They've
got to get him rest. Hopefully the five days off here before Oklahoma will
do him wonders because his backup ain't doing any favors. Al Marco Jackson seven
points, like Harris three for five shooting in a game like this, I
don't know how much it matters. I saw some people try to find a
silver lining on Twitter and say, hey, he was pretty aggressive there.
Yeah, they're down by twenty five and he's playing against the B team in
the end, like, he played twenty four minutes and did nothing else.
He had four fouls, Parker didn't score, the walk Ons did nothing.
People wanted Jank. Bill tried it for about a minute and then it was
like, Okay, that's enough of that. Uh And we didn't see Jank
for a while after that. Uh, I don't make anything at Harris's game.
He needs McCuller and also Harris, Like, what did we say that
that kJ and Hunter were together like three for twenty three or something. Yeah,
Chris Paul's not gonna get very many assists if his best two guys are
gonna go three for twenty three. So yeah, hard time blaming Harris.
What did you think of Self's injection? That was fun The funny thing was
because he just talked about it on the last sil Yeah, we said Scott
Drew and we're like hmmm. It was like it was almost like the Mandela
effect because like, certainly Bill Self's been ejected from a game at Kansas before,
right, yeah, right, and then he goes out there and gets
a t youngs probably the softest nope double technical I've ever heard in my life
rejection before. Then there is that week, right, yeah, then there
there is that. Like so Self said after the game, he wasn't trying
to get run he said, he you know, he said a magic word.
I guess, but I'm sure he kind of deserved the first one.
It looked to me like he got the second one from standing there and smirking
at the ref like I I was. If you had told me that Bill
Self was gonna get ejected, I would have made time to make sure I
was in front of my TV to watch it. I would have been pretty
underwhelmed. And that was Bill Sell's first ejection since he was at Tulsa in
nineteen ninety nine in the game was at Wyoming. That was the only other
time in his career Bill Self has been ejected, and I would only assume
that one was more interesting than this one. Third time in ten days,
by the way, that the Big twelve refs ejected a coach, Scott Drew,
Kelvin Sampson, Bill Self, all very high profile coaches. All of
them got ran self. I don't selfs was kind of weak, but also
I don't think he hated it. Scott Drews was was a joke. Samson,
Okay, that that's a legit. When he stormed across, he ran
out on the court and started yelling in the ref's face, that's gonna get
your run. But yeah, it was pretty pretty funny how we had just
talked about how that had never happened. Sale's gotten a lot of technicals this
year. I swear that's like four. Yeah, yeah, I mean I
guess when the season. You know, we've talked about this before. He
eases a It is a motivational tax u tactic sometimes with his teams to get
a little bit fire under them. But you know, is it is a
higher output this year. Yeah, I don't think that this this time was
a motivational tactic. I think he was legit just kind of done, which
if you were within the if you were in the final five years of being
able to retire from a Hall of Fame career, I'm surprised he doesn't do
that more, especially with a team that's frustrating like this. But yeah,
the big twelve rests were like, get that son of a bitch off the
field right now, and and so off went Bill self in Lubbock for the
for the first time in his careers. It was pretty underwhelming, though I
would have I would have hoped there had been more fire and brimstone. I
was wanting a Bob Knight moment. Had you told me that Bill self was
gonna get ejected? Yeah? Right, So we really have blown through this
recap because there just isn't a whole lot here. Here's my attempt to kind
of summarize it. I want to say flush it because every team has a
game like this, Every team has struggles like this, but you can't.
They're one and five on the road. They're just not good, good enough
to be able to not put up a efforts and win away from Allen Field
House, which is not something where normally we were used to seeing a team
that the seventh or eighth guy on the bench is a four star for Kansas.
Well, now the eighth guy off the bench is I don't know if
it's eight or nine, but the eighth or ninth guy in this game was
a walk on. Like they're just not deep enough. You don't need ten
bona fide studs to make a tournament run. You do need a bit a
team that's deeper than seven guys to be able to consistently win these level of
conference games. So I think that there is I still have there's still a
two seed or a high three in most metrics because their resume is so good,
and because that that resume is so safe that I don't think they can
fall behind like a four seed unless the floor just opens up on them.
I would still bet on them going four and two or better in these last
six games, assuming mccullor comes back, and there's no reason this team can't
get on a nice curve and go on a run. I mean, Yukon
was really struggling at this time last year, and look how that turned up.
But there's obviously I was thinking earlier today. You know, the Chiefs
had what would could be considered a down year, and yeah, some head
scratchers, and the Chiefs lost four of six, including that stinker to the
Raid of Oakland game. Just like Bill, just like Andy Reid, Bill
self Hall of Fame coach, you never can count them out in the in
the play in the postseason, and the twenty twenty two team that wasn't the
best team in the country that year and then they pulled it out. So
who knows, like you said, Bill's do for some positive aggression in the
tournament. You know this team is gonna be playing on a neutral site.
It's not the true road games. They've got the pieces. If they can
get them to stay healthy and you can get guys like Nick Timberlake to have
a Malik Newman type march I wouldn't doubt this team could make the Elite eight,
at least well in that Ukon team we just talked about, lost six
of eight in January. Their January record was two and seven last year.
Oh I guess January thirty first counts three and seven. They were three and
seven and ten January games last year, and then they obviously turned it on,
Like that's how the NCAA tournament works. Perdue was the best team throughout
the regular season all the way through and they lost in the first round.
Like there's there's nothing that says they can't do it. They got two of
the best five six players in the country. That's the glass half full perspective.
The glass half empty perspective is they have seven healthy players right now if
you count Dewan Harris, who's topping a long out there. They need Kevin
mccullor back, and there's doubt. If you're having injury problems like this,
there's doubt that you're going to get to a point the rest of the year.
The NCAA tournament selection Sundays in four weeks, so they better get it
moving. And are they in too big of a hole? Are they already
too injured? We don't know. Pretty disappointing to think that this team,
considering what they were at what were they fifteen or fourteen and one or thirteen
to one or something like that, now to be nineteen and six. But
we've seen the team's theme roll through the regular season and have early NCAA tournament
exits. Who's to say that this year won't be the opposite a tougher January
and February and then they start humming along when it matters most. The twenty
eighteen team is good. Is a good one that I think of that really
didn't start going until right around this time. You could say the same about
last year's team. Last year's team was five and three in conference play.
I think they were six and four at the beginning of February, and then
they started to get going. Don't doubt them, but there's definitely some stuff
there that would at least make you a little nervous. Thirty three percent from
the floor, nineteen percent from three to seventy seven percent of the line,
and minus eighteen on the glass, A lot of bad, bad bad.
There any closing thoughts on this game? Or are you ready to flush it
and move on? Ready to move on? All right, let's do it.
No, I had an air horn on mute Big twelve games. Well,
we had four more teams with bye week, so there are only four
other games to recap. And I believe that the cream of the Big twelve
continues to rise to the top. But sadly, I don't know if the
Jayhawks are in that camp. But I know a couple of teams are not
these two because I did these out of order. But oh well, TCU
eighty one, West Virginia sixty five, Nick. Everybody can beat West Virginia
except for the team we root for. Well, wes Ninia and scored ninety
five against any of these other teams, but it wasn't interesting. Emmanuel Miller,
Travion Tennyson, and jami Or Nilson all had fourteen for the Horned Frogs
and Mountain years. I have scored more than seventy six points just one time,
one time in conference play. Can you think of which game that that
was? Was it against Case State? Yeah? I think I know,
I think I know the answer, Coach Bill Sealth, You stubborn ass.
So you start doing the math on this. They've only eclipped seventy six once
and Kansas scored eighty nine in that game. Wow, Kansas should be or
like eighty five or whatever it was. Wow, then that should be a
double digit win in any other game. But it wasn't because they scored their
season high in conference playing points by fifteen against Kansas. Now that one,
I won't criticize that much. That's a game they win nine out of ten
times. That was just the case of stuff happens. But it's unfortunate because
a lot of stuff happens games have happened this year. TCU eh eh,
right, like ye, yeah, six and five whatever, whatever, We're
gonna pick them to go around too far in our brackets. That's what we
do. Number ten, Iowa State sixty eight, Cincinnati fifty nine. Tell
you what, Nick, You read all the big twelve games and then I'll
chime in with some analysis afterwards. How about that. The Cyclones are now
eight and three. They have moved into a first place tie with Houston.
Houston. They forced in insane twenty five turnovers and holed Cincinnati just thirty eight
percent from the floor. That's what you get for having that nasty chili.
Fifteen points from Tam Livesey and Curtis Jones. Yeah, I'm tired of Bengals
fans, so that's fine. Cincinnati can lose a lot of it. But
Joe Burrow is a better quarterback. If Joe Burrow had the Kansas City team,
then he would be winning Super Bowls as well. If he had Andy
rid as a coach, if the Chiefs didn't have to worry about healthy Joe
Burrow, then this year would have been different. Yeah, I've seen that
many times. I don't even know if Joe Burrow could help Cincinnati. At
this point, they're very, very bad. Four and seven. Iowa State,
they're tied with Houston. They're gonna play on Monday Night. It's now
the Big Monday Game. ESPN flexed a big Monday game. They took Texas
out of primetime that night. It cost the Texas boosters. I just don't
say horns down. You can do literally anything to Texas, but say horns
down. Iowa State is eight and three, They're a game and a half
ahead of Kansas. We've been saying the whole time that they're not really a
threat to win the league. I think you got to consider them. One
now, they are winning on the road. They won last week, they
went into Texas in one. This week they go into Cincinnati and one.
They're beating the middle of the Big twelve teams on the road, which is
not something Kansas can say. I think you gotta say that this is a
threat to win the league right now. Right Yeah, for certainly they're in
first. I don't think they're gonna win in Houston, and I think they're
gonna lose. If I'm guessing, I bet, I bet Iowa State ends
the year four and three. I think that they're due to take some els.
But still TJ. Alziberger, I think, I think without question TJ.
Alziberger right now is the coach of the year in the Big twelve.
YEP, they're having a great year. Number twelve, Baylor seventy nine,
Number twenty five, Oklahoma sixty two. We predicted Oklahoma would get squashed and
we were all correct. YEP. Twenty seven points from je None, the
guy that shanked the wide open three in the corner of alandfield House, Baylor
made eleven threes on the night, with none making six pu do you smell
that it's Oklahoma and Porter Mooser there bums as as ass. I hate Oklahoma.
If there is any team that Kansas would lose to on Saturday, Yeah,
I want to talk about Oklahola being complete and total because they're six and
six, and then I see who's exactly one game better than them, And
therefore, if Oklahoma wins on Saturday, who will have the same record as
the Sooners? And it is damn it Bill, which is terrifying. I
have never seen Oklahoma do anything interesting unless Buddy Healed or Trey Young was involved.
Like, they've had two seasons that I cared about and a billion that
I have not number nineteen BYU ninety UCF eighty eight. Now that may sound
like a barnberer, and it was. These two teams put on a hell
of a show. Nick. This was one of the weirdest SAT lines you
are ever going to see in a game. Yeah, YOUCF made thirty four
shots, the BIUS twenty one and turn it over nine times the BIU seventeen,
so they won by twenty right? Yeah? No again, they made
thirteen more shots and at eight fewer turnovers and loss because BYU went forty for
forty six from the free throw line. Good God, somebody tranquilize the freaking
rafts. Forty six free throws. That percentage, though, is wild.
Yeah, they made free throw Like imagine being told going into the night that
if you don't make at least thirty eight free throws, you're going to lose.
And they did. They made forty. I saw a couple people on
Twitter saying, oh, well, UCFL behind big. They did. BYU
almost blew a nineteen point lead. They barely survived at the end the second
half of this game. The score was sixty two to fifty one at one
hundred and thirteen combined points. Just a barn burner there sixty two points for
UCF in the second half. Member Kansas scored fifty in the whole game this
week. Different circumstances, but still, but yeah, I mean, some
people on Twitter were like, oh, well this was you know, UCF
had to faulty get back into it. Forty six free throws. Nobody wants
that. Nobody can ever justify that. That's abysmal, Like geez, UCF
should feel like they got totally hosed. Here, and honestly, the Knights
have been so much better than we thought they would be in Big Twelve play.
Like the Kansas win, that's the way it happened, blew the sixteen
point lead. But UCF is arguably the best of the teams that Kansas has
lost to. If you take out Texas Tech, I think UCF is four
and seven, but there's a five point loss, a two point loss,
a seven point loss, and an eight point loss. And there they are
competitive basketball team in their first year in this conference, which I think is
pretty cool. Good for them. Big Twelve standings at the top, Houston
and Iowa State are co leading this league at eight and three. Yeah,
and in third place we have none other than Baylor in Texas Tech to Texas
team to seven and four. So, right now, the way the Big
Twelve Tournament is set to go with fourteen teams, the top four teams get
a double by to Thursday. There are four games on Wednesday. The five
team plays the twelve team on Wednesday. So right now, Bill selfs Jayhawks
sitting in fifth place seven and five would not have a bye to the quarterfinals,
and the Big Twelve Tournament got some work to do. To get that
your turn. I guess you already read it. At five. Number six
by U and TCU are six and five, eighth place, eternally mediocre.
Oklahoma sitting at six and six and on the bubble in ninth Longhorn Network.
In case theater five and six, that's the game that got bumped out of
the ESPN Big Monday spot Number eleven Cincinnati and UCF they are tied at four
and seven. Number thirteen West Virginia is three and eight applicable yawn there because
they are booty and number fourteen even worse. They didn't lose this week,
but you know they're still they're still as Oklahoma State two and nine. A
snoozefest of other games happened this week. There's really not a whole lot of
interesting stuff here. The ACC race got tighter. Sarahcuse upset number seven North
Carolina at the Carrier Dome, potentially the only team that is more over ranked
right now than Kansas. As UNC the tar Heels have lost three times in
the last five outings. North Carolina still leads the conference, but their lead
as willed away to one win. Number nine Duke did sweep their horrible Notre
Dame Boston College wake for US at Cameron all in a row set and number
twenty one Virginia had been on a roll, but they got upset by pitt
at home to end an eight game winning streak. So the top three teams
in that league U n C eleven and three, Duke ten and three,
Virginia ten and four. They are all separated by half a game, and
I don't think any of them are that good. No. A team that
is good though, is number one Yukon, who separated itself from the Big
East pack. They unsurprisingly crushed to Paul. I wish, kay, you
got to play to Paul. Yeah, I do too. Twice or they're
thirteenth win in a row all Cuner before Marquette got a nice road win at
Butler behind twenty seven points from Tyler Kullak, and number seventeen Creighton rolled Georgetown
at home. Surprise surprise. The Golden Eagles and Blue Jays are fighting for
second place, as Yukon has a three game hold on the league race.
Yeah, it's a pretty interesting league race up there. I think that Marquette
and Yukon play each other this week, but it's it's even if even if
Yukon somehow loses that game at home, you're still looking at a runaway Big
East title for the Huskies. Who at this point, I know people are
enthused about Zach Edy, the and the I just clicked on the Perdue game
and I see Zach Edy made free throw. Shocking to see him at the
line. But I still think Yukon is the best team in the Big Ten.
Number two Perdue did beat Minnesota, Joe Biden's favorite. They were down
by eight and a half time and wound up pulling away late. Perdue is
twelve and two in league play, behind them a total log jam. Number
fourteen Illinois destroyed Michigan as a butt hurt. Juwan Howard said that the only
reason Terrence Shannon Junior is there is because he did not is because something about
getting his offer revoked from Michigan. And Number twenty Wisconsin ended their long losing
streak by beating Ohio State. Apparently, losing to Wisconsin means you have to
fire your coach, because that is what the Buckeyes did. Chris Holtman got
fired mid season after Ohio State's horrendous Big Ten outing in the SEC where it
just means more. Number fifteen Alabama, thirteen Auburn, and three eleven South
Carolina all have nine wins, but Auburn rolled South Carolina by forty this week
proven that they're not all conference rights are as close as they seem. The
Bright Tennessee blew out Arkansas to stay in the conversation, while number twenty two
Kentucky ended their three game home losing skid by clipping Ole Miss at home.
Meanwhile, in the it means less. Conference time is running out for Gonzaga
to extend their conference streak. The number eighteen Saint Mary's Gaels beat Pepperdine,
they get to twelve and oho and West Coast Conference play. You think bill
would be twelve zero and West Coast Conference player where they be one on the
five in the road against the License Pacific and Diego College Bila Mary Mount,
they would be twelve to zero in the in that in that conference, maybe
a lot of games left. Four games left. The Zags are two games
behind the Gals with a game at Saint Mary's looming on the last day of
the regular season. Yeah, it's probably over for Gonzaga at this point.
Uh, They're going to have to get some voodoo magic. I mean just
looking at Saint Mary's. So Saint Mary're gonna make the tournament. Yes,
I do think they're gonna squeak in the tournament. I think that that went
over. Kentucky will do a lot so Saint Mary's. By the way,
they would need to drop at least two games in order for Gonzaga to have
a chance to tie for the league title, and those remaining games Gonzaga at
home. So let's say Gonzaga wins that one and wins out, then Gonzaga
would still need Saint Mary's to lose either at Pepperdine, San Diego at home
or San Francisco at home. I don't see it happening. I think that
this is completely over. Saint Mary's will win the WCC and Gonzaga is very
very flu Again, I guess no, Gonzaga lost that home to Saint Mary's,
but if they wind up Blues in the league by a game, then
they're gonna look at that one point weird ass Santa Clara loss that ended up
costing them may a chance to win their what would have been their twelfth straight
WCC, one short of K's record of thirteen because the fourteenth never happened.
Number twenty three Indiana State. No, I don't believe we've ever talked on
this show. They lost at home as an eighteen point favorite to Illinois.
Where are they ranked? Yeah? Good question. I think that this game
goes to show that your question is valid. NBC hoops be bad Wichita State's
not there anymore. That league is eh, really really bad. Speaking of
a team that should be ranked. This week, Detroit Mercy won BABA of
course. Of course it's iup UI in Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis in a
battle between two of the worst four teams in the country per kimcom. They
got a fifteen point win. They're now one in twenty six. This leaves
Mississippi Valley State now oh to twenty four, as the only winless team in
college basketball. So did you see the If you have not already seen it,
YouTube Detroit Mercy court storm. There was one single fan that ran onto
the court and started jumping up and down after their eternal losing streak came to
a close. If you are a Detroit Mercy fan that showed up to support
that team who was zero to twenty six, I gave you full permission to
storm the floor, and I hope that you're recognized as I hope they renamed
the area playing a high school basketball gym. Yeah, it looks like it
too. It definitely looks like it. Right teams to lose since the last
time we did a podcast, there aren't many of them, but the ones
that did got blown out. It feels like like this guy. Number six
Kansas lost to Texas Tech Bill and number seven North Carolina that also want a
losing skid. They lost to Syracuse. The other Carolina team, number eleven
South Carolina got absolutely railed at Auburn by forty sounds like Kansas. Twenty one
Virginia they lost the pit. Number twenty three Indiana State lost to Illinois State.
Number twenty five Oklahoma lost the Baylor So Zach Edy has taken thirty free
throws in his last two games. Do you know how many free throws Hunter
Dickinson has shot in conference play for Kansas eight in conference thirty four. So
Dickenson has taken four more free throws in twelve conference games than Zach Edy has
in two. I'm not saying that he's as physical as Zach Edy because he's
not. But really, we're really gonna act like that he's that less physical
whatever, just completely to be expected at this point by the big twelve refs.
Ask RCB, we're actually making excellent time today. I can't believe it,
and we don't have very many ask arcbs. So theoretically begin to pick
him though, like the pick them. This is an all time season at
least for us, Like the records are pretty good. Yeah, Landon isn't
last, which should surprise nobody. Landon has a six game hole to make
up if he wants to cross your one hundred and forty seven wins. I'm
at one and Landon is at one forty one, so we are all pretty
close. Landon's leading conference. Pick him. He's just horrendous picking other games,
ask RCB at Kamlipple Golf. Do you ever spite watch in a game
like that one just to see how bad it can get? Or just me?
I mean yeah, when they're down by like thirty, I'm kind of
like, oh, let's see how bad this can get. I don't want
it to happen, but let's see if Bill Goods ejected, oh there he
goes, Well, I guess I have every I've seen everything that I could
possibly need. You ever spite watch games. Yeah at Dick Underscore Taser with
a our buddy, Wayne Returns, I know how much you guys like talking
about the hashtag refs, So check this. I heard on the radio that
every major conference except the Big Twelve has a special advisor to basketball officiating,
basically a third party reffing auditor. Googled it. It's true. Sad yep,
I'm not surprised. Wayne also adds a disclaimer that that was in no
way two excuse for that steaming donkey pile of basketball that we had to witness
one that donkey pile. That is very true. Yeah, the Big Twelve
doesn't care about the officiating. Like it's quite clear. They keep throwing coaches
out and finding athletic directors when the ads are like, wow, is that
what we should be doing here? Like it's it's pretty bad, and it's
always been pretty bad, and it's bad against all teams. Kansas gets great
calls at Allen Field House. If anybody's watch games in Lubbock or Morgantown,
I'm not sure you'd be telling me Allen Field House is the most lopsided of
the Big twelve venues though it's bad everywhere. Yeah, Nick Kate's ask GARCB,
so you're not gonna get him to say much if it's without land And
I'm basically going by myself at DJ Radar. What are the odds Ku doesn't
make the Sweet sixteen? I will give you. I will say it's more
likely than not they make the Sweet sixteen? Uh fifty fifty is furfey a
one and done? Yes? You no? Ken Bill self still recruit Yeah,
look at his class next year. Isn't he a number? Bill?
I mean, look, Bill self kind of swung and miss with Nick Timberlake.
I don't know if you can say that's Bill selfswalt Bill self went out
there and got a guy that shot forty percent from three on almost seven threes
a game for two seasons in a row. I'm not sure that. And
also wasn't Nick Timberlake like supposed to be a Yukon guy and Kansas was kind
of a last second at like, like, if you're gonna criticize Bill self
for the misses this year, which is Almargo Jackson being a McDonald's All American
and Nick Timberlake with his background not hitting I mean, these just aren't mistakes
that every coach doesn't make every now and then. Right, Yeah, he's
gonna be just fine. He'll be just fine. At Travius ninety nine,
I got into a debate with another KU fan about how many scholarships k you
forfeited this year? Most people were like Bill self did a horrible recruiting job,
But I feel like they intentionally forfeited two scholarships, and when Morris had
his situation, they essentially forfeited his two down three scholarships will make any team
have depth issues? Why does no one recognize this? No, you're correct,
that is part of it, obviously, the Arteria Morris stuff. I
think they were still gonna do fine until that, but that is something to
consider. Like they haven't had the that they've been without those those scholarships.
I think that's hurting them. Right, No, Arturia Morris is one hundred
percent reason why this team is the way it's way it is right now,
you think that Artaria Morris would single handedly be enough to erase all the problems,
though not all of the problems, but I do think this team had
him, like, they would probably not be one and five on the road
in Big Twelve play at Preston's Skursik. Which current or past KU player do
each of you think that you may actually be able to put up a few
points on and one on one zero the hell everywhere? No, Charlie Moore
would be Charlie more can shoot like I know you didn't see it at Kansas,
but Charlie Moore got buckets. Uh Wilder evers w There is not one
person that's ever worn that jersey that I'm scoring anything against in a one on
one game. Mayga take it to whatever number you want. I'm not putting
up a point. They are just so much better. But if I had
to pick one, I'll pick the worst basketball player I have seen play at
Kansas, which was probably ty On grand Foster. At Show Me Hawk,
the hopium in me is saying that the recent blowout lost of Texas Tech is
like when the Chiefs lost with the Raiders on Christmas and then went on to
win six in a row. Yeah, we talked about that earlier. It's
gonna be a lot harder for the Jayhawks do that just because the Big Twelve
regular season is such a gauntlet. But I do agree with the sentiment that
Hall of fame, coach, talent, and roster. Still a month ago
before the season is over, plenty of time to get it together. They
just better start doing it sooner rather than later, right Yeah, Yeah,
that needs to be figured out out. And the last question from at its
big Drew. When mccullor is back healthy, would you be opposed to a
starting lineup of Harris Timberlake, mccullor, Furfey, and Dickinson with kJ it's
still playing big minutes off the bench. If Nick Timberlake's not gonna play like
he did down the Stretchkins failure, I wouldn't be opposed to it. It's
still hard for me to say that Nick Timberlake is going to give you consistent
enough minutes can when compared to kJ Adams, because I don't know if that's
true. I think whenever Kansas is making more than fifty percent of their shots,
example the Houston game, then kJ Adams fits in pretty darn well.
Where it really begins to show its ugliness is when they're having a tougher shooting
day, They're shooting closer to forty than fifty percent, and each rebound becomes
that much more valuable. That's when kJ Adams' liability showcase. Now, I
would love to see Harris gets a pass to Timberlake, mccullor, and Furfey
all on the floor at the same time. Some times maybe kJ needs to
play a little bit less than certain matchups. But just saying that kJ should
go to the bench for timber Lake. Timberlake has had what like twenty one
points in the last two games. Good, that's better. But that's that's
that's his best two games stretch of the year, and that's what kJ averages.
Yeah, I wouldn't may, I wouldn't. You know, it's not
gonna happen though, because the self likes kJ so much. But I wouldn't
be opposed the scene. What that would look like. Yeah, I think
that's I think that's correct. If you ever have any ask rcbs, use
the Twitter hashtag ask RCB. Wow we are flying at today, sir.
Look look at us just zipping ahead. Also with Landon out, do you
think that Landon would date a strawberry blond with tattoos? Landon would be first
in line. That might be me. Atlanta can be second in line at
that point. I know you're married, sir. I am married. It
was a joke, sir, But I know that you would not would that
there's still many people who are married or dead or never alive that would be
in front of you in that line, because I know that that's not your
thing. All right, I guess it's already time to do a preview.
And this is a really lame preview because this game is going to be bad.
This podcast is just lame. This podcast is interesting enough for a Kansas
Texas Tech twenty nine point l show. I think number six Kansas at number
twenty five Oklahoma, I cannot believe the Sooners are ranked. Saturday, February
seventeenth, at three o'clock PM, it is on ESPN. Hold on to
your butts. The Stoners enter at eighteen and seven overall, six and six
in league play, one game worse in both barns than the Jayhawks. Javin
McComb leads the team with fourteen points as a two guard and noncun play,
he shot over forty percent from three, and he's at twenty seven twenty four
percent in conference play. Their point guard is Milos you On with his eight
points and nine points I cannot read it, ita and dyslexic and five assist
while doing most of his damage at the basket. Yeah, so one more
time on that McCollum stat forty percent plus elite three point shooter in the non
con horrendous twenty four percent in conference play, which means gear up for four
for six. The rest of the Sooners lineup features wings Otega Away and Jalen
Moore, who are both double digit scorers, but six' ten center John
Hughley the fourth and six foot nine four man Sam Godwin have been bullied in
conference play. That's one thing I got right. I said that Oklahoma's big
we're not going to hold up in Big twelve play. They have not.
Hunter Dickinson abused them for twenty four points and thirteen rebounds in the game of
Allen field House Nick. One would think that if Hunter Dickinson is going to
get going, that a matchup in the sleepy Lloyd Noble Center against the middling
Oklahoma team without a lot of front court that could be a good place to
start. You'd only hope. So Oklahoma has been exposed quite a bit in
conference play. They do an excellent job keeping team off the glass. Well
it's lugging for KU. Their overall defensive numbers are excellent, and they also
shoot a very good seventy six percent as a team from the free throw line.
They also foul out though they play at a slow pace and they don't
draw a lot of contact. Kansas is just six and five in their last
eleven trips to the Lloyd Noble Center. That seems low. This will be
their final visit for a while. Morgantown is the only venue where they have
a worse record during the same period. I'd figure they would be in Stillwater,
but that's interesting. Yeah, you would think it would be, but
they have a winning record down there in still Water and everywhere but the Lloyd
Noble Center other than Morgantown. I mean five losses in the last eleven years.
They lost that the Buzzer on a put back by Buddy Healed in fifteen.
They lost in eighteen with Polkadoak, a game they were in control and
lost late. They got blown out in nineteen when Brady Mannick went off.
They lost in twenty one when I believe that was part of the three game
losing streak where they just couldn't do anything right and then they lost. What
else they lose there? They lose last year down There. No, when's
the fifth game in the last eleven? I might be wrong on that.
Fifteen This is eighteen, fifteen, eighteen, nineteen twenty one, and the
wins are the last. Have they won seven games there? Since their last
fifth loss? They won? They haven't lost the porter, so that's two
dubs. They beat them in twenty with Isaiah Moss random game, They beat
him in seventeen with Frank Mason as a comeback. They beat him in sixteen
with the Buddy Heel blow up, and they beat him in fifteen. Right,
No, they beat him in fourteen. Maybet him in fourteen. That's
six. They're six and four in their last ten trips, not six and
five. That's better. Okay, they've lost four times. I know that
was riveting information, but it seems like every time they lose down There,
something weird happened. I've picked Kansas to win every game this year. I
shouldn't have picked him to win in Loveock. I really shouldn't know. That
was easy to see coming, and I feel stupid for that. But I
feel like this one is also kind of easy to see coming the other way.
I think Kansas is going to get back on track. Here. Bill
self said that he quote anticipates having Kevin McCuller back. He said, as
long as he doesn't have he said, I plan on in practicing on Friday,
and as long as there's no stepbacks, I anticipate that he'll be good
to go. Jamari McDowell will be back, so they'll have their full team
back. And it just feels like the kind of moments where Kansas teams normally
start to go. It's time for some pride, It's time to nut up
a little bit and go win a road game. You have your your whole
team back at this point against a team that is sputtering the drain that's just
begging for a knockout punch that you're much better than go down there and kick
them in the face. I want to see Kansas. They'll show off their
fangs a little bit. I think Dickinson's got a great matchup. I think
mccullor having his return will help the team tremendously. And I think Johnny Furfey
is due to shoot the ball better from three. I like Kansas to win
a game that down the stretch isn't super close. Kansas seventy three Oklahoma sixty
two, a bounce back win for Kansas. After this, they'll play two
straight at home. They get another week off after this, then they'll get
Texas at home on Saturday, b Yu at home. Two games. You're
gonna be favored in. Let's start to see if this team can find itself
a little bit. This would be a good place to get back on track,
and I think they do it. I do too. This team's not
gonna go one in six on the road this year. I just think that,
like you said, the momentum, I feel like they could win the
next five honestly with if they can pick up some wiminium. Obviously you could
think you said, Like you said, they have that week off coming up,
which be very beneficial for a team that is just nagging with injuries and
exhaustion for playings so many minutes. So that'll be that'll be something to look
forward to. But I do think they won this game. Give me eighty
to seventy one. Kayu has a big performance on the road. Yeah,
they got to. Like if they lose this one and whatever manner, then
you're done with talking about the road games. They'll be one and six and
they'll have the two toughest road games arguably left at Baylor and at Houston.
Like then one in eight on the road is a real possibility. You lose
this game and you are almost certainly going to set a Big twelve or a
bill self record for losses in conference play. Kansas is sitting on five losses
right now. They've never lost more than six, so you already have to
go two and one in your last three road games to avoid what eleven and
seven, geez like. Their record is really starting to look rough at this
point. They've got to start winning some of these. They can't string together
any winning streaks either, because they're losing all the road games. I'm with
you, I think they win this one. They really should care business.
Here full slate of Big twelve and other games this week, beginning with Texas
Tech at number ten. Iowa State. Boy, if this isn't easy to
see coming, I think Texas Tech is gonna score about fifty eight points because
they're coming off that blockbuster showing against Kansas and going on the road to Hilton.
That's very hard to win. I take the Cyclones. I'm attempted to
go the other way, but it is interesting. Iowa State could be looking
ahead to the Houston game a little bit. I will stay with Iowa State.
Good interesting call on that. If Texas Tech wasn't coming out the Kansas
game, I think that'd be a lot more. Yeah, if they didn't
have a guy that just went fifteen for fifteen, I would maybe consider it.
Yeah. TCU at Kansas State, I have no expectation here. I
will take Case State at home. Ooh. I was gonna pick them,
but I'll pick TCU. Texas at number three Houston. I think this game
will be closer than the point spread suggests. Texas has some talent and Houston
gearing up for their big Monday showdown with the Cyclones. But Houston, after
a week off, they get it done here. Yes, some sentiment.
Number nineteen BYU at Oklahoma State. I feel like I've miss read BYU this
year. I was gonna pick him to lose here, but I just think
Oklahoma State might be that bad. I will take the Cougars Sam Cincinnati at
Central Florida. Do we want the Knights? Yeah? I do. I
think I do too. I think I'm feeling them. They might be the
better team, honestly. And number twelve Baylor at West Virginia. Everybody but
Bill can win in Morgantown? Is that continue? Are you going with the
fighting Bears? What's Virginia is so bad? You gotta pick Baylor? Yeah?
I think you do too. I think I think Baylor is the right
call. Here we go with other games. Number nine, Duke, they
played three in a row at home, not this time at Florida State.
I will take the Seminoles. I will take Duke. Number four Marquette at
number one Yukon Game of the Day, And how about this Yukon by ten?
Yep, you Huskies win. I don't have a lot of confidence in
Marquette with Shaka, They've they've been playing really well as of late, and
they have the best player in the conference. But a Dan Hurley shot,
a smart coaching matchup, I feel like I know how that's gonna go.
Number fourteen Illinois at Maryland. Are we trusting the Shannon juniors on the road?
I don't know how good? How good? Maryland's terrible, aren't they?
I don't think they're very good. Eleven ten. I will take Illinois,
Number twenty two, Kentucky at number thirteen Auburn on College Game Day.
I feel like, you gotta be going with Auburn, right, you love
Houston, Bruce. I do like this Auburn team. Yeah, I think
they win, and I don't think it's that close Kentucky. It feels like
Kentucky's just asking for the knockout shot at this point and number perdue or number
number perdue, number two perdue at Ohio State, a game I think is
close, but they just fired their coach. So how well, Yeah,
there's a lot of turmoil in uh in Columbus. So I'm gonna go with
Purdue. Yep, I think that is the right call. Okay, So
you and I are gonna do a show Sunday night, uh, and then
we'll get Landing back. Right, we have one more solo show. Hopefully
it's a more interesting UH game to recap the Oh okay, all right,
you know what I can do that. I'm I'm feeling like we have we
have some excess time here on the back end. Come on, land Come,
do you miss Landing? I haven't heard that's fair yet tonight, So
I do kind of miss that. You have not heard that's fair? You
haven't heard him complain about how much Hunter Dickenson sucks you haven't heard him raz
you about not liking women with tattoos. It has been a weird night,
but I think we did a good job and I think we got a quality
show out with uh with that that not an hour and a half? Enjoy
how your podcast wasn't an hour and a half tonight. This is inside the
Paint on Rock Chalk Blog. I am Ryan Landreth and I am a corporate
servant. Yeah at this point probably so we will be back on Monday for
you. Until then, behaviors like Landon behave yourself, Landon have fun in
Texas, buddy. Oh okay, I mean if you're gonna if you're gonna
say that, then I I absolutely have to How do we miss this with
Landon being in Texas? Landon is in Hey, Patrick, what am I
now? Stupid? No? Lin'em texted what's the difference do you think network?
I bet he does. I bet you Every hotel room in the Lone
Star State has the Longhorn Network. It has to the state law. But
you told me that's going away. What is going away? The Longhorn Network
when they go to the SEC is Yeah. Yeah, good, good,
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